A phenomena That Happened Once Before in the 1930’s in the USA (And Led to the Formation of Blue Cross/Blue Shield)

Autism is a horrible disease that is debilitating to very young children and is clearly a disease that has risen to epidemic proportions in the last thirty years and has ruined the family lives of any family that has been unfortunate to have a child so afflicted. Worse than that the traditional medical profession doesn’t have any reasonable answers to solving the problem and leaves these poor families to twist in the wind as they frustratingly go from clinic to clinic looking for answers that aren’t easily forthcoming.

Physicians that do have answers and semi-answers are usually in the “Integrative or Alternative Medicine” style of physicians and aren’t part of the third party payer Insurance world and create expenses that very quickly overwhelm the finances of these afflicted families.

Human nature being what it is, these families usu­ally start seeking answers on their own and very quickly discover that traditional medicine isn’t in the Dr. Marcus Welby/Florence Nightingale model and is trapped within the confines of Pharmaceutical mandates which makes sure that drugs, drugs and more drugs are the only prime answer to any types of problems that come along. This creates first fear for their children, than anger over the state of affairs and eventually a very determined attitude to discover the truth of what’s causing this affliction to their children and than a powerful quest to find the answers on their own.

There is an article in this issue of Explore by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt MD regarding his very complete method of treating Autism. This one article can become the chapter headings for the definitive textbook on the treatment of this horrible disease. Very few physicians will ever read this article and a great majority of traditional physicians that do read it will discount its wisdom as “voodoo” medicine. Traditional medicine has almost completely discounted the wisdom of Integrative care and when this is discovered by the Autistic families it only angers and scares them further.

As time goes by eventually these families tend to seek each other out and band together in associations and clubs some of which become incorporated as founda­tions and societies.

With the paucity of traditional physicians knowledge­able in treating autistic children, these families tend to form a hierarchy within these associations and leaders emerge as spokespeople to both seek out information on the latest tidbit of information and then to both share and/or control this information among the rest of the group and other similar groups.

One cannot blame these leaders for after all they still need to live 24 hours a day with their autistic child but most of them literally begin to know much more information about this disease and find themselves quite unintentionally in most cases in positions of political influence and power.

Many of the leaders have had breakthrough suc­cesses with their children as in fact Autism is treatable. However the political capital of both the leaders and the groups they represent grow exponentially when a signifi­cant number of the children related to these groups have significant improvements. The knowledge of how to make even the slightest improvement in Autistic health becomes a very powerful political force and creates a patient group to be dealt with.

These groups both become the referral source for new families coming along and they end up controlling the healthcare practices of those physicians who agree to care for the patients according to the dictates of the will of these groups.

In the highest incarnation of this phenomena, semi­nars are created by these lay groups and lay leaders to teach both patients and physicians what to do and why, all with the understanding that the groups knowledge is paramount and that the control of treating Autism belongs to them because the medical profession has abdi­cated their rightful position of the legitimate profession of the practice of medicine.

These phenomena may be ubiquitous within the medical profession but it brings to mind what hap­pened in the 1930’s when doctors charged 50 cents for office calls (or a freshly killed chicken) and when the needs for hospital services occurred unless they were in a big city or in close proximity to religious orders there simply were no hospitals available to over 80% of the US population.

Civic groups arose to “help out the doctors” to organize rural hospitals as they were “too busy” tending to the ill patients and these groups organized the construction of community hospital centers and put together “societies” to sell the first insurance programs to finance the costs of these community hospitals. These societies were called Blue Cross organizations.

Doctors were told “you guys are too busy to organize and administer hospitals”, let us do it in the interest of “community” and you can have the clean workshops you need to practice your profession. Doctors saw no problem as even though Hospitals were “their workshops” they were in fact too busy to tend to this task and were glad to see others do it for them.

Several years later, the final turning point in the long term demise of the free practice of medicine occurred when these same groups noted that Physicians costs also needed “financing” and thus was born Blue Shield. It only took another 30 years before Medicare and Medicaid came along but the rest is history.

What you might be asking does the Politics of Autism have to do with the creation of the third party insurance system. It has a lot to do with it.

Whenever the professional practice of Medicine “drops the ball” and cannot deal with issues that it should right­fully be dealing with, than simple human nature kicks in and solutions come along that only “partially” solve the problem but creates situations where non trained individuals step into a void, takes over and does the best that it can. Unfortunately, by not being trained in the first place these solutions create other problems even though the solutions seem appropriate to begin with.

Just like the Medical Profession should be controlling its own financing instead of being under the control of the third part system, the treatment of autism should be being dealt with by the same medical profession who should be reading Dr. Klinghardt’s article and teaching its peers how to do what the article says. 

Who said that unless we learn our lessons we are des­tined to repeat our mistakes?

