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Bad Medicine
- Introduction
- Loss
of faith
- Studying
the side-effects
- Back
to nature
1.
Introdiuction
Invasive surgery
and allopathic drugs can lead to a host of
serious side-effects, says Murli Menon, urging a
return to natural forms of healing
I
recently went to visit a friend of mine in
hospital. He had been paralysed after being
admitted for a surgical removal of the appendix.
The doctors had wrongly administered an extra
dose of anaesthesia that led to him sinking into
a coma. When he regained consciousness, his
appendix had been successfully removed - but he
could not move his legs and was confined to a
wheelchair. This, at a well-known hospital in
Bangalore with expert surgeons that prides
itself on its international standards of
post-operative care!
While visiting my
friend, I came across another tragic case of
wrong diagnosis and treatment. A middle-aged
lady suffering from recurrent headaches had come
to meet the neurosurgeon, who had ordered a CT
scan. After analysing the reports, he diagnosed
that there was a tumour in the left temporal
lobe that had to be removed surgically as it was
putting pressure on the brain. She walked into
the operation theatre, but came out supine - the
surgery removed her tumour but left her
paralysed along her right side. The doctors
attributed the paralysis to another tumour that
was developing behind the original one. However,
they could not assure the lady that she would
recover even if she underwent another surgery to
remove the second malignant tumour.
2.
Loss of faith
I feel
that faith in allopathic medicines is rapidly
decreasing as many patients have had a traumatic
experience with allopathic medicine or surgery.
Most drugs are tested on animals for approval
although animal and human physiologies are
completely different. Cigarette companies have
defended the ill-effects of smoke by
demonstrating through animal experiments that
cigarette smoke causes no adverse effect on
dogs. Drug testing on animals is cruel but is
used to shorten the cycle of drug discovery
which saves pharma companies millions of dollars
every year. Thousands of toxic chemical
compounds are being launched as life-saving
drugs based on tests conducted on animals.
Most clinical trials are conducted
post-launch and there is enough evidence to
suggest that clinical trials are a statistical
fraud perpetuated by unscrupulous drug
companies, hand-in-glove with medical
professionals, government officials and
drug-control authorities. Consider the fact that
the total number of patients who have
participated in clinical trials in India is
miniscule compared to the thousands of new
formulations being launched every year by Indian
and multinational pharmaceutical companies. If
clinical trials had been conducted for the 1
million allopathic formulations being marketed
in India under 5 million brand names, every
Indian must have taken part in one at least
once! So if you have never taken part in a
clinical trial, chances are that pharmaceutical
companies are taking you for a ride.
3.
Studying the
side-effects
In October 1995, I
began a research study on the Internet about the
ill-effects of allopathic drugs and invasive
surgery. As the study progressed, I came across
many traumatic cases of lives that had been
ruined by modern medicine, and several cases of
patients who had been rendered comatose by
excessive doses of anaesthesia. What's worse, a
majority of these patients had been wheeled into
the operation theatre for minor surgical
procedures.
I read about how 70 per cent
of all patients admitted to hospitals get
infected with bacteria and viruses passed on to
them by doctors, nurses and paramedical staff.
Many of these patients eventually lose their
lives owing to such infections. I read about how
a simple bacterium develops immunity to
antibiotics and how powerful doses of
antibiotics are required to kill the same
bacteria which penicillin could kill in the
past. I read about the hundreds of cancer
patients who die, not because of cancer but by
the devastating physical and psychological
effects of radiation and chemotherapy. I read
about multi-billion dollar healthcare cartels
that introduce genetically engineered viruses
into hospitals and later launch so-called
research drugs to combat these viruses. I read
about anti-smoking drugs and nicotine patches
which hook smokers to a more dangerous habit -
getting addicted to their nicotine patches.
I also read about how 90 per cent of all
allopathic drugs cause side-effects ranging from
nausea to ulcers and even cardiac arrests. Yet,
the marketers of these drugs fail to warn
patients about such side-effects that, in many
cases, are worse than the ailment being treated.
Many allopathic drugs are narcotics legally
available through chemists. Ask the millions of
Indians addicted to cough syrups. Such an
addiction is the equivalent to smoking or
consuming alcohol, but it does not warrant the
attention of the government.
4.
Back to nature
Many
tribal societies continue to heal incurable
diseases through indigenous herbal and natural
remedies. However, the destruction of rain
forests and urbanisation of tribal societies
have resulted in extinction of many medicinal
herbs and erosion in reservoirs of tribal
knowledge of natural healing. It is important to
note, though, that nowadays, a majority of
cancer patients prefer to combat the disease
through a holistic treatment of diet, exercise
and meditation rather than repeated doses of
chemotherapy.
The theory of collective
consciousness is already propelling humanity
towards a more eco-friendly lifestyle and the
healing force of the next century will be more
focused on the mind than the body. The future
belongs to therapies that combine diet, prayer,
meditation and creative visualisation rather
than surgery or allopathic drugs.
As
mankind continues its evolution, it will realise
that all healing comes from the Universal Mind
or Cosmic Mind. Mind power can cure all. Ancient
techniques of mind healing were lost by most
civilisations. However, our ancestors realised
the immense value of these techniques and have
documented them in Vedic scriptures. It is now
up to us to unlock the hidden potential of the
human mind by correctly identifying,
enumerating, publishing and practising these
healing therapies.
Murli Menon is the author of
ZeNLP - The Power to Succeed, and conducts
stress management workshops for companies based
on Zen meditation. Contact him at ceo@tips4ceos.com
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