FDA Raids Herbal Distributor Over Cancer Remedies
It’s no secret that the FDA is responsible for some of the most vastly detrimental products on the consumer market, but did you know that they are capable of raiding and confiscating ‘potentially harmful’ substances that only they arbitrate as such for you and me?
Indeed, the FDA, known benefactors of big pharma, have been succeeding in their rampage across natural health remedy stores, and they could be coming to your town next. After an alleged complaint against the ‘Notion-n-things’ store in Missouri, the State department of Health and Senior Services managed to embargo the company’s herbal products. Only as recently as three weeks ago did the district judge sign the order for seizure of those products.
Remember, this is the same organization that has declared walnuts to be illegal drugs.
The three products now in custody of the FDA are Chickweed Healing Salve, a product based on comfrey; To-Mor-Gone, a product developed for the treatment of cancer; and R.E.P., a natural remedy for various headaches and sinus infections. The FDA’s only reasoning for seizure of the products is that they do not have properly labeled information, something that they are far too concerned with rather than for the health of the American people.
Of course, none of these products had been approved by the FDA as a safe or effective method of treatment for their prescribed usage, and as such are considered unapproved – and illegal – drugs. The FDA has not yet conducted a formal review of any of these products in order to determine if they actually work or not; either way, the administration describes them as ‘misbranded’ and ‘false’ products.
The FDA, spoken for by Dara Corrigan, admitted that the administrations’ concerns with these three products, and many others like them, is that cancer patients will choose them over their own ‘effective and proven’ treatments. In other words, only something that the FDA has approved is a valid method of treatment for cancer, and any sort of home or locally manufactured remedy is not only invalid, but also unlawful.
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Yet the FDA has no problem allowing drugs like cytotec to be used on a daily basis on women in labor in an effort to speed up their labor even though the package label expressly warns against use on pregnant women. Women are asked to sign a waver while in labor (in a very coherent state of mind I’m sure) and are routenily dying! The FDA doesn’t even want to consider not allowing this drug in the induction of labor even give the documentation of an increase in maternal and infant death.
But harmless herbal drugs that have been effective in curing many people’s ailments are worth a federal raid? It sickens me that the government would rather prevent a potential loss of profits from big pharma than actually provide choice, informed concent, and quality healthcare to its citizens.