Excerpts from "Beyond Natural Cures"
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Introduction
Many Americans have read or are at least familiar with the book "Natural Cures" by Kevin Trudeau.
Many of us have been busy self-diagnosing and clearing an array of herbs and vitamins off the
shelves of our local health food stores. While this is a tremendous step forward for a society that has
before now refused to be weaned from pharmaceutical drugs, we have now entered into a
transitional period, an in-between state in our national health crisis. Many of us are earnestly trying
to live a more naturopathic lifestyle and are not getting the desired results. Some of us are getting
positive results symptomatically in a few areas but are still plagued by a chronic disease or sickness.
Then there are those who have gotten sick, tried taking a popular natural remedy like Echinacea and
ginger, and when it “did not work,” headed back to the web of hungry medical doctors. These people,
I would argue, never fully committed themselves to the naturopathic realm and their skepticism and
fear led them to experience flawed results.
This book is for those who feel they are caught in-between the two inadequate alternatives. There
are a growing number of people in our population who are sick of being used and poisoned by the
drug companies, but who are also still manifesting chronic physical sickness as they navigate their
way through the naturopathic kingdom .Natural healing can be related to the story of Dorothy and
the Wizard of Oz. When you get to the end of journey, you have to realize that you have the answers
and you have the power within you. Most of us have made it to the Emerald City, and we know that
the wizard (doctor/priest/etc.) is just a man or woman. We are all scrambling and looking for the
balloon to take us back home to our true selves. Some of us are close to tapping our heels, while
others are still focusing on the balloon that they believe has taken off without them.
Our society is finally breaking free of its medical constraints, in part because of rising health care
costs and the lack of positive results in current medical treatment. When we start to see our hard-
earned money going out (not just through insurance) to doctors who have harmed our children and
families, we begin to decide at last that we must start taking back our power. For a time, the
insurance companies helped to placate people with the belief that their health care was “free;” this is
because most health care money is taken from the individual before he or she even sees it. Many
people have continued going to doctors, knowing they were not getting what they needed, simply
because it was covered by insurance. This is a perspective very like the outlet shopping
phenomenon that is also sweeping our country. People travel from afar to buy things at outlets, not
because they like it, but because it is at the outlet. Many things I have bought at outlets for a “good
deal” are sitting in my closet after five years, with the tags still on.
I was happy to see that the book "Natural Cures" caught on so quickly. Trudeau is not the first person
to write a book of this nature. He was able to hit the market at a pivotal time, when people were
starting to wake up from their prescription drug slumber and starting to search for a better way to
help improve their health and well-being. My book takes natural alternatives to health a step further
by addressing the issue of how to remove karmic blocks to healing. If the term karmic is unfamiliar
or unsettling, then let me change the wording; I am referring to a predisposed condition or to chronic
miasms (perhaps inherited constitutionally) in the physical body. For instance, someone just
introduced to naturopathy might experience chronic throat infections. They can live for quite a while
on lemon-sage tea and zinc lozenges, but their infection may not heal. They will, eventually, get to
the point where they will want to give up on natural cures all together and will be tempted to go back
to the pharmaceutical realm.
Many people have exhausted their “natural” resources. They have become as hooked on vitamins
and herbs as they were also hooked on prescription drugs. Some are not experiencing the results
they desire and are spinning their wheels. Why is this? Well, I blame two things: 1) a sometimes
isolated, vigilante view among alternative health practitioners, and 2) ineffective self-diagnosing.
The first problem lies in the reality that many naturopath doctors tend to be locked into sedentary
alternative healing methods. They have in some ways become just like medical doctors, catching on
to a certain trend or mindset and treating each person in the same way.
This can also be said about chiropractors who also try to pass as herbalists or naturopaths. You
leave their offices after they have put on a quick applied kinesiology show, spending at least $200 or
more on their special herbs and vitamins. You will, in fact, continually come back to them for your
chronic problems and they continue to put their show on for you. You feel impressed with their self-
confidence and they give you the impression that they have it “all figured out“. They can also talk
down to you and they rarely take the time to sit down with you and educate you about any of the
treatment. They can be just as egotistical as medical doctors and yet somehow we continue to bow
down to them and write checks. In this respect, they are making a “killing” from people who have left
traditional medical doctors but are now too intimidated to step fully into the holistic realm.
