Scientific Work in Biology and Medicine
Preparation
I started to gain the first skills of scientific experimentation during the last school years working as a laboratory assistant with my first wise tutor — Gennady Andreevich Shichko. He was conducting research on influences of some preparations on dogs’ heart work, blood pressure and breath. Apart from washing floors I was helping him in experiments. I do not remember their purpose, but it is not important now. The important is the following: he laid down in me one of the most important principles of the team scientific research. When somewhat was going wrong, for example, when we cannot manage to attach firmly to dogs sensors developed for human bodies and thus the recording to charts did not work properly we had to invent new solutions right during the experiment. The ideas were invented mainly by me. Sometimes my suggestions seemed to him inefficient. However, in such cases he never discarded them, objected, or disputed. He just says simply and wisely: “Try it!”
I tried constructing new facilities, he helped. Sometimes we achieved success at once, and sometimes in the process of making unsuccessful attempts we found new successful solutions.
Thus check-up of ideas in practice (in the scientific language: verification — experimental testing) — is the best criterion of the truth. This is much more efficient than philosophizing without practical examination.
Then after Shichko was dismissed “due to reduction of the staff” because of his uncompromising scrupulosity (owing partly to him this principle became the credo of me as well) I worked in other medical laboratory — with pharmacologists. There the famous experiments on rats with cholesterol were conducted. On account of their results eggs as food were “anathematized”: people allegedly get ill with atherosclerosis because of eating them.
Each day the poor rats were feed by myself as a laboratory assistant with tens of grams of chemically pure cholesterol dissolved in oil. Indeed, cholesterol “plaques” got formed on the surface of animals’ blood-vessels. But if to relate those doses for a 200-grams rat and the amount of cholesterol in a chicken egg per weight of a human body, then it turns out that the rat’s testing dose is a million times larger! That is all these experiments were conducted incorrectly and their conclusions advertised to the whole planet are just a scientific lie.
Cholesterol is the substance in organism of which both male and female sex hormones are formed. Eggs supply the organism with very good bioenergy too. They are very auspicious for spiritual work on almost all its stages (except for the highest ones). And like milk, eggs supply the organism with a set of indispensable amino acids (component parts of proteins).
However I understood nothing of this in those years and only performed mechanically my work being an involuntary participant of scientific absurdity.
One has to seek the reason of atherosclerosis in something else. I can offer the following hypothesis: cholesterol “plaques” form on the surface of vessels that are already affected with deposits of salts of the uric acid (that is one of the manifestations of gout — the most typical illness of those people who eat “killed” food: bodies of killed animals).
… In the same school years I had an occasion to work in a zoological expeditionary group of the university. My basic duty was catching small rodents (mice, voles) and shrews by traps and specially dug trap ditches where animals were fallen to and could not get out. Then I lanced their stomachs and registered what was found there: rests of acorns, bodies of insects, etc. For the sake of this nonsense needed only for reporting to the supervisor about my “scientific” activity thousands of animals died in severe suffering: either of starvation or of pain being clamped by a trap at some part of the body. I do not remember that I had any compassion towards them at those years. I did it because the “order” was so, it was “my duty”. And somebody else’s pain was not known to me yet. I needed to go through a lot of suffering myself — to become capable of understanding the pain of others, to learn to compassionate.
And now, when the principles of our destiny regulation by God are clear for me, I can answer all suffering people, who ask: “Why do I endure so much pain?” or “What for do I suffer?” I hope the answer is clear to you, my dear readers: God teaches us to compassionate the pain of others through our own pain. We can not get rid of it until we root out in ourselves forever, for all future personal evolution the ability to hurt other beings in vain.
The subject of my graduate work was the ecology of beaver. From the beginning of the work my scientific adviser stated to me his basic principle of interaction with students: it is not the teacher who must run after students to make them working but they must seek his help. I had no choice but to work under such terms. This formed the basis of me as an independently thinking scientist — a strategist and a tactician who accepts personal responsibility for his project from the beginning till the very end.
So I started my graduate work from studying all literature on this subject. Then I travelled over almost all forests in the local district on my car Zaporozhets and afoot to find beaver’s places of settlement.
I saw so much during that travelling! Bodies of numerous drunken men and women lying in the mud of village road, I had to drive around them… Drunken fights… Men chasing their wives with axes… Suicides, murders… Total degradation of village because of alcohol!… There was no youth of childbearing age left…
I remember a scene that I called “Russian love”. Two drunken men were “dancing” a drunken dance on a village road. “Dancing” because they could neither stand nor go: their bodies were out of control. One of them was swearing love to another in drunken voice. The other one was “thrilled” with happiness from balmy voice of his fiend. And the friend hardly standing afoot was saying with pathos: “Vanya! I love you so! Vanya! You are my most dear, most beloved! Vanya! Friendship — forever! Vanya! Aren’t you my friend? Tell me! Vanya! Sorry, if something is wrong!… Vanya! Make my last dream come true! Vanya! Come closer! Let me punch you! Vanya, dear friend! Vanya, my faithful! Let me punch you! E-eh! Can’t stand it! Do you love me? Come closer!”
And though Vanya wanted to help his best friend — he was not against it, he did not go — yet he was a little afraid… They were “dancing” for a long time like this in such unfinished loving scene” until both fell asleep in mud…
And on the background of all these vileness and degradation there was a strict control of KGB even in such distinct places. In a village people told me about a villager who decided to start living separately, by himself. He went into wood, made a cottage, dug up and planted a kitchen garden. No one knew where he was.
