VIbrations

A few days ago I was introduced to FCT. http://www.yurkovsky.com/
I found the reading fascinating for it claimed that all medicines, mainstream or alternative fail in the end with chronic illnesses. That we should be using physics to discover the underpinnings of the chronic illness. It made some sense and by bio- resonance testing the offending toxins could be discovered and techniques were available to get these toxins out of the body. Made sense to me.

I inquired more into FCT Field Control Therapy and the person to contact told me he was no longer using FCT but now http://www.nutrienergetics.com/

I do think the concepts are valid but on getting this reply it makes me also think that the system is hard to work with in some ways for having found the Toxin that is canting the system they then use Homeopathy and other things they rid you of it but then they go to the next Toxin and slowly by removing the offending Toxins the body becomes symptonless.
I am sure it is effective depending on the practitioner and his understandings of both his machine for testing and what it is saying and then what to give to move the body to a better place.
We are complex entities you and I and everyone else.

When I was a teenager I was hitchhiking from Toronto to Hamilton. I was picked up by a minister I thought. He told me that he had been a protestant Minister but now had got it all sorted out and was a Catholic Priest. I held my tongue as long as I could but just had to reply, "I hope you keep looking."

I think that the ideas I read are correct but the execution of the ideas are still being perfected. Still worth a closer examination and if I had many chronic illnesses that were bothering me I would give it a shot - perhaps. All depends on the healer.

So much we ingest is bad. Here is an example

Dangers of the artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose).

This was recognized around 2000 and I believe all the bad stuff: sucralose, is no longer in our food chain.

What is worrying is how badly it must have been tested to be on the market in the first place. So many drugs are not tested correctly and have dangerous side effects. The law suits against the major manufactureres attest to that.

For example many of the energy drinks today are full of artificial energy. I wonder who really looks at them in terms of good or bad for people. Time will tell.

We are being pushed as humans taking in huge amounts of information from our computers and TVs. Much busier brains. Multitasking and no ways to slow down to rest. My #6 remedy in the pocket pack and kit is Coffea Cruda 30c which is great to slow the mind when it is racing whether during the day wondering what to do next or when sleep will not come because your mind is still fully engaged.

1.1 billion to compare drugs and other ways of treating specific conditions

U.S. Economic stimulus to provide substantial amounts money for the federal government to compare the effectiveness of different treatments for the same illness.

Researchers are to get $1.1 billion to compare drugs, medical devices, surgery and other ways of treating specific conditions, and advise President Obama and Congress on how to spend the money.

The program responds to a growing concern that doctors have little or no solid evidence of the value of many treatments.

Unless the researchers compare current medical treatments for things like stress, depression, sleeplessness, and chronic ailments like arthritis with other ways like Homeopathic and Bach Flower Remedies they will be of no real service to the country and its health system.

To compare failed treatments against failed treatments will not serve anyone. It would seem from all I have read that having decided the medical system is the best system they can only test inside that paradigm. This is the ostrich with its head in the sand.

The pharmacopoeia of the United States includes Homeopathy along with all medicines and is recognized and so should be examined without prejudice. Homeopathy wa after respected member of the medical community in 1900 with hospitals and schools and clinics across the country until the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies spent millions and still do to discredit the concepts and ability of Homeopathy.

Compare the efficacy, side effects and cost of medicine and treatments against Homeopathy and Bach Flower remedies and let us all look at patient satisfaction, amelioration, and cost.

In the end it’s all about the cost of what we are prescribed and does it work?

The program can be of great use to the American people if in fact it is allowed to go outside the narrow confines of medicine.

St. Valentine Day. Dawning of tht Age of Aquarius

This morning I got this from my brother Henry who is living in Brazil by the sea right now. I wanted to share it with you as it has hopes and dreams for a better future and harps back to the Musical Hair and its famous song Aquarius.

Subject: The dawning of the age of Aquarius....

an important valentines day!
so sending you this!
always with love and good wishes!

O alisun

The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius:
A Rare Astrological Concentration

Jude Currivan, Ph.D.

The most profound spiritual traditions of ancient times

perceived the manifest world, at all scales of existence as

being generated and pervaded by a cosmic trinity of active,

passive and neutral principles - the divine essence of the

masculine, feminine and child. The Vedic sages of ancient

India saw the male/active life-force energy they called the

pingala and the female/passive energy they called the ida

weaving around and through our chakras and the child/neutral

energy they called the shushumna as channeling up through

them.

When these divine masculine and feminine energies are

balanced and so able to fully 'birth' the divine child energies

within us, the ancient sages saw the so-called kundalini energy

that otherwise lies dormant at the base of the spine, surge

through us enabling us to fully embody our divine nature.


The purpose of the sacred marriage between the divine

feminine and masculine that the ancient peoples, such as

those of Malta, enacted in their temples was thus not only

to bring cosmic harmony and fertility to their land but

within themselves. For such balance enables the energetic

activation or 'birth' of the divine child within us

and the attainment of enlightenment.


When this cosmic trinity of consciousness is harmonized and

fully expressed within us, we are truly 'healed' and

'whole' as embodied by the universal symbol of the

caduceus as a representation of healing from earliest times.


For millennia, only the highest adepts understood and have

attained such wholeness. But elders and mystics around the

world are saying that now is the time, when we have evolved

to a point where we are all able to awaken our inner divinity.

This is our spiritual destiny at the dawning of the Age of

Aquarius.



End of This Age, courtesy of San Francisco Sentinel

In mid February, we are offered cosmic support to this

re-membering of who we really are, by a rare astrological

concentration that brings together a number of planets

together with the North Node - denoting higher purpose - in

Aquarius. And which energizes and inspires the possibility

for transcendental breakthrough and healing.


We measure our global sense of both space (longitude) and

time (universal time - UT or GMT) from the prime meridian

located at Greenwich, England. We can perceive the

collective influence of this momentous astrological event by

looking at the alignment from this globally

'centered' perspective. When we do, something

extraordinary and exquisite emerges.


