Do Essential Oils Actually Cure Disease? Absolutely. This is not even a matter of dispute, as the National Institute of Health’s own government database, PubMed.gov, lists thousands, if not tens of thousands, of peer-reviewed articles documenting research on the health properties of hundreds of different essential oils. We summarize much of that research in John Thomas’ article, Using Essential Oils to Cure Disease. Essential oils, which are distilled aromatic plant oils, have been around and curing people for thousands of years. Many of the original pharmaceutical products were based on the curative properties of various plant oils. But since they cannot be patented, no one is going to step forward and pay the hundreds of millions of dollars required to get something approved by the FDA as a drug, especially if you do not own the patent on that product. And the FDA would never approve it anyway, because they only approve products from a handful of pharmaceutical companies who control the industry. The only way anyone outside of this tightly controlled industry can hope to get a product approved by the FDA is to discover something that is patentable, get a patent, and then sell it to one of the major pharmaceutical companies. There is no other way. So in the end, the FDA will be successful in significantly reducing the amount of information available to consumers about the healing properties of essential oils. Anyone can still publish that information because our Constitution still protects freedom of speech, but the FDA has taken that freedom away if the speech is used to promote a specific product for health claims. That is solely their domain, and the domain of powerful pharmaceutical companies. One can challenge the FDA’s power in restricting free speech in the marketplace, as there have been a few cases where companies have challenged them and succeeded. There are no laws enacted by Congress restricting free speech in the marketplace for health claims. The FDA acts on the basis of their own authority. Attempts to get Congress to pass legislation protecting that free speech from the overreach of the FDA have also failed, unfortunately, due to the powerful pharmaceutical lobby. So for most companies, if they want to stay in business, they really have no choice but to comply with the FDA. In the meantime, the consumer in the U.S. has less and less access to non-pharmaceutical health information and natural remedies, such as the myriad of health benefits attributed to essential oils.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:51:19 +0000
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