Legislation as a danger to homeopathy:
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:23 pm
Here is information gleaned from several sources:
This bill is an insidious piece of legislation that is trying to be passed under our noses. The references to CONTROL of these Homeopathic Drugs (drugs is what they are called in the HPUS) will eliminate the practice of homeopathic medicine in the USA. It will also so severely restrict the ability to purchase homeopathic products that they would have to be prescribed by a medical doctor.
This is the first step to eliminating all of our rights! And yes, governments have done that that since the beginning of time.
After all, there is a bill MANDATING vaccinations for everyone in the USA soon to be introduced -
We homeopaths, as well as the non homeopathic professional population must be on top of this, or homeopathy will go down in the USA again. Yes it may again go underground - however why should we become criminals and work against the law unless we absolutely have to?
What does it take? A quick email, a quick call to our politicians (Congress people) to say, Hey, I am totally against regulating homeopathic medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements! That is all we are asking for.
Here is more information:
These are cut and pasted from emails I have received, Am passing them to you:
From jesse rettig:
The key premise for this inquiry is safety, as indicated in the meeting notice:
“…drug and biological products, homeopathic ingredients, even if highly diluted, can cause side effects, drug interactions, and allergic or other adverse reactions. Negative health effects from drug products labeled as homeopathic have been reported through the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System and the National Poison Data System (NPDS), which is maintained by the American Association of Poison Control Centers and tracks human poison exposure cases. Data in the NPDS pertaining to homeopathic drug products is tracked under the category ‘‘Homeopathic Agents.’’ The 2012 American Association of Poison Control Center Annual Report indicated that there were 10,311 reported poison exposure cases related to ‘‘Homeopathic Agents,’’ with 8,788 of those reported cases attributed to children 5 years of age and younger (Ref. 3). Of the 10,311 reported cases, 697 required treatment in a health care”.
The FDA in this statement seems to indicate it has a file of reported AER’s that should be obtained relating to homeopathic use. Additionally the data in the NPDS should be reviewed since it doesn’t seem to be consistent with other information know in the industry. Most specifically, the report attributes a death to homeopathy; however, in its own published detail on deaths, the data clearly indicates this person most probably died from over-ingesting herbal supplements. Homeopathy was not even involved.
This significant error in reporting leads one to question how homeopathy was associated to the other 10,313 events that were logged.
Most other categories shown in the report, from pages 199-252, are categorized by specific ingredients and substances. Yet under homeopathy, the categorization is a homeopathic agent. I feel compelled to ask the following questions:
· What the heck is a homeopathic agent?
· Could all these reported incidents be about the alcohol diluent, the lactose tables, or the preservatives used in some preparations?
· Why is there such a significant leaning toward pediatric events which are 84% to 95% over the last 6 years of reports that I looked at?
The perspective here is of the 2,662,456 events reported, 1,499,713 (56%) were classified as pharmaceutical of which homeopathy, under current regulation, had 10313 reported events, or .3% of total events and .7% of pharmaceutical events.
The FDA considers the pharmaceutical industry as the standard for excellence in regulatory process and control; yet, it is this industry that accounts for more than 99 % of the reported events.
It is imperative we get behind the numbers being reported as events in the NPDS data, as this seems to be the cornerstone of the FDA concern. FDA already has the authority to regulate us like the pharmaceutical industry from a manufacturing and labeling basis, so this is about something more.
namaste
jesse rettig
and from: Lisa Platt:
The more we say how great homeopathy is for serious medical problems the more they will want to regulate us
all of these remedies are supposed to be used OTC
this is becoming a very complicated catch 22
share this email too
It’s kind of a two edged sword, isn’t it! The more we prove it works, the more the FDA will make efforts to kill it. The more it is proven that it doesn’t work, the more the FDA will make efforts to kill it!
With the Flexner report, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller, effectively got the government to shut down homeopathic medical schools and ban electronic medicine to protect the pharmaceutical industry in which they were major stockholders. Only with the acceptance of acupuncture by the NIH after Nixon’s trip to China did that ban begin to abate. Now we are back to a situation similar to the pre-Flexner time. It appears that the FDA is ready to write another Flexner Report.
It is my opinion that we will not sway the FDA—the only way to protect us is via the public contacting Congress. That is what happened with nutraceuticals. When the FDA and President Clinton supported making vitamins Rx-only, it was Congress that stopped them.
It is my opinion that asking physicians to show that homeopathy works will beg the demand for “double blind crossover studies published in multiple peer-reviewed journals” that will effectively kill us. We need to go to the public and get them to contact Congress.——Just my opinion.
Jerry Tennant, MD, MD(H), PSc.D
jtenn@tennantinstitute.com
www.tennantinstitute.com
And the Last one from Nancy
Mass public outcry is needed here. The 114th Congress is new and will welcome making their mark with a huge constituency backing.
A point of interest...my patients are the founders of Sweet 'n Low. When the FDA attempted to ban saccarin it was the ladies who stormed the stores puling boxes off the shelves and demanding to have that product. It stayed on the shelves. In 1907, Teddy Roosevelt demanded to keep the investigation of the safety of saccarin by the FDA at bay because he used it. He won! The power of the people and the influencers in government is the stuff of history.
Keep up the good fight!
Nancy Gahles
There is now information on how to submit comments electronically, at this website: http://www.regulations.gov/#!searchResu ... ue;ns=true
The docket is # FDA-2015-N-0540.
Comments will be accepted through June 22, as best I can read from the verbiage.
We urge all those who are unable to attend the hearings in Washington to inform themselves of the agenda, and to spread the word as widely as possible.
