1. Attention Deficit Disorder, Barbara C Fisher and Ross A Beckley; 1998, p. 81

It’s important to note that food allergies or intolerances contribute to or worsen the majority of ear infections. If your child is experiencing repeat earaches and inflammation it is worthwhile to take a close look at diet to make sure that is not the cause. An elimination diet of the most common offenders is worth considering. These foods may include wheat, corn, soy, dairy, and eggs. We usually suggest eliminating dairy completely as the first to try. Ear infection can also be linked to thumb sucking and pacifier use so be cautious of that as well.
When my children were young I was just learning homeopathy, and it was a life-saver for my family. There is nothing so empowering as watching a homeopathic remedy take effect. A child’s pain, anxiety and restlessness can dissolve in seconds and back to sleep they go. So step out there and try it when life’s inevitable bumps in the road come up. Having a safe and affordable gentle drug-free solution can give you a good night’s sleep indeed.
Need a homeopathic remedy kit for your family? Call our office. We offer a custom-designed HCH 50-remedy kit, as well as first aid cream and muscle and joint pain. With those and a little know-how about self-care, it’s like having your own urgent-care clinic in your medicine chest.

Many adults and children in our practice have sensory processing problems, whether diagnosed as such or not, and have responded well to sequential homeopathy. Success with homeopathy does not depend on diagnostic labels. We don’t use diagnoses to determine our approach, nor our remedy choice. Every client whether they come with or without a previous diagnosis is considered to be a totally blank slate when they walk in our door. The issue is not the name of the problem. Rather, it is how the sensitivity manifests, what makes it better or worse, questions such as: how does this child respond to touch? What sensory input makes her “crazy”? Is it the sound of the bird outside the window? Is it thunderstorms? Does he cover his ears on entering a noisy room or a store? Do they hide from light? Are their pupils dilated? What else bothers them? Clothing tags or textures? Food textures? Being hugged or touched? Is it worse at night, worse in the morning? What makes them better or worse? Do their symptoms improve when they are ill and running a fever, or shortly thereafter? Are they worse at the full moon? Do they have a history of ear or throat infections? What is their coordination like? When did you first notice it? Did anything happen (an illness, vaccine, antibiotic, earache, etc.) just prior to the onset of these problems? The key to a person’s overall health is often revealed as we review their chronological history through the filter of our sequential homeopathic experience.

Depending on the answers, we can work our way back through a client’s timeline and their own body will reveal the causations, and help us to find the answers to aiding they system in healing itself, layer by layer, month by month, with ups and downs all along the way in some cases, but ultimately, with improvements, or in a few wonderful “textbook” situations, just ongoing blissful relief of the over-reactivity of the brain and body to stimulus.

Homeopathy Center of Houston and its homeopaths have been addressing sensitive and “sensational” children since 1998 by examining each person’s individual history, illnesses, responses to stimulus, and applying sound homeopathic principles to help the immune system and the brain chemistry reset themselves to a more functional level. Most of our clients will eventually totally lose their sensitivities, and go forward to live life to its fullest, without the shackles of the inability to process the input of the world around them.

An integrated approach with the Houston Homeopathy Method for the physiological sensitivities and to eliminate the causations behind them and occupational therapy for desensitization can bring about life-changing positives for these sensational children and their families!

The HHM has been greatly added to and improved with the input and experience of all five of our professional homeopaths. And it’s a good thing! Today ADD and ADHD are still on the rise. While arguments about the causes abound, the bigger question for parents is what can be done about it? A testimonial letter is still framed on my desk from one of my former clients. He started with us in late elementary school, when his parents had concerns about his inability to focus going into middle school, where he would have to juggle changing classes, multiple teachers (and their personalities and levels of patience with him!), as well as a whole new group of potential friends as they came in from other elementary schools to the middle school.

