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Cliff's free holistic health papers -- week 3

Hi,
Dr. Stoll has suggested my posting on this BB in full my papers on holistic health each week.
This week’s offering are Paper 20D, Allergies and environmental sensitivities; Paper 21D,
Homeopathy.
Zhelayu dobrovo zdorovja i dolgoletiya (Ukranian for “I wish you good health and longevity”).
Cliff

Health Musings

by Clifford S. Garner, Ph.D.

This month we tell you about allergies and environmental sensitivities. Since 1980 I have
been helping clients to free themselves from these maladies with great success, often in 3 weeks,
using non-medical energy-balancing techniques.
Few people, including medical allergists, realize how widespread allergies are, and how
they cause or contribute to far more serious health problems, physical and mental, than is
generally believed. Perhaps 60% of the USA population suffers from undetected food allergies
alone (common food allergens include wheat flour products, cow’s milk and milk products, eggs,
corn, rye, soy, tomato, potato, peanut, citrus, beef, pork, shellfish, malt, chocolate, coffee and
other caffeine products, MSG, and aspartame products such as “NutraSweet,” “Equal,”
“Spoonful,” etc.). Over $600 million was spent last year on allergy medications, many over-the-
counter, all of which give only short-term if any relief, are self-perpetuating, i.e., the more you
take them, the more you need, and usually have harmful side effects. Allergies are now the 6th
leading cause of chronic illness in the USA, and over $10 billion is spent annually in the USA on
their treatment.
A very incomplete list of symptoms or adverse health conditions caused by allergies and/or
environmental sensitivities, or to which these significantly contribute, includes: hay fever (not
caused by hay and not involving a fever), frequent sneezing and/or coughing, runny nose, sinus
congestion, fatigue or low energy, chronic fatigue syndrome, indigestion, chronic bloating and
gas, nausea, itching (especially of eyes, nose, anus, and/or vagina), headaches including migraines,
acne, eczema, hives, psoriasis, brain fog, memory loss, emotional disorders, depression,
irritability, panic attacks, cravings and addictions, chronic non-infectious sore throat, ringing in
the ears (tinnitus), dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, chronic muscle or joint pain, fibromyalgia,
asthma, bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome,
ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease and other bowel inflammatory conditions, impaired immune
function, high blood pressure (hypertension), low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), diabetes, rapid
heart beat (tachycardia), heart murmurs, sudden non-infectious voice changes, chronic dry eyes or
mouth (Sjogren’s syndrome), visual disturbances, glaucoma, puffiness around eyes, learning and
behaviour disorders including attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bed wetting
(enuresis), aphthous ulcers (small ulcers in mouth), cold sores, celiac sprue, gallbladder disease,
kidney problems, middle ear infection (otitis media), epilepsy, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis
(MS), anaphylactic shock, and sudden death.
Medically, an allergy is a hypersensitive response to an acquired specific altered capability
of the body to react to specific substances called allergens. An allergen may enter the body as
foods or medications, or environmentally as chemicals, pollens, dusts, spores, animal hair, insect
scales or droppings, household or industrial fumes, etc., induce antibody formation and react to
produce adverse effects and symptoms. Medical allergists may suspect an allergy when they
encounter symptoms such as sinus congestion, hay fever, headaches, skin rashes, etc. Except for a
small number of medical doctors trained as medical allergists, most MDs don’t take allergies very
seriously. Half of the USA medical schools don’t even have a department of allergy or
immunology.
Within the past 20 years some clinical ecologists (mostly more holistic MDs) and natural
health practitioners have redefined allergy as a disturbance of the body’s natural flow and balance
of meridian energy from exposure to even a very small amount of a particular substance or
radiation. By this definition, which I use from here on, in addition to obvious allergies and
environmental sensitivities, there may be hidden allergies, which a medical doctor might ignore
because of the absence of pathology or symptoms like those above. Both obvious and hidden
allergies appear to stress organs and tissues, and may lead to “disease.” The concept of energy or
chi flowing in body pathways known as meridians is the basis of ancient and much modern
