A moving scene occurs in the Hollywood film Bridge of Spies when the spy Rudolph Abel tells his lawyer James Donovan about of a family friend:

Standing there like that you reminded me of the man that used to come to our house when I was young. My father used to say: “watch this man’. So I did. Every time he came. And never once did he do anything remarkable.

This one time, I was at the age of your son, our house was overrun by partisan border guards. Dozens of them. My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father’s friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again. So they hit him harder. Still he got back to his feet. I think because of this they stopped the beating. They let him live. ‘Stoikiy muzhik’. I remember them saying. ”. Which sort of means like uh, ‘standing man’… standing man…

From: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3682448/quotes

Why does he endure in fact, invite the beating? What is the Standing Man’s secret?

According to a Russian speaking colleague stoikly muzhik actually means strong man, or upright man and contains a familiar Latin root, “stoic” applicable to the family friend.  A man of principle he is upright in being certain that what he stands for is correct, drawing strength from the earth within which his values are rooted.

As Rudolph Abel points out Standing Man is no superman. Apart from being upright he is entirely unremarkable.  What makes him stand out is his fortitude. But is this character trait inborn? Was it learned?  Are there means by which it can it be acquired?

Fortitude is attainable. But we can aim higher!

Chinese culture features an ancient practice with remarkable spiritual and medical benefits known as Qi Gong.

In addition a Qi Gong variant, the powerful martial art practice of Tai Qi enables not the withstanding of a beating but a means to effectively repel and turn an attacker’s own force back and upon himself. Foundational to both Qi Gong and Tai Qi is mastering standing quietly in an upright posture.

Standing Erect 101

 Join me on a walk through the basics:

Stand with the feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent. Allow the tongue to touch the roof of the mouth. Imagine that energy is bubbling from deep in the earth directly up and into a point in the middle of each foot, one third of the way down from the toes to the heel.  Imagine a point on the middle of the scalp at the crown of your head from which there is attached an invisible string pulling your body to upwards toward heaven.  This is the acupuncture point GV20 also known as A Hundred Meetings.  Take mental inventory of every part of your body (inside and out) with regard to its state of tension. Mentally release tension everywhere it is detected. Keep all the joints softly engaged, not locked.

Take mental inventory of every part of your body (inside and out) with regard to its state of tension.  Mentally release tension everywhere it is detected.  Keep all joints softly engaged, not locked.

Qi Gong gathering qi meditation

In a well-known Qi Gong version the idea is to open oneself to receiving qi from the universe.  The arms are lifted in front of you with the palms facing up. With the eyes semi closed imagine that you are cradling in your arms an invisible ball of energy. Imagine you are on a high mountaintop able to see infinitely far in every direction, even from the back of the head. Concentrate on this limitless expanse, redirecting your mind to the view when ordinary thoughts or mental images distract. Keep your wrist and elbow joints rounded, neither sharply bent nor locked in extension. Tuck the chin slightly.

Maintain soft (no exertion) breathing.  Allow the body to sway if it wants to. This means that the qi is beginning to flow. Attend to the fact that your mouth is beginning to fill with saliva. This is a special fluid also confirming that the qi is moving in your body.  Qi gathers from the earth via from the Bubbling Spring acupuncture point on the bottom of the foot.  Qi is also drawn from heaven into the top of your head. The universe’s Yin and Yang forces thus meet and blend within your own body, promoting a state of perfect mental, emotional and spiritual health.

An upright posture is our birthright. It facilitates Yin Yang harmonization, the integration of temporal, earthbound verities with the eternal verities of the higher, heavenly plane.  Human beings in other words are priests of the planet, mandated to harmonize Yin and Yang . This holds true not just for ourselves but for all planetary life.

Standing meditation is prerequisite to an extensive range of body/mind/breath Qi Gong exercises. Apart from promoting fortitude, mastery of the stance initiates qi flow indispensible to spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health.

Tai Qi Opening Stance

Most Tai Qi forms begin with a quietly standing stance. This posture is identical to what is described above with the difference that instead of the arms being extended in front of oneself, they rest quietly by one’s side. The image of a tree is visualized and mentally emulated in its drawing of nutrients from the soil through unseen roots. Treelike firmness and flexibility are sought in the habit of transitioning through a sequence of postures. Regular Tai Qi practice deepens the practitioner’s root. But the rootedness is not a metaphor! As her strength resides not in musculature but in access to a gravitational pull coming from deep within the earth, in combat the Tai Qi master is virtually impossible to imbalance or dislodge.

