I was personally shocked when I read about the history of modern medicine. It changed a lot of my perspectives on our healthcare system. Find out how one many destroyed our healthcare system. Find out why and how a monopoly on healthcare was formed in the United States. Our medical system is mostly focused on drugs, radiation, and surgery (allopathic medicine). Natural, holistic treatments are often ignored.
Alternative treatments have been around way longer than the medical drug system we have today. These treatments were supper effective 100 years ago and are still effective today! Colds to chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease on many occasions have been successfully treated with just natural, alternative treatments.
Over 100 years ago, both conventional and natural medicine did at one time co-exist together. In fact, naturopathic medicine, homeopathy, chiropractic, and osteopathy were thriving and doing better than the regular medical system.
There is no valid justification for calling alternative medicine unreliable, backward, and inferior. Reports, history, and substantial data prove that the exact opposite is true.
How Long Has Alternative Medicine Been Around?
Many of America’s alternative treatments are anywhere from 100 to 1,000 years old. Treatments like chiropractic, naturopathic, osteopathic, and acupuncture were at one time the primary form of medicine. The earliest known written records of herbal medicine date back 5,000 years to the Sumerians. Spinal corrections date back 4,000 years and were recorded in Ancient Chinese on turtle shells. Naturopathic medicine is a bit newer, it was created in the U.S. over 100 years ago. However, the concept behind naturopathic medicine of “nature heals” has been a central concept in medicine across the world for thousands of years.
Alternative treatments are anywhere from 100 to 1,000 years old.
The concept of “the healing power of nature” can be traced back to Hippocrates, the Greek physician who lived 2,400 years ago. The famous ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote a lot of important documents around the concept of “nature heals.” He is one of the most famous figures in the history of medicine and has been called the “Father of Medicine.”
The Chinese records for using herbs as a medicine date back over 3,000 years. Ayurveda is the oldest health science in the world dating back 3,000 to 5,000 years ago, older than traditional Chinese medicine. Both are still the primary forms of medicine in their respective countries. Here is the history of some natural treatments.
How Alternative Treatments Were Removed from the Medical System
Story of John Rockefeller
The pharmaceutical drug industry (modern medicine) was actually established in the late 1800s. It was supposedly formed by two of the biggest economic forces in history, John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. The two already very wealthy men were hungry for even more wealth so they decided to create a monopoly out of healthcare.
It has been said, John Rockefeller actually used homeopathy remedies for his own health, so it’s not that he didn’t believe in this form of medicine.
One of John’s major influences was his power-hungry father William Avery Rockefeller, a very corrupt man with no morals known to be a con-man, gambler, and so on. John Rockefeller was the head of his family and already a very rich man from extracting oil from the ground. In fact, he was America’s first billionaire. Having founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870, he was now looking for ways to capitalize his oil, and he comes across the idea of using coal tar – a petroleum derivative – to make substances that affect the human mind, body, and nervous system (GLOBAL POSSIBILITIES).
NEW Drugs are Created
The petroleum drugs are great at hiding symptoms, yet do nothing to fix the root cause of the health problem or disease. Europeans at the time were also taking petroleum derivatives, chemical dyes, and other chemicals and using them for drugs. Unfortunately for us, many of these chemicals are still in drugs and pharmaceuticals today. Losing a bit of trust in our modern medical system?
Rockefeller used the help of Andrew Carnegie because he was known for monopolizing the steel industry. Rockefeller bought the cartel I.G. Farben to begin making the drugs.
Formation of the American Medical Association (AMA)
The American Medical Association was formed in 1847. With not much money and respect they helped in the take over the medical system. At the time medical doctors were financially struggling because the alternative, natural treatments were all the rage and were more successful. The AMA became responsible for granting medical school licenses in the United States. They even passed more restrictive medical practice laws and had many state naturopathic licensure laws repealed.
How Alternative Medicine Disappeared
Rockefeller and Carnegie Removed All Competition
After having the means of creating the drugs, Rockefeller just had to eliminate the competition (homeopathy, herbal therapies, naturopathy, etc.). So Rockefeller and Carnegie hired Abraham Flexner to create the Flexner Report for Congress in 1910. The report created strict rules for schools of medicine, rules that targeted all-natural medicine. More than half of America’s medical schools across the country were closed down. Additionally, all homeopathy doctors’ and natural medicine doctors’ practices were shut down. Some practitioners were even jailed. Between the 1920s and 1950s, the AMA also attacked many alternative health care practices accusing them of “quackery.”
Flexner traveled across the country to report on the statuses of medical hospitals and colleges. Schools were forced to abide by stricter teaching and research focused on mainstream science. The biomedical pharmaceutical drug model became the official gold standard for medical training. Schools were forced to spend little to no time talking about nutrition, preventative health, and definitely couldn’t educate students on natural remedies. Starting to understand why our healthcare is so broken today?
Congress took the Flexner report with financial support from the Carnegie Foundation and turned it into the law. At the time, the medical system involved three main treatments. These warm and fuzzy treatments include blood-letting, surgery, and injection of toxic heavy metals like mercury and lead to help with the disease. (Note: I have had an over-accumulation of both lead & mercury in my body that has taken nearly 3 years to detox.) I was either injected with these or born with them, it wasn’t from something I did.
