Truthfinder
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Here's an excerpt from the book The Homeopathic Treatment of Lyme Disease by Peter Alex of Germany (HomeopathyWest Publishing):
quote:Several instances of Lyme Disease, which resisted a successful resolution for some time, provided significant insights that I would like to bring to the attention of the reader, in order to establish whether other patients or therapists have had similar experiences.
In four neurological cases of Lyme Disease, I have ascertained that the affected person, right at the point when the pains began, used a mobile phone employing pulsed high-frequency transmissions. Either that, or directly in or near their home a transmitter such as this had been put into service.
The patients found themselves in neurological treatment for months or years with no benefit. In no case was neuro-borreliosis diagnosed, before I initiated the research, so that it cannot be said what came first: the electromagnetic field pollution, or the Lyme infection.
In those cases where the patients installed a telephone with above-ground equipment, the homeopathic treatment brought about a sudden improvement....
He goes on to say:
quote:We are afforded an astonishing parallel here between, on the one hand, the typical close-meshed ``web'' of the mobile phone network creating neuro-pathogenic wave patterns in our environment..... pointing in the same direction is the fact that the chief vector of Ixodes rizinus happens to be a spider.
Ledum is known to antidote most `spider poisons'.
And I just read in another book I have that Hypericum is often used ``for antidoting the effects of radiation and EMFs (electrical fields)''.
Both Ledum and Hypericum are common remedies used in the successful treatment of Lyme Disease.
Regarding vaccinations, Peter Alex says:
quote:Several cases point to a link between Lyme Disease and vaccination. An American microbiologist has recently isolated a botulin-like toxin as a metabolic product of the borrelia bacterium. Botulin toxin is better knows as the metabolic product of Clostridium botulinum , a spore-forming bacterium; it is moreover the strongest bacterial poison know to man. Another bacterium of the same genus, Clostridium tetani , plays an accompanying (not causative) role in Tetanus.
As we know, the Tetanus vaccine, which is administered with increasing frequency by allopathic medicine, is involved as a causal agent in the origin of chronic neurological diseases. The connection with Multiple Sclerosis has been frequently demonstrated.
In a case from my own practice, a young woman became ill with MS shortly after receiving a second Tetanus shot. As we know, many neurological cases of Lyme Disease are misdiagnosed by specialists as MS. It would thus be desirable to establish which of these factors exerts an influence. But here we need more accurate observations using a consistent recording format.
Historically, homeopathic Ledum and Hypericum have been the most prominent remedies used in the treatment of Tetanus.
And both Ledum and Hypericum are often used for bites from animals or insects.
And Hypericum is a classic remedy for `nerve damage and neuralgias'. And what is Hypericum? St. John's Wort, the extract of which is often used to treat persons for nervous depression or mental excitement.
I had seen these connections before, but Peter Alex put it in his book.
So, is it any wonder that the most common homeopathic treatment for the prevention of Lyme Disease AFTER a tick bite is:
First day: Ledum 200C, one dose Second day: Hypericum 200C, one dose Third day: Lyme nosode 30C, once daily for 10 days
(Now, if we could just get some homeopathic labs to start making nosodes made from a really sick tick - one that had Bart, Babs, Ehrlichia, Mycoplasma, microfilarial worms, etc., we'd be even better off in the prevention department, IMHO!)
Anyone can use the preventative information above. But should you run out and buy Ledum or Hypericum and expect to cure your Lyme Disease? Absolutely not!!
If you want to use homeopathics to cure a cold or a flu, be my guest. But always leave the homeopathic treatment of any chronic, serious illness to an experienced professional of your choosing, please!!
One more note: I've traced back the onset of new, strange (Lyme) symptoms to a bad reaction I had to a Tetanus booster vaccination. More symptoms followed during a course of sulpha drugs for an ear infection (palpitations and racing heartbeat). Then later, after much thought, I've also correlated the onset of increased temperature sensitivity, night sweats, awful fatigue, and inexplicable problems with constant, painful misalignments of my spine to the time when I got my first cordless phone. Coincidence? Perhaps.
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Thanks! OMG! See, I didn't use a mobile phone, but I did use a cordless phone for years - and my daughter, who lived with me, did use a cell phone in the house that her dad had gotten for her. In fact, he had a brain tumor removed this past February, and he still uses his cell. She still uses hers, too, and she's becoming symptomatic.
It is possible though that the cordless phone alone got me. I won't dispute that at all. My friend had been calling me every single night there for a while, and she would talk and talk and talk for 4 hours - easy. I would feel so sick by the time we hung up, but I'd just blamed it on the content of the conversation - not the actual phone itself. In fact, I would often fall asleep on the couch next to the cordless phone base.
