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A special report released a couple of months ago by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Complementary Medicine in Australia.  Some interesting stats on Homoeopathy and other forms of CM.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Chapter5202008
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Chapter5202008

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Crisis at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital Peter Fisher Clinical Director Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital peter.fisher@uclh.nhs.uk The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital (RLHH) is the flagship of homeopathy in the UK.  It is currently facing a serious crisis due to cuts in funding by the public sector health agencies, which purchase its services.  These funding cuts mean that many patients are no longer able to receive homeopathy and the other complementary therapies provided by the RLHH within the public sector, or face great bureaucratic obstacles in doing so.  If this trend continues the very survival of the RLHH is threatened. The RLHH was founded in 1849 by Dr Frederick Quin, who had studied with Hahnemann.  It has been on its present site in central London, about 300 yards from the British Museum, since 1859.  It is in the heart of medical London, with the UK’s leading paediatric and neurological hospitals on either side.  It is part of University College London Hospitals, one the leading academic medical centres in the UK.  The RLHH has recently been completely redeveloped to create a state of the art facility.  It was reopened by the Prince of Wales in October 2005.  The RLHH offers arrange of complementary therapies, including acupuncture, Iscador and nutritional therapy, as well as homeopathy.

The British National Health Service (NHS) is divided into purchaser and provider agencies.  The purchasers are Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), responsible for providing and purchasing health care for people living in their area.  They are government funded, but have considerable autonomy.

Several of the 40 or so PCTs which purchase services at the RLHH have either completely stopped their contracts or set up ‘referral management centres’ which screen all referrals made by General Practitioners (Family Physicians).   The result is that many patients, depending on where they live, can no longer access our services, or face great bureaucratic obstacles in doing so.  If this trend continues the hospital will be forced to reduce its services or even to close completely.

There is a serious financial crisis in the NHS, which has triggered these cuts. The PCTs have generally justified their decisions by claiming that scientific evidence of the effectiveness of homeopathy and other complementary therapies is lacking.  But it is clear that their financial problems are the major factor.

We are continuing to function, but we have serious fears for the future.  Many patients are no longer able to access our services, and are suffering severe consequences

Press attacks

Behind this is a hostile media campaign, including the ’13 Doctors Letter’, which made the front page lead in The Times, the UK’s most influential newspaper, in May 2006, and the deeply flawed, but widely publicised meta-analysis published Lancet in August 2005.  There have been a series of other attacks in the media more recently.  An organisation called Sense about Science, which has strong links to the genetically modified food and pharmaceutical industries, is behind many of these attacks.

What you can do

We are mounting a vigorous campaign and welcome the support of our Australian colleagues.

Please write to the British Government Official concerned:

Ms Sarah Hendry CBE
Director of International Health
Department of Health
Wellington House
133-135 Waterloo Road
London SE1 UG

United Kingdom

email: sarah.hendry@dh.gsi.gov.uk

You might wish to say that the RLHH has an international reputation.  It provides complementary therapies, which many patients throughout the world find very effective, are supported by a growing body of scientific evidence, and offer solutions to otherwise difficult to treat problems. You are very concerned that the care of patients, research and education in complementary medicine and the future of this famous institution are being compromised by short-term, local, financially driven decisions and inadequate assessment of the scientific evidence.

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The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (RLHH)

threatened with closure.

 

The source of this information is Carol Boyce who is a dedicated, committed, registered homeopath (UK) and a colleague and fellow lecturer at the College of Homeopathy, London, known to me for over 20 years.  Following on is correspondence from Peter Fisher, Clinical Director of the RLHH, which sets out the actual threat and further suggests ways in which we can help. 

As I am currently residing in Australia, please contact Carol for further information: swelhoms@dsl.pipex.com

The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (RLHH) threatened with closure.

The 150 year-old institution, the visible presence of homeopathy within the NHS is threatened with closure within the year, with other homeopathic institutions to follow suit. The recent smear campaign led by Prof. Ernst of Exeter University and cost cutting in an NHS strapped for cash is cited as the main reasons. It was claimed that the £43 million revamp of the RLHH was NHS money that should never have been used for a therapy “that doesn’t work”. The fact of the matter is that the money for the revamp was donated by benefactors to be used for the RLHH alone.  The money could not have been allocated elsewhere in the NHS. Another interesting fact is that the RLHH is one of the few areas of the NHS that actually makes money over its budget!

The state of the art revamp was allowed to go ahead and now the homeopaths are being sidelined. The Camden PCT (Primary Care Trust) dictated that the homeopathic allergy clinic must now be held over at the main University College Hospital site.  In order to be economically effective the state of the art rooms are now being used by another NHS department, one being the Neurology department’s private practice!  

The moves are subtle and insidious – the in-patient beds were the first to go. Patients received day care at the hospital and were put up in a local hotel as a means of saving money.  This has now been stopped and treatment restricted to out-patients only. This is despite the fact that in 2005 67% of individual GPs and 85% practices in the host PCT (Camden) referred patients to the RLHH. 

For this to be happening when the Government is committed to patient choice in a patient led NHS is beyond belief. The RLHH is doing important work in the areas of allergies, autism and ADD.  They provide a credible face of homeopathy for the general public and with 40,000 patient appointments every year makes homeopathy available to a significant number of patients who could not afford it otherwise.

The closure of this historic institution must not be allowed to succeed.  Please do one or all of the following:

• Write to your MP and ask them to ask a Parliamentary question (possible questions listed below).  www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm
• Write to the Chief Executive of your PCT (Islington, Dr Rachel Tyndall) 
• Write to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, as she is the Royal Patron of the RLHH.

Possible questions to put to the Secretary of State:

From Peter Fisher

There is a serious threat to the future of the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital  (RLHH), and we need your help.  Please forward this to sympathetic contacts.

This is to explain the situation, ask for your help and explain how best you can help us. 

The basic problem is that several Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), the local bodies which pay for NHS care, have stopped, or drastically reduced, their funding of treatment at the RLHH.  If a PCT stops funding, we cannot see patients resident in its area on the NHS.  If too many PCTs stop funding, the Hospital may be forced to close, we are already having to cut our services. Some PCTs have completely cut off funding, other have set up ‘referral management centres’ which screen all referrals.  Referral management centres vary, but often block most referrals to us.

In Greater London the boundaries of the PCTs are the same as  those of the boroughs (although PCTs and Borough Councils are completely separate), elsewhere the situation is more complex, you can find which PCT’s area you live in at www.nhs.uk/England/AuthoritiesTrusts/Pct/list.aspx.  PCTs can basically be divided into the following four groups:

·       continuing to fund
·       put in a referral management centre
·       recently cut the contract completely
·       long term refusniks

I have listed these at the bottom.  If your PCT does not appear it means that they are continuing to fund, or have never referred patients (which may be because they are nearer one of the other NHS Homoeopathic Hospitals).

The PCTs have generally justified their decisions by claiming that scientific evidence of effectiveness for homeopathy and other complementary therapies is lacking.  It is clear that the current financial crisis in the NHS has played a very important role, although some PCTs deny that money comes into it.  

We believe that patients seen at the RLHH receive first class medical care from a team of highly trained specialist doctors and health professionals, who successfully integrate conventional and complementary treatments.  Our unique approach enables us to treat successfully chronic complex conditions and our patients have a very high level of satisfaction with our services.  We are pioneering new ways of using complementary therapies cost effectively, and expanding the scientific evidence.

Lurking behind all this is an orchestrated campaign, including the ’13 doctors letter’,  the front page lead in The Times of 23 May 2006.    www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/article724136.ece

Ernst’s leak of the Smallwood report (also front page lead in The Times, August 2005), and the deeply flawed, but much publicised Lancet meta-analysis of Shang et al published only 2 days later are other elements (see attached, published in the journal eCAM for my take on this).

What you can do

1. Sign up for our campaign by completing the attached form (below) and returning to valerie.lawler@uclh.nhs.uk (Valerie Lawler,  Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HR, 020 7391 8890). We will keep you informed.
2. Write to your MP expressing your concern.  Ask him to put a Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State (don’t write to the Secretary of State yourself, you will just get a standard reply). We have some suggested Parliamentary Questions (below), but please be creative.  Points you might like to include are:
   • Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is very widely used (at least 20% of UK population, and higher for the chronically ill), but grossly under-researched: 0.08% of medical research expenditure. 
   • In view of the declining number of innovative drugs, CAM may offer safe, effective and cost-effective options.  The very centres that have the capacity to lead such research are being threatened by short term, financial driven local decisions. 
   • Safety: Vioxx (rofecoxib) is estimated to have caused  88,000-140,000 extra cases of serious coronary heart disease in the US alone.  SSRI antidepressants cause an increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviour in young people with depression.  Long-acting beta-agonists such as salmeterol used to treat asthma increase asthma-related deaths.
   • (The Truth about the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell is an authoritative and readable account of the declining number of really new drugs and the highly dubious commercial and marketing practices of Big Pharma).
   • According to a British Medical Journal Clinical Evidence review of
     2,404 conventional treatments, only 15% were rated as beneficial, 22% as likely to be beneficial, 7% as trade off between benefits and harms, 5% as unlikely to be beneficial, 4% as likely to be ineffective or harmful and 47% of unknown effectiveness. www.clinicalevidence.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp
3. If your PCT is on the list of refusers or referral management centres below, write to the Chief Executive giving your point of view.  You might want to say that you have positive experience of homeopathic treatment (and perhaps negative experience of conventional treatment) want to be assured that you will have the option of receiving NHS homeopathy.  You will be able to find the address of your PCT from www.nhs.uk/England/AuthoritiesTrusts/Pct/list.aspx.  It is best to write direct to the Chief Executive.  If your PCT does not appear on the list below, I would not presently advise you to write.
4. If you know any celebrities, high-profile individuals, politicians etc who might be willing to help, please let us know.

