A case in point is the way in which the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is doing a wonderful job in making herbal medicine available only from large multi-national companies, whilst turning a blind eye to breast implants which they knew to be faulty years ago.

“Evidence-based” medicine presupposes that unless proven effective by double-bland, randomized and placebo-controlled trials, i.e. multinational corporation or government funding, a treatment can not be said to be valid. This “gold standard” obeys the “golden rule”: he who owns the gold makes the rules, i.e. No Money = No Evidence = No Legal Right to be Used.

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/?utm_source=www.GreenMedInfo.com&utm_campaign=67a67d3d2a-Greenmedinfo&utm_medium=email

I know that when I was a child these things seemed to have mythical, almost magical, qualities and I had no idea what they were – nor did anyone tell me. Actually they are still widely used today.

Frankincense (Boswellia thurifera) and myrrh (Commiphora molmol) are both trees and the resins derived from them have important medicinal properties and were probably given to Jesus for that reason. They are both active against all sorts of infections and, in a time when there were no antibiotics, this would have been a very important and valuable gift.

In order to make them more palatable, they were often steeped in wine for use as liquid medicines, and they were also used in to embalm bodies after death. Frankincense is strongly anti-infective which is why the resin is burned in churches in order to purify the air, but in former less hygiene conscious times it would have had the additional benefit of masking the odour of unwashed bodies and clothes crowded together indoors.

Frankincense can be made into a variety of different medicines and creams and relieves all sorts of rheumatic conditions. I find it especially useful in my practice to help with the painful symptoms of gout but it can also be used in bronchitis and similar chest conditions. In former times it was used for leprosy.

Frankincense tree

Myrrh has similar uses to frankincense and, if anything, is more strongly anti-infective and anti-viral. It is probably one of the most widely used herbal antiseptics in the world and has even been proved to be active against the Staphylococus aureus  infections which so plague our hospitals today. It is a very effective mouthwash too, though it does have the less desirable side effect of staining the teeth yellow.

Extracting myrrh resin

I don’t think there is any need to go into why gold was so important – or maybe there is? If the banks hadn’t forgotten about having as much gold in their vaults as they have issued in paper money, we wouldn’t all be in the mess we are in today. But I guess that’s a bit too political for this website!

A recent large study has found that women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day may have a lower risk of depression than someone who drinks less.  Hooray for that!

Michel Lucas; Fariba Mirzaei; An Pan; Olivia I. Okereke; Walter C. Willett; Éilis J. O’Reilly; Karestan Koenen; Alberto Ascherio
Coffee, Caffeine, and Risk of Depression Among Women
Arch Intern Med, Sep 2011; 171: 1571 – 1578.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/scientists-fears-adverse-drug-reactions-045634901.html

I have already posted my worries about this new legislation and have now found a Europe-wide petition to try and stop this legislation.

PLEASE sign this petition:

http://savenaturalhealth.eu

This website gives the best description of what is about to happen that I have heard so far.

Cost, of course is no deterrent to the  likes of Tesco’s and Holland and Barrett who are obtaining new licenses from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on a daily basis.

I am appalled to discover that Holland and Barrett’s and Boots’ ultimate parent company is the awful Carlyle Group, who have their fingers in all sorts of pies all over the world and whose senior management is all ex CIA, including George Bush senior.

http://www.carlyle.com/portfolio/item10322.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_%26_Barrett

This explains why Boots is able legally to avoid UK taxation by having its head office as a post office box in Switzerland.

I can’t help calling to mind the author’s note in “The Constant Gardner”, wherein John le Carre says that his actual research into big pharma makes his book look like “a walk in the park”.