Homeopathy

Homeopathy breakthrough: homeopathic solutions proven to carry memory of water and exhibit biological effects

2011-07-29T11:40:00.000-07:00

Groundbreaking new research has just been revealed that establishes the validity of homeopathy. It's being called the "holy grail" of homeopathy, and it has been published in the peer reviewed journal Inflammation Research. The study shows that a chemical dissolved in a solution (in such proportions that not even a single molecule of the original chemical could exist in the water) exhibits verifiable, scientifically proven biological effects. What this proves is that homeopathy is real. There's something about the homeopathic water that is different from regular water, and the biological effects are undeniable and easy to verify.
This, of course, is not new information for those who have been practicing homeopathy for many years, or to those who are familiar with holistic medicine, vibrational medicine, or other forms of medicine that go beyond the rather narrow definitions currently defended by conventional medicine. But of course, it is big news to many doctors, physicians, and western medical researchers, who have for decades insisted that homeopathy is quackery and that believing in homeopathy is the same as believing in magic. They say that water could not possibly exhibit a biological effect if it did not contain a single molecule of a biologically active substance. But now, of course, the science is quite real, and this isn't the first study to show that homeopathy is proven.
There have been other studies -- well-documented and well-constructed -- that also show the same effect. But these studies have been routinely ignored, and even shut out by medical journals simply because no one can quite explain how homeopathy works. To understand why this is such an important breakthrough in modern medicine, we have to go back to the 1800's and take a look at the origin of the so-called germ theory and how it relates to the invention of the microscope and the realization that disease could be spread by invisible microscopic creatures.
Today the germ theory is accepted as real and verifiable. But that's only because scientists and doctors can readily see these germs using microscopes. Before microscopes were invented, any doctor who proposed that disease could be caused by a doctor not washing his hands and touching two patients in sequence would have been called a lunatic or a quack. In fact, doctors did not engage in any sort of hand washing for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease until the germ theory became accepted.
The accidental father of the germ theory, a Hungarian physician known as Dr. Semmelweis, was fired and ostracized from the medical community in the mid 1800's for even proposing the idea that disease was caused by invisible, microscopic, undetectable organisms. In fact, after fighting to publicize the truth about microorganisms for fifteen years, Semmelweis was declared insane by doctors and committed to an insane asylum. (Sounds a lot like modern medicine, doesn't it?)
In other words, in the history of medicine, doctors and researchers didn't believe in the germ theory for one simple reason: they couldn't see the germs. There was no way they could detect these germs, so in their minds, they didn't exist. As a result, they continued to practice outdated medical procedures which actually resulted in the spread of germs from one patient to another.
Here's how this applies to homeopathy: today, the scientific evidence proves that homeopathy really works. No sane, rational person could deny it after reviewing the evidence proving the biological activity of homeopathic water. But instead of denying the existence of homeopathy on the grounds that it doesn't work, modern doctors and researchers deny it based on the rather feeble idea that they don't understand the mechanism by which it might work. That is, they don't know how it works, and therefore it must not be true. And that's about as intelligent as saying "We don't know how gravity works, therefore, there is no such thing as gravity."
Granted, homeopathy is somewhat mysterious. It is curious in the way that it works through the use of subtle energies. Apparently, water has a memory, and there's a fantastic book on this called The Memory of Water that will show you in great detail, with colorful pictures, exactly how water is reshaped by different energetic and emotional vibrations.
It's all quite real -- water takes on a different molecular structure when it is prayed over versus when angry people shout at it. Now, if you take a substance like the one used in this study, which was histamine, and you put a drop of histamine in a glass of pure, distilled water, that water, of course, contains a solution of histamine. But if you dilute that by taking one drop out of that entire glass and putting it into another glass of water, then you have another mixture of water that is diluted by a factor of 100 or more. If you do that over and over again and follow a sequence of increasing dilutions, you end up with a solution of water that has no molecules of histamine in it whatsoever.
But, as this study shows, this water retains the memory of histamine, and when this water is given to a biological system, such as a person or an animal, it will produce effects that are attributed to the histamine and that are clinically observable and quite unique to the vibration of histamine.
Of course there are many skeptics out there who will continue to say there is no such thing as homeopathy. They will deny the clinical evidence that's put right in front of their faces, and even if they were to conduct these experiments on their own and produce the exact same verifiable scientifically proven results, they would continue to deny it. Why is that?
It's because they don't understand it, and they don't have the imagination or creativity to suppose that nature might hold some surprises for us yet. They are people who represent the epitome of mankind's arrogance. They think they understand everything there is to know about the way the universe works, and that nature is apparent and nothing new will be learned. They think that if you can't see it, it doesn't exist, and thus I wonder how they even believe in gravity or electromagnetism or quantum physics, for that matter.
Nevertheless, the end result of this is that the amazing James Randi will probably end up being $1 million poorer because he has been so foolish as to offer a $1 million reward to the first person who can prove the scientific validity of homeopathy. Well, apparently this proof has already been completed, and now it will probably be a game of continued denials from James Randi in order to avoid paying out the $1 million reward. He will probably say, "Okay, the lab results look solid, but until you can explain how it works, it's not proven." And that's how he will deny actually paying the claim to people who have now scientifically proven that homeopathy is real -- something Randi adamantly insists is untrue.
By the way, to comment more on good science, kudos go out to the editor of Inflammation Research, a medical journal that has demonstrated the courage to publish a pioneering paper that most other medical journals would have rejected. And this again speaks to the closed-circle, dogmatic attitude of most peer reviewed medical journals. They define the so-called truths of modern science and modern medicine by selecting those studies and papers that support their current beliefs. Simultaneously, they reject all papers that challenge those beliefs, and that's how things that are true but unconventional (such as homeopathy) can be kept out of the minds of modern doctors and researchers.
But this journal, Inflammation Research, was willing to publish a pioneering paper, and at the same time, the researchers involved in this study -- none of which were from the United States, by the way -- are also to be applauded for their willingness to venture beyond the strict confines of conventional medicine and explore the way the universe really works.
Let's face it, folks -- as men and women on this planet, we are but children. We are all students of the universe, just attempting to understand the way things work... and barely scratching the surface in doing so. We know so little about the universe and about the way subtle energies operate. I don't think there's a single person alive today who truly understands the simple interaction of tabletop magnets, for one thing. I don't think there's anyone alive today who understands quantum physics, and who can really explain how it is that the entire universe is made up of probability waves of vibrating energy rather than physical matter.
I don't think there's anyone who can really explain or understand how light can be both a particle and a wave at the same time, depending on how you look at it. I don't think people can explain how properties of spinning subatomic particles can be instantly teleported from one place to another, regardless of the distance, without requiring any time whatsoever. I don't think people can explain how prayer alters the health outcome of patients, even when the patients aren't aware that they are being prayed for. (This is called "non-local medicine.")
These are just some of the many mysteries that continue to present opportunities for open-minded, smart thinkers to explore. Fortunately, there are some scientists who continue to be open-minded, and who are willing to ask these questions of nature, because that's what a true scientist does -- they ask questions of nature and they listen to whatever responses come back.
People like Dr. Stephen Barrett and James Randi are not scientists at all. They are, in every sense, feeble-minded skeptics who probably don't even believe in their own souls. I bet they didn't see this one coming -- homeopathy is real, folks. It's been proven, and it's been proven in a way that meets the most demanding requirements of the scientific method. If you are a true scientist, and you review the available studies on homeopathy, you either have to conclude that homeopathy is real, or you have to conclude that every law of science and truth upon which modern medicine is based is invalid.

