A Historical Perspective: Homeopathy and Epidemics

Posted on April 7, 2020 by cmarlowemt

By Shelly Garrison, C.C.H.

“It is a rare thing for pneumonia to develop if a good homeopathic physician is called during the first 24 hours of an attack of influenza.” – S.H. Grimmer, M.D., Chicago, Illinois

Homeopathy has helped millions of people survive epidemics and pandemics for over 200 years. (see links below)

Historically, homeopathy has been more successful in preventing outbreaks and deaths from epidemics than conventional treatments overall.  [See statistics on Homeopathy vs. Allopathy Deaths from Cholera (1831, 1854, 1955), Yellow Fever (1878), Diptheria (1862-1864), Spanish Flu (1918)].

We are always ready to prescribe swiftly and quickly—according to the presenting symptoms.

Homeopathy and Influenza

It was asked – Should a deadly influenza virus once again stalk the earth, would homeopathy be able to offer any protection in this age of high-powered technology and modern chemicals? So let’s have a look back at how homeopathy fared through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and see what lessons might be there.*

Some dramatic references of a time in history when homeopathic doctors rose so successfully to the challenge of the most appalling influenza epidemic in history. Following are just a few of many excerpts and personal accounts of doctors who not only lived through that terrible time—but so did their patients. [American Institute of Homeopathy in 1920]:

  • Dr. T. A. McCann, from Dayton, Ohio, at the 77th Annual Convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy in Washington, C.C., in 1921 reported that 24,000 cases of flu were treated allopathically which had a mortality rate of 28.2%, while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of only 1.05%
  • In a plant of 8,000 workers we had only one death. The patients were not drugged to death. The homeopathic medicine Gelsemium was practically the only remedy used. We used no Aspirin and no vaccines. – Frank Wieland, M.D., Chicago, Illinois.
  • Absence of the customary drugging was also an element of the remarkable success in this plant. – Burton Haseltine, M.D., Chicago, Illinois.
  • I did not lose a single case of influenza; my death rate in the pneumonias was 2.1%. The salycilates, including Aspirin and Quinine, were almost the sole stand-by of the old school and it was a common thing to hear them speaking of losing 60% of their pneumonias. – Dudley A. Williams, M.D., Providence, R.I.
  • 35o cases and lost one, a neglected pneumonia that came to me after she had taken one hundred grains of Aspirin in twenty-four hours. – Cora Smith King, M.D., Washington, D.C.
  • In Hahnemann Hospital of San Francisco, homeopathic remedies acted in a curative way while, with some other forms of treatment, the result was only palliative. Laura A. Hurd M.D., San Francisco, California.
  • I treated 618 cases and had 5 deaths. Three of these had had allopathic treatment. – R.S. Faris, M.D., Richmond, Virginia
  • It is a rare thing for pneumonia to develop if a good homeopathic physician is called during the first 24 hours of an attack of influenza. An appalling death rate comes from the baneful results of large does of Aspirin, salicylate and opium preparations. – S.H. Grimmer, M.D., Chicago, Illinois.
  • Murphy, of Lansing, Michigan, treated 325 cases of influenza in a camp where the mortality had been 20%, while the mortality under his homeopath treatment was less than 3%. – W.H. Wilson, M.D., Chicago, Illinois.
  • I have treated 1,000 cases of influenza. I have records to show my work. I have no losses. Please give all credit to Homeopathy and none to the Scotch-Irish-American! – T.A. McCann, M.D., Dayton, Ohio.
  • And more. * **

The amazing and most outstanding aspect of these reported cases is the fact that these homeopathic doctors recognized the fatal effects of aspirin in treating viral infections —fifteen years before viruses were discovered and 45 years before the connection between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome was known!

These homeopaths were not hog-tied by the lack of a diagnosis during that epidemic. They didn’t need to “name the disease” in order to save their patients. They took detailed and accurate cases, and prescribed the indicated homeopathic remedy for the case presented to them at the moment, and then they allowed the remedy and the immune system of the patient to collaborate and respond.

