The three key elements of therapy
Now, let us talk therapy. We have to bring the three together. But before we do so, I want to clarify something. The reason I have been talking about 3 elements, namely herbs, drugs and our body is because the important therapeutics I want to stress are herbs and drugs. Herb therapy will automatically include food (diet) therapy and aromatherapy, possibly others. Hence, therapy basically needs only 2 elements to complete – the therapeutic entity (i.e., drug, herb or food) and our body.
Since drugs and herbs are the most important healing agents, they get equal attention. Though in the short period of measly 200 years, drugs have overshadowed most traditional herbs that have a minimum of at least several thousands of years of tried-and-true human-use experience. My disruptive concept is based on their distinct differences between themselves and their different interactions with our body. Understanding the subtleties between the 2 types of therapeutics and their different interactions (drugs vs. herbs & drugs/herbs vs. our body) will start to save lives and reduce human suffering as well as reduce overall costs of health care for us all. Remember, the scientific experience we humans have with drugs is no more than 10 to 20 years of clinical trials, before they are released to (approved for) the general population. Only then, the drugs begin to get tested for real by trial and error, no different from when herbs (foods) were tested at the dawn of human history, also by trial and error.
- The drugs. The pharmaceutical and associated industries have made tremendous scientific advances in developing and producing drugs. These advances move so fast that I can’t keep up nor can I understand the overall rationale behind them. What I know for sure is that no matter what, they are finally all synthesized, except for maybe a handful. And they, too, all have to enter our body to complete the process of therapy, as there is no e-therapy (as with e-books) at the present. Furthermore, the drugs are not equipped with homing devices, as far as I know, to zero in on the assumed target(s) that cause the trouble and neutralize them to resolve our illness. Once they are in our body, it is simply trial-and-error medicine as practiced over millennia by traditional healers based on their individual skills. That is art and not science. Researching, developing, and manufacturing drugs are highly scientific. But drug therapy is hardly scientific. It is not much different from the old-fashion practice of healing arts. This is my assessment of modern drug therapy. It can definitely use a dose of traditional herbs.
For example, antiviral or anticancer drugs can kill viruses or cancer cells, but they usually are so toxic (due to our complex body) they can kill the patients as well. At the least, they would so weaken the patients’ immune system that the patients would eventually die because of it. The Chinese have been successfully using tonic formulas to complement chemotherapy for several decades. But here, we, as scientists, sneer at herbal formulas as unscientific, and feel compelled to modify them into chemically analyzable concoctions that usually no longer have their traditional tonic elements, hence their traditional properties. This has been a decades-old issue so far unresolved, due to the misapplication of drug technologies to complex herbs, leading to wrong or irreproducible results, thus invalidating much of the research in drug therapy that has involved herbs. However, with the RBRM from our Phyto-True system as the herb reference materials, the problem of over precision in herbal materials can be resolved, allowing the reproducibility of traditional well-documented herbal formulas to be scientifically prepared and used for the first time alongside drug therapy. To my highly scientific American drug colleagues: If you have a better and less toxic alternative that does not involve mere specific chemicals, I’d love to hear it. For your information, our RBRM was discussed in an earlier post on my blog (www.ayslcorp.com/blog) and elsewhere in my recent books and other publications at the end of this paper “A Disruptive Concept in Drug Therapy.”
I’ll treat the other therapeutic(s) in my 4th post, coming soon.