This bill is an insidious piece of legislation that is trying to be passed under our noses. The references to CONTROL of these Homeopathic Drugs (drugs is what they are called in the HPUS) will eliminate the practice of homeopathic medicine in the USA. It will also so severely restrict the ability to purchase homeopathic products that they would have to be prescribed by a medical doctor.
This is the first step to eliminating all of our rights! And yes, governments have done that that since the beginning of time.
After all, there is a bill MANDATING vaccinations for everyone in the USA soon to be introduced -
We homeopaths, as well as the non homeopathic professional population must be on top of this, or homeopathy will go down in the USA again. Yes it may again go underground - however why should we become criminals and work against the law unless we absolutely have to?
What does it take? A quick email, a quick call to our politicians (Congress people) to say, Hey, I am totally against regulating homeopathic medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements! That is all we are asking for.
Here is more information:
These are cut and pasted from emails I have received, Am passing them to you:
From jesse rettig:
The key premise for this inquiry is safety, as indicated in the meeting notice:
“…drug and biological products, homeopathic ingredients, even if highly diluted, can cause side effects, drug interactions, and allergic or other adverse reactions. Negative health effects from drug products labeled as homeopathic have been reported through the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System and the National Poison Data System (NPDS), which is maintained by the American Association of Poison Control Centers and tracks human poison exposure cases. Data in the NPDS pertaining to homeopathic drug products is tracked under the category ‘‘Homeopathic Agents.’’ The 2012 American Association of Poison Control Center Annual Report indicated that there were 10,311 reported poison exposure cases related to ‘‘Homeopathic Agents,’’ with 8,788 of those reported cases attributed to children 5 years of age and younger (Ref. 3). Of the 10,311 reported cases, 697 required treatment in a health care”.
The FDA in this statement seems to indicate it has a file of reported AER’s that should be obtained relating to homeopathic use. Additionally the data in the NPDS should be reviewed since it doesn’t seem to be consistent with other information know in the industry. Most specifically, the report attributes a death to homeopathy; however, in its own published detail on deaths, the data clearly indicates this person most probably died from over-ingesting herbal supplements. Homeopathy was not even involved.
This significant error in reporting leads one to question how homeopathy was associated to the other 10,313 events that were logged.
Most other categories shown in the report, from pages 199-252, are categorized by specific ingredients and substances. Yet under homeopathy, the categorization is a homeopathic agent. I feel compelled to ask the following questions:
· What the heck is a homeopathic agent?
· Could all these reported incidents be about the alcohol diluent, the lactose tables, or the preservatives used in some preparations?
· Why is there such a significant leaning toward pediatric events which are 84% to 95% over the last 6 years of reports that I looked at?
The perspective here is of the 2,662,456 events reported, 1,499,713 (56%) were classified as pharmaceutical of which homeopathy, under current regulation, had 10313 reported events, or .3% of total events and .7% of pharmaceutical events.
The FDA considers the pharmaceutical industry as the standard for excellence in regulatory process and control; yet, it is this industry that accounts for more than 99 % of the reported events.
It is imperative we get behind the numbers being reported as events in the NPDS data, as this seems to be the cornerstone of the FDA concern. FDA already has the authority to regulate us like the pharmaceutical industry from a manufacturing and labeling basis, so this is about something more.
namaste
jesse rettig
and from: Lisa Platt:
The more we say how great homeopathy is for serious medical problems the more they will want to regulate us
all of these remedies are supposed to be used OTC
this is becoming a very complicated catch 22
share this email too
It’s kind of a two edged sword, isn’t it! The more we prove it works, the more the FDA will make efforts to kill it. The more it is proven that it doesn’t work, the more the FDA will make efforts to kill it!
With the Flexner report, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller, effectively got the government to shut down homeopathic medical schools and ban electronic medicine to protect the pharmaceutical industry in which they were major stockholders. Only with the acceptance of acupuncture by the NIH after Nixon’s trip to China did that ban begin to abate. Now we are back to a situation similar to the pre-Flexner time. It appears that the FDA is ready to write another Flexner Report.
It is my opinion that we will not sway the FDA—the only way to protect us is via the public contacting Congress. That is what happened with nutraceuticals. When the FDA and President Clinton supported making vitamins Rx-only, it was Congress that stopped them.
It is my opinion that asking physicians to show that homeopathy works will beg the demand for “double blind crossover studies published in multiple peer-reviewed journals” that will effectively kill us. We need to go to the public and get them to contact Congress.——Just my opinion.
Jerry Tennant, MD, MD(H), PSc.D
jtenn@tennantinstitute.com
www.tennantinstitute.com
And the Last one from Nancy
Mass public outcry is needed here. The 114th Congress is new and will welcome making their mark with a huge constituency backing.
A point of interest...my patients are the founders of Sweet 'n Low. When the FDA attempted to ban saccarin it was the ladies who stormed the stores puling boxes off the shelves and demanding to have that product. It stayed on the shelves. In 1907, Teddy Roosevelt demanded to keep the investigation of the safety of saccarin by the FDA at bay because he used it. He won! The power of the people and the influencers in government is the stuff of history.
Keep up the good fight!
Nancy Gahles
There is now information on how to submit comments electronically, at this website: http://www.regulations.gov/#!searchResu ... ue;ns=true
The docket is # FDA-2015-N-0540.
Comments will be accepted through June 22, as best I can read from the verbiage.
We urge all those who are unable to attend the hearings in Washington to inform themselves of the agenda, and to spread the word as widely as possible.