oriental medicine, including acupuncture and what has come to be called “energy medicine” or
“vibrational medicine,” as described for example in the excellent 1995 book, “Vibrational
Medicine,” by Richard Gerber, MD. Although many USA MDs continue to deny the reality of
meridians, there is ample evidence of their physical existence (they are very tiny ducts in which a
clear colorless fluid slowly flows, completely independent of the blood and lymph circulatory
systems). Please note that the term “meridian” used in this article is not to be confused with the
use of that term to mean the “plumblines” dealt with in certain systems of aura balancing.
Some symptoms which might be thought of as due to food allergies may actually be food
intolerances, which come from eating more of a given food than the body can metabolically
process (often due to one or more nutritional deficiencies). A fairly common intolerance is that of
milk sugar or lactose, because the person has insufficient lactase enzyme to digest the lactose.
Sometimes what appears to be an allergy or intolerance may be a reaction of blood-type-
specific lectins in many foods which, even in very small amounts, can create a severe inflammation
of the mucosal surfaces of the gastrointestinal tract accompanied by an agglutination or clumping
of red and white blood cells which can mimic allergies (see February 1998 ETR regarding lectins
and the ER4YT diet). Gluten, the most common lectin found in wheat, barley, oats and rye (but
not in the sprouted form of these grains), tends to bind to the small intestine lining, inflaming and
irritating it, especially in blood type O people (who, by the way, are more susceptible to allergies
than blood types A, B, and AB).
A primary cause of allergies is an impaired immune system (see April and May 1997 ETRs
for information about the immune system and its nutritional support). This comes about because
of the toxic overload from pesticides, heavy metals, food additives, many medications (especially
antibiotics, tranquilizers and antidepressants, corticosteroids, birth control pills, hormone
replacement pills), and especially for infants and children repeated vaccinations and
immunizations. Other major causes include poor diets with resulting nutritional deficiencies,
forms of dysbiosis (abnormal organisms, often in the gut, especially “candida” and parasites),
eating the same foods repetitively (e.g., eating wheat breads every day encourages a wheat
allergy), “leaky gut syndrome” (excessive permeability of the gastrointestinal tract from dysbiosis,
poor digestion, overconsumption of alcohol, etc.), excessive emotional stress, etc. Allergies and
addictions are closely related. E.g., coffee is a common addictive allergen, and if a person is
allergic to coffee, although they won’t often sneeze or break into a rash when they drink coffee,
hours after the coffee consumption they are likely to experience a headache or low energy if they
refrain from another cup--most people will drink coffee regularly to get relief from their
symptoms without being aware that it is the coffee that is causing them.
Louise Hay ascribes allergies to denying one’s own power, to aversion to
certain people, and hay fever to emotional congestion, a belief in persecution, to guilt,
and fear of the calendar. Thorwald Dethlefsen and Rüdiger Dahlke, MD, in their
book,”The Healing Power of Illness,” think allergies arise from aggression precipitated
out of the psyche into the physical body, that allergic people do not recognize their
aggression and do not live it out. We know that fake roses can cause an allergic attack in
one allergic to roses, or the picture of a cat can do the same with people sensitive to cats;
thus, the allergic response does not require the presence of the “actual” allergen (or, what
is the actual allergen, but a form of fear?).
Medical detection of allergies is based on skin-scratch tests (occasionally including serial
endpoint titration), cytotoxic assay, IgE-radioallergosorbent (RAST) test, IgG ELISA and
Food Immune Complex Assay (FICA), all based on blood reaction to allergens. Widely
used in Europe, but not the USA, is electroacupuncture biofeedback, in which a small
electrical current is applied at specific acupuncture points and then potential allergens are
introduced into the circuitry. This last method is apparently good for detecting both food
allergies and environmental sensitivities, and even remedies. The other medical methods
mentioned have many false positives (an allergen you don’t actually have) and false
negatives (an allergen you have but is not detected), are often painful or invasive, and
expensive; many only measure the presence of IgE antibodies, whereas most food
allergies are dealt with by IgG antibodies. There is another medical allergy test, used by
