4. Sharing our Stories: Real Families Discuss HP – Teri

By Deborah Landowne, CCH, California HP Supervisor.

Homeoprophylaxis, aka: HP, is a a way to educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process. Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) offers a 44 month program using homeopathic remedies called “nosodes” to stimulate and educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process.  Nosodes are made from pure disease agents only, no adjuvants, growth mediums or preservatives.

We often get asked by parents seeking out HP: Is there a way to connect with other families who have experience with the program? Prospective parents, and also those whose children are already enrolled, want to know: What is this going to be like?  As HP Supervisors, we can describe the program and what to expect, but it is always better to hear from your peers.

Six parents have graciously taken the time to speak with FHCi and share their experiences to help the community. All names have been changed for this post.

We hope these stories inspire you.

If you’d like to share your own experience with HP, please Submit here.  Thanks to all of these parents for helping to educate others, and to all of our Member Families for being a part of our community!

4. “Teri” Lives in Arizona and has 2 children, ages 3 years and 6 months.

“When we started discussing what to do we were not sure wanted to overload their bodies with so much. I researched things when we decided to have kids, and feel that

Teri AZ1

I’m an HP mom

one reason there’s not so many diseases going around is because of vaccines. I heard about a naturopath who saw pediatric patients, and called her because the whooping cough was going around. I was nervous because my older son has Down Syndrome and needed surgery and his doctor wanted to vaccinate him.  That’s why I called the naturopath. I didn’t feel comfortable doing traditional vaccinations, I didn’t know what it would do to him.

“While the naturopath wasn’t doing the HP program I found an FHCi HP Supervisor who told me about HP and I was sold. When I learned about HP it was the answer to my prayers.  I’m just doing this because it feels right.

“The children get what they need and I have the knowledge that it is helping. I know they need it and I can tell it works. After a nosode dose my children might get little fevers, runny noses, or they’re cranky for a while and then they’re fine. They are healthy and happy.  I see these responses to the nosodes, once it was like maybe my son was coming down with something but I didn’t realize it. So I checked with our HP Supervisor, who told me to give him another dose of the same HP remedy. My older son just finished the program in June. He just had a little flare up with that, and so we repeated the nosode and that cleared it right up.

“I have 2 boys, ages 3 years and 6 months.  I’ve been blown away by my son with Down Syndrome. We meet kids his same age, getting the same physical therapy as him and he’s far exceeding what they are doing. I know each child is different but one thing for him is the immune system education he’s had with HP.  Our HP Supervisor told me it is an education for his whole system. We started him at 9 months, 2 months after his heart surgery.

“We started the baby at about 3-4 months old. He’s gone through his 1st 200c doses of Pertissin and we are just 3-4 days onto the 2nd bug (Pneumococcinum). There have been no responses yet, he gets tired, maybe a little runny nose.  For my older son I was more hesitant at first, because he’s more fragile. But now I know its not a big deal so I am OK with everything. I try to hold to the schedule as much as I can so we are not overrun, plus I know it is good for them.

“Keeping to the schedule was a bit harder with my older son because of the surgery and the local Pertussis outbreak; we dosed every 2 weeks in that case.  On another occasion, I was hesitant to give the nosode while we were out of town, so I waited a week.  And once we waited 6-8 weeks for various reasons. I know it is OK because we still get the same responses from their immune systems.

“I am real grateful that I get to be part of the collective dosing process, it  feels real empowering as a parent. I am curious about school because this is not a traditional method, and wonder if I take my booklet to the school, would it count as a vaccination? Because truly it should be, in my opinion.”

FHCi Comment: In cases of possible exposure it can be beneficial to repeat the specific nosode two to three times in short succession to ensure that the susceptibility to the disease is reduced. If you know for sure that there has been exposure and have contracted the disease, dosing in this way can facilitate the actual process of disease. A nosode can be used before disease exposure as protection (HP), during the disease process to help the process along (Homeopathy) and after, if there was a long recovery or failure for complete recovery (Never-Been-Well-Since).

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3. Sharing our Stories: Real Families Discuss HP – Maggie

By Deborah Landowne, CCH, California HP Supervisor.

Homeoprophylaxis, aka: HP, is a a way to educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process. Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) offers a 44 month program using homeopathic remedies called “nosodes” to stimulate and educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process.  Nosodes are made from pure disease agents only, no adjuvants, growth mediums or preservatives.

