tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22083133152009756212024-03-07T09:02:36.959+13:00Dr. Joe's Natural MedicineI am going to talk and rant about different types of natural medicines, but with an emphasis on homeopathy, their appropriate uses and indications and whatever anyone can do to keep his health and escape injuries from adulterated food and useless drugs.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-14568990881904860812009-10-27T21:27:00.003+13:002009-10-27T21:33:07.869+13:00Last comment.I am moving all my articles to my new website, www.naturamedica.webs.com, therefore there will be no new posts on this blog, but it will remain in existence for a while.<br />Thanks for reading it and please log on the new site, let me know what you think.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-5494325471859968032009-09-19T13:22:00.002+12:002009-09-19T13:27:37.864+12:00The Fibonacci Potencies Series: update, comments and conclusionsOne year after the creation of the Fibonacci Potencies, I report the results of its continual use in my clinic.<br />More details and cases, with in-depth discussions will be in the book due to be published hopefully in December 2009. In the meantime, enjoy this paper. Please note that the illustrations are not coming through and the same full text with illustrations can be downloaded for free from www.lulu.com<br /><br />The Fibonacci Potencies Series: update, discussion and conclusions.<br />Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.<br /><br />Opening salvo.<br />The Fibonacci Potencies series, or F series, was introduced and published last year as a method to simplify the prescription of correctly chosen homeopathic remedies. The title of the paper was clear: “Removing the guesswork from potency selection”.<br />This technique has evolved since then to become the main, if not the almost only way I prescribe in my homeopathic practice. It has also given me some insights into some frequently asked questions and allowed me to find integrated answers to most of them. Those answers are certainly bound not to please everybody and I am quite prepared to witness some ferocious arguments swamping the homeopathic community. So be it. It is only through challenges and by getting out of our comfort zone that we can progress.<br />There will be lots of repetition of notions, cases and explanations, because they appear in different sections that have been divided artificially for more clarity (hopefully that worked out well…); read through the whole paper, then read it again and then again, as the information, as it suits to homeopathy, is not linear but is a complex pattern.<br /><br />Previously on this screen.<br />The whole idea of the F series was to have guidelines regarding the best potencies. Every practitioner has his own way; every teacher, lecturer or alleged authority has another approach and the conclusion of a book researching exactly that (What about the potency?) was “It works for me”. Not very helpful! Did that mean that any potency, any way of administration would work as long as the remedy is correct? Some practitioners argue that this is true, but too often a remedy was given in one potency, then another, nothing worked but yet a different third one, given in despair, cured the case. I looked for a system that would simplify the whole affair and would at the same time be based on a natural rule pervading everything. That is when I stumbled across the Fibonacci mathematical series which is found everywhere in the living world and in the artificial world, from music, architecture to the stock exchange. For more details refer to the paper “Removing the guesswork from potency selection”.<br />The Fibonacci series is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233 and so on. For our purpose we use it from 3 to 233, potentising the remedies as 3C, 5C, 8C, 13C, 21C, 34C, 55C, 89C, 144C, and 233C. Potentisation is done manually with 10 succussions at each stage. The manual technique, although having caused some tennis elbows, allows knowing exactly what potency we are using without the shadow of a doubt. The ten succussions were chosen because that was the routine in use at the Simillimum Pharmacy in Wellington, where the potencies are made.<br /><br />The potencies.<br />For each remedy prescribed, we follow the order, starting with the lowest up to the highest we want to reach. 55C and 89C are the most frequently used highest level covering most of the cases; 144C and 233C are used only occasionally. Their respective indications will be explained soon.<br />Starting potencies are 3C, 5C or 8C.<br />3C.<br />This so-called “low potency” is the starter potency used for non-toxic plants and non-toxic materials. Its actual concentration or rather dilution is one part per million (1PPM), still detectable with regular laboratory techniques. Without taking into account the factor of dynamisation, 1PPM still has physiological effects and therefore is not used with toxic substances, poisons, venoms, etc,…despite the fact that the French homeopaths and some English ones like Compton-Burnett have used 3C potencies of many toxic materials without any problem. 3C is also used to prepare isotherapic or tautopathic remedies from conventional drugs for the purpose of helping removing them and their energetic imprint from the body. It makes sense it will not be harmful as these drugs are swallowed or injected in large material doses.<br />Referring once again to the seminal paper, it is to be remembered that those potencies are not a simple succession of weird ones, but that they have a multiplying, exponential effect, allowing one to reach extraordinary high potency levels otherwise unobtainable.<br />3 = 3 3C<br />5x3 = 15 15C<br />8x15 = 120 120C<br />13x120 = 1560 1.5M<br />21x1560 = 32760 33M<br />34x32760 = 1113840 1MM<br />55x1113840 = 61216299 62MM<br />89x612166299 = 5448241800 5MMM<br />144x5448241800 = 773546819200 774MMM<br />233x773546819200 = 180236413271600 180MMMM<br /><br />In other words, those are calculated potencies that can be achieved by giving hand succussed remedies without the need for hypotheses and bizarre techniques that assume levels of potencies without any proof. See the previous paper for graphs.<br /><br />5C.<br />This level of dilution is equivalent to ten parts per billion (10 PPB). There is really very little statistical chance of encountering any atom or molecule of the original substance, and if this would happen I can quite confidently affirm that nothing harmful will ever occur. We use 5C as the starter potency for toxic plants, poisons, metals and minerals in general; some of those are not available at a lower dilution anyway.<br /><br />5 = 5 5C<br />8x5 = 40 40C<br />13x40 = 520 520C<br />21x520 = 10920 11M<br />34x10920 = 371280 370M<br />55x371280 = 20420400 20MM<br />89x20420400 = 1817415600 2MMM<br />144x1817415600 = 261707846400 262MMM<br />233x261707846400 = 60977928211200 61MMMM<br />8C.<br />I was pushed into using that starting potency for the nosodes as the lowest potency that was in stock to prepare the remedies was 6C. I reluctantly complied at first but experience has shown there was no problem starting with an 8C<br /><br />8 = 8 8C<br />13x8 = 104 104C<br />21x104 = 2184 2M<br />34x2184 = 74256 74M<br />55x74256 = 4084080 4MM<br />89x4084080 = 363483120 363MM<br />144x363483120 = 52341569280 52MMM<br />233x52341569280 = 12195585642240 12MMMM<br /><br />Realise that 12MMMM means a potency of 12 trillion C!<br /><br />Patients.<br />At first, patients were informed that this was an experimental protocol and were offered a choice between the F series or LM/Q or regular C potencies according to my previous, usual way of prescription. Having become a lot more confident after the first 25 cases and the results presented in the previous paper, the F series became my “routine” prescription for all but very rare patients who wanted to keep going on with LM/Q potencies.<br />I am mentioning only patients who received an F series, of course. Success rate is not considered as this depends upon the correct choice of the remedy, and this is not an audit of my practice. What is reviewed here is what happens with the correct and the incorrect remedies.<br />At the time of writing, there were 126 different patients.<br /><br />The following chart shows the number of patients and the number of remedies they took.<br /><br /><br />Number of patients Number of different remedies received<br />1 11<br />1 10<br />1 9<br />3 7<br />4 6<br />4 5<br />5 4<br />5 3<br />13 2<br />89 1<br /><br /><br />Some of those patients received a mix of different remedies, as a complex, but in an F series and not 11, 10 or 9 different remedies one after the other. A fuller explanation about this system will be forthcoming.<br />About 30% of all those patients are still in active treatment.<br />Contact and follow-up was maintained by email during the treatment, but some patients did not bother to either be in touch during the treatment or to report what has happened at any time. I can only assume that if they had a complication or a side effect, they would have called in anger and that those who did not maintain contact are at worst unchanged. I did meet some of them by chance on social occasions or at the shopping mall; those who did not manage to run away and escape my inquisition reported that they were doing well.<br /><br />The remedies and their frequency of use.<br />Here is the list of the remedies I used in an F series since the beginning of this work; the number indicates how many times it was prescribed, no number means only once. This list is correct at the time of writing.<br />Aconite 2<br />Agnus Castus<br />Amethyst<br />Amitryptiline <br />Arnica 5 <br />Argentum Nitricum <br />Arsenicum Album 4<br />Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum<br />Asterias Rubens <br />Aurum Arsenicosum 2 <br />Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum 5<br />Baryta Carbonica <br />Belladonna<br />Bellis Perennis <br />Brassica <br />Bromium<br />Bryonia<br />Cadmium Arsenicosum<br />Cadmium Fluoratum<br />Cadmium Metallicum <br />Calcarea Arsenicosa 2<br />Calcarea Carbonica <br />Calcarea Fluorica 4 <br />Calcarea Muriatica 3 <br />Calcarea Phosphorica 12 <br />Calcarea Silicata 4<br />Calcarea Sulphurica 2<br />Cantharis <br />Carcinosin 10 <br />Caulophyllum <br />Causticum 7 <br />Chimaphilla 2 <br />China 2 <br />Chlorpromazine 2<br />Chocolate<br />Clematis Erecta <br />Colchicum<br />Colocynthis<br />Conium 2 <br />Coriander <br />Cuprum Arsenicosum 2<br />Cyclamen<br />Digitalis<br />Dulcamara <br />Equisetum 3<br />Fluoric Acid<br />Folliculinum <br />Gingko Biloba <br />Grindelia<br />Hepatitis A vaccine (starting 34C)<br />Hepatitis B vaccine (starting 34C)<br />Hyoscyamus<br />Hypericum 3 <br />Ignatia 5<br />Insulin <br />Kali Carb<br />Kalmia<br />Lac Caninum<br />Lac Defloratum <br />Lac Humanum 2 <br />Lachesis 5<br />Lespedeza 2<br />Luesinum (aka Syphillinum) <br />Lycopodium 4<br />Lycopus Virginicus <br />Magnesia Muriatica 2 <br />Medorrhinum <br />Meningococcus vaccine (starting 34C) <br />Mercurius Solubilis 2<br />Millefolium<br />Natrum Phosphoricum <br />Natrum Muriaticum 13 <br />Natrum Silicata<br />Natrum Sulfuricum<br />Nux Vomica 3 <br />Phosphoric Acid 2 <br />Phosphorus 6 <br />Platina <br />Plumbum 3<br />Plumbum Iodatum<br />Psorinum <br />Pulsatilla 10<br />Radium Bromatum<br />Ranunculus Bulbosus<br />Rhus Tox 5<br />Robinia<br />Ruta 3<br />Sabal Serrulata <br />Salicylic Acid 2<br />Salix Fragilis <br />Sanguinaria<br />Sarsaparilla<br />Selenium <br />Sepia 9 <br />Silica 10<br />Solidago 2 <br />Staphysagria 5 <br />Stramonium 3 <br />Sulphur 7<br />Symphytum <br />Tarentula Hispanica 3 <br />Tegretol<br />Terbinafine<br />Thiosinaminum <br />Thuja 5 <br />Tuberculinum 3<br />Typhoid vaccine (starting 34C)<br />Urtica Semen 2<br />Uva Ursi<br />X Ray <br />Zincum Phosphoricum<br /><br />A total of 107 different remedies; as mentioned in the previous paragraph, some of them were given in a mix according to the rules of Complexism. The remedies are selected through usual repertorisation and consultation of materia medica; isotherapic or tautopathic remedies made out of vaccines and conventional drugs are included, with the proviso that some have received a regular, orthodox proving. I have used some unusual herbal remedies (Lespedeza for example) in an F series to try and get more intense organic stimulation. I cannot yet comment on that technique as I do not have enough cases to compare with the usual tincture prescriptions.<br /><br />Safety of the method.<br />This is of course a major issue. In the previous paper I was asking those questions at the start of this work: “I had some anxieties: would there be horrible aggravations? Would there be intense provings? Would there be permanent grafting? What would happen if the remedy is not correct?”<br /><br />Provings.<br />I thought one patient, W.E., did prove Lachesis, but in fact it was “only” an extreme aggravation caused by an impatient mother giving one powder every day, from 5C to 89C, to an incontrollable and extremely agitated child. That aggravation was corrected with one dose of Arsenicum Album 200 (as per repertorisation of the extreme symptoms) given in water, 3 repetitions. Then the next indicated remedy appeared clearly. None of the 126 patients has shown any sign of proving until the date of writing.<br /><br />Grafting.<br />Grafting is the superimposition of the remedy’s symptoms, as seen in the provings, upon the patient’s ones. It can happen when a remedy is “imposed” on the patient’s physiology either by multiple repeated doses or by too high potencies. It is a situation that is especially difficult, if not almost impossible, to get out of. Repeated doses and high potencies (even though they are calculated ones) are characteristic of the F series; yet none of the 126 patients has been grafted with an artificial disease, to my knowledge. It might have to do with the fact that once a series is done, it is very unusual to repeat it unless it is needed (see later “intricated layers”); when the remedy is needed, treatment happens and not grafting. The obstinate repetition of useless series of remedies would be a concern in any type of prescription methodology.<br /><br />Aggravations.<br />They do happen. W.E., the Lachesis child, is one example, albeit an extreme one and the worst over the 2 years I have been using the F series.<br />M.J. is a patient with a long and complicated history and a traumatic past whom I have been treating for 7 years now. Her main problems are type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dizziness and progressive kidney failure. Her latest remedy was Plumbum Metallicum 5C to 89C. The first doses were taken as one powder dissolved in a teaspoon of water. They resulted in a deep feeling of amelioration and emotional comfort but with an extreme aggravation of the dizziness. Nux Vomica 30C in drop doses controlled the aggravation and we switched the Plumbum to liquid doses, one dilution glass, one drop from the glass and repeat when the amelioration fades away; when the repetition becomes ineffective, it is time to move to the next potency. This allowed constant and steady progress with small aggravations controlled by Nux Vomica as needed. Her blood sugar stabilised and her kidney function deterioration has dramatically slowed down as demonstrated by normal HbA1c levels and a normal glomerular filtration rate even though there is still microalbuminuria with slowly increasing urea and creatinine levels. <br />Another patient, RMC, received Calcarea Phosphorica but due to her extreme sensitivity, we needed to use between 5 and 13 dilution glasses for each powder, working backwards and going to the next potency when there was no more reaction to the first dilution glass. She had the same problem with LM/Q potencies; the advantage of using the F series was a slightly faster evolution. But her case demonstrated that even extremely sensitive patients can use the F series, contrarily to what I implied in the previous paper, when I was probably overcautious. <br />Here is what F.W., a patient with rheumatoid arthritis for years and very high ANA levels wrote:<br />“As I had an immediate and intense response to the first dose of Causticum (5) I felt it necessary to e-mail you for advice as to how and when to continue the regime you prescribed.<br />I took the Causticum as directed at 2pm Thursday X July 200X. Within 1/2 hour I developed nausea and dull ache in temples and back of the head.<br /> <br />At 1am Friday I woke with a vicious searing pain travelling from the left chest cavity to the sternum. It felt like a molten, golf-ball burning its way across my chest. Over the ensuing hours the pain gradually subsided. This episode was very similar to my experience before being hospitalized in March 1992 with a suspected heart attack. I underwent all manner of tests - revealing no heart malfunction. Drs at the time dismissed it as being rheumatoid related "as the ribs are in fact jointed to the sternum"... Even though the pain was on entirely different level to all other joint pain I was experiencing. <br /> <br />I have felt totally exhausted over the week-end with a number of other earlier symptoms returning - burning eyes, chest rash, dry niggling cough. I have woken in the early hours absolutely bathed in sweat, to the degree of needing to change my PJ's. The headache remained constant and I've had little appetite. All the nodules on my hands and feet have become intensely tender to touch. All Joints, muscles etc are less painful than is often usual...though this may be attributed to the bed-rest I've compelled to undertake.<br /> <br />I also feel emotionally drained... constantly on the edge of tears.<br /> <br />It is now Monday morning and I am gradually improving. Eyes feel better, chest rash not so fiery, cough not so insistent, night sweat not so pronounced. Headache barely there. My chest feels heavy - like there is a brick in there. However, it only hurts when I breath deeply. Nausea has gone. Appetite has not really returned as yet.<br /> <br />Overall (believe it or not) Thank You - Causticum just may well be the beginning of ridding this monster!!! I just never expected to be completely bowled over. I feel positive and confident about continuing the regime and was wondering if it will be OK to take a day in the sun and leave the next dose until tomorrow? And of course I wonder if I need to be prepared for a similar reaction?”<br />Very intense reaction, definitely in the category of aggravation, but as is clearly mentioned, the overall feeling is that things are moving, changing and the deeper emotional status is that we are on the right track. The methodology of administration was changed and will be discussed later.<br /> <br />Other aggravations were minimal, some cleansing diarrhoeas, especially with Sulphur, nothing very different from what is seen with C and LM/Q potencies.<br /><br />False aggravations: unmasking other problems.<br />Using the F series with the correct remedies has brought an unexpected bonus. <br />In one patient, H.C., whom I treated for 6 years, I was able to finish the treatment within a few months once I switched to the F series, concluding with Ignatia previously given in C and LM/Q potencies. She then complained of a sore throat, which I attempted to treat over the phone, after all it is a routine condition: no such luck! After a few unsuccessful prescriptions, I asked her to come in: nothing wrong with the throat, the pain was an irradiation from muscular spasms in the neck. I relieved the spasms with Ortho-Bionomy, then examined her neck properly and discovered her second cervical vertebra was misaligned in right rotation. I sent her to an Osteopath as I do not adjust spines. She also complained of “feeling inner vibrations all the time”; a quick energetic check showed her Crown charka totally open and absorbing energy in a massive manner. Closure of the charka stopped the vibrations. She has been completely well with no recurrence of any symptom whatsoever since then (follow-up of 6 months at the time of writing).<br />Another patient, P.S., during the course of his treatment, received Natrum Muriaticum, then later on Sulphur both in F series. He took lots of doses of Natrum Muriaticum by his own advice and seemed to have a proving characterised by intense chest pains, like angina pectoris or even myocardial infarction, although when checked in hospital everything was normal. After some other remedies, we moved to Sulphur, which caused the same symptoms. I was completely baffled, until the patient sent me the results of his hair mineral analysis, showing an extremely low level of Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium, even though the blood levels were normal. I interpreted this as the effect of the remedies trying to normalise the tissular levels of the minerals and in doing so, creating plasmatic imbalances and symptoms in the cardiovascular system, probably by suddenly shifting electrolytes from the blood to the tissues. Vegetables juicing, bone soup and mineral supplements took care of the problem.<br />Therefore it appears we need to be very vigilant: the extremely deep action of the F series, or of a “threshold” potency can unravel problems that must be treated differently; a structural, mechanical problem is not well treated by homeopathy (exceptions do exist), a nutritional deficiency needs proper input of nutrients, not energy medicine.<br />The F series with the correct remedy will treat completely what is treatable with dynamised, potentised substances, triggering the physiology of the patient in the proper direction and towards the appropriate action. It will also unmask other problems, as demonstrated, show them clearly and allow the choice of other therapies as needed. We must be aware of that and able to recognise this phenomenon.<br /><br />Wrong remedies.