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Posted: 2008-04-25 Contributed by: Deniz\'s mom from New York (DenizD2004@gmail.com) Primary complaint: Ear infection, bronchitis I recently posted our story on Autism. Below is another homeopathy success story... Thanks to Amy again and homeopath Pierre Fontaine. When we found out that my son had bronchitis and ear infection it was very difficult and stressful to wait a day to get what his homeopath prescribed for him. It started with cough and gag when heard of food started Nov 25. He didn't want to eat for few days except rice milk and gf cookies. On 26th and 28th he had low grade fever at night. Threw up few times during the day that week. We took him to the doctor on Nov 29th. Doctor said he had ear infection in his left ear and bronchitis. Prescribed Albuterol and Augmentin. She mentioned the side effect of Albuterol, hyperactivity. We were torn between giving a shot to homeopathy and wait a day to get the remedy or go to the pharmacy and get what doctor prescribed. and we waited... We gave Mercurius Cyanatus 30c on Nov 30 and Dec 1st (total of 4 times) and he got better, gagging stopped after the first dose, appettite increased, coughing stopped. In only two days he got better. That week we noticed a jump in his cognitive and communication skills. Follow up visit with pediatrician was on Monday, Dec. 10. Doctor said we did not need to continue antibiotics -we didn't tell her about homeopathy- did not have infection anymore. She said there's a bit fluid in left ear still, but not important. She also said he was recovered from bronchitis. Up until a month ago we used this remedy whenever he gagged on food. We use the remedy and he starts eating without any problem. Our next story will be another success story on flu... How it works is mystery to me, but Homeopathy works and that's what matters...

Posted: 2008-04-05 Contributed by: Deniz\'s parents from New York (DenizD2004@gmail.com) Primary complaint: Autism/PDD-NOS Dear Amy, We can not thank you enough for the hope and support you spread our way. We never met in person but you have such a big part in our son's recovery. Thank you. Here's our story. When our son was diagnosed as PDD-NOS when he was 26 months old, our first reaction was denial. Our son was speech delayed, we didn't know much about Autism but whatever it was, our son did not have it. He was the happiest baby you could see around. He had started babbling at 2 months, had great eye contact and met all milestones. Yes, he had some gagging issues, appetite problems but socially he was great. Denial didn't last too long, we started researching. More we read more we got convinced that there was something wrong. As painful as it was we had admit that our son had some form/level of Autism and we would do anything to bring him back to our lives. We started with Gluten&Casein free diet. This diet made a huge improvement on his cognitive skills. It was almost like a big dark cloud removed before his eyes. He started looking at us in the eye, pointing, much better appetite, more regular bowel movements only in few days. His speech therapist was shocked when he showed his body parts which she had been working on for 6 months with no luck. In few weeks he learned numbers, alphabet, shapes, colors. He was totally silent, no words at all but he would respond to so many things. DAN doctor visit was a huge disappointment. Other than the bloodwork and some supplement recommendations it was a complete fiasco, waste of time and money. He wanted to use a diabetes drug called Actos on him, of course we thanked and left his office. Few months later we heard some allegations about this drug caused heart failure. Same days we found out fluoride caused neourological disorders, our son had been taking multivitamins with fluoride for 6 months which was prescribed by his pediatrician. Lost faith in conventional medicine, searching for alternative approaches, a friend mentioned about homeopathy. We ordered Amy\'s book and started to understand what homeopathy was all about. We\'re so grateful that Amy responded to our e mail with some homeopath recommendations. We contacted Pierre Fontaine, after a long and exhausting initial visit, he gave our son a remedy called Thuja. After the first dose we observed large amount of nasal discharge. After the second dose increased awareness and movement in mouth area. He started sticking his tongue out and move it much more easily. He became much more aware of his surroundings. These were all good, obviously something was working. However as he became more aware, he started visual stimming. It was extremely nerve wrecking for us and lasted 2 months. We even wrote to Amy, skeptical about the remedy selection. She told us this was very common. It was a way for kids to overcome the anxiety that\'s caused by awareness. Pierre Fontaine also recommended red clay bath. First bath relaxed him so much he slept almost 12 hours straight. Second one caused rash on his lips and cheeks, in 2-3 days it dissappeared and he became much more affectionate. We repeated Thuja few more times, and used few other remedies for some acute illnesses. One remedy that we used for an acute condition worked great for him. It\'s Mercurius Cyanatus. He had bad breath and always repeating dry cough. This remedy to this day helps him. Our son is now 3.5 years old. He's been talking for last 6 months. He started reading before talking. We knew he was able to read but didn't know how much since he didn't talk. He is very connected, still getting speech, "modified" ABA, OT, PT, all other services. He's a very funny, smart little boy, no longer autistic. He still has some social issues and he gets sick very often. Our main goals are for him to engage with other kids also find THE remedy to touch him on a deeper level and resolve the tendency of getting sick. Feel free to e-mail us any questions, we would be happy to share any info that we know with you. Deniz's parents

Posted: 2008-02-29 Contributed by: Ali Hasan from San Jose, CA (the.ali.hasan@gmail.com) Primary complaint: Autism (Update) Hello Amy, It has been about a year since my last email regarding our son, Amaan. I often get emails from readers of this website, so decided to give an update to you, and to the visitors of your website. Pardon me if this gets too long, but there are many things that I want to share. I have a tendency to ramble on, so bear with me while I indulge. Before going over a list of some of the things we have seen improvements in, I\'d like to underscore the point that progress is not quick. It has been slow. It has now been more than 2 years since we started homeopathic treatment for Amaan. We used to get really depressed reading some of the stories on this page, which talk about cures within days or weeks. But since we have been keeping daily notes on Amaan since the day we started his treatment, we always go back and check to see what improvements we have seen from day to day, or week to week. Progress is slow, but it is steady. And there are frequent paybacks that make us want to keep going; like the first time Amaan ran to me and gave me a big hug as I walked in the door in the evening. For about the first year, we were just trying to fix the digestive problems. Constipation mainly. Once that was out of the way, we started peeling the onion of \"everything else\". Quite a few times, we\'d see an improvement, it would stick around a few days, and then go away. For example, about 3-4 months ago after a remedy, Amaan started babbling quite a bit, like he was about ready to talk. Said one or two sentences even. But then that went away after 2 days or so. Now, that same type of babbling is back, and thankfully seems to be sticking. It has been a couple of weeks now and he had not stopped it. As it was with you Amy, so it is with us, in that we find that prayer helps a lot. It gives one the faith to continue to carry on when things seem bleak. For example, for us, when we see some big improvement and then see it disappear, rather than giving up in dispair that things are not working, we are able to look at it and say: \"This means that the capability to do this is in there, within our child. We saw it! It got away this time. But we\'ll get it again.\" Another interesting observation we have is the \"rewind\" function of homeopathy that we\'d read about. Quite a few symptoms that exhibited when Amaan\'s autism was starting seem to come back, albeit with much less severity and for a much shorter duration, and then as they go away, Amaan seems to have taken yet another step away from Autism. One example from about a year ago: Amaan used to keep taking his clothes off. Then that behaviour stopped. The day we started giving him Sulphur, he could NOT keep his clothes on. It seemed as if instead of improving, he had taken a turn for the worse. We called Dr. Bashir Malik in a panic and told him. He said that it was great thing, and we should be thankful that Sulphur is working so well. \"What do you mean working well?! He seems to have lost the gains he made in the last 4 months!\" But the next day, not only did he stop running around without his pants, but in the afternoon, out of the blue, he grabbed the blocks his sister had strewn all over the floor, stacked them in a tower 9-10 blocks high and knocked them over! Stacking blocks was something his school had been trying to get him to do for ages and ages, and he would never even attempt to stack even 2 blocks. In the assesment that the public school psychologist had done for him she cited his inability to be able to stack one block on top of another as proof that Amaan could not benefit from services being provided by the public school in the Autism class and so should be moved to a class for the mentally retarded. And here he was, stacking all the blocks he could reach. This pattern, seemingly going to the level of expert from zero, without apparently taking the smaller steps in between, has been typical of the improvements we see. These are step functions, and not gradual slopes of improvement. Rather than first learning to stack one, then two, then more, Amaan went from not stacking to stacking many. We see so many improvements now, with things that we never even realised needed fixing. We would always just worry about his lack of communication, but as we are seeing the changes in him, we are realizing just how much Autism had affected the child within, and without. * Amaan had never been ticklish. We figured so what, lots of people are just not ticklish. It did seem strange, since all kids break out in giggles if they are poked in the side, but not Amaan. Now though, Amaan is very ticklish. You just have to wiggle your fingers close to him and he starts rolling around in fits of giggles. :-) * Amaan never turned and twisted while sleeping. He\'d wake up in the same pose that he\'d gone to sleep in. Whereas our daughter rotates about 420 degrees around all three (!) axes during the night. Again, we figured that it was good thing which maybe showed he was sleeping peacefully. Now though, he does move around while sleeping. I am not sure what this means, but I suspect this also means that sensation is coming back to all parts of the body, and that what we thought was a good thing was, in actual fact, a bad thing. * He has become a very mischievous child. Loves to stand in front of the TV when his sister is watching her favorite show. Occasionally even stands in front of the TV with a big cushion in his hands, and giggles when his sister whines. Very typical kid behaviour, which we\'d never seen from him. He now takes all the toy cups with him to the bathroom and plays in the sink with them. Whenever we don\'t see him around, we can always find him in the upstairs bathroom with his plastic cups, sitting in the sink and filling up cups and pouring the water here and there. The mess he makes playing is a breath of fresh air for us. This is the child who would just sit in a corner and bite his nails or walk around in circles looking at the floor. * His comprehension is way way better now. Whereas before, it was in such a state that we had hearing tests done for him, because it seemed that he couldn\'t even hear us. Now, we expect him to understand and follow simple directions. Like asking him to pick something up and give it to us. To go and get his shoes etc. He understands directions given in Urdu (our tongue) at home, as well as in English at his speech therapy sessions and in school (at PACE preschool.) * He is consistently saying the Urdu words for Mom and Dad now. Says Go Go Go, when he wants to go out. Last night, we were driving and were stuck in traffic, and he said \"Go Go Go Abba (Dad).\" He is also babbling quite a bit now, in long strings. His speech therapist also has very encouraging things to say about him. She says that she is watching Amaan get better from the inside-out. She says she has watched the child in him wake up over the last 6 or so months. * Last week his old pre-school teacher from PACE did a developmental therapy session with him. (She had quit her job last august, and had not seen him for ~6 months.) A few minutes into the session, she came out and said that she needed to get a whole bunch of more stuff for him to work on. Based on what she expected, she had prepared a task for him to do for the hour, but he\'d finished it right away. She was reasonably impressed. :-) I think this is quite enough for now! Once again, thank you Amy for showing us the way. I hope to be able to share with you the fact of Amaan being completely cured some time soon. --ali. P.S. I also decided to get myself some \"Homeopathic Tuning\", and that fixed things I didn\'t realise were broken in me!! I am a much happier and healthier person now. But that story some other time.

