Herb regulation Oooppps, I've done it again,,,

[Guest guest]

Chris,

 

Chinese Medicine , Musiclear@a...

wrote:

> You might consider this another lash in the beating of a dead

horse, but

> in the vein of drug interactions, you may consider that " according

to JAMA " ,

> drugs, prescribed properly, taken properly are the 4th leading

cause of death

> in this country.

> How is that for drug interactions?

 

Heather asked for good sources about

drug interactions, and once more I'd

suggest that people follow a more fundamental

line of approaching this topic.

 

What is a drug interaction?

 

Are we gonna deal with this issue the

way we've dealt with so many others, by

just skimming along the surface? Or shall

we roll up our sleeves and take a closer

look? I'm not talking solely about pointing

the finger where you, Chris, very correctly

indicate that it should be pointed.

 

I'm suggesting that within our tool kit

as students and practitioners of Chinese

medicine, we may well have methods for

developing a clearer and more compelling

understanding about the nature of interactions

that take place between the various substances

that we ingest, both intentionally and unintentionally.

 

That is, in one way of framing it, precisely what

Chinese traditional diagnostics is all about,

isn't it? Interactions?

 

What is a drug interaction?

 

What is interacting?

 

How are these interactions to be described

and understood in Chinese medical terms?

 

In Western medical terms?

 

And in terms that successfully bridge any

gaps in understanding that exist between

individuals using one set of terms or the

other?

 

I'm willing to bet, Heather, that you

yourself are an incredibly potent source

of valuable information regarding drug

interactions.

 

In my experience, one of the best ways to

tap into this kind of source is by honing

an understanding of the set of terms that

you are using. There is an enormous amount

of data, information, knowledge and even

wisdom in these terms.

 

Hey, Fernando, I'm back to language again.

 

Can you believe it?

 

Ken

 

> ******How dare the FDA spend any time " protecting " the safety

of our

> citizens against the dangers of herbs when the drugs they approved

are the forth

> killer in the country.

> Maybe if we made sure the legislator paid attention to this

real threat

> to our health, it would make it easier to get our desires met.

 

Emmanuel says we should write and call our

congressional representatives. I, too, have

had good success going directly to elected

members of the government. They tend to

move in different patterns from the appointees

and the bureaucratic personnel. They are

particularly sensitive to issues that

can end up in the media.

 

But political PR is an expertise subject.

 

The pressure points are campaigns and fund raising.

We've got a big national campaign season coming

up, so the timing is potentially...well, if not

good, then at least compelling.

 

How would you suggest that we make sure

legislators pay attention to the real

threats?

 

Ken

[Guest guest]

Chinese Medicine , Musiclear@a...

wrote:

> You might consider this another lash in the beating of a dead

horse,

 

The horse is far from dead. If CM pract. want to play WM style

healthcare delivery, brush up on their techniques. e.g. from CAFMR

(Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research)

 

 

 

Naked Empress or The Great Medical Fraud

World Without Cancer

The Politics of Cancer Therapy

Murder By Injection: The Medical Conspiracy Against America

Animal Experimentation: The Hidden Cause of Environmental Pollution

Science on Trial: The Human Cost of Animal Experiments

The Controlled Clinical Trial

Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Poisonous Prescriptions

Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines

Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System

Pasteur Exposed: The False Foundations of Modern Medicine

The Cot Death Cover-Up?

More reviews ...

 

Naked Empress or The Great Medical Fraud

 

by Hans Ruesch

 

Following up his sensational SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT, this new

exposé of Hans Ruesch shows how with the help of press agentry and

the venality of most of the mass media the public has been

brainwashed into equating MEDICAL CARE with HEALTH, whereas in fact

exactly the opposite applies: modern medicine has become the

principal cause of disease today.

 

So in one year 1.5 million Americans had to be hospitalised as a

consequence of the intake of drugs that were supposed to " cure " them

of one thing or other. Another case in point is cancer. The ably

exploited fear of this dread disease, caused for the most part by

products issuing from chemical, industrial and pharmaceutical

laboratories, has become a solid gold source for researchers, drug

manufacturers and doctors, who keep foisting their deleterious cut-

burn-poison therapies on the frightened patients, most of whom die

from the treatment before the cancer can kill them.

