| fred rosenberger 04/02/2010 03:22:38 PM | I question your statement that these 'alternative medicines' are "often effective". I have not seen any study that concludes these practices are more effective than a placebo. Can you cite one? I don't want my money going to pay for a treatment that has no credible evidence of doing any good - to me, that is a waste of money. I am not saying they don't work. There just seems to be little scientific evidence that they do work. | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 04:27:53 AM | I have a friend who has had brain and nerve damage from not enough oxygen while having an operation 30 years ago.. She has taken every drug every one of her 30 or so Doctors have prescribed..Not only is she a prescribed drug addict.. but, has the shakes worse than ever....She had a hair analysis, which should be used to see what elements you have either too much or too little of... A herbalist ground seeds..which has what her body is missing.. after 3 months, she is not shaking....hardly at all.....plus the anti-depressants she was taking, in addition to the many others, for various other symptoms, was killing her....She acquired an aortic anuerism, which her blood pressure was sky high...Her Doctors are making her take umpteen pills for that.... Since she started with the seeds...Not only is she more stable than I have ever seen her, her blood pressure is normalizing...... I, myself, with no medical insurance at the time, had a horrible ear infection. I took anti-biotics, and it still raged..It went on for 1 1/2 years...I could not get out of bed. The room spinned around and around...I went to three Doctors.. With infection, your blood sugar and blood pressure rises...One Dr. prescribed a Sulfa Blood Pressure Medicine, which after 5 days caused a wrenching of my viens or arteries....THe Med-Quick Dr. told me not to take them...and said I did not need them..the rising of blood preasure was caused by the ear infection.. You know what I did to cure the ear infection??..I went to the herbologist..Got ear mullen (garlic and mullen) $5.50 and in 1 1/2 days it was gone...( one of the dr. said it was a terribly bad infection ) All the pain and misery that 3 Doctors could not get rid of.... was gone in almost a flash...No bacteria, or fungus can live in a garlic environment...It will even eat (burn) away a tumor... Drugs actually start with natural plants, but, man has to add non naturals that the human body cannot utilize properly...That is why drugs do not work, most of the time....THAT IS WHY THIS MEDICAL SYSTEM IS A FAILURE....WE are not even in the top 10 in heathliest nations in the world....even though we spend more dollars on healthcare, than any other nation on earth.. WE NEED TO USE MORE AND MORE NATURAL TREATMENTS...THAT MEANS YOU DOCTORS NEED TO STUDY LIKE I DO TO STAY ALIVE, SO THAT YOU MAY BETTER CURE DISEASE INSTEAD OF TREATING THE SYMPTOM... | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 05:38:52 AM | Fred, I know you deal with scientific studies..however, if you want to get REAL here..The alternative methods have been used for up to 2,000 years, and some longer;....( back when civilization was probably smarter ) unlike the drug companies and their chemicals which sre not tested for a long enough time, today,they are rubber stamped with FDA approval; only to be bombarded with disclosures on TV about the negative side effects of the drug therapies which are a thousand times worse than the symptoms, trying to be eliviated. And how about the large numbers of recalls on the drugs??...Not to mention the large numbers of class action suits filed due to lack of diligence of the drug companies with their therapies you adhere to. Actually, where is all the science behind what the drug companies are pushing on us as acceptable protocol??? I think we should use the protocol of ancient times over a 1-3-5 year study.....What do you think??? Maybe you should re-think what you have been taught...Maybe, you were not taught all there is to know ??? | |
| Jason Vander Weele 05/19/2010 10:46:59 AM | Chris, While the anecdotal stories support your claim, this does not mean that herbal remedies are proven in all cases. I'm anxious for the alternative medicine community to back the claims they've made with research-based studies. With the amount of money generated in alternative medicine, I'm surprised more research isn't being generated from that community, given in 2005 it sold $14 billion of product in China alone [http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en/]. I found this article interesting regarding the number of complaints regarding alternative medicine, giving further evidence that even the "alternative" isn't perfect: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/health/16diet.html Whichever health programs people choose to spend their money on, it is important to be informed. | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 11:34:43 AM | Anecdotal stories are the only support allowed by the AMA..<BR>MANY DRUG PROTOCOL THERAPIES ARE NOT PROVEN, EITHER, OR THE RECALLS AND ACTIONS USED BY FDA, AND CLASS ACTION SUITS FROM THE NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS OF THE USE OF THESE DRUGS...<BR>They throw out these more natural CURES and treatments..and say they are not proven or accepted. Doctors are not even trained to CURE ANYTHING, ( the drug companies are covered,by telling doctors the medical system is to TREAT SYMPTOMS AND NOT CURE DISEASE because THE DRUG COMPANIES perpetuate the continued use of their high priced drugs. Proof in point is we are outlawed to buy the same name brand drugs at half price drugs from Canada? Why are American Doctors not informed on possible other treatments? Protocol is dictated by what is rubber stamped by the FDA......There has been herbal, plant remedies and CURES of diseases for many years, but, because of lobbiests to AMA and FDA, it falls by the wayside Studies of outcomes of alternative therapeis are forced to become ONLY anecdotal. Back thoughout the 1930's and since then, drugs have become prevelent and our health in AMERICA HAS DECLINED, RATHER THAN IMPROVED....AMERICA IS NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 10 HEALTHIEST NATIONS OF THE WORLD ( ACCCORDING TO THE U.S. CENSUS ) Every major Country on earth use a combination and Eastern Medicine, and Western, ONLY when needed......Drug companies need to be stopped...and American Medical Protocol should utiize information used throughout the world, to make our system work.... | |
| Tiffany Sewell 05/19/2010 01:08:32 PM | Chris, could you cite your source for the statement that "America is not even in the top 10 healthiest nations of the world" please? I'd like to read the reasoning behind that. In the 1920s, the average American life expectancy was 53.6yrs for males and 54.6yrs for females - in 2009 it was approximately 78 years for both. From 1915 through 1997, the infant mortality rate declined greater than 90% to 7.2 per 1000 live births. How does this equate to a decline in the health of the country? | |
| Tiffany Sewell 05/19/2010 01:14:27 PM | For what it's worth, my doctor's always been able to cure whatever I bring to him. The fact remains, however, that some conditions cannot be cured | |
