Often, in my Clinic, I will ask a woman to describe the characteristics of a healthy woman so she can define for herself what she is aiming for.  The room generally gets pretty quiet.  The trouble is, we don’t know all that many.  I feel that we need to create more archetypal models for each other.

About the time we were born, post-industrial age, our mothers cooked, cleaned, combined Kraft Dinner with Hamburger Helper and threw out the dishes awarded at the old movie houses to replace them with Tupperware. Most of us witnessed the cancer state of mind incarnate as our moms rescued everybody else to the exclusion of themselves, living the un-lived life hungering to be someone else named Jones or Smith.  In cookie-cutter homes in suburbia, moms had only a sherry or coffee party in the afternoon to look forward to while their husbands went off to the office in the family Buick with a brown vinyl briefcase sporting a three-piece-suit. If our Mothers worked, they typically were stenographers, typists, and general Girl Fridays in service to the men.

After the mind-blowing 60’s, we began to re-order ourselves and look through “the Doors” of rose coloured glass.  The “me generation” had us shortening our skirts and questioning the status quo.  But have we really come all that far?  Just yesterday, I heard a women say, “but I can’t quit my job of abject drudgery, I have to pay the bills!” So reluctantly, I listen, to the litany of stories and complaints about dead-beat husbands, beastly bosses, unfulfilling work, isolation and lack of support with the child-rearing, and the absolute state of never-ending exhaustion.  Yes, we independent women have had the biscuit and have been eating it too.  But are we any more happy and healthier, or just “crummier?”

As of 2003, women’s mortality rates were only slightly lower than men’s.  Cancers, respiratory disease, infectious diseases and even poisonings are now almost just about par with our post-industrial office-hubbies.  We put on our nylons and our pumps, filled our own briefcases and bought independence.  Without any help in the kitchen,  full-time Nannies for our babes, or house-keepers that we drool over in our Jane Austen book clubs, we are wholly stressed to the max., and some women I know are actually teetering on the brink of suicide.  Holy crap, is this the biscuit we chose to chew on or a dried out old rusk?

So if we’re aiming to become healthy women, and there are few archetypes to choose from and we aren’t it, we risk becoming like our mothers (God forbid!), does this mean we are trapped with no way out?  I feel that when things look the most dark and bleak is the time to search for the flashlight and plumb the depths to see if we can start to crystalize a smidgen of light out of this mess!  The only way I know how to answer this question is to talk about the woman that I know best … me!  And God knows, I may die trying to figure this out, or even finding that darn flashlight.

The thing is that I set my needs at the top of the list before anybody else’s.  It is a bit like when you are on a plane and the Flight Attendant instructs you to put the oxygen mask over your face first before attending to the care of any other human being, including your own child.  I realized some time ago, that I’m no good to anyone else until my needs are met. I happily serve my patients a very busy 4 full days of the week in clinic; I receive a massage every two weeks; I study hard, but not to the exclusion of my play; I go away alone to cabins or kayaking in Algonquin Park to think and just “be” once a month in the summer.  I live potently in that which I have set goals that have become reality out of love.  I do not struggle needlessly at anything.  I eat very well, exercise gracefully about 45 minutes 6 days a week, and I sleep like a log.  I am in a resonant, orgastically rich loving relationship, and my beloved children live with their awesome Father 2 weeks out of every month which really contributes to my health as a mother.

When my children are with me, I have the most amazing league of beautiful folk, with small children or no babes at all, who love a chance to spend time with my kids a couple of times a month.  I work this arrangement solely on the basis of trade as I wholly value their services.  I work at what I absolutely love and am destined to be and I don’t spend a minute complaining about a thing in my life … except that my school debt needs to be paid off faster than it is.  I love my home and live on a farm with trails through forest for hundreds of miles.  I have amazing friends who wholly wait for me to finish my post graduate studies so we can spend more time together.  I have a family, by choice, and one by birth, however, I don’t have an ounce of obligation built into the latter one.  Thanks be to God!

I embrace my femininity, living from my hips, I am quick to smile using my whole body and I can also be enraged in an instant at the Pharmaceutical Companies or at the Political Machine.  I seek only pleasure, resonance, congruency, while wholly being connected to my feelings (and displaying them confidently) with the capacity to surrender assuredly.  I’m never politically correct and take full responsibility for my feather ruffling.  I am afraid of the political machine and what will happen when the federal reserve goes tits up.  I throw tantrums like a stubborn 2 year old, but I’m also mature and I’m told wise for my years.  I am not easy to live with, but I am wholly cherishable, smart at times, funny as hell and very bloody intense and I love myself more than anyone.  I am bold, brash, and often inappropriate and I can dance like a sufi fiend, and often do.  I speak my mind and my heart, I love to hear myself sing, and I love to watch myself write anything.  I am pulsated with endless creativity and I’m wholly unabashed to say so.

I will only engage in what I feel is generative, freeing and in line with my core values, so if someone asks me if I’ve read the latest mystical book that is all a-buzz, I will say “no” and if pushed to answer “why?”  I will say that when you have access to principles and the oracle of truth to be able to “cure disease,” why do I need to follow someone like Robin Sharma or Eckhart Tolle?  Why should I choose to be on a mission when I can be a seeker that has actually arrived!  Can you imagine how jazzed I get to know how to cure Cancer, or how to enable an Autistic Babe to speak for the first time, or potentially save a man’s life from his Father’s heart disease?  The community I joyfully celebrate has gone beyond, McTaggart’s popular book, “The Field,” where she, “describes scientific discoveries that she believes point to a unifying concept of the universe, one that reconciles mind with matter, classic Newtonian science with quantum physics and, most importantly, science with religion.”  To a Heilkunstler, this smacks of mysticism and doesn’t anchor us in the principles of spiritual science or consistently help to solve disease,  it does make us yawn, though.  Yes,  I’m totally politically incorrect?

As a woman and a Heilkunstler, I’ve made it my goal to be my own mentor.   Whether I am sitting with a patient (or holding them lovingly and securely) while they cry, or hanging with my kid’s at the local coffee shop, or writing my thesis, or swimming laps at the pool, I hold myself wholly accountable to my self.  Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Heilkunst, defined health as:

In the healthy human state, the spirit-like Living Power (Autocracy) enlivening the material body (organism) as Dynamis holds sway unrestrictedly and keeps all of its parts in admirable, harmonious, vital operation in both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.

