CRUDE MEDICINES OF PAST ARE BASIS OF TODAY'S SOFT DRINKS - GO FIGURE

 MEDICINES ARE MERCHANDISE FOR  YOUR SICKNESS & THEIR     PROFITS - BEWARE

Our gullible society is always obsessed with their health. In the 1700 many smart pharmacists thrived on this need of the people. In the past people, eminent and otherwise often suffered from poor digestion. Sanitation practices were hit and miss even in the best kitchens. Fresh fruits and vegetables were unavailable in the off seasons. Well off people could eat vegetables preserved in salt and sugar, poor people did without. As for stress, work hours were long and usually physical. A typical workday was 12 hours and the work week was 6 days with only day of rest being Sunday. Many concoctions and pills were originally created as medicines.

In 1767 an English clergyman invented carbonated water and marketed it as man made natural mineral water. He falsely claimed that it was beneficial to drink for one’s health, and you can now see through his gimmick. 

In 1791 Johann Jacob Schweppes, a German watchmaker turned soft drink entrepreneur, began mixing carbonated water laced with quinine. This tonic water when mixed with Gin became a very popular drink throughout the British Empire. It helped solve the Malaria problem unknowingly.                          

In 1870 Dr. Thomas introduced Eclectric oil patent medicine. It could be used internally and externally. The secret concoction included spirits of turpentine, camphor, oil of tar, red thyme and fish oil. It claimed to cure tooth ache in 2 minutes, ear aches in 5 minutes and deafness in 3 days.                                 

In 1885 the first patent medicine was put on the market for our gullible public, who can be found in every part of the world at any point of timeline. It was Lydia Pinkham’s vegetable compound laced with alcohol which made it the subject of an efficacious drinking song, the ballad of Lydia Pinkham. Patent is actually a misnomer. To obtain an official government patent the manufacturer had to list ingredients on the bottle. Instead most patent medicine formulas were jealously guarded secrets, sometimes for good reason. It was another version of natural mineral waters considered to be beneficial to drink for one’s health. Millions of people were curious to find it out for themselves so they all tried it and many got hooked on to it for life and future generations.

In 1889 another trained pharmacist invented a sticky sweet beverage and sold it from Hood’s Drug stores in Lowell Mass. His mesmerizing slogan was “For that tired feeling take Hood’s.”  He also advertized in Globe and Mail a second slogan “Hood’s Sarsaparilla the surest way to have good blood.”

In 1890 a young enterprising George Taylor Fulford bought a patent medicine formula from a local doctor William Jackson for $50 and made it into a multi million dollar empire. The secret formula was mostly iron oxide and Epsom salts. These ingredients addressed two most common ailments of the time, anemia and constipation, but the advertisements claimed to cure everything. “Pink pills for pale people.” Fulford sold 40 pink pills for 50 cents a box. He thrived because he was lucky be in the days of reliable postal system and mass media of numerous dailies.

In 1900 many pharmacists created interesting concoctions initially marketed as medicines, and latter on became commodities of mass consumption.

In 1902 perhaps the greatest patent medicine turned soft drink success story is the tonic invented by John Pemberton. He was an ex-confederate soldier turned pharmacist who wanted to find a cure for the shattered nerves of ex-soldiers experiencing combat stress. Pemberton like many Civil War veterans had become addicted to morphine after being wounded in the battle. In Europe, a French chemist by the name of Angelo Mariani fortified Bordeaux wine with cocaine from cocoa leaves and marketed it under the name of Vin Mariani. Queen Victoria, Roman popes, and Thomas Edison were known fans of Mariani’s tonic, which of course inspired many imitators.  Pemberton supercharged Mariani’s formula by adding a strong dose of caffeine from coca pods and called his elixir Pemberton’s French Wine Coca. Although the cocaine was soon dropped from the formula, one of Pemberton’s business partners came up with a fresh and catchy brand name COCA-COLA. When this medicinal elixir failed to break through, Pemberton sold the formula to Asa Griggs Candler who switched his marketing slogan to target the young healthy urbanities, and rest is history.     

In 1906 the American congress passed the pure food and drug act requiring all drug manufacturers to be truthful in their advertising and to list all addictive ingredients on their labels. Ironically, Coco-Cola ran afoul of the new US law for not having cocaine in its drink as implied. The case was dismissed and Coke was allowed to remain cocaine free, but the caffeine is still there.

Now for some frightening concoctions that the gullible public has been a target of; Pesqui’s Uranium Wine was marketed to the public as a guaranteed cure for diabetes. The secret formula was Bordeaux wine and uranium nitrate. Dr. Batty’s cigarettes were marketed to people suffering from asthma, bad breath, and bronchial irritation. How paradoxical is this claim and no one saw through it. Then there was the Microbe killer that consisted of tap water, red wine, and trace amounts of sulphuric acid. This too was a success with the public.

