"The use of essential oils is one of the most powerful yet safe healing modalities we have today. It should be considered much more in medical treatment and healing"
- Dr. Terry Friedmann, M.D., M.D.(H), A.B.H.M.
Recognized as one of the top 25 experts in holistic medicine, Dr. Terry Friedmann has spent decades transforming our understanding of health and healing.
In 1975 he saw the futility of pill-popping and "patching patients up", and began his quest for an alternative way to practice medicine. His research uncovered startling discoveries for natural cures for disease for which modern medicine has no answers. Rather than using medicine to mask the symptoms Dr. Friedmann believes in seeking the cause and using a total mind, body, spirit approach to healing.
As a board certified medical doctor, M.D., also with a degree in homeopathy, M.D.,(H), Dr. Friedmann's research has led to startling discoveries in the use of pure essential oils to treat ADHD, Autism, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Fibromyalgia, and Parasitology.
While studies suggest that only half the number of children and adults who suffer from ADD & ADHD are medicated with the drugs used to treat ADHD. The number of “untreated” children may, in part, be due to parents who choose to pursue an alternative route, rather than medicating their children. One of the most effective approaches to treating ADD and ADHD - without drugs - is the use of pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils.
Because many pure essential oils contain small chemical components, they are among the few molecules, natural or synthetic, that can cross the blood-brain barrier and directly heal the brain. This makes essential oils a powerful tool to treat brain disorders and emotional issues.
In 1978 he became a founding member of the American Holistic Medical Association and for 14 years served on its board of directors with advisory committee members such as Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra. In his role as a board member for the A.H.M.A. Dr. Friedmann trained many doctors and patients on his approach to wellness through alternative medicine and holistic healing. He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American College for Advancement of Medicine. Formerly, he served on the board of the Arizona Homeopathic Medical Association. In 2003, he was recognized with a certificate in holistic medicine.
"Too many people today are getting Band-Aid treatments. At one time, the doctor responded to the patient, by taking time to talk. Today, doctors rely too much on modern technology and have lost touch with the real art of medicine. Instead of relying unquestionably on doctors to fix what's broken, people need to take charge of their own health. As a medical doctor, I have seen the importance of spirituality in healing. Without body, mind, and spirit, you do not see the whole picture. Only a total approach leads to permanent, lasting healing."
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
CASE STUDY
DR. TERRY FRIEDMAN, M.D.
This case study was conducted for two years, from 1999-2001. Using Children between the ages of 6 to 12 years. Twenty subjects not diagnosed with ADD/ADHD were used as the control group. Twenty subjects with a confirmed diagnoses of ADD/ADHD were used as the study group.
Each group was pre-tested using a baseline evaluation with real time EEG and The T.O.V.A. Scale.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most frequently diagnosed disorders in young children and teenagers. Several million children are reported to be treated for ADHD: however, some school classrooms report that as high as 30% of the students have this illness. Once the diagnosis is made, the common treatment for ADHD is the drug Ritalin. Unfortunately, Ritalin simply controls the symptoms of ADHD in only 70% of the cases, but does not cure the condition. In addition, Ritalin is found to have produced side effects in children, at times serious and sometimes permanent.
Today, research has found that there is a natural alternative to the drug Ritalin to treat the child's ADHD symptoms. A trial study on natural products shows a new, safe, and effective method for treating ADHD without drugs. Holistic medicine is providing new hope for parents with ADHD children.
The final results were: Cedarwood oil increased performance by 83%.
Cedarwood essential oils improved focus and learning in ADD and ADHD kids and showed to be effective in observations and brain wave scans in 83% studied.
This study will be published in the American Medical Association Journal later this year.
Cedar Oil is one highest in sesquiterpenes, which will help in grounding, calming, and stabilizing children effected by ADHD.
(We are indebted to David Stewart, Ph.D.)
Medical School Doctrine:
“All Effective Medicines Have Negative Side Effects!” ???
If you tell a medical doctor that essential oils can bring about healing with no negative side effects, they won't believe you. This is because in medical school their professors repeatedly tell students that all effective medicines have negative side effects! If they don't, then they can't be effective.
When I was in medical school one professor emphasized this point in a colorful, graphic manner with specially prepared slides. In each slide specific drugs were depicted as evil looking demons or goblins. As he presented each picture, he explained, "Although ugly and capable of doing harm, these 'demons' are also the bearers of some good. “So long as the benefits outweigh the risks, we use them," he summarized. "We have no choice," he continued,” because if a drug has no dangers, then it can have no benefits. That’s just the way it is. And that's why it is essential that only qualified physicians be allowed to prescribe medicines,” he concluded.
Actually, the professor was telling the truth. Within their stricter practice of allopathic (MDs) the only real medicines are physician prescribed pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals always do have negative side effects. All of them. No exceptions! Hence, doctors are trained to accept the bad with the good as the price of effective medicine. The dangers of prescription drugs are intrinsic to the drugs, themselves. No matter how careful the physician in prescribing and how compliant the patient in following doctor's orders, even then deaths and damages occur.
