In this post I will take about how to treat yourself or others if you are sick or injuried as a Ninja would. That is, using alternative medicine. Ninjas were expert at using whatever resources were available to them if they ever became sick or injuried as a result of engaging in combat. I am a true believer in alternative medicine i.e. if modern Western medicine with all it`s modern equipment, medical techniques and patented medical products cannot help you given your unique situation. You should rely on what is available to you. When I think about Ninja medicine I think about the Chinese barefoot doctors. When China became a Communist country because the vast rural poor population had no access to Western medical care the government started a program called the barefoot doctors. Western medicine requires vast amounts of money to invest in building hospitals equipped with machines such as x-ray, cat scans, operating and ER rooms. One use sterilized syringes; microscopes, patented vaccines and medicines which are difficult to produce and require special storage. A barefoot doctor is someone who specializes in traditional oriental natural medicine. Carrying only a few basic items like acupuncture needles, thermometer, stethoscope etc. They could walk to an isolated village and using herbs and vegetables that could be found within the area they could heal the sick. Here are some of my favourite Ninja natural remedies that you can use as alternative medicine. Garlic: contains natural antibiotics it is used for colds, flus when taken internally with meals. Garlic can be ground up and mixed with vegetable oil to apply to skin infections. Must be eaten raw as cooking destroys medical properties. Ginger: is a natural form of pain relief. If you suffer from food poisoning, headache, motion sickness or inflammation eating raw ginger gives you relief. In Asia, where raw ginger is often consumed women suffer less cases of morning sickness when pregnant as well as less cases of PMS related illnesses because of ginger`s great anti-inflammatory and pain relief. Again it must be eaten raw for full benefits. Externally if ground up and mixed with vegetable oil it can be applied to head, throat and chest if you have a cold or flu. Also good for skin infections. Honey: for centuries the Chinese have known that fresh raw honey straight from the honey bee`s hive is good for healing open cut wounds. If you have sustained an injury that has cut skin and flesh; raw honey will heal it. How? When the honey bee finds a flower they suck the nectar from it. Inside the bee`s stomach; enzymes convert the nectar to honey. It`s these enzymes in the honey when applied over a wound which prevents infection and speeds up the healing of a wound. Also good for sore throats and throat infections. It must be fresh as the honey you buy in supermarkets have been heated and processed and lost all the healing medical properties. Potatoe skins: In India where again there is mass poor people living in rural areas modern treatments for burn victims is expensive and unaccessable. There was an Indian doctors who tried to find an alternative to artificial skin. Under a microscope a female assistant noted that it closely resembled potatoe skins. From this observation in India to treat burn victims people take a potatoe; clean it and then steam it to peel off the skin. On a fresh clean palm leaf a mixture of flour and water paste is spread over the palm leaf. Then the potatoe skin is adhered to sticky leaf. It is steamed again to sterilize it and kill any bacteria. After it cools just like a bandage it is applied to the burn wound. Aloe vera is also a good herb but unlike potatoe skins is not easily accessible. Hard boiled egg: in China if you suffer a black eye a natural remedy is to take an egg and boil it until it becomes hard boiled. Take the egg out and peel it while it`s hot. Now apply the egg to your black eye. Using your hand roll it over the black eye. Depending upon the severity of the black eye you keep doing this three times a day until the black eye is gone. (It really works. My great grandfather in China was a barefoot doctor and this is a common Chinese remedy. My father prescribed this to numerous people who get a black eye from playing ruby and many of them are surprised that it works). Clay: In South America there many colourful fruits that if eaten are poisonous but there is a bird called the “Macaw” which can eat these poisonous fruits and not die. Why? The macaw will go to a river bed and eat large amounts of fresh clay. Then when it eats the poisonous fruits of the amazon the clay stops the body from absorbing toxins and poisons as well as absorb and neturalise poisons and toxins from the body into your stool and you poo it out when you go to the bathroom. Europe, South America and Asia people have known that consuming fresh clay prevents poisoning. Many naturopaths consume fresh clay in a glass or water or juice believing that the modern diet of food sprayed with chemicals and water treated with chemicals and heavy metals can be eliminated by consuming fresh clay. Maggots: if you have a large open wound that has been infected to the extent by super bacteria that is producing pus and causing your flesh to rot. Allow some flies to land on your wound and lay its eggs. The eggs will hatch and the maggots will eat all the dead cell matter in your wound. Best of all the maggots will produce antibodies to kill off the bacteria inside your wound so it doesn`t have to compete against the bacteria for the food i.e. dead matter. But be warned that when the dead matter runs out the maggots will start to eat your living healthy cells so as soon as the wound heals expel the maggots by getting some pork and lay it on the wound. The maggots will move into the pork and then just throw the pork filled with maggots away. This method has been known for centuries by the Chinese and by Africans. In Britain they have discovered that maggot therapy is more effective than modern antibiotics when curing infections. Superglue: when you have an open wound and no way to get to a hospital for stitches. Apply pressure to a wound until it stops bleeding. Now get a tube of superglue and apply it to the wound. Depending upon the size and depth of the wound you can either cover the wound with the superglue and then it dries forming a shield against infection and exposure and stops the wounds from opening up. If it`s a smaller wound you can put glue into the cut and push the skin together and it forms a bond. Be warned it hurts like hell but a little pain for long term gains is worth it. Also as the superglue dries it creates heat so you could get some ice and wrap it in plastic and apply it to the wound for some pain relief. Plastic food wrap: this one I learned from my first aid course training at St John ambulance. If you have a bad burn, after washing it with cold running water you are advised not to cover it with cloth as the burn wound dries it will stick to the cloth and create problems later. Plastic food wrap will stick to itself but not to a burn wound. The purpose of wrapping a burn wound is to prevent further infection (e.g. it’s a windy day and dust is flying everywhere) until you can get to a hospital. Plastic bottle: imagine you have no access to clean drinking water but you have a clear plastic bottle. Full the plastic bottle with water then leave it out in the hot sun. The UV rays and the heat will kill bacteria and harmful mirco-organisms to make it safe to drink or use for medical purposes. This is a common practice in African places that don`t have access to clean drinking water. WARNING: always seek proper medical attention. These hints are only for situations when you have no access to proper medical care. https://youtube/watch?v=OVUnTv7meh4 herbal medicine and poisons
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 06:47:40 +0000
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