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Our American Medical System:

From Its Beautiful Beginning to its Barbaric End!

If you want to look at the very beginning I think we can safely say that Captain John Smith and the pilgrims got a real early taste of American Medicine! I find it amazing (and maybe even somewhat prophetic) that when a Young Indian Woman (Possibly Pocahontas) was presented to the leader of the colonists (Presumedly John Smith) her entire (mostly nude) body was covered from head to foot with the bright red-orange glow of Cancer healing Bloodroot juice!

During the rough times of survival in this new found land, these pilgrims were shown not only planting and harvesting techniques but they were shown the plants that would heal the deathly sick and prevent disease that could have wiped out this early nation!

As time progressed, more and more Early American apothecary-style shops stocked full of herbs shown to us by the Native Americans began appearing.

And what did the early doctors have for their medicine? Our Native American herbs of course, what else was there?

(Outside of a few European seeds and plants that they undoubtedly brought with them) And why were they using and selling them in there early drug stores? Quite simply because they worked! This simple logic of using “What ever worked best” was what started our system of medicine.

As time went on this nation truly became the great melting pot! In the 1850’s doctors began observing many of the Chinese Immigrants who worked mostly in the mines and the railroads of our western territories. They were curing their sick with strange hand rolled pills and strong smelling teas they brought with them from China. The Early “China-towns” set up their own shops with their own in-house doctors and totally amazed our early western doctors!

Many of the doctors in the western states and territories began to soak up all the healing knowledge they could from these amazing Chinese doctors! Their complex system of feeling and reading the pluses on each wrist, reading the tongue and then applying this data to arrive at an herbal formula that could completely heal their patient was mind boggling, as was there strange practice of applying needles to their patient.

This knowledge combined with the knowledge of Native America was beginning to be the leading force of medicine in the west and led to the founding of the great Eclectic Physicians by Dr. Wooster Beach. (Their main college was located in Cincinnati, Ohio)

Eclecticism with its Chinese Herbal Remedies, Native Plant Medicine, Early Homeopathy and just “What ever worked best” was getting the prime respect in most of the medical journals and magazines of the time along with the Great Dr. King and the famous herbal pharmacist, John Uri Lloyd. (left)

An Eclectic doctor by the name of Dr. John M Scuudder wrote out an entire system of diagnostics for our medical system based on tongue and pulse reading.

However The newly formed "Medical Doctors Association" in Boston was beginning to throw a “Hissy-fit”.   “We can’t let our great new scientific discoveries fall to a bunch of heathen Chinese and Indian “back-woods" knowledge! We have to stop this!” The fight was on! 

However as fate would have it, by the late 1930’s the Eclectic Physicians Collage closed due to a combination of the powerful “Boston Code of Ethics” , the AMA,  and The 1906 Food And Drug Act. This was the beginning of the end! Unfortunately they had the money and power to win. And you would not believe how they got so rich!

The following is an excerpt from "The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy"  (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2007) by Dana Ullman, MPH.

The American Medical Association (AMA) was dictatorially led for the first half of the 20th century by Dr. George H. Simmons and his protégé Dr. Morris Fishbein. Simmons and Fishbein both served as general manager of the organization and as editor of its journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Dana Ullman's book, "The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy" describes how, in 1899, Simmons began his 25-year reign as head of the AMA. At that time, it was a weak organization with little money and little respect from the general public. Simmons came up with the idea to transform the AMA into a big business by granting the AMA's "seal of approval" to certain drug companies that placed large and frequent ads in JAMA.

Advertising revenue increased substantially, from $34,000 in 1899 to $150,000 in 1909. Critics of the AMA have called their seal-of-approval program nothing but a form of extortion, since the AMA did no testing of any products.

In 1924, Simmons was forced out of the AMA due to the many scandals swirling around him. One investigation revealed that:

The 1906 Food and Drug Act, (Which was apparently a collaboration of John D Rockefeller, The early "AMA", and the Federal Government) somehow made it “law” that soon, all medicine used in medical practice needed to be labeled by its isolated weight. This meant that plant medicines in their whole forms (tinctures, herb powders, etc.) really could not be used any more. They were to be “phased out”. One by one they disappeared from our USP. By the 1940’s they were almost gone and I believe the last one to go was Powdered Digitalis Leaf in the 1960’s but they didn’t stop here!

In the 1920s, the Rockefellers, who controlled Standard Oil of New Jersey, signed an extensive agreement with the German pharmaceutical company I.G. Farben. After this partnership was formed, the Standard Oil Company suddenly developed a great interest in the world-wide pharmaceutical business.

The Rockefellers then began their systematic contributions to the Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. Soon, an executive of the Rockefellers' Standard Oil was invited to join the board of managers. And soon, he was made chairman of the newly organized research committee. When World War II came along, Cornelius Rhodes, who was involved in the beginning cancer research at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, became chief of research for the chemical warfare service of the U.S. military - whose function was to conduct studies of the effects of poison gas. But human experiments with nitrogen mustard - a poison gas, were also being carried out on cancer patients under cover of military secrecy.

Nitrogen mustard, a chemical warfare killing agent, and the grandfather of chemotherapy agents, is still used on cancer patients today! They now have the "acceptable" names of Cytoxin, Alkeran, and Leukeran. Nitrogen mustard is meant to kill people, and it frequently does that job very well when given to cancer patients.

Also, The American Cancer Society was founded at the New York Harvard Club in 1913 by none other than John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his friends. From the start, the society was to be a "shaper of public opinion". Its goal was to urge the public to consult their doctors at the very first suspicion of cancer. In 1978 it was found that the American Cancer Society was hoarding millions of dollars while claiming that it couldn't do vital cancer research for lack of funds. This society is not interested in a cure because it would go out of business. Why? An article appeared in Harper's magazine stating - "The American Cancer Society was designated by charter as an emergency organization which must disband the day a cure is found". If the American Cancer Society admitted that a cure was found, they would have to be disbanded, and give up that $400 million a year.