Dr Peter Fisher
Clinical Director, Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital
Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HR
020 7391 8890
peter.fisher@uclh.nhs.uk
http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/rlhh

Long term refusal to fund
Adur, Arun & Worthing PCT
Bexhill & Rother PCT
Bracknell Forest PCT
Brighton & Hove City PCT
Colchester PCT
Crawley PCT
Croydon PCT
Eastbourne Downs PCT
Epping Forest PCT
Harlow PCT
Hastings & St Leonards PCT
Horsham & Chanctonbury PCT
Lambeth PCT
Lewisham PCT
Maldon & South Chelmsford PCT
Mid-Sussex PCT
Newbury & Community PCT
North Chelmsford PCT
Reading PCT
Slough PCT
Southwark PCT
Sussex Downs & Weald PCT
Tendring PCT
Uttlesford PCT
Waveney PCT
Western Sussex PCT
Windsor, Ascot & Maidenhead PCT
Witham Braintree & Halstead PCT
Wokingham PCT

Recent referral management centre or other ‘demand management’
Kensington & Chelsea PCT
Westminster PCT
Barnet PCT
Hammersmith & Fulham PCT
Islington PCT
West Kent PCT (referrals go to Tunbridge Wells Homoeopathic Hospital)

Recent complete cessation of contract
Brent PCT
Broadband PCT
Cambridge City PCT
Central Suffolk PCT
E. Cambridgeshire & Fenland PCT
Great Yarmouth PCT
Harrow PCT
Hillingdon PCT
Huntingdonshire PCT
Ipswich PCT
N. Norfolk PCT
N. Peterborough PCT
Norwich PCT
S. Cambridgeshire PCT
S. Peterborough PCT
Southern Norfolk PCT
Suffolk Coastal PCT
Suffolk West PCT
W. Norfolk PCT

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Homeopathy News 24.11.06

Australian Government National Health and Research Council Press Release;

More recognition for Homeopathy in Australia!

$5 MILLION FOR RESEARCH INTO COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

The Minister for Health and Ageing has announced a new $5 million funding initiative through the NHMRC for researchers investigating the use and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicines.

A formal call for applications by the NHMRC will commence soon.

Date: 23 November 2006
Reference: ABB154/06


Type: Ministerial Media Release
Further information:
Kristy McSweeney 0415 740 722
$5 MILLION FOR RESEARCH INTO COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

The Commonwealth Government will provide $5 million in funding through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to investigate the use and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicines.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics show that Australians spend around
$1 billion annually on complementary and alternative medicines including vitamin supplements, homeopathic medicines and traditional Asian and indigenous medicines.

This new funding is in addition to the Commonwealth Government’s recent $529 million investment in NHMRC grants for health and medical research.

The NHMRC will call upon researchers to apply for the funds. The application process will be advertised in the national press soon. Applications will be due in February 2007 with successful researchers being notified mid next year.
Media contacts: Kristy McSweeney Tony Abbott’s Office 0413 486 926

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From Zeus Information Service UK 30.1.06

BIrd Flu-again!



Are homeopathic remedies more effective than flu shots? According to 1918 figures, they may be.
Homeopathy may be more effective than flu shots. In the deadly flu outbreak of 1918, patients treated with homeopathy had much higher survival rates.

Not only is the avian flu front-page news, but clinics and doctors are warning us about the dangers of the common flu. Posters and leaflets, ads and articles urge us to get our shots, the pressure greater than usual with the ominous bird flu looming.

In Great Britain, a National Health Service leaflet says, "If you knew about the flu, you'd get the jab." But the British environmental magazine The Ecologist (October 2005) can't help wondering if that's really the case: "If people truly knew about flu, and the lack of effectiveness of the vaccine being offered as protection, would they really be so obedient about getting the jab?"

Last September, a report in the American Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine dropped a bombshell: Although immunization rates in those over 65 have increased 50 percent in the past 20 years, there has been no decline in flu-related deaths. One reason is that hundreds of flu viruses can be circulating at any time.

Nevertheless, every February, scientists at the World Health Organization meet to define the three that are likely to cause the most misery the following winter. The viruses they choose are included in that year's vaccine. But in the months between formulating the vaccine and administering it, the viruses -- which constantly evolve and mutate -- may have changed, or new ones may emerge.

Flu experts often get it wrong. In 1994, for example, they predicted that Texas, Shangdong and Panama viruses would be prevalent, so millions of people were vaccinated against those strains. However, when winter arrived, entirely different strains were circulating through schools, offices and households worldwide.

Even if the vaccine contains the right strains, not everyone responds by producing the antibodies that fend off the flu. As many as 40 percent of people over age 65, for example, do not respond to vaccination. Last year the U.S. Centers for Disease Control funded research on health-care workers in Colorado. Results showed virtually the same percentage of people suffered from influenza-like illnesses whether they were vaccinated or not, leaving researchers to conclude that the vaccine "was not effective or had very low effectiveness."

Ineffectiveness is not the only thing to worry about when getting a flu shot. Alternative Medicine (October 2005) lists the typical ingredients in a vaccine: Aluminum hydroxide (associated with Alzheimer's and seizures), thimerosal (a mercury-based neurotoxin linked to ADHD and autism) and phenol (a human carcinogen) are among the substances added. This has caused some people to ask whether vaccines might do more harm than good.

Do we have alternatives? During the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed up to 50 million people worldwide, homeopathic physicians in the United States reported very low mortality rates among their patients, while flu patients treated by conventional physicians faced mortality rates of around 30 percent. Dr. W.A. Dewey gathered data from homeopathic physicians treating flu patients around the country in 1918 and published his findings in the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1920. Homeopathic physicians in Philadelphia, for example, reported a mortality rate of just over 1 percent for the more than 26,000 flu patients they treated during the pandemic.

Today, a number of homeopathic remedies for the flu are available, including oscillo, or oscillococcinum, which has been shown to shorten the duration of symptoms when taken within 48 hours of onset. Homeopaths have been given this remedy since 1925. Interestingly, it's made from the heart and liver of ducks, which carry flu viruses in their digestive tracts.

"Based on clinical studies, homeopathy produces some of the fastest results in relieving flu symptoms," says Dana Ullman, MPH, the author of nine books on homeopathic medicine. In addition to trying oscillo, Ullman suggests considering influenzinum 9C, a homeopathic preparation of the three newest flu viruses obtained from the Pasteur Institute in France. Although not definitively shown to prevent the flu, it is a popular protocol in Europe. Finally, Ullman advises visiting a homeopath for a specific constitutional remedy in preparation for flu season. Other homeopathic flu remedies, depending upon one's symptoms, include gelsemium, bryonia, aconitum, monkshood, nux vomica, eupatorium perfoliatum, rhus toxicodendron (poison ivy) and arsenicum album.

While there's no evidence yet that homeopathic remedies can prevent the flu, they seem to be very useful in treating the flu. And they're less aggressive that the usual injections. The people now targeted for shots -- the elderly, young and immune compromised -- are those least able to withstand a systemic chemical assault.

Research also consistently shows that people of lower socioeconomic status are at higher risk for a wide range of infectious diseases. The Ecologist wonders whether "vaccines are endorsed as a remedy for so many things that are too complicated (like better hygiene) or too expensive (like winter-proof housing) for the government to fix."

So, now that the flu season is here, what should you do? Homeopathic remedies might help. But Alternative Medicine offers the most startling solution of all: Get sick. "From a naturopathic point of view, getting the actual flu may not be such a bad thing -- that is, if you are relatively healthy -- because it will make you more resistant to the flu later in life. Also, getting the flu is an opportunity for the body to detoxify."

For those who are less healthy -- with conditions like diabetes, asthma, pulmonary disease, emphysema, frequent pneumonia or impaired immunity -- less invasive, more natural ways to "fight" the flu might be prescribed. Sometimes the simplest preventive actions yield the most immediate results: Wash your hands, get enough sleep, eat your fruits and vegetables, exercise and avoid stress.

 

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Book Review:

The Companion to Homeopathy-the Practitioners Guide by Colin Griffith.

Watkins Publishing 30GBP

It is with the greatest pleasure that I recommend this book to anyone interested in Homeopathy.Colin was an old student of mine from the College of Homeopathy Regents College London W1 many years ago now.He is an excellent innovative Practitioner and brings to Homeopathy his musicianship as well as his deep love and commitment to giving the best treatment he can to his patients.I attach a review from a West Australian Homeopath I mentor with 5 years postgraduate experience who was absolutely delighted to be given this book to read and review.Here it is:

The Companion To Homoeopathy.

The Practitioner's Guide.

By Colin Griffith.

 

Firstly I would like to say that I feel that all practitioners, serious students of homoeopathy and any interested person in health and its evolution should read this book.

I found Colins' explanation of the miasms and their development enlightening and easy to comprehend. Some of his explanations provided me with answers to previously unanswered questions.

His inclusion of Leprosy was marvelous. I began reading this book at this chapter and was so taken that I quickly turned to the beginning and read the rest of the book.

I found it refreshing to note that there are a number of cases given that didn't have "wow I wish I was a homoeopath like him" prescriptions. What I mean is not all of them had great results straight away. To me this is a much more realistic reflection of what happens in day to day practice.

I have taken from this book some mental notes. Such as to remind myself when I have cases that take a turn for the worst that is not necessarily homoeopathy or me that has failed the client. That it may be the next miasm layer rearing its head ready to be dealt with.

Reading the chapter on the cancer miasm I didn't slip into mild underground panic as I have done in the past. I agree with Colin in that one of the gifts of cancer is that it gives the person with the malady a chance to set things right, to say good buy if need be, to clean the slate, albeit a previous unconscious family slate. Colin articulates in a straightforward and sensitive manor the subject of unresolved emotional trauma in previous generations and where it goes. This being principally into the next generation for them to resolve.

There is an open-mindedness when it comes to using other complimentary modalities as a support for the client and thus aiding the homoeopathic remedies to work to their fullest.

Over all I again reiterate that this book should be read by all and am thankful for it falling into my hands as it did.

Sally Moore. Adv. Dip. Hom. Med. Sallyahom@hotmail.com 22.8.2005.

Latest articles:

Vaccination whistleblower -an interview with a now retired worker from the vaccination industry in the USA forwarded by the Zeus Information service.

Former Pharma Employee Speaks out about Vaccines Interview - 9th January 2002.

Dr. Mark Randall is the pseudonym of a vaccine
researcher who worked for many years in the labs of
major pharmaceutical houses and the US government's
National Institutes of Health.

Mark retired during the last decade. He says he was
"disgusted with what he discovered about vaccines."

As you know, since the beginning of nomorefakenews, I
have been launching an attack against non-scientific
and dangerous assertions about the safety and efficacy
of vaccines.

Mark has been one of my sources.

He is a little reluctant to speak out, even under the
cover of anonymity, but with the current push to make
vaccines mandatory -- with penalties like quarantine
lurking in the wings -- he has decided to break his
silence.

He lives comfortably in retirement, but like many of
my long-time sources, he has developed a conscience
about his former work. Mark is well aware of the scope
of the medical cartel and its goals of depopulation,
mind control, and general debilitation of populations.

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JON RAPPOPORT
http://www.nomorefakenews.com/

Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the
hallmark of good medicine.

A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won't
say which ones.

Q: Why not?

A: I want to preserve my privacy.

Q: So you think you could have problems if you came
out into the open?

A: I believe I could lose my pension.

Q: On what grounds?

A: The grounds don't matter. These people have ways of
causing you problems, when you were once part of the
Club. I know one or two people who were put under
surveillance, who were harassed.

Q: Harassed by whom?

A: The FBI.

Q: Really?

A: Sure. The FBI used other pretexts. And the IRS can
come calling too.

Q: So much for free speech.

A: I was "part of the inner circle." If now I began to
name names and make specific accusations against
researchers, I could be in a world of trouble.

Q: What is at the bottom of these efforts at
harassment?

A: Vaccines are the last defense of modern medicine.
Vaccines are the ultimate justification for the
overall "brilliance" of modern medicine.

Q: Do you believe that people should be allowed to
choose whether they should get vaccines?

A: On a political level, yes. On a scientific level,
people need information, so that they can choose well.
It's one thing to say choice is good. But if the
atmosphere is full of lies, how can you choose? Also,
if the FDA were run by honorable people, these
vaccines would not be granted licenses. They would be
investigated to within an inch of their lives.

Q: There are medical historians who state that the
overall decline of illnesses was not due to vaccines.

A: I know. For a long time, I ignored their work.

Q: Why?

A: Because I was afraid of what I would find out. I
was in the business of developing vaccines. My
livelihood depended on continuing that work.

Q: And then?

A: I did my own investigation.

Q: What conclusions did you come to?

A: The decline of disease is due to improved living
conditions.

Q: What conditions?

A: Cleaner water. Advanced sewage systems. Nutrition.
Fresher food. A decrease in poverty. Germs may be
everywhere, but when you are healthy, you don't
contract the diseases as easily.

Q: What did you feel when you completed your own
investigation?

A: Despair. I realized I was working a sector based on
a collection of lies.

Q: Are some vaccines more dangerous than others?

A: Yes. The DPT shot, for example. The MMR. But some
lots of a vaccine are more dangerous than other lots
of the same vaccine. As far as I'm concerned, all
vaccines are dangerous.

Q: Why?

A: Several reasons. They involve the human immune
system in a process that tends to compromise immunity.
They can actually cause the disease they are supposed
to prevent. They can cause other diseases than the
ones they are supposed to prevent.

Q: Why are we quoted statistics which seem to prove
that vaccines have been tremendously successful at
wiping out diseases?

A: Why? To give the illusion that these vaccines are
useful. If a vaccine suppresses visible symptoms of a
disease like measles, everyone assumes that the
vaccine is a success. But, under the surface, the
vaccine can harm the immune system itself. And if it
causes other diseases -- say, meningitis -- that fact
is masked, because no one believes that the vaccine
can do that. The connection is overlooked.

Q: It is said that the smallpox vaccine wiped out
smallpox in England.

A: Yes. But when you study the available statistics,
you get another picture.

Q: Which is?

A: There were cities in England where people who were
not vaccinated did not get smallpox. There were places
where people who were vaccinated experienced smallpox
epidemics. And smallpox was already on the decline
before the vaccine was introduced.

Q: So you're saying that we have been treated to a
false history.

A: Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. This is a
history that has been cooked up to convince people
that vaccines are invariably safe and effective.

Q: Now, you worked in labs. Where purity was an issue.

A: The public believes that these labs, these
manufacturing facilities are the cleanest places in
the world. That is not true. Contamination occurs all
the time. You get all sorts of debris introduced into
vaccines.

Q: For example, the SV40 monkey virus slips into the
polio vaccine.

A: Well yes, that happened. But that's not what I
mean. The SV40 got into the polio vaccine because the
vaccine was made by using monkey kidneys. But I'm
talking about something else. The actual lab
conditions. The mistakes. The careless errors. SV40,
which was later found in cancer tumors -- that was
what I would call a structural problem. It was an
accepted part of the manufacturing process. If you use
monkey kidneys, you open the door to germs which you
don't know are in those kidneys.

Q: Okay, but let's ignore that distinction between
different types of contaminants for a moment. What
contaminants did you find in your many years of work
with vaccines?

A: All right. I'll give you some of what I came
across, and I'll also give you what colleagues of mine
found. Here's a partial list. In the Rimavex measles
vaccine, we found various chicken viruses. In polio
vaccine, we found acanthamoeba, which is a so-called
"brain-eating" amoeba. Simian cytomegalovirus in polio
vaccine. Simian foamy virus in the rotavirus vaccine.
Bird-cancer viruses in the MMR vaccine. Various
micro-organisms in the anthrax vaccine. I've found
potentially dangerous enzyme inhibitors in several
vaccines. Duck, dog, and rabbit viruses in the rubella
vaccine. Avian leucosis virus in the flu vaccine.
Pestivirus in the MMR vaccine.

Q: Let me get this straight. These are all
contaminants which don't belong in the vaccines.

A: That's right. And if you try to calculate what
damage these contaminants can cause, well, we don't
really know, because no testing has been done, or very
little testing. It's a game of roulette. You take your
chances. Also, most people don't know that some polio
vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, rubella and hep A and
measles vaccines have been made with aborted human
fetal tissue. I have found what I believed were
bacterial fragments and poliovirus in these vaccines
from time to time -- which may have come from that
fetal tissue. When you look for contaminants in
vaccines, you can come up with material that IS
puzzling. You know it shouldn't be there, but you
don't know exactly what you've got. I have found what
I believed was a very small "fragment" of human hair
and also human mucus. I have found what can only be
called "foreign protein," which could mean almost
anything. It could mean protein from viruses.

Q: Alarm bells are ringing all over the place.

A: How do you think I felt? Remember, this material is
going into the bloodstream without passing through
some of the ordinary immune defenses.

Q: How were your findings received?

A: Basically, it was, don't worry, this can't be
helped. In making vaccines, you use various animals'
tissue, and that's where this kind of contamination
enters in. Of course, I'm not even mentioning the
standard chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, and
aluminum which are purposely put into vaccines.

Q: This information is pretty staggering.

A: Yes. And I'm just mentioning some of the biological
contaminants. Who knows how many others there are?
Others we don't find because we don't think to look
for them. If tissue from, say, a bird is used to make
a vaccine, how many possible germs can be in that
tissue? We have no idea. We have no idea what they
might be, or what effects they could have on humans.

Q: And beyond the purity issue?

A: You are dealing with the basic faulty premise about
vaccines. That they intricately stimulate the immune
system to create the conditions for immunity from
disease. That is the bad premise. It doesn't work that
way. A vaccine is supposed to "create" antibodies
which, indirectly, offer protection against disease.
However, the immune system is much larger and more
involved than antibodies and their related "killer
cells."

Q: The immune system is?

A: The entire body, really. Plus the mind. It's all
immune system, you might say. That is why you can
have, in the middle of an epidemic, those individuals
who remain healthy.

Q: So the level of general health is important.

A: More than important. Vital.

Q: How are vaccine statistics falsely presented?

A: There are many ways. For example, suppose that 25
people who have received the hepatitis B vaccine come
down with hepatitis. Well, hep B is a liver disease.
But you can call liver disease many things. You can
change the diagnosis. Then, you've concealed the root
cause of the problem.

Q: And that happens?

A: All the time. It HAS to happen, if the doctors
automatically assume that people who get vaccines DO
NOT come down with the diseases they are now supposed
to be protected from. And that is exactly what doctors
assume. You see, it's circular reasoning. It's a
closed system. It admits no fault. No possible fault.
If a person who gets a vaccine against hepatitis gets
hepatitis, or gets some other disease, the automatic
assumption is, this had nothing to do with the
disease.

Q: In your years working in the vaccine establishment,
how many doctors did you encounter who admitted that
vaccines were a problem?

A: None. There were a few who privately questioned
what they were doing. But they would never go public,
even within their companies.

Q: What was the turning point for you?

A: I had a friend whose baby died after a DPT shot.

Q: Did you investigate?

A: Yes, informally. I found that this baby was
completely healthy before the vaccination. There was
no reason for his death, except the vaccine. That
started my doubts. Of course, I wanted to believe that
the baby had gotten a bad shot from a bad lot. But as
I looked into this further, I found that was not the
case in this instance. I was being drawn into a spiral
of doubt that increased over time. I continued to
investigate. I found that, contrary to what I thought,
vaccines are not tested in a scientific way.

Q: What do you mean?

A: For example, no long-term studies are done on any
vaccines. Long-term follow-up is not done in any
careful way. Why? Because, again, the assumption is
made that vaccines do not cause problems. So why
should anyone check? On top of that, a vaccine
reaction is defined so that all bad reactions are said
to occur very soon after the shot is given. But that
does not make sense.

Q: Why doesn't it make sense?

A: Because the vaccine obviously acts in the body for
a long period of time after it is given. A reaction
can be gradual. Deterioration can be gradual.
Neurological problems can develop over time. They do
in various conditions, even according to a
conventional analysis. So why couldn't that be the
case with vaccines? If chemical poisoning can occur
gradually, why couldn't that be the case with a
vaccine which contains mercury?

Q: And that is what you found?

A: Yes. You are dealing with correlations, most of the
time. Correlations are not perfect. But if you get 500
parents whose children have suffered neurological
damage during a one-year period after having a
vaccine, this should be sufficient to spark off an
intense investigation.

Q: Has it been enough?

A: No. Never. This tells you something right away.

Q: Which is?

A: The people doing the investigation are not really
interested in looking at the facts. They assume that
the vaccines are safe. So, when they do investigate,
they invariably come up with exonerations of the
vaccines. They say, "This vaccine is safe." But what
do they base those judgments on? They base them on
definitions and ideas which automatically rule out a
condemnation of the vaccine.

Q: There are numerous cases where a vaccine campaign
has failed. Where people have come down with the
disease against which they were vaccinated.

A: Yes, there are many such instances. And there the
evidence is simply ignored. It's discounted. The
experts say, if they say anything at all, that this is
just an isolated situation, but overall the vaccine
has been shown to be safe. But if you add up all the
vaccine campaigns where damage and disease have
occurred, you realize that these are NOT isolated
situations.

Q: Did you ever discuss what we are talking about here
with colleagues, when you were still working in the
vaccine establishment?

A: Yes I did.

Q: What happened?

A: Several times I was told to keep quiet. It was made
clear that I should go back to work and forget my
misgivings. On a few occasions, I encountered fear.
Colleagues tried to avoid me. They felt they could be
labeled with "guilt by association." All in all,
though, I behaved myself. I made sure I didn't create
problems for myself.

Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?

A: First of all, there is no "if." They do harm. It
becomes a more difficult question to decide whether
they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm.
Then you are dealing with the kind of research which
should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be
probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart,
which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from
the moment they enter. This research has not been
done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for
two days and discuss all the reasons. As you've said
many times, at different layers of the system people
have their motives. Money, fear of losing a job, the
desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards,
promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and
so on. But, at the highest levels of the medical
cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause
a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be
hard to accept, but it's true. The medical cartel, at
the highest level, is not out to help people, it is
out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one
point in my career, I had a long conversation with a
man who occupied a high government position in an
African nation. He told me that he was well aware of
this. He told me that WHO is a front for these
depopulation interests. There is an underground, shall
we say, in Africa, made up of various officials who
are earnestly trying to change the lot of the poor.
This network of people knows what is going on. They
know that vaccines have been used, and are being used,
to destroy their countries, to make them ripe for
takeover by globalist powers. I have had the
opportunity to speak with several of these people from
this network.

Q: Is Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa,
aware of the situation?

A: I would say he is partially aware. Perhaps he is
not utterly convinced, but he is on the way to
realizing the whole truth. He already knows that HIV
is a hoax. He knows that the AIDS drugs are poisons
which destroy the immune system. He also knows that if
he speaks out, in any way, about the vaccine issue, he
will be branded a lunatic. He has enough trouble after
his stand on the AIDS issue.

Q: This network you speak of.

A: It has accumulated a huge amount of information
about vaccines. The question is, how is a successful
strategy going to be mounted? For these people, that
is a difficult issue.

Q: And in the industrialized nations?

A: The medical cartel has a stranglehold, but it is
diminishing. Mainly because people have the freedom to
question medicines. However, if the choice issue [the
right to take or reject any medicine] does not gather
steam, these coming mandates about vaccines against
biowarefare germs are going to win out. This is an
important time.

Q: The furor over the hepatits B vaccine seems one
good avenue.

A: I think so, yes. To say that babies must have the
vaccine-and then in the next breath, admitting that a
person gets hep B from sexual contacts and shared
needles -- is a ridiculous juxtaposition. Medical
authorities try to cover themselves by saying that
20,000 or so children in the US get hep B every year
from "unknown causes," and that's why every baby must
have the vaccine. I dispute that 20,000 figure and the
so-called studies that back it up.

Q: Andrew Wakefield, the British MD who uncovered the
link between the MMR vaccine and autism, has just been
fired from his job in a London hospital.

A: Yes. Wakefield performed a great service. His
correlations between the vaccine and autism are
stunning. Perhaps you know that Tony Blair's wife is
involved with alternative health. There is the
possibility that their child has not been given the
MMR. Blair recently side-stepped the question in press
interviews, and made it seem that he was simply
objecting to invasive questioning of his "personal and
family life." In any event, I believe his wife has
been muzzled. I think, if given the chance, she would
at least say she is sympathetic to all the families
who have come forward and stated that their children
were severely damaged by the MMR.

Q: British reporters should try to get through to her.

A: They have been trying. But I think she has made a
deal with her husband to keep quiet, no matter what.
She could do a great deal of good if she breaks her
promise. I have been told she is under pressure, and
not just from her husband. At the level she occupies,
MI6 and British health authorities get into the act.
It is thought of as a matter of national security.

Q: Well, it is national security, once you understand
the medical cartel.

A: It is global security. The cartel operates in every
nation. It zealously guards the sanctity of vaccines.
Questioning these vaccines is on the same level as a
Vatican bishop questioning the sanctity of the
sacrament of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.

