The 4 humors of the human body. How is that an amazing truth of ancient and medieval world views with occultism and atheism has sought to destroy? Last time I checked, medical science has cured far more than "the science of the 4 humors" ever did.
Under the cover of capitalist backed modern medicine, occultism and atheism have caused the widespread proliferation of terminal diseases and degenerative illnesses like cancer which were unknown whenever and wherever the four humors philosophy prevailed. Artificial food including chemical agriculture which includes mostly poisons is also part of the science of death which has replaced Hippocratic medicine and natural food.
Modern diagnosis such as cellular diagnosis of disease such as used in a pap smear is inferior to virtually any branch of tradtional four humors medicine. Modern medicine is simply garbage, and thus it goes under cover of mysterious and knowledgeable sounding names such as cytopathology (cellular diagnosis) which most people have to look up in order to know what it means, but complicated words, big buildings, and money do not heal people.
Correct diagnosis and good treatment of a medical condition are what heals people.
Anti-cancer chemical (chemo) therapy consists of inserting poisons into a patient's body in order that the cancer be killed before the body. The principle is the same as chemical agriculture which uses deadly poisons to fight bugs - a modern practice which previous generations found unnecessary. Antibiotics are also poison.
Murder by Injection: The Medical Conspiracy
By Eustace Mullins
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/murderinjection.pdfThis book is a critical history of the American Medical Association from the 1850's to the present and includes chapters on poisonous detriments to health since that time which the AMA has officially introduced to the public with false propaganda that such novelties as mass vaccinations or the insertion of rat poison into tooth paste and water supplies are allegedly healthy.
Louis Pasteur's germ theory is an example of modern medicine's misunderstanding of the body. Pasteur's rival Antoine Beauchamp who both more honest than Pateur and also used a traditional method of pathology (diagnosis) was infinitely Pasteur's superior, but Pasteur made friends with money and his fame spread in concert with the deterioration of medicine.
Pasteur's False Germ Theory
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/terrain/lost_history_of_medicine.htmThe four humors are a method of pathology (diagnosis) which along with the Hippocratic oath are the central aspect of the greek medicine of Hippocrates. Hippocratic medicine is the basis of Greek, Roman, Arab and Islamic, and renaissance era medicine. It was used in western medicine until the nineteenth century.
The official British and american medical establishments were very corrupt and deadly in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Hippocratic greek medicine including humorism was officially eliminated as a practice of diagnosis by the British during the nineteenth century. The very famous herbalist Nicholas Culpeper is the best known doctor of Elizabethan England. He was persecuted as a leftist democrat like the Levelers, and he used Hippocratic medicine and four humors pathology. Culpeper is a landmark of the persistence of ancient medicine in England before its medicine became corrupt like its colonialist politics (which are related). Culpeper's Complete Herbal is probably the most famous herbal in the world.
The Complete Herbal
By Nicholas Culpeper
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66/113/frameset.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_CulpeperNeither Ayurvedic medicine nor traditional Chinese medicine have a theory of four humours, but they have good aspects such as the use of herbs. In my opinion, both of these systems do include occult and religious aspects combined with the treatment, especially in Ayurvedic medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine contains less of this except for its focus on "chi" (energy) which, in my opinion, could involve some characteristics inherited from Buddhism involving demons. Any possible negative effects of these two systems is negligible compared to the horrors of modern western medicine. And in any event, neither Ayurveda, TCM, nor modern western medicine involve the four humours.
Hippocratic medicine was preserved most intact by muslims. The Greek medicine of Hippocrates which constitutes the original basis of Islamic medicine. Hippocratic medicine survives most strongly in the branch of of islamic medicine from India known as Unani medicine (Greek medicine). The "medical" branch of British colonialism tried to annihilate this branch of medicine during the nineteenth century.
'Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900'
By Seema Alevi
http://www.amazon.com/Islam-Healing-Indo-Muslim-Tradition-1600-1900/dp/0230554385/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282816585&sr=1-2MODERN MEDICAL BOOKS WHICH UTILIZE DIAGNOSIS BY THE FOUR HUMOURS:
The Traditional Healer: A Comprehensive Guide to the Principles and Practice of Unani Herbal Medicine
By Halim Chishti
http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Healer-Comprehensive-Principles-Practice/dp/0892812257/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282817881&sr=1-2The Traditonal Healer's Handbook
By Hakim Chishti
http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Healers-Handbook-Medicine-Avicenna/dp/0892814381/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282816574&sr=1-1SOME WEBSITES OF GREEK MEDICINE WHICH UTILIZE THE FOUR HUMOURS:
http://www.greekmedicine.net/http://www.unani.com/http://www.traditionalmedicine.net.au/http://www.unanidoctors.com/Also, does that book tell of how the Roman Catholic Church absolved sins with money?
Does it tell of how Witchcraft was responsible for the Black Death?
I confess I find the setting of the book in seventeenth century england to be rather arbitrary. The various concepts summarized in the book such as the four humors are universal and antedate the simony developed by the frankish papacy.
Witchcraft is a part of the tradition of modern science.
The book does not discuss developments like simony and witchcraft which are opposed to genuine tradition and thus outside the scope of the book which focuses on illuminating truth rather than falsehood. That is aside from the fact that protestant Elizabethan England was very much opposed to the abuses of the papacy.