The Vital Force

2011-07-29T11:29:00.000-07:00

"THE VITAL FORCE." - In the November number of last year, we took exception to Dr. Bayard's position as set forth in the Popular Science Monthly, in his explanation of Homeopathy, that, as a science, it "is the law of the vital force." Dr. P.P. Wells, in a late number of the Homeopathic Physician, has discussed the question at some length in his peculiar way. Allowing all he says to be true, it reduces him to the absurdity of attempting to prove a self-evident proposition. When the point at issue is assumed by either party, to say the least, it cuts out the party, so assuming, and argument is ended. We cannot, therefore, follow Dr. Wells, since to our mind, the question is debatable, and worthy of study; and is one which cannot be settled by flippant assertions. It is also clear, that so broad a question cannot be properly discussed in a brief editorial. We are not, however, disposed to leave the controversy as it stands at present. We repeat, that the facts of Homeopathy are one thing; the theories which help to explain them are another thing. It is a necessity of the human mind to have things explained. The best of all explanations, is a demonstration. A thing which can be demonstrated is a scientific fact. We, however, incorporate much into science so-called, which we cannot demonstrate; and we explain, all such things by the help of theories. Many points are settled by the theory of authority. An ecumenical council, a synod, a conference or an individual, is often considered sufficient. There are persons who would take Dr. Wells' statement upon almost any question as a final settlement of it. Upon this theory it is only necessary to point out what the authorities say; and most of the hard questions that might otherwise vex the mind of man, are in this way answered and disposed of. Next to the theories of this sort, stand theories founded on imagination or superstition. Given a series of phenomena, apparently inexplicable, and all you have to do, is to, construct an ideal cause. The ocean, the forest and the air were once filled with imaginary beings, who drove the winds about, made the seas boil and hurled thunderbolts through the heavens. Spirits, malign and benign, filled every unexplored corner of the universe, and became the efficient source of its mysterious phenomena. For centuries, imagination, backed by authority, covered the whole ground, and solved all riddles. Subsequently, Science came into the field, and claimed her right to answer these puzzling questions. This she does in two ways: First, by demonstration. She repeats the phenomenon at will and shows every step in the experiment. In this way she curbs and controls imagination and destroys the specters of superstition. But secondly, science must employ theories respecting many things she cannot demonstrate. But such theories are always essentially scientific theories. They hold no relation to the theories of authority or imagination, because in essence, they always correspond with the facts of sciences.

Now to the point at issue. The phenomena of life were easily settled a thousand years ago by imagining a life principle to exist in the living body This theory came to us first by authority. The Bible settled the question when it declared that God breathed into man and made him a living being. We had the authority of the Church for it, and that was enough. But the imagination now holds the same theory in place as a convenient solution of life's mysterious problems. It is however a theory, whether true or false, that has in it no element of science. Once it was potent to shut out all investigation. Life was "a sacred mystery," and we could raise no question which the "life principle" could not solve. But during the last century, the investigator has invaded the domain of life and stripped it of much of its mystery. And upon that small part which yet is not capable of demonstration, it has resolutely placed well defined scientific theories, and so, in effect, shut out the old imagination of a "life principle." As scientists we take Matter and Force as our ultimates, and out of them construct, where needed, good working theories, to which we hold tentatively until demonstration shall come up take final possession. We have no need to go outside of the laws which govern matter and force, to understand life and disease, and the nature of drugs and the mode of curing disease. Nothing can help us on with more certainty than Chemistry and Physics, if properly applied. Upon these Homeopathy can stand with no fear of falling. We reject the assumption of a "life principle," first, because it is an unscientific theory; and secondly, because it is not needed to account for the phenomena of life or health or disease. And we more especially object to making it the foundation of the Homeopathic, healing art, because it is quite too shadowy and untenable; and we can only lose by resting upon a false foundation. Dr. Wells declares that "without this force as a chief factor, Homeopathy has no philosophy; neither can there be without this force included in it, any rational philosophy of lift, health or sickness." And he adds as his belief, that "it is indispensable to a useful and successful practice of this philosophy." But what we want is not a rational philosophy but a scientific philosophy; and that we certainly have, and it as certainly shuts out all superstitious beliefs in the old and exploded notion of a "life principle" otherwise known as "the vital force."

Medical Fundamentalists Misinform on Homeopathy Again

2011-07-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

Medical fundamentalists (the "denialists") have again shown their strong propensity to spread misinformation about homeopathy and homeopaths. On September 7, 2010, Andy Lewis (who arrogantly calls himself the "Quackometer") declared in a headline for his blog: An Obituary: Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, 1849-2010.

