Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Craft

I've neglected this blog for a while now. It just seems like life gets in the way of all the things I want to do.

It seems like nearly every day I receive more and more bad news for the herbal and alternative health community. With the government's attempts to comply with CODEX to have uniform supplements and herbs throughout the world, it seems that the potency of all the herbs and supplements are being reduced to the point that they are ineffective.
The Natural Solutions blog and website offer a very disturbing look at developments in our country.

From the middle ages and probably long before that people who use nature for their medicine have been persecuted. In the middle ages those who knew how to heal with those weeds growing along the ditches, in the moors and wastelands and in the forests were shunned by the common people who believed them to be witches, but medical attention was so expensive they couldn't afford it. "Witches" were burned at the stake. . .for helping people! Are we heading back into that same mentality now? Will the day come that we won't be able to even take garlic to lower our blood pressure, or echinacea to build our immune system?

This is a disquieting thought and I'm not willing to accept it. I think we must arm ourselves with knowledge and not allow the government to continue in this modern day witch hunt.