only a handful of American MDs that is easily usable by almost anyone, and that is the
Coca Pulse Test, developed by Arthur Coca, MD, who discovered that there is an
increase of 10 or more per minute in the heartbeat on eating a food to which one is
allergic. To do the test, take your resting pulse just after you awaken (use a watch or
timer with a second hand and count the number of beats in 60 seconds--a normal pulse
rate is 50 to 70 per minute). Retake your pulse 15, 30, 45, 60, and 90 minutes after eating
a single food (if you eat more than one food it can be harder to find out which food is an
allergen)--if the pulse rate is increased by 10 or more beats per minute you are probably
allergic to that food (of course, you must not exercise, etc., during these time periods).
However, this test too can give false positives and false negatives. Still one other method
used by some health professionals is the elimination diet for food allergies and
laypersons can use it easily; one eats only one commonly non-allergenic food such as
zucchini or watermelon for one week, and if symptoms have gone, reintroduces one food
at a time until symptoms reappear--this can be time consuming and some persons are
unwilling to do such a partial fast.
With rare exceptions, the medical treatment of allergies, including “allergy shots,”
is not very successful, and usually merely involves temporary alleviation of symptoms. If
you are going to use a medical approach to your allergies, I would suggest finding a good
clinical ecologist MD near your location through the American Academy of
Environmental Medicine, (303)-622-9755; one such excellent MD is Sherry A. Rogers,
MD, of Syracuse, NY, (315)-455-7863. She has written several excellent books and
publishes a monthly newsletter for people with allergies and environmental illness.
Acupuncture has had some success with allergy treatment, as has homeopathy.
Homeopathic remedies are best prescribed by a competent homeopath because of the
many factors that must be considered before a helpful remedy can be found.
Medical tests for yeast/fungal overgrowths and parasites, often precursors to
allergies, are not very reliable. Moreover, the individual patient can vary greatly in
sensitivity to these organisms--one can have lots of a given organism, but be relatively
insensitive, so there are few or no symptoms, or one can have few organisms (maybe
insufficient to be medically detectable), but be very sensitive and so have lots of
symptoms. Drugs used by MDs, such as Nystatin, Diflucan, Nizoral, or Sporanox for
yeast/fungi and Flagyl or Yodoxin for parasites, are not all that effective and have bad
side effects. I have had many clients who have been on Nystatin, e.g., for 9 to 12 months
and still have yeast/fungi .The Lebowitz protocol I use and describe below clears them
typically in 3 weeks.
Now we come to the use of kinesiological muscle testing for allergy detection.
Many use muscle testing for this and other purposes without having been meaningfully
trained in preclearing the person of neurological switching, blocking, etc., or in testing
with the sample in an appropriate body location, and the same can be said of some
chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, and the few MDs, clinical psychologists and dentists
who use kinesiology testing. As a good beginning in learning kinesiological muscle
testing a basic course in Touch for Health is worthwhile (how I got my start in this field
in 1980), or for health professionals the Touch for Health “Chiropractic Assistants and
Doctors Applied Kinesiology Workshop.” A good book for the layperson on kinesiology
and how it can be used is Ann Holdway’s monograph, “Kinesiology.”
One kinesiology method is that of Basic Touch for Health. The person is TFH
balanced so there are no weak muscles, then the pectoralis clavicular muscle is usually
used; the person chews a bit of the food and the muscle is retested. If the muscle has
weakened, the person is presumed allergic to that food. The food is spit out, the mouth
rinsed out with quality water, and a second food is tested. The method is somewhat
messy, not entirely accurate, and only 3 to 6 foods can be tested before the tasting system
fatigues.
Another kinesiology method is that of Devi Nambudripad, DC, Lac, RN, PhD,
described in her book, “Say Goodbye to Illness.” It is a generally reliable technique for
both detection and correction, but it requires treating only one, or possibly a few,
allergies in each session, and for one with multiple allergies (many people) this can take 2
to 3 sessions per week for many months or years and be very expensive. To locate
practitioners, telephone (714)-523-0800.
Another method is that of Steven Rochlitz, described in his book, “Allergies and