And when it happens again – as it is now – we can be confident that homeopathy, as it proved to do in the past, will be ready and equal to the challenge once again, by whatever name or mutation the disease is called.

Currently, homeopaths around the globe are working to determine the best prophylactic protocol as well as the most commonly indicated remedies for treating this virus. Updates continue to unfold. Yet, we are always ready to prescribe swiftly and quickly—according to the presenting symptoms.

* Sandra J. Perko, Ph.D., C.C.N., The Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza, Surviving Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics Past, Present and Future with Homeopathy
**Julian Winston, The Faces of Homeopathy: An Illustrated History of the First 200 Years

Historical Foundation of Homeoprophylaxis

For over 200 years, in many cities around the world, practitioners of homeopathy have been treating and preventing infectious disease. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the Founder of Homeopathy, first became aware of this mode of disease prevention in 1801 through his use of Belladonna for scarlet fever.[i] Since then, homeopathy has been used to treat and prevent all forms of infectious disease from the likes of childhood illness, to epidemics of polio,[ii] influenza,[iii] meningitis,[iv] dengue[v] and leptospirosis, among others.[vi]

[i]  http://www.homeopathycenter.org/homeoprophylaxis-human-records-studies-and-trials
[ii] http://www.homeopathycenter.org/treatment-epidemics-homeopathy-history
[iii] http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/homeopathy-allopathy-and-the-1918-influenza-pandemic
[iv] http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/homeopathy-allopathy-and-the-1918-influenza-pandemic/
[v]  http://ccrhindia.org/pdf/dengue_information_new.pdf
[vi] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20674839

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The Importance of a Fever

Posted on April 7, 2020 by cmarlowemt

By Shelly Garrison, C.C.H.

When symptoms are suppressed through the use of antipyretic fever-reducing meds the situation is more likely to turn into a pneumonia as a complication of the flu.

THE IMPORTANCE OF A FEVER

The homeopathic approach is to strengthen the individual, to lessen the susceptibility to getting sick, or otherwise move through an acute illness more swiftly and without complications.

If sickness does occur the use of homeopathic treatment can assist the body to develop the appropriate reaction facilitating efficient passage from one phase to the next in the immune system process. It can help the immune system make the sufficient and required action to remove the pathogen via fever, localization, and discharge.

During a viral illness it is important not to suppress a fever, in most cases. Mounting a fever is the immune system in high-performance action doing its job and it is necessary for the full infectious process to resolve. The body has the ability to self-regulate even very high fevers. It is a very rare situation when it cannot.

Hydration is essential. Be sure to maintain hydration including a pinch of sea salt and sugar in lemon water, diluted fruit juices, and broths.

SUPPRESSING FEVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS

The worst problems occur when people get a viral infection and then use fever-reducing antipyretic drugs, such as aspirin or acetaminophen. Fever is an important defense of the body. Suppressing fevers can be dangerous. Homeopathic remedies are excellent in supporting fevers, while quelling discomfort, providing pain relief for relaxation and the ability to sleep while the fever is busy at work.

Homeopathic remedies will support a healthy fever without suppressing it, and this is in part why many recover more quickly when using homeopathic treatment. When symptoms are suppressed through the use of antipyretic medicines the situation is more likely to turn into a pneumonia as a complication of the flu.

Scientific advances, through the use of antibiotics or genetically modified viral vaccines, have given us a false belief that we can, or have, eradicated certain disease processes. While vaccination may eliminate the pathogenesis of a particular disease, and antibiotics may kill some pathogens, we must remember these entities are living and have their own imperative to survive.

