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According to estimates by the World Health Organization, nearly 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, with nearly 10% of the world’s population diagnosed with this lifelong respiratory disease. In the United States, about 70% of asthmatics also have an allergy to pollen and certain foods, especially dairy products. 6 billion dollars. Nearly 250,000 people die each year from asthma-related complications.
There is currently no known medical cure for asthma, with asthmatics undergoing a continuous treatment regimen of steroids, inhalers, and nebulizers to help reduce symptoms. But an 11-year-old Australian boy begs to disagree with medical science, claiming a traditional Fijian remedy for asthma has cured him, with no relapse in the past 12 months since he underwent an incredibly moving and traditional Fijian ritual . At the age of five, Tanner Blessington of Australia’s north coast of Sydney contracted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) at the start of winter and was eventually hospitalized and immediately treated with intravenous fluids and ventolin. RSV is a leading cause of respiratory disease at all ages in almost every country, but school-aged children are particularly susceptible during the colder months when colds and flu spread and put their immune systems under tremendous strain. RSV was first discovered in 1956 and has since been recognized by the medical community as one of the most common causes of childhood illness.
The Blessington family go on holiday to Fiji every year, but on one visit they learned from a Fijian who worked at one of the resorts that his mother claimed to have the gift of curing asthma. Tanner’s mother, Leanne, simply brushed off the comment as a Fijian myth, but continued to be curious for another two years, when she met the same man on a second chance encounter. Still curious, but well aware that it might just be a scam for money, she decided to take the next step and meet this mysterious mother. In the pouring rain, the Blessingtons took a taxi to the local village to meet the man’s wife and three children. His elderly mother came straight to Tanner and said she had a dream that he would come to see her. After a few hours of pleasantries, Leanne and husband Adrian were asked to leave the room so the older women could concentrate on helping young Tanner. As the night approached and it was still raining, the men of the family went to climb a nuidamu coconut tree to get an orange-red coconut and get a medicinal tree root. Without any safety equipment, one of the men climbed a tall palm tree, carefully removed a few coconuts, tied a rope around each bundle, and carefully lowered them to the ground. Nuidamu coconuts are highly respected in traditional medicine and great care has been taken not to let them fall to the ground.
When she returned to the house, the elderly woman began to shave the peel of the carrot over the newspaper, like peeling cassava root. The shavings were then bundled in the stringy, yellow bark of the coconut palm to form a bundle, and dipped in the coconut water to allow it to infuse and absorb. Meanwhile, as the family continued to pray and sing, she ran her finger over Tanner’s hand and down the underside of his arm and told him, “This won’t work if you don’t have love in you”. All negativity and stress had to get out of his mind, as well as his parents who were sitting nearby. This was especially difficult for his parents as they had just learned that their home in Sydney had been robbed and most of their jewelery and belongings had been stolen while they were in Fiji. Leanne talks about the hardships of getting rid of stress, but she was determined to do everything she could to make this work for her son.
After the bark and shaved roots had absorbed most of the coconut water, they were squeezed by hand to extract the essential oils and tree sap back into a bowl, leaving only the dry bark and root in a bundle, which they set aside. laid. Tanner took his first sip of the herbal water and said it didn’t taste as bad as western medicine. After more ceremony and prayer, Tanner had to perform one last ritual. He had to swim to the deepest point in the sea and throw the dry bark bundle as far as possible and say goodbye to my asthma. He was told to drink the rest of the mixture for the next seven days, supplemented with more nuidamu coconut water. He could not drink any other liquids, including water, juice, or the gravy of his favorite curries – only the coconut medicine that was made. This was probably because it could have diluted the potency of the herbal drink, allowing the traditional medicine to do its job. Leanne was still skeptical, but no money was exchanged and the old woman simply asked if they had faith and believed wholeheartedly that the treatment would work. On day eight, Tanner mustered up the courage to push the treatment to its limits. With his inhaler at the ready, he ordered the largest ice cream sundae. To everyone’s surprise, there was no response. No wheezing, no constricted airway, his asthma miraculously cleared. For the next 12 months, Leanne held her breath, constantly monitoring her son’s condition at home in Australia, unsure if or when his asthma would return. It didn’t. When they recently returned to Fiji, Tanner fulfilled one of his biggest dreams that his previous condition had prevented him from realizing. He learned to dive. “The dive application form asked if I had a medical condition. I ticked no. I used to have asthma, but it’s at sea now,” young Tanner said.
In the book, Secrets of Fijian Medicine, Dr. Michael Weiner, a professor at the University of California in the US, spent several years in Fiji in the 1980s, working with the government and the United Nations Development Program to document Fiji’s ancient herbal medicine. remedies. In it, Tanner’s treatment is documented and well known to many Fijian elders. Tree roots used to treat asthma include vesi (intsia bijuga) and vadra aerial roots (pandanus), and both are commonly found in parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The sacred orange-red coconuts are also mentioned in his book. Native to Asia and Polynesia, the niudamu tall palm tree grows to a height of 30 meters and bears mainly yellow and orange-red coconuts. This unique tree belongs to the cocos nucifera L. family and is known in Fiji medicine for a number of ailments such as fish poisoning, infected sores, scabies and is used as a general antibacterial agent.
Research on coconut oil around the world reveals that pure virgin coconut oil, cold-pressed and not heat-treated as processed in Fiji’s copra mills, contains very high levels of antioxidants that are beginning to be recognized around the world to aid brain degeneration stopping and life-threatening bacterial and viral diseases. MCTs (middle chain triglycerides) are in high concentration in virgin coconut oil and contain 60% of the good antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties of any known oil. Lauric acid also occurs naturally in coconut and, like breast milk, acts as an antibacterial and antiviral agent to both kill germs and nourish the cells. Our modern diet, especially in Western cultures, lacks MCT which has always been found primarily in coconut oil and now you will find it missing or non-existent in most of the cooking oils you use today. One of today’s signature health problems is high cholesterol, usually in the form of LDLs (low-density lipoproteins), with low HDLs (high-density lipoproteins) and high triglycerides. What’s interesting about coconut oil is that it raises HDL, lowers LDL, and lowers triglycerides all at once. MCT oil is also used in a number of applications in the US to treat a range of viral diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, asthma, eczema and HIV as this ancient medicine in a coconut is believed to be one of the gifts is of nature. a highly effective, non-toxic remedy to kill viruses and bacteria in the body.
So does Fijian traditional medicine hold the clues and secrets to curing asthma and other modern diseases? Medical science says no, but for a young Australian boy, the “Tree of Life” takes on a whole new meaning.
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