Clearing Carcinosin (Update)

It’s been awhile since I’ve given you an update on Moses’ Heilkunst homeopathic healing journey.

Moses had a very difficult time clearing Carcinosin (Cancer chronic miasm). Emotionally. Behaviourally. And physically.

Typically, it takes 6 weeks for one to clear one of the chronic miasms to 10 M, and it took Moses 6 months to clear Carcinosin to 1 M because I spaced out the powders since his reactions were so big. (We didn’t even get to clearing 10M).

DH has dubbed this summer “the summer of abscesses”, and that it was. Moses had yet another abscess drained in the hospital on Thursday (it was his left armpit this time). Thankfully, they drained it under local anesthetic, which although was traumatizing for him in the short-term, meant that we didn’t need to stay in the hospital. Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay!

My Heilkunstler always reminds me that abscesses mean that things are coming to the surface to be resolved (which is a good thing), but it’s still not fun for Moses or the family.

We recently started clearing Syphilinum (Syphilis), but given Moses’ huge reactions, his Heilkunstler chose to dose Syphilinum using the Fibonacci method of dosing, which is supposed to result in more gentler healing reactions. I hope that she’s right…

[According to Arcanum Wholistic Clinic, the Fibonacci series is "...based on a mathematical sequence which defines a perfect spiral motion, as is found through many processes in nature. A spiral is formed from a kind of dance between a radial and spherical force which creates a continuous expansive motion"; therefore, it sounds like a combination of the traditional radial centisimal (C) scale and the spherical LM scale that is typically used.  The Fibonacci series are particularly useful for deep and old diseases].  Check out this visual representation of the  Fibonacci sequence here.

Fibonacci sequence in nature…

Earlier this week, I was starting to feel down about Moses’ state of health because his symptoms were up (i.e., increase of rashes; increase of wheeziness — he’s been needing his Ventolin puffer several times a day at school and at home;  the corners of his lips are cracked — they look so sore; he’s been complaining of intense abdominal pains; he’s continuing to have nightmares every night; and, of course, the abscess). I’m so tired of healing reactions, ER visits and doctor’s appointments. It’s hard to stay optimistic and centred of the time, especially when DH and his doctors just see the increase in symptoms as an increase in illness and disease. As a result of all of the abscesses, he has an appointment to see yet another doctor — an infectious diseases specialist. I’m also concerned that they will likely increase his preventative puffer medication due to his increase in wheeziness. Ack. More medication means more stuff that Moses’ body needs to detox (which then causes a healing reaction). Such a vicious cycle.

But then yesterday, Moses and I had an appointment with our chiropractor, who also does cranialsacral therapy and total body modification. We have faithfully been seeing our chiropractor every 4-6 weeks. I *love* our chiropractor because he understands homeopathy and energy healing, and is very intuitive. I always find visits to our chiropractor so confirming because he can read the body so well, and he can often pick up on the effects of the homeopathy and the energy work that we’ve been doing. (I’ve been keeping a record of all of our chiropractic visits here, so that I can keep track of how we’ve been progressing over time).

I told his chiropractor about current Moses’ symptoms and recent abscess drainage. In particular, I was concerned about the intense abdominal pains that he’s been having (which are not typical for him), and had been going on for a week. He missed two days of school as a result of these pains. His chiropractor released his neck and the base of his skull, which can be related to stomach upsets. According to his chiropractor, Moses’ body is doing well. Moses only needed some minor body point corrections, and not major work on any of his organs (this is great news). His chiropractor felt that his body was detoxing energetically, which is likely related to the fact that he recently started detoxing Syphilinum. His spine is good and his body is generally clear. He reminded me how far Moses’ body has come from when he first started treating him last year. In the beginning, he needed to do a lot of work on clearing his organs, and currently, his organs are actually doing really well. To me, this is a sign that even though all of the outer symptoms have (temporarily) increased, his internal system is actually doing well (i.e., it confirms what his Heilkunstler has been saying all along — abscesses are a sign of healing as it means that toxins and disease are on their way out and away from the organs). His chiropractor assessed that on a scale from illness to healthy, Moses is actually on the side of health. He is healthy (despite the outer symptoms). It made me feel that we are definitely on the right track, and I just need to have trust and be patient with the process. Yay, yay, yay, yay, and yay!

So, in any case, we will continue on this course of healing, and I will (try to) be patient with the process.

Hanging out on Torbay Point

As for me, it shouldn’t surprise me that Carcinosin was such a major chronic miasm for Moses to clear because it’s been a major one for me. I had to clear it for a second time to 50M a few weeks ago. I had flu-like symptoms that were quite intense during the first day of my trip to Phoenix, but thankfully my nose stopped running on the day that I gave a presentation at a conference. My Heilkunstler also gave me a dropper to help with my nerves related to the presentation, and my presentation was a big success! And, of course, DH and I had a great vacation in Phoenix and Sedona!

On the positive side of the things, Moses did really, really, really, really well when we were away for a week. His Grammie remarked several times how well Moses did, how much fun they had together and how different Moses is now compared to when he was three and a half. Three years ago was shortly after his MMR vaccination and we were wondering at the time whether he might be on the autistic spectrum. The fact that Moses did so well when we were gone is another sign of how far Moses has come emotionally.

Update:

October 14, 2012 – Moses hasn’t complained of stomach pains since Thursday. Seems like something has helped (maybe the chiropractic treatment, maybe the homeopathic remedy that his Heilkunstler prepared for his stomach pains). In any case, I’m glad that his tummy is feeling better.

We started using a Nyaderm (an antifungal cream) on the corners of his lips, and I’m hoping that will help bring relief to his lips soon.

Making Peace

I feel that the theme of the last 10 days for our family was making peace.

Moses needed IV antibiotics based on the fact that he had an infection (the results of a culture taken from his swollen lymph node / abscess taken during an ER visit four days earlier had come back positive for MRSA). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)  is a bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics (which actually developed as a result of the over-use of antibiotics), and as a result, is difficult to treat. It can result in painful skin infections and abscesses and other infections. There are only two antibiotics that can be used to treat MRSA: a sulfa drug that can be taken orally and Vancomycin by IV. The problem is that Moses has glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, which makes his blood susceptible to hemolysis with certain drugs, including the sulfa drug; therefore, the only course of action left for us (according to the doctors) was IV antibiotics.

Ack!

I was angry for all sorts of reasons — the fact that MRSA was a superbug that was the result of the over-use of antibiotics, and we were left with no choice but a powerful, “big guns” broad spectrum IV antibiotic (which would undoubtedly wreck more havoc on Moses gut flora), likely resulting in even more powerful bacteria. It’s an arms race that in the long run, the medical system is not going to win. I was worried because the last time Moses was in the hospital on IV antibiotics related to a dental abscess, he wound up with pneumonia, became terribly ill and needed a blood transfusion.

Immediately after Moses’ first IV treatment, I went to visit my friend, who gave me a tarot reading. One of the cards that I chose was “peace offering”.  My friend reminded me that DH and I have a common goal: Moses healing, and since we were choosing to go down this road (i.e., starting IV antibiotics), she asked if I could align with this decision, and to visualize complete healing for Moses through this modality. Pray that his body will take what it needs from the antibiotics and release what it doesn’t need. She reminded me that Moses’ healing was more important than me being right.

So that became my intention. I aligned with the IV antibiotic treatment to the extent that I could. I also continued with Moses’ homeopathic remedies and his Heilkunstler suggested a paper remedy to help minimize the negative impacts of the IV antibiotics. I used a lot of Donna Eden’s energy medicine techniques on both Moses and me, and felt that they really helped us to stay strong, keep our energy up and stay grounded. I called on my friends and family for emotional support and prayers. I played a lot of Wish Games. Moses saw his chiropractor who also does cranialsacral therapy and total body modification (TBM) on the third day of IV antibiotics. His chiropractor used some TBM vials to help his immune system, adjusted his cervical spine, released some pressure in his head and focused on draining his axillary area (where he had the swollen lymph node / abscess). He mentioned that his energy wasn’t typical of someone who was sick, but his energy was running high and pushing out. I took this as being a good sign, that Moses’ body is fighting hard against this infection.

I learned that MMS is known to be effective for MRSA infections, and I started him on MMS baths at home and continued with 3 drops of MMS in pineapple juice (I didn’t up the dosage because he doesn’t drink the juice when I increase the dosage). If the infection had taken longer to clear, I would have started to spray MMS on the wound itself, but was waiting on this because I didn’t think that DH would be a fan of this idea.

Seven days into the treatment, I was starting to worry about how long it was going to take to clear up the infection. To my dismay, I learned that sometimes it takes weeks of IV antibiotics to clear the infection. Ack – I didn’t have enough energy in me to continue what we were doing for weeks. I talked to my mom about my concerns and she reminded me to take my concerns to God. She was praying to God. I was praying too, of course, and I knew that so many others were as well and was reminded that the highest intervention that we could take is prayer. A friend of mine told me that she had a vision of our family healthy and happy, and she started to paint her vision. Oh, I am blessed to have such magical people in my life.

The entire time, Moses remained in a good state of mind (a great sign of health according to Heilkunst). His energy levels were revved way up, despite the fact that he wasn’t getting half the sleep that he typically gets (given that one of the IV treatments was at midnight and for the first four days, we were travelling back and forth from the hospital). He was like an Energizer Bunny. He kept going and going and going. He was funny and full of life. Other than the abscess and the fact that the culture said Moses had an MRSA infection, he had no other symptoms. No fever. Our visitors remarked that Moses didn’t seem sick. He had so much energy that we would climb up three flights of stairs to get to his hospital room (and back down on the way home) twice a day. At midnight during this IV treatment, he coloured tons of pictures. He danced and ran in place in the hospital. We brought him to the park one afternoon and he played chase with other children his age. He also played a lot of Mario Brothers games on his DS (a life-saver!!). So, all in all, Moses did great during the entire time, and was so brave. I was worried that the lack of sleep would catch up with him, but thankfully, it didn’t.

DH and I came together during this time. We took turns with Moses at the hospital (like we always do), but more than that, we put aside our differences in opinions about what’s best for Moses. We made peace.

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Miscellaneous articles about using Vancomycin to treat MRSA
(mostly for my reference)

Article re: flaws of using Vancomycin to treat MRSA

Vancomycin dosing

Vancomycin: A 50-something-year old antibiotic that we still don’t understand

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the treatment of MRSA in adults and children  – Seven to 14 days of IV Vancomycin therapy is recommended for treatment of an infected abscess but should be individualized on the basis of the patient’s clinical response.

Management of community-associated MRSA skin abscesses in children – most children can be managed initially with drainage alone (i.e., without antibiotics)

Randomized, controlled trail of antibiotics in the management of community-acquired skin abscesses in the pediatric patient  – antibiotics are not required for pediatric skin resolution of abscesses.

Loving myself, warts and all

Well, this is embarrassing, but since I’ve been filling you in on my Heilkunst healing story, I might as well tell you that I developed a planter wart on my right foot approximately three months ago.

When I first discovered it, I figured it was related to my Heilkunst healing journey (since homeopathy tends to bring things up to the surface  — better out than in), and that it would resolve on its own, so I didn’t do much to get rid of it at first. After a few weeks, it was starting to bother me, so I used Compound W on it, but found that it was still persistent.

My naturopath suggested UNDA Anti-wart homeopathic remedy along with UNDA Cheliderm cream, an anti-wart cream. The latter wasn’t available at the natural health shop, but I was  told by the staff at Vitality that the anti-wart homeopathic remedy is one of their best-selling items in their store. I’d been using the remedy for approximately one week, and then had an appointment with my Heilkunstler.

Louise L. Hay’s book, You can Heal your Life, states that warts represent “little expressions of hate and a belief in ugliness”, and the new healing thought pattern is “I am the love and the beauty of life in full expression”. My Heilkunstler echoed Louise Hay’s thoughts, that warts generally represent a Thuja state of mind (i.e., feeling ugly).

