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Reforming or not? Just imagine what would happen if some alternative treatment/supplement was found to have killed 27, much less 27,000, people, as Vioxx, Celebrex, Aleve, etc have done! Sadly, for alternative medicine, the FDA's rule is 'one strike and you are out.' The slightest allegations that an alternative remedy may have associated dangers are enough to get the remedy summarily removed from circulation. For example, natural ephedra, laetrile, hydrazine sulfate, MGN-3 and a host of other alternative supplements, products and services have been banned, based on minimal indications of danger. Protection - for our benefit - the way I see it, doesn't appear to be passed out in equal doses!

Are you aware that the FDA is now part of a three-country North American task force, called MUCH, whose express goal is to shut down alternative clinics in Mexico. Clinics that were forced into being because of the FDA (aka drug industry's drug pusher)... In fact, the medical graveyard is full of relatively effective and less dangerous treatments that the FDA has aggressively prosecuted, while conventional medicines that kill thousands of people each year are still being prescribed! It appears to me that they are drawing attention away from the ills of the drug industry and their failure at protecting us as they are supposed to do... The FDA and pharmaceutical industry's smoke screen that they do best! When the dust clears, this so-called "reformed" FDA will be in a strengthened position to crush the few remaining rivals to Big Pharma drug industry. Our freedom of choice will be gone!!!!

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The drug companies are not going out without a fight. In an attempt to save their falling dynasty, drug makers have been:

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        * Stopping alternative practitioners from practicing!

Since the industry as a whole earns more than a half a TRILLION dollars a year, they do have a LONG way they can fall before they really start to "hurt."

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By David Morris, AlterNet.
January 10, 2005.

Attacking patients or their lawyers won't cure what ails the health care industry. Insurance reform is a better place to start.

"One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits," President Bush has told the American people, offering up his proposals to cap non-economic damages to patients injured by medical negligence. Here are seven facts that prove him wrong:

Insurance rates do not vary with the amount of claims paid out as much as with the amount of investment income that comes in.

"During the 1990s, insurers competed vigorously for medical malpractice business, and several factors, including high investment returns, permitted them to offer (artificially low) prices ... " according to the Government Accountability Office. When stock prices and bond interest rates fell, insurer income plummeted, prompting companies to increase rates to make up for the losses. Even the Congressional Budget Office has said that at least half of the rate increases from 2000 to 2002 were prompted by declining investment returns. The other half were a result of major companies, like the Saint Paul Company (now Saint Paul Travelers), withdrawing from the malpractice insurance business altogether because of the investment return declines. Thousands of physicians were forced to scramble for alternatives. Many charged exorbitant prices. The insurance crises in some states, like West Virginia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, may largely be attributed to Saint Paul Company's withdrawal.

Medical malpractice insurance accounts for less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. Even that percentage is falling because insurance rates have been rising at less than half the rate of increase in overall health costs.

Since 1996, the number of malpractice claims has been flat. The average payout has increased only slightly. According to the National Practitioners Data Bank (NPDB), a government service that tracks malpractice claims, verdicts and settlements, the median payout for medical malpractice claims rose from $100,000 in 1997 to $135,000 in 2001. The size of the award closely tracked the severity of the injury.

Only 1 of 8 patients who suffer injury due to medical negligence ever file a malpractice claim.

Caps on medical malpractice awards for pain and suffering have not resulted in decreased malpractice insurance rates. In the first 10 years after California imposed a $250,000 cap in 1975, state rate increases were the same as the national average. It was only after Proposition 103 passed in 1988 that insurance rates in California began to decline in comparison to those in other parts of the country. The reason? Proposition 103 instituted insurance reforms, not "tort reform." It disallowed unnecessary insurance costs like bloated executive salaries and excessive expenses and it required insurers to open their books to justify rate increases.

A tiny fraction of doctors account for the majority of malpractice awards. From September 1990 to September 2002, only 5.1 percent of doctors paid two or more malpractice awards. But these doctors accounted for 54 percent of all payouts.

State medical boards are reluctant to discipline incompetent doctors. One study found that only 1 out of 6 doctors who had five or more malpractice payouts had been disciplined.

In 1986, the New York state legislature commissioned an interdisciplinary team of physicians, attorneys, economists, statisticians and social research experts to diagnose the problem of soaring liability insurance premiums. Their conclusion? "(F)inding fault with the tort system is easy; what is difficult is identifying an alternative that, on balance will do better."

The medical insurance system needs fixing. One remedy is to make insurance companies more accountable. Eight of the 10 states with the lowest medical malpractice insurance rates require an approval process before the companies can raise rates. Another remedy is to require insurance companies to broaden the risk pool by combining doctor specialties so that individual disciplines, like gynecology, where mistakes can be devastating, are not disproportionately burdened.

The medical system needs fixing too. A horrifying statistic in a March 2000 report by the prestigious Institute of Medicine testifies to the problem. Between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year as a result of medical mistakes. One reason may be the astonishing number of hours - up to 120 hours a week - interns and residents work, including 36-hour shifts for several weeks at a time. Sleeplessness breeds mistakes. A bill introduced in Congress last year would limit the resident workweek to 80 hours.

