The very term 'chronic' implies that it is long-term. If medicine had
anything to offer, the disease wouldn't be 'chronic'!!!

Well said Paul....

Mike.

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Licorice

> Okay, Liza, I'm going to jump in on this one point here...
>
> Mike said:
> > > Western medicine has little to offer the
> > > chronic health sufferer,
> >
>
> Liza said:
> > Wow! That's CERTAINLY not true, Mike! Let's see what you'll do -
> > where you'll run to - if you are ever unfortunate enough to find
> > you've got cancer. (And I sure hope this doesn't ever, ever happen
> > to you. I hope you stay healthy forever, live long, and die never).
> >
> > But that's a wildly inaccurate statement you've made there. Western
> > medicine is the reason you don't have polio, smallpox, TB. That you
> > can have a hip replaced. That you can take drugs that will allow you
> > to die in relative comfort instead of screaming pain. And my God! so
> > much more.
> >
> > I am always shocked when I see statements like this. They strike me
> > as astonishingly unknowledgeable.
> >
>
> With a few exceptions, Mike is certainly right on about this, at least as
> far as +conventional+ Western medicine. From my Net observations and
> conversations over 5 years, certainly all that toxic drug-based medicine
for
> disorders like arthritis, CFS and fibromylagia does over the long term,
with
> rare or no exceptions, is increase pain and suffering. On the other hand
> people like myself who commit themselves to balanced natural nutritional
> healing programs, and experiment and learn what works and doesn't for them
> nutritionally, almost always see modest to dramatic symptom/disease
> reduction over a period of time.
>
> I suspect most people on lists like this realize and agree with my
> observations, but I was motivated to reply beacuse I found the enthusiasm
> you show for 'conventional' medicine in the areas where it clearly is
> ineffective, and more often harmful than helpful, disturbing to me. Also,
> that medicine was the cure for the diseases you mentioned is very
> questionable and has been questioned by many; I doubt that any of those
> diseases could possibly appear in a well-nourished human. In fact, the
only
> remaining cause of polio is the live polio vaccine. TB is now returning
due
> to the poor nutritional and sanitary conditions of a few individuals, not
an
> antibiotic deficiency.
>
> Paul
>