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There is a gross over-abundance of over-regulation of our lives by the federal government - especially in the area of health - already.

I am a Traditional healer of my People. MD's are not required to learn anything about natural remedies, yet the majority of them are quick to claim that somehow they can tell whether or not a remedy is valid. This is a ridiculous as claiming a person can fly a jet plane after walking through an airport.

In the area of art, a person can get away with such beliefs as, "I'm no authority on art, but I know what I like". In the area of natural remedies and natural supplements, this attitude will hold no water.

The western medical establishment is quick to disrespect both remedies they know nothing about and we who are Traditional healers or what the western medical establishment call 'alternative' practitioners. I've had to stand on my cultural and Treaty Rights more than once in the face of assault by western medicine-trained bigots who claimed that, even though they had no training whatsoever in any discipline other than their own, they were 'supremely' qualified to judge the validity of other disciplines. This is a lie. It is power-tripping by members of the western medical establishment, and an attempt at creating a closed shop in which they are the only members.

The Chinese have practiced acupuncture for something over 4,000 years, yet western medical practitioners, and their official voice, the American Medical Association, have had the gall to claim that acupuncture is 'invalid', 'of questionable validity', and/or 'an unproven treatment modality'. That when it 'appears' to work, it's 'really' the placebo effect.

Right. I'm sure that the Chinese, or any other group, is so stupid that they will delude themselves for 4,000 years to try to prove a method works. Who are these people in the AMA trying to kid?!? (You and me.)

Acupuncture works on horses, cattle, buffalo, camels, dogs, cats, elephants.... So who's the Dr. Doolittle who has convinced these animals that acupuncture works on them? Hm?

When the AMA sorts claim that natural supplements and herbal remedies "need" FDA oversight and regulation, they also claim that it is because there can be side-effects or people can be hurt. And western medicine's poisonous synthetic concoctions have perfect safety records? Thalidomide comes to mind.. as does Prozac, Ritalin, and a host of other 'wonder drugs' from the laboratories of modern 'medicine' that have horrible side-effects.

We survived for thousands of years in fine shape with natural supplements and herbal remedies. The Great Holy didn't make us synthetic, as my Grandmother used to say. We didn't have much in the way of difficulties then, nor do we now, from natural remedies. Moreover, over 85% of "modern" medicines are derived directly from plant sources.

The government, including the FDA, needs to butt out of our lives in many areas, especially this one. What's REALLY going on in this effort is not out of true concern for our health or because there is a lot of bad results from natural remedies. What's REALLY going on in this situation is western medical practitioners and the pharmaceutical industry trying to corral the entire market for treatments of us. It's another effort at bringing fascism to our lives, not democracy. It's anti-Constitutional, it's sophomoric, and the basis of it is one big lie.

THE FDA has no business 'regulating' natural supplements and herbal remedies; especially on the say-so of western medical practitioners and pharmaceutical companies, whose honor and honesty in this matter are definitely suspect.

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