I pose this question about chiropractic care, “Does one ever get healed from chiropractic
treatments?” Once you go to a chiropractor, you will have to keep returning to him or her for the rest
of your life. This not because chiropractic care does not work, in fact, it does work by moving your
vertebrae and realigning your body. You have to keep coming back because chiropractic care does
not release the tissues and muscles that hold the pain and sickness. Many times the relief you
experience from a chiropractic treatment is short-lived because the fascia and muscle that has
memory in it will clamp down around the bones and put them back to where they were before. Truly
the best chiropractors are the ones that specialize in their field, do not rely heavily on radiation
exposure through x-rays, and incorporate muscle release therapy (be it cranio sacral therapy,
massage, or myo fascia release). A good chiropractor, like any professional, will know his or her
limits and will be involved in a community of skilled alternative therapists and not isolated from
them.
Some naturopaths who specialize in herbalism, homeopathy or iridology are a type of Johnny-come-
lately. They treat and treat the symptoms and are quite knowledgeable, but many of them lack open-
mindedness in other fields. Many can be stuck in “their way,” and in that respect they pigeonhole
their patients and detract from their ultimate goal, which should be initiating a healing response in
their client. Later in my book I talk about the importance of human touch in any health practice.
Reaching out to another human being through touch is healing in and of itself, and this is where
chiropractors have an advantage over naturopaths. Healing in the future, should life go on for future
generations, will be dependent more and more on touch. This has always been true, beginning with
mother and child and continuing on into health care.
Both chiropractors and naturopaths have been guilty of not communing enough to create a holistic
community of shared knowledge. Perhaps the chiropractic business has been hardened somewhat
because of its arduous journey to be recognized in the United States as a legitimate practice. The
chiropractic business has fought long and hard to get where it is today and chiropractors have had to
make many concessions to be taken seriously. In fact, in 1987 the American Medical Association was
convicted of conspiring overtly and covertly to destroy the chiropractic profession for over twelve
years. Also convicted were the American College of Surgeons and the American College of
Radiologists (Ausubel, 2000). The chiropractic field is fortunate to have attained and maintained a
respected status within the allopathic realm. It has, however, taken its toll within the profession,
causing chiropractors to perhaps feel isolated out of fear of being “disenfranchised” again. The truth
is we all need to come together to share our wealth of knowledge and stop judging each other
through biased assessment and fear.
The second reason I blame for the lack of results in methods of natural healing is the ineffectiveness
of self-diagnosing. Our deepest karmic/chronic blocks are what we ourselves cannot (or refuse) to
see. This is what I like to term the "truth in healing". Here I offer an example from my own
experience. Before I became a naturopathic doctor I tried unsuccessfully for three years to
overcome a chronic Candida infection (that I had been carrying with me for over 25 years). When I
finally did get rid of it, it came right back. I had the same experience with weight gain.
This recurrence happened for two reasons .The first, is that I had started self -healing because of the
poor results I had attained from various local naturopaths. More importantly, I did not want to see or
deal with my core emotional issues that were inevitably attached to my chronic disorder.
I knew I needed to give up dairy products, for a time. I had tried over and over and failed; it seemed
hopeless.I would take all different types of yeast-killing herbs and then I would sneak my milk and
cheese. Oh, I had a good excuse, every time, “It’s organic, I can have a little.” Actually, there was a
deep hidden rage attached to my dairy addiction. Whenever I tried to give up dairy, I felt very
depressed and angry. I got up in the mornings and felt lifeless, as if I was being punished and
something I loved had been taken away. I found that any addiction I had, be it coffee, milk, etc.
Elicited the same feeling within me. When I did not get what I wanted I felt punished; this then
brought about a rebellious response. I essentially said to myself, “I have to have this. I am not going
to be deprived or punished.” I would well up with deadly anger if I did not get my food.
