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THE WORST CRIME OF THE 20TH CENTURY

 

 

 

 

Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and

Elissa Meininger

January 19, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

In America and in the West, the public is conditioned to believe that modern

(allopathic) medicine is the supreme healing modality. Propaganda machines that

rely on media in need of content and not necessarily truth eagerly spread this

notion. Scientific journal articles promoting drugs are little more than press

releases by pharmaceutical companies signed by doctors for hire. In the midst of

the recent “outing” of unsafe drugs by whistleblowers; the thousands of law

suits against drug companies for drug damage; and a plethora of books and

articles enumerating the side effects of drugs and the hundreds of thousands of

lives lost we see drug companies and the WTO determined to control of dietary

supplements through Codex and international trade agreements in their global

quest for power. Why is this happening? Simply because most of the world does

not use modern medicine and the ‘powers that be’ want to control those other

forms of medicine to make way for a seamless, worldwide

assembly line-style of health delivery by government decree favoring the

highly-profitable, patented products and services of modern (allopathic)

medicine. One of the forms of medicine that is being targeted for control is

homeopathy –the topic of this week’s column. Both Elissa and I have a deep and

abiding love of homeopathy and we speak up for it whenever we can. Homeopathy

is one of those systems of medicine that is all encompassing and could be a

life-long project of study. I wanted to make it my prime modality after medical

school and began learning it during my naturopathic training. That might have

had something to do with genes because my grandmother was a nurse and a

homeopath. And my father, while still in high school, was on the lists to enter

Boston University School of Medicine, which, at the time, was a homeopathic

medical school. I found, however, that I’m much too eclectic to stay in one

place for too long. But I stayed long enough to see some miraculous cures

take place. In the hands of a skilled homeopath, it is one of the best existing

modalities for all conditions. I recommend it to parents as the best form of

medicine for children and the best for most acute conditions and advise people

to have a homeopathic kit on hand to treat emergencies. Elissa’s reasons are

even more personal. After a lifetime of ill health due to a missed diagnosis of

mercury poisoning from her dental fillings (a disease that is not recognized by

either the American dental community or modern [allopathic] medicine), Elissa

was diagnosed by a homeopath and from the first dose of a homeopathic remedy,

she found her salvation. Up until then, she had experienced not just

debilitating symptoms of serious chronic illness, but numerous extreme adverse

reactions from such things as penicillin and Tylenol. To find out why she was

misdiagnosed all those years and why she was never referred to homeopathy, a

medical philosophy that has specialized in the diagnosis and

treatment of medically-induced mercury poisoning for 200 years, prompted Elissa

to become the health policy expert she is today. She earned her expertise by

delving into the depth and breadth of the history of American medicine and how

politics and the clever actions of several self-interest groups, over time,

created today’s modern medical monopoly folly. The story of how homeopathy

first came to America, became the second most practiced healing art by public

demand, and then was virtually destroyed by Big Pharma and its allies, the AMA

and the practitioners of modern (allopathic) medicine, is why we have called our

article “The Worst Crime of the 20th Century.” This history bears witness to how

the self-interest of just a handful of people, by creating an allopathic medical

monopoly, continues to cause the needless deaths of millions of people and the

ongoing suffering of millions more. As the story goes, back in the mid-1800s,

homeopathy had arrived on our shores from its

homeland, Germany, and the public eagerly flocked to homeopathic physicians.

And no wonder. The “modern (allopathic) medicine” of the day included draining

people of up to 32 ounces of blood and dosing them with lethal amounts of

mercury in a product called “calomel.” Calomel caused profuse salivation and

doctors measured the amount of saliva by the pint as a means of determining the

success of the treatment. Calomel was considered the all-purpose elixir for most

ailments along with the bleeding, so you can see why homeopathy spread rapidly.

Homeopaths found allopathic treatment barbaric. What confounded the

practitioners of “modern (allopathic) medicine” of that era was that homeopaths

were well-educated and had quickly fallen into favor with the educated,

politically powerful and wealthier clientele, as well as the masses. Worse yet,

while their medical philosophy confounded the average practitioner of “modern

(allopathic) medicine,” every time an allopath actually took an

honest look at how homeopathy was practiced, another convert to homeopathy was

born. In fact, in many cases, practicing homeopaths were actually converts from

“modern (allopathic) medicine.” Proof that homeopathy worked was widespread.

