IMMUNE SYSTEM BASED HEALTHCARE COMING UP: Preventive and curative, based on naturopathy and all the other traditional healthcare systems of the world which are making a come back… many people are now turning to plant-based diets to reap better health parameters.

Eating is Fun / Eating is Yuck! – A variety food column

By Tara Narayan

DAMN it, when are we going to realize that healthcare is dependent on clean air, clean water, clean food first? Air worth breathing, water worth drinking, food worth eating and it is everyone’s sensibility including a government’s to link the dots between these. Ensure that the parameters of health are measured against primary indices and not secondary and tertiary fancies.
I want to offer some serious food for thought this week in the wake of widespread floods and suffering of the people.
Trust me, nobody wants to go get the covid-19 jabs but fear is driving them all the way like lambs to the slaughter. Our unsustainable lifestyles of gross plenty and pathetic little is not only reducing us to pathetic human beings but also taking a toll on Mother Earth who sustains us all — many countries of the West are seeking new models of healthcare. We must too transform our currently negligible preventive healthcare and in its absence what follows… our degenerative diseases and ailments with blood pressure to diabetes to heart disease to cancer!
Clean air, clean water and clean food facilitate health for the many, the provision of which requires a certain amount of commitment not to use and abuse the good earth for urban or rural development and especially for mega causes like augmenting the mega fortunes of only five to ten percent of the country
To stay with healthcare why are we anchored irrationally to only mainstream Allopathy which has its economic raison d’etre and place in healthcare, but most of the time we don’t need to go into hospitals private or public. If there is room for five-star, centrally air-conditioned hospitals – surely there is room for smaller, naturally well-ventilated hospitals, which offer the same services at more reasonable cost to the consumer? If not free healthcare for all across the country!
I ALWAYS say our senior patients need ashram-styled or naturally health-friendly sanitariums linked to the alternative systems of healthcare – especially Naturopathy and Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy….of course, Allopathy as a standby for emergencies! Healthcare as sanitariums for the many, hospitals for the few at local primary level! This would transform healthcare and make it more public-friendly.
Hey, if I am dying I’d rather die in a well-maintained, intelligent sanitarium than a hospital be it like the Manipal hospital or the GMC hospital. I don’t want no irritating and infectious cannulas punctured into me to keep pouring drugs into me to lull me to sleep before the end! Oral painkillers like marijuana or something better would be fine. Gentle therapies like massages too boost circulation and ease pain as does nutritionally health-conscious liquid and solid sustenance.
Sanitoriums too could treat covid-19 patients if they are mild to moderate cases as we have seen in some of the better quality covid centres which came up during the worst case pandemic scenarios of last year and this year’s second wave…are we awaiting a third wave targeting children?

INCREASINGLY, a large section of the medical community in India and abroad is convinced that the pandemic has been orchestrated by what is called the not so obvious establishment (read governments in league with pharmaceutical lobbies in whose pockets they live and collect constantly). It seems the pharma companies don’t want to invest in drugs any more but would happily invest in vaccines which make for a more profitable business.
Are the mainstream Allopathy barons hell bent on imprisoning or enslaving us mind and body, heart and soul so that they may keep running all the way to the banks forever after in a world filling up with patients? I’m not the only one saying I think so!
Therefore, we desperately need alternate and newer models of healthcare for prevention as well as treatment and these must begin with preventive healthcare in childhood, in school, in offices. Mainstream Allopathy is anchored to a deficit trust account after the political orchestrating of covid-19 pandemic for over 16 months now in which washing of hands, wearing of masks and lockdowns have exhausted us into living virtually new normal lifestyles which make us shun the outdoors…but if all our hi fi electro-magnetic technologies of radiation are going to destroy Mother Earth of what use is life itself?

HOW much do we need these technologies which make us sit for long hours before multiples screens from dawn to dusk and into the night, burning our eyes from smart phone screens to computer screens to television screens and maybe some more screens in the near future! And I’ve long held it here that if it is health we seek then we must educate ourselves about how food is medicine for health – switch over increasingly to a plant-based eating pattern, concentrate on improving the quality of your immune system on which even the white coats of Allopathy depend on and take for granted.
Let food and exercise be the mainstay of the good life. Shun industrial foods and drinks, invest in local farms which are dedicated to organic farming. Taste the difference between what is chemical and organic, what is blessed by Mother Earth and what is cursed …the industrial as well as agricultural revolutions are now damned for they do not add but keep subtracting from fighting fit health all around.
Our civilization is at a vital crossroads where the majority need to take a call if they want to live for at least a hundred years fruitfully and happily. I don’t care how long I live but whatever life is mine I want to live it happily with a sense of fulfillment!