MAHA: Medicinal and Herbal Advancement Initiative-

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Imagine a world where life-saving treatments for chronic pain, mental illness, or even cancer grow in a forest or field—undiscovered because there’s no profit to be made. Many potential plant-based remedies remain unexplored due to the lack of financial incentives for pharmaceutical companies to invest in non-patentable natural solutions.

The Problem:

  1. Natural compounds cannot be patented in their raw form, making them less profitable for private industry.

  2. Research into plant-based remedies is costly and underfunded, leading to a focus on synthetic drugs.

  3. Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity are at risk of being lost without dedicated efforts to explore their medicinal potential.

The Solution:

Part of the MAHA movement -
The Medicinal and Herbal Advancement Initiative (MAHA) proposes the establishment of a national fund to:

  1. Support Research: Fund universities and non-profits to study the therapeutic properties of plants.

  2. Preserve Knowledge: Partner with indigenous communities to ethically document traditional plant medicine.

  3. Streamline Development: Establish faster pathways for clinical trials of plant-based treatments.

  4. Build Resources: Create a national database cataloging medicinal plants and their potential uses.

Benefits:

• Unlock affordable, natural treatments for chronic and emerging health conditions.

• Preserve biodiversity and traditional knowledge systems.

• Establish the U.S. as a leader in plant medicine innovation.

Conclusion:

Plant-based medicine holds immense promise for public health, yet economic barriers prevent its full exploration. MAHA can bridge this gap, delivering transformative health solutions while preserving our planet’s invaluable natural resources.

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Lets offer a huge reward for cures. Give them a target to shoot for like DARPA did for robotics and affordable orbital rockets.

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Functional Medicine Chiropractic Physicians also called Integrative or Internal Medicine Chiropractic Physicians and Naturopathic Doctors already practice using such remedies. The issue is people don’t use these Specialists. That is partly due to the dependence on the Insurance Industry and partly due to the dependence on the AMA who sees these specialists as competition. Wilk vs AMA.

There is also a Department in the government which studies these remedies. But the Specialists who use them are not the ones hired to study them. The Departments are largely captured by Pharm.

To improve this there would need to be hiring of the above Specialists not just MD/DO from the AMA and there would need to weed out the Pharm capture.

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This is addressed in the Pharmaceutical Research Funding Reform Act (PATA-Subsection 05) which is part 5 of 8 in the Comprehensive Pharmaceutical Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA)