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Wendy Myers: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Wendy Myers of myersdetox.com. Thank you so much for listening today. We’re going to be talking about homeopathy and how you can use that for detox. This is a show I’ve been wanting to do for a while, and I found one of nation’s top experts on homeopathy, Dana Ullman. He’s written over 10 books on homeopathy. You can find his website at homeopathic.com. He’s just a wealth of information and everything is evidence-based. Everything he does is research-based on studies.
We just had an incredible conversation that I’m really excited to share with you. We’re going to be talking about some of the research studies behind how homeopathic remedies can be used to detox the body. We’ll name some specific remedies that you can use. Just give you a lot of information about what homeopathy exactly is and how it’s not working just by placebo effect and lots of other really, really interesting information today.
Dana Ullman, he is one of America’s leading advocates for homeopathy. He has authored 10 books, including the Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, Homeopathy A-Z, Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants, Discovering Homeopathy, and the bestselling Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines with Stephen Cummings, MD.
Dana also created an ecourse, How to Use Homeopathic Medicine Kit, which integrates 80 short videos averaging about 15 minutes with his famous ebook that is a continually growing resource to 300-plus clinical studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals testing homeopathic medicines. This ebook combines the descriptions of these studies with practical clinical information on how to use homeopathic medicines for 100-plus common ailments. The ebook is entitled Evidence-Based Homeopathic Family Medicine and is an invaluable resource.
Dana has been certified in classical homeopathy by the leading organization in the US for professional homeopaths. He’s the founder of Homeopathic Educational Services, America’s leading resource center for homeopathic books, tapes, medicines, software, and correspondence courses. Homeopathic Educational Services has co-published over 35 books on homeopathy with North Atlantic Books. You can learn more about Dana Ullman at homeopathic.com. Dana, thank you so much for joining us on the show.
Dana Ullman: My pleasure, Wendy.
Wendy Myers: Why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself, your background, and how you got into homeopathy?
Dana Ullman: Wow! Well, I got involved in homeopathy way back in 1973, when I was a junior at UC Berkeley. I wasn’t actually studying medicine at the time, but my father is a medical doctor, pediatric allergist, professor emeritus at UCLA. But being a child of the ’60s, we may do something like our parents but with a twang.
I was ultimately exploring a variety of different natural therapies and became interested in homeopathy. There was a group of physicians, nurses, a dentist, a male midwife, a couple of yoga teachers that began meeting weekly. We met weekly for five years …
Wendy Myers: Wow!
Dana Ullman: … just studying homeopathy together. I liked it, science and art, and you begin getting quite rapidly some significant results with it both personally and with other people. Then I began to take it very seriously.
Then in the process of taking it seriously, I’ve now written 10 books on the subject, two of which I’m honored that the physician to the queen of England wrote the foreword, because the physician to the queen is a homeopathic doctor. Then I’ve also written four chapters in different medical textbooks on homeopathy, two of which were published by Oxford University Press.
Wendy Myers: Wow!
Dana Ullman: I take this subject very seriously, and I try and educate people about how they can both use it in their own life to treat themselves and their family. At one point, you really need to go to a professional homeopath because you can’t treat yourself for every chronic condition. Actually, I teach people how to use homeopathy for common acute problems: accidents and injuries, colds and coughs, flus, and minor allergies.
In fact, my newest big project is that I created an ecourse to teach people how to use a homeopathic medicine kit at home, which is wonderful. If you’re a parent and you want to begin to treat yourself and your family with safer medicines. Not only did I create a bunch of videos, short videos, to teach people what to do … This is the YouTube generation. It seems people want to hear not only by reading but also by watching, as you yourself are observing.
But it accompanies a 600-page ebook that covers information on how to treat 100 common elements. Being an ebook, it also provides reference to and descriptions of as well as links to over 300 scientific studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Wendy Myers: Wow! That is some ebook.