We often get asked by parents seeking out HP: Is there a way to connect with other families who have experience with the program? Prospective parents, and also those whose children are already enrolled, want to know: What is this going to be like?  As HP Supervisors, we can describe the program and what to expect, but it is always better to hear from your peers.

Six parents have graciously taken the time to speak with FHCi and share their experiences to help the community. All names have been changed for this post.

We hope these stories inspire you.

If you’d like to share your own experience with HP, please Submit here.  Thanks to all of these parents for helping to educate others, and to all of our Member Families for being a part of our community!

3. “Maggie” Lives in Pennsylvania and has 1 son, 4 1/2 years old.

“My husband and I are both conventional medical providers. We always knew we would

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Pennsylvania: Home of Merck Pharmaceuticals. Vaccines Merck makes: Hib (Pedvax), Hepatitis A (Vaqta), Hepatitis B (Recombivax), Herpes Zoster (Zostavax), Human Papilomavirus (Gardacil and Gardacil 9), Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR II), Mumps, Measles, Rubella and Chickenpox (ProQuad), Pneumococcal (Prevnar 13), Rotavirus (RotaTeq), Varicella (Varivax). Most of Merck’s Vaccines are made in China since 2013. [1] Sheep blood is used in vaccine manufacturing.

never vaccinate. My husband learned about it in school.  His main professor was a Naturopathic doctor, who educated him regarding the truth about natural health and healing. On the 1st day of school he told the students to never take a vaccine.

“I had never been able to conceive, because I was injured by military vaccines that I had in the past. Our son was adopted at birth and we knew we would never vaccinate him. After his adoption we found a homeopath who mentioned HP, so we started looking into it. I read The Solution ~ Homeoprophylaxis; The Vaccine Alterative and was blown away!  I wanted to learn more. I thought this is an amazing, incredible, awesome way to educate and train my child’s immune system. We are not scared of disease, that’s why we have an immune system! The current cycle of constant vaccination, when disease always circulates in the herd makes no sense to me. We’re not afraid of disease.  In my job I worked with sick and contagious people and I have full faith in my immune system.

“Once we learned about HP we decided: let’s do it! What do we have to lose?  We are so much happier that we did HP instead of doing nothing. Our son is 4 1/2, and we call him ‘The Teflon Man,’ because he’s so healthy! He’s never been seen by a doctor or needed the homeopath for 3 years. He’s never been sick except for 2 colds. Never had a fever, ear infection or vomited – he’s never been sick! He recovered quickly with homeopathy when he’s had a cold. I tell everyone I know, I think he’s rare.

“I had 3 vaccines as a kid for school.  My husband was not vaccinated as an adult; he works with sick people all day, and never gets sick. This is a testament to how amazing the body and the immune system are. We are good with our diet and follow Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) principles- no sugar, eating clean food, taking cod liver oil, and probiotics.

“Even though I’m a conventional provider I don’t follow that model for myself.  I’m interested in natural healing, and it has paid off. I know a lot of people who don’t vaccinate, I know vaccine scientists who don’t vaccinate, they just don’t talk about it. They can’t speak up or they will be called a quack. My husband has been called a quack.

“The homeopath we were using for our post adoption placement checks is an HP Supervisor. She introduced us to FHCi, Kate Birch, and her book, which is one of my most prized possessions. Whenever I talk to someone – I used to have a vaccine education Facebook group – I tell them about my provider and Kate’s book, even before my son was born. 2 months after we were matched with our son we were looking for a doctor, and wanted a naturopath or chiropractor for the required height and weight checks in the adoption process. That’s when we stumbled across the doctor who is now our HP Supervisor.

The program is so simple.  It is not a complicated process, so it didn’t take long to get into a routine. I have it all in my calendar for the whole year. Now he’s more than half way through, he’s on the 10M’s now.  That was not as easy as in the beginning, but now it is easy. I just give the remedy to him, it is really very simple, takes less than 5 minutes and he’s very cooperative. He knows what it is and what it does.  He asks me: What’s this month’s remedy for? It is not a big deal, like taking a probiotic. I give the pellets to him on a spoon at the kitchen table, then I set a timer so he knows when he can eat, and then we are done until next month. It’s very simple!  I did a few videos for my Facebook group, so people can see the kit and how I give it. They enjoyed seeing it, and learning how simple it is. I had 40,000 members in my group and they were very interested in this.

