ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः
सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः॥
May all sentient beings be at peace,
may no one suffer from illness,
May all see what is auspicious, may no one suffer.
Om peace, peace, peace.
[A very popular prayer mantra of ancient India ]
Let’s start the year with the age old ancient prayer of the above to be in peace in 2021. Year 2020 saw a turmoil, disorder, depression, disruption, confusion, unrest, uproar, turbulence in all arenas of our life: social, political, economical, mental and above all health due to outbreak of Corona Virus called COVID-19. This tiny virus showed us that how incomplete our knowledge is and how insignificant we are so far nature is concerned. It gave us an opportunity to look back on our tall claims in the medical science. It also showed us that how the advanced countries miserably failed in combating this virus and providing health to millions of their citizens. I will not go into the statistics since it is available on daily basis in the websites. I will try to draw your attention about why we failed.
Let’s understand about the COVID-19– coronavirus which is highly infectious. It also spreads extremely easily through person to person contact. But it’s not especially deadly compared to some others viruses.
Over the past two decades, we have seen two other smaller-scale coronavirus pandemics; one was from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China during 2002-2003 and the other was the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Middle East in 2012.Now, the COVID-19 coronavirus that we are dealing with now seems to kill about 3% of those who get infected worldwide. Compared to it SARS was much more deadly killing about 10% of the people who got it.
And MERS was incredibly dangerous killing 34% of those who got infected. That is one out of every three people who got infected, died. And yet MERS has not even been eradicated – it still bangs up occasionally.
Of course COVID-19 is dangerous, especially for seniors or the immune compromised (Co-morbid).
But, generally, most people get only mild symptoms – or none at all.And children and young adults have almost nothing to fear from COVID-19. Very likely reason for this is because they have robust, powerful immune systems. And studies showed that a strong immune system can help STOP a viral infection. Let me tell you with CAREFUL THOUGHTS that the VIRUS IS NOTHING. The immune system is EVERYTHING. In fact, we have made a huge mistake in our modern medical science for treating virus diseases by looking outside the body in search of control measures i.e. drug.
This mistake started with blindly applying Dr. Pasteur’s germ theory of the disease. Dr. Louis Pasteur, the French scientist famous for our understanding of microbes or “germs” which are tiny organisms such as bacteria and viruses.
He invented pasteurization – the process that makes milk last longer by superheating it to kill the germs. Pasteur believed people get sick and diseased because of germ attacks from outside our bodies.
The great Indian wisdom, Ayurveda(Ref.3) (medical science) did not approve the germ theory. For treatment of the body they squealy depended on the constitution of the body (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) and their imbalance that disturbed the immune system to cause disease of various kinds. Moreover, we must understand the 90% of our diseases are psychosomatic & physiological. This itself does not testify the germ theory for most of the diseases. Many of us do not know about Dr. Claude Bernard, an absolute genius and also considered as “One of the greatest of all men of science.” who was also a good friend of Dr. Pasteur. He contradicted Dr. Pasteur and believed that germs are always inside us and we only get sick when our immune systems become weak.
Dr. Bernard was right. And Dr. Pasteur was wrong. Yet medical world, specially pharmaceutical industries hugged Dr. Pasteur theory because of their business prospective.
Believe it or not, We have more virus cells in your body than we do have our own cells. It’s true. We have about 37 trillion cells in your body.But that’s NOTHING compared to how many VIRUS cells we have right now in our body. For every human cell in our body – we have about 10 virus cells.Therefore, we have over 370 TRILLION virus cells in our body right now.
In fact, humans have been home to so many viruses since its evolution and interestingly about 8% of our DNA is now made up of ancient virus DNA.
This is absolutely true.
It’s known and accepted in medical science.
The fact is: We are full of both harmful and benign viruses and bacteria and other germs all the time.
“Most microbial diseases are caused by organisms [viruses and bacteria] present in our body. They become the cause of disease when a disturbance arises which upsets the equilibrium of the body.”
Dr. Bernard’s theory in a nutshell is the germs are not important. Exactly that Ayurveda says.
It is the “environment of the body” – including our immune system – that matters. Bernard was right about infectious disease and Dr. Louis Pasteur was wrong.
And if Pasteur’s theory – that we become sick because of external germ attacks – was correct, we would be permanently sick. But we are not. Because of our immunity.
The latest science now agrees with this fact and we have experienced in our recent past in COVID-19 treatment protocol. You will find now in the market everybody talks about the immunity. Products with claim to boost immunity are full in the market.
You may ask an obvious question. If immunity is everything, why our mainstream medical science is not working on it?
Well, you may call me a conspiracy theorist if you want. But my answer would be “there is no money to be made by boosting our immune systems”. Especially when the best ways to do it involve natural substances (Ref.1&2) that can’t be patented.
Irony is that mainstream medicine STILL does not involve themselves in working with immune system. You have seen now the completion for makeing vaccine for COVID-19 worldwide. Billions of dollar have been spent. And there will be now rat race to recover this money. For immunization programme, many developing countries will face economic hurdle to fulfil it. More concern is that many countries are approving the vaccines in hurry without studying their long term side effects.
I personally feel that we should have faith on our ancient wisdom (ISM) in boosting immunity to tackle this COVID-19 rather than falling in trap of multi-national pharmaceutical companies.
Jai Hind!
Satyabrata Maiti
References:
1. https://satyabratamaitiblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/the-covid-19-coronavirus-threat-to-india-and-some-self-assured-measures-to-avoid-it/
2. https://satyabratamaitiblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-best-possible-prevention-options-for-india/
3. (https://satyabratamaitiblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/golden-opportunity-for-india-to-test-our-ancient-wisdom-an-appeal-to-the-honourable-prime-minister-of-india/)
