Month: September 2019

Dependiendo de nuestra intención final, hay 2 problemas involucrados en el proceso terapéutico 

         En primer lugar, para el producto químico sintético que llamamos droga moderna, su diseño y preparación son científicos; pero una vez que entra en nuestro cuerpo complejo, el proceso es simplemente ensayo y error, no es diferente de cómo nuestros ancestros lejanos probaron por primera vez las plantas para distinguir las comestibles de las tóxicas; luego nos los pasaron. 

         En segundo lugar, si bien los medicamentos tradicionales se han utilizado eficazmente durante milenios para mantenernos vivos y bien, ya no son verdaderamente tradicionales en las últimas décadas.  Parece que nadie ha estado interesado en preservarlos, mientras que Big Pharma con su influencia financiera, sólo está interesado en obtener más medicamentos químicos de ellos, sesgando así todo a sólo medicamentos químicos.  Incluso de alguna manera ha persuadido a los científicos en China a seguir adelante.  Por lo tanto, me entristece decir, no más medicinas chinas tradicionales como se han conocido, utilizado y documentado!  A menos que…

#medicamentos #ciencias #químico #sintético #chinas #medicinas #tradicionales #BigPharma #ensayo #error

Depending on our ultimate intention, there are 2 issues involved in the therapeutic process. 

         First, for the straight-forward synthetic chemical we call modern drug, its design and preparation are scientific; but once it enters our complex body, the process is simply trial and error, no different from how our distant ancestors first tasted plants to distinguish the edible ones from the toxic ones; then passed them on to us. 

         Second, while traditional medicines have been effectively used for millennia in keeping us alive and well, they are no longer truly traditional in recent decades.  It seems no one has been interested in preserving them, while Big Pharma with its financial clout, is only interested in obtaining more chemical drugs from them, thus skewing everything to only chemical drugs.  It has even somehow persuaded scientists in China to go along.  Hence, I’m sad to say, no more traditional Chinese medicines as they have been known, used, and documented!  Unless…

#therapyprocess #synthetic #traditional #medicines #chemical #Chinese #BigPharma  #scientists #trial #error

Lo he explicado repetidamente en mis posts anteriores en LinkedIn y en mi blog, especialmente en mi libro y papel más reciente.  Los siguientes 2 posts (español e inglés) llevan el mismo mensaje que te llevará mi próximo artículo.  Espero que eso salga en pocos días.  Verás, tengo este hándicap desde la infancia.  El mensaje del cerebro al papel/teclado es m…u…y lento.  A veces, cuando llega la inspiración, puedo tener una cadena de ideas brillantes.  Entonces, para cuando apenas acabe de escribir el primero, perdería el resto.  Toda mi vida, tampoco puedo tomar notas, sólo una palabra aquí y allá.  Después de fundar mis propias empresas y tener asistentes competentes, no podía dictar, así que les dije en una breve conversación de lo que tenía en mente, y tendrían los puntos clave para mí para trabajar y terminar.  Ahora, estoy solo.  Así que, por favor, disculpe mi velocidad lenta.

I have repeatedly explained this in my earlier posts in LinkedIn and on my blog, especially in my most recent book and paper.  The following 2 posts (Spanish & English) carry the same message that will lead you to my next article.  I hope that will come out in no more than a few days.  You see, I have this handicap since childhood.  The message from brain to paper/keyboard is v…e…r…y slow.  At times, when inspiration strikes, I may have a chain of brilliant ideas.  Then, by the time I barely finish writing down the first one, I’d lose all the rest.  All my life, I can’t take notes either, just a word here and there.  After I founded my own companies and had competent assistants, I couldn’t dictate so I just told them in a short conversation of what I had in mind, and they would have the key points for me to work on and to finish.  Now, I am on my own.  So, please excuse my slow speed.  #scientificresearch #handicap #brain #childhood #message #keyboard #owncompanies #assistants #slowspeed

Nunca he publicado nada en esta lengua excepto en LinkedIn y en mi blog. Me enseñé español cuando tenía unos 15 años usando el libro “Teach Yourself Spanish”.  Entonces, en la universidad en Taiwan conocí al sacerdote jesuita de España, el P. Marcelino Andreu, que se convirtió en mi mentor.  Pude conversar con él y me corrigió los escritos durante mis años universitarios.  La lengua castellana que aprendí era la de los años 1950. Espero que ustedes no la encuentren demasiado extraña, aunque he estado leyendo El País y BBC Mundo en los últimos años.  Lean lo que he escrito sobre P. Marcelino en mi libro My Life & Rollercoaster Career (p. 68-69).  ¡Gracias!

