THE
BLUE BOX (Recycled Ideas)
by Don Cox
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There's been a great change in medicine over the last few
years, traditional treatments have been fading away to be
replaced with alternative medicine, folk medicine, and various
concoctions reminiscent of the old snake oil days. I guess
this has to be a good thing, all the professions need to
be kept on their toes with a bit of disturbing competition,
it sharpens them up.
There's news of it everywhere, you can chew birch bark
for diabetes, some other wild flower is an immune system
stimulator, and rose hips are great for vitamin C. The solutions
are all around us, we are what we eat. In today's Globe
there's news about the next great step in folk medicine,
evidently you are not only what you eat, to a remarkable
degree you are also what you rub on.
Yes, it's true. For instance, rubbing sage into your scalp
can improve memory, and protect against dementia. "...essential
oils derived from the plant can prevent the breakdown of
key chemical messengers in the brain..." In other words,
rubbing essential oil of sage on your scalp can make you....well....sage!!
Yes, sage, wise through reflection and experience, that's
what sage is.
Such a wonderful discovery, I wonder what further benefits
could come from herbs? How about parsley, that's close to
Presley if you are a poor speller. Maybe rubbing on some
parsley will make you a poor singer. Remember my earlier
theory that multiple personality disorders came from reincarnated
spirits not having enough living bodies to go around? Well,
maybe I was wrong, what happens when you rub on Rosemary
or Basil, do these personalities assert themselves in your
life? Is this what gives rise to multiple personality disorders?
If a man rubs on Rosemary or a woman Basil, is this where
impulses for sex change come from?
I remember my old German professor who used to say, "Der
'b' und der 'p' are da same in all der langvitches in der
vorld." The 'p' and the 't' are pretty close too, I wonder
if tarragon is close to paragon. If I rubbed on some tarragon
would I become a nearly perfect person, a paragon?
I imagine most of you will simply scoff at these ideas,
and dismiss them out of hand. If you do, I know the reason,
you've simply got a cloved mind.
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