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 There have been many reports in recent years of risks associated with vaccination. Parents are told that this is the cause of lifelong debilitating diseases such as autism. This article, written by rVita expert Patricia Regalia , HD(RHom), DHHP, DMH, describes alternatives.
Based on principles of natural law, you can receive protection against the flu or any disease including polio, tetanus, and measles by natural immunity. Homeoprophylaxis (HP) uses the principles of natural immunity to induce in a patient protection against a particular disease. HP uses a minute dose of the actual disease material (nosode), in a non-toxic dose. Potenization or dynamization is a process of dilution and shaking (succession) that removes a lot of the strong effects of medicines.
In the 1800's, Samuel Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy and the author of the Cure and Prevention of Scarlet Fever (1801), introduced the use of homeopathic remedies for prophylaxis. In his work, he discovered that a specific remedy can act to prevent an infectious disease in the still healthy. In addition, the same specific remedy can also treat those already infected with the disease. As a result, if vaccine damage has been done, it can be reversed using HP sequentially.
A 15 year clinical study was completed by Dr. Isaac Golden PhD, DHom, ND, BEc (Hon). Dr. Golden believes that HP has a great deal to offer to parents as it can improve their children’s quality of life through fewer episodes of distressing disease while using a method of disease prevention which has no toxic reactions. Although many different HP programs have been used by homeopaths over the last 200 years, the results reported in Dr. Golden’s study may be used as an objective benchmark against which to evaluate other programs. Dr. Isaac Golden’s study is intended to show governments and Public Health authorities the potential value of an appropriate HP program as an option to conventional vaccinations. Also to point that the dual system of HP and vaccination has the potential to both expand national coverage against targeted infectious diseases and reduce the incidence of childhood illnesses such as asthma and eczema and autism. His report does not take issue within the opponents of HP within either the homeopathic or the pharmaceutical communities, nor with the risks and benefits of vaccination except as they directly compare to HP, nor does it discuss philosophical issues concerning HP, including the question of whether some diseases should be prevented at all.
There are parents who vaccinate their children. Some use HP and some wait for symptoms before taking action. Some rely on constitutional prevention and some do nothing at all. I would like to see parents protect their children against the threats of serious diseases because they are real, without being scared into inaction by the risks associated with huge crude doses. My biggest concern is that parents might avoid vaccinating their children out of fear of the effects of vaccination. This might lead to a rise in some serious childhood diseases. I would rather prevent pertussis than wait to see the symptoms to treat it. My goal is to support parents in caring for healthy children. If parents are told of available options they are empowered to make decision as to how to treat and prevent infectious diseases in their own children.
Patricia Regalia , HD(RHom), DHHP, DMH, is a member of rVita's expert network. She has a Practitioner’s diploma in homeopathic medicine with the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy and Heilkunst. She has had unprecedented success counseling parents in the treatment of children with autism.
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