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Here is a quote from Samuel Hahnemann, the great elder of Homeopathic Medicine, in his book, The Organon of Medicine, written in the 18th century

"The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, that is, to cure.

1 His mission is not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate in the interior of the organism, (whereon so many physicians have hitherto ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is it to attempt to give countless explanations regarding the phenomena in diseases and their proximate cause (which must ever remain concealed), wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish the ignorant – whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid. Of such learned reveries (to which the name of theoretic medicine is given, and for which special professorships are instituted) we have had quite enough, and it is now high time that all who call themselves physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering mankind with mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help and to cure."

The belief that acute diseases are spread by contagion is part of a wider fallacy that weaselled its way into the European mindset long ago. In the age before a holocaust was unleashed upon forest wisdom, there were still wise healers who understood that we are part of nature, and our health or well-being depends upon maintaining that balance.

Thank you, Betsy, for sharing your research. The realisation that much of contemporary medicine is based on such shaky ground will open the way for a new paradigm, one that integrates ancestral wisdom with innovation.

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Thanks for diving into this! Whenever I teach people about New Germanic Medicine and Universal Biology, this is one of the most asked questions. And there are actually thousands of examples where one person is ill and nobody else gets ill, but as humans we tend to focus on those examples that seem to align with the common (but disproven) narratives and beliefs. One thing I need to mention: the connection between scurvy and "Vitamin C" is false. It is also just another narrative to get people to buy and ingest copious amounts of a chemical substance referred to as "Vitamin C". Scurvy had a lot more to do with the hygienic conditions and the scarcity of healthy food and water onboard the ships that the sailors were on for weeks at a time. A lime is certainly a healthy food compared to other food that was not properly stored on those voyages, in addition to the mental state and the state of the "terrain" of the sailors. This is just in addition to my comment on your last article regarding the vitamin fraud :)

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