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Lack of Knowledge Or Lack of Adequate Knowledge Regarding Natural Cures
"Is the truth about natural cures being suppressed?" appears to be more a question about human knowledge regarding natural cures, than one about the suppression of the truth about natural cures. This issue also involves the partial or total lack of medical knowledge about natural cures or the lack of appropriate and pertinent medical knowledge about natural cures, more than the actual suppression of truth.
Why might one argue that this is so?
The medical profession, portrayed as any individual medical person or as a collective whole, has far more to gain by attaining the knowledge about natural cures for human illnesses and diseases, than by suppressing the truth about them. People, as individuals, and humankind as a whole, have much to gain in terms of general health and well being.
The majority of medical professionals and health care givers are continually seeking additional, improved ways to help and to cure human beings of many different kinds of health-related conditions, diseases and other medical problems. They are not intentionally avoiding measures, procedures or treatments, that they know might or would help people medically or cure them of fatal illnesses or diseases.
No one wants to see any disease processes run rampant throughout the entire world. Everyone, who is a legitimate medical professional, does whatever is necessary to prevent that from happening. In fact, not to do so, would be totally opposite to what medical theory and practice teach, as well as what medical professionals and health care givers represent, with regard to the field of medicine, medical practice and global health care.
At the same time, alternative health remains somewhat controversial, because members of the medical profession also have the duty and responsibility to protect their patients and human beings as a whole, from those kinds of medical practices that may ultimately do more harm than good.
A lack of knowledge or the lack of adequate knowledge about natural cures, often leads medical professionals and other health care givers, into the pursuit of medical knowledge that leads them down their own, more familiar pathways of medical knowledge, rather than into the kinds of medical knowledge that are accepted or have been developed in other countries or different parts of the world.
It is not possible or even feasible, for any one of the world's medical professionals to know every possible cure for all of the things that ail humankind, as that would be involve being part of the realm of divine medical knowledge, rather than being an active participant in the human realm of medical knowledge.
At the same time, the medical realm is one of continual discovery and thus, knowing that, medical and health care professionals continue to seek the best possible answers, for their patients who are ill, suffering or standing in need of cures.
Most medical professionals are continually seeking and acquiring new medical knowledge, learning and developing new practices and procedures, as well as teaching other health care professionals any recent medical information they have gained. Many medical professionals are continually engaged in medical research that involves finding new cures.
At the same time, the field of medical knowledge is so vast in scope that no medical professional can ever hope to know everything that can possibly be known about medicine and possible cures. Nor do they have to acknowledge, agree with or accept every cure that is purported, as even though many of them may appear to have some merit, the final outcome of treatment, may still be uncertain. There are no guarantees.
It is exciting to see what happens when western-oriented medical professionals and eastern-oriented medical professionals get together, to share or exchange their different realms of medical knowledge.
The majority of medical professionals are always open to learn from each other, but there are times when there are questionable practices that need to be exposed, reviewed, adequately re-tested and proven to be beneficial, beyond any possible doubt.
Sometimes, these kinds of practices have to be halted, as there may be problems that reveal these practices as being detrimental. They may need to be developed further in order to eliminate what may prove to be non-beneficial or that which may result in lethal side effects or fatal outcomes to patients. Research regarding more medical information may be indicated and thus it must be sought first, with respect to many medical claims as cures.
New, as well as more advanced professional, medical guidelines are being developed all of the time. There are legitimate attempts by health care professionals to enforce those guidelines, in order to protect those who are the most vulnerable, namely those who are sick, terminally ill or dying.
There is room for serious and legitimate concern, if it becomes apparent that the medical guidelines have become too restrictive and do not allow enough room for the medical research that is indicated.
It is not highly likely that any true, medical practitioner would withhold accurate medical knowledge that he or she knows would cure individuals, groups of people or large masses who stand in need of being cured. In fact, thinking along those lines, suggests an element of human fear and paranoia.
At the same time, there is always a degree of risk associated with accepting and practicing things that are totally new and different, particularly when they involve new claims of medical cures. Even supposed miracles are suspect.