A healthy 21st Century Woman is what I strive to be, wholly availing myself to my higher purpose.  This is what Heilkunst is all about!

Rudolf Steiner was right on the mark when he said, “as above, so below.” We know that our colons share the same “atmosphere” as our brains.  Dr. Gershon recognized that Serotonin, the chemical that helps to renew us primarily through inducing healthy sleep, is actually propelled out of the colon.  Dr. Gershon wrote a book called The Second Brain which does a superb job explaining why the gut muddies the brain and nervous system if our digestion is distorted by disease and related conditions.

If you consider that 8-9 litres of water bathes the large intestine daily, extracting the last of the minerals and salts from our fecal matter before it exits the rectum, we start to clue in to how the toxins are also subject to this permeable wall and end up in our mesenchymal layer (we are 80% sea water).  With this in “mind,” we start to clue in to the fact that  the brain sits in this same fluid.  Only 6-7 tablespoons of water exit our bodies at one time with stool, so if we starve our system of the amount of pure water we need to consume every day, we are really creating a primordial mucky soup around our brain and organs from our own “undigested” shit!

When folks introduce probiotics, practice proper elimination techniques, eliminate processed grains and sugars from their diets, eradicate the diseases, including the heavy metals – voila! – they think better, are less nervous, and their focus becomes stellar.  Autistic children generally crave sugars to feed the yeasts and foci infections found liberally in the gut that coat the heavy metals (the yeast actually function to prevent heavy metal poisoning).  That is why it is absolutely imperative that chelation be done on the basis of principle and knowledge, which Heilkunstlers are wholly trained in, as you don’t want to trip the system to release the toxicity in the gut too fast, or you end up with a die-off nightmare.  Through principled medicine, the sugar cravings just slow, and the healthy relationship between the two brains is restored.

This is extracted from an e-mail response by us from the Hahnemann Centre for Heilkunst Autism group from this article.

After the Christmas Holidays folks often come to us to ask us what is the most efficient way to go about a cleanse or detoxification.  Well, the answer is multi-faceted and a lot depends on what your present condition and goals are.  If you want to drop a few pounds, you can probably stop reading now and go back to what you were doing formerly before you opened this article.  The reason being is that you generally find whatever you lost, and so purification isn’t about losing anything.  It is about gaining something … the letting go part will happen naturally.

Long before the germ theory became popular, ritual purification has been perpetuated culturally and religiously for as long as we’ve been around.  Orthodox Jewish women will go to the Mikveh after the last show of their menses on a monthly basis to cleanse any last trace of “impure” blood from their being before once again engaging in intimacy with their spouses.  Catholic folk engage in a mini-cleanse upon entering the sanctuary of the church by dipping their fingers into holy water and making the sign of the cross on their bodies.  Christians will also go through “Lent” which also means cleansing the body of certain foods that are not wholly serving their spiritual well-being.  Islamic individuals will use “wet” or “dry” cleanses with water, sand or earth after exposure to semen, menstral blood or vomit.  Typically, though, ritual purification was in preparation for a particular spiritual event.

In modern day culture, we’re not so typically guided by spiritual leaders who tell us when to cleanse and for what reason we would want to undergo this process.  We now have to develop this for ourselves.  Obtaining autonomy and sovereignty is the name of the game and the only way to truly hook into why we want to purify our body, mind and soul is out of principle.  If someone is suffering a lot of kidney discomfort and frequent urination, is it appropriate to do a kidney cleanse?  If someone has a gall bladder full of stones, what would be the result of a gall bladder / liver cleanse?  What happens if someone does a cleanse of these organs and they’re suffering constipation?  Generally the body won’t let go of anything until it is wholly convinced that there is something pleasureable coming in to replace it and it is best to sort out those targetted complaints first before stressing the body any further.

So, let’s say your goal is to simply feel lighter in your body and that you’ve been noticing some congestion around your liver.  Let’s say you have no other chief complaints.  If you did, it would be recommended that you seek the professional advice of your own Heilkunstler Physician to obtain the necessary remediation to support your regimenal efforts around detox and organ support.  Let’s say it is post Christmas, Passover, or EID and you had engaged in a few lovely little feasts with appetizers, wine and sweets for dessert over a number of days.

The first thing to ask is, “are the bowels moving?”  This is critical to ask because, if they are not, anything you are trying to cleanse from the kidney and liver systems are going to be dumped into the blood stream, it will swim around a bit and then reinfect those organs again, because there is nowhere for them to go.  If a person isn’t experiencing 1-3 fully formed snake-like bowel movements daily, then there is some work to be done on that front.  For our patients we use an awesome herbal based product called “Experience” that we order wholesale from our distributor, just like the health food stores do.  We can get it for you if you need.  Some folks will also use Triphala”, or “Psyllium husks.”  These products should be employed minimally and short-term until the body takes over it’s proper functionning.  In some cases, if things have been awry for some time, we’ve needed to ramp up the bowel cleanse to include a series of colonics as the 5-7 lbs. of undigested matter in the gut often needs to be addressed before the body starts being able to receive nutrition optimally during the cleanse.

Next, the kidneys are more available to undergo their regimenal purification.  We find that a Master’s Cleanse is highly beneficial for this for 2-3 days.  First, lie on your tummy on a bed or floor and ask your spouse, relative or close friend to check for heat in either of your kidneys by placing their hand about half an inch above your skin just below the last rib of your rib cage.  You will know if there is congestion in the “hotter” kidney.  Also this kidney is generally slightly raised and  more tender if gently palpated.

Start your Master’s Cleanse in the morning. Upon waking, preferably after a bowel movement, mix the following ingredients in a glass and drink down:

• 2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
• 2 Tablespoons Rich Maple Syrup
• 1/10 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper Powder – or to taste (as much as you can stand)
• 8 ounces (250 milliliters of Pure Water)

Drink 2-3 litres of pure water all day and supplement with herbal teas as needed in the colder months.  In the evening, about 90 minutes before bed, it is recommended that you do a Salt Water Flush, using sea or himilayan salts. which will cause you to have the most amazing purifying bowel movements.  If this isn’t the result, you may need a colonic to get things properly flowing before continuing.

