I know how to get medicine from a couple of native plants. I learned how from local Aboriginal teachers. I dunno if there’s an estrogen plant, but I use allergy medicine from Country quite regularly.
Plant medicine is mostly viable when you don’t have reasonable alternatives, and when you really know what you’re doing. Modern pharmaceuticals are leaps ahead, and I’d rather have them.
BTW I’m not anarchist, although you’re cool fellas
Sure, but are you going to carefully dose yew bark for cancer patients or figure out some kind of natural immunosuppressant to prevent transplant rejection? There’s medicine and then there’s medicine.
I don’t think the point of this meme is to compare Indigenous medicine against western medicine. I think the point of this meme is to argue that anarchists don’t know shit about what it’s like to live without a state-organised pharmaceutical system. I’m an anarchist and I know a little shit about what it’s like to live without a state-organised pharmaceutical system.
As an anarchist and a student of Indigenous knowledges, I think we can have traditional medicine alongside western medicine, and we don’t need a state for either.
I know how to get medicine from a couple of native plants. I learned how from local Aboriginal teachers. I dunno if there’s an estrogen plant, but I use allergy medicine from Country quite regularly.
BTW I’m an anarchist
BTW
I’m an anarchistCouldn’t resist, sorry :(
Yes, I do use Arch Linux!
I’m still struggling to get Mint to like me (╥﹏╥)
Plant medicine is mostly viable when you don’t have reasonable alternatives, and when you really know what you’re doing. Modern pharmaceuticals are leaps ahead, and I’d rather have them.
BTW I’m not anarchist, although you’re cool fellas
I have reasonable alternatives and I still prefer sniffing a leaf when My sinuses are full of gunk
Sure, but are you going to carefully dose yew bark for cancer patients or figure out some kind of natural immunosuppressant to prevent transplant rejection? There’s medicine and then there’s medicine.
I don’t think the point of this meme is to compare Indigenous medicine against western medicine. I think the point of this meme is to argue that anarchists don’t know shit about what it’s like to live without a state-organised pharmaceutical system. I’m an anarchist and I know a little shit about what it’s like to live without a state-organised pharmaceutical system.
As an anarchist and a student of Indigenous knowledges, I think we can have traditional medicine alongside western medicine, and we don’t need a state for either.