Stop FDA Attack on Homeopathy

FDA ATTEMPTING TO
KILL HOMEOPATHY [HERBS NEXT!]
IN ILLEGAL ACTION WE MUST STOP!
MUST ACT BY MARCH 20, 2018
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The UK's National Health "Service" used to run special homeopathic hospitals and herbal dispensaries. Not any more, now the "single payer" will no longer pay for either and they are now being closed. [1]

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Unsurprisingly, the FDA is following suit, despite the fact that Homeopathy and the US Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (USHP) are protected by specific statutes in the US.

Did Health Freedom end when 2017 made its exit? Yes, if the FDA has its way!

Bottom Line: If you are ready to take action to protect natural remedies, read on...

We have until March 20th to file formal comments with FDA.  Docket FDA-2017-D-6580 – scroll down to find the Comment Link.

This past year the DEA and the FDA came out publicly saying, for example, that Cannabidiol, CBD, a neurotransmitter produced by mammalian (including human) bodies, was not a lawful nutrient, although the agencies have stopped short of raiding health food stores [as FDA used to do in the 1990s, before the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)] to enforce their dictate. [2] 

Right now, although there is a century of laws protecting homeopathy, FDA is attacking homeopathy to “protect” you. They are the government and they are here to "help" — Big Pharma.

On December 18th of this past year FDA issued new regulations that attack homeopathic oral and injectable remedies despite the fact that they are protected by long-standing law. This blatant attack on your health freedom choices is part of a long-term, well-financed conspiracy and, sadly, comes as no surprise. [3]

On your behalf we told FDA, when they started their “regulatory review” of homeopathy to let our natural remedies alone! The attack began “innocently enough” during the previous presidential administration.  

FDA asked for comments on how it should “modernize” homeopathy regulations. That’s the government’s first step toward ratcheting-up control.

That’s the step to which we had previously replied, telling them, among other things:

"FDA does not have authority from Congress to interfere with traditional homeopathy, nor does Congress have authority to permit such interference. Individuals have the right, under international humanitarian law binding on the United States, of Informed Consent to exercise their Freedom of Choice in health care without government burdening that fundamental right." [4]

These new regulations followed similar recent action in the UK by its “one payer” nationalized health care system. The UK National Health “Service” has ended its long-standing history of support for safe, gentle and effective homeopathy and herbalism (the UK even has special homeopathic hospitals and homeopathic/herbal dispensaries) in favor of dangerous, deadly and ineffective pharmaceuticals. This trend for medical tyranny has “crossed the pond” as the FDA has attacked legally protected homeopathy in the USA.

This was done in three steps that I have documented.

First in 2015, when the FDA asked for public comments about regulating homeopathy. That's when we submitted the comments referenced above. By the way, by submitting comments telling FDA they were acting illegally, we preserved the legal right to complain to the courts; we preserved "standing to sue."

Second, as noted in a blog entry I posted January 2017, FDA was toying with the idea of requiring "disclaimers" on homeopathic products, disclaimers not required by the statute that protects homeopathy in the USA [5].

Third, the most recent action, which illegally attempts to treat HPUS standard homeopathic remedies as unapproved pharmaceutical drugs, requiring a "risk/benefit analysis" which will effectively ban many, if not most, homeopathic remedies. This pseudo-scientific analysis starts with the false claim that homeopathic remedies have no benefit and alleges a "risk" that people using such remedies will fail to use Big Pharma's government approved, dangerous "side-effect" drugs.

What risk? Since government approved pharmaceutical drugs are the main cause of preventable death in the USA, what risk? [6]

The natural product industry has two choices: let Big Pharma and the globalists have their way or force them back, step by step.  I am sure that large producers of homeopathic remedies will realize they have no choice but to challenge the regulation. Strong public support for natural remedy freedom will encourage resistance to agency overkill.

Since we have preserved the right to object to this latest FDA action, cooperation between the industry and the health freedom movement during 2018 may be the only way to preserve our access to homeopathy, and, while dodging the FDA's left punch, we'll need to watch it's right arm for the next attack on herbs and other nutrients, like CBDs.

The new President, failing to keep his promise to "drain the swamp" seems to be appointing swamp-creatures to run the FDA and empower it to further attacks!

We must choose to force them back. I know you will want to do so, too.

FIRST -- Subscribe here: https://my.officevp.com/s/27312 to be linked directly to the Regulations.gov web page for comments. This is where you can tell the FDA “NO!”

