Vincent Van Gogh’s homeopathic doctor, Paul Gachet

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Gallery Gachet is a unique artistic institution founded in Vancouver in 1992. Named after Vincent Van Gogh’s homeopathic doctor, Paul Gachet.

Gallery Gachet strives to provide a focal point for dialogue amongst outsider/dissident artists.

We aim to use the canvas of the outside work to educate and demystify the public on issues related to mental health and to advance the artistic discourse around these issues.

We provide the artists informed by mental health issues with opportunities to exhibit, curate, perform, read, teach and to develop their leadership skills.

Located at 88 East Cordova Street, close to the diverse populations that reside in Vancouver’s neighborhoods.

Obama Sees Practical Role for Alternative Medicine in U.S. Healthcare

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Obama Sees Practical Role for Alternative Medicine in U.S. Healthcare

2009-05-01 15:33:00

President Barack Obama expressed his openness to including complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in a U.S. healthcare system during an April 29 Town Hall meeting in Arnold, MO.

“We should do what works,” President Obama said. “I think it is pretty well documented through scientific studies that acupuncture, for example, can be very helpful in relieving certain things like migraines and other ailments—or at least as effective as more intrusive interventions.” The response followed a question posed by a licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist, who asked the president how alternative medicine would fit into his new healthcare system.

“I think one basic principle that we know is that the more we do on the prevention side, the more we can obtain serious savings down the road,” he added after commenting directly on acupuncture. President Obama also stressed the importance of changing the current logic of the healthcare system, which focuses only on reducing costs in the near-term.

“Reimbursement for healthcare provided by CAM practitioners not only would support the health of the public,” said Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD, “it represents a significant opportunity for products used and prescribed by CAM practitioners and a major step forward in the development of an innovative and wellness-based healthcare system.”

The Green party believes in the single payer system and health care

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Leaders debate: Sterk promises provincial funding for homeopathy
By Charlie Smith

The B.C. Greens have always promoted a holistic approach to health care. And in today's leaders debate, Green Leader Jane Sterk promised provincial funding for homeopathy, which is not currently covered under the B.C. Health Plan.

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“The Green party believes in the single payer system and health care should be accessible to everyone in their community," Sterk said. "We would move to community-based care so we have multidisciplinary teams of people that would help people."

That would mean having "the appropriate professional" to deal with patients.

"It might be a nurse practitioner, an RN, a homeopath, a naturopath physician, and this would all be funded within the public health-care system on a prevention model," Sterk said. "We would adequately fund our acute and hospital-care system, but transition most of the money into prevention and health promotion so we keep people healthy. And the costs will go down over time.”

She didn't elaborate in the debate on whether or not the health authorities would employ homeopaths or if they would work on a fee-for-service system, which is how most physicians are paid in B.C.

Swine Flu

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Swine Flu Catches Fire - Homeopathy at Rescue
Fashion - Lifestyle - Entertainmenthophigher writes
The world is on alert as the swine flu pandemic fears grow. Doctors are advising people on how to avoid and combat the disease using homeopathy.


Dubai, UAE, May 4, 2009 (PRESSbooth.ORG) -- Swine flu has become one of the biggest health concerns even for the most developed nations including U.S and Europe. The epidemic has caught fire and is spreading rapidly to all areas. The situation is already quite alarming and WHO is in fear of an imminent pandemic and has indicated the risk at level five and is considering to raise it to six, the highest level.

People are strongly advised to take measures to prevent the epidemic spreading further. In areas like Mexico, where the number of swine flu cases are the highest, people have been advised not to step out for the next few days. Travel to Mexico has been restricted by various countries. After Mexico, U.S and Europe are the worst hit areas. Other reported areas include Netherlands, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Peru and Hong Kong. At least 168 people are believed to have died of swine flu in Mexico, the epicentre of the outbreak.

Health experts are advising people on how to prevent this problem and treat it in the best possible manner. Dr Sulaikha Hamza of Gulf Medical Centre, Dubai warns people to stay alert. She says, “Though no cases of swine flu have been recorded in the GCC so far, we must be fully prepared to deal with this virus, which is feared to spread across the globe. One must identify with the common symptoms of swine flu as it will help in diagnosing the problem at an early stage. The symptoms of H1N1 swine flu are similar to many other flu viruses. Fever and cough are two of the most common symptoms. Other symptoms include headache, chills, loss of appetite, muscle aches and fatigue as well as throat irritation. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea may also occur."

