It was a day just like any other day in the green sun dappled forest; the Shaman went about doing his work of gathering medicinal plants, fungus and barks as usual. This all seemed quite natural to him and he never really thought about it; after all he had been studying the plants and animals of the forest as long as he could remember. He felt good about his work because he was carrying on the tradition of many generations that went before him; now he was a man that people came to with their illnesses, sickness and problems. The solutions were most always here in the forest you just had to know where to look and how to seek them out. Sometimes it was the smell or the taste of air and other times it was the clusters and communities of plants and at times it was simply the lay of the land. Many times he would sit for hours, walk hours and watch the animals often to see what they did because they knew exactly where the medicines were. All the animals knew that the food was medicine and medicine was food and they were permanently intertwined a twine that could never be broken. His place in all this was simply to restore the balance of life with things that had always been there available in the forest. He had been taught over many years and his internship consisted of many hours and countless forays on hidden paths in the forest following as an apprentice and prodigy an old wise mysterious odd and sometimes cantankerous old Shaman. His ancient instructor demanded excellence endurance devotion creativity mental retention and consistent application of old knowledge, but most of all a refusal to fear the unknown and a duty add new knowledge to the volumes of archives passed on to him. Of course he had heard there were men with white clothes that drove cars that practiced medicine like him but he could never figure out how, because they have no connection to the forest and did not know its ways.

We have all been led to believe the so called modern health care apparatus has the answers to all our sickness and aliments, when the reality is just the opposite. A common case in point are the over saturated TV, radio and internet airwaves, spewing a constant diarrhea of drugs lotions and potions etc. The lotions and potions carry disclaimers that poignantly let you know that they are not guaranteeing anything in other words the results are totally based upon the individuals belief that they work, this is why testimonials are so important. On the other hand the drugs in many cases do provide some relief but are fraught with so many possible side effects that the potential user has to be desperate and willing to risk life and limb while hoping he or she does not pick the short straw in their quest for better health. Sadly enough most of us worldwide have fallen into the trap of indoctrination by the drug corporations, health care corporations, their boards of directors and Wall Street masters. It was never about our good health it was always about their financial good health. We are in the same mode and mind set we were a hundred years ago, still trusting the fast talking elixir salesmen selling bottled liquid concoctions as cures for every imaginable disease or aliment from the back of a horse drawn wagon. The only difference is now he talks better faster, dresses better, and due to the juggernaut force of the modern media a wagon is no longer needed, multi-billion dollar warehouses, fulfillment centers and tractor trailers do just fine. However we are not able to escape from the truth, “We are not being told the truth and the cures for many diseases and ailments are not being made available to us and this includes H1N1 and HIV”. The multinational corporate “powers that be” will always sell us what they happen to have in stock rather than what we really need no matter how critical our situation, they have virtually no accountability. Even the largest most powerful governments are impudent and unable to move them.

The cure for any disease or ailment is only offered for mass consumption if the corporate entities control the primary resource, its location, development, manufacture, distribution and patent rights as well as political climate of the source country or location. Lately one more factors can be added to this mix, and that is the insatiable desire of the multinational corporation to garner short term low overhead profits. Therefore it is better suited to their interests to cut the timber of the rainforests than to recognize the rainforest as a renewable natural pharmacy and food source. It has become obvious the greatest sources of potential anti H1N1 and HIV medications are found in the rainforests of the world’s tropical and temperate regions. In excess of 2,000 rain forest plants contain chemicals that doctors could give to treat deadly cancers in adults (if they were made available). Madagascar’s rosy periwinkle was a little-known species before it was discovered to contain alkaloids that can help cure people of Hodgkin’s disease and leukemia. Yew tree of the pacific contains a compound called Taxol that helps fights cancer. Cola de Caballo is used as a diuretic to treat kidney and bladder problems. Wild yams of South America are the origin of diogenin used to make birth control pills and treat menstrual problems. The stomach and intestinal lining are soothed by the Mozote de Caballo plant. New Guinea’s winged bean has the potential to become an important food crop. Oranges, bananas, papaya, cashews, sarsaparilla, Aloe Vera, pineapples, avocados, mangoes, papayas, tea, sugar, rice, maize, cashews, peanuts, cloves, vanilla, cinnamon even coffee and chocolate are of rainforest origin. The common domestic chicken originated in Indian forests and was fed by rainforest plants, in facts the fowl it springs from can still be found in the forests of India feeding on the plants. Rain forests Medicines can kill germs (this includes H1N1 virus and HIV viruses), reduce fever, lower blood pressure, relax muscles, and treats rashes. Plants are bold, vibrant survivors, that create and manufacture micro-nutrients which make them resistant to bacteria, VIRUSES, parasites, and these are benefits that can be easily passed on to us to balance our bodies, a balanced body naturally resists all disease.

