Isopathic Mercury - Psuedo-homeoapthy? (Part 1)
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:22 pm
I don't think this made it to the list on first sending, probably because it is long, so I am resending in 2 separate posts.
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I would like discuss a few reasons why practices that some people on the list would like to classify as homoeopathy - even though there is no evidence of symptom similarity - can never and should never be called homoeopathy. I would also like to do this from a practical perspective so that people can better understand the reasons why this is so.
One of the great benefits of homoeopathy, and something that Hahnemann always strived for, is that it is safe - but only if practised according to the Law of Similars and resultant symptom similarity.
I have seen several examples in my own practice where wrongly prescribed potentised remedies would appear to be anything but safe. I hope to send a few examples of this over coming days as time permits.
One issue is where people who have a heavy metal burden such as a high mercury level and, in the absence of symptoms to indicate it, have been prescribed potentised Mercury by others in order to help them excrete this metal. While the potentised Mercury has certainly done this, it some instances at least, it would also seem to have also harmed.
Mercury is a powerful and dangerous neurotoxin. Mercury should not be present within the healthy human body but if it is, the body will try to store it in the soft tissues.
It has been known for a long time that chemical chelation carries the risk that Mercury mobilised from the soft tissues and into the general circulation will be redistributed to the brain where it can then cause more damage and be harder, if not impossible, to remove.
This has happened in many documented instances when people being chelated chemically have gone on to develop neurological disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, psychoses, multiple sclerosis, and tics - the very problems that chelation was meant to prevent. As a result, protocols are now being developed by some biomedical groups to minimise this risk.
On the other hand, it is assumed by the poorly informed or pseudo-homoeopathic community that 'homoeopathy' is intrinsically safe and that potentised Mercury will not do this. Of course these assumptions are difficult to counter because there is no way we can ethically conduct human research to check that this is so. The evidence of what I have seen in my practice though, leads me to think otherwise. See the following two examples ...
Case 1: About a year back I was treating a man in his 40's for OCD and delusions (being contaminated, poisoned, about to die, etc, etc). He had been like this in one form or another since childhood.
He lived with his mother and because he couldn't/wouldn't talk on the phone, most of the work was done through her. They were both on good organic wholefood diets and his mother had helped him avoid the conventional drugs the doctors wanted to use with him. When he had taken one or two of them they were quickly stopped by her because they caused side-effects for him.
Over a couple of months there were gradual improvements with the remedies I prescribed. His mother then decided to take him to a well known kinesiologist/naturopath who did a hair mineral analysis and found that his mercury levels were in the high to very high range.
All other metals were ok but his mother, encouraged by the naturopath, thought the merc was the problem and that he should be naturally chelated and detoxed. The Nat is well known for this work, has written on it, and lectures on the topic in colleges. So, his mother stopped homeopathy at that time to make way for the chelating / detoxing.
A range of supplements were given plus a combination 'homeopathic chelating drops' containing potentised Mercury.
Yesterday, she brought him back to me for his first homeopathic appointment with me in a year. As far as she was concerned, the naturopath's treatment had been completed and was a huge success because the merc was down to 'normal' - but her son's mental problems seemed to have deteriorated so she had decided to start the homeopathy again.
In fact, he was very much deteriorated - he was now very OCD with episodes of psychosis and was having periods where he was very threatening and abusive, and a danger to her - she sometimes had to sleep outside in the car at night as he became violent - something he had not previously been.
In fact, he had been so bad over the past year that he had been admitted to a mental health unit twice and commenced on Lovan - there had been no need for a psych admission at any time prior to the chelation/ detox treatment and his previous mental problems had certainly not been bad enough to medicate.
At the time of of his returning appointment he had just been released from mental health centre so his mother was bringing him in while she could.
I did not have the heart to tell this aging mother that the naturopath's treatment looked anything but a success to me and seemed to have caused some serious harm! She had no awareness that there may have been a connection between the two.
