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Issue Fifteen | Jan/Feb 2012 | £3.95
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Issue Ten | March 2011 | £3.95
A New Form of Water!
Dr. Shui Yin Lo Discovers
Double-Helix Water
Seeing into the Body
The Promise of Thermal Imaging
Human Flourishing
Through Integral Medicine
Bringing CAM to the Community
Energy and information for health and well-being
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Issue 15 January/February 2012
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Welcome to
the January/February issue of
Quantum Health
magazine!
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n this first issue of 2012 our focus is on
the changing face of healthcare. How is
healthcare transforming itself? What is
optimal health? How can we make CAM
available to everyone? What are some of the new
technologies that can further the cause of CAM
research and therapy? In this issue, we examine
a bit of where we are and where we might be
headed at the frontiers of health and science.
In addition to our regular features “Science in
the News” and “Book Reviews” we also add
a 2012 “Conference Calendar” where we will
provide a sampling of important CAM-related
conferences that might be of interest to you. We
will update this list periodically as we learn of
new conferences, so if you know of one that we
have not mentioned, please write to me with the
relevant details.
We start off this issue with our cover interview with
theoretical physicist Shui Lin Lo, PhD, who along
with his colleague David Gann discovered a new
phase of water. That’s right—a new state of water!
We are all familiar with ice, but Dr Lo claims he and
Gann have discovered a “solid state” of water that
occurs at room temperature, called stable water
clusters. Also called “Double-Helix Water,” this new
form of water appears to have a host of uses, one
of which is helping the body repair itself. I met Dr.
Lo at a recent bioenergetics conference, was taken
with his talk and the double-helix products, and
asked him for an interview. He immediately agreed,
and in this issue I am delighted to provide Dr. Lo
the opportunity to explain Double-Helix Water
in easily understandable terms. Plus, he and his
colleagues are running a host of outcome studies
using Double-Helix Water and he invites readers
who qualify to participate. All the details are in the
interview.
Double-Helix Water and other exciting
breakthroughs in addressing illness and restoring
health are only one way that healthcare is
changing. Elliott Dacher, MD, and nutritional
therapist Niki Gratrix, both of whom are also
authors and educators, offer views of the new
medicine that are based on the concept of
Joan Parisi Wilcox
“integral health,” which is an approach to
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well-being that goes beyond the body. Dr Dacher’s
article focuses on “human flourishing” and
research into holistic ways people can enhance
their health and well-being. Niki Gratrix provides a
more theoretical overview of the integral medicine
philosophy that enlarges our scope of what
“holistic medicine” means.
Biomedical engineer Kimberly Schipke educates us
about medical thermal imaging as a preventative
screening method. However, thermal imaging is
opening up an exciting new area of research for
“evidence-based” CAM. You will easily see how
this imaging technology can be used not only as
a resource for alerting people to possible disease
process early in their developmental stages, but
also how it can be used to deliver visual evidence
of beneficial changes that occur after the use of
energy medicine therapies. As such, it presents
powerful new opportunities for CAM to provide
the evidence for its efficacy that so many skeptics
ask for. Finally, acupuncturist Jody James writes
about bringing CAM to underserved patients, such
as those without the financial means to access
CAM on their own. She offers insights into how
you, too, can serve your community by making
CAM available to those patients who most need it
but who have the hardest time accessing it.
As always, I welcome your feedback and input.
You can write to me at
[email protected].
Warm regards,
www.quantumhealthmagazine.com
Joan
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This Month’s Contributors
Shui Yin Lo, PhD
Theoretical Physicist
Elliott Dacher, MD
Physician, Educator, Author
Kimberley Schipke, MS
Biomedical Engineer
Jody James, LAc, Dipl. OM
Acupuncturist
Regular Contributors
Sarah Turner
Head of Research at NES Health
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Science Editor:
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Niki Gratrix
Nutritional Therapist, Author
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Contents
7-15 The Discovery of
Double-Helix Water
Joan Parisi Wilcox interviews Dr. Shui Yin Lo
16-19 Integral Health and
Human Flourishing
By Elliott S. Dacher, MD
20-23 2012 Conference Calendar
24-28 Medical Thermal Imaging
By Kimberly Schipke, MS
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Contents
30-31 Book Reviews
32-37 Integral Theory as the New
Face of Healthcare
By Niki Gratrix
38-40 Science in the News
42-45 Bringing CAM to
Community Medicine
By Jody James, Lac, Dipl. OM
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The Discovery
of Double-Helix
Water
An Interview with Dr. Shui Yin Lo
By Joan Parisi Wilcox
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Introduction
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hui Yin Lo, PhD, received his physics
degree from the University of Chicago.
His primary area of research has
been theoretical particle physics. He
has published hundreds of academic papers,
taught at major universities, and conducted
research at, or been a visiting scholar at, major
universities and laboratories worldwide, including
the California Institute of Technology, Oxford
University, the Institute of High Energy Physics
(China), the Institute of Theoretical Physics
(Germany), the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, and the Neils Bohr Institute (Denmark).
More than a decade ago he teamed up with
research engineer David Gann to study claims of
anomalous uses for water. Originally they were
examining a claim by an inventor that he had
found how to make water into a catalyst, one use
of which was to remove carbon build-up from
machinery, including the internal combustion
engine, thereby keeping engines clean and
improving fuel efficiency. David Gann did the
heavy lifting in terms of engineering research;
Dr. Lo rolled up his sleeves to come up with a
theoretical framework for this most astonishing
hypothesis. The rest, as they say, is history. Their
exploration led them far from their original
inquiry, resulting today in what may be perceived
in some circles to be an astonishing claim: they
have discovered a new “phase” or form of
water—stable water clusters.
Some background is necessary before we get to the
interview. Water has many forms—vapor/gas,
liquid, ice. There are actually many forms of
ice beyond the kind we know from puddles in
the winter, but most of these kinds of ice are
formed only under high thermal pressures and at
extremely low temperatures that can be achieved
only in a lab. Gann and Dr. Lo have found stable
water clusters at room temperature that form
under electrical pressures. Strange indeed! Dr. Lo
theorises that these room-temperature stable water
clusters may have originated at the beginning of
life and fueled the evolution of organic life. This
form of water has a double-helix structure, which
is why Gann’s and Lo’s therapeutic water is called
Double-Helix Water.
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As research continued, Gann and Dr. Lo found
that Double-Helix Water may have beneficial
healing affects, and health is one of their many
areas of vigorous research today. They have
created their Double-Helix Water drops and a
cream infused with concentrated stable water
clusters that are showing therapeutic benefits
in a range of health issues and conditions,
from arthritis to autism. Dr. Lo urges readers
who would like to participate in their outcome
studies to log on to the websites mentioned in
the interview. They are especially interested in
amassing outcome data on autistic children.
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In your book with David Gann,
you discuss the discovery of a new
phase of water, stable water clusters.
Tell us about this.
SYL: Ordinarily, we only know one solid phase of
water, which is frozen at zero-degrees centigrade.
There are actually many kinds of ice—seven and
even ten different kinds—but they generally are
formed only at low temperatures and under high
pressure. The new form that we found occurs
at room temperature and at normal pressures—
that’s new. It becomes practical! When David
came to me with an invention that was said to
improve fuel efficiency, it sometimes worked and
sometimes didn’t. It was said it was made of
water! I put it in my car and it worked, so I was
saying, “How can this be possible?” So, being a
theoretical physicist, I wanted to come up with a
theory so that I could actually calculate things.
I looked up all the literature on water—it was an
incredible amount of literature, both very
high-brow professorial research and ordinary
people’s research. There’s also all sorts of folklore
about water. I said, “I’ve got to work this out!”
So I picked up the most serious literature.
The most important thing for water is that it
has a permanent dipole moment. And it’s not
the magnetic dipole moment that we have in
ions. An ordinary iron rod has no magnetic
field, but once you use a strong magnetic field
it polarises, it becomes a permanent magnetic
field. So, I focused on the possibility of charge,
because it’s already there, the electric dipole.
Dipole means that one side is negatively charged
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and one positively charged. Water is made up
of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. It’s a
tetrahedron. The side with the two hydrogen
atoms is slightly positive and the side with the
oxygen atom is slightly negative. We can picture it
simplistically as a rod with one side with a minus
sign and the other with a plus. When you have an
ion in water—which is at the atomic scale—then
the electric field is enormous. When you align
all the water molecules, they become [what you
can think of as] a big rod—magnetic but with a
much, much stronger electric field. This is what I
proposed, and I actually calculated it according to
Heisenberg’s theory, a well-known model that is
used to explain the phenomenon of magnetism.
I did that, just changing the magnetic dipole of
a magnet into the electric dipole of the water
molecule. I had the whole theoretical process in
my head, and I used the Debye-Huckel theory and
other kinds of approaches and I was pretty happy
with my model. It took me three or four months
to work out. I talked to my group [professional
colleagues] about it, and one of them copied
my drawing of the likely shape of a stable water
cluster that I had done on the blackboard into his
notebook, so there is an independent record of
my prediction. That shape was similar to what we
did find later.
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How did you find them—the stable
water clusters?
SYL: We used many instruments to do that. It
happened that Santa Barbara [where we were] is
very close to Los Angeles, which was the location
of the headquarters, at that time, of the largest
and most famous atomic force microscope
manufacturer, Digital Instruments. We went
there and they were going to give us time on
the microscope, provided we were going to buy
the machine. I said, “We will buy the microscope
provided you show us it can do the job!” So we
got time on it. We spent two and half hours in
the morning, when they scanned it [the water
sample] first and they didn’t find anything. It’s
very difficult and expensive. We went all the way
to four o’clock in the afternoon and still didn’t
find anything. So finally, they asked, “Do you
actually know what it should look like?” And I
told him, and then bang! We found it! There
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was some dirt in the sample and next to it was a
rod—and I said that’s it! After that, the rest was
easy. You know what to look for.
Over time we made the water cleaner and cleaner
and the phenomenon became more dominant.
We used that atomic force microscope to view it
and we used all kinds of other instruments. We
were near Cal-Tech and the University of Southern
California, and we worked with people there.
And finally we knew we got it right, at least to
ourselves.
Qclusters?” And can you tell us more
Did you coin the term “stable water
about them?
SYL: Yes, Ordinary water has clusters, too, and
in some books it’s called the flickering water
clusters model. Ordinary water molecules are
connected to one another in a network. But the
thermal energy at room temperature breaks the
network. It keeps breaking and reforming, so it’s
not stable. It’s like with ice, once you cool down
the water molecules they stick together. In liquid
water they don’t, they flow all over the place.
What we found were water clusters that were
stable at room temperature.
Qshaped in a double helix?
And these stable water clusters are
SYL: Yes. We found that out through the atomic
force microscope.
Atomic Force Microscopy Images: Left: Stable Water Clusters, Right: Double-Helix
Water Structure
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Qhad just never been seen before? Or did Qdid you get when you announced—
So are these clusters natural, and they
What kind of reception from scientists
you actually have to manipulate the water
to make them form?
published papers—that you had found this
new phase of water?