The Standing Man within you

The ability to be upright and serve as a bridge between heaven and earth is both mandate and privilege. But as is true for bridges across our rivers and bays the integrity of our individual standing is no given. How best to maintain the infrastructure of our inner bridge? The answer is that Standing Man must be bathed in qi:

Access to qi from the atmosphere or from the earth is an honor. We should first respect the soil beneath our feet and the blessed surrounding air. If our works deem us worthy of the gift of qi let us practice Qi Gong or Tai Qi wholeheartedly. Thus may Yin and Yang be harmonized and the Standing Man nourished.

Got impacted sinuses, or gunk constantly in your throat?  Does your nose and throat burn?  Symptoms like these lament about your stress. Translating from the phlegmish decodes the message.

According to the Alternative Medicine Review, approximately 14 percent of the population suffers from sinusitis.

Let’s examine this common problem from a mind/body perspective.

Consider your automobile’s carburetor, the engine component that mixes liquid fuel with air. When liquid gasoline is mixed with enough air to form a fine spray, the fuel becomes explosive and very easy to burn. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory your body’s Spleen is similar: It is responsible for metabolism, the conversion of foodstuffs into combustible metabolic energy. Just as a dirty carburetor makes for a sputtering car engine, a clogged Spleen causes metabolic inefficiency.

This is evident in low vitality and “dampness” features that include looseness of the stools, fatty tumors, mucosal and sputum irregularities. Being more than just an organ, the Chinese Medicine version of the Spleen is disharmonized by mental and emotional stress, particularly worry and anxiety.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pulse and tongue diagnosis combined with the physician’s perception that his patient worries too much culminates in a Spleen disharmony-correcting action plan: Acupuncture points stimulation, possibly herbs and a directive to stop worrying so much.

Within homeopathy the prescribing is even subtler, taking into account whether the worrying has an angry, bitter, or disappointed quality. Remedy prescriptions showing awareness of “angry,” “bitter,” or “bitterly disappointed” phlegm result.

Some examples:

• Kali Bich: People needing this remedy have chronically impacted sinuses. They also tend to be highly family oriented and out of anxiety, prone to keeping their lives small, limited in the breadth of their concerns. They make for good civil servants in other words. Not that there is anything terribly wrong with such a world view but the “compacting” of perspective discomfits the Spleen and compacts phlegm within the sinuses.
• Kali Carb: Folks in need of this remedy are attached to existing structure. Overly judgmental and viewing ethical matters in black and white terms they are stressed by change, transitional situations, and inconsistency in other’s ethics. A Kali Carb person’s Spleen reflects this discomfiture, causing the mucous membranes to also become “black and white”: Insensitive to moderate levels of moisture they are always either too damp or dry. The throat constantly needs to be cleared since it is always full of gunk.
• Ammonia Carb: Someone needing this remedy is bitter with the world, often from having had a mean father. Trying to camouflage the bitterness, the vital force refuses to play along. The mindset is betrayed by the Spleen that diminishes fluid production (yin) resulting in angry phlegm. An aversion to water is also seen along with pathologies within mucous membranes of the respiratory organs, weakness of the heart, wheezing, and tendency to feel suffocated.
• Muriatic Acid: Someone needing this remedy is caught up in a deeply disappointed relation with his or her mother. The Spleen rebels by decomposing bodily fluids. What results is: Involuntary stools while passing urine, mucous membranes of the digestive tract particularly of the mouth and anus becoming dry, bleeding and ulcerated.
• Nitric Acid: A person in need of this remedy is negative, critical and grudge holding. His unhappy Spleen thus dries and stops up his nose. It also dehydrates the anus causing hemorrhoids. The stomach lining is inflamed causing susceptibility to heartburn and reflux.

As they never quite say in the TV commercials, if you suffer from sinusitis or respiratory congestion, talk to your homeopath. He understands Phlegmish!

Entrenched fear such as experienced by PTSD afflicted people can be paralyzing. In his recent NY Times an Opinion piece Professor Richard Friedman of Weill Cornell Medical College describes a a study from the Journal Biological Psychiatry that works by offering a means of altering emotional memory, the associations we have between various stimuli and experiences and our emotional response to them. According to Dr. Friedman,

“It has been an article of faith in neuroscience and psychiatry that, once formed, emotional memories are permanent. Afraid of heights or spiders? The best we could do was to get you to tolerate them, but we could never really rid you of your initial fear.”