“I can’t say enough about how we really, truly believe that our son is healthier because of HP. His immune system gets exercised in a safe, nontoxic way.  There’s nothing that could hurt him, no downside to doing this vs. keeping him vaccine free.  Because there’s no downside, why wouldn’t I want to educate his immune system?  There are so many sick kids now. We are always out and about, spending time at my husband’s business. We’ve never kept him from being exposed to sick people, so why wouldn’t we do HP? It can be so effective.

“I’ve seen first hand: he’s even way healthier than kids who are just plain not vaccinated. His health is outstanding! He’s an incredible child: vibrant, bright, robust, healthy, and strong – like a child of the 70’s. When I was growing up we would play outside, go barefoot and get dirty and we were never sick. I never knew anyone with allergies or eczema when I was a kid, now it is the opposite. He’s like a kid from that era, when we were not bombarded with chemicals. He had the Vitamin K shot when he was born, but his birth mom was not vaccinated when she was pregnant and she had a natural birth. We told her we were going to delay the vaccines and she was ok with that. He had breast milk and WAPF formula until age 3, so he had a good start and was not inundated with chemicals in utero. It was nice because as an adoptive mom you have very little control over that.”

[1] Merck Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Hangzhou  2013. https://www.mrknewsroom.com/press-release/corporate-news/merck-opens-new-manufacturing-facility-hangzhou-china

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2. Sharing our Stories: Real Families Discuss HP – Robert

By Deborah Landowne, CCH, California HP Supervisor.

Homeoprophylaxis, aka: HP, is a a way to educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process. Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) offers a 44 month program using homeopathic remedies called “nosodes” to stimulate and educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process.  Nosodes are made from pure disease agents only, no adjuvants, growth mediums or preservatives.

We often get asked by parents seeking out HP: Is there a way to connect with other families who have experience with the program? Prospective parents, and also those whose children are already enrolled, want to know: What is this going to be like?  As HP Supervisors, we can describe the program and what to expect, but it is always better to hear from your peers.

Six parents have graciously taken the time to speak with FHCi and share their experiences to help the community. All names have been changed for this post.

We hope these stories inspire you.

If you’d like to share your own experience with HP, please Submit here.  Thanks to all of these parents for helping to educate others, and to all of our Member Families for being a part of our community!

2. “Robert”  Lives in NJ. He has 2 children, ages 1 and 6 years old.

“When I found out what is in vaccines and how they are made, I had a lot of concerns as

Newark New Jersey skyline

Newark New Jersey.  As of April 26, 2018 New Jersey had the highest autism rate (1 in 36) as compared to the rest of the nation (1 in 54). [1]

to additives, heavy metals, and aborted fetal tissue. It made me very uneasy; I didn’t want to do that for my daughter any more. She had received a few vaccines already. Now we have a religious exemption to vaccines. HP appealed to me…I didn’t want our son, who is 1 now, to be vaccinated. I wanted to find an alternative to vaccines and heard about HP through “The Truth About Vaccines” series. My aunt is a homeopathic doctor from India, so I asked her about it.  She referred me to an HP Supervisor with FHCi.

“I read The Solution, and as soon as I understood how it works and how it is different from vaccines, that was enough. I didn’t need to finish the book. I knew HP was what I wanted. I already knew that and had a good idea before reading the book that this was going be it.  Understanding how it works was important to me and reinforced what I already believed. It gave me a foundation and now I can explain it to people who ask me questions.

“There are a lot of new moms at church and I discuss my feelings around vaccination with them.  I told one of them who is a doctor that we had chosen to do HP.  She was impressed that I was going to do something, some sort of prevention, instead of just not doing anything. We are enthusiastic about alternatives, they work so well and should be more accessible. I look forward to having HP approved by our government in the future.

“The program is really very easy. It’s so simple to understand and to do. I was excited to get started with the schedule. We just started it with our son. We haven’t started our older daughter yet, because she had some previous vaccines.  Our HP Supervisor told us that she could have a stronger response to the nosodes and so she recommended Ferrum phosphoricum cell salt to begin with.

“We are very happy with our HP Supervisor and happy to be a part of the program.

FHCi Comment: In a previously vaccinated child without any previous homeopathic treatment, to facilitate complete immunological resolution of the vaccines the responses to HP nosodes may be exaggerated. This is because the immune system has a memory. Vaccines instruct a specific immunological response, ie: to respond to any future exposure of any of the ingredients in the vaccines. However the vaccine response is driven by the adjuvants (aluminum salts). These adjuvants stimulate a heightened allergic response or excessively high fevers.