Q: I know that a Hollywood celebrity stating publicly
that he will not take a vaccine is committing career
suicide.

A: Hollywood is linked very powerfully to the medical
cartel. There are several reasons, but one of them is
simply that an actor who is famous can draw a huge
amount of publicity if he says ANYTHING. In 1992, I
was present at your demonstration against the FDA in
downtown Los Angeles. One or two actors spoke against
the FDA. Since that time, you would be hard pressed to
find an actor who has spoken out in any way against
the medical cartel.

Q: Within the National Institutes of Health, what is
the mood, what is the basic frame of mind?

A: People are competing for research monies. The last
thing they think about is challenging the status quo.
They are already in an intramural war for that money.
They don't need more trouble. This is a very insulated
system. It depends on the idea that, by and large,
modern medicine is very successful on every frontier.
To admit systemic problems in any area is to cast
doubt on the whole enterprise. You might therefore
think that NIH is the last place one should think
about holding demonstrations. But just the reverse is
true. If five thousand people showed up there
demanding an accounting of the actual benefits of that
research system, demanding to know what real health
benefits have been conferred on the public from the
billions of wasted dollars funneled to that facility,
something might start. A spark might go off. You might
get, with further demonstrations, all sorts of
fall-out. Researchers -- a few -- might start leaking
information.

Q: A good idea.

A: People in suits standing as close to the buildings
as the police will allow. People in business suits, in
jogging suits, mothers and babies. Well-off people.
Poor people. All sorts of people.

Q: What about the combined destructive power of a
number of vaccines given to babies these days?

A: It is a travesty and a crime. There are no real
studies of any depth which have been done on that.
Again, the assumption is made that vaccines are safe,
and therefore any number of vaccines given together
are safe as well. But the truth is, vaccines are not
safe. Therefore the potential damage increases when
you give many of them in a short time period.

Q: Then we have the fall flu season.

A: Yes. As if only in the autumn do these germs float
in to the US from Asia. The public swallows that
premise. If it happens in April, it is a bad cold. If
it happens in October, it is the flu.

Q: Do you regret having worked all those years in the
vaccine field?

A: Yes. But after this interview, I'll regret it a
little less. And I work in other ways. I give out
information to certain people, when I think they will
use it well.

Q: What is one thing you want the public to
understand?

A: That the burden of proof in establishing the safety
and efficacy of vaccines is on the people who
manufacture and license them for public use. Just
that. The burden of proof is not on you or me. And for
proof you need well-designed long-term studies. You
need extensive follow-up. You need to interview
mothers and pay attention to what mothers say about
their babies and what happens to them after
vaccination. You need all these things. The things
that are not there.

Q: The things that are not there.

A: Yes.

Q: To avoid any confusion, I'd like you to review,
once more, the disease problems that vaccines can
cause. Which diseases, how that happens.

A: We are basically talking about two potential
harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease
from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the
vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some
version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin
with. Or two, he doesn't get THAT disease, but at some
later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops
another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That
condition could be autism, what's called autism, or it
could be some other disease like meningitis. He could
become mentally disabled.

Q: Is there any way to compare the relative frequency
of these different outcomes?

A: No. Because the follow-up is poor. We can only
guess. If you ask, out of a population of a hundred
thousand children who get a measles vaccine, how many
get the measles, and how many develop other problems
from the vaccine, there is a no reliable answer. That
is what I'm saying. Vaccines are superstitions. And
with superstitions, you don't get facts you can use.
You only get stories, most of which are designed to
enforce the superstition. But, from many vaccine
campaigns, we can piece together a narrative that does
reveal some very disturbing things. People have been
harmed. The harm is real, and it can be deep and it
can mean death. The harm is NOT limited to a few
cases, as we have been led to believe. In the US,
there are groups of mothers who are testifying about
autism and childhood vaccines. They are coming forward
and standing up at meetings. They are essentially
trying to fill in the gap that has been created by the
researchers and doctors who turn their backs on the
whole thing.

Q: Let me ask you this. If you took a child in, say,
Boston and you raised that child with good nutritious
food and he exercised every day and he was loved by
his parents, and he didn't get the measles vaccine,
what would be his health status compared with the
average child in Boston who eats poorly and watches
five hours of TV a day and gets the measles vaccine?

A: Of course there are many factors involved, but I
would bet on the better health status for the first
child. If he gets measles, if he gets it when he is
nine, the chances are it will be much lighter than the
measles the second child might get. I would bet on the
first child every time.

Q: How long did you work with vaccines?

A: A long time. Longer than ten years.

Q: Looking back now, can you recall any good reason to
say that vaccines are successful?

A: No, I can't. If I had a child now, the last thing I
would allow is vaccination. I would move out of the
state if I had to. I would change the family name. I
would disappear. With my family. I'm not saying it
would come to that. There are ways to sidestep the
system with grace, if you know how to act. There are
exemptions you can declare, in every state, based on
religious and/or philosophic views. But if push came
to shove, I would go on the move.

Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get
vaccines and appear to be healthy.

A: The operative word is "appear." What about all the
children who can't focus on their studies? What about
the children who have tantrums from time to time? What
about the children who are not quite in possession of
all their mental faculties? I know there are many
causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I
would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the
chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the
government to have the last word. Government medicine
is, from my experience, often a contradiction in
terms. You get one or the other, but not both.

Q: So we come to the level playing field.

A: Yes. Allow those who want the vaccines to take
them. Allow the dissidents to decline to take them.
But, as I said earlier, there is no level playing
field if the field is strewn with lies. And when
babies are involved, you have parents making all the
decisions. Those parents need a heavy dose of truth.
What about the child I spoke of who died from the DPT
shot? What information did his parents act on? I can
tell you it was heavily weighted. It was not real
information.

Q: Medical PR people, in concert with the press, scare
the hell out of parents with dire scenarios about what
will happen if their kids don't get shots.

A: They make it seem a crime to refuse the vaccine.
They equate it with bad parenting. You fight that with
better information. It is always a challenge to buck
the authorities. And only you can decide whether to do
it. It is every person's responsibility to make up his
mind. The medical cartel likes that bet. It is betting
that the fear will win.
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Homeopathy for Burns and Scalds

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In the light of recent events in Bali and the bush fires in the Eastern states of Australia I feel that information about the use of Homeopathy by the ordinary person is knowledge that should be shared Below is a brief summary of how Homeopathy can help in these tragic situations.

DESCRIPTION OF BURNS

There are differing degrees of severity in burns from the most superficial, where there is reddening of the skin, to severe burns involving deep tissue and bone. Orthodox treatment is always necessary, but anyone with a few remedies could make a difference and may save a life through the use of a few simple homeopathic remedies before medical assistance arrives. There is often a significant delay to the arrival of medical aid and it is in the first hour that the management of the treatment of burns needs to be started. The reason for this is that burning is one of the most painful physical injuries. It accounts for many deaths every year and for thousands of disfigured, disabled casualties.

PAIN

The degree of pain is severe and unremitting -there is no distinction between primary and traumatic shock.

PRIMARY SHOCK

This is an immediate and temporary episode. There is a sudden collapse revealed by a dramatic drop in blood pressure and a weak or temporarily absent pulse. It is accompanied by a feeling of nausea or actual vomiting and a short period of either dizziness or unconsciousness. Recovery in the course of a few minutes always occurs. It may follow a sudden painful injury such as breaking a bone or a blow to the solar plexus, or it may follow the hearing of totally unexpected and shattering news or the sight of some terrifying or horrific happening. It is a brief episode of collapse following sudden and severe pain BE THAT PAIN OF PHYSICAL OR PSYCHIC ORIGIN.

TRAUMATIC SHOCK

This is characterized by a delayed onset and a progressive increase in severity of the condition. As a result of tissue damage caused by the trauma ,substances are released from the injured cells and get into the circulation. Time is taken for them to be absorbed - this accounts for the delay in the onset of the condition. Traumatic shock is potentially a lethal sequence of events.

APPEARANCE OF A PERSON IN SHOCK

This results from the fall in blood pressure and the progressive collapse of the circulatory system.
. Skin is pale and greyish. Cold and clammy to touch.
. Extremities of the body become tinged with blue.
. Pulse rate is raised but is feeble
. Respiration is usually rapid and shallow
. Mentally there is restlessness, anxiety, dizziness and sometimes mild delirium.

As the degree of shock increases, there may be a loss of consciousness, lips, ears and extremities become increasingly more blue, the pulse weaker and feebler and respiration becomes deep gasping inhalations.

With patients suffering from burns there is no clear distinction between primary and traumatic shock. There is more absorption into the circulation of the products of burned tissue which cause toxaemia (poisoning) and may last from 7-10 days. This prolongs the degree of shock far beyond the period associated with any other injury. There may also be destruction of the blood which in turn can cause jaundice (liver) and renal (kidney) failure. The final possibility is that extensive burning may cause ulceration of the duodenum (small bowel) which may proceed to intestinal haemorrhage or perforation and peritonitis (infection and inflammation of the abdominal cavity) and eventually gangrene of the tissues.

