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Alternative to pharmaceuticals: 30,000 plant species are used as medicine across the globe

Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Plant Medicine
For more than a decade and with increasing urgency, critics have called out the disproportionate influence the pharmaceutical industry has had on the practice of medicine, as well as biomedical research. Meanwhile, the power of natural medicine has increasingly entered the spotlight, and a new study brings more attention to the latter.

A new report released by the Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom has revealed that there are nearly 30,000 plant species recorded as being of medicinal use throughout the world. The report also noted that fewer than 16% of the species used in plant-based medicines are cited in medicinal regulatory publication.

This is surely a blow to the many pharmaceutical companies who stay not just afloat, but on top, by calling natural, plant-based herbal remedies useless in the world of medicine.

Comment: For more on the dangers of pharmaceuticals and the benefits of their plant/natural-based counterparts, check out the SOTT Health and Wellness show episode:

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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Corporal Punishment: Abuse or Discipline?


Sott.net
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:00 UTC
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"Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them," so the Bible says. But what is 'the rod'? Does it just mean discipline as in teaching, guiding and setting a proper example? Or does it mean -- in what seems to be the widely accepted view -- actually smacking, hitting or spanking a child in order to correct their behavior? Research states that the majority of parents worldwide use some type of corporal punishment and practically all of these researchers agree that hitting a child is not only ineffective but leads to emotional and behavioral problems and poorer outcomes later in life.

Proper discipline is essential to a child's development but defining what is proper is often the sticking point. On this episode of the Health and Wellness Show we'll discuss discipline, corporal punishment and outright child abuse. We'll also attempt to answer the burning question, "Is it ever okay to spank a child?

Stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment where the topic will be house training your dog.

Running Time: 01:24:31

Download: MP3

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Health

Vitamin D deficiency is rife in an in-patient psychiatric unit for young people


Questioning Answers
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 08:53 UTC
Vitamin D deficiency
"Adolescents within tier 4 adolescent mental health services may be at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency and so assessment of vitamin D levels should be considered as part of a standard physical health review for this group of young people."
So said the results reported by Neil Stewart & Simon Lewis [1] (open-access) who surveyed blood test results of patients admitted to a tier 4 psychiatric unit for vitamin D levels. Such a study was conducted on the basis that "it is plausible that vitamin D and/or vitamin D deficiency have a role in the pathogenesis of mental illness." Yes, indeed I might agree (see here and see here for examples).

Authors identified some 27 individuals who were tested for vitamin D deficiency between 2012 and 2014 from a population of 56. Over 80% (22/27) had vitamin D levels falling into the deficient or severely deficient range, and none of them had vitamin D levels reaching the bottom end of the typical range (75 - 250 nmol/L). A few other points are worthwhile noting: "In individuals from BME [black and minority ethnic] groups, who were potentially at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency due to increased skin pigmentation, 52.9% (9/17) were tested for vitamin D levels and 100% were deficient or severely deficient."
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Syringe

Logical analysis clears fog surrounding medical fraud

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport's Blog
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:09 UTC
reductio ad absurdum
In the course of an investigation, a clue can turn up that changes everything. It exposes massive falsehoods and fraud.

But the meaning of the clue doesn't always tap the investigator on the shoulder and reveal its full implications. The force of the rational insight is on a delay mechanism, as it were.

When I was writing my first book, AIDS INC., in the late 1980s, I was surrounded by much confusion. A bewildering number of facts and opinions and lies were being fed to me by various sources. I was taping notes to my walls and trying to sort out the mess of spaghetti.

One day, while I was researching the AIDS antibody test, I spoke to an official at the FDA. He mentioned that, if a vaccine were developed for HIV, anyone who received it would be given a special letter from the government. The letter would declare that if this person ever tested positive for HIV, the result should be ignored, because the antibodies that made the test turn positive were resulting from the protective vaccine, not lethal HIV in the body.

After I hung up the phone, I tried to think through what I had just heard. Something strange was going on. What was it?

About a week later, it hit me. The brain fog was gone.
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Syringe

Vaccines are no laughing matter: John Oliver, the unfunny schmuck

Levi Quackenboss
Levi Quackenboss Blog
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:30 UTC
Oh, John. I don't even know how to begin this conversation.
John Oliver
RFK Jr. said he’s spent years trying to get mercury out of fish without anyone ever accusing him of being anti-fish. Here is John explaining how stupid fish are.
I have friends who think you're brilliant. I've only seen one of your monologues since you've been on the air, and I don't have HBO (and if I did, I would have cancelled it after your show), so I didn't have an opinion of you before yesterday. And now I feel compelled to warn you that something's not computing in your brain. I hope you take heed.

So you went on your show yesterday to attack people who either stop vaccinating their children or never vaccinated in the first place. It was a 27-minute angry, condescending, sometimes-loony but never-funny rant.

Someday, John, you're going to realize that it is not acceptable to attack the parents of children killed or disabled by vaccines, and that is exactly what you did yesterday.

Two years ago you came to my attention because of an in-depth and eye-popping piece you (or your writers, rather) did on the unethical marketing behaviors of pharmaceutical companies. I'm going to do a quick run-down of the 14 points that stuck out to me when I saw it.
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Attention

Illegal GE bacteria resistant to antibiotics has been found in animal feed

Heather Callaghan
Natural Blaze
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:48 UTC
tagged cow
It's the stuff of sci-fi nightmares - an illegal strain of genetically engineered bacteria has been detected in EU animal feed through a GMO vitamin.

