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Pranams,Mr.SunilNairji,Very valuable information for overseas Indians.Mr.Manoji being an OCI,Irequest him to share his experienced views if any,in this regard.Regards/Dhananjayan --- On Mon, 7/9/09, Sunil Nair <astro_tellerkerala wrote:Sunil Nair <astro_tellerkerala Fwd: Childhood illnesses: Need we mess with them? Date: Monday, 7 September, 2009, 8:46 AM

 

 

Dear List sorry for a Non -astro Post but i think this is giving some wide awareness rgrds sunil nair Supporting Children's Health- by Philip Incao,

M.D.http://www.goodligh t.net /vacexpert/suportng .htmThe rate of chronic illness in children has tripled since 1960, possiblydue in part to the overuse of childhood

vaccinations. The surprising newsis that the standard childhood illnesses these vaccines suppress mayactually benefit the immune system. .One of the best ways to ensure your children's health is to allow them toget sick. At first hearing, this concept may sound outrageous. Yet standardchildhood illnesses, such as measles, mumps, and even whooping cough, maybe of key benefit to a child's developing immune system and it may beinadvisable to suppress these illnesses with immunisations. Evidence isalso accumulating that routine childhood vaccinations may directlycontribute to the emergence of chronic problems such as eczema, earinfections, asthma, and bowel inflammations. .It's a challenging medical proposition, but ever since the 1920s, manyEuropean physicians and a small band of American doctors (myself included,for the past 23 years) have avoided using most vaccinations, based on amedical

approach called Anthroposophic medicine.In this field, we regard childhood vaccinations as anything but routine;rather, we consider them in most cases to be suspect, dangerous, and worthyof exceedingly rigorous review. Generally, we try to avoid giving mostvaccinations and rely instead on alternative, more natural ways of helpingthe child cope with what we contend are the necessary and beneficialillnesses of childhood.The Immune System Benefits from Early Illness .Before these concepts make sense, it must be pointed out that the immunesystem has two different aspects. One aspect is called the humoral immunesystem whereby antibodies (specialised defence proteins) are produced torecognise and neutralise antigens (foreign particles in the body). .The other aspect is called the cell-mediated immune system, and involveswhite blood cells and specialised immune cells called macrophages

whichÒeatÓ antigens. These also help drive the antigens out of the body, causingskin rashes and discharges of pus and mucus from the throat and lungs. Bothare typical signs of the beneficial acute inflammatory illnesses ofchildhood. .These two poles of the immune system have a reciprocal relationship. Thatmeans when the humoral pole is overstimulated (for example, from vaccinesor allergies), the cell-mediated pole tends to be relatively inactive.Vaccines do not stimulate this pole, so their contents never get dischargedfrom the body. .Polio and tetanus do not belong to this group of beneficial standardchildhood illnesses. I use the word "standard" to denote acute inflammatoryillnesses (usually with rash and fever) typical and common to children inWestern, industrialised nations. These illnesses are also standard tochildhood as a developmental phase, something akin to the

predictablechange in teeth around age seven. .Many years ago, Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian scientist and founder of theAnthroposophic approach to medicine, argued that childhood illnesses are astandard feature of childhood because the young body needs them. Now let'ssee how this plays out in a standard childhood illness or its suppressionwith vaccinations. .An acute inflammatory childhood illness--measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, scarlatina, or whooping cough--develops the cell-mediated immunesystem, while a vaccine activates the humoral immune system. The differencehere is crucial because it is the cell-mediated response that protects thechild from future illness and that provides, in effect, the deeper immunity. .Physicians who practice Anthroposophical medicine generally believe thathaving acute but limited inflammatory diseases as a child helps protect oneas an adult against

more serious, long-term, chronic illnesses. Not havingthese childhood illnesses (because of multiple vaccinations) can lead to agreater incidence of adult health problems. The same is true when thesechildhood illnesses are routinely suppressed with antibiotics rather thanhelping the cell-mediated immune system to work out the illness in a rashor mucous discharge. .Recent research in conventional medical journals is now confirming thisview. In early 1997, a team of British physicians writing in Science madethis provocative statement: "Childhood infections may, therefore,paradoxically protect against asthma." In other words, these infectionshave a purpose in building general immunity. .The British physicians noted that the incidence of asthma has doubled since1977 in Western countries and in the U.S. it is responsible for 33% of allpaediatric emergency-room visits. Yet this growing incidence of

