The healing art of homeopathy has been around since 1796 and since that time generations of homeopathic physicians have created many homeopathic drugs. By using their method of dilution and succussion (shaking), they transformed many mineral, herbal and other medicines of the time into homeopathic drugs. Even household items such as sugar and salt became […]
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Way back in 2014 I wrote a blog about the SPRINT blood pressure study. At the time the study was trying to determine what a good blood pressure is for people over the age of 60. Back then 150/90 or 140/90 was an acceptable target blood pressure. When blood pressure was lowered to 120/80 there
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For the past several weeks I have been asking my patients about their reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine and some patients have reported a curious phenomenon. Usually after their second dose of the vaccine, they may experience a kind of flashback to an old symptom. It could be a pain in an old surgical scar
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The COVID years start in 2019 and not in 2020 when the World Health Organization declared a world-wide pandemic. COVID also predates the December 2019 announcement by the Chinese government of the first cases of the disease. In November 2020, Italian researchers used blood collected for a lung cancer screening study which started in September
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Every winter for the past 25 years, I have published a newsletter called, “ Flu Watch”. It is a way of informing my patients about which homeopathic remedies are effective for that year’s flu. The method is based on the advice given by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, way back in 1810. After treating
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Since its inception in 1796, homeopathy has been used in the treatments of epidemic diseases. For example, in 1815 Hahnemann treated 180 patients during a typhus outbreak in Leipzig. He lost only 2 patients. Homeopathy was used during the Asiatic Cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg. Hahnemann’s nephew, a homeopathic physician, wrote to Hahnemann about the
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For several years now alternative doctors have recommended strontium citrate as a supplement in the treatment of osteopenia and as a preventive against osteoporosis. I used to recommend it as well but then stopped because I couldn’t find any research on its use for osteoporosis prevention. Every time I contacted supplement manufacturers about their research claims, they sent me articles on Strontium Ranelate, a drug approved in Europe for the treatment of osteoporosis. But strontium citrate is not Strontium Ranelate and I am not a big fan of “borrowed science”. I dislike any kind of intellectual “bait and switch” so I persisted in my pursuit of any information on the benefits of strontium supplementation.
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A few weeks ago, I came across this interesting book. Earthing is a book about the health benefits of a deceivingly simple process – grounding ourselves to the earth. It was written by a retired cable TV executive, Clint Ober, who wondered what would happen if we weren’t so insulated from the earth. He conducted some simple experiments on himself and his friends and confirmed that, in fact, he and his friends felt better.
Although there are many references in the old and modern homeopathic literature about the treatment of cancer by homeopathic methods, most US homeopaths do not treat cancer. The reasons for this are several and varied but for me it is a matter of ethics. We simply do not have any clinical trials that would compare to the research of conventional methods of fighting cancer. I don’t think it is ethical to offer homeopathy as the primary treatment for any malignancy.
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Several weeks ago, a new magazine appeared in my waiting room. It is called GENOME. It is also available online at genomemag.com. It is an interesting science magazine written for the general public and it features articles about genetics and cutting edge medicine. Just the ads from various cancer labs and hospitals will blow your mind. The Fall 2015 issue features an article entitled, Traces of the Past, concerning the emerging field of epigenetics. Epigenetics refers to molecular processes that leave durable marks on our DNA, altering the gene’s functioning independent of the DNA sequence. If our genes are the instructions, then the epigenome is the punctuation. Some have likened the epigenome to software and the genome to computer hardware.