SYL: We make them form. We speculate that
they are also found in nature, at the beginning
of life. Or in very pure water, like at the top of
the Himalayas or somewhere, where there is no
dust and stuff. They form only in a very pure
environment, pure water, pure air. So we use
extremely clean water.
SYL: There is some history here. Some very
famous, very well-respected scientists who
worked on water and made claims about water,
about polywater and things like that, got people
excited even though their claims were very
controversial. But then they were found to be
wrong. So, people, when we announced it, were
a bit sceptical, and said maybe it’s the same
thing. Although the difference is that we actually
know the mechanism and have a model for it.
The previous claims did not, and it was very hard
to reproduce their work. So that’s why people are
a bit reserved when listening to us. For those who
are more open-minded, they are interested that
maybe there is a genuine new form of water.
Q
Is there some connection to
homeopathy, in terms of succussion
or shaking the sample?
SYL: Well, that’s a myth. Originally, we did that,
but it turned out that it is not so necessary. In
our book, Double-Helix Water, we distinguish
ourselves from homeopathy in that sense. We
don’t qualify from the FDA approval to be
homeopathic, and we found we don’t need to
succuss it. You know, there are lots of myths
surrounding homeopathic [processes] and it turns
out that [the need for succussion] may or may not
be true. Over the last fifteen years we did many
things! And clean water is only one condition [to
make stable water clusters]. All the conditions are
listed in one of the papers in the book if people
want to read it—they can look up the paper
that was published in Physics Letters A. I mean,
you cannot do it in your kitchen! We have to
manufacture it. Naturally—at least in terms of
cities and their water—we just don’t have clean
enough water anymore.
We don’t know everything yet! For instance,
carbon has many kinds of solid forms. The
most expensive is diamonds. At the other end
is ordinary charcoal or coal, and so forth. So,
diamonds were already discovered in nature and
they are very hard to find. We speculate that the
double-helix form of water, these stable water
clusters, were already there in nature, when life
started. But now we have to make it in the lab,
just like some people make manmade diamonds.
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In your book you talk about the
many uses for stable water clusters,
increasing energy efficiency, decoking
industrial smokestacks, and so on. Would
you talk about that? Is industry interested
in this discovery?
SYL: David actually originally got a water sample
from some inventor who claimed it would
increase fuel efficiency in internal combustion
engines. It sometimes worked and sometimes
didn’t. So once we made our kind of water, we
didn’t use that sample anymore. Ours is more
reproducible and effective. We worked with
Professor Selan Senkan at UCLA, who at that time
was the chairman of the department of chemical
engineering. So we worked with him, and the
first thing he did was to use our catalyst and he
found that it helped combustion of methane by
four percent. So industry is interested. By the way,
this water is different from that used in health.
It’s like the difference between a diamond and
coal. They are still carbon, but in different forms.
So it’s like that. One form of stable-water-cluster
water can be used as a catalyst. We have mass
produced it and it is starting to be used for
commercial things. A mining company is
starting to use it in large quantities. We hope
it will spread!
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Qfor example, would be banging on your
I would think industry, auto makers
door!
SYL: Auto manufacturers are not banging on our
doors yet. . . . Look at what the benefit is though.
The consumer s love it, they can improve fuel
efficiency in their cars. The environmentalists love
it, because it reduces pollution significantly, 80%
to 90%. The government, I understand, is putting
out 100 billion dollars just to lower the carbon
footprint. So, the end results of what people
want to achieve are well known. But many people
claim to have things that can do this—lower
pollution, et cetera. These claims, most of them
have never been confirmed, either in university
research labs or in practice. And that’s why it’s
a bit slow—because we have to convince people
it’s real and not like the other claims. We actually
met a man from an oil refinery and he said that
every day he has people knocking on his door
to sell products that reduce pollution, doing the
same thing that we claim to do. So, that’s the
difficulty of spreading the word and getting this
out there so people know about it.
Qenvironmentally conscious consumer
So this is not something that an
can buy and use in their car right now?
SYL: No, but we think that it is down the road.
You have to go to all the pumping stations and
so on. It takes a lot of effort. So we are going
right now only to large companies, where they
use a fleet of trucks with diesel engines. So
we don’t have to hire a lot of sales people and
advertise and all that. It’s business! We are a
small company. We are focusing on diesel trucks
right now, because everyone complains that these
diesel trucks cough up the greatest amount of
black smoke on the highways.
Q
Let’s shift to stable water clusters in
biology and human health.
SYL: Well, as you know, human health is very
complex! Right now we say that this is only
bottled water and we don’t make any health
claims. We always make a disclaimer that we do
not have the approval of the FDA [US Food and
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Drug Administration]. So, we tell people to try
it out and tell us what it does for them. Now,
I am a theoretical physicist. I always propose a
theory for how something works long before. I
always calculate and predict! In particle physics
especially, we do expensive experiments, and so
we tell people what they will find [before they
do the experiments]: you are going to find the
Higgs boson! Otherwise, no one is going to do
billion-dollar experiments. Health is complicated.
I thought vitamin C was known to be so healthy,
but now I read that it may not be. How are we
going to go through this jungle and sort it out?
So, I look for theory.
This is my hypothesis: On the one hand we have
this quantum theory, which is remarkable, and
that I used to predict and then find the stable
water clusters. On the other hand, we have
Chinese meridian theory. Chinese medicine has
been used for thousands of years and by at least a
billion people, and the majority claim it is useful.
That is empirical. You go to any acupuncturist
and they have charts where the meridians are.
These things are not recognised in orthodox
medical schools. Meridians can’t be seen. Now, I
have a solution for that—a very naïve and simple
solution. When you cut [into the body] you see
the blood, you see the nerves—but you don’t
see [the meridian] tubes or channels. It’s like
underground water, not visible on the surface. So
I wrote a book explaining about acupuncture in
health, and the first chapter, the first section, it
says the meridians are a network of stable water
clusters. So that is my hypothesis. That makes it
very easy to explain how water can have healing
effects, because the stable water clusters repair
the meridians and cause the energy to flow better
and coordinate all the functions of the body.
Just like acupuncture needles. The stable water
clusters act like the needles in acupuncture. In
acupuncture you can use one needle to treat all
kinds of problems. Stable water clusters can help
hundreds of kinds of diseases.
This won’t put acupuncturists out of business!
It will help them. They will see more patients,
monitor patients who are getting needled and
drinking the water or using the cream. Needling
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is still more effective than these. But the cream
and water are a lot cheaper. And you can use
them yourself, and use them often throughout
the day. They can work together. But it is always
good to get assurance from a human being, so
you can get good assurance and advice from a
good acupuncturist or Chinese doctor.
Q
You have used thermography to image
the body before and after someone
takes Double-Helix Water. It shows a
marked change, where the heat in a part
of the body dissipates, indicating greater
health or reduced inflammation or pain.
You have also imaged the meridians after
using Double-Helix Water, right?
SYL: I use thermography because I want to
know! I am a physicist and I want data to
confirm things. Just like you go to the lab and
put the electrode in a water sample and one
side goes to hydrogen and the other to oxygen.
You don’t need to believe that is so only because
someone one hundred years ago said that
water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen.
You do the experiment and find it! That’s the
incredible power of the scientific approach. So,
it’s the same thing. Despite all the meridian
charts and books, I want to do the experiment.
I located a thermograph—or infrared imaging
system—and it has that ability. You take a set
of pictures, generally the head, and then ask
them to drink the Double-Helix Water, and
fifteen minutes later you image their head again
and you can see the difference. I have taken so
many of them now that I can be confident that
in 99% of cases something is going to change
that is beyond ordinary statistical fluctuations.
So, the healing effect is really like the needle in
the acupuncturist’s hand. When you are sick, of
course, you can get better, but even if you are
healthy, you can get healthier.
Originally, the healing effect was only a
theoretical conjecture. Now, I go to so many
conferences, and people try the water and the
cream, and they report changes. And they are
MDs and professionals. They know it when
they see it! We bring a booth with us to take
thermographic images, and we can see the
changes.
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QBioenergetic Conference in North
I have seen that, at the 2011
Carolina, where we met. However, there
were a few cases where the thermograph
showed a worsening of the heat in the
image. Is that an anomaly? Or is that what
happens in what we call a healing crisis,
when something gets worse before it gets
better? How do you explain those cases?
SYL: Yes, something like that. Actually a small
number of people, after using the cream or
taking the water, actually heat up instead of cool
down. When you cool down, we think you are
getting to a healthier state. When you heat up, it
means that when the energy flows again, it’s like
the body saying “I actually need more blood to
heal this.” So, I generally tell people that this is a
slow process. It’s not a magic bullet. It enhances
your own natural healing ability.
Q
Tell me about the cream. That’s used
both alone and with the Double-Helix
Water drops?
SYL: Yes. The stable water clusters are diluted in
the water. In the cream they are concentrated.
They are stronger and used for more localised
things. When you drink the water, it goes to every
part of your body. It helps parts of your body
where you don’t even know you have problems.
The cream is used on particular areas. Let me
explain both of these products. The Double-Helix
Water contains stable water clusters.
We package it in a small bottle, 15 millilitres, half
an ounce, which lasts you about a month. You put
50 drops in one gallon of distilled water and shake
it well. We say to use it in distilled water because
we want the cleanest water available.
So you should avoid any water that has ions,
which will reduce the way it works. I theorise that
the stable water clusters multiply in the water. You
drink a glass of it, six ounces or so, twice a day.
The cream has more concentrated stable water
clusters. You can rub it on a spot where you need
it, say for pain, and you also put it on six spots
that are connected to the meridians. You rub it
in on those spots to enhance your thinking and
so on. There is one spot over each eye, and they
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Chart of the six meridian points on which to apply the double-helix cream.
are connected to where the gallbladder meridian
turns around, about GB 14. Near the front center
of the ears is near San Jiao 21, associated with
the Triple Heater meridian. The points you rub
the cream on at the base of the neck associated
with the stomach meridian 12, which is related to
the functioning of the thyroid and metabolism.
I generally advise rubbing the cream into these
areas three times a day. But you do whatever you
like! I do it myself three times a day.
Qstable water clusters or the
What other kinds of uses do you see for
Double-Helix Water and cream?
SYL: I would really like to see the origin of life
related to double-helix water. As a scientist, that
is my number-one concern. I would love to see
that life evolved from stable water clusters. I
speculate that double-helix water evolved with
amino acids to become DNA. And that is where
modern life might start.
Q
What else can you tell us about stable
water clusters and its applications?
SYL: I think that wherever you find water, you will
find some application. Every aspect of biology
is affected by water, by water clusters. It has
enormous implications for research. As you know,
after DNA was discovered, it was everywhere. You
see it in the newspaper every day, people talking
about DNA. It will be the same for stable water
clusters. Wherever you talk about water, stable
water clusters would have some effect.
Qare doing, or any other healing studies
Tell us about the outcome studies you
you are doing.