After this protocol, check to see that the kidneys are cooler by repeating the test above.  This will enable you to discern your success with the Master’s Cleanse protocol on the basis of observation and principle.  If the kidney(s) is/are still hot, or it has switched sides, consider seeing your Heilkunst Practitioner for further support with remediation before continuing.  If all is well, you can continue onto the Liver and Gall Bladder protocol for this cleanse.

At this juncture, you are looking for mostly cooked broths of vegetables with a concentration of green vegetables.  Bitter green vegetables are stellar for cleansing the liver and gall system.  You can make simple, beautiful soups starting with a base of organic coconut oil, onion and garlic.  Add beef, turkey or lamb broth if you are an O or B blood type.  Add organic brocolli, spinach, kale, collards, bok choi, zucchini, or anthing else on sale at your local organic market.  Supplement with Milk Thistle and Chlorophyll and you’ll support the liver and drag out any heavy metals at the same time.  You can stay on this part of the cleanse for all three meals as long as you feel comfortable.  Any liver discomfort should alleviate within a couple of days.  Don’t be surprised if you pass a couple of gall stones in the process.

Over the next few days, you can begin to re-introduce stir fried greens, organic ancient grains, and then more raw foods as you please.  The whole idea is to consume pre-digested foods first.  We are seeking to give the body a break at the front end, so it is more encouraged to eliminte the impurities at the “back end.”  We know that there is lots in the news about Raw Food Diets and these protocols certainly have their medicinal application and we do recommend lots of local raw foods during summertime cleanses, however, based on Rudolf Steiner’s understanding he suggests, ” Suppose you [medic] are attempting curative treatment with siliceous substances; then put your patient for a while on a raw food diet [physic] and you will see how materially the effect of the silicon is increased because you are contributing further forces to its peripheral operation; you support its formative activity, its tendency to harmonize deformations.”  I will try to translate into English as he goes on to say that over time the body will start to break down from the outside if the raw foods are taken daily, long term, due to the overly spherical Silicon forces bearing down on the human being.  Over time, not enough radial forces will be generated internally through heat or the “building up” of the organism.  The sclerotic, breaking down, forces from the outside will be engaged with over time and the body will start to look more skeletal as the soft tissues start to break down.  The body eventually stops supporting it’s own skeleton and consciousness all together, and the soft tissues wither and the person unfortunately will die. They will literally perish from overwork as our physiology is not made to handle all that roughage long term.

On an encouraging note, during a proper cleanse, it feels delicious to use a natural brush for your skin before bathing.  Employing a far-infared sauna to encourage your skin, the largest organ of detoxification, to breath and pull toxicity out onto the surface to be scrubbed with your towel is amazing.  This will ease the primary functionning of the liver, kidneys and lymphatic system to do all the work for you as your body will be working hard to dump the toxicity it has held in abbeyance until now.  Salt water hot tubs and cold water plunges at your local Scandanavian Spa can be outstanding to get your lymphatic system pulsating those impurities out of your mesenchymal layer.  That is the sea water jelly layer you feel in between your skin and organs and lots of impurities can be stuck there.  If you don’t have such a luxury close by,  run a very warm to hot bath with epsom salts and then after 10-15 minutes stand up to a cold shower.  We’ve also found that Bowen treatments from an acredited Bowtech Practitioner has been really helpful to folks undergoing cleanses.  Call our office to speak with Carol-Ann, our office administrator, as she is training in this modality and will be able to advise you further.

A great book to read is Nourishing Wisdom, A New Understanding of Eating, by Marc David.  He suggests, “you eat what you are!”  He cites a story about a woman who gets a job at a vegetarian restaurant.  In the short term, her health improved dramatically, however, over time things started to change for the worse.  “Strangely enough, once her health improved and reached its peak, she slowly dropped back to her previous state even though her diet was unchanged and the weather was still warm.  When she told me her story I was struck by one detail:  She had not prepared a meal for herself in close to a year.  In fact, her entire life-style for that time showed a strong deficiency in self-nourishing pursuits.  She had little social life, took no time off from the restaurant, and had no creative outlets.”  The author suggests that the client cook just one nourishing meal a day for herself and her results improved.  The moral of the story is that eating and cleansing is a very emotional business and we are here to help … chances are we’ve had an experience or two in this area.

Another resource that we’ve found very helpful comes from a patient and very close colleague of ours who let go of 40 lbs. shortly after starting Heilkunst treatment and no, she has not found it again.  Kylie Delfino is very outspoken about how she was helped to not only find her essential self through Heilkunst Medicine, in addition, en route she decided to thoroughly research Blood, Glandular and Ayervedic typologies to developing her own cleansing program.  Kylie left her thriving marketing consulting firm to start her yoga and cleansing practice.  The latter part of her business is called, The Nourished Self.  Her program is stellar.  We know because we followed her protocol and loved every minute of it.  Take a look at her site for if you are looking for someone to take you shopping to the local health food store, teach you how to make beet soup or guide you through a cleanse, she is brilliant and enthusiastic to boot!

I used to approach the holidays with some trepidation and fear.  How was I going to navigate all those yummy surplus offerings of food and libation without spending the month of January on a hunger strike?  The old myth of eat less, move more used to ring in my troubled ears, but by the time Christmas rolled around and 2 weeks of rest loomed, I resonated with gentle walks, a rolicking game of scrabble, a long nap on a snowy afternoon, and maybe cleaning out a closet or two.  That was it!  Being a Physician can be a bit like a fire-fighter, it can be a little tough on the nerves when acute diseases strike!  As a result, when the holidays come, I don’t even decorate my house much, using my Jewish babes as the delicious excuse not to add an ounce of extra work of wrestling a tree into a stand to my already busy schedule.  I don’t miss those blasted pine needles one bit!  I don’t even buy much in the way of tangible presents these days.  I’d rather take the kids on a cruise or even better, send them away to riding camp!  In our house, we focus more on giving the gift of time to ourselves and each other.  When someone asks me, are you ready for Christ-mas, I simply answer, “Always!”

