I’m glad you found my site interesting. I spent much effort writing all the information there to explain things to potentially skeptical individuals. I’m part scientist and I’m also a healer so both facts and intuition are important to me. Knowing the facts and trusting our inner being seem to marry the two disciplines together.

Timing of vaccinations is important, I’ve seen so many given when child had a cold. What is the reason we strain the immune system when it is still immature. I think that the least that should be done is to wait until a child is well and to space the vaccines more. I waited for 3 years to give my daughter vaccinations since my son became quite ill from a half dose of DPT. At the time I didn’t know we had the right to vary the vaccination schedule. My daughter was an incredibly healthy child until then. They gave her all the vaccinations in one day and she was not well for six months

When I was a student homeopath we had many visiting homeopaths teaching us. One third generation homeopath was a physician from India. In India Homeopaths and physician are synonymous terms.
He said something that has always stayed in my mind. He said that he worked in two clinics. One where the rich people take their kids and another where the poor kids go. The poor couldn’t afford to vaccinate their children so instead they were vaccinated with homeopathic remedies. He noticed that the children who were vaccinated western style had febrile seizures more often than the children who had homeopathic vaccinations. I always felt that was striking observation. I’m not against anything without reason. There is a place for everything. But western medical treatment is not individualized as homeopathy is. Homeopaths see each person as an individual with their own constitutional nature. There are some children who respond very negatively to vaccination and some who seem not to be phased. Sadly, In my role as a homeopath, I’ve treated the children who got hurt from vaccines. Parents would bring them to me to try to reverse the adverse symptoms. If we knew that we might hurt some with a preventative therapy, even if a few benefited, we still wouldn’t give it out with out proper screening. I see a major double standard here. When they introduced the chicken pox vaccine and I read one of the the reasons was because of moms lost time from work – I was horrified. Then I found out that they were giving the heb B at birth. I became speechless. Anticipating blood related disease in newborns!

I am so glad that parents are educating themselves and that they know their rights. If I knew then what I do now, I would have asserted my rights to a different vaccination schedule. But I didn’t know then.
Regardless of what choice someone makes it should be one that they feel good about. I find it one of the toughest decisions parents make. I support any choice a person makes as long as it’s an educated one.
One novel way to deal with illness in children was one that our parents used to do. Putting all the kids in the same bed to get them all sick at the same time. That naturally challenges their immune systems and cuts down on moms sick days. Now that’s creative!

At the same time I was working in this clinic I heard that the polio vaccine was creating polio. I went immediately to my head doc and told her. I expected her to say we would stop using it. Instead she said we would continue to use it until the American pediatrics association told us to stop. I wondered how she could look herself in the mirror knowing that she was continuing to potential hurt so many children.

I left nursing soon after that.

The Hippocratic oath says “above all do no harm.”
What’s’ wrong with this picture.

If I give you a comment on drugs this would go on for pages!

Bruce, I admire you for not getting in bed with the drug companies. I know the gifts can be addictive.

Also, the industries involved with drugs and insurance also tend to dictate treatments instead of diagnosing by looking closely at the patient–more and more doctors are checking off lists.

I think it is a shame and why people are seeking more alternative health care options.

Great article!