Our Mental Reprograming Technique addresses the emotional component of disease, both functional and pathological, in a safe and effective physiological way. It is human nature to have an emotional response to significant events in our lives. Sometimes however, our bodies will hold onto a strong response that can eventually cause an imbalance in health. Less than 10% of thought is conscious. The remaining 90% is subconscious (unconscious). When we experience something that creates an emotional reaction, whether positive or negative, both our conscious and subconscious record it. Humans naturally follow the pleasure/pain principle, in which we avoid the negative and gravitate towards the positive. In our mind, our subconscious and conscious thoughts perceive threats and rewards to help reinforce pleasure stimulus and stay away from pain.
These mechanisms sometimes also create a physiological or pathological response to certain stimuli. For example, you may be having a conversation with a loved one and they make a comment with a certain body language or tone of voice attached to it. Your subconscious immediately responds. “I heard this before, I know how this goes”. Inevitably an argument results. A salesperson could hit that emotional buy button in trying to get you to purchase something you do not really need. These automatic reactions are due to a previous emotional response that has been “locked” into your sympathetic nervous system. These responses are based on strong negative or positive emotions that have been attached to past events. In many instances you may not be aware of the conscious or subconscious emotion that manifests as a symptom of disease. Driving down the street, a car goes by with a sound similar to what happened in a previous accident. The subconscious, determined to ensure our survival, triggers the fight, flight or freeze alarm. This can cause one to cringe, have muscle spasms, headaches, anxiety, etc. The M.R.T attempts to delete the physiological subconscious and associated emotional response created in the body.
How does M.R.T. work?
The Nature Medicine ND uses muscle testing, body reflex points and semantic reactions (physiological reactions to memories or words) to assist and guide you to recall an emotional pattern, similar to a computer operator engaging a specific program. We work with you, assisting you to experience different thoughts and emotions (e.g. “I’m ok loving myself and my body” or “I’m ok forgiving myself” or “I’m ok forgiving that which has offended me”). During this process, your conscious thought scans your subconscious for other times where you may have seen, heard or felt the experience that led to the emotional impact. Remember the example of ladies saying “it is safe to lose weight” after using weight gain as emotional protection from the outside world (possibly from undue sexual attention). While you mentally hold the emotional memory, the Nature Medicine ND stimulates the associated acupressure points or pulse points to release the emotional intensity and delete the physiological response attached to it. The M.R.T. seeks to normalize a neurological imbalance by using a physical stimulus to break up the physical reaction to the emotion, allowing for a change in physiology. This can be so effective at removing past traumas, that when people attempt to recall the traumatic memory, they have difficulties. Some even recall the trauma as being a third party (once removed, like watching a movie) instead of first party (feeling it, being in the movie). They no longer experience it, but simply observe it.
Homeopathics and Western Botanicals can be used to help assist and reinforce the treatment.
Is M.R.T. treatment safe?
Yes. The Nature Medicine ND uses a safe and gentle stimulation of acupressure points. The entire procedure is not unpleasant and patients often express immediate relief following the point treatment.
Please note: M.R.T. treatment is NOT a substitute for psychological or psychiatric therapy. It will delete the trauma, however it will not teach you to not walk down the same street or not fall into the same hole. M.R.T. works in conjunction with psychotherapy and counseling. It may take 1 to 5 treatments to repair a strong emotional response.
What are emotions?
In the past, emotions were considered psychologically based. Scientific discoveries have however shown that emotions are physiologically based. According to the Longman Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry, emotions are “A complex reaction pattern of the changes in nervous, visceral and skeletal-muscle tissues response to a stimulus… As a strong feeling, emotion is usually directed towards a specific person or event and involves widespread physiological changes, such as increased heart rate and inhibition of peristalsis.”
Furthermore, recent advancements in neuroscience demonstrate that emotions are an interaction between chains of amino acids, which form neuropeptides and receptors. Therefore, emotions are normal physiological (organic) processes in the body, some of which are pleasant and others which are not. When an emotional response is happening at an inappropriate time, it is producing abnormal physiology, illness symptoms and possibly contributing to pathology.
We feel different emotions in different parts of the body, in different ways. Ancient acupuncturists correlated the different emotions to different organ meridians in our body. For example, fear to the kidney, anger to the liver, grief to the lungs, etc. (please refer to Chinese Herbal Patents for more information)
Although the primary locations for the physiology of emotions are in the brain, spine, autonomic nervous system and acupuncture circuits, emotions do affect any and all parts of the body in a physiological way. Researchers have now demonstrated that emotional bio-chemicals travel to almost every cell in the body.
Who should use M.R.T.?