Every epidemic in Europe and America starting with the cholera epidemics in the

1840s became an advertisement for the virtues of homeopathy. Homeopaths saved

lives in such large numbers and compared to the competition it was obvious that

allopathic methods were a complete failure. In rapid order, the practice of

homeopathy became widespread in New England, the Middle Atlantic States, and the

Midwest. And, true to form, while the South had been slow to catch on, the 1878

yellow fever epidemic converted many patients and doctors there, too. The

formation of the American Medical Association in the 1840s was in direct

response to the onslaught of a superior medical system. From the beginning, the

AMA stood firm with a hostile “them or us” attitude

about members consorting with the competition. Well-educated homeopaths, often

graduates of Harvard, Yale and other such schools, were banned from joining the

AMA. In AMA meetings, any discussion about homeopathy was banned. If any member

of the AMA, or its state chapters, were seen consorting with a homeopath, that

doctor was expelled. Voluminous and vicious literature was written and

circulated about the worthlessness of homeopathy. When the drug industry emerged

as an economic force in the 1870s, flush with its profits from selling mercury

medicinals to the Union Army, the AMA found the sugar daddy of its dreams that

could fuel and finance an all out war against its most serious competition. This

polemic propaganda continues today because the 1500 or so effective homeopathic

remedies that have been developed over 200 years represent serious competition

for Big Pharma. Furthermore, homeopathic remedies have proven to have no

dangerous side effects, are not patentable, can be

manufactured and sold for pennies and have a very long shelf life. Those who

practice medicine in the allopathic tradition, then as now, know instinctively

that homeopathy, by its very principles, is a rejection of the assumptions held

near and dear to modern medicine. In fact, it is important to know that

homeopathy is actually the invention of a German medical genius named Samuel

Hahnemann, and it comes from Hahnemann’s rejection of what he was taught as an

allopathic physician in his day, 200 years ago. What Hahnemann saw was a

failure to truly heal people. As a linguist with knowledge of many ancient and

modern languages, including several from the Arab world, Hahnemann made a good

deal of his living translating scientific and medical texts. This gave him

access to some of the greatest minds in the world’s medical traditions and it

was when he was questioning the conclusions of British doctor, William Cullen,

regarding the use of Peruvian bark to treat malaria, that

Hahnemann experienced a flash of insight that fostered homeopathy. At the

height of its popularity in America, homeopathy was second only to allopathy in

the number of practitioners. It had its own schools, its own pharmacies and even

had a monument erected to honor Hahnemann in Washington, D.C., considered by

many to be one of the great geniuses in the history of medicine. [Read] [Read]

At the time this monument to Hahnemann was unveiled, there where 22 homeopathic

medical schools in America. One of the more interesting ones was The New England

Female College founded in 1850 as the world’s first women’s medical school.

During its time, it graduated the first black woman doctor and after it was

absorbed into Boston University to become Boston University Medical School in

1873, it became America’s first coed medical school. In 1897, the new school

graduated its first black doctor, who went on to become America’s first black

psychiatrist. Ironically, four years after the

monument was erected, and 10 years before the publication of the Flexner

Report, the blueprint of the allopathic medical monopoly, the trustees of Boston

University were told by AMA officials that if they didn’t convert the medical

school curricula to all-allopathic, their graduates would have difficulty taking

and passing state medical licensing examinations. At the time, there were 645

practicing homeopaths in Boston alone. So, what allopathic assumptions does

homeopathy reject? At its core, homeopathy is based, not on a biochemical or

mechanistic model like allopathy, but on the idea that each person has a vital

force, a resonating frequency, if you will. This vital force, called Qi or Chi

in Asian healing arts, is basically the energy or essence of the person that can

be observed and measured. In the simplest terms, when you are ill, according to

homeopathic philosophy, your frequency changes and symptoms occur as a result of

your body trying to restore you to a healthy

frequency. The symptoms serve as the means by which restoration of health can

be achieved. The very symptoms that allopaths suppress are the ones the body

uses to get well and that a homeopath surveys to find the appropriate remedy to

help the body heal. To a homeopath, an office call is basically devoted to

systematically interviewing the patient to determine what makes them tick as

well as gathering as much information about each of their symptoms as possible.

Then, after analyzing this information, the homeopath has available 1500 or so

catalogued remedies that are inventoried according to symptoms and constitution.