Dana Ullman: Yeah. Well, there were some things that I began developing 10 years ago. Just keeping it current requires a couple of hours a week per se, but not a lot of time, and I’m able just keep it current. Being an ebook, one of the great things is that I can update it. Being an author of many other old style books is fine and dandy, but as soon as it’s finished and published, you want to change things, you want to add things. With an ebook, you can actually do that.
Wendy Myers: Yes. I know how that goes. I know how that goes.
Dana Ullman: It’s wonderful.
Wendy Myers: Talk about what homeopathic medicine actually is. For anyone listening that maybe isn’t well-versed in the subject, hasn’t heard about it, is curious about it, what exactly is it?
Dana Ullman: Well, first of all, a lot of people do get it confused with the word “holistic” or “naturopathic”. Homeopathy is this old system that’s different than holistic, that’s different from naturopathic, but is a part of it because it is a holistic system, it is a part of natural medicine, but homeopathy is its own system.
First, I want to say the underlying principle behind homeopathy is an underlying principle behind much of natural medicine, and that is that symptoms of illness are not just something wrong with the person, but symptoms of illness are part of our body’s defenses, are part of our body’s adaptation to deal with stress, to deal with infection, to deal with environmental exposure.
Our bodies could not have survived these thousands of years unless that doctor inside each and every one of us is a real master healer. That doctor inside each and every one of us is this master healer, but that inner doctor does need tools that natural medicine can provide to that doctor inside to help that inner healing to happen, because just letting that doctor do his or her own thing is often not enough.
Once you realize that symptoms are not just something wrong, but symptoms are important defenses, instead of using conventional drugs, which often suppress that symptoms and inhibit that defense, homeopathy has a different point of view. Because our symptoms are defenses, we look for a substance in nature that if given to healthy people would cause that similar symptom syndrome that we are having.
For instance, if you happen to have a fever, if you happen to have a headache with it, if you have achiness and even chills, what you do in homeopathy is you look for a medicine in nature that would cause unique pattern of symptoms that you are having. Mind you, there are hundreds of substances that cause a fever, there are hundreds of substances that cause a headache, but what ends up happening, once you begin to nail down more unique symptoms, some people will have a headache in the front part, some people in the back part, some people on the left side, some people on the right side, and once you drill down further, there’s fewer and fewer medicines that will have that unique syndrome of symptoms that you have.
Ultimately, homeopathy is a system of using these very small and specially-prepared doses of plants, minerals, animals, viruses and snake venoms and nanodoses of different substances based upon what that substance causes. I’ll give you one other specific example.
If you’re in the kitchen cutting an onion, one of the symptoms that exposure to onion fumes causes is it causes tears, running of the eyes. In fact, if you continue to cut the onion, you might even get dripping from the nose. These are common symptoms that people have when they either have an allergy or a cold.
But it’s not that everybody will have those symptoms, not at all, because sometimes when you have a cold, you won’t have watery nasal discharge, it’ll be congestion or it’ll be a thick discharge or it’ll be yellow or green, if we can talk about mucus. But the whole thing of what onion causes is a thin, watery discharge that is of an irritating nature that will even irritate your nostrils.
In homeopathy, we say that we don’t treat diseases, we treat syndromes of which the disease is a part. You may have a common cold, but your common cold syndrome will be different than my common cold syndrome, or, for that matter, your exposure to lead or arsenic or some environmental poison will have a lot of similar symptoms, mind you, we will, but we’ll also have idiosyncratic symptoms that are unique to us. The homeopath looks for what is idiosyncratic about every person, what is unique so as to that embodies their particular defensive reaction.
But the important thing to remember here is that the word “symptom”, in Greek, means sign or signal. The symptom isn’t breakdown, it’s a sign or signal of disease. Just as like when you’re driving in your car and your oil light coming on, you don’t treat your oil light by unscrewing it. Even though the light will go off and the signal will go off, that doesn’t do anything for your oil pressure. You can use conventional medicines to turn off a symptom. You can use a pain killer to turn off pain. You can take a drug to dry up mucus membranes.
