Did Western Medical Science Fail?
FEBRUARY 2021 Download this Article
Ever since the COVID crisis started, the Western medical and scientific community talked about social distancing, hand washing, face masks, sanitisers and self-isolation as a preventive measure. On the curative action, there are still fewer options.
As we stand, one year after the outbreak, they still need to learn more about the preventive and curative side of COVID. Knowledge remains shallow.
Instead of learning from other countries' success, how their traditional lifestyle, methods, and traditional medicines have worked, the so-called medical community have resisted itself.
We all have heard WHO that COVID19 is not like other flu, but more severe respiratory disease. So, why aren't the doctors treating the patients like any other respiratory ailment?
World over, we have seen that COVID cases came down significantly during the summers of 2020. The number of cases rose again as the temperature rose with the change of season. There is some connection with the change in climatic conditions, as COVID is a kind of flu.
The practice of having lime, ginger and honey in hot water during flu season is common in all civilizations. It’s a practice followed for centuries. Even the big pharma companies brand their flu drugs with a flavour of lemon or ginger.
The statistics speak for themselves. The Indian media is blasting the population with methods to boost immunity. They are recommending foods to eat and exercise to do, along with lifestyle changes.
One out of three advertisements (like shown here) is about preventing COVID by boosting immunity, endorsed by highly celebrated personalities in the country.
One can see none of this effort in the western media. If the governments can suggest hand wash, face mask and social distancing while not being intrusive at the same time, then why not suggest immunity-boosting habits and food as preventive medicine?
The result of this approach is showing in numbers. India, Vietnam, Ghana, South Korea, Bangladesh, though the infection rate is high, the fatality rate is close to 2%, while that of the UK, USA and others is about 14%. There is no doubt that a single life lost due to COVID is one too many.
During a regular flu season, the UK and USA's population buy OTC medication, in sachets, to drink with hot water. Steaming is another method doctor recommended across the board. So, why not for COVID19 as a preventive measure?
The research about the virus also shows that an animal virus encapsulates its protein with fatty acid.
It is common knowledge that fatty acid cannot sustain itself beyond 45-degree Celsius. It is the temperature at which people safely drink their coffee and tea. So, why aren't the scientific community taking this simple chemistry into account?
Following is a sample message that developing countries frequently see on their social media.
“The hot water you drink is good for your throat.
But this Coronavirus is hidden behind the Paranasal sinus of your nose for 3 to 4 days.
The hot water we drink does not reach there.
After 4 to 5 days, this virus that was hidden behind the paranasal sinus reaches your lungs.
Then you have trouble breathing.
That's why it is very important to take steam,
which reaches the back of your Paranasal sinus.
You have to kill this virus in the nose with steam.
At 50°C, this virus becomes disabled, i.e. paralyzed.
At 60°C, this virus becomes so weak that any human immune system can fight against it.
At 70°C, this virus dies completely.
This is what steam does.
One who stays at home should take steam once a day.
If you go to the market to buy Groceries, vegetables etc.
Take it twice a day.
Anyone who meets some people or goes to the office should take steam 3 times a day.
If there is no evidence that this line of preventive treatment will be beneficial, there is no evidence that it will cause harm.
On the contrary, the BBC had been running myth-busting stories, decrying the use of hot water and disconnecting “immunity” with the fight against COVID.
It seems childish on the part of the western medical, scientific community to reject ideas that are practised for centuries and obvious.
Sunshine and Vitamin D is another lifestyle that the governments could have suggested, along with handwashing and face mask. Scientific research has shown that the majority of COVID cases were vitamin D deficient.
Now with vaccine war being played out globally, there are challenges to their efficacy with the variants. The population is confused, and the government unclear with the direction for each one of them. It is like building a new vehicle for every street and terrain in a city.
Rather, if governments are willing, they should attempt to build an umbrella system to counter the virus's effects. Well, in modern scientific jargon, it is called ‘immunity’.
“While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.”
Director-General, WHO, 3rd March 2020
How can WHO be so wrong?
Today, those countries who have withered the COVID pandemic successfully are the once whose population have worked hard to build ‘immunity’. China, India, Vietnam, Ghana others are live examples of redirecting their focus on the right target.
Another example of not listening to common knowledge by medical science practitioners is seen at the hospitals. It is a known fact flu season does not exist when the weather turns warm or hot.
Therefore, it would have been ideal for creating artificial summers in the wards treating COVID patients. The average room temperature of hospital wards is kept at 25*C or lower. It is the most optimum temperature for breeding the COVID virus on the surfaces and inside the body.
Refer to the data shown here; there are peaks of infection and deaths during the winters.
USA- Daily Deaths
Source: Washington Post
Hence, it can be conveniently inferred from the above data that only if the patients admitted to the hospital would have been in a warm summer-like environment; they would have naturally fought the virus.
There is another set of data that needs attention.
Mortality Rate: Deaths per Million Population
Source: Worldometers.info (As of 13th February 2021)
USA: About 1,400
UK: About 1,700
France: About 1,200
Italy: About 1,500
Canada: About 550
India: About 100
Botswana: About 80
Bangladesh: About 50
S. Korea: About 30
Nigeria: Below 10
Ghana: About 15
Vietnam: Below 1
Source: Worldometers.info
There is something these countries are doing right. The consequences of these statistics will fall on the vaccination program.
Migrants and ethnic community in the European and North American continent are averse to taking the vaccination. They are more confident in their traditional lifestyle and dietary habits. The effects are seen in inadequate response to call for vaccination in the UK, even though the mortality rate in BAME is higher.
A century ago, 1918 witnessed Spanish flu. It took two years to subside with the advances of medical science at the time. One hundred years later, it is going to be two years to fight COVID. What have we learnt in those ten decades?
The bigger question to ask ourselves is why we have wasted a million lives doing the same thing which does not work and expecting different results.
The western scientific medical community need to stop reinventing the wheel. They can look around in traditional medicines and synergise to find solutions to modern-day diseases. We will save more lives, and it will be more fulfilling.
COVID is Global. Collaborative learning of Traditional Medicine and Western Medicine could have saved more lives, many of them.
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IMAGE: Cello Vacusteel By Amitabh Bachan Ad Newspaper. Times of India Mumbai Newspaper. The Ad is published on 09 FEB 2021.
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