(this is a repost from down below, perhaps you'll find it interesting)

I have to agree Ironsides, a lot of our present rejection of the medical system is based on our past background from Berg.

I like what Scully said to Mulder once, "Why not thank God for the miracle of modern medicine?"

Which is why I prefer to be educated before I do things, and I read up and study about a sickness and the whys and wheres of it, what I can do naturally before going to the Dr. But I would NEVER hestitate to go if I didn't understand something or it was beyond me, nor would I hesitate to tell someone to get themselves to a professional.

But as far as many drugs and medicines go, I also know from research that a lot of it is just as dangerous as the disease, and the pharmaceutical companies are mainly driven by money, otherwise you would have more FDA approved herbs.

One reason the FDA doesn't approve herbal and natural treatments is cause you can't patent, for instance, dandelion. So who wants to go to the trouble of years of research and tests and submitting papers for approval to the FDA on a weed that can be grown by anyone in their backyard? There is no profit in it.

Many medicines are synthesized based on one or two components of a herb. The scientists isolate one of the components, then reproduce it in their labs. What are they using to reproduce it? In a lot of cases these synthesizations are based on petroleum. What does you body do with the petroleum? It can't use it, and if it can't flush it out, it stores it. How does it store it? In the form of tumors. A lot of tumors are just the build up of chemicals and stuff your body can't utilize but can't get rid of.

Water--drink it!
Chemical products-avoid them!

On another point about the Family-
I study essential oils and specifically how to use them for healing, not aromatically, but for sickness. If you study the Bible, you will find out that "anointing their head with oil" actually means using an essential oil, in the Bible case it was most likely frankincense which is a very powerful healing oil and many people have been healed through using it, and by anointing the head, the oil enters the brain and triggers a chemical (natural chemical) response in your body that tells your body, "Hey, you're sick, get with it!"

The oils can be rubbed on parts of your body for effect too. The oil molecule is so small that it can enter directly into the cell and help your cell get back to health, as vs. herb molecules which are oftentimes too large to enter the cell and need the help of enzymes for your body to process them.

It's all very iteresting, and I laugh at the way we used to grab some olive oil or even coffee on occasion to pray over someone who was sick. When in reality, it's not like it was a complete miracle of healing in the Bible, but you used the nature and its gifts from God to communicate and connect with your body and restore it to health. Quite amazing really.

> Until I got caught up in the medical system
> myself, I was highly critical of the
> conventional healthcare practitioners.

> What changed with me, is when medical people
> around me agreed, and explained that there
> is a new breed of doctors and nurses coming
> out of school. For the past seven years now,
> although medical professionals are still
> critical of holistic medicine and
> homeopaths, it's because the industry was
> never regulated.

> Without regulation, health-food stores have
> stored things on shelves for sale long past
> expiry dates, and have killed many people
> because of it. Also, many consumers are
> gullible and uninformed in the proper use of
> certain products, including herbal teas,
> which have killed countless thousands.

> The healthcare system used to just ridicule
> the naturopath industry, and call
> naturopaths a bunch of quacks. They'd
> babble-on that no research had been done to
> prove anything, and all that crap.
> Meanwhile, the alternative medicine industry
> used to criticize the healthcare system for
> poisoning people with synthesized cheap
> drugs, and having no concern for people's
> health.

> Either naturopaths have decided to go
> through medical school, to be fully
> qualified healthcare professionals, or
> healthcare professionals have engaged in
> qualified alternative medicine industry
> courses, to realize the need for both
> industries.

> Whereas healthcare professionals used to
> complain that no research had been done in
> holistic medicine, all that has changed in
> the past 10-20 years, or so it seems.

> One thing ex-Family people need to remember,
> is much of our built-in contempt for the
> medical system, is from Mo's teachings. When
> I consider Maria's medical condition, and
> all the Family members who died of medical
> complications and neglect through the years,
> I flush it all down the toilet.

> All that so-called faith for healing they
> preached!--Shit! I don't have doubts about
> healing. I have contempt for all the
> condemnation people's noses were rubbed-in,
> by a poor old man who was older than I am,
> at the same age he was then.

> If your doctor is agreeing to give you two
> months to try out an alternative remedy,
> under his supervision, you've found a good
> doctor. Everybody wants a good salary, but
> some doctors want a good salary, because
> they are also passionate in their service to
> their customers.

> Concerning your blood pressure, mine is
> always low. In your case, stop smoking,
> because it never has helped anybody lose
> weight. That research project was completed
> with two groups of middle-agers over a 10
> year period.

> Smoking is all in people's heads, and the
> physical addiction takes 21 days to cure
> from. Detox of any addiction whether
> alchohol, nicotine or heroin is 21 days.
> After that, it's only in people's heads.
> Also, marijuana is 10 times more destructive
> to the air-passage than cigarettes.

> Eliminating nicotine will do more to bring
> down blood pressure, than all the worries
> about medication. The first major project
> you should have, is forget stupid patches
> and gum bullshit products. Just stop
> smoking. Then make anybody's life miserable
> who smokes near you.

> The one time a home-care worker lit a
> cigarette in my apartment, I threw him out
> before he even got his match thrown away. He
> was the gay who complained about the lady
> who was living with me.

> After one month, you'll start to feel a bit
> better, and be able to breathe a little
> better, depending on whether you have much
> lung damage. Once your blood starts to
> oxygenate better, and you clean up your
> eating habits, your metabolism will function
> better.

> If you get the right amount of physical
> activity, are on a healthy diet, and drink
> enough fluids, your blood pressure will
> naturally go down.

> Thus saith Hananiah Ironsides, the
> basket-case, poor sample, and incompetent
> "Leader"! Oh, bad-boy bad-boy,
> what ya gonna do?--What ya gonna do, when
> they come for you?