At dawn on 14th February the day dedicated to St Valentine,

the patron saint of Love, the Moon in Libra enters the

seventh house of relationships. And Jupiter and Mars are aligned

in Aquarius in the twelfth house of spiritual transformation.

Forty years ago, the intuitive words of a song called

Aquarius, brought the dawning of the new age into our

collective awareness:

When the Moon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars.

Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars.

At dawn on 14th February the Cosmos actually embodies this

perfect alignment to support our collective manifestation of

love and peace and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.


The Aquarian chart of 14th February reveals an incredible

concentration of cosmic influences blending with the

energies of Aquarius in the twelfth house. Expansive Jupiter

and energetic Mars are aligned with the higher purpose of

the North Node. The presence of Chiron the wounded healer

offers us the opportunity to heal the schisms that have

separated us for so long. Neptune emphasizes collective

humanitarian movements and the co-creation of social

justice. And20the presence of the radiant Sun enlightens the

entire alignment.

Mercury also in the twelfth house but just beyond the cusp

in Capricorn, allies with transformational Pluto to structures and

institutions.


The Moon in Libra in the seventh house emphasizes

harmonious real-ationships.


Venus in Aries in the first house energizes and empowers

dynamic co-creativity.


And whilst Saturn the great task master in opposition to

Uranus the unexpected awakener is suggesting an ongoing

confrontation as the dregs of the unsustainable old paradigm

reluctantly give way to the untested hope of the new, their

placements in Virgo and Pisces brings practical altruism and

visionary inspiration to the transition.


Alignment view from the horizon:


At 7.25am on 14th February - and for the 18 minutes of the

alignment, I invite you, in the universal heart, to add your

own intention for love and peace and to co-create the

dawning of the Age of Aquarius to that of the Cosmos. In

whatever way feels appropriate for you, you may choose to

align with7.25am (UT) or 7.25am your own local time

energizing a wave of intention that will surge around the

Earth.


Having searched for over a thousand years, I can find no

other alignments in the past of this incredible

significance. But amazingly, at one moment in time nearly

fifty years ago, the collective voices of our ancient

ancestors seem to have been given such a cosmic voice to

energetically seed this coming Age and the birth of the

Aquarian human.


In 1962 at the same time on the same day, as 2009, Jupiter

and Mars were in Aquarius in the twelfth house and the Moon

in the seventh house. But then the awesome concentration of

planets that energize the 2009 alignment was missing.


And instead of the North Node (higher purpose) being

aligned with Jupiter and Mars as it is in 2009, it was in

opposition.


What this means is that back in 1962 it was the so-called

south node rather than the north node that was aligned with

Jupiter and Mars.


The south node represents what we bring in from the past.

So in 1962 the potential for us the birth the Age of Aquarius
came through from our collective race memory - but

only now are we able to fully manifest its higher purpose.


In 1962 we essentially took a collective in-breath of

possibility and now with the cosmic support of the Aquarian

alignment of 14th February 2009 we are able to take the

out-breath and make it happen.


The second verse of the song Aquarius is;


Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding

No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions

Magic crystal revelation
And the minds true liberation

Aquarius!

Aquarius!

IDENTIFYING A STROKE - SIMPLE AND LIFESAVING

Marty sends me jokes. Many are funny and he is a nice person. Martysr@charter.net
Here is something that is worth knowing that is not so funny.

I forward a lot of stuff; as a triple stroke survivor--this isn't funny but I forward in the hope you'll never have even 'one' stroke. Marty


STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.


STROKE IDENTIFICATION

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a
stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally
reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He
said the trick was getting a stroke recognized,
diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically
cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the '3'
steps, STR . Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to
identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness
spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer
secognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a
stroke by asking three simple questions:

S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE
SENTENCE (Coherently)
(i.e. It is sunny out today.)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these
tasks, call emergency number immediately and
describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your
Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the
person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue
is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other,that
is also an indication of a stroke.

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this
e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at
least one life will be saved.


I have done my part...will you?

99% of Flu Viruses Resistant to Tamiflu: WHAT TO DO?

This was sent to me in a weekly newsletter by Homeopathic Educational Services. A great web site and a wonderful source of information. Dana Ullman who manages the site and a store and publishing house is one of the pillars of American Homeopathy.

According to the New York Times (January 8, 2008), "Virtually all the dominant strain of flu in the United States this season is resistant to the leading antiviral drug Tamiflu, and scientists and health officials are trying to figure out why." Such problems are inevitably from a questionable medical paradigm that seeks to attack microbes rather than work to strengthen the body's own immune and defense system!

Concerned about the FLU?

So are we...and our first shipment of the new version of Influenzinum has arrived!

A lot of our customers have told us that they have had great experiences using homeopathic doses of the most recent flu viruses (Influenzinum 9C) to defend against getting the flu. This medicine is homeopathic doses of 3 of the newest versions of the flu virus (according to the Pasteur Institute in Paris). The most popular protocol is to take 1 dose of this remedy every week for 4 weeks and then to take the fifth dose 30 days after the fourth dose is taken.

Effective Flu Treatment!
Make certain to have some OSCILLOCOCCINUM in your home. "Oscillo" is a homeopathic dose (200C) made from the heart and liver of a duck, and because ducks are known to be carriers of various flu viruses, it is not surprising that 3 large double-blind studies have confirmed its efficacy in the treatment of the flu. We provide a special discount for their 3-pack set as well as their 6-pack set of medicines. There IS good reason that this medicine is so popular throughout Europe and now the U.S.!

The main ingredient in Oscillococcinum is Anas Barariae 200C It is the #3 remedy in the Hollywood Survival Kit and it works a charm.

Complete New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/health/09flu.html?ref=us

America is coming to terms with its Health Care problems

This New York times article is illuminating for it shows that Americans are beginning to show their growing distrust of both drugs and doctors. I am always hopeful that many are turning to Homeopathy for help as it is so effective and has not side effects.