Posted: 2007-12-30 Contributed by: Lisa from Hobart Primary complaint: Autism We have been working with a classical homeopath for almost a year now and the results have been amazing. We knew our son was different the moment he was born. We began interventions at the age of 26 months because he was not speaking. We did a lot of Floortime and some biomedical interventions and he made progress, but he was still behind his peers. After growing disappointed with the DAN! protocol, we switched to homeopathy in January 2007. I was worried that my son would not be able to handle the type of work in a Kindergarten classroom, nor would he be able to communicate with his peers appropriately. At our parent-teacher conference in December 2007, all of our fears were laid to rest. He is doing all the work on his own with very little direction, he initiates contact with his peers, he has shown empathy towards other classmates and his teacher kept saying they were amazed at how well he was doing, given his history. We still have some areas to work on, but I am very confident that homeopathy can help my son get over some of the stumbling blocks currently in his way, leading to a very bright, very smooth future.

Posted: 2007-11-23 Contributed by: Jeanette Fransen from Sedona Primary complaint: Autism My daughter Lexi was dignosed a few long months after my son Jax was diagnosed both with autiem. We did the GF, CF, Sor Free, corn free all organic, rotation diet. We used the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, quantum bio feed back, and homeopathic drops, supplements and a lot of prayers. My little girl was \"CURED\" in a few long months. My son we are still working with but he has made a lot of improvement. Dr. Alan Ketover is a great Dr. in Paradise valley AZ If you have the ability to go to a D.A.N. conference go. You will learn so much. Jeanette Fransen You can always e-mail me regarding this matter. nettiefransen@gmail.com

Posted: 2007-11-14 Contributed by: Brian Giles from Othello, WA (brian99344@gmail.com) Primary complaint: Autism I'm not sure I can put into words the feelings of gratitude we have for Dr. Luepker and our introduction to Homeopathic care. Our son's story probably begins the same as a lot of autistic children. His diagnosis of autism came as a surprise to us but as a relief that we could put a name to what was happening to our little boy. His autism wasn' t only a diagnosis but it was his prison. His life was controlled by his obsessions which consisted of the color red, lining things up, playing in water (flushing the toilet approximately 20 times a day) playing with his spit and feces, flapping his hands, wanting to be squeezed, ripping paper, and spinning. He experienced constant diarrhea and he was very picky about what food he would eat. He didn't mind playing by himself and refused to play with other children which led to virtually no social skills. At 2 1/2 he could only speak 5 words and his frustration from his inability to communicate usually resulted in fits of crying. He had poor coordination and low motor skills. He would focus on one thing and could do it for hours such as ripping paper or watching water flow from the sink. Then when Parker was 3 1/2 we met with Dr. Luepker and our little Parker who seemed like a boy lost in the fog of uncontrol, was found. After only one week of giving Parker the remedy Dr. Luepker supplied, Parker's obsessions began to clear. His obsessions with red, his spit and feces, and lining things up began to disappeared. Slowly, as the months went on we would see improvements almost weekly. He began signing songs, talking in sentences, and communicating. His appetite grew and by putting him on the gluten free diet his diarrhea cleared. The spinning, the ripping, and the flapping all decreased, and for once he began to actually look at us as though we were more than just objects. He looked at us, hugged us, and communicated with us. At the age of 4 Parker was potty trained which was something we weren\'t sure we were ever going to see happen. Today Parker will eat anything put in front of him. He sleeps almost 10 hours a night and he lives life like clock work. He still thrives with order but enjoys using his imagination and playing with other children. His coordination is typical for any 5 year old as is his learning abilities. Parker has been in school since he was 2 1/2 and now at 5 is in a regular kindergarden class. He still likes to spend a little time ripping paper and continues flapping his hands when he gets excited, but the fog has cleared and he is a very happy person. For us the challenges are not over, but the day we found Homeopathic care, we found hope and 2 1/2 years later we have found unimaginable success. "Thank you Dr. Luepker" just doesn't seem like enough!

Posted: 2007-08-16 Contributed by: Peggy from McLean (Contributor Email) Primary complaint: Allergies I come from a family of conventional doctors and was brought up by conventional medicine, believing in antibiotics, antihistimines, etc., until my son was born. He led me into a world of homeopathy. He was diagnosed with allergies and eczema since birth. I took him to numerous conventional medicine doctors. They told me there was no cure. You don\'t know the hopelessness I felt when all those allopathic doctors doomed my son to a life of no hope. I realized the dangers of continuous antibiotics and antihistamines as prolong treatments for chonic diseases. They merely suppress the bodies immune systems. I discovered homeopathy through a friend\'s recommendation. And I thank God I have found a solution for my son\'s medical problems. Through classical homeopathy and nutritional diet, I have been able to minimize his allergies and his eczema. The homeopathic two laws: Like cures Like and Law of the Minimum to me are the two most powerful principals in medicine. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, came up with two laws to treat illnesses. Law of Contrary which the conventional medicine uses and Law of Minimum which the homeopaths practice. Let me tell you, my whole family uses homeopathy now. My husband had vertigo, and again at the ER, the doctor said \"There was no cure\" and just prescribed an anhistamine, which made him lie in bed the whole day. He had to wait it out. I panicked and brought him to the homeopathic doctor. He was up and about and was able to function, helping me with household chores, the next day. Another time, his back gave way and was lying in bed helpless. And I rang up the homeopathic doctor. He was up and about in three days and in one week he could walk and move about without pain. As for myself, taking care of a baby is not easy. I had back problems and the flu. At which point, the homeopathic doctor prescribed something which helped me get better within hours. You never know the power of homeopathy until you try. And I pray everyday that we advance toward the goal of integrative medicine. Because I believe that is the future of medicine. We must open an educational facility to educate the next generation of doctors in homeopathy.

Posted: 2007-07-24 Contributed by: Heinrich from South Africa (heinrich@georigin.com) Primary complaint: Autism My son was also diagnosed with Autism 6 months ago. He is now 3 years and 1 month old. I would like to share with you what route we followed since his diagnosing. And in my opinion he is fast on the way to a full recovery. We did a few things that I will list that worked for us: 1. We took him to a homeopath that immediately detoxed his MMR vaccination. Within a few days a boy who had regressed badly, did not talk, had repetitive behaviour, had no eye contact and zere social skills, began to make a tremndous improvement. Suddenly the smile was back when he was a little boy, he started to run again. He has been on homepathic treatment ever since and is gradually making an improvemnt day by day. 2. We invested in a high level water filter to filter for metal toxins in the water. 3. We started with speech therapy, 2 sessions a week. 4. We started with horse riding therapy sessions, 2 a week. Since he has started this 2 months ago he has improved immensely. 5. Remedial therapy once every 2 weeks. 6. and lots of love While it will be difficult to say what weight each point has on his steady recovery I belive that the homeopath saved his and our lives. He is now a happy little boy, steadily making progress with his speech, with hundreds of words where he had maybe 10 words 6 months ago. He is more socially active and makes very good eye contact. We will enroll him into a normal kindergarden next month. It chills my blood to think that the Doctor who has diagnosed him said that he will have to be go to a special school and we will have to look after him for the rest of our life. He could not be more wrong. How many more children did he send to special schools who could be treated? I truly believe that there are many of these children who has an illness or has been afflicted by a vaccination, they feel very bad every day of their lives but they cannot tell us, and they start to revert into themselves thinking \'hey, this is life\". While there are of course still a lot of work to be done with our little boy, I believe he is definetaly not autistic anymore. This view is shared by both his speech and remedial therapist and another child psychiatrist. Good luck

Posted: 2007-06-09 Contributed by: Erica from North Port (mcphee.family@verizon.net) Primary complaint: dish detergent in eye causing swelling, redness This morning while I was in the bathroom, my 1 year old decided to take the Palmolive dish detergent and "paint" our newly painted entrance way with it. Normally we use Seventh Generation which is clear and non-toxic but we had the bright green other stuff because it cleans Lovebugs off cars and lately we've been inundated with them and they'll ruin the paint on your car if you don't get them off. Anyway, my poor little one's right eye was almost completely swollen shut, fire-y red and blotchy. I spent about 15 minutes trying to rinse her eye at the kitchen sink and it just was not getting any better. So I put her in the tub and poured water over it again and again for another 15 minutes and it still was not getting better. The baby was so upset as was I! I thought about giving her a remedy and I considered Apis Mellifica and Allium Cepa. But she had just taken remedy earlier in the week for Croup and I did not want to interfere with anything that might still be working. I suddenly had an idea and while my 10 year old daughter watched the baby in the tub, I quickly made a 10x "remedy" by dropping 1 drop of the dish detergent into an 8 oz. glass of water. I gently stirred this and took 1 drop of this water and added it to a 16 oz. bottle of spring water after I'd emptied out about 1/4 of it. I succussed it 10x and emptied all but a tiny bit, refilled it, and then succussed it again. I did this 10 times. There was never enough of the original "soap water" to make soap bubbles and after diluting it 10 times I was confident it was safe to use as a rinse. Being a photographer, I always have my camera nearby and I decided to take a before picture to see if it made any difference. I then poured about 1/2 of the solution over the baby's eye and forehead. She was *not* happy! But... within about 15 seconds her eye opened and the redness went down a little... About 8 minutes later, the eye was completely open and the redness was much better! I took her out of the tub and within 30 minutes, the eye was completely better and the baby was happy again!!! :-) Hooray! See pictures here: www.pearlofhealth.blogspot.com. Picture 1 - Pre-remedy but about 30 minutes post washing the eye with water. Picture 2 - 15 seconds after remedy wash. Picture 3 - 8 minutes after remedy wash. Picture 4 - 30 minutes after remedy wash.