We worked for about 2 years and he was pronounced ADD-free. He was able to move forward in his classes, and actually went from struggling with math to a GT math program in 7th grade. And he wrote a letter personally to me. I don’t think anyone understands how much these kids struggle until the kids can talk about it. I know I didn’t. In that letter, he talked about how little self-esteem he had because homework and notetaking was such a struggle for him academically, barely hanging on through math classes. And then, as we cleared his vaccines and antibiotic history, he started being more able to sit still, better focused, and homework was, he realized one day, “a great and wonderful challenge – but one to be overcome, not dreaded.” He spoke of how he was “grumpy towards friends at times” because of the stress placed on him by everyday tasks – just changing classes was an overload of sensory input that would send his brain reeling. He often left classes in a cold sweat because his focus was sometimes so bad at the start of 6th grade, he would forget what period he was heading to, hence his destination and would have to ask friends, who would “look at me like I’d just landed from Mars.” He felt ostracized by his friends, he felt frustrated with himself, and an active member of his church youth group, he felt “as though I’m not fulfilling what God wants for me – but it’s not because I don’t want to do it.” Our journey together was very eye-opening for me – in fact, it was what opened me to realize as a healer how much I needed to have compassion for my clients – even the youngest ones.

By the time we had worked together, this young man had been elected president of his Sunday School class in a large church, was running for student council at school, was playing all the sports he always had enjoyed, but without the constant fear of “flunking out” and being pulled from participation. His math had become his favorite class (straight A’s) and he loved going to school and meeting with a group of friends that seemed to be enlarging almost daily. The bullying he was receiving also stopped, and he felt as though he could now just “be myself.”

While I haven’t seen this young man in several years, I stay in touch through email periodically with his mom. He continues to do well – without the drugs that, as he put it, “numbed and dumbed me out of my head,” and without any constant homeopathic remedies. He is truly drug-free.

That was several years ago. He is now in college and doing well, from what I am told. Since then many children have been helped with ADD and ADHD symptoms, and the Houston Homeopathy Method continues to improve the speed of outcome as well as smoothing some of the rougher bumps we had in those early years while the body was eliminating the very things that were behind the problem. Many of the children with more severe sensory problems now also come to us, with very similar results.

The key to homeopathy is to individualize each client’s program plan, from within a system. The Houston Homeopathy Method is systematic and our homeopaths all are experts in meeting the client where they are, and supporting them physically, emotionally and behaviorally through homeopathic remedies that will let the immune system do an efficient job of clearing out any pathogens or toxins that are impacting the self-healing process. Results? Healthy, happier children – who no longer struggle with their self-esteem, homework, or lives.

And what do we get from the process? Job satisfaction that we are truly helping those who have found no true help anywhere else!

Explore our website and blog for more on ADD and ADHD.

To your good health!

First a statement of clarification:  homeopaths do not rely on medical diagnostic terms for their analysis of how to work with a case.  However, most clients approach a homeopath with a diagnosis, often quickly giving us a generalized idea of what the problems are.  Beyond that, a diagnosis is not necessary for homeopaths to work successfully with any client.  Instead, the homeopath will individualize each case based upon the presenting symptoms. This gives the homeopath a distinct advantage over conventional medicine’s methodology. The homeopath will examine in great detail the client’s history, family traits, and presenting symptoms, but it is not necessary to know the specific “pathogenic germ” that is responsible in order to successfully help the client’s symptoms.  She must know her tools – the homeopathic materia medica, a compendium of 4000 or so homeopathic remedies available to homeopaths, and how to interpet the body’s communications through the symptoms, so that she can best match them to the appropriate remedy, based on the Law of Similars and/or the Laws of Isopathy.  However, if there are known indications as to a certain pathogen and its effects on the system, that can be taken into account and help to guide the choice of remedy or remedies. 

