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THE WORST CRIME OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and
Elissa Meininger
January 19, 2006
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In America and in the West, the public is conditioned to believe that
modern (allopathic) medicine is the supreme healing modality. Propaganda
machines that rely on media in need of content and not necessarily truth
eagerly spread this notion. Scientific journal articles promoting drugs are
little more than press releases by pharmaceutical companies signed by
doctors for hire. In the midst of the recent “outing” of unsafe drugs by
whistleblowers; the thousands of law suits against drug companies for drug
damage; and a plethora of books and articles enumerating the side effects
of drugs and the hundreds of thousands of lives lost we see drug companies
and the WTO determined to control of dietary supplements through Codex and
international trade agreements in their global quest for power.

Why is this happening? Simply because most of the world does not use modern
medicine and the ‘powers that be’ want to control those other forms of
medicine to make way for a seamless, worldwide assembly line-style of
health delivery by government decree favoring the highly-profitable,
patented products and services of modern (allopathic) medicine.

One of the forms of medicine that is being targeted for control is
homeopathy –the topic of this week’s column. Both Elissa and I have a deep
and abiding love of homeopathy and we speak up for it whenever we can.

Homeopathy is one of those systems of medicine that is all encompassing and
could be a life-long project of study. I wanted to make it my prime
modality after medical school and began learning it during my naturopathic
training. That might have had something to do with genes because my
grandmother was a nurse and a homeopath. And my father, while still in high
school, was on the lists to enter Boston University School of Medicine,
which, at the time, was a homeopathic medical school. I found, however,
that I’m much too eclectic to stay in one place for too long. But I stayed
long enough to see some miraculous cures take place. In the hands of a
skilled homeopath, it is one of the best existing modalities for all
conditions. I recommend it to parents as the best form of medicine for
children and the best for most acute conditions and advise people to have a
homeopathic kit on hand to treat emergencies.

Elissa’s reasons are even more personal. After a lifetime of ill health due
to a missed diagnosis of mercury poisoning from her dental fillings (a
disease that is not recognized by either the American dental community or
modern [allopathic] medicine), Elissa was diagnosed by a homeopath and from
the first dose of a homeopathic remedy, she found her salvation. Up until
then, she had experienced not just debilitating symptoms of serious chronic
illness, but numerous extreme adverse reactions from such things as
penicillin and Tylenol. To find out why she was misdiagnosed all those
years and why she was never referred to homeopathy, a medical philosophy
that has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of medically-induced
mercury poisoning for 200 years, prompted Elissa to become the health
policy expert she is today. She earned her expertise by delving into the
depth and breadth of the history of American medicine and how politics and
the clever actions of several self-interest groups, over time, created
today’s modern medical monopoly folly.

The story of how homeopathy first came to America, became the second most
practiced healing art by public demand, and then was virtually destroyed by
Big Pharma and its allies, the AMA and the practitioners of modern
(allopathic) medicine, is why we have called our article “The Worst Crime
of the 20th Century.” This history bears witness to how the self-interest
of just a handful of people, by creating an allopathic medical monopoly,
continues to cause the needless deaths of millions of people and the
ongoing suffering of millions more.

As the story goes, back in the mid-1800s, homeopathy had arrived on our
shores from its homeland, Germany, and the public eagerly flocked to
homeopathic physicians. And no wonder. The “modern (allopathic) medicine”
of the day included draining people of up to 32 ounces of blood and dosing
them with lethal amounts of mercury in a product called “calomel.” Calomel
caused profuse salivation and doctors measured the amount of saliva by the
pint as a means of determining the success of the treatment. Calomel was
considered the all-purpose elixir for most ailments along with the
bleeding, so you can see why homeopathy spread rapidly. Homeopaths found
allopathic treatment barbaric.

What confounded the practitioners of “modern (allopathic) medicine” of that
era was that homeopaths were well-educated and had quickly fallen into
favor with the educated, politically powerful and wealthier clientele, as
well as the masses. Worse yet, while their medical philosophy confounded
the average practitioner of “modern (allopathic) medicine,” every time an
allopath actually took an honest look at how homeopathy was practiced,
another convert to homeopathy was born. In fact, in many cases, practicing
homeopaths were actually converts from “modern (allopathic) medicine.”

