Why the Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances

Sayer Ji
Green Med Info
February 29, 2012

The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate, prevent and in some cases cure disease, and which cannot be called drugs according to the FDA.

How can this be? Well, the FDA has assumed for itself Godlike power, requiring that its official approval be obtained before any substance can legally be used in the prevention and treatment of disease.  

The FDA’s legal-regulatory control therefore is totalitarian and Napoleonic in construct; what it does not explicitly permit as a medicine is implicitly forbidden.

Historically the FDA has required new drugs undergo expensive and elaborate multi-phased clinical trials, which are out of the grasp of any ordinary interest who might want to demonstrate the efficacy of a non-patentable (and therefore unprofitable) herb, food or spice.

The average out-of-pocket cost for obtaining a new drug approval is US$ 802 million dollars,[1] and therefore an investor putting capital into bringing to market a substance that does not lend itself to market exclusivity and therefore cannot produce a return on investment, is committing economic suicide, if not also breaking the law. The investor actually has a legally-binding fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to make a profit. And therefore, capital will not flow into any would-be commodity that can be produced or obtained with ease, including most things that grow freely on this Earth.

It is an interesting footnote in history that shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Congress declared that natural substances, e.g. water or salt, were God’s gift to mankind and that therefore products of nature should be limited in their patent protection. While this was a noble declaration, it has actually been used against those whose rights it would protect. It has forced private interests to synthetically alter natural substances — for instance the burgeoning biotech field of recombinant DNA technology, i.e. genetically modified organisms (GMOs) — for the sole reason that it guarantees them ownership/patent rights. 

In fact, a medical system that legally requires it make a profit threatens to destroy and/or incriminate itself if non-patented, non-profitable natural substances or therapies are employed. It also results in so much collateral damage to those it purports to serve that it could rightly be called a modern form of human sacrifice

As a result, instead of choosing prospective medicines logically: because they work, are easily accessible, and safe, billions of dollars flow in the exact opposite direction, capitalizing only those substances which are unnatural, and therefore while proprietary are almost invariably unsafe, and whose access and administration can be intensively controlled. 

Has The Attempt To Co-opt Medicine Through the Drug-Based Model Undone Itself? 

And yet, there is a silver lining to the story. Due to the fact that our bodies are ultimately constructed from the natural things (food, air and water), and obey very strict natural laws such as the well-known principle of chirality (handedness) – the fact that all amino acids in our body turn a beam of polarized light in the left-handed direction (L-lysine) and sugars to the right-handed direction (D-ribose)– one cannot simply create biologically active, synthetic drugs arbitrarily, as a mistake in handedness (or similar property) could be fatal. Nature, therefore, still provides an elegant biomolecular architecture of irreproducible intelligence and complexity, from which synthetic analogs are modeled and/or derivatives are spun.

As a result, billions of dollars of drug industry and government money (i.e. tax payer money) flow into finding lead compounds for drug development.  Nature is put on the rack, if you will, and her secrets teased from her through innumerable animal and test tube experiments, in order to find compounds that can then be converted into synthetic, patented drugs.

Inadvertently, some of the very same companies and interests which require that natural substances not receive the same drug-approval status as synthetic ones, are funding research that prove basic vitamins, foods and spices are as effective or more effective – and usually much safer – than the drugs  they are developing to replace or supplant them.  

This means that tens of thousands of studies do exist showing that natural substances may prevent and/or treat disease, at least in the in vitro (test tube) and animal models. These results often confirm traditional uses in Ayurvedic, Chinese and other traditional systems of medicine, and therefore may be compelling enough for individuals or healthcare practitioners to use the information to inform their treatment decisions.

The Case For Curcumin In the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

The government biomedical and life sciences database known as Medline contains over 21 million published study citations, and is accessible to search through engines such as Pubmed.gov.  2.6 million of them contain reference to cancer.  115,000 of them remain after applying the “Complementary Medicine” filter.   2,625 of them can be found indexed on the GreenMedInfo.com database, referencing 612 natural substances of potential value. Turmeric, and particularly its polyphenolic constituent known as curcumin, which gives the spice its golden hue, is one of the most extensively studied natural compounds of all time, with 4588 references to it on the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database known as Medline [as of 2.25.2012]. And yet, despite having been shown to have therapeutic value in over 500 disease states in animal and in vitro studies, it still has not been the subject of extensive human clinical research – for the reasons stated above.  

