Homeopathy and the cascade. Opening the (very dilute) can of w...

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Hi Phil

 

It is also eventing here in the US that the 'allopathic system controllers'

are working quietly to pull homeopathic remedies away from all except MDs/DOs.

Just check with the manufacturers and suppliers and they will confirm that the

move is on to stop selling firstly to anyone without a license and then

ultimately NOT to sell to a Chiropractor or Acupuncturist.

 

The only practitioner which might squeeze by is the Naturopathic Doctor but

that's another battle we are in the midst of right now in Florida. My friend

Dr. Paul Reinhardt NMD has a Florida case waiting Appelate decision to reopen

naturopathic licensing which was allegedly illegally closed down in 1959. The

case will either be adjudicated by the Court of Appeals, or sent back to the

State Circuit Court for correct handling or certified to the Florida Supreme

Court for decision based upon issues of statewide importance. Many are watching

this case VERY carefully as it has been heard from one of the US Supreme Court

Justices that (and I paraphrase......that this case will SAVE naturopathy in

the United States). Once Florida is reopened...then other states that have

unconsitutionally manipulated the system will also get reveresed. And THEN the

some

30 states that the allopathic system restricted will ALSO be re-established

in the licensing of Naturopathic Doctors.

 

Anti-trust is one way to go as I have done for ALL US Acupuncturists against

the healthcare providers. Its a long drawn out process.

 

ANOTHER much more effective way in the USA is for ALL non-MD/DO practitioners

to BAND together and file a CIVIL RIGHTS violation case seeking DECLARATORY

JUDGEMENT. Not for monetary damages.

 

I don;t know if there is such a thing in the EU but there should be.

 

Richard

 

 

In a message dated 9/24/2004 4:22:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

writes:

Hi Micheál,

 

> Phil, I read with interest what I think was the tail-end of a

> discussion on hiding behind the 'cascade' derogation to prescribe

> homeopathic products. You seek opinions on the interpretation,

> which I think emanates from a colleague. My opinion is that it has

> glaring omissions and is therefore fatally flawed. ...

 

Many thanks, Micheál, for correcting my fatal error in relation to the

application of the different applications between food animals and

non-food animals. The position of the EU Legislation vis a vis

homeopathy, herbal medicine and eclectic prescribing is even

worse than I suspected.

 

Your very thorough exposition suggests that we are heading for all-

out war between the vested interests of the adherents of

mainstream allopathic medicine and those of CAM. That war is not

only about vested interests, but also about the issue of freedom of

choice in therapy for clients and practitioners

 

The war has begun now in earnest in EU. IMO, it would appear that

CAM professionals in EU will face sanctions, right up to prison

sentences, as happened with chiropractors in the USA.

 

A colleague on another List wrote yesterday: " During the first 75

years of its existence, chiropractic doctors were jailed >15,000

times due to anti-chiropractic campaigns organized by state

medical societies and the AMA. The last chiropractor to be thrown

in jail for practicing was in 1974, in Louisiana -- *after* the bill

legislating the practice of chiropractic was passed.

 

It wasn't until Federal Judge Susan Getzendammer found the AMA

and other medical societies guilty of anti-trust violations that they

stopped telling our patients that we are quacks. Then they just

went underground, using fronts like NCAHF and other to continue

trashing us " .

 

The gloves are off in EU now. It may take an anti-trust case in the

EU Courts to resolve the impasse.

 

Many thanks,

Phil