On Jul 13, 2008, at 4:23 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote:
The US could go a long way if we did what the Chinese did with their
"barefoot doctor" programs. We don't need to see doctors all the
time
for one thing and yes I'm aware that some clinics are actually
screening
through the RN's. If we could get the AMA over their politics
against
alternative medicine and rein in the pharmaceutical companies who are
just turning doctors into sophisticated drug pushers we might get
somewhere. People need to be trained to become aware that their
body is
starting to go way out of whack rather than waiting until it falling
apart before they do something about it. I think some simple
village
type ayurveda would go a long way but the US has this "not invented
here" attitude towards such things. And of course if you can cure
something with 50 cents worth of spices you already have in your
kitchen
then the drug companies are going to get you upset that they can't
sell
you a $500 a month habit.
Tell me, what can you cure with 50 cents worth of spices? I favor
evidenced based medicine.
Other than constipation, I can't think of anything. Or $50 worth of
spices, for that matter.
Bhair's assuming that if something doesn't catch on, it must be
because of the big, bad AMA and their lack of trust in anything
"not invented here," as he puts it. It couldn't possibly be because
it's junk science and hasn't been shown to do anything positive. In
fact, as a number of people here have posted, including moi, we've
seen several people who get sick and then try to follow MAV to the
letter, only to wind up dying. Not a great way to advertise.
And I also don't know where the idea comes from that if
something has value, doctors in the US won't try it. Acupuncture
has been used in hospitals in Chicago for decades now, and I've
also heard of visualization being used by cancer patients. Not
as substitutes, of course, but in addition to. If something has
benefits, I doubt anyone cares where it originally came from
Maybe the reason MAV hasn't caught on is because doctors
don't generally take well to snake-oil "remedies" whose main
ingredient seems to be a healthy dose of greed.
Sal
