"The Tonsils and Their Role in Health and Chronic Illness

A paper based on the research and clinical experience of Joseph Issels, MD. My own experience and the information from his book "Mehr Heilungen Von Krebs" 2nd Edition 1980, Helfer Verlag E.Schwabe, Bad Homburg was the basis for this article. He had published most of his findings before 1954.

mit Dr.med Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., PhD
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Biological Dentistry, Carmel, March 1999

Anatomy:

There are actually 5 tissues that need to be considered in any valid discussion of the tonsils.

the palatine tonsil: located between the anterior and posterior tonsillar pillar, referred to in common English as "the tonsils". Multiple sensory innervation: by the vagus nerve, the glossopharyngeal nerve and sensory nerve roots from the upper cervical spine. The tonsils are located just superior and anterior to the superior cervical ganglion, just anterior to the vertebral junction of C1 and C2. "Energetically" (=autonomic nervous system connection) the tonsils are connected with the liver meridian and it's related structures.
the pharyngeal tonsil ("the adenoids"): located in the roof of the mouth just above the junction of soft and hard pallate. Embryologically located in Rathke's pouch, a tissue that migrates in the first few weeks of gestation upwards and becomes the pituitary gland. Therefore, dysfunction of the adenoids is often responsible for pituitary dysfunction. Vice versa, treatment of this area can often improve pituitary function. The main "energetic" connection is with the kidney meridian and it's related structures.
There are 3 other tonsils: the laryngeal tonsil located close to the vocal chords, the tubal tonsil - located inside the Eustachian tube, and the lingual tonsil which is visible on the upper surface of the tongue "way back".
In Germany these 5 lymphatic organs, are referred to as Waldeyer's Rachenring (=Waldeyer's ring of the throat, W-Ring). They form a functional unit. There is no food or breath, that does not pass by the W-Ring. All the lymphatics that drain the brain, the sinuses, teeth, eyes, ears, scalp, skull bones and all other tissues above the neck pass through this ring.
A complete review of the energetic connections is given in chart #1 below.
The Tonsil-Tooth Connection

Since the health of the W-Ring is interdependent with the health of the teeth and other structures of the head, face and neck area, let us look at those first. Permut et al demonstrated that when ink is injected into the pulp of a tooth it appears within 20 minutes in the tonsils (page 201). That suggests that infectious agents and toxins originating in the teeth may also affect the tonsils. Furthermore Issels could show that any focus in the head would affect the tonsils in some way, since toxin drainage goes through the W-Ring. A focus is defined as a "deviant localized change in the organism which has beyond it's local adverse effect also a systemic effect" (definition by "Deutsche Medizinische Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Herdforschung"). A complete listing of dental pathology possibly affecting the W-Ring is given in chart # 2 and 3.

Let us look closer at the root canal issue: Schondorf stated in the 1940s " a root canal treatment which does not create a focal disorder does not exist"(page 182). This statement may still be true today even though several dentists have improved current techniques with the use of Bio-Calex, different laser-based techniques to attempt to sterilize the dentin tubules etc.

A large group of physicians and dentists around Issels looked at the jaw infection issue and the root canal issue before 1950 and came to essentially the same conclusions as Price and Rosenow in this country. All agree on the difficulty in diagnosing devitalized teeth, single dead roots, pulpitis, or jaw osteomyelitis. Issels found, that when a patient is healthy, his immune system mobilizes enough force to create bone changes that in turn create visible x-ray changes. Is the immune system weak, there will be no visible x-ray changes around a dental focus (page 186). To diagnose, Issels used in addition to astute clinical judgement tooth percussion, thermography (page 197) (the original "regulation-thermography" - today marketed by Dan Beilan in the US - was developed by Dr.Issel's dentist, Dr.Rost. Issels also used electrodermal skin resistance changes measured in the area overlying the suspected tooth.

How does a Focus Affect the Organism?

Issels gives in this book the clearest definition of how a focus can affect systemic health.

