For details see my paper, “A Disruptive Concept in Drug Therapy” posted on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-leung-9b933913) and on my blog (www.ayslcorp.com/blog).
The following are basic points to recognize in order to understand the dead-end of modern drug therapy along with its vicious cycle, and why traditional medicines have never been properly evaluated, let alone validated. If you have other better ideas to break the vicious cycle than what I have suggested, or have other logical reason to maintain its status quo, other than enabling a greedy few to exploit the health of the vast majority of other world citizens, including you and me, please tell everyone.
There are three kinds of therapeutics:
- Synthetic chemicals – brand new to our planet, never before had any direct interactions with us in human history. These are our modern drugs used in drug therapy. It is now stuck in a rut for us all, except for drug makers and their associates who have finally attained their dream (I still believe they never expected or planned it, just dumb luck and then keeping quiet) – making and selling any toxic drugs that don’t have to be effective and safe, but they can charge consumers any price they want with total impunity, in perpetuity.
- Natural chemicals – consist of 2 kinds: (1) isolated, well identified, and defined, including artemisinin for malaria, lutein for eye health, and vincristine or taxol for cancer; and (2) those still present in their natural material sources (plants, including foods), which are often taken to represent the herbs. Both these chemicals, inside or outside of herbs, have a long history of interactions with humans since we emerged as a distinct, animal species on earth. Examples of the 2nd type include coffee with caffeine and ginseng with ginsenosides. Researchers who have confused the herb materials with one or two chemicals therein (which they assume to represent the herbs’ identity and quality) have been generating much of the irrelevant or irreproducible data during the past decades. This has prevented the proper evaluation and validation of traditional medicines as a legitimate healing system even up to this date. I bet some of the scientists who are most adamantly against true natural medicines have never spent any time with a truly qualified and experienced healer or practitioner of herbal medicine, or they may have been so brainwashed by Big Pharma or so enriched by the vicious cycle that they continue to defend its status quo.
- Natural therapeutics (herbal medicines) – these are not chemicals isolated from their natural materials (e.g., herbs) but actually are the traditionally prepared materials themselves with their full complement of chemicals (known and unknown) used as a whole, which are no different from the foods we eat, handed down from our ancestors which we know as traditional medicines. These are the true time-tested traditional therapeutics. Many of these are still being used by the majority of our world’s population. However, with the greed, now so obvious, of the pharmaceutical industry and its associates (esp. the insurance industry), these traditional medicines would not be around for too long, unless the vicious cycle of modern drug therapy is broken soon.
Among the 3 types of therapeutics, only the first one, synthetic chemicals, causes the vicious cycle. The reason is that, being brand-new on this planet, they need to be truly time-tested in our body for much more than their measly 20 or 30 years that include clinical trials of up to 20 years
With the other 2 categories, since they are all natural chemicals, they have already gone through much of the time testing in our body. This would make it relatively easy for us to go on as I have planned, already described in my recent books and posts on my blog and elsewhere. My plan for shaping up some of the current deficient or fake herbal supplements on the market hasn’t changed, nor the introduction of simple herbal supplements and traditional formulas with their unique fingerprints.
After 80 long years of trying, modern drug therapy has ended up in the vicious cycle that only benefits a few exploiters of our health. It would do nothing for our health except they may offer temporary relief for some people, but will ruin it in the long term, because our complex body can’t be simplified, nor the time required for the drugs to realize their true effects, be shortened. We need to overhaul the system, involving younger bright brains and new technologies, other than the biological and chemical ones that we have already been using, each of us digging deeper and deeper into our respective holes, lost in the minute entities, without a view towards our total health.
I am encouraged and glad to report that only after a few months being active on LinkedIn, my connections have increased many-fold. Now, probably at least half of them are alternative healthcare professionals of various diverse fields. Many agree with me that our body can heal itself when we keep it properly nourished, balanced, and healthy so that it can retain or strengthen our innate ability to resist or restore damage by outside stress (physical, chemical or biological); and with the practice of true prevention, we can avoid taking many of the toxic synthetic drugs. I hope my fellow herbalists and alternative professionals will continue to support me and help me spread my message to the millennials and their children’s and grandchildren’s generations.
As to my drug colleagues and friends, please ponder what you have done in the vicious cycle. Maybe you can start thinking outside of your own holes (specialties) and communicate with your alternative counterparts and start working towards a solution to the so-far unresolvable time and our complex body. Perhaps together, we can work out a solution to give us good health that we can live to experience, not just a myriad of individual complicated scientific achievements, lying around for future generations to try to decipher, provided our vicious cycle of toxic drugs hasn’t killed us all or turned us into a mutated species.
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