Homeopathy Center’s research has found some interesting connections between the disorders mentioned above.  The most common thread we are finding is strep as a possible causation, primarily cell wall deficient strep. Perhaps this “auto-immune” form of strep is caused by the breakdown of the cell wall of pathogenic streptococcus, but not the complete destruction of the microbe, by antibiotics.  It is the cell wall that is attacked by conventional medicine’s antibiotics.  If the cell wall is partially or completely destroyed, according to the work done by Lida Mattman, Ph.D. throughout her life, if the bacteria do not all die, and many do not, then those that remained with a cell wall deficiency are often much more virulent and dangerous to the system – because the immune system cannot recognize them as the enemy, and can’t destroy them.  These are commonly called “Cell-wall-deficient forms” or “L-forms.”   Dr. Mattman wisely referred to them as “stealth pathogens,” operating right under the immune system’s nose. 

Homeopathic remedies do not add to this stripping away of the very thing that makes a pathogen recognizable to the immune system.  They do not act through chemically bullying a pathogen into submission.  Rather, the homeopathic remedy in its highly diluted form, carries a small “picture” into the system or signal, which will match vey similarly the signal of the illness (whether caused by one or many pathogens, identified or not by mere humans).  The homeopathic remedy is a dilute remedy with a signal that is “most similar” to the symptoms of the sick person, which can alert the vital force, or immune system, to aid recovery even if the exact pathogen is not known.  The advantages become obvious, including that expensive lab tests are not necessary for the homeopath to be successful.  

 Many of our clients have found relief through remedies which typically would help a sore throat or ear infection to be helpful with their obsessions, compulsions and tics.  And because we know that medical literature supports that sore throats and ear infections being commonly caused by streptococcus, it is a reasonable inference that perhaps the reason these remedies work for earaches, sore throats and OCD is because perhaps all three are caused by the same thing – streptococcus.  Ironically, modern medicine backsthis  homeopathic inference as the following demonstrates:

Medical research by Susan Swedo, MD, at the NIMH provided confirmation of our understanding of the physiological etiology of OCD, tics and movement disorders.[ii]  While powerful concerns would prefer to classify OCD, like autism, as a mental/behavioral disorder (whether out of disbelief of the truth or avoidance thereof), our case studies affirm Dr. Swedo’s findings that a physical component plays the leading role in this large category of complaints. As part of the healing process, our clients will frequently run fevers. We often see gains (a marked decrease in complaints) as the parents relieved fevers with any of several homeopathic remedies which also are commonly used for sore throats and ear aches.  These maladies in medical literature have long been etiologically related to streptococcus. 

In the past 2 years, this experience has allowed us to expand and focus more on homeopathy aimed at several specific pathogenic syndromes, in particular, those associated in both homeopathic and medical literature with strep, herpes, and measles virus.  By generally focusing on remedies for our clients’ behavioral symptoms (which is a common approach in homeopathy) we have discovered that repeatedly we are pulled toward, and finding success with groups of remedies which revolve around these three important symptom constellations.  Using all forms of homeopathic remedies in proprietary combinations, nosodes, sarcodes, German biological and gemmotherapy remedies,  the immune system is given the much needed support required for true healing and apparent elimination of the offending microbes.  Through this focus, and combined with a sequential approach to healing, we are seeing many clients significantly reduce or eliminate their tics, OCD, rigidity, and anxiety levels, while many ASD children are gaining in cognitive, speech and social skills.   

This same focus is precisely the vantage point that Homeopathy Center of Houston has successfully employed with children who come to us with a diagnosis somewhere on the Autism spectrum including ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, and Autism.   As we find effective ways to help one behavioral problem it often carries over to others.  Just as we do not need to know the pathogen, we do not need a formal medical diagnosis to gain positive results.  In fact, many homeopaths feel that a diagnostic term can occasionally serve as a distraction to seeking all of the person’s individualized symptoms.  It is not a detriment, but can sometimes imply symptoms which may or may not be present in the individual. And it is the individualized way in which each person is affected by and exhibits his/her symptoms that the homeopath must seek and work with.    