Posted: 2007-04-09 Contributed by: Ali Hasan from San Jose, CA (the.ali.hasan@gmail.com) Primary complaint: Autism I'd sent out an email of Thanks to Amy for writing the book and pointing us in the direction of a cure for our son. She suggested I put my story here. So I come here, and imagine my surprise, there is another story on here mentioning our Doctor!! Bashir Malik, from Lahore, Pakistan! Whoa! Attached is the email I'd sent to Amy, with some details on our son, Amaan, added. =================================================== Hi Amy, First and foremost, my wife Fareeha and I would like to say thank you very very much for your book. Our son, Amaan, who will turn 5 in June, was diagnosed with Autism when he was 3 years and 3 months old. He was a typically developing child until around 1.5 years old or so, and then slowly started changing in front of us. We didn\'t know what was going on for a quite a while. Our daughter was born just around then, and she was born 2 months early. Fareeha had to stay in the hospital for a while, and then our daughter was in the hospital for about 2 months, so we were back and forth for a while there. We thought he was just disturbed because of that, and maybe a bit jealous of the new arrival and will get better. But he didn\'t. He kept getting worse. We would take him to the Doctors, and they would say they don\'t see anything wrong. Eventually, after about a year and a half of stress and running around, we were told that he is autistic. We didn\'t know what that meant. We hit Google, and were totally devastated! We "discovered" your book in December of the year 2005, again while using Google to try to find cures. Incidentally, our Pediatrician, the Psychologist at the public school, and pretty much the whole "medical" establishment was telling us that there is no cure. Your book gave us hope. Being from Pakistan, we were familiar with homeopathy, but had never thought of it in connection with Autism. Our son is being treated by a Homeopath who is a close family friend of ours. We have seen huge changes in Amaan over the last year and few months, since we started the treatment. * The crankiness is gone. GONE! * The waking up in the nights crying went away in a week! * He isn't avoiding people anymore. No more sitting in a corner chewing his nails for Amaan. He now actively searches out for people and engages them in play. * His eye contact is total now. * He has started playing with toys now, whereas before he'd only walk around in circles or sit and stare in the distance. * He loves wrestling with me now. Only a dad would be able to imagine the despair I'd felt when Amaan had stopped wrestling with me... he was around 20 months or so when he quit doing that. Well, he started doing it again 6 months ago. Infact, apart from not talking, there isn\'t anything that would set him apart from any other kid. Amman attends PACE (Pacific Autism Center for Education here, in San Jose) these days. (We have horror stories from the public school he attended for 8 months, but that is another story). His instructors are amazed at the changes they see in him from week to week with the homeopathic remedies! Fareeha and Amaan are currently in Pakistan, so the Doctor (H. Dr. Bashir Malik) can observe Amaan closely and in detail, and so we can get the remedies for him right away. It has been a challenge getting the remedies from Pakistan, as some of the Potencies that Dr. Malik uses don't seem to be available here over the web, and we have to wait till we can find someone who would hand-carry the remedies for us. (He uses MMMM type potencies occasionally.) We just wanted to drop you an email to thank you for pointing us in the correct direction. You book gave us hope. We have the results in front of us now, and we are still seeing results on a daily basis. --ali.

Posted: 2007-04-05 Contributed by: machele masterson from williamsville (thegriswals@yahoo.com) Primary complaint: autism My son Brendan was a normal healthy boy. He hit all the milestones at the correct age. We took him for his 18 month mmr vaccine, that night everything changed. He was screaming very angry unable to sit. That night when we put him to bed he woke up with a scream that sounded like a cat that was in a fight. Within minutes he started with a cough that sounded like the croupe. I said with him all night with a steam shower running. I called the Doctor the next day and he said that he had the croupe and he will be fine. However,from that night on he did not sleep all he did was cry and scream and rage all night long. When this was going on he would run away like he had no idea who we were. By the age of 2years old he ripped our bedroom door off the hinges. It would take my husband and myself to hold him down to change him. He was so pwerful. He seemed angry and unable to sit. He could not speak, only point or hit something he wanted. He no longer would eat food he only wanted milk or cereal. Then one day someone refered us to a homeopath named Sally Williams. She saved our sons life 4years lated he is a normal 6 year old boy. He goes to a normal school. If I did not tell anyone what happend to hime no one would know that he was ever autistic. Brendan has gone into complete recovery after going through sally\'s program. My whole family goes to her know. Sally Williams and homeopathy saved my sons life. He is know reading and writing, and playing sports and going on sleepovers at other peoples homes. Sally took a child who was unable to function in society to a normal boy. You must understand here are just a few things that we were not able to do with him: wash or cut his hair, give him a bath in summer could not wear shorts or short sleeves, he was always cold, it could be 80 out and he would want to wear a sweater. He would never play in a pool. He could not handle the beach. never any music or any noise was tolereated by him. My list could go on and on. All I know is that I could not thank Sally Williams enough for giving my whole son back to me. I believe in her and the program and recommend this to anyone. If your child has become autistic i highly recommend that you give Sally Willaims a call. Thank you, Machele Masterson

Posted: 2007-03-16 Contributed by: Kristin S. from San Antonio Primary complaint: Unexplained nerve pain everywhere Hi Amy, As funny as this may sound, I'm writing to share my story with you after promising the doctor who cured me in Pakistan that I would do so. I haven't had a chance to get your book yet (we landed yesterday), but he insisted so ferverently that I tell you what happened that no wasn't an option . Ironically in route to Pakistan the year before (January 2006), I thought I might be developing a cavity in one of my back teeth on the left side. The pain spread to my left ear as well so I figured maybe I was getting a cold (and thus an earache). Suddenly lighting bolts of pain began to flash through my head, and all I could do was scream and cry. The pain would come on slowly, last a torturous hour or two, then die down bit by bit. I begged my husband to do anything--ANYTHING--to stop the pain. We consulted 6 or 7 local doctors ranging from dentists to ENT specialists. No one had any idea why I was in so much pain. Dental x-rays and a CT scan looked normal. An internal medicine specialist pinpointed the pain to my trigeminal nerve and prescribed so many medicines that I spent the rest of my vacation sleeping away the side effects. The pain left as suddenly as it had come and since no one had any explanations, my curiosity faded with the passage of time. In April 2006, I started leaking breast milk without any known reason (galactorrhea). Though my hormone tests were ultimately normal, I ended up switching doctors after hearing my own OB-GYN tell me she wouldn't believe me unless she saw it herself. Needless to say, her jaw dropped when I unbuttoned my shirt with a sigh, only to be asked..."Do you really really want another baby?" AH! It continued all year long until October 2006 when I began to feel very tired. Much to my surprise, I learned I was pregnant again. Just weeks after learning the good news, I had a miscarriage on December 15th. At the same time, I came down with a horrible sinus infection and lo and behold, on December 28th...a strangely familiar toothache..then earache insued. This time I went to see a neurologist and was told I was probably in the early stages of MS with trigeminal neuralgia. Within days I had severe shooting pains in other parts of my body, much to his surprise. I was sent for a brain MRI (with contrast), which again looked normal. I went for a second opinion and was sent through a new battery of tests: a neck MRI, a diagnostic mammogram, 20+ blood tests, and a spinal tap (done under fluroscopy, but the unlucky doctor managed to hit every nerve in the area, and I spent 30 minutes screaming, naked, & tilted at a 45 degree angle on a bed being skewered alive. No joke.) There was talk of Lyme disease or early MS again. Severe chest pains sent me to the ER for the umpteeth time so I got the heart attack panel too. I was doped up with carbamazepine but left it because I wanted to be able to care for my son--something I could barely do on zombie medicine. At this point my husband (as you may have guessed, a Pakistani) suggested we consult the first doctor in Pakistan who had at least stifled the symptoms. After taking the 24 hour flight with a toddler in tow, we met the first doctor who suggested all kinds of pain killers but could offer no explanation. We got unsolicited advice from other familiy members (fresh out of med school) which I politely declined. Then my mother-in-law suggested a homeopathic doctor who had fixed her allergy problem.... Walking into Dr. Bashir Malik's clinic, I was informed he was best at restoring vital forces that were out of alignment. What exactly was a vital force anyway? But since those had yet to be examined, I was game. I was imagining a dark room filled with candles and incense, but much to my surprise, we sat down in a cheery waiting room filled with calligraphy from the Quran. After taking my complete medical history (starting with a catfish that landed whisker side down in my toe at age 7), he gave me a dropper full of medicine that instantly warmed my hands and toes. For as long as I could remember, I figured those parts of my body simply lacked circulation, but suddenly I was no longer popsicle toes in bed! Several days later I was singing the praises of homeopathy as my symptoms were dying down. A week later I began taking the medicine on an as-needed basis, and as I write to you today, I am more energic than I have been in months (though drowning in medical bills for all those fun stateside tests). As it turned out, I was suffering from brain/spinal injuries (hence the sporatic nerve pain) and metal toxicity. While hindsight is 20/20, I groan to think of all the extra baggage those tests probably added to my body (20 needle pricks can't be good for one's toxin level). The ironic part is my father spent the greatest part of his life working for Eli Lilly (located in Indianapolis, IN). I had no idea pharmaceutical companies were driving out alternative medicine, but I guess I've got to pick up a copy of your book to learn more about that! Sharing my struggle was my part of the bargain when western medicine failed so I've tried to mention every last detail. Thanks for your avant garde work in a field that more people should and can know about... May my story cheer you on in all your efforts- Best regards, Kristin S. San Antonio, Texas