Proof that homeopathy worked was widespread. Every epidemic in Europe and
America starting with the cholera epidemics in the 1840s became an
advertisement for the virtues of homeopathy. Homeopaths saved lives in such
large numbers and compared to the competition it was obvious that
allopathic methods were a complete failure. In rapid order, the practice of
homeopathy became widespread in New England, the Middle Atlantic States,
and the Midwest. And, true to form, while the South had been slow to catch
on, the 1878 yellow fever epidemic converted many patients and doctors
there, too.

The formation of the American Medical Association in the 1840s was in
direct response to the onslaught of a superior medical system. From the
beginning, the AMA stood firm with a hostile “them or us” attitude about
members consorting with the competition. Well-educated homeopaths, often
graduates of Harvard, Yale and other such schools, were banned from joining
the AMA. In AMA meetings, any discussion about homeopathy was banned. If
any member of the AMA, or its state chapters, were seen consorting with a
homeopath, that doctor was expelled.

Voluminous and vicious literature was written and circulated about the
worthlessness of homeopathy. When the drug industry emerged as an economic
force in the 1870s, flush with its profits from selling mercury medicinals
to the Union Army, the AMA found the sugar daddy of its dreams that could
fuel and finance an all out war against its most serious competition. This
polemic propaganda continues today because the 1500 or so effective
homeopathic remedies that have been developed over 200 years represent
serious competition for Big Pharma. Furthermore, homeopathic remedies have
proven to have no dangerous side effects, are not patentable, can be
manufactured and sold for pennies and have a very long shelf life.

Those who practice medicine in the allopathic tradition, then as now, know
instinctively that homeopathy, by its very principles, is a rejection of
the assumptions held near and dear to modern medicine. In fact, it is
important to know that homeopathy is actually the invention of a German
medical genius named Samuel Hahnemann, and it comes from Hahnemann’s
rejection of what he was taught as an allopathic physician in his day, 200
years ago.

What Hahnemann saw was a failure to truly heal people. As a linguist with
knowledge of many ancient and modern languages, including several from the
Arab world, Hahnemann made a good deal of his living translating scientific
and medical texts. This gave him access to some of the greatest minds in
the world’s medical traditions and it was when he was questioning the
conclusions of British doctor, William Cullen, regarding the use of
Peruvian bark to treat malaria, that Hahnemann experienced a flash of
insight that fostered homeopathy.

At the height of its popularity in America, homeopathy was second only to
allopathy in the number of practitioners. It had its own schools, its own
pharmacies and even had a monument erected to honor Hahnemann in
Washington, D.C., considered by many to be one of the great geniuses in the
history of medicine. [Read] [Read]

At the time this monument to Hahnemann was unveiled, there where 22
homeopathic medical schools in America. One of the more interesting ones
was The New England Female College founded in 1850 as the world’s first
women’s medical school. During its time, it graduated the first black woman
doctor and after it was absorbed into Boston University to become Boston
University Medical School in 1873, it became America’s first coed medical
school. In 1897, the new school graduated its first black doctor, who went
on to become America’s first black psychiatrist.

Ironically, four years after the monument was erected, and 10 years before
the publication of the Flexner Report, the blueprint of the allopathic
medical monopoly, the trustees of Boston University were told by AMA
officials that if they didn’t convert the medical school curricula to
all-allopathic, their graduates would have difficulty taking and passing
state medical licensing examinations. At the time, there were 645
practicing homeopaths in Boston alone.

So, what allopathic assumptions does homeopathy reject? At its core,
homeopathy is based, not on a biochemical or mechanistic model like
allopathy, but on the idea that each person has a vital force, a resonating
frequency, if you will. This vital force, called Qi or Chi in Asian healing
arts, is basically the energy or essence of the person that can be observed
and measured. In the simplest terms, when you are ill, according to
homeopathic philosophy, your frequency changes and symptoms occur as a
result of your body trying to restore you to a healthy frequency. The
symptoms serve as the means by which restoration of health can be achieved.
The very symptoms that allopaths suppress are the ones the body uses to get
well and that a homeopath surveys to find the appropriate remedy to help
the body heal.