<br />Amazingly, nothing happened, even when a remedy was purposefully given for a local problem or as a symptomatic or palliative treatment.<br />Palliation happened fast with the added bonus of revealing the deeper problem. In cases of palliation or suppression, we would expect, or so we have been taught, that the same problem would either reappear as it was or be modified and cause deeper pathology in other locations or systems. That was not the case. It was as if the F series completely stripped the complaint for which it was prescribed, exposing the original problem (or a place closer to the original). At times, the same “palliative” remedy reappeared as if it was again another layer; eventually it became the final curative remedy: H.C. is a lady with many allergic problems and a bad history of abuse. Ignatia was needed early in her case, and some repeated doses allowed us to make steady progress with different remedies, each one bringing ameliorations at all levels and exposing other symptoms; eventually an F series of Ignatia was needed (the first Ignatia was a series of C potencies, 30, 200, 1M, 10M) and this completed the cure.<br />The repetition of this phenomenon in a few cases allowed me to formulate the existence of “intricated cases/layers” where layers of pathology interpenetrate and are not the nice, regular concentric onion peels some theories describe. Those interwoven layers at times are totally eliminated from the case with one single series of the appropriate remedy and at times are so anchored by other pathologies that they must be freed through the use of other remedies before allowing the final Simillimum to act fully.<br /><br /> <br />Concentric layers, the “onion peel” image, with the main, core remedy at the centre.<br /> <br />“Intricated layers” with the potential for any layer to lock another one in its place and allow only a partial removal by a remedy, hence the need to repeat the remedy after the lock is removed.<br /><br /><br /><br />The “almost correct” remedy.<br />A “wrong” remedy might also be a Simile, an “almostcorrecticum” but not a “goodenoughicum”.<br />J.H. received Natrum Muriaticum in an F series; her main complaint was a foul body odour that almost nothing could mask. With Natrum Muriaticum, the body odour disappeared as I reported last year.<br />Then she got an upper respiratory infection, went to her GP, received antibiotics and the body odour came back! She begged to receive another course of Natrum Muriaticum but it was clear that if antibiotics could reverse a previously successful treatment, then that treatment has been suppressive and not curative; repeating Natrum Muriaticum would be a mistake. So the search continued and after a few useless remedies, all in F series without problems but with only small changes, she was able to give more information on the emotional aspect of her situation (so the previous remedies were not that useless!) and finally received Silica 5C to 144C with apparently good results…only time will tell.<br />This and a few other similar cases confirmed my earlier suspicion that once an F series has been gone through (lifted to 144C or 233C if deemed necessary) the whole possible effect of the remedy has been used and there is no use to repeat it or switch to an LM/Q for example. If that remedy has not cured or not done the intended action, if only a partial action, symptomatic, was expected, then the selection of the remedy was wrong. How does that fit with the “intricated layers” I just described? In my experience, when that problem arises, there will be new, different symptoms, often not covered by the actual remedy, pointing towards another remedy altogether. When this happens, we interrupt the series, give the other remedy, and then come back to the original remedy where it was interrupted when the new, different symptoms have been dealt with.<br />Therefore, another bonus of that F system is that it becomes very clear whether the remedy is correct or not. No doubts about potencies as we go through all of them; a recurrence of a pathology, which was apparently cured, by a minimal “antidote” is not at all “antidoting the remedy”, it is simply revealing that the remedy was not correct in the first place (even though pretty close) and that the practitioner has to go back to the drawing board. <br />Quite a lesson in humility!<br /><br />Timing of the remedies.<br />The correct timing is once again nothing new: the first dose of the lowest potency is taken, either in dry, wet or liquid dose, wait, see what happens, repeat if using a liquid dosage when changes have stabilised, move to the next potency when there is no more evolution.<br />In the previous paper, I described patients taking their remedies too closely, one powder every day, and others forgetting to take their remedies, ending up with a totally incoherent schedule; this continued to happen, with no problems. With too long intervals, the amelioration was stationery until the next dose came in to continue the work; with too hasty administration, the positive results were positive although at times lingering symptoms took some time to disappear: each symptom being covered by a different potency, a different “wavelength”, if it is interfered with, that symptom will not disappear at the appropriate occasion but will have to be dealt with by a now healthy physiology once the full treatment is finished. This confirms the orthodox warning that too early a repetition might “negate” the effect of the previous dose, in that system at least.<br />Some patients wanted more precise time guidelines, some appeared to need them. At first I thought I would be smart and have a double Fibonacci whammy with timing between doses of 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 21 days, but that meant the treatment would be too long and protracted; so the timing went to the prime series of 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 days….but almost nobody ever managed to follow it as I always mention it is only indicative, that it is better to wait more as long as there is evolution and that they have to ask me in doubt. Only one patient, V.S. did follow the prime timing chronology faithfully to the hour, religiously, with an excellent end result.<br />Even the most rigid OCD Arsenicum Album patient, after a few doses, did release his pathological rigidity, was able to discard the set timeframe and use repetition as requested by his own reactions.<br />A fellow homeopath who tried the F series on some of her patients, Meridy Brown, experimented with at first a dry dose, followed by the same potency in water; she found out that in her cases, the dry dose was creating major changes and an awareness of those changes; then the further liquid doses were useful to fine tune the reaction and complete the work of that given level of potency; she gave up to 8 repetitions at certain potencies until the last one did not do anything at all before moving to the next potency: talk about squeezing the lemon to the end! I do suspect she had some training with the income tax people! Here are her comments in her own words: “I experimented with a first dry dose at the beginning of each new potency, followed by the same potency in water doses. I found that in those cases, this first dry dose produced a noticeable change to the patient fairly soon after having been taken. The changes felt by the patient were then able to be communicated to the practitioner more clearly, allowing the practitioner the ability to judge the appropriateness and action of the chosen remedy. This new, clearer awareness by the patient, revealing to them that with little doubt, it was the remedy producing the changes they were feeling, (which they themselves had prepared and administered), solidifies in the patient the realization that they are able and may in fact desire to participate in their own healing process. For patients coming from orthodox treatment where they have no or little participation in their own illness, this is a new thought that takes some getting used to! A sense of hope, exhilaration, better understanding, responsibility, and then an excitement to participate in their own healing process has been established! We are now in a "Win-Win" environment for both patient and practitioner. This is a valuable additional benefit realized by using the method of a first and only dose being a dry dose, when beginning a new potency”.<br />This seems a very interesting technique for difficult, long standing cases, or for the intricated cases; it needs and deserves to be explored more in depth.<br />All this shows that, although timing is important for optimal results, and that repetitions are better done only when the action of the previous dose has stopped, the system is quite supple and forgiving. There is no need to have a harsh, dictatorial timing prescription, but sloppiness either in prescription or explanation is never welcome. <br />Availability to the patient for guidance is of paramount importance, the technology of email has been an invaluable tool.<br /><br /><br /><br />Speed of action.<br />I can confirm what I wrote one year ago, that the speed of action is remarkably high as compared to that of C and LM/Q potencies.<br />There is no protracted wait to see the possible action a few weeks or months later, as Kent described.<br />Either there is a reaction and you follow it, or there is none and you know, once the series is finished, that it was the wrong remedy, no harm done, not too much time wasted.<br /><br />Why finish the series if there is no reaction to the first few doses?<br />It has become very clear that the appropriate or adequate potency at which the patient will first react is totally unpredictable. The conventional rules of adapting the potency to the patient’s vitality or to the energy of the disease are at best indicative. This accounts for many email discussions where one potency of the seemingly indicated remedy was given, no reaction, then another potency without results, then yet another one and finally in despair the last one available that settled everything; you can write any potency anywhere in this example, and shuffle the potencies in any order.<br />Using the F series, it became obvious that each patient and each stage of disease will be covered by a different level of potency, hence partial cures and recurrences when the proper potency is not attained.<br />And once more, there is nothing new! Parimal Banerji (Advanced homeopathy and its materia medica) works this way: any remedy will work at some potency for some pathology but not at an other potency; each remedy has specific indications at specific levels of potentisation.<br />By going through ALL possible potencies with an F series, every single level of reaction will be covered, unless it is anchored by another pathology that needs another remedy; when that other remedy has acted, the anchored level is freed and can now react to a repeat prescription of the previous remedy. This is why some patients needed the same remedy prescribed at different phases of their treatment.<br /><br />Going through an F series is like exploring all the stations on a radio, moving the cursor from one frequency to the other, but not jumping form one to another. In doing so, you will be able to listen to each and every station that is broadcasting without missing a single one. When there are interferences, you will miss a few stations, but then you remove the interferences (with another remedy) and can again “clean the airwaves” with the first remedy.<br />When the remedy is the Simillimum at that time, the amelioration seems to “hover”, remains stable and waits patiently for the next dose that will bring the patient to the next level. Therefore we can indulge in waiting a bit longer, be “sloppy” on our timing.<br />When the remedy is partial, either because we did not find the Simillimum or because we are dealing with an obstacle to cure or a partial level, after the initial amelioration, some symptoms will reappear or new symptoms will appear. The next dose of the partial remedy will refine the situation until not needed any more and clarify the next remedy prescription.<br />An example is G.M.F who came with symptoms of fibromyalgia, depression, headaches, PMS, etc,… The prescription was Carcinosin 8C to 89C. Three weeks later, she comes in to report, having taken only the first 3 doses. She says (reproduced here with her permission): after the 8C, slept better straight away, a few short anxious moments in waves, then they are gone; the head is clear, not foggy, the colour is back in the face, there is no more fibromyalgia; 13C taken after feeling the effects were tapering: the sleep is even better, more energy, head even clearer, calm; able to stand off against mother (issues of smothering and overbearing) and it was easy, never before have been able to do that; tapering again, went to 21C and immediately better again; the fibromyalgia symptoms started to come back when the tapering occurred but were immediately removed with the 21C; the PMS is gone, no breast pain, no back pain, no irritability. There is a past history of rape at the age of 12, the emotions were still vivid and active during the consultation; did not even think about it since the first powder and when I asked her to go back to that place, there was nothing, only numbness, does not feel anything about it any more; dreamt about her father, said sorry to him, talked to him and got a big cuddle; even her husband was telling her “take the next powder” when he saw her coming down again. And all this in less than 3 weeks with potencies nobody ever uses, especially with a nosode. The tapering phenomenon is present despite the extremely deep action of Carcinosin; therefore, I warned her that we will probably have to give her another remedy at some point in the future.<br />It has been suggested that the different potencies of the F series were similar to quantum leaps, that we were jumping form one potency with curative properties to another with other properties.<br />That would negate the multiplication effect (5C x 8C = 40C, 40C x 13C = 520C, etc,…). A publication I read a few years ago (but I could not find the article although I believe it was in Homeopathic Links) did indeed show that potencies work in clusters; the examples I seem to remember were 6C to 30C, then 200C to 10M and higher, meaning that 30C and 10M would have the same frequency, the same field of action, but a different intensity. That would indeed explain the high rate of success of the French homeopaths who until recently did not have access to potencies higher than 30C but managed to treat mental, emotional and psychiatric cases very well, albeit with multiple repetitions.<br />This is one way to look at those potencies:<br />The French concentric potencies<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />The Kentian concentric potencies<br /> <br /><br />Of course, those can also be seen this way:<br /> <br />and<br /> <br />which are spirals, like the Fibonacci series, with the difference that the Fibonacci spiral is mathematically and geometrically perfect, the others being approximate spirals.<br /> And to go from one potency to another on a spiral, you must go through all the intermediate ones; you cannot jump from one to the other as is the case in concentric circles.<br />The multiplying effect is creating the amount of energy needed to fill the space-time continuum between two threshold potencies that are further apart as they increase, with more volume (time and space) between two higher potencies, hence the need for more time between two doses as the potencies increase.<br />This, in my understanding, removes the possibility of quantum leaps of potencies. The F series follows a simple geometrical, exponential progression.<br /><br />I know, it reads like pseudo-scientific blah-blah with the use of big words and no substance, so let’s try to use simple language: one single potency, at whatever level, will have a limited action (it can be enough to produce a cure though, as 200 years of practice have demonstrated, by removing the major pathology and allowing the normalised physiology to take over and cure the rest; but you need to hit the right potency). By giving one potency after the other, at the appropriate levels (threshold potencies) and in the appropriate order, they reinforce each other, enhance each other’s action so that the total, final effect is way bigger than the simple mathematical addition. Compare that with politics: one man, one vote, what will one vote more or less do? But when most of the voters chose a certain party, life in that country will never be the same. Excellent! But to achieve that, you need each and every single vote synchronised to act in unison.<br /><br />Better?<br /><br />Depth of action.<br />How deep can the F series go? Can it really eradicate old emotional roots? Can it take care of very serious physical problems, those we call “one sided diseases”, the problems that have become independent from the normal physiology and cannot be dealt with any more?<br />Let’s first revisit a case described in the first paper.<br />V.R. comes from a broken family, was molested, submitted to emotional blackmail, a forced marriage and more. I prescribed Natrum Muriaticum 5C to 89C: at 5C, there was a reappearance of old memories; at 13C, the urge to cry, old memories but a feeling of healing; at 21C, the reappearance of a very old backache; then a sort of regression therapy started: at 34C went back to teenager’s emotions and memories; at 55C back to 10 -13 years old; at 89C back to 2 – 8 years old; all this with “hurt and soul soreness” (her words) but a sense of “purging the emotions”; her actual memory has now increased, her body feels lighter and she has been able to loose weight. Isn’t that the Law of Hering in all its splendour? I then lost track of her until around May 2009, when she sent me, through another patient, this message: “I have been perfectly well since finishing the powders and did not need any more treatment. I received the ability to deal fully with my past and not let it influence my life any more. Thank you for your help”. Some time later she accompanied another patient and popped in to say hello: she was a transformed woman, slim, slender and beautiful, irradiating confidence; in fact, I did not recognise her at all, she had to tell me who she was.<br />I described the case of G.M.F previously (fibromyalgia, depression, extremely fast amelioration in 3 weeks and only the first 3 doses of Carcinosin 8C, 13C, and 21C); not only did the remedy work extremely fast on the physical aspect, but only halfway down the series, many emotional issues were resolved: rape, a smothering, overbearing, guilt producing mother, unresolved issues with the father.<br />A recurrent feature in some cases was the phenomenon of tapering of the effects of the doses, as I already discussed. When this happened, it has almost invariably signified that the remedy was good and correct but not completely curative and that another, deeper, prescription will be needed to anchor the cure. This is very important as it allows predicting the need for another remedy and gives the knowledge, to the practitioner and to the patient, that we are still in a “work in process” state, a dynamic evolution that should not be stopped lest everything recurs.<br /><br />J.S. is another good illustration: 74 years old male coming with the diagnosis of myeloproliferative disease (but not leukaemia), with anaemia, weight loss, multiple food allergies and some OCD behaviours. After receiving all the blood tests at a later date, the final diagnosis was even more complicated, a mix of haemolytic anaemia, megaloblastic anaemia and myelodysplastic anaemia. WHY? It did not make any sense! A repeated detailed history revealed that the patient was abundantly in contact with lead during a motor car apprenticeship and while working for years with molten plastics, where lead was used too. Lead is a known myelotoxic and many of his symptoms repertorised Plumbum Metallicum, so he was given an F series 5C to 89C. <br />He came back 3 months later to give me an update: his haemoglobin has moved up from 96g/L to 98g/L to 101g/L; he can now eat fruit and other foods he was “allergic” to, his weight is increasing, has an enormous appetite, no weakness except a bit in the calves, the OCD is a lot better; some very old moles on the abdomen are disappearing; his symptoms are variable and changing but he insists he never has a bad day any more, only that some days are very good, some are less good but none is bad. And amazingly, this is only after the first 3 doses of Plumbum (5C, 8C and 13C). I regret we did not perform a hair mineral analysis, it would have been interesting.<br /><br />Another remarkable fact that emerged is the ability of the so-called low potencies, 3C, 5C, to stir the patients so deeply, including mental and emotional symptoms and signs as well as very serious physical pathologies. We have always been taught in theory that low potencies are more physical and superficial and high potencies more M/E and deeper acting.<br />Yet the French homeopaths, using potencies from 3C to 30C have described similar situations, including psychiatric cures with 30C only.<br />This brings me back again to the notion of “threshold potencies”.<br />Analysing my cases, it appeared that:<br />- any potency within the F series can act at any level, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual<br />- there is no way to foresee which potency will have which action<br />- some potencies in some patients seem to have no activity whatsoever<br />- some patients will steadily improve while the potencies increase<br />- other patients will experience haphazardous jumps in better health<br /><br />This puzzled me for a long time until I started comparing the patient’s clinical situation to a radio, as written before. Starting on one side, you move the dial towards the other side; in doing that, you go through all the stations that are broadcasting at that time, if they have something to broadcast, without missing any single one. The F potencies can be compared to the big, nationwide stations; they are unavoidable although they might be silent at times; you make your way from one station to the next one, each one giving you the right direction and the right boost towards the next one, which you cannot reach easily without going through the previous one; hence the nickname “threshold”: each potency/station is the opening, the gate to a series of symptoms and signs/programmes and music.