The pharmaceutical/chemical industry that is currently trying to outlaw supplements also creates toxic wastelands in its wake-called Superfund sites- and its most of the "cures" by Pharmo Giants produce their own set of illnesses.
Despite being involved in alternative medicine (specifically homeopathic medicine) since 1972, I have always been strongly skeptical of alternative therapies for cancer. I questioned their true effectiveness; even more, I questioned the ethics of their advocates. After reading Kenny Ausubel's newest book, I realize how effective the propaganda against alternative cancer therapies has been on me.
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The misinformation and demonization of alternative medicine by the AMA and the FDA is quite remarkable and sad (no, Saint-John's-wort won't cure this depression!). This McCarthyization of alternative healers didn't simply destroy people's lives as McCarthy did. It also led to the earlier death of hundreds of thousands of people by foisting upon them—as the only appropriate treatments for cancer—the notoriously ineffective and dangerous primitive radiation and chemotherapy of the day. This book details the experience of Harry Hoxsey and his herbal formulas. Hoxsey was arrested more than a hundred times in one two-year period, and hundreds of other times before and after this, although his leading nemesis, AMA leader Morris Fishbein, acknowledged under oath that Hoxsey's therapy was indeed effective in treating certain types of cancer. Fishbein's statement never changed his heavy-handed efforts to make access to Hoxsey's treatment difficult or impossible. Hoxsey's clinic was forced out of the US and into Mexico in the early 1960s; it has continued to provide care for people since Hoxsey's death in 1974, but is still not allowed into the US.
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To the contrary, Hoxsey and the lineage of natural medicine he espoused characterized cancer as a systemic illness..."which occurs only in the presence of a profound physiologic change in the consituents of body fluids and consequent chemical imbalance of the organism. Its real cause must be sought in the basic body chemistry and cell metabolism. We believe that the organism's attempt to adapt itself to the new and abnormal environment causes certain mutations in newly born cells of the body. Eventually a viciously competent cell evolves which finds the new environment eminently suitable to survival and rapid self-reproduction. These cells are what are known as cancer."
Hoxsey believed that a systemic approach could remedy the imbalance. "It follows that if the constitution of the body fluids can be normalized and the original chemical balance in the body restored, the environment again will become unfavorable for the survival and reproduction of these cells. They will cease to multiply and eventually they will die. Then if vital organs have not been too seriously damaged by the malignancy (or by surgery or irradiation), the entire organism will recover to normal health. We attempt to get at the roots of the disorder, rather than deal merely with its end result. Our primary effort is to restore the body to physiological normalcy."
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