The information in these reference manuals is drawn from data on literally

thousands of patients who have been treated successfully. Homeopathic remedies

themselves are developed by a process called “potentization” which renders them

not only non-toxic but leaves only a minute vibration in the water of the

original substance. These potentized remedies, when they

enter the person’s body as a frequency, not a chemical substance, basically

help revitalize the person’s own harmonious frequency. To modern (allopathic)

medical practitioners, a symptom is a bad outcome of an illness and suppressing

the symptom is the first thing a doctor tries to do to make the patient feel

better. Suppression of symptoms is not the same as healing the person. Each

homeopathic remedy is developed by first testing it on healthy people based on

an idea called “the law of similars.” The law of similars comes from an old idea

that a substance that can create a symptom in a healthy person can cure a sick

person suffering the same symptom. The law of similars confounds the scientific

assumptions of the biochemically-based allopathic medical community and until

you experience the healing process yourself, you will probably scratch your

head, wondering what these homeopaths are talking about. Hahnemann came to name

his new school of thought homeo (Greek for

“similar”), pathy (Greek for “suffering). He then named the old school of

thought allo (Greek for “other”), pathy. These opposing views on the meaning

of symptoms and what a doctor does about them is the sharpest of many

ideological divisions between homeopathy and allopathy. For most of the 1800s,

allopaths were called allopaths but when the AMA orchestrated the publication of

the Flexner Report in 1910, to outline their new medical monopoly, the first

order of business was to make sure the word “allopathy” no longer defined them.

They wanted ALL practitioners of all “cults” or “dogmas” as they insultingly

referred to their competition, to give up their differing medical ideas and

“surrender” to modern science. The Flexner Report was used to convince the

financial backers of non-allopathic medical schools, particularly homeopathy, to

cease providing funding. Within 20 years, all but one homeopathic school had

been closed or forced to convert to allopathic teaching only. It

came to our attention within the last week or so, that Citizens for Health, one

of the major national health freedom groups, in conjunction with the National

Center for Homeopathy, had organized a writing campaign to the CDC to include

homeopathic research as part of its agenda for the next decade. [Read]

homeopathic.org/ This campaign, with the deadline of January 15, 2006, is now

over. However, we have mixed feelings about how the modern medicine dominated

CDC, or the NIH or any other of the usual research organizations could possibly

conduct honest and relevant research on homeopathy, given the fact that modern

medicine is based on such vastly different assumptions. We also have concerns

because of recent revelations about the corruption in science in all venues as

well as the faking of scientific papers being published in prestigious medical

journals. We have concerns about the political and economic agendas of those in

control of directing what research shall be done and

that, somehow, homeopathy will be tainted keeping it in the same false and

negative light it has been held for most of the 20th century. We suggest that

there are ample books written by practicing homeopaths about the success of

homeopathy for any open-minded person to see its worth. In any case, we are

foursquare behind restoring homeopathy to its former position as the second

largest medical system in America and give you practical resources at the end to

pursue your own investigation of homeopathy. To sum up the worldview on

homeopathy we recently read an article in the New India Press, dated December

24, 2005, titled, “WHO Recognition for Homeopathy.” We thought you might like to

read some excerpts from this article to give you a flavor of how homeopathy is

discussed in a country where it is widely accepted and used.

 

 

“Deviating from the trend of rejecting homeopathy treatment and

medicine as mere placebos, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that

homeopathy is the second-most used medical system internationally.

 

 

 

’Clinical trials have proved that this method of treatment has been

successful if the practitioners have taken into account the individual holistic

nature of the patient before opting for homeopathy.’ Says Dr. T N Sreedhara

Kurup, Assistant Director In-Charge of the Central Research Institute for

Homeopathy.

 

 

‘Different patients will receive different treatments for the same disease

making it difficult to conduct randomised control trials,’ he said. ‘Homeopathy

is that stream of medicine, which prescribes medicines suitable to the

individual and the cost of treatment is affordable when compared to Allopathy.

Besides, it is claimed that homeopathic medicines are devoid of any harmful

side-effects,’ says Dr. Ravi M Nair, a homeopathy specialist.”

 

 

In all, the New India Press estimates that “about 500 million people rely

on homeopathy treatment in the world. As a system of medicine, it draws support

from hundreds of thousands of doctors, teaching institutions and universities

where homeopathy is taught.” We conclude that as allopathic medicine is

relegated to its proper place –surgery and emergency medicine, homeopathy and

other natural healing arts will once again flourish and inspire. RESOURCES:

http://www.homeopathic.com/

http://www.healthyhomeopathy.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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