These types of emotions kept me running in place for a long time. I started working with an
orgonomist doctor to help me explore and release my emotional blocks to wellness. It was within the
context and treatment of orgonomy that I realized that milk represented my mother. Milk nurtured
me in some ways; having never been breastfed, I was given the bottle as an infant to appease my
hunger for maternal contact. By contact, I mean the importance of being held as an infant and of
having eye contact with the mother (see references and my book on mother-child bonding, Waking
the American Dream).
I also started to understand how food was used to punish me when I was a child (in addition to
spankings and shaming tactics). As a child, I would not get any dinner if I misbehaved and I would be
sent to my room. As I got older I saw and perceived how my dad would manipulate food himself. He
would eat off my plate, even before I was finished. In high school I remember being embarrassed
when a friend came over to eat. My father snatched up most of the food, out of a fear that we would
take it from him. Clearly, he had been punished with food as well.
This story goes to show that we can self-diagnose, and study health and the human body, but as
individuals many of us lack the ability to be honest with ourselves. For example, if you ask some one
to draw a picture of them self and if they feel they have a big nose, they will make their nose smaller.
We are constantly trying to lie to ourselves and to others. Until, we as a society can overcome that
primary dilemma; we will not be able to effectively self-cure. Psychics are notorious for this: they can
predict the future for everyone but themselves. The mirror of ourselves is forever crowded by our
childhood experiences and the truth of ourselves lies somewhere behind the often painfully distorted
images.
So, let’s begin this journey of self-examination and consciousness. In this book we will look at the
importance of knowing who we are. All healing and health depends on this premise and needs to be
reflected upon within that light. Next, we will look at therapies that extract those qualities from our
very soul and release them for healing and for the true ascension of the human race. This book is
actually the first in the series of books I have written in an effort to help transform the current health
crisis. In all my books, the moral is the same, self-lying and personal deception are precepts of
illness, mental or physical that need to be realized in order to heal. Which brings us to an important
question we must ask ourselves honestly is not how we will be healed, but rather, do we really want to
be?
ND and is subject to copyright laws. No part of this book can be reproduced without permission from the author.
Introduction
Many Americans have read or are at least familiar with the book "Natural Cures" by Kevin Trudeau.
Many of us have been busy self-diagnosing and clearing an array of herbs and vitamins off the
shelves of our local health food stores. While this is a tremendous step forward for a society that has
before now refused to be weaned from pharmaceutical drugs, we have now entered into a
transitional period, an in-between state in our national health crisis. Many of us are earnestly trying
to live a more naturopathic lifestyle and are not getting the desired results. Some of us are getting
positive results symptomatically in a few areas but are still plagued by a chronic disease or sickness.
Then there are those who have gotten sick, tried taking a popular natural remedy like Echinacea and
ginger, and when it “did not work,” headed back to the web of hungry medical doctors. These people,
I would argue, never fully committed themselves to the naturopathic realm and their skepticism and
fear led them to experience flawed results.
This book is for those who feel they are caught in-between the two inadequate alternatives. There
are a growing number of people in our population who are sick of being used and poisoned by the
drug companies, but who are also still manifesting chronic physical sickness as they navigate their
way through the naturopathic kingdom .Natural healing can be related to the story of Dorothy and
the Wizard of Oz. When you get to the end of journey, you have to realize that you have the answers
and you have the power within you. Most of us have made it to the Emerald City, and we know that
the wizard (doctor/priest/etc.) is just a man or woman. We are all scrambling and looking for the
balloon to take us back home to our true selves. Some of us are close to tapping our heels, while
others are still focusing on the balloon that they believe has taken off without them.
Our society is finally breaking free of its medical constraints, in part because of rising health care
costs and the lack of positive results in current medical treatment. When we start to see our hard-
earned money going out (not just through insurance) to doctors who have harmed our children and
families, we begin to decide at last that we must start taking back our power. For a time, the
insurance companies helped to placate people with the belief that their health care was “free;” this is
because most health care money is taken from the individual before he or she even sees it. Many
people have continued going to doctors, knowing they were not getting what they needed, simply
because it was covered by insurance. This is a perspective very like the outlet shopping
phenomenon that is also sweeping our country. People travel from afar to buy things at outlets, not
because they like it, but because it is at the outlet. Many things I have bought at outlets for a “good
deal” are sitting in my closet after five years, with the tags still on.
