FDA Gives Sole Herbal Product Rights to Big Pharma

FDA Gives Sole Herbal Product Rights to Big Pharma




Posted on: Sunday, February 24th 2013 at 5:00 am

Written By: Heidi Stevenson

The
FDA has taken a freely-available herbal product, sap of the dragon's
blood tree, defined it as the drug Fulyzac, & handed it to Big
Pharma. Nature's gift is being polluted. What you get after Big Pharma
and & the FDA get their hands on it has lost much of its value and
often been rendered into a poison, the very nature of a drug.



Dragon Image by Arab Fancy.

by Heidi Stevenson

An extract from a South American tree known as dragon's blood is now
classed as a drug and the FDA has handed sole rights to a single
pharmaceutical corporation. The drug, which is made by Salix
Pharmaceuticals, will be sold by Napo Pharmaceuticals of San Francisco
under the brand name of Fulyzac. The generic term for it is crofelemer.
It will be sold as a treatment for the diarrhea that's a common adverse
effect of harsh HIV drugs.

The tree is botanically named Croton lechleri and called
sangre de grado in Spanish and Portuguese, long known to have several
health benefits, extract from the tree is commonly available in health
food stores around the world. This, though, is likely to change in the
face of the FDA's action. It signals their role in facilitating Big
Pharma's takeover of the natural world's largesse. Piece by piece,
anything that holds any health value is being declared a drug. Exclusive
rights to that drug are then handed over to a private corporation.


That's what happened to pregnenolone, a natural hormone that was
routinely and inexpensively produced by compounding pharmacies, which
provided it to pregnant women to prevent miscarriages.The FDA first targeted the compounding pharmacies, ordering them to stop producing it. Then, they handed exclusive rights to pregnenolone to a single corporation,
which then turned around and raised the price 15,000 percent! That
increase has taken it out of the reach of most women, making it
available only to those of wealth or good insurance.


Sangre de Grado




Red Sap from Sangre de Drago Tree, Photo by J Davis Rorer

The name sangre de grado means dragon's blood. The trees are given
that name for their red sap, as shown in the photo to the right. The sap
has been used since time immemorial by residents of South America. As
the photographer of the photo stated, it "seems to cure many things,
including herpes simplex in my experience."

The sap of dragon's blood is traditionally used externally as a
liquid bandage for wounds to staunch bleeding and promote healing. It's
used internally for both stomach and intestinal ulcers. Other native
uses include hemorrhoids, infected gums, skin disorders, and hemorrhage
after childbirth.


Chemical constituents include

• 
  Alkaloids: Taspine is an alkaloid that has been found to have cancer-inhibiting capabilities.
  
• 
  Lignans: Have both
  pro-estrogenic and anti-estrogenic activities and are noted for their
  ability to aid in cardiovascular disease, breast, endometrial, and
  prostate cancers, and osteoporosis.
  
• 
  Proanthocyanidins: Types
  of flavonoids, which are antioxidants noted for a range of effects,
  including promoting excretion of toxins; preserving normal cell cycle
  regulation; inhibiting proliferation and inducing apoptosis
  (normal cell death) in cancer; inhibiting tumor invasion and
  development of blood vessels that feed tumors, decreasing inflammation;
  increasing nitric oxide synthase, which relaxes arteries; and decreasing
  clot development in arteries.
  

By whatever name you wish to call it, Croton lechleri, dragon's blood, or sangre de grado, it is a genuine gift of nature.


Theft of Nature's Bounty


However, nature's gifts are now being treated as if they were private property. The medical lore of centuries
that's been based on nature is now being stolen. It's purified, which
often destroys its value, separated into its elements so that their
symbiotic action is lost, and relabeled as something that, in their
natural state, they aren't: drugs.

That's the primary trick used by the FDA and governments in other
countries. Nature's medicinal gifts, which have been freely available to
everyone as a birthright, are relabeled. They're called drugs. As
drugs, only those who have been granted prescription rights, medical
doctors and a limited group of hangers-on, are allowed access. They're
the gatekeepers. Anyone else must go to them to gain access to what had
been their inborn right. That means paying the fees demanded and jumping
through the hoops required. It means handing over your independence,
being forced to provide whatever information is demanded. And it means
paying exhorbitant prices for what had been free or inexpensive.

And you aren't even given access to the real thing. The gift of
nature has been polluted, so that what you get has lost much of its
value and often been rendered into a poison, the very nature of a drug.


Source:-
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/fda-gives-sole-herbal-product-rights-big-pharma