Herbal Therapies
In this video, Jack Ritchason spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Herbal Therapies" at the 29th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Jack Ritchason
JACK RITCHASON, N.D., Ph.D. received his N.D. Degree from Arizona College of Naturopathic Medicine, a branch of the American University of Natural Therapeutics & Preventive Medicine and his Ph.D. in Nutrition from Donsbach University, Huntington Beach, California. He received his graduate in Homeopathy from Missouri and Florida and his training in Iridology from Nevada and Dr. Bernard Jensen in California. He is a Registered Healthologist and a Certified Instructor for Touch For Health.
Dr. Ritchason has been in the health field since 1963 and is considered to be a master in the field of Herbology and Iridology. A much-in-demand lecturer on herbs, vitamins, nutrition and Iridology, Dr. Ritchason has lectured both nationally and internationally. He offers a Home Study Course in Iridology.
He is the author of several books including The Little Herb Encyclopedia, Revised; The Vitamin and Health Encyclopedia and Co-Author of Cook Right To Eat Right.
Presently, Dr. Ritchason is the Senior National Manager of Natures Sunshine Herbs.
Transcription
OK. Crawling between these two things and that way, I hope you can hear me, I know we all have a trouble right at first with our good doctor. Before today, my subject is obviously one that is very much one I've been involved with for many years. And I heard a good doctor before me just make to comment to complementary medicine, which we all know in alternative medicine. Nina married's. And you can see they're pulling in. And then there is that marriage there. I can remember for years, though, that lecturing at this convention, National Health Federation were 10 to 12 years. And whatever that we were, we really had a opposite side of the fence thing going on. In fact, we almost had a war. Now, the thing of it is we have stood and our point and we've made our point and now we find that complementary medicine is trying to come into us. Well, I have no resistance to that. It's just that I remember many, many years ago, it says that the ideas may be original, but it's always rejected. And then it's again. You know, we come along long. It goes down to us, no steps we find to get down. And then these in the medicalisation wants to claim it as theirs. Well, not true. You know where it came from. It was the original medicine. They came along and they rejected it. But I'm not going to reject their side.
I can see where radiation can be beneficial in small amounts. Now I say small amounts. I have worked with American Metabolic down in Tijuana since 1989. I've been on staff down there since that. And then, you know, I sent a Friday night and I've seen people come across the doorway that they had to hold onto a sheet to bring a man because it was so burned up with the x ray that the skin was just pulling off and we didn't dare touch him. I've seen the chemotherapy where, you know, the person didn't die of cancer. They died of destroyed liver and it destroyed kidney. They died of pneumonia. They died of other diseases that were brought on by the fact that you completely destroyed the immune system. You know, I've seen the knife taken to people. And when the doctor came in and and excuse me, we were wrong. You really didn't have cancer there. You didn't had this. And anytime you are subjected, Danny, these things, you know, that immune system has got to go down. So my friends for life has always been, you know, eat a good diet, drink good water, have