With an HP dose, the immune system has a memory, so when the immune system recognizes the disease entity from the previous vaccine. For example: In a child who had  received the Pediarix vaccine (5 in 1: DTaP/ HepB/IPV), when giving Pertussin (single whooping cough nosode), the immune system response generated by the Pertussin would call upon the child’s previous reaction to the vaccine, over and above the normal HP response to Pertussin. The same may be true when giving the Hep B, Polio, Diphtheria or Tetanus toxin nosodes as these diseases are all in the vaccine. Each disease will pull forward the artificial, vaccine-instructed, immune reaction to that disease complex, rather than the natural immune response to whooping cough.

[1] New Jersey Autism Prevalence Rate Rises to 1 in 34.

https://www.autismnj.org/prevalence-rates

 

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1. Sharing our Stories: Real Families Discuss HP – Susan

By Deborah Landowne, CCH, California HP Supervisor.

Homeoprophylaxis, aka: HP, is a a way to educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process. Free and Healthy Children International (FHCi) offers a 44 month program using homeopathic remedies called “nosodes” to stimulate and educate the immune system toward the infectious disease process.  Nosodes are made from pure disease agents only, no adjuvants, growth mediums or preservatives.

We often get asked by parents seeking out HP: Is there a way to connect with other families who have experience with the program? Prospective parents, and also those whose children are already enrolled, want to know: What is this going to be like?  As HP Supervisors, we can describe the program and what to expect, but it is always better to hear from your peers.

Six parents have graciously taken the time to speak with FHCi and share their experiences to help the community. All names have been changed for this post.

We hope these stories inspire you.

If you’d like to share your own experience with HP, please Submit here.  Thanks to all of these parents for helping to educate others, and to all of our Member Families for being a part of our community!

  1. “Susan” lives in NC with two children ages 1 and 2 years.

“I researched vaccines and wanted to do a delayed schedule, but the more I researched I didn’t feel comfortable with that. I wanted alternatives and wanted to do something.  I was not comfortable doing nothing.

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Blue Ridge Mountains North Carolina. NC is also the home of  attorney Alan Phillips, the nation’s leading legal expert on vaccine rights. If you have questions about your legal standing in your right to refuse vaccinations, Phillips is an excellent source.

“A friend told me about HP and FHCi.  After she told me about HP I read about it online. I watched Kate Birch’s YouTube posts and Jackie Krammer’s presentation, those were very helpful. I have passed these links along to others, because they are helpful for people trying to make a decision.  It is hard to find information that is not overly dramatized or uses scare tactics. I think Kate and Jackie were scientific and not dramatic.

“My first child is almost 2 now; we started the program in 2016.  We had to take a break for a few months because she was getting sick a lot in childcare.  Our HP Supervisor said she needed some Constitutional Homeopathy to straighten out her immune system, so we took a break from HP for about 6 months.

“The program has been easy to follow. At first, I had lots of questions, because I had never used homeopathy before. I had questions about dosing, but it has been easy.

“My daughter had a response to one nosode, but we are only part way through the program so far. I didn’t know it was a response because some time had passed after the dose.  But our HP Supervisor knew, because a few months later was when she started getting sick.  So now we give that same nosode from time to time in other parts of her treatment.  She has had some response with other doses, like cold symptoms.

“I would love to have this program accepted alongside vaccine exemptions for school.  HP is not harmful and not expensive.”

FHCi Comment: It is normal to get a response with an HP dose. Those responses that are prolonged demonstrate that the child is working through a susceptibility to this disease  and trying to find balance. Subsequent dosing may be needed with the same nosode to help the child come to balance in that relationship. Working with an HP Supervisor helps to sort this out and set the appropriate dosing or treatment plan.

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Homeoprophylaxis for Lyme Disease

By Shelly Garrison, California HP Supervisor.

HP with Ixodes dammini (aka: North American deer tick)

Does the Deer Tick Remedy Ixodes, Provide Immunity to Lyme Disease?

