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Tomorrow on the 11th February at 3:00 p.m. I’ll be speaking on the alternative approach to managing chronic disease.
How can you best manage your chronic disease and medications? How can you avoid side effects? What can you expect from homoeopathy and other forms of alternative medicine? What should you expect from your doctor? What can you do for yourself? In this talk, I’ll be presenting a common-sense look at the options for treatment and management of chronic disease.
The talk will be given as part of the AACI Health Week – look forward to seeing you there.
For the full schedule and participation cost, click on the link: http://www.aaci.org.il/articlenav.php?id=407
“Physicians who attended a medical school with a policy that prohibited gifts from drug companies were less likely to prescribe two of three newly marketed psychotropic drugs once they were in practice, researchers found.”
You can read the full text of the article here
And then you can, and should draw your own conclusions!
the cat has absolutely nothing to do with this post.. it was the cat or Piers Morgan…
Does anyone remember the corny joke? Went something like:
“I say, I say, I say…(old Brit joke format, bear with me)…how does one get the flu?”
“Quite simple, old chap, you open the window.”
“Is that so? What? What?”
“Quite so, happened to me last year. I opened the window, and in flew Enza…”
(apparently it was also the nursery rhyme of choice after the outbreak of Spanish flu after World War I)
Well (if you can stop your inane chortles let’s get back to the subject in hand), in my practice and in general, I’ve seen quite a few innovative cases of flu, where instead of opening your window – you open a vein… Yes, flu symptoms coming to visit after getting the flu shot, and like that well-known nameless houseguest that everyone’s experienced, outstaying their welcome…
I have been noticing this for several years, but the establishment tends to “pooh-pooh” this finding, so you can imagine how gratified I was when the fabled Piers Morgan (OK, I also didn’t know who he was) took a flu shot on camera to emphasize the importance of using this particular vaccine – and came down with the flu.
The full article and links to the clips are here
And here’s the first clip:
And the second where he discusses the flu he got afterwards with singer/songwriter Dwight Yoakam:
Since we’re in cough season, and there is a lot of lack of clarity regarding vaccination against and treatment of whooping cough, I’m reproducing an article here that was published in http://www.homoeopathyinfo.com on the subject. You can read the full text of the article here.
Mainstream medical treatment of whooping cough is using antibiotics and “palliative” care.
First up…., it doesn’t work. They know that…, I know that…, but they won’t tell you that, for the simple reason that… they have NOTHING else to offer you.
When you walk into your doctor’s office, the first thing they do- assuming they are even able to diagnose whooping cough correctly in the first place, is to rake you over the coals, if you’ve not vaccinated.
You will be told that, “Your child will be MORE infectious to other people and the symptoms far more serious”. Both of which are untrue, but who’s going to doubt the word of the doctor, other than those of us, who have been there done that, and proven them wrong?.
The second thing some parents experience, is being told that… “if they don’t use antibiotics their children will be much sicker”. Which is also a load of bollocks. The reality is the opposite. If you use antibiotics, you can just about guarantee your child WILL BE sicker.
Put simply, in terms of the infection process itself, antibiotics do not change the outcome of infection in any way, or make it better…. something confirmed by the 2007 Cochrane Review. However, it has been known since Trollfors 78, that antibiotics are useless. Tozzi 03 was one of many researchers who confirm that actually, antibiotics make whooping cough WORSE. Discussion of that is here. While the medical profession talks about antibiotics making the infection less severe if you catch it very early, the real world reality is that because most of the carriers of whooping cough don’t know they have it, most often parents don’t know their children have it until about six week month AFTER they first contacted it:
Whooping cough is spread by carriers. The real world reality, is that most of the carriers of whooping cough don’t know they have it; most are asymptomatic (no symptoms) and most often parents don’t know their children have it until about four to six weeks AFTER they first contacted it:
Looking at the time frames, incubation is listed as 5 – 15 days . This is followed by an insignificant cold which lasts about a week, then goes away = 12 – 22 days.