A homeopathic doctor for more than two decades, Dr Sulaikha Hamza advises people to use homeopathy as an effective way to combat swine flu. She elaborates, “The current vaccine against the seasonal influenza strain H1N1 is highly unlikely to provide protection against this variant. In case preventive measures do not work or you are already dealing with swine influenza, homeopathic remedies can serve as an appropriate solution. There are numerous homeopathic medicines that can be very useful in this situation. The homeopathic remedies are selected in a highly individualized and non-routine manner based on the symptoms being experienced and hence the selection may vary from person to person. So, it is important to seek professional help from a homeopathic practitioner." However like many others, Dr Sulaikha Hamza feels that prevention is better than cure. You can treat swine flu but it is good if you take steps to prevent the problem in the first place. Your best protection against the disease comes from looking after your health generally and taking simple common-sense preventative measures.

There are a number of vitamin and mineral supplements and herbal remedies that help to boost the immune system. There are various things that you can do to prevent swine flu. Keep your nose and mouth covered when you sneeze. Wash your hands with an anti microbial soap each time you sneeze. Since influenza primarily spreads through human to human contact, it is advised to avoid contact with sick people as much as possible. Also try to stay at home if you are sick to ensure that you are not spreading the flu.

Don't get stressed by the fear of getting the swine flu. Stress can undermine your immune system. The flu doesn't kill everyone and in most cases may prove benign. Mild exercise, meditation or yoga and healthy nutritious diet can help keep your immune system in good condition and able to ward of any infections. Not every 'infection' becomes a full blown 'disease'. Most infections are taken care of by your body even before you know that you were infected. Most infections affect those people who are vitally deranged. So instead of panicking about the flu, stay calm and focus on becoming healthy 'you'.
Posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 @ 10:28:00 CDT by NewsDesk

Epidemics

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Dean W. A. Pearson of Philadelphia collected 26,795 cases of influenza treated by homeopathic physicians with a mortality of 1.05%, while the average old school mortality is 30%.

Thirty physicians in Connecticut responded to my request for data. They reported 6,602 cases with 55 deaths, which is less than 1%. In the transport service I had 81 cases on the way over. All recovered and were landed. Every man received homeopathic treatment. One ship lost 31 on the way.

~H. A. Roberts, MD, Derby, Connecticut.

Epidemics

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In a plant of 8,000 workers we had only one death. The patients were not drugged to death. Gelsemium was practically the only remedy used. We used no aspirin and no vaccines.

~Frank Wieland, MD, Chicago.

I did not lose a single case of influenza; my death rate in the pneumonias was 2.1%. The salycilates, including aspirin and quinine, were almost the sole standbys of the old school and it was a common thing to hear them speaking of losing 60% of their pneumonias.

~Dudley A. Williams, MD, Providence, Rhode Island.

Best of our Blog - Homeopathy, from January to April, 2009:

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Best of our Blog - Homeopathy, from January to April, 2009:

Can Homeopathy Help in Epidemics?

Here are two of many stories to follow. Check our blog in the upcoming days for more success stories of Homeopaths working during the epidemics within our 200+ year old history.

In 1918:
Fifteen hundred cases were reported at the Homeopathic Medical Society of the District of Columbia with but fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the National Homeopathic Hospital were 100%.

~E. F. Sappington, M. D., Philadelphia.

One physician in a Pittsburgh hospital asked a nurse if she knew anything better than what he was doing, because he was losing many cases. "Yes, Doctor, stop aspirin and go down to a homeopathic pharmacy, and get homeopathic remedies." The Doctor replied: "But that is homeopathy." "I know it, but the homeopathic doctors for whom I have nursed have not lost a single case."

~W. F. Edmundson, MD, Pittsburgh.

Question:
What made Dr. Isaac Golden interested in researching Homeopathic Immunization (aka HomeoProphylaxis)?

In his own words as seen on http://www.hpathy.com/interviews/isaacgolden.asp

Dr. Isaac – Before I knew what homeopathy was, I used to have my own children vaccinated. Then one was vaccine damaged after having progressively worse reactions to the standard 2, 4 and 6 month vaccines (which were given late). The doctors told me that it definitely didn’t have anything to do with the vaccines, but after the third round, and the worst reaction, I knew that I was not being told the truth.

