Generally it's fear that makes the old fogies take refuge in MDs. My
experience with "quacks" were ones that had an MD license on the wall
not ones with a naturopathic, chiropractic or ayurvedic license or
training. There are MDs who managed to get themselves through college
(often with daddy or mommy's help) to join the "family business" so they
could play golf more. They are shitty at medicine.
About the only pharmaceuticals I ever use are the antibiotics the
dentist may prescribe because you only need to take them for a couple
days and they don't imbalance me. HOWEVER, when I had a tooth extracted
they gave me some Vioxx which practically drove me nuts so I put it on
my allergies list (which includes sulfa) but then I believe it has been
taken off market.
In the Seattle area I had a wholistic MD whose wife was an
acupuncturist. At the time the MD was thinking about taking the
ayurvedic course for doctors that MAPI offered. My ayurvedic doctor here
in the Bay Area was also an MD and took both the MAPI and Dr. Lad
courses for doctors.
And I had considered going into medicine, my jyotish chart is very good
for it (as Chakrapani pointed out). Just too much study and work to do
even around age 30 which was when I considered it with encouragement
from my aunt who was involved in the WHO (and probably might have taken
issue with their codex ideas on supplements). Instead I've taken a
number of workshops on the subject and enjoy reading lots of opinions by
various practitioners.
On 12/18/2013 12:50 PM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, like most meditators I know, I cave when the doc prescribes
antibiotic. Fear of death prevails! But even 2 decades ago I
successfully used Chinese herbs for 2 different conditions. And
currently take echinecea to bolster my immune system. So I mostly do
natural remedies and I think a lot of meditators in FF do similarly.
Even though we're old fogies! (-:
On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 1:46 PM, Bhairitu
<noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Apparently I need to do a reader's digest version for Judy. But what
the writer was pointing out that the problem with many supplements are
the cheap ones that big pharma makes which indeed does seem a bit
contradictive. Real natural health practitioners will be very fussy
about supplement sources (as I pointed out as did the article). And
if you actually have enough background in the supplement therapy you
can also use some of the cheap supplements too for certain
conditions. It''s all just biochemistry (which as I've said before
that a friend who went to medical school told me many of the students
were lousy at).
Also this trying to stop supplements has been going on for ages. It
won't go anywhere because even standard medicine uses supplements for
some things. But the funny thing is the pseudo scientific 'tude I'm
seeing here against natural medicine. Back in the 1970s my fellow
TM'ers were interested in alternative medicine and supported local
MDs, naturopaths and chiropractors who used it. Remember MMY hadn't
blessed us with his brand of ayurveda yet. I guess some of the folks
here have turned into old fogies seeking salvation by being
pharmadicts standing in line at CVS or Walgreens to get their fix.
On 12/18/2013 10:09 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com
<mailto:authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Translation: Bhairitu can't figure out why he (and the writer of the
article) contradicted himself either...
Can anyone else here explain it?
Bhairitu wrote:
<< Apparently this issue for discussion is above your pay grade. ;-) >>
On 12/18/2013 06:37 AM, authfriend@... <mailto:authfriend@...> wrote:
*Wait. First you said Big Pharma wanted the supplement market all to
itself. That doesn't jibe with making the public terrified of
supplements, period.*
*Bhairitu wrote:*
Because the public doesn't know which are theirs and which are not.
They just want the public terrified of supplements period and then
sell them the higher profit "Brave New World" pharmaceuticals.
On 12/17/2013 02:48 PM, authfriend@... <mailto:authfriend@...>
wrote:
*Bhairitu wrote:*
<< Big pharma is after the supplement market and wants it all to
themselves. >>
*But but but...according to the Natural News article you linked to,
Big Pharma arranged for all the testing to be done on its own
supplements. Why would it do that knowing the study results would
be negative and that folks would be discouraged from using
supplements generally?*
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