I’ve never published anything in this language except on LinkedIn and on my blog. I taught myself Spanish when I was about 15 years old using the book “Teach Yourself Spanish”.  Then, at the university in Taiwan, I met the Jesuit priest from Spain, Father Marcelino Andreu, who became my mentor.  I was able to talk with him and he corrected my writings during my college years.  The Spanish language I have learned was that of the 1950s. I hope you don’t find it too strange, although I’ve been reading El País and BBC World in recent years.  Please read what I have written about P. Marcelino in my book “My Life & Rollercoaster Career” (p. 68-69). Thank you! 

Todos nacemos con un cuerpo que funciona bien preparado para nuestra supervivencia.  Hay todo en la tierra para que nos mantengamos vivos y sanos.  Desde que los humanos aparecieron en este planeta hace incontables años, hemos aprendido qué comer o evitar para nuestra supervivencia.  Cuando estamos enfermos, hemos aprendido qué ingerir para recuperarnos y mantenernos vivos. Durante generaciones desde tiempos antiguos también hemos desarrollado un sistema de salud que nos dice qué es beneficioso tomar y qué es venenoso para evitar.  Debido a esto, todavía estamos aquí hoy.  Nuestra supervivencia no depende de nuevos productos químicos desconocidos hechos de productos químicos tóxicos de la gasolina que puedan aliviar temporalmente nuestra enfermedad, pero eventualmente, al tratar de “mejorarlos”, abusaríamos del proceso, lo que resultaría en la creación de más problemas y enfermedades.  Esto ha terminado en un ciclo vicioso.  Los codiciosos adoradores del dinero podrían no haberlo significado, o ser codiciosos, al principio.  Pero una vez que se estableció este ciclo vicioso, han sucumbido a una de nuestras debilidades humanas y silenciosamente lo han dejado ser, sabiendo muy bien que es una calle de un solo sentido cuesta abajo para los demás, excepto para ellos mismos.  Estos hombres de negocios parecían haber abrazado el mal; cuantos más fármacos tóxicos, más dinero fluirá a su manera.  Al diablo con el resto de nosotros.  ¿Por qué? Tal vez no tengan hijos y nietos o simplemente, compasión.  ¿O tal vez su religión o valor familiar trabaja en contra de todos los demás?  Desearía que alguien con credibilidad y pericia en estos asuntos escribiera algo comprensible para el público en general y nos dijera cómo podría haber sucedido esto.  Primero de efedrina a morfina, y luego a penicilina.  Todos estos son productos químicos naturales en nuestro medio ambiente, más tarde reemplazados por “mejores”, para cualquier propósito – las anfetaminas sintéticas, opioides, y antibióticos resistentes a las bacterias. Ahora, todos han vuelto para atormentarnos. Y sin embargo, tenemos estos increíbles avances científicos en todos los campos, excepto saber cómo juntarlos para beneficiar a todo el cuerpo (un mini cosmos) y nuestro entorno (un poco cosmos).  Podemos poner micro interruptores para cortar una enfermedad a su nivel molecular o interruptores más grandes para apagar trozos y pedazos de un desastre que es natural o ya creado por nosotros.  Por el bien de nuestros nietos, de los suyos y de otras generaciones futuras, ahora deberíamos empezar a no permitir que se utilicen más productos químicos sintéticos a menos que primero podamos encontrar una manera segura de deshacerse de ellos después de usarlos.  Esto ayudaría a nuestro medio ambiente y a nuestra salud.  Es por eso que subí mi post, “¡Vamos a soñar en grande!” (Inglés y Español) anteriormente en mi blog y LinkedIn.  Por el bien de nuestras generaciones futuras, especialmente ustedes, jóvenes, podemos empezar a hacerlo de verdad porque tenemos la tecnología (Phyto-True), el laboratorio y la experiencia.  Todo lo que necesitamos es muchos de ustedes para comprar mi libro y / o difundir la palabra.  Mi blog:  www.ayslcorp.com/blog

