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Dr. Ali's Course
on Spices
Spices Are King Oxygen's
Super Soldiers
Majid Ali, M.D.
Spices have comprised the major part
of the indigenous pharmacopeia — "spice medicine"
seems to be a suitable name for it — throughout
history in all parts of the world. Among
practitioners of that art, the ancient Indians and
Chinese were the most advanced. The hill that
separated India and China never fully prevented
discourse among the peoples of those lands. Indeed,
the most highly recommended and most commonly
prescribed spices (as well as plant-based remedies)
in Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese
medicine are the same. Furthermore, Greco-Roman
medicine was essentially based on the two older
systems of India and China.
The Arab pharmacopeia during the age of the Arab
glory was essentially "Indian-Chinese-Greek"
medicine integrated with other plant-derived
phytofactors. Thus, Arab medicine during the ninth
through twelfth centuries A.D. was spice medicine as
well. Interestingly, spices (along with silk) are
what lured the Europeans to India. Vasco da Gama
(1460-1524), a Portuguese explorer, discovered an
ocean route from Portugal to the East. He rounded
Africa's Cape of Good Hope on November 22,1497 and
reached Calicut (modern Calcutta), India on May 20,
1498. (He fought with Arab traders as well the
Indians, using extreme torture, when he could, to
establish his superiority over the natives. Vasco da
Gama and his patron, King Manuel I of Portugal, were
as interested in the spices of the East as they were
in the silk. Accordingly, the journey of Christopher
Columbus to the Americas, of course, was simply
another trip made to satiate the European feeding
frenzy on spices and silk — with an eye for future
colonization. (I wonder how the celebrated French
cuisine might taste today had it not been for those
fabled spices from the East. Most likely it would be
what English cuisine is today.)
Then the dark century of medicine arrived when the
chemical drug industry used unenlightened disease
doctors of drug medicine as their tools for
suppression of natural therapies. Those
control-crazed pseudoscietists of medicine dismissed
all empirically-validated remedies as unscientific.
There is a sharp contrast between synthetic blockade
medicine — drugs that block cell membrane receptors,
channels, pumps, and molecules of healing responses
— and phytofactors and nutrients that facilitate
healing responses in integrative ways. Blocker drugs
work fast but cause long-term problems of the
blockade of essential cellular functions. Natural
remedies, by contrast, work slowly but restore
crucial cellular functions. Why don't the
pseudoscientists in medicine understand something
that simple? Perhaps because they are not paid by
their paymasters at drug companies to think.
Fortunately there is a change taking place. The
community of physicians is beginning to see through
the phony expertise of those pseudoscientists of
medicine, and is recognizing the anti- inflammatory,
bowel-restorative, blood-cleansing, and
liver-detoxifying characteristics of many spices.
There is an explosion of studies that are
delineating the biologic benefits of the various
components of spices with advanced analytic
technology, as I show in other articles of this
series.
All spices (and herbs) with empirically known
benefits for digestive- absorptive disorders also
have anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects.
That is easy to understand since pathological (but
not physiologic) inflammation and infectious
processes feed upon each other. Again, the issue of
dysfunctional oxygen metabolism (the dysox state) is
equally important in the treatment of both types of
clinical problems.
Articles
Included in Dr. Ali's Spices Course
*
Have a Spicy Day!
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Dr. Ali's Top
Spices
* Dr. Ali's Spicy Yogurt
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Dr. Ali's Spicy
Breakfast Protein Shake
*
Dr. Ali’s
Spice Omelettes for Weight Loss and Diabetes
Reversal
*
Dr.Ali's
Ginger Healing Remedies
*
Ginger Pictures
*
Spice-olgy
and Spice-ologists
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Spices-King Oxygen's Super Soldiers
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How Do Spices
Work?
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A Brief
Historical Note on Spice-ology
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Spice-olgy
and Spice-ologists
*
Spices-King Oxygen's Super Soldiers
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How Do Spices
Work?
*
A Brief
Historical Note on Spice-ology
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Have a Spicy Day
* Dr. Ali's Spicy Yogurt
*
Dr. Ali's Spicy
Breakfast Protein Shake
*
Dr. Ali’s
Spice Omelettes for Weight Loss and Diabetes
Reversal
* Dr. Ali's Spicy Yogurt
* Dr. Ali's Spicy
Breakfast Protein Shake
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Dr. Ali’s
Spice Omelettes for Weight Loss and Diabetes
Reversal
*
Principles of Spice Medicine
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Oxygen-enhancing (Oxystatic) Benefits of Spices
* Dr. Ali's
Breakfast
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Dr. Ali’s Flax and
Chia Seeds Omelete
*
Dr. Ali’s Tuna-Tiki Recipe
*
Dr. Ali's Palak-Tiki Recipe
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Dr. Ali's Vege-Tiki Recipe
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Insulin-Wise Foods, Insulin-Saving Recipes
* Dr. Ali's Insulin-Wise
Breakfast
* Dr. Ali's Insulin-Wise
Breakfast - Personalized
*
Insulin-saving Almond snack
* Foods
* Recipe
* Dr. Ali's
Breakfast
*
Dr. Ali’s Flax and
Chia Seeds Omelete
*
Dr. Ali’s Tuna-Tiki Recipe
*
Dr. Ali's Palak-Tiki Recipe
*
Dr. Ali's Vege-Tiki Recipe
*
Insulin-Wise Foods, Insulin-Saving Recipes
* Dr. Ali's Insulin-Wise
Breakfast
* Dr. Ali's Insulin-Wise
Breakfast - Personalized
*
Insulin-saving Almond snack
* Foods
* Recipe
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