Cheer Patent Expirations. Tax-Funded Public Sector Research to Replace.

FDA is Cordially Invited 
to this Public Sector Research Opportunity.
Sorely needed.

All We Are Saying: is

Give Plants a Chance.

Here:  Tax funded public research.  An update. Private Sector cannot look after our health without skinning us alive.  The private sector wants profits.  So it limits its research to areas where profit can be made.  That leave other healing routes unexplored -- like your own backyard. Or elsewhere, where healing things grow, in areas yet unbuilt.

Jon goes exploring with his brothers

What if the best healing is in areas where there is little profit -- plants, things in your own backyard -- like sassafras.  Of course, with money to be made,  private sector people will oppose, and try to duplicate in the blinkin' lab whatever the sassafras does in the wild, yes, in a big expensive lab, then patent and charge for it.  But what if the plant itself is better, on its own;  and what if the lab tests on it in itself distort what the plant can do if it is not under stress. Exclude plant defenses in analysis.

Time to get the private sector out of controlling research.   Government: the Public Sector.  Support and fund research into our own backard sassafras so we can leave the private sector alone, at least more of the time. Both have a place.  Time to get the private sector and the lobbies out of the driver's seat on our health.

The American People

Cordially Invite

The FDA and Its Mindful Minions 

(Excluding the Non-Mindful Ones)

To Reconsider Past Flawed Testing

That Led to 

Flawed Conclusions

That Plant Healing

Particularly Sassafras

Is Not Helpful to Humans.

Speaker:  NYT 

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This is an invitation, very formal since informal proposals get nowhere, for the FDA under an enlighted administration to look again at sassafras as a possible healing agent, despite past testing that was (we think) flawed.   Is that too much to ask? Sassafras is all over the place.  Just tell people how to use it and they don't need doctors, sometimes, in some cases;  or they just enjoy their root beer more.

New information and supporting information is coming in all the time that our forms of lab testing are just plain wrong. They are geared to the profit market, have no incentive to research for health in other ways, and sell us ailments undreamed of.

Does this make sense to you? 

Listen to and experience the side effects of the drugs the salespeople are selling.  Is it worth it if you are not in extremis? Faced with that, are you sure of the research that set the lab ahead of what is out there in your own back yard for your affliction du jour.  The topic is this:  in research, lab folks use the same plants over and over in the lab (they don't use them once, then dump them and harvest some more in nature).  Of course, ask your doctor; but if you get a blank look back, you are on your own.  So go to the FDA.

Basics for the FDA: 

Ask.  Please.

Does that overuse of the same plants and their progeny create -- in the plant itself, as a defense against its leaves or stems or roots constantly being hacked off -- a defense in the form of heightened toxins, or whatever, to keep those inhuman humans away. And that in turn distinguishes those over-harvested plants from natural ones with milder toxins in the wild, toxins that could be used by the plant if needed and increased, but dormant otherwise.

Could the sassafras' ability to defend result in its demonization by the FDA -- for that very ability to defend itself. Should we allow second looks, using unharried plants?  Yes.

Interesting article affirming how plants under siege (as in labs) increase the very toxins that the lab then condemns:  Is that so?

The New York Times says that heightening of defenses is a normal plant response, see NYT Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at D4.  See No Face, but Plants Like Life Too.

What is in extremis anyway.  That means that you are so bad off you have no choice. Fine. Take the drug.  Otherwise you die.  Hair loss, muscle weakness, nerve damage, spasms, dizzies, listen to the ads, hands to head.  If you are not in extremis, Stop! 

If you are not in extremis, can you take some more time to get educated, trust your body, and try milder, less intrusive, forms of healing? 

Stakes if you stop.  

We here may drop dead tomorrow because we quit the drugs because the side effects of the statin medications were awful and I would rather walk than see the satisfaction of numbers come down, but don't let that deter you.  Muscle pain, weak, nerves going amok in the legs, heck -- give me my mobility.  Right now, off the medication, I feel fine -- after months and months, that is -- but don't let my demise from high cholesterol (if I do demise from it) deter you.  Vet everything for yourself.

America needs tax-funded public sector medical research

Sassafras under stress.  Why used stressed plants as a measure of their healing capacity?

Sassafras under stress is not the same as sassafras without stress.  Are you? People:  different under stress, then when relaxed.

Reconsider health properties of plants.  This is an enlightened administration opposed by science-hating profiteers.  Is that extreme?  Who will research backyard healing, in an era of patents. No-one but the government will do that.  Private industry uninterested.  No profit? Private industry not interested.

What to think about in food choices.  

We do have to eat; but read the article and at least get a little sensitized.  Here's an odd thing for the modern objective age:  What if, despite no facial expression, a plant withdraws, "feels" pain, etc.  The living's desire to save itself is enormous. Chemicals get released to lure in third parties to fight you off;  internally, cellular troops are rallied - and the genome musters  "defense-related proteins".  Plants even move to get away, or nearer.  It may even matter if the plant is in the vicinity of a relative (!) See article.

Your choice, your risk.

Profit World.  

The profit world will never allow the FDA to show how natural backyard plants and trees can heal us.

Profit driving healthcare? Profits mean propaganda, sales.  Inapp.  Inappropriate, Inapplicable, Inapproximate.

Go back to the NYT -- we (or our enemies, etc.) justify slavery and genocide on grounds that these beings are not fully human, they don't "behave just as we do."  They don't feel the same pain, so it goes, not the same love, etc., as real humans so -- in the old days -- operate on the infant without anesthetic because after all he can't feel pain.  Can human love be found in same gender relationships?  No?  Get rid of them!  How to admit new members into our tribe, especially if they differ. 

So, to the Sassafras.  Lab tests, over time, toxicity in rats already allergic in their way.  Will the FDA in this enlightened adminstration reconsider?  What healing is there in this ancient plant we discard.

Want out app. 

Ailment? Appointment.
Test. Prescription. Insurance?
Goodbye. Thank you. Next?

Side effects? Grisly?
Ailment. Appointment. Prescribe.
New test. Same old. App. *

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*  Our own GP does take time to talk, But who is selling even our doc on the drug to prescribe? Who trusts the sellers who do their own testing. Side effects in our household have been frightening to us. So we are on a body self-reset.  None of their stuff. Who are we when we are not on drugs?  Can our bodies recalibrate? Seek quieter, less forceful approaches. Stay tuned.

Drug company patents are expiring.  Few new drugs from them in the pipeline.  Costs of research skyrocketing.  Could this mean a sensible return to balance in health care:  see ://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/07drug.html?partner=rss&emc=rss/.

Again.  Root beer. Real root beer. Review the bans.

Needed:  Multi-modal approach.  Acu? Chiro? Nutri? Explore.