I have started ASD (Russian Antiseptic Dorogova) 2 month ago. I am following the protocol sent with the product, which is the same Dr. Dorogov suggested. Let me tell you, the ASD smells really bad, but I kept taking it, because all I want is to get rid of Lyme!!!!! So, after first week of ingestion, I was feeling even sicker, severe herx (which is good, I know that ASD works), second week start feeling much better! I am very happy with this antiseptic, because my yeast infection is totally gone since I start taking it, my candida is dramatically reduced!!! I will continue on taking it, because it strengthens the immune system and kills bacteria! My Lyme symptoms reduced 75 % by now, I feel soooooooo much better!
Marianna, MA
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Lyme Success Story
All too often we hear of people not getting well from Lyme. Here is a success story I just read:
Bryan,
I am writing to thank you for your excellent books, which helped me cure my 21-year-old son, and to tell you a few things we discovered in the process. Our treatment process could not be easily reproduced just anywhere, but it was very effective, and I feel an obligation to let somebody know about what we did that worked. You seem like the best choice of “somebody”!
In June, 2007, my son was in London (where we had lived for 17 years before moving back to the States) doing an internship at a hedge fund. He was perfectly healthy (as far as we knew, anyway!) when he started. However, one week into the internship, he began having leg pains, and from there advanced (or perhaps I should say declined) rapidly to severe pain, exhaustion, and the onset of Bell’s Palsy only four weeks later. The conventional medical establishment tried various things, and then a blood test came back positive SIMULTANEOUSLY for Lyme, Epstein-Barr, and walking pneumonia. The minute they saw the Bell’s Palsy, they wanted to put him on IV antibiotics for neurological Lyme. They threatened permanent brain damage if we did not commence cefalo-something immediately, and put enormous pressure on me to follow their recommendations.
My son is both extremely gifted, and also significantly autistic spectrum. Because of the autistic spectrum issues, I knew enough about mercury and it’s inter-relatedness with Lyme to be leery of the quick-fix-antibiotic theory. The more I read on the internet, the more I became convinced that ESPECIALLY in this sort of co-infection case, antibiotics were the road to long-term difficulties. Then, mercifully, I found your books (at the Hale Clinic, the best of London’s health stores). From you, I began to understand WHY antibiotics might not be a great choice: a) antibiotics weaken the immune system in general, so if you are co-infected the best you can hope for is that the antibiotic will help with the Lyme but everything else may get worse as your immune system suffers; and b) since the spirochete morphs, the antibiotic probably will not really treat the Lyme effectively anyway, by that stage.
Using what I learned from your books in conjunction with my other alternative healing resources in London, we put together a treatment program which proved extremely effective. In particular, I worked with a fabulous acupuncturist, and an alternative physician who is an MD but believes in using non-pharma treatments when they are the best thing for the patient (which is often the case). The MD came to think that the most likely explanation of his sudden decline was a protozoan infestation which knocked out his immune system and created a field day for anything else that was there lying in wait.
Our treatment plan consisted of:
* IV Vitamin C and other nutrients — I don’t know all the details of what my alternative physician put in the drips, but the Vitamin C in particular was spectacular for “mopping up” all the neurotoxins and inflammatories, thus providing substantial symptom relief and also reducing the burden of what his body had to struggle to eliminate.
* Daily acupuncture — several sets of needles every day, 7 days a week: some for symptom management, some for strengthening his system to fight the various invaders. Acupuncture is particularly effective for treating Bell’s Palsy, which is considered by the Chinese to be merely a chi shortage in a weak channel, and very susceptible of treatment. Using a combination of acupuncture and IV Vitamin C, we were able to completely eliminate the Bell’s Palsy in two weeks (starting from a case so severe that he could not talk or eat without using his hand to pinch the left side of his mouth closed). The conventional doctors had said that it would take months, ranging even up to a year.
* Chinese herbs — sent by our acupuncturist’s mentor from China, where they apparently have plenty of experience with Lyme. These were apparently high-quality herbs, harvested in remote mountain regions so that they retained their strength & purity in a way that commonly available herbs sometimes do not. I do not know what all was included, but apparently artemisinin was among the ingredients.
* A rotation of non-pharma treatments including Samento, colloidal silver, etc to keep the spirochete on the defensive.
* Various homeopathic treatments, some included in the IV’s, and others taken by mouth. Among the treatments used were remedies from Sanum (see https://www.helios.co.uk/sanum/Sanum%20Intro.html) which are in the tradition of Enderlein remedies, homeopathic remedies which (as I understand it) are taken by the patient but targeted at the spirochete, to cause it to morph back into a form which the immune system can manage.
* Nutritional supplements, again directed at building the body’s ability to defend itself.
* Eventually, as he was recovering, we added a Rife machine which he began using regularly to help root out the remaining spirochetes. He also used other frequencies to target viral, bacterial, and protozoan invaders.
All of the treatment was guided by the use of sophisticated muscle testing (sometimes called applied kinesiology, or autonomic response testing) to select treatments and Rife frequencies. Our alternative physician has many trays of small vials, both of pathogens and of possible treatments, and he uses them (in conjunction with his medical knowledge) to muscle test so as to choose which of many possible treatments to use at a given time, based on the body’s response.
My son first became ill the second week in June. By four weeks later, he had severe pain and fatigue, and the Bell’s Palsy had robbed him of all control of the left side of his face, and perhaps half of the control of the right side. At that point, we made the choice to adopt our combination of non-pharma treatments. Within one week, the Bell’s Palsy was mostly gone and he was pink again (rather than that awful scary blue color he had become). By the end of the second week, his dimples were fully-functioning again (ie the Bell’s Palsy was completely gone). At the end of the fourth week of treatment, he announced in a tone of amazement that he thought he felt good enough to play Super Mario again!
At the end of the seventh week of treatment, he returned to Williams College in Massachusetts to begin his junior year. He was still plagued by pain in his joints & elsewhere, and he had severe unpredictable intermittent herx reactions, and he had no stamina or resilience to speak of — but he was improved enough to be able to carry a 3-course load (one shy of the normal 4) and he made it successfully through the year, healing gradually. In November, ill as he was, he took the Putnam Exam (national college-level mathematics contest) and placed among the top 100 students nationwide. (So much for permanent brain damage!) He returned to London in October, at Christmas, in March, and in June for further acupuncture and IV treatments, and adjustment of his supplements etc based on further muscle testing.
By June 2006, a year after onset and 11 months into the treatment, his body seemed to be managing the pathogens reasonably well, although his energy level was still not back to normal. He was able to participate fully in a summer mathematics research program, and then (15 months into treatment) carry a full academic load for his senior year. He continues to visit London every 4-6 months, to use the Rife machine, and to take both Chinese herbs and a much-reduced assortment of other supplements and treatments. He is planning to take a low-key gap year before heading to graduate school, because he wants to make sure he gets his full strength back, and also because the past couple of years have been very tiring emotionally as you can imagine. But he is mostly WELL!!!!! with only the occasional very minor herx, after he uses the rife machine and/or when he is very very tired.
I believe the keys to our success story were:
* the good fortune of my finding your books when I needed them, so that we did not ever get started in the downward spiral of antibiotics;
* the good fortune of our having enormously gifted, creative, dedicated healers in the persons of our acupuncturist and our alternative physician in London (whom I found separately, so that they did not even know each other, but were nonetheless able to support one another’s work);
* the use of kinesiology to make the treatments as responsive as possible to what his particular body needed specifically at a given stage;
* the good fortune of having the financial resources to do what we wanted, since the insurance company paid for virtually none of the treatment; and
* my son’s faithful adherence to his treatment regimen, through a long and discouraging illness.
