Natural Medicine

How is the natural health field progressing? Some say it is getting better and better. After all, alternative medicine is in the news. Some physicians have become household names talking about simple natural remedies and lifestyle changes. Medical doctors are finally recommending nutritional supplements (that was quackery a few years ago). Are you feeling complacent?

As usual, I think we should look deeper. The Pharmaceutical companies are not sitting idly by watching their profits fall. They have bought up most of the companies that sell nutritional supplements and most or all of the ones who manufacture or sell homeopathic medicine. They are now, for all practical purposes, in complete control of natural medicines. They haven't stopped the legislative push to require prescriptions for supplements, however. there is more profit to be made!

They are also still ruthlessly harassing practitioners of natural medicine. (The real practitioners. The ones who are curing all the incurable diseases, not the ones who are getting rich telling you to eat more blueberries) Thankfully, men like Tim Bolen have been fighting for natural medicine and have won quite a few victories in court. Mr. Bolen has saved many doctors from losing everything they own. I consider him to be a real hero.

There is more and it isn't good news. Remember how Osteopaths became just like the allopaths in order to survive. Naturopaths are pursuing a similar course. When a state licenses Naturopaths today, only graduates from certain schools are allowed to practice. Those schools have all the power. The way they practice is sometimes called "Green Allopathy". It looks and sounds like natural medicine. Look deeper.
Stay well.
Randall