I was happy to see that the book "Natural Cures" caught on so quickly. Trudeau is not the first person
to write a book of this nature. He was able to hit the market at a pivotal time, when people were
starting to wake up from their prescription drug slumber and starting to search for a better way to
help improve their health and well-being. My book takes natural alternatives to health a step further
by addressing the issue of how to remove karmic blocks to healing. If the term karmic is unfamiliar
or unsettling, then let me change the wording; I am referring to a predisposed condition or to chronic
miasms (perhaps inherited constitutionally) in the physical body. For instance, someone just
introduced to naturopathy might experience chronic throat infections. They can live for quite a while
on lemon-sage tea and zinc lozenges, but their infection may not heal. They will, eventually, get to
the point where they will want to give up on natural cures all together and will be tempted to go back
to the pharmaceutical realm.
Many people have exhausted their “natural” resources. They have become as hooked on vitamins
and herbs as they were also hooked on prescription drugs. Some are not experiencing the results
they desire and are spinning their wheels. Why is this? Well, I blame two things: 1) a sometimes
isolated, vigilante view among alternative health practitioners, and 2) ineffective self-diagnosing.
The first problem lies in the reality that many naturopath doctors tend to be locked into sedentary
alternative healing methods. They have in some ways become just like medical doctors, catching on
to a certain trend or mindset and treating each person in the same way.
This can also be said about chiropractors who also try to pass as herbalists or naturopaths. You
leave their offices after they have put on a quick applied kinesiology show, spending at least $200 or
more on their special herbs and vitamins. You will, in fact, continually come back to them for your
chronic problems and they continue to put their show on for you. You feel impressed with their self-
confidence and they give you the impression that they have it “all figured out“. They can also talk
down to you and they rarely take the time to sit down with you and educate you about any of the
treatment. They can be just as egotistical as medical doctors and yet somehow we continue to bow
down to them and write checks. In this respect, they are making a “killing” from people who have left
traditional medical doctors but are now too intimidated to step fully into the holistic realm.
I pose this question about chiropractic care, “Does one ever get healed from chiropractic
treatments?” Once you go to a chiropractor, you will have to keep returning to him or her for the rest
of your life. This not because chiropractic care does not work, in fact, it does work by moving your
vertebrae and realigning your body. You have to keep coming back because chiropractic care does
not release the tissues and muscles that hold the pain and sickness. Many times the relief you
experience from a chiropractic treatment is short-lived because the fascia and muscle that has
memory in it will clamp down around the bones and put them back to where they were before. Truly
the best chiropractors are the ones that specialize in their field, do not rely heavily on radiation
exposure through x-rays, and incorporate muscle release therapy (be it cranio sacral therapy,
massage, or myo fascia release). A good chiropractor, like any professional, will know his or her
limits and will be involved in a community of skilled alternative therapists and not isolated from
them.
Some naturopaths who specialize in herbalism, homeopathy or iridology are a type of Johnny-come-
lately. They treat and treat the symptoms and are quite knowledgeable, but many of them lack open-
mindedness in other fields. Many can be stuck in “their way,” and in that respect they pigeonhole
their patients and detract from their ultimate goal, which should be initiating a healing response in
their client. Later in my book I talk about the importance of human touch in any health practice.
Reaching out to another human being through touch is healing in and of itself, and this is where
chiropractors have an advantage over naturopaths. Healing in the future, should life go on for future
generations, will be dependent more and more on touch. This has always been true, beginning with
mother and child and continuing on into health care.