In 1914 The Loyd manufacturing company of Albany, N.Y. advertised Cocaine Toothache Drops as an “instantaneous cure” for the teething children. It was sold over the counter drug.

In 1920 Seven Up was created as a hangover cure even during the height of prohibition. Seven Up’s slogan was “Take the outch out of the grouch.” It contained lithium citrate, a known mood stabilizing drug. The trend continues unabated with Red Bulls, Gatorades, and Vitamin waters. Today the health freaks and their industry are worth $ 50 billion a year for weight loss products and services alone because they have gullible customers to satisfy and deceive.

GARLIC & ONION ARE POTENT MEDICINES

We have been consuming these powerful items by using them as primary starting points in our daily cooking. It is much worse than consuming coke cola or any of the above drinks based upon crude medicines. Garlic cures many acute & chronic ailments, so why do we take it as food on a regular basis. The answer is ancient stone age beliefs handed down by our ignorant fore fathers. What we eat becomes a part of us, therefore why do we want toxic Garlic to be a part of us as toxicity. A large part of our population like Jains, Brahma Kumaris, Radhaswamis, & other learned people do not consume these foolish medicines, ever. Think before you eat it next time...

TOTAL CONFUSION & YOU ARE A PART OF THE DRAMA

In 2018 learned doctors are more of machines & pretty much confused. Lets us take up your scenario. If you were to fall sick suddenly & whisked to a hospital with just ONE malady to start with & where will you end is a different story. As soon as they finish examining you up, they will prescribe at least three medicines. Each one them has five side effects, therefore by the time you reach home you will be suffering from 15 side effects and the original malady, 16 in all. After four days you go to your learned doctor for your follow up exam. The doctor looks you up and now finds utterly confused which is the original malady out of the 16 effects, that your body is throwing up to him. Beware of the next set of medicines dear Ginny pig.  You are buying yourself into sickness, then you wonder what went wrong.

 MEDICAL WISDOM, HOSPITAL LITERATE

The human body is an island of billions and billions of bacteria, living together in harmony, multiplying, dying, and cooperating with each other. Sometimes fighting jointly against the intruders to kill and devour them, just to keep us alive a little longer.              

A cruise ship is also a floating island, moving slowly from point A to point B. Many times this ship gets infected by one sick person and the whole ship is contaminated with a particular kind of virus. Now, it has to be quarantined for long periods and fumigated to get rid of that virus.

PICK ONE: INFECTED SHIP OR INFESTED HOSPITAL!

I am asking you a simple question? Would you visit such an infected ship for just a short tour? I will additionally pay you $200 to go on this tour. Your answer would be a big NO!  Why may I ask? Obviously you are afraid of picking up the virus for yourself. You are a healthy person; your immune system is in good condition, disease free, and still not willing to take this risk. Subsequent question arises.  In sickness, why would you ever visit a hospital or a clinic, which has for sure hundreds of viruses and diseases? To top it all, you are not very healthy at that moment, and your internal immune system is down. Yet, you visit the hospital and many times get admitted into the hospital for some kind of treatment. What is your logic to visit a hospital in such a precarious condition? 

You surely catch a couple of germs and viruses and get further infected, instead of getting treated by the doctor. You are bound to die eventually. Of course we have statistics that prove this point. Innumerable deaths because of hospital related infections and errors on part of the staff and equipment's.

 


Rohit Khanna - IN-HUMAN 

AILING HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, FAIL TO CARE FOR YOU

  BOOKING THE DEFAULTERS & MAKING THEM PAY FOR IT 

  WHAT AILS OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ??

Diagnosing the aliment that health care is suffering from, has been tough for the people who govern and finance the system: the medical staff who toil 24/7 inside the air tight bubble, the poor ignorant guinea pigs who offer themselves for scientific treatments, and the hungry corporations who feed and poison the common man with their toxic harmful processed food products. All the above four agencies are inside the system. To arrive at the differential diagnosis, some one impartial and not connected with the system has to study in depth from outside. It pretty easy, and a piece of cake for a trained Value engineer and creative Industrial engineer like myself, to take in the total picture of all the elements involved and process them to evolve a workable practical solution. Since this solution is so far advanced and 25 years ahead of its time that the concerned parties may find it difficult to accept and implement it right now, though eventually this is the only way out for every one involved. We will have to think out of the box to arrive at the best possible solution to this century old problem of health care.

