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WIN A 2000 YEAR OLD OIL LAMP. Drawing held on May 30th.

You may be consuming potatoes registered as a pesticide!
Learn how and why inside this issue.

Ever hear of Asklepios and Hygia? No? You should!
Learn how these mythological Greek gods still do battle
in 21st century health care.

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Essential Oils Online
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Number 034 MAY, 2000
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IN THIS ISSUE:

1. Health Watch:
- Pass the Mashed Potatoes...Maybe Not!

2. Feature Article:
- Caught Between Two Worlds

3. Contest:
- Win an Authentic Holy Land Clay Oil Lamp

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This publication does not verify or endorse the claims of
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The information provided in EOO is for educational purposes only
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the sole responsibility of the reader.

THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER is made to protect the editor's gluteus
maximus from the wrath of pharmaceutical and medical cartels
protected by regulatory law. For what it's worth, Essential Oil
related therapy predates the American Medical Association and
Food and Drug Administration by at least 6,000 years. You decide!

PHARMACEUTICAL dispensed drugs are toxic failures not fit for
human consumption. According to JAMA (Journal of the American
Medical Association), Prescribed drug-caused deaths rank 4th on
the list of causes of death. 1994 statistics show 106,000 people
died from unintended drug side-effects. This would be considered
criminal by any other civilized standard.

Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., Medical Editor for "Health and
Healing," estimates 18 million more people have survived toxic
side effects from these same drugs prescribed by their
doctors...Over 2 million of them were bad enough to be
hospitalized in 1994 alone. Chemical Drugs and the so-called
"health" system that promotes using them are part of the
problem, not the solution.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for your own health, not the AMA, FDA
or your physician. If your physician prescribes a drug for
"treatment," ask him or her what known side-effects exist.
If he or she downplays any risk, ask yourself this question...
Is playing Russian roulette with drugs worth risking your life?
It can and does happen...106,000 deaths every year!!

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1. Health Watch:

Pass the Mashed Potatoes..Maybe Not

The nation's food safety authority, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), does not require genetically engineered
food crops to be labeled. Translation? None of us know whether
the food we eat is genetically engineered or not...or safe!

Potato Spuds Registered as a Pesticide:

Monsanto's "New Leaf" potato, which has been genetically
engineered to incorporate a pesticide, BACILLUS THURIENGENSIS
(Bt), into every cell in the potato, to kill potato beetles,
is required to be registered as a pesticide with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)! This means if you buy
potatoes from the supermarket, you likely are consuming
an EPA registered pesticide. The problem is since neither the
EPA or FDA require labeling disclosing the fact, no one
can make an informed choice not to purchase such spuds.

The label on a bag of Monsanto's pesticidal potatoes in the
supermarket lists all of the nutrients and micronutrients in
the potato, but fails to mention that the potatoes have been
genetically engineered or that they are legally a pesticide.
Food labeling is ordinarily the responsibility of FDA.

EPA-approved pesticides normally carry an EPA-approved
warning label. For example, a bottle of Bt bears a label that
warns people to avoid inhaling Bt and to avoid getting Bt in
an open wound. However, in the case of Monsanto's pesticidal
potato, EPA says FDA has responsibility for requiring a label
because the potato is a food. But, the FDA only requires
genetically engineered foods to be labeled if they contain
allergens or have been "materially changed," and the FDA
has determined that Monsanto did not "materially change"
the New Leaf potato by turning it into a pesticide.
Therefore no FDA label is required.

Furthermore, the law that empowers the FDA (the Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act) forbids FDA from including any information
about pesticides on food labels. Pesticide labels are EPA's
responsibility. Wow, talk about the run around!

Just another example of our tax dollars at work, folks.

Whether or not you are comfortable eating food laced with
Bt is your decision. Everyone, however should have the right
to know what goes in the food they eat. Genetically engineered
or altered food changes thousands of years of what natural food
is or isn't.

No one knows the long term effects GE foods may have on
human health or the environment. To promote GE foods for the
sake of profits at the expense of health and environmental
concerns demonstrates the greed and selfishness that
rules our world. Editor - Essential Oils Online.
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To learn more about GE foods and the pesticide laced potato.
visit: http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4
Scroll down and click #622 Seeds of Destruction

For related GE articles visit:
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=1
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=2
Scroll down to #695 - Biotech in trouble - part I

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2. Feature:

CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Physicians versus Healers
by Jim Lynn

A doctor tells a mother her comatose daughter will never regain
consciousness, only to see the girl awake and alert the following
day. A woman diagnosed with lung cancer is later found with her
lungs clear (without medical intervention). We've all heard such
stories...stories of healing that defy medical and scientific
reasoning. And yet, these stories are true!

While the medical community is usually quick to dismiss such
stories as quirks of nature, millions of people in pain and
suffering aren't so sure. They wonder. Are these seemingly
miraculous healings really quirks, or is there something more
at work here than we've been told?

Truth is there IS something more at work, but a money driven,
government controlled medical system is completely at odds
with it, and you and I are often times its helpless victim.

Healing is one of nature's greatest gifts to man. Our body
is created with its own inherent healing system. Even at
DNA levels, maintaining health is your body's highest priority.
But we live in a culture with a medical system that neither
knows or acknowledges this powerful healing system.

The vast majority of American citizens wrongfully believe
the health care industry in the U.S. is about healing, when
it is not. And all too often, people are hexed and die
because a physician told them there is nothing more they
can do.

Our health care industry is governed, regulated and controlled
by a system of medicine (allopathic) whose purpose is to
diagnose and treat symptoms, not to heal. When healing does
occur, it often times is in spite of treatment, rather than
because of it.

