YOUR BODY’S OWN MEDICINE
Sometimes
you may find, that as much as you try to eat right, to take the
appropriate nutritional supplements, to exercise, to drink plenty of
pure water - you
still just don't get better or solve your particular health challenge.
When you cannot find a practitioner in your sphere that is able to get
to the core of what ails you, these are the times when you may need a
little extra help. In that light I'd like to review homeopathy/isopathy
and your body's own medicine.
Homeopathy
In
definition, homeopathy is: A therapeutic method, which clinically
applies the Law of Similars and uses medically active substances at
infinitesimal doses.
Ok,
so lets say you get sick with the flu. By using the Law of Similars,
you would give yourself an additional dose of some same or similar flu
virus, and this would stimulate your immune system to go into battle.
That's using the Law of Similars. However, in homeopathy, you never take
the similar substance full strength. You take an infinitesimally
smaller amount. Actually, it is so small as to be unmeasurable by
physical scientific instruments.
To
get to such a small level, the original substance goes through a
dilution process. For example, suppose you were making a flu remedy. You
would take, for instance, 99 drops of distilled water and add one drop
of flu virus. You would vigorously shake that solution 50 to 100 times
(homeopaths call this succussing). Then you would take a drop of that
solution and add it to another 99 drops of water and shake again. Then
take a drop of that solution and do it again, and again, and again, etc.
By the time the homeopath is through with this process, any scientific
laboratory could analyze the solution and all they would say is that the
substance is just water. BUT, and this is a big but, the power of the
remedy is in the vibrational imprint that has been stamped on the water
itself by the original flu drop and through each successive generation.
And this is where we get into quantum physics and subtle energy, areas
where our physical sciences are not yet capable of going.
When
the body is given a homeopathic remedy, it is stimulated into action,
not because of the physical or chemical nature of the substance, but
because of the energetic nature. The body receives new vibratory
information and acts accordingly. Now to anyone trained in the physical
sciences, this is not provable. But whether you believe this yourself or
not is irrelevant, the fact is, homeopathics can be a very powerful
healing resource when used correctly.
Isopathy
In
the Rot & Rust educational tour in the microscopy section, we
have a discussion about the colloids of life in the blood. These are
hypothetical constructs which say if the terrain of the blood (i.e. the
bloods pH balance, mineral balance etc.) gets shifted, the elemental
forms, the colloidal particles known as the protits or somatids, will
change their shape to adapt to the new environment. What they change
into can be pathogenic (disease producing) to the body.
This
is the biological aspect to the disease process in the body as espoused
by some thinkers. When Professor Enderlein (ref. Rot & Rust)
was doing all of his research in this area, he believed the
developmental life cycle of an internal parasite to be real. He knew
that disease was brought about by a shifted internal metabolic balance.
To get well, you had to rebalance that metabolism. Understanding these
concepts, in relation to also theorizing a totally biological nature of
disease, he developed biological preparations to speed the healing
process. Today these preparations are made primarily by companies most
notably out of Germany.
As
biological preparations, they work on a supposedly unique level. If
microbes do indeed evolve in the blood to a pathogenic level, then to
get well, you would want to de-evolve
those same microorganisms back to a stage where they no longer present a
problem.. The primary way to do this is through diet (i.e. rebalance
pH). But in severe situations, you could accelerate the process
biologically. This is where Enderlein's remedies would come into play.
He theorized that if you have a microbe at one late developmental stage
in the body that is causing problems, you could introduce the earlier
stage of that same type of microbe and they would mate and become a
lesser form. This is how his isopathic remedies work (iso meaning equal
or same).
Enderlein’s so-called
protit was seen as a colloid of life—a progenitor to later stages of
development if the pH of the blood gets thrown off. To de-evolve the later pathogenic stages, the re-introduction
of new cultured young protits back into the blood, would see the
pathogenic forms become lesser, apathogenic forms. This is the basis for
Enderleins isopathic remedies. It claims to promote gentle and
effective self healing through biological means.