Well, what happens with all of that mucus that our body is trying to create as its flushing out dead viruses and dead white blood cells? If you turn off that body’s defenses, you then get no outlet for that mucus, and that’s why you create bronchial congestion. Then you’ve taken a simple acute problem and now turned it into a more chronic disease. Here it is trying to get out of your body, and now you’ve created congestion.
Wendy Myers: Yes. Let’s talk a little bit about how homeopathy is like energy medicine to a degree. Explain that concept a little bit and the concept of homeopathy in terms of using these very, very diluted dosages or nanodoses to then elicit a response from the body.
Dana Ullman: Okay. Homeopathy’s been around for 200 years. It started initially by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann. Actually, in our own nation’s capital, in Washington D.C., there’s only one monument to a medical doctor, and it’s to Samuel Hahnemann, which was when it was dedicated in the year 1900, President McKinley was the keynote speaker and his attorney general was the second keynote speaker, because this attorney general loved homeopathy and he helped make this monument happen.
The whole idea of what Hahnemann and homeopathy developed was that he found that different substances create their own toxicological pattern. He began chronicling what each substance caused, not just that it would cause a headache but specificity was added to it, like headache in the front part of the head or back or left or right and was that person’s headache sensitive to temperature or weather or time of day or what foods they ate or if they were thirsty and what types of things they were thirsty for, and even what emotions were felt with it. Sometimes you have a headache and you’re irritable, sometimes you’re depressed, sometimes you’re restless, sometimes you’re fearful that you have something much more serious.
I call homeopathy dragnet medicine, if you remember that TV series Dragnet. The detective says, “I just want the facts, ma’am. Who, what, why, where, and when.” There’s no theory here. There’s no theory as to what symptoms you’re having. You’re having a headache in the front part of your head, the light hurts, moving around hurts, lying down feels good, being in a dark room helps.
What the homeopath does is looks at books, and now expert system software that we use, to find out what substances in nature would cause healthy people the similar symptoms that I am having, and then by giving a nanodose. Here’s where Hahnemann and homeopaths since then found that when people are sick, they actually develop a real hypersensitivity to whatever they need.
In fact, not only humans but all living species. I mean there’s a good reason that sharks can smell blood in the water miles away. They’ve developed that hypersensitivity based on evolution developing that sensitivity on what it needed to survive. When you think about the volume of water in the ocean, it’s not just the molecules they’re sensing, they’re energetics of that blood. They are sensing that slight different wave pattern to someone that’s swimming. It’s the same way that birds can migrate tens of thousands of miles across the other part of the world, maybe where they’ve never gone themselves. But it’s these magnetic and energy patterns that they tune into.
If you think about it, homeopathy’s based on what we call the law of similars. Whatever a substance causes, it cures. But there’s a principle in music called resonance. A C note will be resonant with other C notes. If I had a piano in one corner of the room and I hit that C note, any other C note in that rule would reverberate a little bit.
Homeopathy is thought of as an energy medicine from the west, like acupuncture is an energy medicine from the east. This principle of similars can also be related to this principle of resonance, a like affecting like. It harkens into modern immunology because in immunology, the principle is whatever a substance causes, it can cure or assimilate the body’s defenses to prevent when given in these very small doses.
In fact, vaccination derives from homeopathy. Even the first doctor to get the Nobel Prize in medicine got it for his discovery of the tetanus vaccine and the theory of vaccine. He acknowledged that he got the idea from homeopathy.
Wendy Myers: Let’s talk a little bit about … Often they can be used to detox the body. I’m having trouble saying “homeopathy”. Let’s talk about how it can detox you, because that’s one of my main passions and I’ve heard a lot about different homeopathic remedies that can detox certain metals. Why does it make sense to use nanodoses of heavy metals to treat people with heavy metal exposure?