So with the holidays on the horizon, let’s look at that myth of eat less, move more.  In your imagination, go back two hundred years to the days when your Christmas goose, or Chanukah kishkas, may have come from your own family’s  farm yard.  You may have yearned for that supper, the whole month, until you got to savour that cranberry sauce that was stored in the cold cellar since the harvest at the first frost. Food was more scarce at that time and you had to eat according to what was available during the season.  You probably spent more time naturally moving your body to pump your water out of the ground and chop the firewood to keep your family warm by the hearth where the stockings were hung.  A lot of intensive energy went into just feeding one’s self back then.  Our physiology is still hooked to this seasonal drought in fresh, available foods, as it has been for about the past 6,000 years and it will act on your behalf accordingly as your food supply seemingly ebbs and tides, even it this time of great bounty.

If we choose to eat less now, our body just assumes that we’ve gone back to the days of yesteryear and that it needs to conserve its resources until the famine is over.  The problem is that there is no scarcity and so when we are desperately trying to cut calories, the Starbucks and Loblaws just scream their available delectable offerings from across the parking lot.  If we can’t resist, we deem ourselves failures.  We end up living a sad perpetual loop of setting ourselves up through starvation and perpetual failures.

When we force ourselves to cut calories, our metabolisms assume that the food cellar is bare and just slows down to help you to compensate until the food supply in your larder returns.  The problem occurs when any available food does show up, your body feels that it had better gorge itself in order to prepare for the next famine just around the corner.  Most of us carrying additional weight know all about this typical cycle of sabotage.  That is why eating less rarely works to lose weight.  When you go into starvation mode, the body stops burning calories.

If you add additional working out at the gym to this recipe, the body just assumes that you are out expending energy hunting wild boar for your family and it resents being forced to expend the extra energy in its state, but it will if it has to.  It will put out in anticipatory glee in order to be rewarded by the imminent feast.  I know this as I had a personal trainer who was a former Olympic runner who said he curiously saw this most perplexing pattern, mostly in women, where they would eat more, the more they trained.  (See Lights Out : Sleep, Sugar, and Survival by T. S. Wiley)  I still think that wiry little man was from another planet.  I easily let him go, just not the weight.  One other buff personal trainer I had, who’d worked for the “Stars in Hollywood”, told me to just eat “oatmeal” and the weight would come off.  His last name was “MacDonald!”

So what is an alternate answer to this butter-knife approach of eat less, move more?  It is simple -taylor your diet and exercise based on the principles of your typology, in order to max out your wood chopping!  Let me explain.  Do you notice that you put weight on in different areas of your body than your sister does?   Do you recognize that you crave different foods than your husband or mother?  Well, there is a reason for this and the only way to buy your freedom out of the eat less, move more matrix is to respect your very own personal typology.

Dr. Abravanel’s Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan helps you to do this.  If you carry additional weight, you generally have specific cravings that have exhausted a particular gland in the body and it will drive you to sabotage your old calorie reduction plan.  If you choose to pick the book up, you’ll be asked to fill out a questionnaire to discern which body type you are.  If you are a T-type (thyroid), for example, you may crave sugars and find you are starving and fatigued every 2-3 hours.  You may also find you pool weight around your middle.  If you are more of an A-type (adrenal), your propensity will be for fatty foods like salami, cheeses, and salty nuts 3 solid meals per day and your body will tend more towards a squarish shape, having lost that more slender mid-line.

We generally will use this mighty tool if a person is 15-20 lbs. overweight and can identify their cravings.  If the individual deems that things have been spinning out of control for quite sometime and their weight exceeds 20 lbs., we have other principled tools to help address this too.  When folks arrive closer to their ideal, we go to their baseline typology of health, which is Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo . Without a too lengthy explanation, we know after about 30 years of live blood analysis research that the lectins in your blood will break down certain foods more optimally than others.

Now we need to discuss the exercise part.  We champion the approach called The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week . Watch this video, and you’ll realize quite quickly how I’m able to take so many delicious restful naps over the holidays and still feel fit!

The last resource needed for you total overall approach might be Dr. Sears’ e-book entitled, PACE: Rediscover Your Native Fitness for your Cardiovascular health.  Again, you only need to dedicate a couple of times per week to a whole 12-20 minutes to these short cycles of 2-3 minutes and then one minute of rest.  This enables you to get back to your holiday Scrabble game in no time.  I find this really enjoyable.  I find that my body responds well and I love the heat generated from my core over the winter months from this form of activity.  I do it at my local gym on a bike that is automatically programmed to take me up hill and dale at 2-3 minute intervals.  I only have to repeat these cycles 4-5 times and I’m off to lift my weights for 30 minutes and I’m done for another 4-5 days.  The idea is to maximize your “afterburn” and never feel winded.

It is also important to know that losing weight has a whole emotional component that will factor into the self-sabotaging patterns of the past.  Have you ever lost your keys?  Do you generally find them again? Well, the same is true about weight … it will show up exactly in the same spots to the same tune if you use a one-size-fits-all approach to regimen.  If you focus on losing weight, it will generally find you again.  Have you ever met a svelte Dr. Bernstein survivor who put the 100 lbs back on again?  This illustrates the point that weight is ultimately about letting go at the emotional level.  Weight is a form of armoring, which is due to unresolved emotional hurts and traumas that have peppered your life and keeps you insulated from more potential hurts.  This is my story too.  I have been challenged with grief and anger issues most of my 46 years and I still find it a challenge to wholly let go to a place of complete safety due to my intellect’s perception of seeming vulnerability.  This is the area of research that I’ve dedicated my last 3.5 years to, on many levels, as I’ve wanted to solve this aspect of the realm of belief, the realm of the “self” by lovingly marrying this aspect to my own true desire function.

