RE: Freedom Friday: Fringes of the Internet Full of Dangerous Information, or otherwise?
It is great to have more options on the table. It is a shame that a professionally licensed doctor is not allowed to recommend healthy natural products. In fact, I believe it is against the law for anyone who is not a doctor to claim that anything will cure anything. God forbid, someone with bad health might try it and due. I must be crazy, to be against mainstream medical laws and phobias. I think it would be great if organizations and experts were allowed to recommend makers of the safest natural medicines, and advise people on which items could be helpful or harmful based on their health history. Of course, that would make all scientists throw a fit, because their facts/opinions would no longer rule the logical mind of all their medical customers.
That's another story though.
Keep up the good work. I am excited to learn about new modes of medical healing that cannot be blocked by big businesses here.
Thanks so much @creativetruth. I am not entirely sure about the laws in Australia about recommending natural products, but I do know that two of my family GP's across time have been practicitioners of Ayurveda and TCM too! One even provided acupuncture! I still use turmeric and honey as a cough syrup on one's recommendation.
I find that's what naturopathy DOES do, so it's really upsetting it's one of the ones delegitimized by changed to private health funding here. And yeah, it's such a shame that one mode of thought dominates - but then, i'm not entirely sure that's the full story, because I certainly look to science to inform my choices, I just don't like cherry picked science that becomes a lie in the wrong hands.
My argument I think is that both modalities have so much to learn from each other, and it's unfair that one should seek to delegitimize the other so it becomes an all out war rather than helping each other out, which isn't useful to anyone. As usual, rampant capitalism drives everything!
Yes, it is hard for people who want to have a free market of health care options, especially the cheaper/free ones in place of an expensive placebo.
If I had to choose between living in a culture where everyone shames me for not choosing vaccines and modern medicines, and a land where you have no other option than what the doctor chooses... yes, I would choose oppressed, but free. My fear is we are moving into a world where the doctor doesn't bother to tell us anything about the chemicals they are forcing us to take.
Yeah, me too. And so many people have had this experience, including me! And I asked my doctor and was brushed off, which annoyed me as I consider myself an intelligent woman. In the end, doctors seem like google to me - hit and miss, and full of crap and sponsorship. Ugh.