<br />In between those major stations, you have the local radios, the radio amateurs, the radio pirates; all of them together, including the white noise between the stations and the silent stations are a typical representation of the patient’s clinical situation. By moving in an orderly manner from one to the other, the correct remedy who has now a single, unique “variable potency” can take care of all the problems. The “vibrational” or “energetic” status of any physical, mental or emotional problem can be located at any level in that variable potency, low or high. Please read again F.W’s email as a demonstration of the power of a 5C. When the “variable potency”, boosted in its trajectory in a regular manner by the different “threshold” potencies in the correct order, reaches that specific vibrational/energetic level, the problem is taken care of. In the next paragraph you will read the case of M.M.B, which will illustrate that notion again.<br />This explains:<br />- The success of the old school of low potencies using 3C, 5C, 7C, 9C, 12C, 15C, 18C, 24C and 30C; finally Hugues is vindicated and can make peace with Kent!<br />- The reason why some problems that should be covered by a high potency in theory do react only to a lower one, and reciprocally<br />- The findings of Parimal Banerji that some pathology will react to a specific potency but not to another one even though the remedy is perfectly indicated<br />- The speed and depth of results I have had with complicated cases, some of them presented in this paper<br /><br />What about the very sensitive patients, the ones I previously recommended still using LM/Q potencies? I dared, as I described in the paragraph about aggravations. Using the LM/Q methodology of multiple dilution glasses, I managed to increase the speed of evolution while keeping the aggravations to a minimum.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Opening the case and removing obstacles.<br />Many cases in my practice are so complicated, of so long duration, having had so many different treatments that it becomes difficult to know how to start, how to approach the patient. <br />That is when the notions of “what has to be treated now”, “what is bothering the patient now” and “what does the patient want or need now” come in full force.<br />This relates to the often cited technique of “peeling the layers like an onion” (see the paragraph about “wrong remedies”): we deal with the actual situation, when that is cleared, we take care of the previous one that lead to this one, and we continue that way until we reach the core problem.<br />Even when the core problem is clear and known from the beginning, the proper treatment might not be working. A few patients came in after having been treated unsuccessfully by eminent homeopaths whom I know and trust fully. The roots of their problems were often emotional like abuse, rape, rejection or purely physical like the case of J.S presented earlier (myelodysplasia and Plumbum); the remedies were very clear and the prescriptions spot on, yet no results. The reasoning was that in order to survive and deal with those situations, many defences, behaviours and at times physical ailments had to be created; those layers prevented the remedy to reach the core issue or blocked its potential action. The indicated remedy “bounces back” upon layers, strata of other pathologies.<br />Most present in nicely arranged “onion peel” layers that can be eradicated one after the other.<br /> <br /><br />The advantage I found in using an F series is that with the correct remedy for that layer of pathology, it is totally removed, completely baring the next layer and making the next prescription clear whereas with regular C potencies there are at times residual symptoms that can confuse the next step. And using LM/Q potencies to go through layers is too slow.<br /><br />Some cases have their layers of pathology very intricated, with often one layer locking the others in place.<br /> At times it is possible to remove the whole layer, even in its intricacies: all the symptoms then can change and the remedies we thought would be indicated are replaced by others.<br />At other times, the situation resembles more an archaeological dig: one piece is removed with one instrument/remedy, another part emerges, is removed with another instrument/remedy, then other parts and back to the first again, and so on in an almost unpredictable manner.<br />Another image might be more close to home: coloured play dough for children; it always end up with mixing all the different colours together in a beautiful sphere with intermingling lines and masses of different colours and consistencies. Fortunately we can buy new play dough.<br />Let’s illustrate with a few cases.<br />H.C had presenting symptoms of multiple allergies, respiratory, food allergies, ENT allergies and chronic fatigue syndrome. Emotional roots came up clearly: rigid upbringing, never allowed to be sick, but lived until recently with the delusion she had a happy family and childhood, and many other emotional and physical symptoms. She was first seen in May 2003. The first three remedies were Staphysagria, Ignatia and Natrum Muriaticum with good partial results, more details came up in her history. Then Carcinosin, Nux Vomica, repeat Carcinosin, Lac Humanum, Hura Braziliensis, Aconite, Aurum Muriaticum, Palladium, Lac Maternum, Nux Vomica again, Staphysagria again, Natrum Muriaticum again, Golden Topaz, Carcinosin again, Sepia, Pulsatilla, Medorrhinum, Sepia again then Sulphuric Acid that brought back the final core issue. All those remedies were taken either in C potency, liquid, or in LM/Q.<br />In March 2009, the final Ignatia 3C to 55C was prescribed and that ended the case (she needed some Ortho-Bionomy and an osteopathic adjustment too).<br />Of course the first reaction to such a description is “zigzagging”, “sloppy management”, “poor case taking”, etc,…Each remedy was, at the time of prescription, absolutely indicated (within my skills) and brought forward old, forgotten, inactive symptoms and signs while removing more recent ones. Almost each visit started with “I am a lot better, but…”. We travelled back in time, admittedly through the scenic road and not the freeway, until everything that had to be dealt with was dealt with. It is impossible to know with certainty, but I feel should I have known and used the F series 6 years ago, some phases would have been very much shortened and the whole case would have been solved a lot faster.<br /><br />M.M.B is another patient with an intricated situation, physical, emotional and spiritual. A very interesting feature is that she remembers 13 past lives, 13 reincarnations. And common features are present in almost all of them: persecution, cruelty, torture, violent death by decapitation, fire or mauled by animals. In her present incarnation, the persecution is active again albeit through more “civilised” channels, but with the same emotional content; she has not been tortured or killed (yet) but her physical complaints are remarkably similar to what would be expected if you’d survive the sword, the fire, the tiger, etc,…<br />Whether reincarnation, previous lives, metempsychosis is real or a figment of one’s imagination is not up for discussion; if it is part of the patient’s description of symptoms and signs it has to be taken into account.<br />After some mucking around, the remedy Carcinosin was chosen and had to be taken up to 233C until its indication vanished (temporarily?). While going through that series, an accidental discovery was made: some annoying symptoms were temporarily but consistently ameliorated by a piece of chocolate or some chocolate cake.<br />Reading the materia medica of Chocolate showed it covered lots of aspects of her case, so this was to be the next remedy, 3C to 233C. In the midst of that series, a dental fistula appeared, annoying little symptom, purely local. Calcarea Sulphurica should cover that and as we were playing with F series we decided she would take it 5C to 34C while interrupting the Chocolate for a few days. Lo and behold, the fistula got better but so did other symptoms too, deep ones. We decided to continue the series up to 233C and the removal of deep physical and emotional problems is continuing. Interestingly, the amelioration from the Chocolate seems to be still there, waiting for the series to continue, which points towards the fact it is a/the/one good Simillimum. The choice of the high end point of 233C is explained by the enormous timeframe that has to be covered.<br />This is an example of a remedy exposing another layer, through which yet another one appears.<br /><br />Zigzag treatments, layers, partial treatments, intercurrent remedies, now there is a logical explanation about what all this is exactly and how to use the situation to the patient’s advantage: intrication and Fibonacci series.<br /><br /><br />Constitutional treatments.<br />When a remedy is deemed to be the Simillimum and at the same time is the patient’s so-called constitutional remedy, then not only is the cure of the actual problem achieved but the state of health should become optimal.<br />Using the F series for constitutional treatment only seemed at first to be overkill; after all, 150 years of doing exactly that with 1, 2, or 3 single potencies cannot be wrong.<br />So, nosy as I am and unable to resist a challenge, I decided to try a few “constitutional” prescriptions and as the Law of Occurrences prescribes, a few patients came in, otherwise healthy but wanting to be at their best, with some specifically wanting their “constitution to be taken care of”.<br />Remedies were given up to 89C and, not unexpectedly, not much change happened, with the positive spin towards the patient, being able to tell them “see how healthy you are!”<br />I then decided to put my money where my mouth is and to take my own constitutional remedy: you will be able to read the transcript of this journey in the chapter: “Silica: a personal encounter with the Fibonacci series” in the book(let) that will condense and summarize both papers.<br />In a nutshell: over the years, I repeatedly took Silica many times, in all potencies from 6C to 50M (and have eaten my share of sand as a child) with almost no effect whatsoever. With the F series, going up to 89C, I did experience physical changes (no, my hair did not grow back, darn!), relief of chronic pain, extraordinary dreams, a quietening of mood as if I was in permanent meditative state, unbelievable. I have then added 144C and 233C for the sake of experimentation.<br />The bottom line is that despite having the proper constitutional remedy and despite the multiple and different potencies, nothing but the F series has been able to give me the “clean slate” state I am in now. Maybe I should rename the F series “the Mr. Clean of Homeopathy”.<br /><br /><br />Administration of the remedies.<br />Over the last year I continued experimenting with different methods of taking the remedies. I use single dose powders so that my patients have only a limited supply of remedies, but using regular globules would be exactly the same.<br />1. Dry dose: according to Organon 4 and still used successfully by many practitioners; take the dose, wait until no more change, no more evolution, then go to the next potency; or if there is no change whatsoever, wait 24-48 hours and go to the next potency. It is simple, clear, no fuss and it works.<br />2. Semi-dry, wet dose: what I called Organon 4 and a half: the powder is dissolved in a teaspoon of water; it is basically a dry dose but in more volume, pre-moisturised instead of waiting for the saliva to do it, reaching more of the mucosa, having a better absorption and a better effect, a stronger transmission of information using the vector of acupuncture meridians (see my other paper “Transmission of energetic information” for detailed explanations). The main advantage of this method is that it involves the patient into preparing his medicine, it is active participation, not passively swallowing what was ordered.<br />3. Liquid dose: Organon 5 and 6; the powder is dissolved in a glass of water (~ 250 mls) and either a drop, a teaspoon or a sip are taken; when the effect stabilises or starts fading away, repeat after stirring until there is no more reaction; then move to the next potency, same way. Sensitive patients use multiple dilution glasses and work their way backwards, the same technique as used with the LM/Q potencies.<br />4. Dry and liquid: my colleague Meridy Brown has used a combination technique of 1 dry dose (1 globule or ½ of the powder) followed by teaspoons from a glass with 1 globule or the second half of the powder dissolved in it. Her comments are that the dry dose creates a clearer and faster awareness, an immediate reaction that then needs to be fine-tuned and completed by small increments until the whole effect of that potency level is achieved. I have only done that so far with 3 patients and, at the time of writing, have not yet received any feedback, so I cannot compare and comment. A case can be made that it might speed up the evolution at each level of potency. I see this method as useful in very complicated cases of long duration with long and intense pathological past, where so much has to be mopped away that insisting at each stage of potency is indicated; where in “usual” patients, the return to normal will take care of the residual small problems, in those intricated cases some external help to finish the cleaning is warranted. Experimentation and time will tell.<br /><br />This fits very well with the orthodox concept of giving one dose and waiting. It also fit with Hahnemann’s admonition of never repeating a dose in exactly the same potency. We need to see what the remedy has done, let that dose exert its full action (although the action is immediate, what we see is the effect caused by it on the physiology, and that is what we do not want to interfere with) and only then either repeat the dose or move to the next potency. If there is no activity whatsoever, repetition or moving earlier and faster is then justified.<br />I have already described that some potencies, some levels of vibration, will not resonate with anything active in the patient, so there is no need to stay there: you do not spend too much time listening to white noise or a silent radio station, do you? And if it is the wrong remedy, the faster we know it, the better.<br />A regular schedule of dosage is warranted for some patients who need precision in their lives, for some who will not be able to perceive transformations, be it subtle or not and for some who are impaired to such an extent that the practitioner has to take control. Those are rare situations and often the amelioration created by the first doses brings back awareness, flexibility and suppleness, allowing an intelligent progression of the prescription. I have given examples and written more in detail about this in the paragraph “Timing of the remedies”. I need to repeat and heavily insist upon the absolutely essential role of having a good system of follow-up during the course of the treatment, a lot more than with C or LM/Q potencies. Changes can occur at any time, in an unpredictable manner and can be deep, with quite heavy physical or emotional reactions. The patient needs to know the practitioner is a phone call or an email away. Reassurance and explanation of what is happening is often the only needed action; some Bach Flowers or other Flower Essences can be very helpful. In the last 2 years, I only sent one patient (P.S) to the emergency room for chest pains after a remedy, everything was normal and as described in the paragraph “Aggravations” eventually a logical explanation was found. But the last thing we need is patients panicking or being forcefully medicated for an acute panic attack when a phone call and a few drops of Rescue Remedy can take care of the whole situation.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Conclusions.<br />What started as an attempt to simplify the choice of potency has evolved into a revision of concepts of homeopathy.<br />There is an eternal constant: the remedy must be correct.<br />So must the approach be: what to treat in the first place; how to be flexible enough to interrupt the treatment, chose another one, then resume the previous one; how to be aware of the unpredictability of the therapeutic evolution; how to accept that the best remedy might not be indicated yet and chose the one(s) that will lead to it; how to be open to the fact that the same remedy might have to be used many times at different phases and times of the treatment; and how not to be obsessed by a timeline, especially in very intricated cases. <br /><br />I have learned that that every F potency is a very special one, a threshold potency, a most active potency, and that in their proper order their ability to cure becomes optimal.<br /><br />I have learned that in fact there are no different potencies, that each remedy has only one single variable potency, similar to the spectrum of the electromagnetic waves. In physics, you measure X Rays, ultrasounds, colour, radio waves, gamma rays differently depending on the instrument you use; none of them stops existing when you switch the instrument off, or as the Taoist koan asks: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is present, does it still make a sound? In real medicine, the patient’s history, symptoms, signs and complaints are localised “nodes” in time and space, covered by a specific potency of a specific remedy. Different remedies might be indicated at different times and in different places; the patient tells us what the remedy is, the potency is unpredictable (so far); moreover, the strength of one symptom can easily overshadow other symptoms belonging to the same remedy but influenced by different potencies. Once the strongest symptom has been dealt with, the other symptoms might appear and send the practitioner on a wild goose chase for another remedy when the only thing needed is another potency of the same remedy. Going through all possible potencies in an orderly fashion makes the treatment whole, complete and permanent.<br /><br />I have learned that this method works well, works fast, works deep and with the correct remedies, is curative.<br /><br />I have learned that antidoting a remedy is not possible; it is an intellectual concept but not a reality. When a treatment has worked well, but everything recurs after a coffee, an essential oil or an antibiotic, that treatment was not correct, the pathology was not cured but only silenced (the dreaded suppression of orthodoxy); the treatment has to be revisited with a clear, open mind and corrected whatever pain this can inflict to our ego.<br /><br />I have learned that many cases are intricated, have Gordian knots that can be untied.<br /><br />I have learned that with some (no, with a lot of) pigheadedness and obstination, total cure is possible. I have relearned and reaffirmed one of my mottos: never give up!<br /><br />How does the Fibonacci system fit within the paradigm of the so-called “Classical”, “Hahnemaniann” or “Orthodox” homeopathy?<br />- single remedy: yes, of course, one remedy at a time, the appropriate one<br />- single dose: the 4th Organon practitioners, adepts of the “one dose and wait” method, can easily practice this way; the 5th Organon practitioners, adepts of the liquid dose with repetitions can easily practice this way; the 6th Organon practitioners, although the F series is not an LM/Q potency, can still practice the multiple dilutions glasses, variable amounts, variable potentisations between repetition methodology<br />- never repeat the same potency twice: clearly, it fits<br /><br />And for those who will assimilate the concept that each remedy has only one single, wide, variable potency, then of course there is always only one single dose, although divided in fractions that are needed to achieve the full potential of the single full dose.<br /><br />His whole life, Hahnemann was dissatisfied with posology. He started with what was available, the crude doses, experimented a lot (see the paper by Jan Klussendorf, Hahnemann’s Pre Organon Views in Homeopathic Links, Summer 2009, Vol 22:112-116), settled for a time with dry centesimals, shifted to liquid centesimals, then created the LM/Q potencies. And then still used all of the above at some times, according to those who read his Paris casebooks. Even though Hahnemann wrote that the LM/Q potencies were the most perfect ones, he was obviously not totally convinced as he still used C potencies; and I have no reason to doubt David Little and others who have read and translated the Paris casebooks. The Fibonacci Series is nothing else but a continuation of Hahnemann’s research for the perfect method of administration; it only needs a little bit more experimenting for its details.<br /><br />The F series encompasses all those systems, apparently integrating them: it makes sense; it is a natural series, not an artificial, mathematical construction.<br />With very few exceptions, for the last 9 months (at the time of writing), I have used the F series exclusively, although not in acute cases where I need to use what I have at hand, my stockpile of C potencies.<br /><br />I also need to repeat that the F series allows for the use of hand made potencies, so that we know exactly what we give. Korsakovian potencies, continuous flow and other methods create dynamised remedies, no doubt about it; but as I demonstrated in the first paper, we really do not know which potency they are in reality.