I then began collecting information about vaccination. The material by the late Professor Robert Mendelsohn was about all that was available here at the time. They still are great references. So I decided to stop vaccinating my children.

Then, when I started studying homeopathy, and read that Hahnemann had used Belladonna to prevent Scarlet Fever (the first use of homeoprophylaxis), I knew I had to take this further. I collected the very few readily available references on this (mainly Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, and Sankaran’s little summary of homeoprophylaxis use). I designed a 5 year program that I and other parents could use instead of the orthodox vaccination schedules.

I kept studying our literature, and found that whilst there were a lot of clinical reports of the effectiveness of HP, there was very little formal research into safety and effectiveness. So I began collecting data from parents using my program, with a determination to eventually provide formal statistical evidence supporting HP as an option to vaccination. That was in 1985/6 – it has been a long journey until now!

Question:
What are the most significant findings of the research?

Dr. Isaac – There is so much that could be said, but I would say that the three most significant findings are:

(1) The consistency of measures of the effectiveness of HP [HomeoProphylaxis] over 200 years, both for long-term and short-term protection – at around 90%. This is a very strong figure, and very consistent with vaccine efficacy. My own data was collected from 1986 to 2004, and vetted by a Professor of Medicine and a medical epidemiologist during my Swinburne research. So it means we can offer people a safe alternative with a demonstrated effectiveness.
(2) Evaluation of the overall safety of long-term HP was an important new aspect of my Doctoral research at Swinburne University from 2000 to 2004, and the results were excellent. Some of my colleagues had quite reasonably questioned whether the use of my long-term program could cause any weakening of the Vital Force over time, and the data unambiguously said “no” to that question. It further showed that my long-term HP program was associated with an improvement in general well being– a result that pleased, but also surprised me to some extent.
(3) How damaging vaccination is over the long-term. Once again, the results are unambiguous, and are fully consistent with the very few long-term studies of the impact of vaccination on overall wellness. The fact that the orthodox community has done so little genuine research into long-term safety of vaccination is to their eternal discredit.

Why Choose Homeopathy For Your Child?
Many people find their way to homeopathy as a last resort.
The more conventional forms of medical treatment fail to give gentle, rapid, and permanent results.
People zigzag from practitioner to practitioner finding limited or short-term relief of increasingly chronic symptoms.
Prescriptions for the control of a bewildering array of side effects get piled, one on the other.
It’s a heart-wrenching scenario, played out all over North America.
It is even more tragic and frustrating when that victim is a child!
Whether struggling with a diagnosis of ADHD, allergies, autism, anxiety, depression, rage, or fears, all children have positive attributes just waiting to be accessed.
Rather than seeing the child as a checklist of negative behaviours, a professional homeopathic practitioner offers a non-judgmental attitude, which pervades the homeopathic consult and buoys up the parent, validating the suspicion that their child is only acting in this fashion because they must!
These children are not inherently bad.
A variety of factors are creating imbalances.
Homeopathy can penetrate to the deepest part of the child’s constitution.
Real and lasting changes can be effected gently.
An expanding pool of data is showing that for children, homeopathy shows the best results out of all the complementary health methods available.
Why delay until the situation has deteriorated, and your child’s self-esteem, as well as the family dynamic, has suffered?
Convenient appointment times are available especially for children.
Book a homeopathic consultation for your “Challenging Child” today.

WalkInClinic
"I saw Elena Cecchetto at Access Natural Healing for a really quick Walk-In Session because I had a sore throat and didn't want to come down with another cold. She gave me a Homeopathic Remedy after assessing what would help me. The next morning, I was completely better and back at work".
~Doreen,
Vancouver

Historical Use of Homeopathy for Epidemics
· During a Poliomyelitis epidemic in Buenos Aires, practitioners (Homeopaths and Doctors) distributed the Homeopathic vaccination remedy Lathyrus sativus to over 40,000 people. Not one of them developed Polio during the epidemic despite exposure.

· Nurses and patients protected by Homeopathic Vaccination at the London Homeopathic Hospital remained disease free during a 3 year period in which they were regularly exposed to Diphtheria.