Consider This  –

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This tick trapped in ancient amber from the Dominican Republic is between 15 million and 20 million years old. Before it died, it was carrying the type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease:

  • Ixodes dammini is one of over 250 identified tick species.
  • Lyme (spirochete), and Babesiosis (rickettsiales) are two possible bacteria found in deer ticks.
  • Lyme disease is ancient: the disease manifest of Borrelia bacteria.
  • Probably mentioned in Greece as the ‘relapsing fever.’
  • The oldest documented case of Lyme disease in humans comes from the famous 5,300-year-old ice mummy Otzi, discovered in 1991 in the Austrian-Italian Alps.  Scientists found genetic material for the Borrelia bacteria in Otzi the iceman.
  • Fossilized ticks have been found in ancient amber earthed from a vacant lot in New Jersey dating 90 million-years-old.  Elsewhere the Lyme bacteria was found in a tick trapped in amber in the Dominican Republic and dates 15-20 million-years-old.[i]
  • A tick can live several years in dormancy, not eating, just hanging there, and in 5 seconds can come to life.
  • The spirochete cells of the Borrelia bacteria of Lyme disease can hide themselves away in a host for a very long time, like an expat uncle who one day reappears out of the blue …
  • The average conventional diagnosis takes 6.5 years.[ii]
  • During those 6.5 years the patient sees an average of 9 physicians.[iii]
  • No conventional treatment exists for Lyme disease except antibiotics.
  • We are at the end of the antibiotic era.
  • Ticks travel from host to host. They live on humans and other animals (unusual), making them very social.
  • Lyme is related to the disease of syphilis.
  • Lyme can be spread by tick saliva, tears, mothers milk, raw meat, tick bite, sexual contact, and can be passed from mother to child in utero.[iv]
  • One opossum eats an average of 4,000 ticks a season.
  • Like guinea fowl they play an important role in keeping tick population in control. These regulators of the tick population have their migratory routes blocked or corrupted by contemporary life, dense population, monocrop agricultural practices, are a few examples. Nature separated, and pushed to the edges.
  • City folk are more susceptible to ticks than country folk as ticks see them as foreign out in nature.

Symptom Presentation of Lyme –

  • Initial stage – Symptoms may be numerous and often non-specific – including fever, flu-like symptoms, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans or the bullseye rash, swelling of lymph nodes in the region of the puncture.
  • Secondary stage – The first months or years after an infection may go unnoticed, as there may be no discernable symptomology. But as the disease continues to burrow in, it takes the form of a chronic arthritis affecting all joints, sometimes with or without identifiable rheumatoid blood factors.
  • Tertiary stage – The third stage of the disease centers on the nervous system – nervous attack, neuralgic pains, paralysis, vertigo, or as acrodermatitis chronic atrophicans, a progressive fibrosing skin condition. Hypersensitivity to light, sound, odor, touch; sleep disturbance, cognitive impairment, ‘Lyme fog’, memory problems, mistakes in speaking and writing, dyslexia (with no previous history), spatial dyslexia, depression, despair, suicidal thoughts.[v]
  • Abandoned – a google /YouTube search with this word will inevitably show animals with ticks. With Lyme there is a theme of abandonment.     Outside of society.  Lyme is a new form of syphilis (in the same spirochete family).  Syphilis – the old disease of sailors, soldiers, and prostitutes.  Feeling separated, left behind.  Of syphilis – the saying was when it goes to the brain you will become insane.[vi]

Moving Forward with Homeoprophylaxis! –

  • Create immunity OR reduce susceptibility? This is the question.
  • We know that previous vaccines increase susceptibility to Lyme.
  • Ixodes remedy lessens susceptibility to having tics land on you and towards the development of the disease – This is not the same as immunity.
  • Lyme enters the system when the immune system is turned off. Vaccines turn the immune system off.
  • Ixodes remedy activates and keeps the immune system up and running.
  • Indeed, any well-indicated, individualized homeopathic remedy will keep the immune system up.
  • Ixodes can be used to either prevent disease or treat active cases.
  • When the immune system is activated the antibodies come to corral the pathogen and produce a die off, the system ushers out the dead, and recovery follows.
  • During the process of die off the bacteria cause numerous immunological symptoms. This is called a herxheimer reaction.
  • Nosodes work at a deep level of clearing active disease and susceptibility.
  • Clinically we see Lyme prevention and recovery using homeopathic treatment giving well-indicated remedies and supportive nosodes.
  • Ledum is the number one remedy indicated in the initial bullseye response to a tick bite.

