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It's relatively expensive, but I haven't found anything I like better than Dr. Hauschka's products. The cleansing cream in a tube is great for the face. Also washing with chlorine-free water. And general nutrition and other healthy regimen, but those things aren't one-size-fits-all. Dr. Hauschka's skin care info Oh, better prices are at www.skin-one.com.

Ramiel Nagel's book is excellent, very Weston Price oriented. I mostly agree with his thoughts on xylitol - it's a processed sugar alcohol and not a healthy addition to the diet on a regular basis. But I would use it in certain situations when you need to treat tooth decay aggressively, while you're also working on the underlying causes, which xylitol won't fix. These nutritional methods may be enough for some people, but teeth problems sometimes have deeper energetic causes that nutrition doesn't reach, and that's where homeopathy comes in. For silica, I use it in the form of tissue salts - a 3x or 6x potency, in the US made by Hyland's. The tissue salts work on a somewhat deeper level in that they improve the way the body utilitzes the particular mineral rather than just providing more quantity of it. Other "homeopathic" remedies are also used, but on an individualized basis. Re. Dial soap, yikes! That recommendation is hard to figure - not sure I'd want to put that on my skin, let alone in my mouth! -Karen

Tempted to start a thread, "Humans may not have been designed to eat pincushions." <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Here's a new video presentation that shows exactly how the statistics have been manipulated so that it appears that vaccines have reduced infectious disease rates. The actual numbers of cases show that vaccines haven't contributed at all to the decline of infectious disease. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Excellent questions. The allopathic disease label game is false, to begin with. What is the criteria for distinguishing between ADD and ADHD, or any of the other zillion arbitrary categories? It's medicine by consensus, not real science. There has to be a real basis for any diagnostic entity, but all there is in conventional medicine are labels based on groupings of symptoms, and which groupings and which symptoms to decide to give a label to and call a disease, is arbitrary. There might just as well be a separate disease category for a pounding headache vs. a throbbing headache, and on and on. Then we try to fit people into these arbitrary categories, and it doesn't work. Instead, we need to look to the real meaning of diagnosis - dia-gnosis, "seeing through" to the underlying cause. Autism in that sense isn't a disease at all - it's just a description of a set of symptoms. Symptoms are the effects of disease, not the cause. So if one preson's autism is caused by vaccines, and another person's autism is caused by an inherited predisposition or emotional traumas (in reality there are usually multiple causes), can we say that both people have the same disease? No - they have the same appearance of symptoms, the same condition, but different actual diseases causing that condition. And so they require different treatment that targets each specific disease. Now, about whether there are underlying diseases at all or whether the so-called condition is just an altered state. I think it's both. You don't even have to know whether it's autism or not in order to treat the underlying diseases - whatever diseases are there can be identified and treated, and then the symptoms that they gave rise to, begin to disappear. Autism is about a disintegration of the self- a split between the conscious, rational self and the subconscious, instinctual self. When the person can't hold the polarity together, it's not a natural state of consciousness. The person can be highly creative and express traits that are highly advanced in some ways, breaking out of the conventional material mindset. But they're not free - they're locked in the split. With other kinds of altered states of consciousness, you can ask the same question - is the person entering into this state of consciousness in freedom, or are the experiences happening TO them? That's a barometer of health. The autistic kids are in a spiritual struggle for integration of the true self, and I think that's why they seem to be showing us something archetypal. Many of us are engaging in a similar spiritual struggle. The book Autism: The Journey Back discusses all this and goes into the spiritual meaning of disease. In this sense, disease isn't something to just be rid of, but to extract the hidden spiritual purpose. -Karen

That's why it's important to be clear about causation vs correlation.

