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The lack of science behind mainstream medicine's rejection of alternative healing

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 10, 2011 at 5:15pm
The lack of science behind mainstream medicine's rejection of alternative healing by Tony Isaacs (The Best Years in Life) The mainstream medical establishment's rejection of alternative healing not only flies in the face of hundreds and even thousands of years of history, it also flies in the face of good science. History has taught us time and again that the science of today is often found lacking tomorrow. Apparently, that is a lesson that has continued to be lost or ignored by today's mainstream science, even as many of their longstanding beliefs are being overturned. Another principle which mainstream medicine fails to understand is that lack of evidence is not the same as evidence of lack. Often, lack of evidence is merely lack of understanding and current knowledge. In many instances, mainstream rejection of alternative healing violates the foremost principle of the scientific method itself - observation. Successful alternative healing has been observed to be successful dating back hundreds and even thousands of years. Mainstream medicine continues to reject observed success as merely anecdotal and contends that only rigorous testing will provide any validation. The FDA, which is supposed to oversee medicine in the U.S., carries bias against alternatives medicine to absurd extremes - refusing to allow even natural fruits, vegetables, vitamins, minerals, or any other item to claim health benefits unless they have gone through the complete FDA approval process at costs up to a billion or more dollars When alternatives are tested, the studies are often marred by lack of current knowledge and understanding as well as design flaws. That includes vitamins and minerals studies which fail to consider how nature works synergistically as well as the differences between natural vitamins and bioaviailable minerals and synthetic petrochemical vitamins and crushed rock minerals. Modern science has long denied that acupuncture offers any benefit other than the placebo effect and much of the mainstream establishment still clings to that view even as study after study has proven them wrong. For example, a recent report from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated that "many well-designed studies have found that acupuncture can help with certain conditions, such as back pain, knee pain, headaches and osteoarthritis." Likewise, aromatherapy was long rejected by mainstream science as having any scientifically proven value. Then came a Japanese study which was published in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The study found that inhaling linalool, which is a fragrance found naturally in lavender, mint, and many other fragrant plants, reduced the activity of more than 100 genes that are normally significantly elevated in stressful situations. See: "Taking Time to Smell Roses Really CAN Ease Stress" http://www.tbyil.com/roses.htm A favorite target of mainstream medicine for well over a century has been homeopathy, which is based on the principle of retained memory in extreme dilutions. Just this month, an article in Forbes Magazine bemoaned the "absurdity of homeopathy". However, it appears that homeopathy may be turning out to be not so scientifically absurd after all: An article this month in The Daily Mail highlighted a study which showed that salt solutions change the structure of hydrogen bonds in water even when diluted to homeopathic levels,. Last July, Nobel Prize winning French virologist Professor Luc Montagnier shocked fellow Nobel prize-winners and the medical establishment by telling them that he had discovered that water has a memory that continues even after many dilutions. See: http://www.tbyil.com/Homeopathy.htm Today we continue to see mainstream medicine reject much in alternative healing, including therapeutic, healing energies and frequencies, colloidal silver, herbal medicines and traditional healing practices used for centuries around the world and more. As history has taught us, many of those rejected items may well be validated and accepted by the mainstream once science finally catches up - or owns up, as the case may be. Other sources included: http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/issue/feb2011/feature1 http://www.healthcmi.com/index.php/acupuncturist-news-online/410-nihrecommendacupunctureceus http://www.physorg.com/news167478449.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-184501/Proof-homeopathy-works.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/09/09/the-absurdity-of-homeopathy-and-the-danger-of-too-much-skepticism/ http://www.tbyil.com/Homeopathy.htm http://www.tbyil.com/Mainstream_Studies_Flawed.htm

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  • Annette Gordon October 10, 2011 at 5:56pm
    Hello. My take on the misconceptions and hold that northamerican western medicine provide to people is that its all based on the worship of the dollars. During the last half of 1900's medical schools were funded by pharma. Naturally (lol) the concept of only providing bandage solutions to illness was provided to propigate pills. Natural medicine and tcm have been maligned not because they are faulty but because they work. In europe alternative medicine is more popular as the pharma companies donot have the financial control of learning establishments.
    Now these companies are getting richer by mass production of antidepressants. Ie perscribing zoloft to teenagers...?
    A side effect of antidrepressive meds is....depression!
    With the unaffordability of health insurance in the states now is a good time to promote a health care system which really cares about people and not the dollars. I have personally seen nestles work in indonesian hospitals. Breaking health conventions they have advertised in hospitals by providing free coffee cups and one tin of baby formula to new mothers who never could afford to buy baby formula. I have seen babies starve to dealth as the mothers milk dries up whilst in hospital, and not being able to afford more than a months wages for one tin of formula the families water it down. Heartbreaking. Namaste xo
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