M.R.T. is for the individual in pursuit of excellent health, quality of life, inner joy and peace in coping with life’s daily challenges and for the fulfillment of dreams and goals. M.R.T. is a powerful technique that allows for transition and transformation as it discharges old emotional-reality imprints. This procedure is done clearly, rapidly and thoroughly. As the physiological and nervous system attachments to the emotional response are cleared, they are removed from the subconscious and do not return unless they are re-imprinted by re-traumatization.
Mental Reprogramming Technique (M.R.T.)
Last Updated: July 24, 2018 by mprytula · Leave a Comment
Our Mental Reprograming Technique addresses the emotional component of disease, both functional and pathological, in a safe and effective physiological way. It is human nature to have an emotional response to significant events in our lives. Sometimes however, our bodies will hold onto a strong response that can eventually cause an imbalance in health. Less than 10% of thought is conscious. The remaining 90% is subconscious (unconscious). When we experience something that creates an emotional reaction, whether positive or negative, both our conscious and subconscious record it. Humans naturally follow the pleasure/pain principle, in which we avoid the negative and gravitate towards the positive. In our mind, our subconscious and conscious thoughts perceive threats and rewards to help reinforce pleasure stimulus and stay away from pain.
These mechanisms sometimes also create a physiological or pathological response to certain stimuli. For example, you may be having a conversation with a loved one and they make a comment with a certain body language or tone of voice attached to it. Your subconscious immediately responds. “I heard this before, I know how this goes”. Inevitably an argument results. A salesperson could hit that emotional buy button in trying to get you to purchase something you do not really need. These automatic reactions are due to a previous emotional response that has been “locked” into your sympathetic nervous system. These responses are based on strong negative or positive emotions that have been attached to past events. In many instances you may not be aware of the conscious or subconscious emotion that manifests as a symptom of disease. Driving down the street, a car goes by with a sound similar to what happened in a previous accident. The subconscious, determined to ensure our survival, triggers the fight, flight or freeze alarm. This can cause one to cringe, have muscle spasms, headaches, anxiety, etc. The M.R.T attempts to delete the physiological subconscious and associated emotional response created in the body.
How does M.R.T. work?
The Nature Medicine ND uses muscle testing, body reflex points and semantic reactions (physiological reactions to memories or words) to assist and guide you to recall an emotional pattern, similar to a computer operator engaging a specific program. We work with you, assisting you to experience different thoughts and emotions (e.g. “I’m ok loving myself and my body” or “I’m ok forgiving myself” or “I’m ok forgiving that which has offended me”). During this process, your conscious thought scans your subconscious for other times where you may have seen, heard or felt the experience that led to the emotional impact. Remember the example of ladies saying “it is safe to lose weight” after using weight gain as emotional protection from the outside world (possibly from undue sexual attention). While you mentally hold the emotional memory, the Nature Medicine ND stimulates the associated acupressure points or pulse points to release the emotional intensity and delete the physiological response attached to it. The M.R.T. seeks to normalize a neurological imbalance by using a physical stimulus to break up the physical reaction to the emotion, allowing for a change in physiology. This can be so effective at removing past traumas, that when people attempt to recall the traumatic memory, they have difficulties. Some even recall the trauma as being a third party (once removed, like watching a movie) instead of first party (feeling it, being in the movie). They no longer experience it, but simply observe it.
Homeopathics and Western Botanicals can be used to help assist and reinforce the treatment.
Is M.R.T. treatment safe?
Yes. The Nature Medicine ND uses a safe and gentle stimulation of acupressure points. The entire procedure is not unpleasant and patients often express immediate relief following the point treatment.
Please note: M.R.T. treatment is NOT a substitute for psychological or psychiatric therapy. It will delete the trauma, however it will not teach you to not walk down the same street or not fall into the same hole. M.R.T. works in conjunction with psychotherapy and counseling. It may take 1 to 5 treatments to repair a strong emotional response.
What are emotions?
In the past, emotions were considered psychologically based. Scientific discoveries have however shown that emotions are physiologically based. According to the Longman Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry, emotions are “A complex reaction pattern of the changes in nervous, visceral and skeletal-muscle tissues response to a stimulus… As a strong feeling, emotion is usually directed towards a specific person or event and involves widespread physiological changes, such as increased heart rate and inhibition of peristalsis.”
Furthermore, recent advancements in neuroscience demonstrate that emotions are an interaction between chains of amino acids, which form neuropeptides and receptors. Therefore, emotions are normal physiological (organic) processes in the body, some of which are pleasant and others which are not. When an emotional response is happening at an inappropriate time, it is producing abnormal physiology, illness symptoms and possibly contributing to pathology.