The ideogenic remedy I’m presenting today is Thuja. This is another homeopathic which can be applied on more than one level, and you may have had experience with this remedy for the treatment of warts. The core belief of this remedy, as it is used in the Ideogenic realm, is related to the feeling of having a wart — something ugly about oneself, which one desires to keep hidden. Thuja feels dirty, or even ‘sinful’ within themselves, as if there is something fundamentally flawed about their Self. Much energy is put into keeping their inner self, which they perceive to be flawed, hidden from society. The emotion of guilt can be very strong, along with feelings of low self-esteem. The classic situation to precipitate this state is in a highly rigid religious community, but it may also emerge in a non-religious context, such as the common experience of feeling ugly in comparison to the omnipresent images of super-models in our media, and other perfected photoshop images.- Arcanum Wholistic Clinic

My Heilkunstler suggested that reflecting on this theme might help to bring the wart to resolution. She also mentioned that it could be related to the Sycosis chronic miasm (Medhorrinum), which I’m currently clearing, and she wondered if it might resolve as this miasm is cleared. She also created a “wart dropper” for me (Thuj 200C / Nit-ae 10M / Caust 1M / drainage). Well, my friends, exactly one week after I started clearing Sycosis and taking the wart dropper (and two weeks after starting the UNDA anti-wart remedy), the wart is gone. Completely gone. It’s so fascinating to me!

Interestingly, I felt that the state of mind associated with the wart also lifted around the same time, and I got a cute new hair cut today to celebrate.

I am the love and the beauty of life in full expression.

Moses and me at Northern Bay Sands

Other natural remedies for getting rid of plantar warts

• Denise at Healthyself found that apple cider vinegar healed her plantar warts.  According to Earth Clinic, several other people healed their warts using apple cider vinegar.
• Banana peels are supposed to help as well.

Update:

March 5, 2013 – The plantar wart came back, and I applied doTERRA’s oil of oregano on it one to two times a day when I remembered. The wart fell off after five weeks of application.

My midsummer’s dream

On Monday night, Moses and I had a date — we went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was playing at Bannerman Park.

Oh, how I love Shakespeare in the Park, but the last time I went to one was 7 summers ago, before Moses was born. I didn’t think that it would be something that Moses would enjoy / be able to sit through, so we haven’t been making it a priority to attend.

That’s our friend, Corie, as a beautiful fairy!!!

This year, one of our friends was playing a beautiful fairy, so I knew that I definitely wanted to see the play. I still didn’t think Moses would be very interested in seeing it, but a dear friend offered to watch Moses at the playground, while I enjoyed the play because she had already seen the performance. Yay!!

Much to my surprise, when we got to the park, Moses told me that he wanted to see the play.  I didn’t tell him anything about it other than the fact that Corie was in the play and that it was a Shakespeare play, so it might be difficult for him to understand. We told him that if he got bored, he could go to the playground with Aunt Dominique at any time.

Well, Moses didn’t get bored at all. In fact, he thoroughly enjoyed the play and sat quietly on my lap, engrossed in the play for 95 whole minutes! From time to time, I whispered to him what was going on, and he responded by shushing me.

Wow, wow, wow!  Talk about a midsummer’s dream for me!! My boy enjoys live theatre and Shakespeare!  It was one of my favourite shared experiences with him (as good as going to a drumming circle with him).

Afterwards, he told me that he likes going to plays, and we made plans to attend Above and Below at Bowering Park this weekend. All week long, he’s been reminding me that the play is at 2 pm, making sure that I don’t forget.

I really feel that this was one of the gifts of our last round of Heilkunst healing (i.e., clearing Carcinosin 200C), which was so difficult for both of us to get through emotionally. During the last couple of weeks, I’ve been seeing more of the gifts that it brought. Moses has been more stable emotionally, happier, making jokes, laughing and dancing.  He has been his typical funny self. The other night, he sounded out a word (he’s learning how to read!), and on his own initiative, he decided that he wanted to colour a picture (something that he never wants to do), and this time, he not only wanted to colour a picture, but he wanted to do it with care and attention.  He was so proud of himself when he was done, and so heart-warming for us to see.

We had a consultation with his Heilkunstler on Monday and she remarked that Moses’ generative energy is increasing, his sense of self is increasing, and that his body is better able to handle any imbalances that occur.

A healing fire

We had a difficult night last night.

The evening started off great. It was DH’s birthday and we were out on a date. Moses was sleeping over at his Grammie’s house. At around 10 pm, we received a call that she thought we needed to bring Moses to the ER. Not a call that you want to receive on any day, but definitely not on your birthday (especially because this was the second time that we’ve spent DH’s birthday at the hospital).

It was 10:30 pm by the time we got back to Grammie’s and Moses was still awake (hours past his bedtime), and complaining of a lot of pain. He’d been complaining of  a sore bum for days, and when we  saw his pediatrician two days ago, she prescribed a cream to bring him some ease. He had developed a painful rash, which developed into a painful and huge abscess. My poor boy.

We brought him to the hospital, preparing ourselves to spend at least one night in the hospital since I figured they wouldn’t address it right away.

Thankfully, I was wrong.

There was no one else in the waiting room, and they brought him into one of the ER rooms right away. Within two hours, it was all resolved. They drained it under local anaesthetic and put a drain in it (a small piece of tubing) so that it would continue to drain.

It was really traumatizing for him because he was awake for it. He is so present and in the moment and doesn’t stuff things down (which is a good thing), so it was heartbreaking to hear him cry and scream and yell at us over and over again that he wanted them to stop, how much it hurt him and how he wanted to go home.

DH and I held his hands and comforted him. Mirrored his discomfort. Kissed his face. Wiped his tears and his nose.

And then it was over.

We were so happy to bring him home. Happy that it was quickly resolved.

Today, he was in good spirits. Emotionally, he was more himself today than he has been in a very long time. Laughing. Dancing. Telling jokes. Happy to be able to sit without pain.

We had an impromptu fire in our backyard tonight. Our whole family loves bonfires. DH loves to burn things. Moses loves to stay up late and dance and play in the backyard. And I love to feed my aura with the fire, and bring that which is ready to be released  to the fire. I found a stick and blew my prayers into it and brought it to the fire.  Maybe we’ve started a new ritual — to have a fire after a difficult event, a way for us to come together and connect in front of the fire. To release the old to the fire, and start anew.

We have plans to spend the weekend in Northern Bay Sands (a sandy beach 2 hours away) and to stay at a cabin. We will be travelling with Moses’ favourite cousin and their family, so it will be a great weekend to have fun, relax and recharge.

Clearing Carcinosin 200C – Heilkunst Round 19

Five weeks ago, Moses started clearing Carcinosin 200C (i.e., to the second potency).  Again, to give you some context, most people can clear the chronic miasm powders for all four potencies one after another, over a period of four days, or sometimes every second day. For Moses, I’ve started spacing out each of the powders by several weeks. You can read about clearing  Carcinosin 30C here.

The day before he was dosed the Carcinosin 200C powder, he developed yet another dental abscess. Given that the last time he developed a dental abscess, he spent 2 weeks in the hospital with pneumonia, it caused us some concern. A week later, yet another tooth was pulled. I gave him his homeopathic x-ray and anaesthesia droppers, and he had a huge night terror the next night.

Physical healing reactions this month:

• His back has been completely broken out for the entire month. Five weeks later, the rash on his back is starting to subside.
• He was wheezy most nights.
• He woke up 2-3 nights a week, telling us he had nightmare.
• His eye abscess almost disappeared and then got bigger again.

Pretty standard stuff, and pretty mild as far as physical healing reactions. Yay!

But, emotionally, it was a very difficult month for Moses.

For the entire month, Moses was incredibly angry, whiny, full of complaints, and prone to fits of crying for up to one hour at a time several times a day. Full on tantrums. His behaviour was reminiscent of what he was like after his MMR vaccination when he was three years old.

It was the most unhappy that I’d seen him in a long, long time.  He was constantly sad. Felt like life was unfair. Highly focused on the negative.

Even Moses had some fun on this walk with our friends

For example, we had a fun-filled Canada Day long weekend. On Saturday, he got his haircut at his favourite kid-centric place, and played at his cousin’s house and they swam / splashed in the wading pool. We celebrated Canada Day at the Confederation grounds and he jumped in a bouncy castle, received a balloon sword, sat in a fire truck, and listened to some live music. We went to his cousin’s house for more wading pool fun. We went to his favourite place (Hava Java) for a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. We set off some fire works in our backyard, and another at the local park. We even let him stay up waaaaay past his bedtime and enjoyed the city’s fireworks from White Hills. We spent Monday at the park with his cousin, had an impromptu dinner at his cousin’s house and more wading pool fun, and then went to his swimming lessons. It was a non-stop and super fun weekend.

When he came into our room on Tuesday morning, I was still grinning and basking in all of the fun that we had. I was especially thinking of the adventure of seeing the fireworks. As we snuggled, I asked him, “What was your favourite part of the weekend?”

His very serious response: “It was a terrible weekend. I didn’t get to play mini golf…” And he proceeded to cry, weep and wail for 45 minutes, kicking and screaming because he didn’t get to play mini golf. (And the only reason that we didn’t go mini-golfing was because he had chosen to go to his cousin’s house to swim in his wading pool).

It was a very trying month (to say the least). His emotional response was so deep and went on for so long that I was starting to lose confidence in my parenting ability. It felt as though Moses had turned into a spoiled only child (and from an outsider’s perspective, it certainly looked like he was). I kept having to remind myself that he was going through a healing reaction and that this too would pass. I reminded myself of my own deep anger (that also lasted for a month) when I cleared Carcinosin a couple of months ago.

His Heilkunstler said that Moses’ anger was a typical response to clearing Carcinosin “as the reaction to removing a layer of Carcinosin is often a release of anger, as the cancer miasm is all about suppression of one’s inner light, so that engenders rage, which can be discharged when the blockage is released”.

She went on to say that “although the outbursts aren’t fun to be around, it is a good sign that he’s expressing himself, as it means he’s reclaiming his territory from the disease”.

I am happy to say that we have finished riding that wave, and he hasn’t cried for two full days. Woo hoo! And he has slept straight through the night for two full nights. Woo hoo!

The gifts of clearing Carcinosin

On the positive side of things, during Moses’ last session with our chiropractor (who does energy work as well), I remarked to him that Moses feels like a “typical boy” to us, not a sick boy, but a typical boy who has some allergies. And, his chiropractor agreed with my assessment. He remarked that despite the fact that it had been two months since our last appointment, he is now doing more structural work on Moses and some fine-tuning (whereas last year, he was doing deeper work on his organs to help stabilize his system). He felt that Moses overall is doing well. His body is more robust, solid and stable. He felt that Moses matured physically and is at a new stage of development. He’s been growing like a weed!

Even DH commented yesterday how well Moses has been doing. (And DH is often reluctant to say optimistic things about Moses’ health because he thinks doing so “jinxes” us).

We had a great evening last night. We picked strawberries from the strawberry patch that we planted last year, and made a salad with organic lettuce from our small squarefoot garden in our backyard. (Our first try at gardening is a great success). Moses was in great spirits and we all enjoyed one another. I’ve been working less and doing more healing work. DH’s back is on the mend and he’s back to running. We went to the local park and Moses played tag with some “big kids”. All is well in our world!

We grew this lettuce from seed!

My Heilkunst update

I cleared Tuberculosis without a noticeable healing reaction last month. I’m in the middle of clearing Ringworm right now, and I actually developed a huge chalazion under my left eye (the same type of eye “abscess” that Moses is constantly developing). Thankfully, it peaked quickly and is now just about resolved (my Heilkunstler gave me a paper remedy for it). It gave me a new appreciation for what Moses goes through. (When it was really big, it was painful and starting to obstruct my vision.  Moses often has huge abscesses and doesn’t complain about them at all…)

There are some signs that Moses is ready to start clearing the next potency of Carcinosin. (We just noticed today that he developed a new huge abscess on his arm. It looks like a fly bite got infected). He has another doctor’s appointment on Monday, and then we’ll start the third potency. Wish us luck!

Update:

August 8, 2012 – Read about more gifts to clearing Carcinosin here.

Clearing Carcinosin 30C – Heilkunst Round 18

This last month, Moses cleared Carcinosin 30C (i.e., to the first potency — he has three more levels to clear, but I’m spacing them out because he’s been reacting strongly to clearing the chronic miasms). To give you some context, most people can clear the chronic miasm powders for all four potencies one after another, over a period of four days, or sometimes every second day. For Moses, I’ve started spacing out each of the powders by several weeks.