Another denier of homeopathy, appropriately called "Gimpy," provided a little more accuracy in his headline, Farewell to the RLHH, hello to the RLHIM. However, both "reporters" provided a highly selective interpretation and significantly biased analysis of the re-naming of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital to become the Royal London Hospital for Integrative Medicine.
This misinformation is akin to creating an obituary for a caterpillar, even though it did not die but simply evolved into a butterfly.
Rather than mourn the death of a caterpillar, we should all be CELEBRATING the birth of a butterfly, and likewise, we can (and are) celebrating the birth of the Royal London Hospital for Integrative Medicine, which is the new name for this important hospital.
Sadly, the medical fundamentalists love to mis-characterize homeopathy and homeopaths. They often purposefully over-simplify what homeopathy is and isn`t, and they love to spin any potentially positive report on homeopathy in negative ways. This form of yellow journalism is typical of the reporting on homeopathy by denialists. The fact of the matter is that a large number of homeopaths integrate various natural therapies into their practices, and it's therefore not surprising that the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital would evolve into an integrative medical hospital. One could even assume that this evolution, like most evolutionary trends, was predictable.
Also typical of the medical fundamentalists are their mis-use of science and statistics. For instance, these medical fundamentalists were behind the recent report on homeopathy issued by the British House of Commons` Science and Technology Committee. This report had the sheer audacity of medical and scientific integrity to suggest that there is no research to show that homeopathic medicines have a beneficial effect beyond a placebo. This ilk of deniers find that by repeating a lie often enough, others will actually believe them.
It is not surprising that the leading organization that worked to support and popularize the Science and Technology Committee`s report on homeopathy was the infamous Sense About Science, a non-profit organization whose funding primarily comes from Big Pharma. The fact that the leader of this organization previously worked for a leading public relations company that represented Big Pharma interests seems to be lost by the skeptics of homeopathy (and by most of the media).
The medical fundamentalists commonly brag about the fact that this Science and Technology Committee`s report "proved" that there was no evidence that supports any specific benefits of homeopathic treatment beyond the placebo effect. And yet, none of these fundamentalists acknowledge that this Committee consisted of 14 members, 10 of whom did not consider this issue worthy of voting. Ultimately, a "majority" of only THREE members voted for this anti-homeopathy report. Of these three votes, two members were so new to the Committee that they did not attend a single hearing on the subject of homeopathy. The third vote for the "report" came from Evan Harris, a vitriolic antagonist to homeopathy who was not re-elected this year, losing to a 20-something year old political neophyte. Obviously, the British people wanted anyone but Evan Harris and his partisan science.
It seems that these medical fundamentalists not only have questionable ethics, but they also seem conveniently ignorant of medical history. Therefore, it's appropriate to be reminded of medical history, for unless we learn from history, we will be destined to repeat it...

Homeopathy treats AIDS

2011-07-29T11:22:00.000-07:00

It seems that no one really knows what AIDS is. Is it a syndrome? Is it a chronic disease? Perhaps it is a T cell count, or a category, even a political definition? Does it matter? The name of any health problem is only useful for the medical profession. For homeopaths, a specialised form of natural health care, it is of little use. The homeopathic treatment of any problem, including AIDS, relies almost entirely on the individual and personal symptoms of the patient.
Certainly, it is now recognised that AIDS patients have a low immune response. But this is a rising epidemic in itself today. The lack of a healthy immune response is becoming more and more normal.
Most health conscious people are aware of the importance of good nutrition to maintain a healthy body, free from disease. But homeopathic treatment can transcend even this. Few homeopathic consultations focus on the patient's diet. Instead, they focus on finding the appropriate medicine to effect a cure. Once the problem is improving, the patient is now drawn to more healthy food as a natural consequence of the deep acting medicine. This happens because homeopathic treatment raises the immune system. It helps the body to work as it should, and the body is able to when in robust health.
AIDS is rife in Africa. So is hunger and starvation. But, if anything, the homeopathic treatment of Africans with AIDS, or any other degenerative disease, is faster, more dynamic, deeper than it is with their more privileged counterparts in wealthier parts of the world.
Perhaps this is because Africans are closer to the natural energy of life. Perhaps it is because they have suffered less suppressive treatment over generations. But with the overwhelming poverty and lack of any food, let alone nutritious food, one would assume that this would be more than enough to negate these reasons. Yet it isn't.
If no one knows what AIDS is, then it is (medically) considered to have no cure. It seems that it is not enough that the symptoms go away, that the person is now eating and putting on weight, that the CD4 count, the medical yardstick for measuring the progress of AIDS, increases. Even when the viral load test comes back negative, it is often considered that the virus is simply hiding.
The reality for the AIDS patient, who is less concerned about the interpretation of medical tests and who is more concerned with whether or not s/he can function and work to keep the family alive, is perhaps of greater importance. The fact remains that poverty stricken, malnourished Africans with AIDS are improving very quickly (days in many cases) under appropriate homeopathic treatment.
Homeopathy is nature's perfect medicine.

Homeopathy under attack - Bioethics expert argues for closure of homeopathic hospital

2011-07-29T11:20:00.000-07:00

Dr. Kevin Smith, a bioethics expert at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, in the Journal of Bioethics, argued that homeopathy is a waste of valuable resources. In addition, government funding of Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital puts patients at risk by lending credibility to homeopathic treatment.
Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, also known as the Centre for Integrated Care, is the only homeopathic hospital in Scotland. It opened in 1914.
Due to budget cuts, the hospital is experiencing increasing pressure. The National Health Service of Scotland, which previously provided funding, has not confirmed future funding for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, and it has announced that it will not commission further services there. The hospital, which offers a 15 bed inpatient facility, has an average of 10,000 consults per year.
In 2004, the hospital was threatened with closure but a petition signed by 22,000 people averted this action. However, British Medical Association members urged the NHS to stop funding hospitals like the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, citing the lack of evidence of effectiveness of homeopathic remedies.
Dr. Smith criticized the funding of homeopathic treatment as a waste of valuable resources and an ethically reprehensible behavior: on the basis that it leads patients to damage their health under the impression that, since the NHS funds the homeopathic treatment, it is better and has a scientific basis. Dr. Smith notes that those teaching courses in homeopathy were also guilty of a lapse in ethical judgment.
Homeopathic philosophy is based on the law of similars. Ancient healers such as Paracelsus believed that the same substance that produced symptoms in a healthy person could be used to treat the same symptoms in a sick one. Modern homeopathy was begun in the 18th century by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
A homeopathic remedy is tailored to the individual and his or her specific symptoms. A homeopathic practitioner may advise lifestyle and dietary changes.
Homeopathic medicines are derived from plants, animals and minerals prepared under strict guidelines recorded in international pharmacopoeias and are considered safe. These may be in the form of a liquid, granules, powder or tablets. Homeopathic remedies are repeatedly diluted and shaken. The original chemical substance may no longer be discernable but the mixture is believed to retain the quality of the original substance.
Like many scientists, Dr. Smith questions how a highly diluted preparation could have a biological effect. Some proponents argue that the placebo effect justifies the use of homeopathy. Dr. Smith rejects this argument, insisting this approach is unethical because a core principle of medical ethics is informed consent.
A top alternative health expert, Dr. Jan De Vries, said that closing the hospital would reduce freedom of choice for patients.
People who use the hospital claim its homeopathic procedures work. Matt McLaughlin, a Glasgow health organizer, says, "When I speak to people who benefit from the hospital, they tell me it works. For me, that`s the no-brainer."

