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Acute and Chronic Disease

Human beings tend to be very arrogant, and so do therapists, trying to do things that they think are going to help energy changes. However, nothing is going to have anything like the strength of the effect of the changes at the equinoxes and soltices, the new and full moons. That is where the significant energies come from. The freer the body becomes, the more it is going to be able to respond to the effects of these powerful energies.

The cells will release a lot of toxicity at these times, especially at the equinoxes (see "What is Change about" section). Your job is to see that the toxicity is allowed out of the body. The timing of the use of naturopathic techniques to assist release is also very important. If you have a therapist who can monitor this removal from the body with you, you will have a movement towards getting healthier, rather than towards getting sicker as most people do.

Two or three days after an equinox you will notice a lot of acute disease pictures presenting coughs, colds and flues, the dramatic things showing up. You can also begin to notice that, when people go to the doctor and use suppressive treatments like steroids and antibiotics, the picture starts to become a chronic picture. When the acute is suppressed, the chronic load becomes greater. Gallstones, or arthritis problems, asthma or extreme temperature illnesses may become worse. If people take medication for their chronic situation, such as arthritis or asthma, then you will also see it beginning to affect the mental/ emotional level. Real depression may show up, indicating an inner lack of light.

Try taking notes of the effects on yourself and those around you at these times, especially two or three days after the equinoxes and around the full moon following an equinox. (See "What is Change about") There are two important words to listen for: the "I" and the 'my'. The 'I' illustrates the chronic things, the very important things (for example, I feel depressed or I can't sleep). These are the things we need to be most concerned about as they tell us about our highest level, the spiritual level. This is the real person sHighing. The 'my' are the symptoms (my foot, my back). These may drive people to see a doctor or other health practitioner but are in fact secondary.

Hahnemann said 'A person's illness is the sum total of the symptoms they are presenting'. If 'my eczema' goes, but 'I feel depressed' replaces it, then the treatment has been suppressive. Any medicine or treatment, be it alternative, complementary or allopathic, can be suppressive if not used correctly. It is vital to observe closely and to really be aware of the whole picture, to look at the direction of flow of the disease.

Motivation and creativity come from the highest level. Doctors are not usually concerned with these. All the things which are unique about an individual are those which get whittled away by the low energy, under-performance, 'not reaching potential' situations.

Acute disease has a great deal of movement in its picture, and is connected with the major things I am going to be concerned with, such as hydration. When children have an acute illness (fever, measles, etc), and I observed this in my own children, they have a mucus discharge (I smile at the comment 'better for discharge' in the homoeopathic 'Materia Medica'). You have to have a discharge on the physical level if toxicity is going to leave the body. If you are undergoing any change happening on the higher levels, as under psychotherapy for example, there has to be a release all the way through to the physical, with a discharge to the outside: the body is being released.

 

Chronic disease on the other hand has very little movement attached to it, but in this natural nutrition therapy we are thinking about trying to create a lot of freedom of movement. CFS/ME for example, has at least 50% impairment of the cells: this means, naturopathically, that there is a 50% mucus loading. As you get older, the vitality is lower because the loading gets greater. You lack the vitality to produce all the mucus discharges which tend to remain in the body at cellular level, instead of being released to outside the body.

Toxicity is a very vague term, so I will expand on what I mean by it. If you have a 50% mucus loading, you have a very high mucus (and thus toxic) level inside the cells. You have a 50% immune impairment and you have a correlating 50% cut off with the cells - look at Diagram 2 to get an idea of what is happening inside your cells. If you are carrying a very heavy load, you can only be 50% hydrated - the rest of the cells (and tissues which these cells make up) are locked off and dark. We are going to be working with decreasing, as much as possible, the chronic load within the cells in order to increase the vitality.

We put all our toxicity into fatty substances and then, if the body is unable to eliminate them, put those fatty substances both around and into the cells, stored in the form of hardened saturated fats. Then, when the cell is really cut off (or locked off) due to the body producing cholesterol to put around the cells in an attempt to counter the lack of water and the lack of cleansing, the temperature changes within the cell. People with AIDS or CFS/ME, for instance, have a lower than normal body temperature. The virus associated with either of these two conditions can only operate at this slightly lower temperature.