Studies have also found a higher risk of dying in hospitals where nurses have heavier workloads. One analysis concluded that every additional patient per nurse results in a 7 percent increase in both patient mortality and deaths following complications.

There is a problem in the medical industry. But the facts indicate that it is not caused by the patients or their legal representatives.

David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance in Minneapolis, Minn. http://www.ilsr.org/

This tangy flavorful herb/food/flavoring is an oriental favorite and mine also!

It's a perennial herb Zingiber Officionale or commonly English name Gingerroot. In the fresh Gingerroot state, it has a characteristic staghorn-like appearance; dried ginger is usually sold in form of off-white to very light brown powder or fresh whole or pieces. Ginger root is a rhizome or underground stem and not considered an actual root. Depending on the location it is being grown at, it is harvested nearly year-round. It is ready for harvest about five months after planting. The early harvests are used for ginger syrup and candied ginger. The later harvests are usually sold as fresh ginger. It becomes hotter and spicier, and better for homeopathic remedies, the longer it is in the ground.

Ginger leaves are occasionally used for flavoring in ginger producing countries.

Ginger and turmeric combine with citrus and maple syrup to make the perfect blend of healing nutrients.

The English botanist William Roscoe (1753-1831) gave the plant the name of Zingiber officinale in an 1807 publication. The ginger family is a tropical group especially abundant in Indo-Malaysia, consisting of more than 1200 plant species. The genus Zingiber includes about 85 species of aromatic herbs from East Asia and tropical Australia. The name of the genus, Zingiber, derives from a Sanskrit word denoting "horn-shaped," in reference to the protrusions on the rhizome. Major world producers include Fiji, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and China. American imports come from China, several Caribbean Islands, Africa, Central America, Brazil, and Australia. Ginger is now commercially cultivated in nearly every tropical and subtropical country in the world with arable land for export crops. While in Hawaii last April I was privy to see ginger growing in all it's beauty and several organic plots for personal use as well as for sale... Fresh ginger and dried ginger are considered two different commodities. In fact, one author of an early Chinese herbal felt that they were so different that they must come from two different plants! The dried root is known as Gan-jiang. The fresh root is called Sheng-jiang.

Ginger having been around so long that its exact origin is unclear.

It reached the West at least two thousand years ago, recorded as a subject of a Roman tax in the second century after being imported via the Red Sea to Alexandria. Tariff duties appear in the records of Marseilles in 1228 and in Paris by 1296. Ginger is known in England before the Norman Conquest, as it is commonly found in the 11th century Anglo-Saxon leech books. Ginger is detailed in a 13th century work, "Physicians of Myddvai," a collection of recipes and prescriptions written by a physician, Rhiwallon, and his three sons, by mandate of Rhys Gryg, prince of South Wales (who died in 1233). By the 13th and 14th centuries it was familiar to English palates, and next to pepper, was the most popular spice. A pound of ginger was then valued at the price of one sheep. Ginger, as a product of the Far East, was indelibly imprinted on the taste buds of Westerners before potatoes, tomatoes, and corn were even known to exist by Europeans.

Medicinal properties

Ginger has been used for centuries in treating the common cold. Additionally, it is an effective analgesic, anti-pyretic, anti-viral agent. Asian cultures believe it prevents them from maladies found in most countries such as hypertension, and in the prevention of atherosclerosis. Other known benefits of ginger include its ability to cleanse the colon, reduce spasms and cramps, stimulate circulation, and aid metabolism. Many have used it to treat colitis, nausea, gas, indigestion, bowel disorders, morning sickness, motion sickness, vomiting, congestion, fever, and headaches. In spite of Westernized medicine moving in on them Asian medicine still, for the most part, uses it as a treatment for asthma, shortness of breath, water retention, earache, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Homeopathic practitioners even recommend it for sexual disorders. In some cultures over the centuries it has been credited with the ability to treat arthritis, fevers, and toothaches. It is said to have the ability to prevent internal blood clots. An added benefit to Ginger is that it is a strong antioxidant and effective microbial agent for sores and wounds.

Ginger in protecting and soothing the digestive system increases the pH of stomach acid, reducing its acidity, thereby naturally lowers the rate of gastric secretions, and increasing digestive enzyme activity. Rather than blocking the feelings of nausea in the brain, it acts directly on the stomach and liver to reduce nausea and vomiting. Ginger tincture - root is soaked in alcohol and water - sometimes labeled as "drops" or "extracts" - are available in health and natural food stores. Recommended ten to twenty drops of ginger tincture in a little water with meals to counteract indigestion or help fight early symptoms of cold or flu.

Ginger root herb has no known harmful side effects, and is viewed as a very safe herb. However, it has been known to cause heartburn in some people. If such occurs, reduce dosage and try again or discontinue use.

In most American Asian restaurants shredded fresh ginger is offered as a condiment to dishes and is found to be a common flavoring in most of their dishes. Since I have not been to the orient I cannot absolutely say how it is served over there.