A focus can act in 4 different ways:

the neural mechanism (by affecting the autonomic nervous system, pg.188)
the toxic effect (released toxins altering the client's biochemistry). Toxins released from root canal filled or dead teeth contain very toxic thio-ethers (amongst those is the well known di-methylsulfide). Thio-ethers (TE) are related to the deadly gas "LOST" used in WWI. Their chemical properties include :
electronegativity (they are attracted to positive ions)
lipid solubility (easily pass into nereves and brain cells)
they react easily with positively charged metal ions (mercury, copper etc.)
they react easily with various enzyme systems of the body (recently confirmed by Boyd Haley PhD) and lastly
they are almost immune to hyperoxygenation

If these principles are understood, treatment failures can be reduced. I found these principles helpful in devising new diagnostic techniques when using ART (autonomic response testing). Muehlman (USSR) demonstrated that thio-ethers cause swelling in the W-Ring and back-up of toxins into the brain. The structures affected first are the autonomic regulating centers, such as the hypothalams (page 194). Regelsberger et al (page 195) demonstrated, that if the effect primarily paralyzes the parasympathetic centers and causes blocked vagal up-regulation (increased vagal tone), the patient may develop a carcinoma. If the toxins affect the sympathetic regulating centers - such as the posterior hypothalamus - and cause blocked sympathetic regulation with up-regulation of hypothalamic outflow, that patient is more likely to develop a sarcoma. Today we can measure these changes easily with Heart Rate Variability Testing . I have found the same correlations observed by these "early" physicians 50 years ago.

3. The allergic effect: if proteins are released from dying or dead teeth ("necrotoxins") the immune system may become sensitized. Also the foreign microbial protein and their toxins may be allergenic and sensitizing (page 195) to the patient. Once the patient is sensitized there may be cross reactivity with regular food proteins, aminoacids and a whole host of chemicals and bio-chemicals. The client's presenting symptom may be Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or food allergies.

4. The infectious agent itself ("focal infection theory"). Issels stated already in the 1940s that infectious agents (released by a focus) can lead to "micro embolism" in the walls of blood vessels (page 196). Only last year the JAMA published several articles confirming the presence of oral bacteria in the endothelium of coronary arteries in most patients with chronic heart disease.

The Tonsils:

Roeder found in his anatomical studies, that the tonsils are not only functioning lymphnodes but also excretory organs (page 198). Lymphocytes, microbes, toxins, fatty acids, cholesterol and several other waste products can be found in the excretion products on the surface of the healthy tonsil. Also the thio-ethers from dead teeth are found here. Over the years tonsils can loose their ability to excrete and then they become a toxic focus themselves. As long as patients react with tonsillitis, fever and rather acute symptoms, the tonsils may be healthy. As soon as they stop reacting they may have lost their health and may be a dangerous focus. Healthy tonsils in a grown-up can be easily luxated (="popped out") of the fossa with a spatula. If you can't do that the tonsils may be dangerous to the client (Kellner, page 201). The final phase of progressive tonsillar degeneration is called " degenerativ-atrophic tonsillitis". The tonsils have become a dangerous focus but are themselves completely asymptomatic. The uvula often looks swollen and jelly-like, the palate is bluish discolorated (page 202). When the tonsils cannot excrete toxins anymore lymphatic toxins have to be shunted into the blood stream to other organs which have now an overflow-valve type of function and become symptomatic. Conservative treatment with homeopathy, neural therapy , antibiotics, Enderlein remedies etc. is as ineffective as conservative treatment for a devitalized tooth. The only option is careful and complete surgical tonsillectomy.

Results:

Dr.Issels has published his knowledge and numerous case studies on the clinical benefits of tonsillectomy in otherwise seemingly asymptomatic tonsils already in 1954 (205-207):

Treatment of intractable tachycardia
Treatment of intractable hypertension
Treatment successes with leukemia (each side should be operated on different days, maybe a few weeks apart)
A number of benefits in cancer patients: extends their life span, sometimes curative. Prevents cardio-vascular complications. Reduced risk of thrombosis, embolism, stroke, inflammation of the pleura, ascites and others.
Improvement of digestion (ability of colon to detoxify and excrete is better)
Tumors respond better to conventional treatment and holistic modalities
Other benefits, such as the relief of arthritis or chronic pain has been reported by others over the past 100 years
Dr.Issels made a vaccine from the operated tonsil tissue and gave it to the patient following the operation. He also treatred the tonsils post-operatively with neural therapy.

