Here’s Why accepting indigenous medicine will save your life
Let’s be honest, we’re spoiled here in the states. We have access to healthcare that most of the world doesn’t. We can choose if we want to get vaccinated or not while indigenous cultures often don’t. So how are these indigenous cultures surviving with little to no access to healthcare and vaccines? We’re going on two years of a pandemic and indigenous groups have suffered losses but are still fighting. It’s time we examine our own codependency on the government when it comes to healthcare. Is it the government’s job to keep us healthy or is it ours? Here’s why accepting indigenous medicine will save your life..
Currently, the WHO is looking into accepting Chinese traditional medicine as an effective remedy to treat covid. This formula is thousands of years old and was used to treat H1n1 in Mexico in 2009. Just as our last article bought attention to mindfulness of how our masculine and feminine in/activities make us susceptible to covid, the next step is embracing traditional medicine. The Chinese have been reporting success with treating covid symptoms with the same formula for at least a year? So why isn’t this been spread in the news? Why do we keep dividing people with vaccine debates?
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Looking at how vulnerable communities are surviving covid gives us a unique perspective on the pandemic. The best way to observe our codependency on government healthcare is to see how others thrive without it. While indigenous latin Americans battle the pandemic, mining companies are invading their territories. Seizing the moment when indigenous communities are weak and vulnerable rather than seek herd immunity companies are seeking to colonize the land. Though the mortality rate is high, you have to take several things into account. Symptoms may take up to two weeks to be noticeable, and less technology to act as buffer for communication. Many of the covid guidelines were spread when the infection had already spread rapidly.
It is also problematic that Governments do not report on the amount of public spending to
The impact of COVID-19 on indigenous peoples in Latin America (Abya Yala)
contain and mitigate the pandemic that is allocated to indigenous peoples. This information, without
much breakdown, is only available for three countries.
Largely self reliant on nature more than government assistance, indigenous cultures have thrived for thousands of years. Some say its their ecosystem dependency on nature, spirituality and medicine all combined as reasons for not being extinct. There are no t.v’s and news spreading fear 24/7 365 to weaken their immune systems either. No access to drive thru covid tests as well. All the things we take for granted.
During the first wave of the pandemic, we noticed people used religion to make a mockery of the disease. Many churches refused to close or social distance touting their faith in God will keep them safe..Unfortunately, many of them died. Perhaps we can continue to merge science and religion/spirituality into one. Changing our perspective by adopting the mindset that one can’t live without the other verifies the validity of both. There is science in spirituality and vice versa.
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Ecosophy or ecophilosophy is a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. The term was coined by the French post-structuralist philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari and the Norwegian father of deep ecology,
Using mythology isn’t hocus pocus or woo woo magic. It’s a way for us to understand the world we live in. It helps us realize how we relate to the world and how it relates to us. This gives us a different perspective than fear mongering news and division. In fact, our dependency on the news shows the degradation of our relationship with nature and spirituality.
Rainforest journalism has an excellent indigenous spirituality perspective on covid..Pecon Queno is a Peruvian artist who is in charge of representing the ibos who are the owners or guardians of nature. And the Yoshin(devils) beings that live with them. Here knowledge comes from the tradition of the shipibo-konibo culture.
in the afternoons, she paints “the owners” of the coronavirus and the matico, while she listens to the swaying of the plants and the overwhelming croaking of the frogs. “I draw the ibos that live with us. Every living thing has a master, a guardian who protects it,” she says. “I see them walking, I see them with us. What I do is to capture them so that other people who are not indigenous can see them as we [the Shipibo] do.”
Pecon Quena describes matico, a medicinal plant she used to alleviate the symptoms of Covid-19, as the “protector of the indigenous world.” This plant is widely used by the shipibo-konibos in steam baths and infusions.
Quena is cautious against getting the vaccine and wants more information despite being infected in the past. The article closes by stating that every time she closes her eyes she sees the guardian of the coronavirus trying to get closer to her. She continues to drink her matico tea and comply with sanitary measures.
In conclusion, if the Chinese and indigenous cultures believe in the power of traditional medicine what’s stopping you?. For those who think Herbs are primitive, China is possibly the most powerful advanced country on earth today. And contrarily indigenous cultures remain the “poorest”. Therefore if both ends of the spectrum can embrace it and survive, means it’s worth looking into.
What are your opinions or thoughts on Traditional medicine in terms of fighting covid? Let us know in the comment section below.