The Tung Shueh Conspiracy
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We live now in an age of ever increasing conspiracy rumors. This fact was recently acknowledged by the establishment when it produced a film by the name of Conspiracy Theory starring Mel Gibson. While this movie was about a conspiracy, it also went out of its way to ridicule many of those now in vogue that are not popular with the establishment conspirators.
Now if one really wanted to conceal a serious conspiracy, would not the best way to do so be to foster the rumors of an ever growing number of fantastical ones as a smoke screen? Most certainly this is what I would do If I wanted to conspire to take advantage of my fellowman. Now if I can think of this, how much more so would those of a truly conspiratorial nature do so?
I actually learned this sort of diversion in my days as a practicing magician. One of the ways we were taught to confuse people wanting to know the secrets of our tricks was to show them a large variety of explanations but never disclose the real one. It soon became obvious that the secrets we were showing them did not really give away our real secrets and so they eventually lost interest in the whole matter. I have little personal doubt that this is the modus operandi of many of those engaged in world wide conspiracies today.
However, this piece of veracity has nothing to do with political conspiracies or with the vast field of financial conspiracies but with a much smaller and simpler one. This is about the Tung Shueh conspiracy; a conspiracy to prevent the people of the world from obtaining a medicine that will relieve common (and some not so common) aches and pains better than anything offered anywhere in the world by the established pharmaceutical houses. Not only was Tung Shueh more effective than anything else on the market but it had no adverse side effects that we were ever able to discover in its use for thousands of doses on a wide spectrum of patients. From the reports I receive from others who have recommended Tung Shueh, this is also their experience.
This report is not one from an investigational reporter (although we would certainly like to see one take up this fight. I have no doubt that a Pulitzer would be forthcoming), but from an eye witness. Our story begins with a trip to the West Coast of the Untied States and a sore knee caused by the rigors of the trip. My wife had long looked forward to our vacation in Southern California and now that she was there she could hardly walk because of an inflamed knee.
While I was busy with business I needed to squeeze in during our "vacation," she hobbled around the streets of the Los Angeles suburb where we were staying. In her trek she came upon a Holistic pharmacy and went in to investigate. Impressed by all the unique remedies they had and still in great pain from her knee, she inquired if they had anything for such a problem. They offered her Cow's Head brand Tung Shueh and assured her that it would help her knee. When I returned to our hotel from my business she told me of the incident and showed me the Tung Shueh. After I perused the information packet and deciphered the eighteen ingredients (only the latin names were given) I determined that nothing in this remedy should hurt her-though I did not think it would help either-and told her to go ahead and take it if she wanted to. She did take it since the knee pain was spoiling her vacation and I thought nothing more about the matter.
A couple of hours later she woke me up from a cat nap I was taking exclaiming, "My knee pain is gone." I was pleased that she was pain free but was still dubious of the role of the Tung Shueh in this "miracle."
As we continued our vacation her knee pain would return now and then as she strained the joint but in each instance two of the round black Tung Shueh pills would take the pain and stiffness away. It was getting harder and harder for me to discount the marvelous effects of this strange remedy with the cow's head on the label.
Once we returned home and returned to my medical practice it soon became obvious that several of my patients might be able to benefit from Tung Shueh. At first I borrowed some from my wife to try on a few of my worst patients but the results were so good that I finally called the California pharmacy and established my own account.
As more and more patients became dependent on Tung Shueh for pain relief and, in some cases, cures, I introduced it to my colleagues. They were very concerned about the safety of the remedy. As one of them put it, "There just is no known safe drug that is that fast and effective. Their first thought was that it might be a powerful form of butazolidin, a drug not now commonly used because of its toxic side effects. They would not touch it until it had been thoroughly tested by a lab for toxic substances. So this was done.
The laboratory tests came back clean. Not only could they find no toxic substances but they could find no known drugs of any kind. We were all amazed and our patients delirious because they were fearful that we might take their Tung Shueh from them. Several more laboratories were tried with the same result. Finally, one of my patients who was a policeman arranged to have the FBI drug laboratory test the Tung Shueh by dropping a few of the pills into a cache taken from a drug addict. This top governmental lab gave Tung Shueh the same clean bill of health as the rest. So we were assured that whatever was doing the miracle in the Tung Shueh was not a known drug or even a combination of known drugs.