Posted: 2007-02-15 Contributed by: Karin from Austin Primary complaint: Autism My son had a completely wonderful and normal babyhood. He was cooing and interacting and had the most infectious laugh. He did have some colic, but we took it in stride. He was crawling by 6 months and walking by 11 months. I wish I had never started his vaccinations at 6 months, but even though I was concerned and had delayed vaccination, I was still too afraid because of propaganda to go completely vaccination free. I falsely reasoned that he would be able to handle them because he was completely breastfed and completely healthy and that this was probably one of his healthiest times of his life for his immune system to deal with vaccination. We started with DTaP and Polio and HiB. At 8 months he had his very first illness, an upper respiratory infection. used homeopathy and he came through it just fine. He received the MMR at 18 months. At that point his development still seemed OK, but he had started to develop some things that I would later find out were autistic symptoms. He never hand flapped or rocked or did some of the things that would have definitely triggered concerns in me with what little knowledge I did have of Autism. His speech was delayed, he verbally stimmed (although I did not know that was what it was that he was doing), and he did not point or bring toys to me like most children would do. I did not realize he was not doing those last two developmental milestones until later when he was diagnosed. He also lost general eye contact and while still attached and playful with us, he completely ignored everyone else in the world. I began attempting to potty train him after his second birthday but it was useless because not only was he not ready but he wasn't talking and I couldn't adequately communicate with him. I thought to myself that surely he would be talking by age three and at that point we would try again. The only doctor visits he ever had were "well check-ups" and we went in for an annual one at three years of age. This time we went to a family doctor instead of our regular pediatrician. Prior to this when he went for well-baby checkups and at his 1-year and 18 month and 2-year check-ups, his pediatrician would ask me about his language development. He would say something like "Does your son have 70 words?" My mouth would drop open in disbelief and I would say "NO.. maybe more like 10". Each time the pediatrician would reassure me about different levels of development and "being a boy" and things like that. At his two year checkup I actually wrote down every word that my son had but it was nowhere near the level he was supposed to have. I was still reassured during the brief visit. At the three year checkup the family doctor said my son needed some "speech therapy" and that he needed to be potty trained. I felt guilty and left without even a referral. I also allowed the family doctor to start the Hepatitis B series of vaccinations because I knew my son would need them for school. The next month I read an article that advised that I could have my son evaluated by the local school district for free and I figured that maybe he could get "speech therapy" through the school. I had never heard of early intervention or any other program and the family doctor had not given me any other resource. I had to wait a couple of months for the school to open because it was now Summer. So, that September, I called and got the ball rolling for the School to evaluate him. In the meantime as my son was getting the Hepatitis B vaccinations that Summer, he was spiraling downward into a world of autism. The day that he lined up his cars in a row, I took a picture of it thinking he had done something brilliant and unusual. Unusual was right! I didn't realize how different he was from my friend's children because we just still enjoyed him so much and were used to his idiosyncrasies. Our friends and family were very concerned but not saying so to us. When they found out we were going for evaluation they kept expressing how supportive they would be for us and I couldn't understand why they looked so relieved. At our first visit to the school for a play-based evaluation - I couldn't believe how my son could just look right through the evaluators as if they weren't there. I was shocked. He played with the toys but it was almost as if the other people didn't exist. When they asked me to leave the room to see his reaction, he had no reaction. They asked me many, many questions about stereo-typical autism behaviors but never used the "A" word with me. In my mind I could not understand why they were asking me about Autism. That first day I went home and did an internet search about Autism. I pulled up tons of information and as I read the information about the Autism SPECTRUM my husband said immediately "That's it. Our son has Autism". I still couldn't really believe it but it was undeniable. I immediately booked an appointment with his pediatrician who hadn't seen our son in over a year because we had been to the family doctor instead. The next week we went in and I expressed my concerns and the Pediatrician said that my son was definitely on the spectrum within 5 minutes of being in the room with us and gave me a referral to a Pediatric Neurologist. In the meantime we were still going to a follow up appointment with an autism specialist at the school. They finally said the word to me at one of the follow up visits and by that time I already knew. During this one-month period my son had an EEG, bloodwork, MRI and whatever else the Neurologist wanted and everyone came back with the same explanation. He was autistic, he should start school, and his future was completely unknown. We never saw the pediatric neurologist again or any other medical doctor. There was nothing they could do. The school enrolled him in the Pre-school Program for Children with Disabilities. I had to send my three year old to school instead of have him home with me for the next two years. I began to read and delve into the world of Autism and I went to conferences and we finally started "speech therapy". Life moved along but it was so different than it had been. My son was very stimmy at this point, he had lost a lot of the words he had been able to say, and he was in his own world. I discontinued all vaccinations. He never got that third Hepatitis B shot and no boosters or Chicken Pox or anything else that was on the schedule. I didn't know if vaccinations were a problem or not but I was not taking any more chances. Speech therapy did not help my son to talk. School did not help my son to talk. I desperately wanted to talk with him. Two years after his diagnosis, I attended a conference where I learned about Thimerosal and other possible causal factors as well as bio-medical treatment. I had dabbled with homeopathy going to a couple of different practitioners during those two years, but was not getting anywhere and although I loved homeopathy and used it in the family for everything else, I did not have confidence that homeopathy and a single remedy was going to help my son with his complex issues. I could not imagine there was a simillimum for all the variety of symptoms my son had. But I was looking. I was reading every single remedy description in my materia medica and I was trying to find someone who I had heard of that had successful treatment with homeopathy. I was getting very close to trying chelation and some of the other DAN! treatments. I finally heard about Amy Lansky's book and ordered it. I was so encouraged by her story, but her son's background was different than my son's and I couldn't see how to proceed nor who I could access to help me in my area. I attended the conference of National Center for Homeopathy in the Spring of 2005 and went to the session on Autism Spectrum and listened as Amy and other homeopaths discussed the use of homeopathy in the treatment of ASD. I was very encouraged but I was also dismayed by a lot of people saying that the parents needed to have their expectations adjusted. That total cure might not be possible. That the parents needed to be treated for their issues so that they could better accept their child's plight. I heard lots of stories of improvement, but the emphasis was on that it would take a very long time and that it might not bring the child totally back. I left that conference more determined than ever to use homeopathy but nervous as to whether it was the right decision because I was hearing of full recovery stories through chelation and other treatments. I did not want to put chelating chemicals into my son but I didn't feel that I had time to pursue a long slow cure through a single remedy approach. My son was closing in on his 6th birthday. I had a good friend who was a classical homeopath who wanted to take my son's case. She had never treated a child with an ASD however so it would be new ground. We left that conference together determined to find our way. Less than a month later she would get the terrible news that her husband's cancer had come back and her attention was rightfully diverted to him. I went back to the internet and started searching for help for Autism through Homeopathy. I ordered an expensive set of videos from a famous homeopath who was having success however he was about 2000 miles away from us. Then one day I stumbled onto an e-mail list about the use of something called Sequential Homeopathy in the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. I had never heard of Sequential Homeopathy, but the anecdotal stories I was hearing and the discussion by the homeopath with interested parents was intriguing to say the least. I listened in for about a month, asked questions and feeling the pressure of my son's 6th birthday and his inability to communicate with me... we decided to take the plunge with Sequential Homeopathy. It seemed like I was somehow led to this decision because not only did they have great answers to my questions but they were located only 2 hours away from me! We began treatment two weeks before my son's 6th birthday which was in early June. I was very excited because their approach was to work backwards through my son's timeline and work on the assaults his immune system had received through vaccinations and other things that he had experienced in his brief life. We started seeing results within the first month. The changes in our son that Summer were unbelievable to us. He developed new language skills every month after we would have an appointment and get a new set of remedies. His imagination began to develop. He started playing in a whole new way including with other children. He was pretending! He taught himself to swim. He went from being a child who would not put his head in the water to diving down to the deep end of a swimming pool to retrieve a toy and swimming across the pool, in one month's time! He was changing before our eyes and I have a journal of stories and notes and things that he did that he had never done before. That first year of treatment he began to speak in sentences and his vocabulary exploded. When he started School that Fall he was placed into a general education Kindergarten class (he was six, but I had requested to hold him back) with the support of an aide. He could not hold his pencil very well and all he could do was scribble. Within a few months he was drawing very detailed pictures even in small spaces. The School expected him to fail in the general education classroom so they had put him in there to indulge me with the expectation that he would have to be returned to the self-contained classroom. Within three weeks at the beginning of the school year they had an ARD meeting where they informed me that he would be staying in the general education classroom. They explained to me... "We just had no idea he would improve so much during the Summer." We continued to have appointments with our Sequential Homeopath - who is Lindyl Lanham of the Houston Center of Homeopathy. She treated him with a large variety of homeopathic remedies and some other supportive supplements to keep yeast issues at bay and help his immune system be able to detox. He made new gains and improvements every single month. He took his remedies very willingly and even asked me to give them to him at times because he knew they were helping him. He changed completely from the boy he was and he came out of the world of Autism and into the world of interaction and communication and social experiences. We are now almost two years from the point where we started. Our son talks non-stop!!! He has friends and goes to sleep-overs; he has an amazing imagination; he is showing a lot of artistic talent as his drawings become more and more impressive; he has overcome some incredible sensory problems. I did not even talk yet about his sensory issues. He used to scream like he was being tortured when he would have to get his haircut. This led to him having military haircuts for his early childhood because we would cut it as short as possible in order to do it less often. Today he jumps up into the chair and converses with the woman who cuts his hair and he laughs and he tells himself in the mirror that he is so handsome! He used to gag and choke at trying to eat certain foods. He would hold a piece of meat in his mouth for over an hour rather than chew it and swallow it! He couldn't handle any food that was too soft. Today he eats anything and dinner is no longer stressful. The word stressful is actually an understatement to what it used to be like to try to feed him. There is much more to this story than I have remembered to write here. I have been typing for over an hour though and I don't know if anyone has the patience to read this whole thing anyway. I just wanted to share that parents should never give up or feel that it is too late. There are answers. I am so happy and blessed to have my son back. I don't know what would have happened if we had not found Sequential Homeopathy. I don't even want to think about that. Thankfully I don't have to.