Dana Ullman: Okay. This is an important question. First of all, if you think about it, every cell in our body has a membrane. A membrane isn’t a wall, it’s a membrane. It lets certain things in and it doesn’t let other things in. Anything that is too foreign or too large, it’s going to close down that membrane and not let it in. The same thing with that blood-brain barrier at the back of our skull that will not let many things into the brain. Anything that’s too large or complex, that fine-meshed blood-brain barrier won’t let it in.
When you create a nanodose, something extremely small, sometimes it simply doesn’t shut off those warnings lights. I can and will tell you that there was an important study published in one of the most respected scientific journals in the world. It’s a journal that’s published by the American Chemistry Society.
The American Chemistry Society is not a holistic organization. They are very conservative, even reactionary, organization, but they published a supporting study that showed that a group of scientists in India … In India, they have this governmental institution called the India Institute of Technology, which is like the NIH of America, the National Institutes of Health. The India Institute of Technology is full of these high-power scientists.
A group of them, who are very respectful of homeopathy and they wanted to figure out how is it that these medicines work, they tested six different mineral medicines: gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, and platinum. They diluted them 200 times, one to a hundred, 200 times. One to 130 times and one to 106 times. They found no matter how many times they diluted it, using three different types of spectroscopy, they were able to measure nanodoses of these original metals in the solutions.
What ends up happening, you keep breaking down this gold, silver, copper, tin into smaller and smaller and smaller units, so much so that only really nano-sized slivers of these substances remain in the water. They are then able to penetrate cellular membranes and blood-brain barriers.
Then once they’re inside the cell, the cell says, “Wait a minute. We’ve been infiltrated by gold, copper, zinc, whatever,” and they say, “Well, how do we then get rid of that?” Because the person is prescribed that medicine, arsenic or lead or whatever substance to which the person just thought to have been exposed, it creates from inside the cell a reaction of let’s get rid of copper, let’s get rid of lead, let’s get rid of arsenic.
Rather than what conventional medicine tries to do is mechanically push the body to do things, this is something from inside the cell that the cell is doing. That is why when people get a good response to homeopathy, they really have a sense that they healed themselves. It’s amazing how many people tell me, “Well, I don’t know if that homeopathic remedy helped or not, but I am better.” Even my own sister was suffering as a young woman of a serious chronic illness, and the homeopathic remedy that I prescribed for her had a dramatic effect. She insisted that her body healed herself.
Mind you, it didn’t happen the day after she took the remedy. This was a condition she had for two years of a daily, severe pain syndrome. That really impressed my father, by the way, the physician who saw his own daughter get dramatically better just by having gone to five medical specialists and they had exploratory surgery twice. He was really impressed at his own daughter, and my sister was skeptical. It was not from a placebo effect. If anything, she wanted something her father gave her to work, not something her older brother did.
Wendy Myers: Yes, yes. That’s very common.
Dana Ullman: I mean you’ll change the world before you can change your own family sometimes.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, exactly.
Dana Ullman: But, in this case, it really did help. She’s since acknowledged it and has used it for herself and her family since.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. Let’s talk a little bit about the placebo effect, because I talk a lot about energy medicine. Now we’re talking about homeopathy, which is somewhat of a form of energy medicine. Let’s talk about the placebo effect, because a lot of people will say, “Oh, homeopathy or bioenergetics or energy medicine, those are just working by a placebo effect.” What are your thoughts on that?
Dana Ullman: Well, I have nothing against a placebo effect. It helps. But all I can tell you is that homeopathy works way beyond the placebo effect. In fact, what end up happening is I commonly see patients all over the world because I see them on Skype. I don’t have to put needles in people. I don’t have to adjust them. It’s an interview process. I take a detailed history and a detailed description of what’s happening right now.
I commonly go down the list of symptoms the person has and the person says, “Oh, God. I forgot. That symptoms did go away,” or, “Oh, that went away, too.” It’s not just the main complaint, but a whole series of other changes that happen that not only happened for a week or two but it happened for months and even years afterwards.