Often the symptoms of illnesses attributed to this or that “germ” are simply the body’s unique means of reacting differently to the same pathogen.  For instance, where one child may get frequent rashes, another develops obsessions or compulsions.  While strep may act as an inflammatory pathogen in one person’s throat, in another, it inflames the skin into a rash, and in a third, it may inflame the brain stem and create obsessions.   In other cases, there may be many different pathogens involved – for instance, measles virus is known to enter the central nervous system, as do herpes viruses.  Because the homeopathic remedies boost the body’s own Vital Force (partly the immune system, partly the energy required to maintain homeostasis and sustain life) to do the work, the Vital Force may tackle one set of “pathogens” one time, and a different set at another, it does not matter whether it is one or many pathogens responsible – we can still follow and support the client’s recovery through the process using indicated remedies to support the body’s natural elimination and rebalancing capabilities (symptoms).  

While the symptoms of Dr. Swedo’s term “PANDAS” are not what conventional medicine previously associated with streptococcus infections, she has noted the presence of strep antibodies which she surmises to be attacking the basal ganglia.  Whether this is the actual mechanism or not, in our clinical experience, we can only say that no matter what the name, or the mechanism, homeopathic remedies for complaints associated with strep have provided most of our clients relief from inflammatory symptoms, movement and obsession disorders, and seem to make common sense when compared to Dr. Swedo’s view of this relatively “new” phenomenon of PANDAS. 

Unfortunately, the prevailing wisdom is that if PANDAS becomes a definitive diagnostic term, then the obvious treatment medically would be long term antibiotics.  However, there are grave concerns about the effects of long term antibiotics which may be only a panacea for some.  It is well known that 75% of our human immune system lies not just in the physical entity we call the gut, but with the biological ecosystem of the gut flora, and bacterial population.  It is equally well known that antibiotics, even in short term, disrupt this fragile balance between “good” and “bad” bacteria in the gut, hence long term, could possibly be doing more harm than good. 

Homeopathy offers a non-suppressive, broad-based option to help restore immune system function, reduce the obsessions, compulsions and motor problems, and creates no side effects.  It supports the immune system, and cannot destroy the delicate balance of the gut flora.  Homeopathic remedies do not create “cell wall deficient” highly pathogenic forms.  They can only harness the body’s own innate healing mechanisms and gently nudge them back toward balance or homeostasis, without toxins, harm or drugs.  The best part is – all true healing is self-healing – when the body heals itself, with homeopathy effectively “calling the signals” then the healing is true, deep, and lasting.  Once the body rids itself of the offenders, there are no “rebounds” or cycles, whereby the remedies are stopped but the symptoms keep returning or worsening, necessitating ongoing, lifelong treatment, as is advocated for PANDAS.  So far, our homeopathic work has been very promising and successful with many children who have suffered tics, obsessions and compulsions.   

No matter the medical prevailing wisdom or controversy over of how to treat these disorders, there is a growing body of accepted knowledge that points out that OCD is much more a physiological illness that affects behavior.  As outlined above, homeopathy does not depend upon cookbook medicine, or identification of a specific pathogen, and is not based on a “diagnostic criteria for treatment.”  Our children and adults are treated as people who have a problem, not as a diagnosis which gets a one-size-fits-all answer.  The key to the Houston Homeopathy Method is the method.  It is a thought process and unique application of many different homeopathic methodologies that has reaped huge rewards for not only our clients, but even some of our own children. 

What outcomes have we seen?  With children with autism, we’ve had huge improvements in “stereotypical autism behaviors” such as inability to transition, rigid reliance on a perfectly controlled schedule, more ability to be redirected away from their compulsions, and gradual fading away of all of the above – coupled with greater long term indications of overall better health.  Many of our children who were not talking have begun talking, those who had simple labeling or single answer demands have started moving into full sentences.  One very surprising commonality is that our kids seem to be happier.  Even toileting has become much better in many cases.  For our more verbal children we are seeing more interaction, more descriptive language, more spontaneous and expressive of emotion than seemingly unemotional, robotic language (as is typical from ABA approaches), and gains in social behaviors.   