Posted: 2006-12-17 Contributed by: Barbara Napholtz from Gillette, NJ (bnapholtz@verizon.net) Primary complaint: Chronic sinus infection As of September, 1999, I was a very healthy woman who rarely needed to see a doctor and who had taken a course of antibiotics a handful of times over the course of my 43 years. All that changed when I developed a chronic sinus infection that did not respond to any antibiotic treatment. As the months progressed, the infectious drip caused me to develop serious chronic asthma, which responded only to steroids. I suddenly found myself relying on a daily steroid inhaler, occasional oral steroids, constant antibiotics and a rescue inhaler that was always with me. Sinus surgery in September 2000, and a second, more extensive surgery involving areas close to my eyes and brain in August, 2003 did not restore me to good health. After a year of post-surgical antibiotics I was referred to an infectious diseases doctor, who assaulted the bacteria in my head with mega-doses of antibiotics. By Spring, 2006, my body had had enough. I began seeing a homeopath in April, 2006. I have been antibiotic-free, steroid-free, inhaler-free and practically decongestant-free since that time. I have regained my ability to smell and taste completely. Homeopathy has become a way of life -- now, rather than resorting to the traditional medicines in our bathroom cabinet, I\'ll consult my homeopathy books first and check out the standard kit my homeopath had me buy. To say that homeopathy has given me back my life is putting it mildly.

Posted: 2006-12-01 Contributed by: Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA) from Mountain View (Olenev@att.net) Primary complaint: PDD Autism Dear Friends at the Group, I have not written for a long time, but was inspired to write today about a little boy who just turned two this month. His mother is a special ed teacher in a public school, working with autistic kids. Her little boy was not formally diagnosed, but her feeling was that he would have received a PDD autistic diagnosis. Prior to his treatment his mom said that three people told her to be prepared that her son would probably be on the spectrum. He started on Phosphorous LM1 on October 24th , 2006 and is now on his second bottle. I was so impressed with how well he is doing that I asked his mom if I could share his information with the group, and she said that she would be happy for me to do so. Toddler\'s Chart of Symptoms after one month on Phosphorous LM1 followed by Phosphorous LM2 Better He is starting to imitate speech and motor movement, and what his sister is doing, which he has never done before. Irritability has been better overall. Chronic constipation is better. He still every once in awhile has one that seems to cause him pain. BM’s are getting more regular. Gassiness is hit and miss. It is connected with what he has eaten. Overall not as bad as it used to be. Night sweats have not been happening. Low energy 2 to 4 p.m. is better. He is not consistently detached then. Restlessness has dramatically improved. He is now sitting still for five to six books at a session. Prior to the remedy his mother said, "My son has a great deal of difficulty sitting still. He rarely sits through a whole board book, and it must have some interactive quality or he won\'t even attempt it." Hitting and banging head on objects when he is angry has decreased by 80%, because his overall mood is happier. He is not doing the behaviors that he tends to do when he is upset as much, because he is not upset as often. The intensity of the moods is the same, but the frequency of unhappy moods is less. If he gets hurt it is still dramatic. He will sob for 20 minutes about it. Performing tasks rigidly is better. Now that he is starting to imitate, he is starting to see that there are other ways to do things. Before cars had to be on the ramp, now we can run it on his arm and he will enjoy that. Temper tantrums have decreased in the overall frequency, but the intensity is the same. Shyness is better. Not trying to hide when he doesn’t want to acknowledge somebody. Putting his fingers in his ears to pop them is not as much. It seems to happen when he has a cold or has water in his ear from a bath. He is moving through upper respiratory infections a lot quicker. Playing is better. He is now seeking out other people to play with and wanting people to engage with him. He is playing well independently, as well as playing well with his peers. Prior to the remedy, his mother said, "It is very difficult for my son to engage in reciprocal activities. He does not mirror the actions of his peers or imitate virtually at all." Much better with warming up to new situations and new people. He is going with the flow. Impatience is better. You can say wait a second and he is not dropping to the floor immediately. Prior to the remedy, his mother said, \"If I am interacting with his sister, his ability to wait to get something from me is nil.\" Reaction of smacking his hand when you tell him “no”. He has not done that anymore at all. Consistently responding to his name is now better 80% of the time. Same Eczema, dryness of the skin is about the same. Aggravation from spilling his food is still there. It has to be cleaned up right now. Defiant and anger at reprimands is still there. Mom wondering if that is just being two. Very stubborn. Liking his drinks cold is the same. He is still having trouble waking up from his nap. He is waking up and being cranky and crabby for a good half hour to 45 minutes. He used to be a chronically crabby child, now he is just crabby at this time. For most of the rest of the day, he is consistantly being a pleasant child. Throwing behavior when he gets mad is still there. Worse Nothing is worse Old Nothing old. At the end of the last bottle he was in a fog for a week, but as soon as he started the new bottle he seemed to improve right away. New On the first three days after starting each bottle, he would wake at night with a bowel movement. Each time this happened, it would be followed by an explosion in his language and a really good stretch of increased eye contact and communication intent. Mother's comments about her son's treatment: "I have been very pleased. I was a total skeptic. I was not sure what to expect and have been very pleased with what we have seen in him so far. After the night poops we see this really good language explosion each time. The LM bottles seem to be working well for him. It doesn’t bother him at all. They are not causing any negative effects. This is the most improvement we have seen in him to date. We expected a PDD austism diagnosis. We had three people prior to this who said be prepared, he probably would be on the spectrum. He has made really nice steady improvement. It has been delightful. I have no other explanation for why he is improving. The therapy has not changed. I really feel strongly that the Phosphorous is a good match for him and is doing some nice things. I have no problem with sharing this information with the people in the Homeopathy for Special Needs Children's group." Treatment Plan: This little boy has only been on the remedy for a month and since he is doing so well, we are going to continue him on the Phosphorous LM bottles for now. Guiding Symptoms to the Remedy: Very strong fear of thunderstorms, desire for ice in his drinks, desire to travel, throwing behavior. I hope this case will give inspiration to other people. Wishing everyone in the group all the best. In love and service, Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA) Homeopathy for Health 59 Paul Avenue Mountain View CA 94041 www.homeopathyforhealth.net 650-569-6219

Posted: 2006-10-24 Contributed by: Cindy from Sacristan (cindy_sacristan@hotmail.com) Primary complaint: autism spectrum My son Matthew cried since the day he was born. He was hospitalized when he was 5 weeks old with bronchiolitis and spent his first winter ill thereafter. He was a baby with colic and seemed to have food allergies. He was in pain after each feeding. Unfortunately we continued to vaccinate him. He started to scream at night and never slept for more than three hours straight. When I stopped breastfeeding at 17 months he developed chronic diarrhea. Introducing cows milk sent him over the edge, he started to loose eye contact and stopped walking. We quickly took out cows milk and gluten since I was already aware of food allergies and he improved. But the chronic diarrhea and behavioral issues got worse and worse. We started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and saw a DAN doctor when he was 2 years old. He improved in the beginning but things got worse again. He couldn't tolerate any supplements or probiotics. We then discovered the Low Oxalate Diet and he improved but still was not able to tolerate supplements and after a couple of months the diet no longer seemed to be working. This is when I read an article in Mothering Magazine about Amy Lansky's experience with homeopathy. I thought, why didn't I know about this before? I quickly made an appointment with a homeopath in Madrid. You could see the difference after the first remedy. My son was constantly asking to be picked up. He didn't even have the energy to play. After the first remedy he asked to walk around the block and didn't ask to be picked up once. With the homeopathy treatment we have been able to add more foods back into his diet and begin using some supplements and probiotics. His thryoid problem has improved. He is more social and better behaved. He just seems happy and no longer in so much pain. We also did craneo sacral therapy about 2 months into treatment. These sessions were so important to his healing. After cranio sacral therapy he ate more slowly and wasn't anxious about food anymore. His behavior also improved and he became more loving. Although we have only been using homeopathy and craneo sacral for 6 months I feel that these are the two treatments that have helped my son the most during his 4 years of healing. I am also being treated for a thyroid problem and slight depression. These past four years have taken its toll. Homeopathy has helped me as well. I am feeling better little by little and am looking forward to a full recovery.

Posted: 2006-09-14 Contributed by: Judy from Dayton Primary complaint: Grief - post traumatic No one ever wants any problems when they go one vaccation, but things happen. I had just developed an interest in Homeopathy and had hoped to receive the Hyland\'s starter kit before leaving, but no such luck. It would be waiting at home when we returned. The day before we were leaving Iowa where we were visiting family, my daughter, 2 1/2, wandered out to the pool. I found her moments later and pulled her out. She was not breathing...and to make things a little worse, I bumped her head on the way out of the pool, leaving a nasty bump and a tiny bit of bleeding on her tounge. After a few rounds of rescue breathing, she spit out some of the water and began breathing on her own. I had decided at that point that I needed to get inside to a phone to call 9-1-1. In the ambulance, I pulled out some Arnica gel from my purse and rubbed that on her bruising left temple. I did that frequently the rest of the day and night. I also tried it on the site where she had blood drawn. The head injury disappeared completely in 2-3 days while nearly 2 weeks later you could still see the blood draw site. Fortunately, she was fine and doesn\'t seem to remember the event. Unfortunatley I did! All I could see every time I closed my eyes was the baby in the water...what a nightmare! The started kit at home had some Ignatia which seems to have worked after one dose...and I am 3 weeks post now.

Posted: 2006-07-30 Contributed by: Judith from Canberra Australia Primary complaint: Pet\'s Grief One of our pet whippets passed away aged 14 after kidney failure and parathyroid problems. Our other whippet, who is now 15, went into a decline, as they had been mates since they were young puppies. She lost her appetite, developed a heart murmur and a persistent cough, caught a viral infection which would not go away, started to get very obvious opaque flecks on her eyes and was clearly going downhill. We came across up a book on homoeopathy for animals in the local library written by Dr Christopher Day. Prior to that we had no real idea what homoeopathy was about. We were quite impressed by the contents and thought it could do no harm to try homeopathy. As luck would have it, we discovered that there is a homoeopathic vet who practises in our city. We had already taken our surviving whippet to a regular (very competent) vet but she was not getting better. The homoeopathic vet prescribed ignatia 30c for grief. To our astonishment our whippet recovered from the viral infection overnight, the cough disappeared and she perked up emotionally. She is also taking silica 30c on an ongoing basis for skin and eye problems as well as cratageous mother tincture for her heart. She has made a wonderful recovery - no more cough, her skin is a lot better (she had sores on her stomach for some years that never seemed to heal; these have now disappeared), the worrying opaque flecks on her eyes cleared up and she is interested in life again. She has even resumed chasing birds (albeit she runs very slowly) and scrounging treats. We also improved her diet (switched to a special raw food diet as recommended by our homeopathic vet) and acquired a new whippet puppy, which also helped her. She is a changed dog and in very good health for a "golden oldie". Obviously we regret not knowing about homeopathy before the first whippet died, but the unexpectedly rapid results for the surviving whippet and her subsequent overall sustained improvement, both physical and emotional amazed and delighted us.

