Sooner or later, you're going to find yourself saying, "You should see a homeopath for that!" And they're going to say, "Why?" And you're going to say… what, exactly?
Homeopathy is a strange-sounding word but it just means "Like Cures Like" in Greek. It may not make a lot of sense right now, but give me a minute.
…to put this folklore into an actual science with medicines that we refer to as homeopathic remedies; or just simply, "remedies".
Incredible but true. Just google Stanislav Burzynsky as an example.
Burzynsky, a Texas physician, with a harmless cure for cancer, became the target of a relentless FDA campaign, determined to put him out of business at any cost and even in jail if necessary.
The fact is, that despite its obscurity, homeopathic remedies work–like a charm–and without the harmful side effects of drugs! (Apparently, this is some sort of crime, to be able to heal without making people sick!) In fact, I call homeopathic remedies "the real medicine", because they do what drugs claim to do but usually don't!
This actually happened to me! My daughter, Shana, had a horrendous cough that she picked up at a "water park" when she was 8 years old. That place had disaster written all over it! In desperation, I took her to a homeopath after this had gone on too long–over a month! Actually, I took her to Karl Robinson–I might as well give credit. The next day, incredibly, to my amazement, the cough was noticeably better; but I have to confess, I had so little faith in homeopathy that after I gave the first dose, I threw the bottle away! I know, it sounds crazy, but I guess I had gotten so used to things failing that I thought, "This is just a joke like everything else!"; but, at some point on day-2, it started to dawn on me that she was coughing much less! Oh my gosh, the remedy's working! A frantic search ensued for the remedy! I was desperately rummaging through trash receptacles all over the house when incredibly, I found it in the waste basket in the bathroom. I breathed a heavy sigh of relief! Yes, Shana recovered completely!
Apparently likes are cured by likes! So, why don't "opposites" cure? That's what your doctor believes. It seems so logical, but once I explain it, you will say, "Oh, of course!" And here is the explanation: We are not inanimate objects!
So, as soon as the drug wears off, you're right back where you started from, and the Tums have to be repeated!
The drug is perceived by your body as some alien force that does not belong and is upsetting the apple cart! This is why drugs need constant repetition, because the body perceives them as invaders and fights them off!
We call this phenomenon "rebound", it's what happens when the drug wears off after the body has mounted a successful attack against it!
Whatever you do to the body, it attempts to do the opposite to restore balance. Your body is always working to establish balance! "Homeostasis", they call it. If you send a drug in to stop the production of stomach acid, your body is just going to make more! Clearly, the drug is prolonging the illness! "Doctor, the pain is back!" No problem, says the doctor, just take your antacid more often! Well, the same scenario repeats itself with no end in sight!
I had my first lesson in this phenomenon called "rebound" when I was 5 years old. I was at a back-yard cook-out. I saw a metal pan filled with hot dogs on the grill and for some insane reason, I decided to pick it up. How was I to know that anything made of metal sitting on a grill was bound to be hot? I dropped it right away like a hot potato and ran into the house, into the bathroom, filled up the sink with cold water and plunged my hands into it! Ahh…. blessed relief!!!!
I thought I'd be able to take my hands out and go back to the party, but no! Doing so made the burn come back even worse! Every time I tried lifting my hands out of the water, the burn would come back and I'd have to push my hands back in! I was literally tied to the bathroom! After a while my father got worried and came looking for me and found me with my hands plunged into the sink. This was my first experience with opposites not curing–in fact, making things worse!
Your body is ALWAYS striving for balance: Burn leads to cold water, which leads to more burning, a never-ending cycle! How do you get out of it? You can't!
This is the prototype for all of standard medicine!
The clueless doctor never gets the message! He keeps saying, "Let's give the drug again!" What is he setting in motion here? Drug dependence!
This is the conundrum of modern medicine–that you can't give an "anti" drug without making the patient drug-dependent! And ALL of modern medicine's drugs are "anti" drugs!
Indeed, you CAN'T stop the drug, because "rebound" is never-ending!
This is what happens when your body has "self-adjusted" so successfully, so risen to the occasion, that the drug is no longer felt by the body at all; so, higher and higher potencies of the drug are needed to make your body feel it again; ultimately, you're in the untenable position where the drug runs out of potencies!
There is no limit to the body's capacity to "rebound", but there is a limit to how strong a drug can be! Consequently, in the war between the drug's symptom-suppressing capacity and the body's "rebound" capacity, the drug eventually loses; and there you are!
People are OK with that, since they believe that symptoms are the heart of the problem and deserve to be suppressed! And I know it seems like that makes sense; but in reality, what we call a "symptom" is actually our body's way of DEALING with a disease! "Cause and effect". Modern Medicine deals with effects (symptoms) and has very little time for causes–unless the cause can be removed surgically. If they can stop your pain by removing your gall bladder, that's their idea of getting to the cause!