SYL: I think the most respectable study was
by Dr. Benjamin Bonavida at UCLA. He is in
the immunology department. He showed that
Double-Helix Water enhanced the immunology of
red blood cells enormously. There is a long paper
of this in the book. You have to put the cells in
water in a petri dish to keep them alive. He put
some samples in normal water, as a control,
and others in the Double-Helix Water—we
gave him several different kinds of Double-Helix
Water, each with slightly different properties.
He found the samples in our water increased
their cytokines, Interluekin 6, Interluekin 12,
greatly. He is still working with us in different
aspects of research. Dr. Norman Shealy, who
is one of the founders of holistic medicine, he
tried our water on ten healthy people—for 45
days each person drank four glasses of DoubleHelix Water—and he found their interferon
gamma was greatly enhanced. So that’s two
orthodox studies. I use thermogprahic images
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to see changes. I may be the only one, but it is
convenient and quick. I did that with autistic
children, a three-month study, and eight of the
eleven children showed improvement according
to both the thermographic images and the
parents’ assessments. For parents it’s pretty clear
if there is an improvement. But we give them
a questionnaire of ten questions to use as an
assessment.
If people, your readers, want to join in our autism
studies, we welcome them. They can go to our
website www.joinautismstudy.net. Yesterday, a
woman called who got hold of our work and
she said that she saw improvements in her child
in only three weeks after using the water and
cream. Her 14-year-old boy improved. She was
so excited, and she wanted to join our studies.
In another case, a two-year-old boy with autism
improved in only one month! He wouldn’t look
at people, even his grandmother. After one
month, he was looking at her. He even looked
at me and spoke to me! He hadn’t before. The
change is large. It’s not a small percentage.
Placebo is usually 20% or so. We see more than
half improve, 60% or 70%. If that many autistic
children are improving, it’s very difficult to negate
it. Of course, improvements seem to go faster the
younger the child is.
We see improvement with many things, most
things. Arthritis. Pain. You don’t need anybody to
tell you anything if you feel better, from arthritis
or pain! Now, however, I am pushing for studying
autism because that is where we can make a
breakthrough that everyone will listen to. I want
Chinese medicine to be a respectable thing! This
theoretically is working through the meridians,
which I see as channels of stable water clusters.
There is no other explanation! Also autism is a big
problem. It’s like AIDS twenty years ago.
Thermographic images of child with Autistic Spectrum Disorder before and after using the Double-Helix Water and cream.
Cooling of the hot “red” areas correlates to meridian energy flow improvement.
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Qusing the water or cream?
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SYL: So far we have not heard of any problems.
The only thing is that it can cause you to detox,
especially if you have mercury or heavy metals in
your system. You can feel itchy. Then you reduce
the dosage. Then slowly increase as you clean out
the toxins from your body.
SYL: Well, we also have another website,
www.health-join-study.net. If you have any kind
of problem, arthritis and so on, you can join our
studies, using our products. We get data, and we
hope that after a year we will have a numerical
answer for you—how many people get better
from arthritis, from this or that. We also welcome
investment for these studies, if anyone would like
to support our work.
Are there any contraindications for
Anything else you would like to tell us
Video Talks on Double-Helix Water
To watch the full video of Dr. Lo’s main presentation on stable water clusters given at the 2011
Bioenergetic Conference, which was offered by Joyce Cary and Integrative Life Solutions, go to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpvGrTgtmRs.
For the two videos of his shorter talk on stable water clusters and acupuncture meridians, go to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugZzIwG6MQ0 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBcqkdRyMMU.
DVDs of all the talks at this three-day conference are available from Integrative Life Solutions
(North Carolina, USA, 336-778-1950; www.integrativelifesolutions.com).
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Integral
Health and
Human
Flourishing
By Elliott S. Dacher, MD
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n the fourth century BC, Aristotle gave a
series of lectures in Athens that became
known as the Nicomachean Ethics in which
he introduced the word “Eudaimonia,” which
is now translated to mean human flourishing—the
innate potential of each individual to live a life of
enduring happiness, penetrating wisdom, optimal
well-being, authentic love and compassion, and
boundless freedom. Of course Aristotle was not
alone in this view of the potential heights of the
human condition. Wise women and men through
time and across diverse cultures have spoken of this
very same pinnacle of human existence.
For example, in the last century, the Indian sage
Aurobindo wrote and spoke about the perfectability
of the human condition. He specifically referred to
what he called the perfection of health. He was,
of course, not referring to health as we define it
in modern times, the absence of the signs and
symptoms of physical disease. He was referring to
health as a state of being rather than as a state
of our biology. He did not measure well-being by
the fickle materiality of our body, but rather by the
character of our human experience. The perfection of
health, he wrote, is something that each individual
can aspire to and realise through personal effort and
can maintain over an entire lifetime.
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In modern times the term “integral health,” an
ancient term that was modernised by Aurobindo
and more recently developed and popularised
by integral philosopher Ken Wilber, refers to
this grand vision of the human possibility. The
integral approach considers the four central
aspects of the human experience—psychospiritual, biological, interpersonal and social. Each
of these aspects of life contributes to health, and
each can as well contribute to the development
of disease. According to integral theory, a
progressive enhancement of health leading to
human flourishing is achieved by developing each
of these areas of life—expanding consciousness,
caring for biological needs, shifting from a
focus on self to a focus on others, and bringing
meaning and service to our social activities. The
end result is not merely reducing the risk of
chronic disease or prolonging life, but rather is
the progressive attainment of optimal well-being.
Inner Development
In modern times the driving force underlying the
expansive vision of integral health and healing
is psychospiritual or inner development—the
awakening and development of consciousness.
There are two reasons for this. First, in modern
times we have denied and devalued inner
development. As a result, for most individuals,
mind and spirit remain relatively undeveloped,
as compared to traditions and cultures that
have emphasised inner development. Second,
the three other aspects of the integral process—
interpersonal, biological and social—develop in
tandem with the growth of consciousness. By
necessity, they move together.
Consider the following premises. Healthy
relationships and a selfless concern for others
require a growth in consciousness. Further
and more subtle advances in our capacity for
self-regulation also rely upon a developed
consciousness. And finally, a shift from
experiencing the world as serving our needs to
viewing ourselves as being in service to the world
cannot be accomplished without attention to
inner development. Without focusing on the
growth of consciousness, the other aspects of our
lives cannot fully develop. It is simply not possible.
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That was the central observation of Aurobindo:
consciousness, achieved through a careful and
precise process of inner development, is the root
of integral health and human flourishing. This
viewpoint does not imply disregarding other
aspects of the human experience, but rather it is
a shift in emphasis and focus that is compelled by
recognition of the pivotal role in modern times of
an awakened consciousness, which allows access
to the expanded capacities required for optimal
health and well-being.
Inner development can be divided into two main
areas: mind training and the development of a
far-reaching wisdom. Mind training focuses on
ridding the mind of its afflictive and negative
emotions and replacing them with healthy mental
attitudes. This includes taming the overactive
mind, developing mindfulness, promoting the
attitude of loving-kindness and attaining basic
insights regarding the workings of the mind.
Wisdom teachings focus on replacing false
beliefs, which underlie afflictive emotions, with
correct understandings. The latter is the basis for
a precise and accurate knowledge of reality that
decisively and permanently liberates human life
from the scourge of all types of stress, distress
and suffering. Although these two aspects of
inner development may appear separate, in
actuality they mutually support each other and
evolve together.
An Experiment in Inner Development
For the past three years, I have been presenting
a ten-week program at a local hospital that
focuses on integral health. We have completed
fourteen sessions with 300 participants. This
effort was initiated with the belief that integral
health—the alleviation of distress and suffering
and the attainment of the qualities of human
flourishing—can be best achieved through
inner development. To this end, the program
emphasised three components—study, reflection
and practice.
The ten weeks are divided into ten areas of study.
These include calming the mind, identifying the
root causes of distress and suffering, addressing
the nature and resolution of afflictive emotions,
cultivating loving-kindness, experiencing work
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as a source of service, perceiving adversity as
opportunity, knowing what to cultivate and
what to abandon in the quest for optimal wellbeing, and related topics. Participants study
these topics through prepared readings and
class handouts. In addition, two kinds of practice
are incorporated into the program: a formal
daily meditation practice as well as a variety of
specific practices to be used in daily life. The
latter include mindfulness, meditative listening,
correct understanding of afflictive emotions,
loving-kindness practices and so on. The point
is to create an integral and integrated tapestry
of consciousness-based study and practice that
utilises all experience as an opportunity to grow
and expand consciousness.
At the current time, we are continuing this core
program and have instituted a second-level
course for those who have developed a stable
meditation practice. Although most of the
participants in this course have had no previous
meditation experience, they have exhibited a
remarkable enthusiasm and persistence in their
efforts. As a result, beneficial changes are seen
within weeks, and they are fairly consistent
among participants. They include a greater
presence to momentary experience, diminished
reactivity, improved relationships, an increasing
sense of well-being, greater understanding and
compassion for others, and, most importantly,
a strong commitment to continue the study
and practices of inner development. We can
only assume that these changes will lead to a
corresponding set of changes in the physical,
relational and social dimensions as well.
What we have learned from this informal
experiment is that it is definitely possible to drive
the entire integral process through consciousnessbased studies. A fully integrated program
aimed at inner development can establish the
foundation for a progressive reduction in distress
and suffering and a simultaneous enhancement
of the quality of life. Over time these changes
become irreversible, like a fruit that ripens and
can no longer return to its unripened state.
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Health-related Research
For more than a century, we have known about
the powerful relationship of body, mind and
spirit. Psychosomatic medicine, biofeedback,
psychoneuroimmunlogy and more recently
neuroscience have extended our understanding
of the mind-body interface and demonstrated
increasingly intricate subtleties of self-regulation.
However, because our understanding of the
mind and consciousness is still quite limited, we
have been unable to fully use this knowledge to
promote optimal well-being and greater health.
In the past decade, Dr. Richard Davidson has
extended our understanding of the subtle mindbody interface in his research facility at the
University of Wisconsin. For many years, Davidson,
studying electrical brain activity and variations in
brain blood flow and metabolic activity, mapped
out areas of the brain that were activated by
negative and positive emotions. He accomplished
this in two ways. First, he looked at the brain
function of individuals who related feelings of
well-being as compared with those who were
disturbed by negative emotions. In effect, he
was comparing those who saw the glass as half
full with those who saw the glass as half empty.
Then he studied the brain function of individuals,
who were shown a series of images ranging from
happy to very disturbing. With this work, he was
able to identify the areas of the brain that became
activated by positive and negative mental states.
Davidson’s research demonstrated that a certain
area of the right side of the brain, specifically the
right prefrontal cortex, is activated by negative
emotions, and a corresponding area of the left
part of the brain, the left prefrontal cortex, is
activated by positive emotions. At first glance, it
appears that we have different brain centres for
positive and negative emotions. In fact, Davidson’s
research suggests that each of us is born with a
certain temperament and disposition, a certain
baseline ratio of left-to-right prefrontal cortex
activity. Some of us are born with more of a
disposition to see the glass as half full and others
to see it as half empty; some of us have relatively
more left-sided activation and some more
right-sided activation. And at any one moment,
depending on our inner experience, our brain can
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shift from one to the other. When we are happy
or content, our left side will take predominance
over our right side, and when we are experiencing
negative emotions, our right prefrontal cortex will
predominate. Davidson called this shift a “state”
change as compared to a more permanent trait. In
other words, such a shift is usually the temporary
result of a particular experience. So although
individuals will “light up” the healthy and happy
left prefrontal cortex as a result of a pleasurable
outer experience, they will in time return to their
baseline disposition.