The next step was to determine if Tung Shueh had any adverse effects on the health of the patient even though it had no identifiable drugs in its makeup. We decided to determine such side effects in the classical manner; that is by both objective tests of the patient and by subjective analysis of the patient's clinical reactions. Here again we tended to come up with a cipher. Except for a few patients who did not feel "right" on the Tung Shueh pills from the beginning and so did not continue them, we had almost no subjective side effects that we could determine or that patients reported to us. In fact, I am being overly conservative when I say "almost" since I cannot remember a single adverse side effect reported to us by a regular Tung Shueh user in the several years that we were able to obtain this remedy.
Since we realized, of course, that subjective signs and symptoms could be deceptive, we did extensive laboratory testing on those patients who were taking Tung Shueh. This even included those patients with known liver and kidney problems, a source of concern with most drugs. Not only did these patient's test results not degenerate on Tung Shueh, some of them actually improved. This is what the label of Tung Shueh says will happen but we were surprised to see it do so.
Blood cell studies, another drug sensitive area, also did not show any adverse effects for long term Tung Shueh. Here again, there was even improvement in some patients who had had less than perfect results previously.
After all this workup, as you can imagine, we were sold on Tung Shueh. Now we wanted to know more of its history and if it were possible to get it at a cheaper price since we then paid about twenty-five dollars for eighty pills (in retrospect this is not all that much for what it did. The impotency pill, Viagra, now costs eight hundred dollars for the same eighty pills). Our first efforts in this search were to contact several Chinese herb stores to see if they carried the Cow's Head brand of Tung Shueh (Tung Shueh is not a proprietary name since in Chinese it means to push blood forward. There are many remedies that call themselves Tung Shueh but the Cow's Head brand was the only one that we could find that worked as stated before).
We found several that did carry the Cow's Head brand and so we ordered a few from each source to try them out on our patients. None were effective. This was rather disconcerting. We called the pharmacy where we got our regular supply and mentioned this experience to him. He informed us that the Cow's Head Tung Shueh was probably the most pirated brand in the world because of its great effectiveness and safety. We could not help but agree to the last part of this statement. He then went on to tell us how to tell the real Tung Shueh from the pirates. After that we gave up our search for a cheaper source and purchased only the real stuff from that time on until it was no longer available.
In our discussions with our supplier he also told us of his first encounter with the "real stuff" and how he was able to obtain it. Through some of his customers he had heard of a mysterious pain remedy that not generally available in this country but was smuggled in for a few knowledgeable Chinese herbalists. By way of some of these contacts he was able to get a telephone number of one of the "importers." However, they were very wary and would not sell to him. But he kept after them and finally they told him that if he would meet them at a certain deserted spot in the California hills at midnight and a certain amount of cash they would give him a few Tung Shueh. This he did and this they did. Once they found he could be trusted to not turn them in, they allowed him more and more Tung Shueh pills each week but never as much as he wanted. This arrangement continued until the Cow's Head factory in Taiwan was finally forced out of business a few years ago.
We have heard many reports concerning the demise of the real Tung Shueh and have no way of knowing which, if any, of them are true. All that seems to be certain is that by the force and power of the international drug cartel the Taiwanese government forced the maker of Cow's Head Tung Shueh to close up shop despite (or rather because of) the superiority of their product. You must understand a little about Taiwan to fully comprehend the significance of this operation. Taiwan is the pirate capital of the world. It is one of the last areas on earth that supports true free enterprise. With this in mind one can only imagine the forces brought to bear on this government and business community of this island country to force it to make this move so alien to its basic capitalistic free enterprise nature. There is little doubt in our mind that the drug cartels must have worked their despotic magic through several large and important governments to pull off this gambit.