Posted: 2006-07-18 Contributed by: Dorothy Gardner from Arroyo Grande (dg17@juno.com) Primary complaint: NHL-Non Hodgkins Lymphoma I am a very active 89yr.old lady who over the years has had many allergies. In 2003 I had got a rash over my whole body after pulling out a groundcover that had a yellow flower. Tho I was wearing a mask and gloves it still got to me. It took a good 3 months before I could get rid of the rash, as I was allergic to the assorterd Rx the doctor offered. Hence, I lost weight, sleep and energy. Early in 2004 , while sleeping I felt my left shoulder blade itching and stinging. I remember rubbing the area while sleeping and thinking a bug must have been hiding in my hair, since I am in my garden often. In the morning I checked with mirrors to see what happened. I found it was a red lump as large as a quarter and itching. I washed the area, put some calendula ointment on a few times a day. After a few weeks, I could see no improvement and decided to go to a skin doctor. Doctor removed some of it, and sent it away to be tested. I was shocked to find out the results were Non Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL). Of course, I was then sent to a cancer doctor. He checked same, gave me some printouts on what the situation was, and his recommendations of radiation, etc. etc. I made another appointment with him. When I got home, went to various homeopathic bulletin boards on computer and then cancelled the doctor's appointment.(haven't heard from him since) With my research I found the book called " A Homoeopathic Approach To Cancer\" by Dr.A.U.Ramakrishnan and Catherine R.Coulter.I bought the book and read it twice. I again went back to homeopathic bulletin boards to see if anyone had knowledge of the book and the theory he has setup in the book. With good luck I was recomended to Rosemary Hyde PHD, at www.carepathpartners.com. She had taken many of Dr. Ramakrishnan lectures, etc. when he would come from India to the states. With Dr. Hyde\'s help and instructions of daily plussing system in the book my NHL tumor has been gone since June of 2005. I am now on higher daily doses, as instructions in the book, and shortly will go on weekly doses insted of daily. And then down the line, just once a month plussing to help keep the immune system in top shape. I take blood tests every 4 months to keep on top of whats going on as a second checkup. I am doing fine, and as I say to Rosemary, if I had a good male dance partner all my problems would be over and then my Equal Singles 60+ club would have a very happy, healthy 89yr.President. If you are single, 60+,non-smoking and want a club like mine, check my site at www.angelfire.com/ca5/singlesuccess. e-Hug, Dorothy

Posted: 2006-06-23 Contributed by: Trina Hamer from Cumberland (trinahamer@yahoo.com) Primary complaint: Autism Last summer 2005 I was told to read Amy Lansky\'s book. I was at a support meeting and the women, who all had children on the spectrum and who\'s children were all under the age of 5 convienced me that I had to read the book, so I did!!! August 2005 I took my very sick autistic son to a homeopath here in Maine. After our intake she put him on the remedy DPT. She hit the nail on the head. Many things started happening, first he got sick with headaches, and vomiting, I knew it was a good thing, it felt \"right\", so we continued with DPT! Eight months later really important things began to happen. The most important was toileting, I honestly thought I would be cleaning up after him for the rest of my life, but he started using the bathroom, thankyou thankyou. He is 9 1/2, he will be 10 in September(9/6/96). He got a very late diagnosis at age 3 1/2 in 1999,(today he probably would or could have been diagnosed at 9 months), and then he started ABA at the age of 4, because back then no one knew what to do and services were much harder to find. He is still non-verbal but his expressive and receptive have begun to work. If he knows the 1 phrase command he can usually comply, his aggressions have gone down, school reports vast improvements, and he interacts with his brother and sister. I went crazy when he was first diagnosed (probably because I was carrying twins) but, because in 1999 no one knew what to do. I read the book Facing autism and that helped but it didn\'t help him much. Some called him a savage and told me to look for a home for him,others just did the therapies and patted me on the back and said hang in there!!! My son\'s autism has affected everyone in my family, my husband and I separated last year, after 17 years together and my boy/girl twins needed their own separate care. The twins are now 6 1/2 and on their own remedies..the boy twin nearly drowned at age 1 1/2 and my daughter in my mind is on the spectrum...their brother was so severe and hurt them often, but now they can play chasing games, hug and love eachother.! Things are getting better, many factors but it is truly the homeopathy that is allowing my autistic son to enter into the typical world...I wanted to share this story because when I hear of others who have cured their autistic children I feel that, that is not going to be our case, BUT that doesn\'t mean my son won\'t get better!!!I see what homeopathy has done for my children and I also see a change for myself...something I thought might never happen. After reading Amy\'s book I bought four copies and have been passing them around. Everywhere I go I talk about homeopathy and autism. I finally see changes in my son as well as others around him..Thanks for reading Trina Hamer

Posted: 2006-01-14 Contributed by: Nancy from Canada (cedar_garden@yahoo.ca) Primary complaint: Allergies, depression, hormonal,etc. I was in Naturopathic treatment for two years for chronic illnesses + depression. Chronic illnesses included allergies especially to dust and scented products. I had to wear a filter mask over my mouth/nose whenever I did household dusting and cleaning floors; in addition to using an air purifying machine. I was also experiencing severe pressure in uterine region, acid reflux, aching all over, and later learned that I had Fybromyalgia. In addition, I felt as if I had the flu most of the time, which was accompanied by extreme bouts of physical exhaustion. I often slept 12 hours per day. I was also very depressed. These health problems were profoundly impacting my life. I received no help from the allopathic system of medicine. So I sought Naturopathic treatments. The ND used Homeopathy in the beginning, with absolutely no results. He then turned to Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture, which resulted in wonerful \"temporary\" relief. However, whenever the ND tried to wean me off of the herbs and acupuncture (thinking I was \"cured\"), ALL of my symptoms would return + more added. This treatment process happened over a period of two years. The ND was very kind, and I had wonderful results for most of my symptoms as long as I remained on the herbs and acupuncture path. I was taking 8-13 capsules per day. I didn\'t want to continue taking capsules. Unfortunately, whenever I stopped taking the supplements/herbs, my symptoms returned. It became a very discouraging journey with a great deal of money and time invested and this only added to my depression. That is when I made the leap to Homeopathy. After seeing a Homeopath for one session, many of my symptoms were cured. I kept expecting them to return week after week (as they did under Naturopathic treatment whenever the herbs/acupuncture were stopped). However, the symptoms did not return with Homeopathy. In addition, my depression lifted only FIVE minutes after taking the first remedy! The allergies to dust and scented products were cured in about one week! I no longer need a mask or air purifier when doing housework. My energy level returned to normal, as did my sleep patterns. The severe pelvic/uterine pressure and flu symptoms were also cured after one treatment with Homeopathy! I am so thankful. Although I received some temporary relief of physical symptoms with Naturopathy, the depression continued. With Homeopathic treatment, one little pellet worked for many of my symptoms. I am still undergoing Homeopathic treatment, with confidence that treatment will not take two years as it did with Naturopathic medicine. After my experience, I\'m convinced that ND\'s should have post-graduate training if they plan to treat with Homeopathy. I\'m equally convinced in the basic premise of Homeopathy \"like cures like\" vs the law of opposites which is used in allopathic medicine. I can speak from experience that Homeopathy offers cures. I am living proof. As a result of my own healing experience,I\'ve decided to begin the journey into the study of Homeopathy and help others in their journey back to health. I hope that my story will encourage others to follow the healing path in Homeopathy that leads to cure.

Posted: 2005-10-27 Contributed by: Karen Wehrstein from Huntsville, Ontario Primary complaint: Autism My son Raphi, born in 1998, and age seven as of this writing, was diagnosed with autism in 2001. He rarely spoke, and then only in one or two-word sentences with very simple concepts, his social interaction was almost non-existent, and his eye contact was only the most fleeting of glances. He was constantly stimming, by making oral \"sound effects\" and running back and forth, and had a diarrhea/flatulence problem. When we began sequential homeopathy with Lindyl Lanham of the Homeopathy Center of Houston, he had already improved with the help of Lovaas-technique-based one-on-one therapy, the gluten and casein-free diet, and daily drops of homeopathic secretin, purchased from Ainsworth Pharmacy in England. But his improvement really took off after we began with Lindyl -- even though, as a non-vaccinated child whose birth-onset autism is apparently entirely hereditary, he is considered a relatively tough nut to crack. Raphi\'s eye contact is now normal, he has simple conversations, and in his Grade Two class he\'s reading, printing and doing early math, and catching up with his peers. His stimming has decreased a great deal. Though he still has a lot to learn socially, he is interested, for the first time, in learning it. The diarrhea and flatulence are all but gone. Is he entirely cured? Not yet; he still needs a full-time educational assistant and I\'m sure would still test as autistic. But he is well on his way to an independent, if not entirely neurotypical, adult life -- something that I was not at all confident about before.

Posted: 2005-07-17 Contributed by: Michelle from Doan (mmpdoan@aol.com) Primary complaint: Renal Reflux In March 2005, my 3.6 year old daughter was hospitalized for 3 days with a kidney infection. Tests revealed she had renal reflux (essentially the bladder does not close off and urine goes back to the kidney)in BOTH kidneys. Her pediatrician prescribed 2 years (yes, you read that right, 2 years!) of prophalactic antibiotics. (After 2 years the testing would be repeated to see is she had outgrown this condition. One of the tests required that my duaghter be catheterized. This was an awful experience for her!) Uncomfortable with that plan, I contacted our homeopathic doctor. She recommended dosing my daughter with her constitutional remedies, Nat Mur and Pulsatilla. We also conducted urine tests weekly. After several dosing adjustments to her constitutional remedies (bacteria was still present in her urine), she gave my daughter Nat Mur 10M. Her urine is now clear. We continue to conduct urine tests weekly and no bacteria is present.