See http://www.heilkunst.com/autism/. This has a very high success rate, and that's confirmed by the parents themselves. The kids often lose their diagnosis completely. It removes the underlying causes, rather than the symptoms which are just the effects. It can take some time to work through the removal of the causes, but gains are observed along the way. Adults with autism/asperger's also get good results. I'd highly recommend the book Autism: The Journey Back, which is not only about treatment of autism but about the basic principles of therapeutics that apply to all chronic conditions. -Karen

Nope. Glycerin is glycerin. Toothpaste contains other nasties besides glycerin, but if you use a soap with added glycerin it will interfere with remineralization. Dr. Bronner's contains only the naturally occuring glycerin in the oil - it says "retained glycerin," meaning that in the soap making process they don't deliberately remove the glycerin, which would require poisonous solvents. That small amount is okay, but it's not good to use a soap that contains added glycerin. Usually you can tell added glycerin by the feel, if it feels a bit more slippery than plain soap. If it says glycerin on the label, not "retained glycerin" it's probably added.

Here's an older thread on overtone chanting (throat singing).

Whoa.. then don't forget the Maalox for the upset stomach from the aspirin. And then the antibiotics for the infection you'll get from having doused your stomach acid. Maybe soon some heavy duty immune suppressants for the colitis. And a flu shot while we're at it, aren't you glad we're so efficient!

Colloidal silver, even though the particles are very small, is still a material substance, and every material substance has material effects - you can look up the materia medica of silver. When used in medicinal doses, you always have to consider that a medicine can have unwanted effects - even when taking large doses of nutritional supplements beyond what the body needs to fill the deficiency. It doesn't mean that colloidal silver or other medicinal substances in material form like herbs shouldn't be used, but you always have to look at the potential for effects other than the therapeutic effect you want! But when you dynamize the dose ("homeopathic") so that it's now acting on the etheric level rather than the material, you have a more energetic medicine and eliminate the potential for harm that exists with material substances. I think this is the direction we need to be moving in. There's a higher spiritual purpose behind the movement to reduce our access to natural medicine. We can get caught in the poverty consciousness of looking at how everything is being taken away from us, And if we fight with TPTB on their level, it's like engaging in a power struggle with a child - you can't win . The answer is in consciousness, not in engaging in a tug of war to get back our material substances, but to rise to a new level where we're not dependent on that anymore. That takes tapping into a different consciousness, a different power than the tug-of-war brute force kind of power, but a creative power that can take one drop of colloidal silver and create an etheric form of it that no one can take away. The challenge is also pushing us to look beyond the tug-of-war with germs to see the higher design, where the microbes fit in, why we actually need them for healing purposes. (Dr.Hamer, Dr.Reckeweg, and the many pleomorphism researchers, Rife, Enderlein, etc.) -Karen

The power structure that's orchestrating the push for vaccines has an agenda that doesn't have to do with public health. Basically, it's about control. The way that's accomplished is by propaganda that makes people believe that they need vaccines - then they think they are freely choosing what they want (the way people line up to "demand" vaccines during shortages). Imagine if you had a product that harmed people, had no redeeming value, yet your marketing campaign resulted in people lining up demanding it! Pretty powerful stuff. It's been estimated that about 70% of doctors don't get a flu shot.

There's wonderful support available for homeopathic vaccination.. there are homeopathic practitioners mainly in Canada and the US who work by phone consult and mailing remedies to anywhere in the world - if you're interested, I can give you the details. -Karen

Sounds good.. also you can just use the bar as is, and swipe the toothbrush across it a few times. The tooth whitener, yes, although I don't think it's a problem to use it for food stains once in a while. There are many other Uncle Harry's products that aren't abrasive, like the Tooth and Gum Elixir, or the mouthwash spray, which are both just essential oils. Using bar soap and then putting a drop or two of essential oil on the toothbrush works too.

1. Dr. Bronner's baby soap which is unscented, then you could mix in some drops of essential oils of your choice (Uncle Harry's tooth and gum elixir is a nice one) 2. Or just mix in some of the baby soap with the peppermint soap to make it milder. 2. Tooth Soap, www.toothsoap.com has many interesting flavors 3. Pure vegetable oil bar soap. Dr. Bronner's or "Kiss My Face" brand.

Older forum thread on the topic of psychoactive plants

The kind of tooth whitening products like the one the Tooth Soap company sells, work by abrasion, so they only work for superfiical stains. Darkened teeth are often not from superficial stains. And you don't really want to use an abrasive on teeth, or only once in a while. I like Uncle Harry's products, generally less expensive than the tooth soap company.