In July 2003, Davidson reported in Psychosomatic
Medicine the results of a study done on two
groups of employees at a biotechnology firm
who were offered an eight-week course in stress
reduction and relaxation techniques. One group
took the course first, with the other group waiting
their turn. The first group was evaluated before
the course, immediately after the course, and then
four months following its completion through
written assessments of their emotions and anxiety
levels, brain activity and their immune response
to a flu vaccine that was given at the start of the
program. This group was then compared with the
group that was similarly vaccinated for the flu but
still waiting for their course to begin.
Following the course and for another four
months, the participants in the first group showed
a reduction in anxiety and negative emotions
and a corresponding enhancement of well-being
when compared with the group who had not yet
taken the course. This shift in mental state was
correlated with activation of the left prefrontal
cortex, which, as pointed out previously, is
associated with positive emotions. When
compared to the untrained group, the immune
systems of participants who had taken the course
showed a significantly more robust response to
the flu vaccination.
The study mentioned above shows that a
training program focused on inner development
for beginners can immediately and for months
afterward enhance their emotional and physical
well-being. We are discovering that our mental
and physical life are not predetermined and fixed,
and our capacity for health is flexible, dynamic
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and expansive. Therefore, we now know that
the mind is trainable and that robust health can
result from the systematic training of our mental
capacities through planned, systematic inner
development.
Davidson is currently conducting experiments with
highly trained and skilled contemplative scholars
who have made inner development their life’s
work in solitary retreats and monastic settings.
At the time of this writing, we have preliminary
indications of the directions of this research,
and these indications are revolutionary in their
potential significance. Davidson asked these
highly skilled contemplatives to exchange their
“cave” for the Western laboratory. Once hooked
up to sophisticated technology, they were asked
to enter into what for them were well-developed
mental states such as boundless compassion
or pure awareness. The level of activation of
both their left and right prefrontal cortex was
carefully measured with electrical measurements
and functional MRIs and then compared. What
Davidson is discovering is that these Olympians of
mental fitness have stable levels of activation of
the left prefrontal cortex, the site that correlates
with positive emotions, which are way beyond
those of ordinary individuals. We are discovering
that the mind, like the body, is quite plastic, and
it can undergo permanent change when properly
trained. Results are seen in both the short and
long term.
What can no longer be denied is that our
capacity for optimal well-being is dynamic and
that it unfolds simultaneously as we develop the
capacities of our minds. The study of the mind,
its capacities, and the methods and approaches
of inner development are time-tested and
available as complements to our existing efforts at
improving life and health.
Dr Elliott S. Dacher received his medical degree from the
State University of New York−Buffalo and completed postgraduate training at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.
He is board certified in internal medicine. In 1996 he left his
medical practice to focus on research into and the study of
consciousness and health, with a particular focus today in the
practices of integral medicine, human flourishing and optimal
well-being. He teaches and lectures around the world. His
newest book is Aware, Awake, Alive (Paragon House, 2011).
You can learn more at his website, www.elliottdacher.org.
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Conferences of Note
2012
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The Conference Calendar
is a sampling of the notable
conferences taking place across
the globe. It is not an exhaustive
listing. If you have a conference
you would like others to know
about, please email us the
relevant information and we will
evaluate it for inclusion in the
calendar.
APRIL 2012
9-14
Tucson, Arizona
Towards a Science of
Consciousness
www.consciousness.arizona.edu
14-15
Tempe, Arizona
Southwest Conference on
Botanical Medicine
www.botanicalmedicine.org/conferences/
5 - 18
Boston, Massachusetts
9th Annual Nutrition and
Health Conference
JANUARY 2012
19-22
www.NHConference.org
San Diego, California
9th Annual Natural
Supplements Conference
www.scripps.org/events/natural-supplements-anevidence-based-update
28-30
Mumbai, India
19-22
Bellevue, Washington
National Ayurvedic
Medical Association
Conference
http://ayurvedanama.org
19-22
Sydney, Australia
20-22
Reston, Virginia
26th International
Dreams and Imagination:
Conference for Integrative Healing Pathways
Health and Integrative
Conference
Medicine
www.asdreams.org/subidxconfuture.htm
www.integrativehealthconference.com
FEBRUARY 2012
9-11
7th Annual Joint American
Homeopathic Conference
New York, NY
Integrative Healthcare
Symposium
www.ihsymposium.com/11/public/enter.aspx
16-20
Vancouver, Canada
9th Annual Health and
Nutrition Conference
www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.com
27-29
Atlanta, Georgia
24th Annual Symposium
− American Academy of
Medical Acupuncture
www.medicalacupuncture.org
AAAS (American Association for the
Advancement of Science)
www.aaas.org/meetings
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August 2012
MAY 2012
13-15
Jerusalem, Israel
9-12
Durham, North Carolina
2nd Annual International 55th Annual Convention
Conference on Integrative of the Parapsychological
Medicine
Association
www.mediconvention.com
15-18
www.parapsych.org
Portland, Oregon
Integrative Medicine and
Health − International
Research Conference
September 2012
14-17
Naran, Japan
http://imconsortium-congress2012.org
International
Homeopathic Medical
Society Conference
June 2012
www.lmhi.net
13-16
Snow Bird, Utah
American Holistic Nurses
Association
32nd Annual Conference
www.ahna.org/Conference.aspx
22-26
Berkeley, California
International Association
for the Study of Dreams
Annual Conference
www.asdreams.org/subidxconfuture.htm
JULY 2012
2-6
University of Sussex, Brighton, England
16th Annual Meeting −
Association for the Study
of Consciousness
http://theassc.org
22-27
Cape town, South Africa
30th International
Congress of Psychology
21-22
Firenze, Italy
Fifth European Congress
for Integrative Medicine
www.ecim-congress.org
October 2012
28-November 1
San Diego, California
13th Annual Science
and Clinical Application
of Integrative Holistic
Medicine
Jointly sponsored with the American Board of
Integrative Holistic Medicine
(Event info not yet available)
November 2012
2-4
Toronto, Canada
7th IN-CAM Research
Symposium
www.incamresearch.ca
www.icp2012.com
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Medical
Thermal
Imaging
By Kimberly Schipke, MS
Medical thermal imaging is not new—but its
potential positive impact on medicine, both
conventional and complementary, is huge.
Infrared cameras are used to detect changes in
temperature. It is extensively used by the military
for night vision as well as tracking troops on the
ground. Its use in medicine began shortly after
the technology was declassified in the 1960s, and
research has continued to increase our knowledge
of how it can be used to monitor changes in the
physiology of the body. Thermography reveals
the heating and cooling of tissue, blood vessels
and other aspects of the body, alerting healthcare
practitioners to inflammation, nerve damage,
areas of pain and possible disease. The benefits of
thermography are many: disease processes can
be imaged non-invasively, quickly and painlessly;
multiple images can be taken at various angles
without fear of excessive radiation; pregnant
women and children can be screened; changes in
the body and potential health problems can be
detected early, often long before any conventional
medical test could detect them or before
symptoms arise; and ultimately, the effectiveness
of treatment can be monitored over time.
With a database of over 8000 journals published
worldwide, medical thermal imaging has plenty
of research to support its use for non-invasive and
preventative screening, and research continues
to reveal additional uses for the system in the
medical field. It is recognised as a Class I imaging
device by the Food and Drug Administration in
the United States, and interest is continuing to
grow in countries around the world by medical
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Figure 1: Vascular activity related to a tumour can be
monitored to validate the efficacy of cancer therapies.
professionals who are investigating radiation-free
screening. There are many uses for thermography
in the medical field, and I will cover some of the
core applications in this article.
Breast Cancer Screening
Most recently, thermography has been promoted
for use in the early detection of breast cancer.*
For example, the neovascularization of breast
cancer can be seen in the earliest stages when
the tumour outgrows the host blood supply
without subjecting the patient to any pain
or exposure to ionizing radiation (see Figure
1). Clinical thermographers can also monitor
areas under the arms, which mammograms
are unable to image, thereby increasing the
potential for early detection of cancer. In addition,
cancer treatments can be monitored for new
blood vessel formation and recession, and the
physiology of the tumour can be used to help
examine growth.
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Figure 2: Reduction in heat and inflammation after continued
use of progesterone cream.
Cardiovascular Disease Screening
Thermography requires no painful compression
of the breasts, so women with breast implants
especially should consider using this method to
monitor for infections due to implant leakage.
The fatigue rate of the implant encasing material
(approximately ten years) and the length of time
the implants have been within the body affect
their resistance to impact. The annual exposure to
the high compressive force of the mammogram
could cause cracks, which lead to a further
degradation.
Estrogen dominance can cause an increase in
fibrocystic changes in the breast. Progesterone
has been shown to help reduce the effects of
such a hormonal imbalance. The images in Figure
2 show a woman’s breasts before and after
using a topical progesterone cream, revealing the
reduction of heat and inflammation in her breasts
after two months of using the cream.
Medical thermal imaging is a great screening
tool for cardiovascular disease, the leading
cause of death. According to the U.S. National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, almost half of
the people who die of heart attacks have what
is considered a normal cholesterol level. They
also found, upon autopsy, that the majority
died from small cholesterol plaques. Currently
in conventional imaging there is no easy way
to detect these small plaques. Echocardiograms
only detect abnormalities if there is a change
in blood vessel thickness caused by stenosis,
which occurs later in stages of heart disease. In
contrast, thermal imaging can see the shadow of
the inflammation in the carotid artery from this
plaque buildup without any invasive procedures.
The infrared images in Figure 3, of a patient
with normal blood cholesterol levels, clearly
reveals inflammation within the carotid artery,
which can be an early indicator of inflamed
cholesterol deposits or high blood pressure. It’s
easy to see how thermography can be used as an
early indicator that a change in diet or medical
treatments may be necessary. It can also show
other cardiovascular-related problems early in
their development (see Figure 4), when they are
more easily treated or may be prevented.
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Figure 3: Excess heat or inflammation in the carotid arteries
can be an early indicator of heart disease.
Figure 4: Cooler asymmetry over the heart.
A stressed heart requires more blood profusion,
which may be redirected from the cutaneous
area surrounding the heart creating a cooler
asymmetry in the thermal image, as seen in Figure
4. If the problem becomes chronic, the skin
may become slightly thickened over the heart, a
condition that is often reported in cardiovascular
patients. Another use of medical thermal imaging
is in the early detection of diabetes. For example,
Figure 5 shows the “red glove” that is an early
indication of diabetes due to poor circulation in
the extremities, which is usually caused by nerve
inflammation. In later stages, the nerve damage
shows as a “black glove.”