Behind the Health Spending Data

Published: January 7, 2009

Spending on health care in the United States grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, according to government analysts — a sliver of good news for those worried about the relentless rise in health care costs. But buried within the overall statistics was sobering evidence that health costs continue to be a pressing concern that can only be remedied through deep-seated reform in the delivery of health services.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported this week that total health care spending rose 6.1 percent in 2007, slightly less than the growth of 6.7 percent in 2006. Even so, it continued to expand faster than the overall economy, reaching a total of $2.2 trillion in 2007, or 16.2 percent of the gross domestic product, a record.

The chief reason for the overall slowdown was much slower growth in spending on prescription drugs. Retail spending on prescription drugs rose only 4.9 percent in 2007. That was the lowest rate in more than four decades, well below the 8.6 percent growth the previous year and the average of 9.4 percent a year from 2001 to 2006.

Government analysts attributed the deceleration to increased use of generic drugs as many brand-name blockbusters lost patent protection, as well as to slower growth in prescription drug prices and safety concerns that depressed sales of some drugs. The big uncertainty is whether the slowdown will continue or is a temporary phenomenon.

In contrast to prescription drugs, spending for most other health care services, including payments to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home health services, grew at about the same rate or faster in 2007 as in 2006. Only the growth rate in spending for physician services declined, partly because Congress reduced Medicare payments to doctors for imaging services that many experts believe are widely overused.

Given that prescription drugs make up a relatively small slice of total spending on health care — some 10 percent — it will be imperative to reduce the growth rates in spending on hospital care, nursing care and other medical services if health care is to become more affordable.

FDA says Mercury in fish is safe LOL

This is a great article and a fine response from Dr. Mercola who I read often. Have a read and beware.

FDA Tells Pregnant Women it's OK to Consume Mercury!

The U.S. FDA is urging the government to amend its advisory that women and children should limit how much fish they eat. They argue that the benefits of seafood outweigh the health risks and that most people should eat more fish, even if it contains mercury.

However, the FDA's recommendations have alarmed scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, who in internal memos criticized them as "scientifically flawed and inadequate" and said they fell short of the "scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by the EPA."

The FDA sent its draft report as part of an effort to update the existing health advisory. The report argued that nutrients in fish, including omega-3 fatty acids, selenium and other minerals could boost a child's IQ by three points.

The FDA and the EPA both play a role in protecting the public from mercury contamination. The EPA investigates and regulates mercury and other contaminants in recreationally caught fish, while the FDA regulates mercury in seafood sold in markets and restaurants.

Sources:

• Washington Post December 12, 2008

Here at Last — New Krill for Women

Find Out More

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

The FDA is hard at work again, protecting the health and welfare of big businesses that provide its funding. Four years ago, the EPA and FDA issued a joint advisory warning women of childbearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children to stop eating swordfish, shark, tilefish and king mackerel, and to limit their consumption of other mercury-contaminated fish to a maximum of 12 ounces per week. Now the FDA is trying to backpedal against a raging river, stating the benefits of eating more than 12 ounces a week of fatty fish like tuna outweigh the health hazards of mercury. Folks, don’t believe this nonsense for even one second. There are plenty of studies showing that mercury contamination from fish consumption constitutes a health hazard for mothers and their babies, such as the 2007 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives, showing fish consumption is positively associated with premature delivery. There are also plenty of real-life examples of people who suffered serious health problems from eating too much fish. Actor Jeremy Piven springs to mind, as he abruptly ended his Broadway run last week due to mercury poisoning from his frequent sushi habit. But how much is too much? GotMercury.org can help you answer that question with their handy mercury calculator. For example, if a woman weighing 145 pounds ate 12 ounces (about 2 fillets) of yellowfin tuna per week, her weekly mercury intake would be 240 percent over the current EPA “safe” limit! Multiply that over the course of a year, and you surely will not be looking at a health benefit from omega-3, but rather a health disaster from mercury poisoning. In response to the FDA’s plan to rescind the mercury in fish advisories for women and children, the Mercury Policy Project released an expanded case study, documenting 23 people who got sick from eating too much mercury-laden fish. "Mercury levels in swordfish and tuna sold in the U. S. are sky-high," says Teri Shore, Program Director for the GotMercury Project of Turtle Island Restoration Network in Forest Knolls, CA. "And now the government and tuna companies want to keep mothers and children completely in the dark about it." Dr. Jane Hightower, M.D. of San Francisco has even chronicled the seafood industry's interference in public health policy in her book Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison. "We've known for years that mercury is toxic to the brain and other organs in varying amounts depending on the individual's status. For FDA to suddenly change the equation to say that benefits outweigh risks is like once again declaring the earth is flat after discovering it was round. "Patients in my private medical practice, as well as at other doctor's offices around the country, have been diagnosed with mercury toxicity from eating too much fish. Ignoring the presence of a known neurotoxin in one's diet is simply asking for trouble," says Dr. Hightower. There is no doubt in my mind that the benefits you get from eating fish and seafood – especially while pregnant – do NOT outweigh the risk of mercury toxicity to yourself or your developing child. Mercury is a real toxin and brain poison that can and will cause serious damage to your central nervous system. Sorting Through the Benefits and Risks of Fish First of all, animal-based omega-3 fats are absolutely vital for the complete development of your baby’s brain during pregnancy and the first two years of life. Of that there’s no doubt, and the FDA are correct in their assertion on that point. Being deficient in omega-3 has also been shown to increase your risk of premature delivery. BUT, as the study in Environmental Health Perspectives shows, so does being exposed to mercury from fish consumption… There is really no reason to argue for higher fish consumption, or urge people to choose between two evils. Why? Because there are SAFE ALTERNATIVES to fish! Why expose yourself to toxic heavy metals when you can get the goodness of omega-3 from safe, clean sources, other than fish and seafood? I’m talking about krill oil and fish oil, of course. It is obvious that the experts responsible for generating this recommendation have a similar appreciation of the amazing benefits that omega-3 fats have for your health. Unfortunately, I believe these experts are in denial and do not have a full appreciation of the serious dangers of heavy metal and chemical contamination, which has migrated into most commercially available seafood. Additionally, newer research suggests that optimizing your vitamin D levels into therapeutic ranges will upregulate intracellular glutathione production and help detoxify mercury. So make sure you get your vitamin D blood levels checked! Why You Should NOT Eat Fish The problem with high fish consumption is that most of your commercially available fish are highly contaminated with mercury, which can cause as much brain damage as omega-3 can bring health benefits. An alarming 40 tons of mercury are released into the United States alone every year due to burning coal to generate electricity. Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants moves through the air, is deposited in water, and finds its way into fish, accumulating especially in fish that are higher up the food chain. Fish like tuna, sea bass, marlin, and halibut show some of the worst contamination, but dozens of species and thousands of water bodies have been seriously polluted. As a result, if you eat a lot of fish during pregnancy, or even as little as a single serving of a highly contaminated fish, you can expose your developing child to excessive levels of mercury. The toxic metal can cross through your placenta to harm your child’s rapidly developing nervous system, including your baby’s brain. Some fish are more problematic than others. These are some of the ones you should definitely avoid if you are pregnant or nursing: Tuna steaks Canned tuna Sea bass Oysters (Gulf of Mexico) Marlin Halibut Pike Walleye White croaker Largemouth bass Shark Swordfish For a more comprehensive report on fish recommendations and dangers, please review my previous report on this topic. In a perfect world, fish would be a near-perfect food -- high in protein and full of essential nutrients and fats. But our world is not perfect, and, sadly, neither is our fish supply. Therefore, I do not recommend eating any fish -- unless you have lab results in your hand that can attest to its purity. Safe Alternatives to Fish I believe supplementing with fish oil and krill oil is a safe and effective way to get all the health benefits of omega-3, without any of the risks of mercury. Eating smaller fish, like sardines, is also an option, as they are far less likely to be contaminated. If you insist on eating typical, store-bought fish, however, and want to know more about the extent of your mercury exposure, I urge you, for the sake of your health and that of your family, to check out the online mercury calculator at GotMercury.org.