Carcinosin is the one of the chronic miasms (or archetypal diseases), the one related to cancer.

In psychological and emotional terms, the cancer state of mind is one which is “resigned” — either from having given up from stress or disappointments in life, and just accepting that that is all one can expect from their life, or in terms of a weakness of will to counteract the stronger will power of their family or friends, and just accept what others have dictated for them. Source

As I described last month, Moses was launched directly from clearing the Sycosis miasm to clearing the Cancer miasm. He started the month with having a lot of difficulty breathing, and his Heilkunstler thought it was time to start clearing the Cancer miasm. I gave him the Carcinosin 30C and Staphysagria 6C powders on the same day.

The core theme of the phenotype Staphysagria centres around victimization. They are the type who get caught up in cycles of abuse where they are unable to say “no”, or assert a necessary boundary, but immediately regretting and resenting their own lack of voice, along with the actions of their abuser. Even in non-chronic abuse situations, Staphysagria results from anger which is ‘swallowed’ rather than expressed. There is a core feeling of injustice or of life being “unfair”, and being at the mercy of the whims and actions of others.

The classic physical symptoms of Staphysagria revolve around the bladder and kidneys, in terms of infections, or cysts. These symptoms are the physical embodiment of the unexpressed emotion of feeling “pissed off”, which have to come out in one way or another, if the natural avenue of expression wasn’t taken. Other physical symptoms include styes or tumors of the eyelid. Many digestive issues, including chronic irritable bowel syndrome can also result from this suppressed energy. Any medical condition which first began after an incident of suppressed anger or humiliation can be reversed with this remedy. Source

His Heilkunstler thought it was good for him to also clear Staphysagria (one of the homeopathic constitutional phenotypes) based on the fact that Moses “loves” telling us stories about him being victimized. I use the word “love” because he does seem to enjoy telling us these stories. One of his favourite things to do at bedtime is play school, and he “loves” to pretend that the other children are making fun of him, literally walking over him and laughing at him.  Heartbreaking when you think about it, but very important information to pass on to his Heilkunstler as she can prescribe remedies that match that state of mind. Eventually, with continued treatment, this state of mind will shift and as I write this, it occurs to me that Moses didn’t ask to play this “game” this month (since we started clearing Staphysagria). (Note, his teacher assures us that Moses is well-liked and has many friends at school. The victimization theme is his own mindset, but could eventually turn into his reality if it isn’t shifted internally). He cleared Staphysagria to two levels and has two more levels to go.

It also fascinates me to read the description of Staphysagria as I didn’t read this information prior to writing this post. One of the classical physical symptoms involves Staphysagria is styes or tumors of the eyelid. One of Moses’ reoccuring symptoms is an abscess on his right eyelid. He actually developed yet another one a few days ago, which makes DH and I nervous. We’re hoping that it’ll resolve without us needing to go to the eye doctor, but if he doesn’t start to resolve by Monday, we’ll likely be bringing him back to the eye doctor…  I started him on a homeopathic dropper for eye abscesses that his Heilkunstler prescribed for him the last time he developed one two months ago (Caust  10M, Sillex 10M, Acon 10 M, Euphr 200C, Kali-i 200C)

Back to clearing the cancer miasm, it felt like this was a  big miasm for Moses to clear. Not surprising since clearing the cancer miasm rocked my world when I cleared it two months ago; I was deeply angry for the whole month. Also not surprising because cancer runs in both DH and my families…

Moses had night terrors or nightmares almost nightly for most of this month. More nightmares than night terrors, which I feel is an improvement (i.e., he came out of them on his own and didn’t scream and cry during the nightmares, but would wake up and tell us that he had a nightmare). Still, it meant that we all had an interrupted sleep for the entire month. One of his daily droppers that he was taking three times a day was related to his night terrors / emotional state (Rhust / Nit-ae / Arn 50M, Benz-ac 1M, Psor 200C, Equis 30C, Bell CM), in addition to his constitutional / emotional dropper (NSOL LM, Sulph CM, Carc CM, Hura 1M, Puls 50M).

Within 2 days of being dosed the Carcinosin and Staphysagria powders, he had a low grade fever that lasted for three days. He developed a raspy, loose cough. On the positive side of things, the rash on his back cleared up (last month, he had a developed a terrible rash).

He was emotional and cried when I dropped him off at school (something that he never does). He was very emotional and extra cuddly at home. We gave him a bit of GFCF cake (which he’d eaten before), and he developed an allergic reaction to it and we had a short visit to the ER.

A couple of days later, he developed an abscess on his anus (ack!), which thankfully resolved within 8 days. We dealt with it on our own, putting an antibacterial cream on it, and I continued to dose him with the Carcinosin LM2 dropper (which is supposed to help alleviate healing reactions related to the Carc. powder).

He was sad and angry for much of the month. One week, he was too sick to attend Taekwodo.  Another week, he was “too sad” to participate. He missed the third week to celebrate his birthday. During the fourth week, he was feeling “too tired”, wasn’t paying attention, lied down on the floor during class. Today, the fifth week, he had a good day at Taekwondo, showing me that emotionally, he has completed this round of healing.

Two weeks after he was dosed the Carcinosin powder, he developed thrush in his mouth. Ack — it’s back!!  Hard to say if it was related to the healing reaction (likely it was), but DH doesn’t believe in healing reactions, so Moses is back on Diflucan. I was actually okay with him starting it again because I felt that he really needed to be back on it (at least temporarily) because his mouth was so sore / raw from the thrush / corners of his mouth were open and sore. At least, his body received a 3.5 month break from Diflucan, and hopefully, we’ll be able to take him off of it again soon. The thrush resolved within a couple of days of being back on Diflucan, so at least it’s under control.

Three weeks after he was dosed the Carcinosin powder, his symptoms started to subside, although he was still having nightmares. He was still emotionally sensitive / sad though.

Four weeks after he was dosed the Carcinosin powder, his symptoms increased again. He developed a new abscess on his right lower eye lid. His back is now completely broken out. Tonight, his asthma was up again. It feels like he’s probably ready to clear the next level of Carcinosin, but I’m reluctant to start it because he has a pediatrician appointment next week and I try to avoid having him being in the middle of a healing reaction during doctor’s appointments because doctors get very nervous / concerned when Moses’ symptoms are up. (And when they are concerned, they want to increase his level of medication). I contacted his Heilkunstler yesterday and we might have a consult on Monday if things don’t start clearing up on their own.

On the good side of things:

• Moses had a great 6th birthday party. He was in great spirits, and he wasn’t overstimulated despite the fact that he had 17 children plus 20 adults at his bowling party. We were able to figure out the cake dilemma (Glutino chocolate cake with this icing). Surprisingly, he didn’t even get overstimulated from the sugar in the cake / icing.

Reading card from Grammie Rosie and Grandpa George

Before the craziness – before all of the guests arrive…

• When I list out all the healing reactions altogether, it might sound like a lot, but overall, things are still going along tickety-boo in our family. Things still feel soooo much easier than it once was. Moses is still so much more healthier than he was in the past.
• He had two dental appointments and the dentist remarked how well behaved he is during the appointments. Moses just opens his mouth with no problem. Moses got a bilateral space maintainer because of the tooth that was pulled back in November, and it hasn’t seemed to have been a problem for him (although I’m not too happy that he has yet more stainless steel in his mouth).
• He has officially started reading.
• He loves drawing and sometimes enjoys writing as well.
• He loves playing with his cousin and best friend.
• He has a great sense of humour.

I’m feeling a bit nervous that he had quite a big reaction to clearing the lowest potency of Carcinosin. I’m hoping that the reactions don’t get much bigger for the next levels of healing.

This month, I cleared the Malaria chronic miasm to 10M. It didn’t seem to be a big one for me, although I did experience flu-like symptoms for a few days.

Updates

June 10, 2012

The abscess on his right eye is starting to resolve. Yay!

His eyesight in his left eye (his injured eye) has improved to 20/40. Yay!  I’m pretty sure this means that he will not be needing eye surgery (the last time we saw his eye doctor, she mentioned that he might need eye surgery if it didn’t improve….)

His pediatrician is happy with how he is doing, but changed his preventative puffer from Flovent to Alvesco.

We started clearing Carcinosin to the second potency yesterday….

Comparing different approaches to homeopathy

As you know, I have spent quite a lot of time researching different methods of healing, and I have read many blogs of parents who are healing their autistic children (blog list is here).

My observation is that for difficult-to-treat cases, the parents who are having the greatest success in recovering their children are using some form of energy healing (most commonly homeopathy, but sometimes, another form of energy healing) combined with biomedical treatments.

For those who don’t know that there are different approaches to homeopathy, I thought that it would be useful to compare the different types of homeopathy, in particular: classical homeopathy, CEASE therapy, Homeopathy Center of Houston and Heilkunst homeopathy. I’ve tried to make this a balanced article as I know that each of these approaches have been beneficial to some individuals.

Classical Homeopathy

Principles of Classical Homeopathy:

• Homeopathic prescriptions based on the characteristic symptoms of each child or adult, rather than on routine or ’sequential’ approaches that fail to match the individualising symptoms of the patient.
• Only one remedy prescribed for use at a time so that clarity of treatment is maintained, rather than the case confused by prescriptions of complexes (combination remedies) or multiple remedies in sequences.
• Remedies usually prescribed in liquid form rather than as pilules so the remedy dose can be easily adjusted to suit the sensitivity of the child or adult being treated.
• The prescription of a test dose at the beginning of treatment so the child or adult’s sensitivity can be determined.
• Sufficient time allowed for the initial consultation so that the child or adult’s symptoms can be adequately collected and analysed; at least an hour for toddlers, and 1 1/2 hours for children or adults.
• Practitioner able to be contacted by the parent or patient between appointments should minor adjustments to treatment be needed.
• Only homeopathic treatment so that the practitioner has not confused or complicated by the addition of other unrelated treatments or therapies. (Source)

Pros

• Affordable
• Treatment is simple
• Common and well known approach; easy to find several practicing classical homeopaths in one’s city
• Some individuals have reported success with classical homeopathic treatment
• Generally excellent support from your homeopath

Cons

• Not a quick fix
• Aggravations – things can get worst before they get better
• Your homeopath may want you to stop all other all other supplements and therapies
• Can be difficult to find the “right” remedy

Examples

• Recovered from Autism – excellent resource describing the steps that Kaeden’s parents took to recover their son. They consider their son completely recovered from autism, and classical homeopathy was a key component of their son’s recovery.
• The Light  - recovering E. and B. Mom says that classical homeopathy has exceeded her wildest expectations.
• Recovering Nicolas - After years of research, supplements, hbot, etc. Nicolas’ mom decided to try Classical Homeopathy. Since moving from a heavy and costly biomedical regiment to using a single homeopathic remedy, Nicholas no longer has any symptoms of autism. Read her update story (“living life autism-free”) here. Nicolas’ mom shares other autism recovery stories here.
• Classical homeopathy case studies here.

Our personal experience

• We consulted with three different classical homeopaths, including one who specialized in children with eczema and an author of a book about treating children with eczema with homeopathy. We didn’t find a noticeable effect, although Moses’ rashes got extremely worse. That being said, I know that some people have had amazing results from classical homeopathy (see above).

For more information

• Homeopathy for Autism website (Classical Homeopathy) - here.
• Classical Homeopathy for the Whole Spectrum - here, including their thoughts on the differences between classical, CEASE and sequential homeopathy here.

CEASE therapy

CEASE therapy treatment consists of a number of steps and therapies.

• Detoxification (homeopathically) of the most relevant stress factors in the patient’s history: vaccines, anaesthesia, antibiotics, childhood diseases, etc. In cases with a history of difficult delivery and/or caesarian section, osteopathic help will be called in. Osteopaths are of the opinion that the meningae are often too tense leaving the brain insufficient room to grow (causing stress!).
• Secondly the oxidative stress of the celebral cortex is treated with fat soluble vitamin C and the brain is nourished with omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) which are important building blocks for the brain.
• Thirdly the metallothionein function in the bowels and the brain can be restored with the use of zinc. For this we use an ascorbate complex (water soluble vitamin C combined with potassium, magnesium (tranquillizer) and zinc). This also restores the integrity of the bowels. In addition Saccharum Officinale D6 likewise yields good results in restoring intestinal flora and function.
• Next, specific aspects of the austistic behaviour can be addressed by constitutional homeopathic treatment of the child, whereby a remedy is selected that is largely based on the behaviour of the child. The remedy Saccharum Officinale and other constitutional remedies are important elements in restoring eyecontact, contact with the outside world and the emotions etc. Cuprum Metallicum can offer the solution to the typical rigidity and obsessiveness. Both remedies are part of Inspiring Homeopathy and not yet very well known in the homeopathic world. (Source)

Pros

• It sounds as though individuals who are using CEASE therapy are happy with the treatment.
• Affordable.
• Well known approach.
• Generally excellent support from the CEASE therapist between sessions.