Understanding
these two concepts of homeopathy and isopathy, is going to lead to a
further understanding of just what the power may be that is behind the
effectiveness of the medicine your own body produces.
The Product of Your Own Metabolism
The
first time I was exposed to the concept that the body makes its own
medicine, it was through a friend who was introduced to it through an
eastern Indian "guru" type of fellow. I thought it was interesting but a
wacky kind of idea and I never thought about it again - until
I came across a book. The book is entitled, "Your Own Perfect Medicine"
by Martha Christy. She has an interesting story to tell.
Ms.
Christy was sick. Very sick. For a very long time. Pelvic inflammatory
disease, ulcerative colitis, Chron's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome,
Hashimoto's disease, mononucleosis. She had severe kidney infections,
two miscarriages, chronic cystitis, severe candida, endometriosis,
adrenal insufficiency, serious chronic ear and sinus infections, food
and chemical allergies. And that wasn't the half of it. She had every
conceivable medical test, her share of surgery, and drugs - plenty of them. Then she tried all forms of alternative therapy. Homeopathy, herbs, mega-vitamins and liv-cell
treatments in Mexico. After traditional medicine failed to work, she
and her husband spent over $100,000 trying to get her well with
alternative approaches. Nothing worked.
And
then one day, her husband brought home a little book that told of how
individuals had been cured of even the worst diseases with a seemingly
strange and little-known
natural therapy. Soon afterwards, she began the therapy herself. From
the first day she began, she received almost instantaneous relief from
her incurable constipation and fluid retention. Within a week, her
severe abdominal and pelvic pain was gone.
The
chronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and external) soon
disappeared and her food allergies, exhaustion, and digestive problems
all began to heal.
After
a few more months, her colds, flu, sore throats and on again off again
viral symptoms disappeared. Her hair which had fallen out by the
handfuls after her fifth surgery became thick and lustrous. Her weight
normalized, and her energy and strength came back. After nearly 30 years
of non-stop illness, Martha Christy was whole again.
What
was this therapy that she had discovered? What was this therapy that
has helped seriously ill patients gain complete remissions from their
afflictions? What was it that she actually did?
Well, here it is. She orally and medicinally re-consumed her own urine.
Whoa! Gag! She did what?
That's
what I thought when I first heard about this. But I also absolutely
needed to know more. What I discovered is that urine is not the
substance we think it is. In her book, Martha Christy explains what
urine is....
In Layman's Language
Urine
is not, as many believe, the excess water from food and liquids that
goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body as "waste". It
is much different and much more. When you eat, the food you ingest is
eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines into extremely
small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny tubules in the
intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into the blood stream.
The
blood circulates throughout your body carrying these food molecules and
other nutrients, along with critical immune defense and regulating
elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies, plasma,
microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all
manufactured at different locations in the body.
As
the blood circulates, it passes through the liver where toxins are
removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solid waste.
Eventually, this now purified "cleaned" blood makes its way to the
kidneys. When blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an
immensely complex and intricate system of minute tubules called nephron
through which the blood is literally "squeezed" at high pressure. This
filtering process removes excess amounts of water, salts and other
elements in the blood that your body does not need at the time.
These
excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of a
purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the
constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then
reabsorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The
remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and is
then excreted from the body.
The
function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood
balanced. When your body doesn't need something at a particular time, it
is excreted - not
because it is toxic or poisonous or bad for the body, but simply
because the body does not need that particular element at the time.
Medical
researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood that
are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when reintroduced
to the body, they boost the body's immune defenses and stimulate
healing in a way that nothing else does.
A Nutrient Rich Powerhouse
In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A. H. Free, published his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice,
in which he remarked that not only is urine a sterile body compound
(purer than distilled water), but that it is now recognized that urine
contains literally thousands of compounds. Among the urine constituents
mentioned in Dr. Free's treatise is a list of nutrients that will knock
your socks off. Here's just a few...