But here’s the other bigger reason that a placebo explanation is simply inadequate, is that in about 20% to 30% of our patients in homeopathy, they experienced a worsening of symptoms first that typically goes on for one to three days. When you have a placebo, usually people just get better. But we do see in homeopathy sometimes people re-experience old symptoms and syndromes that they may have had months, years, and decades earlier. Then I say, “Wow! That symptom, have you ever had that symptom?” They’d say, “Actually, I did. I had this symptom when this condition first occurred.” I said, “Oh. That explains why you’re getting it now. You’re doing this retracing.”
Homeopathy is one of the few systems, that and long-term fasting, where people do this retracing. That lets us know that this is way beyond a placebo effect and into a real powerful and very deep healing.
Wendy Myers: Yes, yes. It’s interesting. I’ve had a couple of surgeries. Both times the medical doctors gave me a homeopathic arnica to help with the bruising and swelling and things like that. I mean every single one, every single doctor I’ve talked to, they use this … Very conventional doctors in Los Angeles are using homeopathic remedies.
Dana Ullman: Well, it’s interesting. Right now in America, the medical professional that uses homeopathic medicines more than any other are surgeons.
Wendy Myers: Yes.
Dana Ullman: Are surgeons. In France, however, 95% of French pediatricians, 95% of French dermatologists, and 95% of even general practitioners integrate certain homeopathic medicines into their practice. Believe me, it is not enough to elicit a placebo effect.
I guess one other very strong thing to make mention of is homeopathy became popular in America in the 19th Century and in Europe in the 19th Century for one reason more than any other, and that is that homeopathy was really effective in treating infectious disease epidemics of that era. I’m talking about typhoid fever, cholera, yellow fever, scarlet fever. These are conditions that are not really amenable to placebo. I mean, yes, it’s good to give tender loving care to everybody, but it’s not enough to deal with serious infectious disease.
Wendy Myers: Yes. Let’s talk a little bit about any further evidence that you have that show that homeopathic medicines work for detox.
Dana Ullman: Sure. Well, there have been a series of studies, both animal studies and some human trials, where a rat is exposed to arsenic or cadmium or mercury, and then given a homeopathic dose of that substance. They find increased amounts of arsenic or some heavy metal being excreted through their urine, through their schools, and through their sweat glands. To me, that is way beyond any placebo effect.
When they’ve done it on human trials, obviously they don’t give humans these doses of these heavy metals. But in parts of India and Pakistan, there’s arsenic in the drinking water in certain areas. A study was done that gave homeopathic doses of arsenic to people.
It was a difficult study because some people had to be given placebo. Many people in India have such faith in homeopathy, they didn’t want to be given a placebo. But the way they did it is they said, “Look, for those of you that are given placebo, after the study is done, we’ll then give you the real medicine.” They weren’t charging for the care, so at least it was free care.
What was interesting about this study is that they found that those patients that were given the homeopathic medicine had a certain increase in the liver enzymes that are known to be detoxing enzymes, and that wasn’t happening in the placebo patients.
Once again, what ends up happening with these nanodoses, they’re able to infiltrate into the cell, then the cell realizes there is a toxic substance inside the cell. It then creates that process of detoxing, and then the body does go through the different channels of detoxification.
Here is where the various nutritional things and botanical things that you and your network of people are teaching people that can help strengthen the kidneys, that can help strengthen the liver, because, all this, the liver and the kidneys are being used more. This is one thing that will help augment it.
Wendy Myers: Great. Is there any brand that you like in particular or that you use in your practice?
Dana Ullman: Well, not really. Each of the homeopathic companies in America, the big ones, Standard, also called Hyland’s, Boiron from France. Heinemann Laboratories is a company in Northern California that only creates single remedies. That’s a company that many of us who are professional homeopaths use. Washington Homeopathic is a good company. Those are some of them.