We feel different emotions in different parts of the body, in different ways. Ancient acupuncturists correlated the different emotions to different organ meridians in our body. For example, fear to the kidney, anger to the liver, grief to the lungs, etc. (please refer to Chinese Herbal Patents for more information)
Although the primary locations for the physiology of emotions are in the brain, spine, autonomic nervous system and acupuncture circuits, emotions do affect any and all parts of the body in a physiological way. Researchers have now demonstrated that emotional bio-chemicals travel to almost every cell in the body.
Who should use M.R.T.?
M.R.T. is for the individual in pursuit of excellent health, quality of life, inner joy and peace in coping with life’s daily challenges and for the fulfillment of dreams and goals. M.R.T. is a powerful technique that allows for transition and transformation as it discharges old emotional-reality imprints. This procedure is done clearly, rapidly and thoroughly. As the physiological and nervous system attachments to the emotional response are cleared, they are removed from the subconscious and do not return unless they are re-imprinted by re-traumatization.
Chinese Herbal Patents
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Chinese medicines are made from a variety of ingredients including roots, bark, leaves and flowers. These patented formulations may be used to treat many health conditions as they are constructed to correct specific imbalances in the body. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used for over 5,000 years.
In the West, medicine is an analytical science, dissecting things until causal links are made. In Chinese medicine, the opposite occurs. Signs and symptoms are pieced together until a picture of the whole person appears. Treatment therefore is centered on the person rather than on the disease. In traditional Chinese medicine many factors and properties are considered in the diagnoses. For instance, an individual’s vital force (also known as Qi) may be weak, leading to a susceptibility to attack from external pathogens. The flow of blood, the functioning of specific organs, temperature, taste and weather all play a role. These properties can also be treated, stimulated or tonifyed by particular herbs and substances. This concept of using herbs to correct particular functions in the body has been developed over generations.
In Chinese medicine, there are 5 external disease factors that can invade the body and effect organ function: wind, cold, heat, dryness and dampness. The therapeutic capabilities of a substance can be described by linking its taste and temperatures to disease causing factors. For example, a warm substance can be used for an externally contracted cold or a cool substance for heat. By understanding the properties of a substance, we can treat the cause of the organ imbalance. In addition, 5 internal disease factors directly correspond to organ pathology. Anxiety (worry), fear (fright), grief, joy (or absence of joy) and anger (depression) can impact the function of an organ and lead to a clinical presentation. Stress experienced on a daily basis cause excessive activity of the liver to overact on the stomach/spleen contributing to loose stools.
Knowing which herb will work toward rebalancing the organs and emotions is critical. In fact, the effect that the substance has on the organ will depend on many factors including taste. A sweet herb tonifies the Spleen, an organ that prefers sweet, but the same herb may drain an organ with an aversion to this quality like the Heart. Herbs also have a directional tendency to rise, fall, float or sink. This is indicative of the situations in which it can be used effectively. Substances that rise move upward and outward, promoting sweating and dispersing cold, while substances that fall move downward redirecting rebellious Qi (e.g. vomiting) or preventing abnormal loss of fluids. The many therapeutic uses and the versatility of the herbs and substances can be combined to enhance their qualities, restore the body and jump start the patient’s own healing powers.
At Nature Medicine, many of the herbs we use are commercially prepared patents that are packaged in China. These products offer, convenient and affordable treatment alternatives and are largely free of any side effects.
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BioClimate Reprogramming
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Exposure to the elements can wreak havoc on the body and cause a multitude of ailments. Evidence has demonstrated a direct connection between temperature and migraines, arthritic pain and weather. From a Chinese Medicine perspective, the invasion of external disease causing factors can alter physiological processes and lead to complications. More specifically cold, heat, wind, dampness, dryness and darkness have all been identified as external elements to which one’s body can become over sensitive and have a negative reaction to. Some examples of invasion and the body’s possible responses are:
Throughout these examples there is an apparent emotional component attached to the disease factor. The subconscious is a powerful ally, designed to protect you. Negative subconscious processes that interfere with life and potentiate symptoms can also be masked by the mind’s survival safeguard. The goal of BioClimate Reprogramming (BCR) is to erase negative subconscious programs attached to the various external factors.
Qi is known as your vital force in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is equivalent to the Vis from Chapter 2. It is important for your vital force to flow freely throughout the body without impediment. It plays a role in defending the body from pathogens, regulating growth and development, ensuring blood circulation and maintaining overall homeostasis. Invasion from an external disease factor can constrict and trap your energy. Contributing to any imbalances and enhancing symptoms. These can range from fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, abdominal discomfort, digestive disorders, joint pain, muscle spasms, arthritis to various skin conditions. In addition to removing subconscious patterns associated with disease, BCR can remove blockages and help Qi move smoothly throughout the body.