Such methods have certainly had their historical relevance and important use, and may still have in some circumstances, yet we must realize the inherent aspect of denying our immune system the ability to evolve alongside these organisms, leaving us further vulnerable to their growing virility and our diminishing immune strength which is notably reflected in this era of less acute disease processes (the attempt to eliminate childhood infectious disease; prevalent use of over-the-counter medications that mask symptoms, etc) and greater-than-ever chronic disease states, auto-immune conditions, cancers, and neuropsychiatric illnesses. Many of these illnesses have an iatrogenic origin. These methods have not necessarily improved the immunological process of the individual because – we have not solved the problem of susceptibility.

FEVER –

  • Fights infection
  • Activates white blood cell soldiers
  • Slows bacteria and viruses
  • Acute Phase response
  • Helps you recover quickly
  • Protects the body
  • Does not cause harm
  • SIMPLE FEVERS UP TO 104 degrees Fahrenheit ARE NATURAL !

Give thanks to your body’s innate intelligence.

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The four little pigs discover homeopathy

Posted on March 30, 2020 by TheSolution_HP

The Four Little Pigs, 2020
Once upon a time, there were Three Little Pigs who escaped the Big Bad Wolf by the hair on their chinny chin chins. All over the world, mamas and papas told their little children the story of the Three Little Pigs. They hoped their babies would know that they must build strong houses, brick by brick, before disaster strikes.

Unknown to everyone, the three little pigs had a sister who could only build castles in the air. She looked at clouds, read strange books and thought strange thoughts. It was embarrassing. Baby sister didn’t know how to be a real pig, but they loved her anyway.

Long after they had chased the Big Bad Wolf away, along came a Mighty Dragon whose Dragon-breath set people on fire! The little pigs were very scared. The little pigs now live in a mansion made of brick with a double fence made of iron. Can brick and iron stand up to dragon fire? They thought and they thought, and the three little pigs started to build a bubble that kept out fire.

‘But how will we breathe?”  the fourth little pig squeaked.

The hair on their chinny chin chins began to stand on end. The Fourth Little Pig had a point.

The Fourth Little Pig said, “Why don’t we take a little something — almost nothing — that will make us feel really hot, just like fire? When the Mighty Dragon comes sweeping through town, he will pass us by, as we are already on fire.”

The Three Little Pigs started to shake their heads at their silly little sister. And then they stopped and thought. Maybe they could trust this head-in-the-cloud sister to figure this out, just once. They primed their inner houses to tackle the Dragon with a little something that was almost nothing.

Sure enough, when Dragon came to town, he passed them by. With a flick of his Dragon tail, and a wink of his eye, he waved to the Fourth Little Pig who saved her pig-headed brothers from his Mighty Cleansing Breath.

—

After the Big Fire of 2020, the little pigs moved out of their mansion and became Dragon Ninjas.

Instead of playing League of Legends, they played Spot the Patterns. They started to see the Writing on the Wall in the forests that were left. They gazed at the clouds that changed from black, to grey, to white to clear blue skies. They read the signs their littlest friends left everywhere. They listened to the whisperings of the Wind. They became tourists in their own little village.

Pigs will be pigs. Rebuilding was hard work, and it made their backs ache. So, they made friends with the fish in the stream, and the birds in the sky, and together they taught all the little animals on the earth how to help one another so that they could help themselves. Just enough, just in time, was their mantra. Houses of sticks and straw seemed just right again.

Best of all, no one was scared of the Big Bad Wolf and the Mighty Dragon because they all lived and worked together happily ever after.

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Understanding homeoprophylaxis affirmed my maternal instincts

Posted on March 30, 2020 by cmarlowemt

By Claire Marlowe, HP mother of two in Montana

The moment I became pregnant with my first, I started educating myself about childhood disease.  I didn’t know the specifics of why our current system of vaccination could be dangerous, but my experiences with western medicine up until that point made me very wary, and led me to question the current, popular ideas about health that are considered true, proven and best.  I was already using homeopathy for my own health and I wondered if it had applications for infectious disease.  Through my searching, I came across Free and Healthy Children International (“FHCi”) and homeoprophylaxis (“HP”) and was instantly intrigued, as I had been using homeopathy, very successfully, on myself, family, friends, and pets for years.  The theory behind homeopathy is sound, and I’ve proven it true to myself time and time again.  It stood to reason there was merit behind the theory of HP as well.