WAIT AND WATCH TACTIC

Let us start with the world’s top most troublesome problem as an analogy – Smuggling of drugs. How are we tackling it today? By policing it, chasing it after the act has been committed. We wait for the drug lords to buy the stuff off the farmers, wait for them to process it and do value addition to it, again wait for them to smuggle it across the borders in ever new ways. We wait for intelligence tips to arrive, and yet again wait for the actual stuff to arrive to catch it, if we can.

POLICING THE ACT PASSIVELY

Thousands of police officers, border security forces, k-nine units, cars and helicopters by the hundreds are employed to do this job today. If not billions but many trillions of dollars are spent every year unsuccessfully in the effort to contain this drug problem. In vain goes all this herculean effort because our children are still doing drugs and bringing untold misery into the families involved. As a government agency, we aught to be proactive and one step ahead of the drug lords to beat them at their game. 

BEING PROACTIVE IS THE SOLUTION

The solution is very simple. Who is buying up 90% of the world’s coffee? Starbucks and Tim Horton’s & MacDonald’s. Just like them we go out and procure 98% of the raw heroin/poppy from the farmers and do what we want to do. We could even ask the farmers to harvest the crops much before they blossomed since we intend to destroy them. Ship it to an undisclosed location and dispose it off, by burning it and generating power. Alternately process it for medicinal purpose and huge governmental profits.

REALLOCATING THE RESOURCES & FUNDS

This would render most of the police force surplus to be utilized in other areas. They would still be required to track down the small time individual poppy growers. Trillions of dollars would become available for critical health care management. Now that you have abundant funds, let’s see how to spend a fraction of it to get extraordinary results.

DEMANDING LUNG CANCER TREATMENT WHILE SMOKING CONTINUES

Poor logic on part of the patients & the Doctors

Coming back to our key issue of health care management, we observe that the poor guinea pigs has been given absolute freedom to do as they like, even if it means going on the road to destruction, and expecting the big brother, their governments, to rescue them later with all paid for health care plans, while they continue with bad eating habits. The governing agency is too busy with hundreds of higher ranking international priorities, including re-election to office; hence this issue takes a back seat in their agendas. 

WAITING FOR PUBLIC TO FALL SICK 

The highly talented medical staff is busy doing what they have been trained for; treating the human body after the DAMAGE has been done. Like our police force they wait and watch till the people fall sick, and the guinea pigs to be carried into the hospitals. Additionally these doctors are always treating the symptoms, the effect, in the body and not the cause of sickness, which happens to be beyond their realm and scope of work.

FOOD MANUFACTURING CORPORATIONS MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE

Finally the profit hungry corporations are responsible for all the degeneration caused to the common man’s health. Who is going to hold them accountable? They have been getting away very easily till now, but time has come to put an end to all this mess.

Personally, I would go a step further to the very root of the epidemic, by procuring the poppy seeds themselves and destroying them systematically and clandestinely. In a matter of three to five crop cycles poppy seeds can be in the extinct category. We have to think out of the box for creative solutions. I have spearheaded numerous committees at my company to help evaluate the feasibility of major new projects. One note worthy project was the setting up of new 10 million tonne steel plant on the eastern coast of India. After my findings and in-depth study it was scrapped ceremoniously. I have been the official Think Tank for all Value Engineering workshops/teams, apart from my normal routine

   UTOPIAN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT  - A SNEAK PREVIEW

DEFAULTING CORPORATIONS ASKED TO FIX UP THE DAMAGE

Time has come to take a peep into the CRYSTAL BALL for the Western half of the world.  The doctor – medicine scene has degenerated beyond repair. It has reached levels of INSANITY. These food manufacturers continue marketing richer and bigger portions again and again, expecting different results every time.  In short they have embraced SELF DEFEATING policies and egoistic attitudes, that their corporations are more important than the nation. The picture changed radically for worse, by 2020, which is just around the corner. Like the housing market, this bubble burst with such catastrophic effects, that some harsh steps had to be taken, within the basic frame work of total freedom.

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FROM GLOBAL THINK TANKS

The best think tanks in the world were summoned to find innovative solutions to this devastating problem. They brain stormed and came up with these following proposals. The anti lobbying law was enacted and passed banning any spending by these hungry corporations on lobbying of every kind, direct or indirect. Another sub law was added to the above, which made it legal, for the affected public and the governments to sue these companies for playing with health of future citizens of the nation, for staggering compensations.

EMPOWERING THE PUBLIC & PRIVATIZING  HEALTH CARE

The federal taxes for personal incomes and corporate profits were marginally reduced and the health care plans dissolved.  The message was clear. Here, take your money and manage your own health with your very own personalized health care plans.

