At the beginning of the corona pandemic, there were many newspaper articles that regretted the lack of a suitable vaccine
and in the same breath held out hope for its rapid development.
Although corona is basically a form of influenza with well-known coronaviruses, the use of
natural remedies was ignored from the outset.
Nothing was read about the antiviral, immune-strengthening and anti-inflammatory effects of Echinacea
purpurea, Artemisia annua, Pelargonium and Cistus incanus.
All these plants have been used for centuries in folk medicine for these purposes.
Some of the plants are all-rounders and it is incomprehensible that they have no place in conventional medicine.
The rockrose, Latin Cistus incanus
Cistus, which grows in the Mediterranean region, is very versatile.
Tea or decoction made from the plant has a detoxifying, anti-allergic, antibacterial and antiviral effect.
The antioxidant effect is higher than that of vitamins C and E.
According to the properties listed, cistus decoction binds cadmium and mercury and is also effective against
neurodermatitis instead of cortisone or antibiotic ointments.
Tea helps against inflammation in the mouth and throat area, in the intestines against diarrhea
and against the yeast fungus Candida albicans.
Studies at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, the Charité in Berlin and the University of Münster have shown in experiments
with mice that mice that inhaled cistus extract before being infected with influenza bacteria remained
healthy, while others became seriously ill or died.
Trials with humans were also successful.
On June 1, 2021, the University of Lübeck published a paper that demonstrated an almost complete
reduction in the infection rate against SARS-CoV-2.
In principle, no resistance develops when taking tea or decoction and there are no side effects.
How is it that nowadays there is a trend back towards natural products, but chemically
manufactured products are still used almost exclusively?
Kla.TV went into this in detail in the program "The Hidden Abysses of Cancer Research".
Here are the most important aspects of the documentation
The American Rockefeller family, counted as philanthropists by the mainstream media,
controlled 90% of the entire US oil market around 1880.
Around 1900, scientists discovered the production of chemicals from crude oil and began to
produce plant-based active ingredients synthetically.
These could be patented and marketed at a high profit. Rockefeller therefore planned to
create a sales market for chemical medical products.
However, the Americans' preference for natural and herbal medicines stood in his way.
This is why American medical studies were put on the path Rockefeller wanted - with
far-reaching consequences for the training of doctors:
All schools that did not teach "pharmachemical", i.e. "scientific medicine", lost their accreditation and all financial support.
The remaining medical schools lost their independence.
The US Americans coined the slogan "A pill for every disease". Drugs of natural origin were defamed.
The whole thing was repeated for Europe as early as 1937 - with the same consequences.
The Rockefellers invested a total of 100 million dollars in the "General Education Board" to end the study of natural
medicine at America's medical schools and to permanently allow only pharmaceutical drugs for studies and hospitals.
In doing so, they created a gigantic sales market for chemical medical products.
At the same time, they influenced scientific research by founding influential universities, a highly
important research hospital and an elite medical school.
The following shows how the massive influence on medicine at that time by abolishing natural remedies still
has serious consequences for naturopathic medicine today!
This is also in connection with the Novel Food Regulation, which was introduced in the EU in 1997 and in Switzerland in 2017.
What is regulated in the Novel Food Regulation?
This ordinance against genetic engineering was originally enacted to prevent novel foods, i.e. genetically
modified fruit and vegetables, from being placed on the market without authorization.
Today, this 1st category also includes, for example, protein extracts from insects or foods that
have been produced using a new, unusual process.
A complex authorization procedure is required for these foods to ensure food safety.
However, there is a second category of foods that fall under the Novel Food Regulation: novel traditional foods.
These are foods that had not yet been marketed for human consumption to any significant extent in the EU until
1997, but have been on the menu in other continents for a long time, e.g. chia seeds, baobab fruit and physalis.
Although these new traditional foods benefit from a simplified authorization procedure, they are pure harassment.
Just imagine: Our potatoes and basil grown in Europe would no longer be permitted today, measured against these guidelines.
What are the effects of these developments in Switzerland?
