5~ Homeopathy Book: Impossible Cure By Amy Lansky

Her book is available for loan at the National Library. I recommended it to them and was glad that they took action.

Search for the book availability at http://vistaweb.nlb.gov.sg/
Choose "Easy Search"
Then type in the book tittle Impossible Cure
You can make reservation too.



Below are some excerpt about homeopathy i got from yahoo forum's past sharing.



Amy L. Lansky, PhD
Over ten years ago, computer research scientist Amy
Lansky began a journey to try and help her
three-year-old autistic son Max. She found the answer
in Homeopathy. As Max gradually made a complete
recovery, she began to study this alternative therapy
and eventually became a practitioner herself. Her
best-selling Impossible Cure: The Promise of
Homeopathy (R.L. Ranch Press, 2003,
http://www.impossiblecure.com) describes the history,
philosophy, and science of homeopathic medicine, and
includes the story of her son's cure along with dozens
of first-person testimonials of cures for a variety of
physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

Amy Lansky graduated from the University of Rochester
in 1977 with degrees in mathematics and computer
science, and received her doctorate in computer
science from Stanford University in 1983. After many
years working at various Silicon Valley research
institutions in the area of artificial intelligence
(including SRI International, NASA Ames Research
Center, and three years as a consulting associate
professor at Stanford), she made an unusual career
move: she became a student, writer, promoter, and,
most recently, practitioner of homeopathic medicine.
This was prompted by the miraculous cure of her son's
autism with homeopathy. Lansky now speaks and writes
widely about homeopathy in general and especially its
role as a treatment for autism. She is an executive
board of the National Center for Homeopathy in
Alexandria, Virginia. A health-freedom advocate, she
is also an executive board member of the California
Health Freedom Coalition, the organization that
sponsored SB-577, the California health freedom bill
that was passed in September 2002.

You can learn more about homeopathic treatment of
autism by visiting http://www.impossiblecure.com or by
listening to Amy's monthly radio show on AutismOne
Radio -- http://www.autismone.org/radio -- at 2pm EST
the 3rd Friday of each month. Archives of old shows
are available at www.impossiblecure.com.

lansky@impossiblecure.com

***

Q: Hi, I believe my son has had multiple reactions to
vaccines. The he definitely had an immediate reaction
to his set of two flu vaccines. Do you feel that this
is primarily because of mercury, or possibly the flu
virus itself?. Also, with the cold/flu season
approaching. Do you have any recommendations for
keeping kids healthy, and fending off colds?

A: I believe that most of the autism epidemic is
caused by vaccines, both the mercury in vaccines and
the fact that there are so many vaccines given.
There’s an excellent article in Mothering Magazine by
Richard Pitt about homeopathy. There is a lot of hype
about the flu vaccine. Homeopathy has an amazing track
record of treating the flu. Go to the homeopathic.org
website – there are great tips there to treat the flu.
Skip the vaccines, they’re a bad idea. Especially if
your child is already vaccine-damaged.

Q: Hi Amy and thank you for being here. For someone
fairly new to homeopathy where is the best place to
start with a 3.5 yr. old with autism? We are currently
doing some bio medical interventions. Will that
interfere with homeopathic remedies? and are there
ever any negative side effects from homeopathic
remedies? thank you

A: The best place to start is to learn on your own.
Read my book Impossible Cure ( www.impossiblecure.com)
; also the book by the Ullmann’s that just came out –
A Drug Free Approach to Aspergers and Autism.
Most biomedical interventions will not interfere with
homeopathy. The homeopathy will certainly not
interfere with them. Chelation will probably interfere
with homeopathy. If you’re dead set on chelation, you
might try that first, but you might find it’s not
necessary once you start with homeopathy.

Q: Amy can you explain what are the different
definitions for classical, clinical, and sequential
homeopathy?