RECALL OF DEFECTIVE VEHICLES LOGIC, APPLIES TO FOOD COMPANIES TOO

In lieu of the reduced corporate taxes the corporations were asked to take up the responsibility of health care management and expenses. The law makers additionally argued on the following premises. If the auto manufacturers are compelled to recall millions of defective and unsafe vehicles which could possibly lead to fatalities down the road, then why not apply the same logic to the food manufacturers.                

MISLEADING THE INNOCENT PUBLIC TO INGEST WRONG STUFF 

The food and liquor manufacturing companies were directed to take over the hospitals and fix up their mistakes of misleading the innocent youth on the fatally wrong path. They were required to manage clinics and hospitals, with the profits they made off the poor gullible public, who were Hexed by these very corporations with their false propaganda.

The hospital for mouth and lung diseases was allocated to the tobacco companies.

The hospital for obesity and heart diseases was offloaded on to the food corporations and liquor commissions.

The diabetic clinics were handed over to coffee cafes, tea kiosks, chocolate companies, and candy manufacturers.

The mental health institutions were forced upon meat processing and gaming corporations.

Thus the government washed off their hands from the painful and perpetual issues of health care, its cost-burden and management. This way a major catastrophe was averted very smartly and profitably. The above innovative change was a Utopian step for the troubled West.

TRANSPARENT PREMISE OF THESE FOOD COMPANIES

It worked because these companies managed their hospitals and clinics very professionally and effectively, keeping the same philosophy of CUSTOMER FIRST. They adopted a unique pattern of admitting patients into the clinics and hospitals. They adopted a two window system: PAYING window and NON-PAYING window. The paying window was reserved strictly for indolent, alcoholics, smokers, overweight, and addiction prone public. The non paying window was reserved for active, teetotalers, non smokers, lean and addiction free public. The premise of this system was transparent and simple. If a person could afford rich foods, exotic liquors, expensive cigarettes and luxurious cars then he could afford to pay for his costly illness and sickness too. These companies were happy making additional profits off the rich man which helped pay for the poor non paying patients who truly required the expensive treatments. It did not make sense with these companies that people should consume in large quantities, stick with harmful habits, and ask for medical treatments at the same time. For example a chain smoker would demand medical treatment for his asthma/throat cancer, how foolish is his logic.

ANALOGY OF HOLES IN THE BUCKET 

It was like filling up water, in a bucket which had big holes at the bottom. Why would anyone use such a defective vessel, to fill up and truly believe that it will fill up at some point of time? It was akin to try and button up your jacket only to find out that it has a zipper for closing up.

“These coarse people of bad habits and shallow judgments do not deserve such a beautiful and anatomical a structure as the human body. They deserve merely a sack to put in food and let out again.” I fully agree with Lala Hardyal who wrote this many years ago.

PARADIGM SHIFT - PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

These corporations additionally & cleverly leased out all the health clubs and fitness gymnasiums in the country. It was free for all, but mandatory for the non paying clients to use them on a regular basis. It became more important to prevent than to cure. Hence 80% of the effort was spent on prevention and just 20% on curing the malady. This major paradigm shift brought down the total cost of health care drastically. The idea is that the doctor takes a back seat and allows the common public to take personal responsibility of their health. The Doctor was supposed to be a coach/counselor and that was the original idea to have family doctors to help in preventing the diseases rather than curing them.

VOTE POWER OF PUBLIC TO BLACK MAIL THE GOVERNMENT 

Today it does makes sense with the governments handing out free health care plans, no questions asked. If they ever did question, then their governments would be voted out of power, on the basis of discrimination. This is the key word. The power of the public to black mail the governments. The future of these governments can be seen in the crystal ball.                     

We do not need another Nostradamus to tell us what is going to happen 10 or 50 years from now. The writing is on the wall, for every one of us to read, if we want to. This global writing too is heavily coded and to get the real meaning it must be deciphered locally.

Personally, I feel the above Utopian approach and health care model, has to be tried out in an educated manageable   advanced country like Norway or Switzerland first to make a success story and then the rest of the world will line up  to borrow the concept, of course at a high cost and perpetual royalties for life. My intuition says that sooner or later the world has to come to its knees begging for such a unique solution to the most pressing and financially draining problem. How do the industrial manufacturers maintain their factories/plants & stay ahead of their competitors? Naturally by following the same very preventive maintenance concept they stay ahead. It should  definitely work in the Medical field too equally well. I am suggesting a pilot project on a country level as we do in any engineering field.

Rohit Khanna - A Think Tank, Industrial Engineer, Reiki Doctor.