When to Use HP/ Homeoprophylaxis –

  • During a tick bite.
  • A newly diagnosed or old case of Lyme infection, or flares.
  • A case presenting with a bullseye rash.
  • NOTE – a strong bullseye shows a healthy immune response, HP treatment will move quickly.
  • Avoid antibiotics. HP will be more effective.
  • In old cases antibiotics will just drive the Lyme deeper in the system. Work with homeopathy to eradicate the disease.

The Treatment Plan –

  • HP is individualized to the person and circumstance.
  • In new cases we move quickly through the remedies to mimic the short, intense, rapid, resolution needed.
  • We match the vital reaction as our determining factor in duration of the protocol. An acute disease should be a quick process, not a long drawn out one.  This also applies to a homeopathic vaccine clearing.
  • In old cases we take time. We spread the doses out.  We repeat each potency if needed, like a homeopathic isotherapy detox clearing.
  • Much depends on the vital reaction of the person – the degree of suppression, the power of symptom expression, and how old the case is.

Suggested Dosing for Prevention –

In addition to using Ixodes and Ledum for treatment and prevention it is best to see your HP Supervisor for an individualized treatment plan based on your unique disease expression.

Epidemic – Lyme is Now –

  • Lyme is an ancient disease: Its message is that we need to live in accordance to nature’s laws.
  • Yes, Lyme disease is now an emerging epidemic. It may be like a Biblical plague. Plague comes from flees on rats that live in the sewers- clean living sorted the plague out. Lyme is asking us to reconcile ourselves with nature.
  • Lyme is the fastest growing vector-borne illness in the US.
  • Lyme is one of the most difficult to diagnose.
  • An epidemic is a disease of the collective and comes with a message. This tick-borne disease highlights the distortion of the health of our ecosystem.  Nature is pushed to the edge of civilization. Monocrop culture is a spotlight example of a separation of man’s conscience towards nature.
  • If we are to address Lyme we must address humanity’s relationship to nature. How do we live in accordance to natures laws?

In Summary – Antibiotics may help prevent in the initial stages of Lyme but will drive the secondary and tertiary stages deeper on in contracted cases.  Homeopathy can be targeted to your specific circumstance and symptom expression. Homeoprophylaxis with Ixodes dammini can prevent the ticks from landing on you. Ledum will halt the disease at the stage of the bullseye rash.

[i]  Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University.

[ii] Weit Van Helmund – Presenting on Lyme Disease, San Francisco, CA, September 24, 2018.

[iii] Ibid.

[iv] Ibid.

[v] Alex, Peter. The Homeopathic Treatment of Lyme Disease. Heilung Borreliosekranker mit Homeoopathie. HomeopathyWest Publishing. 2005.

[vi] Weit Van Helmund – presenting on Lyme Disease, San Francisco, CA, September 24, 2018.

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The Natural Process of Infectious Disease

immune3If we think of the natural process of illness and immune system response in a circular way, we enter the circle upon peripheral exposure to a germ. Entry into the body is based upon susceptibility. A pathogen can enter through a break in the skin or contact with respiratory tissue or the gastrointestinal tract.

White blood cells in these peripheral linings alert deeper aspects of the immune system to possible intruders. After exposure, during the incubation of a disease, the prodrome, all aspects of the immune system are engaged and activated in identifying the nature of the infectious agent. While no actual symptoms of disease are yet apparent, there may be energetic disturbances, emotional withdrawal, and changes in appetite or difficulty sleeping at this stage. During this phase a chill can develop. The chill signals the body to increase its temperature and sets the muscles to contract calling upon the bones to release calcium to protect the brain through the febrile process.

Next a fever develops. This can build slowly over a period of days or suddenly depending on the vitality of the individual. During this time, antibody production is initiated to engage with the pathogen or virus. Viral illnesses stimulate moderate fevers while bacteria require a high fever to keep them in check.

During the fever, white blood cell activity localizes and de-activates the viral or bacterial agent. A discharge or eruption follows to remove the antibody/antigen complex out of the body, i.e., the pustules of chickenpox, a loose cough, or purulent runny nose. Next a period of perspiration happens as the fever breaks. After which the body finds resolution and cell-mediated immunity, completing the circle of disease and returning to health. Dependent on the particular disease, this cycle can take from twenty-four hours to twenty-one days from exposure to resolution.

As this cycle repeats itself with exposure to infectious agents in the natural world, immunity is gradually developed, and vitality is enhanced. Major milestones in mental and emotional development occur as resolution of each infectious process takes place.