<br />We could use the X/D potencies in an F series, no doubt about it, we could also use the CK but only if the Korsakov method was used from the very first potency.<br /><br />We have now almost 110 remedies (and growing) that have been prepared in the F series, at the cost of a few tennis elbows. Any remedy, any substance can be made in an F series.<br /><br />This has also opened the door to other questions that were hinted at in the previous paper: how many succussions should be used? Should there be a different number of succussions for different remedies? Why? How do we find out? More research to be done and it has already started…..<br /><br />Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.<br />New Plymouth<br />New Zealand<br />July 2009.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-10257593880648224492008-11-02T15:06:00.002+13:002008-11-02T15:13:39.934+13:00A teenager's view of vaccinationsMy son Jonathan, 19 years old, surprised me by giving me this text. He is into computers, has no link or interest whatsoever to any type of medicine, except that he and his sister have to listen to my continuous rantings (poor kids....). <br /><br />Now here is an original explanation of the harm done by vaccination; it will appeal to younger people, teens, who are bored to death by pontifying old farts like me.<br />Jonathan has given permission to copy, diffuse, publish his text by whatever means available, as long as proper credit is given. So feel free to forward anywhere and everywhere.....<br /><br />Vaccination – an Analogy<br /><br />Vaccinations are effective at creating mutants. No, that doesn’t mean that your children, or children’s children (if you were so lucky), will be born with three eyes or the ability to spit flames out of their ears. Let’s face it; if that were the case more people would be doing it. Here’s a stab at an analogy that might be clearer than the paragraphs of genetic jargon that most don’t bother trying to understand.<br />Imagine your body is a little fort set on a grassy plain, fairly stable and feeling as secure as it is possible to be. Sure you have all the little subsections of it with their own little jobs, but concentrate on the relevance of your many little soldiers (purely in the metaphorical vein, not those other “little soldiers”) as they constantly patrol about your fort. No real problem arise since your troops get the attention they need and replaced as the need arises, a somewhat grave assumption/generalization really, but just pretend. Suddenly, one day a band of merry barbarians ransack another fort nearby (or so you’ve heard from your friendly high-ranking forts). That battle was messy, with the civilians shaken and many soldiers lying splattered or little more than mush spread along the grassy knolls, but the barbarians were driven off, or even wiped out. It sounds quite terrible but for the purpose of this example this is natural; a brief cleaning job and a little while to recover, more than likely calling in some outside support to rebuild, and the only remnants of the fight would have been a tactic developed for future reference. Completely normal, it happens all the time, sometimes the troops are the only ones to even realize anything is going on.<br />But you’re not like those other forts that let their soldiers get splattered everywhere, maybe you don’t entirely trust these outside reinforcements that are offered as an easy, if daily part of routine. So you look around and find out that the larger, high-up forts are offering this way that assures that after a little pinch you’ll never have to worry about having to put your little soldiers in jeopardy. Oh, it seems too good to be, but you trust these big people to take care of you. They’ve taken good care of you so far, haven’t they? They set up your transports efficiently, paved secure trading routes and made sure you had a comfortable existence, right? Oh, I’m sure they’re getting on that soon then. Regardless you trust they have whatever you need since they’re on top, even though you didn’t vote for them to begin with, and so get set to have this miracle reinforcement.<br />Soon after you receive a small box at your doorstep with no instructions, but your troops know what to do. You have a handful of those fearsome barbarians, or at least you assume they once were, tied to polls desperately trying to reach at their dulled swords while their nasty upbringing is the only thing still keeping them up. The rest of the afternoon is a lovely time bashing at the gimped barbarians with flails while others examine the technology of their not-at-all-useful weaponry. This was a productive day; surely you’ve raised morale, prepared yourself for the enemy’s offensive capabilities and even found the best places to aim at. Immediately you begin fortifying your walls; no more of this wood stuff, brick and mortar that no pike could penetrate. Why, you’re impervious! Those barbarians take one look at the thick, tall walls that are your defences and turn away to look for someone else to annoy, but alas, everyone else in range of their mules has already done the same as yourself. Surely they are now a dying kind, and you did your part to survive.<br />A month later the barbarians return to your doorstep in the hundreds, toting full plate armour, catapults, trebuchets and other siege engines. You weren’t expecting that, I’m sure, but the barbarians learned from their neighbour’s mistakes and came prepared. How did they do it? Well, they’re not as stupid as one would make them out to be. They waited, they grew in strength and number after some reports from what survived in past attacks that were successful. But you were never attacked before! Right? How could they know your defences when you’ve never actually met (that you know of)? Oh wait, you got that little crate some time ago, which thousands of others received as well, exact copies in fact, and these new and improved super barbarians don’t need to know what you can do since you prepared the exact same way as everyone else. Now the higher-ups ask you to get this other little parcel that will hold off an invasion, and you trust them because you didn’t have much trouble after the first time.<br />So what about these people who went crazy and refused the package of gimped barbarians, and took these reinforcements on a regular basis that you shunned due to mistrust? Their forces are large and resources vast with stores of equipment and provisions for battle. They prepared for everything, even if their defences don’t seem to be substantial to you. Their forces can continue to fight longer before dwindling, though that is of little concern as they increase their reinforcements daily. They can deal with the average troupe of barbarians as if it was hardly a nuisance, and they can even stave off the oddities that you helped create. There are more of them, significantly, and they operate much faster with their surroundings, heavy plate and siege weapons be damned.<br />What relevance does this have to anything at all? If you have to ask, then you’ve missed the point entirely. Go to your mailbox; you probably have a package waiting.<br /><br />Jonathan Rozencwajg.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-35672251946780194492008-09-24T13:07:00.002+12:002008-09-24T13:16:10.914+12:00A new methodology for the use of C potencies.Here is the abstract of an (long) article about a different, new approach to the use of low and medium C potencies, prepared exactly according to the rules created by Hahnemann, that allow to reach extremely high potencies equivalents.<br /><br />You can find the full text, pictures and graphs either on www.hpathy.com or on www.lulu.com where there is a free PDF download (type my name in the search box). The original title is "Removing the guesswork from potency selection".<br /><br />I'd appreciate comments and questions and if you use the system, your experience with it would be very welcome so that I could include it in next year's update.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Removing the guesswork from potency selection.<br /><br /><br /><br />A new methodology for the use of C potencies based on a mathematical Law of Nature.<br /><br />Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD.<br /><br /><br />Copyright Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD. <br />Permission is given to copy this text and diffuse it for educational and practical purposes provided it is done so in its integrity and proper acknowledgment is given to the author. This text is to be given, offered but not resold.<br /><br /><br /><br />Removing the guesswork from potency selection.<br />A new methodology for the use of C potencies based on a mathematical Law of Nature.<br /><br />Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD.<br /><br />Abstract.<br /> Finding the right remedy is one thing, the most important one. Then comes the question of which potency, in which system (C, X, LM/Q) to select the potencies and how to find the proper ones.<br /> Articles, books, treaties have been written on the single, frustrating, issue of which potency to use and when to use it. In a recent book “What about the potency?” the author has interviewed many masters of homeopathy about their ways of using potencies; no consensus emerged, everyone had another very successful but different system and was committed to it.<br /> David Little teaches to evaluate the sensitivity of the patient on a scale of 1 to 1000 and “prescribe accordingly”; more precise than what others suggest but still very subjective as it is based on a “guesstimate” by the practitioner and is then very much a function of the practitioner’s own health and state of mind.<br /> Kent’s Harmonics of 6C – 30C – 200C – 1M – 10M is widely used and based on his and his follower’s experience, but what is its logic, except for habit and availability?<br /> The French series of 3C – 5C – 7C – 9C – 12C – 15C – 18C – 24C – 30C has been useful to generations of patients and has proved its usefulness, but again, what is its logic?<br /> LM/Q potencies are purely linear, and remove a lot of trials and errors by starting at the lowest and climbing the potencies one after the other; even if you jump a potency, the progression is still linear, but straight lines are rare if at all present in Nature and this is often a protracted slow process, which is perfect when this is what is needed.<br /> I present a new approach to the use of C potencies that is based on a mathematical concept found everywhere in Nature; this removes completely the guesswork and has proved so far to be easy to use, deep acting, fast acting, but needing an intense collaboration between the patient and the practitioner (although this could only be the method’s teething problems). Moreover, it has the added advantage of using low and medium hand-made potencies, avoiding another piece of guesswork: what is it we really give above 30/200C?Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-66670713523921688862008-08-04T13:30:00.002+12:002008-08-04T13:39:39.258+12:00Organotherapy, Drainage and Detoxification.Well I finally made it and published my book about Organotherapy, Drainage and Detoxification. <br />Like "Dynamic Gemmotherapy" it is available at www.lulu.com printed on demand so a lot more ecological.<br />Here are a few (no, actually quite a lot)pages....<br /><br />Organotherapy, Drainage and Detoxification.<br /> <br />A starting point to safe practice for Homeopaths, Herbalists, Naturopaths, Traditional Healers and enlightened Medical Doctors.<br /><br />Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.<br /> <br /> <br />The Art of Medicine consists in amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.......Voltaire.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Art of Homeopathy consists in curing the patient so that no disease ever recurs....... Dr. Joe.<br /><br /><br /><br />Copyright Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD and Natura Medica Ltd.<br /><br />All rights reserved. Any form of copy by mechanical, electronic or other means strictly forbidden without previous authorisation. Breach of copyright will be prosecuted by all means available, everywhere, always.<br /><br />Contents.<br /><br />Claimer<br />Foreword<br />First introduction 1<br />Second introduction 5<br />Prelude 7<br />Background and Theory 13<br />Organotherapy 17<br /> From Cannibalism to Remedies 18<br /> Herbal Organotherapy 23<br /> Kidneys 23<br /> Liver 24<br /> Heart 26<br /> Endocrine glands 27<br /> Thyroid 27<br /> Adrenals 28<br /> Brain 29<br /> Skin 31<br /> Immune system 31<br /> Gemmotherapy in Organotherapy 33<br /> Nutritional Organotherapy 35<br /> Brain 36<br /> Immune system 37<br /> Heart 38 <br /> Lungs 40<br /> Liver and Gallbladder 40<br /> Kidneys 41<br /> Stomach and Intestines 42<br /> Colon and Bowel Flora 43<br /> Thyroid 44<br /> Adrenals 44<br /> Diabetes 45<br /> Oligotherapy 46<br /> Organopathy 48<br />Drainage 53<br /> Nutritional drainage 53<br /> Kidneys and Urinary tract 56<br /> Liver 65<br /> Pancreas 71<br /> Blood 74<br /> Lymphatic system 75<br /> Veins 77<br /> Arteries 78<br /> Heart 81<br /> Lungs 82<br /> Colon 84<br /> Endocrine in general 88<br /> Thyroid 89<br /> Adrenals 90<br /> Male 91<br /> Female 92<br /> Skin 93<br /> Brain and Nerves 94<br /> Drugs 97<br /> Joints 98<br /> Phytotherapic (Herbal) drainage 105<br /> Alteratives 106<br /> Kidneys and Urinary tract 109<br /> Liver 114<br /> Pancreas 118<br /> Blood 118<br /> Lymphatic system 119<br /> Venous system 121<br /> Arteries 124<br /> Heart 126<br /> Lungs 127<br /> Colon 128<br /> Endocrine in general 129<br /> Thyroid 129<br /> Adrenals 131<br /> Skin 133<br /> Brain and nerves 135<br /> Joints 136<br /> Gemmotherapic drainage 138<br /> Homeobotanical drainage 141<br /> Homeopathic drainage 145<br /> Channelling remedies 150<br /> Remedy relationships 153<br /> The Kollistch list 154<br /> Drainage remedies 158<br /> Kidneys and Urinary tract 160<br /> Liver 175<br /> Pancreas 181<br /> Spleen 182<br /> Blood 183<br /> Lymphatic system 186<br /> Veins 189<br /> Arteries 191<br /> Heart 195<br /> Lungs 201<br /> EENT 207<br /> Digestive system 210<br /> Stomach 211<br /> Pylorus 213<br /> Intestine and Colon 214<br /> Rectum and Haemorrhoids 220<br /> Endocrine in general 223<br /> Carbohydrate metabolism 223<br /> Thyroid 223<br /> Adrenals 225<br /> Male 227<br /> Female 228<br /> Breast 229<br /> Skin and mucosa 232<br /> Brain and Nervous system 237<br /> Bones and Joints 241<br /> Serosa 245<br /> Specifics 245<br /> Osteopathic drainage 249<br /> Transmission of energetic information<br /> in the body 253<br />Detoxification 260<br /> Sweat it out! Far Infra Red sauna 262<br /> Enemas and colonics 265<br /> Nutritional detoxification 267<br /> Cilantro and Chlorella 268<br /> Specific detoxifiers 271<br /> Nutritionals 271<br /> Minerals 273<br /> Phytotherapic (Herbal) detoxification 275<br /> Chelation 276<br /> Lithotherapy 277<br /> Isopathy aka Isotherapy 278<br />Lesser known techniques 282<br /> Gemmotherapy 282<br /> Lithotherapy 316<br /> Oligotherapy 321<br />Summary 329<br />Conclusion 331<br />The Author 332<br />References and Bibliography 333<br /><br /><br />Foreword.<br /><br /><br />This book started as a compilation of my own practice. As far as I can remember, I always used some form of preparation for the in-depth treatment after a few patients suffered aggravations from the right remedy. Then I started being asked about this or that form of drainage, how to detoxify and was it a real thing or just a New Age fad. Eventually I thought it would make sense, and life easier, to put some order in what I was doing. While doing that I realised that over the years I had indeed accumulated a lot of knowledge and techniques that needed some order and logic. At that time I wrote an essay for our local homeopathic journal, Homeopathy NewZ, which you will find, however modified, as the first Introduction.<br />I also came to see that there were lots of correlations between different methods; that they were synergistic but that every type of practitioner, homeopath, herbalist, nutritionist, naturopath, was often doing his own little system without daring to investigate what others were using. What a waste! And moreover, many of those techniques were written, used and described in other languages.<br />Surprisingly, nobody ever bothered to translate any of them (except Dr. Maury) and to put them together so that they could be learned and used as an addition to one’s core practice.<br />So here it is. Without pretending to be complete or exhaustive, there is a lot of material, techniques and references.<br />Might I suggest you put aside any preconceptions and read it fully? Then try to use any technique you feel comfortable with or which is the closest to what you already know. After that, try some other ones. Your patients will be ever so thankful.<br />By the way, English is not my mother tongue, so, if you find grammatical errors or some style of writing that is not the Queen’s English, bear with me, please.<br /><br />...............<br /><br />First introduction, mainly aimed at Homeopaths (but useful for everyone).<br /><br />Homeopathy is the treatment of diseases by remedies chosen according to the Law of Similars.<br />All Homeopaths agree on that. Well….most of them.<br /><br />But is that all?<br /><br />How comes that sometimes a remedy, obviously well chosen, works poorly? And this even when the choice is checked by colleagues and teachers, and the same remedy is suggested?<br />How comes that a well-chosen remedy sometimes gives terrible aggravations? Wrong potency, wrong dose, are we told. However, is that really all?<br /><br />Hahnemann, Kent and most of the contemporary Classical homeopaths advocate the use of a single remedy without any interference from any other form of treatment.<br />That is an ideal.<br />But is it always attainable? And is it always justified?<br /><br />In today’s world, we are confronted not only with diseases, acute or chronic, but with a slow intoxication (intoxication is the introduction of external harmful compounds in the organism) and intoxination (intoxination is the flooding of the organism by internally produced harmful compounds, including bacterial toxins) of our organisms, a slow, subtle, insensible but all pervading and almost unavoidable poisoning: adulterated food, water polluted with the best of intentions (Cl, Fluor), polluted air, EMF from computers, TV, phones, power lines, vaccines and medications, etc,…<br /><br />Our “Lebenskraft” (I am using the German word Lebenskraft instead of Vital Force because there has been too many arguments about what Hahnemann really meant by this word, and so many different translations. I do not want to become entangled in useless semantic arguments), Life Energy, Ki, Prana, Ruach, whatever you want to call it, is busy fighting the poisons and the diseases with the help of most of our organs.<br />To treat with Homeopathy, we introduce an artificial disease that is supposed to displace the natural disease. But it does not do that on its own; the remedy needs the involvement of the Lebenskraft and the active participation of all our organs.<br /><br />What if they are too busy just maintaining life? Wouldn’t that explain why a well chosen remedy does not work?<br /><br />What if the supplementary imbalance from the remedy just pushes some organs into a totally chaotic answer instead of starting the repairs? Wouldn’t that explain many unexpected aggravations? <br /><br />Wouldn’t it make sense to prepare the body to heal? Isn’t it logic to optimise the function of each and every organ before the “real” treatment starts?<br /><br />That is the purpose of Drainage, Detoxification and Organotherapy. And it is nothing really new, it was well done and codified by the French School of Homeopathy with famous names like Fortier Bernoville, Duprat, Vannier, Conan Meriadec, Michaud, Allendy, Bastien, Barbier, Nebel, Rouy, Zissu and many others.<br /><br />Many Classical Unicist Homeopaths claim that the Simillimum is its own draining remedy.<br />Yes. Maybe. Sometimes.<br />Undeniably, there are situations where the correct remedy restores the normal physiology and functions so that total health is restored, toxins, poisons, metals, xenobiotics are eliminated and everything is running smoothly forever after.<br />Are you willing to gamble on this affirmation?<br />I am not! <br />I see too often patients receiving the correct prescription without any reaction or at best a very weak one indicating that the remedy was indeed correct but also had its action inhibited.<br />If I can avoid aggravations, complications or lack of efficiency, if I can speed up the recovery of a patient, then I will use whatever is needed.<br />There is no contradiction between Drainage and Hahnemanian Homeopathy.<br />One prepares the way for the other.<br />It is true that sometimes, by unblocking the function of the organism, the Lebenskraft is freed to perform its original task and produces a cure, or at least a sensible amelioration without the prescription of a Simillimum.<br />So what?<br />Isn’t that in absolute agreement with Paragraph 1 of the Organon? “The physician’s highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy, to cure, as it is called”.<br />And indeed detoxification is nothing else but the removal of obstacles to cure.<br /><br />When you plan a long trip in your car, don’t you check and repair it beforehand to ensure a safe trip? Why would you do that for your car and not for your body?<br /><br /><br />Second introduction, aimed at other Natural Medicine practitioners (but Homeopaths could learn something from it).<br /><br />Detoxify! Purify your body! Clean your organs!<br />Our patients are swarmed by advertisements and articles trying to sell them products with health benefits centred on the concept of being full of harmful substances that need to be removed.