asthmaseems to be related more to the suppression or absence of respiratoryinfections than to the commonly perceived cause, air pollution. .Highly polluted European cities where the use of antibiotics andimmunisations is less than in the U.S. have lower asthma rates thancomparable U.S. cities. Conversely, in Tucson, Arizona, despite the dryheat and lack of irritants (such as dust mites) in the air, the rate ofasthma is the same as elsewhere in the country. .The Science physicians suggested that diseases such as tuberculosis andwhooping cough may permanently alter a child's immune system such that theyconfer a lifetime protection against asthma. Certainly they were not sayingchildren should have tuberculosis, but they noted that the humoral immunesystem needs to be tempered by the cell-mediated response, and this besthappens during an infectious childhood disease. .When a child undergoes

an intense but short-term lung infection, thisprovides the necessary exercise of the cell-mediated immune system. If thisdoes not happen, the humoral system is left unbridled and subject toover-reaction to otherwise harmless pollen and dust particles; eventually,this may lead to asthma. .Let's follow this idea in the case of measles. When a child gets a measlesrash, the body excretes the virus through the skin, usually within aboutfour days after rash onset. If the child does not get a measles rash, someof the measles virus remains unneutralised in the body where it can act asa chronic irritant to the immune system and contribute to degenerativedisease later. .The fever and rash of measles enable the body to burn up the virus; havinga measles vaccine is like planting a seed of future infection in the bodyand tricking the body not to reject it. This is because a vaccine resultsin only a

partial immunity; ie., the humoral system is triggered while thecell-mediated system remains dormant or can even be inhibited by thevaccine. This insight was first put forward by Boston homoeopath RichardMoskowitz, M.D., in the early 1980s. .Danish physician Tove Ronne stated it simply in The Lancet in 1985:"Measles virus infection without rash in childhood is related to disease inadult life." Among these, Dr. Ronne listed skin disease, immunedysfunctions, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage, and certaincancers. It's alarming to note that a few years later, in 1991, theNational Cancer Institute announced that the rate of all cancers amongwhite American children grew by 4.1% between 1973 and 1988. Morespecifically, the rate of childhood leukemia increased by 10.7% while braincancers soared by 30.5%. .Predisposing Children to More Disease Later? .Put simply, the research suggests

that if children do not undergo some typeof limited respiratory infection, they are more at risk for developingasthma, among other problems. Michel R. Odent, M.D., and colleagues at thePrimal Health Research Centre in London, England, documented thisconnection in a report on 448 children, published in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association in 1994. .Out of this group, 243 children (average age, eight years) had beenimmunised with the pertussis vaccine for whooping cough. Of these, 26 (10%)had asthma compared to only four (1.9%) of the 208 children not immunised.This suggests that having the pertussis vaccine can increase a child's riskof developing asthma by more than five times. .Similarly, in the vaccinated group, 130 children had ear infectionscompared to only 59 among the 208 non-vaccinated. Here the risk ofdeveloping subsequent ear infections was increased by almost two times

inpertussis-vaccinate d children. The incidence of other diseases (excludingasthma, ear infections, eczema, and whooping cough) was also noticeablyhigher in the vaccinated group--34.6% versus 24% for non-vaccinatedchildren. .The measles vaccine has been linked with higher rates of inflammatory boweldisease. Based on a study of 3,545 people who received live measles vaccineas children, their rate of developing ulcerative colitis wastwo-and-one- half times higher and three times higher for Crohn's comparedto an unvaccinated group, as reported in The Lancet. The MMR (measles,mumps, rubella) vaccine has also been implicated in higher rates ofdiabetes (see accompanying sidebar, "Do Vaccinations Cause Diabetes?"). .There are still other data suggestive of a vaccine link with disease. Forexample, for largely "unexplained" reasons, between 1960 and 1981, the rateof activity-limiting chronic

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among children doubled from 1.8 to3.8%, most noticeably in allergic and mental/nervous system disorders. By1995, this figure had climbed again to 6.7%. In other words, the rate morethan tripled since 1960. I contend the rise is not "unexplained; " rather,it is explained by the fact that we have overused antibiotics andimmunisations. .Certainly this evidence paints a picture, and it confirms whatAnthroposophic physicians have contended for 75 years. It is healthier forthe child to undergo an acute upper respiratory infection (with appropriateherbal and homoeopathic support, described below) than to suppress orpreempt it with antibiotics and vaccinations. The more you allow childrento work out their acute illnesses, to really exercise their immune systemswithout suppressing the process, the stronger the system will be and theless prone the children will be to serious adult degenerative illnesses.

