please differentiate

July 4, 2006

glad you've taken an interest in Eli Jones, Shirish - an interesting

fellow and an important contributor to the field of herbal medicine,

but one that if you examine his work and his statements closely, are

often times a little quirky and certainly prejudiced by sometimes a

rather dogmatic belief that might not always represent the issues in

sufficient detail

for example, we now know that the regular consumption of tea in China

is associated with much lower rates of many types of cancer - of

course unlike India and the West, it is consumed without milk and sugar

remember too, that back in Eli's time, processed food including

canned and preserved meat, as well as other refined foods became

increasingly more common, as compared to more traditional diets in

less developed countries, and certainly this could be something that

prejudiced his thinking that meat was the cause, when in fact there

were several distinct differences between these diets; also, there

are many non-veg peoples that traditionally have very low rates of

cancer, so i think that Eli's brush strokes are too broad

lastly, your statements about india, that because it has been

vegetarian, has never taken up arms against another country, could

just as well be applied to a number of other non-vegetarian peoples

that similarly never had the ethic of expansionism - for example, the

first nations people of canada, the aborigines of australia, the

tibetans, the amazonian indians, the original celtic/druidic peoples

of the British Isles etc. - i am not sure how relevant this argument

is anyway, (also, i think the tamil people have a different opinion

of north indian expansionism, don't they?)

best... todd

On 4-Jul-06, at 8:55 AM, ayurveda wrote:

> A saint, after curing more than 4000 cancer cases, wrote a book.

> In the introductory chaper of the book, "Cancer, its causes symptoms

> and Treatments", Eli Jones writes in 1911:

Caldecott

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