People ask me what our treatment was, hoping to offer suggestions to someone they know who is afflicted. Unfortunately, this is not a treatment plan which can be reproduced in a mechanical fashion. It relies on the presence of two very gifted healers, working together. It cost a lot of money, mainly due to the frequency of acupuncture required. There is no “formula” which could then be used on someone else; rather, much of what they did was very specific to my son’s particular vulnerabilities, and would have to be different for a different patient — although of course certainly some of it was particular to the pathogens.
On the other hand, I feel that we have been enormously successful in triumphing over this illness, and surely somebody somewhere would benefit by knowing what we were able to do. I don’t know whether you will be able to do anything with this information, but I wanted to send it to you, just in case.
Thank you again for your pioneering work which gave me the information I needed at a crucial moment to find the right way forward.
Yours sincerely,
Janet
Bryan,
I am writing to thank you for your excellent books, which helped me cure my 21-year-old son, and to tell you a few things we discovered in the process. Our treatment process could not be easily reproduced just anywhere, but it was very effective, and I feel an obligation to let somebody know about what we did that worked. You seem like the best choice of “somebody”!
In June, 2007, my son was in London (where we had lived for 17 years before moving back to the States) doing an internship at a hedge fund. He was perfectly healthy (as far as we knew, anyway!) when he started. However, one week into the internship, he began having leg pains, and from there advanced (or perhaps I should say declined) rapidly to severe pain, exhaustion, and the onset of Bell’s Palsy only four weeks later. The conventional medical establishment tried various things, and then a blood test came back positive SIMULTANEOUSLY for Lyme, Epstein-Barr, and walking pneumonia. The minute they saw the Bell’s Palsy, they wanted to put him on IV antibiotics for neurological Lyme. They threatened permanent brain damage if we did not commence cefalo-something immediately, and put enormous pressure on me to follow their recommendations.
My son is both extremely gifted, and also significantly autistic spectrum. Because of the autistic spectrum issues, I knew enough about mercury and it’s inter-relatedness with Lyme to be leery of the quick-fix-antibiotic theory. The more I read on the internet, the more I became convinced that ESPECIALLY in this sort of co-infection case, antibiotics were the road to long-term difficulties. Then, mercifully, I found your books (at the Hale Clinic, the best of London’s health stores). From you, I began to understand WHY antibiotics might not be a great choice: a) antibiotics weaken the immune system in general, so if you are co-infected the best you can hope for is that the antibiotic will help with the Lyme but everything else may get worse as your immune system suffers; and b) since the spirochete morphs, the antibiotic probably will not really treat the Lyme effectively anyway, by that stage.
Using what I learned from your books in conjunction with my other alternative healing resources in London, we put together a treatment program which proved extremely effective. In particular, I worked with a fabulous acupuncturist, and an alternative physician who is an MD but believes in using non-pharma treatments when they are the best thing for the patient (which is often the case). The MD came to think that the most likely explanation of his sudden decline was a protozoan infestation which knocked out his immune system and created a field day for anything else that was there lying in wait.
Our treatment plan consisted of:
* IV Vitamin C and other nutrients — I don’t know all the details of what my alternative physician put in the drips, but the Vitamin C in particular was spectacular for “mopping up” all the neurotoxins and inflammatories, thus providing substantial symptom relief and also reducing the burden of what his body had to struggle to eliminate.
* Daily acupuncture — several sets of needles every day, 7 days a week: some for symptom management, some for strengthening his system to fight the various invaders. Acupuncture is particularly effective for treating Bell’s Palsy, which is considered by the Chinese to be merely a chi shortage in a weak channel, and very susceptible of treatment. Using a combination of acupuncture and IV Vitamin C, we were able to completely eliminate the Bell’s Palsy in two weeks (starting from a case so severe that he could not talk or eat without using his hand to pinch the left side of his mouth closed). The conventional doctors had said that it would take months, ranging even up to a year.
* Chinese herbs — sent by our acupuncturist’s mentor from China, where they apparently have plenty of experience with Lyme. These were apparently high-quality herbs, harvested in remote mountain regions so that they retained their strength & purity in a way that commonly available herbs sometimes do not. I do not know what all was included, but apparently artemisinin was among the ingredients.
* A rotation of non-pharma treatments including Samento, colloidal silver, etc to keep the spirochete on the defensive.
* Various homeopathic treatments, some included in the IV’s, and others taken by mouth. Among the treatments used were remedies from Sanum (see https://www.helios.co.uk/sanum/Sanum%20Intro.html) which are in the tradition of Enderlein remedies, homeopathic remedies which (as I understand it) are taken by the patient but targeted at the spirochete, to cause it to morph back into a form which the immune system can manage.
* Nutritional supplements, again directed at building the body’s ability to defend itself.
* Eventually, as he was recovering, we added a Rife machine which he began using regularly to help root out the remaining spirochetes. He also used other frequencies to target viral, bacterial, and protozoan invaders.
All of the treatment was guided by the use of sophisticated muscle testing (sometimes called applied kinesiology, or autonomic response testing) to select treatments and Rife frequencies. Our alternative physician has many trays of small vials, both of pathogens and of possible treatments, and he uses them (in conjunction with his medical knowledge) to muscle test so as to choose which of many possible treatments to use at a given time, based on the body’s response.
My son first became ill the second week in June. By four weeks later, he had severe pain and fatigue, and the Bell’s Palsy had robbed him of all control of the left side of his face, and perhaps half of the control of the right side. At that point, we made the choice to adopt our combination of non-pharma treatments. Within one week, the Bell’s Palsy was mostly gone and he was pink again (rather than that awful scary blue color he had become). By the end of the second week, his dimples were fully-functioning again (ie the Bell’s Palsy was completely gone). At the end of the fourth week of treatment, he announced in a tone of amazement that he thought he felt good enough to play Super Mario again!
At the end of the seventh week of treatment, he returned to Williams College in Massachusetts to begin his junior year. He was still plagued by pain in his joints & elsewhere, and he had severe unpredictable intermittent herx reactions, and he had no stamina or resilience to speak of — but he was improved enough to be able to carry a 3-course load (one shy of the normal 4) and he made it successfully through the year, healing gradually. In November, ill as he was, he took the Putnam Exam (national college-level mathematics contest) and placed among the top 100 students nationwide. (So much for permanent brain damage!) He returned to London in October, at Christmas, in March, and in June for further acupuncture and IV treatments, and adjustment of his supplements etc based on further muscle testing.
By June 2006, a year after onset and 11 months into the treatment, his body seemed to be managing the pathogens reasonably well, although his energy level was still not back to normal. He was able to participate fully in a summer mathematics research program, and then (15 months into treatment) carry a full academic load for his senior year. He continues to visit London every 4-6 months, to use the Rife machine, and to take both Chinese herbs and a much-reduced assortment of other supplements and treatments. He is planning to take a low-key gap year before heading to graduate school, because he wants to make sure he gets his full strength back, and also because the past couple of years have been very tiring emotionally as you can imagine. But he is mostly WELL!!!!! with only the occasional very minor herx, after he uses the rife machine and/or when he is very very tired.
