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Look for a biological dentist who has specific training in this, and can do compatibility testing for dental materials and set you up with a whole protocol. Interestingly, dental composite material may be just as toxic as amalgam for some people.

Be careful with approaching heavy metal detox simply on the level of getting rid of toxins biochemically. Detox can be very draining, especially when the body really wants to hold onto the mercury and we're forcing it out. Then also, you have to make sure that you have proper drainage (the channels of elimination are all open). Most people need some drainage therapy before detox. But you have to look at how and why the particular body is holding onto the toxin the first place, what is the milieu that allows that. It's being found clinically that the body will often hold onto mercury, especially when there are unresolved emotional issues - and even when the person has minimal exposure to mercury! When emotional traumas are treated, then the body starts to release the mercury. Louis Kervran with his work on biological transmutations showed that metals can be produced by the body out of silica - this means even mercury and lead! It's much like pleomorphic microbes that the body produces internally. The body will simply produce more of it until it's ready to release it. -Karen

Honey has a lot of life energy and a great food when completely raw. Most manufacturers heat it to make it easier to extract. The best honey should say "raw" on the label, not just "uncooked." As with every food, the quantity of life energy isn't the only consideration - you have to look at the quality. Honey is warming, so in a condition of excess heat you wouldn't want too much of it. -Karen

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is effective and easy to do anywhere. There are ways to use it in more depth, but you can start with a very simple technique here. Here's the main EFT website. There are many other ways to work with anxiety, but that's a good place to start.. Best, Karen

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Hi coyote, I appreciate that you want to evaluate different methods critically. And I agree, to ask "when did this start" is too simplistic a question for a complex issue. Chronic illness usually has multiple causes, and the person's whole history has to be taken into account - their shocks and traumas, inherited predispositions, a wide range of influences. Heilkunst doesn't claim anything with regard to conditions like chronic fatigue, arthritis, etc., - all the conditions listed on the website. Those conditions are listed there, because those things are how people usually identify their issues that need help. But a condition or set of symptoms are really not entities to be treated! The individual causes are - those are the real disease entities. It's just like there can never be a treatment for an entity called "headache." Headache is the result of something, and that something might be dehydration, an overindulgence in food or drink, a reaction to a drug or toxin, an emotional stress or trauma, an inherited predisposition being activated, a healing reaction to a therapeutic treatment, or even a false belief. Or a combination! So it's the same with chronic fatigue, or a multitude of other disease labels that are the result of usually a combination of things, and those things need to be sorted out in a systematic way. Heilkunst is grounded in Dr. Hahnemann's lifelong research that revealed this elegant system of identifying the cause of disease, making important distinctions that had not been made before. If you'd like to explore the principles that this system is based on, they are clearly laid out in many articles online.. one good source is a series of articles by Rudi Verspoor that first defines some terminology. We need to know what is a disease, and what is a condition, and what is a symptom, in precise terms based on principles of nature. Then a system of therapeutics can have a firm grounding. This is the first in an 8-part series, and the other parts can be found by searching on the website: http://www.hpathy.com/papersnew/verspoor-h...terminology.asp The evidence is really in the principles. Case histories are interesting, but if one person got relief from a headache, that may have no bearing on my particular headache. If something worked for one person with chronic fatigue, there's no reliable way to know what it will do for the next person. And what does it mean to have something "work?" That their symptoms went away for a while? Do we know whether the problem was driven deeper into the system (suppressed), or whether it was just quieted for a while? Do we know whether there were other factors involved that would make it meaningless to compare their situation to ours? The disease labels tell very little, and the whole issue of evidence or claims for success is very murky. When you research the principles behind a particular system, you may find that they resonate with your sense of truth, and then with further study you can gain knowledge that is beyond dogma or belief. Many people embark on Heilkunst treatment when they have exhausted the other avenues, and there are a lot of avenues, so many people come in desperation. It often resonates in some way right from the beginning. I'm a student in the 4-year program for medical Heilkunst, and I don't function as a full Heilkunst practitioner, but my consulting work via email is informed by Heilkunst principles. I often refer people with complex, chronic issues to Heilkusnt practitioners if they're so inclined. The rate of significant improvement is extremely high with Heilkunst, even with the most serious diseases. Many autistic kids lose their autism diagnosis completely, just as one example. Not that that's a claim, but that would sure pique my interest! So if you're interested enough to explore further, there is plenty of information and scholarly research to dig into. And about me, yes, I had a life-threatening illness for decades, incapacitated and in despair for many years. I was on intravenous feedings for 10 years straight. I went through just about every healing modality in the book, and then some. The answer for me didn't come from a particular technique or product or even a combination of techniques and products.. but from a rational system that showed me the map of what I needed to cover and precisely how that could be done. It was still (and still is) a personal journey and not a quick fix or panacea. It doesn't target symptoms but the disease entities that are driving them, which frees us up to live more fully who we are. -Karen

