Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Think about it: With the FDA having declared war on natural medicine and attempting to virtually outlaw naturopathic practices altogether, natural healers will increasingly move into religious practice for protection. You will find more local churches springing up, where "blessed herbs" are given to members as part of a psychospiritual healing practice. The FDA, seeing that these churches are actually healing people with herbs, oils, homeopathy or functional foods, will target the churches and seek to shut them down. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 They probably won't be accredited to practice acupuncture, but accreditation is largely a joke anyway. With a true healer, every treatment is different. Every patient is unique. It's truly a healing art, not a technical skill. And there is no accreditation for that. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |
 If we must use such terms, then why not plant queen-dom, or, better yet, plant kindom7
I feel strongly that the practice of holistic medicine is a culturally transformative act. One of the names for an herbalist in ancient Greece was rhizotomoi, because herbalists collected rhizomes. I've been suggesting to all my herbal friends that we should be called radicles, after the growing tip of a plants root. A plant radicle is one of the strongest things in nature. Just think of little shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) cracking through sidewalks! |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |
 This is known as "off-label use" and is a common practice amongst physicians and widely promoted by drug companies and their sales force. This is an unnecessary risk none of us should take. You should not unknowingly be a part of some corporation's clinical trial.
Physicians for Sale
Until recently, in addition to providing free samples, it was common practice for drug reps to actually bribe physicians by taking them out to dinner, paying for office equipment, or travel and entertainment for special conferences in return for the physicians prescribing their drugs. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Nettle is also used for the practice known as urtication, in which one intentionally stings oneself with the plant. This practice, which dates back at least two thousand years, induces a rush of blood to the stung area, producing a counterirritation that reduces inflammation and provides temporary pain relief. Urtication energizes the nerves, muscles, capillaries, and local lymphatic system and causes the body to secrete antihistamines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Personally, I'm outraged by the practice of drugging dogs, cats and other animals with synthetic chemicals to treat degenerative health conditions, and I think those who promote or follow such practices are engaged in extremely unethical, cruel behaviors that should be criminalized. Just like in the human health care system, nutrition has been thrown out the window and is now replaced with a system of chemical invasion that can only lead to a worsening of the long-term health of the animals exposed to such dangerous treatments. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 This is a standard, USDA-approved feeding practice in the cattle industry, by the way. Click here to search Google and see for yourself.
I also believe that the very practice of raising animals in confined environments, subjecting them to atrocious feeding habits and killing them in inhumane ways in order to harvest their flesh and turn a profit is an outrageous form of cruelty to animals. I believe that in any advanced society such practices would be outlawed entirely. I find no justification in this society to harvest the organs of animals for the consumption of human beings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 I find it curious that a movie like Apocalypto, which shows the widespread practice of human sacrifice in the Mayan culture, is looked upon with shock and horror by most American consumers while, in reality, America is sacrificing far more of its people upon the altar of corporate profits. The number of bloodied heads rolling down the steps of the pyramid of corporate profits in America today makes the Mayan practice of human sacrifice seem tiny in comparison. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
See book keywords and concepts |
 CHAPTER 8
A "Nice Cup of Tea" for Digestion
Throughout history, people of many cultures have enjoyed a cup of tea with or after their meals, and the practice continues in modern times. Of course, the primary inspiration for this practice is the pleasing taste of tea beverages, but the tea habit also has beneficial effects on the digestive process. Its benefits include improved digestion, decreased risk of ulcers, and assistance in maintaining a healthy weight.
THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
The digestive system is composed of several parts that all work in concert to digest and absorb food. |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |
 Each was invited to participate in three experiments, and both improved with practice. The first scientist correctly identified a child's merry-go-round and a bridge, and the second correctly picked up a windmill. Of the five experiments, three were direct hits and one a near miss.1?
When the CIA's test studies worked, Puthoff and Targ began gathering up ordinary volunteers, some naturally gifted, but unpracticed in remote viewing, some not. |
Gregg Braden
See book keywords and concepts |
 Do you still practice the old ways here, or do you keep those things hidden from outsiders?"
'"The old ways'?" our guide echoed. "You mean like old medicine? Are you asking if we still have a medicine man around here?"
