THE ROLE OF HOMOEOPATHY IN VACCINOSIS
I thought I might write a bit about Vaccination and how Homoeopathy can help parents and other individuals affected by it. I am not going to enter into a long discussion about the dangers of it, or discuss in detail my personal (or professional) opinion about Vaccination, because as we know health professionals who do this publically tend to come under attack.
This is a bit of a ramble, not a list of instructions, nor specific advice being given by me as a professional Homoeopath.
What I wanted to discuss though was a condition identified in the early days of Homoeopathy as ‘Vaccinosis’. In fact Homoeopaths noticed this from the first ever vaccinations performed by Jenner for Smallpox using Cowpox (the pus from an infected udder was rubbed into the open wounds of patients!) This is a syndrome that develops after a vaccine and may result in a significant, complex and chronic degradation of a person’s health. Many patients I have seen have been ‘never well since’ a vaccine. In my practice Vaccinosis is becoming one of the main obstacles to cure I encounter.
Just to provide some background on my personal experience with Vaccinosis, I was a vaccine damaged child in 1967 from the DPT vaccine. According to my mother, I fell unconscious for 3 days, woke up with a raging chest infection that became chronic bronchitis, and eventually became Asthma that often resulted in emergency room visits over my childhood up until about 10 years. My dependence on bronchodilators like Ventolin remained even after the life-threatening episodes stopped.
Fortunately I managed to avoid any further vaccines, which probably saved my life. Until a GP talked me into having the Hep B vaccine in my mid-20s. This vaccine literally ruined my life. The complex, hydra-like syndrome that grew out of these 3 injections changed everything for me. Even mentally my health declined, I believe I was slowly going quite mad.
However, it lead me somewhere remarkable, to the office of a very good Homoeopath, and over a mere 3 week period she had wound back a large part of my illness, most importantly the mental part. While the journey back to good health took YEARS, the change that a single medicine made was amazing. The next few months involved more treatment, other remedies, and even older symptoms began to disappear. I was full of questions for the Homoeopath, and after a while she suggested I should contact her college to enquire about studying. I did that, and never looked back.
So a vaccine did change my life, in a completely unexpected way. Strange to hate an event so much and be grateful for it at the same time J
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF VACCINOSIS
There are several typical points at which people seek treatment.
1. Prior to vaccines being done.
Parents especially may feel forced into giving them, based on various school, childcare and government policies currently in place. Parents may also be forced by the other parent, by family members, or even organizations like the Family Law Courts or DOCS. Healthcare workers may feel their jobs are being threatened if they don’t comply.
There is sometimes advice given to use a remedy ‘prophylactically’ to somehow mitigate the potential damage. This is poor advice from a homoeopathic point of view, as a remedy will only help if the reaction (symptoms) the patient are known and matched to a specific remedy. Until the person develops their response, there is nothing to treat, and this cannot be predicted in any reliable way.
However, most people are already suffering from some kind of weakness, inherited instability, or chronic illness, and if enough time can be given for a homoeopath to work (constitutionally as we call it) on the underlying resilience of the person, resisting the worst of the damage is possible.
2. Immediately after the vaccine is given.
This is probably the ideal point at which help, if given, will do the most good. However, this is still no specific protocol for it. The symptoms will show which remedy is most needed. However, as there are a number of fairly common reactions which may allow this situation to be treated as a First Aid one, thereby allowing for some frequently indicated remedies to be used. What follows is a ‘crafted materia medica’, meaning I have selected indications for the remedies from a much larger number, which seem suitable for the situation being discussed. THIS IS ONLY A SMALL EXAMPLE OF WHAT MEDICINES MIGHT HELP. It is always best to have a professional ready to advise you during the event itself.
However, Homoeopathy is built on the concept of individualization, so any particular situation might call for something specific remedy to be chosen outside of such a list.
ACONITE – Like a great storm, the symptoms are violent and frightening. The reaction is sudden and intense. Dizzy, awful torture, anxious, moving constantly, red face, glassy eyes, great thirst, FEAR OF DYING!
AETHUSA – Death seems stamped on the face. Sudden reaction, extreme prostration. Awful exhaustion, the child sleeps far too long. Digestion absolutely ceases but they keep wanting to nibble or feed in small spurts. Cyanosis, blue lips. Waking with a start, fear of falling asleep in case they never wake up.
ARNICA – Full of nightmares. Horrors in the night. Sudden fear of death (ACONITE). Grasps at someone, looking like they are going to die. May be repeated night after night in someone who is appears well during the day. The injection sites displays a huge, possibly spreading bruise, or is so sore that the child will not allow anyone to touch it and may seem scared of being touched generally. Head hot, hands and feet cold.
ARSENICUM – Extremely restless, extremely weak, clinging and desperate for company out of FEAR. Wants to talk (if they can) all the time, seem to be better while doing this. Head or even brain appears to be burning, wants (or better from) washing the head in cold water. Generally very cold and wants to be kept warm, huddling under blankets or needing to hug the heater.
BAPTISIA – Goes down very suddenly. A threatened septic state. Apparent blood poisoning. Great velocity in this reaction! They almost appear very drunk. Mind seems gone, don’t know what they are talking about, babbling, scattered, incoherent. Horrible smell coming from them, almost like rotten meat, penetrates the whole house.
BELLADONNA – Another remedy with VIOLENCE of symptoms. Suddenly become sick. Intense heat that can be felt even by the hand hovering over the skin. Pulsating, throbbing pains. Throbbing everywhere, as if the heart is in every blood vessel, as if they are full of hot blood pumping into every corner of the body. Wild, delirious, hallucinating, biting and striking in rage. Violent nightmares making them scream out. May need to be restrained. Very strongly affecting by the slightest jarring movement. The skin may be so red you can write your name on it with your finger.
CARBO VEGETABILIS – Everything becomes sluggish. Slow, lazy, cannot be roused into activity or to be interested in anything. Loses interest in things that used to excite them. Everything puffs up. Just wants to lie there and doze. Very pale, but little things, even food, will bring a flush to the face. Sleep is almost death-like. Inability to get enough oxygen, anxiety and breathlessness. All the organs appear to be struggling. This is the CORPSE-REVIVER (brings someone back from the edge of death).
3. The person has settled into a more chronic state of ill health, often having already done the rounds of Orthodox Medicine and other therapies, before finally arriving at the doorstep of a Homoeopath.
This is unfortunately where I probably see patients most often. This is the hard slog. There will be multiple aspects of the case that need to be treated. Constitutional work is vital and must accompany any other way of dealing with the damage. Hope of recovery is however very high with Homoeopathic treatment.
What needs to be done will vary greatly on the individual.