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Homeopathic Remedies of use in Shock

ARNICA MONTANA

This is the leading remedy for all trauma (shock) in all its varieties, mental or physical and their effects recent or remote. It is also a remedy for poisoned blood and infection and will prevent or modify these conditions. If there is only one remedy that you have Arnica will do a lot of the work, and may be given throughout the time of the patient's illness and recovery.

CARBO VEG

This remedy supports the circulation and respiration and will prevent shock turning into a profound collapse. It will enhance the oxygen uptake in the blood however damaged are the tissues. It is known as the 'Corpse Reviver'. It will be useful given regularly throughout. Common treatment for severe burns often involves oxygen therapy as a life saving measure.

CHINA OFFICINALIS

The remedy that Hahnemann, the inventor of Homeopathy, used to save many lives from a typhus epidemic. It made him the toast of Europe and brought the crowned heads in their droves to his clinic in the 19th century. It is also known more commonly as quinine. This remedy prevents loss of life from profound dehydration and will keep the body functioning despite severe loss of body fluid. It also prevents anaemia.

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Homeopathic Remedies specific for Burns

FIRST DEGREE AND MILD SECOND DEGREE BURNS

Minor domestic burns - Cover the burns with warmed fluffy cotton wool to keep the air away from the burns. Bandage it in place. Minor domestic burns will not blister if treated in this way. Give Urtica Urens 6c at regular intervals for the pain and healing.

Urtica Urens (stinging nettle) - There are stinging and burning pains. Used externally 1 teaspoon of the tincture is added to a pint of water (1/2 litre) or 20 drops to a large cup of water. Soak a pad of gauze in this lotion (which must be large enough to cover the burn) cover with lint, cotton wool and bandage. Remove the lint whenever it is dry and re-soak the gauze by moistening it with a few drops of the lotion. Be careful not to break the blister.

IN SEVERE BURNS

Urtica Urens may have to be applied every 2-3 hours. Urtica Urens 6c or 30c should be given internally whenever there is a return of the pain. In more severe cases where there is great pain and restlessness, blister formation or a burn of 2nd or 3rd degree CAUSTICUM (Caustic Potash) 6c or 30c is helpful. Pain should be relieved in 10 minutes.

Causticum (Caustic Potash) - The pains of Causticum are tearing, drawing, burning, sore and raw.

Hypericum - In more severe burns a lotion of HYPERICUM USED EXTERNALLY will relieve pain as it is the remedy for the pain of nerve endings.The lotion is made in the same way as the Urtica Urens lotion mentioned above.

Calendula - Calendula as an ointment along the edges of burns will heal the tissue and prevent infection from the outside of the wound entering the raw area. It is a common practice in cottage gardens in the UK for marigolds to be planted round the vegetables to prevent pests attacking the plants and causing damage and destruction.

VERY SEVERE BURNS

Cantharis (Spanish fly) - There is violent acute inflammation and there may be severe delirium. There is rapid progressive destruction of tissue and the pains are cutting, smarting, burning and biting. There is also severe kidney involvement, with burning and scalding on the passing of urine. There can be violent burning pain through the whole intestinal tract. There will be a tendency to gangrene with the destruction of the tissue.

Cantharis will need to be give frequently at first and HYPERICUM lotion applied. External application of Cantharis 1 x in ? litre of water may also be sprayed on the affected site for pain relief.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

. 'HOMEOPATHY FOR THE FIRST AIDER' - Dr. Dorothy Shepherd
. 'THE NURSING OF ACCIDENTS' - Raymond Farrow
. 'PHATAK'S MATERIA MEDICA' - R. Phatak

 

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Expert warns vaccine studies are useless

Dr. Thomas Jefferson, board member of the European Programme for Improved Vaccine Safety Surveillance and head of the vaccine division of the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration has announced that most safety studies on childhood vaccines are useless. "There is some good research, but it is overwhelmed by the bad," he stated. "The public has been let down because proper studies have not been done."

Dr. Jefferson, who has been funded by the European Commission, said that vaccines were the "Cinderella" of public health research and that Government officials had not made it a high priority.

"In more than 200 years of vaccine use, there has been increasing evidence of the harm that vaccines have caused our children," says Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network, a national health lobby group. "Dr. Jefferson¹s announcement is a wake-up call to everyone involved in this issue that before yet more vaccines are added to our already overloaded schedule, the proper ground-work needs to be done to prove that they are actually not doing more harm than good.."

According to Dr. Jefferson, the information available on the safety of vaccines that are routinely given to babies and children was "simply inadequate".

Fifteen years ago, children received18 vaccines by age 5.Today, they receive 40. The vaccine train keeps rolling on despite the fact that these medical procedures have not been properly tested. There is an epidemic of auto-immune diseases which once were rare but now are common among Australian children. Conditions such as Asthma, Diabetes, and certain forms of Cancer have all been linked with vaccine use. Our children are our future and they deserve the safest possible vaccines. The government must show that they are committed to this goal by putting money towards independent vaccine safety research and by legislating to require that all health professionals report vaccine adverse reactions when they occur.

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New Scientist article:

Claims do not come much more controversial than the idea that water might retain a memory of substances once dissolved in it. The notion is central to homeopathy, which treats patients with samples so dilute they are unlikely to contain a single molecule of the active compound, but it is generally ridiculed by scientists. Read more...

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The greens Health Policy especially in regard to GE Vaccines.

Also in regards to Mercury in Vaccines please see below.

Do the Greens think it is acceptable to continue to use Vaccines containing Thimersol given the evidence of the damage that has been and is continuing to be caused to our Children?

James Townley healthy@norex.com.au

Documents Show Eli Lilly Knew Mercury In Vaccines Was Known Dangerous In 30's 3-17-2

Waters & Kraus law firm exposes damaging historical documents from Eli Lilly about Thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines...

Claire M. Bothwell Waters & Kraus, LLP 200 Oceangate, Suite 520 Long Beach, California 90802

PRESS RELEASE March 17, 2002
The Dallas-based law firm of Waters & Kraus announced today that it has received documents as a result of the discovery process in the case of Counter v. Eli Lilly & Company, et al, currently pending in Brazoria County, Texas that come from the archives of Eli Lilly & Company. The documents clearly demonstrate that Lilly's thimerosal product, the mercury-based vaccine preservative implicated in a number of recent law suits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous.

In its apparent eagerness to promote and market the product, in September 1930, Eli Lilly secretly sponsored a "human toxicity" study on patient already known to be dying of meningococcal meningitis. Senior partner Andrew Waters stated that, "Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal was of low toxicity and harmless to humans. They never revealed to the scientific community or the public the highly questionable nature of the original research."

While Eli Lilly made every effort to corrupt the medical and scientific literature, the process of arranging to publish the results of its questionable secret study, other researchers have provided Lilly with numerous articles since the 1930's indicating concerns about thimerosal and its potential hazard to humans who might be exposed or injected with the substance. The evidence clearly demonstrates that Eli Lilly was advised repeatedly that their conclusions of low toxicity were not warranted and that they failed to pass the information on to appropriate federal and public health authorities. The following time line illustrates some, but by no means all, of the documentary evidence on this point from Lilly's internal files:

• 1947 Article received by Lilly: "No eruptions or reactions have been observed or reported to merthiolate internally, but it may be dangerous to inject a serum containing merthiolate into a patient sensitive to merthiolate."
• 1948 Article received by Lilly: "Merthiolate is such a commonly used preservative for biologicals, plasma, cartilage, etc., that it would seem important to determine whether harm would result following its subcutaneous or intravenous injection in skin sensitive individuals."
• 1950 New York Academy of Science article, "Mercurials as Antiseptics:" "It (merthiolate) is toxic when injected parenterally and therefore cannot be used in chemotherapy."
• 1963 Article received by Lilly: "There is another point of practical significance: does the parenteral injection of merthiolate-containing fluids cause disturbances in merthiolate-sensitive patients?" "It is known that persons that are contact sensitive to a drug may tolerate the same medications internally, but it seems advisable to use a preservative other than merthiolate for injections in merthiolate-sensitive people."
• 8/17/67 Medical Science department requests that the claim "non- toxic" on thimerosal labels be deleted in next printing run.
• 8/29/67 Draft label changed to "non-irritating to body tissues," non-toxic omitted.
• 1972 British Medical Journal reports case of skin burns resulting from the chemical interaction of thimerosal and aluminum. "Mercury is known to act as a catalyst and to cause aluminium to oxidize rapidly, with the production of heat." "The manufacturers who supply us with thimerosal have been informed." (Thimerosal is being used in vaccines, which also contain aluminium).
• 1972 Article received by Lilly: Merthiolate in vaccines caused six deaths "The symptoms and clinical course of the six patients suggest subacute mercury poisoning."
• 4/27/76 Lilly responds to Rexall Drug Company's efforts to place the following warning on Merthiolate product: "Frequent or prolonged use or application to large areas may cause mercury poisoning." Lilly objects to this proposed warning, stating: "We object to the connection of our trademark with the unjustified alarm and concern on the part of the user which the statement is likely to cause? We are not aware of any instance of 'mercury poisoning' after decades of marketing this product. This is because the mercury in the product is organically bound ethylmercury as a completely non- toxic nature, not methylmercury."
• 1/5/82 FDA's advance notice of proposed rule making regarding thimerosal: "At the cellular level, thimerosal has been found to be more toxic for human epithelial cells in vitro than mercuric chloride, mercuric nitrate, and merbromim (mercurichrom)." "It was found to be 35.3 times more toxic for embryonic chick heart tissue than for staphylococcus aureus." 1950 study showed that thimerosal was no better than water in protecting mice from potential fatal streptococcal infection." "The Panel concludes that thimerosal is not safe for OTC topical use because of its potential for cell damage if applied to broken skin and its allergy potential. It is not effective as a topical antimicrobial because its bacteriostatic action can be reversed."
• 4/7/83 Additional language added to some Lilly labels: "As with any drug, if you are pregnant or nursing a baby, seek the advice of a health professional before using this product."
• 1991 Lilly ceases manufacture/sale of thimerosal. Licensing agreements demonstrate continued profits from the product until at least 2010.
• 12/8/99 Lilly MSDS regarding thimerosal: "Primary Physical & Reproduction Effects: Nervous System and Reproduction Effects" "Effects of exposure include fetal changes. "Mercury poisoning may occur." "Exposure in children may cause mild to severe mental retardation...." "Hypersensitivity to mercury is a medical condition aggravated by exposure." CERCLA Hazardous substance? Toxic waste disposal.

Waters & Kraus are litigating a growing number of individual cases across the country involving infants that sustained serious neurological injuries from the thimerosal contained in their paediatric vaccines.

Click here to download Kate's Journal Letter related to the above information.

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SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-THESE REMEDIES ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN BIRD FLU.

This is otherwise known as flu and can be treated with Homeopathy very successfully. Medical Assistance should always be sought bur there is plenty to be done if flu is suspected with common first aid remedies.

A Homeopathic practitioner should be consulted for further advice in the event of the patient becoming more ill, and their doctor notified in any case.

It is a highly infectious epidemic disease which affects the respiratory tract.

For the last 200 years there have been outbreaks of more virulent types of flu pandemics which spread across whole continents at intervals of 30 years.

Where people are tired depressed or have other weaknesses flu may have far reaching effects and can cause bronchitis pneumonia and death in serious cases.

The main cause of increased susceptibility is if the patient goes back to their normal routine too quickly, does not take the time to convalesce, and then contracts pneumonia. In this day and age, speed is everything, but speed of recovery will not take place in these circumstances. The importance of a good diet, fluid intake and adequate sleep and rest cannot be emphasized enough in the convalescent period which should be for at least a week.

Thyme baths inhalations or footbaths will relieve the congestion in the lungs and aid respiration, helping to prevent the development of bronchitis and pneumonia. They should be given at least once a day.

SYMPTOMS

Incubation period usually 1-3 days and highly infectious in the catarrhal stage. The principal symptoms are headache sore throat and severe pain in the limbs and back with high temperature. After the fever has come down there is depression exhaustion and weariness that life is not worth living. A feverish chill does not have these hallmarks and the patient recovers rapidly. Many people do not pay attention to the signs of weakness, insist on getting up, and lay themselves open to broncho pneumonia and sudden death.

DIET

During the feverish period the patient should be allowed only raw fruit and fruit juices. Fresh oranges, lemons, apple juice, grapefruit drinks at frequent intervals will cleanse the system and prevent any undue strain on the gastric organs. Not meat juices or milk at this early stage.

Once the fever is over, diet can be increased and vegetables, broth, soups, wholemeal toast may be added.

Gradually add in milk dishes, chicken, fish and salads as indicated by the patient. Nature burns up most of the impurities and poisons in the system and this may take 4-5 days before a normal diet is required.

REMEDIES:

ACONITE IS THE FIRST PORT OF CALL IN ANY FLU WITH SWIFT ONSET.THE PATIENT IS SURE THEY ARE ABOUT TO DIE AND WILL EVEN PREDICT THE HOUR OF THEIR DEATH COMMONLY AROUND MIDNIGHT, ALTHOUGH ON OCCASION THIS MAY BE AROUND MIDDAY.

Respiratory symptoms of Aconite are:

Hoarse dry croupy painful cough

Short barking ringing or whistling cough, worse from every inspiration,at night,drinking,grasps the throat.

Cough is better for lying on the back

Shortness of breath during sleep;sits erect

Laryngitis

Croup with fever

Violent congestion of blood in the chest

Pneumonia

Oppression of the chest when moving fast or ascending

Blood comes up on hawking

Lungs feel hot

Stitches in chest

Pleurisy

Tingling in chest after coughing.

1. ARNICA restores the balance of all 4 bodies (mental emotional physical and spiritual) to the organism and starts the healing process. It reduces the stress and trauma caused by any illness and paves the way for other remedies to act.

Respiratory symptoms of Arnica are:
hoarseness worse exertion, colds, or getting wet. Cough in sleep without waking. Cough produced by yawning, weeping or lamenting. Child cries before paroxysmos of whooping cough. Cough causes bloodshot eyes or epistaxis. Cardiac cough. Shortness of breath with coughing up of blood. Violent spasmodic cough with cold sores on the face. Bones and cartilages of chest are painful worse motion, breathing or coughing. Heavy lower chest. Stitching pains in chest taking the breath away better for pressure. Hoarse voice from over use.

2.ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. Most useful remedy in getting mucus off the chest and greatly reducing the susceptibility to bronchitis and pneumonia.

The respiratory symptoms of Antimonium Tartaricum are:
Unequal breathing, abdominal breathing. SUFFOCATIVE SHORTNESS OF BREATH; BEFORE COUGH, OR ALTERNATING WITH COUGH. A leaflet seems to close the trachea. COARSE LOOSE RATTLING COUGH. CHEST SEEMS FULL YET LESS AND LESS IS COUGHED UP. Cough followed by vomiting or sleep worse anger. Must sit up to breathe or cough. Coughs and yawns alternately. Expectoration thick. Paralysis of lungs with oedema - fluid in the lungs and swelling of tissue - Cough and shortness of breath better lying on right side better for belching or burping, worse for warm drinks. Capillary bronchitis; pleuropneumonia. Emphysema. Velvety feeling in the chest.

3.BRYONIA Characteristic symptom is "Lies motionless like a corpse" Any movement makes the patient worse and they will lie as still as possible even facing the wall so that they are not stimulated in any way.

The respiratory symptoms of Bryonia are:
Cough DRY HARD VERY PAINFUL at night as of from a stomach, must sit up worse eating and drinking. Wants to take deep breath but cannot or it starts the cough. Expectoration rusty blood streaked or tough. Bronchitis. Asthma. Pneumonia. SHARP STITCHES IN THE CHEST or right shoulder blade. Worse deep breathing or coughing. Pleurisy. Coming into warm room excites the cough. Holds chest or presses breast bone when coughing. Dry friction sound. Cough with sneezing.

4. CARBO VEG This remedy is known as the "corpse reviver " and the patient may look moribund with a pale face sometimes with beads of cold sweat and struggling to breathe - he wants to be fanned vigourously to get enough air in to his lungs as he does not have the strength to do it himself.

The respiratory symptoms of Carbo Veg are:
Voice hoarse in the evening. Cough with itching in the larynx. Attacks of tormenting hollow or choking cough, with headache and vomiting and burning in the chest worse for cold drinks and in bed. Roughness in larynx, with deep rough voice. Expectoration with retching. Whooping cough with bluish face and its complications (bronchitis and pneumonia longterm). Heavy sore or weak chest on awakening. Breathing laborious quick and short worse walking. Asthma in aged with blue skin better summer. Wants to take a deep breath. Burning in chest with coughing up of blood. Destructive lung diseases. Sore ribs. Expectoration thick sticky yellowish and profuse.

5. CHINA This is the remedy that Hahnemann the inventor of Homeopathy made his name on by saving the lives of hundreds of patients suffering from Typhoid in the early 19th century. It brought the crowned heads of Europe to his surgery and from then on he was recognized as the leading physician of the century. It is a remedy which corrects the loss of body fluids internally and externally so prevents the patient going into shock and dying. It also corrects anaemia and restores the exhausted patient to life.

