On medicinal poisons.
Written in 1953 (The Book of the Medical Revolution)
If medicines really had the power to cure disease, the amount of medicinal poisons that our ancestors have put into our bodies would have been astonishingly large. If the truth is the opposite, then there must be a question here, but it is a blindness that has not been noticed at all. Above all, the belief that illness can be cured by medicine has become a superstition. This has led to an increase in the number of sick people, as if to ridicule the progress of medicine, and to a shortage of doctors and nurses, hospitals being overcrowded, a shortage of beds, health insurance, sanatoriums, social hygiene, etc., all of which are well known to the general public and which are the result of a variety of measures to deal with illness. Medical progress is scientific, material progress in the smallest details, so it is progress that cures, not progress that can be cured. It is progress that should be cured in terms of science, not progress that should be cured in practice. In this view, since modern human life is under the control of science, if science is wrong, it will be sacrificed to science. The reason for this is that the current science believes that it has progressed to the extent that it can even solve human life. They are indeed astonishing adherents of science.
According to recent statistics, the life expectancy of the Japanese people has increased dramatically in recent years, from an average of 47 years for men and women 30 years ago to 62 or 33 years these days, which they attribute to the progress of medicine. This is because, in order to stop the purification process, medicine uses medicinal poisons to weaken the human body, weaken the purification process and alleviate pain. However, the medicinal poisons used in the past were so weak that purification prevailed and death occurred, but recent new medicines have succeeded in strengthening the poison to the extent that poisoning does not occur, so the period during which purification is suspended is longer and death is prolonged to that extent, just as if medicine had progressed. This is why there has been a spate of new drugs in recent years, which is, so to speak, a transformative progress.
Of course, this does not cure disease, so the number of people who neither die nor become healthy has only increased, and this tendency is more so in civilised countries. According to a person who recently returned from Europe, the number of old people in Britain and France is increasing, and the general population is unwilling to work, seeking an easy life and thinking only of indulging in pleasure. It is indisputable that this was due to the decline in national strength. This is why socialism developed in the country, because socialism does not like to win or lose and the will to work declines, and this has contributed to Britain's recent exhaustion.
On a different note, if you peruse history, it was customary for emperors to live to be over 100 years old until about 1,000 years after the founding of Japan, and this was of course because there were no medicines available at that time. The government of the time banned Buddhism, saying that it angered the Japanese gods because of its entry into Japan, but when that didn't work, they allowed it back again. Another example is a famous legend, in which Qin Shi Huangdi ordered his minister Xu Fu to come to Japan, saying, "There is an island in the east called Horai (Japan), whose inhabitants live a very long life, and there must be a wonderful medicine there. His grave can still be found in Wakayama, which shows that this is not a preposterous theory. In fact, human death is due to illness, which is an unnatural death, so it is no wonder that in an age without drugs, life would be longer than it would be in a natural death.