The Herbalist's Charter established our Naturopathic Rights

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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been overturned or repealed to this very day.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Act has never been repealed, and thus remains part of our Common Law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)