The current standard of treatment for phobias of this sort involves desensitization (or “exposure”) therapy: under safe conditions, a repeated presentation of the feared object or frightening memory. Alongside his toxic memory the patient logs a new unthreatening memory in his brain. The problem though is that with any exposure to the frightening trigger his old fear reawakens with increased intensity.

In the study a group exposed to a tarantula in a glass jar for two minutes before being given a beta-blocker called propranolol (commonly prescribed to patients for performance anxiety) outperformed control groups getting either propranol or exposure therapy alone. Despite having been induced to be arachnophobes this group was able to touch the tarantula within days.

Moreover the effect held: by three months and for long after, many could comfortably hold the spider in their bare hands. The explanation is that in blocking the effects of norepinephrine (a chemical similar to adrenaline) in the brain subtracts stress from memory reacquisition, thereby enhancing learning. Blocking norepinephrine in other words prompts mental reconsolidation by disrupting the way a memory is put back in storage after it is retrieved.

How wonderful is that? And consider the implications for treating PTSD.

Sure, but we offer the following caveat: Homeopathy addresses the very same problem more efficiently, less expensively, in deeper and in more natural fashion:

1. As opposed to relying on a “middle man,” the in between measure of pharmaceutically softening up memory so that fear can be unlearned, homeopathy directly awakens a response already in place that is only waiting to happen;
2. In place of a costly traditional pharmaceutical the correct high potency homeopathic remedy, inexpensive to begin with needs be give only seldom to achieve its deep effect;
3. Arranging to create exposure to a triggering event is dispensed with in homeopathy;
4. The homeopathic effect will be lasting because it is more deep, permanent in fact. A correctly prescribed homeopathic addresses buried issues predisposing the traumatized individual to his or her specific fear. But other, seemingly unrelated symptoms improve as well. For example, an individual whose arachnophobia treated with the homeopathic snake remedy Crotalus Cascavella will notice adjunctive improvements including fear of being alone, despair that he or she will never get well, and reduction in general body tension (especially of the neck).

If you have PTSD, talk to your homeopath about trauma-specific remedies.

Time is of the essence….Over seventeen months now and counting, residents of the struggling town of Flint, Michigan have been exposed to lead toxicity because their source of drinking water, the Flint River has been polluted. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/health/flint-michigan-water-investigation/.

Though a general health hazard it is the children, particularly those under the age of five who are most at risk to permanent neurological and organ damage. Despite a perception of hopelessness the homeopathic community knows otherwise. Homeopathy has a history of succeeding in the domain of public health where conventional measures have failed. Examples include the 1918 flu epidemic and more recently, public health homeopathy’s eradication of leptospirosis in Cuba in 2007.

Though Flint’s drinking water must immediately be made safe, the toxic exposure already having occurred calls for an additional, immediate response. Quite possibly a powerful homeopathic remedy can be made from the toxic drinking water itself.

A small number of remedies are at hand that on an emergency basis and on a public health scale, can beneficially be prescribed for the children of Flint. Compelling among these would be Alumina, Causticum and a “like to cure like” dilution of the self-same toxic agent, namely lead. This produces the remedy, Plumbum. When given early enough on (and when the picture fits) Plumbum prompts the body’s immune system to repudiate neurological damage.

Health officials or advocacy groups looking to explore this option may contact me.

As an example of how homeopathic information is organized what follows is a portion of Plumbum materia medica Plumbum from the renowned Indian homeopath S. R. Phatak. The information indicates that Plumbum has been clinically found to act curatively when the presenting picture includes some of the following symptoms:

Generalities:

Lead produces general sclerotic condition. It affects the MUSCLES; NERVES; SPINAL CORD; abdomen; navel, kidneys; blood vessels and blood. Symptoms appear slowly; insidiously; progressively; often with violent side effects of very changeable and incoherent character; coming in single parts; etc. Paralysis; hysterical; infantile; of single parts, (wrist drop), flaccid; with hyperaesthesia; worse touch. Convulsive trembling and jerking of the limbs. Emaciation; of limbs, with plump body; of paralyzed parts, of single parts; after neuralgia. Impulse to stretch with abdominal distress. Retraction; of abdomen; anus; testes; navel etc.