Figure 5: The “red glove” of poor circulation shows before any
actual symptoms of diabetes.
examined for locations of inflammation within
both joints and muscles. Nerve damage can also
be seen, showing up as cold spots over vertebrae
and along affected muscle tissue. Whereas the
anatomy of the body can be monitored by X-ray,
CT scan and MRI, the physiology of an injury
can be monitored by medical thermal imaging.
Both methods are necessary to gain an in-depth
understanding of the body. However, repeated
use of X-ray can be harmful, which is why
medical infrared imaging is a useful option for
routine orthopedic clinical examinations. Figure
6 (see next page) shows an example of an image
made by TotalVision infrared software, which
allows doctors to overlay the skeletal, lymphatic,
circulatory and/or digestive systems to identify
areas of hyperthermal or hypothermal activity.
In a recent study involving over 100 subjects,
researchers found that every joint with clinical
evidence of arthritis had an abnormal thermal
pattern. See Figure 7.**
Orthopedic Screening
Thermography is also an excellent tool for
orthopedic doctors who believe in utilizing noninvasive screening tools for disease prevention
and treatment monitoring. The body can be
Figure 7: Early stages of arthritis in the hand.
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Figure 6: Skeletal overlay of the lower back which gives
doctors an idea of which vertebrae is affected.
Pain is often evaluated subjectively on a scale
of one to ten, and its precise location is often
hard to pinpoint; however, with medical infrared
imaging, temperature differentials can easily
be measured and the areas of concern can
be identified. Using a radiometric infrared
camera, the absolute skin surface temperature is
measured, so once a therapy is tried and the area
re-imaged, any reduction in temperature indicates
that the therapy has been beneficial: a onedegree reduction in heat in an area is considered
a significant and therapeutic change.
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insight into the dynamics of energy flow during
treatment. In Figure 8, inflammation is present in
the person’s knee, as indicated by the colour red.
Acupuncture needles were inserted and images
were taken every five minutes. Note the reduction
in inflammation over time, which not only
confirms to the practitioner that the treatment
was successful, but also visually shows the patient
the benefit of using acupuncture.
Acupuncture Imaging
Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese
medicine that introduces thin needles into the
body to influence energetic channels known as
meridians. Thermography allows acupuncturists
both to pinpoint areas of focus and also to gain
Figure 8: Images taken every five minutes after acupuncture needling show the
reduction of heat associated with inflammation, evidence for both practitioner and
patient of the efficacy of the acupuncture treatment.
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Thermography has even proven useful as a
research tool, and in this respect it is showing
great promise by providing “evidence” for
CAM claims and the efficacy, or not, of CAM
therapies. Figure 9 shows a thermal image of an
acupuncture meridian. Klaus-Peter Schlebusch
and his colleagues were researching the location
of meridians and tried combining moxibustion
and thermal imaging as a method of actually
visually revealing these channels. They were
successful: the thermal image clearly reveals the
bladder meridian, which was the area to which
moxibustion was applied. (See the Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Feb
2005, for the full story.)
Conclusion
Although thermography has proven itself as a
powerful research and screening tool, it cannot
be used diagnostically without specific training.
Just as X-rays and other kinds of medical images
require a doctor’s interpretation to make a
diagnosis, thermal images must be read by a
fully trained medical professional. Professional
interpretation services are available by licensed,
insured clinical thermographers, who write
detailed reports for the doctors/practitioners and
their clients. Even with this caveat, however, it
is clear that medical thermal imaging can play
a key role in mapping temperature patterns
in the body to help reveal disease or the
potential development of a disease. The benefits
are substantial: not only is thermography
non-invasive and relatively quick, but in its
preventative capacity it can help cut healthcare
costs by alerting people to problems before
expensive surgeries are needed or a lifelong
dependency on pharmaceuticals results because a
health issue has become chronic.
*Thermography is not a standalone device/treatment and
does not replace mammography or any other diagnostic
device or examination and is recommended as an adjunct to
mammography.
**Salisbury, R.S.; Parr, G.; De Silva, M.; Hazelman, B.L.; PageThomas, D.P. “Heat distribution over normal and abnormal
joints thermal patterns and quantification.” Ann Rheu Dis.
(October 1983): 42(5): 393-399.
Figure 9: Moxibustion combined with infrared imaging reveals part of the
bladder meridian.
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Kimberly Schipke, MS, is a biomedical engineer with more
than six years of experience in tissue engineering and
biomechanics. She has worked for an Independent Review
Board and helped oversee major pharmaceutical trials. She
currently develops protocols for integrative therapies to high
ethical standards and consults with research laboratories
on standard operating procedures. She is a specialist in
medical thermal imaging, certified by the Institute for the
Advancement of Medical Thermography, and gives lectures
and trainings at conferences around the world. If you are
interested in learning more about thermography and the types
of systems available, please contact her at:
[email protected]. For research articles and other
resources about medical thermal imaging visit the website for
the Institute for the Advancement of Medical Thermography
at www.iamtonline.org.
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FIGHTING CANCER
WITH VITAMINS AND
ANTIOXIDANTS
By Kedar N. Prasad, PhD, and
K. Che Prasad, MS, MD
Reviewed by Joan Parisi Wilcox
Book Review
In this revised and expanded edition of Fighting Cancer
with Vitamins and Antioxidants, the Prasads provide
us with an enormously valuable resource. Using the
latest research, they cover just about every aspect of
how vitamins and antioxidants impact health and
well-being. This is not only a book about a natural
approach to preventing and treating cancer, but is an
extraordinary resource about every aspect of using
supplements to enhance health and treat diseases
of all kinds. The authors are extremely thorough,
covering topics such as misconceptions about cancer,
scientific controversies about the use and effectiveness
of vitamins and antioxidants, recommendations about
how to best use micronutrients to boost health and
well-being, and how micronutrients might counteract
damage caused by less-than-healthy lifestyle choices.
If you are looking for easy answers, however, you
might be disappointed. While the authors write with
clarity, they are not looking to present a “quick fix”
program. They are quite careful to present a balanced
view on what science knows and doesn’t know about
the effects of micronutrients on the body and health.
There are a lot of unknowns and controversies. But
that is what I find most useful about this book. After
reading it, I felt incredibly educated and, thus, able to
make wiser choices about how supplementation might
work for me. Of course, lifestyle plays a significant role
in health, and the authors cover this aspect of using
micronutrients as well. They do make substantive
recommendations, although you will have to read
carefully to know how to apply them, as there are a lot
of variables dependent on individual considerations.
While some readers who want easy and fast answers
may find this aspect of the book less than satisfying,
others, like me, will respect the authors’ ability to lead
us through myriad choices so that we know the pros
and cons and can make intelligent health decisions.
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If you are dealing with cancer, this book provides
valuable information about how best to use
micronutrients in conjunction with many different
kinds of conventional and alternative treatments,
and also provides contraindications for the use of
supplementation. As the cover of the book says,
this is a program for “maximizing” the benefits of
supplementation and “minimizing” the side effects
from chemotherapy and radiation. It also discusses how
supplementation may be able to help us all counteract
the effects of X-rays, radiation and electrosmog from
cells phones, frequent air travel and other aspects of
modern technology and lifestyles.
I highly recommend this book if you want to get up to
speed on the science of micronutrient supplementation
without reading an academic tome. The authors
provide reliable and current science with clarity and
in easily digestible chunks. The layout in sections and
subsections makes it easy to read, and the graphs
and charts provide summaries that will help you make
personal decisions about how supplementation can
enhance your wellness program.
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to demonstrate the various ways that emotions and
ego—self-identify—can display outwardly and impact
on us and our world. The Twin Towers, obviously, also
metaphorically encode the “twoness” of our
brains/psychology: the body and mind, the
subconscious and conscious minds, and the functions
of the left and right sides of our brains.
By Peter Baumann and Michael W. Taft
Reviewed by Joan Parisi Wilcox
Metaphysics tells us that what we see in ourselves is
what we see in the world. Psychology seconds that
view. In Ego, Baumann and Taft tell us why this is true.
Theirs is a detailed, engaging discussion of the stages
of personal development, of which this review can only
hope to provide a glimpse.
The authors examine how we come to form a sense of
self—a self-identity—from an evolutionary standpoint,
leading us through three phases of conceptual
development: the pre-conceptual (the pre-personal,
where survival needs trump and we operate mostly
from the subconscious), the conceptual (where we
develop a sense of personal self controlled by the ego
and can plan, decide, act with conscious awareness)
and the post-conceptual (moving beyond the
limitations of the ego and boundaries of all kinds to a
post-personal awareness). These stages are reflected
not only in ourselves, but in nations and cultures as
well, which is why to transform our world we have to
first transform ourselves. The authors believe we are in
the midst of a shift from a predominately conceptual
sense of self and worldview (which limits and separates
us) to a post-conceptual one, an evolution that is
moving us toward a more enlightened way of being.
They use the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and
the collapse of the World Trade Center towers (the Twin
Towers) as illustrative of the phases of ego development
Our evolution continues, moving us from a narrow
sense of self-identity to a more expansive sense of
social identity. As we change, so do our cultural and
technological environments and like a snake swallowing
its tail, the social and technological environments then
change us. The rise of our “connectedness” is not only
psychological but technical, as the World Wide Web,
cell phones, social media and the like break us out of
our self-imposed imprisonment and unite us in ways
that further our evolutionary journey toward a sense
of oneness. Cultures around the world, the authors
posit, are in the early stages of such a revolution,
which by its very nature is dynamic, proceeding in
fits and starts, experiencing leaps forward and steps
backward. They explain that “Just as the power of
the conceptual evolution lay in its ability to orient us
away from the body and toward a conceptual mind,
the enlightenment revolution may usher in an era of
reintegration of body and mind.” They continue, “As
a species, we will be increasingly aware of what is
conducive for humans to flourish; we will be willing to
take the steps to make it happen for all human beings.
This is when the enlightenment revolution will become
fully apparent.”
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EGO: THE FALL OF
THE TWIN TOWERS
AND THE RISE OF AN
ENLIGHTENED HUMANITY
Our psychological evolution, the authors argue,
is bottom up, not top down. That is, emotions
come from the body, not the brain. This discussion
is fascinating in and of itself, although it serves
only as their starting point, showing us the many
ways we act from a subconscious survival mode
(which worked for early humans) and how vestiges
of this mode of being linger today, affecting us in
ways we might not be aware of. They move up the
psychological ladder of evolution to the development
of the ego and the personal notion of self, which
brought with it a conceptual revolution based on
beliefs (judgments, suppositions, biases, defensive
reactions, and the like). While fear served us and our
survival at the pre-conceptual stage of our evolution,
it limits us today, for many of our fears have nothing
to do with physical survival—they work to preserve
our self-constructed, ego-based sense of personal
identity, often to the detriment of others’ well-being
and to that of the community at large. That said,
the conceptual revolution also made it possible for
beneficial advancements, such as through explosions in
knowledge, science and technology that have allowed
most of us to enjoy a state of health, prosperity, safety
and peace of mind that was unthinkable to humans
only a few hundred years ago.
