SRC - Natural Medicine
Folder: 05 - SOURCE MATERIAL Supporting: The Suppression of Natural Medicine
Historical Plant Medicine Use
Wikipedia — Medicinal Plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_plants 60,000 year archaeological evidence confirmed. Ebers Papyrus 850 plants confirmed. Dioscorides 600 plants confirmed. 40% of pharmaceuticals from natural products confirmed. 25% of all prescribed drugs plant-derived confirmed. WHO strategy on traditional medicines confirmed.
Natural History Museum — London “Aspirin morphine and chemotherapy: essential medicines powered by plants” https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/essential-medicines-powered-by-plants.html Vincristine vinblastine Madagascar periwinkle confirmed. Artemisinin sweet wormwood confirmed. Aspirin willow bark confirmed. 11% of WHO essential medicines from flowering plants confirmed.
WHO — Traditional Medicine Feature Story (August 2023) https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/traditional-medicine-has-a-long-history-of-contributing-to-conventional-medicine-and-continues-to-hold-promise 40% of pharmaceutical products draw from nature and traditional knowledge confirmed. Ayurvedic sunlight jaundice treatment and modern phototherapy convergence confirmed.
The Flexner Report
Wikipedia — Flexner Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report 160 MD schools in 1904 confirmed. 85 by 1920 confirmed. 66 by 1935 confirmed. Carnegie Foundation commission confirmed. Rockefeller and Carnegie funding confirmed. Biomedical model as gold standard confirmed. Elimination of women in medicine confirmed. Black medical school closures confirmed. AMA apology 2008 confirmed.
PMC — “The Flexner Report — 100 Years Later” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3178858/ Rockefeller and Carnegie foundation financial gifts confirmed. Full-time academic medicine system confirmed. “Hyper-rational system” critique confirmed. Osler’s opposition documented.
JSTOR Daily — “The 1910 Report That Disadvantaged Minority Doctors” https://daily.jstor.org/the-1910-report-that-unintentionally-disadvantaged-minority-doctors/ AMA covert funding of report confirmed. Lynn Miller and Richard Weiss scholarship confirmed. Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences citation confirmed.
Rockefeller-Flexner Connection
PMC — “Rockefeller the Flexner Report and the American Medical Association” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12318542/ Abraham Flexner hired by Rockefeller General Education Board 1912 confirmed. Remained until 1928 confirmed. $180 million 1910–1930 confirmed. Zero homeopathic funding confirmed. Simon Flexner as RIMR first director confirmed. “Homeopathic” institutions excluded confirmed. Gates letters to Rockefeller confirmed.
Psychology Today — February 2025 “The Medical Monopoly on Mental Health and the Flexner Report” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-leading-edge/202502/the-medical-monopoly-on-mental-health-and-the-flexner-report Carnegie-Rockefeller collaboration confirmed. Pharmaceutical and surgical model dominance confirmed. Alternative schools shut down confirmed. Psychiatric drug dominance from Flexner legacy documented.
Electrotherapy Suppression
QMagnets — “How Rockefeller’s Flexner Report Suppressed Electric and Magnetic Therapy” https://qmagnets.com/how-rockefellers-flexner-report-suppressed-electric-magnetic-therapy/ Flexner Report denounced electrotherapy confirmed. Equipment removed from offices to museums of quackery confirmed. Criminal threat for continued use confirmed. Acetylcholine discovery context confirmed. Becker references documented.
ScienceDirect — Flexner Report Overview https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/flexner-report Electrotherapy declared scientifically unsupportable without research confirmed. Legally excluded from clinical practice confirmed. “Museums of quackery” confirmed. Prison threat confirmed.
Cannabis Suppression
US Pharmacopeia Records Cannabis listed 1850–1942 confirmed. Multiple historical pharmacology sources.
AMA Opposition to 1937 Act AMA testimony against Marihuana Tax Act. Dr. William C. Woodward testimony to Congress confirmed. Referenced in multiple cannabis history sources.
Endocannabinoid System Discovery Devane et al. 1992. Science journal. Endocannabinoid receptors confirmed. Co-evolution hypothesis — multiple peer reviewed sources.
Psilocybin Research
Johns Hopkins — Psilocybin Research https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/ Current research confirmed. Treatment-resistant depression results confirmed.
NYU Langone — Psilocybin Studies Multiple published RCTs. End-of-life anxiety treatment confirmed. Addiction treatment outcomes confirmed.
Imperial College London — Psychedelic Research Centre https://www.imperial.ac.uk/psychedelic-research-centre/ Depression outcomes confirmed. Comparison with SSRIs documented.
Plant Knowledge Loss
The Lancet Planetary Health — February 2023 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00317-5/fulltext 30% indigenous language extinction risk by 2100 confirmed. Research funding gap confirmed. 60–80% wild harvest of traded medicinal plants confirmed. 365 CITES-listed medicinal plants confirmed. 13% of assessed medicinal plants threatened status confirmed.
The Patent Problem
Taking Charge of Wellbeing — University of Minnesota https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/how-long-have-humans-used-botanicals Biomedical model single-compound single-receptor approach documented. DSHEA 1994 dietary supplement act context confirmed. Herbal medicine curricula prohibition in 1930s US medical schools confirmed.
Still To Source
- DuPont nylon patent 1937 and Marihuana Tax Act timing — confirm exact dates and relationship investigate
- Rockefeller petroleum to pharmaceutical raw material connection — primary source for the specific claim investigate
- Curcumin — 10,000 peer reviewed studies figure — confirm PubMed search result #investigate
- Psilocybin Schedule I — original Shafer Commission recommendation against criminalisation primary document #investigate
- Endocannabinoid system — confirm co-evolution hypothesis has peer reviewed basis beyond popular sources investigate