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