“The History of Pharmacy According to Bag Size” - Mary Lee Snodgrass

Date:   3/28/2016 7:33:12 AM ( 8 y ago)

March 28, 2016 -

I am so grateful that I'm not on any prescriptions and haven't been for years! If I have a symptom that I want to feed medicine to I think of food as medicine and I think of herbal medicine. I do my best to avoid all pharmaceuticals and I'm so glad I do!

"... pharmacist Mary Lee Snodgrass talks about how and why the trend of over-medication has become so prevalent in America. As a second generation pharmacist, Mary Lee has a first hand account of how prescriptions have doubled and tripled over the last few decades."[1]
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Comment:

Just posted my comment at Wellness Mama.:

Thank you Katie and Mary Lee!

I'm all the more grateful that I've chosen food as my medicine and if need be turn to herbal medicine or the like and that I have done my best to avoid the pharmaceutical products for over the past two and a half decades! Taking full responsibility for one's health and well-being can be a long learning process, especially if one was raised to believe that the wisdom for health resides outside of the individual.

Although I don't personally have a problem with over-medication I have known individuals who have suffered from this problem. It appears to me that these people do not really think for themselves and instead assume that the doctor knows what's best for them. That kind of behavior is very well proven to be risky business!
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December 21, 2019 - Avoiding Over-Medication In ICU -

ICU and Home Critical Care (Introduction) - By: Dr. Mark Sircus AC., OMD, DM (P) - Published on December 18, 2019

When we do things right in ICU and emergency departments we save lives and can decrease the amount of time patients have to be hospitalized. There are many new and exciting therapies that yield better results than today’s toxic pharmaceutical medicines because natural medicines (many of which are quietly in use) address real needs of the body whereas pharmaceuticals do not.

Unfortunately the FDA makes sure that the best medicines are repressed maximizing the chance of mortality under mainstream western medical care in ICU departments. The best medicines are natural. It is important to know the difference between supplementing with natural nutritional substances and using them as medicines.

In intensive care wards, many medicines are giving intravenously or through injection. With vitamin D, C, injectable selenium, magnesium injection (or given intravenously), sodium bicarbonate, potassium, hydrogen gas mixed with oxygen, sulfur, glutathione and iodine we can change the face of critical care. If one cannot find an intensive care center that will administer these drugs (safe nutritional agents) one can simply administer them at home legally as supplements as long as you do not give IVs or inject unless one has a nurse.

It is possible to duplicate the intensity of ICU administration of these natural drugs at home through intensive medical baths, transdermal application, nebulization and oral intake by loading up one’s water with these powerful medicines. Hospitals today are discharging people faster than ever before, giving patients and their families the responsibility to continue treatments on their own at home. This is partly due to the high risk of infections as well as cost.

In the emergency room and ICU medicines must be safe while delivering an instant lifesaving burst of healing power. Obviously if they are safe and strong enough for emergency situations they are going to help us with chronic diseases and acute ones as well. Instead of operating under the threat of imminent death we treat day after day, all day tapping into the power of these lifesaving medicines, not just when at deaths door but through the days and months until the desired results are realized.

Vitamin D
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Vitamin D supplementation has shown promise for reducing mortality in the intensive care setting. It is one of the newest medicines to be tested in ICU departments. Improved vitamin D status decreases the odds of all cause-mortality. There is a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in the critically ill patient populations. We have several intensive care unit studies which have demonstrated an association between vitamin D deficiency [25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) < 20 ng/mL] and increased hospital length of stay (LOS), readmission rate, sepsis and mortality.

There was a significant decrease in hospital length of stay over time in 250,000 IU and the 500,000 IU vitamin D3 groups, compared to the placebo group.[i] Vitamin D is known to have pleiotropic effects on patients immune pathways and may be uniquely involved with lung immune function and alveolar capillary barrier function. (See Light Deficiency as a Cause of Cancer)

Emory University did a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of vitamin D in critical care. Patients had sepsis, septic shock and other severe disorders. They used 3 groups. One got the placebo. The second group were given 50,000 IU per day for 5 consecutive days. The third group was given 100,000 IU per day, also for 5 consecutive days. The major finding was length of stay. The placebo group’s average length of stay was 36 days. The 50,000 IU group averaged 25 days, and the 100,000 IU group averaged 18 days. High dosages of Vitamin D cut the length of stay in critical care in half.