In fact, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more than 100,000 Americans die every year, not from illegal drugs, not from drug overdoses, not from over-the-counter drugs, and not from drug abuses, but from properly prescribed, properly taken prescriptions. In this country, more people die from doctor's prescriptions every ten days than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Why is this so? Why do allopathic drugs always have undesirable effects (along with their apparent benefits)? Especially when one can find healing with natural products, such as essential oils, with no undesirable effects? Here is why.
Why Cemical Companies Deliberately Sell Dangerous Products to the public including pest control and fertilizer products.
It is illegal to patent any natural product. The way to big profits in the medicine industry is to create an unnatural substance that never before existed in nature. Then you patent it and obtain a monopoly! Hence, the molecules of pharmaceutical drugs are all strange to the human body!
In all the history of humankind, such molecules were never encountered or taken into any human body. Hence, the body does not easily metabolize them. God never made your body to accept and deal with these chemicals and antibiotics. Hence, you can find traces of prescription drugs in your body that were taken in childhood, decades ago. On the other hand, the body easily metabolizes natural molecules, such as those found in essential oils! In fact, your body was created to handle them.
An essential oil molecule finds the receptor sites it was designed to fit and conveys its information to the cell, or participates in other therapeutic functions. It then goes on its way to the liver and the kidneys and moves out of the body. Its benefits have been conveyed and its job is complete. By contrast, the unnatural molecules of man-made drugs attach themselves to various tissues, disrupting normal function, for years while the body tries to figure out what to do with them. Meanwhile, they wreak mischief with our bodily functions and even our minds.
(Drugs and Oils Work in Opposite Ways)
Drugs toxify, Oils detoxify.
Drugs clog and confuse receptor sites. Oils clean receptor sites. Drugs depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system. Antibiotics attack bacteria indiscriminately, killing both the good and the bad. Essential oils attack only the harmful bacteria, allowing our body's friendly flora to flourish.
Drugs are designed to send misinformation to cells or to block certain receptor sites in order to trick the body into giving up symptoms. But drugs never deal with the actual causes of disease. They aren't designed for that purpose. While they may give prompt relief for certain uncomfortable symptoms, because of their strange, unnatural design, they will always disrupt certain other bodily functions. Thus you always have some side effects.
Essential oil molecules send information to cells and cleanse receptor sites so that they bring your body back to natural function. Oils are Balancing to the body. Drugs are unbalancing to the body. Oils address the causes of disease at a cellular level by deleting misinformation and reprogramming correct information. (And, we repeat: they kill bad bacteria!) Then the cells function properly and in harmony with one another. With drugs, misinformation is fed into the cells so that some temporary relief may be obtained. But there is never any true healing. Drugs only trade one kind of disease for another.
Because essential oils properly applied always work toward the restoration of proper bodily function, they do not cause undesirable side effects. They are feeding the body with truth. Drugs feed the body with lies. While no amount of truth can contradict itself, it doesn't take many lies before contradictions occur and the body suffers ill effects.
Sixteen Doctors Speak Out
Not all physicians are caught up in the idea that the only good medicines are ones that can also be harmful. Here are some comments by physicians, themselves, on the practice of medicine.
"The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure."
Charles E. Page, M.D.
"Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature, they can only work symptomatically."
Hans Kusche, M.D.
"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine."
William Osler, M.D.
"If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity"
O.W. Holmes, M.D. (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)
"Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease, those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materiamedica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dyestuffs in a word poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons."
R.T. TraIl, M.D., (lecture to members of congress and the medical profession, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.)
"Every drug increases and complicates the patient’s condition."
Robert Henderson, M.D.
"The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning."
Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
"Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine."
Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
"Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach."
Wier Mitchel, M.D.
"Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure."
Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
"Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions."
Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
"What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?"
John H. Tilden, M.D.
"We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs."
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D (author of book, "Confessions of a Medical Heretic.)
"Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that which would make a well man sick."
L.F. Kebler, M.D.
"Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time."
Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
"The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned."
Charles Armbruster, M. D.
Conclusion:
That is a strong medical opinion of why oils heal and drugs don't. Let's hope Dr. Armbruster is right, that "the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned." Pharmaceutical companies and their physician drug dealers could market and sell natural products with genuine healing capabilities, but most won't. There isn't any money in it. In my opinion, changing the medical system toward more natural and spiritual forms of healing is impossible.
The system can't change. It must be replaced. Those of you who have opted out of the system in favor of essential oils and their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits are the pioneers who are replacing the system. And for those of you who have taken prescriptions drugs over long periods of time, essential oils (and natural nutrients) are your best friend. They can cleanse the residues of these drugs from your system once and for all and restore your body back to its natural healthy state.
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ALL EFFECTIVE MEDICINES HAVE
NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS
Drugs toxify,
Oils detoxify.
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