Jonathan Landsman, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD claim in a new report:
Genetically engineered (GE) bacteria have been found in riboflavin vitamin supplements intended for animal feed use according to newly published EU tests.

Contamination of food grade or animal feed supplements with GE bacteria is illegal in the European Union. In 2014, however, a German enforcement laboratory alerted EU officials to illegal GE bacterial contamination of a riboflavin supplement intended for animal feed. Further tests showed that the illegal contaminating strain was not among those the manufacturer claimed to be using.

The findings, just published in the journal Food Chemistry, were made by regulators from Germany and Italy who were sampling Chinese imports (Paracchini et al., 2017).
Similarly, a French testing laboratory found a riboflavin sample in 2015 contaminated with a probable identical bacterial strain also from China.
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Official push to hide drug & vaccine side effects; reduce informed consent

Jefferey Jaxen
Green Med Info
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC
med side effects
In a disturbing turn of events, Big Pharma pushes to hijack informed consent by removing side effects from direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) has exploded during the past several decades and is now the most prominent type of health communication the public encounters. DTCPA has been legal in the US since 1985, but exponentially expanded in 1997 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed a rule that once forced drug companies to offer a detailed list of side-effects in their long format commercials. The impact was immediate. Spending by drug companies on TV ads hit $664 million within a year. By 2005, the industry was spending more than $3 billion annually on televised direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads. 2008 saw Big Pharma post just under $5 billion. Spending on DTCPA rose 9% to $5.6 billion in 2016 and expected to rise further in 2017. To date, the US and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow DTCPA.

In what appears to be a coordinated effort both the FDA and the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) have each announced their intentions to hide or eliminate side effects from DTCPA and patient information leaflets (PIL). Lending credence to larger picture unfolding, both the FDA and the AMS announced their intentions to toy with further concealing drug and vaccine side effects on the same day [June 19].

Comment: The western allopathic medical system treats us all as guinea pigs. Denying informed consent is an outright violation of the Nuremberg Code:
  1. Required is the voluntary, well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal capacity.
  2. The experiment should aim at positive results for society that cannot be procured in some other way.
  3. It should be based on previous knowledge (e.g., an expectation derived from animal experiments) that justifies the experiment.
  4. The experiment should be set up in a way that avoids unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injuries.
  5. It should not be conducted when there is any reason to believe that it implies a risk of death or disabling injury.
  6. The risks of the experiment should be in proportion to (that is, not exceed) the expected humanitarian benefits.
  7. Preparations and facilities must be provided that adequately protect the subjects against the experiment's risks.
  8. The staff who conduct or take part in the experiment must be fully trained and scientifically qualified.
  9. The human subjects must be free to immediately quit the experiment at any point when they feel physically or mentally unable to go on.
  10. Likewise, the medical staff must stop the experiment at any point when they observe that continuation would be dangerous.


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Bulb

Why migraine sufferers are sensitive to light

Mae Chan
Prevent Disease
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:45 UTC
migraine
People experiencing migraines often avoid light and find relief in darkness. A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has revealed a previously unknown connection between the light-sensitive nerve cells in the eye and centers in the brain that regulate mood and a host of physical parameters such as heart rate, shortness of breath, fatigue, congestion and nausea.

The findings, which explain how light can induce the negative emotions and unpleasant physical sensations that often accompany migraine, were published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Migraines are now recognized as a chronic disorder, not simply as a headache. A migraine can last for hours and is caused when arteries are inflamed due to the release of chemicals. These chemicals are released when you have an allergic reaction, stress, sleeping pattern, menstruation, menopause, and fasting.

Comment: See also:

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Ladybug

A secret natural insect repellent is hidden in your kitchen

Tim Wesley
Natural News
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Bay Leaves
© Natural Healing Magazine
Most of the time, people, places, and objects that we don't usually notice are the ones that often surprise us a lot. Those that we don't bother giving a second look at or easily dismiss as something that are not too useful almost always end up giving us a pleasant surprise.

Take bay leaves for example. Did you know that these leaf spices are your best weapon in keeping your kitchen pest-free?

Bay leaves are aromatic spices that have been around for thousands of years. In fact, bay leaves (or bay laurels) were highly prized by the Greeks and Romans because they believe bay leaves symbolize peace and wisdom. These are used for cooking because of their distinct taste and aroma. They also have medicinal benefit. However, one of the things most people are unaware of is the fact that bay leaves are excellent pest repellents.

Banishing bugs and pests from the kitchen will require you to think carefully about the products you're going to use to accomplish this goal. Obviously, the kitchen is where you prepare your meals, so it wouldn't do you or members of your household any good if you're going to use something that contains toxic substances as doing so opens the possibility that harmful substances can get in contact with your food or the utensils you use.

Bay leaves can solve this problem. Just like boric acid, bay leaves have a gentler and kinder way of keeping insects at bay. That's because bay leaves contain essential oils — like eucalyptus — which produce a strong scent that can keep pests away. What's even better is, bay leaves don't cost a lot. In fact, they don't have to cost anything at all.

Comment: Keeping the bugs at 'bay.'

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Biohazard

2 plague cases confirmed in New Mexico's Santa Fe County


KOB4
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:44 UTC
human plague New Mexico
The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday confirmed two more human cases of plague.

The recent cases involve a 52-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman. The first case this year was reported in early June in a 63-year-old man.

All three patients, who live in Santa Fe County, were hospitalized but there have been no deaths.
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