The body politic. (Tools for green living: resources for eco-awareness and action).The fact that snake oil A product that has been proven to not live up to the vendor's marketing hype. The term comes from the 1800s in which elixirs and potions of all kinds, even ones that supposedly included the oils from snakes, were sold as a cure for everything that ailed a person. actually does have medicinal properties Many plants have traditional medical uses. Ethnobotanists and pharmacognacists catalog and study these plants and uses. This is a list of some of the more common medicinal properties that are ascribed to plants. is just one fascinating bit of information to be gleaned from When Healing Becomes a Crime by Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel (Healing Arts Press, $19.95). The book is the story of Harry Hoxsey, whose alternative cancer treatments from 1925 to 1960 were called snake oil and worse by a medical establishment that, after 35 years of harassment Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Nevada I recently moved to nev.from abut have been going back to ca. every 2 to 3 weeks for med. , finally forced the pioneering health clinics to leave the U.S. (It still exists in Mexico.) "Orthodox medicine branded Hoxsey the worst cancer quack of the century," Ausubel writes. "He was arrested more times than any other person in medical history." But as this 450-page book (the companion to a documentary film also made by Ausubel) amply shows, Hoxsey's natural, herbal remedies and nutrition plans got amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. results, curing patients conventional medicine had given up on. Hoxsey's fate--shared by other maverick Maverick family name of two brothers, Bret and Bait; self-centered and untrustworthy gentlemen gamblers. [TV: Terrace, II, 80] See : Gambling therapists--has dramatic relevance today as alternative cancer treatment gains mainstream acceptance. |
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