 Mental:

Anaesthesia is as marked as excessive hyperaesthesia. VIOLENT CONTRACTION. Retraction; sense of a string pulling back or in. Exaggerates her condition. Lightning pains that extort cries. Convulsions; chronic epilepsy, with marked aura; with haemorrhages. Boring; cramps. Progressive muscular atrophy. Multiple sclerosis; spinal sclerosis. Constriction in internal organs. Anaemia; jaundice; arterio-sclerosis; hypertension. Small aneurisms all over the body. Dropsical swelling. Gout. Ill effects of repelled eruptions. Sexual excess. Marasmus of infants in apparently hopeless cases, abdomen large and hard, and constipation extreme. Perception slow, comprehension is difficult. Tremors, followed by paralysis. Arthralgia.

Taciturn. Timid, restless and anxious. Frantic; bites, strikes. Quiet and melancholy. Fears; of assassination; of poisoning; thinks every one about her is a murderer. Stupid; imbecile. Delirium; nocturnal; alternating, with colic or pain in the limbs. Amnesic aphasia. Physical labour exhausts the mind. Slow perception. Weakness, or loss of memory. Increasing slowness and apathy. Inclined to cheat and deceive. Feigns sickness or exaggerates her condition. Hysterics, only while being watched. Screams from time to time. Fright without cause. Delirium from hearing music.

Let us act quickly to bring the homeopathic option into play!

During childbearing years women may develop uterine fibroids. According the Mayo Clinic such growths called leiomyomas or myomas are not cancerous and seldom develop into cancer.

However, they are problematic. The most common symptoms of uterine fibroids include:

• Heavy menstrual flow
• Extended menstrual periods, meaning seven days or more
• Pelvic pressure or pain
• Frequent urination or difficulty with voiding
• Constipation
• Backache or leg pains

Your homeopath would never prescribe a remedy based on one symptom alone, or strictly on the basis of medical diagnosis for that matter. Instead, her interview with you will explore features peculiar to your personality and symptoms apparently unrelated to the fibroids. In total this information provides vital context and the basis for your homeopathic prescription. That said, there is one remedy that must be considered (if only to be ruled out) when a woman presents with uterine fibroids: Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum.

Derived from a chloride of gold this remedy has an especial relevance for the female reproductive organs. Mental and emotional hallmarks of women for whom Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum are indicated include: tendency to be judgmental, a concern that justice is always done and a generally sharp mind. These features reflect the Aurum (gold) component of the remedy reflecting someone who is responsible, holds high standards and is at the top of her game with respect to career.

Correct as she usually is in her judgments it is not surprising that her assessments of others are also highly critical. And yet she will her express her opinions in a reserved manner. This is because chloride remedy-states have to do with the presence of loss, a grief that due to her excess of dignity she constrains. A skilled homeopath suspecting the presence of a grief that lurks in her history need not, like a therapist prompt its disclosure. The mere certainty that it is there can provide sufficient context for uterine fibroids as to recommend a prescription of the Aurum Muiatcum Natronatum remedy.

After she has taken an accurately prescribed dose of this remedy relief from uterine symptoms along with shrinkage from the fibroids can be expected. As they never quite say in the TV drug commercials…

Talk to your homeopath about the remedy, Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum!

Hi! Let’s get started!

Come with me. We are heading in the direction of the salon.

So now first thing, get your foot in the door. Yikes, it’s crowded in here!

As a warm up roll your eyes, raise an eyebrow or two and sniff, disdainfully if you like. Here we go, let’s elbow our way into the room.

Okay, time to stand out! One, two keep your chin up! Three four curl that upper lip. Four five hold your head up high.

No one’s paying any attention! Six, seven, raise your hackles!

Arrgh, there’s that awful Agnes over at the refreshment station.

Eight nine, keep abreast!.

Ten eleven, put your lips into a pout. You’re doing fine!

Twelve thirteen, hold your haunches! She’s heading over here toting way too many water bottles.

Fourteen fifteen, lift a finger to help!

Whew! You’ve had enough?

Ok, but reach down deep and give me one more!

Sixteen seventeen,

Put your foot down!

A handful of homeopathic remedies may come to mind (any one of which could spare you a long-term course of suppressive, often creativity-killing medication)…

Though not a major depressive disorder dysthymia is a serious state of chronic depression. It can persist for as long as two years. A bad mood that simply does not lift, a serious, prolonged and joyless funk, dysthymia can start to feel like it is part of your personality.

It’s not.

As I have said again and again, your classical homeopath will never prescribe solely on the basis of a western diagnosis. No, it is always the client in all her blazing uniqueness that the homeopath’s prescription must match. That said, a client complaining of being in a chronically bad mood, a continuous funk or of being joyless might prompt the homeopath to consider a short list of remedies. If all of these are ruled out, no big problem. Your homeopath will shift gears and find an accurate alternative. There are approximately 35,000 remedies in the homeopathic armamentarium. Your practitioner is adept in narrowing the field of candidate remedies!