To give you as a viewer an insight into how these measures work in practice, Kla.TV asked Fabian Lötsch, CEO of
Kräuter Lötsch - Lötsch GmbH, a few questions on this topic:
Mr. Lötsch, you are the CEO of Kräuter Lötsch - Lötsch GmbH. You sell herbal products in
Austria and, for some years now, also in Switzerland.
We understand that you have already experienced repercussions from the authorities in
Switzerland. Can you tell us more about this?
Yes, it's a rollercoaster at the moment.
A few years ago, Switzerland and Swissmedic were still responsible in the food sector for nettle tea,
horsetail tea and other things that were previously forbidden to be sold in organic food stores in Switzerland.
Then Switzerland adopted the Novel Food Act, or at least adopted it. We'll come to what exactly that is later.
And that was initially a very practical story for us, because of course many more herbs were freely available.
But now we are starting to see new regulations and new rules every year.
For example, horsetail and red clover flowers have no longer been permitted as food since last
year. They must now be declared as food supplements.
This of course makes it very, very difficult for the authorities, as well as for the
producer, as there are always changes in the laws.
In principle, the whole thing looks like this: Two years ago, horsetail was still a foodstuff.
Then some pharmaceutical company or lobbyist comes along and says that horsetail has pharmaceutical properties. Then you
have to prove the exact opposite, that this is not the case.
It's just relatively difficult to say, because everyone knows that nettles are healthy, but you can't say it, you'd
have to prove it, which is a bit difficult at the moment.
We have had major problems with the authorities for two years in Switzerland - which is not so easy to understand.
We have a very extensive range with over 200 products.
This has not only been discussed at cantonal level. We have taken it all the way to the federal level.
This case has been hotly debated in Switzerland. Every cantonal chemist knows me by name.
And yes, as I said, it is also difficult for the authorities to understand exactly how this Novel Food Act
works. And that's why it has been taken to the next level.
In other words, the legal requirements change from year to year. What are the developments in the EU?
Yes, things are a bit simpler in the EU than in Switzerland.
I say that we now have the Novel Food Act in the EU and we have to adhere to it firmly and strictly.
Things are a little different in Switzerland. I have to keep an eye on the Novel Food Act and the Novel Food Catalog.
I need the tea list from the German Tea Association, which has rank and name, then I need the list from the federal
government and then everything has to be reconciled. As I said, it's quite a difficult story in the EU as well.
If, as a producer, you want to bring a product onto the market - I'll take the house horsetail or red clover
flowers - then I prepare myself to get the product ready for the market and bring it onto the market.
And then a year later they say: wait a minute, it doesn't work like that any more, it has
healthy properties or could perhaps be healthy.
As a result, various herbs are now being virtually abolished one by one, or hurdles are being placed in their way so
that they can no longer be marketed as a 100% natural product.
This means that if I wanted to launch a horsetail product on the market now, I would have to make a dietary supplement out of it.
This means adding a significant amount of iron, silicon, vitamin C or others.
In other words, I modify this 100% natural product so that I can make a dietary
supplement out of it that meets the specifications.
As I said, it's not always so easy to reconcile everything. But you always have to stay on the ball.
That sounds like more and more restrictions to you. Who do you think is interested in
restricting naturopathy and homeopathy more and more?
You could go far, worldwide, but I'll stay in the EU for now.
So it started in 2017, when the German Medical Association actually decided to put an end to naturopathy
and homeopathy. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Nature is probably too healthy. You can't patent herbs, you can't make money from them. Then you put certain
restrictions on it so that you can no longer sell it.
In the pharmaceutical industry, there are always one or two chemicals that are added to a drug.
In nature, of course, we have a large number of main active ingredients, secondary active ingredients and secondary
plant substances in a product that, as I said, cannot be patented. With one exception, which we will come back to later.
Exciting, that brings us to the question, are there any products that are currently no longer available
in Switzerland that you are no longer allowed to sell?
Yes, there really are restrictions at the moment. Cistus is one such product.
This has now been patented by someone, i.e. declared pure. Cistus can only be used for
human consumption on a single island in Greece.
From the neighboring island, from the mainland or from Turkey, Greece, Albania, the product is
forbidden to sell. Probably because it is too healthy.