More information available from Bruce Shelton, MD, MD (H), FHIB | Homeopathic and Integrative Medicine Doctor, by calling 602-504-1000, or visit www.DrBruceShelton.com

Article originally published in Explore! Volume 18, Number 4, 2009

Our immune system is our “Perfect Physician”. It has the innate ability to recognize truly foreign toxic substance, develop antibodies against those substances and establish a permanent and total “cure” against those substances as they are either destroyed or eliminated.

Once exposed to a foreign substance and successfully ridding our system of the substance, the immune system develops a “memory” of what it did and for the rest of that person’s life there is “immunity to the original substance so that the problem can never happen again.

The above statement applies to a normally functioning immune system. However there can be defects in the system and these defects is the cause of most of our illnesses. These defects fall in several broad categories.

1. The immune system cannot successfully make antibodies against the substance.
2. The immunity memory function either isn’t created or is erased.
3. The immune system mistakenly recognizes parts of the body as foreign and makes antibodies against us. This is known as an “auto‐immune” problem.
4. The created antibodies are mistakenly recognized as foreign and the immune system makes additional antibodies trying to eliminate something that was originally created to help us. This is the most common problem and is the basis of most of our inflammatory diseases such as allergies, arthritis, atherosclerosis and cancer to name a few.

Without going into a full blown textbook explanation of the immune system we need to point out that our creator developed some controllable biological on/off switches that we can use to shut down or actually turn back on, those immune processes that are either desirable or undesirable depending on the circumstances.

These “switches” are called “To” helper and “Ts” suppressor Lymphocytes. The T‐helper lymphocytes further develop intoTh1 and Th2 Lymphocytes and under correct circumstances become Th3 lymphocytes, which help direct the cleaning of the Matrix space as, mentioned above.

A brief explanation of immune function is necessary to explain how these switches work.

Cells called Antigen presenting cells (APCs) originally identify foreign substances as foreign. These APCs than deliver the message of alarm to either a T Helper or a T Suppressor Lymphocyte which transfer the message to a B Lymphocyte.

B Lymphocytes are the cells that make the Antibodies.

If a T Helper Lymphocyte delivers the message, the B Lymphocyte is turned “ON” and antibodies are produced.

If a T Suppressor Lymphocyte delivers the message the B Lymphocyte is turned “OFF” and antibody production stops.

Helpers turn ON and Suppressors turn OFF.

Obviously is a situation 1 or 2 where we want antibody production we want that message going via the T Helper Lymphocytes and in a situation 3 or 4 where we want to stop antibody production we want the message delivered via the T suppressor Lymphocytes.

What then determines which T Lymphocyte gets to deliver the message?

The Concentration or Dilution of the original foreign substance determines where the macrophage takes the original message.

Very Very High Concentration and very very low dilutions will selectively go to the T Suppressor. Lymphocytes shutting down the B cells BUT all of the mid‐range dilutions in between very low and very high selectively go to T Helper Lymphocytes turning B Cell Antibody production.

In more practical terms of a food allergy, if a person gets an asthma attack from drinking milk because of antibody production against milk triggering cells that produce histamine to shut down lung function (an example of situation 4 above) we can introduce several drops of diluted milk ( a very very low dilution) or a gallon ( a very very high concentration) (obviously impractical to use a gallon) of milk and effectively connect with T Suppressors which will shut down the milk B Cells and stop the asthma A simple glass of milk ( a mid‐range amount) will connect with T Helpers and turn on the B Cells and start the asthma! A perfect example of situation 4.

An example of wanting to turn on B Cells via T Helper Lymphocytes would be unwelcome infections. WE would never want our Endobiont to become the form of the measles virus. Therefore we would want a mid range amount of measles virus to cause a “memory” in clone of T Helper Lymphocytes and Associated B Lymphocytes to always make antibodies against measles and not be turned off. This is a perfect example of situation 1.

An Example of Situation 2 is the current scourge of humanity called the AIDS virus Aids Virus kills T Helper Lymphocytes so that needed B Cells can NEVER BE TURNED ON.

The key to this chapter is that many of our diseases can be “cured” by finding ways to turn off unwanted antibody production of situations 3 and 4 and that we have a way to do this by introducing small dilutions of substances that shut down the B Lymphocytes that are producing these undesirable antibodies.

We have a “switch” and all that is required is to find the substance causing the problem and the correct dilution to do the job.

T helper lymphocytes become Th1 cells and also alternatively Th2cells. Each of these cell types produce cell signaling substances called Cytokines. The alternation between the two types of cytokines helps cleanse the Matrix. During times of disease the alternation gets STUCK as either a Th1 or a Th2 state and only the production of the cytokine TGF-b can break through this Immunological logjam.

One of the ways to do this is for the T Helper Lymphocytes to become a Th3 cell. (Th3 cells can produce TGF‐b!)

Enter Homeopathy and Homotoxicology!

For more information on Homeopathy and Homotoxicology, contact Bruce Shelton, MD, MD (H), FHIB | Homeopathic and Integrative Medicine Doctor, by calling 602-504-1000, or visit www.DrBruceShelton.com