Darlene Said:

Alternative courses at Uni, similar to medicine?

We Answered:

Nursing, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner, occupational therapy, physical therapy....

Donald Said:

Are You Aware of The Growing Demand For and Integration of Alternative Medicine in Your Country?

We Answered:

Quite simply:

1. More and more people are realizing not only how ineffective mainstream drugs and treatements which manage symptoms instead of actually cure illness are. By pharmaceutical insiders own admissions, most of their drugs do not work for most people.

http://www.tbyil.com/drug_failure.htm

2. More and more people are realizing how dangerous it is to put unnatural drugs into their natural bodies. That is why over 95% of the the 24,000 plus approved prescribed and over the counter medications have side effects. Those side effects result in over 140,000 deaths each year in hospitals and homes in the U.S. alone and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of serious adverse reactions. The side effects also lead to other conditions that require more and more drugs and more and more conditions in a never ending cycle so that by the time a male reaches 65 in the U.S., he takes an average of 15 prescribed and over the counter medications daily. It is a great model for profit, especially when your only marketplace is our bodies, but it is a horrible one for healing and humanity.

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3. More and more people are realizing that they have been lied to, and are continuing to be lied to, about natural and alternative healing. People realize that common sense alone tells us that mainstream allegations that the very vitamins and minerals and medicinal plants that have nourished and healed us for all these eons and which our bodies have developed to utilize are not effective and may even be dangerous simply cannot be true. People are looking at increasing rates of chronic illness in every age group and realiziing that it is not a lack of pharmaceuticals that is causing such increases. No one ever became ill due to a deficiency in drugs. Most become ill due to a deficiency in proper nutrition.

Increasingly, thanks to information sources who are not beholden to Big Medicine's billions of dollars in advertising, people are finding out the truth. They see that the most heavily medicated country on earth by far continues to slip further down in longevity rankings and has now plummeted behind over 40 other countries so that our rankings are much closer to Mexico than they are to the top 10 countries for longevity. People are seeing others successfully use alternatives to mainstream drugs and treatments successfully. Many people are also learning about the evil history of Big Medicine to suppress nature and alternatives for the sake of greed. Anyone who doubts that history and wants to see what Big Medicine is really all about can see the truth here:

"Modern Medicine: How Healing Illness became Managing Illness"
http://www.tbyil.com/Managed_Illness.htm

It isn't pretty and it surely isn't what is taught in medical schools or the mainstream media, but it is hard to argue with facts and history.

Some observations:

It is a shame that mainstream naysayers have to resort to personal attacks and lies to try to justify their bias and agenda here. Already we have seen three blatant examples. First of all, obviously you and I are not the same person and anyone who knew squat would know that it costs people money to spend time trying to help others and spread the truth - time that could have been used to actually make money instead. On the other hand, paid bloggers abound in the tens of thousands and one has to wonder about the possibilities when they see constant denialism of anything that threatens the profits of Big Medicine.

Secondly, anyone who says that all CAM therapies have been found useless is telling a huge lie. It is a lie that was first planted in the mainstream media by Big Medicine advocates cherrypicked a handful of NCCAM studies which reflected poorly on some alternatives and which disregarded a host of positive studies. The story also conveniently chose to ignore the fact that most NCCAM sponsored studies were too new to have yet been concluded. The story was obviously planted to try to halt or reduce NCCAM funding and to plant a lie in the public perception of CAM treatments because more and more studies actually were beginning to produce results that threatened the monied interest of Big Medicine. If anyone doubts this, they can simply go to the studies section of the National Institute of Health's NCCAM and see for theirselves:

http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/sp…

Finally, the old line about "things that work become medicine" originated from a commedian's joke - and it truly is a joke. The reality is that things that can be patented become medicine and things that cannot be patented become downplayed and suppressed. You cannot patent nature.

Resorting to lies and personal attacks speaks volumes about the credibility and character of those who stoop to do so.

Karen Said:

What are the best correspondence courses to take in natural/alternative medicine?

We Answered:

The School of Natural Healing, founded by, John R. Chrisotpher, is a top notch place. Dr. Christopher was one of the greatest herbalists in the modern era. Do some research on him and you will see. It's amazing how many other hebal books reference his works. Here is the site: http://www.snh.cc/ Compare any other school you look at with them. Also get his great book titled with the same name you won't be dissappointed.

One more thing "accreditation" is something you should look into as well. There are many places that are "self accredited" which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Find out the meaning of "accreditiation" in actuality. The concept is in many cases a barrier to competetition. Take law schools for example. In California you can take the bar exam without going to an "accredited" law school. All potential attorneys must sit for this exam. If you pass you get your licence. If not, "Sorry Charlie". Also in other states you can "read the law", which is like an apprenticeship to a lawyer and you still have to pass the bar exam. If you get your licence either of these ways and even if you have practiced successfully in your state some other states won't let you practice law because you didn't go to an "accredited" school. There are some judges in states who apprenticed for law and have been on the bench for years and yet if they wanted to move to a particular state they probably wouldn't be able to practice law.

You probably won't be able to get licensed in anything through correspondence so it's good to be sure of what you want to do for people. There are many certifications you can get however. Licensing says you "may" do something legally (you've filled in the squares). Certification implies you "can" do something (some one or group has either trained you examined you or both). Here's another example from the world. MD's must be licensed to practice medicine. That means they "can" do anything that is in the scope of the medical profession legally (deliver babies, plastic surgery, etc). Any MD "may" do any pretty much any procedure on you because of his license. He may not be the best at it but he "may" do it legally. Certification comes in where another group of MD's (board) says that he "can" do the procedure. He has the training and skill level and "can" do a good job at it.

This is the "long" answer to your question. I hope it helps.

Shalom