Homeopathy: Introduction to Homeopathic Medicine

2011-07-29T11:02:00.000-07:00

Homeopathy is a very complete medical system that works with the whole person and helping the body get rid of the disturbance that is caused. Homeopathy works best if you work with a qualifiedClassical Homeopath and not someone who dabbles in it or mixes it with other things (like herbs, kinesiology, etc.). It is a complete system in itself and doesn't work well unless done in what is called a "classical" way.

There is no one remedy for everyone. Homeopathy works with the individual by looking at everything about that person. A particular remedy is then chosen depending on all the symptoms and characteristics of that person.

Homeopathy works with minute, dilute and shaken substances.

The Homeopath will meet or conference with you or you and/or your child. Your Homeopath will ask you a multitude of questions to get a clear picture of everything about you and/or your child as well as observe you and/or them. Your Homeopath will want to know:

Every symptom!

All about your emotions and mental symptoms

All about your behaviors and personality traits

Your physical symptoms and characteristics

What preceded this illness if there is a known event?

Your complete family medical history

What foods do you like or dislike?

What makes you feel better or worse and when?

Do you have special or extremely unusual symptoms.

And on and on....until a very complete picture of you is obtained!

Your Homeopath will prescribe one single homeopathic remedy that fits your total picture. Classical homeopathy means one remedy is used at one time. After your Homeopath analyzes all your symptoms, she will prescribe the one remedy that most matches your total symptom picture.

Each substance that is a homeopathic remedy has the ability to cause certain symptoms in a healthy person. For example. Arsenic will cause a certain set of symptoms if someone takes a poisonous dose. If your child had the symptoms that look like he had taken Arsenic, then Arsenic would be the remedy for him in very minute amounts. Now we know your child didn't take Arsenic but his/her symptoms match those of Arsenic and therefore Arsenic is his/her remedy. It works like that with all the remedies - more than 2,000 have been tested.

How these remedies are tested is called a proving. Over the last 150 years people have taken these substances in just the amount to cause symptoms in their bodies, mind & spirit and have recorded these symptoms in a controlled way - this is called a proving. These symptoms have been recorded in a vast index called a materia medica and indexed in repertories.

Your Homeopath will then choose a single homeopathic remedy that fits your total picture. When the Homeopath comes up with all the symptoms for you, she will choose the most characteristic (unusual) symptoms for you and/or your child and the most limiting symptoms for you and find the remedy that most matches your symptom picture.

This remedy has been greatly diluted and for what we call the higher potencies (diluted a lot), if they were to test the substance, no single molecule of the original substance would be detected after a certain dilution. But we know the substance was there to begin with and it has only been diluted. This substance is also shaken in a certain way which seems to be very necessary.

Physicists are studying homeopathy to see if they can figure out how it works but no one is sure yet. We are sure that it works from experience since the middle 1800's. But how is still a mystery. It probably is something like the energy or vibration of the substance is imprinted in the water solution and works on an energy level in the person. But this is Quantum Physics. It doesn't matter to us how, but that it does work and we have a long tradition of experience that it does.

It seems that the body sometimes produces a certain set of symptoms when it has undergone a stress or exposure to something and is not able to handle it. A certain pattern of symptoms appears, individual to the person. These symptoms are the body's best attempt at getting back into balance. The best attempt and the safest for the organism.

What happens in allopathic (the medicine we grow up with) medicine is symptoms are looked at as bad and are suppressed or gotten rid of and it is assumed the person is cured or healed.

In homeopathy symptoms are looked at as the body's attempt to heal itself. If symptoms are suppressed or gotten rid of (like with antibiotics, Tylenol, anti-fungal creams, steroid creams, antibiotic ointments like Neosporin!, etc.) we are fighting the body's own healing mechanism. This is obvious to us now with a fever - if you suppress it with Tylenol, you are fighting the body. It is the SAME WITH ANY SYMPTOM the body has. You are fighting the body's attempt to heal itself. When the symptoms are suppressed it just drives the imbalance deeper into the person - into a more serious, deeper area. For example if an infant has eczema and steroid creams are put on its body to suppress the skin rashes, they often develop asthma later. Most allopathic medicine acts this way - in a suppressive way - ie. antibiotics, surgical removal of organs or growths, wart removal, etc.

Homeopathy works with the symptoms. The remedy chosen would cause the same symptoms in a healthy person and it appears that the remedy that matches the symptoms actually assists the symptoms by giving them an extra push. We seem to get stuck in certain symptoms and are unable to get out. They don't heal us, we just are stuck - like a stuck record. The answer is to help them out.

Homeopathy is best when practiced by a Homeopath who follows the principles set down by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the 'developer' of homeopathy, in the Organon, and others who came after him and stayed with original principles. The Homeopath would only use one remedy at a time and not mix remedies or therapies & would give those remedies in a water solution and not dry in most cases. Homeopathy doesn't work well with any other system for the most part and is most effective when not mixed with other systems. (Usually better also if not an MD - MD's still seem to have difficulty leaving the 180 degree different view of illness/symptoms that allopathic medicine has). But that is not 100% (there are a few who are excellent). Also some naturopaths specialize totally in homeopathy and that would work, but someone who doesn't do homeopathy exclusively would not do justice to homeopathy or your child (they may not even realize that, thinking they can mix and match therapies).