I personally use the neural therapy test injection to make my diagnosis, keeping in mind that this only affects the neural component of the tonsillar focus. I observe carefully for changes in the patient's health over the next 24 hours. When in doubt the tonsils come out or have to undergo revision surgery (if there are small clusters of tonsillar tissue left). It has not been a problem to find an ENT surgeon to do this work.

However, if you are concerned, you can send your patient to -or ask for vaccine preparation at - the clinic in Tijuana where Joseph Issels, MD worked until his death a year ago (tel: 760-929-7155).

Summary:

The tonsils are an often overlooked chronic focus and the underlying cause of many health problems. Dr.Joseph Issels pioneered the work that led to our current understanding of dental and tonsil pathology. While the medical community has caught up in some ways with the involved dental issues, very few practitioners have paid attention to Dr.Issel's teaching in regards to the tonsils and the need for early tonsillectomy in the treatment of many chronic illnesses.

This may be true , but the old school was just to take them out of everyone, without a second thought. I think it should be a very rare case ro remove any part of your body. They are there for a reason and it removed, what makes you think you will then get well?In addition , how do you find a doc who really can be trusted, and how long do you wait to start pulling body parts out.

I would air on the side of caution, I will keep all my body in one piece for now.

Thanks for the Post,

The person publishing this article and the people talked about therein did not remain old school: they are old school plus the most forwardlooking pioneers in medicine of today. Prof. Issels has worked with cancer patients for many, many years, before the rest of the world ever thought of alternative or complementary medicine, with great success. He left Germany many years ago, because his thinking was not acceptable to the mainstream medicine and established a clinic in Mexico, which is still doing good work for cancer people. He not long ago died over 90 and his widow is continuing the clinic.

The doctor who wrote the article, if you read it carefully again, is not recommending to willy-nilly removing the tonsils either. There are many ways to address bad tonsils before resorting to surgical removal.

I recently heard at a Medical Conference of a new method being employed in Germany (I think it was with laser) to remove the diseased part of the tonsils painlessly and in minutes at very small expense.

One thing is for certain, if you have a chronic disease, such as Chronic Lyme, problems in the tooth arena and plugged up tonsils, it's time to take a serious look at all of it. I am not talking teeth and infections just to be talking about something. There is such a close connection between teeth and other organs. Read the article again, slowly. Find yourself a chart that shows the connecting meridians with all teeth, i.e. upper two front teeth and kidneys. Any biological dentist can show you the chart. Root canals are toxin factories constantly giving the tonsils a workload to clear them. Any organ will function only until it cannot handle it any longer and disease/illness is the result. So we have to start relieving the burden somewhere before it is too late. If I remember correctly, most Chronic Lyme sufferers have a problem with the First Molars.

When I was still ill, my tonsils were treated every few months with Neural Therapy. They looked pretty bad at that time. They are fine now. It's being discussed in my doctor's article. There are many ways to go before you resort to surgical removal.

What I am trying to say in a very simplistic way - clean out your body and try by all means to avoid putting more toxins into it.

I am a very simple-minded realistic person and really don't appreciate it when somebody gives me five books to read and says: here, read these, it will tell you why your butt hurts after you fell down the stair yesterday. I was so desperately ill and learned quickly that just as my car won't run any longer if I don't change the oil ever so often, I would keep the pain, if I do not learn to remove the load that will continue to contribute more toxins into my body every minute of the day. And that I should make a serious effort not to allow anything into my body that is considered toxic.

Yes, it takes some work to find an MD or practitioner who is doing this kind of work.
I am afraid, you will not find their adds in the yellow pages - because if they did, they would not have a license to work under. There are many, many wonderful people that practice this way and put their license on the line ---- just as, guess what, the LLMD's that are good have to stay low-key, unless they want to go through the ordeal that Dr. B. had to go through....... Just one unhappy patient who didn't get cured after the first visit can do untold damage.

Keep learning and you will be well.

How long did it take you to chelate Mercury until your challenge level fell into the normal range? Which method did you use? Neuraltherapy.