 

Since the cause of most cancers is well-known, they could be avoided

through prevention, which early education should provide. And yet,

practically no public funds go into prevention because there is no

money to be gained with it - only health. The big money is all in the

pseudo " Research, " done on millions of animals, which can only give

fallacious answers, and in the treatment of the patients with

violent, destructive, but immensely lucrative therapies imposed by

official medicine.

 

Certified reports of cancers completely cured by " soft " , drugless

treatments, usually based on natural diets, mostly various raw foods,

have been piling up both in Europe and the USA. But all the competent

and honest doctors who threaten the profits of the lucrative medical

trade with inexpensive therapies are being viciously attacked,

vilified as " quacks and charlatans, " sometimes even barred from the

profession, by the quacks and charlatans who make up the profit-

oriented Medical Power.

 

Animal experimentation, inevitably misleading, is of course the alibi

that has been devised by this organisation for extorting huge grants

for a phoney Research, and to safeguard the drug manufacturers from

criminal prosecution whenever the deleterious effects of one more of

their noxious products can no longer be concealed. Then they can

always say " all the prescribed tests " (on animals) had been

conscientiously undertaken. But not saying that they themselves, in

collusion with the Health agencies and corrupt or misled politicos,

have imposed those tests.

 

Not more chemicals, but fewer chemicals, not an increase of drugs,

but a drastic reduction of drugs, and not a multiplication of animal

experiments, but a total abolition of all such " alibi " experiments,

are the inescapable premise for a betterment of living conditions and

an improvement of public health. The present book brings ample proof

of this, besides unearthing some information that many powerful

individuals in America and abroad would prefer to keep buried

forever.

 

The above reprinted from NAKED EMPRESS.

 

For ordering details click here

 

 

 

 

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World Without Cancer and The Politics of Cancer Therapy

 

by G. Edward Griffin

 

WORLD WITHOUT CANCER (first published 1974, latest edition 1996) is a

book about the story of Laetrile, commonly called vitamin B17.

Separated in two parts, WORLD WITHOUT CANCER firstly explores the

remarkable success of Laetrile in treating cancer victims; and more

importantly, the second part describes the politics of cancer therapy

in which Griffin blows the lid off an all-powerful international

chemical and drug cartel that has dominated the direction of health

care since early this century. Not only has the Rockefeller-Farben

combine been instrumental in fostering chemical-based drug treatment

as the basis for health care, they have been the dominant adversary

against safer non-drug treatments.

 

Griffin's interest in the subject was aroused back in 1971 when his

friend Dr John Richardson presented him with his findings on a

control for cancer. The physician had stumbled across a revolutionary

concept of cancer and a means of treating cancer. Using a safe

natural substance called Laetrile, Dr Richardson had been able to

successfully treat terminal cancer patients. However, the

physician's " unorthodox " approach was fiercely opposed by other

members of the medical profession including the American Medical

Association, the American Cancer Society, and doctors on the staff of

the hospital where he practiced. He was labelled a " quack " and was

pressured to abandon his fruitful research and therapy. Upon

questioning the motives behind the medical profession's opposition to

an effective control for cancer, Griffin had started what turned out

to be a 3-year research project which was to lead him to the

uncovering of one of the most amazing stories of the Twentieth

Century. His research covers world history, World War II, cartels,

industry, the Nazis, foundations, and the information is taken

primarily from government hearings. Hearings that took place between

the years 1928 and 1946. A very important time in world history that

saw the conglomeration of the world's chemical and drug giants.

