FREE CITIZENS NEWS FUNDED BY READERS: Viewed as a financial threat to conventional healthcare services alternative medicine are making a comeback.

Furthermore, centuries-old and tested traditional healthcare methods such as herbalism show positive results. Herbalist remedies succeed where Big Pharma healthcare ~ in which the elite invest and the taxpayer pays ~ fails the patient.

MICHAEL WALSH the veteran journalist has personal experience of the benefits of visiting a competent herbalist. His only caution is to ask around for recommendations. Alternative healthcare, like all professions, does attract impostors.

CASE 1: Michael, like many others suffered from occasional mouth ulcers. Seemingly minor the unprofitable ailment attracts little interest from the usual healthcare services including dentists.

This is because they aren’t interested and do not know why mouth ulcers appear. Conventional medicine is clueless as to how to deal with them.

Michael says, ‘in desperation, I consulted Mr. Trevor Ellis a Welsh herbalist whose practice was situated in Wrexham, Wales. The practitioner had seen many such cases. His experience included that of a young airman so badly afflicted by agonizing mouth ulcers that he considered taking his own life.

As the herbalist took a blood specimen from me, he smiled and said he already knew the results. There was too much citric acid present in my blood. This acid was causing mouth ulcers. Whenever I sin or forget – I take a citric fruit such as orange squash I am sure to get a mouth ulcer.

The affliction was immediately and cheaply cured by a few acid-reducing pills and a warning to avoid all drinks and foods with citric acid; oranges, lemons, tomatoes, grapefruits, clementine and the like. His attention fixed the problem.

Interestingly acerbic acid is often the root cause of arthritic conditions: acid is – acid.

CASE 2: Michael says, ‘My infant sons were tormented by Whooping Cough. It is a killer disease which is often lethal if contracted by infants.

‘I can’t begin to describe the distress and anxiety to the children and by my wife and I as over six weeks we suffered one of the most stressful life-threatening diseases imaginable.

Britain’s National Healthcare Service was as useless as a one-armed wheelbarrow. Unable to offer a remedy the family doctor deigned not to even visit us.

In desperation, we visited WH Smiths the book retailers and libraries. We wanted to discover if we could find any information that would alleviate our children’s distress.

Then we were advised to visit Mr. Trevor Jones the herbalist. Admittedly, I was skeptical of unconventional medicine but I made an appointment as I was now clinging to straws.

‘It was like the touching of Jesus. I have no idea what the herbalist prescribed. But, a little brown liquid each on a small spoon was swallowed by each of the children. We received two small bottles for onward application.

For the first time in the longest six weeks of our lives, both infants slept peacefully through the night and were immediately relieved and cured – no thanks to tax-funded profitable medicine.

CASE 3. Impressed by his results and knowing the herbalist was an engineer by trade, I asked him how and why he had taken up herbalism.

He explained. ‘Fifteen years ago, my wife was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The conventional doctor was candid. Within two years my wife would be confined to a wheelchair and she would have passed away within five years.’

What happened I asked my friend? He suggested that I take myself to Wrexham farmers’ market. ‘There you will see my very healthy wife trotting around carrying heavy shopping bags,

‘You see, after my wife was so depressingly diagnosed. I was recommended to an herbalist. He cured her of multiple sclerosis. From that moment on I veered to herbalism, learned its secrets and here you find me.