Call me a daydreamer, but I can’t give up hope that “modern medicine” will finally realize that “overkill” drugs that seek to wipe out viruses, bacterium, and parasites, more often than not only embolden these life forms and cause them to become “drug resistant.” As an alternative doctor for health I believe in the balance and harmony of Nature, and in natural cures if needed. All life forms are opportunistic, from human beings right down to microscopic organisms. So, I wasn’t surprised to read recently that the malaria parasite has developed resistance to the medicines most commonly used to fight it; not only that, but several mosquito species that host and transmit the parasite have become resistant to insecticides. I rest my case!
But, the good news is (despite the seeming ignorance of most of medical science when it comes to disease control), researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences are studying and testing plant extracts that have been used in traditional African medicine to fight malaria. Their study is to assist them in an effort to develop supplements and replacements for the conventional (and increasingly counter-productive) malaria medicines of today. And, leave it to Mother Nature to provide the simplest remedy; the plants used in the traditionally natural African remedy may not only affect the malaria parasite, but the mosquitoes that spread the parasite!
I doubt that this new discovery will thwart conventional medicine’s mindless efforts to find a way to eradicate all that ails human kind, not by helping humans to live healthier lives that are more in balance with Nature, but by eliminating “opportunities” for illness. I can hope, even dream, that one day soon the powerful pharmaceutical industry will realize that if they help to kill off the people of planet earth by creating drug-resistant super bugs, they will have irretrievably eliminated their customer base!