#bacteria #resistente #antibióticas #minicosmos #salud #medioambiente #avances #científicos #codiciosos #cuerpo #fármacos #tóxicos #efedrina #morfina #penicilina #químicos #sintéticos #opioides #anfetaminas #ciclovicioso #círculaviciosa #enfermedades # soñar #gasolina #entorno #desastre #supervivencia

We are all born with a well-functioning body primed for our survival.  There is everything on earth for us to stay alive and healthy.  Since humans appeared on this planet countless years ago, we have learned what to eat or avoid for our survival.  When we are ill, we have learned what to ingest to recover and stay alive. For generations since ancient times we have also developed a healthcare system that tells us what is beneficial to take and what is poisonous to avoid.  Because of this, we are still here today.  Our survival does not depend on unknown brand-new chemicals made from toxic petrol chemicals which may temporarily relieve our illness but eventually, when trying to make ‘better’ ones, we’d abuse the process, resulting in creating more problems and illnesses.  This has now ended up in a vicious cycle.  The greedy money-worshipers might not have meant it, or been greedy, at the onset.  But once this vicious cycle was established, they have succumbed to one of our human weaknesses and quietly let it be, knowing full well it is a one-way street downhill for others but themselves.  These businessmen seemed to have embraced evil; the more toxic drugs, the more money flowing their way.  To hell with the rest of us.  Why? Maybe they don’t have children and grandchildren or simply, compassion.  Or perhaps their religion or family value works counter to everyone else’s?  I wish someone with credibility and expertise in such matters would write something understandable to the general public and tell us how this could have happened.  First from ephedrine to morphine, and then to penicillin.  These are all natural chemicals in our environment, later replaced with ‘better’ ones, for whatever purpose – the synthetic amphetamines, opioids, and bacteria-resistant antibiotics. Now, they have all come back to haunt us. And yet we have these amazing scientific advances in every field, except knowing how to put these together to benefit the whole – our body (a mini cosmos) and our environment (a little cosmos).  We can put micro switches to cut off a disease at its molecular level or bigger switches to turn off bits and pieces of a disaster that is natural or already man-made.  For the sake of our grandchildren, theirs, and other future generations, we should now start not to allow any more synthetic chemicals to be used unless we can first find a safe way to dispose of them after using.  This would help our environment and our health.  Which is why I uploaded my post, “Let’s dream big!” (English & Spanish) earlier on my blog and LinkedIn.  For the sake of our future generations, especially you younger folks, we can start doing it for real because we have the technology (Phyto-True), the lab, and the experience.  All we need is a lot of you to buy my book and/or spread the word.  My blog:  www.ayslcorp.com/blog           #healthcare, #petrolchemicals #viciouscycle #evil #toxicdrugs #ephedrine #morphine #antibiotics #amphetamines #opioids #bacteriaresistant       #scientificadvances #environment #future #generations #disaster #survival

My Life & Rollercoaster Career:  The Life of a Pharmacognosist + Are Drugs Better Than Herbs [550 pages: available from Amazon; $25.95, paperback; $5.49, e-version] 

As I have already repeatedly expressed, I am planning to form a nonprofit with 75% of the gross profits of my books towards 2 immediate achievable goals.  The first is to shape up current commercial herbal products, at least those labeled as ‘herbal’ but in fact are only chemical.  We’ll be fingerprinting and exposing them as what they actually are.  For a typical example of 2 ‘herbal’ products with the exact same herbal ingredients on their labels but showing completely different fingerprints, see “Chapter 9:  Adulteration Continues to be a Major Problem” in my book.  The second is to recommend genuine herbal products to consumers from herbal companies that produce them, now with fingerprints added to guarantee their identity and quality.  Eventually, the goal is to have our own manufacturing facilities crowdfunded by consumers and charging them a fraction of what for-profit companies usually charge.  This would greatly relieve their financial burden and would eliminate their necessity of taking some of the toxic synthetic drugs from the vicious cycle.  My young friends and colleagues, if you think I am doing the right thing for you and your children, and theirs, please buy my book.  Also, help me spread the word!  

             One of the main reasons many herbal medicines/supplements don’t seem to work is because even up to this day, there are no uniform standards or requirements for herbal ingredients.  Some are whole extracts while others may contain only 1 or 2 marker chemicals with no herbal elements.  Consequently, you have no idea what you get when you buy some well-known or well-marketed brand believing and even trusting it to be the real thing.  Big mistake!  We’ll find out when we start fingerprinting them. 