Posted: 2005-05-02 Contributed by: Mary Scholer, OTR/L from San Jose (otrmom@aol.com) Primary complaint: chronic diarrhea My son had a very difficult beginning, with a full 6 months of colic and 18 months of chronic diarrhea. He weighed just 17 lbs at 18 months. We had seen several physicians and even were seen at the Stanford gastroenterology clinic. No one seemed to be able to help my son. A very kind and insightful, Janet Sneider, MD, told me that western medicine would not be able to help my son. She referred me to a homeopath. After he dispensed the remedy to my son (which he called a constitutional remedy), he sold me a first aid kit of homeopathic remedies. I am not normally so skeptical, but felt at the time that I had been sold a bill of goods, proclaiming to him, ``This is a dog and pony show.`` Every one of the contents of the many vials in this first aid kit looked exactly the same. I left the office disgruntled, wondering what on earth had he given my son. Two days later I was a believer in homeopathy. The diarrhea my son and I had struggled with for 18 full months was gone! Our family has been using homeopathic remedies ever since to halt and reduce illnesses. Sincerely, Mary E. Scholer, OTR/L Simonon Pediatric Development Center San Jose, CA.

Posted: 2004-08-30 Contributed by: C. LaCroix-Meyers from Phoenix (darejayne@hotmail.com) Primary complaint: autism My daughter, who is almost four, was diagnosed last year with autism. When I asked her pediatrician what we could do, her response was ``try some therapy {ABA), if that doesn`t work, you could put her in a group home``. At that time I was also told her I.Q. was probably 65, so she was also mentally retarted. I could not believe the callousness of many of the physicians I encountered, I think if they don`t have a ``quick fix`` for someting, they cannot be bothered! Anyway, to be honest, I did not believe in homeopathy. I am a scientific person and a medcial student, and the infentesmal doses of homeopathy did not line up with what I knew (or rather thought I knew) about chemistry. To be honest, I was desperate, even just to hear words of kindness and the hope of cure. I had heard that homeopathy had cured Dr Lansky`s son, and although I did not entirely believe it, I hoped to believe it. We took our daughter to a classical homeopath, where she was given Thuja occidentalis. At the time, I don`t think my husband and I did really think that she would be helped, even though we were hoping. The changes in my daughter have been amazing, so much so that I can hardly believe it, and I would not blame you for disbelieving it. She has gone from not talking, staring in to space, with repetitive behaviors, to a daughter who is starting to talk, very affectionate, and without her old behaviors. We have taken her to developmental pediatricians who tell us she is NOT autistic, and then ask me and her father ``what happened to the old behaviours I see in ther records`` and we tell them ``she doesn`t do it anymore``. They are very confused. In addition, not only is her I.Q. not 65, we have been told she is very intelligent and may need schooling for ``gifted`` children! My advice to parents is, never EVER give up on your child. Help is out there for you, you just need to look out for yourself and your child and not listen to people who are down on the possibility of cure because THEY cannot cure it.

Posted: 2004-05-07 Contributed by: E. McPhee from Maine (autismrecovery@verizon.net) Primary complaint: autism in son My son was born in July 2001, a healthy 9 pounds, 10 ounces, 9 and 10 on the APGAR. The next day he developed a small fever and jaundice. I found out later he had a HepB vaccine without my knowledge. Despite persistent thrush and yeast rashes, my son flourished. He maintained growth in the 95th percentile, began very early babbling sounds, and began sleeping through the night. At 9 weeks old, he suffered a severe reaction to his first round of vaccines. He screamed incessantly from that moment on. He stopped sucking his thumb, stopped sleeping almost completely, developed all over body hives and eczema, severe reflux and aspirating, and his chronic yeast and thrush worsened. He ceased all babbling, and plummeted from the 95th percentile to below the 5th to off the chart for weight. He stopped having BMs (having only 3 in 2 months in the time right after his shots!) He developed food intolerances to nearly everything. He began headbanging as soon as he could crawl (at an early 5.5 months). As he got older, autistic behaviors became apparent. He also had severe food intolerances, PST (phenol sulfur transferese) deficiency, leaky gut syndrome, hypotonia, and a multitude of other issues. By July of 2002 when my son turned 1 year old - he was still off the weight charts despite eating well. He had chronic eczema, all over body hives, a weepy eye, and all the other issues. We did a strict elimination diet and found a DAN (defeat autism now) doctor who confirmed our suspicions and documented our son had high mercury, high arsenic, leaky gut syndrome, excess yeast, and tetanus titers 3 times what is considered immune after just one shot (they are supposed to receive four). While the diet helped significantly, it wasn`t until we began homeopathy in November of 2002 that we saw a huge turn around. Our first remedy I took as I was still nursing him while following the elimination diet. He made incredible gains (see bulleted list below). In summer of 2003 we gave the first dose of DPT remedy directly with astounding results. In November of 2003 we gave the second dose and we had our son back. My son is now completely recovered except for his food sensitivities. He must remain on the diet or he regresses. However, he has his personality back, talks above age level, tests out developmentally above age level, plays independently, as well as with other children. He is a normal, happy, healthy, sweet natured little boy! Following is a list of before and after behaviors. Before beginning treatments: -Headbanging 50+ times per day -Pushing head on carpet -Licking things -Walking on tiptoes -Lining things up -Spinning -Addicted to mozart music cube -Had never played with a toy -Had never pointed -Did not interact with his 5 year old sister -Did not talk -Did not notice surroundings -Did not respond to name -Did not communicate wants -Did not know mama or dada -Did not notice other children -Could not follow something pointed out -Could not follow simple directions -Stared at the TV for hours at a time (if I let him) without looking away -Basically just wandered around the house all day -Preoccupation with phone/ ringing -Preoccupation with boots -Severe food sensitivities continue -Frequent congestion/colds (environmental allergies) -Frequent raw, red diaper rash -Weak muscles - Hypotonia -Drunken sailor walk, falls down often, falls into things -Frequent loss of balance -Difficulty climbing up on furniture, rag doll like -Persistent weeping eye -Cold to the touch – did not sweat -Frequent hugging but more of a sensory experience – folds arms under and lays head on shoulder -Sighs frequently, difficulty (does not) exerting himself -Sensitive to touch, does not like ears, fingers, or toes touched -Delayed response (waves bye-bye 3 minutes after leaving) -Frequent rages After treatments. Within one month of first dose of remedy (11/2002): -Pointed deliberately -Noticed changes in his surroundings -Responded to name on first try -Played with sister -Looked at something pointed out -Answered yes or no with head nod -Took hand to lead to wants -Called each parent by name (mama & dada) -Pointed to little girl his age at store and said, `hi` -Began to play for 1 minute at a time -Reacted scared to movie for first time (which he had seen many times before) -Followed three step commands -Began drawing using different colors (stim - 1/2 hour to an hour at a time) -Trying to emulate speech noises 2nd Dose of remedy January 30, 2003. No other interventions. Within two weeks: -No headbanging -No spinning -No pushing head on carpet -Not stimming on words -No longer obsessed with boots or phone or coloring -Plays with sister and independently -Engages in pretend play -Showing interest in books -Walking steadily -Able to tolerable vitamin -11 words although most of his own language 1st dose of DPT remedy given in July. By September, 2003 (26 months old): -Successfully weaned off Pepcid -Weeping Eye cleared -50 words -25 signs -Knows all his colors and shapes -Very social -Loves reading books -Walking steadily November 12, 2003, 2nd dose of DPT remedy. No other interventions: -Within two weeks (28 months old): -Potty trained himself! -Dresses himself completely head to toe (had never put on a piece of clothing before) -Putting 3+ words together -Talks more than he signs -Repeats words back -Repeats entire alphabet & 1 - 10 -Recognizing letters -Writing the letters B & O -Can pick out ME, NH, FL, TX, CA, WA, and OR on a map from memory -Understands concept of 2 -Consistent use of “yup” in place of “oh” -Uses words like “in,” “on,” and “up” consistently and properly -Showing typical developmentally appropriate behaviors (terrible two’s) By February 2004 (31 months old): -Using words spontaneously and appropriately. Talking in full sentences. Lost track counting at 150+ words. Age appropriate for speech! -Self-created language diminished -Calls people by name -Refers to self by name -Recognizes self in mirror -Uses pronouns (you & me) appropriately -Loses all developmental services (speech - was 1 hour 2x/week and developmental therapy - 2 hours 1x/week) -Tests out advanced in many areas -Sleeps 11 hours per night -Very happy toddler -Completely indistinguishable from his peers Recently while driving in the car he told me all about how ``bears hibernate in the winter, lions roar in the jungle, and baby kangaroos ride in their mommy`s pouch.`` At bedtime, he sneaks out of bed and turns on his light to read books in his bed. Every day he surprises and delights us with new stories and new thoughts and ideas. His speech is becoming more and more articulate and his inflection is heartwarming. He has also become very loving and snuggly. Whereas before he did not like his fingers, toes, and ears touched, today he will happily climb on my lap and snuggle in. One of the happiest days of my life was when he recently held my face in his hands and said, ``I love you, Mommy.`` While we did many interventions (diet, probiotics, CLO, DMG, enzymes for phenol intolerance, etc.), I believe the homeopathy has played a significant role in his recovery. We have also had much success with homeopathy for me, my husband, and my daughter.

Posted: 2004-03-25 Contributed by: Tamara from Winston-Salem (savepaws@bellsouth.net) Primary complaint: Birth Defect/Neurological In December, 2000 while walking my Labrador Buck on his morning walk, we found a puppy in an intersection in my neighborhood. He was staggering some, so I assumed he had possibly been hit by a car. I called him to me and he came over, but screamed when I tried to put a leash on him (around his neck) so I picked him up and carried him to my home to take him to a vet. As I carried him, I realized he was making constant, almost mini-seizure movements, though he was conscious and cheerful. I took him to my vet for a checkup, bath, and tests to see if we could determine his problem. Blood tests revealed no answers, so my allopathic vet prescribed Prednisone in case Teddy had been struck by a car or had another traumatic injury or abuse. I took him home with no answers, and my vet told me she had never seen anything like this except in the neurological films during her vet schooling. After 10 days on the Prednisone, there was no improvement. Teddy`s symptoms were constant movement, as if `humping` the air, combined with his rear legs spasmodically kicking out as he attempted to walk, causing him to fall often. His head moved in a palsy like manner and never ceased, except while lying prone. In February, 2001, I took him to my homeopathic vet for a workup and she prescribed the remedy Calc carb in the dosing of 1M, one time. He began showing improvement within a few days, starting with less spasmodic jerking of his rear legs, then less and less seizure or palsy like movements until he had none at all!! The cure took less than a month I would say. Teddy had a recurrance of his problems 9 months later, and we re-dosed with the same remedy, same potency. 9 months later, he again exhibited symptoms again, but this time I recognized the symptoms before they came back full force and I re-dosed with his remedy. Both times, improvement was seen within 12 hours. My vet and I decided if in 9 months it happened again, we would increase the potency, but Teddy has been symptom free for the past 18 months. However, I do keep his remedy on hand. I had first consulted a homeopathic vet for one of my other animals, but witnessing Teddy`s cure/miracle convinced me forever and without doubt of the power of Homeopathy. There is no other modality I have as much faith in as Homeopathy, and the proof is lying at my feet, sleeping and healthy.

