Homeopathy The Forbidden Medicine
By Bob Livingston
I have learned over the years to inquire about whatever establishment medicine opposes. Since we have a drug culture created by the pharmaceutical trust, we can be certain that any non-drug therapy will be vigorously opposed by the FDA and the police power behind it.
I personally know of, and have used, a skin cancer cream very successfully, distributed by an individual who happened to have an herb formula that is perfect. Well, the FDA health police showed up at her door, asked for her stock and ordered her to desist her distribution of the product. Luckily, I had bought a few containers ahead, which I gave to people who needed it.
Maybe the most suppressed alternative medicine is homeopathy. One hundred years ago homeopathy was at least half the medical therapy in the U.S. But it is non-drug so it has been systematically suppressed. There is in the U.S. almost a complete ignorance of homeopathy.
Really it’s too simple to believe that it can work.
Most of you who read this Letter at least know that the potency (potentization) of homeopathy preparations are inverse. This means that the more solutions are diluted, the more potency of healing they have.
I have a hard time understanding this myself. Homeopathic practice is based on a single law of therapeutics called the Law of Similars. This law states that a substance that can cause the symptoms of a disease can also cure it. In fact, that is exactly what the word homeopathy means, similar (homeo) suffering (pathy).
There are many homeopathic principles used in allopathy, but conventional doctors are oblivious to it. The process of preparing homeopathic therapies is puzzling to most medical people simply because they perceive the ultra-dilutions as nonsubstantive and really nonsense. They believe the ultra-dilutions are so dilute that they cannot possibly contain a single molecule of the original substance-but they are still potent therapeutically, in fact very potent.
This says two things: One, there is no drug and two, these preparations are safe. I have never read where anyone was harmed with homeopathic medicine. I have one big thing going for me. I don’t let science or proof get in my way. If something works nothing else matters to me. I don’t have to understand it or even believe it. I am not a good patient for conventional medicine.
The primary and fundamental philosophy of conventional allopathy medicine is harmful. It simply is a drug system of suppressing symptoms. What makes this system work is that it gives temporary relief by suppressing symptoms. So these suppressive drugs must be taken again and again. Repeat business builds the drug culture.
Now do you suppose that the people in the inner sanctums of the drug cartel know how their drugs create repeat business over and over?
Toxic Substances Made Safe
The following material is from Amy L. Lansky, PhD, and from her book Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy. She was a Silicon Valley computer scientist when her life was transformed by the miraculous homeopathic cure of her son’s autism. In April 2003 she published Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy, one of the best-selling books on homeopathy in the USA.
She is an executive board member of the National Center for Homeopathy, speaks and writesinternationally about homeopathy, and hosts a monthly radio show on Autism One Radio www.autismone.org). Her website for further information is www.impossiblecure.com. I quote:
“So why do the skeptics love to hatehomeopathy? Perhaps because it is one of the most threatening alternative modalities-financially, philosophically, and therapeutically. Actually, homeopathy has been a threat toallopathy ever since the 1800s when German physician, Samuel Hahnemann developed the
homeopathic system.
“The reason why homeopaths run into trouble with the skeptics revolves around how homeopathic remedies are prepared. Obviously, many of the substances that can cause the symptoms of disease are toxic. This inherent toxicity poses a challenge if you want to administer these substances safely.
“In an effort to deal with this problem, Hahnemann tried various methods of diluting his medicines so that they would become less harmful to his patients. This proved unsuccessful until he also incorporated vigorous shaking or succussion into the process. The result was a method that he called potentization, in which a substance is serially diluted and succussed over and over.
“Much to Hahnemann’s own surprise, these ultradilutions-so dilute they cannot possibly contain a single molecule of the original substance-were still potent therapeutically. In fact, they were even more potent than low levels of dilution. It turns much of accepted science on its head!
“What the skeptics keep ignoring, however,are an increasing number of scientific studies that indicate that some kind of signature of the original substance is imbedded in a potentized ultradilution. In a 2007 paper by Professor Rustom Roy, the founding director of the Materials Research Laboratory at Penn State and one of the world’s leading experts on the structure of water, it was demonstrated that lab instruments could pick up energetic signatures in ultradilutions that were not only specific to individual homeopathic remedies, but to specific potencies of these remedies.
“Indeed, science has backed up the phenomenon of potentization for over 20 years. In 1988, Nobel Prize nominee and medical researcher, Jacques Benveniste turned the course of his life upside down when he discovered that ultradilutions could retain substance-specific properties. In particular, he found that a certain antibody could be serially diluted and succussed beyond the point where a single molecule could
remain, but still cause the same effects.
“Naturally, the skeptics quickly attacked Benveniste. But he continued his work and further demonstrated that the electromagnetic signature of an ultradilution could be recorded electronically, transmitted via Email, replayed into water, and still achieve the same substancespecific effects in the laboratory. Eventually, Benveniste’s results were replicated. Most recently, a 2009 paper by Nobel Prize-winner Luc Montagnier underscored the power of ultradilutions too.