Alanine,
Arginine, Ascorbic acid, Allantoin, Amino acids, Bicarbonate, Biotin,
Calcium, Creatinine, Cystine, DHEA, Dopamine, Epinephrine, Folic acid,
Glucose, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Inositol, Iodine, Iron, Lysine,
Magnesium, Manganese, Melatonin, Methionine, Nitrogen, Ornithane,
Pantothenic acid, Phenylalaline, Phosphorus, Potassium, Proteins,
Riboflavin, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Urea, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12,
Zinc/
Stories
have been told of individuals who have both lived and died by being
trapped in places without food and water for days. Those that survived
did so because they drank their own urine, those that perished did not.
The ones that died probably could not overcome the mis-informed
thoughts that urine is a waste product of the body. It's not. It's just
a substance the body secretes that contains elements not needed at the
time.
Despite
what you may have been led to believe about urine, pharmaceutical
companies have grossed billions of dollars from the sale of drugs made
from urine constituents. Research is happening every day in labs
attempting to isolate specific elements of urine so they can create new
drugs and patent the substances. For instance, Pergonal is a fertility
drug made from human urine. 1992 sales of this drug were reported at
$855 million while it costs a patient $1400 a month to consume.
Urokinase, a urine ingredient, is used in drug form and sold as a
miracle blood clot dissolver for unblocking coronary arteries. Urea,
medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers in the world, is
packaged in expensive creams and lotions. Take the M out of Murine eye
drops and what do you have? Yep. It's made from carbamide -another name for synthetic urea.
A Powerful Healer
To
get some understanding of how urine can be such a powerful healing
substance in and of itself, let's take a look at how urine therapy has
been known to completely eliminate allergies.
We
read where researchers have discovered that allergic responses are
caused by "renegade" white blood cells that inappropriately attack
substances even when they may be no threat to the body. So it is the
activity of these renegade white blood cells, called antigen receptors,
that needs to be corrected in order to cure the allergy.
In 1982, studies published by Dr. William Linscott (in Basic and Clinical Immunology)
showed that when these antigen receptors (or renegade white blood
cells) are reintroduced into the body, the body actually developed
antibodies to these antigen receptors, and the antibodies then stopped
the allergic response.
Realizing that the urine of allergic individuals contains the allergy causing antigen receptors, researchers thought that to re-introduce
the urine back to the allergic individual would mean antibodies would
be produced which would then stop the allergic response. And that is
exactly what happens. Allergies have been completely turned around with
urine therapy.
Using
urine in this way to cure the allergy, is one form of isopathic
treatment. You're using the same substance that is causing the allergy,
to be reintroduced to the body to have the body manufacture its own
antibody to it. If you grasp this point, you may be able to see the
ability of this therapy to be used in just about any illness the body
may experience.
More Electrons for Your Body
Most
of the time when a measurement of any given urine sample’s oxidation
and reduction reading (the ORP value) is taken, it often shows the urine
in a reduced state. Chemically this means that there are more electrons
(the charge is reduced in the negative direction). We like to say that
the flow of life moves on the flow of electrons. If there are a lot of
electrons in the urine, then where are they coming from? Yep, from you.
So if your papa ever said, child, you’re pissing your life away—might
there be more to that statement then meets the ears? Free electrons can
be given to free radicals to fight oxidation so perhaps urine therapy
also works along these lines. Something to think about. Or maybe it is
just that things are better the second time around - they’ve already been processed somewhat once.
Concepts From the Isopathic Thinkers
To
take this isopathic idea a bit further, let's come back to the theories
of Guenther Enderlein and his biological perspective. As you'll recall,
Enderlein developed remedies that were based on his observations that
how we get sick is a function of the blood pH getting thrown off causing
microbes in the blood to grow into pathogenicity. His biological
remedies involved re-introducing the small colloids of life, or the protits, back into the body to mate with the pathogenic forms so they would de-evolve back into a non-pathogenic state. Mmm…. (Let’s not forget that this was only a theory of Enderlein.)