Twas the night before...

Here it is another Christmas about to happen and I am up north in Restoule in winter white and not too cold. It has been a week and a few days of R and R and slowly I am coming up for air and thinking about all the things I want to talk about. But not tonight for it is time to sweep the roof and get ready for Santa.
We are so lucky to be humans and alive to experience our world although it is not easy all the time or pleasant all the time but there are moments of great joy and great awakening and great love.

I wish all a Merry Christmas and hope each is with loved ones and enjoying the festivities of giving and receiving.

thoughts on Vaccinations.

I found this article in - http://www.hpathy.com/ which is a great source of all information. I am so pleased to recommend it to everyone. Books free to download, massive amounts of information for all people from novice to professional and articles like the one below. Have a read and know this article supports the blog earlier today about the big Pharma advertising which disseminates false information and information that hints at things without proof. We are being bilked by the most sophisticated and devious Snake Oil salesmen in history.

Homeopathy 4 Everyone - Editorial
November, 2008
A Personal Decision - Alan V. Schmukler
The question of whether to vaccinate is a personal and often difficult decision. One has to weigh the danger of the disease and the chance of contracting it, against the dangers of the vaccine. Neither side in the debate can guarantee 100% protection. On the one hand, a vaccine might protect you from a disease you were going to get and maybe die of. Benjamin Franklin opposed variolation (smallpox vaccination) and his unvaccinated son died of smallpox. He subsequently changed his mind and expressed regret for his former position. On the other hand, vaccines have been associated with everything from autism, retardation and immune suppression to death. In the U.S., the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (U.S.) has paid out over a billion dollars to parents of children injured by vaccines. Vaccine manufacturers, while insisting on the safety of their product, have steadfastly demanded immunity from lawsuit. So how does one make this decision? The answer is, by becoming knowledgeable about all aspects of this debate, including alternatives to vaccination. Homeopathy has for many years been used to prevent illness (homeoprophylaxis). Hahnemann used Belladonna successfully to prevent scarlet fever. During a smallpox outbreak in Iowa, 1902, the homeopathic remedy Variolinum proved 97% effective in preventing the disease. Thousands of people in Buenos Aires received the remedy Lathyrus sativa during a 1957 polio outbreak. Not a single case of polio developed in those so treated. In 1974, 18,640 children in Brazil were given Meningococcinum to prevent meningococcal meningitis. The protection rate was 97 %. Homeopath and researcher Isaac Golden has developed protocols for preventing illness with homeopathy (see interview in this edition and links to previous articles). While there is some debate about the mechanism of homeoprophylaxis, it clearly works. Homeopaths also use constitutional treatment as an effective alternative to vaccination. Aside from prevention, childhood diseases like measles can be treated easily and safely with homeopathy, which also helps prevent the sequelae. Having said all this, there are still many people who don’t know about homeopathy or have any practical access to homeopathic treatment. The first vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner (1796) who used cowpox to prevent smallpox. Pasteur developed a post- bite inoculation for rabies in 1885. While these first vaccines were rather simple, today’s vaccines contain many excipients that are highly toxic and can cause more harm than the diseases they are intended to prevent. These ingredients include Mercury, Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Phenol, MSG, Monkey kidney tissue, Chick embryonic fibroblasts etc. (see this month’s cartoon) The production of vaccines is a multibillion dollar business, where the bottom line of profits often conflicts with the desire to do good. Consider the issue of Thimerosal, the mercury added to preserve shelf life. In the U.S., government hearings determined that it was harmful and forbid it to be added to any future vaccines (after years of doing damage ). However they permitted vaccine manufacturers to continue selling their stockpiled Thimerosal laden vaccines, a supply which some estimate will last over a decade. In the end, you must make your own informed decision. We hope this month’s commentary and resources will help you do that.

Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research

I could not help myself but to publish this article for it shows clearly where the Pharmaceuticals spend money and it is to get you to buy their products. It is not about health but about selling and other priorities like denagrating all other forms of healing. America should take pharma ads off Television and force the pharmaceuticals to use the money to promote health and non invasive techniques of healing. It is clear that the way we are going with pharmaceuticals and pesticides and herbicides that soon we will be unable to support the human race for lack of drugs to keep us alive. This is a sad statement but I feel we are coming closer every day to this state of affairs. When will the governments of the world come to realize this. The Pharmaceuticals are doing nothing but making money and destroying our health systems, our hospitals and our lives.

This article was published in AME Science.

Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research

Tue, Jan 8, 2008

Health, Studies

A drug company is a commercial business whose focus is to research, develop, market and/or distribute drugs, most commonly in the context of healthcare; from wikipedia. But according to a study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry’s claim.

But how could this be you might ask yourself. Well the answer is fairly easy; regardless of its purpose of helping people it is a bussiness and thus it has to make money and the way of making money is by advertising more and researching less. The researchers’ estimate is based on the systematic collection of data directly from the industry and doctors during 2004, which shows the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent 24.4% of the sales dollar on promotion, versus 13.4% for research and development, as a percentage of US domestic sales of US$235.4 billion.

In case you are wondering who made this study well the research is co-authored by PhD candidate Marc-André Gagnon, who led the study and Joel Lexchin, a long-time researcher of pharmaceutical promotion, Toronto physician, and Associate Chair of York’s School of Health Policy & Management in the Faculty of Health.

“In our paper, we make the case for the need for a new estimate of promotional expenditures by the U.S. pharmaceutical industry,” says Gagnon. “We then explain how we used proprietary databases to construct a revised estimate and finally, we compare our results with those from other data sources to argue in favor of changing the priorities of the industry.”

This study is very important as it shows the most accurate image yet of the promotional workings of the pharmaceutical industry, says Lexchin. But even this could be wrong a bit because there are other advertising campaigns which could not be taken into consideration such as ghost-writing and off-label promotion so in fact these companies are probably spending more than twice advertising rather then researching. As well, note the authors, the number of meetings for promotional purposes has dramatically increased in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, jumping from 120,000 in 1998 to 371,000 in 2004, further supporting their findings that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry is marketing-driven.

THE FLU SHOT IS A MONEY GRAB AND DANGEROUS

When enough reputed Doctor come forward as Dr. Miller has and say that Flu shots are not supported by any research and in fact are dangerous then we may wake up as a nation. We will come to understand the Fear Factor played over and over again by the Pharmaceutical industry is creating a market and costing us billions of dollars. The country is reeling over health costs and the health system failing due to its cost and much of the money is going to all those high profile drug companies who say they are doing good when in fact they are only doing good to their own pocketbooks.

Here is a statement I found in Dr. Mercola's fine weekly magazine.http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/09/prominent-physician-advises-against-flu-shots.aspx

This is a talk about vitamin D and how it helps in many ways to strengthen us to fight disease including the flu.

Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington, recommends avoiding the flu shot and taking vitamin D instead. According to Dr. Miller, “Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot.”

Health officials say that every winter 36,000 people will die from it. But the National Vital Statistics Reports compiled by the CDC show that only 1,138 deaths a year occur due to influenza alone -- more than 34,000 of the “36,000″ flu deaths are actually pneumonic and cardiovascular deaths.

There is also a lack of evidence that young children benefit from flu shots. In fact, a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo. But there is also a risk of harm from the flu vaccine itself, particularly from the mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde it contains.

The Drug companies should be forced to repay governments for their inappropriate touting of flu shots as a preventative. The FDA should not allow the Drug Companies to put ads on Television. America is one of the few countries in the world that allow Drug ads on TV.

Dr. Edward Bach's Flower Remedies as he saw them

Dr. Bach stated that the real diseases of man are pride, cruelty, hate, selfishness, ignorance, instability and greed. His flower remedies have a strong impact with toxic emotions like resentment, guilt, hate and the feeling of being a victim. The flower remedies heal by rising the vibratory level of consciousness, therefore allowing us to perceive our superior nature. The flowers allow us to infuse our being with the particular virtue we need and automatically erasing the negative cause of the disorder producing pain. Dr. Bach passed away m peace in 1936. To this day, Queen Elizabeth II uses his flower remedies.

I found this in my reading and I am very happy to post it for it tells you in a nut shell what the remedies are for and how Bach perceived them to work. I can only say that they work and cannot dare to know why in the end but the above is as good an explanation as I could hope for. I do know we are mind driven and spirit seems to be present as some part of brain. So much for schooling.

A sad day for real Democracy with rules.

I am hugely disappointed that we will have to wait almost 2 months for a change of Government and the Gov Gen. decided to give the conservatives a break and suspend parliament. Prorogation ends a parliamentary session and allows the government to start again at a later date with a fresh throne speech. It typically happens when a government has exhausted its legislative agenda, not before it's even begun. How can this happen except through powerful forces swaying the Governor General. Are all her advisers in the same camp?

It is interesting to note here that the papers and media slammed Dion on his camera and some minor focus problems and perhaps too that a couple of times he stumbled. They did not comment on his words which were very reassuring. He would make a great leader I believe but the money men are against him. It is obvious in the slant of the criticism and the calls of it being undemocratic plus the calls to fear of chaos and not the issues of a failed minority at all.

We will see how hard the coalition can fight to either get great programs or bring the government down in this next little while and once the new budget is released. The coalition have the upper hand but only if the people respond and support them. The people, the 65% of the population can win this way If the Government does fall the other parties will rise higher in the next election and make even a stronger coalition.