Hi coyote, I have an article on how to approach chronic illness. The problem most people encounter is that they're trying to duplicate the treatment method that someone else did who got good results. Just because you have the same disease label that someone else does, doesn't mean that your causative factors are all the same. That's why there can be no treatment for an entity called chronic fatigue or any other chronic condition, becuase you have to target the causative factors that apply to you specifically. They can be identified. See www.heilkunst.com for a complete system of medicine, not a particular treatment modality, but an umbrella over all of them that understands where they all fit in, and what you need as an individual. Best wishes, Karen

The trick is to look beyond the multitude of forms to what the essence of the thing is, to see if it's really unique or if there's a cheaper or easier way to get the same benefit. When you look at the info on Q-link, it sounds impressive, but for $100 I would want to know how it works in specific terms, not just general info about biofields that could apply to a multitude of things, and also how it's made. If it's acting like an orgone generator, it would have to be an organic/inorganic matrix, and I don't see anything about that. A less sleek but pretty enough orgone generator could be bought or made less expensively. For example, Dennis Griffins' pendant - http://tinyurl.com/28ls6x (He will also do custom made pieces). Or, Carol Croft's pendant: http://tinyurl.com/2hf8rs I've made orgone generators that cost me less than a dollar a piece for materials, but only the rough and ready kind to bury in the ground, nothing nice enough to wear. But it's really not any harder to do than baking a cake.. although, people don't tend to keep fiberglass resin on hand in their kitchen cupboards, for some reason . -Karen

Hi Xienkula1, Yup, and these studies are fraught with problems.. one is that we're looking under the streetlamp because the light is better there not because the solution lies there. The many fallacies associated with clinical trials whether on humans or animals, could be a whole 'nother discussion.. Harris Coulter's book, The Controlled Clinical Trial is an important analysis of the problems. About genetics, again, a lot of false assumptions that I think Lipton does a good job beginning to clear up. And the world of cells is the world of material science, which will never be able to penetrate to the real cause of disease, because disease is energetic. Its effects are material, and that's what they're all looking at. Like Plato's allegory, material science is looking at shadows on the wall, not the thing itself. It can identify proximal causes, and that can be useful within its jurisdiction, as long as we know the limitations we're dealing with. Cancer is commonly known as a disease of abnormal cellular growth, but isn't it strange that we know it takes decades to develop, yet it's only diagnosed once the growth begins to cause physical, biochemical changes that can be measured? You have to wonder what was happening all those years. But material science can't go there, because it can't see in that dark alley, so it keeps looking under the street lamp and dismisses the reality of the dark alley. That's the Kantian worldview that material science is based on, so it can't go beyond that. Have you seen Dr. Hamer's work on cancer? He won't be published in the journals either, of course! Ah yes. It's what gets into the journals that counts What a wonderful and loving thing to do. I'm sure it does help, as long as there are no disease causes for the hair loss and a little toning up is all that's needed. -Karen

Good thoughts here. The very best we can do for others is to let go of our own judgment and grow into the unconditional love that is our true nature. It's easy to point the finger at the other person, and then we fall into a false do-goodism, when the challenge is really for us to change. Out of love, it's possible to lean on someone in a way that helps open them up, but that can only be done from non-attached love, and that kind of love has the wisdom to do this appropriately at the right time. That's been called "participating" the other person - a true rapport where your ego needs aren't in the way and you're just resonating with the person in a healthy way. There are many ways in which we can influence each other - life is all about relationship, and our own inner development is always in context of relationships as we draw to us the people who mirror our own issues so we can become more conscious. It's always humbling to consider that the people that we think are less advanced than us, or who we think need to change for the better or have some judgment about, or we just think they could learn something from us - are usually the ones who we've drawn to us in order to learn something about ourselves. When I'm posting messages on the forum in the answerer mode rather than the questioner mode, I'm the one who's really getting the learning. (If the other person does too, that's great rain, isn't it a blessing to have someone in your life who has the capacity for real trust. Not someone who trusts your abilities to accomplish stuff, or your talents, or anything on that level, but someone who is healthy enough to not be in fear. Then they can celebrate who you are and where your true destiny is taking you, (the real meaning of "in sickness and in health!), no matter how sucky the lessons are that you need to go through. Someone who can be the eyes for you to see the bigger landscape when you're going through a dark period, and celebrate the spiritual growth even when it hasn't appeared on the outside yet. That kind of trust is a great gift. -Karen

