Why do we get sick? We have forgotten why. Yes sometimes it is due to diet, lifestyle and wrong choices we make but based on my 25 years of experience seeing patients I also believe we are getting sick because we use unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs which is the main cause of illness. There are some benefits from pharmaceutical drugs but mainly the unnecessary use of pharmaceutical drugs can cause your body a lot of harm. We should identify what those medicines are how we can prevent them from making us ill. Most of the time we get ill because of the pathogen bacteria or virus or something we have eaten causes food poisoning, or we make wrong lifestyle choices. Your temperature going up is the indication given by your body that you are ill, along with discomfort, inflammation and pain.
These are indicators given by our bodies to signal that everything is not good. Your body’s way of saying you are getting sick, why not rest a little? Or can you please do something about it? It is just like a car, when it overheats, or the oil light comes on then you know that the car is in need of a service. The same way we should use common sense and listen to the indications our bodies send and take time to understand what the cause of the problem is and how you can fix it, before taking a pharmaceutical drug like paracetamol. This video might also be taken down from YouTube, but I don’t care. Paracetamol is widely used by adults and infants because paracetamol does three things to the body – it reduces the fever, reduces the pain and reduces the inflammation. These are the protective mechanisms of the body that are telling you that something is wrong, they normally come as a protective mechanism, raising the temperature to kill the bacteria, virus or pathogens while the pain is part of the process of the body healing.
The medication just masks the indicators, indicators that your body’s normal protective mechanism is at work calming your digestion and helping it stay calm while your body works at getting rid of all the pathogens. Headaches, back pains are all signs that something is not right and that you have to do something not just take a painkiller that masks the problem because that is not going to sort your problem. It is like when you knock your hand somewhere and it gets slightly inflamed you are not going to knock it again because the pain reminds you of the knock. Just like that you have to protect the area of the body that is inflamed or has pain until it is healed which is the normal mechanism of the body.
When we take paracetamol we are taking the natural controls of the body into our hands and we give false information such as by reducing the fever we signal that things are better, which is not the body’s natural reaction. When the fever is supressed with our six hourly paracetamol intake, your body becomes a breeding ground for the bacteria and virus. I have seen so many female patients come with urine infections, taking antibiotics every 6 hours and for a while everything is fine but then again the pathogens make their presence felt because the body is not reaching the temperature it should to kill the virus or bacteria. This means you take hundreds of antibiotics, paracetamols or painkillers but still the problem is there because the breeding ground for the bacteria virus is still there. Without the temperature the bacteria virus is not going to kill itself. Yes, some antibiotics work but most often the bacteria develop resistance and then they no longer have an effect on the bacteria.
Another point is that when you take paracetamol it has an effect on the hypothalamus which produces a secretion called prostaglandin. What is prostaglandin? It is the substance that causes pain, it is there to help the body. It reduces inflammation and by inducing pain it protects the area while at the same time helping with blood clotting and to smooth the muscles to relax and to reduce the digestive fire, so the digestive system is not over secreting, so you do not feel hungry until you get rid of the bacteria virus. This way it protects your digestive tract because prostaglandin is the healing power in your body and what the paracetamol does is to reduce the prostaglandin or healing power. The pain we feel is there for some reason, the pain is necessary for the body to heal.
So we have to see what is happening to us now. We are breaking the gauges which indicate to us that we are not good, that we are sick, that we have a temperature so that means we have bacteria. Instead of facing up to that we take these pharmaceutical drugs and take the control of the body into our hands and break our machine and break all the indicators. Then what happens? We feel like we have the flu, we take paracetamol, the bacterial continues to breed inside of us, we go to work, we have our fun while it affects our prostaglandin. When this is affected we feel no pain, we feel hunger and eat anything we want because our digestive juice secretion is the same and there is no protective mechanism. Toxins build up because the whole body’s mechanism you have taken into your hand. For the past 50 years since they found paracetamol what we have done is give false information to our body saying we are good. But are we? No, we are sick. Instead of taking action against the sickness what we did instead is to break all the gauges. Now we have to face the consequences.
What are the consequences? We are getting sick all the time because we eat without considering our bodies and that maybe we should eat wholesome food. We don’t think that we should let the fever run its course until the body gets better and rest and breath so that our body can heal. Instead of that we take another path which makes getting sick inevitable. That is why we have constant battles with viruses, bacteria and pathogens, because we can’t listen to our bodies anymore. The body and mind, the intelligence of this machine we broke.
Our bodies are natural healers, but you have to give your bodies a bit of a break, give our minds a break to heal. Let me tell you a little story about my grandmother. I was studying science for my ALs and I felt like I knew everything about being a doctor. One day someone had given my grandmother two paracetamols which she had never had before. She brought them to me and asked me if they were a poison. In my mind I was like a doctor so I said no this is really unbelievable good medicine so take it and this is what it will help do and I really encouraged her to take the paracetamol. I don’t know whether she took them or not but in her mind she knew they were a poison. But that’s how it was those many years back, people thought that these medicines were poison.
Now what has happened? More than concentrating on eating wholesome food, people are consuming medicine. Its like medicine has become their food and food has become nothing. Food is leaving the equation because people no longer see food as medicinal and only see pharmaceutical drugs are curing everything. I am not saying it does not cure but saying that unnecessary use of these drugs is making us ill.
Next time you think of taking this medicine, that this chemical to your hand and think if you actually need it and what it does to your body and if you have any other way to sort out your problem. Can I take precautions like changing my lifestyle, changing my diet and find natural remedies for the problem. And if we continue to do that the whole of humanity will get better and not have face this kind of disaster again because we have to take back the right to our bodies and increase our immunity with good food instead of always taking paracetamol.
You can take a remedy such as coriander, which has two actions. It’s a diuretic and it is cooling. Coriander cools the body and creates a balanced environment just like when you add cold water to hot water. When you boil coriander and drink it cools your body without causing any harm to your body. It goes to your digestion, goes through your body and acts like a food with out straightaway going to blood level. It has the effect of increasing your temperature and then cooling so you sweat out toxins and at the high temperature it kills some pathogens. It is an action similar to pasteurisation that milk and similar food go through. You create a maximum heat for sometime and then let it cool for sometime which kills of some types of pathogens. In Ayurveda coriander is considered a very good medicine, which has been used for millions of years.
I have some women who have been coming to us for a long time now. I don’t know how many times they have taken antibiotics for urine infections with no change. We give them the boiled coriander, the sheethakasaya, the cold version not the warm, and they are fine a few weeks later. What is happening is that we are using the herbs’ natural ability to create an environment that kills the pathogens while also inducing increased urination which helps to get rid of a lot of heat, bacteria, viruses and pathogens from the body.
How incredible coriander is! It is widely used across the planet. Simply all you have to do is make a little bit of time for yourself. When you feel a cold coming on or the flu or a bit of discomfort, sit down and think what is happening to me, what is the cause of this, what did I eat, how did I behave. Without answering those questions and just taking two paracetamols doesn’t fix your body. It is damaging it, it is breaking your natural indicators. Please think differently otherwise there is no way we can kill bacterial and other virus thinking we have to be the only surviving creatures in the planet doesn’t work. We have to live the natural way taking natural substances, simple steps before turning to the big pharmaceutical drugs. This about changing your attitude, behaviour, lifestyle, taking precautions, getting enough exercise and taking your life into your own hands. Don’t give your life to this pharmaceutical industry it will kill you.
