UK manifesto: Health: Prevention oriented health care

In order to educate the whole population in these simple, effective methods for preventing disease, the Natural Law Party government will open Health Education Centres in each constituency and train one prevention-oriented health care professional for every 3,000 people. Through its health education and natural medicine programmes, the Natural Law Party will promote self-sufficiency in health care for every individual, reducing dependence on the current medical system with all its attendant hazards.

Preventive health programmes to be offered will include:

Courses on self-pulse reading to train the whole population to detect imbalance at its earliest stages before disease occurs,
Courses on balanced diet, exercise, and daily and seasonal routines, to educate people in simple measures to correct imbalances in health,
Natural herbal preparations to strengthen resistance to disease and restore balance to the physiology,
Purification procedures to eliminate deep-rooted impurities and imbalances from the physiology, in order to cure disease and prevent future illness.

We will educate and inform the public about the benefits of vegetarian diet for health and the economy, as demonstrated by scientific research (Reference: British Medical Journal, 308 (1994): 1667-71).

The Natural Law Party's timely initiative to prevent disease will reverse the deplorable situation in our health care system, in which government pays only lip service to preventive medicine, with less than 1% of the NHS budget spent on prevention of disease.

Subjects who participated in Maharishi Ayur-Veda health programmes, including Transcendental Meditation, showed significant improvements on a number of general health measures as compared to controls. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 5(1990) 1-27.