When you look for a practitioner you basically have to be assertive and be informed ahead of time and asl alot of questions to determine if they are qualified, classical, etc. They should have attended a program of some sort and worked with a mentor and be full time practitioner with a lot of experience. It doesn't matter if they've treated whatever you or your child may be 'diagnosed' with as homeopathy doesn't work with diagnoses or disease names. It doesn't matter what the name of it is. What matters are the individual and characteristic and unique symptoms for you or your child. The most important is that they have extensive education and experience. This is because homeopathy doesn't treat the classification that has been given you or your child, only works with the symptom picture unique to you or your child.

If it is something chronic or something that could be potentially serious, it is not something you can do on your own with a kit or remedies you buy over the counter. A kit is for minor acute, temporary things like sore throat, cold, diarrhea, etc. A one time thing. If you have recurring sore throats, etc, that may be a sign of something chronic and you really should see a practitioner. Also something deep and chronic or potentially life-threatening requires an extremely experienced dedicated practitioner. It is an art as well as a science.

Homeopathy making a comeback in the US. It was run out 'on a rail' in the early 1900's by the AMA and drug companies as well as a diluting of the practice from within. It didn't decline because it didn't work. Very long horrible story. Basically homeopathic schools were denied funding with Rockefeller dollars (also medical schools that admitted women suffered the same fate). The money all went to male, allopathic schools. There were other issues too. It has made a comeback in the US since the 1970's and is growing rapidly because it works. It has always been strong in Great Britain (the queen and family have homeopathic physicians), Ireland, Europe, South Africa, India, Russia, & Central & South America.

But one thing that hasn't been understood is the last way that Hahnemann practiced and then wrote about in the 6th edition of the Organon - part of that is using water potencies. Very few homeopaths know about this or understand how to work with homeopathy that way. So its important to find one who does.

Radioactive fallout from Japan

2011-07-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

As the radioactive fallout from Japan has officially reached the level of Chernobyl's catastrophe and encroached onto the U.S. and Canada, the EPA, for the lack of a drug to recommend, has been playing the role of psychotherapist - "you are OK, we are OK, don't worry." Even better, the psychotherapeutic arsenal has extended to even silencing this inconvenient issue altogether, thus leaving the public virtually to itself in managing matters.

In a nutshell, the situation is reminiscent of a humorous Russian novel where a billboard posted along the beach waters advised the public that "the business of rescuing drowning citizens lies in the hands of the drowning citizens themselves." Perhaps this was just a prelude to a nowadays popular era of self-help, encouraging one of its more radical versions or,
maybe, the beach authorities were taking the good old evolutionary principle of survival of the fittest to another level but, under the current circumstances, that is how we might view the EPA's position in the radiation matter.

So, being left to the business of rescuing ourselves and our children, what are we to do under the circumstances where radioactive fallout affecting 15 states in the U.S. by now, has been rising by the day and where it has already contaminated the food and water supplies. The level of radioactive iodine-131 that has been recently detected in rainwater in Berkeley, California and Vancouver, Canada was 300 times the legal limit set by the U.S. for drinking water. And, according to radiation expert, Dr. John Price, former member of the Safety Policy Unit and the UK's National Nuclear Corporation,radiation leaks will continue for as long as 50-100 years.

In the meantime, aside from contaminated rainwater in Berkeley and Vancouver, over 2 million gallons of radioactive water released into the ocean from the Fukushima reactor might be flooding the fishing territory of Alaska. Here, too, we will be left to ourselves with guesswork as to how healthy still remains Alaskan seafood, even if labeled 'wild'.

Certainly, had there been a patented pharmaceutical drug to swallow against radiation, the EPA and its foreign counterparts in Canada, Europe and Asia would sound far less reassuring on the matter and would sternly command the citizens to promptly begin the swallowing process. But there are no drugs, and even the much spoken about potassium iodide may protect just against thyroid cancer and only if administered within 24 hours following the exposure. If taken later, it may harm.

Yet, what we have not heard from the EPA, AMA, CDC, NIH and, even less, from 'your doctor' or 'medical experts' on major TV networks, is that there is a good alternative that does exist under the circumstances. The main reason for the silence engulfing this alternative is not only because of its belonging to alternative medicine but, also, because it represents its
most strange and even irrational category. Its name is homeopathy. The list that reflects its seemingly irrational nature, at least for allopathically or pharmaceutically-conditioned minds, is quite impressive, indeed.

It begins with the homeopathic principle "treat same with same" that extends to and even encourages to treat poison with the same poison!

The next irrational premise is that while homeopathic remedies above a certain strength or potency cease having a single molecule of the original substance from which they are prepared, their proponents, nevertheless, maintain that the remedies still possess therapeutic action. Furthermore, the higher the potency is above that level, void of a single molecule, the
stronger, they say, the remedy acts!

The claims defying common sense continue with some remedies registering their medicinal activity even after 200 years since their date of preparation.

Adding further to the assault to one's common sense, the remedies' action may continue for as long as a year following just a single dose. And even that lone dose is not to be swallowed, but just to lie under the tongue until it dissolves. This all flies in the face of pharmaceutical drugs and even natural supplements ways of doing things where these need to be ingested in some hefty doses and on an ongoing basis in order to maintain their effect.

In addition, what really seals homeopathy as taboo of all times for the Big Pharma and its retail distributor - mainstream medicine - is that homeopathic remedies are: able to treat medical conditions which drugs can't, belong to energy medicine versus pharmaceutical-chemical medicine, dirt cheap and even can be prepared by the public itself!

In other words, if one is to look for the worst nightmare for medical business, look no further - this is it. 'Deservingly' so, you will always find homeopathy at the top of the quack medicine list of all of the allopathic experts from MDs to full professors of medicine whose most convincing argument is that the thing is irrational and defies even common sense, itself.

Before we address all of these seemingly irrational points concerning homeopathy, we need to come to grips with one plain and lesser known truth. This truth is that science does not operate on common sense... Nor, and contrary to tabloids and general media, science is phased by impressive names or the supporting majority. These have little to do with the very
nature of science that is alien to proverbial wedding generals and even seeks to protect itself against them.