| Craig Stevens 05/19/2010 02:20:27 PM | could it be that this isn't a baby and the bathwater thing. I don't think you have to hate on American medicine to recognize that it could benefit from taking a friendlier, more open-minded attitude toward integrative medicine. This is already happening in some parts of the country where MDs and DOs are not only interacting with eastern medical practices but actually providing them themselves. | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 02:39:19 PM | Tiffany, Before you comment on a source, you should google the information, yourself. That is what intelligent folks do. America's Lifespan is 77.85 years; #49 in the Civilized World according to...... CIA.GOV Is that credentials enough?? The Longest life span is Macau with 84.36 years...That means Americans live aprox. 7 1/2 years less; ALL WHILE THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE EARTH SPENDS THE MOST MONEY IN THE WORLD FOR MEDICAL CARE. WE MUST NOT BE GETTING OUR MONEY'S WORTH.. THAT IS CREATING THE CURRENT HEATH DELEMA... The current medical system is a failure. It does not matter how much money you throw at it...The protocol IS NOT WORKING. It must be changed. Countries like Japan, France, England, Germany, Australia, and even some once thought backward countries are ouliving us. WHY? All use alternative methods of treatments, AS A PREVENTIVE measure, before they use Western Medicine... Our medical professionals schools are funded and educated by the drug companies to follow directions on protocol, so as to benefit the drug companies...THAT IS CALLED GOOD BUSINESS. The reason we are not living longer is the genetically modified foods,(CLONED FOODS) Pesticides, fertilizers, ARE NOT BE ASSIMILATED BY THE ORGANS AND STARVING THE CELLS, CAUSING THEM TO BREAK DOWN. The damage from food chemicals brEak down the bodies natural ability to sustain itself, then, a person goes to a doctor, and the drug companies therapies will definately finish the job... The numerous chemicals in our invironment will continue to shorten our lives.. An overhaul of the AMA,the FDA, and the USDA are eminent, if Americans are to survive. Since Americans live 6 1/2 years less than the heathiest country in the world, maybe, we better pack up and go to one of the other 48 countries.. AND RUN FOR OUR LIVES.....BEFORE WE DIE IN THE TRAP OF PROTOCOL. I know many folks are staying away for Doctors and Hospitals, for fear of what has happened to their loved ones...and fear that the same things will happen to them.. Also, some years ago, I heard that DRS. LIFESPANS WERE ONLY like 56 YEARS OF AGE, when the general population was some 80 years....Why do you think that was? Was it because they followed the protocol, or because they do not??? I know it is hard to comprehend, when you have given your life to the medical profession, but, it is not working like it is right now.. Alternative methods have a lot less negative side effects...I know you will argue this, but, one could not gather enough books and records to bring the negative results of drugs to this forum...and America's Lifespan being shortened even a few more years...is a sure significant sign of what drugs are doing to us... Let my People Go, in Health and Peace..... | |
| Tiffany Sewell 05/19/2010 03:01:08 PM | Chris, may I suggest that if you wish to have an intelligent debate, you not begin by insulting those who are trying to understand your point of view? 77.85 = approximately 78, as I said. For a country with a population 1/10th of the State of Missouri, I have no doubt they have longer life expectancies and lower mortality rates - they also have a much smaller infrastructure, and benefit from being part of the Peoples Republic of China. They also have fewer children, percentage-wise, and fewer over-65, also percentagewise, than the United States. | |
| Craig Stevens 05/19/2010 03:35:47 PM | By the way Chris, I learned the hard way not to challenge the Tiff on stats. I'm still smarting from my spanking. But this is a pretty interesting exchange and I think I've learned that I've got to change my ways if I'm going to make it to national lifespan average even for a third world society like ours. | |
| Randolph Directo 05/19/2010 03:39:11 PM | Chris, would you like my help in sourcing some facts and figures in favor of holistic medicine? The problem is, even when I've provided data from clinical studies by credible doctors and biochemical researchers, the people around me still refute it because the FDA or some other politically oriented "health" agency says "drugs are good, health supplements are bad - cesareans are good, home birthing is bad..." ad infinitum. It's tiring because I feel like I'm "reinventing the wheel" over and over again trying to convince people of the obvious, but I will help if you want. | |
| Rebecca Morrow 05/19/2010 04:44:51 PM | Another point to make is that America is the most obese nation, sitting #1, Mexico is #2 and the UK being #3. Many of the reasons for that is our growing need for quantity over quality in our foods, the GMOs used for growing our harvests, and Super Size meals that line our roads to and from work. With the growing waist lines come a sundry of issues - diabetes, heart disease, peripheral artery disease, high cholesterol, join degeneration.... and the list goes on. Along with that comes our need for fixing things fast. Pop a pill and fix the cholesterol. Pop a pill and fix the depression, pop a pill.. and, well, you get the point. We are inundated with commercial after commercial of people who have magically lowered their cholesterol, managed diabetes, increased bone density... etc. Many people want a simple and fast fix rather than work on their daily lives. Not everyone who is depressed has to take a medication for the rest of their lives. Working on the underlying issues while taking the medication can give an extra boost, but eventually titrating it down while working on the psyche can help. Working on how we eat and our levels of healthy exercise and sleep will help keep the weight off and keep many people from having to take medications and so forth. We can look at one very macro idea and put the blame there, but what it really comes down to is checking ourselves first before pointing all the blame. I believe in a balance of medication, herbal remedies, healthy diet and exercise. I rarely see my doctor and she has rarely had to prescribe me much of anything. She knows I take my meds only when it's absolutely needed, and not a minute sooner. While everyone else got the flu and their flu shots, I happily stayed healthy sans the shot and didn't get ill. Why? I attribute it to a healthy diet, exercise, enough sleep, and a healthy dose of work (and maybe some luck, too). But, to each their own. Whatever works for one person may not have the same results for another. But, we have to remember balance - too much of one thing usually results in something bad. | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 05:50:24 PM | Craig and Randolph, you are both right..Telling the medical profession they are not up to par is like telling my friend with a Master's Degree in Education that America is