re: #689 Sacred Plants

Concerning the scenario that the absence of the treatment might be more risky than the treatment, the fruitful question to ask is where does the disease come from, or has it always been here?

In the case of small pox humans were the carriers and disease reservoir and it has been around for a very long time. It was only the efforts of many to eradicate small pox that we no longer have it as the disfiguring/deadly scourge. I’ve known small pox survivors and it can be incredibly disfiguring.

As to where the rest of the diseases come from I would look to diseases that jump from one species to another as being the primary source of most diseases. We’ve seen that in both bird flu and swine flu. There’s some suspicion that Ebola might be one of the species jumping diseases and is so very deadly because we have no immunity to it.