BCR treatments do more than simply desensitize you to the climate; they work to remove the invasion.
Potential Symptoms of Cold Invasion
Potential Symptoms of Heat Invasion
Potential Symptoms of Wind Invasion
Potential Symptoms of Dark Invasion
The section about our subconscious, demonstrated the brain’s natural tendency to ensure survival. Upon exposure to an external disease factor the subconscious automatically searches for previous programs to tell it how to react. For example, in Raynaud’s Disease, the body will shunt blood away from the hands to the core upon exposure to the cold. These old programs may have served us well once but the subconscious does not know if this is a good or bad program. It simply knows it ensured your survival. Cold is the most potentially life threatening of the external disease factors. The nervous system is hardwired to respond to cold immediately as it can be lethal quickly. With less than 1 minute exposure to cold, our bodies react, by trying to warm up the cold area. Exposure over 1 minute results in the body responding by going into hypothermia protection mode. Heat is the second most life-threating of the external disease causing factor. Heat exposure of up to 5 minutes is very stimulating to circulation while greater than 5 minutes our bodies go into hyperthermia protection mode.
Nature Medicine staff will seek to assess which external factor has invaded and determine the appropriate BioClimate Reprogramming therapy. BCR has the capacity to remove disease, decrease symptoms, erase negative programs, eliminate Qi blockages and desensitize your nervous system to the elements.
Intravenous Vitamin C and Cancer
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Benefits of the IV Administration of Vitamin C
Vitamin C’s Effects on Killing Cancer
In the book Cancer and Vitamin C by Cameron and Pauling, a Canadian physician, Dr. W.J. McCormick, hypothesized in 1954 and 1959 that cancer is a disease associated with a deficiency in vitamin C. He recognized that the changes in tissues from scurvy are identical to the alterations of invading cancer cells. Dr. McCormick surmised that since this nutrient (vitamin C) is capable of preventing damage from scurvy, then it may have similar effects in cancer. The evidence that cancer patients are found to almost invariably be depleted of vitamin C supported this view.
Cameron and Pauling also state, “Most important of all, we are led to the conclusion that the administration of this harmless substance, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), might provide us with an effective means of permanently suppressing neoplastic cellular proliferation and invasiveness, in other words an effective means of controlling cancer. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in adequate doses might prove to be the ideal cytostatic agent.”
According to the 4th Quarter, 2000 Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Riordan, Riordan & Casciari concluded from their research, “vitamin C is toxic to tumor cells. Concentrations of vitamin C that kill tumor cells can be achieved in humans using intravenous vitamin C infusions.”
One study reported in the Journal of Nutrition and Biochemistry in July 2006, concluded that the combined treatment with retinoic acid (vitamin A) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) inhibited the proliferation of human breast cancer cells. The combination altered the gene expression of antioxidation processes as well as the proliferation inhibitory pathway.
In 1991, the Journal of Oncology reported two cases of complete cancer regression in response to high-dose ascorbic acid therapy.
Vitamin C’s Effects on Quality and Duration of Life
According to a study reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in March 2006, early clinical research showed that high-dose vitamin C, given by intravenous and oral routes, may improve symptoms and prolong life in patients with terminal cancer. The study found three well-documented cases of advanced cancer where patients had unexpectedly long survival times after receiving high-dose intravenous vitamin C therapy.
In a trial of vitamin C in the Vale of Leven Hospital, researchers described the quite dramatic relief of bone pain in four out of five patients with expanding skeletal metastases. Of equal importance was the observation that most of the ascorbate-treated patients entered a period of increased well-being and general improvement. In another clinical report in the same trial, 50 patients with advanced cancer received 10g of vitamin C or more per day. It was expected that most of these patients (90%) would die within about three months. In fact, only half of them had died on or before the 100th day after being deemed to be “untreatable” at the time the administration of ascorbate was begun. In similar trials, 100 ascorbate-treated patients have lived on average about 300 days longer than their matched controls. In addition, it is the researchers’ strong clinical impression that they have lived happier lives during this terminal period.
In another study published by the Journal of Korean Medical Sciences in February 2007, terminal cancer patients reported significantly higher scores for physical, emotional and cognitive function after administration of vitamin C. In symptom scale, the patients reported significantly lower scores for fatigue, nausea/vomiting, pain and appetite loss after the administration of vitamin C.