             I have been advocating identity and quality of herbal products for many decades but most of my industry colleagues have not listened, counting on our colleagues in government will continue to do nothing.  For the status quo, see “Chapter 11:  Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) – Not for Herbal Supplements,” of my book.  Once these herbal supplements have improved, consumers should have their true benefits, not just different hype selling the same fake useless products without herbs. 

             The current drug-therapy vicious cycle is untenable.  It’s a manmade situation allowing drug makers and their interdependent industries, supported by many crooked politicians, to exploit the health of the rest of the world’s population with impunity.  Before the drug Ingrezza was approved by our FDA to treat a drug-caused disease Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) 2 years ago, I thought they might not have known that our modern drug-therapy with toxic synthetic drugs was obviously heading towards the vicious cycle.  And that once they realized it, they would stop, because of its disastrous effects on the health of the human race.  Instead, they must have celebrated quietly in glee.  And here is the truth.   With 500,000 people in the United States alone suffering from this manmade TD at $200 to $400 per day per patient (or up to $146,000/yr/patient), the money of just one drug these exploiters of human health drain from us (as individuals and government) amounts to up to $73 billion per year!  From my estimation, assuming we had only 20 such drugs to treat manmade diseases, the amount of money these greedy people quietly take from our treasury is over a trillion dollars per year!   This does not even include the thousands of drugs for treating regular diseases, many of which are probably also drug-caused, such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, acid reflux, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, and Crohn’s Disease, among many others.  After all, with so many potentially very toxic, unnatural molecules (synthetic drug molecules) lurking inside the vast majority of Americans, how do we know any illness or disease is not due to these molecules keep bumping into the natural ones in our body to cause havoc, hence imbalance and new diseases?

             Despite the above bad news, there is something positive and uplifting that I admit I have missed during the past 20 years or so while I was not following the general trend of alternative therapies, but rather concentrating on synthetic drug therapy and the confusion between a pure chemical and a multichemical herb among most scientists, resulting in THM (esp. Chinese) not having been ever properly evaluated by appropriate scientific technologies until we succeeded in the development of our Phyto-True system 15 years ago. 

             I discovered the above trend only during the past few months when I was seriously connecting and accepting connections (from a few dozen connections to almost 3,000 in a few more days).  I am gratified to see so many more healthcare practitioners are in diverse fields, from lifestyle, nutrition, true prevention (not the Big Pharma type to detect diseases early and treat them with drugs), naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, traditional herbal medicine (incl.  Chinese and Ayurvedic), tuina massage, energy healing, qigong, food therapy, and many others.  Many of them don’t use drugs at all.  This all gives me a glimpse of hope.  Realistically, we are all in it together. With our modern communication and transportation technologies, our world is getting smaller and we are getting closer together.  At the same time, due to greed, our world is getting more and more polluted and our health is now in a vicious cycle that benefits only drug makers and their interdependent associates.   Think of your children, grandchildren, and theirs.  Start directing them to healthier lifestyles, better nutrition and natural therapies, so that their body can have the natural resistance to ward off diseases before they take hold.  I want to remind you synthetic drugs are not nutrients that our body needs, especially being pushed on us by greedy people who don’t have our wellbeing in mind.  They benefit by making us perpetually sick as in the vicious cycle.  Let’s not let them, by breaking the vicious cycle, or avoid it altogether.  Together, we can do it!

#Encyclopedia #natural #ingredients #herbal #viciouscycle #toxic #syntheticdrugs #mental #handicaps #fingerprints #identity #quality #products #adulteration #Tyler #pharmacognosist #Anazon #Barnes&nobles #Chinesischeheilkrauter #remedies #rollercoaster #career #healingfoods #herbs    

My Life & Rollercoaster Career:  The Life of a Pharmacognosist + Are Drugs Better Than Herbs [550 pages: available from Amazon; $25.95, paperback; $5.49, e-version] 

There are two main reasons why I wrote this book that actually consists of 2 books in one – my Memoir (The Life of a Pharmacognosist) and my republished Newsletter (Are Drugs Better Than Herbs?).  My memoir covers at least 3 or 4 generations of my family history for our daughters and granddaughter, among other things.  The second book is basically my lifetime’s thoughts and work that I want to leave behind, not just for my family, but mainly to alert millennials so that they may be aware of the vicious cycle that can be broken or bypassed by natural medicines by not using the inappropriate chemical technologies we all learn in college.  This vicious cycle has been created by us older folks and is passed on to our future generations through no fault of their own, just as we have done the same with our damaged environment. 

