yaws and syphilis

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cut and paste this broken link to begin a fascinating journey through

various documents describing the natural history of treponema pallidum,

the syphilitic spirochete. while controversy still abounds as to

whether syphilis was even in europe (or china for that matter) before

columbus, there is no doubt that treponema pallidum, as the cause of

yaws, is an old world bacteria. Evidence suggests that yaws, an

endemic disease in the middle east, which typically spreads between

children via cuts and wounds, converts to sexual transmission mode in

temperate climates. it developed a particular virulence in renaissance

europe, but the venereal form probably existed unrecognized in urban

societies in a lower grade form for centuries, if not millennia. If it

was a less virulent disease in ancient times, then it is even more

likely that the connection between sexual contact and later

neurological degeneration would go unnoticed. AIDS also leads to

various symptoms of essence vacuity if left untreated. I remember

before the discovery of the virus that the main TCM " theory " on HIV was

that it was caused by jing xu from promiscuous sexual activity.

However the use of tonics never proved to be a therapy of any

significant curative value as the true cause was not lifestyle but

infection (albeit from lifestyle). As as we know know, one could

become infected by a single contact with blood carrying the virus. No

debauchery was necessary. In the early 1980's, we attributed the

various manifestations of AIDs to be due to excessive sex. Yet somehow

the chinese a thousand years earlier, with no knowledge of infection,

could not possibly have fallen subject to the same poor assessment when

presented with a similar set of circumstances. OK.

 

 

 

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TCM " theory " on HIV was

that it was caused by jing xu from promiscuous sexual activity.

However the use of tonics never proved to be a therapy of any

significant curative value as the true cause was not lifestyle but

infection (albeit from lifestyle).

>>>There were also suggestion to use high dose Tu Fu Ling (which is supposed to

work on the it) but which never really worked.

Alon