The Herbalist's Charter

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Fwd: The Herbalist's Charter established our Naturopathic Rights  

Posted by: " Tony "   Sun Sep 30,

2007 10:50 am ((PDT))

 

The FDA, AMA and other powers in mainstream medicine would have us

believe that it is their legal and moral duty to protect us from nature

and naturopathy and determine which drugs and treatments we are allowed

to have. Just the opposite is true: it is both immoral and against the

founding principles and laws of our nation - and the principles and laws

that predate the founding of our nation and governed our country at the

time of it's founding.

 

A charter which addressed the evils of such restrictions was made in

1543 during the reign of Henry the VIII and was used by the original 13

States of America to determine the rights of Naturopathy and our freedom

of access to natural treatments - something that has never been

overturned or repealed to this very day.

 

Herbalist's Charter of Henry the VIII

1543 A.D.

 

When the American Colonies declared their independence as Sovereign

States, in July, 1776, they each adopted the Laws of England as the

Common Law of the State. Among the Laws of England so adopted is the

Herbalist's Charter, an Act of Henry the Eighth (in the Eighth Year of

his reign). It is astonishing to note that many of the issues

confronting alternative practitioners today are the same issues which

the Act of Parliament addressed. In the Sixteenth Century, as in the

Twentieth Century, licensed physicians and surgeons were going to Court

to ban the activities of the alternative practitioners of their day, the

herbalists. Parliament ordered an end to this misuse of the Courts to

enforce licensure, protecting the nutritionists from " suit, vexation,

trouble, penalty, or loss of their goods... " This ancient Act of

Parliament applied to England and the King's " other dominions "

including, of course, the American Colonies, and later, States. This Act

has never been repealed, and thus remains part of our Common Law to this

day, offering protection to alternative practitioners, " at all Time from

henceforth... " as a perpetual Charter of Rights.

 

The text of the Charter reads:

 

" An Act that Persons, Being No Common Surgeons, May Administer Outward

Medicines

 

" Where in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the third Year of the

King's most gracious Reign, amongst other Things, for the avoiding of

Sorceries, Witchcrafts and other Inconveniences, it was enacted, that no

Person within the City of London, nor within Seven Miles of the same,

should take upon him to exercise and occupy as Physician or Surgeon,

except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of

London and other, under and upon certain Pains and Penalties in the same

Act mentioned;

" Sithence the making of which said Act, the Company and Fellowship of

Surgeons of London, minding only their own Lucres and nothing the Profit

or ease of the Diseased or Patient, have sued, troubled and vexed divers

honest Persons, as well as Men and Women, whom God hath endued with the

Knowledge of the Nature, Kind and Operation of certain Herbs, Roots and

Waters, and the using and ministring of them to such as been pained with

customable Diseases, as Women's Breasts beings sore, a Pin and the Web

in the Eye, Uncomis of Hands, Burnings, Scaldings, Sore Mouths, the

Stone, Strangury, Saucelim and Morphew, and such other like Diseases;

and yet the said Persons have not taken anything for their Pains or

Cunning, but have ministered the same to poor People only for

Neighborhood and God's sake, and of Pity and Charity:

" And it is now well known that the Surgeons admitted will do no Cure to

any Person but where they shall be rewarded with a greater Sum or Reward

that the Cure extendeth unto; for in the case they would minister the

Cunning unto sore People unrewarded, there should not so many rot and

perish to death for Lack or Help of Surgery as daily do; but the

greatest part of Surgeons admitted been much more to be blamed than

those Persons that they troubled, for although the most Part of the

Persons of the said Craft of Surgeons have small Cunning yet they will

take great sums of Money, and do little therefore, and by Reason thereof

they do oftentimes impair and hurt their Patients, rather than do them

good.

" In consideration whereof, and for the Ease, Comfort, Succour, Help,

Relief and Health of the King's poor Subjects, Inhabitants of this

Realm, now pained or diseased:

" Be it ordained, established and enacted, by Authority of this present

Parliament, That at all Time from henceforth it shall be lawful to every

Person being the King's subject, having Knowledge and Experience of the

Nature of Herbs, Roots and Waters, or of the Operation of the same, by

Speculation or Practice, within any part of the Realm of England, or

within any other the King's Dominions, to practice, use and minister in

and to any outward Sore, Uncome Wound, Aposelmations, outward Swelling

or Disease, any Herb or Herbs, Ointments, Baths, Pultess, and

Emplaisters, according to their Cunning, Experience and Knowledge in any

of the Diseases, Sorea and Maladies beforesaid, and all other like to

the same, or Drinks for the Stone, Strangury or Agues, without suit,

vexation, trouble, penalty or loss of their goods;

" The foresaid Statute in the foresaid Third Year of the King's most

gracious Reign, or any other Act, Ordinance or Statues the contrary

heretofore made in anywise, not withstanding. "

 

http://www.leaflady.org/charter.htm

 

Tony Isaacs (aka DQ)