being dumbed down. She gets in an uproar,even though statistics show that cirriculum are not up to 50 years ago standards of teaching our children... Thank God for the networks of healthier folks from around the world who are willing to share the knowledge of keeping healthy here in the U.S. I know and appreciate that medical professionals spend a lot of time learning and sacrficing to be Drs. and Nurses....But, the old fashioned Drs. used to be Scientists.. They studied .. A good country doctor was with you, ready to try whatever it took to HEAL you.. Since the drug companies took over the entire medical system..The same investors own the hospitals, too.. I do not believe in throwing the baby out with the bath water...There is a place for Western Medicine, but, there is even MORE of a place for Preventative Medicine, as well as, Alternative Therapies.. The current system just waits 'til it is too late to do anything, or, they tell us there is only ONE THING to do, or we will die... That is a great alternative to dying, when the protocol a lot of times does the same thing... There are about 20 fungal related diseases that 30 years ago, only Allergists studied (and they were mostly foreign Drs.) because that was the nature of their specialty...DO YOU THINK THAT THE MEDICAL PROFESSION WOULD INTEGRATE OR STUDY THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES, NO, because the drug companies fund or run the studies on everything. Of couse, if you are a researcher,and get a contract with a drug company, you will try to please your client. By the way, Allergists, and Doctors of Osteopathic were not accepted,by the AMA, because they looked at the whole physiology of man...and the drug companies cculd not control them, with their alternative methods... That is also why noone should give to a .org.. FOR IT INSURES THERE WILL NEVER BE A CURE.. I COLLECTED FOR EVERY CAUSE 40 YEARS AGO...POINT...NO CURES FOR KIDNEYS OR CANCER OR ANY OF THE OTHERS... Some of the 20 or so Diseases with NO CURES IN SIGHT with FUNGAL LINKS. THEY ARE....Asthma,Cancer,Multiple Schlerosis, Heart Desease,Stroke, Fibermyalgia, AIDS,Auto-Immune Disease, Diabetes....just a few.. To prove ONE point, DYFLUCAN WAS DEVELOPED INITIALLY TO TREAT AIDS (IT ARRESTED IT).....It is funny that it HAS BEEN USED SINCE as a very good anti-fungal...COULD THERE BE A FUNGAL LINK TO AIDS ??.....DUH... THE PROBLEM WITH USING DYFULCAN IS THAT IT IS NOT PRESCRIBED FOR A LONG ENOUGH TIME TO KILL THESE FUNGAL DISEASES.. Ask any Doctor, I have; they do not know what it will do for a longer time period.....,maybe CURE the Cause??...SO MISDIAGNOSIS TAKE PLACE , BECAUSE THE DOCTORS ARE LISTENING TO THE DRUG COMPANIES PROTOCOL. WE KNOW IT IS TOTALLY FOR THEM TO KEEP US ILL TO SELL THEIR SOMETIMES WRONGLY PRESCRIBED DRUGS...i know if you Doctors think about this. you will agree with some, if not all that I say...Be honest... I have spoken to a few DOCTORS THAT ACTUALLY AGREED WITH ME. I have an old print book called Microbiology in Health and Disease, dated 1969 copyrighted orig. 1919, 24, 28, 32, 37, 41,46 ,51 ,56 ,60 ,64. The point is that up to that date, not much was done on studying funguses, other that what evry school child learned ..There are many types, what they look like, hairy, all the pretty colors.. of the 549 pages...about 9 pages concerning FUNGUS,MOLDS, YEASTS.. in the introduction. and maybe another 20 or so mentioning fungus...ONLY 4 DISEASES DIRECTLY RELATED TO FUNGUS WERE MENTIONED; WHILE THE REST OF THE 519 PAGES WERE DEVOTED TO ADDRESSING BACTERIAL DISEASE, IN DEPTH...wonder why we have no Cures for these FUNGAL RELATED diseases?? Doctors, if you integrate with the alternative people, you might treat your patients in a more loving, caring way, instead of saying there is nothing more we can do for you....( and my guess is you have todo this quite often...with problems that ARE by the Alternative Therapists. less that 30 pages on Fungus out of 549 pages... up to 1969..I bet not much more hads been done on the matter, or we would not have the failing medical system... That is why MOST DOCTORS HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF FUNGUSES AND THEIR EFFECT ON MAN'S HEALTH Why IS EVERY SYMPTOM PRESCRIBED WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC?? IT MAY NOT BE A BACTERIA. IT MAY BE A FUNGUS, OR PARSITE...(wormwood gets rid of parasites) $10.00 THIS IS THE REASON FOR MAN'S LOWERED IMMUNE SYSTEM....PROTOCOL IS NOT CORRECT. I believe that mycologists should be an intregal part of the medical examination. I sure PRAY they know as much as I .....preferably a LOT MORE THAN A LAY PERSON... These God Made medicines are cheap...see why your protocol is what it is?? | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 06:49:10 PM | By the way Rebecca, the PAD YOU MENTIONED IS CAUSED BY THE CANOLA OIL,SOY and other IN MUCH OF OUR FOODS. Canola is the brand name. IT IS RAPESEED OIL...AN INDUSTRIAL LUBRICANT, USED AS A FUEL..USED IN THE PRINTING INDUSTRY, TO MAKE THE SLICK PAGES OF MAGAZINES. IT CAUSES THE PLATELETS TO STICK TOGETHER.. AND THE PAINS IN PEOPLES LEGS...Causing folks to not be able to walk, which opens up another business for the good guys to espand on......walkers, wheelchairs....ramps, lifts..... see how this goes... The plant was used in England in animal feed, and was linked to the Mad Cow Disease some years ago... Grown mostly in Canada, it was readily accepted by farmers, for the rapeseed needs no pesticides.. The insects knew it was bad, they did not even eat it...ANIMALS REALLY ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE.... IT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO the blood cells STICKING TOGETHER..WHICH SELLS PLAVIC??? NOT SURE.... WELL, FOR SURE, IT SELLS MORE DRUGS...AND NEXT YEAR THEY WILL TELL US TO SWITCH TO SOMETHING ELSE WHEN AND IF IT EVER GETS RECALLED....NOT TO MENTION, THE BYPASSES IT WILL CREATE THE NEED FOR.....THIS IS IN PEANUT BUTTER...AND MOST PROCESSED FOODS....ALL OF THE OILS HYDROGENATE, WHEN HEATED TO 165 DEGREES... The majority of foods provided at ANY grocery store should be outlawed...That is another FDA blunder... probably all tentacles of the same drug companies, to keep us ill and needing their chemicals..( all of the silent majority are persuaded to accept)... | |
| Chris Peters 05/19/2010 07:19:58 PM | Randolph, what are some of the studies you have investigated in regards to alernative therapies...Pray that the medical inteligencia will take heed.. Acquiring an education is a lifetime process; along with the willingness to learn; or one becomes stagnant, and not progressive..........I am interested.and teachable, especially in the sciences...I truly am a student of learning, as I believe you are too........ Either Jefferson or Hamilton stated..... often the smartest man in the room is the most hated... Craig, this is for you too... Keep the faith... A quote from Hitler said if you tell a big enough lie, for a long enough time, people will believe it... is that what has happened to America....??? | |