 

Griffin's investigation revealed that " In the years prior to World

War II, there came into existence an international cartel, centered

in Germany, that dominated the entire world's chemical and drug

industries. It had spread its operations to ninety-three countries

and was a powerful economic and political force in all countries. It

was known as I.G. Farben. " When John D. Rockefeller interlocked his

American-based, international empire with that of I.G. Farben in

1928 " there was created the largest and most powerful cartel the

world has ever known. Not only has that cartel survived through the

years, it has grown and prospered. Today it plays a major role in

both the science and politics of cancer therapy. "

 

In order to expand their drug operations the Rockefellers set

about " educating " the medical profession. " Abraham Flexner, author of

the famous Flexner Report of 1910, led the crusade for upgrading the

medical schools of America. All the while he was in the employ of

Andrew Carnegie [a Rockefeller stooge] and John D. Rockefeller who

had set up gigantic tax-exempt foundations for that purpose. The end

result was that all medical schools became heavily oriented toward

drugs and drug research, for it was through the increased sale of

drugs that the donors realized a profit on their donations. "

 

The medical profession and universities weren't the Rockefeller's

only target for infiltration. " A brief backward glance at the total

landscape will help us to appreciate more fully the present extent of

cartel influence, not only in the FDA [united States' Food and Drug

Administration], but at all levels of the federal government, for it

is an historical fact that the centers of political power long have

been the easy target of cartel penetration and control.... The list

of men who are or were in key positions within the Rockefeller group

reads like a 'Who's Who in Government'. "

 

Griffin is well known because of his unique talent for researching

obscure and difficult topics and presenting them in clear, concise

terms that all can understand. He is the author of numerous

documentary books and films under diversified and controversial

topics including the United Nations, the Supreme Court, US foreign

policy, The John Birch Society, the Communist Party, and

international banking. The information revealed WORLD WITHOUT CANCER

adds to this impressive list of topics - his painstaking research and

thorough analysis of the international chemical and drug cartel and

their powerful allies is in our opinion one of the most authoritative

and well-written treatise on this least understood subject.

 

THE POLITICS OF CANCER THERAPY is an audio tape recording of a one-

hour lecture by Griffin on the above subject. Based on the second

part of WORLD WITHOUT CANCER, THE POLITICS OF CANCER THERAPY is a

very good audio complement to his book, as it covers this very

complex and interesting subject in an easy-to-understand manner.

 

For ordering details click here

 

 

 

 

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Murder By Injection: The Medical Conspiracy Against America

 

by Eustace Mullins

 

This book is a truly thorough account of the machinations underlying

America's steadily deteriorating health, and is the result of some

forty years of investigative research by the author Eustace Mullins.

MURDER BY INJECTION reinforces and adds further light to the

devastating exposés, WORLD WITHOUT CANCER by G. Edward Griffin, THE

DRUG STORY by Morris Bealle and Hans Ruesch's NAKED EMPRESS OR THE

GREAT MEDICAL FRAUD.

 

MURDER BY INJECTION explains how the ruthless Rockefeller Syndicate -

under the control of the world financial structure, chiefly the

Rothschilds - plays the major political, health and educational roles

in America. The book describes the various arms of the Rockefeller

Syndicate and their functions: the Rockefeller Oil Trust, which

incorporates much of the American military-industrial complex, has

political control of the nation; the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly

attains control of " health " care of America; and the Rockefeller

Foundation, a web of affiliated tax exempt creations, effectively

controls " education " .

 

Mullins specifies names throughout the book, many of them belonging

to familiar public figures in America. Companies and their board of

directors are listed with all their connections.

 

Eustace Mullins says that in 1987 the United States still maintains

an overwhelming lead in the production and sale of drugs. Eleven of

the eighteen leading firms are located in the United States and the

Drug Trust in the United States is controlled by the Rockefeller

group. Mullins adds: " The major banks, defense firms, and prominent

political figures interlock with the CIA and the drug firms. " He

further states that the Rockefeller interests, having established the

American Drug Trust, had long been active not only in pharmaceutical

drugs but in illegal drugs as well. Mullins writes: " No chronical of

the world's important drug firms would be complete without relating

the connection between drug firms and the world drug operation known

as 'Dope, Inc.'. "

 

Mullins describes how the Rockefellers with the help of the American

Medical Association and government officials gained control of

America's " health " care industry in the early part of this

century. " Educating " medical students was instrumental in their plan,

Mullins writes: " Rockefeller's Education Board has spent more than

$100 million to gain control of the nation's medical schools and turn

our physicians to physicians of the allopathic school, dedicated to

surgery and the heavy use of drugs. "