GreenMedInfo.com, an open source natural medicine database, has indexed curcumin’s anti-cancer properties in over 50 cancers, with the top 10 most cancers researched in association with curcumin listed below….  

Sources: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/curcumin

As one can see curcumin holds great promise. It has been repeatedly demonstrated to possess simultaneously both chemoprotective/chemosensitizing and radioprotective/radiosensitizing properties, meaning it is capable of reducing the adverse effects on healthy cells caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as enhance the cancer-killing properties of these conventional therapies. It also has an exceptionally high margin of safety, at least an order of magnitude greater than commonly used conventional chemotherapy agents such as 5-fluoruracil.[2] Given these facts curcumin, at the very least, should be considered an ideal candidate for use as an adjuvant in integrative cancer care, and perhaps as a first-line treatment alternative to conventional chemo-agents.

See this informative video on Tumeric:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2AZOMu0bVA

For additional information on the remarkable research supporting the use of Turmeric and Curcumin in medicine, watch the video below.  Join our Facebook research page on Turmeric for updates: TurmericWhat The Research Reveals

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25 Responses to “Why the Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances”

  1. Marijuana cures disease.

    That is why the government makes it illegal because natural herbal medicines would put Big Pharma companies out of business because medicines from the Big Pharma companies has killed more people due to it being unsafe and toxic.

    Marijuana has never killed anyone.

    Do some research about the truth about Marijuana being the natural cure of many diseases. Watch the truthful documentary that reveals the real truth about the Big Pharma companies called:

    The Marketing Of Madness

    People have the God given right to use natural cures to heal the body naturally, sadly the Big Pharma companies and the government don’t want that because they make money on keeping people sick and dying from the very medicines that the Big Pharma companies creates and forces people to take which kills the person in the process.

  2. The BEST DRUG for ALL physical and mental pain and suffering is ……. CYANIDE!

  3. If Marijuana and Opium were legal then it would put about 50% of the big-pharma out of business. I admit that opium is addictive, but less than many pharmaceuticals, and it is definitely much less deadly. I read somewhere that you are 60% more likely to die from those poisons than from home remedies or from nothing at all.

    A diet of chia seeds, amaranth, garlic, chile, brown rice, fruits and vegetables, etc., and these and other NATURAL items for special occasions would solve many problems and cause almost none.

  4. let’s not forget the DANGEROUS….. oranges, limes, or lemons…the cure for scurvy!

  5. THE CURE FOR 1984 IS 1776 TO REPLAY IN 2012!

    Where is the U.S. Military?

  6. Why worry about natural remedies? There are so many great government “healthcare” facilities to go to. Get a vaccine full of mercury, fetal calf syndrome, aluminum, sv-40 virus, green monkey virus, or God knows what else to “protect” you! Or take some of the “wonderdrugs” from Big Pharma! What are we complaining about?

  7. well if course if you play their silly reindeer games and abide by their homemade laws….ya, your a dead person walking.
    Now for those of us who don’t participate in that elitist lunacy, we will heal and thrive and take care of our selves without these criminals

  8. Uhhhh…
    How does a drug “diagnose” anything?
    I thought that’s what I was overpaying the doctor for…

    Oh wait… the doctor doesn’t diagnose, either… the giant book of CODES does.

  9. Pot is good as well and it helps those with OCD (Obsessivive Compulsive Disorder) and other mental disorders. I got OCD (Obsessivive Compulsive Disorder) and Ashma and I smoke Pot when I get the chance since I know someone who grows it and no I will not reveal their name due to the government will just shut them down and kill the person because of the peson doing it without government approval when in truth Pot should be free to everyone. BTW I eat garlic with my meals and I’ve never been sick in almost 3 years.