I believe the keys to our success story were:
* the good fortune of my finding your books when I needed them, so that we did not ever get started in the downward spiral of antibiotics;
* the good fortune of our having enormously gifted, creative, dedicated healers in the persons of our acupuncturist and our alternative physician in London (whom I found separately, so that they did not even know each other, but were nonetheless able to support one another’s work);
* the use of kinesiology to make the treatments as responsive as possible to what his particular body needed specifically at a given stage;
* the good fortune of having the financial resources to do what we wanted, since the insurance company paid for virtually none of the treatment; and
* my son’s faithful adherence to his treatment regimen, through a long and discouraging illness.
People ask me what our treatment was, hoping to offer suggestions to someone they know who is afflicted. Unfortunately, this is not a treatment plan which can be reproduced in a mechanical fashion. It relies on the presence of two very gifted healers, working together. It cost a lot of money, mainly due to the frequency of acupuncture required. There is no “formula” which could then be used on someone else; rather, much of what they did was very specific to my son’s particular vulnerabilities, and would have to be different for a different patient — although of course certainly some of it was particular to the pathogens.
On the other hand, I feel that we have been enormously successful in triumphing over this illness, and surely somebody somewhere would benefit by knowing what we were able to do. I don’t know whether you will be able to do anything with this information, but I wanted to send it to you, just in case.
Thank you again for your pioneering work which gave me the information I needed at a crucial moment to find the right way forward.
Yours sincerely,
Janet
Sunday, October 24, 2010
My Lyme Success Story with ASD
I had Lyme undiagnosed for at least a year. After starting antibiotics I started feeling even worth. I went totally downhill. I tried Samento, olive leaf extract, colloidal silver-- slowly start feeling better! But my recovery I can address to ASD - Antiseptic Dorogova, Russian supplement. I start feeling improvements in 2 weeks after taking ASD. It does smell really bad, but with Lyme i did not care, I just continued taking it, i wanted to with this battle! Yes, I did herx on it a lot, but it means ASD was killing the bug! I was also taking vitamin C to support my immune system, chlorella -- to detox. I am of European origin myself, so I have heard about ASD before, that it cured many people in Russia from tuberculosis and other infectious disease. So i tried it with Lyme-- and it did cleared up the infection!
I am really happy with the ASD antiseptic!
Maria S.
I am really happy with the ASD antiseptic!
Maria S.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Another Lyme success story
Brooke Landau had it all.
The former high-fashion runway model had just graduated from college and was embarking on a career as an international marketing manager with a Fortune 500 company.
Then a bite from a bug no bigger than a poppy seed changed all that. Her life was put on hold as she spent the next seven years battling a disease that almost cost Landau her life.
A 1990 graduate of Ridgefield High School who lives in California, Landau was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 1995.
"Doctors told me I might not live. But I had a different plan in mind," Landau said. "I've spent the last 7� years fighting for my life and my health � and surviving."
Later this week, Landau will tell her story on NBC's Today show on a segment that features survival stories.
"I wanted to talk to others because I would not have been sick for 7� years if the insurance companies didn't make money off of sick people. It's business," Landau said. "They were unwilling to help find a cure."
Despite all the warnings, Landau, now a 32-year-old freelance reporter and producer, never worried about contracting Lyme disease. "I lived in Connecticut my whole life with deer in the back yard," Landau said. "I never thought twice about it. It's very scary. I don't think people can realize it can be a death sentence."
While at her parents' home in Ridgefield in 1995, Landau remembered finding a tick on her leg. But the first symptoms didn't appear for more than five months. "I literally took a walk out the door to the mailbox," Landau said. "I didn't think anything of it."
Landau, daughter of Frank Landau, now of Southbury and Dianne Landau of Malibu, Calif., said the disease attacked her suddenly. One day, she was fine and the next day she couldn't move her head or her legs.
"On that fateful day, I was rushed to the (Norwalk) hospital," Landau said. "Doctors there informed me that I would die within 48 hours if I did not undergo an emergency spinal tap. From the tap, the doctors diagnosed me with Lyme disease and spinal meningitis."
She gave up her job and spent the next several months in her parents' Ridgefield home. Every day brought crippling headaches, muscle and joint pain and fatigue. Landau said she often was rushed to Danbury Hospital for emergency treatments.
She experienced short-term memory loss and loss of hearing in her left ear. She began to lose sight in both eyes, developed heart arrhythmia, gallstones and colitis. She lost 30 pounds from her already thin frame � at one point the 6-foot-tall former model weighed 120 pounds.
She has undergone various invasive procedures and treatments that included taking 27 pills a day.
"Yet nothing has restored me to the pain-free condition I once knew," said Landau, who has undergone seven spinal taps and two surgeries.
In 1996, Landau moved to Miami in hopes a warmer climate would lessen her joint pain. But, as the illness progressed, so did the pain.
She eventually met a doctor who Landau said saved her life.
By undergoing experimental treatments five years ago, Landau is able to do everything she could before � including working out at a gym, salsa dancing five days a week and playing volleyball on the beach. "None of which I could do for years," she said.
"Brooke is a fighter," said her father. He remembers when she had several operations as a baby to correct a congenital heart defect. "It made her very tough. As a child, she always knew what she wanted. Her stick-to-it-iveness really showed during her illness. We're proud that she's never given up. But nobody should go through this stuff."
Because she was considered a research subject, she wasn't responsible for the medical costs that mounted to several hundred thousand dollars.
Treatment consisted of pumping high doses of antibiotics into her heart for 24-hours a day for two months. She also underwent 30 days of treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
"It felt much like lying in a glass-enclosed coffin," she said. "The treatment was torture, but on the last day of treatment, I awoke free of joint pain for the first time in years. My hearing improved, my sight was better and I even regained my short-term memory." Although she was bedridden for more than a year during treatment, Landau wanted to be productive. She started a non-profit foundation working on her computer in bed. Sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, The Children's Alliance Network (CAN) organizes models and make-up artists to do makeovers for sick children.
"I was doing a lot while I was sick," Landau said. "But I would pay for it. One day of work could put me in the hospital for a week. I really believe that you can't curl up in a ball and let the illness get the best of you."
Since the treatment, Landau considers herself almost cured. The only symptom left is the headaches.
"They say I'm cured and that it's out of my system," Landau said. "They've determined I don't have Lyme disease anymore."
Landau went on to be a television anchor and reporter for CBS and ESPN. She now works as a freelance reporter for ESPN and a freelance producer for E! Entertainment.
The "Today" show opportunity came when she and an NBC reporter were covering the same story.
"Though I will probably have some measure of chronic pain throughout my life, I consider myself among the lucky," Landau said. "Through it all I've found an inner strength to fight and survive."
The former high-fashion runway model had just graduated from college and was embarking on a career as an international marketing manager with a Fortune 500 company.
Then a bite from a bug no bigger than a poppy seed changed all that. Her life was put on hold as she spent the next seven years battling a disease that almost cost Landau her life.
A 1990 graduate of Ridgefield High School who lives in California, Landau was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 1995.
"Doctors told me I might not live. But I had a different plan in mind," Landau said. "I've spent the last 7� years fighting for my life and my health � and surviving."
Later this week, Landau will tell her story on NBC's Today show on a segment that features survival stories.
"I wanted to talk to others because I would not have been sick for 7� years if the insurance companies didn't make money off of sick people. It's business," Landau said. "They were unwilling to help find a cure."
