This is the worst problem for a homeopath. How do we explain an exquisitely subtle and complex process in a simple way? Take something so important and put it in a sound bite? I remember a long time ago having to try to explain Verbal First Aid in five seconds or less for a three minute TV news interview. I totally blew it. I’m not very good at sound bites. But that is what we want in this country- drive through information, fast-food for the mind. If we can’t eat it in the time it takes to reach for the remote, the opportunity to communicate is lost.

But there is hope, because we do like stories. So, I thought that perhaps the best way to communicate what I do is to share with you a few cases. The first one is my own. The others (in Part II of this article) are patients with their identities protected. I have never shared my own story before, but I do so because I believe its dramatic nature will help you to understand what classical homeopathy can do and why some people are so passionate about it.

The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Mass Many years ago, I suddenly developed abdominal pain. I had not been sick in any other way and had no idea what was happening. I went for a gynecological exam and was told I was fine. The pain continued. I went back and after numerous exams was sent from the table to the couch. The psychiatrist sent me right back to the doctor. After about a year of bouncing back and forth with increasingly intense (searing, stabbing) pain, they finally “discovered” a mass several centimeters in width in the area of my left ovary. At this point, the surgeons were called in.

Thank God Its Not Cancer

I was scheduled for an emergency laparotomy. As they wheeled me in, the surgeon said to my mother, “It could be cancer.” I was 26. After surgery, as soon as I stopped vomiting, the doctor told me that it was not cancer. My mother wept. He said it was a streptococcal infection (Strep B) that had created adhesion’s and that I could forget about having children. He proudly went on to inform us that they had “scraped me clean” and that I’d be on antibiotics for about a month. I did as I was told. I was raised by a doctor, surrounded by doctors, and had complete faith in the system.

Searching For The Truth

Within a short time a whole new sort of pain emerged, this time, however, deeper. It was more localized, again on the left side. I thought the infection had returned. The pain continued for quite a while. I went to the doctor, but there was no infection. After dismissing it (and me) for at least a year again, I finally wound up in hospital. A cyst had burst. This cycle recurred every few months. They recommended birth control pills, pain pills, and pills I didn’t understand. Nothing helped. By the fourth rupture and hospital visit, they recommended a full hysterectomy. I sat silently until I could take a deep breath again. I asked if there were no other options. The doctor said, “You’ll just keep getting them and since you can’t get pregnant anyway, this is the best idea.” I told him I would think about it. He told me not to think too long but looked at me is if I couldn’t think at all.

I called a friend who had been talking about homeopathy. She used  homeopathy for herself and had located a homeopathic vet. I asked for more information. She sat with me. She loaned me books. And she gave me the name of a doctor. I decided to at least try something before I let my reproductive center be removed forever. I told my gynecologist about it. He said, and I quote, “You can use all the weed quackery you want, it won’t help.” I said, “We shall see.” And I meant “we.” I had no more experience in it than he did. But I wanted some option other than organ removal. He did not escort me out. He was more than mildly annoyed. But I was on a mission.

My Homeopathy Experience Saves Me

Where the Magic Began this is what saved me: a young doctor with a tattered copy of a repertory (the book that is used to look up symptoms and match them to different remedies) and another equally frayed Materia Medica (the book that contains full descriptions of the remedies themselves) in a basement office in New Rochelle, NY. It was the strangest medical experience I’d ever had. He didn’t examine me the way I had expected. He talked to me. Well, actually, he talked very little. He asked me endless questions: Where is the pain? When does it come on? What happened then? What does it feel like? What makes it better? Do you have any food cravings? Do you kick your feet out of the covers? Do you like other people around you? Are you warm? Cold? What makes you afraid? Anxious? Sad? He was relentless. Two hours of questions that could not seem more unrelated to me or to my ovaries.

But honestly, it was such a relief to have someone listen to me without judgment that I suspended my own. At the end of the interview, he went into a little closet, pulled out an amber bottle, opened the cap, poured a few pellets into the cap, tipped my head back, and said, “Open your mouth.” He poured the little pellets under my tongue. That was my first remedy. It was Pulsatilla, a common flower in highly diluted (potentized) form. After that, my mood improved slightly but briefly and the physical symptoms did not go away. Instead they shifted and got worse. I’ve learned since then that this can happen when a remedy is close but not a bull’s eye.

The symptoms became far more localized and presented with greater clarity. It seemed to me then that it was like a boil coming to a head, collecting the “illness” from a large area and concentrating it so it could be seen properly and discharged. We waited a very uncomfortable month. After the second interview he gave me Thuja. After that I had a frankly rude aggravation (cystitis) which lasted about a month and the cystic pain completely disappeared.