Candida: with the Physicist’s Rapid Solution.” It too appears to be generally reliable for
detection and correction. Practitioners may be located by calling (914)-228-4162.
A fourth method is that developed by Jimmy Scott, PhD, a simplified but 90%
effective form of which is described in his book, “Cure Your Own Allergies in Minutes.”
Dr. Scott has a more elaborate fully reliable method which he calls “Symbiotic Energy
Transformation.” I took this training from Jimmy, and I still sometimes use this and his
simpler method. To locate practitioners, call 1-705-696-3176.
A fifth method is that based on biokinesiology, created by John and Margaret
Barton, and discussed in their book, “Allergies--How to Find and Conquer.” The full
procedure, which includes emotions, is somewhat complex. One very good practitioner I
know is Wayne Topping, PhD. You may reach him at (360)-647-2703 for appointments
or referrals to other practitioners.
The sixth method is that used in Professional Kinesiology Practice, PKP, created
by the New Zealanders Bruce Dewe, MD, and his wife, Joan Dewe, MA, from whom I
received training and certification. It uses “finger modes” (fingers are held in certain
positions, like mudras, while muscle testing) to learn which of several hundred
procedures involving nutritional, emotional, structural, electrical, spiritual, and other
factors are to be used. With “luck,” PKP can give fast effective results; in other cases it
can be slow.
I’ve saved to the last what for me is the all-around “best” method because of its
effectiveness, its fast removal of the allergies, its ability to address all forms of dysbiosis
(yeast/fungal overgrowths, parasites, viruses, harmful bacteria), electromagnetic and other
radiation sensitivities, food allergies, and pollen, epidermal/inhalant, and mold allergies,
and their correction all typically in one 2 ½ to 3 hour session, using biomagnetic
kinesiology, in which allergen samples or nutritional supplements are held under the
south (north seeking) pole of a flat ceramic magnet over acupoint GV27 (just above the
middle of the upper lip) and tested with and without a pin-prick sample of the client’s
blood on a small pretested piece of paper towel; biomagnetic kinesiology gives a much
more sensitive detection of allergies. Certain clearing procedures are used first, including
making sure all meridians are in general balance and the governing meridian is in
complete balance. This is the detection phase; the 119 food samples are freeze-dried pure
samples. The correction phase involves tapping, or better, lasering with a low-intensity
(5 mw) 670 nm red laser beam certain acupoints and other reflex points. Appropriate
nutritional supplements and their dosages are found kinesiologically. The client must
avoid the foods to which he or she has been found allergic and foods that feed the
dysbiosis for a three-week period, at which time nearly all clients are free of the tested-
for problems, with the possible exception of parasites, and usually feel a lot better, and
we go on in this second session to testing and correcting sensitivities to chemicals and
fabrics, metal toxicity, dental problems, etc., in a similar way. This wonderful method
was created largely by a genius chiropractor, Michael Lebowitz, DC. I add to his
procedure the PKP finding of key emotions and the use of non-hypnotic age regression,
as well as testing for possible unconscious “attitude reversals” or “attitude conflicts”
regarding being helped. Dr. Lebowitz has manuals and videotapes of his teaching
seminars, and publishes a monthly newsletter of updates which I receive. He may be
reached at (970)-856-7573 for appointments or referral to other practitioners.
Contact Reflex Analysis, CRA, uses kinesiology to address allergies (not detected
individually) wholly with nutritional supplements, without any meridian or other
correction. It is not always effective and usually takes 3 to 6 months to clear some
allergies. I do use CRA for organ and gland imbalances if the client still has some
symptoms after dysbiosis and allergy removal.
Highly intuitive people, or people adept at using a pendulum, may be able to find
their own allergies, although self-deception is not rare, and the person then must find
some way to clear the dysbiosis, allergies and sensitivities, or attempt to avoid the
allergens indefinitely or try to use a rotation diet for the food allergies.
Until you are freed of allergies, a simple acupuncture technique to use as soon as
you experience a familiar allergic response appearing is to apply firm pressure for at least
two minutes to acupoint LI4 (“hegu” point) at the center of the webbing between thumb
and index finger of each hand; this seems to act like taking an anti-histamine.