“What if an expensive drug could be potentized to create billions of effective doses at essentially no cost? It would destroy big pharma entirely. Medicines that cost essentially nothing? Nontoxic ultradiluted medicines that cause fewer side effects? How could the coffers of big pharma be sustained? Forget about the Law of Similars. It’s potentization-the process of creating effective ultradilutions-that big pharma is scared of! No wonder Baum and Ernst got the word ‘potentization’ wrong. This one word is the small stone that could take Goliath down.
“The fundamental philosophy of homeopathy implies that the primary tools of allopathy are harmful. In particular, homeopaths believe that suppressing symptoms with anti-pathic drugs-drugs that oppose the symptoms of a disease rather than mimic them-cannot cure and can even do harm. If a symptom is suppressed-for example, if a seasonal allergy is suppressed by an antihistamine-it is only temporarily palliated.
“A patient still has allergic tendencies and his or her symptoms will eventually return. That’s why suppressive drugs must be taken again and again. And of course, big pharma loves that! It’s good for business.
Deceptive Cures
“Unfortunately, if a substance succeeds in completely suppressing a symptom, there may be an illusion of ‘cure,’ but the real result of suppression is a deepening of the underlying disease state-because the energy of the disease is now forced to manifest in a more serious way.
“That’s why repeated application of cortisone cream to eczema can lead to asthma. That’s why the suppression of arthritis pain can lead to heart disease. That’s why teenagers who take acne drugs sometimes develop suicidal depression.
“Doctors call this phenomenon a ‘side effect’ “Over the past 200 years, homeopaths have discovered that homeopathic medicines-drugs that mimic a person’s symptoms rather than oppose them-can lead to a genuine cure of chronic disease, not mere palliation or suppression. With its ability to successfully treat both chronic and acute disease with lowcost medicines, homeopathy really could be a threat to big pharma, given half a chance.
Ideal for Poor Countries or RichOnes with Declining Economies
“Poor countries with less access to expensive drugs have already discovered this. That’s why homeopathy is the second most widespread form of medicine in the world. In India, homeopathy is a full-fledged medical system with its own medical schools and hospitals. Homeopaths in India successfully treat the full range of diseases, including AIDS, cancer, and malaria.
“In Cuba, a poor country with a health care system that often does better than our own, homeopathy is being used more and more. In 2008, 2.5 million Cubans were given a homeopathic remedy to prevent Leptospirosis, an infectious disease also known as swamp fever.
“This disease has plagued the country for several years in the aftermath of flooding, but the year in which homeopathy was used, in contrast to previous years, there were no fatalities and very few cases of the disease.
“But here’s the rub. Homeopathy is harder to practice than allopathy. There are no cookiecutter cures, especially for chronic disease. (Luckily, however, effective treatment of epidemic diseases like flu is easier.) Each patient’s healthpattern is unique, so each patient must be treated as an individual.
A homeopath must find a single remedy (among thousands of possible homeopathic remedies) whose associated symptoms match those of the patient-not just their main complaint, but their entire symptom picture that includes emotional, mental, behavioral, as well as the physical symptoms of the entire body.
It’s a daunting task. A practitioner who practices classical homeopathy (the kind of homeopathy I advocate) typically needs at least two hours for an initial case interview and may spend just as long deciding upon a remedy.
“And sometimes it takes a homeopath several tries to find just the right remedy- the one that homeopaths call the simillimum. This process also requires patients to engage in their own treatment, because symptoms are gathered not by machines or by using tests, but through direct communication between patient and homeopath.
“Of course, this is not something big pharma, conventional doctors, or insurance companies would be happy about. No expensive medicines or tests or equipment needed? No five-minute appointments reimbursed at $300 a shot? A medical system that requires long appointments, time for case analysis, and patients who must participate in the healing process? Not very lucrative.
How I Broke Out of the Mold and Reliance on Failed Medical Therapies
“I used to be a lover of conventional medicine like most people. Back in the early 1990s, my husband Steve Rubin and I were both computer researchers in Silicon Valley and followed our doctors’ instructions obediently, loading our kids up with every recommended vaccine on schedule. Our allopathic trance began to break in 1994 when our three-year-old son began to show signs of autism.
“I first read about homeopathy in the January 1995 issue of Mothering Magazine. We decided to give it a try and found a practitioner in our area. Within a week we began to see small and subtle improvement… improvement became a slow and steady trend. After two years of treatment he was testing normally and was released from eligibility for special education benefits.
“By the time he was eight, nearly all signs of autism were gone. Today he is 18, a freshman at a leading university, completely autism free, and without restrictions of any kind. “I left my work in computer science and devoted myself to letting others know about the healing powers of homeopathy.
“Why not take a look at homeopathy for yourself? Make it your New Year’s resolution to find a good classical practitioner and to learn more about this amazing medical modality. The skeptics manage to create a lot of smoke in an effort to hide homeopathy from public view. But where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Find out about how this powerful healing system-a system that packs a lot of firepower into an infinitesimal punch-can help you and your family.”
For a homeopathic practitioner in your area, we suggest Google. We have no such list of available homeopaths. Some websites for further knowledge:
www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org
www.medalerts.org
www.impossiblecure.com
www.autismone.org BL
