Despite the yearly claims of great new cancer drugs*, the percentage of Americans who 
die each year from cancer has remained pretty much the same since 1970. Every year in 
the United States, more people die from the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs than 
die in car accidents. Clearly this is not good medicine.

Where Is The Good Medicine?

Did you know that the herb astragalus, is a powerful broad-spectrum antiviral agent? It 
is safe and effective. I used astragalus to cure myself of chronic fatigue syndrome, but 
your doctor will never recommend it. Conventional medicine has nothing to combat the vast 
majority of viruses (they only suppress symptoms), but still doctors will not recommend 
astragalus because it is plant based.

plant-based treatments cannot produce large profits because they cannot be patented. 
Large profits are needed to pay for the expensive FDA approved clinical trials. So 
plant-based treatments never get FDA approval to treat a disease. Your doctor can only 
prescribe treatments that are FDA approved. If your doctor prescribes treatments that are 
not FDA approved, he or she can be sued or lose their license.

The End of Plant-based Medicine

Around the begining of the last centruy, Rockefeller and Carnegie obtained control over 
medical school education through the use of the Flexner Report which was written by Henry 
Pritchett, who was in the employ of Rockefeller. This report favored only the medical 
schools that concentrated on using drug-based treatments. These schools started to receive 
large amounts of money from Rockefeller and Carnegie. In 1905, 160 medical schools were in 
operation. By 1927, 17 years after the Flexner Report, the number had dropped to 80. From 
then on, pharmaceutical company control of medical school curriculums was assured by the 
large amounts of money they would "give" to the schools for approved research. That 
research of course was approved or disapproved by the pharmaceutical companies. Only 
research that would lead to treatments that could be patented received approval. That 
eliminated any treatments derived from plants.

Treatment derived from plants are more safe than chemical based treatments that can be 
patented.