A: Classical is what my book discusses. Classical is
what is defined by the founder, Hahnemann. Homeo means
similar, pathy means suffering. You want to find a
remedy that’s associated with the symptoms of the
child. Healthy people take the remedy, find out what
symptoms it causes. EG Coffee causes sleeplessness,
heart palpitations, insomnia in a healthy person. The
homeopathic remedy would match those symptoms.
Clinical homeopathy refers to isopathic – child
damaged by vaccine, so you give the vaccine in
potency, or the thimerosal in potency.
Sequential homeopathy is a philosophy in which you
treat everything that happened to the patient in
reverse order. EG first surgery, then vaccination,
then your mother died. So you get grief remedy, then
flu remedy, then remedy for the effects of the
surgery. My view is that’s a bit of a mechanical
approach, people don’t generally work that way.
A classical homeopath will include clinical and
sequential in their practice. If they only get so far
in classical, ie find a block, they might go to an
isopathic remedy to clear a vaccine, for example.

Q: Do you recommend Chiropractic care for children as
a form a treatment for Autism. How do you feel about
cranial sacral therapy for treating autism versus just
relieving subluxations at the chiropractor?

A: I think manipulative therapies are really good,
particularly cranial sacral and osteopathic. In my
experience, I follow the practitioners that treat
autistic kids, they say their cases go much faster if
the kids are getting osteopathic/cranial sacral. These
therapies don’t interfere with homeopathy, and do
boost eachother’s effect.

Q: Last time homeopaths were on Biochat, there were a
lot of words defined with other words like miasms and
similums, and I didn’t get an idea of how the
homeopathic treatments work. Can you explain how
homeopathy works in the body.

A: Miasms is an advanced subject, I took it out of my
book.
The law of similars – coffee example – states that to
treat a person with a set of symptoms you give them a
remedy from a substance that can also cause those
symptoms. Physical and mental symptoms.
Samuel Hahnemann was having difficulty curing some
diseases, and realized he had to treat things at a
deeper level. He discovered often the disease
progression begins with a particular disease
(gonorrhea, syphilis, tuberculosis, etc). Then he
realized there was a way to categorize remedies in
general classes –miasms are broader categorizations of
disease states. If he chose a remedy in the right
miasm, he found he had better results.
EG With tuberculosis, there are respiratory problems,
and it might run in the family. To get rid of the
chronic lung infection, you have to treat the miasm.
Sometimes it’s treated by using a remedy made from the
disease tuberculosis. Hahnemann felt there are 3
miasms, others feel there are up to 8 miasms.

Q: Have you heard of Bioray's NDF+? What do you think
of this natural chelator, and have you seen things
like this work? Like milk thistle, chlorella?

A: I’m not an expert on chelation, I don’t do
biomedical treatments. My instinct is the natural
chelators would interfere less with homeopathy.

Q: You said that chelation might hinder homeopathic
treatment. Can you explain this in more detail? I
don't understand.


A: I say this based on stories I’ve heard. I know of
cases where the child was progressing nicely with
homeopathic treatment, the mom got impatient and
started chelation; all the gains were lost from the
homeopathy. In the end the child was set back for
about a year, and now the child is back with
homeopathy and making progress again.
I’ve heard this from other homeopaths too. If you’re
seeing slow but sure progress, stick with the
homeopathy.
Homeopathic literature indicates that it can chelate
metals from the body. There is a story in my book
about a person who worked in an orchard and was dying
from arsenic poisoning. Within an hour of taking the
remedy, he sweated out huge amounts of arsenic.
Another case was of a dental hygienist who started
excreting mercury in her menstrual flow.
So homeopathy doesn’t force a biochemical change in
your body like a drug – it stimulates your body into
helping itself. It will happen at the rate that the
body can naturally handle it.

Q: Is this a much easier way of treating the child
rather than chelating? What is the success rate?