| Rebecca Morrow 05/20/2010 10:17:41 AM | We are a society of convenience. Convenience stores, convenient food, convenient drive-thrus, cell phones, cars, motorcycles, automatic windows, power-locks, remote keyless entry, the internet, instant gratification .... and the list goes on. Some of us have chosen to educate ourselves on healthy eating, healthy lifestyles, and educating ourselves on what's available at the grocery stores. Some choose the easy way out. It's not up to the government or the FDA to tell us what to eat, how to eat it, and where to get it and how to get it. We are a capitalistic society and are given the right be free thinkers, and people are going to buy what they want, and people/companies are going to make/create what people are willing to buy. Since this is the truth, it is up to us to treat ourselves and our bodies with respect. Eating high fat foods, overeating, indulging in too much red meat, drinking too much alcohol, taking too many drugs (legal or not), mixing our drugs (legal or not) with alcohol, not eating enough, unbalanced diets, not enough exercise, too much exercise, following outdated literature, binging and purging, speeding, texting while driving, talking on the phone while driving, running red lights, road rage, excessive anger, excessive apathy and overall unhealthy habits will result in something to go awry - bone loss, cardiac disease, plaque in arteries, poor venous and arterial functions, tooth decay, hair loss, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, obesity, morbid obesity, morbid thinness, reduction in healthy brain functions, poor keratin growth, dry skin, poor eyesight, pre-cancerous and cancerous conditions ... ad naseum ... and, eventually, an untimely death. However, we have the choice to do things in balance, take a healthy initiative in how we eat and cook our meals, and put our trust in the doctors that we feel have our best interests in mind. Should you feel that your doctor doesn't have your best interest in mind, then you have every right to go somewhere else. I know I did once - I wasn't going to take some female doctor telling me that I couldn't even consider what I was considering because I was too young (I was 28). She basically yelled at me, gave me a prescription that was too much for my body and sent me on my merry little way. I now enjoy a wonderful relationship with my current General Practitioner who respects my wishes, thoughts and opinions and gave me the right dosage for my prescription - more than 1/2 of the other one. I know that I am happy to know that I am lucky enough to live in a free world where I can make my own decisions, especially ones that affect my health. I actively make healthy choices and decisions, just as other actively make unhealthy choices and decisions. | |
| Rebecca Morrow 05/20/2010 10:39:07 AM | Canola oil is not a poisonous industrial oil, it doesnt cause mad cow disease, and it doesnt contain chemical warfare mustard gas. These are just three of the most extreme and completely unfounded claims about the horrors of canola. It's actually considered as one of the most healthy oils. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola Here is some information regarding this hoax: http://threatinfo.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoaxDetails.asp?HName=Canola Oil Warning Hoax http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcanola.htm http://www.commonsymptoms.net/treatment/canola-oil-warning.html But, like fat, lard, meat, and anything else - it's all a matter of balance and moderation. | |
| Chris Peters 05/20/2010 01:07:52 PM | I am learning that this blog is a real joke and ONLY A P R MOVE TO GET PEOPLE TO GIVE HURRAHS FOR THE ENEPT SYSTEM THAT HAS THE U.S. AT NUMBER 49 IN THE WORLDS LIFE EXPECTANCY.........IT REALLY DOES NOT WANT TO MEDICINE BETTER.... Rebecca, your info on Canola is somewhat correct...RAPESEED IS A RELATED PLANT TO THE MUSTARD SEED WHICH IS USED IN MUSTARD GAS.... The Wiki info on RAPESEED refers to the fact that it is: GENETICALLY MODIEFIED..That is the BAD PART OF rapeseed oil... SINCE DRUG COMPANIES RUN THIS MEDICAL SYSTEM...THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TELL US THAT THEIR PORDUCTS ARE CAUSING PEOPLE TO GET SICK AND SICCO.... THE CURRENT MEDICAL SYSTEM DOES NOT TREAT THE WHOLE OF A HUMAN, WHICH IS WHAT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE DOES ADDRESS....You CANNOT PUT PLASTIC AND MODIEFIED FOODS IN OUR BODIES..Chemically created foods........THEN GIVE THE BODY MORE MAN MADE DRUGS AND EXPECT THE HUMAN BODY MACHINE TO RUN LIKE A TOP...... It's fuel must be REAL FOOD.... AND LITTLE TO NONE OF THE MAN MADE DRUGS.. | |
| Tiffany Sewell 05/20/2010 01:38:36 PM | Chris, I'm coming to believe that you're not really interested in anything other than screaming your own opinions. Various people on this thread have acknowledged at least some of what you've said, and some have offered alternate points of view (with credible sources), in case you wanted to further your knowledge. If this isn't good enough, what do you want out of this? And for reference - most of the plants you'll find consumed today are genetically modified from what they were hundreds of years ago - it's called natural selection, and the planet's been doing it for about 4.5 billion years. | |
| Patricia Jones 05/20/2010 11:24:40 PM | Have used alternative medicine for years - wherever possible. My mother used it, my sister uses it, my daughter and ad infinitum. When my grandson has his tonsils removed he was not given any painkillers only Arnica. Never had any problems. When I had a broken hip in hospital - I declined painkillers and took only Arnica and Symphytum(Comfrey) - no problems whatsoever. Years ago my husband had spinal surgery and got an infection in the site - the Doc had to cut it open and treat it with lye. I took Comfrey tablets to him and the Specialist was amazed at how quickly the site healed up(we didn't mention the comfrey of course). My husband has some lung congestion from time to time and takes Kali Iodatum(which is made from the poison of the Bushmaster snake) and it clears up in no-time. If I get any hint of a sore throat or cough - I take a teaspoonful of Ionic Silver water.....it disappears like magic. For other ailments - sciatic, arthritis - I go to the Chinese Hebalist and get acupunture. WE ALWAYS LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES WHERE POSSIBLE. THEY ARE NATURAL AND GOD GIVEN....THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING IN NATURE THAT CAN PROVIDE A CURE FOR MOST AILMENTS. Read Dr.Vogels book - The Nature Doctor, read Edgar Cayce's Handbook for Health through Drugless therapy. Go to the Edgar Cayce web site and read what is available for any number of problems. THE DRUG COMPANIES AND DOCTORS IN GENERAL DO NOT WANT YOU TO FIND NATURAL CURES - IT DEPRIVES THEM OF THEIR BIG INCOMES FROM THE SALE OF DRUGS ETC. With Homeopathic medicines minute doses( of what would normally make you ill or kill you in large doses) cause the reverse to happen. | |
| Patricia Jones 05/20/2010 11:26:37 PM | To Fred Rosenberger - I say investigate the alternatives and give them a fair go. | |