Cons

• Not a quick fix
• Short-term aggravations – things may get worst for a short period of time before they get better.

Examples

• Alex’s Journey out of Autism – recovering Alex using CEASE therapy
• Boy Connected – recovering Dante using CEASE therapy
• I Love Queen Anne’s Lace  - recovering Lizzie using CEASE therapy
• Other blogs using CEASE therapy are listed here.
• Read about some successful cases here.

My personal opinion

• I feel that detoxing vaccinations and other toxins are an important step in healing autism.
• I feel that CEASE therapy can be a successful treatment. My personal opinion is that after detoxing the vaccinations, if further healing is necessary, then addressing the chronic miasms may be a missing piece.

For more information:

• CEASE Therapy’s main website is here.
• Read about how dosing may differ between CEASE and classical homeopathy here. (Use Google Translate if you can’t read Spanish).

Homeopathy Center of Houston

The Homeopathy Center of Houston’s homeopaths devise a plan for each client by uniquely combine many widely practiced homeopathic approaches including:

• Sequential homeopathy (the framework for chronological healing)
• Classical homeopathy (the basis of all homeopathy)
• Homotoxicology (to help reverse deterioration from toxicity)
• Gemmotherapy (a plant-based approach to drainage)
• Oligotherapy (enhances cell metabolism through nutrient absorption)
• Enderlein’s Pleomorphic Remedies
• German Biological Remedies
• Cellular Re-Programming Therapy (CRPT)
• Spagyric homeopathic remedies
• Custom formulated proprietary HCH complex remedies (remedy and/or potency combinations) developed by our homeopaths, specific to our clients’ needs, unavailable except to our clients.
• Proprietary HCH Genetic snp based Remedy complexes for certain genetic markers based on genetic research in autism and detoxification pathway problems (source)

Pros

• Some parents have reported remarkable recovery stories.

Cons

• Parents have said that this treatment is quite expensive ($500 to $1,000 per month, typically $1,000 a month).
• Distance treatments if you don’t live in Houston
• Aggravations – things can get worst before they get better
• Not a quick fix

Examples

• Drew’s Autism Recovery Diary – Joanna (Drew’s mom) lists sequential homeopathy as one of the most helpful treatments that have contributed to Drew’s recovery. She has great tips on other treatments that help Drew’s recovery here. You can read about their sequential homeopathic experiences here.
• A Ventography! – Sequential homeopathy combined with cranialsacral therapy significantly helped Annie (a five year old girl with autism). Read more here. Read about the other treatments that she found helpful here.
• My Child: A Former “Non-Responder” – an amazing story of how Michael, an 11 year old former “non-responder” to biomedical treatments, made remarkable improvements with sequential homeopathy.
• Autism testimonials for the Homeopathy Center of Houston – here

My personal opinion

• From what I’ve read, it sounds as though the treatment at the Homeopathy Centre of Houston is similar to Heilkunst treatment (i.e., sequential homeopathy), and I think it also involves the treatment of chronic miasms. I would endorse this clinic.

For more information:

• the Homeopathy Center of Houston’s website here
• Read Drew’s mother’s thoughts about her son’s treatment with Heilkunst (i.e., sequential homeopathy with Rudi Verspoor) and the Homeopathy Center of Houston (she found them both to be effective, but the Houston’s Center is more aggressive in their treatment) here.

Heilkunst Homeopathy

“Heilkunst goes beyond the limited treatment of only symptoms, and is built on a foundation of many inter-related jurisdictions. While a Doctor of Medical Heilkunst will use homeopathic medicines to address the roots of disease, the remedies will also be used simultaneously to annihilate the negative effects of drugs, balance your Constitution, in addition to also treating present symptoms.

At the initial consultation you may be asked to complete a “sequential timeline” describing the emotional and physical traumas incurred over your lifetime. This exercise forms the “map” or guide during your treatment and each layer will be effectively peeled off like the layers of an onion. For example we would treat the car accident you had in March, of 2001, antibiotic use for bronchitis in November of 2000 and the death of your beloved grand father in May of 2000. By getting at the roots of these events, the symptoms effectively lose their anchors.

The next juncture is often the patient’s vaccinations. Although based on the Law of Similars in preventing childhood diseases, they contain many toxins, such as formaldehyde and Thimerisol, which will leave a cellular residue for up to 60 years.

The patient’s own birth trauma is next and then we address the Chronic Miasms which are your genetic inherited diseases. Most of us will carry at least 1-2 of these heavily laden black bags throughout our lives. Your grandfather’s Tubuculosis can show up in you as chronic Bronchitis, your great grandmother’s Rheumatism can be the anchor for your Allergies, and your Uncle Bob’s diabetes can show up as Cancer down his family line.” Source

Note: Whereas a classical homeopath will only prescribe one remedy at a time, Heilkunst will prescribe several remedies and combinations of remedies simultaneously (for example, my son typically has one dropper that addresses his constitution and his emotional state; another for any other symptoms he might be having; and he will typically be clearing something major (like a chronic miasm) using a homeopathic powder — it might take 3 weeks to clear one dose of his homeopathic powder, so he doesn’t take this very often). Currently my son takes 4 homeopathic droppers a day (actually, he just smells them) and each of the droppers has a number of different remedies within them. He takes one of them once a day and three of them 2-3 times a day.

Pros

• The framework is highly successful at addressing chronic, difficult-to-treat conditions
• Affordable (my Heilkunstler is very affordable; some well-known Heilkunstlers are more expensive, but still a lot less expensive than the Houston Center)
• Excellent support between sessions.

Cons

• This approach to homeopathy is not well known and not all cities have a practicing Heilkunstler (note that distance treatments are available).
• Not a quick fix — the first level of healing (sequential homeopathy) typically takes one year, although most individuals notice an improvement within three to six months (we noticed a difference with the first 7 weeks).
• Some of the short-term healing reactions can be de-stabilizing (however, after the healing reaction, individuals always experience a greater level of health).

Examples

• Raising a Sensitive Child – my son’s healing journey
• Adam’s Journey – healing her autistic son with Heilkunst homeopathy; read about Adam’s amazing progress after 18 months of treatment
• Healing with Heilkunst – healing her two children (one is on the autistic spectrum) with Heilkunst homeopathy
• Went to a Farmer’s Market – using Heilkunst homeopathy to heal herself and her sensitive sons
• More complete blog list here
• Read a case study here

My personal opinion

• From witnessing my son’s remarkable healing journey over the last two years, I highly recommend Heilkunst homeopathy, and feel that the framework (sequential homeopathy, addressing chronic miasms) is highly successful at addressing chronic conditions. Read my post about how Heilkunst offers hope to parents of “non-responders” here.

For more information:

• Hahnemann Center for Heilkunst and Homeopathy’s website is here.
• I’ve listed more links about Heilkunst here.

Feel free to share your own experiences with these homeopathic treatments.

Healing sycosis miasm – Heilkunst round 17

Moses just finished healing the sycosis chronic miasm to the 10M potency.

Sycosis is one of the eight chronic miasms, or archetypal diseases.

Sycosis is related to excesses in mind and tissue.  People with an active sycosis miasm are susceptible to vaccine damage.

The main expression of sycosis is excess in all areas. You may have an increased appetite for food, excitement, action. Sycosis is the root of most “-itis” diseases, with inflammation and copious discharge. Memory problems and slowness are typical.

(Read Jeff at Arcanum Wholistic Clinic has to say about the sycosis miasm here).

This miasm was a doozy for us to get through. We started clearing the first two potencies of Medhorrinum (the remedy for sycosis) back in November, and then took a much needed four month break before clearing the third potency in early March. He developed a chalazion (a small bump that results from the blockage of an oil gland) on his right eye (i.e., his good eye). The last time he developed one of these  (on the same eye) was three years ago, and he needed to have it drained under general anaesthetic. His eye doctor started him on a topical antibiotic and an oral antibiotic. His Heilkunstler started him on a homeopathic remedy for it. It started to resolve within days. Whew! The good news was that 6 days later, the eyesight in his left eye improved to 20/40 (with his glasses on — you may remember that his eyesight in his left eye is still slowly healing from an eye shield ulcer). We were thrilled with this improvement.

Three weeks later, he started clearing the fourth potency of Medhorrinum. On the good side of things, he didn’t wind up in the hospital (I’m always thankful when a healing reaction doesn’t result in a hospital visit), but he had a strong healing reaction. An increase in wheeziness. A red, pimply and itchy rash returned to his back, the back of his neck, the back of his elbows, the back of his knees, his groin, and then even started spreading across his face. Ack! He had two night terrors. He wet his bed on a number of occasions (something that he never does outside of healing reactions). Complained of a tummy ache one day. Stayed home from school on another day due to a low grade fever. Was a crazy hyper boy for a couple of days. What was odd was that the symptoms continued unabated for a month. It seemed to peak about three weeks after the dosage of the fourth potency of Medhorrinum, which is to be expected, but then his symptoms started to get worst again a week later.

I scheduled a session with his Heilkunstler and she thought that Moses’ increase in symptoms and state of mind was a sign that he was ready to clear the next chronic miasm (Cancer or Carcinosin), so we have started that journey without the break that we normally get between healing reactions. Interestingly, Lively Mom at Adam’s Journey described a similar long healing reaction to Medhorrinum and they also didn’t get a break before they were launched into healing Carcinosin.

This turned out to be a pretty major healing phase for Adam.  He discharged a lot of junk out of his body and probably didn’t feel so good while it was happening.  The runny nose and watering eyes seem like an appropriate healing reaction because the Medorrhinum miasm is commonly linked to seasonal allergies.  Remember that “symptoms” are the language of healing so Adam did A LOT of healing this phase.

As Hanna describes above, the greater the healing reaction, the deeper the healing that is occurring, so Moses’ strong healing reaction is actually a sign that a lot of healing occurred this month. Moses discharged a lot of junk out of his body, through his skin. Apparently, it’s still continuing.

Since we’ve been on this journey for two years now, I trust the Heilkunst healing process, but it’s still not easy. We never know how deep the healing reaction will be (especially for someone as sensitive as my son). I started him on the first Carcinosin powder today and last night, he had a terrible night (the worst night that he’s had in a long time, but then again, it was balanced out by an amazing miracle).

Some good news this month:

• Moses’ dental appointment went well – his teeth are in good health. Yay!
• We don’t have any follow up appointments scheduled with any doctors for a long, long time.

Cancer Chronic Miasm (Carcinosin)

This last month, I’ve been clearing Carcinosin (cancer chronic miasm), which is deep and strong in me. It unleashed so much anger. I was angry for most of last month. Interestingly, Lively Mom’s Adam was also raging when he cleared Carcinosin, so I think that it must be a typical response. It’s so good to get the anger that is locked up in the body out. Coincidentally, just today, Jeff at Arcanum Wholistic Clinic wrote a post about the cancer state of mind.

In psychological and emotional terms, the cancer state of mind is one which is “resigned” — either from having given up from stress or disappointments in life, and just accepting that that is all one can expect from their life, or in terms of a weakness of will to counteract the stronger will power of their family or friends, and just accept what others have dictated for them. In anecdotal terms, nurses on cancer wards have often said that the cancer patients who actually express anger (at their condition, at their caretakers, etc.) are the ones most likely to survive. The typically sweet, polite personality of the cancer state of mind is usually tied to a prognosis of death.

This makes a lot of sense to me since my outer persona (my cancer state of mind) is “sweet and polite”. As this miasm was healed in me this month, the part of me that has been locked deep inside and is angry and raging has been unleashed. I’ve felt like punching something for most of this month. It’s felt very uncomfortable, but my Heilkunstler is very happy that the “real” me is starting to break free. (The “real” me isn’t necessarily the angry me, but the real me will likely emerge after the angry me has had an opportunity to have a voice after having been suppressed for almost 40 years).

