Help Save Herbal Medicine in Europe - Health Supreme NewsGrabs 1 May 2011
EU: ONLY DAYS TO SAVE HERBAL MEDICINE!
"As concerned EU citizens, we call on the Commission to amend the THMPD Directive, suspending the draconian measures against herbal medicines and removing all barriers to traditional remedies with a long history of use inside and outside Europe. We further call on our governments to refuse to comply with this Directive until it is amended. We have a right to choose among all remedies and medicines that can keep ourselves and our families healthy."
In 3 days, the EU will ban much of herbal medicine, pressing more of us to take pharmaceutical drugs that drive the profits of big Pharma.
The EU Directive erects high barriers to any herbal remedy that hasn't been on the market for 30 years -- including virtually all Chinese, Ayurvedic, and African traditional medicine. It's a draconian move that helps drug companies and ignores thousands of years of medical knowledge.
We need a massive outcry against this. Together, our voices can press the EU Commission to fix the directive, push our national governments to refuse to implement it, and give legitimacy to a legal case before the courts.
Members of the European Parliament criticize EFSA’s handling of botanical & supplement health claimsThe European Food Safety Authority’s evaluation of health claims, particularly concerning botanicals and food supplements, contravenes consumer choice and damages small and medium-sized businesses, warns an influential group of MEPs.
Article 13.1 of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation aims to harmonise the use of claims across the EU after EFSA assesses their scientific validity. But too often those assessments are flawed, claimed MEPs.
Medicinal Herbs Are Held to a Higher Standard Than Big Pharma's PoisonsAs the EU's draconian directive to drastically limit our access to medicinal herbs takes full effect today, it needs to be noted that nature's remedies will now be held to a higher standard than drugs produced by Big Pharma. When drugs are approved, the last consideration is whether they interfere with the actions of a herb or food. However, herbs are now expected to name all potential interactions with drugs—and the drugs receive preferential treatment over the herbs!
Help Stop the Loss of Our Rights!
The Stop the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Directive Petition is as relative and important now as it was before the official date of implementation. Nothing less than full repeal of the directive is adequate to stop this stealth thievery of our right to health. Amending the THMPD would be agreement with the concept that such regulation and limitation of access to medicinal herbs is appropriate. Yet, no such thing has been demonstrated. Indeed, medicinal herbs have been among the safest products ever known. So, please, if you haven't already, sign the Stop the THMPD Petition now: Click Here to Sign the Stop the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive!
GM Food: Watch out for the toxic mix!“The cultivation and processing of genetically engineered plants are exposing the environment to certain herbicides and insecticides as never before. These compounds, their metabolites, their additives and the resulting mixtures become a permanent part of the food chain. Negligence or failures in risk analysis can be hugely damaging to human health and the environment,” warns Christoph Then at Testbiotech.
Mercury converted to its most toxic form in ocean watersAfter two years of testing water samples across the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found that relatively harmless inorganic mercury, released from human activities like industry and coal burning, undergoes a process called methylation and becomes deadly monomethylmercury.
Unlike inorganic mercury, monomethylmercury is bio-accumulative, meaning its toxic effects are amplified as it progresses through the food chain from small sea creatures to humans.
US Govt. armed agents invade Maxam NutraceuticsOn Thursday, April 14, 2011, dozens of agents from the FDA, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted an unprovoked, full-scale raid on Hood River, Ore.-based Maxam Nutraceutics, a company that produces and sells nutritional supplements primarily for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Alzheimer's disease.
"They took all our products, all our paperwork, all our files -- we've been doing this since 1992 and they pulled everything," said Jim. "They brought in three big moving vans, they had their guns on, their bullet-proof vests -- they came prepared for war."
For the past seventy-five years Congress has transferred to the federal regulatory agencies the power to govern (to legislate, to prosecute, and to adjudicate). The Constitution vests the power to make law in Congress, the power to execute the laws in the Executive, and the power to adjudicate alleged violations of the law in the Judiciary. By this massive transfer of governing power from the elected to some 220 unelected agencies of the federal government, the United States has replaced its constitutional republic with a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Vitamin C Treatment For Polio - Klenner"Dr. F. R. Klenner, Reidsville, N.C.: It might be interesting to learn how poliomyelitis was treated in Reidsville, N.C., during the 1948 epidemic. In the past seven years, virus infections have been treated and cured in a period of seventy-two hours by the employment of massive frequent injections of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C. I believe that if vitamin C in these massive doses -- 6,000 to 20,000 mg in a twenty-four hour period -- is given to these patients with poliomyelitis none will be paralyzed and there will be no further maiming or epidemics of poliomyelitis."
Medical Complicity in Torture at Guantánamo Bay: Evidence Is First Step Toward JusticeIacopino and Xenakis reach a sobering conclusion: “Medical doctors and mental health personnel assigned to the US Department of Defense neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of intentional harm. The full extent of medical complicity in US torture practices will not be known until there is a thorough, impartial investigation including relevant classified information. We believe that, until such time as such an investigation is undertaken, and those responsible for torture are held accountable, the ethical integrity of medical and other healing professions remains compromised.”
