Allergies
Kosher
allergy to milk - a clue to the dissemination of inherited
tendencies.
Preamble -
SAN FRANCISCO – People who are allergic to cow's milk also
react to milk from goats, ewes and buffaloes, all of which
are kosher animals, being ruminants and having cloven
hooves.
But the same people don't react to milk from camels or
mares, which are not kosher.
These observations led Israeli researchers to wonder
whether there might be a "kosher epitope" accounting for
the pattern of cross-reactivity.
NB ep·i·tope (p-tp)
n. – the
surface portion of an antigen capable of eliciting an
immune response and of combining with the antibody produced
to counter that response.
This is a letter written back to the Medical Post that
reported this:
'With regard to the
kosher epitope - could it infer that there is collective
and psycho-neural 'map' that is built into the genome; as
over the millenia, strictly kosher Jews have not varied
their diets and thus built up a 'map' of milk from
ruminants and not been exposed to other 'maps' of milk from
non ruminants. When we are allergic it means that the
person rather than our mere chemistry is irritable with a
substance - unless we continually use the reductionist
model that the human species is simply our chemical
constituents and reactivity.'
Milk (or any substance) carries
within it many levels -
[1] its raw elements at the molecular level,
[2] a chemical level - in this case - its proteins and
carbohydrates, fats etc,
[3] its power - its psychoactive constituents,
[4] its role in human culture as food - and
[5] spiritual values - kosher, ritualistic or otherwise.
When we drink milk or any other food we take in a vast
array of data not just its constituent chemical parts.
In classical homeopathy – which
is used, in much of Europe, to successfully treat
constitutional or inherited patterns or tendencies towards
particular types of illness, is the word tsorat - the
Hebrew word for separation, stain, unclean, different,
outcast, unloved - and from which we [and homeopaths] use
the word psora - (which is the basis of our word for
psoriasis), and whose use is included in the term miasma -
a Greek term for stain, or fog. This terminology is used in
describing humans as having a miasmic tendency (for miasma
read genetic predisposition) which is inherited and if it
were psora (one of four classical patterns or miasma) - we
would be inferring that we have inherited an allergic
tendency to things that we are irritable (itchy) with, and
this clouds or 'wafts through' (miasma) our structure.
Could it be that those people
who are allergic to cow's milk or goats, ewes and buffaloes
are in fact allergic to the cultural stigma of some aspect
of kosher - inferring 'clean / unclean as in the Islamic
similar of haram (harmful) and halal (purified /clean), and
that they contain some aspect of themselves that is in fact
'unclean', so that when they imbibe/eat something that is
designated 'clean ' it reflects or illustrates their own
opposite state, or an inference of unclean feeling or
similar towards the 'mother' [as the root source of milk]?
My experience is that almost all allergic mechanisms are
psychoneural – in that our humanity our neocortical self is
fed/nudged by some innate internal essence - nous or being
- that directs the human to become irritable with things to
illustrate that we are separate from it - it is a natural
alarm to indicate that we are diffident of, distanced from,
unloving towards, separate from its inference and meaning.
Thus common with Neoplatonic,
early Christian, Judaic Kabalism and Islamic theology and
now with modern understanding of quanta we contain the root
genome of what has gone on before, which all act as
elements that may enforce their dictates upon us. [The
philosophical notion is that each level of being is an
emanation or life force which is various and hierarchical,
and that we contain the lower four, and reach continually
for what we are separate from, which is that which is
above.]
Although creationists decry the
old model of 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny' we
nevertheless can note that we all contain elements of the
genome or instructions of old or defunct instructions,
evolutionary blindspots, and the bits and pieces of many
species that have been built into our own genetic makeup.
We contain the information gleaned from primitive
unicellular life (material), multicellular adaptation or
vegetative life (vegetal), reptilian, amphibian, and
mammalian (animal) prototypes. This may infer that we have
all these kingdoms as our foundation within our own human
matrix.
Allergies
at differing levels of self then may tell
us:
[1] When we are irritable with house-hold mites, dust,
mold, yeast, fungi we may look at that which we are unaware
of in the cellar of ourselves, the basement, our DNA. What
is it that we are separate from, that we have inherited and
are irritable about? What lies in the underworld, the
material world, our shadows or unconscious? What's
decaying, dead or stagnant?
[2] When allergic to food, what element of nourishment are
we irritable about?
[3a] When irritable with pollen (seeds) and external
elements - environmental toxins etc - where is our animal
or instinctual self that provides our first level of
protection whether at a barrier level, skin or mucosal
level, chemical barrier, immune competency, energetic
barrier etc.
[3b] When irritable with animal hair etc what are we
separate from in terms of our gender, sexuality, ambition,
drive, 'oomph' of our own animal, survival or instinctive
(mammalian) self?
[4] When allergic to man made 'things' what is it that we
are humanly reactive to, that we are unable to have a
relationship with?
[5] When we manifest autoimmune illnesses toward our own
tissues, what identity do we attack? What identity have we
inherited or taken-on that we attack, as we do not
recognize it as Self?
It
is these elements:
[1] material
(genetic or constitutional) self - the gene activators that
switch genes on or off – and which are mediated from our
subconscious, hidden and yet primal memories, personal and
cultural history, genetic and memetic patterns
[2] vegetative autonomic self - ANS and midbrain – the
limbic sensory references that we constantly refer and are
often unbalanced by
[3] instinctual or mammalian self - limbic and
sensory-motor cortex – the habits, patterns and addictions
we are held to
[4] neocortical or human self – the beliefs, myths and
constructed models of reality that fill us
[5] integrated or identity self – the personal and greater
identities that we assume, are foisted with, adopt or
borrow
... that do not seem to be looked at, as we continually
look at the nutritional and pharmaceutical driven model of:
feed it, ablate it, knock out the symptoms [all at the
vegetative level] so that we humans have no idea that our
brilliant piece of machinery built over eons, possesses a
unique intelligence - which is not only innate [material],
intuitive [vegetative], instinctual [animal] and which may
contain nous or knowing [human] that warns us about our own
selves [identity], and our patterns and foibles - whether
local, in the collective field, herd or tribal, or indeed
global.
Solihin Thom
DO
NB
Tsorat - Hebrew for separate, unclean,
lonely, outcast comes from the story of Ruth [the second
born, the one that Jacob loved] , Leah [the unmarried first
born, who was stained or marked by an 'uncomely eye'] and
Jacob [the suitor]. Perhaps we ought to all read it, for it
depicts the birth of the twelve Jewish tribes - Leah
produced six of the twelve patriarchs - but she herself
always felt betrayed, unloved and as an outcast as she was
always seconded by Rachel. Three of her sons names depicted
her internal state and tribulations. The term psora in
homeopathy is the first in the four miasms Samuel Hahnemann
MD, described as the root ills of human life - these were:
1.
psora
2. pseudo-psora (tubercular)
3. sycosis (gonorrhoea)
4. syphilis