My everyday resolution that enables me to achieve my ideal looks like this:  I will bike many imaginary hills and do push ups achingly slowly as long as it feels pleasurable during the “afterburn” and I glean the benefits.  I generally eat from a place of resonance as opposed to attraction, respecting my typology.  I also will continue to chase the ducks and lambs (and my kids and my husband) in the yard to scoot them into the hutch for the night, as a form of meaningful ‘activity’, rather than prescribed ‘exercise’.  I am a traditional girl whose ancestry claimed the Scottish highlands as their own, however, I will leave the daily oatmeal consumption in their capable hands for now.

A very close colleague of mine has been the recipient of two pieces “mail” recently.  First from the FDA (The United States’ Federal Drug Administration) citing the following key paragraph:

“If you are not located in the United States, please note that
unapproved, uncleared, or unauthorized products intended to diagnose,
mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure the H1 N1 Flu Virus offered for
importation into the United States are subject to detention and
refusal of admission. We will advise the appropriate regulatory or law
enforcement officials in the country from which
you operate that FDA considers your product(s) listed above to be
unapproved, uncleared, or unauthorized products that cannot be legally
sold to consumers in the United States.”

I trust that the FDA will employ a goodly number of folk to search out the massive stream of envelopes slipping through the U.S. mail system containing bio-energetically infused rice paper hearts that haven’t the capacity to cause an ounce of harm.

The second letter my colleague received is from “The Competition Bureau of Canada” on the subject of her website where she offers the H1N1 Swine Flu natural immunization:

I am writing to inform you that investigators from the Competition
Bureau (the “Bureau”) are monitoring the Internet to identify websites promoting
products to Canadians using various representations which could raise questions
under the false or misleading representations and deceptive marketing practices
provisions of the Competition Act (the “Act”). The Bureau is an independent law
enforcement agency that contributes to the prosperity of Canadians by protecting and promoting
competitive markets and enabling informed consumer choice.
Upon review of your website, XXXXXXXXXXX last week, we
noticed that you had made representations such as, but not limited to:
“FREE Swine Flu Homeopathic Immunization”
“A Remedy You Can Take Right Now To Protect You From the Swine Flu”
“Take advantage of our Free Swine Flu Natural Immunization-the safe
alternative to the swine flu shot.”
“The XXXXXXXXXX Center has a natural proprietary formula that
matches the frequency pattern of the A(HlN1) Human Swine Flu virus. It stimulates
your immune system to naturally create resistance should you be exposed to
the Swine Flu.”
These above-mentioned representations are in the form of statements
suggesting the efficacy and performance of your product, the Swine Flu Homeopathic
Immunization. Please note that section 74.03 (l)(a) of the Act
prohibits the making of false or misleading representations. Additionally, in order to comply
with section 74.01(l)(b) of the Act, these representations should be based on

adeauate and proper tests, the proof of which lies on the person making the representations.

Health-related claims, like those made on your website, must be

supported by generally accepted, competent and reliable scientific evidence

[Where is their scientific evidence?]. You should be aware
that to exaggerate the benefits of products or services or to misstate
the level of scientific support you have for your claims could also raise concerns under the
Act. Please note, under section 74.01(6) of the Act, the general impression conveyed by
these representations, as well as the literal meaning are taken into account
in determining if the representations raise questions under the Act.
It is our view that the above-mentioned representations could give the
general impression that the Swine Flu Homeopathic Immunization protects the
user from contracting the HlNl virus and is a reliable alternative to the HlNl
flu shot. Please note that we have not conducted an all-inclusive review of your
website and the products that your firm promotes. It is your responsibility to
ensure that all the products and promotions advertised by your firm comply with the Act.
This includes, but is not limited to, the promotion of products on-line, in-store
advertisements and verbal representations made during in-person consultations.
We recognize that you have taken steps to address some of the HlNl
related representations on your website, however we have concerns that you may
continue to make such representations, either on your website or through other
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I love how they assume their are no “adequate tests” of homeopathics.  There hasn’t been an ounce of harm caused in over 200 years.  We are not the number one killer of North Americans as per Dr. Mercola regarding prescription drugs.  We’ve called over 100 folks annually for the first 3 years to discern the efficacy of  homeopathic immunizations to discern that we tout over 98% efficacy on the basis of the law of nature without causing harm. The Centre for Disease Control can offer 15% at best!  So who is actually making false claims here?   I will allow you, our very educated community, be the judge.

I’ll leave you with a quote from Narayan Singh regarding the spiritual meaning behind the Influenza virus and I’ll look forward to hearing your comments about all of this below:

FLU; INFLUENZA (Virus infection)
“At their mercy.” They have feelings of being under the influence of malevolent forces and of
being weak and helpless. It may reflect the vulnerability feelings that accompany times and processes of
great change. There is a fear of attack from others and of taking life in fully. They have a strong
experience of lack of support and protection. They have the experience that the very worst is about to
happen to them. There is a good deal of internal conflict, confusion and susceptibility to suggestion,
especially from the “world of agreement” or the “group mind” or “statistical proofs.” They are the
product of severely untrustworthy parenting arising out of a deeply fearful family.
……………………………….
“Urban hermit.” There is an insufficient involvement and interaction, an “among us but not of
us” pattern. Underneath is a buried rage and hatred for their being so alone, alien and alienated. It
comes from a family in which they could do no right as the unrecognized and unacknowledged “family
hoist” upon whom everyone depended and whom no one supported, sustained or validated.

“My great religion is a trust in the blood, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our intellects. But what our blood feels and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”

D.H. Lawrence

The healthy sense of your Self will always seek pleasure.  As a child I recall whipping through supper, so that I could get back out onto my bike.  I had a date to meet the boys, naturally, and we were to rendez-vous at the tree fort we were building in the forest.  I had grabbed the nails and hammer from my Dad’s workbench and I had 3 chocolate chip cookies shoved into my jacket pocket to share.  We had to get this thing built for … well, who really knows why we had to get it built.  We were 8, and it was enough to munch on cookies and tell ghost stories before having to be back home by the time the street lights went on.  When we were 10, the tree fort wasn’t being used for stories so much, but a haven away from our parents so we could engage in games of Truth or Dare or Spin the Bottle.  Later on, in our teens, we needed to install some carpet as the days of cookies and ghost stories were long gone and our games were done more in a “prone” position.  These days of pure ease, pleasure and exploration were delightful.