..When an adult comes down with an infectious, inflammatory disease, it isactually a blessing because it might prevent them from developing a moreserious chronic problem. I've seen adults who suppressed inflammatorydiseases, such as bronchitis or pneumonia, then five to ten years latercame down with cancer. Letting the inflammations run their course instead(with support, naturally), may have prevented the cancer from developing. .How Measles Can Cure Eczema .Now let's see how undergoing childhood measles may actually improve achild's health, both immediately and in the long-term. Consider the case ofHans, whom I first treated for measles when he was nine. .Hans did not receive the measles vaccine because he was allergic to eggs.The vaccine contains an egg product and is not recommended for childrenwith this allergy. When he was nine, he came down with measles, which is abit late for

children. Of considerable interest here is the fact that foryears Hans had suffered from severe eczema; his skin was dry and cracked,particularly behind the elbows and knees, and occasionally it bled. Infact, Hans often could not straighten his legs because the eczema made ittoo painful. .His measles produced a strong rash and a fever of 104 F, yet I did nothingto suppress these reactions with Tylenol (Panadol) or Advil (Ibuprofin),for example, as conventional medicine would recommend. Instead, I gave HansAnthroposophic remedies to support him through the measles process.Specifically, I gave him low potencies of Apis, Belladonna, Argentum/Carbo/Silicea, Ferrum Phosphate, Prunus Spinosa (from the sloe plum), andEchinacea. .These remedies do not suppress the fever, but allow the constitution totolerate it better. The temperature does not need to come down, but thechild needs to be able to

tolerate it. Again, the important concept is thatthe fever is a natural, useful, necessary process for a child's health. Thechild must be closely observed by a medical professional during the illnessprocess to be sure the course the illness is taking is benign. It isimportant to find out if complications like encephalitis or pneumonia aredeveloping. These rarely occur and are not directly linked to the degree ofthe fever. .The remedies we use for children make the body more transparent orpermeable to allow the toxicity or fever process to flow through it withoutgetting stuck. Let me illustrate this principle with an analogy. .If you have a copper rod and you light a candle at one end of it, thewarmth of the flame will flow quickly through the rod and you feel thewarmth at the other end. Similarly, if the body is like a copper tube, thewarmth of the fever will flow through it but not cause a

complication suchas a convulsion; but if the body is more like lead, which is dense and doesnot conduct heat well, complications are likely to arise. .The lead does not conduct or dissipate the heat; rather, it starts to meltat the point of contact with the heat. It remains cold at one end and getsoverheated at the other. This is analogous to the undesirable situation ofchildren having cold feet and a hot head. Care should always be taken thatchildren have warm feet, especially during a fever. .If you suppress the fever with drugs or antibiotics, you block this flowand make the body more like the lead in this analogy. How long a child hasthe disease is not as important as avoiding complications. The length oftime depends on how much toxicity the body needs to discharge through thefever. .When Hans' measles were over, his eczema had almost completely disappeared.Hans is now in his

twenties and has never had a recurrence of eczema sincehis measles. This is a typical example of how stimulating the cell-mediatedside of the immune system can help the body overcome an allergic problem.The measles process enabled Hans' system to stop reacting allergically andproducing the eczema symptoms. In a sense, you could say that the feverburned the allergic reaction out of his body. .His case also underscores the fact that childhood measles in industrialisedcountries is a benign disease if you understand how to treat it. Hans'symptoms, the high fever and intense rash, were not mild, but scientificstudies have shown that the stronger the initial symptoms, the less likelyit is that the child will get the damaging or dangerous complications, suchas encephalitis or pneumonia. .Do Vaccinations Cause Diabetes?While the U.S. population has only doubled since the 1940s, the number

ofAmericans with diabetes has increased 200 times, and it has increased by300% in the last 15 years alone, representing about 15% of all U.S.health-care costs. Routine childhood vaccinations may be a prime cause ofthe diabetes epidemic, according to testimony presented before the U.S.House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations on April 16, 1997, byHarris L. Coulter, Ph.D., medical history scholar and president of theCenter for Empirical Medicine in Washington, D.C. Based on animal studies,the pertussis vaccine (part of the DPT vaccination) is known to stimulateoverproduction of insulin by the pancreas. This is followed by exhaustionof that organ's "islets of Langerhans" (which make insulin) andunderproduction of insulin, resulting in chronic low blood sugar(hypoglycaemia) and eventually diabetes, says Dr. Coulter. .Both untreated rubella and the rubella vaccine (part of the

MMRinoculation) produce immune complexes that can damage the pancreas andsignificantly reduce the levels of insulin that organ is able to secrete.As an untreated disease, mumps can damage the pancreas. As a vaccine, thereare now many case reports directly linking the onset of diabetes--sometimeswithin only a month's time--with receipt of the mumps vaccination. New Zealand researchers observed a 60% increase in the cases of juvenilediabetes following a hepatitis-B vaccination program. Despite the mountingevidence linking vaccines with diabetes, the U.S. government refuses toresearch the connection, says Dr. Coulter. "The fact that the federalmedical establishment- -which would be the major source of funds for such anepidemiologic investigation- -is itself highly committed to the childhoodvaccination program, goes far to explain the absence of any officialinterest in this connection." .How a Fever