Despite all the warnings, Landau, now a 32-year-old freelance reporter and producer, never worried about contracting Lyme disease. "I lived in Connecticut my whole life with deer in the back yard," Landau said. "I never thought twice about it. It's very scary. I don't think people can realize it can be a death sentence."
While at her parents' home in Ridgefield in 1995, Landau remembered finding a tick on her leg. But the first symptoms didn't appear for more than five months. "I literally took a walk out the door to the mailbox," Landau said. "I didn't think anything of it."
Landau, daughter of Frank Landau, now of Southbury and Dianne Landau of Malibu, Calif., said the disease attacked her suddenly. One day, she was fine and the next day she couldn't move her head or her legs.
"On that fateful day, I was rushed to the (Norwalk) hospital," Landau said. "Doctors there informed me that I would die within 48 hours if I did not undergo an emergency spinal tap. From the tap, the doctors diagnosed me with Lyme disease and spinal meningitis."
She gave up her job and spent the next several months in her parents' Ridgefield home. Every day brought crippling headaches, muscle and joint pain and fatigue. Landau said she often was rushed to Danbury Hospital for emergency treatments.
She experienced short-term memory loss and loss of hearing in her left ear. She began to lose sight in both eyes, developed heart arrhythmia, gallstones and colitis. She lost 30 pounds from her already thin frame � at one point the 6-foot-tall former model weighed 120 pounds.
She has undergone various invasive procedures and treatments that included taking 27 pills a day.
"Yet nothing has restored me to the pain-free condition I once knew," said Landau, who has undergone seven spinal taps and two surgeries.
In 1996, Landau moved to Miami in hopes a warmer climate would lessen her joint pain. But, as the illness progressed, so did the pain.
She eventually met a doctor who Landau said saved her life.
By undergoing experimental treatments five years ago, Landau is able to do everything she could before � including working out at a gym, salsa dancing five days a week and playing volleyball on the beach. "None of which I could do for years," she said.
"Brooke is a fighter," said her father. He remembers when she had several operations as a baby to correct a congenital heart defect. "It made her very tough. As a child, she always knew what she wanted. Her stick-to-it-iveness really showed during her illness. We're proud that she's never given up. But nobody should go through this stuff."
Because she was considered a research subject, she wasn't responsible for the medical costs that mounted to several hundred thousand dollars.
Treatment consisted of pumping high doses of antibiotics into her heart for 24-hours a day for two months. She also underwent 30 days of treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
"It felt much like lying in a glass-enclosed coffin," she said. "The treatment was torture, but on the last day of treatment, I awoke free of joint pain for the first time in years. My hearing improved, my sight was better and I even regained my short-term memory." Although she was bedridden for more than a year during treatment, Landau wanted to be productive. She started a non-profit foundation working on her computer in bed. Sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, The Children's Alliance Network (CAN) organizes models and make-up artists to do makeovers for sick children.
"I was doing a lot while I was sick," Landau said. "But I would pay for it. One day of work could put me in the hospital for a week. I really believe that you can't curl up in a ball and let the illness get the best of you."
Since the treatment, Landau considers herself almost cured. The only symptom left is the headaches.
"They say I'm cured and that it's out of my system," Landau said. "They've determined I don't have Lyme disease anymore."
Landau went on to be a television anchor and reporter for CBS and ESPN. She now works as a freelance reporter for ESPN and a freelance producer for E! Entertainment.
The "Today" show opportunity came when she and an NBC reporter were covering the same story.
"Though I will probably have some measure of chronic pain throughout my life, I consider myself among the lucky," Landau said. "Through it all I've found an inner strength to fight and survive."
Friday, October 8, 2010
Lyme Success Story with ASD Antiseptic Dorogova
I am a true Lyme success story. I had Lyme for over a year with joint pain, muscle pain, brain fog, fatigue, and facial palsy! I tried all conventioanl and alternative methods but was getting worse and worse, Finally I tried ASD antiseptic Dorogova. Yes, this supplement smells like shit, it's not pleasant to take it, but trust me, if you want to get rid of Lyme, you will do anything! After 2 month os taking ASD I start feeling great improvement, my flares up became less frequent and less severe, finally they disappear at all! I am really happy I found ASD and it helped me to get well!
God Bless You!
God Bless You!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Lyme Success Story with Homeopathy
My Experience with Homeopathy as an Alternative to Antibiotics for Chronic Lyme Disease
by Genia Pauli Haddon PhD
By the time the bull's-eye rash appeared in 1993, I had already been dealing with mysterious symptoms for many months: unexplainable fatigue, aches, bouts of acute iritis. Iritis is an inflammation of the muscle surrounding the pupil of the eye. The affected eye becomes red, bloodshot, painful, supersensitive to light. The iris muscle over-contracts, squeezing the pupil to a pinpoint. It's like having a charley-horse cramp in the eyeball. To lessen the pain, I wore double sunglasses and stayed inside with the lights off and the windows shrouded, unable to engage in activities requiring any but very dim light.
My first experience with iritis was in the winter of 1992-93. I did what most anyone would: went to the eye doctor. She made the diagnosis, explained that the condition is unusual and of unknown cause, and prescribed ophthamalic Prednisone ointment to damp down the inflammation during the month or so until the attack passed. Not thrilled to be using a hormonal medication known to have troubling side-effects with long-term use, I nevertheless did as she prescribed, and gradually the inflammation subsided.
When iritis struck again just a couple of months later, I was unwilling to subject myself to another course of Prednisone therapy. Instead, I decided to consult an MD who specializes in homeopathy, since I had heard that homeopathics have no side-effects. That I was willing to try a type of therapy my college training as a science major predisposed me to consider mere "snake oil" is a measure of how disturbed I was at the prospect of long-term use of prednisone.
This was my first experience with homeopathic remedies, and my husband and I were astonished at how each dose of those little sugar B-Bs produced almost instantaneous relief of both pain and redness, lasting for several hours. Far better than the Prednisone ointment, and without side-effects! This dramatically effective introduction to homeopathy convinced me that, regardless of whether anyone understands how homeopathy works, the fact is that it does. I no longer care whether or not it fits my scientific preconceptions about what is impossible.
In retrospect, I believe these pre-rash symptoms were actually the early stages of Lyme disease, even though a rash typically is one of the earliest symptoms. For me, the rash appeared for the first time some eight months later, and reappeared at intervals over the course of many months. Sometimes it took the classic bull's-eye form, ranging from 3" to 18" circumference, centered on my upper leg.
During one period, smaller patches of similar appearance erupted on my arms, neck, face. That first distinctive bull's-eye on my leg was like a target drawing together all the varied symptoms I'd been having, so that for the first time I could put a name to my illness: Lyme disease. I immediately engaged my research skills to learn all I could about LD (not an easy task in those pre-Web days), and discovered a troubling picture. I telephoned the lab in my state where most blood tests for the disease are done, and persevered until I was able to get some specific answers from the doctor in charge there. She enthused that the best of these tests were now accurate up to 80% of the time. I translated that to mean that I stood at least a 20% chance of getting false results.
Since I already had a symptom pattern adding up to a clinical diagnosis, how would it help me to have blood tests so likely to yield false results? Common sense told me that such blood tests are virtually worthless in a case like mine, even though the medical profession highly recommends them. In fact, this disparity made me appropriately skeptical of whatever else the medical profession might recommend concerning Lyme disease.