In alphabetical order the remedies are:

Adamas, Cactus Grandiflora, Natrum Mur, Psorinum and Sepia

From the standpoint of the mental and emotional features only (every remedy-state displays characteristic physical symptoms and behaviors as well) differentiation is as follows:

Adamas—Made from diamond, this remedy is given when the client’s joyless features above all else a profound sense of discouragement.

Cactus Grandiflora—Made from a desert cactus this remedy probably most closely matches the spirit of the dysthymia definition. It is joyless, with a sense of isolation. The person seems prickly, offputting to others.

Natrum Muriaticum—Made from sea salt this is one of the more common manifestations of dysthymia. The client’s joylessness is rooted in entrenched grief. Her subconscious strategy involves keeping her loss under wraps. She is sad, cannot cry and joylessly goes about fulfilling her duties, especially as a caretaker.

Psorinum—Made from the exudate of a scabies infestation the dysthymia of a client needing this remedy reflects poverty consciousness, a feeling of never having enough for his future needs. Though his joylessness concerns the futility of his ongoing endeavors he perseveres in being (though dysfunctionally so) entrepreneurial . His appetite is often ravenous since he feels he must eat like there is no tomorrow.

Sepia—Derived from the ink of the cuttlefish the dysthymia of an individual needing this remedy is flavored by confusion (just as the fish’s ink muddies the waters). Due to entrenched resentment and bitterness that has come to undermine her native optimism she now finds hope to be toxic. Exhaustion and half-heartedness now contaminate her love relationships.

As they almost but never quite say in the television drug commercials:

Got dysthymia? Talk to your homeopath about…

Though millions of dollars annually are spent on the war on cancer, to my knowledge not a dime has ever been spent researching a major clinical find: An acupuncture point known as Root of Tumor (or Pee Gun) whose sole action involves the dissolution of tumors and the undoing of cancer. Perhaps this should change.

The point and its method of treatment was taught to me by Dr. James Tin Yau So in 1978. Dr. So was the bearer of a renowned acupuncture lineage in China and an immensely experienced clinician for whom the New England School of Acupuncture (oldest in the country) was founded in 1975. A beloved teacher whose devoted students number in the thousands, Dr. So may be considered the father of acupuncture in the US.

Within Dr. So’s clinical lineage, Root of Tumor (or Pee Gun) has a long history of empirical validation. An “extra,” or non-meridian point, even within Traditional Chinese Medicine theory its action is not readily accounted for. According to Dr. So needling of the point is forbidden. Instead, Pee Gun is treated by direct (scarring) moxibustion (the burning of an herb, Artemisia vulgaris) on the skin). Done properly this is not as bad as it sounds as the heat builds gradually and is over just as it is about to become painful).

The following verbatim account given by a patient who also happens to be a close friend illustrates Pee Gun’s action:

Following a biopsy December 17th, 2006 I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.  At the time of the biopsy my hemoglobin was 7.4.  I was incredibly tired, itched a lot and had terrible night-sweats, all common symptoms of NHL. 

 New Year’s Eve 2006-2007 was spent with friends in Boston.  Their home on the second floor required a climb of about 16 steps, a trip I could only make on my hands and knees and was exhausted when I reached the top.  I could barely stay awake for the event, even after an afternoon nap.

New Year’s morning, at about 9AM, we drove our children to Logan airport, about a forty-minute trip.  I drove there and back and almost immediately went to bed and slept for several hours into the afternoon.

When I awoke, Jerry asked if I would be interested in having an acupuncture treatment.  He said it was not a common treatment but one he learned from the founder of the acupuncture school he attended. 

I sat with my back to him. My husband and Jerry’s wife helped distract me from the pain of having moxa burned 14 times on 2 places on my back.  The process must have taken about a painful hour, after which I again took to sleep for a few hours.

When I woke up I drove my husband and myself to meet other friends for dinner in a neighboring town.  There we partied until late into the night and only left because my husband reminded me that our hosts would be waiting up for us to arrive.  When we got there I bounded up the stairs I could only have slowly climbed hours before.