Where did you see that? As far as I know, the spirochetes are related, but not the same. The spirochete is never the actual cause of disease, but it's a carrier for the energetic disease entity which is qualitatively different for Syphilis and Lyme. But the picture of Lyme does bear some resemblance to Syphilis. May be scary, but treatable with the right remedies

Yah, "shaky" is an understatement! This kind of report which illustrates every logical fallacy in the book, is what makes "science news." So they're saying, there is evidence, but we really don't have evidence, and here's a possible mechanism but we really don't know the mechanism. They're using rat studies. They're mentioning epithelial cells as the "cause" of cancer, which is pretty ludicrous. At best, they're studying an isolated chemical, genistein, and are seeing certain effects but really have no way of interpreting thsoe effects in any meaningful context. What I do think is interesting is the study of epigenetics, Bruce Lipton's work, but that's not gonna make mainstream media headlines anytime soon Sure, it depends on the dose, and there's a self-limiting factor with such things - you just don't normally eat enough red clover and fenugreek to have harmful effects. Except that concentrated supplements have been made from red clover extract, and I wouldn't use those on a regular basis, same caveat as soy. All due respect to your Mataji, and maybe her recommendation is personal and not for us to judge. But in general, what's "great" for this symptom or that symptom really has to be viewed in a larger context. Many things can make a symptom go away but be causing other problems. You want to treat the cause and understand why the symptom was there in the first place, otherwise it wil just express itself again in another form. Often when you take herbs in large enough doses to get a therapeutic effect, you also get unwatned drug effects, which is why synergistic formulas are the way to go when you're taking medicinal doses of herbs, and ideally should be given by a skilled herbalist who can individualize the formula.

ONLY if it's completely raw, unpasteurized. Raw goat milk is also wonderful. Unfortunately, raw milk of any kind is hard to get in many places, but raw cheese is more available. Well, I can get raw cheese in my supermarket for $14 a pound, if you call that available! Yup. But the gluten grains are usually more problematic, so it's easier for most people to cut those out first. That's wheat, rye, and barley, and it's amazing how ubiquitous wheat is. Then other grains like brown rice can be eaten if soaked first before cooking, to neutralize the anti-nutrients. Some grains like quinoa and millet contain very little phytates and don't need to be soaked. The book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon is an excellent resource for learning about traditional foods and how to prepare them. Depends on the person. For some, potatoes are too starchy but squashes are better. Potatoes also have an interesting effect energetically.. Rudolf Steiner says that potatoes curtail the thinking process to some degree, because of their very strong etheric forces. The term "couch potato" isn't just a figure of speech . -Karen Ok, thanks. I think we'd have to take a close critical look at the particular argument given, see exactly what it's based on and if it's real or just an abstraction.

Do you have an idea why the length of time would make a difference? Really I'd like to know if there is one. (Who was it who said, "There are good reasons and then there are real reasons") People in traditional cultures eating soy were eating fermented soy, and small quantities like a condiment, not main courses of soy burgers, tofu, not-dogs, etc. And the marketing for anti-cancer this and that is often more hype. You can find some anti-cancer properties in just about everything that grows in the ground, including grass - doesn't mean it's all good to eat. Oh, I wanted to add about the sequential eating, it was developed by Dr. Stanley Bass, in case anyone wants to look it up. Interesting research on how foods go into the stomach in layers. -Karen