When I chose HP, I knew I was going off the beaten path.  I knew there would be people close to me that would question my decision.  It wasn’t easy “bucking the system,” but I knew in my bones that HP was the better way.  When I encountered push-back, and even outright hostility from people close to me, my mommy instinct just wouldn’t let me back down.  I had spent countless hours educating myself, and in the end, mommies always know what’s best for their children.

I signed up with an FHCi HP Supervisor when my first boy was six months old.  He is now seven years old, fully educated via HP (except for Varicella and Strep A-G, both in progress), and has never been to the doctor!  Granted, he’s a cautious kid, so we don’t have many accidents, but he’s also never needed any medical intervention other than homeopathy for all the various ills of youth including colic, colds/flu, strep throat, pink eye, motion sickness, sunburn, growing pains…the list could go on.  I attribute this phenomenon to choosing HP (instead of vaccines), and homeopathy (as my first line of defense).   I understand that while the HP program educated my son’s immune system to infectious diseases, it made it stronger overall, while at the same time avoiding the many questionable substances in vaccines that, according to common sense, serve to weaken our immune systems.  My son’s great health is almost an anomaly in today’s age.  I invite other parents to question why that is and to go on their own journey to find their own truths about infectious disease, immune system education, and normal health and development of their children. You can find an HP Supervisor here.

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FHCi HP Research, New Delhi, India, Jan 11, 2020 (17:16 min)

Posted on January 12, 2020 by TheSolution_HP

Long-term homoeoprophylaxis study in children in North America. Part One: Factors contributing to the successful completion of sequential dosing of disease nosodes. Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) HP Research Study, 2009-2018. As presented for the first time by Kate Birch, RSHom(NA), CCH, at the HPWWC Conference: Homeoprophylaxis: A Worldwide Choice for Disease Prevention ~ Evidence and Education – the Keys to Change.

View Video Here

Delhi.Long-term homoeoprophylaxis study HPWWC.PDF

New Delhi, January 11 and 12, 2020. http://hpwwc2020.org/

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Part One: Long-term homoeoprophylaxis study in children in North America

Posted on January 12, 2020 by TheSolution_HP

FHCi Long-term homoeoprophylaxis study in children in North America.

Published Dec 2019, Similia

Part One: Factors contributing to the successful completion of sequential dosing of disease nosodes.

Free and Healthy Children International HP Research Study-2009-2018.

Keywords: Children’s Health, Developing Immune Systems, Homoeoprophylaxis (HP), Infectious Disease, Nosodes, Public Health Program, Unvaccinated, Previously Vaccinated, Vaccines.

By Kate Birch, RSHom(NA), CCH, Su Sandon, RPh, RSHom(NA), CCH, HMC, Sarah Damlo, C.Hom, Kim Lane, MD.

As published in Simila, Journal of The Australian Homoeopathic Association: Volume 31, Number 2. December 2019.

Download the FHCi Long-term Study Part One

Access FHCi Long-term Study Part Two

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Public Statement on the use of Homeoprophylaxis (HP)

Posted on November 10, 2019 by TheSolution_HP

From Free and Healthy Children EthicsInternational (FHCi)

The first and foremost mission of FHCi is to protect children’s immune systems. The HP Supervisor’s working with FHCi have undergone an extensive training and certification process to be listed in our directory. Our HP Supervisors practice within the scope of our ethical guidelines. We offer access to HP for interested people through registration with the FHCi Family Membership through HP Supervisors. The HP Supervisors have long-term ongoing relationships with their HP families throughout the program where they oversee and respond to needs in the healthy development of their children’s immune systems while undertaking HP.

