…putting the 'CARE' back into 'healthcare'.
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Therapeutics on May 1st, 2012
When I am taking a patient through treatment, one of the most foundational concepts of healing relates to the concept of “the direction of cure”. As I’ve written before, the mere act of making a symptom disappear is not necessarily enough. The questions of how it was made to disappear, and where it has gone [...]
Posted in Aconite, Belladonna, Family Medicine, Fever, Healing, Iatrogenesis, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Time Line Treatment on Apr 28th, 2012
“Prescribed Fire” is a technique used in forestry to promote the health of the eco-system; it cleans up forest floor debris and old growth, and triggers new growth, which is suitable for animal habitat. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and when done correctly, nature repays the compliment with new healthy growth. This deliberate [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, State of Health, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Apr 22nd, 2012
I used the word cloud generator at the Wordle website this morning with playful curiosity, and discovered an opportunity to blog about a few of the key words about the scientific framework and thought forms behind Heilkunst. The word cloud above was generated from some of my most recent blog posts, and, in no particular [...]
Posted in Cancer, Fluoric Acid, Iatrogenesis, Inside The Consult Room on Apr 5th, 2012
The practice of forced medication in municipalities who add fluoride to their town water supply is highly questionable. Here are some of the questions which come to mind when I think about it: How can “forced medication” be medically or legally justified in a society that normally follows the principle of “informed consent”? Even if [...]
Posted in Anxiety, Fluoric Acid, Iatrogenesis, Inside The Consult Room, Migraine, State of Mind on Apr 4th, 2012
The issue of forcing populations of people to consume unmeasured amounts of a toxic drug is, of course, abhorrent to our modern sensibilities. The most shocking thing, however, is that this is still happening in many municipalities across Canada and the U.S. today. I’m speaking of the addition of Hydrofluorosilic Acid (aka ‘fluoride’) to the [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Conditions, Healing, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Regimen, Therapeutics on Feb 24th, 2012
When I refer to “Allopathic” medicine, people often assume that this term only applies to the prescription of pharmaceutical drugs, but not to any non-drug approaches, such as surgery. “Allopathy” has a much broader meaning than this, and indicates a more general conceptual approach to health which doesn’t understand or treat the cause of a [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Anthroposophy, Cancer, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Feb 18th, 2012
I briefly described the four bodies in yesterday’s post, and now I’d like to take a bit of a closer look at the ontic organization (fourth body). As I mentioned yesterday, the birth of the ontic organization happens somewhere around the age of three, and one of the significant markers of this event is the [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Cancer, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, State of Mind on Feb 8th, 2012
The topic of cancer is quite broad, and there are many areas to discuss from a Heilkunst perspective. In this blog post, I would like to make a few comments about this presentation made at a TEDMED conference about a new cancer treatment protocol, ‘Tumor Treating Fields”. As I wrote recently, there is an urgent [...]
Posted in Conditions, Diagnosis, Iatrogenesis, Inside The Consult Room on Jan 13th, 2012
I wrote yesterday about the issue of why we need to overcome the limitations of false disease names in Heilkunst diagnosis. Common conditions labels such as “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, or “Social Anxiety Disorder” may get you into the right ballpark for a general understanding of a case, but actually hinders the possibility of a true diagnosis [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Principles on Apr 19th, 2010
Despite numerous accounts of clinical success, homeopathy remains at the periphery of Western medicine. The expressed reason for its marginalization is that it violates accepted principles within the current biochemical paradigm. Through the process of potentization – – serial dilutions of a substance interspersed with vigorous shaking – – homeopathic remedies are often altered beyond [...]