Given the truth of the matter and a choice, people would
rather go to someone who works to heal the body, not treat
symptoms. But we have few choices, and most people do not
know the difference between a healer and a physician, or
are even aware they have a choice.

Background history:

From ancient Greek mythology, two gods are responsible for
two opposing philosophies ongoing in health care today.
They are the gods Asklepios and his daughter Hygeia.

"For the worshippers of Hygeia, health is the natural order
of things, a positive attribute to which men are entitled
if they govern their lives wisely. According to them, the most
important function of medicine is to discover and teach the
natural laws which will ensure a man a healthy mind in a healthy
body. More skeptical, or wiser in the ways of the world, the
followers of Asklepios believe that the chief role of the
physician is to treat disease, to restore health by correcting
any imperfections caused by accidents of birth or life." (1)

The Definition Expanded:

Practitioners of Hygeia's teaching are called healers.
Practitioners of Asklepios's teaching are called physicians.
By definition then...Healers heal, physicians treat.
The differences between the two philosophies and
practices are profound.

Healers work with the body's natural defense system to restore
well-being. They recognize that healing is a natural power
inherent to the body. From the lowest form of life to the
highest, maintaining a balance of health (homeostasis)
is life's highest priority. Healers recognize a body out of
balance works to get back to it, and takes advantage of this
in his or her work. Healers work to eradicate the cause of
disease rather than its effect.

By contrast, many physicians are neither taught, nor are
aware of the natural healing power of the body. (2) They rely
on technology with its drugs and surgery to cut, burn, kill
or suppress symptoms. They use the word "cure" instead of
"heal" as representative of what they do. Physicians identify
disease (diagnose) then determine a therapy to treat it (effect).

Caught Between Two Worlds:

In North America, allopathic medicine, an evolved form of
Asklepios medicine, dominates health care. It is protected by
government through regulatory law. As a result, people seeking
relief from illness and disease for years were given little
choice as to the kind of health care they would receive.

Though little has changed in that regard, the high cost and
effectiveness of allopathic medicine is driving millions of
people in search of health care alternatives. They are turning
to Hygeian healers.

Still, physicians and modern medicine play a vital role in
society. Physician knowledge and technology is unequalled
when it comes to emergency or crisis surgery. And physicians
are excellent for diagnosing disease and illness. But from
this point on, physicians are dependent on doing what they
have been taught (to treat symptoms), and not to heal.

If physicians would prescribe treatment with substances that
would work with the body, fine...but they do not. Instead
physicians reply on allopathic procedures which conflict
with the body, and are known for their poor and sometimes
deadly effects.

Healers:

Unlike physicians, who are heavily regulated, there are no
laws regulating healers. Anyone may heal, but not everyone
may legally diagnose or treat disease. Making a diagnosis
and prescribing treatment of disease belongs to the realm
of licensed physicians. It is unlawful for anyone else to
do so.

Healers need not be licensed (3) because they do not work with
or speak about sickness, but rather with health and healing.
Once a person understands the difference between the two,
a whole new world opens up.

Healers are free to speak about the natural body, They can
talk about skin, hair, digestion, metabolism, cleansing,
elimination, circulation, nerves, emotions, respiratory system,
glands, bones, muscles, etc...all things natural.

Words like psoriasis, cancer, MS, etc, all belong to the realm
of licensed physicians. Let them keep them. Remember that physicians
work with sickness and disease, healers work at the opposite end
of the spectrum...with health and wellness.

Healers discuss the natural function of the body and work with
body's natural healing system. These topics are not illegal
to talk about. This is wonderful because by addressing these
subjects, healers are able to help people regain their health.
If disease is mentioned at all, it is done as a measurement
of their health, not as a disease or illness. Healers always
think in terms of health, not sickness.

The entire premise of healing is that the human body is fully
capable of healing itself and maintain vitality, when given
half a chance to do so. Working with the body, mind and spirit
using energy, prayer, essential oils, nutrition, and education,
healers give it that chance.

If patients would exercise their God given right to question
their physicians, seek out a healer, or begin to investigate
their own healing, many lives would be saved every year.

There is a place in the world for both physicians and healers.
The problem is that we do not understand the difference between
the two.

Resources and notes:

1. Quotation from Rene Dubos: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress
and Biological Change (Harper & Brothers, 1959, Pages 110-111)

2. "Never in my years at Harvard Medical School did anyone
mention it to me and my classmates, nor do medical professors
talk about it to students today." Andrew Weil, M.D.
Spontaneous Healing, (Fawcett Columbine, 1995, page 37)

3. Healers may require local or state licensing for purposes
of collecting taxes on earned income. However, there are
no licensing or schooling requirements to be able to heal.

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4. Contest:

YOU MIGHT OWN A 2000 YEAR OLD RELIC

Win an authentic Clay Oil Lamp
unearthed in the Holy Land that is
dated from 100 BC to 100 AD

Two thousand years ago, someone carefully filled this little
lamp with olive oil and then lit its wick to bring light to their
ancient home. Holding this millenia-old artifact one can almost
see the barely illuminated room...the sounds of a middle-eastern
night...the pungent smells of the burning oil mixed with remnants
of a well-cooked supper.

Archaeological digs unearth thousands of these little lamps,
however few are found intact. The ravages of time destroy most
of them. The clay oil lamp offered by Essential Oils Online is
completely intact. Oil lamps from this period are typically small
measuring approximately 2" by 3." The lamp we are offering in
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If you have a love of history...want to touch a piece of an ancient
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Essential Oils Online is proud to offer this exquisite jewel of
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2000. To qualify, simply send your name, address and phone number
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