To a homeopath, an office call is basically devoted to systematically
interviewing the patient to determine what makes them tick as well as
gathering as much information about each of their symptoms as possible.
Then, after analyzing this information, the homeopath has available 1500 or
so catalogued remedies that are inventoried according to symptoms and
constitution.

The information in these reference manuals is drawn from data on literally
thousands of patients who have been treated successfully. Homeopathic
remedies themselves are developed by a process called “potentization” which
renders them not only non-toxic but leaves only a minute vibration in the
water of the original substance. These potentized remedies, when they enter
the person’s body as a frequency, not a chemical substance, basically help
revitalize the person’s own harmonious frequency.

To modern (allopathic) medical practitioners, a symptom is a bad outcome of
an illness and suppressing the symptom is the first thing a doctor tries to
do to make the patient feel better. Suppression of symptoms is not the same
as healing the person.

Each homeopathic remedy is developed by first testing it on healthy people
based on an idea called “the law of similars.” The law of similars comes
from an old idea that a substance that can create a symptom in a healthy
person can cure a sick person suffering the same symptom. The law of
similars confounds the scientific assumptions of the biochemically-based
allopathic medical community and until you experience the healing process
yourself, you will probably scratch your head, wondering what these
homeopaths are talking about. Hahnemann came to name his new school of
thought homeo (Greek for “similar”), pathy (Greek for “suffering). He then
named the old school of thought allo (Greek for “other”), pathy.

These opposing views on the meaning of symptoms and what a doctor does
about them is the sharpest of many ideological divisions between homeopathy
and allopathy.

For most of the 1800s, allopaths were called allopaths but when the AMA
orchestrated the publication of the Flexner Report in 1910, to outline
their new medical monopoly, the first order of business was to make sure
the word “allopathy” no longer defined them. They wanted ALL practitioners
of all “cults” or “dogmas” as they insultingly referred to their
competition, to give up their differing medical ideas and “surrender” to
modern science.

The Flexner Report was used to convince the financial backers of
non-allopathic medical schools, particularly homeopathy, to cease providing
funding. Within 20 years, all but one homeopathic school had been closed or
forced to convert to allopathic teaching only.

It came to our attention within the last week or so, that Citizens for
Health, one of the major national health freedom groups, in conjunction
with the National Center for Homeopathy, had organized a writing campaign
to the CDC to include homeopathic research as part of its agenda for the
next decade. [Read] homeopathic.org/

This campaign, with the deadline of January 15, 2006, is now over. However,
we have mixed feelings about how the modern medicine dominated CDC, or the
NIH or any other of the usual research organizations could possibly conduct
honest and relevant research on homeopathy, given the fact that modern
medicine is based on such vastly different assumptions.

We also have concerns because of recent revelations about the corruption in
science in all venues as well as the faking of scientific papers being
published in prestigious medical journals. We have concerns about the
political and economic agendas of those in control of directing what
research shall be done and that, somehow, homeopathy will be tainted
keeping it in the same false and negative light it has been held for most
of the 20th century.

We suggest that there are ample books written by practicing homeopaths
about the success of homeopathy for any open-minded person to see its
worth. In any case, we are foursquare behind restoring homeopathy to its
former position as the second largest medical system in America and give
you practical resources at the end to pursue your own investigation of
homeopathy.

To sum up the worldview on homeopathy we recently read an article in the
New India Press, dated December 24, 2005, titled, “WHO Recognition for
Homeopathy.” We thought you might like to read some excerpts from this
article to give you a flavor of how homeopathy is discussed in a country
where it is widely accepted and used.

“Deviating from the trend of rejecting homeopathy treatment and
medicine as mere placebos, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared
that homeopathy is the second-most used medical system internationally.