Barlean's contains extra glycerin, not good for teeth, and citric acid is usually made from corn and is one of the hidden sources of MSG. Most liquid B vitamins do contain nasty additives like hidden MSG, and it's hard to tell what "natural flavor" is, unless you call the manufacturer and even then they often don't know. Some of the more specialized manufacturers do, and sometimes it's worth a call. The products I mentioned I think are better quality than usual, and the Nano-plex is a unique kind of formulation.

Tinctures and teas that have medicinal action work differently from those that are nutrients. The concept is utilization, not just absorption. Just because something is water soluble doesn't mean that the body knows how to utilize it efficiently. Taking Ferr-phos tissue salt can help your body's iron *function* which is different from a simple matter of filling the deficiency. Then you might actually get more out of the Floradix. Iron has a higher function beyond biochemistry, and that relates to the ego structure. So people working out issues to do with their sense of self often have issues with iron that may not resolve by simply taking in more iron, but that will resolve as the higher functions resolve. Re. cod liver oil, there's a high-vitamin CLO from Radiant Life (a Weston Price oriented company), which is more expensive but you take less - just one ml per serving. Comes with a little syringe so you pull out just the amount you need and don't expose the rest to air. Cinnamon flavor is nice! That's high in Vit D and A but low in omega-3 oils, so you would neeed an additional fish oil supplement, as most people do anyway. But for those vitamins, it's the best I've found. I don't like to put supplements into food, but slip them in with a mouthful of juice. Cinnamon flavor cod liver oil with apple juice is pretty pleasant. Radiant Life also has a variety of natural vit C products that I like. B vitamins are also difficult to utilize, and I recommend liquid products. Liquid B Complex from Genestra, or Max Stress B Nano-Plex. -Karen

Yes, but let me clarify some terms first.. "Disease," as I'm using the term is not the same as the allopathic disease labels, but it's an energetic impingement that is like a pregnancy - no amount of balancing will abort it. Many people who seem to be healthy and have no allopathic diagnoses are still encumbered by these diseases (especially the latent predispositions called miasms which can be triggered into activity, but also many other types ) When we're talking about the specific jurisdiction of curing disease, we're talking about targeting those impingements energetically, each one precisely. The disease entity exists on the etheric level so we have to use etheric means to target it. But even though it's energetic, it's not "healing" per se. Healing is the other side of the polarity, which can include diet, nutrition, exercise, and even various kinds of energy healing for balancing the life force. This may involve working on the physical, biochemical level or on the etheric level but here we're addressing imbalances only. Now, in order to achieve a full "remediation" from disease, you need to address both sides of the polarity. This is what Dr. Hahnemann discovered, and is why his system of medicine is called Heilkunst - the art of remediation - not the art of cure or the art of healing. Remediation encompasses both, according to the polaric nature of the universe, and of the life force. Heilkunst practitioners therefore work on both sides of that polarity. The curing side is called Medicine, and the healing side is called Regimen. (Of course when we say "medicine" we have to clarify that we're not talking about conventional or even alternative medicine in the common parlance but a very specific principle). So the short answer is, yes . See the HCH clinic website, and there are practitioner listings there. Most of them do most of their consults by phone, so people aren't restricted to local practitioners. Here's a more in depth article on Healing vs. Curing -Karen

You're welcome! You might like to see some new videos just posted, that explain the basic principles, on this youtube channel: www.youtube.com/pleromaproductions. Start with "Homeopathy Plain and Simple Part A" Best, Karen

Hi Ya Mu, I like Golden Flower formulas too, and the Ease Digestion formula is nice. I think it's from the Old Testament, and I think it has more esoteric significance - bread is manna, the etheric body; and meat is more astral, so there may be something there about those two forces and how they were evolving in terms of human consciousness. In other words, the reference to food may be about the cosmic and earth forces as they "feed" the individual. Would be nice if we could do all our nutrition with forces of consciousness . -Karen