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Reverse the Effects of a Vaccination .It is increasingly noted that many of the routine childhood vaccinationscan produce a variety of side effects and complications, posing bothimmediate and long-term dangers. aged 19 months, had all hisvaccinations, including DPT, MMR, tetanus, polio, and Hib (Haemophilusinfluenza type b). .After his first two DPT shots at two and four months, Todd screamed everynight for a week, after which his parents and paediatrician realised he hadreacted to the shot and should have no more DPT. At 18 months, Toddreceived his MMR and polio immunisations, after which he slept almostcontinually for two days; when he was awake, he was lethargic and hisbreathing was shallow. A week later, Todd had trouble standing erect anddid not want to walk on his own. About two weeks later, Todd came down witha 104 F fever and a rash. When both subsided, he was his normal self

again. .To understand what happened with you need to appreciate thedocumented fact that some vaccines can produce a slight but significantstate of encephalitis, or brain inflammation. While this is usuallyreversible, it may also leave lingering effects such as dyslexia orattention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I didn't get to treat Todd untilafter all this had happened, so I focused on giving him remedies to healhis post-encephalitic state. I gave him Arnica, Belladonna, and Formica totake for the next six to 12 months for the after-effects of the braininflammation caused by the vaccines. .Todd's fever and rash following his MMR vaccination was his body's attemptto "burn" the vaccine toxins out of his system. The first sign that thesematerials irritated his system was Todd's lethargy, two-day sleeping binge,and inability to walk; these symptoms, in fact, indicated a slight

braininflammation. The second sign was the rash and fever which arose todischarge these toxins from the body. .In Afghanistan, the common treatment for measles is to wrap the child inblankets to produce a rash. The idea is that the more the measles comes outas a skin rash, the less likely the child is to get encephalitis orpneumonia. Anthroposophic physicians concur with the thinking behind this"folk remedy." .In the months immediately following his MMR injection and reaction, Todddeveloped constipation (with movements only every 2-3 days) and a spasticbowel. I regarded this as another symptom of his vaccine reaction. Spasticcolon is often a symptom of food allergies and according to researchreported by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., in Vaccination, Social Violence, andCriminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain (North AtlanticBooks, 1990), many of today's food allergies are traceable

to vaccines. Dr.Coulter noted that encephalitis, especially derived from vaccinations, canproduce allergic states, adding that "the interrelation among allergies,vaccination, and encephalitis has been an active topic of medicalinvestigation since the 1930s." .While conventional medicine sees no connection between the digestive andnervous systems, the interrelatedness of the two is strongly acknowledgedby practitioners of Anthroposophic, Chinese, and homoeopathic medicine. .To correct Todd's intestinal problems, I started him on ground flaxseed atthe rate of two teaspoons, twice daily. Six months later when I saw himnext, Todd was having daily bowel movements; the stools were softer andwere eliminated without pain. He also had no problem standing up or movingaround on his own and by all visible signs was developing normally. .Todd cured most of the brain inflammation himself by getting the

rash andfever. However, Todd is still at risk for a learning disability such asdyslexia--in effect, a third layer of reaction and damage from thevaccines--when he eventually attends school. Many of these relationshipsare subtle and problems may not surface or become noticeable until yearslater. .Remedies for Dealing with Childhood Illnesses .Most of the illnesses common to childhood are the standard upperrespiratory tract conditions. While in the view of physicians practicingAnthroposophic medicine it is crucial to not suppress the illness withdrugs or antibiotics, we offer many remedies to parents to support thedischarging- -we call it "the expressing"- -of the illness, driving it out ofthe body. .Typically, I find that about 90% of the childhood illnesses can be helpedwith about a dozen low-potency home remedies. I often prescribe mypersonalised home remedy "kit," which contains

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Anthroposophic orhomoeopathic medicines, to parents wishing to approach their children'shealth in this way. For example, Ferrum phosphate is effective forrelieving colds, flu, sinusitis, or any upper respiratory infection such asbronchitis; Cinnabar is for sore throats and swollen lymph glands; and Apisbelladonna (a homoeopathic combination of the honey bee and deadlynightshade) works well for fevers and pain. .These are classical homoeopathic remedies, but among specificallyAnthroposophic medicines we often use Infludo for flu, bronchitis, orpneumonia. This formula contains phosphorus, Aconite, Bryonia, eucalyptus,Eupatorium, and Sabadilla. For earaches, my home remedy kit includescapsicum (red pepper) and the herb lovage, given orally or directly intothe ear where it has a gentle warming effect that relieves the pain. Theparents obtain the kits (and other Anthroposophic medicines) from