Viral activity is to be seen as a positive experience, chosen by the body. We have been through the period of seeing many so-called 'bacterial' diseases and the 'solution' has been to use anti-biotics. Flemming himself said that penicillin should only be used in a 'life or death' situation: that advice has been totally ignored! When anti-biotics are used, the effect is selective breeding of the strongest bugs; those which can survive do so. There are now "super bugs" which are immune to anti-biotics. There are wards in hospitals that regularly have to be closed down because of such bugs. Even the development of "designer anti-biotics" will never remove the bacteria threat, as they are constantly adapting and becoming resistant to whatever is used against them.

I see a clear relationship between the use of anti-biotics and the occurrence of viral diseases. I have never treated a case of AIDS where there was not syphilis in the history, and large quantities of penicillin used to treat it. There is frequently high dosing with tetra-cyclins for acne throughout the teens in addition. These anti-biotics break down bacterial cells and work in such a way as to increase the electrolyte imbalance. Taking anti-biotics pushes the minerals into imbalance, paralleling the suppressive effect on the immune system. Once you have used anti-biotics, the cells have become toxic, having lost their ability to cleanse. So viruses feel comfortable in these toxic conditions and activate within the cells. If you deal with that situation positively, supporting the viral activity in its role of cleansing the cells, the person heals. Lindlahr says that the appropriate virus 'appears' within the cell when needed. And that is what I believe happens.

On this planet, we are all under the same influences with regard to viral activity. With Aids, for instance, the connected HIV virus is only activated in a very narrow band of lower-than-normal temperature. The virus is found inside the cell. Conditions which allow it to activate include acidity, temperature, levels of vitamins and minerals inside the cells. I see the virus as a very positive friend. It is there and will activate when the conditions inside the cell are asking for it to work, in the best interests of the body. The only effective treatment is naturopathy, where you work with (rather than against) what is happening. The bacterial/anti-biotic activity is insignificant. This is a viral immune response situation. The viral activity is intended to reduce the toxic load in the cell. When that happens, the virus will no longer be required, and it will disappear.

If you feel slightly "fluey" all the time, this indicates that the body is trying to put up its temperature to melt the fats. As you work to cleanse the cells, and bring the body temperature up the virus will stop activating. For example "hot tubbing", used by older naturopaths, was addressing this point: when you raise the temperature you are actually melting these stored damaged fats. If the body is healthy, it can do this for itself: it can throw up a fever. But in many patients who come to me, the body has gone beyond the stage of being able to do that. They present CFS/ME now and often say that they had flu, say 10 years ago, and 'never really got over it'. In an unresolved fever situation that fever was trying to create a cleansing by melting the damaged fats and by raising the body temperature to the stage where the virus can no longer operate, but it did not happen.

When you see what has been happening, you can step in and help the body create an artificial fever. You will have that choice, if appropriate in a given situation. Here is an example of when that choice was taken:

The brother of a past student had an appendicitis. He was determined to avoid hospital treatment. His friends put him in the bath, got his temperature up to I02°C for an hour, with cold douching to the head at the same time. Then they wrapped him in icy cold sheets and put him to bed. The pain completely went, and in the morning the sheets were bright yellow, just from the lymph discharge. The pain slightly returned the next day, so they repeated the procedure. He did not have any further symptoms. Can you see what a lovely quick way this treatment is?

Douglas Lewis, in his successful treatment of AIDS in America, takes patients up to 104°C degrees for one hour every other day. His own experience was with having polio as a child. A naturopath was working to get his temperature up but they were just half a degree out. It was not working. If you warm the body up enough, you stop the viral activity.

Viruses activate at low temperatures so that, as we work through hydrotherapy and naturopathic detoxifying techniques that have the result of bringing the body temperature back up, the viral activity is seen to cease. To have a truly wholistic approach, you may need to re-think your view of viruses. In the CFS/ME picture you will frequently find that anti-biotics have been given in a situation where viruses are activating, which has made the health problems worse. Or, the BCG has been imposed and resulted in glandular fever soon afterwards, which has been mis-diagnosed and treated with anti-biotics, with the cells then more closed off from the day/night cleansing movement that is so vital to their health.

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