Hero's and Important News to Open the Door for All of Us
Although separated by hundreds of years the problems real healers encounter never seem to change. This is a memorial to remind herbalist or anyone that what we deal with is human nature and it can slither with devils or ride in the heavens with angels! Always be willing to question, even yourself. These are important issues we should all be aware of and stories of heros who had the guts to do the right thing, and that changed everything!
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Herbal Remedies
vs Prescription Medication
By Adam S. - 2008-05-13
As it is, no herb or
natural treatment or remedy can be labeled or even advertised legally
as a cure or treatment.
Think
in terms of cancer, for example. If someone had an herbal supplement
where 90% of the patients who took it became disease free, it still
cannot be labeled or advertised as a cure or even as a treatment, while
a synthetic lab-created chemical that kills more people than it cures
can take out full page advertisements in national magazines. And that
is how the public interest is protected from all of those dangerous
herbs, which result in maybe 50 deaths a year compared to 106,000
deaths per year for properly prescribed medications that can be
advertised as cures and treatments. Not to mention the 2,000,000
serious drug reactions from properly prescribed medications.
Death
from prescription drug side effects is now the fourth leading cause of
death in the United States according to the medical industry itself
(the AMA Journal) and that doesn't include deaths that are reported to
be caused by the original disease that really were the result of drug
side-effects, or of miss-prescribed medications that are not reported
by doctors leery of malpractice suits and malpractice insurance premium
increases (one survey found that only 1 in 24 doctors would voluntarily
report themselves in the event of a patient dying of miss-prescribed
medications).
When all factors are taken into consideration,
improper medical treatment and prescription drugs are considered by
some authorities as actually being the second leading cause of death in
our country.
Herbal remedies can help you with your condition and
can actually cure or even prevent it. Herbal remedies are even safe,
effective and with no side effects. But of course, you have to make
sure that you are using the right herbal remedy for your condition, in
order to make sure that you will be curing your condition properly.
In
buying herbal remedies, you have to make sure you are buying the right
herbs, and not just throwing your money with the wrong ones, so you
have to make sure that you are having the right information and it can
help to seek the advice of a herbalist.
Read
the entire article
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
Deaths From Herbs vs.
Drugs
From Natural News
The
Stanford Daily Journal reported that about 125,000 deaths occur per
year due to people taking prescription drugs incorrectly.
Total
unexpected deaths from the western medical profession in this country
(USA) was estimated as high as 800,000 per year (this would include all
malpractice, iatrogenic disease, surgery and anesthesia problems, drug
overdose, drug misuse and abuse and drug side-effects).
While my
research into the matter certainly did not reveal a very clear picture
of how many people were really dying due to drugs, it did reveal enough
to make the point, which is that herbs are far, far safer on their
worst day.
On average, herbs kill a grand total of 5-6 people per
year and herbs get abused all the time. People use herbs in a crazy,
out of balance way without even consulting a qualified herbalist and we
still get 5-6 people per year.
There are a few more medical
conditions blamed on herbs but believe me when I tell you that the most
dangerous herb still in use is far safer than the safest
over-the-counter drug.
Read the
entire article
Britannica Online
Drugs vs. HERBS
Recent
prescription drug recalls, such as the 2004 Vioxx withdrawal, also have
cast a dubious light on both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and the pharmaceutical industry, prompting more people to turn to
nutritional supplements. A September 2006 study on drug safety
conducted by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of
Sciences, found that "The credibility of the FDA, the [pharmaceutical]
industry, the academic research enterprise, and health care providers
has become seriously diminished in recent years. Of particular concern
are the common but inaccurate perceptions that the FDA approval
represents a guarantee of safety, that approval is based on high
degrees of clarity and certainty about a drug's risks and benefits."
The
FDA is responsible for monitoring the safety and efficacy of
pharmaceutical products. While most people assume the agency itself
closely tests new drugs, this is not the case. Pharmaceutical companies
must provide the FDA with research from clinical trials to prove their
new drugs are safe for the market--a practice that unfortunately leaves
room for bias, according to Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor in chief
of The New England Journal of Medicine.
"Can we believe those
trials? After all, that crucial last stage of research and development
is usually sponsored by the company that makes the drug, even if the
early research was done elsewhere. Is there some way companies can rig
clinical trials to make their drugs look better than they are?
Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Trials can be rigged in a dozen ways,
and it happens all the time," Angell writes in her book The Truth About Drug Companies
(see Page 121 to order). Furthermore, FDA approval committees often
include members with ties to pharmaceutical companies. In fact, the
2006 Institute of Medicine's study recommended that the FDA should
"establish a requirement that a substantial majority of the members of
each advisory committee be free of significant financial involvement
with companies whose interests may be affected by the committee's
deliberations."
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the entire article
Nicholas
Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 1654 in
London) was an English botanist, herbalist,
physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physitian
(1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of
pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge. Influenced during his
apprenticeship by the radical preacher John
Goodwin, who said no 
authority is
above question, Culpeper became a
radical republican and opposed the "closed shop" of medicine enforced
by the censors of the College of Physicians. In his youth, Culpeper
translated medical and herbal texts such as the 'London Pharmacopaeia'
from the Latin for his master. It was during the political turmoil of
the English civil war, when the College of Physicians was unable to
enforce their ban on the publication of medical texts, that Culpeper
deliberately chose to publish his translations in vernacular English as
self-help medical guides for use by the poor who could not afford the
medical help of expensive physicians. Follow-up publications included a
manual on childbirth and his main work, 'The English Physician', which
was deliberately sold very cheaply, eventually becoming available as
far afield as colonial America. It is the most successful non-religious
English text ever, and has been in print continuously since the 17th
century.