I learned that the treatment of choice was massive doses of antibiotics, often given intravenously, and for weeks or even months at a time. According to the medical profession, this course of treatment cures LD. But I learned, also, that many people did not stay "cured." They believed they were relapsing repeatedly; their doctors said they must have been rebitten by infected ticks each time. All of them? Again and again? Really?
It was dawning on me that there was no "expert" out there whose advice I could trust about the best course of action for me. My attention now shifted from outward research to inward reflection. I sought guidance from my inner wisdom, and was surprised to have several clear impressions. First, that antibiotics are not a good choice for me. The very name "anti-bio" means "against life." So any cure they might produce would be at a cost to my basic life force - this diminishment being perhaps the ultimate side-effect, and too big a price to pay. Second, that homeopathy functions by liberating the life force to do its own healing work, so that as a disease is being cured, there is a simultaneous enhancement of underlying health and vitality. My inner wisdom told me that any treatment that claims to cure while eroding the foundational vital force is a sham. Third, that no matter what anybody else said or thought, I had to trust my inner guidance about this.
Homeopathics had worked well for acute iritis; would they work also for chronic Lyme, caused by a known bacteria-like organism? For the past five years, I have consulted with both Jim Byron, N.D., a naturopathic physician, and Bill Shevin, MD., a medical doctor whose entire practice is homeopathically oriented.[1] Am I cured yet? Probably not, given the sneaky tendency of Borrelia burgdorferi to hide out for months and then resurge as soon as there is stress. But without recourse to antibiotics I am now mostly well, most of the time. I am deeply grateful to both Jim and Bill, and for the homeopathic manner of treatment.
To communicate the amount of healing that has taken place, I need to review the scope and severity of the effects of Lyme disease on my life since 1992. Between 1993 and early 1997, I was very ill much of the time. In addition to the iritis:
I was confined to a wheelchair for several periods ranging from a few weeks to five months at a time, due to severe tissue damage in both knees. It was as if the cartilage had liquefied.
Many times I resorted to wearing a sling on one arm or the other. Sometimes the pain in my shoulder or back has been so bad that I have been able neither to lie in bed nor to move, existing for days at a time in a recliner chair. At various times, I have had joint inflammation in my shoulders, elbows, wrists, spine, hips, ankles, and fingers.
Often my energy was so depleted that simple things, like taking a shower or washing a few dishes or making a bed or even eating a meal, were like climbing a mountain, leaving me limp and exhausted for hours after. I had periods of significant mental impairment. Some days my ability to focus was so poor that by the time I finished viewing once cycle of the TV Preview screen, I had forgotten the names of shows I might want to see, and had to watch the entire preview over again...and again ...and again. Conversation was difficult, because I sometimes couldn't think of any words at all to say what I intended (aphasia), or sometimes used a wrong word (for example, substituting "pad" for "magazine" or "refrigerator" for "computer hard-drive.") Talking on the phone was especially exhausting, even to dear friends.
Periodically, I've had heart palpitations, shortness of breath, exhaustion to the point of wondering where to summon enough strength to draw my next breath. Neurological symptoms, including numbness, tingling, and areas of excruciatingly sensitive skin.
At times I was unable to fixate my eyes upon anything long enough to hold the room steady, and had to lie still in bed with my eyes closed for a day or two. I became unable to continue my work as psychotherapist, writer, yoga teacher, and lecturer. So I retired at the early age of 53.
I experienced red rage and gray grieving and black depression at all these losses, and wondered if I were going insane. I feared I might be dying; and sometimes wished I could.
Using homeopathy as my primary means of treatment over the past five years, I have seen the severity of my symptoms gradually lessen. Do I still relapse? Yes, but each relapse seems shorter and less severe. Periods of relatively good health now predominate, during which I often have vibrant energy again! Surely, a miracle. I'm entirely pain-free most of the time. I'm able to walk as far as five miles, have a minimal limp, and can even navigate stairs fairly well. Most of my mental function has been restored. My vision has returned to normal.
A miracle? Yes. Easy? No. Progress was slow at first. Relapses were discouraging. Again and again, I had to remake my decision to stay away from antibiotics and stay with homeopathy. I also resorted to acupuncture several times for pain, with good short-term results. I chose to eat a healthful, mostly vegetarian diet. I streamlined much of the external stress out of my life. Learning that disturbances in the sleep cycle can cause not only fatigue but muscle and joint pains, I used Hemi-Sync tapes to reestablish normal sleep patterns.[2] Gradually, this regime of life-supporting practices paid off.
When I first made the decision to forego antibiotics and pin my hopes on homeopathy, I quickly discovered that I needed to keep my choice a secret. People were aghast and afraid for me. Energy I needed for healing was siphoned off when I had to exert willpower to insulate myself from their fears about the serious consequences of this disease, and to ignore their well-meant advice that homeopathy is quackery and I simply must be treated with antibiotics. Also, although having a name for my illness had been helpful at one point, eventually I found that the name Lyme disease carried with it certain prognoses and assumptions, which were not helpful to me. So, since 1994, I've simply refused to name my illness, to others or even to myself. Instead of getting tangled up in scenarios of likely complications, I simply concentrated on living each day. Writing this article breaks my silence. I do it because someone might be helped by learning what has helped me. Having discovered the Lyme Alliance and its newsletter just three months ago, I have found the first-person stories of others therapeutic, whether they have moved me to indignation, inspired me, or simply given me a sense of kinship with others whose symptoms mirror my own.
Well, am I at last about to reveal to you the name of the homeopathic remedy that works for Lyme disease? I could tell you the names of the several remedies that have helped me. However, they are unlikely to be the right remedies for you. This is because homeopathy treats the person, rather than the disease. For example, if my husband gets a cold and I come down with it a few days later, we probably will need different remedies even though the very same virus may be the causative agent.
His symptoms might include stopped up nose, annoying cough, itchy eyes. I might have runny nose, sneezing, and sore throat. The right remedy must be chosen to fit our unique ways of having this cold.
With deep-seated, chronic conditions like Lyme, the picture is even more complex. Here, besides considering your specific symptoms of illness, the homeopathic doctor pays attention also to your constitutional makeup. By offering a remedy that will bring your deep constitution into better balance, the hope is that your own system can begin to cope more effectively with the illness. The result of using the right remedy is a deep-level rebalancing and strengthening of the underlying constitution. In contrast, usual prescription drugs increase stress on the constitution, even if they do wipe out the bug causing an acute illness. This results in a more fragile balance at the constitutional level, and greater susceptibility to the next illness - or relapse. This is why antibiotics are "against life," not merely against the germs.
Because constitutional remedies for a chronic condition must be chosen by an experienced homeopath, and because you are likely to need a completely different series of constitutional-level remedies than I (since you and I have very different makeups) it's important to find a homeopath with whom you feel comfortable.[1] Because the homeopathic approach to health is so different from the conventional medical model, it can help to read a couple of introductions to homeopathy.[3] My personal way of picturing how constitutional remedies work is to imagine that my constitution is like a radio dial, preset to bring in a certain range of frequencies. Sometimes I get stuck between stations. A remedy that fits my needs is able to move my dial from fuzzy, static-laden noise to clear functioning at one of the particular stations which my organism by its nature is already trying to bring in. If your constitutional stations are in a different zone of the dial than mine, you will need a different remedy than I to tune you in to your own state of health.