DISCLAIMER: Procedures described are reported solely for informational purposes, The
author is not directly or indirectly dispensing medical advice. Although the author
believes this information and these procedures to be valid, persons using them do so
entirely at their own risk.

Health Musings
by Clifford S. Garner, Ph.D.

This month we discuss another system of healing, namely, homeopathy, actually the prevailing
medical system in the USA in the 1840s to about 1900, and increasingly being turned to again as
much of the public turns from the "cut-burn-poison" approach of orthodox allopathic medicine. It
is estimated 500 million people around the world receive homeopathic treatment.
Homeopathy (sometimes spelled homoeopathy, from the Greek homoios, "similar" and pathos,
"sickness" or "suffering") was rediscovered in the early 1800s by a German physician, Samuel
Christian Friedrich Hahnemann, MD (1755-1843; his brilliance is indicated in part by his having
learned Latin and Greek by age 12, and English, French, and Hebrew by age 24, by which time he
had graduated from medical school in Vienna). He soon became disillusioned with the prevailing
practices of orthodox physicians of his time, namely, with the use of extensive bleeding (mostly by
leeches), cauterization, blistering, and purging (especially with toxic mercury-based laxatives) to
remove "humors" and "fluids" believed responsible for illness, and for the use of medicines which
contained numerous, even as many as 50, drugs in a single prescription. Hahnemann was so
disgusted with orthodox medicine and its hounding of him for his nonorthodox ideas that he
abandoned his medical practice to become a medical translator. While translating into German
"Lectures on Materia Medica," by William Cullen, MD, a Scottish medical professor, Hahnemann
noted that Peruvian bark or cinchona (quinine) cures "intermittent fever" (malaria), allegedly
because of quinine's bitter astringent nature. He considered the bitter quality irrelevant because
many more drugs even more bitter than quinine had no effect on malaria. Knowing that quinine
was nontoxic in very small doses, he tested quinine on himself; finding that the symptoms of
malaria appeared for 2 or 3 hours with each daily dose of quinine and vanished when the
quinine was discontinued. He then reasoned that quinine cures malaria because quinine produces
malaria symptoms in a healthy person, not because quinine is bitter. In homeopathic
language, this experiment by Hahnemann in 1790 was the first "proving," i.e., testing a medicine
on a healthy person. Hahnemann went on to do provings on 98 more medicines with the help
of his students and friends before his death at age 88. By 1900 more than 600 medicines were
added to the homeopathic repertory.
Like other forms of natural healing, homeopathy relies on the "vis medicatrix naturae," the
healing power of nature, the physical body's ability to heal itself, with symptoms an expression of
the body/mind system's dynamic attempts to restore its balance. Homeopathy uses very diluted
medicines to induce healing responses.
The fundamental law of homeopathy is the law of similars ("like is cured by like"), or in
Latin, similia similibus curentur. This law states that a remedy can cure a disease if it produces in
a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease. Hahnemann was apparently aware that
Hindu healers were familiar with this principle as early as 1,000 B.C.E., and that Hippocrates had
written in ca. 400 B.C.E., "Through the like, disease is produced and through the application of
the like, it is cured," and that Paracelsus had restated this law in the 16th century AD. Thus, he
did not claim to have discovered homeopathy, but he may have been the first to test the principle
as the basis of a system of medicine. Let's consider an example of how this law works. Suppose
a person develops a fever with a dry mouth but without thirst, has a thick creamy yellow nasal
discharge and a nose stuffed up at night and indoors, but runny in open air, eyelids sticking
together in the morning, craves open air, is weepy and wants attention and sympathy (symptoms
of a form of a "ripe" cold). A homeopathic physician would study these symptoms, then look for
a remedy that produces all these symptoms in a healthy person (such a remedy is pulsatilla).
Soon after the person takes the remedy, the fever and other symptoms abate and the person feels
well. The law of similars enabled the physician to choose the one remedy (the simillimum)
needed. In one sense the law of similars is used in vaccinations (but here highly toxic substances
often are not fully weakened, and there is much evidence that most vaccinations are harmful,
especially for children) and in medical allergy shots (but see the June 1998 ETR for much better
and safe ways of removing allergies).
The so-called "second law of homeopathy," the law of proving, has to do with the procedure
of testing a substance to learn its medicinal effect. A group of symptom-free healthy people is
divided in half. One half is given a daily dose of a specific substance and each person records all
symptoms experienced; the other half is given a daily unmedicated pill or placebo and records
symptoms. All symptoms that the provers consistently experience are then listed in a homeopath's
Materia Medica as a characteristic remedy gestalt or pattern. In treating a sick person, the
homeopath looks up a remedy picture in the Materia Medica (or perhaps nowadays finds it
through a computer software program) until the symptoms fit, then applies the law of similars.
