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Tuberculosis and Miracle Drugs


     Surely no product appears as rapidly and continuously on the market for the general public as the medicines for the treatment of tuberculosis. Only recently have the drugs such as cepharanthin, penicillin, and streptomyocin been made to be so popular. It is just like a fashion or trend. Each new medicine that becomes available, does so because it is stronger, more efficacious than the previous one, and, as I previously explained, since the efficacy of a medicine is the efficacy of its toxicity, and medicine is more efficacious the greater strength of the toxin, the power to interrupt the purifying process is that much stronger, and due to the reason that it has the power to decrease symptoms, it is sold as a miracle drug. Whatever the drug, however, a purifying activity will occur to cleanse the body of the medicinal toxins, and the more toxic the poisons, the stronger the purifying activity will be. The result is that measures which are taken to avoid suffering at a level of one give rise to suffering of level two. Since this process is thought to be the progress of the science of pharmacology, it must be emphasized that the problem is most serious. Not to put too fine a point on the issue, this progress is nothing other than a mark of the fallacies of medical science for which reason gives rise to more sick people, makes more prosperous the pharmaceutical industry, and contributes to the profits of the mass media in terms of the advertising costs. The inhabitants of our present age should really be pitied. I was able to make the important discovery of this fallacy because the time has come for the truth to be known, for the first ray of light in our dark world. What is this ray of light if nothing but an indication that the appearance of paradise on earth is not far away. 

Creation of Civilization, unpublished, 1952
 translated by cynndd

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“Kekkaku to Tokkōyaku,” the ninth chapter of the second part of Bunmei no Sōzō (Creation of Civilization), the manuscript of a book that remained unpublished while Meishu-sama was alive, has appeared previously in translation. Citation is given below for reference.

“Tuberculosis and a Specific Medicine,” Creation of Civilization, 1978, page 54.