As I enjoy my current plateau of relatively good health, looking back over the past six years my big regret is that I didn't invest much sooner in equipment to support my body during periods of disability. I think now that I put off purchasing special "handicapped" equipment in order to avoid accepting the severity of my illness. For too long I got along with an ill-fitting institutional-style wheelchair, which inflicted terrible stresses to my entire skeletomuscular system, exacerbating my joint problems and retarding my recovery. Eventually, we did build handicapped ramping on our home, buy a wheelchair customized to fit my 5'2" frame, and a really good inflated cushion. (All big-ticket items; but in many states there is funding available to help with the cost of such necessary equipment if prescribed by a physician.) As I became ready to learn to walk again, I needed first a geriatric walker, then a geriatric cane, and eventually a regular walking stick. Although these days I need none of the above, having bought them for temporary use was not a mistake; in fact, the conditions for which I needed them became more temporary precisely because I did get them. We finally installed a stool and grab-bars in the shower, got me a mechanical grabber-tool to extend my reach, and a foam rubber bed-wedge and special Hemi-Sync tapes to assist sleeping. Once I acknowledged my own needs, I discovered that there are many ingenious gadgets, resources, and appliances to assist with every aspect of daily living.[4] How I wish I had availed myself of these much sooner.
As with any of life's tragedies and tribulations, Lyme disease has left some blessings in its wake:
I have learned to hear and heed my inner guidance, to a degree never before. I have discovered homeopathy, which has become the keystone of healthcare in our family, for everything from bumps and bruises, to colds and pneumonia, to Lyme disease.
I have come to appreciate the sheer wonder of being able to walk across a room again!
The joy of being able to converse with friends again! The blessings of sound sleep and normal energy! The thrill of feeling well again! Most important, at the very time when I was most ill I made a surprising discovery: There is deep within me a Center of Wellness, which is not touched even in times of grave illness. Having experienced that this Center abides even when I am so very ill, I now know that this deep Wellness need not be destroyed even by death. Discovering this is even more thrilling than being cured.
Genia Pauli Haddon, D.Min., Ph.D., is the creator of the video series Yoga for Round Bodies 1 & 2 and author of numerous articles and books, including Uniting Sex, Self & Spirit She may be contacted via her website, url http://PlusYoga.necaweb.com
SOME RESOURCES
1.To learn the names of some homeopaths in your area, contact the National Center for Homeopathy, 801 North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, Alexandria, VA 22314; phone 703-548-7790. Ask for a copy of their Directory of homeopaths and groups. The National Center for Homeopathy is a nonprofit organization promoting homeopathy through education, publication, and research.
2.For an excellent article about the relationship between disturbed delta-sleep and certain symptoms common to chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and Lyme disease, contact The Monroe Institute, requesting a reprint of the article "Hemi-Sync Intervention for Insomnia and Immune Dysfunction" in Hemi-Syric Journal (Fall 1998). The Monroe Institute is an internationally known educational and research organization dedicated to exploring the nature and functioning of human consciousness. More than twenty years ago, the Institute originated Hemi-Sync technology, a scientific sound-based method for adjusting states of consciousness. Their Hemi-Sync tapes for home use really work! To rebalance your sleep cycle, I personally recommend playing the Hemi-Sync tape Super Sleep softly all night long on an auto-reverse player. Use it for a week or so whenever you enter a period when you aren't feeling rested upon awakening in the morning. I also recommend Pain Control when discomfort makes it hard to sleep.
3.Some books with Introductions that I have found helpful for beginning to appreciate the homeopathic worldview: Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines, by Stephen Cummings, MD. and Dana Ullman, M.P.H. (Tarcher), Homeopathic Medicine at Home, by Maesimund B. Panos, MD. and Jane Heimlich (Tarcher), Bach Flower Therapy: Theory and Practice, by Mechthild Scheffer (Healing Arts Press). Or check for other titles at your local library. Also, the National Center for Homeopathy Directory, listed above, gives contact information for homeopathic study groups in your geographic area, where you can learn a lot from other people who have chosen homeopathy as a key to health.
4.For a great catalog of such resources, contact Sammons Preston, P.O. Box 5071, Bolingbrook, IL 60440-5071; phone 800-323-5547.
by Genia Pauli Haddon PhD
By the time the bull's-eye rash appeared in 1993, I had already been dealing with mysterious symptoms for many months: unexplainable fatigue, aches, bouts of acute iritis. Iritis is an inflammation of the muscle surrounding the pupil of the eye. The affected eye becomes red, bloodshot, painful, supersensitive to light. The iris muscle over-contracts, squeezing the pupil to a pinpoint. It's like having a charley-horse cramp in the eyeball. To lessen the pain, I wore double sunglasses and stayed inside with the lights off and the windows shrouded, unable to engage in activities requiring any but very dim light.
My first experience with iritis was in the winter of 1992-93. I did what most anyone would: went to the eye doctor. She made the diagnosis, explained that the condition is unusual and of unknown cause, and prescribed ophthamalic Prednisone ointment to damp down the inflammation during the month or so until the attack passed. Not thrilled to be using a hormonal medication known to have troubling side-effects with long-term use, I nevertheless did as she prescribed, and gradually the inflammation subsided.
When iritis struck again just a couple of months later, I was unwilling to subject myself to another course of Prednisone therapy. Instead, I decided to consult an MD who specializes in homeopathy, since I had heard that homeopathics have no side-effects. That I was willing to try a type of therapy my college training as a science major predisposed me to consider mere "snake oil" is a measure of how disturbed I was at the prospect of long-term use of prednisone.
This was my first experience with homeopathic remedies, and my husband and I were astonished at how each dose of those little sugar B-Bs produced almost instantaneous relief of both pain and redness, lasting for several hours. Far better than the Prednisone ointment, and without side-effects! This dramatically effective introduction to homeopathy convinced me that, regardless of whether anyone understands how homeopathy works, the fact is that it does. I no longer care whether or not it fits my scientific preconceptions about what is impossible.
In retrospect, I believe these pre-rash symptoms were actually the early stages of Lyme disease, even though a rash typically is one of the earliest symptoms. For me, the rash appeared for the first time some eight months later, and reappeared at intervals over the course of many months. Sometimes it took the classic bull's-eye form, ranging from 3" to 18" circumference, centered on my upper leg.
During one period, smaller patches of similar appearance erupted on my arms, neck, face. That first distinctive bull's-eye on my leg was like a target drawing together all the varied symptoms I'd been having, so that for the first time I could put a name to my illness: Lyme disease. I immediately engaged my research skills to learn all I could about LD (not an easy task in those pre-Web days), and discovered a troubling picture. I telephoned the lab in my state where most blood tests for the disease are done, and persevered until I was able to get some specific answers from the doctor in charge there. She enthused that the best of these tests were now accurate up to 80% of the time. I translated that to mean that I stood at least a 20% chance of getting false results.
Since I already had a symptom pattern adding up to a clinical diagnosis, how would it help me to have blood tests so likely to yield false results? Common sense told me that such blood tests are virtually worthless in a case like mine, even though the medical profession highly recommends them. In fact, this disparity made me appropriately skeptical of whatever else the medical profession might recommend concerning Lyme disease.