But when rumors about this reached the local KGB authorities they organized a special operation of combing the wood by means of hundreds agents of KGB and police. They found! All the housekeeping was destroyed, the “criminal” was brought back to the state farm (so-called sovkhoz): “You want freedom?! You must work not for yourself, but for the State, for the motherland, for the country!”
Two weeks later this man hung himself… It is allowed!…
… When I reported to the scientific adviser about the results of my exploring he pointed his finger into one of most distinct from the city points on the map: “The farther from people the better.”
It was swamps near a small wood river about 200 km from Saint Petersburg. I had to live there among beavers, gnats, and other forest inhabitants, seeing no man for months. I mapped places of beavers’ inhabitation, studied their daily activity, studied what they feed on in winter and in summer, made photos. It happened to me to fall under the ice in winter, to sink in a swamp in summer. Once at night a storm brought down a big pine right onto my tent. But this time I was not there: I went to another beaver’s place and spent the night there.
There were so many mosquitoes in those places that I had to work during that hot summer in a jacket. Water and mosquitoes were everywhere, dry places were very few, so I moved across the water without undressing and the clothes then dried on my body.
There is an interesting observation: since beavers are nocturnal animals I as a researcher had to watch them during nights and to sleep at daytime. So my eyesight adapted to see in the dark: I got used to move around in the swamps at night without a torch.
I remember how one day I was going home after one and a half months of such life in swamps. First I went on a truck, then by bus, by underground. I noticed that people are looking at me somewhat strangely and then step aside. When at home I looked at mirror I became frightened myself: my beard was densely covered with a gray thick mold-like deposit. It’s a disease! I even sweated! I was close to cut it with scissors, but then laughed: it was an anti-mosquito ointment that I used all that time accumulated and dried on the hairs!
In a word, the experience I gained at those years was really great.
… The official opponent on the defense of my graduate work was a senior laboratory assistant of the chair. He had no time even to read its content. But since he had to say something he made a number of absurd remarks. In my response I showed that all of them are improper. The chairman of the council did not like the “impudence” of the student and wanted to lower the mark. Only “owing to high laboriousness of the work” it was decided to give it the excellent mark.
… One of the students of my year spent only 4-5 days for collecting the information for his graduate work: he walked along a beach on Gulf of Finland, counted mollusks of several species on sand after ebb. And thereafter had defended too. On satisfactory mark. And he got a diploma of the university…
But at that time I learned a lot that became the basis of me as a scientist. As to him — he learned nothing.
In particular I learned to feed on the woods products. Edible herbs, which can be ate raw or dried for winter for soups, brews, vitamin helpings to other dishes; medicinal plants; self-cooked honey of dandelions, meadow-sweets and other flowers; jam of forest berries, and especially mushrooms — all it allowed me to live on a healthy food whole year and to spend on nutrition much less money. I may say that forest storages allowed me to survive (literally) in this body during years of political persecution and later when a gang formed by one of my ex-disciples made me an invalid.
Many people “know” that food is only that what is sold in a shop. They may suffer of starvation, be nearly dying, but the food is under their feet. Gout-weed, nettle and many other wild plants can be used for food all over the year till the next spring.
Moreover: one can be healed by herbs. Nettle (raw or dried) could be very efficient against inflammatory and infectious diseases. Also it is worth to study gout-weed in respect to prevention and treatment of cancer (in the latter case as a mono-diet for long period of several months at least).
And mushrooms! From June (marasmius oreades and idem fairy ring mushrooms, collybia dryophila) until December (oyster mushrooms) they can be gathered and fed as substantial, tasty, and good for health food. “Mass” mushrooms, which grow from August to October, are better to conserve for the whole year till the next mushrooms.
Especially good are fermented mushrooms (salted, i.e. fermented with salt). They are assimilated better than others, and very well normalize digestion. They can be considered as healing food because they supply the digestive system with lactic bacteria. They contain a lot of vitamins and microelements as well. And proteins from fermented or preserved mushrooms are assimilated very well because the acid destroys the walls of cells that are “hard” for digestive ferments.
Fermented mushrooms one can keep in an enameled metal tank even in a city flat. One needs only to take away mold from the surface of liquid about once a week.
And berries! And dried leaves of mint, currant or even willow-herb! These one does not need to buy — just gather them, does not be lazy! Even needles from fallen down branches of firs or pines are a wonderful source of vitamin C!
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One day an old acquaintance of mine, an “indoor” man that I have not seen for a long time got sick.
… It was spring and we gathered and ate young nettle with pleasure. It is the most delicious to chop nettle, boil it for a minute not more and eat with mayonnaise or with marinade from mushrooms!
… When I called this man and got to know about his sickness, I said:
“So, nettle is a good remedy! It will give the effect at once!”
“Wow! Good idea! Why didn’t I guess it myself?! I’ll ask someone to buy it!”
“To buy?… Where?”
“In a drugstore, of course! From where one can get it?”
I told him that all space around the city is overgrowing with nettle. We laughed for a while.
Then I fed him with fresh nettle. He liked it a lot.
Some days later I called him again on some matters. He told me that he was out of the city yesterday, here and there. I joked:
“Well, do you know now where nettle grows?”
“Where?…”
“At the place where you were yesterday, it is full of it!”
“But I didn’t watch underfoot…”