The cancer miasm is also strong in Moses, so we’ll see what will break for him during this next month. As always, I’ll keep you posted.

Read more about our Heilkunst healing journey here.

Hope for parents of “non-responders”

This is a message for parents of “non-responders”, for those parents whose children do not respond to medical interventions, biomedical treatment or even homeopathy. For those children who are not getting better despite all of the many therapies that your child is undergoing.

I share this message because my son is a former  “non-responder”. He did not respond favourably to many treatments. He was “too sensitive”. His system was so stressed out /over-taxed that even the gentlest therapies would cause his body to detox too strongly. (Now that we have his diagnosis, we know why – because his IgE levels were off the charts).

We tried supplement after supplement.

Treatment after treatment.

Naturopath after naturopath.

Homeopath after homeopath.

Cream after cream.

Physician after physician.

Antihistamine after antihistamine.

Medicine after medicine.

Specialist after specialist.

Healer after healer.

It feels like we had tried them all. We were desperate. We were frustrated. Yet still hopeful. We never did give up hope that something would help him. Every cell in my being knew that we would find something that would help my son.

Then one day, I met a local mother of two sensitive children. I mentioned how Moses was allergic to everything, and she very enthusiastically told me that the Heilkunst homeopaths at the Dynamis Health Centre could help my son. There was something about the way that she shared the information with me. Like she knew / had no doubt that they would be able to help him.

By this time, I was battle-wary and very skeptical. I told her that we had tried homeopathy. In fact, he was  taking two homeopathic remedies at the time. We had consulted with three different classical homeopaths, including a well-recognized one who had authored a book and had specialized in the treatment of childhood eczema.

She told me that this was different. Heilkunst homeopathy was different from classical homeopathy. Truthfully, I was kind of annoyed. I didn’t know that there was different kinds of homeopathy. I was actually tired of trying different things / seeing different specialists. I was annoyed by her optimism.

I tried to convince her – we’ve tried everything. Nothing has worked. Why would this be any different?

She told me her own story. That she had a highly allergic daughter who was no longer allergic to any foods and she had a son who would have been on the autistic spectrum had it not been for this therapy. She told me that their story was the same — she had also tried everything under the sun to help her two children, and nothing else worked.  But this had.

She sent me a link to this video, Heilkunst  and Autism: Removing Cause vs. Managing Symptoms.  The presentation is by Rudi Verspoor, the founder of the Hahnemann Centre and Heilkunst Homeopathy Clinic in Ottawa. She told me that it presented a “grounded way to look at health, treating chronic/complicated illnesses and cure”.

I didn’t watch the video right away. I was so skeptical. There is something about someone being highly enthusiastic about something that makes one put their guard up.

Besides, we were trying a new supplement, and I wanted to give that a go.

The truth is that I wanted his healing to come from a supplement. Supplements make sense. They are easy to understand. There’s an imbalance to something, so you give the body what’s missing. But in Moses’ case, supplements alone were not enough.

It took a crisis for us to consider Heilkunst. I can’t remember what the crisis was in particular. There were so many of them at the time. We were constantly in the ER. Moses was constantly sick. We were at our wit’s end. Moses was particularly in a bad state of health after he received the MMR vaccination. He wasn’t sleeping through the night. He was having deep night terrors on most nights. He was acting out during the day. Behavioural problems. On top of that, we were dealing with his multiple allergies. Asthma. Recurrent pneumonia. Terrible rashes (remember Job’s syndrome is named after Job, the biblical character who had a terrible skin affliction and who suffered greatly).  It would take me two hours to get him ready in the morning. It was a fight just to brush his teeth, his mouth was in so much pain. His whole system (digestive) was in chronic pain. His skin inflamed. We were worried that the MMR vaccination had been the last straw and that he might be on the autistic spectrum. None of the specialists (traditional medicine or alternative practitioners) were able to help us in a meaningful way.

I remember lying in bed with my husband, discussing our hopeless situation, and it was DH (my skeptical husband) who suggested it. “Let’s try it. Let’s give Heilkunst a try. I’m willing to try anything.”

I watched the video and I got excited about it. I blogged about my thoughts at the time here.

Within seven weeks of starting Heilkunst, I was convinced that we were really onto something. You can read about those first weeks here.  By the third round of healing, I was convinced that we were witnessing a miracle.

I kept telling myself that the “proof would be in the pudding” and so far this method of healing is delivering real tangible changes in Moses’ health. His asthma has cleared. He is medicine-free. He is no longer suffering from night terrors. He is generally a happy little boy. We’ve been noticing that he is less set off by things, and much more chatty than he ever was. Although he’s never had any problems verbally, his conversational skills have gone through the roof in the last couple of weeks. He’s been talking our ears off. And this is only month 3. I know that we still have a ways to go, but I look forward to this healing journey that we are now on.

Pure joy (Moses after the third round of healing)

That month, I emailed my Heilkunstler and told her: “Moses  has been doing great this month.  Skin is very broken out, but his lungs have been clear for most of the month.  No more asthma medications too!  Feels like a miracle!”

She responded, “That’s wonderful!  It may feel like a miracle, but the beauty of Heilkunst is that we know why things are changing — principled application of informed medicine, therapeutic education and regimental support, along with lots of love!”

I told her, “I have a copy of the Autism: The Journey Back book that you recommended and I feel that I understand it a lot more now.  It’s hard to believe at first after trying so many other forms of healing.  I’m thrilled that we are on this healing journey.  I still find it remarkable.  Why don’t more people know about it? ”

She responded, “Well, the treatment requires confronting false belief, which not everyone is willing to do because it can be difficult.  For those of us already on that journey, Heilkunst simply provides a more comprehensive road map and the tools (homeopathic medicine, etc.) to move along the path more quickly and with less suffering.  Heilkunst is there for everyone to find, but not everyone will resonate with it.”

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I’m sharing this because I want to tell you that it wasn’t a fluke that Moses has been healing. He has been healing because he has been undergoing “principled application of informed medicine” (i.e., Heilkunst treatment). If it can help Moses, who was a former “non-responder”, and who has been diagnosed with an extremely serious chronic genetic immune disorder, one that is considered incurable, it can definitely help your child. At the time that we started Heilkunst, Moses didn’t even have a formal diagnosis, and still it helped him. It continues to help him. I feel that without a doubt, it can also help your child. (Read more about how and why Heilkunst works here).

“The physician who can cure one disease by a knowledge of its principles
may by the same means cure all the diseases of the human body; for their causes are the same. ” Dr. Tilden

Still, it’s not an easy journey. If you have read any of my other posts about our Heilkunst journey, every month brings up healing reactions (the first two months actually “brought out pneumonia” in my boy). Even after two years of undergoing this treatment, I still find it difficult to understand my Heilkunstler at times. It’s like she talks a different language. Sometimes, I’m frustrated because I want to share Heilkunst with the world, but it’s so difficult to understand and explain that I don’t think many people resonate with it. But, the thing is, if you are looking for something that heals the root cause of disease, this works!

If you want to read more:

• Watch this video, Heilkunst  and Autism: Removing Cause vs. Managing Symptoms.
• I highly recommend reading Autism: The Journey Back . It is relevant for everyone (not just parents of children with autism), as it discusses how and why Heilkunst works.
• I have chronicled every step of our Heilkunst healing journey here 
• Read about how much Moses healed after one year of Heilkunst healing here.
• Read my latest update post about how Moses is doing (he’s essentially happy, healthy and well between healing reactions and only has 5 allergies/sensitivities [down from 40+]).
• Read about other parents / people who are healing with Heilkunst here (especially read Adam’s journey and Sam’s Story)
• Arcanum Wholistic Clinic has a great blog, written by a Heilkunstler, who tries to explain to the layperson what Heilkunst is and how it works.
• You can find a Heilkunstler in your city here. If you don’t have one in your city, they all do telephone consultations. Many of my appointments with my Heilkunstler have been by telephone. (When we used to live across the city from her office, it was just easier that way). And now, my Heilkunstler is moving to Ontario in the near future, so we’ll continue to have telephone consultations.

Sequential homeopathy

• An aspect of Heilkunst involves sequential homeopathy (treating for traumas one by one in a reverse sequence, with the most recent trauma first. A more clinical description of Sequential Treatment can be found here). I also feel that other treatments that involve sequential homeopathy, combined with tackling the chronic miasms (such as through Homeopathy Center of Houston) can help significantly.
• Drew’s Autism Recovery Diary – Joanna (Drew’s mom) lists sequential homeopathy as one of the most helpful treatments that have contributed to Drew’s recovery. She has great tips on other treatments that help Drew’s recovery here. You can read about their sequential homeopathic experiences here.
• A Ventography! – Sequential homeopathy combined with cranialsacral therapy significantly helped Annie (a five year old girl with autism). Annie’s mom tried sequential homeopathy as a “last ditch effort to recover Annie. I wasn’t expecting it to work. I couldn’t handle getting my hopes up only to be crushed once again. I fully intended to give up on my quest to recover Annie if sequential homeopathy was another giant disappointment”. Read more here. Read about the other treatments that she found helpful here.
• My Child: A Former “Non-Responder” – an amazing story of how Michael, an 11 year old former “non-responder” to biomedical treatments, made remarkable improvements with sequential homeopathy.

My son is healthy and well

Hello my dear friends.  Just felt like giving you an update on how we’re doing. Moses is doing great healthwise. He had an allergist appointment yesterday, and all went well. He received a prick test on a couple of new food items that we were curious about: kiwi and shellfish. He passed with flying colours!  No reaction at all. His allergist re-tested him with eggs and there was no reaction (which is in contrast to the violent throwing up episode that he had after eating a pancake made with 1/8 of an egg 6 months ago). She wants us to try baking with eggs to see if he’ll tolerate that. We’ll try it over the weekend. Will start off with a very little bit of an egg in GFCF muffins and see how that goes.

He’s still reactive to wheat and fish, and his allergist didn’t bother re-testing him with mixed nuts because for the last six months, he’s been able to drink almond milk every day with no problem. He doesn’t like almond butter or almonds, so he’s not eating them very often, but we’re no longer fearful of almonds. Next step is try feeding him the rest of the tree nuts. Our plan is to feed him some mixed nuts in the ER parking lot one of these weekends (we have his allergist’s support on trying this on our own!).  Soon.  Will be sure to let you know how that goes!

So his current allergy list is:

• wheat (we avoid all gluten since he’s likely sensitive to gluten and gluten is generally not great for most individuals),
• dairy;
• and fish.

Eggs are likely a sensitivity, but as I mentioned, we’re going to try them in baked goods and we’re at the point where we are not concerned with products that are cross-contaminated with eggs. We also avoid MSG, chemicals, additives and preservatives as much as possible. Moses is doing so well that the allergist feels that she doesn’t need to assess him again for a whole year. She is very pleased and surprised by how much his allergies have healed over the last couple of years.

Holy goodness! This is amazing, amazing, amazing!  (For new readers, my son was once sensitive / allergic to 40+ foods, so I really feel that his sensitivities / allergies healing are a true miracle). I am so grateful! I once prayed that Moses would one day only be sensitive to gluten and dairy. That was my prayer (at the time, this idea was inconceivable really), and three years later it’s essentially a reality. I even think it is conceivable that one day, he will no longer need to carry an epi-pen. I actually feel that he is no longer at risk for anaphylaxis (since I know that gluten, dairy and fish are not anaphylactic risks for him). My new prayer is that Moses’ sensitivities and allergies completely heal.  So be it, and it is so and so it is.

If you need a reminder of his current treatment / supplement plan, you can read about it here. I feel like I’m a broken record, but I really feel that Heilkunst homeopathy was the most important part of his healing. We do a lot of other things as well, but we were doing many of the other things before we started healing with Heilkunst, so I feel that the Heilkunst healing was the key.

His recent eye injury back in February healed quickly (within 2 weeks, his eyesight had essentially recovered to where it was prior to that injury). I feel that prayer, total body modification and increasing his glutathione levels contributed to his quick recovery.

