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December, 2005 |
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More than 70 per cent of Dr Spence's patients reported an improvement in their health
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Results of a six-year study have proved a boost for homoeopathic remedies.
Elizabeth Grice reports
As benign-looking as any poisoner in a crime thriller, Dr David Spence is administering arsenic to two unsuspecting females.
He is a silvery-haired gentleman with a soft, listening manner and eyes as bright as quartz. They love his attentiveness, and, though they don't have any idea what is in the little packets of white powder that he prescribes for them every few months, they love his medicine even more.
Angela Evans and Deborah Williams both suffer from complaints that years of conventional medicine failed to ameliorate or cure. As a last resort, they were referred by their frustrated GPs to the twinkling Dr Spence, a homoeopath working within the NHS.
Evans, 54, had been prostrated by severe migraines two or three times a week since the age of 16. For hours, she would have to lie in a darkened room. Her social life drained away because it was impossible to know with any certainty whether she would be able to go out.
"My life was on hold," she says. "I'd reached the point of desperation."
Williams, 35, had endured such an extreme form of pre-menstrual tension (PMT) that for two weeks of every month, she was so irrational, so depressed and so full of rage that it was becoming a strain on her marriage.
As it happens, the homoeopathic remedy for both was varying doses of the well-known poison, arsenicum album, or white arsenic.
"It is a big medicine," says Spence, with satisfaction. "It has a very well-documented toxicology. It affects most systems of the body." Homoeopathic physicians have been prescribing it for more than two centuries in Europe and America - for a whole raft of problems, from asthma to anxiety - apparently without a single case of poisoning. Neither Evans nor Williams knew what was in their remedy, and they were so grateful to be better that they didn't bother to ask.
In the search for a cure for her migraines, Evans had had a brain scan and taken every form of conventional medicine. Many had unpleasant side-effects; none, the desired effect. "You reach the point, to be honest, where you'll have a go at anything because you are so desperate," she says.
Since taking homoeopathic remedies, she has resumed a normal life - having only one migraine attack in the last six months. "And I am a calmer person generally for whatever it is I've been taking."
Williams, too, is a changed person. Her rages and depressions have vanished, she can do her job as a flight attendant without biting the heads off colleagues and her long-suffering husband, Dean, who tended to get the brunt of her irrational outbursts, says: "It is like the sunshine after the storm. A really dark cloud has lifted."
Both women were part of a six-year study at Bristol Homeopathic Hospital, where Spence - once as sceptical about the value of homoeopathy as many mainstream doctors - is clinical director and consultant physician.
The results have been a colossal boost, not just to homoeopathy as a therapeutic system, but to Spence personally, because he is nearing retirement. They show that more than 70 per cent of his 6,500 patients with chronic diseases reported an improvement in their health after treatment.
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Sales of over-the-counter homoeopathic remedies reached £32 million last year
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With children, the results were even better - 89 per cent of under 16s with asthma improved, as did 68 per cent of young eczema patients. "As you would expect, children have much cleaner and more responsive systems," he explains. "They are capable of quicker recovery and repair."
Joan Dainton, 76, another of Spence's grateful patients, has had her chronic psoriasis eased by his prescription for potassium salts after all conventional medication failed.
"There isn't a cure," she says, "but it is wonderful to be so much better. It flares up if I get upset or stressed, but I just come back for a new powder. It gives you hope when you come to a place like this after not getting anywhere for so long."
Last year, there were 44,887 new or follow-up appointments at Britain's five homoeopathic hospitals, in Bristol, London, Glasgow, Tunbridge Wells and Liverpool. And sales of over-the-counter homoeopathic remedies reached a record £32 million last year.
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Flu Season is Here!!
Since the flu shot season is approaching it might be appropriate to remind everyone that according to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world's leading immunogeneticist and the 13th most quoted biologist of our time (over 850 papers in peer reviewed journals), if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots, their chance of getting Altzheimer's disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots. Dr. Fudenberg claims this is due to the mercury and aluminium in flu shots (and many childhood RhoGam shots). These toxins build up in the brain causing cognitive dysfunction. Is that wy Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple?
Source: Dr. Fudenberg at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington VA, September 1997.
Homeopathic flu "shots" consist of taking a homeopathic remedy called Influenzinum each week during the flu season.
Your pharmacy sells a homeopathic remedy called Oscillococcinum which is taken when the first signs of flu appear. You don't need to gulp down the whole vial as is recommended on the packaging. A few of the globuli will suffice.
If you get the flu, click on the rosebar below, which will bring you to the Urgencies facility on the web where you can look up your flu symptoms and see which remedy is most suitable.
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Best regards, Ken Oftedal, Principal ISCH (Iberian School of Classical Homeopathy)
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