In fact, I thought of two other possible exposures that may have sensitized me. My neighbor's in my former neighborhood had installed an electric fence for their dog. What sorts of waves come from those buggers?
I also had a friend who had placed an antenna in my attic for me (he just laid it across the beams). But one day when I'd been up there packing the attic, holy cow, I couldn't breathe and my heart was going so fast that my daughter drove me to the doctor, and later to the hospital (because he refused to even look at me).
I had been on St. John's Wort several years ago. It actually had helped for about a year. I have tried this one again recently, but I think I feel worse when I take it now. I think (don't quote me though) that St. John's Wort may be one of the herbs that is high in iron. I know echinacea is high in iron, and that one kills me.
I don't remember the last time I'd gotten a tetanus shot though - I did get the hep B series for my job. I wish I could remember what year I'd gotten the cordless phone. I didn't even buy it - my ex-husband had gotten it for me. Sometimes I think he was trying to finish me off.
I've never heard of the other two herbs, so I will have to look them up. Thanks for all the info though. Our symptoms are nearly identical. I had been on antibiotics every other month, too, there at the end, and alternatives don't seem to do me in as severely as abx do.
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I carry Ledum homeopathic when I go for a walk in the woods.
I've had various NDs use Ledum or Hypericum, but without much satisfaction. Usually I'd have interns. Perhaps a seasoned homeopathic doctor might have had a different outcome. The right dose, the manner in which it is administered can make a big difference as can whatever "stuff" one is taking at the time.
I've never had a mobile phone and don't want one, but CORDLESS, well, I did have one many years ago and - what do you know - I recall lots of insomnia and anxiety with all the other "CFS" stuff. That was the worst time of my life.
While I don't think EMFs cause everything, I know that I do better away from my computer and television sets. I do worse in the homes of friends who have wi-fi and I, too, cringe to see how many cities actually have plans for their entire city centers to be wi-fi. Arrrgh.
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Tracy, THANKS for the Tetanus info. I spiraled so far down within one hour of a Tetanus booster while also on a sulfa drug for a persistent sinus infection. this was April's Fool's Day of '87.
I was in the ER with "jerky" seizures for the first time of that myoclonic pattern is what came back years later . . . then the lyme dx. I had ticks as a way of life growing up anyway and was never really well after "mono" (or lyme?) in college.
Also, when I started college and then also grad school, we were required to have certain vacinations. I began those years under the weather and foggy. As a kid, too, vaccines made me ill for days.
But if I could trace it back, it would be the Tetanus booster in '87 and then a flu shot in '93 that both were just tremendous stakes to my heart, so to speak. I never got over either of those vacines. I often wondered if maybe I just didn't have Tetanus from it, but your article helps me understand.
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Well, Tailz, I was re-reading this book by Peter Alex, and when I came across this page about the EMFs, I thought of you and decided I'd better just type it up while it was fresh in my mind. The additional stuff about the Tetanus vaccine was on that same page, and the relationships to a couple of common remedies for Lyme seemed remarkable.
It took me quite awhile to remember a few incidents that helped me pinpoint roughly when I got the first cordless phone in this house. It was a gift from a friend - I remember that part. It was enough to realize that the phone came before the symptoms.
The electric fence and the antenna in the attic could be contributors. I think after a certain point, this stuff just piles on and adds to the bigger problem.
Another thought I had..... both my ex-husband and my ex-live-in boyfriend that were in this house most of the years since 1986 worked at the nearby Power Plant. Ex-hubby was an Electronics Tech and ex-boyfriend worked in the Control Room. Is it possible that they could actually bring home stray electrical fields they absorbed out there? I really don't know. Maybe just the Power Plant so close is a problem - I can see it out my living room window, though it is 5 miles away.
I don't know if they actually make an extract of Ledum-palustre. I think maybe CaliforniaLyme said that it is available as an herb or extract, but I've never seen it. Many homeopathic remedies are made from poisonous plants so, obviously, you can't get the actual herb or any kind of extract of those, nor would you want to.
Keebler, thanks for sharing part of your story. My Tetanus and sulpha drug incidents happened in 86-87, also. I feel sure that there are many others out there with similar experiences, but like me, they probably never saw a pattern or any `cause and effect'.
And glad you mentioned ``mono'' because a `reactivated EBV infection' factored into my case around the same time that my back went crazy - AFTER the Tetanus booster, sulpha drugs, and cordless phone came on the scene.
You are so right about the right potency, dose, and repetition of any homeopathic remedy - it makes a great deal of difference. We need a list of LLHs (Lyme-Literate Homeopaths) and LLNDs.
