By Lady Medea, BSc in Holistic Nutrition [High Hons]
Nutritional Therapy/Traditional Herbalism
Today natural medicine is suffering an unprecedented attack from all sides, with
Orthodox medical ‘experts’ the Media and Allopathic Journals joining forces and
Regularly launching broadsides against unconventional medicine. Not a day goes by
without their dyspeptic outpourings through media channels. A certain vocal cabal
have banded together like a lynch mob in order to remove quack nostrums and their
shonky operators from the public domain so that people are ‘protected’ from
fringey pretenders to medical skills. They are threatening the health of the good citizens of the UK and must be stopped.
How marvellous that they care so much for the wellbeing of the public, how honourable. They are so good and so pure it is a wonder to me that they have taken up medicine and not Holy Orders. Pity they have not told the public how many vested interests they have, how many bonuses are given by pharmaceutical giants to these ‘knights in shining armour’ out to protect the vulnerable so that they can dole out any number of drugs and pills to boost their income, regardless of whether or not they are needed. I don’t remember them telling the public that bonuses are paid to family doctors for reaching vaccine targets, do you? The public think they are being vaccinated because orthodox doctors ‘care for their wellbeing’. Such concern, their over earnest piety touching isn’t it? It cannot have escaped your notice that so many new diseases have appeared, diseases that before were thought of as simply mild viral infections. This ‘medicalisation’ of mild infections results in, you guessed it, more pills, potions, drugs and vaccines with the profits that follow. We have also seen the medicalisation of any number of health problems i.e. the menopause, pregnancy, ageing, etc. when you have a ‘disease’ you need a ‘drug’ to cure it.
Pity these saintly medics have not informed the public of corporate medicine’s real agenda – that is to make money for its shareholders and the vested interests it supports. What would the public think if they knew that a ‘patient’ when diseased and sick represents ‘big money’. Preventative medicine peddled by these insolent quacks don’t make the mega bucks does it? If the public knew a little more about these champions of the public good the angel dust would fall from their eyes, and these medical men, dripping with godliness and sanctity would be well and truly knocked off their lofty pedestal.
Again and again, the abusive adjectives issue forth – charlatans, mountebanks, frauds the litany of insults issue forth like a haemorrhage that cannot be staunched. There is no other section of society that receives so much abuse and discrimination than the alternative therapists have to endure. In fact there are laws against this type of harrassment. It is interesting that most of these alternative health practitioners are women and all of these ferocious critics are state sanctioned men. This misogynistic frenzy against female practitioners does not stop at only slandering their profession and what they believe in, but also extends to actually stepping in, with spurious reasons, to strip them of any ‘title’ they may have earned from non-traditional schools that do not teach state sponsored medical dogma. This happened only recently to a well known t.v. health guru who has been forced to remove the title ‘Dr.’ from her literature – a title not protected in law – even though she holds a PhD doctorate in nutrition. These public protectors via an EU quango purporting to be defending the public safety, would have taken her to court because it was deemed she was ‘misleading’ the public into believing she was a ‘medical doctor’. Most people know that a PhD doctorate is a doctor of philosophy and not an orthodox doctor, and ignorance of this fact is not the fault of the person with this type of qualification. The witch hunts and witch trials of Mediaeval Europe come to mind.
What this boils down to is no one can have a different belief regarding the management of health. You can only believe in drugs and surgery, you must be forced to believe this as it is the only truth, anything else is wrong and false and people who peddle these heretical ideas must be stopped. This coercive attempt to outlaw alternative health bears much resemblance to scientific flat-earthers who pursued anyone who disagreed that ‘the earth is flat’ with venom and burnt them at the stake. History is repeating itself once again. They do not have the leeway now to put women who practise natural medicine on a literal fire to burn, but they character assassinate them, ridicule their qualifications as ‘unscientific’ and constantly harass them. They never claimed what they practised was scienctific, healing is an art not a secular science.
I thought we lived in a democracy? This is gestapo medicine. To absolutely insist that there is no other type of medicine except orthodox Western medicine is bigoted ignorance. I put forward the argument that no authority is beyond question and that includes allopathic medicine with all its political power. Just because it has this power does not mean it has all the answers.
