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"Probably the oldest form of medical treatment, massage was used by ancient Chinese, Indian and Egyptian cultures to prevent and cure diseases and heal injuries. The ancient Greeks and Romans advocated massage before and after sport, instead of exercise during recuperation from illness, or as a medical treatment for such diverse conditions as melancholia, asthma, digestive problems and even sterility. The Greek father of medicine, Hippocrates, wrote in the fifth century BC, The way to health is to have a scented bath and an oiled massage each day." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"In addition to ordinary medical treatment one group in each of the two categories was to receive the prayers of five people once a week for 26 weeks. The two other groups would simply continue with standard medical treatment. At the end of the study, the investigators concluded that prayer made no difference in mortality, future heart attacks, or the need for further intervention or hospitalization. Although there were small differences between the treated and untreated groups, particularly among the low-risk patients, these results were not deemed to be significant." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Asthma Survival: The Holistic medical treatment Program for Asthma by Robert S. Ivker, D.O. Sinus Survival: The Holistic medical treatment Program for Allergies, Colds and Sinusitis by Robert S. Ivker, D.O. Asthma Free in 21 Days by Kathryn Shafer, Ph.D. Clinics The Palm Beach Holistic Center for Natural and Integrative Medicine Jupiter, Florida 561.799.6789 This is where you'll find Kathryn Shafer, who is the founder of image therapy for asthma, discussed in the book. If you want to try image therapy with the originator of the technique, this is the place to go." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In their paper, the team reports that the number of people who died in 2001 as a result of "iatrogenic" conditions (those brought on inadvertently by either medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) was greater than that of the number of people who died in that same year of either heart disease or cancer, the number one and two leading causes of death in the United States respectively. The numbers were as follows: Deaths from cancer 553,251 Deaths from heart disease 699,697 Deaths from medical treatment 783,936 The report further states that "over 2." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "The number of people who died in 2001 as a result of conditions brought on inadvertendy by either medical treatment or diagnostic procedures was greater than the number of those who died in that same year of either heart disease or cancer, the number one and two leading causes of death in the United States respectively. Moreover, deaths or injuries related to drug treatments more than doubled between 1998 and 2005 in this country, with painkillers and immune-system boosters accounting for most. (For more on this topic, see Appendix C." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Truly skilled clinicians will make you feel comfortable and will listen to what you need to express and help you adapt to your condition rather than focusing only on diagnosis and medical treatment. Having determined to seek medical care, you now have to find a doctor who will assist you in developing the story by which you and your loved ones will live your later years. Once you find your doctor, how do you make sure that you and your family are organized and prepared for your visit, and that you ask the right kind of questions before, during, and after your appointment?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The two other groups would simply continue with standard medical treatment. At the end of the study, the investigators concluded that prayer made no difference in mortality, future heart attacks, or the need for further intervention or hospitalization. Although there were small differences between the treated and untreated groups, particularly among the low-risk patients, these results were not deemed to be significant.7 To setde the matter once and for all, Herbert Benson came forward with an ambitious plan." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Those who were successful had a greater ability to visualize vividly, with powerful imagery and symbols, and could hold a clear visual intention imagining themselves overpowering the cancer and the medical treatment being effective. The successful patients also practiced their visualizations regularly.39 If the brain cannot distinguish between a thought and an action, would the body follow mental instructions of any sort? If I send my body a mental intention to calm down or speed up, will it necessarily listen to me? Literature about biofeedback and mind-body medicine indicates that it will." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Patient Stories: Thyroiditis_ I first followed the conventional route in medical treatment. I was in my fifth year of infertility treatments, had taken multiple infertility drugs, and wound up severely depressed. I'd lost 35 pounds in two months. I couldn't sleep, I had panic attacks. Doctors put me on the conventional Xanax treatment for three years. I had hair loss, skin problems, nail-biting problems and aches all over my body, especially in my legs. Dr. Spreen got me on a vitamin regimen, which made me feel somewhat better." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Fissures are very common and many people do not seek medical treatment for them. Often they heal in time, but can linger for quite some time. They can be a recent occurrence or chronic. Recent fissures look like a cut and older fissure may have some whitish fibrous tissue exposing the internal sphincter and may have built up or thickened tissue around the tear. Fissures typically occur at the back of the anus and occasionally appear elsewhere. Fissures are different from hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are painful, swollen and/or bleeding varicose veins in the anal area." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"All of the patients were told to take standard triple therapy for AIDS (protease inhibitors plus two anti-retroviral drugs such as AZT) but to continue their medical treatment in every other regard. Because the triple therapy appeared to be making a profound difference on mortality rates in AIDS patients, Elisabeth assumed that, this time, no one in either group would actually die. This meant she needed to change the result she was aiming for. In the new study, she was looking for whether distant healing could slow down the progression of AIDS." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"I saw that it would bring me very largely in opposition to every established medical treatment. I held back, and argued with myself. ... I fought to suppress giving open utterance to a belief that would, in all probability, cause me to be hissed at—subject me to the jeers and gibes of the better class of people, both lay and professional. Little by little I have proved the truth of my theory. I have tried it out daily for the past twenty years. I myself have personally stood the brunt of my experimenting, and have willingly suffered because of it." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The numbers were as follows: Deaths from cancer 553,251 Deaths from heart disease 699,697 Deaths from medical treatment 783,936 The report further states that "over 2.2 million people are injured every year by prescription drugs alone, and over 20 million unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics are prescribed annually for viral infections." Overuse of antibiotics has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant organisms and has the net effect of reducing a patient's immune response because beneficial intestinal bacteria are eliminated." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Two families who went to the middle school were told they were going to get medical treatment but never did. In total, more than twenty people went for medical treatment. But the hospital people wouldn't mention pesticides as the cause and wouldn't tell them that, well, so and so was there, too, and had come from Earlimart, too. We traced our way back to Lane Road to meet another victim. Edelmira Alcazar lived around the corner from Teresa." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Americans should stop complaining about the high cost, the drug executives say, and consider how much they have gained by spending more of their incomes on medical treatment. "The current dilemma we face as a nation is not about the failures of our healthcare system, but rather about its success," David Brennan, a top executive at AstraZeneca, told the Detroit Economic Club in 2004. "Yes, its success—success in helping Americans live longer and healthier lives. In the past 25 years, especially in the past decade, there has been a revolution in medical breakthroughs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Economists say the cost of medical treatment will continue on this tear, eating up more and more of what people have to spend. By 2015 Americans are expected to surrender one dollar of every five dollars they produce to the pharmaceutical industry and the rest of the nation's medical system. Pharmaceutical executives have said over and over that Americans should be delighted by this. Their logic, as explained in a press release from the industry's trade group, is that the escalating cost is "good news" because it means that "more people are getting more and better medicines." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The screeners suggested that the shortest children visit their doctors for medical treatment. Most of the schools and parents did not learn that the two foundations had received most of their funding for the school screenings from Genentech and another hormone manufacturer. The foundations said they were not promoting the drugs, but only trying to get children treatment. Since then, the Magic Foundation had continued to accept money from Genentech and other corporate sellers of hormones to supplement the membership dues and donations from the public that it receives." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Among the interventions being used are individual and family therapy, support groups, medical treatment, and medications to treat associated depression or anxiety. Nutrition has been recognized as part of the problem and part of the cure. Julia Ross, who has worked for years in the field of nutritional psychology, has developed a treatment model that blends nutrition and holistic medicine with traditional methods of counseling and education." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It is all too obvious that whatever standard medical treatment is used, it is the wrong treatment. Besides, chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. The "disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person is subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"It can safely be used in conjunction with traditional medical treatment. Oftentimes a person will fare better when they use a complementary approach to their health care. THE PRINCIPLES OF HOMEOPATHY Like Cures Like Homeopathy's foundation is built on a few basic principles. The first most popular principle is the theory that like cures like. If you give a dose of a crude substance to someone, it can produce certain symptoms. When you give the same thing to a sick person who suffers from these same symptoms, it can heal them." