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Monday 5 December 2016

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS BILL (B6-2016) - Open Letter to Parliament, Selling Our Heritage to the highest bidder?


INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS BILL (B6-2016) - Open Letter to Parliament, Selling Our Heritage to the highest bidder?



For Attention: Ms. Shanaaz Isaacs

I hereby wish to notify you of my objection to the PROTECTION, PROMOTION, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS BILL (B6-2016) in its present form.

During the drafting of this Bill, no participation that I know of was invited by the authors, and is clearly reflected in the wording and spirit of the Bill.

South Africa has more than 200,000 traditional healers of all races, tribes, modalities and social and financial standing that at present are the custodians of Indigenous Knowledge as described in this Bill. The uncertainty caused by the CAMs regulations promulgated in 2013 has already negatively impacted the industry, with these new proposals just adding to the situation.

At present the information is free to use for any person that has that knowledge, with many a lay person also having access to it and actively using it to improve their health or treat minor disease. These new proposed laws will take that freedom from the common man as well as the majority of practitioners, as, according to the wording of the Bill, only one legal entity will be able to claim ownership to such knowledge that may be in the public domain. So who will be the best to licence as owner of this knowledge? Will it be first come first served, or will it be the one willing to pay the highest price? What remedy will those have that have been using this free knowledge for generations, but now have to pay a licence fee for something they have used for generations?

As we do not know what the financial impact of the process may be, the potential exists that this process will be unaffordable, or the process might be inaccessible to those that stand to gain or lose by it, placing Government in the default position of ownership after 12 months.
It is this last fact that is of most concern as recent history has shown that severe malpractice may be possible in this knowledge being sold to the highest bidder, with the accompanying possibility of corruption. Taking this in conjunction with the drive of pharmaceutical companies in obtaining new compounds for drugs, and willing to commit techno piracy, this opens the field for immense corruption. As we all have seen in recent international civil and criminal courts, pharmaceutical companies put profits before people.

Africa and its people have suffered severe wrongs from being Colonized, and these laws will place our heritage in the position where it can also be Colonized for a huge fee, with the accompanying loss in use, or used at a price that supports Colonialism.

The South African Government has recently opened up a new facility that promotes Chinese Traditional Medicines under an International Agreement with China, which will result in the opening of several such centres across the country and a hospital in the Western Cape if my knowledge is correct. In my opinion this is the initiative that Africa and South Africa needs to follow. The Chinese actively encourage the development and expansion of their own traditional medicinal knowledge in a national sense, then actively support the export of the knowledge, products and facilities. An example of this is mentioned in the opening of the facilities in South Africa, as well as assisting their practitioners and products to be registered in Australia. The commercial value in trade of Chinese medicines in 2012 was estimated to be $83 Billion, and 2015 it reached $90 Billion. These numbers are based on the export of 600 base plants and 240,000 tons of exports.

The Potential of South African Herbal Medicines as Export Product
South Africa alone has over 30,000 flowering plant species of which many are used for medicinal purposes. Eight plant species have shown potential to treat high blood pressure. In our fresh water eco systems alone, 230 traditional medicinal plants have been listed. It is estimated that the population of South Africa uses 700,000 tons of herbal products.

If these resources can be explored in a sustainable way, and the people of South Africa are encouraged to participate in a constructive manner, the potential exists for the export value of our own Traditional Knowledge in medicines to exceed that of Chinese medicine, instead of selling the rights to foreigners or companies. In this manner all South African can benefit.

The knowledge of using natural sources and plants for medicinal purposes has been around as long as man has been walking the earth, and should not be subjected to ownership by anyone, or be patentable by anyone. This information should stay open source as this was given to us by nature and our Creator to use, and no government, corporation or legal entity should have the power to own it.

Kind regards

Ronald Gibson
05.12.2016




Tuesday 29 November 2016

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS BILL (B6-2016) - Comments open until 15 December 2016

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS BILL (B6-2016)


Ronald Gibson: So for those in the Natural Health trade that has that secret recipe or formula that you use in creating your products, or just use what is seen as general knowledge and good sense taken from indigenous and international natural health practices, now is the time to make your voice heard. If you are complacent and do not think this will come to pass or affect you, think again. Remember the ignored warnings regarding the declaring of CAMs products and modalities as medicines that fell on deaf ears, or elicited responses of conspiracy theory or plain denial that it will ever happen, with those same deniers now still sitting, waiting for others to fix the dilemma that could have been prevented? Now is the time to stand up and be counted.

