This Article COPYRIGHT May 1988. Nicholas Morcinek. First
published in Toronto Dimensions magazine June 1988. 
 
  
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After extensive tests your physician has determined that your immune
system is weakened, leading directly to your allergy symptoms and
suggestibility to colds and flu. However the treatment is
straightforward and the physician expects you to be fully recovered in
about 9 months. After a little social chit chat you receive your
prescription and directions to the nearest bio-pharmacy. What a drag,
its a 2 hour drive to get there! Still these are difficult times, we
must all make sacrifices. You telephone and arrange a time to
visit. Excellent! They can fit you in tomorrow.
     
The air is crisp and clear as you pull into the pharmacy parking
area. Leaving your auto for its next occupant you spend a few minutes
taking in the view and breathing in the pure fresh air, filled with
the delicate perfume of the bio-pharmacy garden. Your grandparents
still have difficulties understanding the new pharmacies. They
dispense no chemicals or synthetic drugs, their entire pharmacopeia
being composed of living plant formulae. It seems so obvious now how
unnecessary so many of the chemical drugs were and with our new
understanding of disease, and the awareness of the importance of diet
and food vitality, medicine has come the full circle.

The transition was not without casualties. The large drug companies
survived of course, after buying up most of the organic herb farms, in
the eighties and nineties, but many of the traditional Medical Guilds
fell apart, unable, with their mostly reductionist outlook, to accept
the new healing systems.
     
It was during these times, during the AIDS and environment crisis,
that the value of organic Botanic Medicine became apparent. So many
diseases of those times had their origins in devitalised foods, laden
with inorganic poisons. With the discovery that wild food plants and
herbs contained the vital organic elements that enabled the body to
repair itself, the bio- pharmacy was born.
     
The root of the bio-pharmacy was bio-dynamic farming. Here wild herbs
and other plants were permitted to grow without the effects of a
polluted environment, or synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. They
were harvested at the correct astrological times, and used and
prepared in ways that ensured survival of their living force. Plants
utilised for specific treatments were bathed in Kirlian energy
specific to that function, thereby enhancing their healing effects in
those directions. Rare minerals were added to the soil for utilization
by the plants and ultimately of course, by the people who ate them.

The best example of this was the use of the wild garlic, long known as
a source of organic selenium, vital for effective immune
function. After nearly 100 years of dietary insufficiency in organic
selenium, (due mostly to the leaching effects of chemical
fertilizers), the re-introduction of this element into our food
supply, led to the specific improvements in immune function that
enabled us to eradicate the spectre of AIDS and establish the validity
of the bio-dynamic pharmacy.
     
The arrival of the pharmacist brings you back to the present and you
wonder why you need to make this visit. It is not necessary of course,
for the old, infirm or otherwise immobile, but before dispensing your
remedy the pharmacist must feel your vibrations and energies. It is
important to ensure that your phyto-supplements are correctly attuned
to your own bio-field and this is always best done in person. Even
though your astro-data and psychic profile have already been utilised
in the remedy formulation, this final, personal fine tuning, is always
performed. The 20th. century and its impersonal and spiritually
sterile methods are a part of recent history and for this you breathe
a deep sigh of relief. The pharmacist makes you comfortable as you
prepare for psychic connection and in a matter of moments you fall
comfortably into a deep and receptive sleep.