<br />And many are trying, eventually arriving at the clinic with bags full of empty boxes and no results whatsoever.<br />We know there is truth in the “cleansing mantra”, but we also know we need to give a precise treatment, individualized to the need of each and every patient according to his history, his clinical condition, his pathology and his desire to explore one way rather than another.<br />Yet most of the prescriptions I see are trademark products, the latest combination or the latest special juice from an exotic place, or whatever else. They might work but there is rarely any logic in the matching of the patient with the product, except maybe the financial logic.<br />As health practitioners, as professionals, we are bound to understand not only the patients’ problem but how our remedies, drugs, medications, techniques, whatever we use, work, what they do exactly, when to use them and when not, why use them and why not.<br />That is the aim of this book.<br />Not to teach a technique. But to explain how to use what you already know in a proper way to achieve a proper, effective and safe detoxification; and maybe also to show how others do it and encourage you to explore more in depth different avenues that can complement what you already do. You would not be reading this if you did not want to enhance your knowledge.<br />Homeopaths will find dynamized remedies, Herbalists will find phytotherapic and gemmotherapic remedies, Osteopaths will find some organ adjustments, Naturopaths will find Nutrition and all of the above and everybody could learn about little known but very useful techniques like Lithotherapy, Oligotherapy, Gemmotherapy, Homeobotanical Medicine and others.<br />You will also see the links between those different approaches and how they can blend with each other without loosing their individuality; and you will be able to offer different possibilities and alternatives to patients who might be scared to try some of them for whatever reason.<br />No book can claim to be complete and exhaustive; this one is not different. You might have a very successful way to detoxify that is not listed here. Fantastic! How about publishing it? You might know of yet another herb that could help; let me know.<br />This work is based mainly on my personal experience backed by the vast amount of knowledge and clinical experience of Masters of the Art of Healing. It still is and will continually be a work in progress.<br /><br /><br />Prelude.<br /><br />How did we get there anyway? How comes that earlier practitioners were able to treat many diseases with just a few remedies, and we, with all the accumulated knowledge of centuries of practice and with all the progress in knowledge, cannot match their feats?<br />As I wrote in the introduction, it is exogenous toxicity. Let me be rude, crass and vulgar for a moment: we are completely screwed, we are in deep shit and we have nobody else to blame but ourselves!<br />That does not mean that ONLY exogenous toxins, metals, poisons and xenobiotics are the culprits in the world’s state of health and that all the natural techniques we use are worthless UNLESS we remove them; daily practice shows that this is far from the truth. Nevertheless, many cures could be accelerated or completed with a good cleansing……<br />Genetics, constitution, diathesis, miasm, terrain, whatever you call it, is modified by exogenous toxins:<br />- no matter how strong our genetic background, our constitution is, a poison remains a poison and will act as a poison, all the time, every time<br />- it is the interaction of the poison with the terrain/constitution/genetic that will create either a specific disease or a specific weakness that in turn will allow a disease to emerge<br />- removing the toxins, or at least lowering their level and influence, allows the body to go back towards a more “virginal” terrain that can then be treated more easily with natural (meaning reinforcing the normal, healthy physiological activity) medicine<br />- not doing that explains partial results and failures in the hands of the best practitioners<br /><br />Let me give a few examples of what modern day living and technology is introducing in our bodies and the result thereof, without writing a textbook of toxicology. When looked for, all those substances are found in our bodies.<br />Dioxin: cancers, brain damage, endometriosis<br />PCB: leukaemia and other cancers, heart problems<br /><br />Pesticides and Insecticides: CFS, Parkinson, bladder and colon cancer, <br /> other cancers, heart pathology<br />Phtalates (leaching form plastics): hormonal modifications<br />Styrene and Benzene: hepatitis, leukaemia, encephalopathy, paralysis, convulsions, arrhythmias, cancers, CFS<br />Toluene: nail deformity, menstrual disturbances, liver destruction, haematological problems, MI, depression, paraesthesia, neuropathies, CFS<br />Vinyl: cancer, birth defect, genetic damage, auto-immune diseases<br />Xenoestrogens (mainly phtalates): mimics estrogens and cause early puberty, endometriosis, and gynaecological cancers <br />Fluoride: behavioural changes, arthritis, bone cancers (osteosarcoma), heart, brain, kidney injuries and hormonal changes, thyroid dysfunction<br />Chlorine: increases cholesterol level because of direct damage to vascular endothelium (cholesterol is used to patch the damaged wall); transformed into chloramines and chloroform when comes in contact with proteins, becoming a carcinogen; thyroid dysfunction<br />All the heavy metals: aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and many others are often the “undetected and not thought about” cause of multiple diseases in each and every organ and function of the body; just look up the table of contents of an Internal Medicine textbook, many if not most of the diseases listed there can be mimicked or caused by heavy metals.<br />I should also write about GME, radioactive pollution, EMF pollution (e-fog), etc,…..That would be too much for this book but the association of heavy metals and EMFs brings us to a very interesting phenomenon called “The Antenna Effect”.<br />It appears that people who have heavy metals stored in their bodies have them act as “antennas” and attract, focus, electromagnetic fields around them, causing weird symptoms that cannot be explained otherwise through physiology or physiopathology. The more metals are present, the strongest the antenna effect, the worst the symptoms; no wonder that in time, cellular changes happen and cancers are created; this could very well explain the discrepancies between many studies relating the use of cell phones and the occurrence of brain tumours: should the load in heavy metals in the brain be known, we might well find out that the more metals are present, the earlier and the more aggressive (?) a tumour will be. I would be delusional to believe we can stop the use of cellphones, laptops, computers, wi-fi and other components of electro-smog; at least, through proper detoxification, we can minimise if not completely remove that antenna effect. I refer you to Dr. Yoshiaki Omura’s research for more details.<br />Dr. Robert Becker, in his book “Cross Currents” describes that bacterias in culture exposed to EMFs are “fooled” into sensing this as an immune attack and in reaction secrete much more powerful toxins; through the antenna effect, germs that would otherwise not bother us might become more virulent, especially in patients loaded with heavy metals, compounding the effects of those metals with chronic, virulent infections. More reasons to get rid of the toxic metal burden.<br /><br />The xenobiotics were unknown not so long ago and our bodies are not engineered to deal with them; heavy metal pollution was not as intense as it has been for the last century, even though they were creating havoc for a long time: for example, it is said that the lead pipes bringing water to the Roman households were responsible for the chronic occurrence of brain damage in the Roman population and eventually responsible for the decline and demise of the Roman Empire.<br /><br />All that comes on top of the usual and well-known causes of endogenous toxicity created by liver, kidneys, adrenal, endocrine and other insufficiencies whose origins are found in infections, trauma, malnutrition or dysnutrition and even emotional events. Diabetes, kidney failure, liver failure, hypothyroidism, Addison’s disease are found everywhere in the medical literature dating back to Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, Greek and Roman medicine up until now. Those insufficiencies start at an energetical level where all conventional tests are normal, but can be diagnosed for example through TCM diagnosis, then follow with functional problems where the clinical picture is clearer but still the usual tests are normal or borderline but “still in the acceptable range”, to end with full blown failure when finally the patient stops being considered as suffering from depression or being a malingerer……..organotherapy and drainage at the earliest stage possible will be a lot simpler and save a lot of suffering…and money.<br /><br />Hahnemann clearly states in the Organon that removing the cause of disease is paramount to the success of a treatment: remove from damp living quarters, remove from areas of malaria are examples found in his writings. The same applies today with chronic poisoning of our bodies. All those xenobiotics, chemicals and heavy metals can mimic or cause ANY labelled disease in any body system. How would you expect to cure any of them while their triggers are still present and active?<br /><br />Is there any use to test which exogenous toxins are present (the endogenous almost always appearing in the usual conventional lab work)? As a scientist, I definitely would love to know what I am dealing with; as a homeopath using Isotherapy, it would be useful in order to prescribe a precise isotherapic remedy; as a herbalist and nutritionist it would also be useful in order to fine tune the prescription of herbs and foods or supplements known to selectively remove said toxins. Yet there are some drawbacks:<br />- you would need to test for every known metal and xenobiotic unless there is a clearly documented contamination, in which case no test is needed except in order to know the level of contamination; even if it was possible, the costs would be prohibitive<br />- some useful tests are difficult to perform and very costly, needing specialised laboratories, dioxin for example; very few practitioners would have access to those labs and even fewer patients would be able to cover the costs, as public health generally does not get involved<br />- there are many controversies in the ways of performing and interpreting the results of tests: for example, the ongoing discussion whether hair samples should be washed or not before testing; or what does a certain level of toxin in the hair really mean? The body managing to expel it through dead tissues? A continuing intoxication? Contamination? And the same goes for the absence of a toxin in the hair or in the urine after a provocation test: it does not mean the tissues and organs are not saturated with that toxin, it means only it is not present where you look for it<br />- and last but not least, the discrepancy between the acceptance of the results by practitioners of different specialities: forensic experts rely very much on the results of those tests, sometimes ending up in long jail terms or death penalties where it still exists, whereas many internal medicine specialists scoff at them .. go figure…<br /><br />In any case, practically, I tend to use general detoxification procedures at all times and add to them specific therapies, like Isotherapy, if one of the toxins is known. In all my years of practice, I have used hair mineral analysis only twice, and it was not useful as I could not do the tests again after treatment to objectivate the clinical results, for financial reasons. So, here you go: it would be nice and useful, but it is not indispensable, in my opinion, of course.<br /><br />Shall we proceed to learn how to remove them?<br /><br /><br /><br />More????????? get the book......... :-)Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-23272579760360314632008-04-25T14:47:00.002+12:002008-04-25T14:56:17.645+12:00DYNAMIC GEMMOTHERAPY. Integrative Embryonic Phytotherapy.Here are a few pages of my latest book, Dynamic Gemmotherapy. If that wets your appetite you can buy it at www.lulu.com type dynamic gemmotherapy in the search box. Happy reading and comments are welcome.........<br /><br /><br /><br /> Dynamic Gemmotherapy. <br /><br /> Integrative Embryonic Phytotherapy.<br /><br /> Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD.<br /><br /><br />Copyright Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD and Natura Medica Ltd.<br />All rights reserved for all countries, anywhere, everywhere.<br />Any reproduction by any means, photocopy, electronic or other is strictly forbidden.<br /><br /><br />Claimer.<br /><br /><br />It is customary to find a preliminary Disclaimer in this type of book, which generally says that it does not replace “proper” medical advice, the remedies have not been properly investigated by the FDA or any other organism and that no responsibility is taken for anything happening from the use of the book.<br />All the information contained is this book has been clinically tested by many Medical Doctors and generations of Traditional Healers, Homeopaths, Herbalists, Ayurvedic Doctors and TCM practitioners.<br />We know how it works, we know when it works, we know why it works, we know how and when to use it and for what conditions on which patients.<br />That this practice has not been vouched for by any official representative of the Techno-Chemical Medical Industry is not relevant.<br />This is a book for health practitioners who want to learn something new and different. It is each practitioner’s responsibility and duty to use the knowledge imparted safely and carefully.<br />If you are not a health practitioner and you want to use this for yourself or somebody else, you do that at your own risk and under your own responsibility. Would you buy a textbook of surgery and remove your own gallbladder?<br />Knowledge is here to be shared, not to be hidden and either suppressed because it is too effective or restricted to a few of the elite for their own financial improvement. Knowledge belongs to the people but must be applied safely and diligently by those who understand the instrument properly.<br /><br /><br />Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD.<br />New Plymouth.<br />New Zealand.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dedication.<br /><br /> To all the giants of Natural Medicine on whose shoulders I stand,<br /><br /><br /> To my family who had to withstand my crappy moods while I was trying to write properly in a language that is not my mother tongue,<br /><br /><br /> To all my colleagues who are going to get this book so I can finally have a proper holiday,<br /><br /><br /><br /> Thank you for being there………..<br /><br /><br />Contents.<br /><br />Introduction. 1<br />History and Elementary Principles. 3<br />List of gemmotherapic remedies. 9 <br />Materia Medica of the remedies. 11 <br />Suggested Therapeutic Applications. 129 <br /> Cardiovascular system. 132 <br /> Respiratory system and ENT. 139 <br /> Digestive system. 143 <br /> Reproductive system. 147 <br /> Urinary system. 148 <br /> Osteoarticular system. 150 <br /> Neurology. 155 <br /> Dermatology and Allergology. 158 <br /> Endocrinology and Nutrition. 163 <br /> Paediatric. 169 <br /> Geriatry. 174 <br /> Mental and Psychiatric problems. 177 <br />Clinical Integrated Repertory. 178 <br />Conclusion. 222 <br />References and Bibliography. 223 <br />The Author. 226<br /><br /><br />Introduction.<br /><br />More and more people tend to avoid chemical and pharmaceutical drugs when possible; patients, the consumers of health products, realize that although sometimes useful and lifesaving, those drugs do not cure and are fraught with side effects that are sometimes worse than the disease they claim to treat.<br /><br />Homeopathy, Herbalism, Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine all have answers instead of conventional drugs; but the world of plants is full of surprises, and Gemmotherapy is one of them.<br /><br />I learned this system while still practicing conventional medicine in Belgium. It was very appealing because it combines plant extracts without the need to become a phytotherapist (herbalist) or a homeopath while supported by laboratory research and the clinical experience of medical doctors. For me, it was a link and a gateway between the two worlds. Moreover, there are not too many remedies to study, they cover pretty much most of the pathology seen in a general consultation and they do not taste foul like Western Herbs or Chinese decoctions.<br /><br />Even though I have since studied all those other systems and use them daily in my natural medicine practice, Gemmotherapy has remained a magnificent addition that can solve difficult situations and allow other therapies, more energetic, to act and complete the cure in depth. They are certainly not mutually exclusive and Gemmotherapy can be added to any modality, even conventional medicine, or used on its own.<br /><br />Why “Dynamic Gemmotherapy”? All the books and references I consulted and used over time have in common that they do not relate the gemmotherapic indications to the other ways of practicing medicine that are using the same plants; in doing so, the scope of the remedies becomes limited, too narrow instead of being integrative, as should be expected from the notion that buds contain the whole potential of the adult plant. This is one approach I have tried to correct. <br /><br />And as a respectful salute to Dr. Pol Henry, I have subtitled this book “Embryonic Phytotherapy”, which is the name he gave to this technique. And “Integrative” is there to signify the attempt to link all the different uses of the same plant by different healing modalities.<br />It is worth spending a little time exploring this little known area.<br />Enjoy your trip!<br /> <br /><br />History and Elementary Principles.<br /><br />Pol Henry, a Belgian Medical Doctor, published in 1970 his findings about the use of extracts from buds, rootlets, young shoots and the inner bark of roots.<br />He based his system and choice of plants on his concept of phytosociology, where certain categories of plants are the highest evolutionary organisms in the herbal world, in this case the trees. This is why most of his original remedies are bud extracts from trees; this was balanced and enhanced by the popular and traditional use of shrub extracts he added because of their clear usefulness. <br /><br />Buds, and other young parts, are reservoirs of what is called “primary meristems”, which are young cells with an elevated nucleocytoplasmic balance; in other words, they have a lot more nucleic acids proportionally to mature cells; those are what we would call today the “herbal stem cells”.<br /><br />Meristems are permanent regions of growth; apical meristems are found either at or close to the tips of roots and shoots; as the apical meristems create new cells, the roots and shoots grow; lateral meristems increase the width of the roots and shoots.<br />The same way animal embryonic tissue differentiates in ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, when a bud expands, the apical meristems also differentiate in three primary meristems: the protoderm, that will become the epidermis of the plant with the procambium system; and the ground meristems made of parenchymatous cells that will differentiate into the pith and the cortex.<br /><br />Buds have kept the total anabolic ability of the primitive embryonic cell. They contain nucleic acids, minerals, oligoelements, vitamins, enzymes and most importantly growth factors, the most important of them being Auxins and Gibberellins.<br />Those are Plant Growth Regulators with specific actions, acting in low concentrations and regulating cell enlargement, division, differentiation, organogenesis, aging and dormancy.<br /><br />Auxins are derived from Tryptophan and are also found in human urine; they are similar to indole-3-acetic-acid (IAA); their action is on cell elongation, inhibition of root growth, fruiting without pollinisation, inducing rooting in low concentration and selective inhibition and destruction of some species in higher concentration, hence their use as selective weed killers. They can induce the production of other plant hormones and growth regulators, control secretion and respiration and have many effects on the growth of the plant. Auxins were the first plants hormones to be discovered; they are produced in the apical meristems, buds and young leaves.<br /><br />Gibberellins are synthesized in leaves, accumulate in immature seeds and fruits of certain plants; they initiate the synthesis of hydrolytic and proteolytic enzymes necessary for germination. They increase stem growth, induce flowering and modify the germination conditions; they are commercially used to increase yield of crops.<br />Auxins and gibberellins are thus complementary and the presence of both is necessary.<br /><br />Other Growth Regulators are Cytokinins, Abscicic Acid and Ethylene.<br />Cytokinins are Purines, related to Adenine; they coordinate the simultaneous growth of roots and shoots, they control the development and morphogenesis of the seed and the plant embryo.<br />Abscicic acid is a growth inhibitor and is involved in the wilting of plants.<br />Ethylene, the gas, is involved in the maturing and ripening of the fruits; its production is induced by Auxins; this is well known by the fruit industry that uses ethylene to artificially mature fruits just before they are marketed. <br /><br />Within the buds is contained the totality of the information of the adult plants; therapeutically, it implies that bud extracts will have a wider range of action that either the leaves, the flowers or the roots and that their action will be more powerful and in-depth, needing less remedy and acting faster.