WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO HIPPOCRATES?
People always say with resignation but seemingly little curiosity, “It seems doctors always want to cut and prescribe.” It is amazing most people accept that reality, rarely asking, “I wonder why that is?” Hippocrates, 2000 years ago said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” About 100 years ago something remarkable happened causing his wisdom to be abandoned.
Explanations about allopathic treatments you will encounter today will not appear in USA publications. That’s because there is more of a “hush hush” quality about allopathic medicine’s monopoly and history than a leaning toward shouting the truth from the rooftops. Although in other countries less focused on profit and more focused on saving lives, you might find publications alluding to research for integration of medical practices. For example, in a recent article in “Health World – from the Economic Times” (focused on Indian healthcare industry) we learn that efforts are underway to integrate traditional and naturopathic medicines with commonly accepted allopathic practices.
"Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ayush Ministry Shripad Yesso Naik said there is increased demand for traditional methods of medicine and an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with WHO (World Health Organization) will soon be signed for research in traditional medicines like Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha” (www.ETHealthworld.com - 2016).
There naturally is a demand for more integration of methods of medical treatment other than allopathic because it is only logical and sensible that all possible options should be embraced and available. Up until the early 1900s, all methods of treatment were embraced and available. What happened?
The bottom line explanation is that a few of the richest men on earth came up with a better idea than for medical practices to be exclusively for healing human beings. The essence of the new idea was for medical treatments to become a way to make enormous profits. Healing, prior to the new shift to allopathic medicine, was an occupation and not a profession. Although many healers were beginning to believe they should receive greater income and prestige. A struggle existed between organizations interested in maintaining all medical modalities (i.e. National League for Medical Freedom (NLMF) and the American Medical Liberty League (AMLL), opposed by the AMA (American Medical Association), which even now remains influential and was/is exclusively in favor of only allopathic medicine (surgery, pharmaceuticals and radiation) (Petrina, 2008, 205-230). As is well known, money talks. In the instance of medicine, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie (the richest men in the world) decided to donate huge amounts to the AMA.
The manipulation of medicine with donations could be (maybe should be) considered an extremely unethical way to turn health and healing into profit. At the inception of this profit scheme, there was an insidious yet barely noticeable infiltration of personal ambitions into the world of medicine. The scheme was especially insidious as donations for the good of medicine gave the appearance of benevolence, not manipulation.
To justify the plan, Rockefeller and Carnegie funded a massive report on the status of medicine and medical schools in the US. The results, produced by Abraham Flexner, an individual without any medical experience, concluded that there were too many medical schools in the USA. He declared that fewer medical schools should exist and those few should provide only allopathic medical training. In order to limit training for new doctors to only allopathy, it was determined that donations from the richest men in the world would only be granted to schools that played by their rules. In other words, funds were denied to schools that did not commit to train exclusively in allopathy (Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine – All The Way, 2018)
Medical practices that did not fit into a solid profit producing model were determined to be unacceptable and even promoted to be malpractice. For example, Hippocrates said, 2000 years ago “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” But a “real” doctor could never prescribe only food programs. As a few years passed “real” doctors were and still are, certified as having completed a “medical school” which must have been funded and sanctioned by the AMA and thereby by the controlling donations. Even the US government was and is involved as certifications for physicians can only be bestowed by schools agreeing to follow an allopathic curriculum.
The question of why today we still live with almost exclusively allopathic medicine has a verifiable explanation, but one that few realize. Hopefully, this brief history will serve to enlighten.
People always say with resignation but seemingly little curiosity, “It seems doctors always want to cut and prescribe.” It is amazing most people accept that reality, rarely asking, “I wonder why that is?” Hippocrates, 2000 years ago said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” About 100 years ago something remarkable happened causing his wisdom to be abandoned.
Explanations about allopathic treatments you will encounter today will not appear in USA publications. That’s because there is more of a “hush hush” quality about allopathic medicine’s monopoly and history than a leaning toward shouting the truth from the rooftops. Although in other countries less focused on profit and more focused on saving lives, you might find publications alluding to research for integration of medical practices. For example, in a recent article in “Health World – from the Economic Times” (focused on Indian healthcare industry) we learn that efforts are underway to integrate traditional and naturopathic medicines with commonly accepted allopathic practices.
"Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ayush Ministry Shripad Yesso Naik said there is increased demand for traditional methods of medicine and an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with WHO (World Health Organization) will soon be signed for research in traditional medicines like Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha” (www.ETHealthworld.com - 2016).
There naturally is a demand for more integration of methods of medical treatment other than allopathic because it is only logical and sensible that all possible options should be embraced and available. Up until the early 1900s, all methods of treatment were embraced and available. What happened?
The bottom line explanation is that a few of the richest men on earth came up with a better idea than for medical practices to be exclusively for healing human beings. The essence of the new idea was for medical treatments to become a way to make enormous profits. Healing, prior to the new shift to allopathic medicine, was an occupation and not a profession. Although many healers were beginning to believe they should receive greater income and prestige. A struggle existed between organizations interested in maintaining all medical modalities (i.e. National League for Medical Freedom (NLMF) and the American Medical Liberty League (AMLL), opposed by the AMA (American Medical Association), which even now remains influential and was/is exclusively in favor of only allopathic medicine (surgery, pharmaceuticals and radiation) (Petrina, 2008, 205-230). As is well known, money talks. In the instance of medicine, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie (the richest men in the world) decided to donate huge amounts to the AMA.
The manipulation of medicine with donations could be (maybe should be) considered an extremely unethical way to turn health and healing into profit. At the inception of this profit scheme, there was an insidious yet barely noticeable infiltration of personal ambitions into the world of medicine. The scheme was especially insidious as donations for the good of medicine gave the appearance of benevolence, not manipulation.
To justify the plan, Rockefeller and Carnegie funded a massive report on the status of medicine and medical schools in the US. The results, produced by Abraham Flexner, an individual without any medical experience, concluded that there were too many medical schools in the USA. He declared that fewer medical schools should exist and those few should provide only allopathic medical training. In order to limit training for new doctors to only allopathy, it was determined that donations from the richest men in the world would only be granted to schools that played by their rules. In other words, funds were denied to schools that did not commit to train exclusively in allopathy (Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine – All The Way, 2018)
Medical practices that did not fit into a solid profit producing model were determined to be unacceptable and even promoted to be malpractice. For example, Hippocrates said, 2000 years ago “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” But a “real” doctor could never prescribe only food programs. As a few years passed “real” doctors were and still are, certified as having completed a “medical school” which must have been funded and sanctioned by the AMA and thereby by the controlling donations. Even the US government was and is involved as certifications for physicians can only be bestowed by schools agreeing to follow an allopathic curriculum.
The question of why today we still live with almost exclusively allopathic medicine has a verifiable explanation, but one that few realize. Hopefully, this brief history will serve to enlighten.