He has been healthy and well for four months!!!  I feel that increasing his glutathione levels has also been a significant factor in how he has been doing in the last couple of months. Like all things that create true healing on a deep level, his body detoxed when taking only the tiniest bit of the glutathione accellerator. I’ve given his body a break for the last month from detoxing anything (we haven’t tackled any new chronic miasms [Heilkunst homeopathy] since November and even gave him a break from the glutathione supplement during the last month). The last month has been heaven as Moses is really at a great point in his health. His health has stabilized and he’s generally happy. He is now a typical healthy five year old.

My boy loves Taekwon-do!

He has a powerful punch!

During our last appointment with our chiropractor (who does TBM and cranialsacral therapy as well), he assessed Moses and me, and commented that our bodies are the best they have ever been since we’ve started seeing him. My body is “less reactive”. Moses’ body is feeling “more normal”, less tense and more at ease. I really feel that our current treatment plan is really, really working!!

Now that his allergist appointment has passed, I’m going start clearing the last two levels of the Sycosis miasm (details about the first two levels here — it was a doozy). I’m a bit apprehensive about it, but feel that it’s important to do, to continue his healing journey. As always, I’ll let you know how it goes!

Some extra goodies:

• CBC radio had a special on gluten-free baking. DH called in to offer some of our tips (esp. baking with 50% GF oatmeal flour and 50% brown rice flour). Interestingly, the dietician mentioned that many individuals with a gluten sensitivity don’t do well even with oatmeal that is not cross-contaminated with gluten since a protein in oatmeal (avenin) is similar to the gluten protein.  Fortunately GF oatmeal is not a problem for my boy (although DH is actually sensitive to oatmeal). You can listen to DH (he’s got a great voice – so natural and at ease on the radio) at minute 34 to 38 of the show (the third recording on this page)!
• I recently heard this fun Wiggles song about allergies (thanks to Allergy Kinder’s FB recommendation). Check it out!

Updates:

March 10, 2012 – Moses had his first bit of kiwi. So far, so good!

March 18, 2012 – He ate 3/4 of a cashew and 1/4 of a walnut and then had a tummy ache and diarrhea.  On the good side, he’s not anaphylactic to tree nuts anymore, but seems to still be intolerant to them. Read more details about the oral tree nut challenge here.

Reflections

I feel that I still have things to catch you up on.

I don’t really want to dwell in the past, about the two weeks that Moses spent in the hospital in November, but I feel that I still need to  talk about it because it helps with my process.

I always wonder about the meaning of things…  why things happen…  the message behind events…  what are the lessons?

Why did Moses get so sick and why did he go so deep, after a period of time when he was doing so well.

I have some ideas.

It occurred right before 11-11-11, during the 2 week period immediately following October 28, 2011 (which marked the end of the Mayan calendar, according to some interpretations). It was a time of great light / big energy / huge shifts. Somehow, I feel that time in the hospital symbolized a time for us as a family to be sequestered, away from normal life, away from work and to be together as family.

Certainly some things fell away at that time. It marked a time for me to release some of my old roles, to make space for changes in my life. Self care became a priority.

I feel a real shift occurred for the whole family.

Throughout that period, I felt in my heart that Moses would be okay. That helped me get through that time.

I certainly felt a lot of anger towards the medical system and loss of power. I’m still trying to figure out how to stand in my power, stand up for my son and what I feel he needs, especially when it conflicts with the medical professionals’ opinions.

It’s difficult too because my husband goes to a place of fear during this time, and we often stand divided, not together in how we want to approach things (he’s fearful that I won’t let any medical interventions occur, and I’m angry that he is allowing the medical interventions occur).

I feel that Moses got so sick because of the “just in case” IV antibiotics that he received for four days and the lack of sleep during this time as we travelled back and forth to the hospital during all hours of the day and at night. My boy is a sensitive boy, whose homeostatis gets out of whack easily.

I didn’t mention this earlier, but during that time, Moses was also clearing one of the chronic miasms, sycosis, related to his Heilkunst homeopathic healing. Obviously a huge one for him to clear.

Sycosis is one of the eight chronic miasms, or archetypal diseases.

Sycosis is related to excesses in mind and tissue.  People with an active sycosis miasm are susceptible to vaccine damage.

The main expression of sycosis is excess in all areas. You may have an increased appetite for food, excitement, action. Sycosis is the root of most “-itis” diseases, with inflammation and copious discharge. Memory problems and slowness are typical.

Sycosis is related to a host of conditions involving the prefix “hyper” (duh…  Moses’ diagnosis is hyper IgE syndrome). It’s related to blood disorders (Moses has a second diagnosis, G-6-PD deficiency, which makes his blood susceptible to hemolysis, which actually happened during his time in the hospital as well). Ironically, it’s also related to blood transfusions and Moses needed a blood transfusion during our time in the hospital.

Prior to the clearing, his homeopath didn’t think this miasm would be difficult to clear, and I had hoped that she was right (but had suspected that it would be a big one). I had remembered that early in Moses’ treatment, she mentioned that this miasm was active in Moses (e.g., showing up in the abscesses he used develop), but to a lesser extent than the Syphilis or Tuberculosis miasms.

Four days after we started clearing sycosis, Moses developed the dental abscess, which led us down this road. I think it eventually developed into pneumonia due to his body’s response to all of the suppression that was occurring (IV antibiotics, anti-fever medication, etc.). Our Heilkunstler mentioned that Moses’ sustentive power (his life force that works hard to bring his body back to balance) is now so much stronger and the large pneumonia that resulted was evidence of his body trying hard to rid itself of toxins and come back into balance. I think our time in the hospital was also so long because the homeopathic remedies that he was taking to counter act all of the medical interventions were bringing out strong responses. Responses that the medical system mistook as illness, but was actually his body trying hard to come back into wellness.

It wasn’t an easy ride to take. I consulted with many of my own healers / health practitioners about it after. Some admonished me that I didn’t stand in my power enough. I knew that the medical interventions were going to be difficult on my son and I stayed silent and seethed inwards with anger at a system that doesn’t understand how healing works, but mostly angry at my own silence.

I’ve forgiven myself. I have to. And I’m not sure what I would do different if I had to walk that path again. I feel like a crazy person sometimes because I know that some of the things that I think sound so foolish to many people. Most people don’t understand homeopathy, and Heilkunst, I think is particularly difficult to understand. And yet it is working. This “foolishness” is actually leading my son to true, deep and remarkable healing.

Although I’ve shared so much on this blog, I still feel so vulnerable sharing. Scared that someone in the medical profession, one of Moses’ doctors may come across my blog and read it. Scared that they will think that some of my thoughts are not only foolish, but harmful to my son.

And yet the truth, the real truth is that Moses is healing. And he is healing not as a result of all of the medical interventions, but in spite of the medical interventions. (And I say this with great respect because I know some of our children need to use medical interventions to survive and to thrive. I am merely sharing my own truth of my son’s situation).

The scary thing is that Moses has only cleared two levels of sycosis (there are four levels to clear in total). I stopped the sycosis powders when he was in the hospital and we still need to clear the next two levels. I had planned to do so in January, giving us all a much needed and well deserved break over Christmas.

It’s obviously not an easy path, but it is a path that has brought remarkable healing for my son.

Healing my highly allergic child

I wrote this article for Allergy Kinder in January 2012. It’s a good synopsis of our family’s healing journey to date.

My five year old son was a highly allergic child. So allergic, that when he was two years old, he was sensitive or allergic to 40+ known foods, in addition to chemicals, food additives and environmental allergens. Allergic to just about everything. His allergies were serious and he even had three anaphylactic reactions when he was two years old and was hospitalized for four days because of accidental ingestion of eggs. We were at the ER just about every week for other allergic reactions (breathing difficulties). We were at the ER so often that the staff would remember us as the “parents of the boy who had so many allergies”. Every time we went for a playdate to someone’s house, my son would get sick (even if he didn’t eat anything there). He would often vomit after playdates.

There was a period for several months when the only safe foods were: organic hemp hearts (which he didn’t like), organic lamb, organic quinoa, organic ketchup, organic corn, organic bananas and organic apples.  That’s it. (Thankfully, he wasn’t allergic to tomatoes or corn, both of which are common allergens).

When he was four years old, we found out the cause of his allergies — he was diagnosed with a very rare immune disorder, Hyper IgE syndrome or Job’s syndrome (named after the biblical character’s terrible skin afflictions), which explained his highly allergic nature and terrible rash. An allergic person usually has elevated blood levels of IgE. A normal IgE level is typically less than 130 IU/mL and his measured at 70,000 IU/mL. We were told that there was no cure for his condition. The best treatment that the immunologist could suggest was for my son to be on a lifetime course of antibiotics and antihistamines for his skin, his lungs and whole body. A lifetime of allergies, asthma, rashes, abscesses and illness.

I have spent the last five years on a mission to heal my son’s health issues. My husband and I have tried literally everything under the sun to help our son.  Abdominal castor oil massage.  Acupressure. Body Talk. Chinese herbal medicine. Cranialsacral therapy. Chiropractic. Countless creams. Crystals. Dowsing. Eating for your blood type. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).  Energy Healing. Fermented foods. Heilkunst homeopathy. Himalayan salt sole. Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET). Naturopathy. Prayer. Probiotics. Sedona Method. Shamanic healing. Special baths. Supplements galore.  Total Body Modification. Visualization.

Some treatments helped. Others didn’t.

With the grace of God, I am happy to say that  we have been able to reduce his allergy list to five foods: dairy, gluten, fish, eggs and some tree nuts. His IgE levels have dropped to 16,600 IU/mL (a 76% decrease in one year). My son’s terrible rash is cleared and his asthma is  under control. He is thriving.  He is doing well emotionally. If you were to meet him now, you would see a bright, funny, sensitive, healthy, strong, and vibrant boy. I am so thankful!

I feel that my son’s healing has been so remarkable because we have pursued all three levels of healing (i.e., healing his physical, energetic and spiritual bodies). His physical body through supplements, chiropractic and cranialsacral therapy. His energy body through Heilkunst homeopathy and  Total Body Modification.  His spiritual body through shamanic healing, prayer and visualization.  Healing that occurs at  the spiritual level is the most powerful healing that can occur. For example, taking a vitamin can help address an imbalance in the the physical body, but not the spiritual body. A healing intervention must be on the level where the illness was created or one of the higher levels. This is why traditional medicine is generally not helpful in addressing the root cause of disease — because it addresses problems solely at the level of the physical body. This is also why we found the Heilkunst (homeopathic) healing and shamanic healing to be so effective and profound.

If you are looking for deep healing for your child, I want you to know that is that it is possible. Visualize your child as being healthy and strong and her allergies as already healed. Connect with the divine and all knowing part of you that has access to all of the answers. Ask for guidance on what it is that your child needs for healing, and follow those impulses. Follow your intuition. Know that your child chose you as his parent, and you know best what your child needs. Be grateful and celebrate the gift that your child brings. It’s as simple as that. Simple, but not necessarily easy.

From dental abscess to pneumonia

Here’s the story of how a dental abscess can turn into pneumonia for a sensitive child like my boy. I’m still processing these events on several levels.  During my last post, I focussed on our many blessings. 

Dental Abscess

On the evening of November 9, 2011, Moses complained about a “bump” on his face. Although it wasn’t easy to see, when we palpated it, we realized that the abscess was quite well developed, so we brought him to the ER the next day. (Note that the development of abscesses are typical of individuals with Job’s Syndrome, and Moses has had several in the past). After an ultrasound and x-rays, they discovered that the abscess was the result of an infected tooth, and the infection had migrated up to his cheek. The abscess measured 2.5 cm x 1.5 cm (quite large)!  They started him on an IV antibiotic and we stayed overnight at the hospital. It was a bit of bad timing because this was the Thursday before the Remembrance Day long weekend and the dentist wasn’t going to look at it until Monday. The next day, they put Moses on day passes from the hospital, so that he didn’t need to stay between antibiotic doses. We needed to bring him back at 8 am, 4 pm, and 10:30 pm, for about 45 minutes.

I consulted with Moses’ homeopath and she prepared a new drainage dropper for him, as well as a new Thuj dropper to help resolve the abscess.

During the first two nights at home, Moses’ abscess started draining through his mouth (he had bloody pus on his bedsheets from where it was draining). The good news about this is that they didn’t need to surgically drain the abscess, as they did twice in the past.

