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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does any one know of an effective herbal remedy for
psorasis?</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Herbworks1@xtra.co.nz href="mailto:Herbworks1@xtra.co.nz">Ivor
Hughes</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org
href="mailto:MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org">MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 02, 2004 10:40
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [MPWG] Cognitive Shift.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Well the acronym MAP is relatively harmless and also amusing,
especially when thrown into a scientific report. You know the sort ... 75% of
the abstract, looks like the ingredients list on a packet of processed food
... all numbers, gobbldegook and cancer, but no real substance. Unless you are
one of the cognoscenti one does not have a clue what is being spoken
about.<BR><BR>The word 'Conservation' is another mystery, I say this because
it appears to have a different meaning depending on which vested interest
utters the word. It appears to maintain its original meaning when
applied to a cute panda happily munching its way through bamboo forests ....
But applied to the world of herbs, the scientific meaning is legislation, and
restriction, for scientific and pharmaceutical use only. With that also come
the costly task of enforcement, abuse of human rights and punitive penalties
for the peasants. Seen in that light, the peasants also pay for their
own striped suit, and ball and chain via taxation.<BR><BR>Speaking as a
peasant I find it unacceptable that the people responsible for the total mess
then try to blame me and my ilk for all of the scientific problems especially
in matters of medicine. All the scientific whinging about non compliant
peasants who failed to complete a course of anti-biotics, and thus unleashed a
scourge of madly mutating microbes, who after all were only trying to escape
the medical WMD. Oh yes, and let us not forget the 'Ephedra' nonsense for
which the peasants also now have to pay the price for. <BR><BR>Surrounding the
word 'Conservation' is a whole raft of other issues such as graft and
corruption. Not from the peasants, but from the pharmaceutical companies and
those that accept pharmaceutical money. This cannot be denied ... the evidence
is on plain view ... and all the peasants that can read ... can see
it.<BR><BR>The synthetic medicines market is collapsing ... No more magic
lolly trolleys .... they have even dusted off Thalidomide for a second throw,
and carefully swept HRT under the carpet. That is the real reason why our
heritage is being taken away from us. Imagine 3 months in the slammer for
picking a Dandelion ... improbable ? Well the mess we are now in, was
also improbable 50 years ago. Things seem to move faster
nowadays.<BR><BR>Legislation is rarely enlightened, it is usually imposed from
the top down, for the benefit of a favored few. For example, we are in
the process, of having our right to buy vitamins and minerals, except via a
Doctors prescription taken away. Herbs are next ..... it will also be done in
the name of safety and conservation. <BR><BR>If there is a shortage of
any specie of herb, it is because of the 'active ingredient mindset' that has
led to that situation. A single herb can produce 3 or 4 ... or even more doses
of an effective medicine. Yet Science persists in the practice of gross
overdose of a single constituent, and thereby hastens the depletion of our
herbal stocks. The answer is always 'Legislation' and jobs for the boys
and girls. Not to mention the unspeakable scenario outlined by Ivan Illich
(Medical Nemesis) <BR><BR>The issue of herbal conservation, is also tied to
the matter of health freedom, and who it is that owns your body. Because if
your right to pick the herbs are taken away ... for the benefit of the
Pharmaceutical and Medical Industries .... then we are going to enter upon a
totalitarian age .... we already have one foot in the door, and we are
being ushered in by a wave of artificially generated paranoia ...
we have a war against everything these days.<BR><BR>We cannot separate the
issue of conservation from its wider social implications, and most
importantly ... who is it ? ... that must bear the burden of any solution that
is imposed from above. This time the decision must not be made by small groups
of people, with links to the pharmaceutical companies and academia .... and
then to the politicians ... it must be made by everyone. <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4><BR>"I know of no safe depository
of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we
think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their
discretion by education."
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<FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>Thomas Jefferson, letter to
William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820 </FONT><BR><BR>Neither can we seperate
the issue of conservation from that of GM crops and other living
creatures. It is blindingly obvious that GM is not compatible with
conservation. The GM plant does not stop at the pollen or seed.
The root secretions have an effect upon the soil biota, and as usual no
studies have been done by those who have unleashed this monstrosity. It will
be also blindingly obvious that if the biota are affected then the damage will
be rapid and very serious and possibly far beyond our capabilities to
rectify.<BR><BR>We cannot separate the issue of conservation from the practice
of chemical mono cropping. Which by its very nature has become the prime
despoiler and shrinker of habitats. We cannot separate it from the issue of
Chemical spraying by land and air. We cannot separate it from the issue of
Global Warming .....<BR><BR>The word 'conservation ' means many things to many
people ... what does it mean to you ?<BR><BR>Ivor Hughes<BR><A
class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="http://www.herbdatanz.com">www.herbdatanz.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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