In the conventional allopathic medicine of today, drugs are first tested on animals (although
our federal government has sometimes outrageously tested some drugs on prisoners, patients, and
even the public without their knowledge or consent) because the drugs used are so toxic. In
homeopathy animal testing is not used, because animals do not in general react to chemical
substances as humans do, nor can they easily communicate their subjective responses, which are
considered important in homeopathy. Testing ("proving") homeopathic medicines on healthy
humans is not a concern, because homeopathically prepared remedies are not toxic. There has
never been a report of a lasting adverse drug reaction from a proving (symptoms produced by a
homeopathic remedy in a healthy person last only a few hours or days at most), and in nearly 200
years of use no homeopathic remedy has ever been recalled. This is in sharp contrast with MD-
administered drugs, which send one million patients to a hospital and cause 150,000 deaths
annually in the USA.
A "third law of homeopathy," the law of potentization, relates to how a homeopathic remedy
is prepared. A remedy is prepared by successive dilutions alternating with succussions (shakings).
E.g., one part of the active substance (which may be from inorganic substances or from plants,
animal or human tissues, etc.) is diluted with nine parts of diluent, usually lactose (milk sugar),
sucrose (ordinary sugar), grain alcohol, or water and vigorously shaken in a mechanical shaker for
100 shakes (this remedy would have a potency of lX), then one part of that is diluted with 9 parts
of diluent and shaken (that remedy has a 2X potency), and so on, often until not a single molecule
of active substance remains (24X or greater). Or, the dilutions are carried out with one part of
active substance to 99 parts of diluent (giving a 1C potency), and so on. Seemingly paradoxically,
the lower dilutions have low potency, and the higher ones high potency, with the higher potencies
probably acting on the subtle bodies. A minimum potency is sought that will stimulate the
recuperative mechanisms without overpowering them. One reason a homeopathic remedy is
nontoxic is because nearly always potencies used are such that practically none of the active
substance is left in the remedy. The near or complete absence of active substance in homeopathic
remedies causes many orthodox scientists and medical doctors to claim that homeopathy is
quackery, but careful scientific research has shown that these remedies do produce healings that
are way beyond anything expected from the placebo effect. For that matter, most medicines used
by MDs are without a clear-cut known physiological basis. There are many theories as to why
homeopathic remedies work, but I'll simply say homeopathy is a form of "energy medicine"
involving quantum physics and which we do not fully understand at present (see "Vibrational
Medicine," Richard Gerber, MD, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, NM, 1955), but which presumably
matches the energy frequency of the remedy with the energy frequency of the disease, in much the
same general way that a Rife instrument works. It is interesting that nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) imaging of 23 different homeopathic remedies gave distinctive readings of subatomic
activity not found in the placebos, and preliminary research of a German biophysicist, Wolfgang
Ludwig, Sc.D., Ph.D., found that homeopathic remedies give off measurable electromagnetic
signals with characteristic frequencies.
Another principle of homeopathy is that the illness is specific to the individual. E.g., a
chronic headache would be treated by an orthodox MD with one or more analgesic and/or anti-
inflammatory drugs, whereas a homeopathic physician recognizes over 200 symptom patterns
associated with headaches, with a different remedy for each. The homeopath is not treating a
“disease,” but a person.
Still another homeopathic principle is the use of a single remedy at a time. "Classical" or
traditional homeopaths adhere strictly to this concept, arguing that the single remedy has been
proven, whereas combinations for the most part have not been subject to provings, and one
ingredient could antidote another or confuse the body/mind system. Certainly in allopathic
medicine adverse reactions often come from combining drugs (in a typical hospital stay, the
patient gets an average of 10 drugs, with the number sometimes going to 30 or more; the public at
large appears to be on maybe an average of 6 prescription and/or nonprescription drugs at one
time--no one knows ahead of time what the results will be). Some homeopaths, and some of the
public on its own, use combination remedies, especially for acute conditions such as colds, flu,
diarrhea, etc., with mixed success. Chronic conditions are generally regarded as requiring a
"constitutional cure," with a single remedy fitting the totality of the person's physical, mental,
emotional, etc., makeup, chosen and monitored by a competent experienced homeopath. Dr.
William Schuessler's twelve homeopathic cell salts (potentized individual mineral salts) are
sometimes used individually or in conjunction with other homeopathic remedies. All homeopathic
remedies are regulated by the FDA, but so are the toxic medical drugs, so this alone is no
indication of effectiveness or safety.
A feature of homeopathy, and some other healing systems, is that the process of healing starts
with the immediate symptoms, then progresses to older symptoms, peeling off one after another
