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At the beginning we started from one reform: traditional medicine
and pharmaceutical industry: the new way without the breaks. Then
we understood that it required two more reforms : political and
economical. Thus, we combined three reforms in one united system:
Reform THREE-IN-ONE. This history is about the first reform.
Our company T-UP Biosystems, Inc. uses in its practice a combination
of mainstream and alternative medicines, as do many other companies
in this field. As all the companies and doctors who want to use
in their practice both methods of traditional and alternative medicines,
we are facing many challenges and problems. We have found the way
to overcome them, but the methods, which are used by us, as by many
other companies, are not the very best for the patient.
Upon analysis, our problems became apparent. The same challenges
and obstacles block the path of many other companies. What is most
surprising and unbelievable is that mainstream medicine and the
pharmaceutical industry suffer the most, because they do not recognize
the direction and trend of the current market. Regardless of their
power and strength, they have started to lose their hold on the
market. They have mistakenly seen alternative medicine as their
enemy and struggled against it, desperately trying to prove to the
whole world that it does not work. But as the Chinese saying goes:
"For the short term you could fool everybody, but for the long
term you can fool nobody." More and more companies involved
in health care around the world use the alternative practices with
great results and benefits for patients. Very often the best alternative
methods accepted by mainstream medicine become available for public
use in other countries. This process ought to be better in the most
advanced country of the world - the United States of America.
Alternative medicine is not bad or weak, as the orthodox bureaucrats
would have us to believe. For example, have we forgotten that many
pharmaceuticals, before they were accepted by the FDA, were considered
alternatives from the beginning and were rejected by the mainstream
medicine, only later on to be approved.
Let's ask this important question: Why are all the good things that
alternative medicine could bring to society opposed by the government?
The ultimate goal of everybody involved in health care is to help
sick people get well and to save lives. What happens in reality
is that not all potentially available methods are used in order
to help really sick people get well or to help people prevent many
dangerous diseases.
We believe that we have found a solution, and we need to resolve
the following problems: Currently, medical doctors are limited in
the choice of treatment that they can use for their patients. Alternative
treatments do not have equal rights in comparison with mainstream
treatments. For example, a doctor is often afraid to replace antibiotics
with some other alternative method, because it is not accepted by
the mainstream. If the doctor does so, he/she is at risk of losing
his/her licence. The insurance companies, also, do not cover many
alternative treatments.
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Our task is to make alternative products equally available for
doctors use, if they deem it necessary. The approval of alternative
methods is required for the purpose of public safety. In order to
approve an alternative product as a drug and allow it to become
an equal substitute for a traditional drug, we are proposing to
use the statistics and results from many years of safe use by nontraditional
medical practitioners or the results of such use in other countries,
if the tests are approved by officials of that country. This is
a reliable source for the decision-making process, if the product
in question has been used for a long time and has already passed
through a testing period and has proven its effectiveness on many
people. Otherwise alternative medicine and the peoples' health will
suffer, since the further use of chemicals in our lives, as statistics
show, could result in the improper functioning of our bodies. Those
natural products which are nontoxic and do not cause side effects
should have equal exposure along with traditional drugs and be prescribed
for the treatment of the same diseases.
We would like to achieve the following results:
1. The procedure of registering a natural product as a drug or registering
methods of treatment such as physical therapy as a medical procedure
would be drastically simplified. For this purpose, the test results
from other countries would be considered, if they are approved by
official sources. If they are considered unreliable or not completely
proven for the American officials, the procedure of approval for
such a product should be simplified. The research should be conducted
only on volunteers and they have to be notified that the research
work is in progress using existing rules, and the period of testing
and research should be made much shorter than is now practiced by
the FDA.
2. Create a new classification for the natural medicinal products
and equate these products with drugs so that medical claims could
be made for their use (for this purpose we propose a new procedure
for easy approval).
3. The natural products classified as drugs should be sold without
prescriptions (over the counter), with the exception of the products
which have a strong action (such as natural narcotics). This is
how its done in the Europe now, where doctors could prescribe a
natural drug with or without a prescription. As long as a product
is safe, nontoxic, and non-narcotic, it can be used without a prescription
and covered by the insurance claims. Otherwise, our nation, doctors
and people all suffer, because they may not receive a complete and
totally effective treatment.
4. To permit doctors to use, instead of pharmaceuticals, any other
alternative treatment, which they think could help their patient
better than a mainstream drug treatment.
5. Methods of treatment, such as physical therapy which is far more
advanced in Europe and approved by traditional medicine in those
countries, should be allowed to be widely used in the United States
and to be covered by insurance companies.
All above measures of proposed changes will benefit
humanity in the way of greater Health, Longevity, Prosperity and
Happiness!
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