With our clients whose primary complaints include obsessions and/or compulsive behaviors, or who had OCD diagnoses when they came to us, as they progress through the HHM,  we’ve seen that they are much less obsessed, able to regain normal control of their anxieties (also related to strep, we are realizing), and able to relax and return to a normal life.  Our children with tics or Tourette’s Syndrome have either lost or greatly diminished their tics, and many are still working with us, with every good reason to believe they will lose their tics entirely.  The recovery is not overnight, as most of our clients have had multiple exposures to bacteria, or “infections” and been treated previously with antibiotics, so the unlayering process may require some time.  But the time required is getting shorter as we discover more through ongoing research and honing our analytical skills.   And most importantly, our clients get better with each step we take in peeling the layers that led up to their current problems.  As we approach the genetic inheritance aspects,  the miasm remedies become more important, as well, but that will be the subject of another article.

Watch for our upcoming article on Autism as a Polymicrobial Disorder - and successes from the HHM in the new Autism One magazine:  Autism Science Digest, coming in April 2011!!!!

[ii] Leonard, H, Swedo S; Paediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS); 2001,  Int J Neuropsychopharmacology 4: 191-198

Through our work with children with autism and developmental delays, we’ve considered a new tagline:  GUTS ARE US.  We at Homeopathy Center of Houston have learned many outside-the-box methods to support healthy intestinal flora and reduction of toxins and irritants through an advanced, sequential, homeopathic detoxification.  Many of our children experience significant improvement by reducing the population of harmful microbial levels, increasing the levels of beneficial bacteria and flora in their guts, and thus reducing levels of inflammation markers overall in laboratory tests.  Most tangibly, when gut health improves, so do behavior, language, academics and even social skills. 

Our work with autism has transferred to the way we approach our adult clients with GI issues.  Many people we meet suffer from what we call, “an autistic gut, without the autism.”  They arrive at our offices with a myriad of diagnoses, such as:  Irritable Bowel Syndrome, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, intestinal polyps, chronic diarrhea, chronic constipation, alternating between constipation and diarrhea, Crohn’s Disease, even something called “toddler loose stool syndrome” and the list goes on.  We sometimes meet people who have had massive surgical removal of sections of their intestines, stomach surgeries, esophageal erosion, etc. In cases where parts of the structure are missing there will always be some level of compromise, but even in these cases, many clients have found they are much more capable of managing their health with homeopathy than with the drugs their doctors offered as “symptom management.”

Of course, the most rewarding cases are those in which the patient was told by their doctor that their condition cannot be treated and cured, it can only be managed, only to discover that after working with us to improve not just their gut, but their whole immune system, they no longer have any symptoms left to manage.  People often come to us because hope has been snatched by the conventional medical world.  In the skilled, experienced hands of our practitioners, these amazing, safe, non-toxic homeopathic remedies can truly work miracles.  

If you or someone you love has been told you have an “untreatable” or “hopeless” digestive problem, if the drugs prescribed don’t help, or even add new problems, please call our office.  Homeopathy does not require a diagnosis to be effective.  If you don’t have a diagnosis, but are noticing the beginnings of problems, homeopathy shines as a therapy that can assist in avoiding further erosion of health.  There is hope, there is help, and life is not ever hopeless.

Good health,

Cindy

The most likely culprit in this young man’s anger was the 7 Hepatitis B vaccines he received, and the impact on his liver.    He received one at birth in his home country, three more at 2, 4 and 6 months of age, then a series of three more before the age of 3 in the United States.  We have noted over the years that most of our clients become angry whenever we specifically detoxify the Hepatitis vaccines they received.  In this child’s case, I fully expected the worst, and when we got to his final hepatitis shot with his birth clear, he became very angry.  Then, after an hours-long major tantrum, which blew over as suddenly as it had come on, it was as if the angry, seething, fighting little boy had disappeared and been replaced by sobs of regret, which were soon followed by a delightful sweetening of his nature.  His parents and his teachers hardly recognized him for the smiles, consideration and sweetness he displayed.