WeledaPharmacy which prepares the kit according to my prescription for eachchild. Certain old-fashioned remedies, including milk of magnesia whichcleanses the colon, are handy for treating children with inflammatorydiseases. .From our medical perspective, it is often not the type of childhood illnessthat determines the mix of remedies, but rather the child you are treating.You have to individualise, based on symptoms and the child's particularconstitution. Two different children with the same illness may requirequite different treatments. .Anthroposophic, homoeopathic, and other natural medicines have also enabledme for the last 20 years to avoid using antibiotics in treating children.The aim of treatment is to support the externalising and discharging of theillness process--to get it out of the body--so that no residual illnessremains to become a chronic problem later in life. The

essential point isthat health is not merely the absence of illness, as conventional medicinepresumes. Rather, it is the balance between acute inflammatory and chronicillnesses; when you suppress the first in childhood, you're likely to getmuch more chronic illness in adulthood. .Do Vaccines Delay Children's Development? .According to the U.S. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families,7.5 million American children are considered developmentally delayed,compared to 4.8 million in 1991. Of these 7.5 million, an estimated 30% areautistic, which is not surprising as autism has been linked with the MMRvaccine. .Children with developmental delays (based on a survey of 696 children, aged1-12) are 27% more likely to have had at least three ear infections and 50%more likely to have been on continuing rounds of antibiotics (20 cycles ormore), according to the Developmental Delay Registry

in March 1995. Mostimportant for this discussion, the study also found that developmentallydelayed children were four times more likely than normal children to havehad a negative reaction to a vaccination. .------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -----Vaccinationprocedures are a politically motivated non-science, whose practitionersare only interested in injecting multitudes of vaccines without muchinterest or care as to their effects. Data collection on reactions tovaccines is only paid lip service, and the obvious ineffectiveness ofvaccines to prevent diseases is glossed over. The fact that naturalinfectious diseases have beneficial effect on the maturation anddevelopment of the immune system is ignored or deliberately suppressed.Consequently, parents of small children and any potential recipients

ofvaccines and

any orthodox medications should be wary of any member ofthe medical establishment extolling the non-existent virtues ofvaccination. - Viera Scheibner, Ph.D.All it takes is just one vaccine to forever change your life. - Dawn, mother of vaccine damaged child.

 

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Dear Sunil ji,

 

Very informative message !

 

We should try to avoid as much as we can the Allopathic Medicines and try to

depend on Natural treatment,if not possible than use Ayurvedic or Homeopathic

treatment which are safe and not having any side effects.

 

Thanks,

 

M.S.Bohra

 

 

 

 

 

, Sunil Nair

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> asthma, among other problems. Michel R. Odent, M.D., and colleagues at the

> Primal Health Research Centre in London, England, documented this

> connection in a report on 448 children, published in theththenal of ththe J

> American Medical Association in 1994. .

>

ildnal oaverage age, eight years) had been

> immunised with the pertussis vaccine for whooping cough. Of these had (10%)

> had asthma compared to only four (1.9%) of (10%)n8t immuni%)not immunised.

> This suggests that having the pert08 chivaccine can increase a child's risk

> of developing asthma by more than five times. .

>

> Similarly, natehe vaccinated group, 130 children had ear infections

> compa59 among ty 59 among the 208 non-vaccinated. Here the risk of

> developing subsequent ear infections was increased by almost two times in

> pertussis-vaccinated children. The incidence of other diseases (excluding

> asthma, ear infections, eczema, and whooping cough) was also noticeably

> higher in the vaccinated group--34.6% versus 24% for non-vaccinated

> children. .

>

> The measles vaccine has been linked with higher rates of inflammatory bowel

> disease. Based on a study of 3,545 people who received live measles vaccine

> as children, their rate of developing ulcerative colitis was

> two-and-one-half times higher and three times higher for Crohn's compared

> to an unvaccinated group, as reported in The Lancet. The MMR (measles,

> mumps, rine has alccine has also been implica, rubella)her rates of

> diabeta) vaccinecompar, " Do idebar, " Do Vaccinapanyines? " ).panyines? " )..

