Has Drug-Driven Medicine Become A Form of Human Sacrifice?Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. Attributed to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Rush accurately foretold a grave possibility facing Americans today: namely, that the art and science of healing should be restricted to a select class of allopathic physicians, who have the sole legal right to recommend and administer medicines, and whose pharmacopeia excludes as a matter of principle all the healing foods, vitamins and herbs which have been used safely and effectively for countless millennia in the prevention and treatment of disease. We have entered an era where medicine no longer bears any resemblance to the art and science of healing. The doctor no longer facilitates the bodys innate self-healing capabilities with time, care, good nutrition and special help from our plant allies. To the contrary, medicine has transmogrified into a business enterprise founded on the inherently nihilistic principles of pure, unbridled crony capitalism. Turning Disease Into Gold Many modern diseases are, in fact, created by fiat (not unlike modern currencies): age-old symptoms of nutritional deficiency or chemical poisoning are repackaged and renamed in Latin and Greek as would-be monolithic disease entities, and subsequently rolled out to the consumer as new markets; each disease representing a veritable gold mine of treatable symptoms; each symptom providing justification for the prescription of a new set of patented, toxic drug-commodities. The medicines themselves are often devoid of intrinsic value, being nothing more than rebranded and re-purposed chemicals, intended (though all too often failing) to be administered in sub-lethal concentrations. Indeed, many of these chemicals are too toxic to be legally released into the environment, much less be administered intentionally to a human who is already sick. This manipulation of perceived value, which is the basis for the global dominance of the drug-based medical model, is not unlike how financial institutions create toxic derivative products, essentially creating the illusion of financial well being and prosperity, at the very moment that they are planting the seeds of death within the global economy; ruining the lives of countless millions in the process. The Undercover Medical Dictatorship Within the present dominant medical system, healing has not simply been forgotten, but intentionally exorcized, as it represents the antithesis of perpetual profitability which requires the incurability of the human body. Were the truth to be told, and the bodys self-regenerative capabilities acknowledged, the entire superstructure of drug-based medicine and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue it generates annually, would crumble overnight. When a handful of turmeric has more chemotherapeutic activity than any drug yet to receive FDA approval, or an enzyme from pineapple is superior to a 40-year-old blockbuster chemotoxic agent, one begins to understand why the hundreds of studies proving natural substances can destroy cancer are never discussed. You cant compete with free, effective and safe in a medical marketplace dominated by expensive, ineffective and unsafe. If this degeneration into quackery and snake-oil salesmanship, which is modern drug-driven medicine, were simply a lesson in what bad things can happen when health care is no longer a basic human right but strictly a profit-driven commodity, perhaps Americans could find it within themselves to once again free themselves from the shackles of oppression. After all, do we not consider ourselves the very originators of freedom, independence and democracy? Have we not such great faith in these principles that we practically trip all over ourselves (crushing entire countries as we fall) in our Promethean effort to export these values overseas whether we are invited to do so or not? Would we stand for less when it comes to our own health freedom? Sadly, the undercover dictatorship Benjamin Rush foretold is not simply a homegrown one we can root out from the inside, as it were. Although the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) behave as if they are at the top of this pyramid of power relations, they serve far lower in the hierarchy. While the United States government and American corporate lobbying groups may appear to be behind the FDAs shameless pandering to the interests of the drug companies, transnational corporations and organizations and the few steering them are in fact pulling the strings. The United States no longer enjoys global economic and cultural hegemony. We are now embedded in an international playing field where multinational and transnational organizations like the drug company Pfizer, or the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have power and influence that overshadows the US or any other particular government or nation-state. These larger organizations blur the divisions traditionally drawn between public and private institutions, insofar as their agendas and mandates are consistent with global economic imperatives that do not account for the self-proclaimed sovereignty of any particular nation-states Constitution or laws above its own. For example, the United States may soon no longer be able to allow the over-the-counter sale of dietary supplements if the World Trade Organization decides it violates our membership agreement to do so. (This process known as Codex Alimentarius is already quite far enough along, with