In a message dated 97-08-06 01:19:11 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< A large variety of animals have been
observed using herbs as medicines, including: chimpanzees, elephants,
many types of carnivores, omnivores, and others.
Bob:
Interesting stuff. After a long experiment involving gathering & "testing"
wild herbs I came to the conclusion that what I'd been considering
"phyto-pharmacology" ("instinctive" testing/eating of various herbs when in
various stages of health for their "medicinal benefits") was really just
"micro-nutrient" eating. BTW, the results of the experiments were that I
spent a lot of time & $ on herbs that never have smelled good enough to eat,
except for things like wintergreen, cinnanmon, etc. & even these never tasted
good. I'll test 'em again if/when I'm in poor health.
> M: The ONLY healing is self-healing.
>R: This is a theological/philosophical question.
bob:
Yes, & again, requires we're all using the same definition. by MY definition
of healing, indeed only our own mind/body can do it. By my definition, a
surgeon with a knife or a dentist draining an abscess or an ingested drug do
no healing.
>For example, many rawists reject supplements,
yet the supplement manufacturers have reams of testimonial letters, saying
how their product assisted healing.
Bob:
Whether the "supplement" is something the body needs (hence it's a food), or
something the body doesn't need (hence it's a toxin, stimulant, whatever)
the BODY is still the entity doing the healing, not the supplement, yes?
> P.S. apply simple common sense: if cooked food really is toxic, then we
would all have died long ago.
Bob:
By some measures, we are. Is there truth to the statement that 30% of
Canadian young couples who want to bear children are infertile & unable to
make babies? If true, how far along the Pottenger's cats experiment are we
humans?
> - animals are killed and cooked by forest fires (also volcanos, geysers,
lightning strikes), and their cooked remains are quickly eaten by other
animals - both carnivores and omnivores.
- natural, wild animals will go to human created landfills, and eat their
fill of cooked/processed/decaying food.
Of course, landfills are not natural, but the animals that feed there are
natural. This shows that animals are opportunists, not dogmatists.
Bob:
Them Instinctos would claim that forest fires, volcanoes, etc. are not
frequent enough occorances to allow our ancestor's instincts to properly
select or reject animals "cooked" thereby. The beasts eating human garbage
do so for the same reasons humans do; their instincts have not developed on
cookled food & therefore can't protect them against it. Seems to make a bit
of sense?
> Our close primate
relatives, the chimpanzees, drink water. Most land mammals drink water;
those that do not are the exception, rather than the rule.
Bob:
Having never lived 'mongst the chimps, I don't really know. Are the
statements that they often live in the trees for months at a time to avoid
predators at water holes true? I DO know that from '90 'til discoverint
Instincto in '93, I drank NO water, juices nor anything else & was not
dehydrated, for I peed away a pint of water at a time several times a day &
felt I was getting the BEST quality water from my fruits & veggies, every
MOLECULE filtered thru the cell wall of an intelligent plant cell for me! I
still drink less than a quart of any liquid per week, even in 100 degree
weather & most of the water seems needed to dilute my occassional raw animal
food, peanuts, etc.
> * writing the above was a lot of work,
Bob:
I'll bet it was. And good work, too. I apreciate your efforts to bring a
bit of sanity to this raw food subject. Thank you!
'ealth & 'appiness to ya
Bob
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