>

> There inati sidebaher data suggestive Causempanyie link with disease. For

>r largee, for largely " unexplainebetweenon960 and 1981, plend 1981, ple, foe

> of actig chronic condchronic conditions among children doubled from 1.8 to

limiting chronoticeably in allerg childree doublervous system disorders. By

> 1995, this figure had climbed again to 6.7%. In other words, the rate more

> than tripled since 1960. I contend the rise is not " unexplained; " rather,

> it is explained by the fact that we have overused antibiotics and

> immunisations. .

>

> Certainly this evidence paints a picture, and it confirms what

> Anthroposophic physicians have contended for 75 years. It is healthier for

> the child to undergo an acute upper respiratory infection (with appropriate

> herbal and homoeopathic support, described below) than to suppress or

> preempt ed below) thanotics and vaccina) than to suppe you allow children

> to work out their acute illnesses, to really exercise their immune systems

> without suppressing the process, the stronger the system will be and the

> less prone the children will be to serious adult degeneratie

> less ses. .

>

> When an adult comes down with an infectious, inflammatory disease, it is

> actually a blessing because it might prevent them from developing a more

> serious chronic problem. I've seen adults who suppressed inflammatory

> diseases, such as bronchitis or pneumonia, then five to ten years later

> came down with cancer. Letting the inflammations run their course instead

> (with support, naturally), may have prevented the cancer from developing. .

>

> How Measles Can Cure Eczema .

>

> Now let's see how undergoing childhood measles may actually improve a

> child's health, both immediately and in the long-term. Consider the case of

> Hans, whom I first treated for measles when he was nine. .

>

> Hans did not receive the measles vaccine because he was allergic to eggs.

> The vaccine contains an egg product and is not recommended for children

> with this allergy. When he was nine, he came down with measles, which is a

> bit late for children. Of considerable interest here is the fact that for

> years Hans had suffered from severe eczema; his skin was dry and cracked,

> particularly behind the elbows and knees, and occasionally it bled. In

> fact, Hans often could not straighten his legs because the eczema made it

> too painful. .

>

> His measles produced a strong rash and a fever of 104 F, yet I did nothing

> to suppress these reactions with Tylenol (Panadol) or Advil (Ibuprofin),

> for example, as conventional medicine would recommend. Instead, I gave Hans

> Anthroposophic remedies to support him through the measles process.

> Specifically, I gave him low potencies of Apis, Belladonna, Argentum/

> Carbo/Siliceas, Bellm Phosphate,ntum/

> Cpindonna, om the sloe Carbo/Sild

> Echinacea. .

>

> These remedies do not suppress t .

>

> These allow the constitThese remedies

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> cgald . The tportae

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> cgalpt is thaessary process for a t

> the ealth. The

> child must be closely observed by a medical professional during the illness

> process to be sure the course the illness is taking is benignprot is

>o be surnt to find out if compli is tak likis beeign.itis or pneumonint to fi

developing. These rarely occuncepd artis or pnectly linked to the degree of

> the fever. .

>

> The remedies we use for children make the body more transparent or

> permeable to allow the toxicity or fever process to flow through it without

> getting stuck. Let me illustrate this principle with an analogy. .

>

> If you have a copper rod and you light a candle at one end of it, the

> warmth of the flame will flow quickly through the rod and you feel the

> warmth at the other end. Similarly, if the body is like a copper tube, the

> warmth of the fever will flow through it but not cause a complication such

> as a convulsion; but if the body is more like lead, which is dense and does

> not conduct heat well, complications are likely to arise. .

>

> The lead does not conduct or dissipate the heat; rather, it starts to melt

> at the point of contact with the heat. It remains cold at one end and gets

> overheated at the other. This is analogous to the undesirable situation of

> children having cold feet and a hot head. Care should always be taken that

> children have warm feet, especially during a fever. .

>

> If you suppress the fever with drugs or antibiotics, you block this flow

> and make the body more like the lead in this analogy. How long a child has

> the disease is not as important as avoiding complications. The length of

> time depends on how much toxicity the body needs to discharge through the

> fever. .

>

> When Hans' measles were over, his eczema had almost completely disappeared.

> Hans is now in his twenties and has never had a recurrence of eczema since

> his measles. This is a typical example of how stimulating the cell-mediated

> side of the immune system can help the body overcome an allergic problem.

> The measles process enabled Hans' system to stop reacting allergically and

> producing the eczema symptoms. In a sense, you could say that the fever

> burned the allergic reaction out of his body. .

>

> His case also underscores the fact that childhood measles in industrialised

> countries is a benign disease if you understand how to treat it. Hans'

> symptoms, the high fever and intense rash, were not mild, but scientific

> studies have shown that the stronger the initial symptoms, the less likely

> it is that the child will get the damaging or dangerous complications, such

> as encephalitis or pneumonia. .