 

MURDER BY INJECTION describes in detail the many other dangerous and

lucrative rackets that the Rockefeller Syndicate has foistered onto

the unsuspecting public and which are responsible for the

contamination of our land, oceans and rivers, our water and food

supplies, and our bodies. For example Mullins writes: " While

conducting wars of attrition against the leading exponents of better

nutrition, the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical

Association have valiantly defended the use of chemical

fertilizers... (which, according to Dr Alexis Carrel) 'without

replacing all the exhausted elements of the soil, have indirectly

contributed to change the nutritive value of cereal grains and

vegetables.' "

 

On vaccinations: " After the use of cowpox vaccine became widespread

in England, a smallpox epidemic broke out which killed 22,081 people.

The smallpox epidemics became worse each year that the vaccine was

used. In 1872, 44,480 people were killed by it. England finally

banned the vaccine in 1948, despite the fact that it was one of the

most widely heralded 'contributions' which that country had made to

modern medicine. This action came after many years of compulsory

vaccination, during which period those who refused to submit to its

dangers were hurried off to jail. "

 

On fluoridation: " What he [Oscar Ewing] wanted, and what he had been

paid to bring about, was the national fluoridation of our drinking

water... At the same time, Congressmen and other politicians in

Washington were privately alerted by Ewing's minions that they should

be careful about ingesting the fluoridated water. Supplies of bottled

water from mountain springs then appeared in every office on Capitol

Hill; these have been maintained continuously ever since, at the

taxpayers' expense. "

 

On the consequences of the Rockefellers' control: " The criminal

syndicalists are now looting the American nation of one trillion

dollars each year, of which about one-third, more than three hundred

billion dollars per year, represents the profitable depredations of

the Drug Trust and its medical subsidiaries...

 

" America became the greatest and most productive nation in the world.

When the Rockefeller Syndicate began its takeover of our medical

profession in 1910, our citizens went into a sharp decline. Today, we

suffer from a host of debilitating ailments, both mental and

physical, nearly all of which can be traced directly to the

operations of the chemical and drug monopoly, and which pose the

greatest threat to our continued existence as a nation. "

 

Although the book mainly deals with America, the situations described

by Mullins in many respects equally applies to Australia, as in most

other countries. The immense damning evidence that he presents makes

MURDER BY INJECTION essential reading for those who are serious about

understanding the true reasons behind our ailing health.

 

Published by the National Council for Medical Research in 1988. Hard-

cover, 348 pages.

 

For source details click here

 

 

 

 

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Animal Experimentation: The Hidden Cause of Environmental Pollution

 

by Hoorik Davoudian

 

Writing for the United States anti-vivisection organisation called

SUPRESS the author makes a direct and comprehensive connection

between animal research, chemical testing and production, and

environmental pollution. Ms Davoudian who is a Hazardous Materials

Manager for a government agency in California, exposes the scientific

fraudulence of animal research and shows how it is routinely used and

manipulated to make toxicants appear " safe " for human consumption.

This concise 10-page booklet further shows how the inherently

erroneous nature of vivisection renders environmental laws and

regulations ineffective in controlling environmental pollution.

 

Ms Davoudian came to the conclusion that vivisection is a scientific

fraud when the very professors and researchers at the University of

California, Los Angeles (where the author received her Science

degree) admitted that " they were faced with great difficulties in

extrapolating the results of their animal tests to human beings " .

After researching the issue, she determined that rather than

a " difficult " task, these " scientists " were faced with a total

impossibility.

 

In explaining the REAL motives behind industry and government's

insistence on using unscientific animal testing, Ms Davoudian

reveals: " The non-conclusive, erroneous nature of animal testing

creates a smoke screen - an alibi which permits the continued

manufacture of all kinds of toxic and hazardous chemicals.