 January 4th was my first meeting with the oncologist.  To every one’s surprise my blood count was 9 that day.  When I began chemo February 5th with my blood count 10.2, I knew that the acupuncture treatment was largely responsible for my road to full health.  I went back to playing tennis February 15th, 10 days after my first of 6 chemo treatments, fully energized and full of stamina for the 1 1/2 hours of play.  I have been cancer free for 8+ years. Ms. ML.

Dr. So taught acupuncturists to fearlessly treat seriously ill people and moxibustion was a principal weapon.

The point’s location:

Three and a half cun (finger division measured according to width of the patient’s middle finger’s crease between first and second digits when the finger is bent) bilateral from under the 12th thoracic vertebrae.

Please note that not all practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine are trained in or comfortable performing this treatment. To have Pee Gun treated find an acupuncturist with experience and skill in direct moxibustion.

My suspicion is that intense heat stimulus to Pee Gun is anti-oxidative and promotes cancer cell apoptosis. For research and also clinical purposes it is likely that in place of direct moxibustion a less onerous method of treatment such as laser heat stimulaton could work.

IF YOU ARE A CANCER RESEARCHER SEEKING MORE INFORMATION OR AN ACUPUNCTURIST DESIRING TRAINING IN THE USE OF THIS POINT,  PLEASE CONTACT ME.

We all could stand to know: What exactly is going on within the body approximately three inches lateral to under the twelve thoracic vertebrae?

While awaiting our answer, as they almost but do not quite say in the television drug commercials…

Talk to your acupuncturist about the anti-tumor point, Pee Gun!

The free market economy has many benefits. But its ruthless economics create perverse incentives in quality of life arenas such as health care: When profit trumps efficient care shameful stories routinely crop up. Here is the latest example: Valeant’s Drug Price Strategy Enriches It, but Infuriates Patients and Lawmakers.

“My husband will die without the medicine,” says his wife, Susan, who now must a second part-time job to help pay for the couple’s health care. “We just can’t manage another two, three thousand dollars a month for pills.”

Her husband, Bruce Mannes had been taking the same drug, Cuprimine, for 55 years. He needs it to deal with an inherited disorder that can cause severe liver and nerve damage Wilson’s disease. This summer, Valeant more than quadrupled its price overnight.

Cuprimine is one of many drugs whose prices have spiked as part of the Valeant company’s business strategy, which has made it one of Wall Street’s most popular health stocks.

As Americans we feel stuck, firstly with a sick medical system; and secondly stuck with a false notion that the drugs we need are of one kind only and we have no control over how to get them.

We offer two antidotes to our stuckness:

1. Shaming companies such as Valeant or drafting regulations to rein in price gouging fails to fix the core issue which is that health care ought NOT be for profit. A single payer health care system would establish proper priorities letting efficient care drive reimbursement rather than profit. How this happened in countries such as England and Canada is that the public health sphere was permitted to expand to the point where physicians and clinics fell under governmental budgets. Here in the US the AMA has repeatedly gone to court to oppose federal monies being spent on one-to-one care. As a result our public health care domain is dwarfed, limited to areas such as epidemic research and quarantine function. Up to 90% of the health dollar (or pound) could go to direct care as opposed to 10% as it does in the US (the 90% going to administration, insurance payer chasing, claim denial and other such waste).
2. As opposed to in Europe and much of the world, few Americans know about the medical efficacy and economic value of homeopathic medicine. As an example, homeopathic texts (known as materia medica) document at least eight homeopathic remedies known to effectively address Wilson’s disease. A homeopathic practitioner is trained to identify the one most likely to help Bruce Mannes. Why is such information not known? Because homeopathics are by and large not commodities. Apart from common formulations such as the Boiron company’s acute over-the-counter remedies,  they do not (in their high potency, stronger constitutional formulation) produce corporate profit!

Homeopathic remedies offer additional advantages:

• They are non-addictive and non-toxic
• They offer side benefits instead of side effects: clients report improvement in apparently-unrelated physical ailments as well as overall energy and quality of sleep
• Their use is supported by research including a study by the Swiss government concluding that these medicines are as effective as conventional medicines only less expensive
• The average cost is less than a penny a day
• Instead of “you’ll be on this drug for the rest of your life,” their effect tends to be curative in months

Dr. Tinus Smits is a prominent Dutch physician and homeopath with thirty years experience and who has achieved some major breakthroughs in the treatment of autism. I am pleased to announce that I will be away studying with him in the Neverthelands this coming week (from March 29 until April 2). I look forward to sharing what I will have learned upon my return. For more information about Dr. Smits approach please view his website:

http://www.cease-autism.com/3842/autism.aspx