>

> Do Vaccinations Cause Diabetes?

>

> While the U.S. population has only doubled since the 1940s, the number of

> Americans with diabetes has increased 200 times, and it has increased by

> 300% in the last 15 years alone, representing about 15% of all U.S.

> health-care costs. Routine childhood vaccinations may be a prime cause of

> the diabetes epidemic, according to testimony presented before the U.S.

> House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations on April 16, 1997, by

> Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., medical history scholar and president of the

> Center for Empirical Medicine in Washington, D.C. Based on animal studies,

> the pertussis vaccine (part of the DPT vaccination) is known to stimulate

> overproduction of insulin by the pancreas. This is followed by exhaustion

> of that organ's " islets of Langerhan

> of tch make insulin) and

> undrgan's ction of insulin, resulting in chronic low blood sugar

> (hypoglycaemia) and eventually diabetes, says Dr. Coulter. .

>

> Both untreated rubella and the rubella vaccine (part of the MMR

> inoculation) produce immune complexes that can damage the pancreas and

> significantly reduce the levels of insulin that organ and

> sigo secretly

> As an untreated disease, mumps can damage the pancreas disease, mume, there

> are now maps can damagetscine, tly linking the onset of dia are nosometimes

> within only a month's time--with receipt of the mumps vaccination. New Zealand

researchers observed a 60% increase in the cases of juvenile

> diabetes following a hepatitis-B vaccination program. Despite the mounting

> evidence linking vaccines with diabetes, the U.S. government ridenes to

> research the connectietes, the U. . glter. " The fact that the federal

> medical establishment--which would be the major source of funds for such an

> epidemiologic investigation--is itself highly committed to the childhood

> vaccination program, goes far to explain the absence of any official

> interest in this connection. " .

>

> How a Fever Can Reverse the Effects of a VaccFever C .

>

> It is increasingly erse thhat many of the routine childhood vaccinations

> can produce a variety of sidinations

> ca complications, posinn produce a v

diate and long-term dangers. aged 19 months, had all his

> vaccinations, including DPT, MMR, tetanus, polio, and Hib (Haemophilus

> influenza type b). .

>

> After his first two DPT shots at two and four mont. .

>

> screamed every

> night for a week, after which his parents and paediatrician realised he had

> reacted to the shoents and pad have no more DPT. At 18 months, Todd

> received his MMR and polio immunisations, after which he slept almost

> continually fo whwoh he slept he was awake, he t a lost

> contid his

> breathing was shallow. A week later, Todd had trouble standing erect and

> did not want to walk on his own. About two weeks later, Todd came down with

> a 104 F fever and a rash. When both subsided, he was his normal self again. .

>

> To understand what happened with you need to appreciate the

> documented fact that some vaccinu eed troduce a slight but significant

> state of encephalitis, or brain inflammation. While this is usually

> reversible, it may also leave lingering effects such as dyslexia or

> attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I didn't get to treat Todd until

> after all this had happened, so I focused on giving him remedies to heal

> his post-encephalitic state. I gave him Arnica, Belladonna, and Formica to

> take for the next six to 12 months for the after-effects of the brain

> inflammation caused by the vaccines. .

>

's fever and rash following his MMR vaccination was his body's attempt

> to " burn " the vaccine toxins out of his system. The first sign that these

> materials irritated his system was Todd's lethargy, two-day sleepinem wase,

> and inability to walk; letharsymptoms, in fact, indicated a slight brain

> inflammation. The second sign was the rash and fever which arose to

> discharge these toxins from the body. .

>

> In Afghanistan, the common treatment for measles is to wrap the child in

> blankets to produce a rash. The idea is that the more the measles comes out

> as a skin rash, the less likely the child is to omes out

> asta skr

> pneumonia. Anthroposophic physicians concur with the thinking behind this

> " folk remedy. " .

>

> In the months immediately following his MMR injection and reaction, Todd

> developed constipation (with movements only every 2-3 days) and a spastic

> bowel. I regarded this as another symptom of his vaccine reaction. Spastic

> colon is often a symptom of food allergies and according to research

> reported by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., in Vaccination, Social Violence, and

> Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain (North Atlantic

> Books, 1990), many of today's food allergies are traceable to vaccines. Dr.

> Coulter noted that encephalitis, especially derived from vaccinations, can

> produce allergic states, adding that " the interrelation among allergies,

> vaccination, and encephalitis has been an active topic of medical

> investigation since the 1930s. " .

>

> While conventional medicine sees no connection between the digestive and

> nervous systems, the interrelatedness of the two is strongly acknowledged

> by practitioners of Anthroposophic, Chinese, and homoeopathic medicine. .