I learned that the treatment of choice was massive doses of antibiotics, often given intravenously, and for weeks or even months at a time. According to the medical profession, this course of treatment cures LD. But I learned, also, that many people did not stay "cured." They believed they were relapsing repeatedly; their doctors said they must have been rebitten by infected ticks each time. All of them? Again and again? Really?
It was dawning on me that there was no "expert" out there whose advice I could trust about the best course of action for me. My attention now shifted from outward research to inward reflection. I sought guidance from my inner wisdom, and was surprised to have several clear impressions. First, that antibiotics are not a good choice for me. The very name "anti-bio" means "against life." So any cure they might produce would be at a cost to my basic life force - this diminishment being perhaps the ultimate side-effect, and too big a price to pay. Second, that homeopathy functions by liberating the life force to do its own healing work, so that as a disease is being cured, there is a simultaneous enhancement of underlying health and vitality. My inner wisdom told me that any treatment that claims to cure while eroding the foundational vital force is a sham. Third, that no matter what anybody else said or thought, I had to trust my inner guidance about this.
Homeopathics had worked well for acute iritis; would they work also for chronic Lyme, caused by a known bacteria-like organism? For the past five years, I have consulted with both Jim Byron, N.D., a naturopathic physician, and Bill Shevin, MD., a medical doctor whose entire practice is homeopathically oriented.[1] Am I cured yet? Probably not, given the sneaky tendency of Borrelia burgdorferi to hide out for months and then resurge as soon as there is stress. But without recourse to antibiotics I am now mostly well, most of the time. I am deeply grateful to both Jim and Bill, and for the homeopathic manner of treatment.
To communicate the amount of healing that has taken place, I need to review the scope and severity of the effects of Lyme disease on my life since 1992. Between 1993 and early 1997, I was very ill much of the time. In addition to the iritis:
I was confined to a wheelchair for several periods ranging from a few weeks to five months at a time, due to severe tissue damage in both knees. It was as if the cartilage had liquefied.
Many times I resorted to wearing a sling on one arm or the other. Sometimes the pain in my shoulder or back has been so bad that I have been able neither to lie in bed nor to move, existing for days at a time in a recliner chair. At various times, I have had joint inflammation in my shoulders, elbows, wrists, spine, hips, ankles, and fingers.
Often my energy was so depleted that simple things, like taking a shower or washing a few dishes or making a bed or even eating a meal, were like climbing a mountain, leaving me limp and exhausted for hours after. I had periods of significant mental impairment. Some days my ability to focus was so poor that by the time I finished viewing once cycle of the TV Preview screen, I had forgotten the names of shows I might want to see, and had to watch the entire preview over again...and again ...and again. Conversation was difficult, because I sometimes couldn't think of any words at all to say what I intended (aphasia), or sometimes used a wrong word (for example, substituting "pad" for "magazine" or "refrigerator" for "computer hard-drive.") Talking on the phone was especially exhausting, even to dear friends.
Periodically, I've had heart palpitations, shortness of breath, exhaustion to the point of wondering where to summon enough strength to draw my next breath. Neurological symptoms, including numbness, tingling, and areas of excruciatingly sensitive skin.
At times I was unable to fixate my eyes upon anything long enough to hold the room steady, and had to lie still in bed with my eyes closed for a day or two. I became unable to continue my work as psychotherapist, writer, yoga teacher, and lecturer. So I retired at the early age of 53.
I experienced red rage and gray grieving and black depression at all these losses, and wondered if I were going insane. I feared I might be dying; and sometimes wished I could.
Using homeopathy as my primary means of treatment over the past five years, I have seen the severity of my symptoms gradually lessen. Do I still relapse? Yes, but each relapse seems shorter and less severe. Periods of relatively good health now predominate, during which I often have vibrant energy again! Surely, a miracle. I'm entirely pain-free most of the time. I'm able to walk as far as five miles, have a minimal limp, and can even navigate stairs fairly well. Most of my mental function has been restored. My vision has returned to normal.
A miracle? Yes. Easy? No. Progress was slow at first. Relapses were discouraging. Again and again, I had to remake my decision to stay away from antibiotics and stay with homeopathy. I also resorted to acupuncture several times for pain, with good short-term results. I chose to eat a healthful, mostly vegetarian diet. I streamlined much of the external stress out of my life. Learning that disturbances in the sleep cycle can cause not only fatigue but muscle and joint pains, I used Hemi-Sync tapes to reestablish normal sleep patterns.[2] Gradually, this regime of life-supporting practices paid off.
When I first made the decision to forego antibiotics and pin my hopes on homeopathy, I quickly discovered that I needed to keep my choice a secret. People were aghast and afraid for me. Energy I needed for healing was siphoned off when I had to exert willpower to insulate myself from their fears about the serious consequences of this disease, and to ignore their well-meant advice that homeopathy is quackery and I simply must be treated with antibiotics. Also, although having a name for my illness had been helpful at one point, eventually I found that the name Lyme disease carried with it certain prognoses and assumptions, which were not helpful to me. So, since 1994, I've simply refused to name my illness, to others or even to myself. Instead of getting tangled up in scenarios of likely complications, I simply concentrated on living each day. Writing this article breaks my silence. I do it because someone might be helped by learning what has helped me. Having discovered the Lyme Alliance and its newsletter just three months ago, I have found the first-person stories of others therapeutic, whether they have moved me to indignation, inspired me, or simply given me a sense of kinship with others whose symptoms mirror my own.
Well, am I at last about to reveal to you the name of the homeopathic remedy that works for Lyme disease? I could tell you the names of the several remedies that have helped me. However, they are unlikely to be the right remedies for you. This is because homeopathy treats the person, rather than the disease. For example, if my husband gets a cold and I come down with it a few days later, we probably will need different remedies even though the very same virus may be the causative agent.
His symptoms might include stopped up nose, annoying cough, itchy eyes. I might have runny nose, sneezing, and sore throat. The right remedy must be chosen to fit our unique ways of having this cold.
With deep-seated, chronic conditions like Lyme, the picture is even more complex. Here, besides considering your specific symptoms of illness, the homeopathic doctor pays attention also to your constitutional makeup. By offering a remedy that will bring your deep constitution into better balance, the hope is that your own system can begin to cope more effectively with the illness. The result of using the right remedy is a deep-level rebalancing and strengthening of the underlying constitution. In contrast, usual prescription drugs increase stress on the constitution, even if they do wipe out the bug causing an acute illness. This results in a more fragile balance at the constitutional level, and greater susceptibility to the next illness - or relapse. This is why antibiotics are "against life," not merely against the germs.
Because constitutional remedies for a chronic condition must be chosen by an experienced homeopath, and because you are likely to need a completely different series of constitutional-level remedies than I (since you and I have very different makeups) it's important to find a homeopath with whom you feel comfortable.[1] Because the homeopathic approach to health is so different from the conventional medical model, it can help to read a couple of introductions to homeopathy.[3] My personal way of picturing how constitutional remedies work is to imagine that my constitution is like a radio dial, preset to bring in a certain range of frequencies. Sometimes I get stuck between stations. A remedy that fits my needs is able to move my dial from fuzzy, static-laden noise to clear functioning at one of the particular stations which my organism by its nature is already trying to bring in. If your constitutional stations are in a different zone of the dial than mine, you will need a different remedy than I to tune you in to your own state of health.
