Natural Society – by Paul Fassa
Remember when ephedra, also known as the herb Ma Huang, was taken off the market for awhile after baseball’s Baltimore Oriole pitcher Steve Belcher died in Spring training? Traces of it were found during an autopsy. Even congressmen were cursing this herbal decongestant that too many were using for weight loss. But a handful of medical experts are amazed at how other causal factors were ignored. This is typical behavior for big pharma and how they handle natural or alternative medicine.
Some medical experts noted how Steve Belcher had a medical history of “heat illnesses” in high school athletics. His medical history included liver issues and hypertension (high blood pressure). His body temperature was 108 degrees before he croaked from organ failure after exerting himself under the hot humid conditions of South Florida. He had suffered a severe heat stroke.
He was also on an extreme crash diet to lose weight, and part of that included a lot of diet sodas and iced teas that contain aspartame, a substance many consider to be toxic even though the FDA considers it GRAS (generally regarded as safe). So by excluding all the other factors, ephedra became the culprit that deserved to be banned from this one incident.
This is merely one outstanding memorable example of an FDA and AMA, aka the ‘medical mafia’s’, attack on natural remedies while hiding the high toll of pharmaceutical adverse effects and deaths, often labeling such consequences as pharmaceutical drug abuse instead of letting the public know they were usually prescribed based on the AMA standard of care and used accordingly.
So What About Pharmaceuticals?
In her book Death by Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions, Dr. Carolyn Deanhas uncovered even more statistics of iatrogenic (medically caused) death than her original paper Death by Medicine. The death toll has gone up to almost 900,000 annually from various areas that include hospital stays, surgeries, incorrect or unnecessary procedures. Pharmaceutical prescriptions pitch in well over 100,000 adverse reaction deaths.
Even over the counter (OTC) sleeping pills and Tylenol (acetaminophen) are responsible for many more ER visits and deaths. Also not included are permanent disabilities from vaccines, which are rarely publicized or even reported. Cancer patients who die under allopathic care blame the disease while ignoring the devastating effects of expensive and very rarely effective chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
A Media Blowhard Creates More Hypocrisy
Oxycodone is the main opioid ingredient of OxyContin, a synthetic offshoot of heroin. And the claimed “overdose” death toll has skyrocketed to over 15,000, more than street heroin and cocaine combined.
In 2010, 254 million opioid prescriptions were filled in the USA. Shortly after that report, the CDC estimated that health insurers forked over several billion dollars for health care costs related to prescription painkillers’ adverse effects.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma raked in over $11 billion in revenue from opioid sales, with Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin, for which they were once fined $635 million for false advertising, pulling in over $3 billionfrom that.
Many prescriptions are obtained illegally or creatively. One such notorious, hypocritical example is Rush Limbaugh’s incredible oxycodone, mostly OxyContin, addiction. Hypocritical because, for a few years up until Limbaugh got busted for obtaining and using massive amounts of oxycodone through multiple doctor resources, he often railed on air about throwing drug users in jail, even while he was high on illegally obtained OxyContin. Suspiciously, his charges were dropped or reduced from felonies.
The actual solution to this quandary of authoritarian hypocrisy won’t come until the whole edifice of the medical mafia finally crumbles with enough health-conscious people abandoning it by self-educating and living healthier lifestyles while seeking natural medical solutions.
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Major off topic, but I am in a strange mood today and have to go soon to feed many veggies I have growing..I hope you dont mind my ranting.
I performed my first wedding Sept 12. I am a minister. I think I did really well, but I forgot to do the “exchange rings” thing…I was somewhat embarrassed until I thought more about it the next day…What the heck is a ring? Jewelry? So you can declare ownership? And then I thought more about it. Funny how the word “jew” is in the word “jewelry” Coincidence? At the start of the ceremony, I prayed that Jesus Christ would be the foundation of this unification between the man, the woman, and Jesus Christ.
Maybe I did not forget the ring exchange, maybe it wasnt supposed to be?
My apologies for going off topic, but I like all of you and just wanted to share..I wont make a habit of it.
On a lighter note, I still chuckle at whoever posted that henry should start using common core for the security question. 🙂
I read somewhere that the rings actually signify the rings of Saturn.
There is no mention of wedding rings anywhere in the Bible that I know of.
I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time when you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light in every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
“The death toll has gone up to almost 900,000 annually from various areas that include hospital stays, surgeries, incorrect or unnecessary procedures. Pharmaceutical prescriptions pitch in well over 100,000 adverse reaction deaths.”
Likely double that. No telling how many more deaths were attributed to other factors.
that’s about 1 in 400 a year.
that’s an incredible rate.
that’s like saying your going to kill 170 people at the superbowl each year!!!
maybe it’s time for a war on the “health” industry!
Starting with those murdering scum that are injecting those poisons into our kids, under the guise of ‘vaccines’.
Ah yes Rick Simpson. Ran into his story years ago. Wish i had that oil in stock for emergencies.