A mother storm is brewing.

I have been thinking about my next blog and so far I seem to keep coming back to the idea of health.  In the last few years I have done a lot of reading and dabbling in the alternatives to conventional health care.  What I have found is that for me and my son natural and homeopathy remedies are working so much better than "drugs".

It was very clear to me that homeopathy works, when one day at work i experienced a blow to the bridge of my nose that left me nearly unconscious.  My friend and boss gave me a remedy called Arnica. First you need to know that Arnica comes in pellet form, gel and cream.  The pellet needs to be taken orally, and the gel or cream to be given topically.  My eyes had already started to blacken in the corners and yellow underneath.  Within ten minutes of taking the oral dose and using the gel topically the bruises were gone the swelling was down and all that was left was a scrape from the incident.  I was totally amazed by the response my body did to this treatment.  For sure I would have had two black eyes and a swollen nose.

In the months that followed I got some good books on the topic and took a class with a great group of women all looking for alternatives to conventional treatments.

I then followed up with a visit to a doctor of homeopathy, and I feel that I am doing very well, with it.

My biggest gripe is this:  This form of treatment is not covered by health insurance.  It should be.  Europe has been doing Homeopathy for centuries and has a mercantile on every street corner selling remedies.  Then again Europe is just a bit ahead of us in the fields of natural, and organic treatments.  It is a very common acceptable form of health practice that tends to out-number the conventional doctors.

Further more, I have to pay for health insurance anyways. I would rather not have to pay for it because it does not cover homeopathy.  AND I get hit with an added bonus of having to pay a fine if I do not carry a policy with a money grubbing industry that has turned this country into a lying self serving elitist group of hypocrites.  But let me tell you how I really feel.....

To add to the problem doctors have over prescribed so many antibiotics that now we have super-morph bugs that won't be killed off by our manufactured, artificial so called health treatments.  Antibiotics are no longer affective because mother nature knows better than us how to make flu and cold bugs bigger and stronger. And doctors don't let fevers do what they are supposed to do, and that is to kill off germs and bring us through the delirium with intense heat AKA a fever.

Yes there are great inventions made by many great scientist, like penicillin.  It is the abuse of these drugs that has made us weak, and our doctors and universities are too closed minded to look at the bigger picture.

Worse yet, the government's efforts to create agencies like the FDA and EPA to so called regulate the drugs and chemicals leaves me skeptical.  They say it is OK for a chemicals like Diazinon to be on the shelves for decades, then one day....it is not.  Did you know that the EPA does not test any new chemicals?  Nope, they leave that business up the the manufacturer of the chemical.  hmmmm.... Makes me think, and it ticks me off.

And now in the news, stories of  swine flu and the hysteria to create atmospheres that are free of germs is not only unrealistic, it is dangerous.  The more we try to control germs, the more they learn how to be better at what they do, and it will only get worse.

My soap box is done today, and I feel deflated and sad.  I don't like to write about the stuff that is wrong with our world.  I want things to be better, and I want to remain positive.  But once in a while I need to vent and be the "ticked off mom", because that is my reason, I am a mom.