Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe Justinian’s Flea By William Rosen Penguin Group, 2007, $15.99 ISBN-13: 978-o-7394-9163-8 Here is an interesting read for those of you who are interested in medical history. It reads a little slow and dry, but the theoretical and historical background are extremely interesting. “The book presents a confident mix of history, science, architecture, theology, military strategy, law, engineering and medicine to tell the story of how plague transformed the classical world and gave birth to medieval Europe. William Rosen’s canvas stretches from China [...]

Web Watch June 2008 1. U. S. Government Concedes Vaccines Cause Autism The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently conceded the first vaccine-autism case. This case was filed in the no-fault National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as part of the Autism Omnibus proceedings in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims. It was one of the first three cases chosen that alleged Thimerosal in childhood vaccines [...]

Note from Carolyn: The author of this piece is unknown. It is simply an article that was making the e-mail rounds on the internet. I cannot personally vouch for the authenticity of the claims, but we all know that Aspartame is simply what the title indicates. All of you as testers should know this already, but it bears repeating. I remember Walter’s comments concerning this chemical: “A person can consume one small packet of Aspartame – or any of the chemical sweeteners, but especially Aspartame – in a cup [...]

An Excerpt from a commentary entitled: “The Legend of Evidence-Based Medicine” “Healthcare was never meant to end the suffering of our world, or the pain and trials of human existence, but to act alongside law, religion, and politics to guide us toward the general direction of evolution, of growth, of a god. At its simplest, healthcare is a belief system that continues to develop as long as time continues to flow, nudging us to let go of that which does not work and accept that which does, encouraging us [...]

An Introduction to Point and Remedy Testing in the Homeopathic Practice By Carolyn L. Winsor, BMus, BEd Last year we celebrated the 250th Anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. Reading and hearing about his discoveries, his biography and his particular genius was a voyage of discovery for many of us. It offered a chance for us to look back at the many patients who have been helped regain a better state of health, and at the reasons why we are still struggling for acceptance in so [...]

The Internationale Medizinische Gesellschaft für Electroackupunktur nach Voll e.V., Stuttgart, Dr. med. Richard Kraßnigg, Präsident The International Medical Society for Electroacupuncture according to Voll, Stuttgart, Richard Krassnigg, MD, President To: Mrs. Carolyn Winsor-Sturm Occidental Institute Research Foundation Penticton, B.C., Canada 20 December 2006 Dear Mrs. Sturm: The year 2006 draws to an end. This year the IMGEAV became 50 years old. Several times we have solemnly and appropriately celebrated this event at different levels. The efforts which the Board of Directors and all the participants have undergone in preparation [...]

Labeling cholesterol as the cause of cardiovascular disease is one day going to be viewed as a medical catastrophe. It is not only wrongly accused of being directly related to the cause of death of millions of people each year but it is also targeted as something that is to be sought, hunted and destroyed like a growing cancer. But nothing could be further from the truth: at least that’s not what the research dictates. One needs to realize that cholesterol is absolutely vital to health. Being a high [...]

And, to remind ourselves why we all do this . . . This is part of an interview done for the newsletter of a local faith community with a gentleman who has a brain tumor. Newsletter: Before you had the first seizure and discovered that you had a brain tumor, you had a way of understanding your own body, human disease, and the practice of western medicine that, I suspect, might have stayed the same to the end of your life. How do you see all that differently now? [...]

Research into Homeopathy – Its Special Problems, and Its Successes First European Symposium: Natural Medicine in the United Europe – quo vadis? The following is a textual summary of one of the many presentations on this topic made at this unique Symposium held in Frankfurt, Germany, November 2004. In the last 20 years the trend in homeopathic therapy, besides the traditionally applied method of the remedy-picture provings, has increasingly adopted the test models from the area of orthodox medicine. These especially are the methods of the double-blind study, but [...]

(*May 19, 1929 †December 12, 2003) In memoriam, enclosed is our translation of his recent and unfortunately final “Resonance Homeopathy” article. Dear Research Associate: It is with greatest sadness in my heart, that I must advise you about the passing of Dr. med. dent. Helmut W. Schimmel, founder of the Vegatest method, VRT and Photon-Resonance-Test, originator of the Causal Chains and Functional Medicine concepts, formulator of the Meridian, FM and Resoplex Complexes, and much more. Carolyn and I last spoke with him at his home on October 31st (exactly [...]