Editorials

A Breath of Fresh Air

Written by Alan V. Schmukler

Our editor reports on a new medical device that violates privacy.

One of the problems I’ve always had with allopathic practice is how invasive it is. There is the unnecessary surgery, the toxic drugs and the excessive use of some diagnostic tests like CAT scans. Another aspect of this invasiveness occurs when drug companies redefine ailments such as ADHD, so that even two year old children fall into the diagnostic category. A further example is mandatory vaccination, especially with new or poorly tested vaccines such as the HPV. Now a new medical product, recently approved by the FDA, raises the bar on invasiveness. It’s called an IEM, or “Ingestion Event Marker”. The size of a grain of sand, it’s imbedded in the patient’s medication. Activated by digestive juices, it sends signals to a patch the patient wears, telling exactly when he took a medicine and how much. It doesn’t end there however. The device also reports heart rate, body position, activity level and more. This information is automatically relayed to doctors via mobile phone apps. The stated purpose is to let your doctor know if you took your medicine, but it’s really about control. In one article about the device, the words “non-adherence” or “non- compliance” were mentioned eight times. Whatever privacy rights a patient had would be gone. A doctor on National Public Radio recently commented on the IEM, saying it wasn’t enough to know that patients didn’t take their meds. The next step was to ensure complicity. This he said, would require some kind of internal or external pump that could remotely administer a drug.

Allopathic medicine has always been wrongheaded about healing, preferring suppression to cure. Now, its alliance with the profit-driven corporate world is nudging it toward a dark and dystopian view of medicine and society.

All of this is anathema to the philosophy of homeopathy, which aims to give people more control of their lives. Compared to the world of corporate allopathic medicine, homeopathy is sunlight and a breath of fresh air.

(Video commercial for the IEM)

 

In this issue:

Interview: This month we interview well known homeopath, lecturer and author Robert Medhurst, who lives and works in Australia.

We have excellent cases from Manfred Mueller, Mirjana Djukic, Seyedaghanoor Sadeghi   Alan Freestone, Ellen Kire, Glenda Malone, Martine Robertson, Reshma Nisham and Shawn Vale,

You’ve find highly informative articles by Louise Barton, Hal Sippel, Catja Marion Thum , Doug Brown, Elaine Lewis,Ghanshyam Kalathia, Iman Navab and Sue Young. Robert Medhurst presents more research articles and Ruhul Amin and Biplab Chakraborty share a research paper.

Dr. Deva Khalsa discusses cancer in pets, in her new veterinary column.

Be sure to see the new Tips and Secrets, Elaine Lewis’s Tidbits and Quiz, the new cartoon and crossword puzzle and the Plant Doctor (send your questions). We love to hear from you, so keep sending those questions and comments, cases and articles to [email protected]

About the author

Alan V. Schmukler

Alan V. Schmukler is a homeopath, Chief Editor of Homeopathy for Everyone and author of ”Homeopathy An A to Z Home Handbook”, (also in French, German, Greek, Polish and Portuguese). He is Hpathy’s resident cartoonist and also produces Hpathy’s Tips & Secrets column and homeopathy Crossword puzzles each month. Alan is a recipient of the National Center for Homeopathy Martha Oelman Community Service Award. Visit Alan at his website: Here.

13 Comments

  • Regarding the Ingestion Event Marker: George Orwell’s worst nightmare has become true!!!

  • Well said Alan! They want everyone to be “compliant” and consume as many chemical drugs as possible. To all these homeopathy is indeed a breath of fresh air and our hope.

  • With knowing all those control devices, I am tempted to get religious and ask: “When are they going to inscribe number 66 into out foreheads?”

    • well, the EU have started by making microchips compulsory for dogs. I guess one day they will make it compulsory for humans.

      • Essentially these are microchips. This is a back door method of getting them into people.

  • Mr Allan, excellent explanation about allopathy treatments and its approach. in the name of scientific approach they are simply playing in-humanly with most of the sufferers from simple diseases. allopathic side-effects are frightening, yet they do not reveal or brief the patients about its side-effects and precaution needed. they simply prescribe and administer the medicines especially in India. they admonish and ridicule homoeopathy system, which i have come across many many times.
    my recent personal experience is – i was diagnosed with gall bladder stone and consulted super specialist doctors to know the exact problem. since i had severe hip pain, i took only 3 tablets prescribed , that made my condition hell, i suffered with too much vomiting to the extent of hospitalization ! however i decided on my own and took homoeopathy medicines only, within 24 hrs my condition came back to normal. none of the super specialist doctors whom i consulted, briefed me about the possible side effects.
    Homoeopathy is god given gift to the suffering mankind. kudos to the great soul – Dr Hahnemann.

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