Hi ralis, Cayenne can be great for certain people and certain conditions, but should be used carefully.. in those with deficient conditions, hot herbs can disperse energy from the vital interior and weaken them, even if symptoms seem to be improved. Not all inflammation can be treated the same way. Sometimes it's actually a healthy response to a sclerotic process, or that the body needs to burn up toxins.. so you don't always want to reduce the heat. If it's a simple imbalance from improper diet, then it's best to correct the diet rather than use herbs to try to fix things. Depends on the situation. "It's a therapeutic error to give an herb to do a job that a nutrient is supposed to do." - wise words from Paul Bergner, AHG herbalist -Karen

The reason the vegan diet seems to help with acid reflux is because it's so low in dense protein.. protein and starch each require a different pH environment in order to digest properly, so they shouldn't be eaten at the same time. (That doesn't mean they can't be eaten at the same meal, though.. I'll get to that in a minute.) Lowering the protein avoids the problem by default, but many people need more protein, and there's a better way to address the problem - Sequential eating, discovered by Dr. Stanley Bass, takes advantage of the way that the stomach layers foods. The usual food combining rules can be too restrictive, but his method makes it a whole lot easier. He found that the quick-digesting foods like starches and fruits wouldn't leave the stomach in the proper time, but would be held up if slower digesting foods like protein were there at the same time. This would cause the quicker digesting foods to decompose and cause indigestion. But if the foods are eaten in a proper sequence, with the most watery foods first, then each food is layered in the stomach in a certain way where the proper enzymes needed to digest each particular type of food are working on each food simultaneously. If you just ate a mouthful with all the different foods in the same mouthful, they would all be mixed together and the proper layering wouldn't happen. Sequential eating means eating the most watery foods first, like salads first, followed by vegetables which are somewhat less watery, with the heavier protein foods last. Foods like soups that contain a mixture of different types of foods can be considered more watery if they contain less than 20% dense protein. Then there's another important issue.. Too little stomach acid. In most cases of heartburn, the person actually has too little stomach acid. That causes the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) to malfunction and not close properly, so it allows whatever little bit of HCl that's in the stomach to back up into the esophagus. The esophagus doesn't have mucus membranes designed to handle the acid, so even that small amount burns. The acid is just in the wrong place, not in the wrong amount. There's not too much of it. This is why antacids make the problem even worse, because they neutralize acid which there's already too little of. Then lower acid causes more indigestion, a vicious cycle. One approach is to take betaine HCl, and that can help but it's a band aid treatment - a better approach is to change the diet so that it enhances and doesn't inhibit HCl production. When there's HCl deficiency, you also want to look at possible iodine deficiency. Usually when people have reflux, it's easy to spot the dietary culprits - 1. grains and sugar inhibit HCl production, so reduce grains greatly especially gluten grains, and eliminate refined sugar 2. Things that can weaken the LES are: sedative drugs, NSAIDs, beta-blockers, coffee, chocolate, peppermint, onions, alcohol. 3. not drinking enough water 4. fluoride, chlorine Helpful supplements in addition to HCl - 1. DGL - deglycirrhizinated licorice (I *might* have spelled that correctly!). 2. slippery elm and/or marshmallow root (formula called Robert's Formula) 3. Mastic gum, if there's h. pylorii But when the diet is straightened, out, usually those aren't necessary. If the symptom persists, then you'd look at sympathetic nervous system overload. Cabbage juice is very soothing to the gut. Combined with carrot, it's really good! -Karen

Deaths of both parents at such a young age is terribly traumatic, yet what often happens is that the drugs given to treat depression add insult to injury. I'd seriously consider that if she's on antidepressants, they can be making the situation much worse in many cases, even causing rage and destructive behavior. And once they're discontinued, it can take a long time for the body to release it and readjust. They actually never leave the body completely. Here's an article summarizing the dangers of antidepressants. It sounds like she needs a lot of support, but she might consider a different kind of support system, nutritional medicine instead of antidepressants.. and another opinion from a holistic physician on the colon issue. There is a lot of support available if she's interested in pursuing it, but it's really up to her. There's also *good* psychotherapy, although there are few really good ones who are healthy enough themselves. I know one who can work by phone, and who I think can be more effective by phone than most therapists can be in person. Best, Karen