Health and Healing

By: Jera Jones

July 11, 2008

The profession of medical doctor is a demanding one. Knowledge of surgical procedures and brand-name drugs is highly specialized. When we need surgery or brand-name medications we are thankful for those knowledgeable professionals!

The majority of people do not want to change their diets regardless of the health consequences and insist on healthcare that does not confront them on their lifestyles. The medical-pharmaceutical industry has responded to this demand and seeks to heal people with drugs and surgery without requiring them to exercise or change their diets. Most people are content with this, even though few chronic conditions can be prevented or cured by drugs and surgery alone.

Conventional medicine does not know the cause of nor have a cure for cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, arthritis or diabetes. The degenerative diseases that creep up on people in the later years of life are incurable according to medical science. There are risk factors such as carcinogens in the case of cancer, and sugar in the case of diabetes, but a thorough understanding of how these diseases attack, how to prevent them, or how to cure them is so lacking that developing one or more of these debilitating conditions is considered an unavoidable part of aging. Medical treatments attempt to restore some degree of functioning to the parts affected, and the progress of degeneration is slowed and "managed." Prostheses are supplied when body parts wear out. Hormones are supplied when the natural ability to produce the hormone has been depleted. An imbalance of chemical secretions in the brain is corrected by the suppression of certain brain chemicals and the replenishment of others. Medications, breathing treatments, and tube feedings are used to keep the patient alive. Chemical and physical restraints are used to keep the resident from injuring himself of herself. Diabetes and heart disease are thought to be somewhat related to diet. Diabetes patients are required to restrict their intake of sugar, and heart patients are required to restrict their intake of salt. Medications are often prescribed to treat a symptom rather than the underlying disease. For instance, high blood pressure may be treated by blocking adrenaline receptors. But what is causing the high blood pressure? The cause is not addressed, and instead of healing, the drugs often cause more dysfunction.

Cancer therapies such as laetrile, Gerson, Macrobiotics and the herbal parasite purge do not get funded for research, and patients do not get reimbursed for the expenses of alternative therapies by their insurance companies. Yet radiation, chemotherapy and surgery (the standard cancer treatments) have a relatively poor track record for cure. As long as people are paying for radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery via their insurance premiums, taxes, investments, and contributions to establishment controlled charities, that money is holding a very unsatisfactory status quo in place. Testing is expensive. Where there is a patented drug there is the hope of getting a payback for the expense of proving the effectiveness and safety of the product, because the patent holder is protected from competitive production for 20 years. An herbal product that anyone can grow in a window box cannot be patented, and no one is going to throw their money away proving the effectiveness of a product that anyone can produce and sell.

The result of all that is that substances so toxic that hospital personnel must use extreme precautions not to get any drops of it on their skin, nor breathe any vapors of it, are injected into the veins of cancer patients. And this is supposed to be therapeutic? People are dying faster from the treatment than they are from the disease! Even after seeing what happens to everyone else, doctors, nurses and pharmacists are lining up for the same treatment when they too are diagnosed with cancer! AND NO ONE SEES ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS!!!

Who would take their car to the nearest mechanic, accept his diagnosis, and agree to his solution without question? Especially if other car owners they knew with the same problem were not getting satisfactory results with that solution?

We've swallowed the hyperbole put out by the drug industry which has greatly exaggerated the effectiveness and safety of its products. And we have seen some convincing things. Fevers really do come down when the patient takes aspirin or one of the synthetic aspirins. Antibiotics really do clear up ear infections, bladder infections, and more. Antihistamines really do curb nasal congestion. Cough syrup really does suppress coughs. Pain medications really do dull pain. But what about the side effects? What about the long-term side effects? If you really want to be healthy do you put these kinds of things in your body? We are convinced by immediate effects, but we remain ignorant of long-term effects. Patent remedies are approved without testing the long-term effects, or they are approved in spite of undesireable results.

Chelation therapy for heart disease may be better than coronary bypass, but coronary bypass is big business. Even though bypass costs more, insurance companies will pay for that, but not for the less invasive EDTA chelation. To test a new therapy and prove it to the governing agencies requires an enormous budget. Therapy proponents unable to compete financially with the drug cartels can not get their methods perfected or approved. The big pharmaceutical companies are not going to develop nutritional therapy, electronic zappers or even a simple intravenous procedure if they can make more money selling drugs, surgical instruments and paraphernalia for procedures with a 50% or less cure rate. Selling expensive placebos is a lucrative big business. Healing people isn't.

Wouldn't you like to own a company that produces vaccines that the government forces everyone to consume? The whole populace has to buy your product via their taxes whether they like it or not, and their kids have to be injected with it whether they like it or not. There are serious questions as to whether vaccines are safe. It is also highly questionable that they have any impact on their purported purpose (to prevent disease epidemics). In fact they may be causing an epidemic of autism and contributing to ADHD. I didn't know about the waiver when my oldest child was in school. Fortunately, I found out in time to spare my other children. The public school secretaries won't tell parents about the waiver that they can sign to excuse their children from immunizations, but if you ask and insist they will eventually allow you to sign a statement that immunizations are against your belief, and allow you to enroll your children without them. Immunizations are getting more toxic every year. If your child has had some, there is no need for him or her to be subjected to more. Also, check with your investment firm. Maybe you do own stock in big pharmaceuticals. They are big money makers!

In spite of the abundant hype that people "need medicines," drugs must be patented in order to be financially viable to develop and sell. This means that none of the above drugs are natural products, or, as such, they would be unpatentable. In order to take out a patent on something you must finagle with it in some way. There must be something unique about your process. You can't just take a medicinal plant and extract it in any of the ways normally used by herbalists. People trying to sell herbal products for a particular disease or condition get into trouble with the government because nobody has "proven" that recommendation. In order to justify the expense of testing a particular substance for a particular condition a commercial entity must be able to claim exclusive rights to produce that product for a perod of time in order to budget the enormous expense of testing. Without holding a patent no one would do that. This means that all commercial drugs are so altered from the natural state that they are completely unnatural, foreign substances. The belief in an intelligent design of the universe would produce an assurance that natural would alway be better than something finagled with by commercial interests. So, unless you believe that life evolved by a lucky gamble against enormous odds, you might want to go green and back something more socially conscionable than synthetic drugs with your purchases, your labor and your investments.

Natural hygiene and the raw food diet has reversed many a degenerative disease, but there is absolutely no proof of that. I only know what I have demonstrated to myself on my own body. In the early 1970s, the church I was attending (the Living Word Organization AKA the Walk) started getting into the teachings of Dr. Bernard Jensen. I went on a 5 day water fast followed by 2 days of juices. After that, I was very sensitive to the effects of various foods on my body, and would get symptoms within 24 hours. Anything containing any form of refined wheat gave me a hemorrhoid, meat made my teeth hurt, sugar gave me a headache, salt gave me painful lymph nodes, and so forth. My transition was slow and gradual, but by the early 2000s I had transitioned to a diet of 100% raw foods. At that point, I temporarily experienced a lack of energy and lost some weight without the brown rice, whole grain tortillas and potatoes I had been accustomed to. But I soon learned what raw foods would give me a higher energy level then I had ever had before, and brought my body weight back up to ideal. After that, if I ate something cooked I noticed a lowering in my life force almost immediately. Now, cooked food is completely unappetizing to me.

For more information on raw food, see my article on "Natural Hygiene."