A year or so after the Taiwan massacre, we heard from our original source of Tung Shueh in California. He had good news for us. The maker of Cow's Head Tung Shueh had relocated to somewhere else in East Asia but was not letting his position be known. He was again making the "real stuff" and an Asian friend of his had brought a good supply into the country. He could let me have as much as I wanted. At first, thinking of all my patients who would be overjoyed by this news, I was going to order a large amount but then, remembering the history of the pirates, I told him to send me ten. When these arrived I checked the packaging for authenticity and it passed with flying colors. Only one test left, the only one that really counted, the effectiveness test. A package was given to my wife to try. Deep disappointment. It did nothing. My wife still had some of the original left and it still worked perfectly so she could test the new in direct comparison with the old and the new let her down every time. Disaster, I'm only glad I just bought a small amount or I could have been out thousands of dollars.
While, during the reign of Cow's Head Tung Shueh, the real stuff had to come in to the country through the underground, the fake copies seemed to have free and easy access to the shelves of various stores around the nation. And now that the real stuff has been long put out of business, it is still easy to obtain the rip offs. Apparently, as long as you want to bring something into the country that doesn't work, and therefore is no threat to the world wide drug cartels, you are left alone. But if you have developed something that beats everything else out then you must be shut down and destroyed.
The two main reasons the Food and Drug Administration gave for its antipathy toward the real Tung Shueh was that it contained a small amount of a known drug (Valium) and that it also contained tiger bone (a traditional Chinese remedy), from an endangered species and therefore not importable into the United States. The facts were, as mentioned before, that we could find no known drugs in the real Tung Shueh although it is possible that some were put into one or more editions of the fake stuff which we did not test. The tiger bone matter seems to be only a red herring. The fakes all say they have tiger bone as well and, yet to our knowledge, their factories have not been destroyed or been forced out of business. Actually, I really wonder if there ever was true tiger bone in any of the Tung Shueh formulas, real or fake. I doubt if it makes any difference in the power of true Tung Shueh and would certainly add to the cost of manufacture. It is very possible that it was on the label to impress the Chinese who consider it a sovereign traditional remedy. I'm sure that the Americans or Europeans could care less if Tung Shueh had tiger bone or not.
While we do not know the full intrigue of the demise of this great remedy, we can surmise that it apparently was considered to be a threat to all the other forms of over-the counter pain medicine produced by the world's major drug cartels. This fear was not without good reason as any user of the real Tung Shueh can attest. Time after time, when Tung Shueh was available, we were told by our patients how they were able to give up their expensive arthritic drugs for this remedy exclusively. Not only did the Tung Shueh take away their pain better than the expensive drugs of the cartel but also gave them an absence of side effects that these drugs could not approach. So, in the world of prescription drugs, if you can't beat them you destroy them and in this process you destroy the effective remedy as well. This is a common philosophy today-if it wasn't discovered here, it must be stamped out. This may make good business but it's terrible humanitarianism.
What is to be done? First, if their is anyone out there who has any later information about real Tung Shueh please get in touch with us at veracity.org.
Second, if there is anyone, individual or pharmaceutical house, that thinks they could duplicate the real Tung Shueh formula from samples of the original tablets, we still have a few of them left for such purposes.
To put this entire Tung Shueh matter into perspective we need to address the drug or no drug content in the original Cow's Head Tung Shueh. It really matters little if Tung Shueh had a drug in it or not. All our laboratory research could not discover any, but even if it did have a drug in there, it was still a better product than anything else out there. As mentioned earlier, it had no demonstrable side effects and was effective when all other available drugs do not work. Our point being that even if Tung Shueh required a prescription it would still be the best known remedy anywhere for what it does and that is a lot. It helps to cure or alleviate most of the aches and pains of mankind better and safer than any other known drug, herb or supplement.
My question is why did not some enterprising drug company move to take over the Cow's Head brand Tung Shueh, make it a prescription product if necessary and make multimillions selling it all over the world? Why kill it? What ever happened to free enterprise and the American competitive way of life? Is there some reason that the pharmaceutical houses cannot make Tung Shueh. Are they not able to discover what made this fabulous remedy work? This is hard to believe but maybe it's true. Maybe the drug cartel wants all of us to suffer. We have lots of questions. Does anyone out there on the World Wide Web have any answers?
Below you will find the outer cover and what the Tung Shueh pills themselves look like. Below that is a scan of the both sides of the instructions that came with the pills. We know that the one side of the instructions is in Chinese and English but we were never able to ascertain the language on the reverse side. Any ideas out there?