Now I do want to say that there’s two strategies that homeopaths use to do detoxing. One strategy is what we call constitutional treatment, whereas we take a case history of the person and even ask about their genetic history of what diseases run in the family. We look and evaluate what body type a person has, how much hair they have in different parts of their body, and different other symptoms that are unique.
We’re able to then, after we do an interview about what diseases they’ve had in their life and what their symptoms are now, to give a medicine which fits their overall body-mind constitution. When I say body-mind, I mean not just their physical symptoms, but their personality. Then that constitutional remedy strengthens them to deal with the variety of environmental exposures.
If, however, we know that a person has been exposed to a specific pesticide, we can sometimes get a homeopathic dose of that pesticide and almost surgically then give a homeopathic dose of that substance. That alone helps to eliminate it. But if we know their constitutional remedy, that helps things out a lot more because that strengthens their old constitution so that their organs, glands, and systems will be more ready to help eliminate this. A good homeopath will first deal with constitutional issues and then one-by-one help to excise specific environmental poisons.
Wendy Myers: Okay. Great, great. Let’s talk about use of homeopathic medicines. Should they be used in conjunction with other therapies or are they best used alone?
Dana Ullman: Well, yes, they’re fine to be either way. Now some homeopaths, I’ll be candid here, don’t like some patients to use what are called another energy medicine at the same time because the homeopath wants to know did this homeopathic medicine I gave you, was that the thing that worked or was it the acupuncture treatment or was it the Ayurvedic treatment?
Sometimes we like to isolate our system just so that we’ll know what worked, because if I give you a remedy that works … Please know it’s not as though that one remedy will cure you. Sometimes I will admit we do get very powerful healing and even curative responses. But more often homeopathy is a process where you give one remedy and you get significant improvement. Then you then use a higher potency of the remedy, which means it’s more diluted, higher potency has become more deluded, because it becomes more of an energy medicine and can then go deeper into the recesses of our brain, deeper into our energy systems.
The reason why so many Americans who are skeptics of homeopathy think that it’s only a placebo is, one, they assert that homeopathic medicines are so small in dose that there’s nothing there. But, first of all, that’s been proven to not be true. We now have good, hard evidence that no matter how many times we do this diluting and shaking, diluting and shaking, diluting and shaking, that spectroscopy confirms, and this is good, high technology science, can measure nanodoses of these different original medicinal agents.
In the past, these skeptics would say there’s nothing there. Now, even though there has been this new research in this highly respected journal published by the American Chemistry Society, skeptics pretend to not know about this. They are just repeating their same old critique and they’re really showing how much they really are big pharma shilts, that they’re really just banging the horn for conventional medicine and conventional big pharma. They’re not being honest and they’re not being really good scientists.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, because I know even the Swiss government pays for homeopathy in their healthcare system because there’s so much science that proves that it works. They [crosstalk 35:54].
Dana Ullman: Yeah, so do the Germans, so do the Belgians, so do the French. Now they often don’t pay for the medicines themselves because the best of themselves are dirt cheap, but they will pay for the consultations. Something like a third of the European population uses homeopathy. Just to let you know, every survey that’s ever been done, and there’s been hundreds of surveys on who uses homeopathic medicines, they always find that the more educated people are, the more likely they are to use homeopathic medicine.
Wendy Myers: Wow! Interesting. Yeah. Let’s talk a little bit about should people be using homeopathic medicines on their own? We know that they’re safe, but they can cause reactions, healing reactions, that might scare people a little bit, scare people away from them. Can you do it on your own or should you seek treatment with a homeopathic professional?
Dana Ullman: If you have any chronic disease or any even mildly serious disease, you should go to a professional homeopath. For many acute problems and different accidents and injuries and acute infections, the colds, the coughs, the sore throats, the ear aches, the first stages of an allergy or sinusitis, yeah, you could learn to use homeopathic medicines. I’ve written books and created ecourses to do that. My book, Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines, is the most popular guidebook that people use to determine which remedy they can use.