H1N1 Influenza (A) is what can be called a quick kill virus that has not yet reached its full potential because it can quickly over run and kill its host which allows it to multiply rapidly, but this is not the most advantageous policy for a pathogen. H1N1 has been clever enough to hide it self in a perfect host (swine pigs or hogs) that do not always die as a result of viral infection. Pigs are a logical choice because of their sluggish circulatory systems allows the virus to hide and escape detection, while remaining infectious. This is one more reason pork is a undesirable choice for food, and this is often echoed by physicians when they tell high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol etc. afflicted patients to strictly eliminate pork from their diet. HIV on the other hand seems to be a little more evolved or mutated, because it allows the human or primate host to live for an extended period of time before demise and in some cases to survive in the host with no clearly apparent ill effects over the life span of the human or primate host. Of course the host remains a source of infection so HIV is more of a slow kill virus. I have to add that it is unknown what HIV virus infection does in swine or pigs because all efforts to find that out have been suppressed or muted by governments and the multinational pork industry corporations due to economic protectionism.

A cure for the H1N1 virus as well as the HIV virus has been discovered, recognized by the experts, but not developed because of the need for the status quo to have complete economic control. The surprise is, it was found in the temperate rainforests of the northwest United States and western Canada and astonishingly enough it is “mushrooms”. Mycelium (plural mycelia) is the vegetative section of a fungus and is a mass of hyphae (thread like external stomachs that naturally net, conquer and hold together soils). Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of Mycelium, and Mycelium is one of the oldest known plant organisms on planet earth. Mycelium have many characteristics that are eerily similar to humans, it takes in and uses oxygen and expels carbon dioxide just as we do. It does not contain chlorophyll but feeds on plants that produce chlorophyll directly from the sun just like we do. It breaks down rocks to utilize minerals they contain to supplement its diet, and helps produce soils all over the world (a Mycelium can form a colony too small to see or be massively extensive). The largest organism in the world in a Mycelium covering 2,400 acres in eastern Oregon, 1665 football fields in size and 2,200 years old. Mushroom-forming forest fungi mycelial mats are often massive and are directly responsible for the growth of ever larger stands of trees that become forests, and forest are one of the things on earth that keeps us all alive. Mycelium is much older than the human race and has a long involved experience with viruses similar to and directly related to the H1N1 and HIV, because these viruses also predate the human race and viruses attack fungus like Mycelium. Mycelium as a gateway species has adapted to viral invasion and is able to defend itself very well. The success of its methods and counter measures can be seen all around us, all soils on planet earth are secured by Mycelium. We as a race would have very few foods or medicines without it, because it makes the nourishment of the majority of plants we eat and medicate ourselves with possible. The antiviral we need to effectively combat H1N1, HIV and a host of other viruses will not be discovered quickly in a laboratory but has already been created by Mycelium; all we need do is return to our original home the forest and look beneath our feet. The quest we have been on to defeat or counteract these viruses has been side tracked by out ignorance, arrogant myopia, lack of vision and most of all by misinformation, disinformation and blatant concealment by the medical, pharmaceutical and health care multinational corporations. They undoubtedly are aware of the potential of Mycelium but allowing the H1N1 and HIV carnage to continue is a financially sound approach, just as it was for the witch doctors, faith healers, quacks and “snake oil” salesman of days gone by.

The Agarikon mushrooms (the fruiting bodies of types of Mycelium) is found in the northern rainforests of northern California, Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia. The boiled natural extract of 3 strains of Agarikon mushrooms unrefined in United States Department of Defense Bio-Shield Program studies has proven to be more effective against viruses and vastly superior to than any antiviral now in use, using the same dosage window. This research was done with the cooperation of a major corporation which I will not name in this article because at least they attempted to explore the truth about viable viral cures. Other drug and medical corporations are aware of this research and have NOT recognized, discredited or rejected this study because that is the best way to suppress any new cure that is public record, just pretend it does not exist and hope the public by in large remains unaware.

Saving the old growth forests which includes all of the still existing rainforest all across the planet is incumbent upon us all, because for every disease these forests have the cures treatments and answers. We must not allow selfish corporate interests to destroy our most precious weapon to combat the H1N1 and HIV viruses. We can no longer accept the medical and pharmaceutical multinational corporation’s word or mindset that maintains they have the only available treatments and options available in stock and on their shelves, when there is a more effective alternative that actually works. Their plan is to continue the time worn tradition of selling us “what is on the wagon” rather than what will really make us well again, simply because it is in stock and they have complete control over its procurement, development, manufacturing and distribution. It is a very sad commentary when the medicinal knowledge of an old Shaman is dismissed even though he probably is carrying the mushrooms, plants, remedies and cures of the rainforest that can save lives!

The author is a private business man educated in New England and the United States southeast regions. His hallmark is his divergent and insightful thinking which constantly encompasses alternative and sharply unique perspective on a full range of contemporary issues. He delivers views that are seldom voiced by current writers let alone the media. He speaks to truth in ways that are not always popular but timely and easily digested but hold the enduring seeds of fact and common sense. In short he is thought provoking, insightful and stands to the contrary of contemporary mass produced group thinkers.