Traditional & Natural Health Alliance
LEGISLATIVE NOTICE - The Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology invites you to submit written comments on the Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Bill [B6-2016]
The Bill seeks to:
 provide for the protection, promotion, development and management of indigenous knowledge systems;
 provide for the establishment and functions of the National Indigenous Knowledge Systems Office;
 provide for the management of rights of indigenous knowledge holders; to provide for the establishment and functions of the Advisory Panel on indigenous knowledge systems;
 provide for access and conditions of access to knowledge of indigenous and local communities;
 provide for the registration, accreditation and certification of indigenous knowledge practitioners;
 provide for the facilitation and coordination of indigenous knowledge systems-based innovation;
Comments can be emailed to Ms. Shanaaz Isaacs at shisaacs@parliament.gov.za by no later than Thursday, 15 December 2016.
Enquiries can be directed to Ms. Shanaaz Isaacs on tel (021) 403 3763 or cell 083 709 8536
Issued by Ms L Maseko, MP, Acting Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Science nd Technology.



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Wednesday 23 November 2016

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Friday 18 November 2016

SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Possible or Probable Cause?

SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Possible or Probable Cause?

These scientists may have inadvertently confirmed the link between vaccinations and SIDS, as well as maternal immune reaction, be it natural infection or vaccine derived, and SIDS.
In this study it was found that there was a 20% decrease in a protein called orexin in the babies who had died of SIDS compared with a control group of 12 babies. “Orexin, also called hypocretin, is a neuropeptide that regulates arousal, wakefulness, and appetite. Narcolepsy is caused by a lack of orexin in the brain due to destruction of the cells that produce it.”
Interleukin (IL)-1β, a cytokine, was also found in high concentrations in babies that had died of SIDS (http://www.neurology.org/content/61/9/1256.short).
These cytokines destroy the orexin producing cells (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914477/)
Now to get to my point: Vaccines are designed to elicit an immune reaction, and by extension the formation of cytokines as for any other infection. To add to this reaction that will be present in vaccinated infants, research has also shown that when the mother is pregnant with a child and develops an immune reaction, be it from a natural infection or vaccine, the cytokines that her body produces cross the placenta and may enhance the chance for autism or schizophrenia in the child. (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-60327-489-0_13)
The following is an article that sheds more light on Orexin (http://www.hormonesmatter.com/adverse-reactions-orexin-hypocretin-neurons/).
Personal Opinion Piece by Ronald Gibson, www.healing-oil.co.za


Tags: SIDS, Research Article, Cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 

Thursday 20 October 2016

Zika Virus: Does the drive for profits make us miss the mark?


Zika Virus: Does the drive for profits make us miss the mark?

While researching natural plant oils related to improving my range of natural products, I came across a site dedicated to information sharing among scientists, www.promedmail.org. One of the communications caught my eye relating to Zika and microcephaly. This information never reached mainstream news¹. 

This post refers to a four year survey done by paediatric cardiologist Dr Sandra Mattos on the incidence of microcephaly in Brazil, and specifically in Paraiba, where incidentally the highest number of Zika infections and microcephaly was recorded during 2015-16. The results showed that microcephaly had escalated from an expected 3-4 cases per year to between 2000-4000, a thousand fold escalation.

These numbers started rising in 2012, before Zika became a problem, and also correlates with the increased use of spraying with insecticides (Pyriproxyfen). In fact the highest numbers of microcephaly occurred in 2014, which also did not make the news. What changed was that from the middle of 2015 to 2016 the severity of the malformations drastically increased, although the total incidence declined. The timeline would match well with the Pyriproxifen being added to the water in 2014 when you add 3-9 months². This chemical was deemed safe enough for the WHO to release advisories on its use in drinking water, despite previous links to causing microcephaly³ʾ⁴ʾ⁵.

The survey calls into question whether these microcephaly cases are caused by Zika virus or something else. If it is Zika virus, it has been in Brazil for a lot longer than people have thought, but that does not explain why after 50 years Zika has only now been linked to microcephaly.
Why did this survey not make the mainstream news? This also begs the question of how does the Zika virus enter the placenta and cross the blood-brain barrier? At present there are no clear answers.

My personal opinion is that the Pyriproxifen provides the tick marks for all the questions asked, but the $1,1 Billion and any subsequent funding related to Zika is driving the search for answers and vaccines that fit the object of providing easier access to benefitting from that funding.

1. http://www.promedmail.org/post/20160216.4023810
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/zika/12157747/Zika-virus-Brazil-dismisses-link-between-larvicide-and-microcephaly.html
3. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/water-quality/guidelines/chemicals/pyriproxyfen-background.pdf
4. https://peerj.com/preprints/1959.pdf
5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298194551_Pyriproxifen_and_microcephaly_an_investigation_of_potential_ties_to_the_ongoing_Zika_epidemic


Personal Opinion Piece: Ronald Gibson www.healing-oil.co.za