Now the guide really had my attention. Five years earlier, I had walked into the same pueblo for the first time and had asked the very same question. I'd quickly discovered that the spiritual practices of the local people are a sensitive topic, something that isn't shared openly beyond close friends and tribal members. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 It eliminates the whole practice of "saving seeds" and propagating food from one plant generation to the next -- a practice that humankind has depended on for survival since the beginning of human history.
In doing so, this gene terminator technology is a crime against both nature and humanity. To deny farmers the ability to propagate seeds from one generation to the next is to enslave humanity in a system of corporate control that violates the laws of nature and God. Care to take a guess which U.S. corporation is engaged in this activity? If you guessed Monsanto, you're right. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 But for a number of reasons, current medical practice places little emphasis on primary and secondary prevention. For most physicians, nutrition is not of significant interest. It is not an essential pillar of medical education; each generation of medical students learns about a different set of pills and procedures, but receives almost no training in disease prevention. And in practice, doctors are not rewarded for educating patients about the merits of truly healthy lifestyles. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |
| Clinical Studies
Numerous human studies confirm that the effects demonstrated by Silybum and the silymarin complex in the laboratory are borne out in clinical practice.133 The MedLine database contains references to 627 papers discussing silymarin and 41 clinical trials. The material that follows has been abstracted from an excellent review by Michael Murray, N.D.134
One study involved 129 patients and a control group of 56 for a period of about one month. Their conditions included toxic metabolic liver damage, fatty degeneration of the liver due to various causes, and chronic hepatitis. |
| The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. allopathy \al-lo-p'a-thy\, n. [Gr. other + suffering, to suffer: cf. G. allopathie, F. allopathic See Pathos. |
| Samuel Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
A brief note on the history of this fascinating profession: Herbalism has thrived in all cultures of the world and in all historical periods, even, until the very recent past, in the industrialized West. The rich and colorful history of herbalism is the history of humanity itself. As a constant and vital thread in human life, it is alive and well. |
| November 15, 1998, edition of the American Medical Association (AMA) journal Family practice News, which is sent regularly to general practitioners. In the journal's Clinical Rounds section, this table was presented under the headline "Herbal Products Being Evaluated Under an IND Investigation." (IND stands for Investigational New Drug Application, a request for authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to administer an investigational drug or biological product to humans. |
| It has abortifacient and spermicidal properties and is used as a bitter, analgesic, and antipyretic in veterinary practice.42
Quinine is one of the most bitter substances known, detectable at a molar concentration of lx10S. It is used in food as a bittering agent.
QUINOLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS
Quinolizidine alkaloids are chemically defined by the presence of a structural unit in which a nitrogen atom occupies a central position in two fused cyclohexane rings, as in lupinine. These are also referred to as lupine alkaloids, as they were first discovered in Lupinus species. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
See book keywords and concepts |
 In Western medicine, the practice was derived from the thinking of the Greek physician Galen, who practiced the theory of the four humours—blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. According to Galen and his intellectual descendants, all illness resulted from an imbalance of the four humours, and it was the doctor's job to balance those fluids through fasting, purging, and bloodletting.
Volumes of old medical texts are devoted to how and how much blood should be drawn. |
| When you think about it, the notion that humans across the globe continued to practice phlebotomy for thousands of years probably indicates that it produced some positive results. If everyone who was treated with bloodletting died, its practitioners would have been out of business pretty quickly.
One thing is clear—an ancient medical practice that "modern" medical science dismissed out of hand is the only effective treatment for a disease that would otherwise destroy the lives of thousands of people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Corporations now have taken over the practice of family farming and have developed cost-saving mass-production strategies that are not only dangerous to public health, but are also cruel to the animals being processed.
Animal factories, also known as large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), go against traditional farming practices by treating the animal simply as a machine or production unit. These farms are more like an assembly line system of animal harvesting than anything resembling a genuine farm or ranch. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 My greatest secret is that I frequently practice the power of intention (and I have a specific process through which that is practiced), and I avoid all the foods, beverages and personal care products that interfere with the power of intention.
In the past, some people have wondered why I drink no alcohol, use no drugs, drink no coffee, take no medications, etc. |
| People have asked me if I'm a member of some specific religion with pristine dietary practices, but the answer is quite simply that I have arrived at my own spiritual practice and I choose to respect my body and mind as tools for creating a better future. I actually came to this conclusion mostly on my own, and have since found that it is aligned with the spiritual paths found in virtually all world religions. It all makes sense, too: You simply can't be a highly spiritual person if you're consuming angry cow meats and altered dairy fats! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| It eliminates the whole practice of "saving seeds" and propagating food from one plant generation to the next -- a practice that humankind has depended on for survival since the beginning of human history.
