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The Houston Sequential Homeopathy Method as an Early Intervention for Autism, PDD-NOS and Asperger’s Syndrome By Cindy L. Griffin, DSH-P, DIHom., FBIH, DCNT
Most of the discussion of early intervention for autism refers to adaptive therapies, such as speech or occupational therapies, ABA, etc. However, in the biomedical realm of autism, early intervention is equally important for many reasons, not the least of which is, if a child recovers physiologically, the autistic behaviors will be reduced as well, and socially and developmentally, fewer steps will have been lost along the way, so there is less to catch up from. This applies equally to the Houston Homeopathy Method for autism. In our case, because of the importance of “clearing through” a person’s chronological history (the timeline), the shorter the life, the shorter the timeline, and typically, the fewer traumatic events that have to be cleared.
Many of our clients come to us after having exhausted all the typical (and often more expensive) therapies – many of which could have been avoided altogether, or would have required less time had we been their first choice for physiological and emotional intervention. In addition, as drug-based interventions are added, from our perspective, those drugs include toxins and side effects which mean we must clear them before we can get back to “square one” of “just” autism, rather than autism plus additional layers from interventions, traumas from constant blood draws, emotionally and physically stressful testing and physiological and psychological interventions.
The framework of the Houston Homeopathy Method ( whether for autism or any chronic illness in adults or children) is the sequential timeline, a personal, chronological history of the client’s physical, mental and emotional traumas. These include drug and other chemical exposures, invasive testing, surgery or other medical interventions such as radiation, chemotherapy, etc, accidents and injuries, serious illnesses, vaccinations, birth trauma of the client and any experiences of the mother during gestation, labor, delivery and breast feeding. In general, there is a general time frame of about 3-5 weeks, with the average being 4 weeks, between each homeopathic clearing of any two events. This allows time for the remedies to be given and do the work of detoxification and healing the insult to the greatest degree possible. With our autistic clients, this may translate into a time of either mild or dramatic improvement while taking the packets (usually over 3-6 days), followed by a brief increase of symptoms for a few hours to a few days around 2 weeks after taking the first of the clearing packets, then followed by a return to baseline, or improvements that continue until the need for the next set of “clearing packets”. The time variation is determined by each client’s responsiveness. As a general rule, younger children detox and respond more quickly than older children and adults, most likely due to their faster metabolism. However, our experience across the board is that a minimum of 3-4 weeks is required for virtually every client before the next set of packets.
Each set of clearing packets is specifically custom designed for each of that particular client’s events, one at a time, in reverse chronological order. We consider each traumatic event very carefully, including the report of its immediate after-effects, and try to provide remedies to address all aspects of that trauma, emotional and physical. For children who get multiple vaccines, each set of vaccines that were given on any day is addressed as one event, as well as any adverse reactions that are reported. Since we can only address one vaccine event per month, because that is how long it takes the body to work through it, obviously the more vaccines a child has, the longer it will take us to fully clear their timeline. I’ve had parents ask if we could “just combine all the vaccines and clear them all at once.” The answer now is a resounding, “that’s a bad idea!” It takes time and energy to detoxify, it takes adherence to respect for the God-designed natural way our bodies were designed to heal, and it takes time and energy for that healing to take place. In other words, you can’t push an airplane.
Healing takes time and energy, as well as conditions conducive to healing. But as you can see from the above description, those children who come to us before adding more traumas, drugs and toxins, as well as more chronological life experiences, will require less time to clear through their personal traumatic timeline.
Additionally, there is the common sense matter of, if a child is able to be detoxified and healed during early development, physiologically, neurologically, socially, developmentally, they will have missed fewer developmental “milestones” and therefore will have less to catch up on once healing has occurred.
As a rule, our children who come to us first, prior to other biomedical interventions progress better in other adaptive therapies, often outgrowing the need for them – this is certain to save money for the parents, and most important, it means the child will develop his/her place in life and sense of well-being and health at an early age. It also means ample opportunity for parents to instill the importance of habits for health early on, before peers and propaganda ingrains poor eating and other habits which may not be healthy for any of us, much less a child with a predisposition to neurological health problems.
The bottom line for the clinicians at Homeopathy Center of Houston is this:
- the shorter the timeline, the clearer the picture of what may be wrong,
- the fewer the traumas, vaccines and biomedical drug-based interventions, the less we have to detoxify them to get down to the “brass tacks” of what caused the autism in the first place * the faster the metabolism, in general, the faster the child may cleanse and heal.
- For having worked with us, every client is clearer of toxins and healthier, and therefore will get the most out of any ancillary therapies they may pursue.
- If we can recover a child earlier, it will results in savings of pain and suffering for the child and his/her parents, as well as monetary savings as needs for other therapies are shortened or eliminated, and increased productivity for the whole family.
- No matter how long it takes us to recover a child (whether a year or 5 or 6) a life returned to one of lessened suffering and productivity is priceless.
Obviously each of us is genetically, chemically, and developmentally unique (something that the world of pharmaceutical interventions has yet to admit to), so each person’s experience of cleansing and healing is unique to them. The general guidelines above are only a rule of thumb. But in our experience, children who start with homeopathy early generally recover more smoothly, if not more quickly, than those who come to us later. Not all of our “quick turnarounds” are little kiddos – some of our children came to us with a history a mile long have surprised us at how quickly they recovered, and some of our youngest children whose parents had done nothing else have taken us a long time to recover them – but those parents have stuck with us because they still saw ongoing, if slower than expected improvements. There is much more that could be said about constitutional types, miasmatic influences, etc., which will be covered in future posts and newsletters, as well as on our website.
n conclusion, as a mother, I would like to state that I wish that I had recognized Asperger’s earlier and started the Houston Homeopathic Method for Autism sooner with my own son, now recovered from Asperger’s Syndrome. It is my belief that he suffered emotionally much longer from the lack of diagnosis and the academic and social issues that his Asperger’s set up for him as a child. Fortunately, he is now a healthy, strong, well-spoken and “un-Aspy” young man with a part time job, girlfriend, car, and close friends who have grown up with him, and new friends and adults who meet him now, and never know the diagnosis nor the pain he had. He is headed into college and career, with plans to begin to counsel children with autism spectrum disorders, whether diagnosed or not.
Yes, I believe in the Houston Sequential Homeopathy Method as an early intervention – as a clinician I’ve seen the difference it has made for dozens of children in our practice, and as a mother, I watched my own son’s pain until I realized his true diagnosis and was able to intervene with the Houston Homeopathy Method for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