Junbao, Diet really needs to be individualized for different typologies, but you could start by eliminating the grains and soy and maximizing the healthy foods you're already eating. Raw foods contain the enzymes you need to digest them, so try that, and raw veggie/fruit smoothies are great because the cellulose is broken down. Include fermented foods like unpasteurized sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, or other fermented veggies, and kefir if you can make it yourself from raw milk. Probiotic supplements could help; digestive enzymes could help if you're eating a lot of cooked food; and bitter greens or bitter herbs. There are good digestive herb combinations like Hingashtak if you need to warm up the digestive fire. That said, it's best not to add too many new things at once. Try a very simple approach to start with, changing one thing at a time to see how it goes. Sometimes just getting off of gluten grains has dramatic effects. A very simple approach to aid digestion is to do sequential eating. This means that you simply eat all the foods in your meal in a certain order, from the most watery to the most dense. Have the most watery ones first, like salad. Then the next would be other vegetables, then your protein and fats. When you're eating a food like soup that contains a variety of different things, you just go by what comprises 80% or more. In other words, if the soup is mostly vegetables with less than 20% meat, then you can eat it toward the beginning of the meal with the watery foods. The way this works is that the foods that digest quickly (the more watery ones) go into the stomach first, and aren't held up by the slower digesting foods, and the proper enzymes get released to digest them. When you eat an arbitary combination of foods at the same time, the heavier proteins hold up the other foods which decompose and cause indigestion and gas. There are a lot of ways to tweak the diet to optimize digestion. But on another level, digestion can be a deeper emotional issue of how we "digest" our experience. Red ears or any kind of heat in the head is basically the hot metabolic forces that belong in the lower body invading the upper body, and the various subtle bodies are trying to work out a proper relationship with one another. There may not be anything in particular that needs to be done about it, but it depends on the particular case. It's kind of hard to give one-size-fits-all recommendations, but for what it's worth

And it disrupts hormonal function for women too.. Soy can be synthesized in a lab to produce bio-identical hormones such as in natural progesterone cream, and that can be useful. But otherwise, the purported health benefits of the various unfermented soy foods for women are just part of the whole marketing scam.

A previous thread on this subject is here: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showtopic=4198&hl= Take care.

Yes. I trained in Polarity therapy in the '80's, and was a disciple of Dr. Stone's spiritual master. Polarity therapy is a valuable tool, yet it has limitations. It's working within what Dr. Hahnemann called the sustentive aspect of the life force, which is about filling deficiencies and removing excesses quantitatively to achieve balance. There's a kind of higher order of polarity than this, another aspect of the life force that can't be manipulated by the same means. But the sustentive side does need to be addressed, and Polarity therapy and Ayurveda are excellent. The trick is to know which tool does a particular person need at a particular time, not just to judge which tool is "best" and use it on everything. -Karen

In sleep paralysis, the body is actually paralyzed, with no ability or very limited ability to move muscles or open or close eyes. In sleep, the ego and astral bodies disengage from the lower etheric and physical bodies, so that the anabolic processes of the lower bodies can be restorative without the catabolic influence of the upper bodies. (Waking consciousness is catabolic). Without waking consciousness, the sleep state has a rudimentary form of consciousness, in which energy streamings from the metabolic forces are predominant. When people experience whirling sounds or have various visual or auditory experiences in this state, it's this consciousness at the lower pole of our being. Without the upper consciousness, we can't mobilize our will forces to move our muscles, so we're paralyzed. If we weren't paralyzed, during dreams we'd actually be acting them out physically. On waking, sometimes the ego/astral (waking consciousness) doesn't completely re-engage with the etheric/physical, and for a moment you can experience a kind of consciousness which is more vegetative. Sometimes this happens when there is a profound inner development going on, with the various subtle bodies adjusting their relationship to one another. The upper ego needs to take command of the lower bodies, and often that process is disrupted in our early development and isn't completed. So later on there is a continual working out of the proper relationships. People who are prone to sleep paralysis often find that it happens during periods of intense spiritual development, or when they are going through intense healing. When I experience it, sometimes I don't have enough consciousness to take any action, and it just resolves on its own in time (which probably amounts to just a few seconds although it can feel like longer). If I can bring some consciousness to it, I just relax into the breath and it becomes a profound experience of trust. When I first experienced it in my 20's, it was terrifying.. the lower consciousness has a primal fear. Over the years the experience shifted as the inner relationships are shifting, and it hasn't happened for years now. Along the same lines, I've also had the experience of waking up from a nap, sitting up and looking around, but having no idea what I'm seeing, for a couple of seconds. The visuals are there, but there is no sense of orientation in time or space, and no interpretation of what I'm looking at (figuration). Interestingly it's a similar phenomenon as sleep paralysis, where certain functions of waking consciousness haven't quite all returned yet from their cosmic sojourn.

Actually, there is only one school for Heilkunst, in Ottawa, and practitioners mainly in Canada and a few in US. But everything they do can be done at a distance! (consults by phone, remedies sent by mail, studies and classes online). I don't think there are any Heilkunst practitioners in the UK yet, but this way you have a much bigger group to choose from.

