The owner of Goonellabah’s Universal Medicine Health Clinic,claims he’s happy to comply with any directions from the Theraputic Goods Administration after an investigation was launched into some of his products.
The TGA is concerned some herb based products are classed as ‘theraputic goods’ but haven’t been registered or evaluated.
But Clinic owner Serge Benhayon says he didn’t realise he was doing anything wrong.
The products are complementary to what people need on a daily basis, so they’re not there to replace anything medical, we’re not claiming any cures”
Mr Benhayon also refutes reports that some of his services are promoted as being a cancer cure.
We don’t say it’s a cure for cancer, we not saying anything along the medical lines, it’s really just a healing modality”
From 8 years of knowing Serge Benhayon I have never heard him or any of the other Universal Medicine practitioners suggest that the treatments, or products were a cure for cancer, or made any claims whatsoever about the treatments or products curing anything. I have experienced only the highest and most consistent levels of integrity from Serge Benhayon and all of the Universal Medicine practitioners.
Thank you NBN News for presenting a more rational view here. Certainly in the 6 years of direct involvement with Universal Medicine I have never heard any claims of curing cancer (or anything else for that matter). The Universal Medicine team work to the highest ethical standards I have come across, supported by putting into living practice the ethics they aspire to. Serge has a great respect and support for traditional medicine. The main focus for all his work is for the individual to make their own choices based on what the individual feels is best for him or her and supports people whole heartedley if they feel they need to seek the help of traditional medicine. He is a clear advocate of making choices that truly benefit mankind and personally I have never felt so well and I know it is because of a direct result of my putting into practice the suggestions offered to me by Universal Medicine.
Shame that some publications feel to lie in order to produce more sales. Nice to see your story add some truth to the mix. In the whole time I’ve been attending workshops of Universal Medicine and visiting esoteric practitioners NEVER have I heard that any of the supplements, creams or modalities cure cancer. NEVER.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have the utmost professionalism and integrity. Never has Serge or anyone associated with UM ever made claims that any of it’s products or healing modalities can cure cancer or any other illness or disease. serge is a man who deeply cares about the health and well being of others and simply presents that our health is suffering because we live in ways that do not support the body and we need to take better care of ourselves.
The products in question as far as I understand have passed TGA guidelines and that it was the wording on one of the products that needs to be amended. UM have currently withdrawn this products as they have asked the TGA to double check their guidelines so as to ensure they are doing the right thing.
Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon operate with a high level of responsibility and integrity and are known by many to do so. In my experience of attending UM Serge has never claimed ” have this to cure cancer” or “do this to cure cancer”. In fact, if the esoteric teachings were understood, people would realise that the focus of esoteric healing is not about curing cancer at all…..and it would make no sense to be an esoteric practitioner focused on such an outcome driven goal. There is a much bigger picture at play.
I am disturbed that even though your article to some extent corrects lies that have been circulating in the media, you nonetheless use a title and phraseology charged with negative emotion to capture people’s attention and set them anti before they finish the article. This behaviour of media in general does a great dis-service to the reading, watching public, as it constantly biases people’s minds and takes the focus off truth, instead creating emotional reactions, dogmatic opinions and furthering the lies. It would be lovely to see NBN take the lead and start using un-charged language that allows people to be free to peruse your content without emotion.
“Under Investigation” and “the TGA is concerned” are the terms I find particularly WRONG and emotionally set up. Serge approached the TGA to ask how to label the products, not the other way around.
As the manager of advertising for 3 years for an international health magazine, I worked with hundreds of complementary health suppliers and was able to follow their progress through the expensive, time-consuming, bureaucratic nightmare of the TGA. I also read and digested the whole of the TGA’s constitution and regulations! Every complementary health supplier I spoke to was having a tough time of it, sometimes going out of business because of the costs and the immensely protracted waiting time. At best it can take a while to communicate back and forth with the TGA, wait for processing, sort out what ingredients or wording on product packaging are required, and get labels re-designed and re-printed. So any kind of process with the TGA is NO slur on the person or company producing products that need to be re-labelled or re-formulated or re-tested to comply.
A more appropriate title for your article would be “Complementary health clinic’s products awaiting rubber-stamp from TGA”. And that title could speak for hundreds of other natural health businesses across Australia.
The Medical Observer has a very different impression of the TGA investigation and its outcomes, which have now been released, than the one of the members of Universal Medicine commenting above.
http://www.medicalobserver.com.au/news/universal-strips-website-following-tga-investigation