Aggression seems to be on the rise in younger and younger children over the past decade.  A certain degree of aggression seems to go with childhood, but there is a difference between this and out of control, raging, abusive behaviors that are chronic and persistent.  1 to 4% of children ages 9-17 are now diagnosed with Conduct Disorder also known as “disruptive disorder” and as many as 1-6% of the school-aged population are now being diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), a more serious level of aggressive behavior.  Children may come to Homeopathy Center’s practitioners with a variety of “official diagnoses” but the bottom line is the parents and usually the children themselves are desperate for help.  While psychiatry and psychology can offer drug and behavioral help, what do you do when they don’t work at all, or stop working?  Psychotropic drugs typically carry nasty side effects, so parents turn to us to find a safer, more effective, long-term solution.

Since this young man’s journey, we’ve added far more liver support for our clients, and now the “peak” of a Hepatitis B vaccine clear is almost a non-event in most cases.  What is the correlation?  From a holistic viewpoint, different organ systems can correspond to different emotions.  It is not unusual to see women who suppress anger manifest chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs).  When they are more able to express their suppressed anger, their urinary tracts became healthier. Once the anger is processed, both the anger and the UTIs would often dissipate completely.  We notice the seething, and later erupting sort of anger is most often associated with liver problems.  Simply put; once the liver is healthier, so is the person.  Since we now have better tools/supportive remedies for the liver during the detoxification of hepatitis (vaccine or disease) we see far less explosions of anger as the body “wrings the culprit out” of the liver.
The Houston Homeopathic Method offers significant improvements in many behavioral problems.  Homeopathy has long been known for its compassionate and gentle relief of all manner of emotional and behavioral problems, and Sequential Homeopathy not only offers relief but also clears the causational factors.

Check back soon for more wonderful stories of children and recovery!

“A landmark report released earlier this year from the President’s Cancer Panel, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now,” recommends eating organic food as a strategy to reduce cancer risk.

Though the “O” word itself (organic) is scarce, the authors referenced organic food in everything but name.

“Exposure to pesticides can be decreased by choosing, to the extent possible, food grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers  Similarly, exposure to antibiotics, growth hormones, and toxic runoff from livestock feed lots can be minimized by eating free-range meat raised without these medications,” the report states.

Food produced without antibiotics, hormones, or toxic agrichemicals is, by definition, organic. Certified organic farms are inspected at least once a year and subject to surprise visits to make sure the harmful chemicals and drugs referred to in the President’s Cancer Panel report are not being used.”

This is coming from a Presidentially appointed panel on reducing cancer risks!

Organic fruits and vegetables are abundantly available in most locations.  If you’re vegan, then it’s relatively easy to eat a fully organic, pesticide-free, hormone-free, antibiotic-free diet.  But for those of us who tend to be more carnivorously attuned, healthy, tender, tasty meats can be more difficult to find than veggies and fruits.  And if you do find free-range, grass-fed beef, it’s sometimes tougher than shoe-leather.

A new-old solution has recently come to our attention.  A Mexican breed of cattle has been recently introduced into the US ranching and beef production market – the Criollo (“Kree-oh-yoh”)breed.  The breed has been largely untouched genetically since its herds were introduced to the New World by Christopher Columbus.  Rather than to rehash their website, I provide this link:  http://www.leanandtenderbeef.com/ for you to read directly from the breeder/seller of this very tender beef.  But to tantalize you:

• It is a very tender beef – genetically tested for a tenderness rating that is very close to that of Japanese Kobe beef
• As free-range beef, the taste is genuinely the wonderful, flavorful beefy taste that my mom used to get from her beef.
• It is lower in fat content compared to most commercially available beef
• It is raised, in this particular supplier’s case, without hormones, or antibiotics.
• It is very healthy for the land, because it will utilize an entire pasture rather than just hanging out near the water tanks, so the entire pasture is constantly being fertilized and the cover crops turned over, and it will eat more than just the most tender grasses, meaning that it helps keep the pasture’s growth balanced.  This makes it one of the most “green, sustainable” meat-producing breeds around today. 