HP Family Members are those families who, through their own free will, have sought out an alternative method to educate their children’s immune systems towards infectious disease. We register un-vaccinated children and previously vaccinated children. Families can opt for vaccination at any time in the program. Our education platform is clearly described on our website and we encourage families to investigate all options for promoting health in their children.

Considering the recent attacks, falsifications, and public defamation of some of our registered HP Supervisors offering homeoprophylaxis in North America and the UK, Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) offers this public statement to defend our practitioners and the practice of Homeoprophylaxis:

To be clear, FHCi is:

  • Pro-homeoprophylaxis: HP is in use all over the world for over 200 years.
  • Pro-research: HP has been researched.
  • Pro-first do no harm: as per the Hippocratic Oath.
  • Pro-infectious disease prevention: there are many ways to educate the immune system
  • Pro-informed consent: all families can choose HP or not.
  • Pro-sovereignty of the individual: right to privacy of their body and their children’s body: as per the UN Declaration of Human rights.
  • Pro-healthy infant and children’s immune systems: healthy children make healthy adults.
  • Pro-individuality: through functioning immune systems the individual develops in relationship to the environment they live in.
  • Pro-parental rights: freedom to choose the health care of their option for the raising of their children.
  • Pro-safe immunization: no side-effects, adverse events, or development of chronic diseases. In 9,333 individual doses of HP remedies, no adverse events were reported (to be published).
  • Pro-ethical guidelines: declaration of education, fee schedule,  and ethical responsibility and follow-up for safe health care practices.
  • Pro-social responsibility: healthy HP children contribute to reduced infectious disease outbreaks and do not pose a risk of shedding.
  • Pro-dialog with all stakeholders in public health: it is time for all modalities of health care to be accepted. It is time for consumers to have a voice in the kind of medication they want to receive. It is time for the creators any public health policy to listen to the needs of the consumers.

FHCi Wants to Dialog about the safety, and improved health outcomes of un-vaccinated vs. previously vaccinated children. FHCi is aiming towards all avenues resulting in open access to HP.

FHCi does not subscribe to or endorse any of the following activities:

  • Un-sustainability and lack of transparency in any health care program: the long-term cost of any intervention with relationship to the development of chronic disease or permanent disability must be accounted for in the initial cost of the intervention.
  • Pro-regulatory liability and responsibility of drug makers: if you introduce a drug into the population you must observe its effect and understand its health-benefits and take responsibility for any damages incurred.
  • Manipulation and denial of clear evidence: of the effects of defective drugs or medical devices, leading to deception of the public, legislators and media.
  • Manipulation of science and propaganda: to satisfy political and economic imperatives by ignoring how the immune system works and how biologics by design detrimentally effect the immune system.
  • Mandated application: of any medical intervention ignoring individuals right to privacy and self-determination.
  • Entrapment: Undercover agents posing as interested families for the purpose to malign practitioners.
  • Collective tactics to harm: bully, harass, undermine, or otherwise serve to discredit highly qualified and ethically practicing practitioners of any modality who by their nature are here to serve humanity.
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Under Whose Authority is my Body?

Posted on November 10, 2019 by TheSolution_HP
Immune system defending the sovereignty of the body

Immune system is the central governance of our body.

Its purpose and innate prerogative is to differentiate self from non-self: To determine what is good for the body and what is not. This plays out in the face of infectious disease, the food we eat, and the thoughts we think. In health, those things our body determines are good for us are absorbed and integrated into its internal makeup. Those which are not are eliminated. The immune system eliminates that which is not us via fever, discharge and eruption. The digestive track eliminates toxins via vomiting and diarrhea. Our brains eliminate what is not true for us via disagreement and by knowing who we really are.

Self-governance is an inborn mechanism that comes hand in hand with our birth-right and humanness.