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SECOND -- Contact me directly if you or your company want to be part of the advocacy and litigation that will likely be needed to stop this latest FDA outrage. Our half century of health freedom advocacy positions us to coordinate this urgent action.  We need your support -- email me here: ralph.fucetola@usa.net
 
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It is simply bad science to apply the "risk/benefit" analysis that may be appropriate for the dangerous drugs and interventions of modern medicine to traditional nutritional, herbal and homeopathic approaches to achieving and maintaining health.  

Biological individuality suggests that the "risk/benefit" analysis will miss the benefits of these natural modalities, giving the governing authorities an excuse to ban the natural competition to treatments that are known to cause harm. Let us remember that a large portion of the FDA's budget comes from large pharmaceutical companies. [7]  The risk of systemic corruption is so high that the agency should refrain from interfering with freedom of choice in health care. [8]

Ralph Fucetola JD
President
Institute for Health Research
www.InHeRe.org
www.VitaminConsultancy.com

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[1]  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/21/nhs-ban-homeopathy-herbal-medicine-misuse-resources/
[2] http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2017/01/ftc-wants-disclaimers-on-homeopathy.htm
[3] https://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/@fdagov-drugs-gen/documents/document/ucm589373.pdf
[4]  We told FDA to leave our natural remedies alone; when they started this latest attack on Homeopathy, back in 2015, here are the comments I filed with FDA: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2015/06/comments-to-fda-re-homeopathy-fda-has.html
[5] http://www.hpus.com/legal-status.php
[6] http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf

[7] http://www.businessinsider.com/fda-user-fees-from-pharmaceutical-companies-2016-8 
[8] http://www.opensourcetruth.com/what-peer-reviewed-science-2/

Comments to the FDA: Homeopathy and Health Freedom

COMMENTS TO THE FDA RE: HOMEOPATHY

[FDA has decided to "review" the regulation of Homeopathy. That's a bad idea. Here are my comments why, posted on the FDA Docket. RF]

I am President of the Institute for Health Research, a recognized NGO -- www.InHeRe.org, and Vice-President of Natural Solutions Foundation, a recognized NGO -- www.GlobalhealthFreedom.org.

I have been trained in both law (licensed to practice in NJ from 1971 through 2006) and homeopathy (Five Elements Center, Mountainside, NJ and Hololinguistic Institute, Toronto). I have personally experienced, over the past five decades, extraordinary examples of traditional homeopathy supporting homeostasis and a healthy status.

I urge FDA to leave traditional homeopathy alone. The best regulatory decision the Agency could make would be to do nothing to disturb the grandfathered status of homeopathy. Congress has enacted a regulatory regime based on permitting traditional homeopathic remedies to be certified by the HPUS. FDA does not have authority to vary that enactment. To do so would be to restrict important privacy and associational interests of members of the public.

State v Biggs (46 SE Reporter 401, 1903): the North Carolina Supreme Court dealt with a person who was advising people as to diet, and administering massage, baths and physical culture. In the Biggs case, the defendant "advertised himself as a 'nonmedical physician'...[and] held himself out to the public to cure disease by 'a system of drugless healing'..." p.401.

That Court held that there could be no "state system of healing" p.402 and while "Those who wish to be treated by practitioners of medicine and surgery had the guaranty that such practitioners had been duly examined...those who had faith in treatment by methods not included in the 'practice of medicine and surgery' as usually understood, had reserved to them the right to practice their faith and be treated, if they chose, by those who openly and avowedly did not use either surgery or drugs in the treatment of diseases..." p.402.

Further, at p.405: "Medicine is an experimental, not an exact science. All the law can do is to regulate and safeguard the use of powerful and dangerous remedies, like the knife and drugs, but it cannot forbid dispensing with them. When the Master, who was himself called the Good Physician, was told that other than his followers were casting out devils and curing diseases, he said, 'Forbid them not.'"

As recently as 2002 the United States Supreme Court reminded FDA, (Thompson v. Western States Medical Center, 535 U.S. 357) , "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last - not first - resort. *** We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information. *** Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring each compounded drug to be labeled with a warning that the drug had not undergone FDA testing and that its risks were unknown."

FDA does not have authority from Congress to interfere with traditional homeopathy, nor does Congress have authority to permit such interference. Individuals have the right, under international humanitarian law binding on the United States, of Informed Consent to exercise their Freedom of Choice in health care without government burdening that fundamental right.

Comment No. 1jz-8jk4-ukxz in Docket FDA-2015-N-0540

http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA-2015-N-0540-0001