This is for the very mundane reasons that there is no expert-authority who can be trusted with absolute knowledge or be immune to bias or conflict of interests. For these, among other reasons, science operates only on the essence of presented facts and phenomena of nature. Suffice it to say that even the greatest scientist of all, Einstein, made mistakes which were
not initially apparent in his time of glory.

What is the essence of scientific facts and phenomena underlying homeopathy? Let us begin with treating poison with the same poison, heat with heat, cold with cold, and so on. Certainly, this concept flies in the face of our allopathically-cultivated minds in Western societies which, akin to Pavlovian dogs, have been conditioned to reach out to drugs or even natural substances which work on the principle of opposite or anti-.

We all are well familiar with: anti-fever, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertension, anti-fungal, antibiotics, antidepressants, anti-anxiety, among the endless list. Just check the medical sales manual, known as the PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference). However, what we are less familiar with is that this very concept - anti - is dubious and that is why it has completely
failed in the care of chronic diseases.

Let us begin with testing this defying common sense homeopathic principle of 'same' by resorting to one of the methods of scientific reasoning that seeks to undermine one's logic by approaching it through its opposite and, possibly, absurd side. Absurd is deemed if it contradicts well-established scientific theories. Here are two questions to test the issue:

1. Has there been a polar bear whose ancestors had to use electric blankets or hot water bottles in order to survive arctic winters for countless millenniums? No.

2. How about a camel whose forebears had used ice packs and soda machines to survive scorching heat and waterless deserts for as many millenniums? No ancestry with such aids ever existed.

So, what is the essential scientific principle in play here that also is at the very core of evolution concerning all species, including mankind? As already established, survival of the species is based on their adaptational abilities to their environment, however hostile. It covers excessive radiation, too, and if you manage to adapt, you stay, if you can't, you go. We will revisit and explain this - how adding more radiation delivers therapeutic adaptation.

In the next irrational issue - 'there is nothing there' - or the remedy being void of physical substance, the allopaths, in the heat of "scientific" zeal, ended up contradicting themselves. Here, they are referring to the fact that homeopathic remedies due to their preparation process consisting of multiple dilutions do lose, chemically speaking, their original
substance above potency 23X that corresponds to the 23^rd consecutive dilution cycle.

Yet, concurrently, they use another argument to defeat homeopathy that it is irrational to add more of the same poison through the remedy to the body that already contains it. The logistical conflict is that if there is 'nothing there', in the first place, why worry about adding 'more' poison? How can nothing add more of anything?

The simple answer here is that their 'scientific' arguments are based on two handicaps which are germane to humanity - ignorance and bias. Specifically, they ignore that the entire homeopathic preparation, besides dilution cycles, consists also of concomitant mechanical agitation. Unfortunately, allopathic training is void of knowledge of physics that explains
how this mechanical agitation imprints specific energy and information contents. These fundamental entities - energy and information - lie at the very base of the laws of nature. This also concerns the very basics of human physiology that has been deemed by physics as primarily an energy and information driven system.

That is why Nobel laureate in Medicine, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Ph.D., even being a biochemist by training, warned that reducing the human body to mere biochemical-pharmaceutical soup while ignoring its primary energetic nature reduces it to dead meat.

That is also the reason why Harvard biology Professor Edward O. Wilson quipped, in his book, "Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge", that conventional training in biology and medicine leads their graduates to viewing the string theory in physics as having something to do with violins. With the string theory being a unified- or 'Theory of everything', based on the energy principle that all matter in the universe, including human cells, vibrates like string waves at its core.

This is why renowned allopathic medical experts often mislead the public through the media concerning their recommendations on many medical matters, because the 'high' opinions are confined only to chemical-pharmaceutical medicine. It is to emphasize exactly how scientists can deceive that Harvard philosophy and physics professor, Thomas Kuhn, illustrated in his
historic work, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", where a renowned professor of chemistry misled an audience with his 'correct' answer. Yet, according to physics, the answer was false.

And since physics, not chemistry or pharmacology, is established as the most fundamental science of all, homeopathic remedies which have been validated by physicists, as full-fledged energetic substances, do not even require recognition of chemists-pharmacologists.

That is why Professor William Tiller of Stanford University, the former chairman of the department of Materials Science, the very science that determines scientific properties of substances, finds homeopathic remedies scientifically legitimate. And so does Nobel laureate British physicist Brian Josephson.

So, homeopathic remedies, by virtue of their energetic content, render allopathic reasoning of 'nothing there' as senseless because there is energy and information there. Furthermore, the human body as an innate bio-energetic system, is highly attuned to indicated homeopathic remedies.

These destroy another allopathic argument of 'why add more poison to the body laden with the same poison?' Firstly, there is no actual poison in the remedy but only its energetic imprint. The key difference is that extra physical poison would, obviously, poison the body further. Yet, introducing its much weaker version in the way of its energetic imprint-signal allows the poisoned body to receive the specific stimulus to mobilize the necessary physiologic reserves in order to release the actual poison.

Returning to our examples with the eternal adaptation journey of polar bears and camels to harsh environments, the homeopathic stimulus-signal sets forth the body's adaptational physiologic reserves into fast-forward mode. That is why scientific research does confirm the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies in successful detoxification of numerous toxins from the body, among these: lead, mercury, arsenic, pesticides and radiation.

That is why homeopathic remedies prepared off radiation allowed me to neutralize radiation illness in patients exposed to the Chernobyl fallout. One of these was an Oscar-winning director for filming a documentary there. The treatment was effective on many people, years later in 1996, sickened by the radiation leak from the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.

While Homeland Security has spent billions of dollars on stockpiling pharmaceuticals against terrorist acts using means of mass destruction, most of these will be, at best, palliative, e.g., bandaid-like drugs and vaccines, untested for safety or effectiveness. Even government analysts have deemed this state of "preparedness" as a mirage.

The reasons are that there are no drugs against chemical or nuclear warfare, or dirty bombs, there are no effective drugs against viruses, and storing antibiotics against the unknown bacteria is anybody's guessing game. The vaccines against anthrax, smallpox and other infections risk becoming biological warfare themselves due to poor safety testing and individual
intolerance by many people. Many of our veterans afflicted with the Gulf War Syndrome claim to have been damaged by vaccines.