During this entire time, Moses remained in a great mood, and so I wasn’t very concerned. My Heilkunstler always reminds me that Moses’ state of mind is a better indicator of overall health than the symptoms (in this case, the abscess).  I knew that the abscess would resolve itself (in the Heilkunst view, an abscess represents underlying issues being brought to the surface, to be resolved). I was making peace with all of the hospital interventions, knowing that they too would pass and his Heilkunstler would be able to prescribe any homeopathic remedies that might be necessary to clear the negative effects of all of the interventions (i.e., IV antibiotics, ultrasound, x-rays, anesthetic).

Four days later (on the Monday following the Remembrance Day weekend), the dentist removed the offending tooth. The sad thing about this was that back in April, Moses’ dentist gave us the choice for one of Moses’ molars to be pulled or for it to receive a root canal. We opted for a root canal (due to my insistence) because one of our natural health practitioners had mentioned the negative impacts of teeth extraction. Well, if I could turn back time, I would have opted for the tooth to be extracted back in April because it would have saved us a lot of time and agony. (See also this article posted on the Heilkunst site re: potential problems with root canals).

Moses remained in a great mood during this entire time, but after the tooth was removed, he started vomiting (likely because of all of the blood and pus he swallowed after the extraction — the abscess was draining into his mouth). He vomited again during the middle of the night twice and couldn’t keep any liquids in his system. He spiked a fever of 39.9. Oh my.

Pneumonia

During the next two days (Day 5 and 6), Moses’ health deteriorated quickly. He couldn’t keep anything down, not even water. He had terrible diarrhea. He complained of a headache. He wasn’t feeling good at all. He ran a continuous fever, despite the fact that the nurses were constantly giving him Tylenol and Advil (something I don’t agree with, but that’s another story). He received more x-rays for his stomach and his lungs and complained “I can’t take this anymore”. My poor baby. I was worried and upset. Livid actually.

His Heilkunstler felt that he was having a hard time after the dental anaesthesia, and his body was also having a hard time with all of the suppression that was going on (IV antibiotics, anti-fever medication, etc). She started him on new homeopathic droppers for the emotional stress that he was under, as well as homeopathic powders to clear the effects of the anaesthesia, ultrasound, x-rays, IV antibiotics, etc.

And then they diagnosed him with pneumonia (on Day 7). Ack!!  A serious pneumonia that affected 2/3 of his lungs, his entire mid and lower lobes of this right lung.

I was comforted by his Heilkunstler’s reminder that pneumonia (in the viewpoint of Heilkunst) is a strong healing reaction (not a bad thing in their opinion) and that given that Moses’ pneumonia was so extensive, it was an indication that his sustentive power (the part of his life force that works to keep him healthy and in balance) was strong. A good sign that his body was working hard to bring itself to balance after all of the destabilizing events that his body was under (related to the aggressive allopathic treatment that he was receiving).

The medical doctors aggressively treated his pneumonia with four antibiotics (three via IV delivered 8 times a day and one oral dose). Moses didn’t have any energy and he couldn’t walk on his own. We had to carry him to the bathroom. He often couldn’t hold his urine or his bowels and soiled the bed several times. My poor boy.

We received some good news on Day 8. Moses’ IgE levels decreased yet again to 16,612 IU/mL (down from 22,311IU/mL just a month ago). I felt that this was a sign that underneath the symptoms, his overall body is getting stronger and more well.

A day after they started him on IV antibiotics, he stopped having fevers, but a couple of days later, he started having fevers again. This puzzled the doctors since this was an atypical response to the IV antibiotics. His state of mind started to improve during this time (which is something that I took strong note of — in the Heilkunst view, the state of mind is the best indicator of health), so I knew that Moses was on the mend (in my mind, the homeopathic remedies helped with this).

Blood Transfusion

A few days later, they noticed that Moses’ hemoglobin levels were dropping (it was 110 g/Lwhen we admitted him to the hospital and it declined to 66 g/L  on Day 11. Normal is 120 g/L or higher). His blood cells were hemolyzing (breaking down) either as an inappropriate response to the infection or as a result of the stress that his body is under, related to the fact that Moses has an enzyme deficiency, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G-6-PD deficiency, which makes his blood susceptible to hemolysis when his body is stressed). We knew about Moses’ G-6-PD deficiencey due to difficulties that ensued shortly after Moses was born.

That’s when they decided that he needed a blood transfusion. Ack! This was just getting worst and worst.

We reluctantly agreed to the blood transfusion after considering the risks associated with doing so. We asked if we could pray over the blood before they started the transfusion, and the nurse respectfully gave us all the time that we needed with Moses’ new blood. I prayed that the blood would help with my son’s healing. DH said his own silent prayers over the new blood. I told everyone to imagine “healthy, new, shiny, dancing, healing blood to help my boy”.

His temperature rose when they started the blood transfusion, and for some reason it was painful when they started the transfusion. We worried that he was having a reaction to it (one of the potential risks is an allergic reaction, even anaphylaxis to the new blood). Twenty minutes later, they tried again, and this time there were no problems. That was the last fever that he had.

Healing

During the next four days, Moses’ energy levels and appetite slowly returned and his hemoglobin levels not only stabilized, but actually increased from 106 g/L the day after his transfusion to 120 g/L (i.e., to normal levels, the highest his hemoglobin levels have ever been) on the day we were discharged (Day 15).

We were happy and thankful to bring our boy home. There was a big snow storm during the night before and the morning that Moses was discharged. As we were driving home, it occurred to DH and I that the new snow symbolized a fresh start for our family and our boy. He was discharged on the day that our American neighbours to the south celebrate Thanksgiving. So much for us to be thankful for.

Another thing that I wanted to mention is that Moses’ skin during this time has remained clear. He seems to be releasing through his lungs, but not through his skin (whereas in the past, he released through both avenues). I need to remind myself to count the blessings where they can be found.

The gift of vision

I think the biggest gift that I received from Moses’ shamanic healers was the gift of their vision. They all saw past Moses’ symptoms and shared with me the bigger, divine picture.

When Moses was a year and a half, one of Moses’ shamanic healers shared with me that she was shocked by the strength of his energetic field because she was expecting to feel  a “weak energetic field”. She shared that she felt that Moses was in fact, a strong soul who chose a “oversensitive body” so that he could overcome and heal his body. He would be the “wounded healer” (making reference to the fact that most healers start out as wounded, and as they heal their wounds, this becomes their greatest strength).

His other shamanic healers all shared a similar view, that Moses was a strong spiritual teacher and had chose this body and this difficult path so that he could overcome it.

Hearing these viewpoints helped to elevate my own viewpoint, and ground me in the truth, to remind me of Moses’ inherent strength. And the truth is that deep down, I always felt that Moses would be healed. In fact, deep down, I was puzzled why it was so difficult to keep him healthy given all of the many things that we were doing to keep him healthy. When we found out the news of his genetic immune disorder, it finally made sense to us why it was so difficult to keep him healthy. Yet, I held on to my vision of Moses’ healing.

I firmly believe that my vision of Moses’ healing has helped to make his healing and current health a reality.

I share this for those of you who are parenting children with chronic illnesses or difficult diagnoses. Hold tight to a vision of healing for your child. Know that with the grace of God/Spirit, your child has the capability and strength to heal. And he/she will. It may take time, but he/she will. Believe in miracles. Cultivate your relationship with the divine, however it is that you may define it. Try Heilkunst homeopathy, which in my opinion, has been a Godsend in my son’s own healing journey (and it is in my humble opinion, that it can help virtually any chronic illness or diagnosis that you or your child may be facing).

And remember that even in this moment, your child is perfect. Divine. Holy. A gift from God. And on a soul’s level, your child chose you, out of all souls to parent him/her. Trust your intuition about what it is your child needs.

When Moses was 14 months old, I was really struggling as a mother because my son was itchy, in apparent discomfort, with a terrible rash all over his body and allergic to most everything. I asked God for guidance on how to best care for my sensitive son. The message that I received was:

You child is already perfect, whole, complete, magnificent. There is nothing that you need do to add to that or change that. Just open your eyes and see his magnificence. He is a beautiful sight to behold. Not only from a physical perspective. He is already transforming the world, one heart at a time, starting with yours. Open your eyes and see. He is not flawed in any way. He is perfect. Behold him as such.

So be it and it is so, and so it is. For my child and for yours.

True and deep healing can happen. It has for my son, and it is possible for your child too.

Healing Ringworm – Heilkunst round 15

During the last two months, Moses healed the ringworm miasm. Ringworm is one of the eight chronic miasms, or archetypal diseases, and the third that Moses has healed.

Ringworm can show itself in skin conditions, especially fungal. It is linked with symptoms of SAD and depression.  A person with the ringworm miasm may be tired, have a dull headache and not want to do anything. One may continue out of duty, causing frustration and self-blame. Ringworm has a general sense of being a victim, a deeper fatigue and frustration. The theme of ringworm is “wants to, but can’t” (p. 70 of this link).

Prior to the treatment, I didn’t think that the healing of Ringworm would be as dramatic as a healing reaction as Tuberculosis was. It seems like Ringworm is a bigger theme for me than for Moses, but I still expected some reactions in terms of an increase of rashes. I hoped that his breathing wouldn’t be affected.

Prior to the treatment, Moses skin had healed considerably after clearing Tuberculosis. I waited extra long to start this round of healing because I wanted him to see his allergist first (I didn’t want him to be in the middle of healing reactions during an appointment). About a week prior to starting this round, his body was showing signs that it was time to start the next round (his breathing was getting worse on its own), but we waited because I didn’t want to risk things getting a lot worse before the allergist’s evaluation. Unfortunately, Moses wound up with pneumonia and was hospitalized for four days. Ironically, Moses missed the allergist appointment because he was in the hospital during the scheduled appointment!

I started the Ringworm LM1 dropper the day after we got back from the hospital. I figured that I didn’t want to delay it anymore (and I still wanted him to heal this round as much as possible before his rebooked allergist appointment, which was scheduled for early September…). The LM dropper is the nurturing form of Ringworm and prepares his body for the C scale Ringworm dropper. A few days after starting the LM dropper, Moses was waking up in the middle of the night, he had one night terror and his breathing was rough again. Oh joy!

A week later, I started him on the Ringworm 30C dropper (the first level of clearing Ringworm) and later than night, he complained of a terrible sore throat and we were worried that we would need to take him back to the hospital. His appetite was poor and he was very weepy. He had two more night terrors. Three days later, I consulted with his Heilkunstler and she suggested that I stop the Ringworm 30 C dropper because he was having a hard enough time clearing the effects of the IV antibiotics — more about that here.

After this, I stopped taking detailed notes on Moses’ reaction to the various ringworm droppers, but suffice it to say that the healing reactions followed the general pattern (i.e., his rashes, breathing and mood worsened following a new level of ringworm healing), but none of the healing reactions were really terrible. And, as always, after a level was cleared, he emerged at a new level of wellness. This healing cycle was different because I spent a lot of time spacing out the various Ringworm droppers. Whereas, it generally takes someone four to six weeks to clear a miasm, I gave Moses 2.5 months to clear Ringworm (giving him at least two weeks after a healing reaction before starting the next level). Now that Moses is doing so well, it feels right to allow Moses more time to be stable between healing reactions. More time for wellness. More time for enjoyment. More time to just be.

The gifts of Heilkunst

Between healing reactions, Moses is now a healthy and well-adjusted boy. Happy. Loving and affectionate. Enthusiastic. Imaginative. Considerate. Bright. Passionate. His skin has mostly cleared. His lungs are mostly clear. He is outgrowing his allergies. He can eat more foods. He had a dental appointment today and his teeth are healthy too (a miracle for those of you who know his dental history). Wow! Wow! Wow! We are so thankful!

My mom (Grammie Rosie) recently visited and she remarked how different a boy he is in so many wonderful ways (her last visit was when 15 months ago, when we had recently started the Heilkunst treatment). Another family friend who hadn’t seen Moses for several months remarked how healthy and strong Moses now is.

During the last few months, Moses has also been seeing a chiropractor regularly, who has been treating Moses using cranialsacral therapy and total body modification. I feel that without a doubt, these treatments have also helped my son. I have been documenting his chiropractor appointments in this post here.

I am also continuing my Heilkunst treatment. During these next few weeks, I’ll be healing the physical and emotional aspects of my birth.