“I visited a level I trauma care center where they have been using high-dose vitamin D for about ten years. I interviewed the chief surgeon. He is the one who told me that vitamin D is the most powerful medicine he uses. He said, “In my hospital vitamin D flows like water.” They give every patient on admission 50,000 IU and continue that for 5-7 days. He told me they are still in awe of all of the lives they are saving with vitamin D. He said that a lot of the lives are being saved because vitamin D is the most powerful anti-inflammatory agent they have ever seen. He also said that it superchargers the immune system. They refuse to do a placebo-controlled study because he said it would be unethical since everyone is benefiting from the vitamin D. They could not ethically deprive people of vitamin D to have a placebo group,” writes Alan Roth.

On Medscape you will read High-Dose Vitamin D Shows Promising Effects in MS, and at the same time you will read Critically ill patients who are vitamin D deficient do not seem to gain any benefit from the administration of high-dose vitamin D in the intensive care unit, results from a phase 3 randomized trial indicate. You will read similar studies on Vitamin C as the mainstream struggles to repress anything and everything non-pharmaceutical.

Part Two, Three and Four will be published before the end of the year.
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[i] J Clin Transl Endocrinol. 2016 Jun; 4: 59–65. High dose vitamin D administration in ventilated intensive care unit patients: A pilot double blind randomized controlled trial.[3]
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September 4, 2019 - The Difference Between Spagyric Extracts and Herbal Tinctures -
By: Dr. Edward Group

Among the few individuals who know what spagyric extracts are, there are still fewer among them who understand that spagyria differs from herbalism and homeopathy. While both have their benefits as alternatives to trending allopathic medicine, and even depend on similar ancient herbal knowledge, there are crucial differences that determine their usefulness in various scenarios.

History of Herbs: Paracelsus and Hahnemann
Spagyric medicine actually predates homeopathy by about two centuries. The former was first coined by the 16th century Renaissance visionary, Paracelsus, who abided by Hippocrates’ dictum, “like cures like,” as well as old-world herbal knowledge from China, Tibet, and India. Paracelsus espoused the principles of alchemy to work with medicine, dividing a plant into three basic parts:

Mercury: The water element in which the essence of the plant is carried.
Salt: The earth element, and the calcined ashes of the plant.
Suphur: The fire element and the essential oil of the plant.

Homeopathy’s father, Samuel Hahnemann, abided by the same basic philosophy but differed in execution. His basic herbal extract, and that of homeopaths today, are simply the mercurius level of the plant without the minerals and enzymes found in the salt and sulphur levels (and much less work).

Spagyric Liquid Extracts Versus Herbal Tinctures -
Herbal tinctures are typically alcoholic extracts of a plant or plants, although some varieties are made with vinegar, glycerol, ether, or some other material. Alcoholic extracts, however, should be avoided as they can damage the integrity of the extracted substance.

Paracelsus and modern-day spagyrics process a plant to retain its botanical properties and nutrients before separating the three parts and extracting nutrients and energies therein before reuniting them. The careful separation, extraction, and reunification process ensures that as much of the plant’s nutrition that can be drawn by modern technology is drawn into the liquid herbal extract. Equally important is the ratio of the said nutrients — which in synchrony allow the plant to live and thrive in nature — that is retained in the spagyric liquid extract.

Both methods of nutrient extraction have their uses, but spagyric extracts are arguably more versatile in their use because they are always non-toxic and gentle. Spagyric extracts are easy to use internally and externally as complementary and natural remedies.[2]
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Comment:

Thanks to Ken for the link to the article after I inquired with him as to his awareness of the spagyric process.
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Notes:

[1] http://wellnessmama.com/podcast/the-overmedication-of-america/

[2] https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/difference-spagyric-extracts-herbal-tinctures/

[3] https://drsircus.com/general/icu-and-home-critical-care-introduction/
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