People always come to us last, often after they’ve been sent home to die; but, also because, as I’ve been told, “My insurance doesn’t cover you.”  But what are they getting in the bargain? 

If only they knew that modern medicine is premised on a faulty paradigm!

Don’t get me wrong, it really is a good idea to have a medical diagnosis; this makes the homeopath’s job so much easier; but after this obvious advantage, what are you left with?  Here are some interesting figures from the July 26, 2000 issue of JAMA:

Deaths per year caused by modern medicine:

12,000 from unnecessary surgeries

7,000 from medication errors in hospitals

20,000 from other errors in hospitals

80,000 from hospital infections

106,000 from side effects of drugs

Total:  225,000 in-hospital deaths per year caused by the medical/hospital complex.

And you know that these are all under-reported, don’t you?  The real figure is obviously much higher; first of all, deaths outside the hospital are not counted.

What is the flaw in their practice of healing?  Where do they go wrong?  It’s the presumption that symptoms are the whole problem!  

In reality, symptoms are signs that the body is trying to rid itself of something. 

If you’re trying to put out a fire with an inadequate supply of water, you want help from someone with a bigger water supply, don’t you?  You don’t want help in the form of someone shutting off what little water you have!  How does that help?  But that’s what modern medicine’s trajectory is, that’s it’s orientation!  (“There, your watery discharge has been turned off!”)  Why didn’t they see the FIRE that was the reason for the watery discharge?  They’re not looking for it!  They only see what’s coming out, not why it’s coming out; or maybe they do see it but aren’t really that interested, because it’s not why you came in, it’s not what you complained of!  ”My nose is running!”  That’s what you said.   

But, say that to a homeopath, and he says, “Let’s turn on the fire hydrant and give the body some help!” 

One system of medicine is antagonistic toward the immune system, the other is sympathetic and tries to cooperate.  Which one makes more sense to you?

The “war-waging” mentality that accounts for all the instruments of death piled high in modern medicine’s arsenal of “treatments”, is resulting in 225,000 deaths per year!

If I could sum up in one word the modern medical paradigm, it would be “Suppression”, the suppression of symptoms.  

Here’s lesson-one: Suppression is not the same as cure.  We in homeopathy know this is true because when we give a correctly-chosen remedy, often some infection that was supposedly “cured” years ago by suppressive treatment, comes back!  Meaning what?  Meaning it’s been there all along, it never went anywhere, or how could it possibly resurface?  And what harm was it doing in this “suppressed” state all this time?  Perhaps we’ll never know but it makes one shudder. 

Symptoms are a sign of vitality.  If your body can put out a strong symptom, a high fever, for example, the way most children can, you’ve got a strong immune system!  But, decades of allopathic (orthodox medical) indoctrination have caused us to lose all common sense when it comes to fevers.  Nothing scares us more than a fever!  “OMG!  I’ve got a fever!  Quick, stamp it out!”  

We believe there is no down-side, no price to pay for all this immune suppression; but, in fact, here’s what happens: a steady downward spiral in health, with those afflicted becoming more and more dependent on their antibiotics, laxatives, nasal sprays, bronchodilators, anti-inflammatories, sleeping pills and antacids.  Why does this drug-dependence occur?  Because of “rebound”!  I’ll explain.  What do you do if someone pushes you?  You push back!  Then what happens?  You get pushed even harder!  Then what happens?  You push back even harder!  You can see where this is going, can’t you?  It means that drugs have to get stronger and stronger to keep apace with the “push-back” of your immune system!  But wait, the complaint is also getting stronger and stronger to keep apace with the increasing strenth of the drugs; meaning what?  The complaint is growing muscles, turning into a “muscle man”!  How many of you know someone who started out on 2.5 mg. of Valium for sleep and are now up to 10 mg?  Look at what happened to Michael Jackson!  In the end, he needed anesthesia to get to sleep at night!  It probably all started with a 5 mg. tablet of Valium 30 years ago!  This is quite a metaphor for allopathic treatment!  I am hearby declaring it:  “The Michael Jackson Syndrome”!     

 This immune response is instinctive, non-reasoning and persistent in nature. The immune system will doggedly put out symptoms as long as the root cause persists; the “anti” medicines, therefore, never really get anywhere, there’s no end in sight!  There are momentary victories but the immune system invariably recovers and doggedly puts out the same symptoms again; so, a victory is never had!  (“You’ll have to be on this medicine for the rest of your life.”  How many times have you heard that?  Well, is it any wonder?) 

But why should a “similar”, or homeopathic, remedy have any better luck?   Because our remedies are not at war with, or trying to stop, anything!   Homeopathic remedies respect the immune system.  If the body is discharging through the nose, our remedies say, “Help is here, we brought a water cannon!”  Specifically, in overdose, our remedies cause what you have!  Homeopathy is a Greek word meaning, “The medicine is like the disease”.  Which approach appeals to you more?  Maybe Samuel Hahnemann, homeopathy’s founder, can explain it best.

To quote Sammuel Hahnemann, MD from his book, The Organon of Medicine:  

“In judging [the allopathic method] of using drugs, I shall overlook for now its fundamental error of prescribing only symptomatically … for only a small part of the whole. …

“Among all the cases in which medicines were used antipathically for chronic or persistent complaints, is there one in which temporary relief was not followed by the aggravation not only of the symptom at first palliated but indeed of the whole disease? Every conscientious observer will agree that after this short antipathic amelioration, aggravation follows in every case without exception. … The salient symptoms of a long-standing disease have never in this world been treated in this antipathic way without reappearing in a few hours, often manifestly worse. …

[Hahnemann is describing the 'rebound' I was telling you about earlier.]

“A chronic tendency to constipation is said to yield to strong doses of purgatives and laxatives. They do irritate the bowels to frequent evacuation, but their secondary action constipates still further. …

“Cold water does bring immediate relief to the pain of a severe burn, but afterward the pain increases incredibly, as inflammation spreads to the surrounding tissues and increases.

“The allopaths treat chronic stoppage of the nose … with remedies that cause sneezing and the secretion of mucus, but they fail to observe that this antipathic treatment progressively aggravates the condition in its secondary action, so that the nose is blocked even more than before. …

“The physician … rejoices when he has forcibly slowed the small, rapid pulse of cachexia for several hours with the first dose of Digitalis. But this is the primary action of the drug, and soon the heart beats twice as fast as before. Repeated, stronger doses are less and less effective and finally do not decrease the pulse rate at all. Moreover, in the secondary action, the pulse becomes uncountable; sleep, appetite and strength wane and death is imminent.” 

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Ouch! 

When they claim to be declaring war on your symptoms, it’s actually a war on nobody but YOU, because your symptoms don’t come from without, they are part of an automatic response your body has to invaders and stress.  You can’t stop this process without harming you, the patient.  Your body is only trying to help you, it doesn’t know any better, don’t beat it up for trying!  It’s just not completely up to the task, it needs help; that’s why if we see it trying to burn up pathogens with a fever, we give a remedy that in overdose would CAUSE a fever;  that’s how homeopathy works and that should appeal a lot more to you than “waging war” against your own immune system, how would you even know who to root for?  

So again, while you’re saving money seeing a doctor because your insurance will cover it, remind yourself: those 225,000 people a year thought they were saving money too.