We need consensus and not conflict in our political world. We have to somehow redirect our energies to get government and our economy back to the people and away from the powers of money that are manipulating us.

Count the dollars spent and the coffers of the Conservative party. They are supported to rule and can win no matter how bad and we see this in the Pharmaceutical power block as well, in their similar ad campaigns that spread fear of change and their ability to hoodwink the public. The Pharmaceutical subvert the media through the millions they pour into it in ads. The money men own the media and are pleased as it all makes money. Our fight has to be on You Tube and in the public web media that they do not control. So membership in Face Book and My Space groups are important and necessary. If we are active we will win.

Onward and upward!
Prevail with purpose!

Hahnemann Homeopathy and Bach Flower Remedies and my thoughts

I was in the shower and began to think about how they interrelate. I really started with Arnica and Bach Rescue Remedy. Homeopathy diagnoses using physical, mental and emotional symptoms. Bach really deals with mental and emotional symptoms.
In acute situations Homeopathy is peerless. In emotional turmoil the Rescue Remedy is peerless.
I opine in chronics that it is a bit different for there the Homeopathic remedies are working with more symptoms directly.
I realize that if all disease and dis-ease are caused by a mental, spiritual split then we should be using it long before we see physical symptoms. Dis-ease, out of sorts. Lets examine my idea. It really starts at the beginning.

The trauma of birth, the shocks of light and sound and air. The using of the lungs. The fussy or angry or weepy or lethargic or frightened child, the slow toddler, the antisocial younger brother, the picked on student and we could go on with these emotional and mental space we get ourselves into for a long time. These are all the forerunners, dis-ease and they cause disease. Not all disease nor all genetic problems but the arthritis, asthma, and eczema to name common ones even medicine recognizes the psychological factors in the management of them. Using Bach flowers for the different mental, emotional stresses, can create in us a state that will avoid illnesses of many kinds.

Bach believed that the mind spirit rift when healed would eliminate disease in the body therefore if we pay early attention to the emotional problems large and small we will reduce if not eliminate more serious problems. this is true throughout life and certainly in my later life I find the flower remedies true to their promises. Fears of all kinds, tensions that drive us mad, situations that seem hopeless, feelings of insecurity are all problems that I have quickly cleared up using flower remedies. They are awesome.

With proper diet, exercise and rest our physical body can do all its own work to maintain our muscles and rest for our systems.
Homeopathy takes care of our acute situations and Bach really is a defense of all our emotional situations from birth to death.

We inherit a starting point from our parents - life. It is a collection of the two people who begat you. From there we grow and how we are handled at the beginning and then how we handle the realities of being human is what we become. We are the creators and what we believe we create and become. It plays out in every way. Without a cognizant mind we grope no better than a one cell creature.

Life is what we make it. How we think and about what. How we deal with the physical and emotional stress of being alive. We are alive and in charge. Both Bach and Hahnemann have added immensely to our abilities to care for ourselves with remedies that have no side effects and support the body to heal itself

What cost life? It could be less.

I am continually surprised to read the New York Times and see articles like this that cannot figure out how we should deal with people and the rising cost of Health Care. It is very clear that we are in the hands of the Pharmaceuticals and our doctors are co-opted by them. They rule our lives more and more and if they have their way we will be in their pockets from birth to death.

Systematically they fight all other methods of healing spending millions of dollars world wide to give all but their own a bad name.
The article below prompted me to remember that I am here to encourage people to look at Homeopathy and its ability to deal with chronic ailments. I spent less than $100 over a ten year period to keep my arthritis, that started in my left wrist and hand, under control. Even now I take one tiny globule every day or two at the cost of less than $100 per year and most of that is for the couple of visits to my Homeopathic doctor to make sure I do not need some other remedy. Cheap, cheap, cheap. And effective and now at 74 most people would never guess that I have arthritis all over my body from toes to shoulders. I do not have pain and I know when to take another globule by the rise of one or another symptom. Not only that the remedy works on my mental and emotional space as well and keeps me emotionally stable and energized to carry on my life in the best possible way.
I am a layman with no formal training in Homeopathy other than through experience on film sets. Film sets are very stressful places with dis-ease and diseases and injuries and the latest flu and colds finding easy targets as crews work long hours. Those long hours play havoc with the body and wears us down and soon we are vulnerable to catching whatever is going around. I use my remedies with crews very successfully for acute situations. I have everyday books to diagnose and those books are clear and simple to understand. And the action of the remedies is sometimes so fast that it is hard to believe.
I had a chap come to me with his mouth full of blisters and scratching like mad at his cheek. I opened
Homeopathic Self-Care
The Quick & Easy Guide for the Whole Family
Written by Robert Ullman, N.D. and Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D., M.S.W

I looked at the allergy page and went to the section called listen to. That took about one minute. I handed it to the suffering man and he quickly read the sentences and after each sentence was a suggested remedy. He found one with symptoms of blisters and terrible itching and asked for the remedy Rhus Tox. I got it from my bag for it is a common remedy and he took it. In less than 5 minutes he was totally clear of all the problem. The whole episode took about 10 minutes. We were both in awe of the effectiveness. The only other thing we could have done was rush to the hospital and hope they would have the expensive pharmaceuticals to deal with the attack. I actually pondered if I should just get in the car with him and rush to the hospital for I was afraid his wind pipe would soon be affected. I am glad I went to my books and remedies.

So read below where we are in our society. Completely at the mercy of the Pharmaceuticals who's medicines often have terrible side effects and begin us on the slippery slope of being in their hands. It is a shame articles like the one below are having to be written and ordinary people have to be held hostage with the idea of how much is life worth.

There is lots to read below and places to go to read a Times series on the subject of costs and efficacy.