<br /><br />Pol Henry naturally called his new therapy “Phytoembryotherapy” but it was soon renamed Gemmotherapy by Dr. Max Tetau who continued and expanded the research. For Tetau and his colleague Bergeret, the main cause of disease is the accumulation of toxins within the cells and organs; in order to promote healing, those toxins must be eliminated and the repair of tissues promoted (actually this is the theory and way of practice of the French Homeopath Leon Vannier and his school).<br /><br />We can then define Gemmotherapy as tissular phytoembryotherapy acting through drainage, stimulation and regeneration of the cells, tissues and organs. Each remedy has precise and intense therapeutic properties, which Tetau calls homeopathic drainage, although there is not real homeopathicity as defined in Classical Homeopathy.<br /><br />Tetau, Bergeret and other French practitioners tend to use Gemmotherapy in combination with herbal tinctures; this practice was first called “Phytotherapie Renovee” (renewed phytotherapy), then “Homeopathie Vegetale” (herbal homeopathy) and is finally now called simply Gemmotherapy, although the association with regular herbal tinctures is still much promoted. Pol Henry’s last book, prefaced by Max Tetau, bears the title: “Gemmotherapie” and the subtitle “Therapeutique par les extraits Embryonnaires Vegetaux” (therapy through vegetal embryonic extracts).<br /><br />The clinical application of Gemmotherapy was documented not only through clinical normalisation of the patient but also through the laboratory test known as Protein Electrophoresis and through the study and normalisation of coagulation patterns. Those are often highly abnormal in a variety of diseases and become normal under the influence of the bud extracts; unfortunately Protein Electrophoresis is very much non specific for named diseases, not allowing a precise conventional differential diagnosis and has become less used and even often not performed in general practice; but it still is a good objective test of biochemical normalisation if it is available.<br />The major experimental researches leading to the clinical indications were made on mice.<br /><br />Activity on neutrophiles and eosinophiles, studying local allergic reactions:<br />- Rosemarinus Officinalis: hepatodigestive allergy<br />- Viburnum Lantana: tracheobronchial allergy<br />- Ficus Carica: mucosal allergy with hypoplasia<br />- Alnus Glutinosa: mucosal allergy with hyperplasia<br /><br />Activity on macrophages, reticulohistiocytic system like the liver Kupfer cells, monocytes, etc,….<br />- Betula Verrucosa<br />- Betula Pubescens<br />- Juglans Regia<br />- Fagus Sylvestris<br />- Ulmus Campestris<br />- Cornus Sanguinea<br /><br />Activity on lymphoplasmocytic cells, immunoglobulin production:<br />- Juglans Regia<br />- Cornus Sanguinea that has also an intense antithrombotic activity, explaining its activity in acute myocardial infarction at 25 drops every 15 minutes of the1X (1D) solution.<br /><br />Activity on erythropoietic cells:<br />- Coryllus Avellana<br />- Abies Pectinea<br />- Most of the Conifers<br /><br />Activity on osteoblasts:<br />- Betula Verrucosa<br />- Abies Pectinea<br /><br />Activity on megacaryocytes and platelets:<br />- Tamarix Gallica<br />- Carpinus Betulus<br /><br />Activity on exsudative phase of infection:<br />- Alnus Glutinosa<br />- Betula Pubescens<br />- Populus Nigra<br />- Fraxinus Excelsior<br />- Ulmus Campestris<br />- Ribes Nigrum<br /><br />Neuro-endocrine activity:<br />- Ribes Nigrum activates the corticosurrenals (adrenal cortex)<br />- Ficus Carica regularises the corticodiencephalic axis, hence, being an anxiolytic, is used in nevroses and psychosomatic disorders<br />- Tilia is a tranquilliser at a level equal to the Benzodiazepines<br /><br />All this will become clearer when we go through each remedy separately in detail.<br /><br />The buds, young shoots and others are collected in the spring. It is a renewable source with the need of large quantities to create the extracts with only one yearly collection time, hence the often high price of the finished products.<br /><br />The original preparation as Pol Henry described it was by maceration in a mix of water, alcohol and glycerine, allowing for the extraction of the totality of the active ingredients. Tetau and his school made the extraction in alcohol and glycerine only, adding the water during the dilution and potentisation process. The macerate yield 1/20th of the dry weight and the potentisation is made in a 1X (1D) potency (potentisation, for those not familiar with the term, is a homeopathic technique that implies dilution of the original extract, here 1 in 9, followed by succussion, which is the energetic hitting of the vial containing the remedy against a solid but elastic surface; this leads to a decrease in potential toxicity through the dilution but an increase in therapeutic efficiency because of the energetic activation of the succussion; for more details, please consult the homeopathic textbooks).<br /><br />This difference has led to controversy. Some therapists claim that the water extraction is missing although in fact the alcohol is never 100% proof, even not 96% but generally 70%, leaving 30% of water for extraction of water soluble substances. The same therapists claim that the 1X (1D) potency is in fact a simple dilution and that no industry really succusses large quantities. They have created what they call concentrates, using the water-alcohol-glycerine extraction method, without dilution/ potentisation. The recommended dosage of the concentrate is 10 times less with the argument that this introduces less alcohol for the patient, which is important especially for children and babies.<br />Using alcohol 70% with glycerine gives a final concentration of 35%, which diluted to 1X (1D) give a 3.5% alcohol concentration, of which 10 to 30 drops are used in infants. You decide if this is relevant…..<br /> <br />On the other hand, potentizing a remedy imparts an increased therapeutic potential, at least in theory, which would be missing in the concentrate: this is simply solved by preparing the drops in a bit of water and succussing before administration.<br />The clinical reports that can be read using either the concentrates or the 1X (1D) give basically the same results and it is recommended you use whatever is available or feel comfortable with. Personally, having used both preparations, I do not see any difference at all.<br /> <br />It appears clearly that Gemmotherapy is a technique separated from all the others: it is not Homeopathy as there has been no proving, the remedy is not matched according to symptoms and signs but through understanding of the physiology, biochemistry and physiopathology of the diseases; it is not Herbal Medicine per se although very close to it: there is very little, if any at all, traditional use of specific young parts of plants as opposed to mature or older parts of plants (e.g. in herbalism you must have a 2 years old root of Echinacea to have an active remedy).<br />Gemmotherapy is a scientific method of prescription taking into account human physiology and physiopathology, plant chemistry and well understood clinical diagnosis; this means not working through labels but through understanding of the mechanism of disease in each and every patient. Individualization of treatment remains the cornerstone of this technique too.<br /><br /><br />List of gemmotherapic remedies.<br /><br />I have listed the international name (Latin, botanical denomination) that is used in the book, then the French and the English popular names in that order, so that you can recognise the plant and also the labels on the bottles. Some providers do label their products with only the common name in use in the country of production and have not yet switched to international nomenclature. Some of the remedies are new and do not appear in older reference books; proper credit will be given when warranted.<br /><br />1. Abies Pectinata Sapin Pectine Red Spruce <br />2. Acer Campestre Erable Champetre Hedge Maple<br />3. Aesculus Hippocastanatum Marronier Horse Chestnut<br />4. Alnus Glutinosa Aulne Glutineux Alder<br />5. Alnus Incarna Aulne Rouge Red Alder <br />6. Ampelopsis Weitchii Vigne Vierge Wild Woodvine<br />7. Betula Alba Bouleau Blanc White Birch<br />8. Betula Pubescens Bouleau Pubescent Common Birch<br />9. Betula Verrucosa Bouleau Verruqueux Silver Birch<br />10. Carpinus Betulus Charme Hornbeam <br />11. Castanea Vesca Chataignier Chestnut<br />12. Cedrus Libani Cedre du Liban Cedar of Lebanon<br />13. Cercis Siliquastrum Arbre de Judee Red Bud<br />14. Citrus Limonum Citronnier Lemon tree<br />15. Cornus Sanguinea Cornouiller Sanguin Blood Twig<br />16. Corylus Avellana Noisetier Filbert, Hazelnut tree<br />17. Crataegus Oxycantha Aubepine Hawthorn<br />18. Fagus Sylvatica Hetre Beech<br />19. Ficus Carica Figuier Fig tree<br />20. Fraxinus Excelsior Frene Ash tree<br />21. Ilex Aquifolium Houx Holly tree<br />22. Juglans Regia Noyer Walnut<br />23. Juniperus Communis Genevrier Juniper<br />24. Ligustrum Vulgare Troene Primworth<br />25. Lonicera Nigra Chevrefeuille Black Honeysuckle<br />26. Malus Sylvestris Pommier Apple tree* <br />27. Olea Europea Olivier Olive tree <br />28. Pinus Montana Pin Mountain Pine<br />29. Platanus Orientalis Platane Oriental Plane tree<br />30. Populus Nigra Peuplier Black Poplar<br />31. Prunus Amygdalus Amandier Sweet Almond<br />32. Quercus Robur Chene Oak<br />33. Ribes Nigrum Cassis Black Currant<br />34. Rosa Canina Rosier Dog Rose<br />35. Rosemarinus Officinalis Romarin Rosemary<br />36. Rubus Fructicosus Ronce Blackberry Vine<br />37. Rubus Idaeus Framboisier Raspberry <br />38. Secale Cereale Seigle Rye grain<br />39. Sequoia Gigantea Sequoia Giant Redwood<br />40. Sorbus Domestica Sorbier Rowan Tree<br />41. Syringa Vulgaris Lilas Common Lilac<br />42. Tamaris Gallica Tamaris Tamaris<br />43. Tilia Tomentosa Tilleul Lime tree<br />44. Ulmus Campestris Orme Elm<br />45. Vaccinum Vitis Idaea Airelle Wine berry<br />46. Viburnum Lantana Viorne Lithy tree<br />47. Viscum Album Gui Mistletoe<br />48. Vitis Vinifera Vigne Grape vine<br />49. Zea Mais Mais Maize<br /><br /><br />* This is a new remedy, my thanks to Philippe Andrianne for the information received.<br /><br />Materia Medica of the remedies.<br /><br /><br />You need to understand this before you read further, so do not skip: as written previously, the Gemmotherapy remedies have the potential healing properties of the whole plant. Therefore I will start by listing their uses in Western and Eastern Herbalism, Aromatherapy, Homeopathy and others when available. This way, should you find a clinical indication that is not listed for Gemmotherapy but is listed for the same plant in another tradition or technique, you might consider using it in bud form instead of the traditional other application, if it does make sense to the totality of your prescription and makes it simpler. Over time, as my clinical experience has grown, it has become clear that this is indeed the case and no matter what is written in the original books of Gemmotherapy, the bud extracts do have all the indications that are mentioned for any part of the plant. Taking that into account, the selection of the remedy needs to focus on the major action of the bud as described by experienced gemmotherapists and decide whether that action might be unnecessary or even harmful according to the actual patient’s situation and the other remedies or drugs this patient is taking. For example, the remedy Ampelopsis Weitchii acts on fibrous tissues and helps their repair while removing the inflammatory component; by the same token it might be a smart idea not to use it in an immediate post-operative situation as it might very much prevent scarring and repair of wounds…….on the other hand, this could be only a theoretical contraindication.<br /><br />Posology: as usual the posology is individual and has to be adapted to the level of energy of the patient and changed according to tolerance.<br />The usual adult dose of the 1X (1D) gemmotherapic remedy will vary: traditionally 50-150 drops either once a day or in 3 doses. If you use the concentrate, the dose will be 5-15 drops. For children and infants, it is suggested to work according to weight as compared to a 70 kilograms adult, bearing in mind that their metabolism is faster, so you should not be too shy in dosing. The first and most frequent symptom of excessive dosage would be nausea; you omit the next administration then reduce the dose. But remember that the remedies act as drainers too, so a high dose early in treatment may and has caused the sudden release of toxins in a body that is not prepared for the assault; you will then find symptoms compatible with the toxin, if known, or more general symptoms, like vertigo, dizziness, nausea, “weird” feelings, etc,…those disappear within a few hours but are a sure indication to start low and slow. In doubt or in a frail patient, start at about a fifth or even a tenth of the dose you would otherwise use and increase gradually. This is also clear indications that repair of the drainage organs (Organotherapy) has to be accomplished before continuing with drainage and detoxification. Do not stick to rigid posology schemes you might find in books, use your intelligence and essentially the patient’s clinical reaction. Remember that those are very powerful remedies; having a “standard” dose written by an “authority” does not mean this is what you have to use; the more problems your patient suffers from, the more he will be susceptible to reactions, so lower the dose accordingly and increase progressively. The worst thing that can happen is that you wasted a few days…..treat safely. And in doubt, start with one drop of the concentrate or 5 drops of the 1X(1D), raise until you reached either the level of tolerance of the patient or the indicated dose. <br /><br />Remember that it is also possible to overdose! One patient of mine, in his zeal to get better, increased Ribes Nigrum to such an extent that he had many symptoms of hyper stimulation of the adrenal glands, especially the medullar part, with tachycardia, chest pains and chest constriction; even though this was also amplified by other remedies and supplements he was wolfing down, it stopped when the Ribes was stopped; this situation was a clear reminder of the powerful pharmacological action of the gemmotherapic remedies.<br /><br /> Using every remedy separately is the preferred method. Although some companies have created ready made complexes with clinical indications, it is always better if, as a practitioner, you create your own formula adapted to each and every patient. You might be willing to use one remedy long term, another short term and another as a trial for symptom relief: why mix them? You cannot separate them, stop one or change the posology. In the clinical part, some examples of administration might be given if it seems relevant, but remember, they would only be examples; as always, individualisation remains the key to successful prescription.<br /><br />Most of the Gemmotherapic remedies work best in combinations through synergy of action. Those synergies are included in the Materia Medica but here too they are certainly not limitative and the practitioner’s creativity will hopefully in time give us many more possible associations. You will find them under “Frequently used combinations” and they reflect the combined experience of therapists as they described it; they seem logical but their inclusion in this book does not mean I endorse them fully, recommend them above any other type of association or exclude any other type of combination.<br /><br />Precautions, interactions and potential side effects have been included when present; it does make sense that if the buds contain all the therapeutic potential of the whole plant, they also contain the problems that could arise from the use of that plant.<br />The limited botanical description of the plants is given purely for the sake of information; no trees or plants were harmed during the writing of this book, with the exception of a high consumption of Camillia Sinensis in the form of Earl Grey Green Tea.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-85698913534975192432008-02-15T11:23:00.000+13:002008-02-15T11:25:18.246+13:00When the perfect Simillimum is not working....Homeopathy is the treatment of diseases by remedies chosen according to the Law of Similars.<br />All Homeopaths agree on that. Well….most of them.<br /><br />But is that all?<br /><br />How comes that sometimes a remedy, obviously well chosen, works poorly? And this even when the choice is checked by colleagues and teachers, and the same remedy is suggested?<br />How comes that a well chosen remedy sometimes gives terrible aggravations? Wrong potency, wrong dose, are we told. But is that really all?<br /><br />Hahnemann, Kent and most of the contemporary Classical homeopaths advocate the use of a single remedy without any interference from any other form of treatment.<br />That is an ideal.<br />But is it always attainable? And is it always justified?<br /><br />In today’s world, we are confronted not only with diseases, acute or chronic, but with a slow intoxication* and intoxination** of our organisms, a slow, subtle, insensible but all pervading and almost unavoidable poisoning: adulterated food, water polluted with the best of intentions (Cl, Fluor), polluted air, EMF from computers, TV, phones, power lines, vaccines and medications, etc,…<br /><br />Our “Lebenskraft”***, Life Energy, Ki, Prana, Ruach, Vital Force, whatever you want to call it, is busy fighting the poisons and the diseases with the help of most of our organs.<br />To treat with Homeopathy, we introduce an artificial disease that is supposed to displace the natural disease. But it does not do that on its own; the remedy needs the involvement of the Lebenskraft and the active participation of all our organs.<br /><br />What if they are too busy just maintaining life? Wouldn’t that explain why a well chosen remedy does not work?<br /><br />What if the supplementary imbalance from the remedy just pushes some organs into a totally chaotic answer instead of starting the repairs? Wouldn’t that explain many unexpected aggravations? <br /><br />Wouldn’t it make sense to prepare the body to heal? Isn’t it logic to optimise the function of each and every organ before the “real” treatment starts?<br /><br />That is the purpose of Drainage, Detoxification and Organotherapy.<br /><br />Many Classical Unicist Homeopaths claim that the Simillimum is its own draining remedy.<br />Yes. Maybe. Sometimes.<br />Are you willing to gamble on this affirmation?<br />I am not!<br />If I can avoid aggravations, complications or lack of efficiency, if I can speed up the recovery of a patient, then I will use whatever is needed.<br />There is no contradiction between Drainage and Hahnemanian Homeopathy.<br />One prepares the way for the other.<br />It is true that sometimes, by unblocking the function of the organism, the Lebenskraft is freed to perform its original task and produces a cure, or at least a sensible amelioration without the prescription of a Simillimum.<br />So what?<br />Isn’t that in absolute agreement with Paragraph 1 of the Organon? “The physician’s highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy, to cure, as it is called”.<br /><br />When you plan a long trip in your car, don’t you check and repair it beforehand to ensure a safe trip? Why would you do that for your car and not for your body?<br /><br />First some history, as indeed it appears that many other famous healers and homeopaths were thinking along the same lines.<br /><br />We meet again our old friends and precursors, Paracelsus and Hippocrates.<br />In his “Commentariae Aphorismos Hippocrati”, Aphorism 21, Paracelsus writes: “When Nature searches for an outlet, the healer must help it find the appropriate place, for Nature is a better healer than man”.<br /><br />Nebel, a Swiss Homeopath from Lausanne, is credited as the first homeopath to use drainage as such and to give it a theoretical formulation; he called the drainage remedies “channelling remedies” (Remèdes canalisateurs). [Nebel. Canalisation. Propagateur de l’Homéopathie 1915]. <br /><br />In an article in 1934 [Homéopathie Moderne 15 Janvier 1934], Nebel attempted to demonstrate that the use of intercurrent remedies, like Nux Vomica, during an antipsoric treatment, as Hahnemann described, is actually a kind of drainage, and by doing so, that Hahnemann used drainage during his treatments without identifying it.<br /><br />Nebel was treating tuberculous patients and demonstrated that by adding drainage techniques to the homeopathic treatment, his patients had very little aggravations and were improving faster.<br /><br />Rouy, a student of Nebel, made a distinction between drainage and channelling. Drainage uses remedies that are known for their physiological action on an organ, whereas channelling is the use of antidotal or complementary remedies with the Simillimum to direct and control its “excesses”, its aggravations.<br /><br />Roland Zissu extended that notion into homeopathic drainage and organopathic drainage.<br />Homeopathic drainage uses low potencies of remedies that are complementary to the Simillimum and are selected upon the local symptoms and signs, or medium potencies of complementary remedies selected upon more general symptoms and signs, for the purpose of preparing the action of the Simillimum and prevent aggravations. [NB: for Zissu and other contemporary French homeopaths, a low potency is 3X, 5X, 3 to 5 CH, a medium potency 7-9CH].