’Clinical trials have proved that this method of treatment has been
successful if the practitioners have taken into account the individual
holistic nature of the patient before opting for homeopathy.’ Says Dr. T N
Sreedhara Kurup, Assistant Director In-Charge of the Central Research
Institute for Homeopathy.

‘Different patients will receive different treatments for the same
disease making it difficult to conduct randomised control trials,’ he said..
‘Homeopathy is that stream of medicine, which prescribes medicines suitable
to the individual and the cost of treatment is affordable when compared to
Allopathy. Besides, it is claimed that homeopathic medicines are devoid of
any harmful side-effects,’ says Dr. Ravi M Nair, a homeopathy specialist.”

In all, the New India Press estimates that “about 500 million people rely
on homeopathy treatment in the world. As a system of medicine, it draws
support from hundreds of thousands of doctors, teaching institutions and
universities where homeopathy is taught.”

We conclude that as allopathic medicine is relegated to its proper place
–surgery and emergency medicine, homeopathy and other natural healing arts
will once again flourish and inspire.

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http://www.healthyhomeopathy.com/

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
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Dear all,

where is this who report found? Many sites relate/mention it, but
none has the actual report, or at least I cannot find it.

Roger

I am actually painfully aware that homeopathy is not mention a lot at
all within the sites related to the WHO. Acupuncture is, herbal
medicine is.

Roger

So what? That is not good. Given that Homeopathy is the second
largest form of medicine worldwide I wonder why I do not see more
about it on the WHO sites.
And then there should be this report.... that I look forward to.

Regards,

Roger

On 20-jan-2006, at 14:46, Kenneth Salls wrote:

>
>
> Roger Van Zandvoort <rozand (AT) euronet (DOT) nl> wrote:
> I am actually painfully aware that homeopathy is not mention a lot at
> all within the sites related to the WHO. Acupuncture is, herbal
> medicine is.
> SO WHAT?
>
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At 01:45 PM 1/20/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>where is this who report found? Many sites relate/mention it, but
>none has the actual report, or at least I cannot find it.
>
>Roger
>
>

There were earlier emails on this, when I posted the India newspaper's story.
The consensus was that the WHO has NOT said this and that the paper
reported that in error.


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Hi Roger,

Re the WHO report - it was a DRAFT report circulated internally so
far and not published. Apparently there was much criticism of the
report - here's an excerpt of an article about it - no prizes for
guessing which side the author is on - it makes quite amusing reading
actually, if it wasn't so sad.

All we know is the dissension is getting louder again so we are on
the right track!
Just keep doing what we're doing.

From: The Skeptical Inquirer

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...9/ai_n15763205

..."Meanwhile, news of preparations for a similar report, this time on
the subject of scientific research on homeopathy, have leaked out. By
chance, we were able to take a look at this secret draft report,
which was handed around to a number of unknown experts by Xiaorui in
November 2004. We immediately conveyed our objections to him. An
answer remains forthcoming, and that's why we feel compelled to raise
the alarm over this, before the WHO actually proceeds to publish.

A letter that accompanied the draft states that it "is intended for a
restricted audience only" and that the draft text "may not be
reviewed in any form or by any means outside the restricted
audience." Comments were to be sent before the end of January 2005.
Reading this draft report reveals why this secrecy is required. The
tenor of Homeopathy: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled
Clinical Trials is no better than the content of the report on
acupuncture. The report refers to the infamous research of Jacques
Benveniste on water-memory effects. Indeed, Benveniste's study did
make it to Nature (with serious reservations by the editor), but
there's not a word on the subsequent revocation of that same article.
(2) ........"

And so on and so on........blah blah

Carol

Carol Boyce BSc(Hons), LCH, MCH, CCH
Director of Education
The Homeopathic Symposium
www.homeopathicsymposium.com

--

i do not know that, there are many sites that mention this report, it
could be preliminary. Might also be a reason for the lancet some time
ago to do something against homeopathy, in the knowledge that this
who report is going to come.
It is not just that indian newspaper mentioning the report.