Ps. Thanks for sticking around. I really enjoy your insight and wealth of knowlege. Your recovery is an inspiration to us all.

It seems that every time I get on this board you are posting an answer to what I am thinking!

I have just returned from my Dr. and my mercury levels are nonexistant! My temp. was almost normal!!!! My echo was normal!!!! I am feeling great, yet......

A challenge test result for metals, by the way, is not an indicator of "no excessive metals left in the body". There is no test for determining this whatsoever. The only indicator is when a patient feels well, the symptoms are gone.

One should also make an ongoing effort to take the remedies (such as chlorella) that will get rid of the daily intake of toxic metals, etc. every day just because we live in such a world today.

Did you know that the Chlorine industry releases 200-300 million tons of mercury in the air? (Look it up on the net to get the exact quantity). The Hg comes in the factory and is released in the air. Comes with the rain - even in remote areas.

The algae content in the ocean --- 80% oxygen comes from this. 20% oxygen comes from the Amazon Rainforest. 80% of this algae is 50% reduced due to the fallout of heavy metals and other toxins. Over the last 100 years partial pressure of oxygen is now down to 18% vs. 28%. Fungi love hypoxic
envirnoments.

Skin and gut are permeable to toxins. As our external environment is becoming more toxic, so is our inner environment.

It's wake-up time. Almost 100% of people have borrelia mircroorganism. Same with Herpes IV. This is immunosuppressive. The list goes on.. mycoplasma, chlamydia........

(the above was thoroughly discussed at a medical conference which I again had an opportunity to attend recently - was attended by lots of MD's, DDS's, ND's -- all of them agree that we should indeed be alarmed.)

I'm so glad that you're still here! Hey Phillygirl!! Wahoo!!

I was wondering about the Chlorine myself. Is it possible that we are doing damage to ourselves by swimming in chlorinated swimming pools? I know that we absorb so much through our skin..........

We've eliminated Chlorine Bleach from our detergents, but I'm wondering about the pools.

frenchbraid

The Tonsillar Focus..

Issels tells us that "chronic inflamed tonsils are the primary focus of the head, which frequently can have a more severe effect for the whole organism than the dental focus." His tests with infrared radiation have shown the relation of tonsillar focus to tumor activity.

Issels describes a "degenerative-atrophic tonsillitis," which is characterized by small tonsils, lack of inflammation and tenacious attachment to their bed. These types of degenerated tonsils, frequently found in the cancer patient, "can no longer detoxify and have become....a most dangerous toxic focus. As with nerve avital teeth and other dental focus, they must be removed." Issles has noted significant improvement in cancer patients following tonsilectomy and elimination of dental foci.
It should be noted that toxins from dental foci can and will invade the tonsils )or stubs of the tonsils where the organ has been surgically removed). Therefore, elimination of tonsillar foci should logically follow elimination of dental foci.

Where a tonsillectomy has already been performed, the toxic focus remaining in the stub of the tonsils can be addressed with a neural therapy technique involving injection of the area (with an anesthetic or with a biological medicine), along with manual manipulation of the tissue. The same technique can be used with intact tonsils.

Not withstanding, the established benefits of neural therapy, I believe the use of aniline-based local anethetics should be limited due to their demonstrated neurotoxicity and carcinogenic effects. Aniline-based anethetis are thos whose names end in "caine", such as Lidocaine, Margaine and Progaine.

frenchbraid

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My tonsils were removed when I was 18 years old.

I saw an ART practicioner yesterday in La Crosse, WI....did a DMPS challenge for metals...if positive will do proper chelation.
(HIs version of this....one of the following,
EDTA, DMPS or DMSA...PLUS chlorella)

I suffered from MULTIPLE tonsillitis attacks.
(They HAD TO take them out...I was literally choking on them....my roomate had to open an air way for me to breath.)

He also mentioned the therapy with injections at the scar tissue area.

I was ART tested for my sups and abx....didn't like the flagyl...but,. I get a herx and relief from it...said the doxy was OK but not a big hit.

I am happy I have gotten to this point...detoxing always.....but, there is an inner voice telling...me stay on the flagyl.

