[mlizzy]

It has always been my belief that when the Good Lord created us, he also created that which would heal us ... In our household, it's holistic cures first -- and only if necessary -- conventional medicine second ...

[Vaduz]

The Associated Press has declared war on alternative medicine,yet no word on Obama’s voodoo healthcare plan.

[PGR88]

As the Gov’t collapses our medical system, people will be looking for more alternative cures of all kinds - holistic medicine, herbs, Chinese medicine, travel to 3rd countries for care. The Govt will consider it all bad.

[ntmxx]

Is this the first wave against having medical care without government supervision?

Show me that which modern medicine has done lately and I will show you billions wasted upon HIV/AIDS, psycho-pharmaceuticals, and mass drugging of children.

[Lorianne]

Nevermind, alternative medicine won’t be an option under Pelosi-Care (TM).

[SaintDismas]

Dear God in heaven, they really do want everyone sick and dead.

[alloysteel]

Alternative medicine may be all that is available to the common citizen within a few years, as the wait lists for the “orthodox” medical practice will be so long, that a number of patients may well die while waiting for and EVALUATION of their then current state of health.

There will be great opportunity for quackery, and just plain crackpot medical theories, but people could largely count on the “placebo” effect to contain and control their perceived medical problems.

Actually, prayer and the power of positive thinking, are by themselves some pretty powerful medicines for many conditions. The human body is a highly adaptable organism, and there are hundreds of redundant “work-arounds” in the various body systems. The body can take some irritant, that could cause disabilities, or even death, and isolate it to a degree that function continues with or without medical attention, or sometimes, even in spite of the medical attention.

People are about as healthy and wealthy as they make up their minds to be. No government decree or law will change that. What can be changed, however, is morale and optimism, over which government has only limited degree of control. Morale and optimism may be easily destroyed, but only with painstaking development of trust and confidence, can they be built back up.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Ping for later read...

[Polybius]

It has always been my belief that when the Good Lord created us, he also created that which would heal us ...

The Good Lord promised to create that which would heal your soul .... not your earthly body.

In 1850, before the advent of evidence-based medicine, the average life-span for a newborn infant in the U.S. was 38.3 years. In 1900, at the dawn of evidence-based medicine, it was 48.2 years. By 1940, it was 62.8 years and it is now 75.7 years.

The Good Lord did not love babies born in 2009 any more than He loved babies born in 1850. The only difference is that the intellect and reason of Man, that the Good Lord created, has, through scientific, evidence-based medicine, discovered proven methods to postpone our inevitable deaths.

In our household, it's holistic cures first -- and only if necessary -- conventional medicine second ...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Just bear in mind that, if there has been no evidence-based research to back up the alleged curative properties, you might be spending your money on something as effective as a witch doctor waving his rattle at you.

If it has been proved by evidenced-based studies, then it has already passed on into the so-called "conventional medicine".

It is funny how the ever-changing, evidence-based medicine, which can throw out years or decades of previously accepted practice once new scientific research proves it wrong, is labelled "conventional medicine".

The term "conventional medicine" is best applied to those alleged remedies that have been passed down, from generation to generation, for centuries, without ever questioning whether the alleged benefits are proved by controlled experiments.

[darth]

Once when I worked for a major government contractor we had a strategy meeting to figure out how we could win a $5B contract. Our corporate PR guy asked one of the marketing guys to write a story for publication in the primary weekly magazine of our industry which the government customers all read.

I asked the PR guy how he was going to get a major magazine to run a story that essentially was one big advertisement on why my company should get the contract. He winked and said, “Reporters are cheaper than hookers.”

They are running propaganda for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. Someone needs to check the bank accounts of the reporter and/or editor to see what presstitutes charge these days.

[Marie]

This terrifies me. I just got off Synthroid and put on Armour Thyroid. That was a life-saver. I can't imagine not having access to this life-saving hormone. On Synthroid, I was horribly depressed and anxious. I had no energy and my hair was starting to fall out. I couldn't *think*.

On Armour, I feel like I'm alive again. I'm loosing weight, have energy and my mind is starting to sharpen up again.

Why the h311 do bureaucrats think that they know better than doctors what's best for patients???