After about a one week pause, = 19 – 31 days, the cough starts.
Most parents don’t get concerned until about two weeks into the cough, when it’s getting worse, and NOT going away.
So usually a parent doesn’t usually get the child to the doctor until around 33 – 45 days after initial contact.
If the mantra is that antibiotics only “work” to reduce severity within 3 weeks of contact, what parent is actually going to make it to the doctor in that time frame?
Because parents don’t usually know when or where a first contact was – or even the medically proven time frames above, they don’t know that diagnosis is usually made well after the three week period stated in the medical literature.
AFTER that time, the medical literature clearly shows that antibiotics made whooping cough worse, and prolong the duration.
Case-taking and Symptom Choice – the nuts and bolts of homoeopathy
The workshop covers:
* Relevant aphorisms from the Organon
* Focused case-taking
* Symptom classification and prioritization
* Boenninghausen’s techniques
* Provings orientation
* How to use mind symptoms
* Practical Work on cases
* and more
Cases will be demonstrated using the P&W Boenninghausen Therapeutic Pocketbook software, but the techniques learned can be applied with other repertories.
DATE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28TH
TIME: 13:00 – 17:30
VENUE: JBC, RECHOV HILLEL 24, 5TH FLOOR, JERUSALEM
ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT ONLY.
COST: NIS 450 (payment before 20th February); NIS 490 (payment after 20th February). Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card
If you wish to register, please write to vera.homeopath@gmail.com to reserve your place. Call 054-4640736 if you do not receive a reply and registration information within 24 hours.
Special Discounts for participants:
- Special Discounts on the P&W Boenninghausen Therapeutic Pocketbook (valid till 31st March 2013)
- Special Discounts on future workshops
A talented colleague cartooned me explaining homoeopathy to a friend who did not know anything about it. (By the way, I don’t at present have a friend called Steve)… (and I have not yet taken up basket-weaving)
It’s That Simple
Someone said to me recently: “I couldn’t possibly understand anything about homoeopathy. I don’t know anything about it.”
Well, it often seems that the more education people have, the less they understand anything. It is much harder to explain things to someone who has invested time, energy and money on studies that have taken him in the wrong direction and taught him to develop baseless theories about almost everything, than to someone who comes into the arena of discussion equipped with nothing but good sense and willingness to listen.
I apologize for repeating myself – well, I don’t really. And if you didn’t want to read this you wouldn’t…er…be reading this…
Have you ever had a nagging, dragging cold, which then “developed” into flu? After the flu went – did the cold remain? Usually not. (there are always exceptions. And I must stop heckling myself). The flu is similar to the cold, not the same. And in this kind of case the flu is the stronger disease. So the similar, stronger disease has knocked out the weaker one. Continue reading
Homoeopathy – and speed
For some reason there’s a belief out there that homoeopathy works v-e-e-e-r-r-r-y slowly. That it wins the race only when the hare gets distracted.
Not so, my friends! Have cheer! (brief Shakespearean moment there…)
Let me tell you about a case I worked on soon after I qualified (and discovered sadly that four years of study lead to a firm qualification in homoeopathic guesswork ). I am not reporting this case to demonstrate my brilliance as a homoeopath (which as you will see was not the case). But what I saw in this case is definitely one of the reasons I am still a homoeopath today.
A relative slipped and fell, hurting his shoulder badly. I treated with Arnica immediately after the fall and for the following 24 hours, but it didn’t seem to help much. I tried a succession of other remedies, nada. The relative went to the emergency room and was x-rayed. He was told that small shards of bone seem to have sheared off and were partying in the shoulder socket – but they weren’t too sure about that. He was told that within about six months he should get some mobility back in the arm, but it was possible that it could take even longer. They gave him Arcoxia, didn’t give him a sling for his arm and sent him home. Continue reading
