I learned the following when I studied the Kabbalah, and many other philosophies promote similar ideas, namely that we are not presented with a problem if there is not also a (possibly hidden) solution available. I know this logic has a bit of a hole, as nobody who was presented with a problem for which there was no remedy is around anymore to tell about it, but I like the first point of view better, so I take that.
The problem I am thinking of now is the swine flu. Today, Ed (thanks Ed!) sent an e-mail presenting the solution for that problem. I know there is, or shortly will be, a pharmaceutical, and expensive, solution, but I always want to look at natural remedies first, in order not to get from the fire into the frying pan – fire being a deadly threat to the world and the frying pan standing for the dependency on the pharma industry.
Science Daily has the following article:
Scientists in China have discovered that roots of a plant used a century ago during the great Spanish influenza pandemic contains substances with powerful effects in laboratory experiments in killing the H1N1 swine flu virus that now threatens the world. The plant has a pleasant onion-like taste when cooked, but when raw it has sap so foul-smelling that some call it the “Dung of the Devil” plant.
Kindly, Ed also supplied some more info about this plant in a Wikipedia article about ‘Dung of the Devil’ and he even passed on a source to buy Asafetida (Edit 2026: appears, no ordering possible anymore, but now you get it on Amazon and even Walmart).
Now you have a solution for the time when the friendly government agent comes and wants to give you the mandatory swine flu vaccination – if you have a sample of asafetida in your pocket and let him smell it, he will run and look for more gullible victims to thrust his benevolence upon.
With that sample of asafetida, you might not have any friends, but let’s make that the subject of another article.