The respiratory symptoms of CHINA are;
Coughing up blood. Puffy rattling breathing, suffocative catarrh, cannot breathe with head low. Asthma worse damp weather autumn or or after depletion. Every motion excites palpitation and takes his breath. Painfully sore chest with soreness between shoulderblades, can't bear touch. Paroxysms of cough after eating or laughing worse evening or night. Wants to be fanned but not too hard, for it takes her breath.

6. Hepar Sulph. This remedy is known as the Homeopathic antibiotic and is useful in all cases of infection wherever it may be in the body. It is partciularly useful in sore throats and a specific for quinsy - also known as abcess on the tonsils. This patient is bad tempered and the slightest cause irritates him. He can be ferocious! and usually speaks quickly. He may be sad with thoughts of suicide.

The respiratory symptoms of Hepar Sulph are:
Loses voice and and coughs when exposed to dry cold wind. Hoarseness with loss of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Dry coarse cough. Cough excited whenever any part of his body gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything cold. Croup with loose rattling cough; worse in the morning. Choking cough. Rattling croaking cough; suffocative attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing moist breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp. Palpitation of heart.

DOSAGE OF REMEDIES.

HOMEOPATHS USE AS LITTLE OF A REMEDY AS POSSIBLE TO STIMULATE THE BODY'S OWN HEALING MECHANISM. Give one dose of the identified remedy, and wait to see what relief it brings. If things begin to mprove do not repeat the dose, unles the case stops improving before a full recovery is reached, or the same symptom returns. (ie the case relapses)
If the symptoms change significantly, select a new remedy to fit the new picture... If in any doubt wait. In an emergency, Homeopaths prescribe to the depth and pace of the illnesss. ie if someone is knowcked over by a bus and severely injured we do not wait 4 hours but would be possibly prescribing Arnica every 5 minutes. A bruised elbow on the other hand, would only warrant a remedy every 4 hours.
It may be that more than one remedy is indicated - it is sensible to alternate the remedies you judge to be necessary and observe the reaction. Keep simple notes on what you have done if possible. This will help you to see which remedy is the most indicated and helpful to the patient and may be of interest to the medical assistance when it arrives. In any case, proper records should always be kept - they will always be useful in the future and help to expand your knowledge, and therefore skills, in using Homeopathy. A good idea is to keep a notebook and pen handy in your remedy box.

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Ministers Study Alternative Medicine

'Victory for Charles as Ministers Study Alternative Medicine' by James Chapman, Science Correspondent (Daily Mail 19/4/03)

More than £1million of public money is to be poured into researching alternative health remedies, ministers will announce today. Most controversially, two major studies are to be funded into homeopathy, used by one in five Britons but condemned by many scientists as a con.

Health Minister Hazel Blears says a total of £1.3 million will be used to research acupuncture, complementary therapies for cancer patients, and homeopathy. The decision suggest that the Government has caved in to demands from Prince Charles and a committeee of the House of Lords. Charles wants alternative therapies made available on the NHS - providing research shows they are effective. His Foundation for Integrated Medicine has argued that investing in them could save the NHS money over the long term.

However critics say any state-funded research into homeopathy will be a waste of money, insisting that it canot be effective because of the tiny levels of active substance used in most remedies. Homeopathy which is Greek for 'similar suffering' works on the principle of giving patients minuscule doses of something that causes symptoms similar to those they are already experiencing. America's equivalent project on complementary medicines is ignoring homeopathy because evidence that it has any effect is so weak. Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, said "the use of public money on such studies was appalling". "Homeopathy is a delusion and I can't believe the Government is funding research into it," he added. "It is simply a waste of money". "There is no evidence whatsoever that it works." "This money should be spent on more serious approaches to disease, like cancer research or looking for new vaccines." "Instead, it's being spent on fantasy. It makes it seem like a serious subject when in fact, people should stay away from it."

"The substances homeopathic doctors use are diluted so many times that you are lucky if there is one molecule left."

About 2,000 homeopathic remedies are available. Derivatives of plant leaves, flowers, stems, berries, fruits and roots

account for about half of those available, including some of the better known - arnica and belladonna. They are available in different potencies or dilutions. Dr. Peter Fisher, homeopathic doctor to the Queen and clinical director of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, dismissed Professor Atkins' comments. "Pompous professors have been saying homeopathy doesn't work for a very long time and it's still around and growing," he said. "People are using it in large and ever-increasing numbers." But Dr. Fisher criticised the Government selection of studies. "In principle, it is a good idea, but the way they have gone about it has been rushed and unsatisfctory," he said. "I don't think the studies they have chosen will provide any definitive answers." In one of the projects, Dr. Elaine Weatherly-Jones, a senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield, will test homeopathy as a treatment for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome over the next three years.

Another study at Brunel University will assess homeopathic doctors' training and clinical decision-making processes. Teams at the Universities of Southampton and York, meanwhile, will receive funding for research into acupuncture as a treatment for depression and other conditions. Acupuncture has already been shown to alleviate the nausea experienced by cancer patients having chemotherapy.

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Internet Headlines

NHS provision of homeopathy in the spotlight (from Naturalmatters.net) 12/02/2008

The most recent issue of Pulse, the GP newspaper, devotes considerable column space to homeopathy. An article outlining the funding issues between the NHS homeopathic hospitals and primary care trusts (PCTs) is featured, as well as a head to head debate between Dr Tim Robinson, a GP and member of the Faculty of Homeopathy, and Professor Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter.

Dr Robinson provides convincing arguments for the use of homeopathy in General Practice. Audit of his homeopathic prescribing, all done within his normal consultation times, showed three quarters of patients with positive clinical outcomes. Many of these patients had previously been treated unsuccessfully with conventional medicine and the fact that the treatment occurred in a normal GP surgery counters Professor Ernst’s argument that homeopathy is only placebo and popular because of the long time that practitioners spend with their patients.

Professor Ernst’s comment that evidence fails to show that homeopathic treatment is better than placebo for any given condition is not upheld by examining the trial results. The majority of comprehensive reviews of randomised controlled trials in homeopathy suggest that homeopathy is more than the placebo effect and there have been positive meta-analyses for a number of specific clinical conditions including childhood diarrhoea, influenza, rheumatic diseases, hay fever and vertigo.
The Faculty of Homeopathy is committed to increasing the evidence base in homeopathy and is encouraging its members to audit and research their work as much as possible. Many of its members are looking at creative new ways in which the undoubted benefits of homeopathy can be used alongside conventional medicine in the rapidly changing NHS.
Sally Penrose, chief executive of the Faculty of Homeopathy and British Homeopathic Association comments: "The homeopathic hospitals provide a specialist service that has helped hundreds of thousands of NHS patients over the last 60 years and has extremely high levels of patient satisfaction. They are particularly well equipped to treat patients whose complex chronic health problems have not been effectively treated by conventional medicine.

There is great potential to develop GP-led homeopathy services in primary care but these must sit alongside the homeopathic hospital services. As centres of excellence, they provide a focus for education, research and clinical governance and represent great value for money to the taxpayer for a tiny portion of the NHS budget.”

Pulse article - NHS homeopathy
Pulse article - homeopathy's place in general practice
Summary of evidence base for homeopathy
http://www.trusthomeopathy.org

ARNICA REDUCES SWELLING AFTER PLASTIC SURGERY
Interesting information and research about the use of Arnica to minimalise bruising and swelling after surgery. Arnica is also available from us - please refer to our Products page.
http://www.alpinepharm.com/pagef.html

WHERE LIKE CURES ALIKE
Some people confuse homeopathy with herbalism, but the two use different types of medicines. Many homeopaths, however, use herbal remedies alongside homeopathic. http://www.witness.co.za/showcontent.asp?id=10679&action=full&catid=3

HOMEOPATHIC CARE ON NHS - UK -A GREAT SUCCESS
A pioneering scheme that allows people in the Highlands to access homeopathic treatment on the NHS (National Health Service in the UK) was yesterday hailed as a huge success. The service allows patients to access home-grown homeopaths in Inverness.
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=84092&command=displayContent&sourceNode=83929&contentPK=2936821

HOW I BEAT A KILLER
When Gemma Hoefkens was diagnosed with terminal cancer and told she had just six months to live, she "went home to die". Gemma insists her survival has nothing to do with hospital treatment and is adamant that homeopathy saved her life.
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12329539&method=full&siteid=50002

A VENERABLE FLASH IN THE PAN
These species belong to the genus Lycopodiaceae, which is also known as the genus Lycopodium - a name derived from the Greek words lykos (wolf) and podos (foot), giving them the common name of "wolf's paw.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20021107mb.htm

MALAY ACT TO COVER TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
All Malay traditional medicine practitioners will be regulated under the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Act, which is being drafted now. It recognises five umbrella bodies comprising Malay, Chinese and Indian traditional medicine associations, complementary medicine practitioners and homeopathy.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/11/10/nation/mutrad&sec=nati

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