Posted: 2003-12-02 Contributed by: Mitchell A. Fleisher, M.D. DHt from Nellysford, Virginia (drmitchmd@mindspring.com) Primary complaint: Child with behavioral problems This case describes one of my patients. - A.K., 6 y.o. white male, previously done well on homeopathic treatment for chronic cough, fatigue and allergies - Since DPT and TOPV vaccines, had frequent URIs that went into chest, putrid breath, capricious appetite, clingy and manipulative toward mom, very selfish, jealous and mean toward baby sister, irritability, craving for macaroni & cheese and salty things - Initially, good response to DPT and TOPV homeopathic nosodes with resolution of all symptoms, then recurrence and worsening of mental state after NAET for allergies, i.e., developed new behavioral problems at school, home and church - He can’t keep his hands to himself, doesn’t listen when told to stop, very rough with peers and baby sister, hitting, grabbing and poking at others with scissors, cutting up sister’s dolls and clothing, defies parents and teachers intentionally, hyperactive, throws tantrums, kicking and screaming when doesn’t get his way, very stubborn, teases and harasses family cats mercilessly, shows no remorse for unprovoked aggression, never apologizes, extremely selfish and bossy, strong craving for macaroni & cheese and Canadian bacon Homeopathic Clinical Rubrics: - MIND, RESTLESSNESS, children, in - MIND, MALICIOUS - MIND, DESTRUCTIVENESS - MIND, MISCHEVIOUS - MIND, OBSTINATE, headstrong - MIND, SELFISHNESS, egoism - MIND, DICTATORIAL - GENERALS, FOOD and DRINKS, macaroni and cheese, desires - GENERALS, FOOD and DRINKS, bacon, desire - Dramatic response to Tuberculinum 1M: rowdiness, restlessness, meanness, aggression, defiance, inattention gone within 1 week after remedy; also, resolution of lying and stealing (not mentioned before) - Behavior is in a normal range for age at home, school and church now - Has become much more sensitive, sympathetic and affectionate - May occasionally quarrel with and hit sister and peers, but now shows remorse and apologizes - Much milder ill effects of wheat, cheese and milk since remedy, i.e., does not become as hyperactive and belligerent - Much fewer and milder URIs, don’t go into chest, resolve quickly - Mom said: Overall, he’s doing great, I have my little boy back - Follow-ups at 6 and 12 months confirmed very good general health

Posted: 2003-10-08 Contributed by: Judith Goettert, DO from Abingdon Primary complaint: Distemper I have a male barn cat, about 1 year old or maybe a little more. He comes and goes as he pleases as he is not nuetered. He has never been vaccinated. I don`t worry if I don`t see him for awhile as I think someone else along our river is feeding him too; he always seems well-fed when he does show up. About 3 months ago he had been gone about four or five days when he showed up with what appeared to be fulminant distemper. He had a profuse, green, bland nasal discharge, primarily right-sided. His sinuses were completely stopped up; he had to mouth-breathe. He was emaciated and listless, and was obviously coming to me for help. I was sick at the time too, and my head was foggy, so for the first two days I force-fed him venison broth to try to keep him hydrated. He wasn`t gaining any ground though, and I was afraid I`d lose him, so as soon as I was able to think clearly, I started concentrating on finding him a homeopathic remedy. I thought about his general character, a very sweet and loving cat who looks at me with big eyes and meows very softly...my heart just goes out to him. Then I thought about his discharge, the fact that he was coming to me for help, and also seemed to be better in fresh air and confirmed Pulsatilla in my repertorization. I gave him Puls 30C that night and he spent the night hawking and swallowing lots of mucus. Up until this time he would not take any food since he couldn`t smell it. The next morning he seemed to be interested in food, so I fixed him a bowl, and he polished it off and asked for more. He needed two more doses of 30C, whenever he would sniff at his food but not eat it. I would then give him a dose, and 5 minutes later he`d be eating well. He has made a complete recovery. I`m just glad to still have him around and to know I`ve helped to strengthen him with homeopathy.

Posted: 2003-08-31 Contributed by: Caroline L Spear from Bognor Regis Primary complaint: Mild Asthma My first ever appointment with a homoeopath in 1994 was for my baby daughter. She was 9 months and still mostly breastfed. She had recently started to vomit horrendously at night and I could find no reason why. At the appointment Phyl said that whatever the baby needed, so did the mother, as we were a breastfeeding pair. Zsofia had had an unmedicated underwater homebirth, one short course of anti biotics at age 2 weeks for a supposed eye infection and no vaccinations. I , however was suffering PTSD from her sisters' horrendous ceasarean birth, was almost recovered from meningitis, using an inhaler to relieve mild asthma symtoms and always suffering from sinusitis. From the first remedy (Nat Phos I think) I have not used or needed the inhaler. Zsofia stopped throwing up (oh joy!) and over the course of another year, my sinus`s cleared completely, all the back pains from various injuries cleared out, and I began to see a light at the end of the PTSD tunnel, as nightmares and flashbacks lessened. A few old warts and skin tags also dropped off along the way and my history, that I had taken to be a normal part of my life, I.E repeated chest infections, also disappeared.

Posted: 2003-08-30 Contributed by: Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD. from New Plymouth, New Zealand (jroz@ihug.co.nz) Primary complaint: A Patient with stroke This elderly gentleman (who has given permission to report his case) came into my office about 18 months ago. He sat down heavily on the chair and said in a slurry voice "My head is full of cement". He had been referred to me by a GP who had nothing else to offer him but wanted to help. He was obviously having what is called a stroke in progress: not a sudden event, not TIAs that dissappear without leaving a trace, but progressively worsening paresis (partial paralyisis), slurring of the voice, slow ideation, need to think and search for his words, slow motions,..... To me, he belonged in a neurological ward in hospital, with anticoagulants, monitoring, CT and MRI and angiograms, as he could have completed his stroke any time. But having heard that explanation, he and his wife decided to give homeopathy a go. So I gave him Plumbum 5C, 1 globule dissolved in 10 mls of water, take one drop 3 times/day for 3 days and call me. Needless to say I was very nervous about him, and as he did not call on the third day, I did so on the fourth. He profoundly apologised for not ringing me as had been busy mowing his lawn! All the symptoms dissapeared on the second day, never to reappear again.

Posted: 2003-08-30 Contributed by: Sally from Vallejo, CA (sallymack@juno.com) Primary complaint: dying kitten My seven-month-old kitten was dying. His right eye was so grossly swollen with a thick opaque film over it that he couldn`t see out of it. His lungs rattled with every breath. I took him to vet after vet, hoping to find someone who could help him. His eye infection spread to his nasal passages while he was on antibiotics, he was getting sicker and sicker. At work, I was handed the phone number of a vet who makes house calls and told, "He`s a good vet." baby Alice was too sick to drag to yet another vet but I couldn`t give up on him. Four allopathic vets had sent him home to die, saying they didn`t know what else to do beyond steroids to make him feel better and antibiotics in hopes of quelling the eye infection. The "new" vet told me he used homeopathy, of which I had only vaguely heard. I didn`t care, allopathy wasn`t working, it was time to do something else. I was prepared for bA to lose sight in one eye, possibly for the vet to say it would be kindest to euthanize him. But when the vet examined bA, he said that we could get bA well, which I`d never considered. I also didn`t believe him but followed his directions for administering remedies, taking notes on changes, and keeping him updated on bA`s condition. The vet, another cat I had at the time who bA had adopted as his "mom," and I worked very hard to keep bA alive but, in the end, bA did all the hard work. bA`s cure wasn`t instantaneous. But I could see distinct changes within three days of administering his first remedy. The swelling of his eye gradually decreased, his lungs rattled less, he began feeling better. He just passed his fifth birthday, a happy, healthy, energetic little guy who did not lose eyesight. bA still gets jealous if he sees me giving one of the other cats a remedy--he wants one, too. :)

Posted: 2003-07-29 Contributed by: Amy Lansky from Portola Valley, California (lansky@impossiblecure.com) Primary complaint: Conjunctivitis in a dog When we first got our dog Shadow, she had problems with conjunctivitis that we think she contracted from the dog she shared her space with at the shelter. The inner corner of her eyes would get all goopy with yellow-green discharge and her eyes were red. She was also a clingy puppy who licked a lot, was not very thirsty, liked to be outside, and was a very fussy eater who didn`t like fat -- she wouldn`t even eat chicken skin! These are all signs of the remedy Pulsatilla, which her homeopathic vet recommended. It did clear up these problems for many years. Just recently we went on vacation, leaving Shadow with a housesitter. When we returned, her conjunctivitis had returned, with the yellow-green goop and red eyes. The housesitter also reported that she had wet her bed one night -- a first in all of the seven years we have had her. Clearly, our being away had upset her. Given her past experience with Pulsatilla, plus the fact that nighttime bedwetting is also a symptom of the remedy, I gave her a dose of Pulsatilla 200c (that`s the flower Pulsatilla Nigrans, diluted to the degree of 100 to the 200th power!) Over the next few days, the conjunctivitis slowly diminished by about 50%, but didn`t totally clear up. I was still wiping her eyes 2 or 3 times a day. I gave her a second dose of Pulsatilla 200c -- and the entire problem was completely gone the next morning! Even after writing Impossible Cure, I am still amazed at the miracles of homeopathy.

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