Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic

- Dr. Benjamin Rush Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Rush accurately foretold a grave possibility facing Americans today, namely, that the art and science of healing be restricted to a select class of allopathic physicians, who have the sole legal right to recommend and administer medicines, and whose pharmacopeia excludes - as a matter of principle - all the healing foods, vitamins and herbs which have been used safely and effectively for countless millennia in the prevention and treatment of disease.

We have entered an era where medicine no longer bears any resemblance to the art and science of healing. The doctor no longer facilitates the body’s innate self-healing capabilities with time, care, good nutrition and special help from our plant allies. To the contrary, medicine has transmogrified into a business enterprise founded on the principles of pure, unbridled capitalism. Diseases are created and rolled out like new markets, each representing a veritable gold mine of symptoms, and each symptom of which provides the justification for the prescription of a new toxic drug-commodity. Healing has not simply been forgotten but intentionally exorcised as it represents the antithesis of perpetual profitability which requires the incurability of the human body. Were the truth be told, and the body’s self-regenerative capabilities acknowledged, the entire superstructure of drug-based medicine and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue it generates annually, would crumble overnight. When a handful of turmeric has more chemotherapeutic activity than any drug yet to receive FDA approval, one begins to understand why the hundreds of studies proving that turmeric kills cancer are never discussed. You can’t compete with free, effective and safe in a medical marketplace dominated by expensive, ineffective and unsafe drugs.

If this degeneration into quackery and snake-oil salesmanship which is modern pharmaceutical-driven medicine were simply a lesson in what bad things can happen when Health Care is no longer a basic human right but strictly a profit-driven Commodity, perhaps Americans could find it within themselves to once again free themselves from the shackles of oppression. After all, do we not consider ourselves the very originators of freedom, independence and democracy Have we not such great faith in these principles that we practically trip all over ourselves in our Promethean effort to export these values overseas whether we are invited to do so or not Would we stand for less, when it comes to our own health freedom

Sadly, the “undercover dictatorship” Benjamin Rush foretold is not simply a homegrown one we can root out from the inside, as it were. Although the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) behave as if they are at the top of this pyramid of secret power relations, they only represent the tip of the iceberg. The United States government and American corporate lobbying groups may appear to be behind the FDA’s shameless pandering to the interests of the drug companies, when in fact it is transnational corporations and organizations that are actually pulling the strings. The United States no longer enjoys global economic and cultural hegemony. We are now embedded in an international playing field where multinational and transnational organizations like the drug company Novartis International Ag, or the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have power and influence that overshadows the US or any other particular government or nation-state. These larger organizations blur the divisions traditionally drawn between public and private institutions, insofar as their agendas are mandates are consistent with global economic imperatives which do not account for the self-proclaimed sovereignty of any particular nation-state’s constitution or laws above its own. For example, the United States may soon no longer be able to allow the over-the-counter sale of dietary supplements if the World Trade Organization decides it violates our membership agreement to do so. (This process known as Codex Alimentarius is already far enough along, that prescription-only-vitamins are already making it onto the market and herbs like ephedra have been classified as illegal drugs).

Given this unseemly state of affairs some believe we are on the precipice of “Pharmageddon” where medicine produces more ill health than health and where medical progress does more harm than good. This process has also been described by Dr. Rima Laibow as “Nutricide”:

Nutricide (noo trih side):

1. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of a body of knowledge and information concerning the health promoting and curative attributes of herbs, food and food components

2. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of large numbers of people through nutritional manipulation*

(visit Dr. Laibow’s website: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org)

After all, is there any greater absurdity than a medical model that treats the symptoms of disease with sub-lethal dosages of toxic chemicals and in which there is no attempt to uncover, understand or remove the causes of those imbalances

After all, what disease has ever been found to be caused by a lack of a drug

Is acid reflux caused by a lack of proton-pump inhibitors

Is heart disease caused by a lack of statin drugs Is osteoporosis caused by a lack of Fosamax Is cancer caused by a lack of chemotherapy Is depression caused by a lack of Paxil Absolutely not! Then why would anyone consider it sound practice to use potentially toxic chemicals as a first line treatment for conditions that are not caused by a lack of a chemical To the contrary many diseases are caused exactly by culminative exposure to toxic chemicals that not unlike drugs are biologically alien to the body. i.e we are treating poisoning with poisons!

Can we dignify this approach by calling it medicine Or, is it more accurately described as a form of sorcery The sole reliance on Pharmaceuticals reveals quite a lot about the agenda underpinning modern medical practice. The Greek word Pharmakon has the following meanings: “drug, poison, potion, charm, spell, enchantment,” and indeed, pharmaceutically-driven medicine serves the Pharmaceutical Industry’s ultimate agenda: throw as many expensive pills as possible at the problem to make as much profit as is possible. (if you can do this while generating the illusion that you are actually “treating” disease with poisonous potions, you have succeeded in casting the right spell).

In Benjamin Rush’s time the medical dictatorship of which he spoke had not yet come to pass, and though magical potions like mercury and questionable techniques like bloodletting were used in colonial times, herbs were still considered and employed as legitimate medicines. Even if many wise women herbalists were eliminated as competition by being branded witches and sometimes murdered, the herbs themselves were not categorically demonized because no vast armory of pharmaceutical drugs had yet been created to supplant them.

The herbs and foods themselves have now been both vilified as dangerous and lampooned as completely ineffectual, generating the ridiculous contradiction that we are supposed to be dumb enough to accept as truth: namely, that they are both impotent and unsafe. Given these circumstances confidence in the safety and efficacy of natural substances in the prevention and treatment of disease has not only waned, but the positive association between food and healing has been outright denied by medical authorities. It is illegal for non-doctors to make health claims for natural substances even if thousands of years of use in folk medicine and a vast emerging body of scientific research now confirms their benefits. You can’t say cherries cure gout even if its true. (truth is no longer the criteria that decides what you can or cannot say; rather, its who profits more from the information being freely disseminated or censored).

There are websites out there which provide free and convenient access to the massive amounts of research that have accumulated on the health benefits of natural substances over the past 50 years. The government database known as Medline (which can be searched without special permissions or charge) contains over 18 million biomedical citations from over 5,000 scientific journals, many of which focus specifically on the therapeutic action of foods, vitamins and spices on serious, even life-threatening disease.

I believe that it is only through the free, uncensored and democratic dissemination of health information that we can secure our health freedom and through speaking truth to power, expose the fraud which is strictly profit-driven pharmaceutical-based medicine.

*Definition #2 may strike some readers as paranoia or pure madness, but consider the fact that Gary Null, PHD recently estimated that 786,000 Americans die annually from iatrogenic or medically caused deaths.

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