But there are also other herbs such as Artemisia annua, which were allowed to be sold.
Which were also used extensively by people in the EU. But you can do whatever you want.
There are large, well-known companies in Germany, such as the Tea Association, which we mentioned earlier, that have
submitted documentation to the EU that this product Artemisia annua or rockrose has been used extensively.
But that's just flashed off, it's just not taken in, the whole thing.
Artemisia annua has now been banned from sale in over 70% of the world as a result of the coronavirus
pandemic. A great many livelihoods have been lost.
Many manufacturers, producers come from Africa, suddenly you can't export it any more, there's a big rate tail attached to
it - even the tinctures, whose production process is similar to that of Bach flowers, which are legitimately on the market.
We have been banned from selling them since last year, on the grounds that it is simply a thorn in our side.
But just because something is a thorn in the side does not mean that it is still legitimate on
the market. So there are a few hurdles to overcome.
Unbelievable! Could this be summarized as plants with healthy properties that grow in the wild and are affordable for everyone
are being denied more and more? Could you put it like that?
Yes, that's what it ultimately boils down to. I'm just waiting for people to say that you can't grow fruit
and vegetables in the garden anymore because they contain vitamins and could be healthy.
It's a relatively difficult story at the moment. Yes, you just have to make sure that you only get
the best, like with the food, that I eat organic.
And even there, organic is no longer organic. You simply have to make sure that you get the best
out of nature, and that is simply nature itself.
If I now compare a cultivated leaf lettuce, which has 7 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams of edible plant content,
a daisy has 87, a stinging nettle has 333 milligrams of vitamin C, then these are almost quantum leaps that we are making.
But we really have to make sure that naturopathy is not banned completely, or the products either,
because then you might as well ban the whole of nature.
Do you know whether other professional colleagues are experiencing the same situation as you
and are also being restricted by the authorities?
Yes, indeed, I know some people who have had big problems with the authorities.
In their case it went so far that they then stopped doing business because there were penalties and
the whole process dragged on for over two years.
We're talking about fines of 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 francs, which a small company can't easily afford.
Or, you are also powerless, because as a small company you have little right to object and if
you do, it is always associated with high costs:
Court proceedings, lawyers and so on and so forth, so that you can gain a foothold at all. It's not
that easy to stay on the ball and fight against it.
Especially when you see that products are legitimately on the market and then banned simply
because they are a thorn in the side of certain people.
Great, you have the courage to continue fighting the restrictions. We wish you much perseverance and success.
Is there anything else you would like to pass on to our viewers?
Yes, don't always trust blindly, do your own research, ask questions.
As I said, if it comes to the point where you are no longer allowed to use the herbs on your own doorstep, then you have to
start questioning the whole thing and maybe even deal with it.
Very nice, thank you very much, Mr. Lötsch
Thank you too
Dr. Sonja Reitz explains the effects of these developments in Germany.
She has been practicing as a specialist in general medicine, psychotherapy and naturopathy in Hamburg for many years.
In the following, she gives various reasons why naturopathy is having an increasingly difficult time in medicine:
What are the effects of these developments in Germany?
1 The Greens, under the leadership of Renate Künast, demanded extremely strict regulation of food supplements in
the German Bundestag, in particular national maximum levels for vitamins and minerals in the products.
The recommendations of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) should have been
used as the basis for the new maximum levels.
These are uniquely low worldwide, as they are on average 70-80% below the maximum levels of other countries, especially the EU.
Although the motion was not adopted, other German parties are also making efforts in this direction at EU level.
2. the Remedies Competition Act prohibited the naming of the effects of plants and
minerals that have been observed for centuries.
3. research into inexpensive plants for cancer therapies etc. is hindered, if not prevented.
4 In return, life-threatening substances such as saRNA or modRNA or even antidepressants are being approved
without any criticism, even though their benefits are not clear or they do more harm than good.
Many of the developments mentioned by Dr. Reitz are well illustrated by the life's work of the
pharmacist Dr. Hans-Martin Hirt and his experiences with Artemisia annua - so let's take a look at them:
Annual mugwort, Latin Artemisia annua
Dr. Hans-Martin Hirt studied pharmacy in Heidelberg.
