Quackery or the Cutting Edge??

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from: Frank <califpacific

Thu Jan 8, 2004 6:16 am

Quackery or the Cutting-Edge?

 

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/future_health.html

 

Some day, health care without megavitamin therapy

will be seen as we today see childbirth without sanitation,

or surgery without anesthetic.

 

Health alternatives may be unfamiliar and initially sound farfetched, but

theyall have one common characteristic: they work.

 

Unorthodox medicine, unpopular research, and drugless healing has always comein

for criticism by allopathic, or drug-and-surgery doctors.

 

There's nothing wrong with disagreement in health professions because this keeps

practitioners aware that there are varied approaches to wellness, not just their

own. The

problem comes when one school of treatment comes into political power

andstrongly biases the very laws of the land against alternative schools of

treatment.

 

The American Medical Association has had this very opportunity. Although the

A.M.A. now represents far fewer than half

of the physicians in the United States, it remains the strongest lobby in

Washington, and a very influential " union. "

 

Columbus and Copernicus and Einstein and naturopaths all have had to struggle a

bit to demonstrate the truth of their theories in practice. Fortunately, they

have all done so with great success, and history will bear them out. Law

sometimes is the last aspect of a country's rising consciousness to show

revision.

 

For this reason, we must all " lobby " and call for freedom of health.

 

Most states have a generous, really generous amount of laws, and if you readyour

state's Medical Practice Act, you may be amazed at the very strongrestriction of

any non-medical approach to healing. The Medical Practice Act in

New York will be found under " Education " in the Consolidated Laws

Service,section 6501, and is twenty-five pages in length. The Act is full of

case notesand records of convictions of those who " practiced medicine without a

license "

including a beautician " who treated and prescribed for blemishes on the face ofa

patron " (p. 211, note .

 

" Quackery " is supposed to be harmful, and the law to protect us from

charlatans. Not everyone knows that the real English meaning of a " charlatan "

isjust an unregistered

health, not a health criminal.

 

If the law is supposed to help us, how can weexplain in one case that " the fact

that the treatments were in some instances

beneficial is wholly immaterial " (p.211, note 4.5) to the trial of an

unlicensedpractitioner in New York? How?

 

Because the issue is not health, but business.

 

The Medical Practice Act protects the exclusiveness of the allopathic

medicaldoctor from competition, by rendering an outsider's practice illegal.

 

Publichealth has little to do with it.

 

The reason? Because so-called " quackery " happens to work. But you have to make

your mind up about that yourself.

 

Don't let the medical politicians make yourmind up for you, try as they may.

Deciding, choosing and verifying in your own

life which health methods are truly life supporting should be restricted by

nolaw, doctor, nor attitude. This is why we need freedom of health. Please

writeyour lawmakers and tell them your views. It has been said that no king with

hisscepter wields more power than an informed citizen holding a pen.

 

Years ago, my mother (who had been a teacher) told me that education had

twogoals. The first, she said, was that any education should make you want

tolearn more.

 

For this reason, the referential reading suggested at this website

is especially important, for in seeking it out you will gain so much more really

helpful information than you perhaps ever imagined possible.

 

The second goal of education, Mom said, was to teach each person how to

budgettheir time. When I was a kid, with too much time on my hands in the

summer, and boredout of my gourd in school all winter, I did not appreciate

this.

 

Now, decades later, I see what she was on to. We all have the same 24 hours in

each day, andmost of us (and even the busiest of people) have time for TV or

certain other

pursuits.

 

Taking a bit of that time to learn to get well and stay well is the

most certain of all investments. Consider this: if you are pressed for time,

but spend some fraction of an hour each day improving your health, you

willprobably live longer.

 

If you live longer, then you will have more time in the

end.

 

A third goal of education drizzled into my mind in college. Some instructors

said, and a few actually meant, that education should teach you to think. When

we just " go to the doctor, " we are suspending most thought and asking to

becommanded. Like a toddler putting up his arms to have you take off his

shirt,we surrender our self-reliance

for some quick service.

 

We also get to complain if the treatment wasn't good

enough for us.

 

I once heard a person complaining that firefighters had tracked mud and

waterinto her house en route to a small smolder in the basement clothes dryer. A

firefighter responded, " Look, lady, when you call the fire department, your

house is ours. "

 

When you call the doctor, you give up control of your very

body. To keep control, we have to keep thinking. And reading, and learning.

 

Reprinted from the books DOCTOR YOURSELF, PAPERBACK CLINIC and FIRE YOUR

DOCTOR,copyright 2001 and prior years by Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street,

Holley, New York 14470 USA Telephone (716) 638-5357

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