Many people like raw ginger. Sometimes people will soak ginger in water for several hours then added to the dish immediately before serving. This gives it a more fresh, spicy and pungent taste. The freshness decreases and the pungency increases when fresh ginger is cooked. Often times, ginger is ground up into a powder and used in curries and spice pastes.

Slices of ginger are used quite often to flavor foods that need to simmer for long periods of time. The reason ginger is good for this is because the slices release their flavor quite slowly.

Ginger tea can be made by cooking slices of fresh ginger in water for a few minutes. It is a spicy and healthy drink that can be enjoyed in hot tropical climates or in freezing cold climates. Below is a great tasting and healthy detoxing, pain relieving and refreshing tea!

Ginger Healing Detox Tea with Turmeric

INGREDIENTS
2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger
1/2 teaspoon powdered turmeric
1 tablespoon maple syrup
Juice of 1/2 lemon

1. Bring water to a boil, then add powdered herbs (1/8 teaspoon shredded ginger may be used in place of powder). Simmer for 10 - 20 minutes.
2. Strain tea into a mug, add maple syrup and lemon, stirring to combine. Drink warm.

Makes 1 serving.

Enjoy this pleasant food/herb/medicinal in all kinds of cookies, cakes, tea, drinks or as a condiment with fish or fruits. I add a small piece of fresh root to my juicer when I juice apples and carrots together for a very pleasant flavor enhancer and nutrient enrichment.
Lena

Depression Or Just Pain?

Do you have chronic pain?

A friend - Jim - had a business situation go really bad for him in 1991. His business partner was taking people's money right and left and some people lost everything they had in savings because they didn't check out the situation close enough. Jim trusted, his so-called friend, so much that he ignored the bad signs. When Jim finally woke up and realized what was happening it was too late for him to recoup his money!

This began a downhill spiral for him and depression set in because he felt that he was unwise in his choice of partner and could no longer trust his instincts. He also felt responsible for all those people losing money, even though he had lost everything himself. Jim left the bad situation and turned in his partner resulting in his ex-partner going to prison for fraud. It still wasn't enough to make Jim feel better. Very soon after his discovery Jim started having back problems, and long story short, resulted in five back surgeries, simply because the orthopedist couldn't find a reason for the pain and went exploring. Surgeries only compounded his problem and never stopped his back pain.

Jim's mental attitude hasn't changed since 1991 and neither has his pain. He's in deep depression and his once healthy eating habits became bad, his personal hygiene went down hill and he is constantly getting a virus of some sort. Pain runs his daily life. I have not been successful in getting him to supplement or look at where his pain comes from.

It is a proven fact that depression and pain go hand in hand. Chronic pain causes depression and depression can cause chronic pain as well as stop the reversal of pain.

Depressed or emotionally distressed people are more likely to have disabling low-back pain and three to four times less likely to benefit from pain intervention, as the case with Jim.

Cheerful non-depressed people, on the other hand, are almost 100 percent able to overcome pain, according to several pain clinic studies done over the last decade.

Just last year a study of 845 patients in chiropractic treatment determined that spinal pain was one of the chief factors for continuing depression.

How to overcome this catch 22 situation ? "depression caused pain" or "pain caused depression"?

Depression is rampant in our society these days and most, if not all of it is due to the lack of feeding the brain the nutrients needed to make it healthy and giving it the ability to send proper signals where ever your body needs them as well as ward off depression or emotional distress when it hits. This is so easily corrected and doesn't costs thousands or millions of dollars to you or your insurance company!

Start by giving your body the minerals balance that it requires to be both physically and mentally alert.

I've watched people with Manic, bipolar and schizophrenia depression disappear with the simple addition of liquid ionic minerals containing the total 84 minerals and trace minerals that your cells require bathing in to work properly. A few required the addition of an herbal compound for total correction. This simple addition to their life created brain chemical balance reversing the chemical imbalance that is known to createmost depressed states.

Then;

Take a look inside and see if you are looking at things emotionally and feeding your brain negative thoughts. If you go into pain or other treatments with a negative attitude your chances are great that you will continue with that pain unless you change the negativity. You can be your own worst enemy for, "As you think of yourself you become". Or "Thoughts are things!" The bible, given to us by our creator, even states, "As a man thinketh so is he!"

Are you one who first sees the possibility of bad things that could happen in every situation without looking at the positive aspects of the situation? Do you first look at the possibility of the good in every situation or the bad? If bad first is your way of looking at things, STOP IT and tell your brain positive possibilities and not negative possibilities.

We all know bad things can happen, but why waste the energy looking for it until it happens? Trust yourself enough to know you can take care of anything that comes your way! Do not feed your brain negativity as it will respond negatively. You may say, but bad can happen! Sure bad can happen and if you expect it to, probably will! Just remember, "As a man thinketh so is he!" Look at the good side of every situation and expect it, and if the bad happens use it as a stepping stone to learning and your pain can improve. Yes, that pain is bad but your attitude will make it far worse and your pain may never improve until the negative attitude changes!

Healthy thinking habits are in direct relation to your Physical and Mental Health!
Mineral imbalance is the path to faulty thinking habits!

Lena

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