Re: stone stuck in the bile duct

> "What prevents them to do research on it ? Is it again monetary consideration ?

Yes, the answer is Money!  Approval of a new "drug" or a new "medical procedure"  by FDA costs over $200 million. Without FDA approval, there is no way for it to reach doctors and patients.

To do research, you need money. A lot of money. Within medical circles, the only industry that makes real money (millions and billions) is the pharmaceutical industry. Thanks to that, most research done today is funded, directly or indirectly, by money coming from pharmaceutical industry. Now, why would pharmaceutical industry invest $200 million into research that will never result in a patented drug. Without patented drug, you can't earn back money invested.

But it is not only $200 million for the research that are the problem!!!!!!!!!!!
What if people would start using liver flush to cure Allergies, Asthma, Cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, Bowel problems, ...  billions of $$$$  annually could disappear from Pharma's pocket!

I will give you some US statistics, just to understand how powerful actually is pharmaceutical industry, and how much money they may loose, if Olive oil and grapefruit juice would become the standard of care for Allergies:

• Allergies are the 6th leading cause of chronic disease in the United States, costing the health care system $18 billion annually.[1]

• Each year more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergic diseases[1].

• Approximately 16.7 million office visits to health care providers each year are attributed to allergic rhinitis.[5]

• Allergies are $18 billion industry annually.

And, now imagine people start using cleanses and cleanups and imagine only 1/2 of them get cured.

Result: Medical establishment looses $9 billion.  Can you imagine how much money is $9 billion? 
It is 45 x $200 million! 45 times more to loose, then what you invested into research.
How many jobs? How many products? 

Would you like to loose $9 billion?

"A healthy population means a dead pharmaceutical industry."

In reality, liver flush and other flushes would work in over 90% of all cases, resulting loss of over $16 billion loss for pharmaceutical industry and medical establishment, considering Allergies ONLY!

Remember,  I was only presenting the story called "Allergies".

What about Gallstones?  Cancer? Asthma? Eczema? Psoriasis? Heart diseases? AIDS? CFIDS? ADD/ADHD?  Arthritis?  ...

HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF $$$$$$$$$$ DOLLARS are on stake!

Did you get the picture?

Do you understand why NOW?   It is very simple. It's all about the Money.  $$$

• According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2001 approximately 192,200 new cases of invasive breast cancer (Stages I-IV) will be diagnosed among women in the United States.  It is estimated that 40,600 deaths will occur from breast cancer (40,200 among women, 400 among men) in the United States. http://imaginis.com/breasthealth/statistics.asp

• Atopic dermatitis is one of the most common skin diseases, particularly in infants and children. The estimated prevalence in the United States is 9 percent.[9] The prevalence of atopic dermatitis appears to be increasing.[10]

• Chronic sinusitis is the most commonly reported chronic disease, affecting 12.6 percent of people (approximately 38 million) in the United States in 1996.[2]
  In 1996, estimated U.S. health care expenditures attributable to sinusitis were more than $5.8 billion.[12]

• Experts estimate that food allergy occurs in 8 percent of children 6 years of age or under, and in 1 to 2 percent of adults.[13] Approximately 100 Americans, usually children, die annually from food-induced anaphylaxis.[14]

References:
[1] http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/allergystat.htm
[2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/allergies.htm

If you are interested to learn more about the link between Money and Poor health care, good place to start learning is this collection of hundreds of articles:

Many people have asked me why the FDA will not approve the use of natural and alternative therapies. The answer is pretty simple. For a substance to be approved by the FDA for human consumption it must go through $200 million (often more) worth of research first.

Because you cannot patent a natural substance like olive oil or grapefruit juice, or Epsom salts, there would be no way to make enough money on it to make it worth investigating. The ugly truth is that pharmaceutical companies are in business to make money. If they weren’t, they would be non-profit organizations! As it is today, the pharmaceutical industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Why would they want to go and invest in a product they would lose money on? That would hardly be a lucrative business tactic. Instead they have made efforts to get around this in the last few years. They are currently trying to make food supplements into "prescription only" items. The way the patent laws work, a natural substance is not able to be patented; however, you can file for a "use patent" on any substance that is natural. When someone holds a "use patent" on a substance it means that they have researched and determined a certain "use" of the product.

The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry

The natural purpose and driving force of the pharmaceutical industry is to increase sales of pharmaceutical drugs for ongoing diseases and to find new diseases to market existing drugs.

By this very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs as a source of revenues. Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve symptoms, but not to cure.

If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed, the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to suppress, discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order to make sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative prescription drug market.

The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry itself is the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for the control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis, and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a worldwide scale.  Read more here :  The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry  Dec 20

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