Hehe, yeah, I don't blame you There's also syphilis, tuberculosis, and psora (scabies) miasms to name a few other lovelies. These are originally infectious diseases which our ancestors had, and which now manifest chronically in most of us in a very different non-infectious form. The miasms are latent until triggered by traumas. This is a reason why people often get sick after suffering some kind of traumatic experience. Not homeopathy per se, because that's really just a tiny corner of the complete system of medicine that Dr. Hahnemann developed, called Heilkunst. Usually the whole system is needed for chronic issues. I use the word homeopathy in some contexts to get a certain idea across when it's too cumbersome at the moment to explain what the heck Heilkunst is . And yes, Heilkunst is a way forward, which is why I'm spending four years to train in it. It has a high success rate for chronic illnesses of any kind, because it understands the principles behind chronic disease. And those go beyond the model of disease as imbalance that we have in the natural medicine field. To treat for the miasms requires a skilled practitioner working through the case in a systematic way. Usually there are many traumas to treat for first before deeper layers can be addressed, according to what the person's own life force is ready to tackle. Here's a good article on the meaning of the miasms. Anyone interested to read about Heilkunst can look at Hahnemann Clinic for Heilkunst, and the intro articles What is Heilkunst. and Heilkunst Treatment. I also have an intro article on my site, What is Heilkunst. -Karen

Yup. Sometimes you see these things in families because they have the same dietary habits and it's not really inherited. But other times it is, and in homeopathy we call those inherited predispositions miasms. They can be cleared. High blood pressure is often part of the Sycotic miasm (not psychotic :-).

E-boost contains sucralose. One of the worst things you can put in your mouth. See Dr. Mercola articles on this - here's one. If that's not enough, E-boost contains maltodextrin, which often is a hidden source of MSG. You have to wonder, why are these ingredients necessary.. Karen

For Lyme, you can boost the immune system up to your eyeballs and the energetic disturbance caused by the Lyme spirochete will still be there. The way to remove it is with a remedy made from the spirochete itself, potentized ("homeopathic"), but this needs to be given properly by a skilled practitioner. PM me if you want details. Otherwise, mushrooms are great, just like many other things, for particular people with particular conditions, not one-size-fits-all, at least not in therapeutic doses. But you knew I'd say that Not good if you have a damp condition, for example. If something is better because it gives you a feeling of energy by beating up your adrenals, I wouldn't call that better. I'd look at what the stimulants are masking. Just bring more awareness to it, and you'll figure it out, I'm sure Traditionally, tea is brewed very weakly - no "caffeine delivery system" required. -Karen

First of all, remember that the numbers we've been told are dangerous may not be. After the natural functions have been supprsesed by drugs, it's expected that the body will react at first. What is safe for a particular person needs to be judged on an individual basis, by the kind of practitioner who isn't biased by the medical establishment's tactics to get everyone on drugs, but can see the situation more objectively. There are many things that can help the symptom, but you're not removing the cause by addressing the symptom. In some cases hypertension might be caused by a simple imbalance - for example, a mineral imbalance or dehydration, then that's fairly simple to corret. But usually there are deeper mental/emotional/spiritual issues that need to be addressed to remove the cause, and that can be done by a skilled homeopath and can take some time to work through the layers. Remember that any program to correct a chronic condition must be individualized, so beware of testimonials that say "this protocol cured my high blood pressure." Maybe it helped that particular person, but on that basis alone you don't have a clue as to what it will do to the next person. That said, there are some things that are safe to try on her own, but best under the guidance of a good naturopathic type practitioner. Don't make too many changes at once - start with just one intervention like EFT. Learn EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for on-the-spot anxiety management. Optimize water intake, use purified, unfluoridated water Get on a diet that's correct for her typology. Correct insulin resistance and remove anything interfering with mineral absorption (whole grains and beans unless they're presoaked or sprouted) Correct dietary fats No soy unless fermented as in miso or tempeh Remove processed foods and anything containing hidden sources of MSG or aspartame (see http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/MSG.htm) Remove refined salt from the diet and use a whole salt like Himalayan crystal salt or Celtic salt. Any kind of relaxation exercises that induce the relaxation response - can be Dr. Stoll's "skilled relaxation," Buteyko breathing, qigong belly breathing, or others Vitamin D (cod liver oil) Magnesium taurate or glycinate CoQ10 - best formulation is the hydrosoluble Ubiquinol. Look at unresolved emotional issues, especially related to "pressures" Professional: Traditional Chinese Medicine for herbs and/or acupuncture Heilkunst homeopathy, www.homeopathy.com/clinic