For
fun, we could take this idea in relation to urine therapy and expand it
to meet this biological framework which some have done. Urine therapy
has been able to cure seemingly incurable disease states. Why is that?
Well, the colloids in your blood that are the protits/somatids, are very
small particles. In fact they are so small as to be unfilterable by
something like the kidneys. It is suggested that one of the invisible
constituents of urine are these colloid particles that naturally just
get passed through the kidneys out of the blood. When one consumes their
own urine through the process of urine therapy, they are receiving a
dose of these pure colloids. These biologically proceed to support the
immune function, and possibly lead to taking the pathogenic microbes in
the blood back down to apathogenic states. In this way, urine truly
becomes the body's own perfect medicine.
Now Enderlein’s theories have been largely dis-proven
using modern scientific procedures to verify his ideas, but
nevertheless people still believe them. Maybe the power of belief in
this instance overcomes what factually may not be real, or maybe there
is a lot more to learn down this road.
Open Minds Can Open Doors
Don't
take this therapy lightly. Multiple sclerosis, colitis, lupus,
rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, hepatitis, hyperactivity, pancreatic
insufficiency, psoriasis, eczema, diabetes, herpes, mononucleosis,
adrenal failure, allergies and so many other ailments have been said to
be relieved through use of this therapy. After you overcome your initial
gag response (I know I had one), you may realize that there might just
be something to this and if you are searching for health, this is an
area to investigate. There are numerous reports and double blind studies
which go back to the turn of the century supporting the efficacy of
using urine for health.
The
recurring points to all of the medical research done to date on urine
indicates that it is completely sterile. If it becomes contaminated it
happens after it leaves the body. Urine is a by-product of blood filtration,not waste filtration.
Urine
contains compounds that are very specific to the individual from which
it comes. It is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antineoplastic
(anticancer), anticonvulsive, and antispasmodic. It is totally non-toxic.
With
research that could fill volumes, you may be wondering why you haven't
heard of this before. Well, urine is abundant (everyone has their own
supply), it's free, and it can't be patented. Reasons enough?
How to Do It
Very
briefly, here are two main ways that are suggested to do urine therapy.
This is in no way a complete discussion of how to use the therapy, but
simply an introduction.
1) Use your own urine in a homeopathic fashion.
First,
collect midstream urine in a clean cup or container. This should be a
clean catch, meaning the genital area (important for women in
particular) has been cleaned beforehand. To 1/6 ounce of distilled water
in a sterile bottle, add one drop of fresh urine. Cap and shake 50
times. Take one drop of this mix and add to another 1/6 ounce of
distilled water and shake 50 times. Take one drop of this mix and add to
1/6 oz. of 80 to 90 proof vodka which acts as a preservative.
Place
three drops under the tongue hourly until there is obvious improvement
or temporary exacerbation of symptoms. As improvement progresses,
lengthen the interval between treatments. After 3 days, suspend
treatment to avoid pushing the immune system. Treatment is resumed if
progress remains static or relapse occurs.
2) Begin with oral drops then increase dosage as needed.
Use fresh urine drops direct. For some cases, sub-lingual drops work well.
(Should
always use fresh urine immediately upon collection. You should not boil
or dilute the urine in any way. You must use it in its natural form)
Start by taking 1-5 drops of morning urine on the first day. On the second day, take 5-10 drops in the morning. On the third day, take 5-10 drops in the morning, and the same amount in the evening before you go to bed.
Once
you feel accustomed to the therapy, gradually increase the amount as
needed for obtaining results for your condition. As you use the therapy,
you will learn to adjust the amount you need by observing your
reactions to the therapy. It may be that you'll work up to actually
drinking an ounce or two at a time.
Social Media Icons