(Continued in second email)
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Kind regards,
Fran Sheffield
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http://www.homeopathyplus.com.au
Do No Harm Initiative (Free Information on Homeopathic Immunisation)
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Homeopathy for Autism (Guidelines for Treatment - Search for Practitioners)
http://www.homeopathy4autism.com
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I would like discuss a few reasons why practices that some people on the list would like to classify as homoeopathy - even though there is no evidence of symptom similarity - can never and should never be called homoeopathy. I would also like to do this from a practical perspective so that people can better understand the reasons why this is so.
One of the great benefits of homoeopathy, and something that Hahnemann always strived for, is that it is safe - but only if practised according to the Law of Similars and resultant symptom similarity.
I have seen several examples in my own practice where wrongly prescribed potentised remedies would appear to be anything but safe. I hope to send a few examples of this over coming days as time permits.
One issue is where people who have a heavy metal burden such as a high mercury level and, in the absence of symptoms to indicate it, have been prescribed potentised Mercury by others in order to help them excrete this metal. While the potentised Mercury has certainly done this, it some instances at least, it would also seem to have also harmed.
Mercury is a powerful and dangerous neurotoxin. Mercury should not be present within the healthy human body but if it is, the body will try to store it in the soft tissues.
It has been known for a long time that chemical chelation carries the risk that Mercury mobilised from the soft tissues and into the general circulation will be redistributed to the brain where it can then cause more damage and be harder, if not impossible, to remove.
This has happened in many documented instances when people being chelated chemically have gone on to develop neurological disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, psychoses, multiple sclerosis, and tics - the very problems that chelation was meant to prevent. As a result, protocols are now being developed by some biomedical groups to minimise this risk.
On the other hand, it is assumed by the poorly informed or pseudo-homoeopathic community that 'homoeopathy' is intrinsically safe and that potentised Mercury will not do this. Of course these assumptions are difficult to counter because there is no way we can ethically conduct human research to check that this is so. The evidence of what I have seen in my practice though, leads me to think otherwise. See the following two examples ...
Case 1: About a year back I was treating a man in his 40's for OCD and delusions (being contaminated, poisoned, about to die, etc, etc). He had been like this in one form or another since childhood.
He lived with his mother and because he couldn't/wouldn't talk on the phone, most of the work was done through her. They were both on good organic wholefood diets and his mother had helped him avoid the conventional drugs the doctors wanted to use with him. When he had taken one or two of them they were quickly stopped by her because they caused side-effects for him.
Over a couple of months there were gradual improvements with the remedies I prescribed. His mother then decided to take him to a well known kinesiologist/naturopath who did a hair mineral analysis and found that his mercury levels were in the high to very high range.
All other metals were ok but his mother, encouraged by the naturopath, thought the merc was the problem and that he should be naturally chelated and detoxed. The Nat is well known for this work, has written on it, and lectures on the topic in colleges. So, his mother stopped homeopathy at that time to make way for the chelating / detoxing.
A range of supplements were given plus a combination 'homeopathic chelating drops' containing potentised Mercury.
Yesterday, she brought him back to me for his first homeopathic appointment with me in a year. As far as she was concerned, the naturopath's treatment had been completed and was a huge success because the merc was down to 'normal' - but her son's mental problems seemed to have deteriorated so she had decided to start the homeopathy again.
In fact, he was very much deteriorated - he was now very OCD with episodes of psychosis and was having periods where he was very threatening and abusive, and a danger to her - she sometimes had to sleep outside in the car at night as he became violent - something he had not previously been.
In fact, he had been so bad over the past year that he had been admitted to a mental health unit twice and commenced on Lovan - there had been no need for a psych admission at any time prior to the chelation/ detox treatment and his previous mental problems had certainly not been bad enough to medicate.
At the time of of his returning appointment he had just been released from mental health centre so his mother was bringing him in while she could.
I did not have the heart to tell this aging mother that the naturopath's treatment looked anything but a success to me and seemed to have caused some serious harm! She had no awareness that there may have been a connection between the two.
(Continued in second email)
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Kind regards,
Fran Sheffield
Homeopathy Plus! (Tutorials - Remedies - Immunisation)
http://www.homeopathyplus.com.au
Do No Harm Initiative (Free Information on Homeopathic Immunisation)
http://www.d-n-h.org
Homeopathy for Autism (Guidelines for Treatment - Search for Practitioners)
http://www.homeopathy4autism.com