Archives for June 2007

My grandmother in Butuan City went to the hospital to have her wrist bone fixed because it was dislocated when she fell down the stairs.

The bumbling hospital instead gave her pain reliever drugs and anti-biotic drugs and let her suffer for 4 days before her wrist bone was set. I heard the real reason for this delay was that the only bone setter was out of town and they had to wait for him to come back.

Then on the day my grandmother was about to leave the hospital, a terrible chest pain occurred and she was diagnosed as having pneumonia, infection, water in the lungs. My lola was refusing to swallow, they instead stuck in a feeding tube and stuck in Ensure brand milk poison. The hospital pumped her full of anti-biotics and she was getting worse.

The hospital and their ignorant doctors know nothing about body wisdom!

We here in manila had to do something, they were killing my grandmother. If we did not intervene, she would be dead by hospital stupidity in a few days. So I bought my auntie Portia a ticket and she immediately flew over to Butuan Sunday. I gave her all the materials, equipment needed to save lola.

Upon arriving we administered a colon cleanse herbal concoction called Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea. This never fails and will induce bowel movement in 5 to 8 hours. And it did. Two straight days of bowel movement. Plus giving her some apple juice with malic acid caused her liver to move the stagnant bile and hopefully all those poison drugs. And my Auntie stopped the giving of that awful corporate product Ensure milk that causes more mucus formation in the first place.

In two days the doctors were amazed that the pneumonia had subsided. Well, their stupidity did not amaze me. In fact when the pneumonia diagnosis came I immediately knew they were going to kill my 88 year old grandmother. Their mentality is that 88 is in bonus years. Total baloney. My grandmother has a lifespan of 100++ years, she checked herself in because she fell down the stairs! The pneumonia was caused by the stupidity of the hospital! These sorry excuse for what they call doctors do not even understand the basics of constipation! The only thing they expect all the time is death.

My most recent sms messages to my auntie were as follows as she is about to leave Butuan and come back to manila, leaving my lola in the care of relatives with zero health knowledge:

“While lola is recovering, give her only fresh fruits and veggies. No milk, no ensure, no noodles, no bread, no sugar, no meat, no fish, no drugs!”

“Do the other relatives understand that the pneumonia was caused by the stupid hospital drugs, ensure, constipation? Better teach them that.”

“It is important they follow the recommended instructions we printed. The moment you leave they might give her Ensure posion, milk poison, meat poisons and bread constipators.”

Now that I’m turning vegan but still sometimes I believe eating once or twice a month of absolutely clean meat for social purposes I should be able to handle; I’m beginning to see the flaws of our carnivorous and unsanitary Filipino food culture.

Although we have probably been eating this way for the past 50 to 100 years, it does not mean it is correct, nor is it optimal.

Here is my critique:

1. Filipinos eat too much meat! Meat at breakfast, meat at lunch, meat at dinner, meat during merienda (snacks). The culture surmises that not being able to serve meat is the biggest sign of poverty. So by this logic, everyone is now prosperous, especially in the city where meat has become cheaper than vegetables and fruits. In fact the common urban Filipino has rice and meat as the top two priorities in his meal, vegetables and fruits are optional and many times non-existent. Most think they will never be satisfied with a meal that has no meat in it.

2. Unsanitary and unfresh meat handling.  Meats are displayed without refrigeration.  Meats are displayed with dirty, ugly flies infesting them.  Prospective buyers pressing their fingers on them.  And they pigs and chickens are grown on corporate feeds, hormones, antibiotics.  At least filipino cows are still fed grass.  Yuck.  The fish?  They come from far away.  Put on a truck.  Dead for several hours.  Water and ice put on them to make them seem fresh.  Yuck.  I now only buy freshly killed goat maybe once a month in the morning, cook immediately for lunch.  I also buy only live fish.  Kill to cook immediately.

At least most Filipinos have the common sense to only cook LIVE CRABS, never dead ones.  That is one good point.

3. Vegetable dishes, vegetarian cooking is absent in traditions. Filipinos usually cannot make vegetable dishes without using some form of animal as flavoring. What is now worse is many are brainwashed to believe those multinational corporation advertisements to substitute meat flavoring with artificial chemical flavors found in instant flavor cubes or flavor sachets.

4. White rice is everywhere. Most Filipinos refuse to eat brown or red rice. Rice and bread in the morning. Rice at lunch. Rice at dinner. Breads in the snacks. Rice cakes as snacks. Rice, rice, rice. You want to torture a filipino? Feed him no rice for a couple of days. In fact, our nannies call a meal “rice.” A meal is not a meal without rice. And that is what I keep on hammering at our nannies, call lunch lunch, call breakfast breakfast. Instead of asking our children, have you eaten “rice”? You haven’t finished your “rice?” What a bad joke.

The top meal combination is rice + meat (or eggs or fish). Ultimately acidic. No wonder dentistry is lucrative and common. Teeth are being leached of calcium to alkalize the body.

I’m changing this for the sake of my children. My goal will be measured by the number of cavities my children suffer from.

Now is my chance to save my 3 year old from the acidic culture. Wish me luck. I have to do battle with the whole household. But I am daddy. And that counts for a lot.

After my boy recovered from his tummy aches with the colon cleansing power of Dr. Tam’s miracle tea, he’s had recurrences after a few days.  One time he had a tummy ache after drinking Yakult, followed in the morning with common pasteurized milk.  Bam!  Tummy ache again.  I did not give those.  His grandmother gave it to him while I was not looking.  Dr. Tam clears it again.

In total it has been 3 weeks and 3 sets of tummy aches cleared by Dr Tam’s Miracle Tea.  But I want a final solution.  I want a lasting solution.  So this is our strategy:

1. Stay away from all animal food.  This means no meats, no fish, no eggs, no milk, no cheese.  Vegan in short.  And this is a gigantic struggle I will have to wrestle with my wife.
2. As much as possible RAW and vegan so my son has no problem digesting.  Avoid nuts.

3. We saw the anthroposophic doctor Divina Hey-Gonzales and her analysis is that my 3 year old boy has a problem with his gall bladder.  That the gall bladder must be trained.  That the gall bladder was not concentrating bile enough to do difficult digestion. That the reason for the tummy aches going around my boy’s tummy, it hurts in the left, then at the right, then all, then center; is  because these are air pockets, colic due to poor digestion.  Her anthroposophic  combination of medicines is designed to do just that.  We will have to be administering these for 1 month.
4. We saw Dr. Tam’s assistant Aileen and she recommended clearing the tummy of toxins using activated charcoal.  On an empty stomach, 1 teaspoon in 1/2 cup water.  Then after 1 hour 2 tablespoons of Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea. Do this for 3 straight days.  But the miracle tea, only days 1 and 3.
Today is day 1.  Let’s wait and see how things will unfold.

I copied this information straight from Dr. Tam’s Brochure by re-typing it. I scanned the brochure and will be posting a pdf format at the bottom of this post.

Dr Tam Mateo
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