Read more about our healing with Heilkunst journey here.

Update:

October 21, 2011: More good news — Moses’ saw his hematologist today and she doesn’t feel like he needs any more annual visits to follow him as his hemoglobin levels have been very close to normal for the last year. Yay!  Moses is now seeing fewer and fewer doctors.

Blog list: Healing with Heilkunst homeopathy or Sequential homeopathy

Well, as you know, I love to compile blog lists. Here’s a blog list of individuals who are healing with Heilkunst homeopathy. I am sharing this list because I have found Heilkunst homeopathy to be integral to healing my son’s chronic illness (symptoms related to his Hyper IgE diagnosis), and want to share this method of healing with the world.

Heilkunst Blog List

Adam’s Journey – healing her autistic son with Heilkunst homeopathy; read about Adam’s amazing progress after 18 months of treatment

Healing with Heilkunst – healing her two children (one is on the autistic spectrum) with Heilkunst homeopathy

Went to a Farmer’s Market – using Heilkunst homeopathy to heal herself and her sensitive sons

The Mama Files –  using Heilkunst homeopathy to heal her sensitive child

Treatment 4 Autism – healing her autistic son with Heilkunst homeopathy, in addition to biomedical treatments. Her son is now in general education school.

Raising a Sensitive Child - our journey of using Heilkunst homeopathy

Suzanne McRae – she is healing with Heilkunst homeopathy (in addition to to other forms of energy healing). She also has an autistic son, a young adult, who is being treated by Heilkunst. Especially read this post here.

At Home on the Rock – using Heilkunst homeopathy to help chronic fatigue syndrome (she doesn’t specifically mention Heilkunst homeopathy in her blog, but based on our correspondence, I know that she is specifically using Heilkunst homeopathy).

Arcanum Holistic Clinic - blog posts by a Heilkunstler. Very informative!!

One Particular Yogi - healing with Heilkunst homeopathy for 8 years

Sequential homeopathy blog list

I also feel that other forms of sequential homeopathy (such as through Homeopathy Center of Houston) can help significantly.

Drew’s Autism Recovery Diary – Joanna (Drew’s mom) lists sequential homeopathy as one of the most helpful treatments that have contributed to Drew’s recovery. She has great tips on other treatments that help Drew’s recovery here. You can read about their sequential homeopathic experiences here.

A Ventography! – Sequential homeopathy combined with cranialsacral therapy significantly helped Annie (a five year old girl with autism). Read more here. Read about the other treatments that she found helpful here.

My Child: A Former “Non-Responder” – an amazing story of how Michael, an 11 year old former “non-responder” to biomedical treatments, made remarkable improvements with sequential homeopathy.

Autism testimonials for the Homeopathy Center of Houston – here

Heilkunst homeopathy testimonials and case studies:

Sam’s case study – Using Heilkunst to treat chronic disease (recurrent viral infections, chronic gastroesophageal reflux, severe asthma with strider, multiple food allergies. I found this case study inspiring to read when Moses was early in his Heilkunst treatment.

Testimonials on the Hahnemann Centre for Heilkunst and Homeopathy website

Testimonials on Healthy Dynamics website – treatment of digestive dysfunction; Fibromyalgia, Type II Diabetes, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Amenorrhea, Lack of Concentration, Zero Energy; boy with PDD-NOS and severe ADHD — anxiety levels decreased and no more need for ADHD medication; anorexia and bulimia; allergies

Testimonials on Holistic Health care website

A great article about what Heilkunst can heal (i.e., it can help heal any disease, illness, syndrome or symptoms, physical, mental or emotional). Really.

Testimonials on Arcanum Wholistic Clinic’s website

Autism: The Journey Back by Rudi Verspoor and Patty Smith — this book is a must read if you want to understand how Heilkunst works and also to read inspiring case studies about how Heilkunst has helped children with autism. This book helped me to understand Heilkunst more fully while Moses was early in his treatment.

Path to Cure by Allyson McQuinn. She healed herself and her son with autism, and now is using Heilkunst to heal others.

If you know of more, let me know!

The Highly Sensitive Family

A dear friend (and mother of a  sensitive child) shared an article with me about The Highly Sensitive Family written by Liz Pilley in the Mothering Magazine in July/Aug 2009. You can read the whole article here.

Even if you’ve never heard the term Highly Sensitive before, the chances are that you know a child who fits the profile: they have a very sensitive nervous system, are aware of the subtleties in an environment and are easily overwhelmed in stimulating surroundings. They’re often labelled fussy, shy, spirited, spoilt, ADHD, inflexible, explosive, or even Autism Spectrum; but none of these labels quite fits. They take things much to heart, they’re fussy about food, temperature, texture and many other things. They often hate group settings, and have many fears, but they are also creative, curious, loving and empathetic.

It’s a great article, especially if you are parenting a highly sensitive child, and in the article, she also makes the point that typically, at least one of the parents of a highly sensitive child is highly sensitive themselves.  (uh huh…  nodding in agreement…).

Challenges of being highly sensitive

In the article, Liz also discusses the challenges of being highly sensitive (i.e., easily overstimulated, can be easily upset, fussy about food, temperature, texture, noisy, crowds, etc.).

With respect to this, I have to say that Moses was a highly sensitive child. When he was a baby to four years of age, he used to be comfortable in a very narrow range of circumstances and DH and I had to monitor him and his environment very carefully in order to keep him comfortable / non-agitated. I’m happy to say that all of the things that we’ve been doing to help him (i.e., Heilkunst homeopathy, energy healing, supplements, prayer) have helped him to become more comfortable in his body so that he isn’t always overstimulated and his body isn’t so agitated.

And as a result, we are now able to enjoy more fully the gifts and blessings that a sensitive child bring.

Gifts of being highly sensitive

Liz points out the gifts of being highly sensitive:

• very intuitive and they notice every subtle undercurrent;
• deep thinkers, very curious and tend to remember lots of odd facts;
• wide vocabulary and very articulate;
• very empathetic and nurturing, especially good with younger children and animals;
• very open to plants, animals and nature;
• feel everything deeply, and tend to be tactile and loving with those they know well, but reserved and apparently shy with those they don’t;
• very creative, often artistic, and good with language.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes for Moses. (And, basically yes for me, except for being articulate and artistic. Also, yes for DH as well!).

I think it’s just been recently that DH and I have acknowledged that not only are we raising a sensitive child, but we are sensitive ourselves. Like Moses, DH doesn’t like big crowds and is sensitive to foods (he is sensitive to gluten and eggs). And like Moses, I’m very sensitive to smells and to animal dander. All three of us are sensitive to energy. We’d all rather spend time in nature, on our own or with a few close friends, than spend time in a noisy crowd.

But, I think rather than being a highly sensitive family, we’re now just a (moderately) sensitive family.

My sensitive boys

What about your family? Do you consider your family a sensitive family?

General Heilkunst update – thoughts about pneumonia

Loves the water!

It’s been a month since I’ve given you a Heilkunst homeopathic healing update. I gave Moses some extra time before starting healing the next chronic miasm (ringworm) because I didn’t want him to be in the middle of a healing reaction when he saw the allergist. The good side of having extra time between healing chronic miasms is that we got to enjoy my happy, healthy and grounded boy for a good month. His skin cleared up and his lungs cleared up for most of this time. My plan backfired though because Moses wound up missing his allergist appointment because he was in the hospital with pneumonia.

It was a bit of bad timing because our Heilkunstler was away on vacation when he developed pneumonia, so we didn’t have access to extra homeopathic remedies to help us through those few days in the hospital. We had a session a few days after Moses was out of the hospital and at the time, she actually assessed that he didn’t need any new remedies (with the exception of the paper remedies for the antibiotics he had been on)  because he was doing so well overall at that point. Wow!

I asked her thoughts on why Moses developed pneumonia when he did (it has been a long time since he’s had pneumonia — 18 months ago was the last time he was hospitalized with pneumonia). Was it because I delayed healing the next chronic miasm (ringworm) by an extra few weeks? Was it a delayed Tuberculosis healing reaction (the last chronic miasm he cleared, which is often related to pneumonia)? Was it something he picked up?  Was it just a random event?

You’ll probably be surprised by this, but we both sensed that the pneumonia was likely a healing reaction to the major heart-opening I had the night before he was in the hospital. (Moses and I are very linked [as all children are with their mothers and Moses is particularly empathic] and my heart shift was so profound that it cleared through him as well, and resulted in him getting pneumonia). I know that probably sounds odd, but the truth is that I can think of at least four other occasions when Moses has wound up sick or in the hospital after I have a huge opening / healing.  I don’t really understand it (and I don’t necessarily like it), but there does appear to be a link. I just trust that in the grander scheme of things, this is somehow for the greater good of our family. It helps that Heilkunstlers don’t view pneumonia in quite the same way as the medical system does (i.e., pneumonia that is the result of a healing reaction is not necessarily a bad thing — it’s just the body’s way of trying to heal and restore balance). Heilkunstlers would recommend using homeopathic remedies to  help the body heal pneumonia rather than antibiotics because the latter results in a decrease in life force energy, and can often result in other negative effects. And we’re going through that now.

It’s now a week and a half since he’s been out of the hospital and Moses is now in the middle of yet another healing reaction (as a result of the paper remedies that we started to clear the effects of the IV and oral antibiotics). His throat is very sore, he’s in pain, he’s lost his appetite and his energy, his coughing up phlegm, he’s itchy, his sleep is disruptive, he’s had four night terrors, he’s unhappy, complaining, sad and whiny.  Not himself at all. Not a happy boy. His Heilkunstler started him on four new homeopathic droppers (a Streptococcus dropper for his sore throat, a new dropper for his night terrors, a new drainage dropper and a new Tuberculosis dropper). I hope and trust that things will settle down for him and the whole family soon.

More about our Heilkunst healing journey here.

Updates:

August 25, 2011 – We rode that healing reaction wave, which was thankfully short, though intense. At the peak of the healing reaction, he had three night terrors one night and two night terrors the next. He saw his family doctor today and his lungs sound clear and his throat looks good.  Back to day home today after being at home with us for almost a week.

His Heilkunstler commented that Moses’s sustentive power (life force energy) is getting stronger all the time and more capable of dealing with healing reactions as we free up his generative power with homeopathic remedies.

Homeopathic paper remedies

Kind of a neat thing to do. Next time you (or your child) is on antibiotics (or any medication) and you want to energetically clear the negative effects of the antibiotics with homeopathy (and you don’t regularly see a homeopath), you can use a paper remedy.

Moses’ Heilkunstler gave me instructions on how to clear Moses’ recent IV and oral antibiotics. I’m also using this method to clear the effects of the antibiotic that I was on for MRSA.

1. After you (or your child) is done a round of antibiotics, write the name of the antibiotics on a piece of paper with 30  C next to it (30 C is the homeopathic dosage). Put it under your pillow (or your child’s pillow) for 2 days. (I’ve been putting it in our pillow cases, so that the paper remedy isn’t lost during the night).

2. Repeat with 200 C for 3-5 days.

3. Repeat with 1M for 5-7 days.

The first time I heard of a paper remedy, even I thought it was kind of weird, but Juniper at Went to the Farmer’s Market has spoke about its effectiveness on a few occasions.

In addition to the paper remedy, I still think it would be important to use probiotics and cultured foods to replenish the good gut bacteria.

Updates

March 30, 2012 – I mentioned to my Heilkunstler that Moses had a strong healing reaction to the Fluconzole and Flovent paper remedy that I didn’t move up to the 1M potency.

She explained that the paper remedy dosing that I outlined above is similar to powder remedies. In the future, she suggests just doing a 30C paper remedy and putting it in Moses’ pocket. But in Moses’ case, he often doesn’t have a pocket on his pants, so she says that I can sterilize one of his old bottles, fill it with distilled water and tape a remedy to the bottle, and give him a drop 3x a day.

If he has a healing reaction to it, I can do LM potencies (starting with LM2 and moving up to LM3 or LM4 if he needs it).

When clearing medications and other toxins, she also recommends adding ANS 30C, sulfur 30C (this is his constitutional remedy) and Nux-V 30C to the bottle as well).

He can take this remedy for the first two weeks: 2-3x a day, then 1x a day for about a month.

You can read more about homeopathic remedy dosing, potency and methods of delivery here.