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Integral Theory
as the New Face
of Healthcare
By Niki Gratrix
A
s most of us know, orthodox medicine
is challenged when it comes to
treating chronic, complex illness, the
types that take up by far the most
time and money in orthodox medicine. However,
in orthodox medicine not only is the mind-body
connection still mostly ignored, but treatments
often address symptoms rather than causes.
Moreover, emphasis is placed on germ theory and
genetic determinism, and the physical body is
mechanistically reduced to individual organs and
systems, spawning specialists who can
easily lose the “big picture” of the body and
often forget there is a living, breathing person
who is suffering.
While there is a move toward integrative
medicine, it is slow in coming and is still mostly
embraced by those who already are proponents
or practitioners of complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM), or what is often called holistic
medicine. However, the CAM world has its own
type of bias, including reductionism, where
CAM therapists can become fixated on their
own modality and see everything through that
particular lens of treatment. CAM practitioners
also often work in isolation, which makes it
hard to birth a truly integrative medicine. I once
heard the director of the Institute for Functional
Medicine (IFM) in the US say that trying to get
CAM practitioners together was like “trying to
herd cats.”
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Integrative physician and author Dr. Dietrich
Klinghardt summed up the issues for the CAM
world globally in this excerpt of a Clinical Rounds
interview conducted in 2006. (Full interview
is available at www.klinghardtacademy.com).
As a bit of background first, Dr. Klinghardt is
considered a genius by many of his peers and
as the “practitioner’s practitioner” in general by
those who know his work. He was the recipient
of the Physician of the Year Award in 2007 from
the Global Foundation of Integrative Medicine. He
trained as a medical doctor and psychologist in
the rigorous tradition of German medical schools
and completed PhD work exploring how the
autonomic nervous system is involved in immune
system disorders. Although he is a proponent of
CAM, as a life-long sufferer of Lyme’s disease he
also embraced the findings of biochemistry. In
the interview excerpt below, Dr. Klinghardt speaks
about the perceived schism between the orthodox
biochemical model and the more physics-based
holistic model, suggesting that working together
is the best solution.
“DK: America is the land of biochemistry . . . and
Germany and Russia are the countries of physics,
then there’s the Eastern countries of religion .
. . when we bring all the different [countries]
together, that’s when you can really talk about
holistic medicine. What rubs me the wrong
way is people calling their medicine integrative
medicine—all they are doing is biochemistry—
that is not integrative medicine for me. . . .
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There are people like Jeffrey Bland [founder of the
IFM], so we have a lot of geniuses out there in
biochemistry, but they are also realising it’s a part
of the truth, it’s not the whole truth.
“[Most physicians think research in quantum
physics has] never come up with a single practical
solution. And underneath that is a field of very
very solid people that have developed solutions
that really work. I’m saying they are here. We
work with psychology, micro-currents, lasers and
infrared devices very very effectively . . . and then
we need the biochemistry. We need everything
we know in biochemistry to support that, but
biochemistry on its own has not been enough.
“People should know how to run a good
biochemically based detox programme but when
it stops working and nothing comes out people
are falsely assuming they are done, and what it
means is that the biochemistry has exhausted
its capabilities and it’s time to shift to energy
medicine or a psychologically based approach
just for a little bit, and then you return to your
biochemistry and it will work again.
“Interviewer: But in order for [biochemically
focused practitioners] to really accept some of
these techniques they have to open their mind
a little away from that reductionist biochemical
paradigm?
“DK: . . .Americans in general are overeducated
in biochemistry and undereducated in physics.
When I’m in Germany I say the opposite! Listen
you guys are overeducated in physics and you’re
undereducated in biochemistry—you should learn
something from the Americans!”
You might agree with Dr. Klinghardt, as I do, that
a synthesis in approach is what is called for in the
“new healthcare.” We all would be well-served by
a truly holistic integral model of medicine—one
that not only brings CAM therapists together,
but also can provide a framework to support and
recognise the very best of both orthodox and
CAM medicine.
I believe that we already have this model—called
the Integral Theory approach—and it’s been
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developed over a lifetime of work by American
philosopher Ken Wilber. In addition to Wilber’s
nearly two dozen books, many about Integral
Theory, there is a peer-reviewed academic journal
dedicated to its ongoing development and
application in the world of medicine, business,
the environment, politics, economics, religion,
psychology, psychiatry, education and more.
I don’t believe in constantly reinventing the
wheel; rather I think we should stand on the
shoulders of the greats such as Dr. Klinghardt
and Ken Wilber, and develop their work as new
insights and scientific research clarify and expand
our overall understanding. So I am delighted
to introduce Integral Theory, as it applies to
healthcare and medicine, with readers of
Quantum Health.
The Integral Theory Approach
Integral Theory is a “theory of everything” in the
universe, so in effect it can be used to understand
everything that could possibly be impacting us as
humans, including our health. The place Wilber
starts is with the ancient model known as the
Great Chain of Being. People have heard the
phrase “body, mind, spirit” but may not know
where it originated. It’s part of what is termed
“perennial wisdom,” a stream of philosophical
thought that has persisted for centuries, recurring
independent of epoch or culture and thus
pointing towards a universal truth. The bodymind-spirit view is based on the traditional Great
Chain of Being philosophy, which encompasses
up to five levels of being: matter, body, mind,
soul and spirit. In this article I will use, with
permission, Dr. Klinghardt’s illustrations of this
ancient hierarchical model as applied to the five
levels of healing are shown in Figure 1.
In the ancient model it is assumed that matter is
at the base of everything and that consciousness
rises out of matter towards the higher levels
as part of the ongoing evolution of life. In the
diagram, level 1 (Physical Body) would represent
organisms with very little consciousness, such
as one-celled creatures. We then proceed up
each level to higher-order mammals as evolution
becomes more complex. The reptilian brain and
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Level 5
Causal
Level 4
Intuitive Body
Level 3 Mental Body
Level 2 Emotional Body
Level 1 Physical Body
L5
L4
L3
L2
L1
Figure 1: Diagram of the Great Chain of Being as used by Dr.
Deitrich Klingardt in his 5 Levels of Healing Model*
basic emotions emerge at Level 2 (Emotional
Body), then humans with the ability to think
at Level 3 (Mental Body), and continuing to
even higher levels where there is an increase in
consciousness such that humans become aware
of themselves as spiritual beings having a physical
experience and so on. In this way, the model
encapsulates the movement from the objective
external world to the increasingly subjective nonmaterial world of consciousness.
This Great Chain of Being could be called a
“holarchy” because each senior level goes beyond
its junior level and envelopes or “nests” the lower
levels. In this way each level is both a whole onto
itself and also is part of a greater whole—think
atoms, cells, molecules, systems, organs, for
example. As we humans evolved, we kept our
physical bodies, which allowed our emotional
bodies to develop, and progressed to developing
mental and intuitive capacities and so on.
There are three important adjustments to the
”steps” or levels of this model that Ken Wilber
made to bring it up to date with modern science
and medicine, and post-modern philosophy.
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1: Defining Internals and Externals
The first adjustment Wilber made was to point
out that this evolutionary journey that seems
to move from external matter to internal
subjective consciousness is not quite accurate.
Wilber proposed that matter is not at the
base of everything, although it is “external” to
everything. Each level of evolution, he said, can
be experienced internally (through consciousness)
and externally through its objective empirical
observation. For example, the material Physical
Body can be experienced by humans internally
through our five senses (sight, touch, taste,
hearing, smell) and it can be externally studied
through biochemistry and structural mechanics.
The next level, the Emotional Body, can be
experienced internally through our emotions and
externally through conventional physics and other
sciences (e.g., as the “body electric”). At Level 3,
humans internally experience the Mental Body
through thoughts and attitudes, and this aspect
of being can be studied externally through the
biophoton field and quantum physics. At higher
levels, humans can experience internal expanded
states of consciousness that may one day be
measured using instruments that can detect
energy that is outside of the electromagnetic
spectrum.
So Wilber, in effect, splits the pyramid in half
down the middle, making a left side for internal
subjective experience and a right side for its
external objective correlations. (As he continued
to develop his model, adding in the factors of
individual experience and group experience, he
ended up with a square, what he calls the Four
Quadrant model, as shown in Figure 2. (The
bottom quadrants are discussed in Step 2 later in
this article.)
In terms of medicine, aspects from the top
right and top left quadrants can be affecting a
patient’s health and so require the appropriate
tools for healing in relation to that quadrant.
When we approach our patients, we would
ideally want to consider the tools of internal
consciousness and awareness (i.e., psychology)
from the top left quadrant or tools related to the
external correlation (such as laser therapy, microwww.quantumhealthmagazine.com
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Internal Subjective − Individual
External Objective – Individual
Level 7
Supermental
Level 7
Non-dual
Level 6
Overmental
Level 6
Causal Body
Level 5
Higher mind: Intuition, dreams,
Level 5
Higher Mind (psychic field)
Level 4
Mind: Thoughts, beliefs, attitudes
Level 4
Mental Body (psychic field)
Level 3
Emotional: Sexual, feelings,
resentment, anger, love, grief,
fear
Level 3
Astral: Prana, meridiens, nadis, chi,
chakras, aura, reptilian brain stem,
quantum physics, biophoton field
Level 2
Vitality, energy
Level 2
Level 1
Physical Body: five senses−sight,
touch, hearing, taste, smell
Etheric: Nervous system, body
electric, biophoton field
Level 1
Gross Physical Body: Biochemistry
and structural mechanics, atoms,
molecules, cells, tissues, organs,
systems, organisms
Internal Intersubjective Group − Cultural
❏
Relationship between patient
and physician
❏
Support and understanding from
friends, family
❏
Cultural understanding and
beliefs around the illness,
prejudices
❏
Cultural beliefs around treatment
modalities
External Interobjective Group – Social
❏
Financial support from the NHS
❏
Financial support through
insurance companies
❏
Environmental toxin−pesticides,
chemicals
❏
Electrosmog, geopathic stress
❏
Sunlight
❏
Access to information about health,
such as the Internet
❏
Group emotional and mental fields
Figure 2: Ken Wilber’s four-quadrant model of Integral Theory as applied to medicine
nutrient therapies, diet, and drug therapy). Each
type of therapy is an important “partial truth,”
but not necessarily the whole truth.
Step 2: Towards the Four-Quadrant
Model
The second step in Wilber’s reformulation was
to identify which types of subtle energies are
associated with each level of consciousness or
“body.” It is this aspect of sorting out the levels
that has led to the most confusion in popular
literature. In a brilliant interview in issue 12
of Quantum Health, Marco Bischof, a leading
scholar in the field of energy medicine, discusses
an exception he takes to Lynn McTaggart’s
bestselling book The Field, saying “the problem
with the book is that she doesn’t discriminate
between the different levels that she describes.
