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Preface

From Time Immemorial Healthy People Have

Held Sick People Hostage.

The Witch Doctor, Medicine Man and Woman, Herbalist
and Clinician are all alike in this respect. They wish to keep in-
formation surrounding illness and wellness to themselves and
away from the common person so that a profession of medicine
can grow and become lucrative. The Herbalist did not tell
which herbs could relieve colds or bring on a woman's men-
strual period (birth control) for fear that the people in need
would get them for themselves and not need (nor pay) the
Herbalist. The modern medical profession overlooks informa-
tion on prevention; it tries to make self-help and simple treat-
ments illegal. All for the same purpose: to build and aggrandize
their profession. This seems inappropriate, especially where
communicable or wide-spread illness is involved. This example
is taken from a text on herbology:

This [bath] is a safe and sane procedure and will prove most

beneficial to those who are obese and desire to reduce safely. In

combination with the internal treatment with decoction of Fucus,

this course is worth considerable to very stout people, and should

not be sold too cheaply. It is a grave mistake to put this scientific

treatment in the same class as the many advertised nostrums on the

market. It is also a mistake to let your patient know what you