Health Freedom ** Important ** Please Help ** Can Affect Us All

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There's a bee in my bonnet and I mad! Time is of essence, please make

your voice heard on this matter as it can have a great impact on us

all as it reaches into every facet of alternative health and care.

Seems the FDA is playing (IMO)sneaky. This subtle change can take

away our rights and I thought this was America where we have freedom

of choice. Just received this e-mail from John at Learning

Herbs...........

 

There is a matter that I feel I must bring to your attention. At

first the emails trickled into me, and then flooded. I checked with

many friends I know with herbal websites, and they experienced the

same thing.

 

At first I thought it was a hoax, or perhaps an overreaction. Then,

as I did more research myself, I saw that it was neither a hoax nor

an overreaction.

 

I struggled with sending this to the Herbal Branches list. After all,

I promised to just send herbal lessons. Then, I realized that this IS

an herbal lesson. It's a lesson in how we need to protect our access

to herbs and herbal information. That in this day and age we cannot

take it for granted. AND it is a lesson in how important it is to, as

Susun Weed says, be your own herbal expert.

 

First, I will paste an email I got, then I will tell you what you can

do…

 

Thanks for understanding the importance of the situation we all face

now as people who use herbs. I fe lt it was more important to notify

you than to later be sorry that I didn't. Long term rs know

that in 2 and a half years I have never used this list for such a

reason.

 

 

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FDA Attacks Complementary and Alternative Health Care

 

I just spent three days reading, re-reading, researching and

discussing the proposed FDA guidelines for " Complementary and

Alternative Medicine " with two FDA attorneys. You can download a copy

of this proposal for yourself below.

 

When I first heard about this FDA attack on complementary and

alternative health care, I considered it another " Chicken Little "

rumor. On further study, I'm appalled at the speed with which the

pharmaceutical companies are implementing Codex Alimentarius in the

USA. If you don't suspect the pharmaceutical companies control the

FDA, you may want to research that further by visiting

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org./)

 

This insidious proposal is designed to redefine every complementary

and alternative health care modality and product as " medicine. " This

has direct implications on the services and products provided by

every alternative health care professional. There is no facet of

complementary and alternative health care that is not affected. If

the FDA adopts this proposal, all natural health care would be

illegal even for medical doctors.

 

Essential oils, herbs, herbal remedies, homeopathic remedies,

minerals, nutritional supplements, plant enzymes and vitamins are

redefined in this proposal as " medicine. " Very simply, medicine is

under the jurisdiction of the FDA and, by law, only licensed medical

doctors may prescribe " medicines. " Anybody else who advises,

advocates, counsels, distributes, markets, recommends or suggests

anybody use " medicine " is practicing medicine without a license. This

is a felony in the USA punishable by fines and incarceration.

 

Aromatherapy, auricular therapy,! biofeed back, color therapy,

homeopathy, hypnotism, naturopathy, neurotherapy, nutritional

consulting, reflexology, sound therapy and wellness consulting are

among the alternative health modalities being redefined

as " Alternative Medicine. "

 

This subtle change of vocabulary from " alternative health care "

to " alternative medicine " makes all of these industries subject to

control by the FDA as medicine. Only medical doctors would be allowed

to provide, prescribe and supervise the delivery of these services.

Anybody else who provided any of these services would be practicing

medicine without a license and subject to incarceration and fines.

 

That's the bad news.

 

The good news is we have until April 30, 2007 to voice our opinion

against this proposal to eliminate complementary and alternative

health care in America. Almost 100,000 people have already filed

their objection. According to Dr. Rima Laibow, medical director of

the Natural Therapies Foundation, we need 50 times that many people

to respond by the end of the month.

 

Peace, John Gilbert

 

 

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You can read the actual FDA document here at the FDA web site AND

SUBMIT A RESPONSE… Click here

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/getDocketInf

o.cfm?EC_DOCUMENT_ID=1451 & SORT= & MAXROWS=15 & START=136 & CID= & AGENCY=FDA

 

You can go here to find out how to contact your Senator or

Congressperson to let them know what you think…

http://www.congress.org/

 

Please forward this to your email lists. Use the whole thing or copy

and paste parts of it. Whatever you feel good about.

 

Thanks again for your support in keeping herbs and herbal information

accessible to all.

 

Sincerely,

 

John M. Gallagher, L.Ac.

 

http://www.LearningHerbs.com

 

If I have repeated this subject, please forgive. I hold dear the

right to choose my own health alternatives and strongly object anyone

telling me what I must choose with my health.

Thanks for your time,

MystyxWynds

PS - It was Alternative Health that saved my life 14 years ago where

tradional medicine could not help.