Culpeper believed medicine was a public asset rather than a commercial
secret, and the prices physicians charged were far too expensive
compared to the cheap and universal availability of nature's medicine.
He felt the use of Latin and expensive fees charged by doctors, lawyers
and priests worked to keep power and freedom from the general public.
Culpeper was a radical in his time, angering his fellow physicians by
condemning their greed, unwillingness to stray from Galen and their use
of harmful practices such as toxic remedies and bloodletting. The
Society of Apothecaries were similarly incensed by the fact that he
suggested cheap herbal remedies as opposed to their expensive
concoctions.[1] His influence is demonstrated by the existence of a
chain of "Culpeper" herb and spice shops in the United Kingdom, India
and beyond, and by the continued popularity of his remedies among New
Age and alternative holistic medicine practitioners.
Robert
S.
Mendelsohn
(1926 – 1988) was an American pediatrician who criticized his
profession, inveighing against pediatric practice, obstetric orthodoxy
and the effect of the preponderance of male obstetricians, and
vaccination. He also opposed water fluoridation, coronary bypass
surgery, licensing of nutritionists, and the routine use of X-Rays. For
12 years, Mendelsohn was an instructor at Northwestern University
Medical College, and was associate professor of pediatrics and
community health and preventive medicine at the University of Illinois
College of Medicine for another 12 years.
From 1981 to 1982, Mendelsohn was president of the National Health
Federation. He also served as National Director of Project Head Start's
Medical Consultation Service (a position he was later forced to resign
after criticizing the public school system), and as Chairman of the
Medical Licensing Committee of Illinois. He often spoke at NHF
conventions and produced a newsletter and a syndicated newspaper
column, both called The People's Doctor. He appeared on over 500
television and radio talk shows. In 1986, the National Nutritional
Foods Association gave Mendelsohn its annual Rachel Carson Memorial
Award for his "concerns for the protection of the American consumer and
health freedoms."
Mendelsohn considered himself a "medical heretic." One of his books
charged that "Modern Medicine's treatments for disease are seldom
effective, and they're often more dangerous than the diseases they're
designed to treat"; that "around ninety percent of surgery is a waste
of time, energy, money and life"; and that most hospitals are so
loosely run that "murder is even a clear and present danger."
Mendelsohn asserted issues regarding drug induced nutritional deficits
and other 'subtle' drug side effects, such as aspirin's interference
with blood clotting factors and its propensity to reduce levels of
Vitamin C.
Mendelsohn said that the greatest danger to American women's health was
often their own doctors, and contended that chauvinistic physicians
subjected female patients to degrading, unnecessary and often dangerous
medical procedures. Hysterectomy and radical mastectomy, according to
Mendelsohn, were among the most indiscriminately recommended surgical
procedures. Confessions of a Medical Heretic, ISBN 0-8092-7726-3 and
How To Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor, NTC/Contemporary
Publishing Company, ISBN 0-8092-4995-2 [2] are both monumental works
and highly recommended.
Sir
Albert Howard
Although some concepts of organic farming predated his work, today Sir
Albert Howard (1873-1947) is regarded by most as the founder and
pioneer of the organic movement. [3]
Jerome Irving
Rodale
He
was one of the first advocates of a return to sustainable agriculture
and organic farming in the United States. He founded a publishing
empire, founded several magazines, and published many books, his own
and those of others, on health. He also published works, including The
Synonym Finder, on a wide variety of other topics. Rodale popularized
the term "organic" to mean grown without pesticides. [4]
The Salatin Family
In
1961, William and Lucille Salatin moved their young family to
Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, purchasing the most worn-out, eroded,
abused farm in the area near Staunton. Using nature as a
pattern,
they and their children began the healing and innovation that now
supports three generations.
Disregarding conventional wisdom, the Salatins planted trees, built
huge compost piles, dug ponds, moved cows daily with portable electric
fencing, and invented portable sheltering systems to produce all their
animals on perennial prairie polycultures. Today the farm arguably
represents America’s premier non-industrial food production
oasis. Believing that the Creator’s design is still the best
pattern for the biological world, the Salatin family invites
like-minded folks to join in the farm’s mission: to develop
emotionally, economically, environmentally enhancing agricultural
enterprises and facilitate their duplication throughout the world. [5]
Morgan Spurlock
Super
Size Me is a 2004 documentary film directed by and
starring Morgan
Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a
30-day time period (February to beginning of March 2003) during which
he limits himself to only eat McDonald's food. The film documents this
lifestyle's drastic effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological
well-being, and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence,
including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. [6]
1. Culpeper, Nicholas (2001). "The English Physician (1663)
with 369
Medicines made of English Herbs; Rare book on CDROM" (html). Herbal
1770 CDROM. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Culpeper#cite_note-EP-1)
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Mendelsohn
3. Conford, P. 2001. The Origins of the Organic Movement. Floris Books.
Glasgow, Great Britain.
http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/history-organic-farming.html
4. Organic Farmer. Espoused the Avoidance of Chemical Fertilizers.".
New York Times. June 8, 1971, Tuesday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Irving_Rodale
5. http://www.polyfacefarms.com/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me