                When I first published my Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (Wiley, 1980), I had sent my book proposal to only 2 publishers, a trade publisher and Wiley.  Wiley responded quickly and within weeks I was offered a book contract with 15% royalties and an advance of $15,000.  That book became one of Wiley’s best sellers in the natural product field.  Since then, it has gone through the 2^nd Edition (1996, with Steven Foster as my co-author) and is now in its 3^rd Edition (2010) retitled Leung’s Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients…,authored by I.A. Khan and E.A. Abourashed.  I did not participate in its revision for 2 main reasons.  First, because of the confusion in the natural-product field among scientists between traditional herbs and pure chemicals, much of the data on ‘natural products’ were not credible, and I simply couldn’t have time to evaluate them and find enough data worthwhile to use for the purpose of my book which had to be relevant to traditional herbal medicines (THM).  Second, I finally realized that my book could be useful for drug discovery because of the chemicals reported in plants from the literature were relevant to the research and development of chemical drugs, though they were often useless when being applied to THM.  Not only that, they would further continue to muddy the research and production of genuine herbal products and formulas; and I didn’t want to continue to contribute my part to this confusion.

                After my positive experience with Wiley, I thought publishing lay books would also be at least as easy.  However, my first such book, Chinese Herbal Remedies,was accepted and subsequently published successfully by Universe Books in 1984, only after a dozen book proposals had been rejected by other publishers.  Regardless, that was also published in England by Wildwood House, and was shortly translated into German and published in Germany by Diederichs Gelbe Reihe in 1985 as Chinesische Heilkrauter.  Since 1993, it is under the new title, Chinese Healing Foods and Herbs, published by AYSL Corp, now out of print.  I have considered republishing it, especially as an e-book.  

                One major thing I have learned from all this is that lay publishers, including major ones, are mostly fed materials by book agents along with their reviewers who often are THM- or fact-challenged.  Hence some of their books published are egregious.  I have critically reviewed at least two of them in my Newsletter between 1996 and 2004.  One was downright plagiarism on a dozen remedies (at least from my herbal book) and the other outrageously ignorant on THM, compiled by 2 Pharm D’s.  They were also illogical or fuzzy-headed in their thinking, which the late Dr. Varro E. Tyler (Dean of Pharmacy at Purdue), well known for his popular book The Honest Herbal, agreed with me.  These are all reprinted in my book.  My question is, “How could such books have been published by these well-known publishers?”  My thinking is that the old-boy network is still alive and active in the lay publishing business.  It’s not what you know, but whom you know.  Obviously, I am at a disadvantage, because my slight mental handicaps never allowed me to initiate making friends or schmooze with others with ease, especially after coming to the United States.  The few close friends I have, or used to have, are from high school, though most of them are gone.  The other few good friends were made while raising our girls here.  Because of my honest and sometimes tactless nature in my work, my direct and frank interactions with colleagues in my field sometimes offend them.  They seem to openly tolerate incompetence and unethical conduct, hence don’t like anyone who criticizes them.  Although I have mellowed quite a bit during the past 10 to 15 years, seeing poor performance or unethical conduct in my colleagues still bothers me.  So I can’t help but speak out.  My rationale is that if we see something sloppy in research and cheating in manufacturing products without speaking out, we are just condoning mediocre research and substandard products.  This, in fact, has happened for decades.  Earlier on in my rollercoaster career, I had spoken out and lost the only 2 jobs when I worked for someone else.   But since then, I have made it on my own as an entrepreneur and successful herbal scientist, without compromising my principle and family values.

                Consequently, being outside of the old-boy network, I decided to get my new book self-published without having to go through a middleman.  After 3 years, the book is now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  I am not sure how much support my colleagues would give me in this project or how many books they would buy, so I count on the younger generation to notice my sincerity of doing this for them, and start supporting me.  I recommend buying the e-version because the paperback does not have an index anywhere as comprehensive as searching on line with the e-book.

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