Yes, you can learn to do it, but please know that homeopathic medicines are medicines. They’re not supplements. They’re not something that you take daily, because, in fact, usually we find with homeopathic medicines, you don’t need a lot of doses because they’re almost like a catalyst to the body’s own immune and defense systems. We find that if you continue to use a medicine after you’re already healed of that particular condition, sometimes that medicine will cause that symptom to come back because that substance is known to cause the similar symptoms that you have.
The trick in homeopathy is that when we use what we call our higher potencies, the ones that have been diluted one to 10 or one to 200 times, or 1,000 or 10,000, we commonly give only one or two doses, or maybe just a couple more doses. But when we’re treating with the sixth potency, 12 to 30th potency, we might give that two to six times a day for one to three days, but not very much more than that because, once again, if you’re not getting better from homeopathic medicine in a day or two, that it may not be the right remedy. At that point, you need to take another.
The exception is that let’s say a woman is taking a homeopathic medicine because she’s having difficult menstrual symptoms. You have to wait until the next menstrual cycle comes along to evaluate if there’s been improvement or not. You don’t always see things between one and two days. Sometimes you do need a little bit longer.
Wendy Myers: Okay, great. Let’s talk about the FDA. The FDA always want to stick their nose in all kinds of natural remedies, where it doesn’t belong. What is the relationship of homeopathy with the FDA?
Dana Ullman: Well, first of all, believe it or not, the FDA was founded in the early 1900s, but they had very little power to do anything. It wasn’t until 1938, when FDR was president, that a senator from New York, Royal Copeland, wrote legislation which gave the FDA the power to regulate drugs. That senator from New York was a medical doctor and he was a homeopathic physician.
He had written within this Federal Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act of 1938 recognition of homeopathic medicines by the FDA as a different school of thought of medical care, so there was the United States pharmacopeia and there was the homeopathic pharmacopeia. It gave equal and different recognition to both. Since then, the homeopathic community has actually had a good working relationship with the FDA until the year 2018.
As it turns out, a Trump appointee, in this day and age where our presidency is trying to reduce regulations, for some unknown reason, may decide to increase regulations on the safest medicines in the world while ignoring increasing regulations on the most dangerous medicines in the world. If you don’t smell a rat here, then your nose isn’t working.
Now mind you, some of this was instigated before Trump came along. There’s one homeopathic company then had their most popular drug was your homeopathic teething tablets. Up until the year 2009, in America, even though they sold this by the millions, there were less than 10 calls to poison centers every year, every year less than 10. But all of a sudden, in 2010, it increased to over 100 calls, saying that there were potential problems associated with teething tablets.
Now, personally, because teething happens at a similar time that many infants are given vaccines and because the symptoms that they were having were dealing with seizures, I think this is one of the ways that the FDA is blaming homeopathy for problems that may be related to vaccine.
Wendy Myers: Have you ever heard of homeopathy causing seizures?
Dana Ullman: Well, that sometimes might happen if a person had seizures earlier in their life. Sometimes people go through that retracing that I began talking about-
Wendy Myers: Yeah, because I don’t see how homeopathy could cause seizures, and energy medicine.
Dana Ullman: Mind you, one of the ingredients in teething tablets is belladonna, and belladonna can be linked to some seizures. But the dose that they put of belladonna in this teething tablet was such a low dose.
Because this particular company is the biggest homeopathic company in America, they actually, prior to any of this drama, developed safeguards where they would measure the belladonna content in each batch that was created, and it was in the parts per trillion. In order for belladonna to be toxic, it has to be in the parts per thousand, because even potatoes, which we eat on a regular basis, have more belladonna alkaloids in than could ever be in these homeopathic teething tablets, and I don’t think the FDA is cracking down on french fries that [inaudible 44:07]. I don’t think McDonald’s is having warning labels on their potato products. I am very suspicious about this FDA crackdown. I personally think that it’s really very, very strange.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. It’s sad as well because people need access to natural therapies. We need alternatives to conventional medicine, because we know it’s controlled by big pharma. I think the education is fraudulent in many ways. We need the aspects of conventional medicine; we need surgeries, and we need some medications, but-
Dana Ullman: Right, absolutely.