Both chiropractors and naturopaths have been guilty of not communing enough to create a holistic
community of shared knowledge. Perhaps the chiropractic business has been hardened somewhat
because of its arduous journey to be recognized in the United States as a legitimate practice. The
chiropractic business has fought long and hard to get where it is today and chiropractors have had to
make many concessions to be taken seriously. In fact, in 1987 the American Medical Association was
convicted of conspiring overtly and covertly to destroy the chiropractic profession for over twelve
years. Also convicted were the American College of Surgeons and the American College of
Radiologists (Ausubel, 2000). The chiropractic field is fortunate to have attained and maintained a
respected status within the allopathic realm. It has, however, taken its toll within the profession,
causing chiropractors to perhaps feel isolated out of fear of being “disenfranchised” again. The truth
is we all need to come together to share our wealth of knowledge and stop judging each other
through biased assessment and fear.
The second reason I blame for the lack of results in methods of natural healing is the ineffectiveness
of self-diagnosing. Our deepest karmic/chronic blocks are what we ourselves cannot (or refuse) to
see. This is what I like to term the "truth in healing". Here I offer an example from my own
experience. Before I became a naturopathic doctor I tried unsuccessfully for three years to
overcome a chronic Candida infection (that I had been carrying with me for over 25 years). When I
finally did get rid of it, it came right back. I had the same experience with weight gain.
This recurrence happened for two reasons .The first, is that I had started self -healing because of the
poor results I had attained from various local naturopaths. More importantly, I did not want to see or
deal with my core emotional issues that were inevitably attached to my chronic disorder.
I knew I needed to give up dairy products, for a time. I had tried over and over and failed; it seemed
hopeless.I would take all different types of yeast-killing herbs and then I would sneak my milk and
cheese. Oh, I had a good excuse, every time, “It’s organic, I can have a little.” Actually, there was a
deep hidden rage attached to my dairy addiction. Whenever I tried to give up dairy, I felt very
depressed and angry. I got up in the mornings and felt lifeless, as if I was being punished and
something I loved had been taken away. I found that any addiction I had, be it coffee, milk, etc.
Elicited the same feeling within me. When I did not get what I wanted I felt punished; this then
brought about a rebellious response. I essentially said to myself, “I have to have this. I am not going
to be deprived or punished.” I would well up with deadly anger if I did not get my food.
These types of emotions kept me running in place for a long time. I started working with an
orgonomist doctor to help me explore and release my emotional blocks to wellness. It was within the
context and treatment of orgonomy that I realized that milk represented my mother. Milk nurtured
me in some ways; having never been breastfed, I was given the bottle as an infant to appease my
hunger for maternal contact. By contact, I mean the importance of being held as an infant and of
having eye contact with the mother (see references and my book on mother-child bonding, Waking
the American Dream).
I also started to understand how food was used to punish me when I was a child (in addition to
spankings and shaming tactics). As a child, I would not get any dinner if I misbehaved and I would be
sent to my room. As I got older I saw and perceived how my dad would manipulate food himself. He
would eat off my plate, even before I was finished. In high school I remember being embarrassed
when a friend came over to eat. My father snatched up most of the food, out of a fear that we would
take it from him. Clearly, he had been punished with food as well.
This story goes to show that we can self-diagnose, and study health and the human body, but as
individuals many of us lack the ability to be honest with ourselves. For example, if you ask some one
to draw a picture of them self and if they feel they have a big nose, they will make their nose smaller.
We are constantly trying to lie to ourselves and to others. Until, we as a society can overcome that
primary dilemma; we will not be able to effectively self-cure. Psychics are notorious for this: they can
predict the future for everyone but themselves. The mirror of ourselves is forever crowded by our
childhood experiences and the truth of ourselves lies somewhere behind the often painfully distorted
images.
So, let’s begin this journey of self-examination and consciousness. In this book we will look at the
importance of knowing who we are. All healing and health depends on this premise and needs to be
reflected upon within that light. Next, we will look at therapies that extract those qualities from our
very soul and release them for healing and for the true ascension of the human race. This book is
actually the first in the series of books I have written in an effort to help transform the current health
crisis. In all my books, the moral is the same, self-lying and personal deception are precepts of
illness, mental or physical that need to be realized in order to heal. Which brings us to an important
question we must ask ourselves honestly is not how we will be healed, but rather, do we really want to
be?
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