Health in the 21st Centaury
Battles rage between the corporate giants who produce the drugs and medicines that are used in our modern world. In these battles,  politicians and even governments rise and fall, and for those of us who have come to depend on these drugs and medications, how does this affect us?

There are some key points you need to understand about our health care system:

1. The key motive is financial profit.
2. Treatments seek to eliminate the symptoms of disease.
3. Diagnosis is an inexact science - initial diagnosis offered by the modern medical profession is educated guesswork and interestingly doctors have a shorter lifespan than most of us, see Dead Doctors Don't Lie.
4. Any medication has at best a 90% chance of being effective, learn more.
5. All modern drugs are released onto the market with a 'degree of acceptable risk pdf.'
6. In Western Hospitals, authorities accept that approx 1 in 2,775 or 0.04% of patients die from medical misadventure, however unofficial figures put this three times higher, see titles on medical misadventure.

We are not intending to dismiss the medical system as total quackery, we are saying that it is far from perfect and advising you that your chance of dying in hospital is greater than winning the lottery. But if you suffer a sudden onset of pain or have an accident, a hospital is your best destination.

Traditional Medicines
Known as alternative health care in the West, these are medical systems that have evolved over the history of humankind. Every culture has a unique approach to the treatment and prevention of disease, but all share a common theme.

1. Diagnosing the root cause of the illness
2. Treating the whole individual and even the whole community.
3. Treatments are by the use of herbs and herbal preparations, diet, dietary supplements and exercise.
4. The success rate of traditional medicine is about the same as our modern medicine.
5. Traditional medicine is under pressure as the drug manufacturing corporations are actively trying to force it out of business, whereas;
6. Traditional medicine attempts to welcome and integrate with technological medicine.
7. The drug manufacturing corporations are isolating active ingredients from herbal medicines to manufacture their own drugs.

Traditional Medicine
According to A World Health Organisation report, over 80% of the worlds population relies on traditional medicines which are largely plant based for their primary healthcare needs. learn more.

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