Scurvy is a rather unattractive word. Only the term went away, but this deficiency disease remains today as the most prevalent entry point for a host of chronic conditions. The British Navy “solved” acute scurvy by supplying limes and citrus fruits to sailors whose teeth fell out and otherwise died in agony during long voyages. Other antiscorbutic fruits and vegetables were found and utilized as time went on. Not learning from the history of earlier remedies, pharmaceutical medicine disavows the use of Vitamin C in favor of treating myriad symptoms of chronic scurvy with drugs. No wonder life-saving supplementation and infusions of Vitamin C remain outside standards of practice; too simple, too cheap, too effective!
Old concepts and practices must be scrupulously destroyed before power can install new narratives; just the way history has always been buried before “a new” history marches on.
Gum disease, bleeding/bruising, various infections, depression, slow healing, joint/skin/hair problems and heart disease are all signs of low-grade chronic scurvy.
Vitamin deficiencies from other essential nutrients may also be present as low-grade Beri-Beri & Pellagra (B-Vitamins), Rickets (Vitamin D) and a lack of antioxidant Vitamins A,E,K and certain minerals,… yet be mis-diagnosed and treated as remote “diseases???”
Vitamin deficiency conditions became known over past centuries and correctly attributed to a lack of one or more “Vit-al” factors. They were largely eliminated through diet…until modern chemical farming, food processing, junk ingredients and countervailing metals/toxins/drugs/alcohol/tobacco entered the mix. Thousands of downstream “diseases” have now been “discovered,” each rooted in nutritional deficiencies and said to require pricey medications. Modern medicine attained monopoly status by ignoring root causes of common maladies, and by promoting mass vaccination while actively hiding vaccine data effectively dismissing preventive measures to insure obscene profits.