Wendy Myers: … a lot of the treatment is abysmal and it’s a scam, a lot of the different treatments for various chronic health issues. We need things like homeopathy and energy medicine. We need detoxification and functional medicine, all the other things that people need when conventional medicine fails.
Dana Ullman: You’ve mentioned something very important. I personally believe that we need more detox from the conventional drugs that we are being given than detox from the heavy metals, because, on average, every man, woman, and child is prescribed 13 prescription drugs every year. If you did not get your 13 and somebody got yours for you, and that’s even more scary.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. I know a lot of these medications, they damage your liver and they damage your body’s ability to detox and the …
Dana Ullman: Make you crazy, suppress the immune system, create autoimmune diseases, create cancers, create delusional states and Alzheimer’s syndromes, create illness. What they do is they push disease deeper and deeper into our immune system, into our cardiovascular system, into our hormonal system, and into our brain.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, and around the merry-go-round they go, back to the doctor’s office for more drugs.
Dana Ullman: Right. Now one of the leading homeopathic medicines that we use for detox, for a general detox, is a medicine that sounds wonderfully poisonous. It’s called nux vomica. Nux vomica. It’s actually a nut from a tree that’s even called the poison nut tree because its seeds have these nuts in it that has strychnine in it, and yet homeopathic doses of nux vomica are so valuable, so much so that the one doctor at the turn into the 20th Century that is considered the father of modern medicine, whereas Hippocrates was thought of as the father of medicine.
The father of modern medicine was a doctor named Sir William Osler, who, at 1900, was the dean of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Then he left that medical school to be the head of Oxford’s medical school in England. He wrote a book that was used by doctors for 50 years of how medicine should be practiced. He considered his two most valuable drugs to nux vomica and hope. He even used much stronger doses of nux vomica than we use in homeopathy.
Mind you, if you used his doses without needing detox, you could have run into a problem. But if you need it for detox, it stimulates the liver enough that it causes a really important detox reaction. That’s one of the medicines that many homeopaths use to help people detox from conventional drugs.
Wendy Myers: Interesting. Very interesting. Is there anything else you want to leave the audience with, any pearls of wisdom when it comes to homeopathy?
Dana Ullman: Well, I always think that every podcast or every article, every book is just a seed, that it will only work and grow if you water it, if you fertilize it, if you explore it further. I want to invite people to my website at homeopathic.com. I have a hundred free articles on homeopathy, plus we sell hundreds of books and tapes and medicines and software. Unlike Amazon, there are real people here.
Wendy Myers: [inaudible 49:03].
Dana Ullman: I also encourage people to support real companies that are really trying to help the world rather than the biggest companies that are just selling everything at a lower price, but not providing any real customer service. Then, secondly, my ecourse, you’ll find it … It’s on a separate website called homeopathicfamilymedicine.com.
Wendy Myers: Fantastic.
Dana Ullman: Then that ecourse has different videos that come with it. It comes with that ebook that I made mention of. Then, hopefully, these materials will take you further so you can fertilize this seed that we just planted in you.
Wendy Myers: Fantastic. Well, Dana, thank you so much for enlightening us on using homeopathy for detoxification. It was really delightful. That was a really, really good interview.
Dana Ullman: Good. My pleasure.
Wendy Myers: Yes. I’ve been wanting to do a podcast about this for a while because I know a lot of practitioner [inaudible 50:09] will use homeopathy for detoxification. Thank you so much for that.
Dana Ullman: All right. My best to you.
Wendy Myers: Everyone, thank you so much for listening today. Thank you for tuning in. I really appreciate you joining us. You can learn more about me, Wendy Myers, at myersdetox.com, where you can have hundreds of articles, hundreds of podcasts all about detoxification. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We will be talking to you very, very soon.