New York Times Wednesday December 3, 2008

British Balance Gain Against the Cost of the Latest Drugs

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: December 2, 2008

RUISLIP, England — When Bruce Hardy’s kidney cancer spread to his lung, his doctor recommended an expensive new pill from Pfizer. But Mr. Hardy is British, and the British health authorities refused to buy the medicine. His wife has been distraught.

Hazel Thompson for The New York Times

Bruce and Joy Hardy of Ruislip, England, are awaiting a British agency’s reconsideration of its rejection of a medicine sought by Mr. Hardy, a kidney cancer patient.

The Evidence Gap

Setting a Price on Life

Articles in this series will explore medical treatments used despite scant proof they work and will consider steps toward medicine based on evidence.

All Articles in the Series »

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Drug Spending on the Rise

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The Cost of Care

“Everybody should be allowed to have as much life as they can,” Joy Hardy said in the couple’s modest home outside London.

If the Hardys lived in the United States or just about any European country other than Britain, Mr. Hardy would most likely get the drug, although he might have to pay part of the cost. A clinical trial showed that the pill, called Sutent, delays cancer progression for six months at an estimated treatment cost of $54,000.

But at that price, Mr. Hardy’s life is not worth prolonging, according to a British government agency, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. The institute, known as NICE, has decided that Britain, except in rare cases, can afford only £15,000, or about $22,750, to save six months of a citizen’s life.

British authorities, after a storm of protest, are reconsidering their decision on the cancer drug and others.

For years, Britain was almost alone in using evidence of cost-effectiveness to decide what to pay for. But skyrocketing prices for drugs and medical devices have led a growing number of countries to ask the hardest of questions: How much is life worth? For many, NICE has the answer.

Top health officials in Austria, Brazil, Colombia and Thailand said in interviews that NICE now strongly influences their policies.

“All the middle-income countries — in Eastern Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and all over Asia — are aware of NICE and are thinking about setting up something similar,” said Dr. Andreas Seiter, a senior health specialist at the World Bank.

So what is your health worth? Do you want a price tag on it? Get smart and look to other ways to heal yourself. Step out of the paradigm of the Pharmaceutical world. Homeopathy and the Bach Flower remedies for mental and emotional problems are two of the ways to do this with remedies that are effective and have no side effects.

FEAR - THE NEW WORLD EPIDEMIC

Over the last few years our lives have been driven by fear. Fear after 911, fear of SARS, Fear of Flu and have spent billions on vaccines which are questionable as to their efficacy and can have dangerous side effects. In some states it is mandatory to take flu shots if you want your child to go to school and in one state even preschoolers are obliged to have them. The pharmaceuticals of the world use fear continually to get people to buy their wares. It is a shame but true.
Because of the problems with our current economy and the downturn in the stock market our fear is poverty, even destitution and abandonment. It has thrown a negative pall on our entire society. It chokes our media. We are swallowed by it.

On Wednesday I went to the Toronto Sick Kids hospital Toastmasters Club open house. It was great fun. I can see why so many men and women use the club to hone their public speaking skills. It would be good for me to go regularly and improve my speaking skills.

The guest speaker was Marilyn Daniels MA,MEd,CPCC who is the Principal of VisionLegacy Coaching and who coaches business people and normal folks like you and I, how to be a positive influence in the world we live in. Her topic was Creative Chaos in Uncertain times. It was fascinating.

With the recent financial problems the world is having Dr. Daniels broke down the kinds of personal views we have at the present time.
Some feel the downturn is part of a normal cycle.
Others are negative and some hopeless and their language supports this: meltdown, depression, collapse, are some of the words they use to describe where we find ourselves right now.
There are many who believe we are in new and unknown territory due to Technology and how it has changed so many of our financial dealings. The future is truly unknown.

I was a cage clerk in a Brokerage house in 1953 and if you bought stock I was the clerk who sent the stock certificates out to you after they were processed. Now all the functions of trading are on line and even the exchanges are more and more out in space and not in huge markets with men and women running about buying and selling.

Fear influences our psychology. Our daily performance at work and our relationships at home suffer in an environment of personal fear. This only makes matters worse.

Answers as to how each of us can change this epidemic are clear; Awareness is the key.

Awareness of the words we use, like meltdown, collapse, depression. Rebuilding our patterns of thinking: Be aware of the scare and build a new vision.

Begin to take care of yourself through exercise, meditation, and getting out into nature. Exercise for your body, meditate for your balance and awareness of the present through proper focus, and nature to feed the spirit and allow yourself to experience the world in its simple and beautiful form.

In the end no one is secure and even the safest people may be overpowered with one or another of the fear symptoms that are mentioned above and can find no way to get yourself balanced again and needed something just to get started. It is not that you do not see the negative situation you are painting. It is that you cannot seem to get started to deal with it.
Dr. Edward Bach (See my post November 19th, 2008 for a good review of Dr. Bach and the 38 flower remedies he examined.
All for the negative thoughts we find ourselves in from time to time.

I use them very effectively and his Rescue Remedy formula is brilliant for calming all negative situations; stage fright, fear of exams, a death of a loved one, marriage jitters, a job interview, impatience to name a few.

Following are some of the remedies for the various fear symptoms in our current Epidemic. The remedies do not mask the feelings but rather balance the mind to accept the situation and move through the experience positively.

Below I am quoting from The Bach Remedies Repertory by F.J. Wheeler. It is just 13 pages of emotional words and beside each a suggest flower remedy. I have used this pamphlet using Gorse for a long bout of hopelessness and Larch for a lack of self confidence on the job. I was amazed how quickly the thoughts disappeared and I just got on with living and enjoying my work and life. These were acute situations and for deeper longstanding problems combinations of the flowers are put together and taken for extended periods and over time help to bring new balance and a positive outlook. The flowers have no known side effects and are not addictive. Simple and straightforward.

http://www.bachcentre.com/centre/remedies.htm is the site of all the remedies.

Press any of the Flower remedy buttons and go directly to that remedy. You can read what Dr. Bach said about each.


