AIDS and homeopathy (Corrected)

[H.T. Cotter]

Please note typo in the 5th paragraph ( should be 'AIDS' not 'cancer').
Hey Robin 9168,

I assume you're a guy form the spelling of Robin. I realize it's not terribly important, except that I'm a southern boy and we observe prudent reservations with the fairer gender.

If I have a specialty, which would seem a contradiction for a homeopath, then it is probably cancer patients. I treat whatever walks into my practice, be it colds, molds or sore butts. I'm especially interested in the muscular dystrophy diseases, most especially ALS. I also have an abiding interest in cancer and illnesses brought on by severe emotional states. I get a fair amount of peds in my practice and since I have a lot of grandkids and great grandkids, they like me. They scare me a bit, especially when the parents want a wholistic doc at all cost and sometimes I don't have the equipment or drugs to deal with their emergencies. I'm interested in specifics since I'm a teacher and writer and sometimes the specifics save us and our patients a lot of grief.

I've never used Lac lupinum and I wonder how much it differs from Lac c. There's so many of the newer remedies that have been proven over the past decade or two with which I'm unfamiliar. A fellow recommended Hydrogen to me in New York last year and I had to get a buddy of mine who's a homeopathic pharmacist to get me a sample. Sometimes I think we'd be better off if we had only a couple of hundred remedies with which to deal.

I see very strong affect with all three drugs I mentioned in high potency. I frequently find high potency prednisone indicated for cancer patients and often find prednisone's over-use all over the pathogenesis of some cancers. I fully realize that the cancerous diathesis might have been caused by the same influence that led an allopath to prescribe a med-roll for a patient. However, I have a strong interest in molecular nutrition and enhancing health with oxygen and oxygen carriers and in my opinion most steroids and other contrived hormonal substances tend to ultimately deplete oxygen subsystems. Hence patients who insist on parallel homeopathic and allopathic treatment tend to skew their own healing response.

I have one cancer AIDS patient that is definitely emblematic to me of my frustration with many patients with that illness. When he came to me shortly after being diagnosed, he was so frightened and needy that he kept forgetting our relationship and demanding this or that line of treatment from bits of dialogue we'd recently shared. As I occasionally have had to do, I gave him the standard "You can't be the doctor here" talk and he settled into being a good patient. When his symptoms start to abate and his clinical tests show the reduction in the viral load and the increase in T4's and reduction in T8's, he tends to get reckless and leave therapy for as long as 18 months at one time. He has not come to the place yet where his own immune system can take over the job. However, he has not progressed so far that good, empathic remedies haven't been able to restore him to some good semblance of health. I console myself that like any parasite, the AIDS virus strives to live and can't if it keeps killing its host. Since it, like all retroviruses, is species specific, it has to become less deadly to man. I have been taught and believe that until the HTLV germs were developed, that influenza was our fastest evolving viruses.

I can only speculate as to why the wholistic docs have had so little industry success with AIDS. I've seen homeopaths argue so much and use such vitriol on each other, that I am surprised they have sufficient self love and love for their patients that is often a key ingredient in establishing adequate patient rapport to discover the remedy. Today, though, homeopaths ranks seem to have swelled numerically with naturopaths, chiropractors, and allopaths (among other designated practitioners) who call themselves homeopaths, but who often practice a bastardized eclectic mixture and get hot on their erudition and reputations and forget the main job is to cure the patient. Hahnemann, Hering, Kent and Clarke are among my heroes. Homeopathy is so apparent to me and feels so right that I don't know why others haven't fallen in love with it as I have. I've been captivated by it and its ability to provide healing pathways so that we can help our patients and ourselves enjoy life and enjoy it more abundantly. I feel that the materia medicas were as divinely inspired as the bible and are themselves holy books. My grandkids used to ask me why people called me a wholistic doctor. I said, "Because I keep a whole list of stuff."

Sometimes I have asked patients how they came to be at my practice. Many who have said, "God sent me to you."

I was always pleased to know that God knew my name or address. It's a great comfort as you trek on through the twilight of your years. I was mostly a mediocre healer when I practiced by intellect alone. Once I truly got "Namaste" and could sense that holy light within the patient, then I was able to deduce their remedy and expected and seldom was disappointed to see them return in time to abundant and chronic health. I charge somewhat dearly for my services, but often found the greater reward in the eradication of pain, fear and despair from the people who allowed me to treat them.

I am sure that there are probably many of our peers who have fared better with AIDS patients than have I. However, I can just as easily see why so many of our peers have done poorly with them, and that might be said of many practices in general. I think if that day comes when I don't feel a sense of love and hope in a patient who comes under my care, then that will be the day when I hang up my stethoscope, my repertory and my beloved remedies and find some other way to fill my days.

Best wishes,

Tom
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[robin9168]

Thanks for your response HT.

You have similar interests to me - the chronic degenerative diseases,
in particular cancer and neurological. However my ears pricked up at
the mention of ALS as for me that is the number one most difficult
condition to treat. I have watched a few people slowly deteriorate
into that awful state that is the late stages of ALS withpout being
able to help them. The metals come up most frequently and even well
indicated remedies have let me down. I have tried all sorts of
approaches. This is in contrast to my experience of MS, Parkinsons
and other serious diseases. Any even vaguely succesful cases you have
would be of great interest.

The wolfs milk case was one brought to me by another homeopath. She
had given Lachesis with no result. She has the notes as the patient
is hers and I have suggested she submit it to a journal as it is such
a great case. I will see if I can at least get a synopsis of it as my
memory is not good enough to relate all the important features.