| Craig Stevens 05/21/2010 07:13:33 AM | I've talked to a enough folks about alternative medicine to know there's something to it. Even doctors in some places are expanding their views and including integrative medicine. So it can't all be snake oil. The problem for me is not whether there is value...but when, how and how much? so i agree with you that we can't ignore it any more, but we can't just depend on family recipes and a shaman's approach to anything that we do. I look forward to some sort of advancements that use science to explore ANY untapped resources out there. Does anyone know if there is grant money available to legitimate science to explore solutions such as these? | |
| Chris Peters 05/21/2010 08:49:31 AM | Tiffany, I am sorry for writing in Caps. I am not used to blogging but , rather, studying.. I have a real love of my fellow man...and I am outraged when we lose another to the blunders of our approach to medicine...I know it is not all the medical professionals...but the ones behind the protocol... It has been on the newswires several times in the past year or so....that this generation will not outlive their parents....I am not sure which generation....but, I am 63 and I have never heard of as many young people falling to illness and death, as I am hearing....no to mention folks my age and older.... More than ever, we need real plant healing...rather than man made chemicals (DRUG HEALING).. I am discussing the reasons for many illnesses here..... Many of you mention that eating a healthy diet is the answer, however, we are not even given the opportunity at the grocery store to obtain hardly anything that is free of high fructose corn syrup, monosodium glutamate, chemical additives, preservatives, high sodium, .... AND THE BIGGIE.... GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS ARE NOT REAL FOODS, UNLIKE, PLANT FOODS BY NATURAL SELECTION.....LIKE YOU SAID... THEY HAVE BEEN ALTERED BY CHEMICALS. ( NOT SPLICING TOGETHER 2 DIFFERENT PLANTS TO MAKE ANOTHER PLANT )...IN FACT, THEY ARE ALL CHANGED TO THE POINT THAT THEY MAY BE CONSIDERED MORE CHEMICAL THAN PLANT... According to FOOD INC..As much as 90% of the WORLDS grown food supply is genetically modified...... GM It is not what you think.... not just chemically sprayed at the time of growing with a fertiziler or insecticide... A local old time farmer giving the farm report said on the radio a year ago, he was trying out a corn seed in the barn to check a trial crop for the season; he noticed the corn would not grow without fertilizer.....What that means is that THE CORN WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A CHEMICAL......it was not REAL corn. It is a man made substance ( a chemical that will not be activated until another chemical is added ) The foods I grew up with 40 years ago was not this kind of plastic, unreal food. Apppoximately, 50 GALS YEARLY OF HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS CONSUMED. IT IS USED TO SWEETEN SODAS AND EVERY OTHER PROCESSED FOOD ..ANYMORE, IT IS NOT MADE OF CORN AT ALL, BUT, RATHER ALL CHEMICALS..(amount? I just read in Dr. Mercola's newsletter..) Think of a 55 gal drum...That is a huge amount of CHEMICALS....when years ago...in the 80's we had gone from 10 lbs. of sugar per capita to 110 pounds of cane suger per capita...That was a big jump...however... this enormous amount of CHEMICALS ARE CAUSING more and more DISEASE.... even more than sugar used to.. COULD THAT BE WHY OUR LIFESPANS ARE BEING SHORTENED EVEN ANOTHER 2 YEARS ??? See the movie on Channel 9 ketc.com "FOOD INC." You can view this documentary at your convenience. The producer decided to make the movie after going to a congressional hearing on whether to label meats as 'CLONED'....The woman rerpesenting the meat industry said that labeling the meat 'CLONED' WOULD ONLY CONFUSE THE PUBLIC...... ( A LOT OF FOODS INGREDIENTS ARE NOT EVEN LISTED, NOW) Point here.....this type of adulteration of our food crops are allowed by the FDA....Europeans have and are banning this adulteration to their foods...... THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS...WE HAVE NOT BEEN AROUND AS LONG, TO SEE WHAT DEVESTATES NATIONS....WE ARE ONLY LEARNING THESE LESSONS LIKE A BABY LEARNS..... A short time ago a bill in the Bulgarian Govt.. was being voted on BANNING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS.....THAT SHOWS HOW COUNTRIES ARE ADDRESSING THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD..... Their health protocol is NOT LIKE OURS.. ENGLANDS DOCTORS ONLY GET PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT WHEN THE PATIENT IS WELL....NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE ILL.. ALL THE WORLDS COUNTRIES HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN MAKING ITS CITIZENS HEALTHY. It costs governments less money to keep the people WELL. THE DOCTORS ALSO HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN KEEPING THEIR PATIENTS WELL....WE SHOULD DO THE SAME HERE IN AMERICA....This would stop the drug companies from having their way so much... as it force Doctors to use less, rather than more man made chemicals....AND MORE HEALING WOULD HAPPEN..... WE ARE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT USE ALTERNATIVE AND PREVENTITIVE MEDICINE, AND OUR LIFESPANS SHOULD INDICATE THE VALUE OF THEIR USE....WE LIVE ON AN AVERAGE 6.5 LESS YEARS.... FRED, THE BEST SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE YOU WANT PROOF OF IS THE LENGTHENED LIFESPANS OF COUNTRIES WHO HAVE FOR MANY AND CONTINUING YEARS USE PREVENTIVE AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. Dr, Mercola (drmercola.com) is a good source to study. He has experts in all fields.. of study of illness...He treats as all Doctors should treat...with real scientific study, not sham studies carried out by and for drug companies, that will be proven wrong with recalls and class action suits..and when enough people die will be pulled off the market... and that have so many negative disclosures that it scares the pants off you to use it.... | |
| Craig Stevens 05/21/2010 08:56:26 AM | Now THAT's a helpful contribution. I enjoyed that post, Chris. Like I said, it's coming and in some ways already here. I'd be interested in finding out places around the country where it has already become the most mainstream. Also, if it's not too personal, Chris, how's your son? | |