As I enjoy my current plateau of relatively good health, looking back over the past six years my big regret is that I didn't invest much sooner in equipment to support my body during periods of disability. I think now that I put off purchasing special "handicapped" equipment in order to avoid accepting the severity of my illness. For too long I got along with an ill-fitting institutional-style wheelchair, which inflicted terrible stresses to my entire skeletomuscular system, exacerbating my joint problems and retarding my recovery. Eventually, we did build handicapped ramping on our home, buy a wheelchair customized to fit my 5'2" frame, and a really good inflated cushion. (All big-ticket items; but in many states there is funding available to help with the cost of such necessary equipment if prescribed by a physician.) As I became ready to learn to walk again, I needed first a geriatric walker, then a geriatric cane, and eventually a regular walking stick. Although these days I need none of the above, having bought them for temporary use was not a mistake; in fact, the conditions for which I needed them became more temporary precisely because I did get them. We finally installed a stool and grab-bars in the shower, got me a mechanical grabber-tool to extend my reach, and a foam rubber bed-wedge and special Hemi-Sync tapes to assist sleeping. Once I acknowledged my own needs, I discovered that there are many ingenious gadgets, resources, and appliances to assist with every aspect of daily living.[4] How I wish I had availed myself of these much sooner.
As with any of life's tragedies and tribulations, Lyme disease has left some blessings in its wake:
I have learned to hear and heed my inner guidance, to a degree never before. I have discovered homeopathy, which has become the keystone of healthcare in our family, for everything from bumps and bruises, to colds and pneumonia, to Lyme disease.
I have come to appreciate the sheer wonder of being able to walk across a room again!
The joy of being able to converse with friends again! The blessings of sound sleep and normal energy! The thrill of feeling well again! Most important, at the very time when I was most ill I made a surprising discovery: There is deep within me a Center of Wellness, which is not touched even in times of grave illness. Having experienced that this Center abides even when I am so very ill, I now know that this deep Wellness need not be destroyed even by death. Discovering this is even more thrilling than being cured.
Genia Pauli Haddon, D.Min., Ph.D., is the creator of the video series Yoga for Round Bodies 1 & 2 and author of numerous articles and books, including Uniting Sex, Self & Spirit She may be contacted via her website, url http://PlusYoga.necaweb.com
SOME RESOURCES
1.To learn the names of some homeopaths in your area, contact the National Center for Homeopathy, 801 North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, Alexandria, VA 22314; phone 703-548-7790. Ask for a copy of their Directory of homeopaths and groups. The National Center for Homeopathy is a nonprofit organization promoting homeopathy through education, publication, and research.
2.For an excellent article about the relationship between disturbed delta-sleep and certain symptoms common to chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and Lyme disease, contact The Monroe Institute, requesting a reprint of the article "Hemi-Sync Intervention for Insomnia and Immune Dysfunction" in Hemi-Syric Journal (Fall 1998). The Monroe Institute is an internationally known educational and research organization dedicated to exploring the nature and functioning of human consciousness. More than twenty years ago, the Institute originated Hemi-Sync technology, a scientific sound-based method for adjusting states of consciousness. Their Hemi-Sync tapes for home use really work! To rebalance your sleep cycle, I personally recommend playing the Hemi-Sync tape Super Sleep softly all night long on an auto-reverse player. Use it for a week or so whenever you enter a period when you aren't feeling rested upon awakening in the morning. I also recommend Pain Control when discomfort makes it hard to sleep.
3.Some books with Introductions that I have found helpful for beginning to appreciate the homeopathic worldview: Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines, by Stephen Cummings, MD. and Dana Ullman, M.P.H. (Tarcher), Homeopathic Medicine at Home, by Maesimund B. Panos, MD. and Jane Heimlich (Tarcher), Bach Flower Therapy: Theory and Practice, by Mechthild Scheffer (Healing Arts Press). Or check for other titles at your local library. Also, the National Center for Homeopathy Directory, listed above, gives contact information for homeopathic study groups in your geographic area, where you can learn a lot from other people who have chosen homeopathy as a key to health.
4.For a great catalog of such resources, contact Sammons Preston, P.O. Box 5071, Bolingbrook, IL 60440-5071; phone 800-323-5547.
Lyme Success Story Sea Salt and Vit C
I took 1000 mg of Vit C and a little less
than a 1/4 tsp of course rock sea salt with 8 oz. of water every hour for 12
hours, for one day. The next morning I wanted to get out of bed for the
first time since I can remember. I have been bit by ticks more than once in
Northern Califonia which carries lymes disease. I now live in Montana where
doctors think it is not an issue. I have been dealing with chronic fatigue,
chronic rashes, night sweats, hives, intense mucle aches, brain fog,
depression from frustation and being misunderstood by all my friends and
family for years. I first got bit 15 years ago and I have had health issues
since.
I also got ill of a contanminated well two years ago and have not been
able to clear the bacteria from my body as I drank the water from my house
for many months not knowing it was contaminated. I believe this rememdy
could potentially work for any kind of bacteria, fungus or virus. I only
did the treatment for one day and the next two days I flushed my system with
tons of water. My lips became pickled from so much salt and I figured my
organs were too, so I took a break and I still feel great. I want to do the
treatment again the next day I am home all day.
I also am a massage therapist and study healing, since I have been so ill
for years, I have been educating myself for a long time. This is the first
rememdy that works. Althougth I did try intraveneous vit C with a holistic
health doctor to clear viruses, but it was 80 bucks three times a week!! I
also had discovered a sea salt purge cleanse that I did in Hawaii with
another holitistic doctor, and it was violent on my body, although it did
work for a time. The combination of sea salt and C is the magic and at such
a low cost and mild dsicomfort, it is a miracle that makes perfect sense.
Thank you for publishing your findings, I am sharing the good news with
others who need help and will encourage them to get your report.
Blessing to you and to all who suffer, may the healing continue!!!
Sincerely,
Linda Kocher ”
than a 1/4 tsp of course rock sea salt with 8 oz. of water every hour for 12
hours, for one day. The next morning I wanted to get out of bed for the
first time since I can remember. I have been bit by ticks more than once in
Northern Califonia which carries lymes disease. I now live in Montana where
doctors think it is not an issue. I have been dealing with chronic fatigue,
chronic rashes, night sweats, hives, intense mucle aches, brain fog,
depression from frustation and being misunderstood by all my friends and
family for years. I first got bit 15 years ago and I have had health issues
since.
I also got ill of a contanminated well two years ago and have not been
able to clear the bacteria from my body as I drank the water from my house
for many months not knowing it was contaminated. I believe this rememdy
could potentially work for any kind of bacteria, fungus or virus. I only
did the treatment for one day and the next two days I flushed my system with
tons of water. My lips became pickled from so much salt and I figured my
organs were too, so I took a break and I still feel great. I want to do the
treatment again the next day I am home all day.
I also am a massage therapist and study healing, since I have been so ill
for years, I have been educating myself for a long time. This is the first
rememdy that works. Althougth I did try intraveneous vit C with a holistic
health doctor to clear viruses, but it was 80 bucks three times a week!! I
also had discovered a sea salt purge cleanse that I did in Hawaii with
another holitistic doctor, and it was violent on my body, although it did
work for a time. The combination of sea salt and C is the magic and at such
a low cost and mild dsicomfort, it is a miracle that makes perfect sense.
Thank you for publishing your findings, I am sharing the good news with
others who need help and will encourage them to get your report.
Blessing to you and to all who suffer, may the healing continue!!!
Sincerely,
Linda Kocher ”
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