For her it’s just one big field, and scientifically
that is not a good concept. Because the different
types of fields that she is writing about are at very,
very different levels ontologically. . . .There are a
hierarchy of levels in the human organism, starting
with the material levels of the particles and solid
body, and then there are electromagnetic fields
such as biophotons . . . and then there are nonelectromagnetic fields. . . .”
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Wilber points out in his model that the highest
spiritual body (or God) cannot be equated with
the quantum vacuum, as McTaggart and others
suggest, because as soon as something we
consider to be infinite is defined, it becomes
dualistic, that is, we can only understand it
because of its opposite. In other words, Spirit
cannot be defined by quantum physics or
anything else because it is beyond science and
even beyond the mind, words and explanations.
Thus, Wilber posits that the quantum vacuum
is prana, and so he categorises it as part of the
astral level (top right quadrant of Figure 2).
Wilber explains: “The vacuum potential, then, is
part of the relative, finite, manifest realm. For just
that reason, it can be studied by science. It is a
reality that, in at least some ways, is apart from
other realities; it has qualities; it has quantities;
it has dimensions. None of those statements can
be predicated of [Spirit], in any way other than
poetic metaphors. However, precisely because
the etheric, astral, and psychic fields are indeed
part of the manifest realm, they are the proper
object of the study of science. No contradiction
is involved in saying that the quantum vacuum
is the protrusion into the gross realm of its
immediate senior, implicate order: namely,
prana.”**
Step 3: Social and Cultural Context
of Wilber’s Model
The final step Wilber made to expand upon the
Great Chain of Being model was to add the two
bottom quadrants, which reveal the group or
plural view, rather than the individual experience
or perception. These two lower quadrants,
particularly the lower left one, are informed by
the philosophies of academic post-modernism,
cultural contextualism and the sociology of
knowledge. The lower right quadrant is informed
more by systems theory, which reveals the
interconnectedness of nature and takes a larger
“ecological” view. If you partition the quadrants
of the square into a left side and right side, then
you can easily see that the top left quadrant is the
“I” quadrant, the bottom left the “we” quadrant,
and the two right-hand quadrants (top and
bottom) are the “its” quadrants.
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Applying Integral Theory to Medicine
Apart from taking into account environmental
toxins and the doctor-patient relationship, many
clinicians often ignore the wider social and
cultural contexts of illness, often because they are
outside their arena of control. But it is important
to understand these factors. Here is how the
quadrants become particularly useful. If, for
example, a patient comes to you with depression,
you could treat him/her a number of ways. You
could use psychology (upper left quadrant) or try
to address the state of brain neurotransmitters
(upper right quadrant). But there are other
considerations. What if the patient is depressed
because she feels oppressed living in a culture
that actively suppresses women (lower left
quadrant)? Or what if she lives in chronic stress
due to poverty (lower right quadrant)? By
considering each of the four quadrants (aspects
of being and experience), you can achieve a more
“integral” view of what may be happening with
this patient.
Wilber’s Integral theory is based on the
understanding that everything affects everything
in what he terms the “Kosmos,” that any event
or occurrence will be a whole in itself and also
part of some greater whole at a higher level,
and that it will have four aspects to it—some
aspects of each of the four quadrants. Therefore,
to understand anything fully we need what
Wilber calls an “All Quadrant All Level” approach,
which he shortens to the acronym AQAL. (It is
far beyond the scope of this article to articulate
the full philosophical background to the Integral
Theory, but for those readers who are interested
I recommend reading as a start point Wilber’s
introduction to his overall theory in A Brief History
of Everything.)
In its relevance to medicine, and to CAM in
particular, “integral” means “leaving nothing
out.” As stated, the idea behind Integral Theory
as it applies to medicine is that we take an All
Quadrant All Level approach to health, which
allows practitioners to be aware of all possible
factors that could be implicated in a patient’s
health problem. Thus, a more integral approach
will be a more successful one. As mentioned, the
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terms “holistic” or “integrative” are often vague
and their meanings and practical applications can
vary dramatically from practitioner to practitioner.
If there is any “blindness” to working with
the four-quadrant integral approach it is that
practitioners can become overly focused on one
quadrant, for example the top right quadrant.
This is called quadrant absolutism. It can be tricky.
For instance, even if you take a systems approach
to the human body—no longer viewing the body
as mechanistic and segmented into individual
organs and systems—but you still approach
health only or mostly from the external objective
approach of biochemistry and Newtonian physics,
ignoring the internal subjective state of the
patient and the social and cultural contexts, then
you will still not have moved out of the top right
quadrant!
In addition, if you focus mostly on the two
right hand quadrants, which include the wider
environmental context (e.g., recommending
detoxification from environmental and chemical
pollutants) you may think you are working in a
“holistic” way. However, Wilber’s model suggests
you are still suffering from a form of subtle
reductionism, ignoring the internal aspects of
the patient as well as the cultural group internal
environment.
When it comes to health, practitioners can
also overly focus on psychology in the top left
quadrant, thinking this is all that is needed,
downplaying the role and importance of genes,
environmental toxins, biochemistry, diet and so
on. Still other practitioners tend to disregard
anything non-CAM-related, such as drugs and
surgery; however, the integral model suggests
that we use the best of orthodox medicine where
appropriate. However, as Dr. Klinghardt points
out, there also can be “level absolutism” in terms
of over-reliance only on biochemistry, where
quantum physics and subtle energies are ignored.
This can also occur in the top left quadrant, in
which psychological approaches fall, so that the
only focus is on, perhaps, mental aspects (e.g.,
using only neurolinguistic programming) and not
considering other modalities, such as those that
focus on emotional trauma release.
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The Integral Theory approach does not mean that
practitioners need to become experts in many
fields. It suggests, instead, that they become
an “integrally informed” practitioner, meaning
that they develop an appreciation for all factors
that may be affecting a patient’s health, which
may involve referring patients to others with the
relevant knowledge. It means they maintain a
larger view, knowing how they fit into the wider
picture so they can discover the strengths and
limitations of their own modality.
The Integral Theory approach to health ultimately
means that practitioners must change first before
they can change the lives of their patients. As
such, it is the awareness of the practitioner that
counts. In the face of exciting developments in
quantum physics and subtle energy medicine,
it has never been more important that CAM
practitioners cultivate internal states of
compassion and awareness as part of their
ongoing professional development. This is a key
to CAM practitioners avoiding the shortcomings
of orthodox medicine with its over-dependence
on professional objectivity and tendency toward
emotional sterility. Wilber’s Integral Theory
can help all of us become more well-rounded
CAM practitioners so that we can in turn more
effectively guide our patients in their own
self-healing.
*Fundamental Teachings of Deitrich Klinghardt DVD training
course on the 5 Levels of Healing is available from
www.Klinghardtacademy.com.
**See excerpt G from the as-yet-unpublished Volume 2 of the
Kosmos Trilogy at http://wilber.shambhala.com.
Niki Gratrix is the UK’s leading nutrition therapist treating
CFS/ME and related illnesses. She is also a leading mindbody writer and spiritual teacher. She speaks internationally
on mind-body approaches to chronic complex illness and in
2005 she co-founded the Optimum Health Clinic based on
Ken Wilber’s Integral Approach to healthcare which won an
industry award for Outstanding Practice in 2009. Niki now
runs her own thriving practice for CFS/ME patients
(www.NikiGratrixEnergy.com), runs courses for practitioners
in mind-body approaches to complex illness (www.
expertpractitioner.com), and teaches about Co-Creation with
the Higher Self (www.NikiGratrix.com).
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Science in the News
Snippets from New Scientist
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New Scientist, a British weekly science magazine for the general public, is chock full of interesting
articles each week. The November 5-11, 2011 (volume212/no 2837) issue had these particularly
interesting health news items:
Aspirin Against Cancer—Aspirin, especially
low-dose aspirin, has been touted as a
preventative measure against heart disease,
stroke and other health problems. Now it is being
looked at closely as a cancer fighter. Lisa Geddes’
article “Cancer no match for humble aspirin”
details the latest research on “chemoprevention,”
or the use of common drugs to reduce cancer
risks. She cites a study from The Lancet that
“showed that aspirin dramatically reduces the risk
of developing colorectal cancer in people with a
family history of the disease.” Other researchers
have “found that a daily dose of 75 mg of aspirin
for more than five years reduced the risk of dying
from all cancers by 34 percent.” The researchers
decided the benefits of taking aspirin as a cancer
prevention strategy made so much sense that
they adopted it themselves. One of them, Peter
Rothwell, of the University of Oxford, said that
“up until now, the main reason to take aspirin
was to prevent vascular events. I think it will
become clear that cancer prevention is the main
benefit of aspirin in healthy middle-aged people.”
Some medical professionals, however, caution
that there can be risks to some individuals taking
daily aspirin, even in low doses, so individuals
should consult with their primary healthcare
professional before adopting this strategy.
Transplant Cancer Warning—A study originally
published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association (vol. 306, page 1891) revealed a
disturbing rise in cancer rates among those
people who have had organ transplants. While
the transplant may have saved the recipient’s life,
it also doubled that person’s risk of developing
cancer. The study took place in the United States
between 1987 and 2008, looking at the cancer
rate for 175,000 organ transplant patients. Their
rate of cancer was twice that of the general
population.
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In terms of treating Alzheimers, however,
this research has prompted Mario Trelles,
medical director of
the Vilafortuny
Medical Intitute,
in Cambrils,
Spain, to say,
“The techniques
described could
help to regulate and
even stop
the appearance
of this
disease.”
Delivering Compassionate
Health Care
When Salmaan Sana was a medical student,
he realized he was burning out because of the
type of education he was receiving, which was
dispassionate and urged students to learn to
emotionally detach from patients so they could
provide objective care. But Salmaan thought
that approach was the opposite of what made
a good doctor. Knowing he wanted more
contact with patients and a more empathic
relationship with them, he became active in
student and other organizations to change
medical education and the healthcare field in
general. Today, he is part of Compassion for
Care, an organization dedicated to changing
the face of medicine by making compassion
the number-one priority for all health
practitioners. You can read the Compassion
for Care charter and get involved by going
to www.compassionforcare.com. You can
watch Salmaan’s TEDxMaastrick talk online
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaTYxQds4&feature=player_embedded#at=178.
Science in the News
Novel Treatment for Alzheimers—Belle Dumé
reports that, as odd as it may sound, green tea
and red light might be the perfect combination
to treat Alzheimers. Together they are able to
reduce, and even destroy, the beta-amyloid brain
plaques that are correlated to this disease. Green
tea contains epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a
compound that has been found to inhibit betaamyloid. However, when the cells bathed in EGCG
were exposed for one minute to pulses of red
light at the wavelength of 670 nanometres, the
amount of beta-amyloid in cells was dramatically
reduced, by up to 60 percent. (Even using the red
light alone reduced cell levels of beta-amyloid by
20 percent.) The red light stimulates mitochondria
in a way that initiates a process that increases
the permeability of the cell membrane barrier,
allowing drugs and other compounds, such as
the EGCG, easier entrance into the cell. Andrei
Sommer, of the University of Ulm, Germany,
carried out the initial research, which is creating
excitement on many fronts, as using red light may
help to more easily transport all kinds of other
drugs and therapeutic substances into cells.