As I grew older, my life began to look more and more like the depiction by Queen and David Bowie of what it means to live “Under Pressure” in the 21st century.  I often felt hurried and often frantic as I rushed my babe’s nursing to get her to the caregiver with her older brother, so I could rush to my meaningless Government job, with a streak of baby puke down the back of my suit.  If you knew me, you might have wondered why I “sighed” all the time.  It was my pathetic attempt to discharge some of the pressure.  I was hyper-tense!

My father suffered “high blood pressure” and symptoms of hypertension and eventually succumbed to a heart attack at age 43 while he was away on vacation in the Caribbean.  I asked him once, “why is your blood under more pressure than Mr. MacDonald’s?”  He didn’t know the answer.  He did take up meditation, though, to try to avoid taking medication which he would do first thing in the morning … right after smoking his morning cigarette.  My Dad was the type of fellow who really didn’t gravitate to new ideas easily and would never allow himself to be connected to his feelings.  His “heart” had been broken when my Mom committed suicide and it really felt that his heart wasn’t into very much after she died.  He greeted his own mother with a handshake during their annual visit! Thankfully, he was able to hug my sister and I, but I never saw him cry after my Mom died or for any other reason for that matter.

My Dad was successfully armored.  His beliefs about demonstrations of affections were very limiting and he and I had quite a difficult relationship due to the fact that I lived through my emotions, loved the boys, and had not an ounce of a qualm when it came to being demonstrative or affectionate.  If I was in love then the whole world knew it, and if I was in “hate,” the world knew that too.  He just couldn’t handle this “inconsistent” realm of the emotive or the emoter!  It made no intellectual sense to him.  I felt misunderstood and limited by him my whole life.  It was sad, but I understand now, very intimately, how “armoring” prevents the flow of blood in an organism designed to ebb and tide through a venous system that demands that our organism be labile and flexible enough to allow for whatever comes up to the fore.  We need to be able both to expand with our pleasures and contract with our challenges.  A state of constant contraction will build under the “hardening of the attitudes” into a vacuum of pressure.

Dr. Mercola explains that for the most part, high blood pressure is related to your body producing too much insulin. When your insulin levels rise, your blood pressure increases. A study published in the journal Diabetes reported that nearly two-thirds of test subjects who were insulin resistant also had high blood pressure.  However, this also leaves the patient in the dark as this statement doesn’t have much meaning, either, unless you know that insulin will only flood the system if a person is unable to wholly extract the “sweetness” from their life.  Misery produces armoring and perpetual contraction.

I will attempt to break the process down into the simplest of terms as I learned back in the tree fort.  All life begins with swelling.  Inflammation is the body’s way of “breaking free” of a process of disease.  My breast tumor swelled 2.5 sizes greater before it blew up and dissolved, dumping the toxicity into my liver and kidneys for processing out of my body.  A fever will swell tissues as it cooks the microbial arch nemesis out of existence.  The broccoli in your fridge will expand with green fuzz and increase in size before it contracts into a shriveled mass of goop en route to it’s earthly destination.  If you’ve ever tried to make love without swelling, the mission is botched before full engagement and both parties can feel frustrated and resigned.  The disease of resignation is Cancer.

All those drugs that may be used to save a patients life like Anticoagulants, blood thinners, and vassal dilators will actually diminish the patient’s quality of life with unwanted side-effects, causing harm and eventually lead to their early demise.  Aspirin might help us thin our blood and reduce inflammation, but as time goes on, your chances of having a hemorrhagic stroke increase (not to mention all the other detrimental side effects of aspirin). Should you need surgery and are told to go off the aspirin prior to surgery, your chances of a heart attack skyrocket. Continued Aspirin therapy also raises your blood pressure.  Dr. Mercola also cites, “The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs otherwise known as Aspirin or Aleve) may block the production of prostaglandins, which are known to dilate blood vessels. When fewer prostaglandins are present, blood vessels may narrow, which could lead to hypertension.”

If you are a patient of ours at Arcanum, we go after the root cause, to annhilate the symptoms of hypertension.  The first aspect to address is Regimen as it is important to reduce a diet that is high in grains and sugars as well as increasing Slow Burn style of exercise. We will often suggest increased intake of vit. D and the oils resonant for your blood type.  Animal protein and oils are the vehicle for the sense of self or blood consciousness as I will illustrate in a moment, and most medical allopaths will eliminate these foods first and, in essence, hasten the demise of the patient.

The other area that we focus on, without causing harm, is the realm of bio-energetic medicine.  The cause of Hypertension also lies generally in the predisposition for heart disease.  Medhorrinum, or the more glamorous Sycosis or Gonnorrhea, is a genetic miasm that has been identified as a virtually universal pattern of disease inheritance.  This disease has never been cured outright until now.   The symptoms can include feelings of high blood pressure, hypertension, heart palpitations, cataracts, ear infections, eczema, asthma, and arthritis, especially worse in the spring.  The state of mind is one of feeling sped up, frantic, hurried, dangerous, and gravitating excessively to extremes.  Replay the “Under Pressure” video if you want a good understanding of how the post-industrial age has perpetuated this state of mind and it’s incumbent symptoms of hypertension.  I know, because I carried my father’s disease at my core and I was radiating the state of mind daily.  I was being set up by my disease for a very unwanted outcome.

As promised above, here is an illustration of how the emotional sense of self is connected to the physiology of the physical hematic blood system by Rudolf Steiner, in his lecture on THE BLOOD AS MANIFESTATION AND INSTRUMENT OF THE HUMAN EGO given on 26th March, 1911:

“I shall here point only to the fact that in a phenomenon such as blushing, where a shifting of the blood takes place, we have the very simplest form of the influencing of the hematic system by way of the ego-experiences; likewise, in blanching from anxiety and fear, we have transitory expressions of ego-experiences clearly manifested in the instrument of the ego. The way the ego feels in fear or shame is expressed through its instrument, the blood. You can understand, therefore, if such expressions occur even in the merely transitory processes, that the more lasting, habitual experiences of the ego must certainly manifest themselves in the easily excitable element of the blood.