It is far more likely that more knowledge is needed or more adequate and appropriate knowledge is required, in order to prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the truth regarding a questionable scenario involving the claim of a cure.
Attaining adequate and appropriate medical knowledge is always time consuming. It involves extensive research, numerous inquiries and vast amounts of medical testing that must be carried out and sometimes that has to be done, from many different directions.
The question comes down to one in which medical professionals are compelled to ask, how many incidences must there be, in order to prove that something is a cure? Or, how many proofs does it take, in order to be able to claim that something is a cure? Is the cure temporary or permanent?
Does this treatment cure one person, one hundred people, one thousand or everyone?
Are there serious side effects or adverse health repercussions, with regard to this particular treatment? What is the proven ratio of success versus failure? What else has to be considered in terms of extenuating circumstances? What other factors are involved in this particular treatment?
If you are a patient, who thinks that a cure or the information about a possible cure, for an illness or medical condition that you may have, is being withheld from you and your family, it is advisable to seek further information from your own physician, first.
After that, if you still are not satisfied with the answers that you receive, ask your physician to refer you to other experts, ones who are more knowledgeable in that particular realm of medicine. He or she will do that, because it is in everyone's best interest for you to have your questions answered appropriately and correctly. Further tests may be indicated.
Engage in research on your own, but with the use of appropriate medical sources of information. There is a great deal of data available on the internet, but be aware that everything that you read, may not necessarily be accurate. Having an inquiring mind allows you to seek answers on your own, but make certain that the answers that you find are correct, as you can be misled or misguided by inaccurate sources of information.
Be aware that there are always many additional factors that have to be taken into consideration with regard to any medical claims towards effective medical treatments or cures. There may also be better medical options available to you, that you or others are not aware of at any time.
What you think is suppression of the truth about natural cures, may not be suppression at all. It simply may the lack of information or the lack of adequate information.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons why medical research is so exciting. One can always suggest that with the right knowledge or information, cures can become a reality. In fact, almost any medical researcher can find a cure for something, if he or she searches long and hard enough.
Be aware that many times, even though it seems that cures are not highly likely, they are always possible. So are miracles.
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There is a ton of evidence out there that the truth about natural cures is being suppressed and the FDA would prefer that it remained that way. After all, they are the ones who are permitting the deadly hormones, chemicals, preservatives, poisoned toxins and steroids into our foods, shampoos, water, laundry detergents, lotions and more. Illness and disease is a big business today. If the ever-skyrocketing cost of prescriptions and surgeries doesn't convince you than maybe the following will. Pharmaceuticals aren't nearly as expensive to produce, as the pharmaceutical companies would have us to believe.
Time is being wasted, people are dying by the scores of diseases that already have natural cures, yet, doctors are ever-reluctant to open their minds; pharmaceutical companies hesitate to do long-term research on alternatives. Their excuse is often, the cost of the research, but many have been cured of diseases in the past with the combination of faith and natural cures. I believe that it's true that half of the battle of healing is due to our attitude.
Research is big business these days and no researcher wants to be out of a job. As long as these companies are being funded for research and crank out something, anything new, they will stay in business. The more cures for fatal disease they find, the greater the probability that they will continue staying in business. An occasional cure that creates more disease or ailments is a better alternative to companies who don't want to lose their standing.
Research creates jobs and keeps people employed. But, is it a valid write off for the lives that could otherwise be saved if researchers really did their jobs?
An actual docket can be read and downloaded at:
http://www.fda.gov/o hrms/dockets/dockets /06d0480/06d0480.htm .
The FDA considers natural cures, "Unconventional Medical Practices".
Don't be fooled into thinking that the AMA isn't involved. Doctors routinely take kickbacks and favors from pharmaceutical salespeople for pushing or "advising" patients to use their deadly drugs.
For decades, the AMA and the FDA tried to suppress Chiropractors, who often referred patients to natural cures that have been inexistence since the Earth was created. Finally the AMA actually realized the value of Chiropractic and allowed them into its organization, but it was more public outcry that helped in this situation.
For centuries, people worldwide have survived on natural foods and natural cures. It is often argued that our "Mortality" rate has increased in the past century, but that is largely due to the fact that mortality rates in the past have been decreased by the use of weapons.