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BPA Plastics and
Behavioral Problems
Nancy Walsh, staff writer at Medpage Today
(www.medpagetoday.com) reports that foetal
exposure to BPA (bisphenol A), a compound
commonly used in the production of plastic
items—from the thermal paper on which credit
cards and cash register receipts are printed to
water bottles to food storage containers and
packaging to medical equipment—has been
correlated to behaviour problems in children as
young as age 3, especially in girls. Joe Braun PhD,
and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public
Health report in the journal Pediatrics that for
every tenfold increase in an expectant mother’s
urinary level of BPA, there was an associated
increase in correlated behaviour problems in
children. The researchers are unable to explain
why girls seem to be much more adversely
affected by this gestational exposure than boys,
although they cautioned that their findings are
preliminary because their sample size was small
(244 children). Since almost all of us are exposed
to BPA, however, this study lends credence to
other studies that suggest BPA is harmful to
health—for all of us and not just for fetuses.
Recommendations for reducing exposure to BPA
include “avoiding canned and packaged foods,
receipts, and polycarbonate bottles with the
recycling symbol 7.”
Click here to
find out more
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Bringing CAM
to Community
Medicine
By Jody James, LAc, Dipl. OM (NCCAOM)
A
cross-section of our community sits
around me in our small acupuncture
and massage clinic. In the first
recliner is an underemployed estate
agent, age 61, with chronic arthritis pain of
the hands. Next to her is a 35-year-old day
labourer from Guatemala who was referred by
his physician for an acute shoulder problem
that has not responded to medication. Adjacent
to him sits a teacher who has not been able to
work since the onset of her fibromyalgia ten
years ago. Across from her is a 50-year-old with
early stage diabetic foot neuropathy. Last is a
college student with debilitating migraines that
interfere with her social and academic life.
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Looking at Sonoma County’s tourist brochures, which highlight
the area’s acres of wineries, posh estates and beautiful countryside
and coastline, one might not guess the magnitude of the need for
affordable health services. Yet, as in many communities across the
nation, the economic downturn and high cost of living have left a trail
of distress among our friends, neighbours and families. For those living
on welfare or fixed incomes, healthcare choices are few.
The bright side of the challenge is the commitment of local
organisations and those with means to support and empower
community members who find themselves in a state of lack. Not
handout or band-aid solutions, our next-generation medical options
encourage patients to take charge of their health by becoming
educated, attending support groups, making more appropriate lifestyle
choices and, most importantly, partnering with providers of multiple
medical disciplines, Western and non-traditional, whom they feel fit
their values and needs. An effective way to encourage patient self-care
is to offer choices.
How We Make It Work
What does this healthcare option mean to someone living on $1,000
per month? With two-thirds of our patient base living at or below
poverty level, how do these folk access services not covered by MediCal,
Medicare or subsidy programs?
These questions were solved in part three months ago when our
community-style acupuncture and massage clinic teamed up with
the Forestville’s community medical clinic, one of six satellite clinics
operated by a local non-profit. Our clinics operate independently but
work together to provide care for patients. One afternoon a week,
I and other practitioners from my clinic see a group of very low-paying
patients referred by the non-profit clinic. These patients pay only $5
to $15 for acupuncture or massage treatments, and we practitioners
provide these services at this low cost in exchange for using the
non-profit clinic’s conference rooms for our usual community clientele,
who pay $20 to $60 sliding scale per visit. In four hours, we can see
about twenty patients; I treat four acupuncture patients in an hour.
I am a California-licensed and nationally certified practitioner; my
massage therapists are a certified massage therapist and upon occasion
a supervised massage school extern.
“
“I’m constantly amazed at the
degree of gratitude these patients
express. Caring and gentleness
are a valued part of their massage
experience. Some of my clients
say having this appointment
to look forward to keeps them
from feeling despondent and
alone in their struggle. Being out
of pain for even a day or days
gives them renewed hope. I look
forward to the deepening trust we
develop over a four- to six-week
period, knowing they’ve perhaps
experienced a single important
step toward getting back on their
game.”
—Cairyl Gardner, Certified Massage
Therapist
“As a first time patient of
acupuncture, this was an amazing
experience that provided results I
hoped for.”
—C.M.
“Go figure! I got to spend more
than seven minutes discussing
my health concerns. That’s one of
the things I like most about your
acupuncture clinic, feeling cared
for and listened to. I like knowing
help will be there next week and
the next, even if it does involve
being poked.”
—M.M.
“
These people share two common threads: the desire to regain their
health and limited funds with which to do so. They are the beneficiaries
of low-cost medical alliances formed by one of West Sonoma County,
California’s non-profit healthcare agencies and a diverse set of
complementary medical professionals and externs from local schools
who show up on a regular basis to provide affordable traditional and
alternative health services to our neighbours.
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Community-style acupuncture works well in
the community-based medical clinic. Instead of
individual appointments, patients are treated in
a group setting. This not only lowers the cost of
treatment but offers the possibility of side-byside treatments for family or friends and creates
a group healing energy. Patients remain clothed
and are seated in lounge chairs with pillows and
blankets optional. Acupuncture is performed
using arm, hand, leg, foot, ear and head points.
Treatments are generally painless and very
relaxing and last about one hour. Confidentiality
is respected by conducting interviews in another
room and by speaking in low voices with music
or a sound machine nearby. I provide herbal
medicine and nutritional support as well. Other
scope of practice modalities, such as moxibustion,
cupping, electroacupuncture and other therapies
are available outside of this setting as they are
neither practical nor affordable within it.
with the non-profit clinic: osteopathy, Western
herbology, homeopathy, nutrition, drug recovery,
smoking cessation programs, strategies for
diabetes, yoga, meditation or exercise classes.
I advise patients to find the tools that work for
them and to make small changes that they can
stick with.
In its nearly 40 years as a licensed medical
practice in California, acupuncture has grown
in its popularity as an effective, user-friendly
form of healthcare. Its appearance nationwide
in settings beyond private practice, such as
drug rehabilitation programs, university medical
centres, cancer centers, major hospitals and
military clinics, denotes its changing role in
American healthcare. According to a National
Institutes of Health report on complementary
and alternative medicine, in 1997 in the United
States acupuncturists were seen at a rate of 27.2
visits per 1,000 adults. In 2007, that number
had tripled to 79.2 visits per 1,000 adults (17.6
million visits).
Here are some of the realities, challenges
and surprises that I have come to terms with
since taking on this role in community-based
healthcare. It is likely that if you adopt this model
you may face similar issues:
As more and more doctors come to trust the
symbiotic relationship between non-traditional
care and Western medicine, patients become
comfortable with requesting referrals. In some
cases, referrals are made to us out of sheer
exhaustion of all Western options. In other
cases, we become involved early in the treatment
process as the patient has voiced his or her
preference to avoid surgery or pharmaceuticals.
In tandem with, or subsequent to, treatment at
our clinic, patients are encouraged to consult
the expertise of other CAM programs associated
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The Challenges of Community Care
The rewards of providing help to underserved
populations—patients’ gratitude, seeing them
improve when they were without hope of ever
feeling better, hearing that they were able to
titrate down their prescriptions—are rewards
gained by personal sacrifice. If a practitioner is
not prepared for the emotional and ego-based
challenges of this work, he or she may become
disappointed or discouraged. Although our goal
has been a sustainable paradigm, more change is
needed in the system to make it so.
• That $5 payment for treatment is spent before
the patient ever comes into the clinic just by
my making one or more calls to schedule that
patient. Originally the referring non-profit said
they would schedule these appointments for me,
but their administration declined, referencing
legalities.
• More referrals are made at the $5 level than
the $15 level by 10:1, whereas I was expecting
50/50. These fees are set by the referring nonprofit and are based upon the US government
poverty indexes and patient income levels they
use for their mental health services fees. A more
sustainable minimum fee would be $10, given
this proportion versus the cost of doing business
(discussed below).
• Our very experienced massage therapist, who
normally gets $50+ per hour, believes in this
work enough to accept $20 per hour for the
two-plus hours she sees the low-paying group.
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No overhead reimbursement comes to our clinic
from low-paying massage patients.
• This patient demographic has tripled the
number of no-shows, reasons ranging from no
transportation to having no money, to just plain
forgetting. I had assumed that being offered
nearly free services would ensure a patient would
show up. That has turned out to be a false
assumption. Now we double-book at least one
hour per afternoon.
• We have to move a lot of furniture to make
the space usable, set up our zero-gravity chairs,
massage tables and equipment which are mostly
stored on site, then put it all back again. This
requires 30 minutes extra at each end of clinic
time and makes anything less than a four-hour
clinic day impractical. A volunteer helps at
one end of the process, and acts as front desk
receptionist during clinic hours; I couldn’t do it
without her.
• A physician practicing acupuncture got that
staff position I applied for before our current
clinic arrangement was made. Because my
services as a licensed acupuncturist were not
billable under Medicare or other US governmentmanaged health programs that support the
non-profit, they hired billable doctors to perform
the same services during their clinic hours as we
provide outside their clinic hours. They also refer
patients to the acupuncturist practicing next door.
This is why they rejected an exclusivity clause in
my contract negotiations. Their view was that
with a patient base of thousands per month, they
can refer to quite a few CAM practitioners and
thereby reduce patients’ waiting list time.
The costs of doing business in this cooperative
way are the same as in my private practice,
minus rent. Expenses include malpractice and
business liability insurance, phone, supplies, and
subcontractor, administrative and marketing
expenses.
Even with this liaison to the non-profit clinic, our
clinic still must be a presence in the community
and so we must work our public relations magic
to stay strong. We must nurture communication
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with those doctors who might not yet understand
the power and benefit of our work. We must
continue to lobby for professional parity in the
healthcare reform before us. We must further
our community leadership skills, as I have
recently done by training as a CERT (Community
Emergency Response Team) member. This is
another place where my first aid, resuscitation
and acupuncture trauma relief training may
be employed. I highly recommend giving the
program a look if it is offered near you.
My motivation for continuing to offer this
low-cost treatment to underserved patients is to
feel part of a much larger grassroots movement.
One that strengthens the web that binds us,
that envisions a “medical home” based in the
community from which residents can build
healthier lifestyles, resources and connections.
This is a connection grounded in compassion,
accessibility and flexibility, respecting our journeys
and values, even if they pass over Big Pharma or
the medical status quo.
If I consider this my seva—service work to my
community—then I needn’t commit much energy
to the how and how much; I just show up. I am
fortunate that my private practice continues to
grow and support the cycle of giving back. Isn’t
that how community works best?
Jody James has practiced acupuncture and traditional
Chinese medicine in Sonoma County, California, since
2007, subsequent to a Master of Science degree from the
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley,
California. For more information, visit her website at
www.asyrahsgarden.com or email her at
[email protected].
Resources
To learn more about how you can further
the cause of community-based CAM and
give back to your community, visit these
websites. These are only three of many
resources available online.
www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org
www.wchealth.org
www.citizencorps.gov/cert
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