We have tried everything from the ground beef to roasts to steaks on the grill, and found all cuts to be the most flavorful, most tender beef we’ve ever enjoyed.  And we can unhesitatingly recommend it as an excellent source of antioxidants and protein for our clients, due to the humane, healthy, sustainable way in which it is raised.

Healthy eating, of course, means balanced eating.  Humans are omnivores – we were designed to eat what grows in season, and animals that were roaming the land freely.  I personally consume organically grown fruits and vegetables whenever I have the choice, and choose free range, cage-free bug-eating poultry and eggs, as well as grass fed beef, almost exclusively in my diet. 

In our world at Homeopathy Center of Houston, we strongly recommend “organic, sustainable, local” foods be at the center of everyone’s diet.  If you’re a beef eater, check out Criollo.  Bon apetit!

Children with autism are not easy to work with in any realm.  With homeopathy, the immune system is our primary tool, and most of the kids come to us with very little of their immune system functioning well.  They are overburdened with viruses, bacteria, fungi, drug side effects, and are very toxic.  Parasites love toxic, inflamed hosts.  These kids have been found to have sky high levels of everything from petrochemicals, jet fuel, and pesticides to every heavy and toxic metal you could consider.  They are, as some of my medical colleagues say, immunological train wrecks. 

There is a brighter saying in homeopathy circles, “If you’re breathing, homeopathy will have an effect on you.”  In children who have autism, we notice that most have done nearly every therapy out there, including many psychotropic drugs.  Those drugs are constantly being found by the medical world to be “ineffective, if not detrimental to behavior and health of this subgroup [Autism].”  We have seen many of the kids that virtually every well respected “name” in autism has worked with.  A few were pronounced “hopeless” or “the most difficult, unyielding case I’ve ever seen.”  The parents  refer to their non-responder children as the “tough nuts [to crack].”  Some of our parents have been told to put the child “away” and forget they had them.  Even with a bleak medical prognosis, they respond to homeopathy.  While it isn’t a short term approach, or always a smooth road to travel, the children are recovering and we are getting better and better each week at smoothing out the wrinkles on the way to recovery.

The day after the most recent full moon was a day that led me to remark, “This is a GREAT day!”  A full moon is often a tough time at the office due to many factors, including parasites and the effects of their full moon activity on the gut-mediated neurotransmitters.  Parents typically call in with concerns that their kids are eating indigestible objects, throwing things, pitching tantrums, having accidents, and “just acting weird.”  We’ve kept our sense of humor, as do our parents, once they realize it’s a full moon.  After all, we were the first to actually discuss openly the role of parasites in children with autism with the goal of healing the gut and actually making autistic kids WELL (YES, Virginia, there IS RECOVERY!).

I am exceedingly grateful that this full moon was uplifting and hopeful.  Our “toughest nuts” with autism have not only not fallen apart this month, but today it was report after report of progress – more language, improved vision, more spontaneous responses, better cognitive function, choosing letters off a keychain that were never taught and using them in a sentence as the start of a word (example: “X is for X-ray”), artwork that is starting to normalize…It’s so much fun to hear!  I also had a mom tell me, “We were spending time with our new neighbors and she remarked that if I hadn’t told her my son had problems in the past, she would never think a thing of it – he’s a normal kid – and even nicer than most!” 

Yes, it indeed was a great day.  The Houston Homeopathy Method’s constantly updated and improving version of sequential homeopathy is continuing to relieve autistic kids of gut pain and lead them on the path of healing and recovery. We’ve found some deeply effective answers to some of the last vestiges of problems that have been part of these children’s lives, and they are getting better – and RECOVERING from autism –  by leaps and bounds. 

And yes…we have the best jobs in the world!!!!

There are many other factors that can bring on chronic joint pain.  Lyme disease, lupus, chronic fatigue symdrome, and generalized rheumatic conditions, all are very responsive to homeopathy.  All can include localized joint pain and inflammation, or muscle and joint pain together.  

We will have more posts about our results with these and much more.  Keep checking back, or join the RSS feed!