The latest broadside to be launched is against homeopathy and herbs. Plant medicine is the oldest form of medicine known to mankind. Herbs are very safe and are foods that can be used for culinary purposes or for medicinal purposes. If herbs are so dangerous or so absolutely useless as one of these ‘experts’ repeated once again, why is the Physic Garden in Chelsea supplying plant samples to Glaxo Group Research Ltd for a major biological evaluation? Perhaps when herbs are made into drugs then they will be ‘safe’! And the public will only be able to get them via prescription for a hefty price. The profits will then roll in and no doubt these vocal critics will be at the forefront when it comes to cashing in! The monopoly will have been put in place, and then, hey presto, herbs will be found to be efficacious once again.
Let us know turn to the dangers of over the counter drugs. Only last week a woman died by taking too many over the counter anti-inflammatory pills. This is a well known brand that makes millions of pounds for Big Pharma. Will it be removed ? Have this group of state licensed physicians rushed out with articles in the media to ask for their removal? No of course not, they will not be removed, or re-classified, because people should ‘take them sensibly’. The very same applies to herbs my dear good fellows, or is there one rule for drugs and one rule for herbs? And what about the old hoary chestnut that is brought out every time about ‘herbs may interact with any medical drugs’ a person is taking. Have they ever thought that these over the counter medicines may also interact with prescripton drugs? Pharmacists do not know if over these over the counter nostrums do interact because there has never been much research on the subject. I repeat, there does not appear to be much research regarding the interaction of over the counter headache pills, flu and cold medicines, etc.etc. with prescription-only drugs. What have these fierce opponents of alternative medicine to say about this? The silence is deafening. They have in my opinion lost all credibility.
They also label most of alternative health, e.g homeopathy as nothing more than placebos. If that is the case, why worry then? Placebos are harmless so what is there to get hysterical about? Another old saw is that people with a serious disease could be using homeopathy or herbs that could kill them because they did not visit their GP. Now let us tear this argument apart. The same applies to over the counter pills and potions. Someone could have a brain tumour that gives them a headache but instead of visiting a GP they keep taking aspiring, ibuprofen, or one of the dozens of other headache pills available over the counter. This hypothesis does not wash.
You may think this is a new polemic but it is not. This has happened
again and again throughout history and unfortunately we are having a re-run because we are in the EU – hogtied to an inflexible system run by the forces of orthodoxy via political front men. All this trickery was served up within the godly air of health and safety and it is health and safety that helped vote the EU Food supplement and Herbal Directives into law. This corporate driven EU FSD was brought about to please the big pharma and medical cartels and its lackeys, in the shape of these vocal critics who we read so much about in the media, purely to knock out the competition. If this is not true why have they never declared their financial interests, who pays their grants? Who funds them?
Historically when allopathic medicine sees its authority bleeding to death as
happened in the UK in the 17th Century they mobilise and launch vicious attacks on
their competitors. The idea that people are turning to these charlatans is a blow that
strikes right into the heart of orthodoxy. All forms of natural medicine are under attack, acupuncture, Ayurveda, Native American medicine. This is indicative of European arrogance and the unwillingness of Western medicine to learn from other cultures. It is inherently racist in its mindset as well as mysogenistic in the belief that the women who are natural health healers are not good enough to be dealing with the sick. Before joining the European Community we were free to practise natural medicine without stricture and the hostility of the allopaths was an irrelevance. Unfortunately the EU has now given them the stick to beat us with and they are jubilant, this is why they love the EU, they are doing very nicely out of it. They can now implement the type of oppressive monopoly that passes for medicine in Europe and the companies who control this monopoly with its unprincipled henchmen will have a massive increase of power over our health.
It is my belief that we have an absolute right to preserve our health according to our own judgement and politicians, unelected EU bureaucrats and allopathic doctors have NO right to remove herbs and supplements and natural medicine from the rightful people who understand it. These herbs and supplements were protected under strict UK food laws, whose established safety was never in dispute. The ‘health & safety’ canard was used to restrict their access and this is completely immoral because it is NOT TRUE. The attacks in the media are a propaganda campaign to wean people of natural health and to make them believe they are safe only if a doctor gives them out. What a travesty this would be, it is like putting the fox into the henhouse and saying it will look after the little chicks! They will destroy natural medicine because they are trained and believe only in drugs and surgery.
Now unfortunately natural medicine is again experiencing the type of threat hrbal apothecaries who ministered to the poor faced during the 17th Century with a resurgence of the censors out to get the modern day Apothecaries who have the temerity to tread on their patch.
THEY are the charlatans who fool the general public into believing that only surgery
and drugs will help them and it is the public whose health will be damaged when they can no longer use safe natural remedies which are not the PROBLEM they are the SOLUTION.