| Chris Peters 05/21/2010 10:39:16 AM | Craig, Here is the info on my son and the protocol used... Some of what I have studied, and also information the many Drs. he visited say... My son Chris is in Denver...they have 17-28% less Oxygen. Cancer grows in a 60% Oxygen environemnt.. As a child, we lived in home with mold. We did not know the terrible effects back then, like I know now..( Drs. never mentioned my illnesses were caused from fungus.......And our AMERICAN PROTOCOL DOES NOT ADDRESS THIS FACT, THUS, DOCTORS KNOW NOTHING AND EVEN FEAR TREATING IT.... He later ran nail shops ( not around me) and used Acetone...After moving to Denver, he lived in a mold infected apartment. (I told him to move as soon as I learned of it) He had Sinusitus..( I just learned about the triangle of death..nose, mouth and how funguses enter and get behind the nose and cause havoc in the blood and wherever they go) He went to several DRS, in Denver, and was given many, many rounds of antibiotics...that is all they are told to give out.... which destroys the immune system.......His illness got worse and worse...he knew he was ill... Needless to say, his nasal drip never went away..... He pursued his back pains and found that his spleen was swollen twice its size... I told him, but did not listen, as he was listening to the DOCTORS WHO KNOW A LOT MORE THAN ME...i I told him to do a liver cleanse and told him to take milk thistle (holy, or blessed thistle in ancient times, they knew the value of protecting the liver from foreign substances and poisons...not us...we just keep taking the poison given to us by our Doctors.)..I also sent him Essiac Tea.. and he took a small vial.. But, he would not listen to me...but, he sure listened to his Doctors... I TAUGHT MY CHILDREN TO DO EVERYTHING A DOCTOR WOULD TELL YOU.....WOW! OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, I KNOW BETTER...MY WHOLE IMMEDIATE FAMILY WAS TREATED WITH INAPPROPRIATE PROTOCOL... Last year they removed Chris's spleeen...He alsomst died on the operating table..The Doctor did not see the Artery behind the spleen and cut it and did not even realize he had cut it.He wa hemmoraging. Thank God, he made it through that.. I believe he was also seeing 2 oncologists. His sinuses did not get better..He then had inflammation, from the opearation and body subsequently trying to heal itself...He was on pain pills. He still has pain...and still did not feel better.. They said his blood was not right.. He just had scar tissue removed with a procedure...a few weeks ago.. Now without a spleen, HE HAS NO IMMUNE SYSTEM.... Now they think he may have Leukemia.. With all the history I have described to you, Fungal Infection can mimic CANCER. Which will call for chemotherapy..Many times the immune systme is so beat down that after NOT TREATING THE FUNGUS....THE CHEMO KILLS.....(more chemicals) Those 20 diseeases are fungal related diseases...I have been studying this for some 35 years, when I had Candida from high dosages of Estregen, when the pill first came out...It is not just a female problem... It can be had by all, not just women...men have it as much...That is what is causing the bloating and weight gain, as much as the poison in our foods. And CAUSES THE CARB CRAVINGS...AS FUNGUS FEEDS ON THE SUGARS AND CARBS...SO DOES CANCER.??? I know that I had a pre-Cancerous condition from the high levels of estregen. COULD THAT REALLY BE WHAT CANCER IS.???? I KNOW FUNGUS IS SOMEHOW RELATED..... In fact the chemicals that I hate and preach on is the cause of funguses to GROW in the body... CAN YOU SEE WHY FUNGUSES ARE GROWING IN OUR POPULATION..... If you study this you will have to come to this conclusion... There are many books of the subject... ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE HAS ADDRESSED THIS BLACK HOLE IN PROTOCOL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, OR MORE.......BUT, THE AMA DOES NOT ADDRESS IT....IT APPEARS THERE IS A COLLUSION TO DESTROY AMERICANS.....THE REST OF THE WORLD TREATS FUNGUSES AND PARSITES... TWO BIGGIES IN ILLNESSES IN MAN.....But, not American Protocol... The entire population is effected...but, as I mention above...Doctors do not study fugus and yeast, other than what the drug companies tell them about it. 30 YEARS AGO, I LEARNED A LOT FROM THE SCIENTIFIC PATIENT STUDIES OF Dr. Crook..... The Yeast Connection....HE WORKED ON FUNGUS WHEN NO Doctor was doing anything on the subject.. ( AS I STATED ABOVE IN THE MICROBIOLOGY BOOK FROM 1969) According to dougkaufman.com.....He is not a Doctor, but, he worked in an allergy clinic, after Viet Nam and deals with EXPERT specialists IN THEIR FIELDS that have knowledge of how to treat these Yeast Related... UNADDRESSED, UNCURED AND MISUNDERSTOOD DISEASES... They offer more natural treatments than the harsh chemical treatments most M.D.s prescribe with REAL SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND STUDIES... Chris is going to a major clinic for an evaluation.. My son still does not want to look at the negative possiblities... The funny thing is that this major clinic knows sinusitus is caused by a fungus...WOW ! BUT, ACCORDING TO DOUG KAUFMAN...THEY STILL TREAT IT WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC.... THAT SCARES THE HE... OUT OF ME..... HOW ARE THEY TREATING OTHER DISEASES??? The two Oncologists think it may be Leukemia. Doug Kaufman is on Channel 24 at 11 a.m. m-f.. KNOW THE CAUSE... Dr. Becker...D.O. 10 a.m. m-f.. Studies Natural Cures after self healing from Lymphoma 10 years ago.... These guys have a handle on it...they know a lot more than what is addressed by the AMA protocol.. What also makes me sad is that the bright minds of our Doctors are being clouded by untrue schools of thought that only perpetuate the use of Corporate Products like any other consumer product being sold on the market, while our people are being shortchanged by shortened lifespans. Craig, thanks for you concern..Please pray for Chris... | |
| Craig Stevens 05/21/2010 10:53:59 AM | Chris: I know some good pray-ers. We're on it. | |
| Chris Peters 05/21/2010 02:29:53 PM | This is for Fred... A Scientific approach...You see whatever works is not heard of because the powers that be....own and run everything.... I tried the pink and blue packs of non-sugar sweetners.. on ants. Right after I posted the info on the non sweetners, I left fruit on the sink in the bathroom... I spread the pink and blue packets...all over....what a mess...came back an hour or so later......they were all dead... I suppose this was a scientific experiment that could be proven scientifically...but, none of us will ever hear the FDA stop THE SALE OF THESE ITEMS,when a common chemist knows this..I am sure the FDA has some EXPERT qualified chemists....But, as to date, no ill found effects were found with the ingredients in these toxic products... If that is the case, with sweetners, what other chemicals are not safe in our invironment,and in our drugs.??... This outcome of my experiment is the same thing that happens with the A.M.A...Not once common cure, with uses over many, sometimes thousands of years are considered a viable documented study. There have been many Doctors with treatments that have been ridiculed by the AMA. over the years... How about Dr.Dakins,in World WAR ll, who treated his dying soldiers on the battlefield with a solution of Hydrogen Peroxide and Water. Ten Years ago, I was told it was not covered by Medicare, because it was not considered conventional medicine to use on an infection.....(first of all, that is a joke..everyone knows hydrogen peroxide will kill infection.. second..It was used and can be bought at the pharmacy...but, it is still not considered conventional medicine...this has to be political.....THAT WONDERFUL DOCTOR USED THIS THERAPY ON THE BATTLEFIED, TO SAVE OUR MENS LIVES, SOME 65 YEARS AGO,NOT CONSIDERED CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE. THE TREATMENT AND WONDERFUL DOCTOR SAVED OUR FATHERS, GRANDFATHERS, AND GREAT-GRANDFATHERS LIVES WITH IT..WHAT SCIENTIFIC STUDIES COULD HAVE BEEN PERFORMED OTHER THAN SAVING PEOPLES LIVES? This is why I have no hope for the protocol of the system..We did not need a National Healthcare Program..We need a Medical System Reform Bill, that will insure adequete medical treatment with science behind its protocol, that is not politically contolled... We need to overhaul the AMA,FDA, USDA.. That would change things a lot for the better...They control the medical system where Doctors cannot even practice medicine....maybe, then they could see other means of healing... That is why America is number 49 in World Life Expectancy, while several countries are increasing their life expectancy...Check it for yourself under CIA.GOV....COUNTRIES WITH THE LONGEST LIFE EXPECTANCY... WE DO NOT HAVE THE GREATEST MEDICAL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, AS WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO BELIEVE. We live 6 1/2 years less the the 84 years some of the other 48 other countries reported by the CIA. YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED...AND YOU MAY UNDERSTAND WHY THERE IS SO MUCH NEGATIVE RHETORIC ON THIS BLOG... I AM NOT MAD...BUT, IT IS ONLY OUR LIVES AT STAKE... | |