Symptomatic Aggravation Spells Success

An aggravation is what homeopaths hope for as the sign that a cure is beginning. It is also precisely what allopathic doctors find wholly inconsistent with their training. They are supposed to make symptoms go away, not generate others. But because homeopaths see the human organism as a moving, dynamic system, they believe that this discharge is absolutely necessary. Aggravations are like siphons; they allow previously suppressed diseases or eruptions a way out of the system. In homeopathic philosophy, it is part of the cure. But I didn’t know that at the time. So I called him and complained, and after he ruled out any dangerous infections, he said “Now, we wait.” I’d call him back, still annoyed, uncomfortable, and worried. And he said, again, “WAIT!” So, I did. After a while, the “rudeness” was gone and so was all the pain.

And, after a year I realized so were the cysts. None of it-not the cysts or the strep or any of that pain- has ever come back. More important, perhaps, than the physical relief, was that over the next couple of years I became calmer, more centered. Much of the insecurity that had ruled my life up until that point also seemed to just not be there. I didn’t see it leaving. It was just gone when I remembered to look for it. That was a very long time ago.

All my exams are still splendidly normal and I still have my own organs in my own body. I went on to need other remedies over time to deal with other issues and wound up with a different remedy as my “constitutional,” the one that seems to fit my overall being. But this is how it started. And it convinced me on a cognitive and cellular level that what I had experienced was more than placebo or fanciful wish-fulfillment. As far as I could see, it could not be a placebo (although that would have been just fine with me at that point), because one remedy missed the mark, but the other did not. And as far as wish-fulfillment-if it had been up to me, I’m sure I would have wished for instant relief-sans aggravation! In the follow up article, we’ll look at a couple of other cases to demonstrate the most important principle of HOMEOPATHY: like cures like.

Although I have not yet tried the therapy recommended in the book: The One Minute Cure, I know several who have… with great success. And having now purchased the book and researched its recommendations I am personally convinced of its value. I am now awaiting delivery of the product itself and will commence taking it shortly.

I really do believe YOU CAN HEAL YOUR CANCER.

Even though I currently have no symptoms from my aggressive prostate cancer I can’t be absolutely sure of its status. I believe my current diet and natural therapy regimen is working brilliantly but I can’t be sure about that with having a biopsy. And that, my friends is definitely not acceptable to me. Why not, did I hear you ask? Medical research shows quite conclusively  a very high risk of causing a metastasis with any invasive procedure carried out on a cancer patient. Mind you, that is not something you doctor will tell you.

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Where at all possible though, I would emphasize, these should be acquired through 'natural' sources, particularly organic foods, fruit and vegetables. However, this is not always possible given the depleted state of soils sorely lacking in natural goodness, plus the over processing and contamination; with additives such as chemical coloring and  preservatives, of food in general.

It is both natural and reasonable therefor for people to seek the answer to their daily needs through supplements. And why not?  As I have mentioned in earlier posts, research on this point shows there has never ever been a death attributed to the proper use of VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS.

Vitamin Supplements Do They Work?

After the loss of a kidney to cancer in 1995, I relied heavily on supplements to fortify me against the high probability of metastasis. It apparently worked. And again, since diagnosis of an aggressive prostate cancer in 2006, I have spent a small fortune on supplements to support my objective of managing the cancer using natural therapies only. And six years later I live to tell the tale.

A word of caution though. It goes without saying that even the best vitamin supplements must be used wisely and only after diligent study of the individual need and the perceived benefits and possible conflicts.

Vitamin Supplements Review

A recent study in the US of 40,000 women aged between 59 to 69 years, found that those using multivitamins and several other VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS were more likely to be among the16,000 women who died during the period of the study, about 19 years.

This "observational" study is full of flaws, inaccuracies and supposition, as well as extreme bias. So much so that it is reasonable to suggest that the outcomes were determined even before the study was commenced.

Well, my response to the report is,  Poppycock and Balderdash!

The study is nothing more than another attempt by major drug companies, using their symbiotic relationship with the cancer industry, to disparage the Vitamin supplements manufacturing  industry, which is making major inroads into the marketing and profits of drug companies world-wide.

For example, almost 50% of American's using supplements. A figure that is increasing annually as it is in many other countries. But you may disagree. And so, for a balanced and objective view, please go to: http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=158&m=235&nl=3&s=ca50ec822101210cdd761f08ebc6542a&lid=1479&l=-http–orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml and view the first item on the list titled  "What Kind of Medical Study Would Have Grandma Believe that Her Daily Multivitamin is Dangerous?   ALSO…

You must see this response from  David_Brownstein at   http://www.naturalnews.com  showing just how much of a fraudulent  article the original was.    

"Unfortunately, the evidence now shows that this test does not save men's lives," said Dr. Virginia Moyer, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and chairwoman of the task force. "This test cannot tell the difference between cancers that will and will not affect a man during his natural lifetime. We need to find one that does."

The actual report and recommendations will be published in about one weeks time. I will try to being you an update then. Why not check out my other posts on this subject. 12 October: See the latest on this study: http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/psa-test-report-shows-difficulty-of-weighing-evidence-20111010