In doing so, this gene terminator technology is a crime against both nature and humanity. To deny farmers the ability to propagate seeds from one generation to the next is to enslave humanity in a system of corporate control that violates the laws of nature and God. Care to take a guess which U.S. corporation is engaged in this activity? If you guessed Monsanto, you're right. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
See book keywords and concepts |
 Adulteration: Does not occur in practice.
Literature
[1
P [10 [11 [12 [13 [14 [15 [16 [17 [18
[19 [20 [21 [21
[22 [23; [24 [25
R. Samtleben et al. In: Immunomodulatory Agent Plants, edit, by H. Wagner, Birkhau-ser Verlag Basel 1999.
R. Scheer, H. Becker, and P. Berg (ed.), Grundlagen der Misteltherapie. Aktueller Stand der Forschung und klinischen An-wendung. Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart 1996.
H.J. Gabius and S. Gabius, Pharm. Ztg. 139, 1745-1752 (1994). W. Peumans et al, FEBS Lett. 39 b, 261-265 (1996).
G. Samuelsson and A.L. Jayawardense, Acta Pharm. Suec. 11, 175-184 (1974).
G. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |
| Physicians for Sale
Until recently, in addition to providing free samples, it was common practice for drug reps to actually bribe physicians by taking them out to dinner, paying for office equipment, or travel and entertainment for special conferences in return for the physicians prescribing their drugs. Not until July 2002 did negative exposure about this unethical practice force the drug industry to "voluntarily" create new ethical guidelines, which explicitly outline the proper interaction between a salesperson and a physician. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
See book keywords and concepts |
| Adulteration: Rarely occurs in practice [6].
Literature
[1] G. Pauli, S. Ofterdinger-Daegel and D. Teborg, Dtsch. Apoth. Ztg. 135,111-124 (1995). [2] F. Afifi-Yazar et al, Helv. Chim. Acta 64,
16-24 (1981). [3] F. Afifi-Yazar and O. Sticher, Helv. Chim.
Acta 63, 1905-1907 (1980). [4] M. Tamas, M. Rosea and M.A. Scarlat, Clujul Med. 57, 169-172 (1984); C.A. 102,
75759 (1985). [5] P. Pachaly, Dtsch. Apoth. Ztg. 139, 729-
730 (1999).
[6] W. Schier and W. Schultze, Dtsch. Apoth. Ztg. 127, 2717-2721 (1987).
Viburni prunifolii cortex
Black haw bark
AHP, BHP
MM
1 cm
Fig. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |
 Over the past two decades, I have worked as a nutritionist in conventional and integrative medical centers and in private practice. I've helped patients recover from multiple drug addictions; reverse heart disease; prevent and fight cancer; improve mental, physical, and sexual performance, even when challenged with diseases including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's; and become pregnant—all through good nutrition practices. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
See book keywords and concepts |
| Adulteration: Does not occur in practice.
Literature
[1] C. Geiger, E. Scholz and H. Rimpler, Planta
Med. 60, 384-385 (1994). [2] C. Geiger, Dissertation Universitat Freiburg i. Br. 1991.
[3] C. Geiger and H. Rimpler, Planta Med. 56,
585-586 (1990) [4] K. Lund, Dissertation Universitat Freiburg i. Br. 1986.
[5] L. Tuka and H. Popescu, Clujul Med. 52, 78-83 (1979); CA. 91, 198835 (1979).
[6] J.F. Gonnet, Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 9, 299 (1981).
[6a] D. Fraisse et al, Fitoterapia 71, 463-464 (2000).
[7] P. Petcu et al, Clujul Med. 52, 266-270 (1979).
[8] O. Schimmer and M. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
| Medical schools deserve to be blamed for much of this influence peddling, for the degradation of research standards, and for the development of doctors who, when entering practice, become mouthpieces for the only education that is constant—the pharmaceutical rep. By not railing against the corruption of medical ethics, and by not instituting regulations within the profession to address such issues, medical schools can be viewed as condoning or even endorsing such behavior.
The expansion of sales for therapeutic treatment of common diseases is the primary goal of pharmaceutical corporations. |
Email this page to a friend