He then worked for three years in virus immunology at the German Cancer Research Center and another four years
at the Hospital Research Center in the in-house pharmacy.
With this experience, he went to Congo for six years in the Congolese jungle.
The catchment area comprised 400,000 people and it was impossible to supply the sick with enough medication.
This is why he and his local colleagues researched how to combat the diseases using plants that grew there.
Back in Germany, shortly before the turn of the millennium, he found the plant Artemisia annua, which was also
effective against malaria, the most common disease in Africa.
He founded the Anamed association in 1986 in order to be able to research this sufficiently.
Dr. Hirt subsequently received many donations, including from the high nobility of Baden-Württemberg, the
Ministry of Economics, the Ministry of Health and the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg.
The aim of the donations was to provide assistance so that the plant could be made easily
available and affordable as a medicine in Africa.
In 2002, Dr. Hirt received the "Prize of Excellency" of the "Roll Back Malaria Initiative" from the WHO for his work in Africa.
In 2004 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg World Prize and in 2005 he received 20,000 euros
as the highest award from a state foundation.
In recent years, he has also received 50,000 euros from the Ministry of State and the German Federal Government to
continue this work of the Anamed Group in eastern Congo.
While Dr. Hirt was still receiving support for his work in Africa, the tide was turning against him in Germany.
His newspaper article in a German newspaper about "the chemo from the garden" was to blame.
He mentioned that the plant Artemisia annua can also be used against cancer. This made the
pharmaceutical industry sit up and take notice.
Dr. Hirt's three years of research at the Cancer Research Center made him a serious opponent for the pharmaceutical industry,
and the fact that Artemisia annua in its herbal form was to be used against cancer here in Europe was a looming threat.
Fighting malaria in Africa with inexpensive plant preparations was still acceptable to the local pharmaceutical industry.
But the fact that a plant was to be used to fight cancer in Europe at very low cost was too much.
Various laws were invoked to derail Hirt's proposal.
Furthermore, various legal loopholes were gradually plugged or interpreted differently over the years, with the
result that Dr. Martin Hirt was sued in 2009 and 2014.
In 2015, Mr. Hirt reached an agreement with the regional council that his company, the publishing house "anamed edition", would be
allowed to provide information about everything concerning Artemisia annua, but would
not be allowed to sell any Artemisia products.
His company "Teemana" is allowed to sell Artemisia products, but the packaging must not declare what it is used for.
In 2019 and 2022, he and his club were nevertheless sued again, ultimately even for giving the herb away through the
club. Each time, the fines were in the five-figure range.
In the meantime, legislation on the authorization and use of herbal medicinal plants has become much stricter!
If we were to follow the legally correct path demanded today, we would first have to register each medicinal
plant individually as a foodstuff, which would take seven years and cost around 500,000 euros.
It would take another 13 years, at an average cost of 2.4 billion euros, for the medicinal plant to be approved as a drug.
This is feasible for the pharmaceutical industry, but not for small businesses and completely pointless for herbs that
have been anchored and used in society since time immemorial.
The pharmaceutical industry is now making a lot of money with artemisinin, a component of Artemisia annua,
as this component is also used in chemical medicine.
Conclusion
These examples make it clear that the new laws on food and drug safety in Europe and Switzerland give the
impression that they were created for our own good.
However, they have the opposite effect: the pharmaceutical industry profits in a big way.
And as Dr. Reitz mentions, dangerous new substances are being developed in parallel with the abolition of
natural remedies, which are to be forced on us in the form of vaccinations, for example.
We have reached a point where there is a threat of a health dictatorship patronizing citizens and at the
same time highly dangerous coercive medical measures.
This must be stopped and those responsible must be exposed!
The legislative bodies responsible for banning natural remedies and the associated
profiteers need to be investigated. Are they connected?
This would explain why, from the outside, the pharmaceutical industry and the law-making
authorities work together in a completely orchestrated way.
So it seems impossible to demand a right to natural remedies despite the fact that the legal basis still exists.
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