These findings are of course at stark odds with the codes of international medical associations, which prohibit physicians from participating in or being present during torture or other degrading procedures.
Doctors demand the removal of anti-vaccine ad from Times SquareFor 17 days, every hour for 15 seconds, a controversial message is being sold to the American public via a CBS billboard in Times Square, New York. A photograph of a mother cradling her naked baby is accompanied by the words: "Vaccines: Know the risks." This image is faded out, and replaced by the Statue of Liberty and "Vaccination. Your Health. Your Family. Your Choice."
The advert is paid for and endorsed by the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and Mercola.com
the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), one of the many organisations responsible for testing the safety of vaccinations, is urging the company to remove the ad. It accuses CBS of putting the lives of children at risk by encouraging parents to delay or skip vaccination.
Now THAT's a good controversy to have! Looks like the vaccine promoters can't stand the heat...
These Media Health Articles Could Save Your LifeFred Burks of WantToKnow.info has put together a collection of mainstream media articles on health. They show that what I have been collecting on this site for a few years is not so far off from the truth. Even mainstream media now recognize it..."More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making [this] claim: It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you."
-- Newsweek article on serious inconsistencies in health research, Jan. 24, 2011
Thomas Szasz on the Therapeutic State—Alliance Between Government & Psychiatry“When I use the term therapeutic state, I use it ironically, it’s therapeutic for the people who are doing the locking up, who are doing the therapy, it’s not therapeutic for the victims, for the patients.”
Some ADHD sufferers 'fake or exaggerate' symptoms for drugs to get high or raise focusOne in four adults who say they have ADHD are faking or exaggerating symptoms to get stimulant medications, a study in The Clinical Neuropsychologist journal said.
Ritalin, one of the main drugs prescribed for ADHD, has a street value of between $3 and $10 per pill and is often sold underground at college campuses
Prostate Cancer Screening Has Zero Benefit, Concludes 20-Year StudyDon't let anyone from the cancer industry lie to you about PSA screening: The test is completely bogus and offers zero improvement in your lifespan. That's the conclusion from a 20-year study that followed over 9,000 men. After 20 years of follow-up, guess what the results were? No significant difference in the rate of death between those screened for prostate cancer versus those who weren't.
"One For All" Universal Flu Vaccine - Genetic Roulette Part 1
"One For All" Universal Flu Vaccine – Genetic Roulette Part 2In many ways the greatest threat posed by 21st Century Vaccine Technology is cloning in & of itself; the hubris of replicating/mass-producing, from scratch, signature protein epitopes to construct an “innovative synthetic influenza vaccine“. As always, nature proves itself resilient to change, and will respond to man’s attempts at reshuffling the deck by literally re-assorting man. We have opened another Pandora’s Box, and with it the probability of unforeseen genetic mutations – given the inexactitude of the science; literally a a game of genetic roulette where the community at large will become unwitting volunteers in the greatest experiment since the advent of the Industrial Age (’…the degree of attenuation of laboratory-passaged viruses may or may not be known. There can in some cases be uncertainty regarding the biological attributes of a synthetic replica of a gene bank virus sequence‘).
THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF ELECTROPOLLUTIONThe detrimental health effects of cell phones, WiFi, electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and the microwave-based technology we use daily makes worrying about our kids experimenting with drugs, sexual escapades, alcoholic binges, or a touch of crime insignificant - in comparison to the WiFi-equipped school you send them to, the cell phones you may have bought for them, the hours they spend in front of the TV (forget the content - the TV itself is worse), and the microwave oven from which they often receive their meals. Sex, booze, drugs, and crime are part of the dark side of life's education: one often learns from those mess-ups to go on to make healthy choices. Now consider that this "progressive" and seductive radiation technology has the power to obliterate life, phase out our biological future, and kill the brain.
Lee C of achinook.com writes:
If one understands the ecological principles of food web trophic levels, then one should understand that a consequence of our ever increasing population, relative to the essential biodiversity of higher life form conducive natural ecosystems, is that we're causing the extinction of an alarming number of other life forms daily just to support our own biomass. We're systematically shifting the biomass of the many life forms we're not smart enough to care about, into the biomass of a lesser number of life forms we use to maintain our own biomass (e.g. cows, chickens, corn, beans, tomatoes, ...). That is, we're systematically diminishing the biodiversity of the natural biological communities, and in so doing are destabilizing nature's infrastructure that is keeping us alive.
The key factors of healthy ecosystems (in the sense of being conducive to human existence) are sustainable long term productivity through extensive biodiversity to exploit all the ecological niches (in time, space, and kind), and relative stability through the overall balance of ecological processes in minimizing ecosystem state shifts. This more complete utilization of limiting resources at higher diversity increases resource retention through more thorough and efficient recycling increasing productivity, and the balance of inherently more intricate ecological processes promote stabilization.
For a better understanding of how we are jeopardizing the shorter term state of human existence on Earth, see the article Natural World Consciousness at achinook.com
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday May 1 2011
updated on Tuesday December 13 2011URL of this article:
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