>

> To correct Todd's intestinal problems, I started him on ground flaxseed at

> the rate of two teaspoons, twice daily. Six months later when I saw him

> next, Todd was having daily bowel movements; the stools were softer and

> were eliminated without pain. He also had no problem standing up or moving

> around on his own and by all visible signs was developing normally. .

>

cured most of the brain inflammation himself by getting the rash and

> fever. However, Todd is still at risk for a learning disability such as

> dyslexia--in effect, a third layer of reaction and damage from the

> vaccines--when he eventually attends school. Many of these relationships

> are subtle and problems may not surface or become noticeable until years

> later. .

>

> Remedies for Dealing with Childhood Illnesses .

>

> Most of the illnesses common to childhood are the standard upper

> respiratory tract conditions. While in the view of physicians practicing

> Anthroposophic medicine it is crucial to not suppress the illness with

> drugs or antibiotics, we offer many remedies to parents to support the

> discharging--we call it " the expressing " --of the illness, driving it out of

> the body. .

>

> Typically, I find that about 90% of the childhood illnesses can be helped

> with about a dozen low-potency home remedies. I often prescribe my

> personalised home remedy " kit, " which contains 13 Anthroposophic or

> homoeopathic medicines, to parents wishing to approach their children's

> health in this way. For example, Ferrum phosphate is effective for

> relieving colds, flu, sinusitis, or any upper respiratory infection such as

> bronchitis; Cinnabar is for sore throats and swollen lymph glands; and Apis

> belladonna (a homoeopathic combination of the honey bee and deadly

> nightshade) works well for fevers and pain. .

>

> These are classical homoeopathic remedies, but among specifically

> Anthroposophic medicines we often use Infludo for flu, bronchitis, or

> pneumonia. This formula contains phosphorus, Aconite, Bryonia, eucalyptus,

> Eupatorium, and Sabadilla. For earaches, my home remedy kit includes

> capsicum (red pepper) and the herb lovage, given orally or directly into

> the ear where it has a gentle warming effect that relieves the pain. The

> parents obtain the kits (and other Anthroposophic medicines) from Weleda

> Pharmacy which prepares the kit according to my prescription for each

> child. Certain old-fashioned remedies, including milk of magnesia which

> cleanses the colon, are handy for treating children with inflammatory

> diseases. .

>

> From our medical perspective, it is often not the type of childhood illness

> that determines the mix of remedies, but rather the child you are treating.

> You have to individualise, based on symptoms and the child's particular

> constitution. Two different children with the same illness may require

> quite different treatments. .

>

> Anthroposophic, homoeopathic, and other natural medicines have also enabled

> me for the last 20 years to avoid using antibiotics in treating children.

> The aim of treatment is to support the externalising and discharging of the

> illness process--to get it out of the body--so that no residual illness

> remains to become a chronic problem later in life. The essential point is

> that health is not merely the absence of illness, as conventional medicine

> presumes. Rather, it is the balance between acute inflammatory and chronic

> illnesses; when you suppress the first in childhood, you're likely to get

> much more chronic illness in adulthood. .

>

> Do Vaccines Delay Children's Development? .

>

> According to the U.S. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families,

> 7.5 million American children are considered developmentally delayed,

> compared to 4.8 million in 1991. Of these 7.5 million, an estimated 30% are

> autistic, which is not surprising as autism has been linked with the MMR

> vaccine. .

>

> Children with developmental delays (based on a survey of 696 children, aged

> 1-12) are 27% more likely to have had at least three ear infections and 50%

> more likely to have been on continuing rounds of antibiotics (20 cycles or

> more), according to the Developmental Delay Registry in March 1995. Most

> important for this discussion, the study also found that developmentally

> delayed children were four times more likely than normal children to have

> had a negative reaction to a vaccination. .

>

>

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>

>

> Vaccination

> procedures are a politically motivated non-science, whose practitioners

> are only interested in injecting multitudes of vaccines without much

> interest or care as to their effects. Data collection on reactions to

> vaccines is only paid lip service, and the obvious ineffectiveness of

> vaccines to prevent diseases is glossed over. The fact that natural

> infectious diseases have beneficial effect on the maturation and

> development of the immune system is ignored or deliberately suppressed.

> Consequently, parents of small children and any potential recipients of

> vaccines and any orthodox medications should be wary of any member of

> the medical establishment extolling the non-existent virtues of

> vaccination.

> - Viera Scheibner, Ph.D.

>

>

>

> All it takes is just one vaccine to forever change your life. - Dawn, mother

of vaccine damaged child.

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