A: I wouldn’t call it easy. Chelation, you see the
results with testing, it’s a fixed form of treatment.
Homeopathy is a more involved process. You have to
find a good, experienced homeopath. Then the homeopath
has to find the correct remedy for your child, and
that’s a total individual thing. Each child gets a
different remedy based on their symptoms. It takes
time – several months – to get any results usually.
Years of recovery time. But the homeopaths are getting
really good results, very striking noticeable changes
in autistic kids. The success rate for these
homeopaths are 50-75%. Some get complete recovery,
like my son, no residual symptoms – that happens in
about 5% of the cases.

Q: What homeopathic protocol/remedy did you follow
for curing your son's Autism. How old was your son
when you started to see improvements and how old was
he when he was completely recovered?

A: We brought my son to the homeopath when he was 3.5
(this is before all the biomed stuff was well known,
and I was groping in the dark). The only thing we had
done prior to homeopathy was food elimination, based
on Feingold. My son was totally addicted to milk. That
was when he started speaking. That was when he was 3.
He was in speech and language therapy. We also
eliminated food coloring, corn. He was speaking but
had echolalia, was autistic. We hit the right remedy
immediately. In a week, his therapists noticed a
shift. Within 9 months, the therapist felt he didn’t
need treatment any more. Within a year and a half, he
was testing normally (age 5) and was released from
eligibility for special ed. He was 80% - there was
still social awkwardness, not completely responsive
all the time, etc. We felt out of the woods, in
another 3-4 years. So this was like a 5 year process.

Q: How long usually takes to see the improvement by
homeopathic approach?

A: Once the homeopath finds the correct remedy, you
should see something within a month. If you see
nothing, you have to change the remedy. There are some
remedies that take longer, say 2 months. You might see
changes within a day or a week. You might notice the
child reaching out for more contact, more eye contact.
Even if it’s very subtle. Don’t expect your child to
have a full recovery in two weeks.

Q: I'll admit I don't understand homeopathy very well
– I’m just learning about it - but I’m terrified when
a remedy contains tetanus. Can you ease my thoughts?



A: My son’s first remedy was made from cancer. My
homeopath told me that. I was taken aback.
But all the remedies are so dilute that not even a
single molecule of whatever it’s made from is in the
remedy. Also if you’re eating chicken, you might be
eating cancer…you can’t get the disease from eating
it.
Lots of remedies made from disease matter – you
wouldn’t find any of that disease matter if you tested
the remedy.
Homeopathy is completely and utterly benign compared
to conventional medicine.
If you start taking a remedy in high quantities over
and over, you might start getting the symptoms that
that remedy could cause.
You need to find a homeopath that knows what they’re
doing.
Once you discontinue a remedy, the symptoms usually go
away quickly.


Q: Do rashes mean that a remedy is working? Will
there always be improvements with rashes? Also, is it
ever helpful to treat the parents and discover their
constitutions in order to help discover the child's
correct remedy, especially if the child is non-verbal?

A: Rashes can often mean the remedy is helping. This
is discussed in my book at length. If the disease
began with an external rash and went inwards, if you
see that rash coming out it’s good news, a good sign.
Your homeopath can help assess that.
It’s very helpful if parents go to the homeopath too,
along with their children. If you’re treated, it will
provide a better atmosphere for your family. That will
help in your child’s recovery too. You’re going
through so much anxiety, worry, etc. It can only help
if the parents get treated as well.

Q: Does the Homeopath need to see the child often? or
can this be done long distance?

A: If you can find a good homeopath nearby, I always
recommend that, esp for the very first appointment.
You don’t have to go that often. If you’re local,
maybe once every 2 months, especially in the initial
stages. If you are trying to work long distance,
ideally go once a year.

Q: Are you familiar with bioplasma or essential cell
salts? Are they useful?

A: Most classical homeopaths don’t use cell salts.
They are low potency, made from mineral salts in your
body. Some homepaths feel they’re like vitamins. But I
feel they are powerful in their own right, and don’t
advise their use in my practice.