LOSS OF CONTROL - RESCUE REMEDY - A 5 flower combination that works as quickly as you take it.

Cherry Plum - fear of the mind giving way

Clematis - dreaming of the future without working in the present

Impatiens - impatience

Rock Rose - terror and fright

Star of Bethlehem - shock
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Other symptoms and flower remedies in the area of our collective fears:

Fear of the Future, poverty, - Agrimony - mental torture behind a cheerful face, Mimulus - fear of known things

Fear for themselves, health, Heather - self-centredness and self-concern

Depression - Mustard - deep gloom for no reason, Gentian - discouragement after a setback

Despondency has many sides Larch - lack of confidence, Pine - guilt,

Dissatisfaction, Oak - the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion, Walnut - protection from change and unwanted influences

Grandma used to say Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are

I wonder if this article understands that in some strange way. This sort of fall out makes me wonder about all the violence we now see on Television and all the lawlessness and the guns are not somehow getting us all worked up into accepting these things as how life is and so we begin to lose our moral base. Have a look.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081120/science/science_messing_up 

A great Bach Flower article with case study

I found this article on Rogers Life Style and it impressed me a great deal. I recommend it for a clear understanding of Dr. Edward Bach who created the Bach flower remedies and what he was all about. The case study done in Florida last year speaks highly of the Rescue Remedy which is the made from 5 flowers and it also first remedy in my kits. I use Tromos Stress Formula which is made in Peterborough using Bailey tinctures that come from England and a formula which is the original one Bach used and made by the same method.

If I was cast away on an island and could take only one medicine I would take my Tromos Stress Remedy for it would help me deal with every situation by calming my mind and centering me to look for answers instead of carping about the situation.

Bach Flower Remedies to the rescue

By Joyce Nelson

The essence of flowers can do more just add a decorative touch, according to Dr. Edward Bach.

When we visit a sick friend or relative in the hospital, our first impulse is to bring flowers. At some level, we sense that there's something about fresh flowers that will help the healing process. Bach Flower Remedies are a popular alternative medicine based on the healing powers of flowers.

Pioneer in alternative treatments
Dr. Edward Bach, a British physician, become convinced that some flowers have such healing powers that their "essence" should be ingested by patients. He created Bach Flower Remedies, which have become

Bach began a distinguished career in medicine in 1919, when he was appointed Casualty Medical Officer for the University College Hospital in London, supervising the treatment of hundreds of soldiers wounded in World War I. It was there that he observed the effects of stress and trauma in relationship to the recovery potential of his patients. Surgery and standard medical practice did not hold all the answers to healing, leading him to a great interest in the field of immunology. Over time he began to diagnose and treat patients according to their mental and emotional aspects, not just their external physical symptoms.

In 1930, Bach abandoned his lucrative London practice and began to treat patients in the small villages of Wales and England as he wandered the countryside studying native plants. He became convinced that disease of the body is due not primarily to physical causes, but that moods and states of mind can also undermine the health of bodily organs and tissues.

Mind, body and spirit
Nowadays, there is an entire new field of medicine called psychoneuroimmunology that is based on this concept. But Bach's thinking went further. Through experimentation and observation, he came to believe that flowering plants have high vibrations that are able to raise the lowered vibrations of humans. In the book, The Secret Life of Plants (Avon, 1973), Bach is quoted as saying that such flower based herbal remedies "draw down spiritual power, which cleanses mind and body, and heals".

Before he died in 1936, Bach had isolated 38 flowering plants that he felt had positive energy to neutralize specific negative emotions. To obtain the flower essences, he picked the best specimens grown in sunlight and steeped them individually in bowls of water under the heat and light of the afternoon sun. The result of this process is the 'mother tincture' which is further diluted with brandy to preserve the essence. Any Bach flower remedy is taken in liquid form as a few drops placed under the tongue.

Thirty-eight emotions
According to the Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (Stoddard, 1996), each of the 38 remedies counters a specific state of mind by "introducing new information into the emotional and mental fields of the individual". For example the Wild Rose remedy is for someone feeling apathetic and resigned, while the Aspen remedy is for someone feeling apprehension for no known reason. A list of each remedy with the corresponding emotional state is available at the Bach Centre.

There are now more than 25,000 practitioners of Bach flower remedies worldwide, serving hundreds of thousands of clients. Virtually no reliable clinical studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of the remedies until recently.

Rescue me now
On July 2, 2007, the Medical News Today reported the results of a study on the effectiveness of a popular Bach Flower preparation called Rescue Remedy. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Miami School of Nursing in conjunction with the Sirkin Creative Living Center. Using a sample of 111 individuals aged 18 to 49, the study was a double-blind clinical trial comparing a standard dose of Rescue Remedy against a placebo of identical appearance. A standard test to evaluate anxiety was administered before and after the dosage.

The result was that Rescue Remedy was found to be "an effective over-the-counter stress reliever with a comparable effect to traditional pharmaceutical drugs yet without any of the known adverse side effects, including addiction."

Bach Flower Remedies are sold at many health food stores as well as pharmacies.

Joyce Nelson is an environmental journalist based in Toronto.

New York Times: Kidney Disease Takes a Growing Toll

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18kidneydisease.html?nl=8hlth&emc=hltha1

It does not take a genius to realize that our poor kidneys have to process the toxins we condone and sell to put into our bodies. We are being killed. Dead. What goes in has to go out and surely our intake of bad drinks like soda pop and a plethora of drugs are the cause. When will governments wake up and get them under control. We are being addicted from a young age. What isn't on the counter screaming to be bought is a start to improving our mind sets. In Toronto cigarettes are not in view at all. Out of sight-out of mind is a first step. Campaigns that discourage people to partake of bad foods just like we do with tobacco and drugs would be good. Elimination of all Alcohol ads would be good. This is what I strive for. Health after all is paramount and good health is better than bad health and maintaining the immune system paramount in our task to be healthy. It is simple to understand and to head ourselves toward.