The reproduction of roots as healing objects

[JoJo_Jost]

The problem...

I understand your criticism, and although I see things somewhat differently, I also accept that it is justified. No question about it. Observations of similarities are simply highly individual.

But most of the theories I know about the VMS are based only on assumptions and little “evidence,” if any.

If you compare the book with the classic medical books of the time (and earlier), it immediately becomes apparent that this cannot be the case. It must be something completely different. Why else would it be encrypted? People only protect knowledge that they consider worth protecting. 

This theory attempts to put everything into an overall context. Most theories I know of tend to be “island theories.”

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But of course, then one can ask the question: Why should anyone even come up with and publish such a strange theory?

Because it is much easier and better to decipher something when you know what it is about. That's all.

And by the way, I think it's a shame that so many people work on VMs but keep their really “important” or even crazy insights to themselves. Is it about personal fame, or about deciphering the mystery? For me, it's about the latter...

And often it's a completely crazy idea that leads someone else to something that leads to a solution, even if it has nothing to do with the original idea.