An intermittent fever that never breaks into a sweat is insufficient to move the individual toward resolution. Fevers must be supported to move it to completion. Antipyretics suppress fevers, never allowing the body to move through the stages of effective immune system resolution.

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Chickenpox Ensures Survival

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The degree to which the human body is called into the febrile or purgative response is equal and opposite to the individual’s need for the disease and virulence of the pathogen. While it is not the pathogen itself that causes damage, it is the individuals’ over-reaction or lack-of-reaction to that pathogen that puts them at risk. The immunological process activated arises from that built-in survival mechanism. The healthier the individual, the more rapid and effective the resolution will be. The more limiting the underlying health is, the greater the risk of complications from acute infectious disease. 

The immunological process activated by an infectious childhood disease is the one that is going to mature and strengthen that individual.  This infective process is an adaptive survival mechanism. Homeopathic remedies can be used to  enable the individual to effectively move through the disease process.

For example this is a case of an non-vaccinated 15-year-old girl who had contracted chickenpox from a recently vaccinated child (the live virus chickenpox vaccine sheds). The pox erupted over her entire body, inside her ears, nose and mouth. She felt like her gums were dissolving while the phagedenic pox spread and coalesced on her body. The Homeopathic remedy Mercurius was indicated and she responded well to it. Two doses quickly helped to resolve the fever, initiate scabbing of the pox, and normalize the internal dissolving feeling. But something more important happened for her through this process. She had been visiting her alcoholic father and prior to contracting chickenpox she had been suffering with chronic headaches for the previous three years. From three years of age she had also been co-dependent to him and his volatile tempers and moods due to his alcoholism. She had always been a pleaser and was willing to sacrifice her needs to not be the target of his moods. She had developed this survival mechanism as a young child. After going through the chickenpox and receiving Mercurius, a  remedy that matched her destructive disease process and her destructive inheritance, not only did she quickly begin to recover, she decided that she no longer wished to relate with her father unless he sorted his addictions out. The process of the disease and resolution with the correct remedy enabled her to separate out of her codependent survival pattern. Her chronic headaches completely resolved. This we can say that this journey of chickenpox was one that enabled her to become more independent and committed to her own survival.

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PART II: Homeoprophylaxis for Cholera after Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

By Juian Heng, New York HP Supervisor

Cholera retreated, thanks to modern sanitation in the twentieth century. Then, in 2010, it Haitire-surged in Haiti. The outbreak could be traced to a group of UN peacekeepers from Nepal based at the tributary of a river from which people downstream drank. Its spread was compounded by a series of natural disasters in quick succession – the earthquakes of 2010, Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 — that compromised infrastructure and water supplies.

Homeopaths Without Borders has been working alongside non-licensed and licensed medical professionals in Haiti since 2010 after the earthquake. In January 2011, while working at a cholera treatment center in Haiti, Dr. Ed Broussalian successfully used Phosphorus as the genus epidemicus.[1]

When Hurricane Matthew made landfall in Haiti in October 2016, the Haitian Homeopathes Communautaires turned to their North American colleagues at HWB to advise on how to organize medical care for the communities that were most susceptible for cholera. Together, they decided that using atomizer spray bottles of diluted Phosphorus for prophylaxis in the countryside would be the best was to reach the most people.

“At the start of every clinic, a Haitian homeopath would explain the procedure and let people know that by administering two sprays to everyone the disease could be contained.  Hundreds of people were treated at these clinics and outlying areas.  Pregnant women, the elderly, and small children were treated first, as well as the clinic staff.  Our Haitian colleagues reported back that there were only a few cases of cholera in these communities, and they were very mild. These folks never got to a more advanced stage”, explained Lauren Fox, FNP-BC,CCH, Clinical Director for Homeopaths Without Borders.  All members of the teams remained healthy.

“With three 6-ounce atomizer bottles the Haitian team was able to treat hundreds of people in communities where no effective conventional treatment was available.  They continue to use this method.” Lauren continued.

She also explained that HWB does not use a cholera protocol as such. “We follow a strict Hahnemannian procedure. There has to be an outbreak, from which we get the genus epidemicus of the outbreak (matching the symptoms of disease to the symptoms of a remedy) and treat accordingly.”

 

[1] The California Homeopath Journal of the California Medical Society (http://californiahomeopath.com/issue/the-california-homeopath-volume-16)

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Part 1: Homeopathy in the Mysterious Pandemic of Cholera of 1829

By Juian Heng, New York HP Supervisor Cholera

Imagine a mysterious disease sweeping across continents, killing more than half the people who succumb to it and leaving doctors scrambling and helpless.