By aiming drugs at "effects", Orthodox Medicine causes your body to do something that it would never, under any circumstances, do on its own; something totally unnatural! That's because the doctor has no respect for the fact that the diarrhea, for example, is the "effect" of a pathogen and creates diarrhea as a life-saving mechanism to "hose" the pathogen out. If the doctor intrudes with a drug, this is going to make the immune system freak out, because it wanted the diarrhea there! It's going to fight the drug every step of the way because the drug is putting your life at risk by allowing the pathogen to stay and multiply!
It's like driving your car with the emergency brake on, or going 60 m.p.h. in 2nd gear–your car wasn't built that way, it's unnatural, it would never do that on its own; it actually jeopardizes the life of your car, you would have to use force to make your car drive so inappropriately! When your doctor uses "force" to stop diarrhea, he is going against your body's natural tendencies and putting you at risk!
Homeopaths are not unaware that symptoms are uncomfortable and nobody wants them; but, we also understand that symptoms are a response to an underlying CAUSE, and therefore, inevitable!
Only one entity can stop a symptom–and it's not the doctor or his drugs! It's the immune system itself! The immune system is responsible for the symptom, and it alone can make it stop–permanently!
So the question is, how do we get the immune system to agree to stop what it, itself, has set in motion? We have to somehow make it believe that the cause is gone! If the cause is gone, there's no longer any need for the symptom to exist. How do we make the immune system believe that? That is the question!
Do you see what I mean? Only your immune system can stop a symptom! You only have to make it believe what you want it to believe! Homeopathic remedies can trick the immune system into thinking there is too much of something! The body abhors an imbalance, it's always striving for homeostasis! You can use this fact to your advantage, to get your immune system to stop a symptom by giving a homeopathic remedy that in over-dose would cause the very same symptom! See?
Of course you do! I told you you would! You can thank Samuel Hahnemann for this, he thought of it! It's ingenious, don't you think? Very clever!
No, it's "information" to the immune system, it's an "image". Call it a "paper tiger", or a "fake disease". The immune system is fooled by it, thinks it's real; but it "over-lays" the real disease that's taking place! As it's destroying the "paper tiger", it is unwittingly, simultaneously, destroying the illness causing the suffering!
Of course, the gardener gets the last laugh because this was what he wanted! He tricked the tree! And of course, this is the risk the doctor takes whenever he removes cancerous tumors with surgery–a dozen more grow back! What's it going to take for the medical profession to catch on to what gardeners already know?
That's homeopathy's motto, right? Isn't that exactly what "A hair of the dog that bit you" means? A very small dose! Why just a single hair? How many hairs on a dog's body? Fifty thousand? I don't know, I'm just guessing. So, one hair in 50,000 is the dose? That's an awfully small dose! But that's what they say about homeopathy, that our doses are ridiculously small! But where did this folklore — a hair of the dog — come from? Why did someone say that? It means that way back in time, someone knew a little something about–not only the law of similars–but, "nano dosing" as well! And this is a typical homeopathic dose, by the way—one in 50,000 (a potency we call LM1: "L" for 50, "M" for 1,000). "Like cures like" is a basic principle of healing that every ancient culture seemed to know about!
LIKES ARE CURED BY LIKES!
Thanks again Elaine for another excellent Tidbits column! Only someone who really understands a subject can explain it so simply. The video clip about Dr. Burzynski was icing on the cake.
Thanks Alan, yes that's quite a video, isn't it? Did you see Dr. Kessler, head of the FDA, saying to Congress, "Well, just because no grand jury ever indicted Dr. Burzinsky doesn't mean he's not at fault." What???? And then there was another FDA chairman who said in 1982, "No drug patent can ever go to an individual, only to a corporation." Holy cow! What???? So, in a stifling atmosphere like this, how is anyone going to hear about homeopathic medicine? There's going to be zero tolerance for it. Burzinsky was an actual MD, and the government came down on him like a ton of bricks because he came up with a cheap, harmless treatment for cancer. So, what does it mean to be a doctor then? "We're ordering you to give treatments that don't work or we'll put you in jail!" Nice profession! Sounds very rewarding.
………..Gardeners………..They cut all the branches off! This makes the tree mad! "What is going on here????" the tree says. "There are supposed to be branches here! What kind of idiot would do something this crazy??!!! Now I have to put them all back! Boy, this makes me mad!!!! I'm so mad, I might grow 10 to 20 times as many branches! I'll show whoever did this! What nerve!" …..
Elaine you are just amazing! How wonderfully you elucidate the fact! love to read it. Watching the video made me cry out for Dr Burzynsky.
I respect and love you and all the passionate lovers of homeopathy who fight to establish it and always raise voice against wrongdoers.
Thanks Salma! Yes, wrong-doers, there are so many, and so few who will stand up to them.
Exactly what i meant. They are so many. And we are so few or even only one or two but still they cannot vanish us and eventually we win. I applaud you and Alan who are among the very few ones. God reward you.
Elaine and Alan are wonderful souls. Elaine, please how do I get the template of your case taking protocol? And Alan, how can I lay hands on your book?
Send me an email: [email protected] and I will send you my questionnaire.
Alan's book is on sale at Amazon.com.