There is an interesting little book being mailed to selected people which claims to have the cure for almost every ailment known to mankind. It suggests that the pharmaceutical industry is deliberately keeping these cures secret - because they can not be covered by a patent - and therefore they have no profit potential.
The book suggests that if the reader cares to subscribe with a hefty payment the keeper of this secret will provide a whole series of booklets describing how the use of a cheap and easily obtained herb will cure everything from heart disease, diabetes - and cancer.
Obviously this is a get-rich-quick scheme, but unfortunately there is a grain of truth embedded in medical hocus-pocus.
It is a well known fact that aspirin - a medication that was discovered centuries ago and on which the patent has run out - can have magnificent medical effects if taken on a daily basis.
Statistical evidence shows that aspirin thins the blood - and as a result those who take it have less chance of death from heart disease or bowel cancer.
Strangely, aspirin is rarely proscribed by the medical fraternity. Instead they proscribe a whole range of medication which is only available by prescription - and which costs a lot more money.
The big pharmaceutical companies have been successful in brain washing doctors and patients into ignoring something that is low cost and using a product that makes them a handsome profit - but achieves the same result.
A curious case of con artists working both ends of the medical scale !
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