Take death, itself, and search for an antidote. Among the herbs that have been here as long as man has been here. Among the medicines of the ages that have been gone over by the Chinese and the Native American medicine men, and the herbalists and the modern doctors.
Take the things that have been searched the most and search them more.
Be like the crime investigator who decides to go back over all the evidence, searching for something that might have been missed.
Today's medicine centers on finding new pharmaceuticals. There is money in a new pill, fresh from Barr Pharmaceuticals or Pfizer. And, where the money is, so goes the effort.
I ran across this on the Internet, about chamomile: "Considered by some to be a cure-all . . . Few studies have looked at how well it works for any condition."
Few studies, you say? It's been here all along, and we yet need to study it?
Let us have a large, bally-hued investigation, going back and studying each of the herbs and their benefits and properties and effects.
Look at death anew, too. Old Age. What causes it? Inflammation and arthritis, and brain discombobulation -- how do they all fit in? And, which herbs are we overlooking in treating them?
I read on the Internet, again about chamomile: "Considered by some to be a cure-all, chamomile is commonly used in the U.S. as ananxiolytic and sedative for anxiety and relaxation. It is used in Europe for wound healing and to reduce inflammation or swelling." I about bounce out and buy it. Inflammation, you say? Inflammation may be what is killing me, as much as anything.
No, if all these herbs have been here all along -- used and reused and tried and tried again -- it does not appear we are going to find the answer to death in them. Someone would have happened upon it by now.
But, then again.
Like chamomile, I'm guessing many of these drugs -- I mean, herbs -- haven't been adequately studied. Why not? It's time. Turn over every rock until you find one that hides an answer.
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