| Tiffany Sewell 05/21/2010 02:46:56 PM | Chris, Hydrogen peroxide also makes a great rocket propellant. However, recent studies have suggested that hydrogen peroxide impedes scarless healing as it destroys newly formed skin cells. Hydrogen peroxide is generally recognized as safe as an antimicrobial agent, an oxidizing agent and for other purposes by the FDA. It's also great at helping to bleach your hair. Dakin's solution contains sodium hypochlorite (0,45 % to 0,5 %) and boric acid (4 %), not hydrogen peroxide. I continue to agree that some natural remedies still have a place today - but not all of them. See here: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52452 to read about six of them. My point being that not all "natural" remedies are great, and not all prescription meds are evil. Respectfully, if you exposed the ants to anything other than the sweeteners (and you did - the fruit, your countertop, whatever cleaning agents you use, anything in your house they had to walk across to get to the fruit), you have not proven a direct cause-and-effect relation with the artificial sweeteners. | |
| Tiffany Sewell 05/21/2010 02:51:31 PM | Likewise, with all of the factors that affect life expectancy, we can't say that "the medical system" is solely at fault. What else affects life expectancy? Poverty rate? Education level? Violence against women and children? Pollution? I'm willing to bet that all of these play a part, so you can't (or shouldn't) blame the AMA for our 78-year life expectancy. And for those not wanting to look it up - Dakin's solution, in layman's terms, is bleach and baking soda in sterile water. | |
| Craig Stevens 05/21/2010 09:08:43 PM | Tiff, rocket propellent? That is just too funny. :-) | |
| Chris Peters 05/22/2010 11:01:39 AM | Tiff, You are right about the bleach...I used it 12 years ago on my Mom , with great results to heal her back, blistered by the use of a sand bed that charged Medicare some 3-4,000 a month, while heated and causing a raging bacterial infection on her back...Dakins is the only thing that healed her...It was a 16 oz. bottle from Walgreens for some 11.00 ....and not covered by Medicare ,,, so I made it from purified water and only drops of bleach in it....It worked when nothing else worked.... that is alternative medicine....That whichis not hailed as conventional medicine by the A.M.A. The hyrdrogen peroxide was another great item...Sorry,I mixed the two up... I used it to heal as well.... A study from a university said that drops in water was healing stomach Cancer....I used that for myself for a while and on Mom, for all the 20 rounds of antibiotics they gave the 80 year old girl...did probably cause the possible Cancer she had.. By the way, she had a fungus, and I could not get any Dr. to prescribe an Anti-Fungal, for a long enough time ... which would have probably saved her life.....instead ,they destroyed her immune system.with repeated rounds of antibiotic.. because , of their lack of knowledge on the subject....... Drs. cans and should learn the alternative treatments .. they are treatments that are vialbe in most cases with science behind them, if you study them, with opositive results.......just not sactioned by the politically controlled A.M.A. WHO ARE CONTROLLED BY THE DRUG COMPANIES... Babies and old poeple have a lesser immune system in the first place...they should never take vacinations or antibiotics....or at least at a mimimum....or you may actually get the disease... I WILL POST SOME VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION TO YOUY ALL..... READ IT AND LEARN......Education is the answer to all life's problems... WE JUST NEED TO LEARN THIS VERY QUICKLY TO STAY ALIVE... | |
| Chris Peters 05/22/2010 06:13:33 PM | I have tried to post an comment for several hours today, only to reak that the words I have used are not accepted on this site....Please revise and re-submit... I am only stating what she said, for, the post with her works were refused.. The article was by Dr. Mercola in regards to his interview with the past editor to the New England Journal of Medicine..Very prestegious for Doctors to follow... She has a book out that uncovers how the products we use in the medical field, in regards to chemicals and treatments...have very little science behind them, if any..... She says that there must only be 2 trials positive to be approved by the FDA,,,Even if there are 18 total trials and the other 16 are negative.... She says it is all run by politics.... That psychiatric drugs may only have as little as 6 weeks of trials before they are marketed........ She says that the trials and results DO NOT take into consideraation the interaction of the approved drug in conjunction with the use of numerous drugs the patient may be taking.... Fred where is the real science, like I sid to you before.. Since I could not re-print the article go to Dr. Mercola. com and read the article on HOW DEEPLY FLAWED MEDICAL STUDIES LIE ABOUT DRUG SAFETY....... | |
| Chris Peters 05/22/2010 07:34:38 PM | Fred, NOW is the time like no time before to integrate the NEEDED Alternative and Preventative Medicines; more natural medicines that were used predominately before the last 80 years.... The previous comment I made is tied to the fact that the actual real science is tried and true of earlier civilizations and that worked.... Tif, you are right in as much as nothing works, alone... in keeping ones health... I DO NOT totally blame the medical system....but, You can blame ALL manmade chemicals, whether it is directly or indirectly applied to the human body.... Any foreign manmade substance damages the IMMUNE SYSTEM.....And the numbers of immunal diseases will continue to grow...with each manmade chemical introduced into the world.. The average person induces 10-20 chemicals by mouth , alone, without the multitude of others we breathe, and put on our skin and have all around in our environment.... If the drugs induced are not trial tested properly, as the woman past editor of The New England Journal of Medicine says, .....then, they can be considered possiblly toxic to the human body, with NO GOOD SCIENCE BEHIND THEM..That is why the FDA has forced RECALLS, pulling drugs OFF THE MARKET, and must give numerous disclaimers, ONLY TO PROTECT THEM FROM LAWSUIT, for