of layers, many of which are residues of chronic disease, traumas, and "miasms" that were treated
unsuccessfully or suppressed by conventional medicine, often harking back to former lifetimes
and/or inherited factors from earlier generations. As these healing stages unfold, the person may
get worse before getting better (the so-called "Herxheimer reaction" or "healing crisis"). Many
homeopaths regard the aggravation of symptoms as a sign that the remedy has been correctly
chosen and is stimulating the person's defense mechanism; such aggravation lasts usually only a
day or two, followed by improvement. These ideas were clearly enunciated by Dr. Constantine
Hering (considered the father of American homeopathy) in the mid-1900s in what have come to
be known as "Hering's Laws of Cure: “Healing progresses from the deepest parts of the body to
the extremities ("from inside to outside," "from yin to yang"), from the emotional and mental to
the physical (one reason why use of Professional Kinesiology Practice, PKP, with its
incorporation of the key emotion in each correction, mentioned in the June 1998 ETR, is so
successful), from the upper part of the body to the lower, and in reverse chronological order, from
the most recent illness to the oldest.” A classic homeopath uses Hering's laws to track the
progress of the treatment.
Homeopathic remedies can be adversely affected or negated by the use of medical and
"recreational"drugs, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, caffeine, camphor (in some ointments), and by
exposure of the remedy to strong odors, extreme heat, strong sunlight or fluorescent lighting,
alternating magnetic radiations such as from computers, radios, electric motors, X-rays, etc.
Surgery or dental work may abort the action of a homeopathic remedy, but many homeopaths
consider that the use of other therapies such as acupuncture, nutrition, herbology, etc., may be
permissible under appropriate circumstances.
Homeopathy can have a therapeutic, sometimes dramatic, effect on almost any health
condition, with symptoms sometimes disappearing in minutes or hours. Among diseases and
conditions successfully treated by homeopathy are rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, asthma,
bronchitis, high blood pressure, epilepsy, Parkinson's, migraines, sinusitis, motion sickness, colds
and flu, digestive problems, pain, joint problems, skin problems, allergies, fatigue, cancer, AIDS,
and some mental and emotional conditions. Homeopathy is considered completely safe.
An initial visit to a homeopath may take an hour or two of detailed history taking and
perceptive observation, and cost in the USA maybe $100-$200, with follow-up visits running
about $50. The remedies are often included, and when charged for, cost an average $6, with only
one bottle normally needed.
In the USA an estimated 3,000 licensed health care providers, many of whom are MDs, DOs,
and NDs, practice homeopathy. Three states, Arizona, Connecticut, and Nevada, offer separate
homeopathic licensure to physicians. There no longer appear to be any formal schools of
homeopathy in the USA. Health insurance may cover homeopathy by MDs and DOs. To obtain
directories of practicing homeopaths send $7 to the National Center for Homeopathy, (703)-548-
7790, www.homeopathic.org, or the American Institute of Homeopathy, (703)-246-9501.
Worldwide, homeopathy is especially popular in Europe, India, Central and South Amenca. Two
good books for the layperson are "Homeopathic Medicine at Home," by Maesimund Panos, MD,
and Jane Heimlich, J. B. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1980, and "Let Like Cure Like," by Vinton
McCabe, St. Martin's Press, 1997. The former advocates purchase (e.g., through the National
Center for Homeopathy) of a Homeopathic Home Remedy Kit of 28 common remedies in 6X
potency (I have one, plus other remedies) for emergency use, described in the book. I used to use
homeopathic remedies with some clients, but because of legal restrictions imposed, if I use any
now I stick with those available through health food stores, and I use kinesiology to help the
client find the correct remedy and correct potency. I believe professional homeopaths could
benefit from using kinesiology similarly.
In the October 1997 ETR I mentioned how the American Medical Association (AMA)
attempted to put chiropractors out of business, and in essence coerced osteopaths into becoming
medical pill-pushers for the most part. The AMA has been partly successful in doing the same for
homeopaths unless they are MDs or DOs. In the late 1840s, there were so many homeopaths that
the AMA denounced homeopathy as a delusion, and forbid its members to associate either
professionally or socially with homeopaths, and expelled MDs practicing homeopathy. By 1900
there were 22 homeopathic medical schools and just short of 100 homeopathic hospitals in the
USA. By then the bond between the pharmaceutical companies and the AMA was well
established, with paid advertisements from pharmaceutical companies in the AMA journal
{JAMA) being then and now the AMA's main source of revenue, MDs deluged with free
pharmaceutical samples, and well-known MDs paid to endorse proprietary drugs. A new rating
system for medical schools fostered by the AMA served to eliminate the homeopathic colleges,
and by 1930 homeopathy was disappearing from the American scene. Now, however, the public
is turning to it in record numbers. If homeopathy again becomes widely used in the USA,
including by HMOs, etc., the cost of medical care, both to the public and to government, would
plummet--and people would be much healthier!