I wonder if sensitive people like you and Tailz would benefit from an occasional dose of maybe Hypericum 12C, when you know you have been overwhelmed by EMFs? Sort of a `first aid' remedy.... It might actually prevent or stop a worsening of other symptoms. I don't know, it's just a thought.
A new member, ReneWV, posted this on another thread, and it caught my eye:
quote:I can correlate my beginnings of illness after receiving the Hepatitis B vaccine series, flu vaccine and Tetanus within a 1 year period. Coincidently I had major health problems that arose and recently got the diagnosis of chronic lyme, Erhliciosis, and mycoplamsa fermantans (what the gulf war vets have). I believe in my heart that I could have gotten this immune illness/contamination from my vaccines. How can a lawyer help me or prove this ?? Anyone know ??
I do know that there is a lot of concern and controversy over the Hepatitis B vaccine, but most of what I've heard revolves around giving it to nearly-newborn children. But I would suspect possible involvement of any vaccinations received in close proximity to the onset or worsening of Lyme symptoms.
I don't think it would be accurate to say that EMFs or vaccinations ``cause'' disease, per se. The microbes are already present, and within each of us is a degree of `susceptibility' to the bugs that we were born with and that we have acquired. But I do think these seemingly small `traumas' can become a catalyst for beginning a disease process that we were already at risk for. (I don't know if I said that quit right, but it made sense in my head.)
I'm going to edit the title of this thread and eliminate the ``Tailz'' reference - just so no one thinks this is somehow a private conversation..... I would like very much for anyone with similar experiences to share here.
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Keebler, how can you tell if wi-fi is in your area? I don't even know how to tell since it never struck me as something I'd wanted. It even took a while for the computer that my ex-husband brought into the house to 'grow' on me. The cordless phone was a much easier transition.
Tracy, my ex-husband worked on radar in the Navy and then electronics. My last home had high radon levels, and I know the man who had to do the radon test for it to be sold used to work at a power plant nearby.
Apparently, this was how they had discovered radon - he had worked at the power plant prior to this, and each day he would set off the detectors at the start of his shift. They would have to decontaminate him, and the next day he would set the alarms off all over again.
So it's possible we do carry our 'charges' from place to place.
I wish I had my memory though to be able to determine when exactly we'd gotten each of these devices and when exactly I had received my hep B vaccine. My life is like a blur - only a handful of events fresh in my mind - all traumatic ones at that.
Thanks for typing that info out though.
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Ledum the herb also inactivates the TBE virus!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was the main herb in Trappers tea from the earlier centuries for the wasting disease of fur trappers (who spent all day or lots of time scraping hides free of ticks!)!!!!!!!
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Tailz,
there are some wonderful Qi Gong exercises you can do to rebalance from EMFs. At the first class I took the instructor has us all muscle test our arm strength with each other.
Then he had us all use a hand-held hair dryer for just 30 seconds. Then we muscle tested again. I was amazed. My arm had no strength to resist my buddy's pushing it down.
Then we did a sort of marching in place. Opposite arm to knee and turning our head side to side sort of thing.
We retested and were all strong again. So the term "shake it off" might be helpful here.
Flat screen computer are supposed to be better and mine certainly is less a clober over the head than my previous tube type.
as for wi-fi, I believe I read that the city of Philadelphia (or Pittsburgh) wanted to make their city center wi-fi so everyone could get on the web for free. Several cities, some coffee shops, etc. are doing this. "Bring your laptop in . . . drink our coffee and make this your home office" sort of situation.
Just call your city center. Usually it's within a certain mile radius.
The Townsend Letter for Doctors had an article on wi-fi and cancer a couple months ago. You might check out their site. and while sometimes their articles are just an interview, many times they lots of solid citations. The thing with wi-fi is that it's new and hard to measure effects.
But, doing QiGong daily seems to really help me "shake it off." I just feel stronger when I keep with it (so, now is my cue to start that again. I had no clue when I started typing that it would lead me to recall and recommend QiGong - as I realize I've been away from it for a long time).
It's really just neuro exercises with attention to the mind, awareness and relaxation - sort of directing and moving your energy to remove the clinks in the chain.
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Interesting info about Ledum, Sarah. I looked it up and Ledum is also known as Wild Rosemary, Marsh Tea and Labrador Tea. (I keep getting it mixed up with Thuja, for some reason - another fairly common Lyme remedy).
I wonder if some of the basic 'clearing' techniques discussed in the recent 'muscle testing' thread wouldn't work for EMF problems.
One of the things discussed on the muscle testing thread was 'reversed polarity', and I can see where EMF disturbances could certainly cause this phenomenon.
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(Oops. I had to edit my post above. I keep getting my 'plants' mixed up lately.)
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