Under the UN Declaration of Human Rights it is declared:

  • All Humans are born free.
  • We have the right to tribunals to remedy acts against him or our freedoms.
  • We have the right to rebel against tyranny or oppression.
  • We are endowed with reason and conscience.
  • We have the right to life, liberty and the security of our  person.
  • We have the right to privacy, opinion, and freedom of expression.
  • We have the right to dignity and the free development of our personality.

When it comes to disease prevention we are free to employ this innate prerogative of our human rights and the necessary immunological function needed for our self-preservation?

In a diseased state our central self-governance fails to discriminate self from non-self. It fails to eliminate toxins, to respond appropriately to infectious agents and can no longer determine what is true or false for us. Today where 1 in 50 children have Autism, which is a failure of the auto-regulatory system, one must wonder how it got this way.

When our government dictates that we are to inject our children and ourselves with multiple disease agents, in a concoction that is designed to falsely manipulate the immune system into functions it would not ordinarily do, we have lost control of our auto-regulatory system, and ultimately lost authority over our self-determination. Our children, who we never asked, did not have the opportunity to make that choice.

If we are to live in a free and just society we must have the right to govern what goes into our bodies. We must have the right to reign over our flesh and blood. We at Free and Healthy Children International believe that homeoprophylaxis offers another way of disease prevention through immune system education. It is a way that respects how the immune system is designed to work and ultimately serves to strengthen and educate the immune system so that is can continue to do what it is designed to do; differentiate self from non-self and keep us healthy and self -determined.

Homeoprophylaxis is for Free and Healthy People!!

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Homeoprophylaxis at the White House

Posted on June 1, 2019 by TheSolution_HP
On May 30, 2019 FHCi had the opportunity to send one of our HP Supervisors, Amy white house.2Rozen, to The Global Woman’s Entrepreneurs Conference (GWE).  We saw this as an amazing opportunity to bring homeoprophylaxis to the White House and present our platform of access to HP.
Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) is a 501(c )3 charitable organization predominantly run by women and serving  women, and offers access and supervision to the HP program for their children.  We are seeking to create our own economic viability.  Amy’s experience at the GWE will serve to inform our program offerings to ensure we consider the specific issues facing women and the challenges they face of standing up for their investment in the health of their children’s immune systems.
Here is what she has to say.
“I’m thrilled to have had the honor of representing FHCI at the GWE Conference today in Washington D.C. There were approximately 100 people in attendance. I had the pleasure of speaking with many of the attendees and organizers, across many fields, and distributed FHCi materials. Most of the people I spoke with had never heard of Homeoprophylaxis, and they were happy to learn about it.
Founder and President of GWE, Manikya L. Linga and her GWE team did an fabulous job, organizing both a White House Tour and a Capital Tour for all of us, as well as a line-up of 6 speakers at the conference. Speaker’s topics ranged from enforcing federal laws against discrimination in the workplace, to the intersection of domestic abuse and immigration.
The presence of Free and Healthy Children at the White House, the Capital, and at an international conference is both momentous and optimistic, as well as being reflective of nature of HP’s great potential in playing a critical role in the world regarding public health. As FHCi Supervisors and Family Members, our continued work is to inform not only the entrepreneurial movers and shakers, but also our elected government officials about the safety and efficacy of HP and its widespread potential in serving the health of children in the U.S. and around the world.”

Many thanks to HP Supervisor and Board Member Kavitha Kukunoor,  who, through her associating with GWE’s, was instrumental in making this day possible.”

Amy Rozen Morristown NJ. amy

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Guardian Interview: Are Homeopaths implicit in Measles outbreaks?

Posted on May 29, 2019 by TheSolution_HP

The uncut version of an interview that took place May 9, 2010, at the onset of the censorship of homeopathy. Learn more about the direct language with regards to infectious disease prevention with Homeoprophylaxis and how the live measles vaccine vector is causing breakthrough cases.

Read article here and compare the interview to the article

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