It's no secret, how many wars have been fought worldwide for centuries. People have died from starvation, from heat or cold. While the mortality rate today may be of a longer span, we have more diseases and more variety of disease in the world today than ever before in the past. Some of it is due to toxic chemicals and poisons in our food, air and water. Some are due to the poisons in our pharmaceuticals and OTC medications. Some diseases are simply stronger strains developed in laboratories that are more drug-resistant.
It is the FDA that tells us that herbs and holistic preparations are harmful, but the FDA would never tell you how harmful the anti-freeze or the PCB's in your frozen and canned food is to the human nervous system.
Oh whenever a new drug us advertised, you will hear the usual "possible" side effects, such as, dizziness, drowsiness, ulcers, cataracts, stomach bleeding and other stomach disorders, sexual dysfunction, liver damage, seizures, heart attack, stroke and more, but, you never hear advertised or see on your food packaging, the side effects of artificial sweeteners, preservatives, flavor enhancers or binders. The FDA doesn't require your food companies to list their side effects at all!
Pharmaceutical companies have been sued and found guilty of hiring writers outside of their company to write side effects and medicine labels that do not contain the harsher side effects. Companies like Pfizer, Lilly, Johnson and Johnson and others have been sued for suppressing fatal side effects. http://www.paxilprog ress.org/forums/show thread.php?t=37690
Authors and advocates who publicly sing the praises of natural cures and medicines are often the brunt of the FDA's abuse. Doctors who dare to be integrative are under attack by both the FDA and the AMA; often finding they're offices invaded in a militia style manner and their equipment confiscated by the FDA "Nazis".
Many a good doctor sits in prison today because they dared to help a patient with a natural cure. Doctors like Greg Caton of Louisiana,
(Ref article, http://www.goodhealt hinfo.net/cancer/fda _panacea.htm).
Like Jason Vale,
(Ref article, http://educate-yours elf.org/cn/jasonvale inprisonedforcancerc ure26jun04.shtml).
Even, Dr. Andrew Weil has come under FDA fire for his vitamin packs and immune support formulas. What? Now the FDA doesn't want us taking vitamins and nutrients that can help to keep us healthy and that have proven over centuries to work? Again, Money talks while American's health walks.
http://www.latimes.c om/news/nationworld/ nation/la-na-fake-fl u18-2009oct18,0,7556 313.story
Traditional physicians, hospitals and clinics are not held to the high standards that the natural and holistic communities are. They are not persecuted for their crimes, yet many a traditional doctor has nearly killed their patients with chemical drugs that the patient was either sensitive or allergic to.
My own late father was given medication in a nursing home that we specifically told them he was allergic to. It was in his file that we had told them that, yet, the person prescribing never checked his chart. I still have his medical records to show it, yet, can do nothing because of state legislation. Hospitals often make the same mistakes. Their explanation being that they are, "too overcrowded with patients", but it only takes a minute to check a chart.
Statistics show that approximately 2/3 of nursing home and home care patients receive the wrong medications because of carelessness, yet they could have been given natural cures and possibly, even probably would never have gone there in the first place. http://www.consumera ffairs.com/news04/20 07/11/rx_errors.html
Over the years I have worked with a number of people who have been given medication in hospitals and nearly died from the interactions or effects of a wrong drug. Nurses who misread or don't even look at charts have caused some of my former co-workers to be hospitalized up to 6 weeks because of being given the wrong drug while in the hospital for something else, entirely.
Clearly, the FDA wants us ill; so does the AMA. Many doctors today don't even learn about the functions of the body or that it can heal itself. They spend most of their education, learning how to write prescriptions.
The human body is not a dumpster for all manner of chemicals, yet that is what is continually pumped into our air, water and food. Even the water that we bathe in is toxic now. Mercury, lead, chlorine; Trihalomethanes, which are linked to cancer. Are some of the many toxins in our drinking and bathing water There are many more of these and just what do they do to our bodies when combined with prescription drugs, additives in food and our air? I would think that the rise in the varieties of diseases which we have today and the numerous unexplained ailments such as Fibromyalgia might find their cause in these chemicals. Much of this is soaking in through our pores and openings of the body and we don't even know just how much toxins are going into our bodies.