<br />Organopathic drainage uses remedies known, often through Herbal Medicine, to have a pharmacological action on the target organ, or remedies that have strong homeopathic signs and symptoms linked to an organ, like the scapular pain of Chelidonium used in liver drainage.<br /><br />Many other authors, French in general, refined the definition and use of drainage (Fortier-Bernouville, Duprat, Allendy, Tetau, Conan Meriadec, Maury whose booklet has been translated in English, etc,…).<br /><br />Drainage will cause a specific functional stimulation of the organism or of the target organ(s) through remedies specifically selected either through local or loco-regional symptoms and signs, or through known physiological activity on the targeted organ or tissue.<br />Channelling will control the effects of the Simillimum by modulating its action; that is why channelling remedies are complementary or antidotes to the Simillimum.<br />For practical purposes, if drainage has been done correctly before giving the Simillimum, there should not be any need for a channelling remedy.<br />Alternatively, if drainage has not been done, one or more channelling remedies should be administered in low potency with the Simillimum during its period of activity, if need be.<br />Draining before the Simillimum will optimise the function of the organs, draining after the Simillimum will complete the elimination and the cleansing. Channelling before or with the Simillimum will modulate its action and avoid aggravations and complications.<br /><br />Drainage respects Hering’s Law: it has to go from inside out, from the most important organs to the less important ones. This means that a drainage therapy targeted towards the nervous system should show an improvement of the nervous symptoms associated with, for example, an increase in urine output, or some mild diarrhoea, or a skin eruption. But if the kidneys are drained and nervous symptoms appear, something is wrong and the situation should be reassessed.<br /><br />Classical homeopaths, unicists, should not despair! There is a way to respect the single remedy mantra and to perform drainage.<br />First of all you must be certain of your Simillimum; then instead of going straight to a high potency, the same remedy is first given in low potency and worked up to the desired higher potency. It is not exactly a single dose, but it is still a single remedy. It respects the concept that the remedy is its own drain and the concept of using a low potency to cleanse, prepare the organs.<br />The use of ascending LM potencies is an example of inadvertent drainage where the remedy is its own drain. Margaret Tyler’s technique of ascending potencies (30, 200, 1M) is also akin to that way of thinking, although the purpose is not drainage.<br /><br />Roland Zissu [Matière Médicale Homéopathique Constitutionnelle] introduced the notion of Miasmatic Drainage, with different remedies according to the miasm involved. This is actually another presentation of the old notion of prescribing a nosode when the properly indicated remedy is not working or removing a miasmatic block. When should it be done and why not do it in every case before, or after, the Simillimum is a totally different discussion.<br />According to Zissu, and as practised today, we will use different draining remedies according to the symptoms:<br />- localised symptoms, like the base of the lung (Chelidonium Right lung, Ranunculus Left lung)<br />- tissular symptoms: skin (Fumaria, Saponaria), serous membranes (Bryonia) <br />- organ symptoms: spleen, (Ceonanthus), kidneys (Berberis)<br />- biochemical symptoms, depending which product has to be removed: uric acid (Urtica), poisons, antibiotics (isopathic)<br /><br />We should by now realise that drainage is the use of a localised, specific, targeted Simillimum; we use the totality of the symptoms of the organ, tissue,… with its modalities to choose a remedy, or a few remedies if need be.<br />There is absolutely no antagonism between unicism and drainage; these are complementary techniques based on a sound understanding of physiology and pathology.<br /><br />The low potencies that are used, from tincture to 3X or 3C, induce cellular activity of short duration; the low potencies work better on cells, organs and tissues, they have a short action, quasi pharmacological, and they need repetition for their action to be sustained. Slightly higher potencies, up to 5C or 6C might be used or added if we want to act also on a cellular or tissular energetic level.<br /><br />A great supporter of drainage, Dr. Michel Guillaume, wrote: “The concept of drainage in homeopathy has no other purpose than to be functional. Indeed, it has the merit of allowing the global understanding of a pathological case and to better adapt the corresponding homeopathic treatment” (free translation from Basses Dilution et Drainage en Homéopathie, Coulamy & Jousset, page 338). <br /><br />Detoxication, or detoxification, meaning the removal of toxic substances, poisons that are compromising the proper function of the organism, is often used interchangeably with drainage. At the risk to appear as a nit-picker and hair-splitter, there is nevertheless a difference, and not only semantic.<br />Drainage prepares the excretory organs to function adequately, to remove those toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, that have been interfering with proper physiological functions; but are they ready to go?<br />When the toxic substances are localised in the organs themselves (liver, kidneys, skin, intestines), the functional stimulation of the draining remedies is often enough to trigger their elimination by resetting the physiology to normal; therefore, whatever should not be there is rejected.<br />But as we well know, many harmful substances are stocked in places where they can do the least harm like the fatty tissues or even the bones and joints; that is one of the reasons for many patients labelled as “arthritic” but where all the tests and radiographies are normal, keep suffering until a proper detoxification is done; the classical example of this is gout with deposits of uric acid in the joints and “gouty arthritis”; clear the uric acid, the gout is cured. Many overweight and obese patients cannot loose any weight no matter what they do; diet, exercise, treatments, everything fails; this is actually a clear warning sign of intoxication as removing fatty tissues would free the toxins and create disease or even death, therefore not fat loss will be allowed. Only after completing a full detoxication will weight loss be permitted and successful.<br />So how do we proceed? Clearly if we know which substance is involved, an isotherapic treatment is indicated. A low potency of the guilty compound will trigger its elimination; we have all been told the story of the patient who was dying from chronic arsenic poisoning and was given a dose of potentised Arsenicum Album with the effect of having arsenic pour out of his skin in a white powder (unfortunately, I could not find the original text); many have used potentised Petrol or the remedy Diesel Fumes to treat patients with sensitivity to gasoline; and more and more remedies like VDU and Cellphone are created and prescribed with success for the effects of electromagnetic fields. This is detoxification. <br />When there is no specific substance involved, or if there are too many suspects, the time honoured alternation of Sulphur 6C in the morning and Nux Vomica 6C in the evening has almost always been effective. Should that be anathema to the purist classical homeopath? Certainly not! This is not homeopathy; it is general detoxication using potentised substances.<br />All this is very nice and well, but what if the organs have been compromised, are not functioning properly and no matter how much stimulation is given through the drainage remedies, it isn’t working?<br />We need to repair the organs, and that is the field of Organotherapy.<br />One approach to Organotherapy is the use of herbs known as stimulating repair and growth of the organs. <br />Let’s look at the liver: Silybum Marianum (St Mary’s thistle) and Cynara Scolymus (artichoke) are well known for that purpose, even used in injection in conventional medicine for acute liver failure (Silybum extract); the Gemmotherapic Cedrus Libani is another one, the Homeobotanical remedy L yet another one. Almost every single organ or function has a few corresponding remedies to induce repair and growth available; we just have to learn them.<br />Another approach is to use the potentised organ itself: Liver 4C, Kidney 4C, any involved organ can and has been potentised and used (4C stimulating, 7C regulating and 9C depressing according to the French theory, but in practice any potency will do what is needed to stimulate repair and proper function). Potentised organs provide the template for the repair and are often if not always used with the appropriate remedies as described in the previous paragraph. The same dried and lyophilised organs can also be ingested and provide the exact amino acid profile needed as building blocks for the repair, but that becomes the field of nutrition.<br /><br />As you can see, there are many ways of creating proper circumstances for your perfect Simillimum to work; but you must be aware of those obstacles and be able to use other tools to reignite your patient’s Vital Force and ability for reaction, repair and cure. <br /><br />Footnotes:<br />* intoxication is the introduction of external harmful compounds in the organism<br /><br />** intoxination is the flooding of the organism by internally produced harmful compounds, including bacterial toxins<br /><br />*** I am using the German word Lebenskraft instead of Vital Force because there has been too many arguments about what Hahnemann really meant by this word, and so many different translations. I do not want to become entangled in useless semantic arguments.<br /><br /><br />Bibliography.<br />Drainage, Detoxification and Organotherapy: to be published in 2008 by the author of this essay.<br />The Organon of Medicine, 6th Edition, Samuel Hahnemann translated by Wenda O’Reilly.<br />Matiere Medicale Homeopathique Constitutionelle, Vol 1 & 2, Roland Zissu, Editions Boiron.<br />Basses Dilutions et Drainage en Homeopathie, A. Coulamy, C. Jousset, Editions Similia.<br />Le Drainage. Dr. Patrick Pilard. Editions Similia.<br />Drainage in Homeopathy. Dr. E.A. Maury. C.W. Daniel Company.<br />Rademacher’s Universal and Organ Remedies. Ramseyer A.A. B. Jain PublishersDr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-40810395287432326802008-02-14T11:05:00.002+13:002008-02-14T11:10:22.780+13:00The Empire strikes back, Part 2......Just so all details are clear, here is my Curriculum Vitae up to today, if anyone is interested:<br /><br /><br /><br />Born in Brussels, Belgium, March 14, 1951<br />Medical School Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, graduated 1976<br /><br />Specialty in General Surgery: 2 years at Soroka Medical Center, Beersheva, Israel<br /> 4 years various hospitals in Belgium<br />Belgian Specialist Surgeon 1982<br /><br />Specialty in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada<br /><br />Diploma in Acupuncture, ABMA (Belgian School of Acupuncture for MDs)<br /> Member of the NZ Institute of Acupuncture <br /> Member of the NZ Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture<br /> Society (Registered Acupuncturist)<br /> Member of the NZ Federation of Chinese Medical Science<br /> Currently preparing Oriental Medicine Doctorate (OMD)<br /><br />Specialist in Homeopathy: British Institute of Homeopathy, Diploma, Post Graduate<br /> And Fellowship<br /> Institut Homéopathique Scientifique, Paris<br /> Israel Medical College of Homeopathy<br /> Westbrook University, Aztec, New Mexico, USA<br /> Diploma in Homotoxicology<br /> PhD in Homeopathy, Westbrook University<br /> RCHom New Zealand<br /> <br /><br />Specialist in Phytotherapy (Herbal Medicine):<br /> The School of Phytotherapy, UK<br /> Member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists<br /> Member of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy<br /> Member of the NZ Association of Medical Herbalists<br /><br />Diploma in Nutrition: the International Academy of Nutrition, Australia<br />Diploma in Applied Clinical Nutrition (USA)<br />Fellow of the American College of Applied Clinical Nutritionists<br /><br />Diploma in Homeobotanical Therapy, Australia<br />Post-Graduate Diploma of Dynamic Phytotherapy <br /><br />Doctor in Naturopathy (UNM/YINS)<br />PhD in Natural Health Sciences (UNM/YINS)<br /><br />Currently preparing a Doctorate in Osteopathy (Drugless) (D.O.)<br /><br />Miscellaneous: Auriculotherapy, Bach Flower Remedies, Aromatherapy, <br /> Reflexology, Iridology, Reiki Master<br /><br />Member of the NZ Natural Medicine Association<br /><br /><br /><br />Former Lecturer in Medical Diagnostics at the Faculty of Chiropractics and Homeopathy, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa.<br /><br />Former Lecturer in Homeopathy at the Israeli Medical College of Homeopathy.<br /><br />Tutor with the British Institute of Homeopathy (Homeopathy, Anatomy & Physiology, Pathology, Diagnostics and Nutrition)<br /><br />Non Medical qualifications: Diploma of Creative Writing from the NZ Institute of <br /> Business Studies.<br /> First Dan Black Belt Aikido<br /> Second Dan Black Belt Karate<br /> Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan Practitioner<br /> Yoga PractitionerDr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-88064931487420403182008-02-13T09:46:00.001+13:002008-02-14T11:04:40.899+13:00The Empire strikes back.........Guess what.......a few days ago I received a letter from the Ministry of Health requesting that I stop using the letters MD after my name! a "member of the public" complained he or she was "misled into believing I was registered to practice conventional medicine in New Zealand".<br />I have always been clear and adamant that I AM NOT REGISTERED AS A CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL DOCTOR, GP OR OTHER, TO PRACTICE CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE IN NEW ZEALAND, neither do I want to.<br />My educated guess is that someone is trying to hurt my practice and unfortunately I have been able to limit the potential cretins who would like to do that to two "colleagues" from the natural medicine world and to one fraud I have exposed as such.<br />Of course the Ministry would not tell me who complained, the procedure is anonymous, perfect for gutless cowards.<br />It does not matter that I have earned the Doctor of Medicine degree in a prestigious University, that I am still able to practice in South Africa, in Israel and in the whole of the European Union should I want to (after paying my registrations fees), if one is not registered with the NZ Medical Authorities, it is illegal to use those initials.<br />I do not have the time or the money to fight that in court, so I decided it was indeed time to cut the residuals of my medical umbilical cord and to remove all the alphabet soup that I could list after my name (last time I tried, there were 3 full lines of letters) and to keep only the generic NMD, Natural Medicine Doctor, which after all covers everything I do.<br />My past eduction and my knowledge cannot be taken away, and I will still use them for the good of my patients.<br />So here you have it, if you read this blog (and for the authorities who might monitor it....), you won that skirmish but in fact you made me stronger inasmuch as there is no more lingering or longing for a way of medical practice that I am not using any more, at least the therapeutic aspect.<br />I must add, in all honesty, that the communication with the Ministry was courteous and polite, and although I did not enjoy this event, I appreciated the way it was handled (Yes Minister, Kiss Kiss Minister, Whatever you say Minister, Two bags full Minister......).<br /><br />Here is my new signature:<br /><br />Dr. J Rozencwajg, NMD.......without the alphabet soup......Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-91523374006086417922007-12-17T13:59:00.000+13:002007-12-17T14:04:38.599+13:00Drop doses in Herbal MedicineHerbalists often use standard doses of 5 mls 3 x/day of the prescribed tincture. Here is an article I wrote about the use of drop doses, a lot cheaper and better tolerated.<br />It was published in Avena, Journal of the New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists, Summer 2007 and is reproduced here with permission of the Editor.<br /><br />The use of drop doses in herbal medicine.<br /><br />Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD.<br /><br /><br />Like most of us, I have been taught the standard dosage of herbal tinctures as 5mls TID of the mixture prescribed to the adult patient and in proportion to body weight for children.<br />Within my first few prescriptions, I was confronted with two problems: the filthy taste of the remedies (take it in juice solved that one), and the high price. Another one appeared soon: the solutions were working well but with many digestive side effects. Following in the footsteps of my guru Sammy Hahnemann, I started reducing the doses and to my “surprise” (or should I write “as expected”), the efficiency was as good, while the side effects faded away and the price became a lot more affordable.<br />Nowadays, depending upon the perceived sensitivity of the patient, I start with 5 drops TID, climbing to a cruising dose of 30 drops TID, if need be.<br />Some very sensitive patients are having good results with 1 (ONE) drop in a glass of water, sipping during the day. The homeopath in me is not surprised, but how could that happen in terms of phytopharmacology and physiology? Yet I am not alone to practice that way in the herbal world: a few years ago, the famous herbalist Henrietta Kress was asked on a discussion list “what is the minimal dose of remedy that would work”; her answer was “one drop, if the remedy is well indicated”.<br />And that is where the secret lies: the proper, precise choice of the remedy or mix of remedies.<br />Let’s look at two examples from my practice; unfortunately I am not allowed to present the full cases, so a summary will have to do.<br />An elderly patient with heart failure and irregular pulse; he was given high doses of Crataegus, to no avail. He also complained of a painful sensation in the liver area and a feeling as if the heart would stop when turning in bed. All those symptoms put together are typical of Digitalis; yet digitalis or its conventional refined alkaloid digoxin is not often prescribed due to the closeness of therapeutic and toxic levels….at classical, conventional doses. I prescribed Digitalis 3X, which is a one –thousandth dilution (1:1000), 3 drops 3x/day; all symptoms disappeared within a few days.<br />Another patient (one out of a few with the same story) was having liver and gallbladder “problems”, not very specific. I was considering the usual mix of a few liver remedies while conducting the anamnesis, when the systematic questioning brought out the specific symptom that there was an associated pain at the tip of the right shoulder blade at the same time there was an increase of the liver/gallbladder symptoms; this is a keynote of the remedy Chelidonium which was prescribed at 1 drop 3 times/day of the tincture, with complete resolution of all the liver symptoms.<br />At those very low doses, the risk of intoxication or bad reaction is clearly almost nil, except for an allergic reaction.<br />How does it work? Conventional pharmacology teaches us that we need a certain amount of substance to act on receptors, enzymatic reactions or any other mechanism to have an effect and implies a dose-related effect: the higher the dose, the stronger the action, up to toxicity, and there is a linear relation.<br />Let me introduce you to the old and purposely forgotten pharmacological Law of Arndt-Schultz: low doses stimulates, medium dose regulates and high dose depresses; you will find this in old pharmacology textbooks, but is considered as a fluke, an abnormality by modern pharmacologists; nevertheless this has been demonstrated many times in laboratory conditions: when the dose of an active substance is sufficiently low, it often acts in the opposite way a high dose would; the dose-related, linear relation is always present at higher doses, the so-called therapeutic doses of conventional medicine and conventional phytotherapy.<br />The drop dose technique is situated at the extreme lower end of the linear relation, closer or within the area of regulation; therefore it still has the therapeutic potential of conventional dosage while regulating the systems it addresses but not yet presenting an inversion of indications, although this latter part is inherent to the therapeutic effect of the remedy.<br />It is within this area of pharmacology that the Homeobotanical remedies do work: they have the attributes of the herbal remedy and the attributes of the homeopathic remedy without the potential toxicity of the high herbal doses and the deeper effects of the homeopathic remedies.<br />Although Homeobotanical remedies are potentised (or dynamized, succussed, if you prefer) before using them, clinical experience with single herbs in dilution but not potentised has demonstrated clear efficiency.<br />Many herbalists consider homeopathy and potentised remedies as bogus science; so be it, it is not my purpose to discuss this here. Nevertheless the clinical information contained in homeopathic materia medicas overlaps and completes the one we find in phytotherapic textbooks, and reciprocally. Using that knowledge increases and widens the indications of many of our herbs while giving us the potential to use them more effectively, more sparingly and at lower cost to the patient.<br />The only effort has to come from our side, to know our herbs more in detail, to understand how they are used within different modalities so that we can have more precise and refined tools for cure.