Q: My son was given 3 remedies at the same time (to
detox), these caused his cough, fever and running nose
but after that nothing happened. Would that be an
indication of correct remedy not found yet? (you said,
and also the practitioner said it too, that it is a
good sign)

A: I don’t normally give 3 remedies at once to detox.
It might be a good sign…but the question is what
happened next. If a month and a half has gone by, I’d
say give it another month. It sounds like the
homeopath is not classical, you might go back in
another month.

Q: We’ve seen great things with MB-12. What is your
philosophy about homeopathy and the mb-12 phenomenon?
In most of the kids we’ve seen there is a problem with
the pathway. By injecting the vitamin, we get past the
blockage.

A: Homeopathy should correct the underlying problem in
the body, so you wouldn’t need the supplement/vitamin
anymore. Here’s another example, milk was aggravating
my son, we took it out of his diet. Over time, his
food sensitivity went away. Hopefully with the
homeopathy, the child’s need for mb-12 will decrease
as the child improves.

Q: Can a strong die-off reaction from probiotics
interfere with homeopathy?

A: I don’t think that would interfere. But definitely
tell the homeopath what you’re doing, so he/she can
adjust your dosing.

Q: I’m informed that the homeopathy can be added to
biomed treatments except that it dislikes the
aggressive chelations, any other factors we need to
consider in order to combine these 2 approaches
together?

A: Yes, I would guess that they could be combined.
Another thing that could interfere would be a strong
oil, like oil of oregano. Sometimes things that are
very strong can antidote the remedy. The remedies
operate on a fine energetic level. Things like
drinking coffee can antidote the remedy, it’s too much
input. It depends totally on the person. Some people
can drink coffee while they’re doing homeopathy, some
not. If you’re going along fine and improving, and you
take a substance and you get worse or it stops
working, you can suspect the remedy was antidoted.
There are ways around this. You can change dosing. I
might give a low potency every day so they can get
around the antidote effect.
It’s possible that daily dosing might work better for
someone doing a lot of strong biomedical treatments.

Q: what would the average cost of homeopath be?

A: In general they will charge by the hour at about
the same rate as a therapist, 100-150/hour. Usually
the first appointment is the longest, 1-3 hours. You
might spend 2-300 on the first appointment. A followup
is usually like ½ hour. The remedies cost essentially
nothing, either very cheap or sometimes free with the
appointment. Typical price for a remedy is $10.

Q: is it caffeine in general that would antidote; or
specifically coffee?

A: It’s specifically the coffee – tea or coke would be
ok.

Q: Do people usually avoid mint toothpaste completely
during homeopathy?

A: Personally I don’t think it’s a problem. Some
doctors are very strict about that…but I have never
avoided it.
Coffee is sometimes a problem; Camphor and eucalyptus
and tea tree oil, Vick’s vapor rub. These are all
effective antidotes.

Q: Amy have you ever heard of Native Remedies brand?
they use the homeopathic approach for treating
autism/add etc etc

A: I’m not familiar with it, no. But I can tell you
Hahnemann Labs in US is very good. In England Helios
Pharmacy is good. There are lots of other good
suppliers. National Center for Homeopathy is a good
site www.homeopathic.org

Q: Dear Dr Lansky , Can you pls. tell us about Zincum
metallicum?
how can it help increase zinc levels?
My child has the symptoms. Is it recommeded to take
Zincum Metallicum to increase blood zinc level?


A: Zinc is a remedy. It can help autistic kids.
However, it should not be used as a vitamin. It’s
inadvisable to view a homeopathic remedy as a vitamin.
If you don’t have the symptoms that zinc metallicum
has, and you take it regularly like a vitamin, you
could potentially get the symptoms. Go to a materia
medica online and look up the zinc to see what the
symptoms are.
It will help your body regulate itself, so if it
works, it would cause your body to improve the zinc
level.

Q: Are you familiar with Dandi Comp Liver,
gallbladder, and hydrate I remedies? What are your
thoughts on these?

A: These sound like organ support remedies. They’re
often used as organ support. If you’re using a good
homeopath, I’d say it’s ok, someone familiar with
organ support remedies.