    Eat Garlic and smoke Pot and also exercise like I do and be healthy like me.

    • Good call, bro!

      And don’t forget the beer :
      90-95% sterilized water
      No salt
      No MSG
      No preservatives
      No chemicals
      No cholesterol
      No sugar

      Relieves stress
      Tastes great
      Less filling (or MORE filling, depending on your preference)

      • Even whiskey has sugar in it.
        And if marijuana was legal, just think of how much money the CIA would
        lose when people stop buying their chemical drugs. And what about the money
        that pharmaceutical companies would lose if people no longer needed their drugs
        that the Mengele doctors cook up?? Don’t yall have a heart …lol

  10. Turmeric – must be why I like Curries Chilis.

    I also like Cayenne pepper too and I’ve heard it has some medicinal uses.

    Garlic too is good.

    • When my mother was still a small girl the Spanish flue was in full out break. They closed the schools, but a teacher told one of my uncles that everyone in their family should wear a fresh garlic clove around their necks. In a family of 15, not one in my mother’s family got sick, but the families on both sides of them failed to heed that advise and everyone of them died. The epidemic was so bad in her town that when one person in a family died, they would wait to bury them so that when more in the family died, they could use the same coffin.

      When I was young and heard this tale, I viewed it as a ‘Vampire myth’. In part that was true, but now I take garlic tablets every day.

      Haven’t been bitten by a single vampire (yet).

  11. I’ve been using kelp, ginger root and chlorella to manage pain from arthritis and an A-C separation and as a result, I’ve completely quit using ibuprofen and acetaminophen (both dangerous for long term usage). I’m certain my PCM would object strongly if I told her, but I now believe the less I tell my care managers, the longer I may live. I’m in the process of quitting Lipitor and looking to drop the hypertension meds. Some natural meds work better than others and some medical knowledge is a good idea to help keep things under control.

  12. The biggest threat is unregulated, di-hydrogen oxide because of it’s potential to deliver deadly toxins. Because of this great threat, it belongs only in the hands of government and the agencies under their direct control and supervision. Anyone caught posessing pure di-hydrogen oxide, which can act as an aggressive solvent to all living things in the form of a gas or a liquid, should be turned over to Homeland Security. The only way to make it safe is by treating it with all kinds of chemicals including fluoride, but the problem with that is fluoride is even deadlier.

    If you purchase and take di-hydrogen oxide, read the label and make sure all the government approved chemicals are in it, otherwise under certain circumstanses which are classified, you could burst into flames from a hypergolic reaction when ducking and covering. And that is a scientific fact!

    • H2O= di-hydrogen oxide, (water).

  13. “Natural Cures They Don’t Want You to Know” Great book about this stuff by Kevin Trudeau i think the best out there. Worth every penny, and a bestseller.

    • Yeah, good book, good info, and gallant dude (fighting the FDA), but….to get the cures, you gotta join his site- then you can’t cancel (from what I have read)- NaturalNews and its plethora of co-sites will actually give you what you need to cure most anything, for free.

  14. Natural cures are a threat to Big Pharma , I hope they dont create some stupid law to limit the avaliability of natural cures or bigger restrictions on natural health stores

  15. Amino Acids are the key! MCB

  16. Prevent cancer, take Tumeric every day. It is also a great anti-inflammatory. I take it to stay healthy along with a lot of other things and play sports.

  17. Good book ,A world with out cancer,=vitamin B-17

  18. Because they work ,and the Freemasons who own and control the satanic Medical/pharmicudical industrial complex write the laws.

    • @ R.W.
      Spot on. Thanks.

    • RW – Yeah, by no means let the riff-raff in on real, effective healing and curing remedy knowledge. Charge them exobitant fees for poisonous crap which only conceals the complaint. Always hide the truth lest the riff-raff gain an edge on prosperity and good health. Save this for the rich who thrive on monopolization since it just happens to be their psycho bag. These jerks have been orchestrating disease scenarios, among other horrors on the human race, for a long time in order to become get rich from the dopey goyim. Money is the root of all evil….

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