There is no passion, no instinct, no emotion, whether we experience these habitually or whether they come to expression in an explosive way, which does not pass over, as inner experience, into the blood as the instrument of the ego, which does not there express itself externally. All the unwholesome elements of the inner life of the ego express themselves primarily in the hematic system. And so, wherever we wish to understand anything that goes on in the hematic system, it is important not merely to inquire as to the nutritive process but even more to look into the soul-processes in so far as they are inner ego-experiences, such as moods, habitual passions, emotions and the like. Only the materialist will direct his attention chiefly to the nutrition in connection with disturbances in the hematic system. For the nourishment of the blood is dependent upon that of the physical system, the glandular system, the nervous system, and the rest; and, as a matter of fact, the nutritive matter is already thoroughly filtered when it comes into the blood. If therefore the blood is to be adversely affected from without, the organism must already be in a seriously diseased state. On the other hand all soul-processes, all processes of the ego, react directly upon what is occurring in the circulation of the blood.”

I have committed to living my life out of the “tree fort” state of mind.  I hike in the forest with my dog almost every day of the week.  I ride my bike, accelerating down the hills to feel the wind in my face, just as I did when I was eight.  I invite my beloved husband into my “treefort” every night for the same reasons I did in my teens.  Although, he usually brings the bottle for spinning!  My Heilkunst practice is the most pleasureable way, I can imagine, to gain knowledge, mirroring all of what I’ve been learning through my indepth studies of Rudolf Steiner, Willhelm Reich and Samuel Hahnemann.  Whether I’m feeding the ducks, mucking out the barn or researching and writing another blog article or book, I am enraptured with what comes through me from these Romantic period thinkers in the most profound way.  If I commit to having the capacity for new ideas now and address each of my challenges as they are raised for my “viewing pleasure” in the present with innocence and the lens of the observational scientist, I can know the truth behind the Kaos, I can know freedom for my self and my patients.  Thankfully, there isn’t an ounce of hyper-tension in my loins!

Well, it is that time of year again.  We are getting calls on our Clinic line for help with the flu, colds, ear infections, sinus infections, sore throats and fevers.  So let’s say you give us a call, worried about your aching bones, wondering whether you have a simple 24 hr. bug or something more serious.  What should you do?  Well, the answer to that question is different for everyone, but I’ll tell you what I do for myself and for my patients.

The first thing I do is relax, and take a quick scan of myself and my regimen, which incidently, is the first jurisdiction of Heilkunst Medicine.  Do I need more fluids, what has my nutrition been like lately, did I get caught in a cold wind or draught?  I’ll generally start by taking 3-4 doses of vitamin C and zinc if my throat is sore or I feel congestion coming on.  Sometimes colds will start with a series of sneezes.   If I pay close attention to my body’s signals, I can generally nip it in the bud with basic regimen to augment my already strengthened immune system.  I have saved myself from engendering a more complicated cold or flu with a simple hot bath with epsom salts and an early night on many occasions.  However, if these sustentive measures don’t resolve symptoms, and a fever or vomiting sets in, it may be time to look into medicine.

This is the second jurisdiction of Heilkunst medicine and it is when I hit the books.  One of the first ones I ever picked up to start using homeopathic remedies for the treatment of colds and flues with my own family was Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines by Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman.  It is a great tool and I still use it today.  The other one I recommend is Phyllis Speight’s Homeopathic Remedies for Ears, Nose and Throat.

Using resources such as these, I will begin to narrow down the symptoms.  If it is a fever with intense heat, of the head and face, but the body is cold then I know that the homeopathic remedy is Arnica.  If the heat is intense, and the face and ear are bright red and the fever came on quickly around midnight, the remedy is Belladonna.  If the liver is enlarged with intermittent fever, then it needs Nitric Acid.  Generally, we’ll use a 200 CH or a 1M.

Often we can discern the medicine that is right for us by piecing together, phenomenologically, what has been going on in our lives.  Anthroposophic and Orgonomic therapies are the third jurisdiction.  That big word starting with “A” in the last sentence literally means “the study of man”.  At Arcanum Wholistic Clinic we pride ourselves in being Sherlock Holmes and Watsons when it comes to identifying the cause of symptoms as expressions of a deeper disease process.  It is our ultimate responsibility to source out the etiology or cause for the flu, cold, ear infection, sinus infection, sore throat and even fever.  Sometimes these issues are easily explained given the seasonal predisposition to the genetic miasm afoot.  As an example, Malaria lurks at the beginning of November throwing up symptoms that look very much like the flu accompanied by fever, aches, and delirium are all part of its tale of woe.

On occasion, the cold can be indicative of unexpressed grief, a sinus infection, too, can be telling of unexpressed need for additional support, and a sore throat can be just a front for something needing to be expressed, like a secret or some kind of resentment.  Sometimes even just voicing it to yourself can be enough to tip the scale of consciousness in your favor.  The reason we want to source out the cause is to lower the incidence of re-infection and to allow for the remedies to wholly complete their resolution for cure on your behalf.  Sometimes my stuck little state of mind will block the full resolution of the disease.

For example, a child with a Pulsatilla-like cold will have thick yellow mucus, be whiny and clingy and suffering some dizzyness.  We can provide the correct remedy, a cool room (a patient in a Pulsatilla state will prefer cooler open air) for example, but if that child’s basic needs for affection are not being met on a daily basis, then the chances they will re-infect with the same symptoms or worse, start to develop others.  Also, if the patient has a sore throat, but has not been able to express that she desperately needs to tell her husband that she is no longer happy in the marriage, chances are the symptoms won’t be wholly eradicated until the environment is addressed and more conducive to her health and well-being.

The problem with symptoms is that you can run, but you can’t hide – and for the ultimate success of curative remediation, we need to be accurately hooked into to all three jurisdictions of Heilkunst medicine, as outlined above.  If we try to nail it just with medicine alone, it is a bit like a tricycle trying to operate effectively with only one wheel.  The back end will leave significant tracks in the dust and it will be tough to make it to your destination.  Believe me, I know.  I’ve tried it!

