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What the traditions say
This is the old knowledge, not health advice. Check everything yourself before you use it.
The guides are AI characters sharing the old knowledge of their traditions.
What Elijah says
Jamaica, West Africa, Amazon · African Roots
“Oogun means both medicine and what outsiders call magic, because the practices overlap (USP Africa journal).”
What Ang says
Tibet, now Dharamsala · Sowa Rigpa
“The three poisons. Behind the three faults of the body the tradition sees the three poisons of the mind: desire (döchak), aversion (zhedang) and delusion (timuk). Delusion, attachment and aversion are called the root afflictions behind wind, bile and phlegm. A Bhutanese teaching journal gives the pairing in one line: phlegm disorder comes mainly from ignorance, bile disorder from aversion, and wind disorder from desire.”
What Auntie Sunita says
Kerala, India · Agni and Digestion
“A more human history than the legend. The Sushruta Samhita opens with the god Dhanvantari, as King Divodasa of Kashi, teaching surgery to Sushruta, but the oldest manuscripts do not have this frame. The historian Kenneth Zysk argues that Ayurveda grew among wandering healers and ascetics, with early Buddhist monastic texts among the first evidence of rational medicine in India, and that its theory does not rest on the Vedas even where it borrows Vedic imagery. Auntie Sunita is proud of both stories. "The god is a beautiful door. Behind it are people, trying and watching and writing it down.”
What Amara says
Nubia, on the Nile in Sudan · Medicine of the Pharaohs
“The bones. In 1980 Bassett and colleagues, among them the anthropologist George Armelagos, reported in the journal Science that bones from ancient Sudanese Nubia, from around 350 CE, glowed under ultraviolet light the way bones do when they carry tetracycline, an antibiotic of our time. Many doubted it. One critic suggested microbes in the soil after death could explain the glow. Armelagos and Keith answered that the well-kept Nubian skeletons showed the drug had been taken in during life.”
“The collarbone. The case most often quoted as "an ailment which I will treat" is the broken collarbone, Case 35. A medical history journal called its treatment one that has stood the test of time for more than three and a half thousand years.”
What Marty says
Netherlands · Life Coach · Biohacker
“Emotional journaling: Daily: what did you FEEL (not do or think)? Build vocabulary beyond "good" and "bad."”
“Reduces blood viscosity (thins blood naturally - Chevalier et al., Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine)”