Eventually, all alternative treatments were labeled as unscientific and quackery. But wait…they had been helping people for thousands of years!
Influencing the Schools
In 1913, huge grants were offered to the best medical schools in America by Rockefeller and Carnegie using their tax-exempt foundations. The catch? Only science-based, modern medicine could be taught and some of Rockefeller’s people were to be given a position on the Board of Directors. This was labeled as “efficient” philanthropy. That is why we hear today how Rockefeller was this wonderful, philanthropist. Sounds wonderful right? Millions of dollars were given to colleges and hospitals through a front called “General Education Board.” I’m sure they were so excited, the modern medicine system probably sounded super cool and so effective!
All mention of the importance of health, diet, and the power of plants and herbs was eliminated. Doctors were not even allowed to associate with anyone who practiced natural or herbal medicine. CRAZY, right? Through advertising, the public became consumed by the introduction of “miracle drugs,” developments in surgery, and other high-tech medical interventions (brainwashing begins). Okay, some of the advancements are probably good for helping with emergency situations and such. I will admit that.
Is this so hard to believe?
It’s hard to say who was the most responsible party for our medical system: the AMA or Rockefeller and Carnegie. However, from a critical perspective using a bit of common sense: there are facts that show alternative treatments were once more accepted, it is a fact that for many years they weren’t accepted at all, it is a fact they are helpful, it is a fact these organizations were formed, and the Flexner report is a real thing. We can see the pharmaceutical industry is mostly profit-driven (I hope), we know how dangerous drugs can be (at least I hope we do). We also know the two richest men in America are the ones that had the money and power to make these things happen.
So is this story that hard to believe? Details may not be perfect, but there are some books you can read to dig deeper into all the facts. However, the point of the story is we have a healthcare system completely driven by profits, not helping people recover from or prevent illness.
BOOK TO READ: This book will give you a lot more details into the history of our healthcare, but it goes beyond that. It was written in the 1980s. Murder by Injection: The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America
Healthcare Today
This is why we have doctors who now push patent pills and often don’t mention nutrition, or how food can improve or hurt a person’s health. However, researchers use plants to find out how to create their synthetic drugs and copy aspects of the plant. They modify them just enough in a lab to steal and patent them.
To this day, the medical system is still largely influenced by the Flexner Report. Western doctors are just part of the pharmaceutical industry’s plan for profits, and many don’t realize it. Even when people are not actually sick they are being targeted to try the newest drugs.
Still today the most popular holistic doctors out there are labeled as “quacks,” due to the greedy companies that are threatened by them. However, starting in the 1990s two Naturopathic Medical Schools were formed, and that number has only increased since then. There are a lot more natural medicine practices in general (homeopathy, naturopaths, chiropractors, osteopaths, etc.). There is also an increasing acceptance of natural medicine! Many people have become sicker and haven’t been able to get the necessary treatments through modern medicine doctors.
Often with modern medicine, a disease is treated only to transform into another ailment. However, everyone agrees on the importance of modern medicine for helping in emergency, life-threatening situations, and with complicated injuries.
Studies on Drugs Effectiveness
Wonder why our medical system has all these great studies proving the effectiveness of different drugs? Or why there are very few studies showing the effectiveness of alternative treatments? Well, that is because many natural doctors can’t get the funding, or meet the strict standards for the tests that favor conventional medicine. Of course, there is a financial incentive to make any pharmaceutical drug seem safe. But unfortunately, that doesn’t mean it is. As I mentioned in my previous blog, do some research before taking anything long-term or having it injected into your body – if it’s not an emergency.
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Why Am I Sharing This?
I know some people will still choose to believe if something is all over the media, if celebrities, political officials are all saying it is a great thing and it is necessary, they will believe it. Which I understand because we have all been brainwashed for such a long time, and they haven’t stopped trying to brainwash us. They are incredibly good at it and have the money and power to do it! But, I’m hoping a good percentage of you will think twice now about what the majority of people are saying. I’m hoping that you understand everything in modern medicine is driven by profits and power. If you’ve read my food blogs you know how we were lied to about sugar, the benefits of cow’s milk, and you hopefully know the food pyramid is a lie, as well.
I personally would love to see “integrative medicine” where both modern medicine and alternative treatments work in collaboration with each other. This is where we use the best and most effective forms of both but start with finding root causes.
Just about every modern medicine supposed “Fix” to a health problem is designed to cause another health problem.
BOOK TO READ: How healthcare has changed over the last two centuries, lots of great history. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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Resources:
GLOBAL POSSIBILITIES/The Rise Of The Rockefeller Pharma Industry. Retrieved from: https://globalpossibilities.org/the-rise-of-the-rockefeller-pharma-industry/
Kehr, Webster. (2019, December 26). CANCERTUTOR/War between orthodox and alternative medicine. Retrieved from: https://www.cancertutor.com/warbetween/#fda
Dmitry, Baxter. (2016, August 17). NEWSPUNCH/Big Pharma Was Invented By The Rockefellers. Retrieved from: https://newspunch.com/big-pharma-was-invented-by-the-rockefellers/
Kanthan, Chris (2015, October 20). Defend Democracy Press/How Rockefellers founded modern medicine and killed natural cures. http://www.defenddemocracy.press/how-rockefeller-founded-modern-medicine-and-killed-natural-cures/
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