Vitamin C’s Positive Interaction with Chemotherapy and Radiation
A study published in March-April 2007 from the journal of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, concluded that non-prescription antioxidants and other nutrients do not interfere with therapeutic modalities (chemotherapy and radiation) for cancer. The meta-analysis found consistent results since 1970 from 280 peer-reviewed in vitro and in vivo studies. Including 50 human studies involving 8,521 patients, from which 5,081 were given nutrients. Furthermore, the supplements enhanced the killing therapeutic modalities (chemotherapy and radiation) for cancer, decreased their side effects and protected normal tissue. In 15 of the human studies, the 3,738 patients who took non-prescription antioxidants and other nutrients actually had increased survival.
In a review paper in The Journal of American Nutraceutical Association, Block & Evans reviewed all English articles listed in Index Medicus between the years 1990-2000 related to antioxidant and interactions with anticancer drugs or radiation and concluded that “there is a rational basis for the continued use of antioxidant agents as a therapeutic adjunct in cancer therapy.”
Another study published in the Journal of Chemotherapy in October 2005 indicated that vitamin C enhances the antitumor activity of two chemotherapeutic drugs and sensitizes cancer cells to drug-induced cell death. The data suggested that vitamin C supplementation may improve the efficacy of chemotherapy for esophageal cancer. Yet another study reported in the medical journal Cancer Treatment Review in March 2007 concluded that none of the trials reported evidence of significant decreases in efficacy from antioxidant supplementation during chemotherapy. Many of the studies indicated that antioxidant supplementation resulted in either increased survival times, increased tumor responses, or both, as well as fewer toxicities than controls.
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Botanical Medicine
Last Updated: July 24, 2018 by mprytula · Leave a Comment
The earliest written records of nearly all civilizations mention the use of herbs for healing. Emperor Shen Nung (3494 B.C) tasted various plants to determine their medicinal properties. Poisoning himself 100 times, his trial and error method contributed to the discovery of medicinal plants throughout the world. The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of the world’s population presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. The United States National Cancer Institute has identified 3,000 plants from which anticancer drugs are made from. Modern medicine draws its origins from early herbal therapies. Until the past 100 years, all MDs prescribed herbs routinely.
The development of synthetic medicine signalled the decline of MDs using herbs directly. Chemists began to isolate active ingredients in plants and to learn how to produce the component independently of the herb. In 2001, researchers identified 122 compounds used in mainstream medicine which were derived from plant sources. At least 7,000 medical compounds in the modern pharmacopoeia that are derived from plants. For example, Salicin, the analgesic component of aspirin, is derived from the bark of the White Willow (Salix alba). Newly synthesised compounds would have a similar chemical structure as the natural ingredient but are more potent, more dangerous and more likely to lead to profound toxic effects. These effects were labelled as “side effects”, but they are really the normal action of the synthetic active ingredient in the body merely acting in ways other than intended. For example, gastrointestinal disturbances are very common with aspirin. This side effect is less likely to occur with the plant as the dose and the concentration are not as strong. With this new age of synthetic medicine came the development of new miracle drugs. It also saw an increase in disease from medication, side effects and adverse reactions. Many of us may be familiar with “take Drug A for your _______ and take Drug B to help with nausea that you will get from Drug A”. Does this method of treatment truly seem logical?
Botanical medicine or preparations derived from the plant are usually safer and slower acting than drug therapy, resulting in less toxic effects. When using the plant directly, you are utilizing the active ingredient and all the associated factors in the plant. This makes the action of the particular ingredient more effective in its natural state as it works in conjunction with the other components. In fact the benefit of an herb is usually due to the total interaction of all its constituents and not just the active ingredient. Consequently, there are few herb-related diseases.
The safety of medication is of course very important. Any medicine can be toxic when used improperly. It is a common misconception that botanical medications are completely safe and nontoxic; natural does not always mean safe! Drug interactions can occur not only between the drugs. They can also occur between drugs and herbs, herbs and herbs, herbs and nutrients, nutrients and nutrients, etc. Knowledge of botanical toxicology is essential before attempting to treat with herbs. In general, botanical medicine is safer and more therapeutic than the use of drugs when prescribed appropriately, at correct dosages and monitored properly.
The majority of negative reactions between botanical herbs and drugs are predominantly due to an interaction with a particular ingredient in the herb with the drug. In many cases, regulating authorities fail to realize that a significant amount of the herb must be consumed in order to cause a negative interaction with the drug.
At Nature Medicine, your ND is fully trained in botanical medicine. Western botanicals are prescribed on an individual basis, combined in such a manner as to keep your medications at a minimum. They are formulated to aid in stimulating or directing your body’s own healing forces, in order to isolate a disease causing factor and to promote health from within.
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