Speaking of radiation illness, according to the book "Osama's Revenge", the worst may be yet to come, even without Bin Laden, since dirty bombs or nuclear suitcases are alleged already to be in the hands of terrorist cells in the United States. This threatens any major American city, particularly as more rogue nations or corrupt governments continue to acquire nuclear
weapons or materials. This was the very subject of the international conference, at the head of states level, including our president, convened in Washington last year.

Yet, how many emergency rooms will be able to handle tens or even hundreds of thousands of deathly ill visitors, in the event? And what will they specifically offer them for radiation illness? Proverbial backrubs? So, the public, conditioned to have trust in the mighty American healthcare will swiftly face the stark reality of the aforementioned beach sign where the matter of self-rescuing will be the matter of utter survival.

So, the real question is not if, but how exactly we should use homeopathy in order to protect ourselves and our children. Specifically, we must know how to prepare homeopathic remedies from contaminated food, water, air, and from intoxicated bodily fluids. In addition, one needs just a few dropper glass bottles and a clean water supply stored in advance. By serially diluting and mechanically agitating contaminated material, one will gradually, in a matter of minutes, as presented in detail in homeopathic books, including mine, turn the poisonous material into its energetic antidote.

Can this whole thing be really that simple, effective and cheap? Just two years ago, the Cuban counterpart of the NIH undertook the largest experiment in the world engaging 2.5 million people in mass homeopathic vaccination, using one of the methods presented in my book. Its target was a deadly infection, leptospirosis, affecting millions of people in Cuba annually. The epidemic sickens and kills by causing meningitis, heart and multiple organ failure and where, even following conventional vaccinations, thousands of people still fall ill and some die. The study turned out to be a stunning success with no death and practically, no illness.

The immune response to homeopathic vaccine occurred much faster and it was ten-fold cheaper than conventional vaccine. It was distributed much faster, too, without overloading medical facilities. Again, on all accounts - cheap, effective and easy to consume by the public itself - it is the worst nightmare for the corporate multi-trillion dollar medical enterprise.
Furthermore, a well-conducted impressive scientific study like this puts the entire allopathic approach to healthcare upside-down on its head as it proves that human bodies can respond very well to effective and inexpensive energy medicine.

Due to all of these inconvenient truths, the study, instead of being all over both professional and lay media news for its scientific implications of historical proportions, is nowhere to be found, except for some obscure European homeopathic journal. So, do not expect Dr. Gupta to carry it on CNN any time soon. As the study head author, Gustavo Bracho, MD, shared
with me, all of the conventional medical peer review journals which received the study have refused to publish it. For the lack of finding scientific flaws, the journals have simply advised the study authors to "send it to a better journal" (?!)

On the other side of the coin, the premiere medical peer-review journals, which are quoted on news daily, earn up to a million dollars, from drug companies for marketing reprints, off just a single published positive drug study. Homeopathy is not an easy pill to swallow for the great majority in the business of medical science and pharmaceutical products.

Even a few open-minded medical scientists are well aware of this and are either unable to receive grants for homeopathic research or just feel intimidated. Just very recently, Nobel laureate in medicine, Professor Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, published a remarkable study validating the homeopathic principle, yet he refrained from using the word
'homeopathy' and has referred to the tested remedies just as 'high dilutions'. Yet, in our personal communication, he confirmed the homeopathic nature of these dilutions.

So, dear reader, under the circumstances as we are left virtually to ourselves in managing this as well as future radiation and other medical affairs, we should more than ever come to fully reflect on this funny Russian beach sign: "The business of rescuing drowning citizens lies in the hands of the drowning citizens themselves."

About the author:
Savely Yurkovsky, MD received his medical degree from II Moscow State Medical Institute in 1975. He completed his training in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine in the U.S., is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has been in private practice since 1984. Having become disenchanted with the outcomes of conventional medicine in chronic diseases, he has evolved a new medical system which is founded in scientific principles used by exact sciences, including pertinent human energy principles. This unique bio-energetic medical system has produced a number of documented reversals in serious chronic diseases. His founded teaching organization, "SYY Integrated Health Systems, Ltd." is dedicated to sharing this medical system under the concept of FCT - Field Control TherapyR. Since 1999, he has taught this curriculum extensively, in the U.S. and Europe, to medical doctors and other health care professionals with special emphasis on energy-based diagnostic and therapeutic modalities aimed particularly at toxicological, biological, infectious or nuclear agents. He also presented his work at the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His book, published in the aftermath of 9/11, "Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Warfare - Protecting Yourself and Your Loved Ones: The Power of Digital Medicine" is an excellent illustration of both the scientific basis and effective practical means to combat the ravages of acute and chronic conditions in our toxic world. It was endorsed by prominent scientists and medical professionals including Mehmet Oz, MD from Columbia University Medical School and Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller, Ph.D., of Stanford University and its tenets presented at the annual Bio-Terrorism conference with affiliation to the Homeland Security Office. Dr. Yurkovsky has been nominated for the prestigious Bravewell Leadership Award for, among other criteria, "significant contributions to the field of medicine" and "compelling vision for the future of medicine" and he has published numerous articles in professional journals concerning treatment with his method of a variety of medical conditions affecting children and adults.

Addictive behaviour

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An addiction can be described as a craving for or dependence on a substance, usually alcohol, nicotine or drugs. Addictions to physical substances should always be treated by a registered practitioner. This article examines some of the natural, alternative remedies that may be prescribed by a homeopathic or naturopathic practitioner.

Homeopathic treatments for addictions

Homeopathic treatment is constitutional, or tailored, to specific needs. Some treatments a homeopath may prescribe include:

Nux vomica helps to overcome a craving for cigarettes.

Kali phos, said to strengthen the nervous system, makes it easier for a person to give up an addiction.

Arsenicum is usually given for anxiety, restlessness and fears.

Absinthium is sometimes given to addicts who are depressed, disoriented and/or dizzy.

Avena sativa (oats), Garcinia cambogia and Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica) help to address the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.

Herbalism

Oats appear to have a calming effect and help to strengthen a person's will-power.

Skullcap and valerian help to calm the nervous system and reduce withdrawal symptoms.

Cramp bark helps with nervous tension and jitters.

Aromatherapy oils to help counter addictive behaviour

Chamomile, sage and ylang ylang are oils that help with depression. Detoxifying oils such as juniper will help to balance the body, as do relaxing oils such as Roman chamomile or marjoram. Bergamot seems to be useful in cases of food addiction. Used in the bath, on a burner in the bedroom or as a massage oil, it creates a positive ambiance for addicts.