If you are looking for preventative treatment for any of these ills, this is the area we speicialize in – give us a call.  We have every medicine to prevent any flu either created in the past, present or future.  With bioenergetics, there are no limits to what we can effectively treat on the basis of law, like cures like.  Also, let us know if you would like us to come out to your home and teach a class on basic Homeopathic prescribing.  We can also do a tele-class via teleconferencing.  Wendy, Jeff or I will gladly come out if you can gather 7 – 10 people together for a couple of hours and we’ll happily teach a course specifically on seasonal afflictions such as colds and flus.

I know this is going to sound odd, but most of us women don’t realize that breast feeding is actually a male-like function.  If you think about it, the aroused nipple is actually a miniature phallus seeking to penetrate the open lips of a baby seeking healthy penetration.  If you’ve ever had the pleasure of nursing a baby as they curl their fingers around your breast, or your own finger, you can watch your babe become drowsier and drowsier as they seemingly get drunk on the warmth and love exchanged between mom and babe.  Some of you may have even noticed the babes cheeks suddenly quake and shake as they relax further into this nourishing exchange.  If they could speak, you might even hear them say, “I am safe, I am held, I am loved.”  This quaking in the cheeks is actually a facial orgasm!

As a dynamic Physician, I work with patients all the time whose needs were not met by their own mothers.  I have had clients who were force-fed as babes and toddlers, where a timer was rigidly set at the beginning of the meal.  One man told me he was instructed that he had 15 minutes to consume all of the food on his plate as a boy!  I’ve worked with obese folks who still have the feeling that if they don’t get all the food in at one sitting, they won’t have an opportunity to eat again.  I had one 300 lb. woman lie in her bed, raise up her arms in supplication and  begin to cry out the words “please feed me.”  As she cried, she began to claw at the sheets, she recognized that she must have been left in her crib and denied feedings.  She was furious.  In the 60’s and 70’s, some Pediatricians instructed parents that a babe should be nourished no more than once every 4 hours … by bottle, of course.  At the time, breast feeding was not in fashion.

Breast feeding has no rules.  Some babes may fuss for food every four hours around the clock, some cluster feed through the day, or evenings, and then sleep soundlessly though the night.  My own babe was premature, by 2 months, and he nursed every 1.5 hours day and night for the first 6 months.  At the time, I thought I was going to loose my sanity, but my job was not to question why, or listen to schedules or even other parents’ advice.  My job was to nourish Jordan as often as he felt he needed it.  He has grown into an amazing 15 year old teenager, almost 6 feet tall with size 12 feet, and he barely needs a weekly hug!  Some days, I’d secretly give a nickel to turn the clock back and share that level of intimacy with my beloved son.

Nursing, and nourishment, is hooked to our sexual organs.  Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, M.D., explains this phenomenon more thoroughly -”In the infant, contact with the environment is effected principally through the mouth, which at this time is a very highly charged, almost autonomous organ.  The mouth effects its own discharge of energy at its maximum point of intensity by means of a convulsive reaction which can appropriately be called the oral orgasm.  Many pediatricians, unaware of this, have made a diagnosis of infantile epilepsy when they observed this orgasm.”  What he is alluding to is that our babes use the breast to let go of pent up steam, or anxiety, through their mouths and if this capacity isn’t wholly nourished at this time, problems with food, sex and “saying” what’s on your mind can be affected later.

For babes who have good contact with a loving mother who is sensitive, warm and “alive”, the child will bond vitally with her, but also to his or her potential self as a warm, sensitive, autonomous, and “alive” sexual being.  As most of us know, nursing can bring on uterine contractions and it in some fortunate women, orgasms of their own, and if this arouses feelings of guilt in the Mom or she is genitally anxious, she will communicate this anxiety to the babe.  Resolving this schism, begun in infancy, is the area of treatment I specialize in.

I know this probably sounds like more than you bargained for with regards to simply nursing, but I will tell you why it is important.  If you will fast forward 30 years into the life of a babe that suffered a traumatic birth and did not receive the loving connection from the Mom through the aroused nipple you might be able to imagine that you are a fly on the wall in my medical clinic today.  You would see men and women cry with the pain and anguish of feeling abandoned, de-valued and despairing without being able to source out the cause.  If you watched one of my female patients mimic the sucking motion of the lips, you might gasp with wonder as they tell you they are experiencing the first genital sexual streamings (shivers of sexual yearnings) of their life.  One woman I treated actually had an orgasm!

Profound, I know, but it’s true that 80% of all emotional traumas are incurred before the age of 3 years of age.  All neurosis can be traced to blocked sexual energy.  The discharge never occurs.  We communicate so much more than just milk to our babies, in fact, most Moms will tell you that a babe suckles so very little in the way of volume that it is amazing to a lot of us that they even survive.  So, that that little bit of pus from the lymphatic system produced by the Mother on demand (milk is not actually stored in the breast) is enough to sustain a baby for up to 7 years if need be.

Rudolf Steiner recommends weaning a babe within the first 18 months of life, otherwise the babe will be subject to the Mother’s karmic baggage taking on such diseases as Cancer, Tuberculosis, Syphillis, etc. that may be coming down the family line.  Yes – these diseases still live within our genetic framework and can only be cured on the basis of the law of nature : like cures like.

Our babes actually need encouragement to healthfully separate from us so that they can begin their own journey to autonomy and freedom from us.  If all goes well, they should be packing up the George Foreman Grill and healthfully leaving for the frontier of their own lives by about age 21.  Most of us who’ve raised one of these sweet bundles of joy know that self-assertion starts as early as age 2 with a resounding “I do it!”  It is our job to pack in as much love and healthy intimacy with them between birth and the weekly hugs at 15.  It all starts with breast feeding!

We can celebrate this awesome adventure when we wholly cherish and nourish our babes with our whole labile, creative, loving and sensitive selves in the short time we’re offered this opportunity.  I recall the sadness I once felt coaching a new mom with inverted nipples and the Cancer state of mind.  Her breast did not display the vitalized, “alive” eagerness I’d seen in other Moms.  The babe was groggy for days after birth from the Oxytocin and I suggested she call in a La Leche league consultant.  They did eventually find their way, but it was a very tough go from the onset.   My hope is that we can resolve the issues now before that babe ends up in an office like mine 30 years from now.