Vivisection conveys a false illusion of safety, but all it ensures is

a continued demand for ever 'newer' and 'improved' products. The

tragic result is that these seemingly 'safety tested' poisons are the

very ones which pollute our air, water, food, and planet. "

 

On further explaining the role of vivisection, the author says: " From

these 'studies', staggering amounts of ambiguous, contradictory, and

invalid data are compiled. It is from these data that the 'scientist'

draw their 'scientific' conclusions. And, of course, animal

experimentation suits their purposes perfectly, because its non-

conclusive and contradictory nature allows both the scientists and

the chemical manufacturers to arrive at any kind of conclusion they

desire.

 

" For example, if they want to 'prove' that a particular chemical is

not carcinogen, all they have to do is present the evidence from

those animal tests that support this view. On the other hand, if they

wish to prove that the same chemical is a carcinogen, then, with just

as much conviction, they can present other laboratory tests that show

the product to be carcinogenic. "

 

In addition to this, Ms Davoudian explains that the fraud of

vivisection reaches beyond the process of chemical production and

marketing and applies to the entire field of " environmental

protection. " Giving an example she says that " if a hazardous waste

incinerator is to be built, the Environmental Impact Report

(incorporating findings of animal studies), conducted by those in

favor of the incinerator, will prove the 'harmlessness' of its air

emissions with little difficulty. Yet a different Environmental

Impact Report, conducted by the opposition, will prove the risks

associated with the same incinerator to be unacceptable. "

 

The booklet is timely considering that recently the United States

Institute of Environmental Health Services after reviewing their

tests on laboratory animals has concluded that the Government should

no longer rely on these tests because chemicals frequently have

wholly different effects on animals and humans. Consequently the US

environmental regulation has been thrown into question.

 

For ordering details click here

 

 

 

 

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Science On Trial

 

by Dr Robert Sharpe

 

The subtitle of this latest book by Robert Sharpe is The Human Cost

of Animal Experiments, and that cost is great indeed. Drawing on

extensive research, Sharpe, formerly a Senior Research Chemist at the

Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, presents a powerful body

of evidence and argument to demonstrate that, far from being

scientific, animal research is methodologically flawed, and has

retarded advances in human health.

 

The advocates of animal experimentation have mounted a sophisticated

public relations campaign to justify the use of non-human animals as

surrogates for human studies in a " controlled " environment, a claim

rebutted by Sharpe. He reveals that the choice of animals is usually

governed by factors such as cost, ease of management, and

reproductive rates. Hence mice and rats, who scarcely resemble humans

are the most popular choice.

 

The book offers a wide range of empirical examples of the misleading

results, false positives and missed opportunities arising from

research based on a " logical fallacy " . Millions of animals have been

sacrificed for no apparent purpose, while research applicable to

human beings has been ignored, often for decades. Animal studies

attract a disproportionately large percentage of research funds

compared with research of direct relevance to humans.

 

For instance, forty years ago a famous study of the smoking habits of

British doctors revealed that the chances of lung cancer increased

with the number of cigarettes smoked. These findings were ignored in

favour of animal studies in which, after fifty years of trying,

scientists were unable to induce experimental cancers in animals by

forced inhalation, feeding, or injection into the lungs.

 

Benzene, arsenic and alcohol were correlated with human cancers long

before animal studies were begun. In fact, in the case of arsenic,

its suspected carcinogenicity was noted as far back as 1809. Workers

in the metallurgical and other industries using arsenic were

contracting cancer, but not until the 1980s were scientists able to

induce cancer in experimental animals. [Which of course is a form of

cancer dissimilar to the human cancer.] This was 180 years after

arsenic was first suggested as a human carcinogen.

 

Sharpe concludes that it would be nice to think that science could

put its own house in order, " but in reality it will be an informed

and determined public who finally provide the incentives for change.

For all our sakes - Let's Liberate Science! "

 

Reviewed by Margaret Setter in the Nov-Dec '94 issue of MEDI-TATION,

the newsletter of the Medical Consumers Association of NSW.

 

Available from Guardians - P.O. Box 59, Pascoe Vale South, Victoria

3044, Australia,

email: antiviv, and Awareness Publishing Ltd - P.O. Box

533, Sheffield SII 9YU, South Yorks, England.

 

 

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