Anymore, I go to the doctor for a diagnosis and then I'll find a natural cure for myself or contact a holistic physician for one. I have had so many allergic reactions to medications in the past, which have only served to make me sicker. I no longer trust prescription medications and continually look for alternatives. I have found a number of natural alternatives to prescription and OTC medications that work just as well or better for me, without the allergic reactions or side effects. And my cog nativity and concentration is much better, my memory has improved and I no longer feel foggy as I did while taking various medications.
I am not a doctor, nor am I a pharmacist, but I study herbology on my own just to learn what I can do about problems that arise. I have watched too many friends and family members die at the hands of the medical community and their drugs and surgeries.
The fact is, that there a billion books on the market that will tell you about natural cures, how much and when to use them. It's unfortunate that the FDA preys on those who are careless with herbs. Those who don't do any research before taking an herb or giving it to their children are responsible for the FDA trying so hard to ban alternative cures. It's sad to think what a little reading and research can do to improve your health, yet many are too lazy to read and research.
I do not believe that anyone should be constantly subjected to the drug pushing that doctors of today, engage in nor should anyone be harmed by drugs when there are alternatives.
I have known people who survived breast cancer or another form of cancer simply by using herbs or natural cures. Yet, doctors will still insist that herbs have caffeine, which causes cancer. But you rarely ever hear them tell you about how too many mammograms, MRI's, x-rays will cause cancer. They never mention the cancer-causing steroids and PCB's in our food and water, nor those in our air.
Of course there is suppression of the truth about natural cures; there is also suppression of the cures themselves, as much as is legally possible. Anyone who actually thinks that they aren't suppressed should do some research. It will wake you up in the most frightening way.
Those who think that the FDA or the AMA really have their health as a concern is sadly fooled. It's a money-making business like any other in the health care circle. Until people learn to open their minds instead of shutting them tightly like clams, information about these cures are going to continue to be suppressed. Ultimately, it's up to every one, individually, to take charge of their own health and that of their loved ones.
I am certainly not saying that you can't have surgery; some is definitely needed at times, but, ask your physician to allow a natural or alternative to the anesthetics and medications used during and afterwards. There are many good integrative doctors out there who are open to this practice. They are very difficult to locate in some states, like mine, but it's worth the research and time to locate and utilize the expertise of one or more of them.
If you are not born with a disease or condition, you do not have to end up with it because it is a side effect of a medication that you are taking. You can use many herbs and holistic preparations for health maintenance and to ward off disease. Buy a good herbal book or two and read up on it. You can locate websites where the interactions of herbs and other medications are listed so that you do not overdo or end up endangering your own life.
The FDA and the AMA monitor our health, but who monitors they way that they achieve this? No one really, your government, who dumped agent orange on it's own people in Viet Namn and who are responsible for the mysterious, unexplained, "gulf war syndrome" aren't watching these organizations; they are advocating their tactics instead. If we as individuals don't stick together to monitor all three of these groups then we certainly are destined to have that many more dangerous drugs and diseases in the future.
Let's all wake up and stop denying that suppression of natural cures exists. Remember, "Absolute power; corrupts absolutely". The government and the FDA are "absolute power" in many countries, including America. We are the ones who give them that power. Shouldn't we take back our power to maintain our own health? It starts with one individual, one family, one city, state or country at a time.
Do your research, write letters, petitions, emails to your senators, representatives, the president and vice-president. If you've been helped by a natural cure, herb or integrative cure, let them know.
No one should ever have to sit back and be poisoned by heartless pharmaceutical companies and doctors who take kickbacks or who simply are uninformed. And it's you who has the final say over your own health, medicines, surgeries or procedures; not the doctor, not the FDA, not the USDA , the AMA or any organization that is in business to make money. Tell them, your life is not for sale at any cost and search until you find a open-minded doctor and natural cures. We don't have to be just another statistic.
Learn more about this author, M. L. Kiser.
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