each of the advertized drugs. If the drug companies give disclaimers, and market with ONLY 2 POSITIVE CASE TRIAL STUDIES; why can't the alternative methods be approved, with the same requirements? Why does this not apply to a non drug......that will have few disclaimers....if any...WITH THOUSANDS OF CASE STUDIES.... Learning of these rules, why isn't Alternative Medicine being accepted by the A.M.A.? DO WE AS LAYPEOPLE NEED TO COLLECT THE STUDIES AND PRESENT THEM TO THE FDA? THE SCIENCE REQUIRED FOR APPROVAL OF AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY INTO MAINSTREAM PROTOCOL SHOULD BE THE SAME PROCESS APPLIED IN THE CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF A PREVENTITIVE OR ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF THERAPY. Why is this such a problem???? Why do you think?? When will the science of thousands of trial studies; which take place, today , tomorrow and for the last thousands of years, BE ACCEPTED AS CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE...? What does it take? If we eat ORGANIC----NON--Genetically Modified Fruits and Vegetables, AND MEATS, limit the chemicals we induce in all forms...even through the skin, as this is the largest organ in man... and integrate medicines used for a thousand years...with Millions of trial studies around the world,of current stories, as well.. NOT TWO TRIAL CASE STUDIES..... THAT SHOULD GIVE US AN INCREASE OF POSSIBLY 6 1/2 YEARS OF LIFE.....(cia.org) SO WE CAN LIVE AS LONG AS the other 48 countries with longer lifespans than Americans... After reading on that only 2 trial cases are required to approve a drug, I will for sure accept the OLD AND NEW ANECDOTAL tales and accept the findings of that form of science, before I will trust ANY Companies words GAINING FINANCIALLY FROM selling a product, with VERY LITTLE or NO science behind it... ONLY WITH THESE CHANGES WILL MEDICINE BE MADE BETTER... GOD BLESS AMERICA !!! | |
| Chris Peters 05/23/2010 08:26:38 PM | In the Parade Magazine on Sunday, May 23, 2010, edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, an article is titled ” Why Are So Few Chemicals Tested?” The EPA controls the safety of some 80,000 chemicals in our environment; everything from soaps to building materials. To date, only 200 chemicals have been called to be tested by the EPA and have restricted only 5. Under the TSCA, chemicals are presumed safe unless proven otherwise.. .However, the burden of proof is high, and the process is influenced by politics… For example,, THREE major studies have shown that formaldehyde, a common ingredient in building materials, is linked to blood and lymphatic cancers and other illnesses, A bill in congress.. The Safe Chemical Act will give the EPA far greater authority to regulate both new and existing chemicals and would allow the agency to take swift action over chemicals of high risk ( I fear expansion of the current control of the EPA, and other regulatory agencies like the FDA, USDA, would only insure greater power, by the chemical industry, which in the end could create a greater threat to Americans health) Manufacturers would be required to prove that the chemicals in their products are safe and would be given financial and other incentive to develop safer products..(I dont know about that. It could be used to further chemical companies.. ill fated products and financial causes at the expense of the taxpayers) This is an issue unto itself. THE CHEMICAL -----DRUG COMPANIES CONTROL The Manufacturing of all these 80,000 Chemical products, Yet, the medical industry DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RELATE how CHEMICAL DRUGS, with the lack of their testing , are negatively impacting the general health of their patients… Still yet, the DRUG controlled medical field continues to use faulty, flawed, or untested, NON-SCIENTIFIC CHEMICAL TREATMENTS…WHILE SOME OF THE CHEMICALS PRESCRIBED ARE ACTUALLY CAUSING THE DREADED DISEASES, WHICH THE DRUG DOCTORS ARE CLAIMING TO TREAT… This is just another reason to use the real scientifically tested plant chemicals, that have had more than a million trials…over the past 1-2,000 years…..Not the faulty... 2 positive trials necessary for approval of the FDA... | |
| Chris Peters 05/31/2010 04:53:36 AM | Jason, The source of information you provided by the World Health Organization, whose tentacles stream though the United Nations... who own the insurance companies, the drug companies, bought up and run our hospitals, run the AMA, FDA, USDA, and every other regulatory agency, not only in America , but, throughout the world.. UP TO AND including the TOTAL MEDIAS and PUBLISHING.. within our country... ...is controlled by Elitist Bankers..It appears they are running our country completely... Goggle the Bildebergs...see who attended the meetings of this secret society whose attendees are controlling the world....all with the agenda of population control. That is why ALTERNATIVE AND PLANT HEALING IS FORBIDDEN...IT WORKS....oNE FUNNY THING IS THAT ALL DRUGS START WITH THE PLANTS....BUT THEN ARE ADULTERATED WITH POISONS........ WHY IS THAT??? Evidently, the fact that people are complaining so much about DRUG medicine, and its lack of helping patients.... is why BJC feels the need to offer this blog...just to cover the debackles of the current forms of medicine protocol... | |
| Phil J 06/08/2010 04:31:22 PM | chris is right. The money is in the disease not the cure. Western medicine really does have a place when it comes to many extreme disorders and conditions. Many unfortunate accidents and deadly diseases are prime candidates for hospitals. However, half of doctor/hospital visits are for conditions that are caused by a poor nutrition and highly processed "food", excessive use of alcohol, cigarettes, and other drugs (OTC, prescription and illicit) and a sedentary lifestyle. A holistic/eastern approach to our EVERYDAY LIFESTYLE would prevent many doctor/hospital visits which will usually end with a script anyway. If we promoted health via fitness, massage therapy, accupunture, etc. then we would all have a better QUALITY of life. Something western medicines maintenance drugs can never do. At the present alternative medicine does not have the oh so important financial backing that Western medicine has thus affecting credibility. However, in the near future I see alternative medicine becoming more mainstream as awareness and mass education about these methodologies increase. Regulation would be a must as more peer-reviewed research surfaces in order to maintain the credibility of these professions. It is all happening now. My point is that both schools of medicine Western and Eastern have there place in society in balance. We should cooperate not compete. | |
| Adam Feltes 06/09/2010 09:04:36 PM | i think america just needs to lose some weight, we're fat. get out and do something, i bet that would change a lot of things. but good luck getting people off the couch when we're now trained to watch TV and buy everything it tells us to. just eat less and i bet it will improve your health and lengthen the average live while improving the said life and increasing the good-to-bad day ratio. |
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