First, let me warn you that this is long email. But you'll understand why I
haven't written before about PC1. My "jury" is still "out".
You asked:
We started using "PC1" with more seriousness in the last 4 months. We are
now giving it out to many patients and trying keeping an eye on it. We've
been having fairly good results and are, so far, satisfied.
Unfortunately, since we/pts can't afford diagnostic tests such as viral
load, CD4 count etc. I have nothing "verifiable".
------LAST YEAR'S SPOOK
When I had first tried it about 1 year ago I was strongly disappointed with
results. I had put 5 patients on it, they all initially improved, but later
all relapsed (or what?), including one death. I couldn't understand what
happened. I was spooked so I stopped. A recent volunteer to Abha Light with
more experience & in better contact with Peter, got us started again.
Later we decided this may have been due to giving the Rx incorrectly. For
the convienence of our (uneducated) pts, I was simply dissolving 1 globule
in a 25ml dropper bottle and telling them to take 1-2 drops (w/sucussion)
twice a day. Now we take 1 drop from that 25ml bottle into 300-500 ml water
and take 1 teaspoon (w/suc.) once a day.
Peter's comment last year regarding this event was:
"Its true your method of diluting is a bit different,
mine is 1/3 litre of mineral water in platic bottle
containing 1 granule, succuss 5 times, take ½ teaspoon
daily. I would not have thought that made a big
difference, but it might.
"My experience is that homeopathy is widely
flexible in prescribing methods."
Again, from Peter last year:
"I tried PC1 in Honduras and got 75% improvement of 8 cases in 5 days
to two weeks. Half of these we conducted in my absense at the start.
There were also lots of anecdoctal reports to me as well from
doctors
using PC1 elsewhere with good results..
"There were also aggravations (i was using it 5 times a
day to get quick results)
"These were worse from overwhelming parasites, severe emotional
stress - orphaned, or threat of loosing home.
"I wonder if the cases you tried PC1 on had
great stress
parasites
very poor diet
"As this might explain reactions you saw."
------MIXED REVIEW
My problem then -and now- is that without a clear-cut drug picture
(proving) I feel insecure to give it. It's very difficult to estimate
whether a pt is "aggravating" or simply that the rx is "not working at all"
and the patient just continues to decline. And here in Kenya we are not in
a situation where is it easy to track pts. (why? -too complicated to get
into here)
Peter has not been able to give me a drug picture except to say "AIDS".
We have not given PC1 exclusively in order track it properly. Like for most
of my prescribing - particularly with HIV+ pts - we prescribe a whole array
of things according to necessity. - herbal tinctures such as neem or
african potato, perhaps an "acute" or "therapeutic" rx for a critical
infection, a "constitutional" if it appears in the case-taking,
naturopathic "anti-virals" like garlic, vinegar, H2O2, colloidal silver,
etc, nutritional support such as having them join our food programme
(donated food).
Therefore I can't say definitively that only this or only that works.
Everything is working together. I'm not a researcher and for the sake of
the pts, I don't feel I can do it any other way. Besides, I think this is
not unusual for any HIV treatment programme. It must be multilayered.
To my mind the apparent "goals" of the PC1 would be (a) the possibility of
total reversal to HIV- status, thus (b) enabling cheap & mass treatment.
For this reason I would advocate further, definitive study & research as a
possible cure for HIV. (... and that means $$$$$.)
Unfortunately PC is still an experimental drug without sufficient
guidelines. That's what makes this all very difficult. I'm torn between
really wanting to use it fully and not having enough information to go
forward with confidence. We are not in a research mode here. I look forward
to the day that Peter will be able to come out with his clincal results and
experiences.
But as it stands now, (with lack of definitive tests) the improvement I see
is not necessarily better than any other methods/ rxs I have tried.
------HYDROGEN?
I think I have mentioned earlier (or not??) that I found also Hydrogen to
be effective in HIV.
one reason I favor Hydrog is there's a drug picture to guide me. Much of
the multi-sx picture of HIV stages 3-4 looks like a lot like hydrogen
- sometimes diarrheas, sometimes constipation
- limbs aching
- herpes zoster
- HIV dementia, confusion
- respiratory stuff
- various pains and aches anywhere
- genital stuff
- mouth ulcers
- fevers & chills
When Hydrog LM1 is given 1 globule in 25ml dropper bottle with 1-2 drops a
day as the dosage, I also find good and steady results just as with the
PC1. (I've got my philosophical ideas about Hydrogen!) Only 1 consistant
aggravation I've seen in a number of pts is "the medicine makes my throat
tickly /scratchy". I want to try changing to a 300 ml bottle and see if
even this one aggravation goes.
------CONCLUSION
Well,
After reading all this I hope you will get the right mix of hope,
enthusiasm, positive response, confusion and ambiguity that I feel. Sorry,
I can't do better than that now.
------CASE
Below is a recent, typical PC1 case.
sorry ...you "classicists" out there, may not
forgive me my prescribing methods -
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Sayo, 31, F
diagnoses: HIV+
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26. Nov 2003
The patient was refered to me because she used to be taking an "immune
booster" supplement that she can't get anymore and it was too expensive.
-she said she had a "flu" recently.
-she's been on TB medication. she's finished it now.
-headache mostly R-sided on and off
-anemic
-numbness of the feet