prescription-only vitamins already making it onto the market, and herbs like ephedra (and cannabis long before it) having been classified as illegal drugs. Pharmageddon: The Death of Natural Medicine Given this unseemly state of affairs, some believe we are on the precipice of a medical end-of-times or Pharmageddon, if you will, where medicine is no longer directly associated in any way with healing, but rather is a form of mass control and a highly organized means of simultaneously defrauding the public of its wealth and health. After all, what disease has ever been found to be caused by a lack of a drug? Absolutely not! Then why would anyone consider it sound practice to use potentially toxic chemicals as a first-line treatment for conditions that are not caused by a lack of a chemical? To the contrary many diseases are caused exactly by culminative exposure to toxic chemicals that not unlike drugs are biologically alien to the body. We are treating poisoning with poisons! Can we dignify this approach by calling it medicine? Or, is it more accurately described as a form of sorcery? Pharmaceuticals and Human Sacrifice The sole reliance on Pharmaceuticals reveals quite a lot about the agenda underpinning modern medical practice. The Greek word Pharmakon has the following meanings: drug, poison, potion, charm, spell, enchantment. But the origin of the word goes back much farther: A Pharmaks (Greek: ) in Ancient Greek religion was a kind of human scapegoat (a slave, a cripple or a criminal) who was chosen and expelled from the community at times of disaster (famine, invasion or plague) or at times of calendrical crisis, when purification was needed. [Source: Wikipedia] The sacrificial dimension of the Pharmaks carries on in the nostrums and potions later named after this ritualistic object: The term pharmakos later became the term pharmakeus which refers to a drug, spell-giving potion, druggist, poisoner, by extension a magician or a sorcerer. A variation of this term is pharmakon () a complex term meaning sacrament, remedy, poison, talisman, cosmetic, perfume or intoxicant. From this, the modern term pharmacology emerged.[Source: Wikipedia] One no longer has to look to religion for the absolutist claim to truth. Medical science has laid claim to the body in the same way that religions once laid claim to the soul. The physician today albeit a glorified applied pharmacologist has become the priest of the body, capable of influencing the course of life or death by the quality, or combinations, of nostrums (s)he is able to apply to the problem (i.e. patient) at hand. Just as monotheism depends on there being one God, modern medical science depends on the evidence-based concept that there is one truth, and one right way to apply it. This, by implication, gives absolute power to those who would claim to know the difference. Liberation Through Natural Medicine In Benjamin Rushs time. the medical dictatorship of which he spoke had not yet come to pass; and though magical potions like mercury and questionable techniques like bloodletting were used in colonial times, herbs were still considered and employed as legitimate medicines. Even if many wise women herbalists were eliminated as competition by being branded witches and sometimes murdered, the herbs themselves were not categorically demonized because no vast armory of pharmaceutical drugs had yet been created to supplant them. The herbs and foods themselves have now been both vilified as dangerous, and lampooned as completely ineffectual, generating the ridiculous contradiction that we are supposed to be dumb enough to accept as truth: namely, that they are both impotent and unsafe. Given these circumstances, confidence in the safety and efficacy of natural substances in the prevention and treatment of disease has not only waned, but the positive association between food and healing has been outright denied by medical authorities. It is illegal for non-doctors to make health claims for natural substances even if thousands of years of use in folk medicine and a vast emerging body of scientific research now confirms their benefits. You cant say cherries cure gout even if it is true. (Truth is no longer the criteria that decides what you can or cannot say; rather, its who profits more from the information being freely disseminated or censored). I started the website www.GreenMedInfo.com in August 2008 in order to provide free and convenient access to the massive amounts of research that have accumulated on the health benefits of natural substances over the past 50 years. The government database known as Medline (which is freely searchable) contains over 18 million biomedical citations from over 5,000 scientific journals, many of which focus specifically on the therapeutic action of foods, vitamins and spices on serious, even life-threatening disease. I believe that it is only through the free, uncensored and democratic dissemination of health information that we can secure our health freedom; and through speaking truth to power, expose the fraud which is strictly profit-driven pharmaceutical-based medicine. Feel free to explore the 19000 + biomedical citations posted on www.GreenMedInfo.com that vindicate the safety and efficacy of natural substances in the prevention and treatment of disease. RELATED ACTIVIST POST ARTICLE: This article first appeared at GreenMedInfo. Please visit to access their vast database of articles and the latest information in natural health. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 