TheHayride: Many big government, statist politicians in both parties both believe that there is “nowhere to cut.” They raise all sorts of doomsday scenarios if there even a small tiny cut in the rate of growth of a program.
As a public service, we here at The Hayride have found something to cut. Did you know that the Federal government has been funding quacks, we mean “alternative medicine”, for the past 25 years? The Federal government has spent over $2.5 billion in that time frame to study things like whether healing touch works or can acupuncture cure cancer and other such nonsense.
By the way, the quick answer to both questions is no. Most “alternative medicine” treatments are simply gimmicks used by con artists and morons.
Global Warming is the greatest example of quackery ever.
The answer, as always, is the free market. Think you have something that works? Prove it by attracting investment for your development and then by making it profitable.
Government is strong-arm robbery.
big pharma lobbyists demand they feed their ducks. Half of big pharma qualifies as quacks too.
The “party of science” started this bullshit. This is another reason why gov’t should be funding almost nothing. If it’s worthwhile, the market will decide.
In this instance, if the DA’s office decides this IS quackery and fraud and tries to prosecute, they just claim they get funded by the federal gov’t so it must be legal.
Many alternative treatments are far superior to the dangerous pharmaceuticals prescribed by MD’s, particularly those for chronic illness. Whether for high blood sugar, high blood pressure, arthritis, irregular heart rhythm, or circulatory and cardiac issues, alternative herbs and supplements provide safe and extremely effective treatment. Stop falling for the anti-alternative hype of big pharma and the MD.s, they kill over 200,000 Americans every year with their prescription medications – alternative medicine treatments kill nobody, and that’s according to the CDC.
I grew up in an area that scorned alternative medicine. We did have a few homeopathic doctors and chiropractors in town, but never knew anyone who went to them. I worked for a doctor for several years and have doctors and nurses in my family.
That said, I experienced something years ago that I can’t explain. I was at a state fair and it was hot, noisy and crowded. I developed a powerful tension headache that just wouldn’t go away. Didn’t have any aspirin so I told my friend that I needed to go. She told me to use acupressure. I did what she said:
Squeeze the fleshy web part of my hand between the thumb and pointer finger. Use enough pressure for it to hurt and hold for 30 seconds.
I did that and as I waited, my headache faded. I thought, “What the hell?!” I stopped after 30 seconds and waited for the headache to return. It didn’t.
I tried it since then and it works, but not on every kind of headache. Beats me why it works.
PS, I still won’t seek out alternative medicine and haven’t had any other experience with it other than that one time.
If you were a liberal (which I doubt since you are reading this web page), you would want us to fund a billion dollar research project and demand all medical students be taught how to do abortions….oh, I forgot, I mean acupuncture. I am a doctor (MD) and I agree some “alternative treatments” work. However, if they really were useful the givernment would not have to waste money on them. Also, can anyone explain why the givernment should even be supporting this junk? There are huge savings the feds could get if congress and the dictator in the white house weren’t trying to buy votes all the time. Why Oblowme could just close the WWII monument and Arlington cemetary to name a few important ways to save money.
In 98 I developed a condition on my leg that prompted the doctor to put me on a double dose of heavy duty antibiotic. He contended I has some sort of ferocious infection in my leg. It promoted the growth of the condition so he added Levaquin to the other antibiotics. I found myself not knowing how I got back from shopping at the mall. Didn’t know where I was while driving back although I had made the trek hundreds of times over the years. He finally sent me to an infectious disease M.D. This wonderful man with an earring (not quit the normal fashion back then) took one look at my leg and said you’re off the antibiotics. You don’t have an infection. He did order an A1C. I scored out at 15. Near dead you say. Yep.
My encounter with facing diabetes and a traditional diabetic counselor back in 98 was horrific. If I followed her advice I would be on insulin now, or dead. (She told me a can of sardines had too much fat, but a half of cup of WHITE rice was fine. – just one of the examples of the horrid counseling.)
I found, via internet info on low glycemic diet, and within 3 months of encouragement of a nurse practitioner go with low glycemic diet, and lowest dose of diabetic medicine, I was OFF meds with an A1C less than 7.
At that time, the only place I could get information on the glycemic index was out of Australia and the United Kingdom via the internet. Sometimes I think the U.S. is 10 years behind those countries in use of a mix of common sense, traditional medicine and alternative medicine.
The pain in my leg has been eradicated by a simple regimen of Ultra-Sound – a therapy for the condition that started in another country and I had to learn about via the internet. An M.D. at one of the best teaching hospitals in the mid-west didn’t even know about it and prescribed pills. I had to seek out a doctor that had the balls to prescribe it.
This is all busywork and using up tax money for “research”. How many of these ‘researchers’ are related to some politician? (Remember when they tested how fast ketchup runs out of a bottle?)
Everybody knows if you want something approved, you have to have a friend in the FDA.
How in the hell did the first doctor not do a range of common tests for you??? Good gravy. A raging infection would always prompt someone to check for the beeties. Thank God you’re with us!
And good for you taking charge of your health.
By the way, I quit going to diabetic nutritionists for a number of reasons. One is that the person is always 100lbs over weight. Listen, don’t tell me about a healthy diet when you are sweating from taking breaths. LOL.