DISCLAIMER: Procedures described in this and other "Health Musings" are reported solely
for educational purposes. The author is not directly or indirectly dispensing medical advice.
Although the author believes this information and these procedures to be valuable, persons
using them do so entirely at their own risk.

Cliff Garner, PhD, is a holistic health facilitator and professional kinesiology practitioner. He may
be reached at (505) 525-1089 or at

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Cliff's free holistic health papers -- week 3 (ARCHIVE under allergies.) Walt Stoll 10:09:40 12/21/99 (0)
• Re: Great! Thanks! Walt, can we archive these someplace eventually? NMI RocketHealer Jim++ 08:02:15 12/21/99 (1)
  • Re: Great! Thanks! Walt, can we archive these someplace eventually? NMI Walt Stoll 10:29:21 12/22/99 (0)

In Reply to: Cliff's free holistic health papers -- week 3 posted by Cliff Garner on December 20, 1999 at 13:09:59:

NMI

Follow Ups:

• Re: Great! Thanks! Walt, can we archive these someplace eventually? NMI Walt Stoll 10:29:21 12/22/99 (0)

In Reply to: Cliff's free holistic health papers -- week 3 posted by Cliff Garner on December 20, 1999 at 13:09:59:

Thanks, Cliff.

I appreciate your excellent information!

Namaste`

Walt

In Reply to: Re: Great! Thanks! Walt, can we archive these someplace eventually? NMI posted by RocketHealer Jim++ on December 21, 1999 at 08:02:15:

Sure, RHJ.

I intend to do so as soon as Bill gets the tools done and they would be archived under the subject that week's contribution was about.

Any better ideas?

Namaste`

Walt