· Records from a Smallpox epidemic show that of 2806 individuals protected by Homeopathic Vaccination, 547 of them went on to have a known exposure to the disease. Of those, 97.5% remained disease free.

THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC LEPTOSPIROSIS IN CUBA

Cuba goes through a yearly cycle of Leptospirosis epidemic, especially after the hurricanes flood the countryside and water pollution reaches its height. (Leptospirosis: infectious disease caused by the spirochaete Leptospira transmitted to humans from rats, giving jaundice and kidney damage. Can cause death)

Annually the population is exposed to the disease, most especially after hurricanes.

Until Aug 2007, the Finlay Institute (a part of the Ministry of Public Health, Cuba) has been distributing its own allopathic Lepto vaccination. August is the height of the hurricane season. Annually, many are left homeless, flooded out and under the stress of disaster situation. There had been a sharp rise in the lepto epidemic.

The usual expectacy of infection even with allopathic vaccination would have been around a few thousands, with some deaths included.

Part of the reason for this is that the high cost of vaccination prevents putting but the most at-risk populations (ie children, pregnant women, elderly) on vaccination. The cost of such limited vaccination is about US $3,000.000.

But in Aug 2007, Finlay put approximately 2,500,000 people (2.5 million) in 2 provinces on homeopathic nosode prophylaxis at the cost of about only US $200,000. That figure represents the entire population of the 2 provinces. The Homeopathic Prophylaxis consisted of 2 single doses about 2 weeks apart.

But this time, within 2 weeks after Aug 2007, the infection rate literally dropped off the chart to ten infections only. Zero deaths from leptospirosis after Aug 2007. And in 2008, no deaths, infections less than 10 a month.

The Cuban team have simply followed what homeopaths know to work. And since they have no pharmaceutical multi-nationals to stop them, they were able to do it on a massive scale.

About Dra Heurgo, Dr. Bravo and the rest of the Cuban team. "Concita" as Dra Heurgo is lovingly known by the people of Cuba, is well known and loved as a woman who has done remarkable work to improve the health of the population.

Epidemics

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I have treated 1,000 cases of influenza. I have the records to show my work. I have no losses. Please give all credit to homeopathy and none to the Scotch-Irish-American! -T.

~A. McCann, MD, Dayton, Ohio.

Three hundred and fifty cases and lost one, a neglected pneumonia that came to me after she had taken one hundred grains of aspirin in twenty-four hours.

~Cora Smith King, MD, Washington, DC

Epidemics

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There is one drug which directly or indirectly was the cause of the loss of more lives than was influenza itself. You all know that drug. It claims to be salicylic acid. Aspirin's history has been printed. Today you don't know what the sedative action of salicylic acid is. It did harm in two ways. It's indirect action came through the fact that aspirin was taken until prostration resulted and the patient developed pneumonia. -Frank L. Newton, MD, Somerville, Massachusetts

Aspirin and the other coal tar products are condemned as causing great numbers of unnecessary deaths. The omnipresent aspirin is the most pernicious drug of all. It beguiles by its quick action of relief of pain, a relief which is but meretricious. In several cases aspirin weakened the heart, depressed the vital forces, increased the mortality in mild cases and made convalescence slower. In all cases it masks the symptoms and renders immeasurably more difficult the selection of the curative remedy. Apparently aspirin bears no curative relation to any disease and it ought to be prohibited.

~Guy Beckly Stearns, MD, New York

Flu

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Can Homeopathy Help in Epidemics?

Here are two of many stories to follow. Check our blog in the upcoming days for more success stories of Homeopaths working during the epidemics within our 200+ year old history.

In 1918:
Fifteen hundred cases were reported at the Homeopathic Medical Society of the District of Columbia with but fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the National Homeopathic Hospital were 100%.

~E. F. Sappington, M. D., Philadelphia.

One physician in a Pittsburgh hospital asked a nurse if she knew anything better than what he was doing, because he was losing many cases. "Yes, Doctor, stop aspirin and go down to a homeopathic pharmacy, and get homeopathic remedies." The Doctor replied: "But that is homeopathy." "I know it, but the homeopathic doctors for whom I have nursed have not lost a single case."

~W. F. Edmundson, MD, Pittsburgh.