Second, they’re always pushing seafood on me. Which is fine for some, but for me- the faintest whiff of seafood has me vomiting. Don’t know why it is, it just is.
They never try to adjust the charts to stuff you can keep down/enjoy.
Whatever. I eat what I like and in moderation.
I’m type 1 IDDM and my lifespan is already said to be cut short by an average of 10 years. Life’s too fuckin short to be aggravated all the time. lol
This is how the politicians influence the Universities and Colleges. They pump tax dollars in, and suck votes out. Most of the “research” is meaningless dreck – and EVERYBODY, except the taxpayers, knows it.
The entire “higher education” edifice would collapse without tax dollars. Real people aren’t gonna pay their own money to listen to a bunch of socialist hacks spew their racist bullshit and other assorted nonsense.
WTF do you think Pell Grants and Student Loans and Student Loan Forgiveness is all about? The socialists have to keep the pipeline open, so that WE pay for OUR OWN destruction.
We really are a nation of fools.
There is one thing I do that’s like that – and it works every time.
If I get a cramp, I take a knuckle and apply pressure right at where the nostrils meet the face and push hard.
It has to hurt. Keep it up until the muscle relaxes.
It’s only a matter of seconds if you do it right.
MJA,
All I know is that he was quite literally a raving maniac about my smoking and doubled up the antibiotics because he said they weren’t working because I was fat. He didn’t do an A1C on me even, but thank God he sent me to that infectious disease hippie doctor who said I didn’t have an infection and then did the A1C and then forwarded me to a diabetes doctor.
After I determined the diabetes doctor was a dick, I found a humble D.O. who told off color jokes and kept wanting to do a pelvic, 🙂 but actually listened and actually came up with a correct diagnosis on my leg. It supposedly is rare. I think it is just usually incorrectly diagnosed. However at that time medicine said it was a vascular condition. I believe it started with a bite or (this is really going to sound strange) spoiled texturing paint that got on me before I threw it away.
The mainstream “cure” still is surgery. Finally though, ultra-sound is now in dermatological textbook as an experimental. I couldn’t find a dermatologist to do it, until I found a rheumatologist who was friends with a dermo and she found it in a text, and ordered it for me.
Guess who takes her conditions under her own control now. 🙂 I’ve been on Atkins for years. I now want to shed 30 lbs for my back and knees sake, so I started last week on _Keto-Adapted_ by Maria Emmerich. Lots of good info in the book. I can eat all the things I like, but it’s difficult to get enough MCTs in the diet. I’ve been so geared to olive oil for so many years. Also, carbs only come from vegies and the few hidden in eggs, etc. So it’s really, really very low carbs.
The pasta I’m picking up tomorrow for one of my grandson’s birthday party is the world best pasta. It’s gonna kill me not to try a bit, but his is not something one can try and then leave. 🙂 I’m going to wear my tightest pair of white jeans so I totally cannot eat the pasta. hee, hee, hee!
Government is mostly made up of quack lawyers.
Big Pharma is the biggest political lobby. Drug science kills a half million people every year with their psych drugs. And the FDA colludes with Big Pharma to cover up those deaths.
http://www.naturalnews.com/049767_Big_Pharma_antidepressants_suicides.html
Harry Reid accepted large sums of money from Big Pharma. Bribe money.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2013/03/Lobby%20Dollars%2098-2012.jpg
Drug pushers maximus.
Pretty much sums up things in one graph. TY Unruly.
There have been a lot of good solid breakthroughs for people through big pharma, however, not everything they developed has been as good as the humble aspirin.
Yes, I agree about some of the drugs being helpful. Anesthesia especially. And what would we do without Novocaine? Those were around before Big Pharma started pushing toxins.
Exactly. Elderberry wine, lemon juice, the old hot toddy, took care of a lot of problems. The old grandmas when I was a child drank goose fat and got up the next day and did the work. Now med is finding out the benefits of chicken soup. How much we’ve forgotten or wasn’t passed on that worked, once a pill was pimped !!!
Plain Jane, I’m actually drinking Elderberry tea and honey right now. I buy the whole dried berries, it’s better than anything the doctor can give to soothe the throat of an achalasia patient, aside from spraying the throat with cocaine flakes (which I’ve had done several times).
Slippery elm bark is good too, but it makes kind of a slimy tea and is not so much fun to drink.
A lot of the traditional medicines are still valid remedies and many are better than what modern medicine has to offer. This natural stuff never killed anybody, and many have been cured or at least found improvement the natural way.
But you already know that. 🙂
I’ve started buying Sambucus (Elderberry) from Amazon. I bought bottles and had them sent to my kids/families and I just took some tonight for a raspy throat. Good stuff. I so want to plant some bushes. Have to get to bed, so I can’t look up the link. I guess some are better than others, but the brand is: Natures Answer. (Messy to pour though.)
email me if you want it and can’t find – rachelssunshine2012@gmail.com
Sambucus is great, but it’s expensive around here. I’d like to plant some bushes too and learn how to make that stuff. The tea is easy – just dry the berries before steeping them in a tea cup.
I’ll send you an email to see if we are talking about the same stuff.
Thank You Plain Jane.