Naturopathic treatments for addictive behavior

There is evidence to suggest that addictive behavior and cravings may be promoted by low levels of glutamate in the brain. This may be countered by taking N-acetylcysteine orally. According to an article by Dr. Emily Kane, a registered naturopathic practitioner, "Taking NAC by mouth has been shown to increase glutamate concentrations in the regions of the brain (the nucleus accumbens) which, when low in glutamate, promotes addictive behavior."

Physiological and psychological factors are taken care of when it comes to the naturopathic approach to addressing addiction issues. Naturopathic techniques like massages, acupressure, hydrotherapeutic application, acupuncture, magneto therapy, chromo and helio therapies, diet and nutritional therapy, fasting therapy and so on, along with different yoga techniques, help in the curative phase.

Homeopathy

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Homeopathy is a well-described, scientifically based system of approaching health and disease. "Scientific" because the insights are based on reproducible experiments. "Well-described" because from these observations a number of precise basic fundamental rules became evident, first among them the "similarity principle."

Homeopathy's roots emerge from the findings, teachings and writings of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Hahnemann graduated from medical school in 1779 and started his own medical practice. He soon began his first homeopathic experiments in 1790, as a result of his disillusionment with such common medical practices of the day as purging, bloodletting, and the use of toxic chemicals.

If you were to try to compile a list of all the homeopathic medicines that have been used throughout history, then your fingers would need a homeopathy treatment for arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome before you were all done. Hundreds of different books have been written and published in the last hundred years alone. That does not take into account all of the homeopathic practitioners' notes or special solutions that they have developed themselves. But for the sake of knowing what you are dealing with, here are a few of the ones that you definitely should pay attention to before taking.

A look at the ingredient list for many homeopathic medicines from the past may have you running for the bathroom. It was not uncommon for a remedies homeopathy to contain questionable ingredients, such as blood, tissue, respiratory discharge, urine and even fecal matter. Yes, that may be disgusting but you do have to remember that these treatments are diluted down so much that almost nothing of the original substances remained. Considering some of the more dangerous substances, this is a good thing. Since the homeopathic substances that are used are all diluted with water, there is no risk associated with taking them even though some can be quite dangerous. Unlike the chemical drug treatments which are routinely used across the country, the homeopathic remedies have no dangerous side effects. Even ingredients that could potentially be hazardous like arsenic are watered down to be perfectly safe but still effective.

One of the most prescribed homeopathic remedies is one of the most common substances on earth, water. Drinking several glasses of clean water a day can head off a number of potential health problems including heartburn. It is especially important to drink a lot of water in the morning to avoid acid reflux.

Homeopathic medicines really do work. The premise behind Homeopathic Remedies is that they treat like with like. The herbs or plants that are diluted down are safe to use for all ages and are not counter indicated for use with other medications. They are completely safe to use with animals too. Homeopathy is no longer on the fringe of alternative medicine and is an equal to conventional medicine. Homeopathy is highly used and recognized in England, France, Germany, and India among other countries. In the U.S. alone, this type of treatment has been practiced for 170 years.

If you ask for a mode of therapy that is fast becoming popular all over the world, homeopathy will be the answer! It is the therapeutic system of medicine that is around since more than 200 years ago now and still sticking to same old principles, it is advancing in its field of treating intractable diseases. The basic reason behind this popularity is obviously the fact that "it works!"

In the mess of overwhelming medicinal dosages leading to excruciating side effects, homeopathy is believed as a weapon that kills disease without killing the person! Utmost safety due to highly minute doses those are potentized forms of different herbs and other sources is the plus of homeopathy. No wonder we see people around who read homeopathic literature and treat themselves with homeopathy and many times find better relief for their problems. However this is true only of certain acute conditions and not chronic ones. Lot more things need to be understood for treating chronic diseases and only a qualified homeopath can do this.

The homeopathic medicines are capable of treating cases like intractable asthma, long standing psoriasis, and recurrent kidney stones. The diseases where modern medicine at times says "no", homeopathy's sphere of action begins. In many illnesses homeopathy is said to replace surgeon's knife. Even incurable arthritis is treated with homeopathic medicines without inflicting any harm upon patients. Easy to take: Available in pill, powder, or liquid form, homeopathic medicines are easy to take for sure. Chewing the pills is a pleasurable experience for kids. That's the reason why kids enjoy visiting homeopathic doctors and never fret questioning.

Instead of suppressing existing disease in question. Homeopathy by its eternal principle of "like cures like" enhances bodily immunity and enables the body to repel the disease in its entirety. That's the reason homeopathy is believed to be extremely effective even in dealing with preventive aspects of infectious diseases in epidemics like swine flu. It is recommended by homeopathic experts that instead of digging the well when it is too late, it is better to opt for homeopathy when you sense the impending attack so that herd immunity can be built. Homeopathic medicines have been found useful for dogs, cats, and animals alike. Not only veterinary but homeopathic medicines are also found useful for plant diseases. Due to this all-round safe use, homeopathic medicines have grown popular by leaps and bounds in recent years.

One of the essential steps to entering the field of homeopathy is to select from one of a number of homeopathic schools to which you'd like to apply. Explore what types of educational prerequisites are necessary to entering the school, and whether or not financial assistance is available to complete your course of study. In many cases, you will be able to review homeopathic schools online and be able to determine which institution will offer you the program you'd like to pursue.

Perhaps you are seeking a full-time Doctor of Classical Homeopathy program, or you're more interested in testing the waters by earning a certificate as a homeopathic medical assistant...or maybe, you're drawn to veterinary care, and are seeking homeopathic schools that offer these types of programs. In addition to on-campus courses, a number of homeopathic medicine universities may extend home-study classes, as well as continuing education units and electives. Remember, however, each academic program varies in tuition and duration.

Homeopathy is a very complete medical system that works with the whole person and helping the body get rid of the disturbance that is caused. Homeopathy works best if you work with a qualified classical Homeopath and not someone who dabbles in it or mixes it with other things (like herbs, kinesiology, etc.). It is a complete system in itself and doesn't work well unless done in what is called a "classical" way.