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-91491586296136308742007-11-28T13:58:00.000+13:002007-11-28T14:07:28.216+13:00Natural and simple treatment for BCC and SCC skin cancerSummer is upon us and with it the hysteria about the cancer inducing effects of the sun. Of course, nobody should expose himself for too long in the middle of the day, that is common sense! If you are cold and get close to a fire to warm up, are you going to get into the fire to get warmer?<br />Nevertheless, some people end up with skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma.<br />Conventional treatment with surgery is often mutilating and painful.<br />I have designed a very simple way using a vegetable many of us grow in their gardens or buy in the supermarket.<br />You can download a power point presentation at www.nzamh.org.nz/research.asp with all the details, the techniques and some striking results.<br />It is free, you can copy it and forward it, just be nice and mention your reference as I would like to receive pictures before and after treatment for statistical analysis.<br />Enjoy the summer!Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-38496783493147457502007-11-23T16:45:00.000+13:002007-11-23T16:47:39.137+13:00How does energy medicine work?Ever wondered how the information from remedies, medications, acupuncture needles,or other forms of therapies is transmitted to the proper receptor? Here is what I wrote about that last year....<br /><br />Transmission of energetic information in the body: its relevance to homeopathic remedies and to other energetic healing approaches.<br /><br />No matter how we decide upon a homeopathic prescription, the final step will always be the transmission of the information contained in the remedy to the target, be it a specific organ, a function or an operating system at the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual level.<br />Through what mechanism does that happen? How is it that the same point of entry, generally the mouth, is able to act anywhere in the body when there is no material substance involved as in conventional pharmacology? Is there a common mechanism with other energetic forms of therapy?<br /><br />Speed of action.<br />Especially in acute situations, a correct remedy would have an almost immediate effect but with a measurable time delay, although never the same due to the variability of situations, patients or intensity of symptoms. This time delay excludes a transmission through the nervous system where the nerve impulse, although measurable, is too fast to be perceptible to human senses and appears almost as an immediate reaction. <br />By the same token it also eliminates endocrine reactions, as those are too slow, needing recognition of the stimulus by the gland, fabrication and excretion of the hormone, arrival to the target and action time.<br />This is a clear parallel with the speed of action of acupuncture or auriculotherapy. Once a needle is inserted, especially if using a single needle approach, there is also a delay in reaction even though the patient often describes it as immediate but nevertheless can also describe the different phases of action, like “I feel something is arriving there, now I feel as if a weight is lifted, there is some heat, now everything is normal”, again pointing towards a slower action than the nervous system would provide but indeed faster than any metabolic or endocrine mechanism could explain.<br /><br />The acupunctural approach.<br />It has long be claimed that acupuncture points are low resistance areas through which the needle inserted changes the electrolytic arrangement of the fluids located between organs and tissues; indeed most if not all meridians have their pathways between organs and tissues. Yet that electrolyte rearrangement has never been really proved.<br />C.W. Smith in 1988 demonstrated that when injecting radioactive isotopes at acupuncture points, they would travel along the meridians at the speed of 3 to 5 cm per minute, and that this speed would be diminished when the related organ is diseased (1)<br />Recently, Fei & all. have demonstrated that the transmission of information along the meridians effectively happens through a structural modification in the liquid crystals of water along the meridian (2). This has been reinforced by the recent studies of Emoto about the formation of different water crystals in different circumstances; even if his research is challenged as not being reproducible by other researchers, nevertheless the fact that the same H2O molecules can reorganize themselves differently according to different stimuli cannot be denied any more. But this is not a new discovery: although I could not find the written reference, one of the most ancient experiments in water crystallography has been to document ice crystals brought from high mountains, let them thaw at room temperature, refreeze them and realize that they were crystallizing in exactly the same pattern as before; yet when melted with heat, the new crystals were totally amorphous.<br />And this is exactly what has been claimed about homeopathic remedies: that the water retains the crystalline organization imbued on it by the original substance and that this structural arrangement has the ability to act on receptors, otherwise known as “Water Memory”.<br />The water molecule is not linear but presents an angle of 104.5 degrees, creating a dipole moment; short-range interaction, hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces link the water molecules in a network, which is even better seen in three dimensions in ice. While the temperature is below 100C, it appears that those bonds can create the shape of tetrahedral volumes that form and remain stable, leading to areas of quasi-crystalline structures (Stillinger, 1980 (3) cited in Bellavite and Signori (4) pg 247). Those structures change when a different molecule is introduced in the solution and create a phenomenon known as “vicinal water” (ref 4, pg 248), which is denser than normal water and freezes way below zero. Vicinal water is implicated in biological communication systems (5). It also appears that water molecules participate in the transfer of protons during biochemical reactions, like a wire carrying an electrical charge. At boiling temperature (i.e. 100C) the water molecules are agitated by forces stronger than the hydrogen bonds and the van der Waals forces, losing their geometric arrangement and their ability to retain information. This explains simply the traditional use of boiling vessels that contained homeopathic remedies before reusing them; it is the equivalent of fully erasing a diskette or a tape before the next use.<br />Every stimulus carries some information that will be transmitted by the most appropriate net and often by all of them. But the nervous system can only transmit information in the form of electrical impulses after a threshold of stimulation has been reached. The meridian system works differently; a stimulus/information given at a receptor (= acupuncture point or meridian opening) will act on the structure of the water molecules as described above, modifying their geometry and their electrical or electromagnetic potential; once that information reaches the target which is ready and in need of receiving it, it acts upon it and ideally restores the organ or function to integrity; other parts that are not in need of that information do not react to it and behave as if it was nothing but “white noise”. <br />The meridian system is the first information net that develops in the embryo and remains functional to the adult state (Shang, ref # 6); because it is relatively slow, it is replaced for fast information by the nervous system and enhanced by the endocrine system in order to provide slower but deeper action. All those systems remain interconnected and act on each other as is well know in conventional medicine and physiology under the label “psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrine system”.<br />How does this have any implication with homeopathy? <br />Homeopaths mostly prescribe their remedies to be taken orally, held in the mouth until complete dissolution if using globules or until disappearance if using drops or teaspoons of liquid.<br />All the meridians open up in the mouth, either directly or through a branch. <br />The Lung Meridian passes by the throat. <br />The Large Intestine Meridian enters the lower gum; its direct connection with the Lung Meridian allows for the latter’s connection with the mouth.<br />The Stomach Meridian penetrates the maxilla in the upper gum.<br />The Spleen Meridian reaches the root of the tongue and disperses over it lower surface.<br />The Heart Meridian has no direct connection to the mouth, but an indirect one through the Small Intestine Meridian that travels to the cheek and the mandible.<br />The Bladder Meridian has no direct connection to the mouth, but is linked to the Kidney Meridian, which end at the root of the tongue.<br />The Pericardium Meridian has no direct connection but is linked with the Triple Burner whose trajectory includes winding down around the cheek.<br />The Gallbladder Meridian travels down the cheek after running on the mandible.<br />A branch of the Liver Meridian runs through the cheeks and contours the inside of the lips.<br />Moreover, they are all linked at many levels to the Governor Vessel and the Conception Vessel which are both ramifying in the mouth. (7).<br /><br />Therefore it makes sense to conclude that the remedy directly modifies the water crystalline structure of the meridians, hence transmitting the information to the whole body, the same way the acupuncture needles do through the skin. A remedy that is not a proper Simillimum, but a partial one, will modify the water structure according to its nature but the end result on the receptors or the target organs or functions will be an incomplete match resulting in a partial action and remaining or recurring symptoms. If the incorrect stimulation persists through improper multiple repetitions of the wrong remedy with partial action, the receptors themselves might be modified either temporarily, giving the symptoms and signs we look for in a proving, or permanently, giving the seldom encountered but dreaded grafting of symptoms, which we know is very difficult to reverse.<br /><br />This imparts also some logic to the widely held practice of taking homeopathic remedies on a clean mouth: the receptors must be empty from any other substance and we know that the stronger a substance is (spices, oils....) the longer it will linger in the mouth, as a lasting taste or sensation remaining long after swallowing testifies.<br />It also gives more weight to the practice of liquid doses as a globule dissolved in water will provide more information throughout the mouth than just sucking a globule or a small granule where the probability of stimulating the proper meridian is slightly less.<br />When the mouth is unavailable, we teach to rub the liquid remedy on the inner parts of the wrist or the bend of the elbows as being very effective. It is at those places that are located the major acupuncture command points of the Yin meridians and the origins of the connecting vessels between Yin and Yang meridians, giving again a logical explanation to a traditional use.<br /><br />Wrist: Taiyuan (Lung 9), Daling (Pericardium 7), Shenmen (Heart 7)<br />Bend of the elbow: Chize (Lung 5), Quze (Pericardium 3), Shaohai (Heart 3)<br /><br /><br />This explanation can be expanded to include every other energetic form of medicine.<br />Reiki practitioners use energy to modify functions; even though a general treatment is the preferred method, local application of Reiki and distance healing could work through the same pattern of information transmitted via the meridian system. Qigong practitioners use a form of energetic acupuncture by “injecting” Qi in the appropriate acupuncture points without the use of needles. I have often used this technique by administering locally the energy of a remedy in the local acupuncture points without touching the patient (it works best, in my hands, for local acute problems but I had a few successes with chronic local problems; the therapy is purely symptomatic and offers relief and time for a more general treatment).<br />Rife therapy, by applying specific electromagnetic frequencies, would reach its target the same way. The vibrational aspect of essential oils, the potentised part of Homeobotanical remedies, all are eventually coming together as transmission of information through the archaic meridian system, with the additional benefit of a gentle pharmacological action. <br />The pharmacological part of medicine, be it all the different forms of herbalism (Western, Chinese, Ayurveda,…) or even drug therapy, would certainly have an impact on the meridian system, explaining the puzzling effects that very low doses still act, albeit in the opposite way (Arndt-Schultz Law). A very famous herbalist, asked what the minimal dose required to act was, answered “one drop, if the herb is well chosen”.<br />Osteopathy appears to be a purely mechanistic therapy; yet its use in treating internal diseases like asthma, hypertension, digestive or gynecological problems, although explained in the textbooks through stimulation and correction of the ortho- and parasympathetic systems, correlates very well with the locations of acupunctural “command” areas. For example, asthma and respiratory problems will often be treated through adjustments around Thoracic 3 corresponding to Bladder 13, Shu point of the Lung Meridian. <br /><br />Understanding this mode of transmission allows us to realize that any method can and will have an effect on the human physiology. It is the precise choice and judicious application of that method that makes it more indicated than another for a specific patient or a specific problem. It once again demonstrates the need for a wider knowledge of different methodologies. But it also demonstrates that all those therapeutic methods are absolutely logical and can be explained through a deeper understanding of biophysics, quantum mechanics, information processing. The knowledge is there, the experiments are made and published, and it is up to us to use them for the benefit of our patients and the propagation of our science.<br /><br /><br /><br />References.<br />1. Smith C. W. Biological coherence and response to external stimuli. Springer Verlag, Berlin, p. 205<br />2. Fei Lun & al. Experimental exploration and research prospect of physical bases and functional characteristics of meridians. Science Bulletin 1998 43(15): 1233-1251<br />3. Stillinger, F. H. 1980, Water revisited. Science 209:451<br />4. Bellavite & Signori: The emerging science of homeopathy. North Atlantic Books 2002.<br />5. Bistolfi, F. 1989 Radiazioni non ionizzanti, ordine, disordine e biostrutture. Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino<br />6. Shang, C. Electrophysiology of growth control and acupuncture. Life Sci. 2001 Feb 9; 68(12): 1333-42<br />7. Ellis, Wiseman. Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, 1991. Paradigm Publications.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> 6Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-48594013062143349842007-11-23T16:37:00.001+13:002007-11-23T16:41:15.661+13:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3iZcP2sIiqYilvuYcZMRs5wyYlwK7u7XQ3i-AvpJGrPBT9fTapSL4omH2eh-YhWp26iVHkKfLI2ev6_TWm7luWjv8WFzEnB5GZkVDsXGjZWMf6HJ8BtrS3Ua3wRTI6_cDK551PRwnpB4d/s1600-h/Ma+sale+gueule.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3iZcP2sIiqYilvuYcZMRs5wyYlwK7u7XQ3i-AvpJGrPBT9fTapSL4omH2eh-YhWp26iVHkKfLI2ev6_TWm7luWjv8WFzEnB5GZkVDsXGjZWMf6HJ8BtrS3Ua3wRTI6_cDK551PRwnpB4d/s320/Ma+sale+gueule.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135875218817546498" border="0" /></a>Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005379939587989327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208313315200975621.post-48466963232952817352007-11-21T12:39:00.000+13:002007-11-21T13:16:17.989+13:00First post.........<span style="font-family: arial;">Well, let's start, and here is an article I wrote a few months ago regarding the dangers of the energy saving light bulbs.....of course no paper accepted to publish it and when sent to the Green Party, was never acknowledged or published anywhere........so much for honesty and concern about the environment.......<br /><br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Energy savings: a potential ecological, environmental and health hazard.</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Saving energy is the right thing to do nowadays and nothing is easier than replacing old incandescent light bulbs with the modern ones that use less electricity to produce the same amount of light, last longer and are often presented as having a more natural and healthier light spectrum.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">We should all happily embrace that victory of science and technology and shower thanks on the inventors and manufacturers of this modern day simple weapon against pollution and global warming.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Does that sound sarcastic? Because it is.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Suspicious as I am that something that sounds too good to be true indeed is not that good, I tried to find out how this modern marvel works. That was not very difficult, it is all over the internet; in fact it works very much the same way as the fluorescent lights do, but the gas used is Mercury gas.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Yes, mercury!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">The amount of mercury in each bulb varies from 4 mg to 10 mg, with a majority of them around 5 mg.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">The World Heath Organization (WHO) considers that a “safe” exposure to mercury is 0.05 mg/m3 for a maximum of 8 hours/day.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">This means practically that should one bulb break, its 5 mg contents would contaminate a 100 cubic meter volume, or a volume of 4.65 meter in length, width and height or 7.07meters in length and width with a height of 2 meters. According to the US EPA rules, this type of contamination compels you to call the Environment agency that would send technicians in hazmats to decontaminate the area.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">So imagine you are changing a light bulb in your house, it falls from your hands and it breaks; you sigh, have a big breath, take the broom, get close to the glass fragments and clean the mess: you have been massively intoxicated with mercury! It then seeps in the carpets, in the walls, stays in the air if you do not energetically ventilate the room; the rest of the family comes in, everybody is intoxicated with mercury, repeatedly if it is not eliminated.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Now imagine there is a small earthquake, the minor ones we are all living with, year in, year out; those new bulbs have fallen from the shelves in the shop and many are broken; not only will the cleaning crew, not wearing any protection, be poisoned, so will the shoppers until the mercury concentration drops low enough.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Or a truck bringing a load of the bulbs crashes: you will have a cloud of poison hanging around or pushed by winds into the closest city, part of it seeping in the soil and in the water, eventually coming into the food chain.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">And as those bulbs eventually burn out and cannot be recycled, they end up dumped in the waste disposal area, breaking down and freeing the mercury, either as a gas or in the soil, therefore eventually going in the water and food we consume.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Yet, there is no mention on the packages that the bulbs contain mercury; they are not packaged or stored in a way that could prevent accidental breaking; there is no system to collect the used ones and render them innocuous; there is no warning anywhere about what should be done if one or many do break.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">As we try to protect ourselves from obvious pollution, global warming and other niceties, we willingly introduce time bombs in our houses and cities; we are slowly creating more chronic diseases while under the delusion we are doing something good for us and for the planet.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">According to the Textbook of Modern Toxicology by Hodgson and Levi, those are the possible health effects of mercury exposure: affection of the nervous system with the foetal brain being more sensitive, leading to cerebral palsy-like symptoms and mental deficiency; nephrotoxicity with oliguria, anuria and uraemia; and that is a very short and condensed summary.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Mercury is recognized by world authorities as being one of the most toxic metals for the human being (and animals….).</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Why is it that the industry has once again be allowed to use a most powerful poison, distributed in one of the most fragile container? Indeed, those new bulbs have been a blessing for them, allowing them to dispose of the vast pile stock of mercury at a profit and with the congratulations of a scared world. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">First fluoride in the water, then depleted uranium in weapons, now mercury in every household……..what is next?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">This is not science-fiction! This is not the demented hallucination of a tree-hugger! This is not speculation for political gain or sensationalism! This is the daily danger we are now surrounded with, everywhere! Check it yourself!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Are we going to do something about it? Are you?<br /><o:p><br /><br /></o:p>Dr. J. 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