ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ON THE RISE

[Guest guest]

The NEW twist on alternative medicine is that there are many people

now looking for herbs to combat their needs. New statistics show a

rise in the number of people using alternaitve forms of medincine,

that being anything from acupuncture to herbal remedies to color

therapies. Why you may ask is this field growing so much? I think the

answer to that is this, people are tired of feeling ill and their

Dr.s' are not fully listening to their complaints. Where as in

natural medicine the Dr. is more apt to listen to the patient and not

want to prescribe a " wonder pill " , instead they fully asses the

patient and treat their individul needs.

 

the problem with this is that the modern Dr.s' feel as if the

herbalists are treding on their toes. The pharmaceutical companies

are feeling the pinch, their prescribtion drugs have been tested, so

they feel that their are the best. When each os us have used a

presribtion drug once or twice, we can tell you that they do not

always work. At times you will feel, full relief from your ailment,

only for you to go off the drugs and feel ill again. Why you ask?

this si simple, the fact remains that the drugs treat the symptoms,

and not the patient, who is usually suffering from a deper underlying

form of malnutrition.

 

We live in a society that today is more apt to put geneticlly

modified organisms (GMO's) into your body that to make sure you are

eating right. Our government has made sure of this. " A sick country

is more in need of medical attention than that of a healthy country. "

This si how the pharmaceutical companites think; this si why we are

all sick. we have been fed refined sugar, filled with GMO's, and

tested on like lab-rats, all without our knowledge! We make sure

animals are safe from testing, what about us? This country's modo

is, " Only the strong will survive! "

 

Who are the strong? these are the ones who do not use drugs, the ones

who use an alternative form of medicine and buy orgainc foods. The

sick are the poverty stricken ones in this country; we need food to

eat and cannot afford to buy organic food, we are the ones who cannot

afford our precribtions and health care. This is how our government

wants us to live, poor and dieing! Our food today is so refined and

processed that it gives us little nutrition, and full of

preservatives that are known to harm rather than help. these are the

things killing us today, making each of us sick and in overall an

unhealthy country.

 

The bigger plan in this country is to make each of us sick and then

we are dependent on our government to help us in getting better. How?

By making us use prescription drugs that hve not been tested, by

using us as the lab-rats. We have become a sick nation to ddate, and

getting sicker day by day, we are an overweight and undernurited

nation. Told that we can have the cure for our illness in one little

pill, we have become brainwashed as a nation to fall for these claims.

 

We can make a difference tough, by chosing organic food and using

herbal remedies, by not falling for their propaganda. What you hear

is not always the truth; our government does not want you to know

that most herbal remedies really work, why? Because most poloticians

are funded through many of these organizations, our Dr.s' are paid by

them our hospitals are funded by through them, and our country is run

by them! We live in a society that has taken our one and only right

away from is, our health by choice. We are partially to blame for

this, we need to take bakc what is rightlfull ours. My government

does not speak for me nor do they look out for my well being. If they

did then alternative healthcare would be funded through many HMO's

and all insurance companies. But then the government would lose

funding to cancer research and breast canser research. By " outlawing "

this type of medicine then and only then could they fund this type of

research.

 

Now I am not asying that traditional medicine is all bad, but Dr.s'

and herbalists should be working hand in hand in this country. To

date there are more mandates on animal rights than there are on human

rights. In Germany, in order to recieve your medical license you have

to have full knowledge of hers and their uses, in Europe there are

more herbalists in that country than in the United States. In Asia,

they have the highest smoking rate via capita, than any other country

in the world, but canser is unheard of over there. Why? Because they

use herbs to heal their bodies and not chemiclas. Europe holds the

key to the cure for cancer, and so do many other countries, why ar

they not tested here, that is bacuse of we found a cure for cancer

there would be no need to further fund testing (a multi-million

dollar industry). We are a country of choice, of freedom of speech,

and a free country? I don't think so! In a harsh reality, we aare

limited to choice, freedom of speech no longer exists, and we are

made to pay taxes for an entire lifetime. We are taxed on food

(GMO's), on our lands, on clothing, on beverages and on helathcare,

so what makes this a free country?

 

Alternative medicine is on the rise, in part to certain

orgainzations, and to people tired of the humdrum living on

chemicals. People are waking up to what they are reading and asking

themselves, why? Why dont they want us to feel better and why won't

they test herbal remedies more? I think the answer to this is all

because of the rise in an inadequate healthcare system, more drugs,

and less time in the Dr.s' office. We have become a nation of " wonder

pills " on that will cure you if you are overweight, or have a

hyperactive child, or for when you feel down, we are told to pop a

pill for all these health problems. Did you know that you can treat

your child with ADD and ADHD with acupuncture? You can treat your

overweight conditions with acupuncture too, but that does not mean go

and have acupuncture then go out and eat 2 giant cheese burgers. We

have been genetically trained to eat these foods, and they say

marijuana is addictive, how about alcohoism, or even smoking, but

those are ok to buy and sell as long as you pay the taxes on them.

they tell you that cocaine is addictive but the pharmaceutical

companies use it in their pain medications, if you look most of the

drugs on the market are derived from herbs. Problem is that the

pharmaceutical companies have bastardized and adulterated the true

form of the herbs and mastered a synthetic form of it, making

medications you use today and " inspiration " of the herbal industry

and taking out the good of the herbs and replacing them with the

synthetci form. Usually rendering it completely useless!

 

All this brings me to my last thoughs, if you want a cure and not a

cover-up, then use the real deal and the adulterated forms of herbal

medicine. Be sure you tell your Dr. about any herbal medicines you

are taking (there is no need to hide this fact), and keep an open

mind about alternative therapeis, it will help you in your healing

process and also help in your peace of mind on recieving the best

possible care you can give yourself.

 

 

 

Michele R. COllins 2004