Such was the case with the second cholera pandemic of 1829-1851. Originating in India, it spread to Russia, and the Russian army took it with them to Europe, which had never seen the likes of this devastating disease.

This was homeopathy’s moment. Mapping the reported symptoms of the disease to a remedy that produces these same symptoms in healthy people in trials, Samuel Hahnemann predicted that Camphor would be useful in the first stages of cholera, and could be given prophylactically, to prevent the disease. Camphor poisoning has the icy coldness, the sudden collapse and debility of the first stage of cholera. It would also resolve these symptoms. (The second stage, when vomiting and diarrhea have set in, are covered by Veratrum album (white hellebore), while Cuprum (copper) help when convulsions have set in.) These remedies constitute the genus epidemicus, covering the characteristic symptoms of the Second Cholera Pandemic.

This is medical intelligence at work. Homeopaths do not have to wait for the mysterious disease to befall an individual, nor to understand its epidemiology in order to figure out a plan of action. With foreknowledge of the symptoms of the epidemic we are dealing with, homeoprophylaxis primes the body to defend itself so that the disease cannot take hold, or if it does, in much milder form.

The results were astonishing. In Russia cholera cases treated with homeopathy had a mortality rate of 8%, versus 60-80% mortality for those under conventional treatment of the day.  In Vienna, two thirds of those treated with homeopathy were cured, while two thirds of those treated allopathically died.  In Naples, a certain doctor Rubini treated hundreds of cases without a single mortality. In London, the homeopathic hospital had a 9% mortality rate. Compare that with a mortality rate between 40% and 80% for cholera patients under conventional care throughout Europe and the New World, and you start to appreciate how valuable homeopathy is.

Austria took notice. The Emperor directed the homeopath Marenzeller to conduct the first clinical trial on homeopathy at the Garrison Hospital in Vienna. He gave 150 000 patients Veratrum album and Cuprum, and none caught cholera. He repeated the results in Hungary and Poland with 80 000 people. [1]In 1836, the Emperor repealed the law that made the practice of homeopathy illegal, thanks to the successes of homeopathy in the cholera epidemic of 1831.

[1] The British Journal of Homoeopathy, Volume 1,1843, page 64
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rPAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA64&dq=Marenzeller+veratrum&hl=en&ei=B4DCTeeLBISY8QP_8uDXBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Marenzeller%20veratrum&f=false
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Preventing and Treating Chikugunya with Homeoprophylaxis – Beyond Mosquito Nets and Antipyretics

By Jiuan Heng, New York HP Supervisor,Lauren

Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease causing fever and severe joint pain, headache, fatigue, nausea and rash. First reported in Africa in 1952 it found its way to the Americas (Carribean) for the first time in 2013. There is no vaccine, and no drugs for the disease beyond antipyretics to relieve the fever and aching. Some cases of chikungunya go on to become chronic, leading to permanent joint pain, neurological and heart complications, and impaired vision.

In the spring of 2014, Homeopaths without Borders started to see cases of chikungunya in Haiti. They took cases even before they arrived, with the Homéopathes Communautaires (the local public health representatives). acting as their eyes and ears on the ground. The genus epidemicus that covered the characteristic symptoms of the disease turned out to be Euporatium perfoliatum, the same as that in India which has seen epidemics of chikungunya in the 60s, 70s, and more recently, in 2006.

“There were 5 major remedies that we used to treat chikungunya in Haiti. But we used Eupatorium perfoliatum prophylactically.  The following remedies have also been useful in chikungunya cases (prescribed on individual bases): Rhus toxicodendron, Bryonia, Calcarea carbonicum, and Lycopodium. While we could not do a study under the circumstances we were working in, we had lots of feedback. Among those we treated prophylactically, there were either no cases of chikugunya or very mild cases compared with untreated community members,” Lauren Fox, FNP-BC, CCH, Clinical Director of Homeopaths without Borders said.

They also treated the chronic sequelae of chikungunya with dramatic relief for people who had been suffering for months. (http://www.hwbna.org/chikungunya-in-the-caribbean.html).

Viruses mutate, and homeopathy, which works with symptoms, not predictions, can respond nimbly to determine a remedy that matches the evolution of the disease. “The genus epidemicus may change as the virus changes.” Lauren notes.

 

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