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Typical medical treatment includes the use of corticosteroid drugs, immunosuppressive drugs, salfasalazine and broad spectrum antibiotics. Surgery may be necessary in some cases of obstruction or a stricture but is not a viable option for a cure. Immunosupressive drugs may be necessary but they leave a person open to more infections. Sulfasalazine decreases folic acid and iron stores. Steroids such as Prednisone expend more vitamin C, calcium and magnesium. Antibiotics kill the beneficial bacteria in the gut." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Typical medical treatment varies from fasting, medication to surgery. Often acute pancreatitis resolves on its own. However, it is important to seek medical help because pancreatitis can be life-threatening in some cases. Chronic Pancreatitis The pancreas' own enzymes can attack and destroy itself. These enzymes digest foods. Enzymes that are released inappropriately lead to inflammation, pain and scarring of the affected tissues. Often, chronic pancreatitis is linked to alcoholism, smoking, autoimmune diseases, medications, cystic fibrosis or blocked ducts." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The cholesterol guidelines' cavalier extrapolation to women of the benefit of lowering cholesterol in men, especially after the recent surprise provided by the results of the "Heart and Estrogen/Progesterone Replacement Study" (HERS study),* demonstrates the medical industry's unrepentant opportunism in its attempt once again to impose scientifically unsubstantiated medical treatment on women." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It appears as if the nonmedical psychologist initiated the medical treatment and that pediatrician merely took orders but he would soon turn over Andy's treatment to a psychiatrist. The pediatrician's record indicated he was medicating Andy for "adolescent depression" and "anxiety with secondary somatization." Somatization is the physical manifestation of emotional problems, such as a headache, a stomachache, or a rash. The reference is probably to the stomachaches that the pediatrician had previously evaluated without finding any physical cause." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "He had grave difficulty explaining simple matters concerning his medical treatment or legal activities. Sam had another characteristic of dementia that is often missed by laypersons and physicians alike—inappropriate emotional responses. As he recounted the utter devastation of his life, he did not look or sound depressed. He didn't even sound sad. Instead, he was mildly euphoric, bubbling over with energy and even enthusiasm. He was too loud and leaned too close, both common signs of brain dysfunction impairing social judgment." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"This example of a commonly misapplied medical treatment shows that a solid understanding of the basic energy metabolism in the heart is critical when devising effective therapies for treating cardiac disease. The human heart contains approximately 700 milligrams (0.7 grams) of ATP This may sound like a lot, but it's really only enough energy to fuel the heart to pulsate at a rate of one beat per second, or 60 times per minute (a relatively slow heart rate even for healthy, normal people), for 10 heartbeats, or a scant 10 seconds." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Given the high fatality rate among people receiving medical treatment, the risk of dying from no treatment at all are actually very slim.3 The no-treatment, low fatality risk, however, would be discouraged by 'free" health care." When I lived in Cyprus (Europe) in the 1980s I witnessed an entire 2 For details, see Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation 3 See the scientific evidence to that effect in Chapter 15, What Doctors should be telling you, of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In their book Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein summarize this unexpected effect, stating, "The nocebo effect can reverse the body's response to true medical treatment from positive to negative."13 Similar to the way physicists have discovered that the expectations of the observers during an experiment influence its outcome, a doctor stating, "Well, we'll fry this treatment and see what it does ... it might help a little" can make or break the treatment." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"In other words, medical treatment is responsible for the deaths of at least 21,000 people in every 100,000 cancer patients! These 21,000 people would recover if they did not receive any treatment at all. According to the American Cancer Society's estimated 2008 cancer mortality rates, 565,650 men and women will die from cancer this year (2008). That's 6,000 deaths more than in 2007." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"It can be a chronic, recurring condition, or it can cause minimal symptoms with or without medical treatment, depending on the person. What is the relationship between microbes and Crohn's disease? This relationship is not completely understood. Researchers have discovered that some strains of Escherichia coli, a bad microbe, may be involved in Crohn's disease. Other microbes are thought to be beneficial and protective to the intestinal tract: Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli. Several randomized control trials have looked at the ability of probiotics to help people with Crohn's disease." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

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