Trout

By the way...he kept mentioning Germany and the Doctors there...I believe the info you have here has to do with that also.

Guess what, my right tonsil is growing back! Slowly, but its there...crazy!

I haven't had mine out. She sent me to an ENT to have them checked, and he said they are healthy and I shouldn't touch them.

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Originally posted by Mathias:
Are the Tonsils commonly inflamed and/or swollen in Lyme Disease?

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I can't answer your specific question, but I do remember that in the zero-gravity bio-reactor experiment at NASA, where they are trying to go Bb, that they are using tonsils as the cellular tissue upon which to try to culture it.

I don't know what the outcome of that experiment has been, but it's been long enough (at least a couple of years or more) that I would expect that there might have been results by now.

GiGi, and Frenchbraid, this is very interesting information

I had no *real* opinion of the Mercury and dental issues---since I never had ANY FILLINGS-so I could not relate thru my own experince. Not that there isn't enough information to provide your point.And we all know--you literally have to *experince* this disease to truly understand it (or love someone who has it!)

But in my yrs of dealing with B.B and it's collegues, I have come to enjoy(reading and studying) the research that goes on in Germany. The research that is considered "somewhat alternative" by mainstream American medical standards.

I contacted Lyme in Germany on Holiday---so you can understand my interest

I have a question: maybe GiGi or Frenchbraid will see this, of course, anyone familiar with this subject matter---feel free to take a try

In the Neural therapy mentioned in the articles: "With a Anesthetic or other Biological medicine" Is this treatment performed to --in essence---freeze? what is left of the tonsil tissue? To kill-off both tissue and toxins?

Or are they just trying to *treat* the remaining tonsil tissue thru usage of another "biological medicine"---such as ABX? To take care of what ever diseases may be residing in that left-over tissue?

Or is the another method to dealing with residual toxins and/or diseases harbored in the remaining tissues?(In either remaining tonsil tissue---OR, the whole remaining tonsil and adeniods)

My 13 year old daughter once again (fourth time) has an infection in her adenoids, I suspected Lyme as a contributing factor, yet our LLMD never mentioned the connection.

Question: Should I consider having her adenoids and tonsils removed while she has Lyme? I've heard surgery can further compromise an already compromised immune system. What would you do if it were your daughter? She's been on abx for almost a year...still pretty sick...unable to attend school and quite often too fatigued to do tutoring.

Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated.

Maybe one of these links will be able to answer some of your questions.
http://www.neuraltherapy.com/a_tonsils.asp http://www.drkulacz.com/contents/info/article/article_02.htmttp://www.issels.c om/FocusonFoci.asp http://www.medical-library.net/specialties/framer.html?/specialties/_neural_therapy.ht ml

frenchbraid

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Stay positive. Smile. People care.

frenchbraid

When I was still ill and was trying to get rid of dead protein(dead critters), heavy metals, endotoxins from dental infections, usually a lot of the dead material collects in the tonsil/ring area. Most of us have after longstanding infections scarred tonsils, etc. that do not readily release the toxins. In other words, the tonsils, our garbage can, is full and it must be emptied one way or another.

One way to clear out the tonsil area is to do a tiny needle stick with Neural Therapy. The doctor holds your tongue down just as if he were examining your tonsils and gives you a one second needle prick with procaine as if to electrify the nerve tissue thereby activating the release of the toxins from the tonsils. This release lasts for several days.

For other choices when the tonsils are scarred, etc., so that they won't release any longer -- read the above article again. It explains it very nicely. My doctor made me promise him that I will have my tonsils frozen next time I have a chance. They are a very important part of our body and they must be in a functional mode in order for us to stay healthy.

Neural Therapy does not utilize any antibiotics, etc. Nothing besides procaine
(just as the dentist uses) and possibly a drop of a homeopathic depending on the toxin/neurotoxin. In my case, I also had DMPS with the Neural Therapy in order to help the metals out of certain areas in certain ganglia of the face and neck. My body incl. face was paralyzed on the left side until the metals departed. With it left the Lyme and other microorganisms, I hope.
If you haven't had a sore throat in a long time, look out.......