Natural cure for asthma found in Fiji

According to World Health Organization estimates, 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 allergies to pollen and certain foods, especially dairy, and the annual economic cost of asthma reaches $20 billion in medical and indirect costs, and prescription drugs they represent the largest single direct medical expense worldwide. 6 billion US dollars. Each year, nearly 250,000 people die from asthma-related complications.

There is currently no known medical cure for asthma, and asthmatics endure a continual control regimen of steroids, inhalers, and nebulizers to help reduce their symptoms. But an 11-year-old Australian boy disagrees with medical science and claims that a traditional Fijian asthma remedy has cured him, with no relapses in the past 12 months since he underwent an incredibly moving and traditional Fijian ritual. At the age of five, Tanner Blessington, from the north shore of Sydney, Australia, contracted RSV at the start of winter and ended up hospitalized and treated with intravenous fluids and ventolin right away. RSV is a leading cause of respiratory illness at all ages and in nearly all countries, but school-age children are particularly susceptible during the colder months as colds and flu spread and tax their systems. immunological under enormous pressure. RSV was first discovered in 1956 and has since been recognized by the medical profession as one of the most common causes of childhood illness.

The Blessington family visits Fiji every year for the holidays, but on one visit they learned from a Fijian working at one of the resorts that their mother claimed to have the gift of curing asthma. Tanner’s mother, Leanne, simply shrugged off the comment as a Fijian myth, but she remained curious for another two years, when in a second-chance encounter, she met the same man. Still curious but well aware that she might just be a money scam, she decided to take the next step and meet this mysterious mother. In pouring rain, the Blessingtons took a taxi to the local town to meet the man’s wife and her three children. Her elderly mother went directly to Tanner and told him that she had dreamed that he was coming to see her. After a few hours of banter, Leanne and her husband Adrian were asked to leave the room so the old ladies could focus on helping the younger Tanner. With night approaching and it still raining, the men of the family went to climb a nuidamu coconut tree to retrieve an orange-red coconut and a medicinal tree root. Without any safety equipment, one of the men climbed up a tall palm tree, carefully removed some coconuts, tied a rope around each bundle and gently lowered them to the ground. Nuidamu coconuts are highly regarded in traditional medicine and the utmost care was taken to prevent them from falling to the ground.

Returning to the house, the older woman began to shave the skin of the root on newspaper, as if she were peeling the cassava root. The chips were then packed within the fibrous vau bark of the coconut tree to form a packet, and dipped into the coconut water to allow it to infuse and absorb. Meanwhile, as the family continued to pray and sing, she ran her finger through Tanner’s hand and up her lower arm, saying, “this won’t work if you don’t have love inside of you.” All of her negativity and stress had to go from her mind, as well as from her parents who were sitting near her. This was especially difficult for her parents, as they had just learned that their Sydney home had been burglarized and that most of her jewelry and possessions had been stolen while they were in Fiji. Leanne talks about having a hard time getting rid of stress, but she was determined to do everything right to make it work for her son.

Once the shaved bark and roots had absorbed most of the coconut water, they were hand-squeezed to extract the essential oils and tree sap into a container, leaving only the dried bark and root in a packet, which left aside. Tanner took her first swallow of the herbal water and said it didn’t taste as bad as Western medicine. After more ceremonies and prayers, Tanner had to perform one last ritual. He had to swim to the deepest point of the sea and throw the packet of dried bark as far as he could and say “goodbye to my asthma”. He was told that he was to drink the rest of the mixture, with refills of more nuidamu coconut water, for the next seven days. He couldn’t drink any other liquid, including water, juice or his favorite curry sauce, only the coconut medicine he had made himself. This was probably because he may have diluted the potency of the herbal drink, ensuring that traditional medicine could do its job for him. Leanne was still skeptical, but no money was exchanged and the old lady simply asked them to have faith and put their hearts and minds into believing that the treatment would work. On the eighth day, Tanner found the courage to put the treatment to the test. With his inhaler ready, he ordered the largest sundae. To everyone’s surprise, there was no reaction. No wheezing, no constricted airways, his asthma had miraculously disappeared. For the next 12 months, Leanne held her breath, constantly monitoring her son’s condition in Australia, not knowing if and when her asthma might return. she didn’t. Upon her return to Fiji recently, Tanner fulfilled one of her biggest dreams that her previous condition had prevented her from realizing. He learned to dive. “On the dive request form, he asked me if he had any medical conditions. I checked no. He used to have asthma, but now he’s in the sea,” the younger Tanner said.

In the book, “Fiji Medicine Secrets,” Dr. Michael Weiner, a professor at the University of California in the US, spent several years in Fiji during the 1980s working with the government and the Fiji Program. United Nations Development Program to document remedies. In it, Tanner’s treatment is documented and is well known to many Fijian elders. Tree roots used to treat asthma include vesi (intsia bijuga) and vadra (pandanus) aerial roots and both are commonly found in parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The orange-red sacred coconuts are also listed in his book. Native to Asia and Polynesia, the tall niudamu palm grows to a height of 100 feet and produces mainly yellow and orange-red coconuts. Belonging to the cocos nucifera L. family, this unique tree is known in Fijian medicine to also cure a number of ailments such as fish poisoning, infected sores, scabies and is used as a general antibacterial agent.

Coconut oil studies around the world reveal that pure virgin coconut oil, cold-pressed and not heat-treated like that processed in Fiji’s copra mills, is high in antioxidants that are beginning to be recognized worldwide to help stop brain degeneration and life-threatening viral and bacterial diseases. MCTs (Medium Chain Triglycerides) are found in high concentration in virgin coconut oils containing 60% of the good antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties of any known oil. Lauric acid is also found naturally in coconut, and just like breast milk, it acts as an antibacterial and antiviral to kill germs and nourish cells. Our modern diet, especially in Western cultures, is lacking in MCTs, which were always found primarily in coconut oil and now you’ll find missing or non-existent in most cooking oils you use today. One of the characteristic health problems of today is high cholesterol, mostly in the form of LDL (low-density lipoproteins), with low HDL (high-density lipoproteins) and high triglycerides. The interesting thing about coconut oil is that it increases HDL, lowers LDL, and lowers triglycerides all at the same time. MCT oil is also being used in various applications in the US for the treatment of a variety of viral diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, asthma, eczema, and HIV, as this ancient medicine is believed to in a coconut is one of nature’s gifts. a highly effective and non-toxic remedy to kill viruses and bacteria in the body.

So does traditional Fijian medicine hold the clues and secrets to curing asthma and other modern diseases? Medical science says no, but for a young Australian, the “Tree of Life” takes on a whole new meaning.