Roger

On 20-jan-2006, at 15:46, Sheri Nakken wrote:

> At 01:45 PM 1/20/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> where is this who report found? Many sites relate/mention it, but
>> none has the actual report, or at least I cannot find it.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>
> There were earlier emails on this, when I posted the India
> newspaper's story.
> The consensus was that the WHO has NOT said this and that the paper
> reported that in error.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
> Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
> Vaccination Information & Choice Network
> http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
> http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
> homeopathycures (AT) tesco (DOT) net
> ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes
> ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes
> Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936
>
>
>
>

I got a chuckle out of that one. Isn't "assumed safety after sustained use" why aspirin is still on the market?

Hi Roger,

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Roger Van Zandvoort wrote:

> i do not know that, there are many sites that mention this report, it could
> be preliminary. Might also be a reason for the lancet some time ago to do
> something against homeopathy, in the knowledge that this who report is going
> to come.

There is no doubt of that!

> It is not just that indian newspaper mentioning the report.
>

No - I had heard about it too in Germany before I read that. Was
supposed to come out end of last year afair. I think it was discussed
in the media.

Of course the other end *would and will* react with anything they can
think of.

In Germany, the WHO indications and recommendations for *acupuncture*
have been quite official and are displayed in the offices of reg. med.
doctors who offer acupuncture on a privately-payed basis.

I can just imagine the uproar when this will be so for homeopathy.

It may not be entirely pleasant.

Regards

Luise

>
> On 20-jan-2006, at 15:46, Sheri Nakken wrote:
>
>> At 01:45 PM 1/20/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > where is this who report found? Many sites relate/mention it, but
>> > none has the actual report, or at least I cannot find it.
>> >
>> > Roger
>> >
>> >
>>
>> There were earlier emails on this, when I posted the India newspaper's
>> story.
>> The consensus was that the WHO has NOT said this and that the paper
>> reported that in error.
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
>> Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
>> Vaccination Information & Choice Network
>> http: //www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
>> http: //www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
>> homeopathycures (AT) tesco (DOT) net
>> ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes
>> ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes
>> Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936
>>
>>
>>
>>

Yes.....
Well that is just a refreshing other example of how bad politics can
spoil the world.

Fortunately, homeopathy keeps spreading anyhow,

Roger

On 20-jan-2006, at 20:11, Carol Boyce wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> Re the WHO report - it was a DRAFT report circulated internally so
> far and not published. Apparently there was much criticism of the
> report - here's an excerpt of an article about it - no prizes for
> guessing which side the author is on - it makes quite amusing
> reading actually, if it wasn't so sad.
>
> All we know is the dissension is getting louder again so we are on
> the right track! Just keep doing what we're doing.
>
> From: The Skeptical Inquirer
>
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...9/ai_n15763205
>
> .."Meanwhile, news of preparations for a similar report, this time
> on the subject of scientific research on homeopathy, have leaked
> out. By chance, we were able to take a look at this secret draft
> report, which was handed around to a number of unknown experts by
> Xiaorui in November 2004. We immediately conveyed our objections to
> him. An answer remains forthcoming, and that's why we feel
> compelled to raise the alarm over this, before the WHO actually
> proceeds to publish.
>
> A letter that accompanied the draft states that it "is intended for
> a restricted audience only" and that the draft text "may not be
> reviewed in any form or by any means outside the restricted
> audience." Comments were to be sent before the end of January 2005.
> Reading this draft report reveals why this secrecy is required. The
> tenor of Homeopathy: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled
> Clinical Trials is no better than the content of the report on
> acupuncture. The report refers to the infamous research of Jacques
> Benveniste on water-memory effects. Indeed, Benveniste's study did
> make it to Nature (with serious reservations by the editor), but
> there's not a word on the subsequent revocation of that same
> article. (2) ........"
>
> And so on and so on........blah blah
>
> Carol
>
> Carol Boyce BSc(Hons), LCH, MCH, CCH
> Director of Education
> The Homeopathic Symposium
> www.homeopathicsymposium.com
>
> --
>