Just Launched: The Survivor’s Guide to Swine Flu: The Complementary Medical Approach

This book bridges the gap between Complementary and Conventional Medicine and will help you to make an informed decision about ways to look after your health when faced with a potentially serious pandemic.

Click here for Chapter List and Contents

The healthcare advice in this book is based upon historical data and extensive scientific research – with references to over 500 supporting studies.  We’re going to take you through the facts, so that you’ll have all the information you need in order to decide how you feel YOU can best survive Swine Flu.

When faced with a potentially serious pandemic – should the H1N1 Swine Flu virus mutate to become more lethal – we can, and should, all take responsibility for our own wellbeing and the best way to do this is to incorporate lifestyle changes that lead us to be less predisposed to inflammatory responses.

This is of relevance to Swine Flu because an over-reaction of the immune system is thought by many scientists to underlie the more deadly cases of Swine Flu infection.  This was certainly the case back in the ‘Spanish Flu’ 1918 outbreak when the same virus – H1N1 – caused a vast global pandemic – killing up to 100 million people.

However, in the best case scenario where this current virus ‘simply goes away’, the recommendations in this book have a myriad of proven long-term health benefits, including reducing your predisposition to a whole range of degenerative diseases including arthritis, some cancers, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease – to name but a few.  In addition – you’ll look better, have a more positive outlook, and feel more energetic too as these Complementary Medical approaches also have proven mood-enhancement and anti-ageing benefits.

Protection: You’ll learn about particular forms of nutritional supplements, herbs and essential oils which have very specific actions that are anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and make us less susceptible to viral attack – thus helping to prevent us from catching Swine Flu.

Treatment Options: However, in the event that you do catch Swine Flu, we cover a range of herbs, supplements and oils that are anti-biotic (which fight secondary infections), anti-pyretic (fever reducing) and many of these have also been proven to fight viruses, kill them and also act as neuraminidase inhibitors (like Tamiflu – except Swine Flu has not developed resistance to these treatment methods).

The author does recommend homeopathic medicines as well  –  historical evidence over the last 200 years has shown that homeopathy has done a great job in helping people to survive major epidemics and pandemics.  In 1918, the evidence from doctors at the time shows that those people who caught the Spanish Flu and were treated homeopathically had a death rate of less than 1%, as opposed to those treated conventionally, who had a death rate in excess of 30%. (This evidence is taken from respected army doctors who were dealing with huge numbers of people – 26,000 in one report and 24,500 in another and there are many more reports supporting these data.)

We also candidly discuss your conventional medical options, including antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu and Relenza, and we look at proposed vaccines and any additives that these will contain.  We cut through the hype – so that you’ll be fully aware of  the possible  advantages and potential disadvantages of these – including undesirable and sometimes dangerous side-effects.

This approach is NOT an ‘Alternative’ Medical approach. It is a ‘Complementary’ one and, as such, draws upon the latest medical research from the fields of virology, immunology and microbiology as well from scientific research into the specific life-style changes, herbal medicines, nutrients, essential oils and homeopathic medicines that we suggest in order to help you make an informed choice about protecting yourself and your loved ones from Swine Flu.

The Survivor’s Guide to Swine Flu is available from The CMA and all bookshops

Latest Homeopathy Studies Show Positive Results

In spite of the negative press about homeopathy recently, where a Big Pharma PR organisation manouvered the WHO into stating a ‘position’ regarding homeopathy, there have been two studies published this summer that add yet more positive weight to homeopathy. The first trial was on people with Minor Recurrent Apthous Ulcers (MiRAU) or mouth ulcers. This random controlled trial of individualised homeopathy in 100 people was positive and the authors concluded: “The results suggest that homeopathic treatment is an effective and safe method in the treatment of MiRAU.” Click here for abstract 

A second recent study which looked at differences between homeopathically prepared solutions and placebo demonstrated that even in dilutions beyond Avogadro’s number – where theoretically no molecule of the original substance can be found – differences in the homeopathic solution are evident. The researchers commented:

“Thus, experimental evidence accumulates that highly diluted homeopathic preparations, i.e. diluted beyond the Avogadro limit,exhibit particular physicochemical properties different from shaken pure solvent.The exact nature of these properties is not yet known; our current working hypothesis is an increase in the solvent’s molecular dynamics for homeopathic preparations Click here to read more

An interesting point about homeopathy saving the NHS money

Might homeopathy be able to save the NHS money?  I was just reading this blog – and the author seems to think so – he makes a link here to a blog site that seems to demonstrate that this may well be the case.  There are links from this site to a number of reports that show the cost savings of homeopathy – and also illustrate how well patients did under this kind of treatment. Well worth a read.

CMA Monthly E-Newsletter Archive

We’ve now got an archive for all our wonderful monthly e-Newsletters. You can access this here.

The CMA e-Newsletters are read by over 9000 practitioners of a variety of disciplines and the CMA e-Newsletters cover a rich variety of subject matter.

Our content is totally up-to-date and we are often able to ’scoop’ the mainstream media with our coverage of the latest complementary and conventional medical news items. The most recent e-Newsletter includes:

- Have your Say! - - Liquorice has Cancer Beating Properties -

- Goldenseal and Stem Cell Growth -

- Early Type 2 Diabetes Screening -

- Curcumin Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk -

- Vitamin D & Swine Flu -

- Rejection Really Does HURT -

- Oxy Cholesterol – “Who Knew?” -

- Anti-Ageing Gene ‘Klotho’ Reduces Blood Pressure -

- Star Anise (used in Tamiflu) replaced by e-coli -

- Latest Homeopathy Studies Positive -

-Special Offer! Your £5 Ticket to CAMEXPO -

Completely Absorbing

Great news for goths the world over. . .

Scientists have finally done it – they have invented the darkest man-made material – ever!

An article on the BBC website reported that the material was created from carbon nanotubes – sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders.

Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal black material, which absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over all wavelengths.

The discovery is expected to have applications in the fields of electronics and solar energy. (And, hopefully, a whole new choice of shades of black for goths to wear).

An ideal black object absorbs all the colours of light and reflects none of them. In theory, it should be possible to make something that approaches the “perfect absorber”.

“They’ve made the blackest material known to science” says Prof Sir John Pendry

A Valuable New CMA Member?

Based upon the following comment perhaps we ought to offer Dubyah an Honorary CMA Membership – he is obviously a talented healer:

“We’re going to—we’ll be sending a person on the ground there pretty soon to help implement the malaria initiative, and that initiative will mean spreading nets and insecticides throughout the country so that we can see a reduction in death of young children that—a death that we can cure.” Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 2007

Ah . . . but then again . . . perhaps not:

When answering a questions about a possible flu pandemic:
“I’m going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I’m smart on the subject.” Cleveland, July 10, 2007

Mobile phones disrupt sleep patterns

A fascinating article appeared today on the BBC News website. It reported that the use of a cell phone before going to bed may disrupt sleep patterns. One of the most interesting things about this report was that it was funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum.

The article reports:
“Some [participants in the trial] were exposed to radiation equivalent to that received when using a mobile phone, others were placed in the same conditions, but given only “sham” exposure.

Those exposed to radiation took longer to enter the first of the deeper stages of sleep, and spent less time in the deepest one.

The scientists concluded: “The study indicates that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals components of sleep believed to be important for recovery from daily wear and tear are adversely affected.” In the UK, mobile services operate within the frequency ranges 872 to 960 MHz, 1710 to 1875 MHz and 1920 to 2170 MHz.

Researcher Professor Bengt Arnetz said: “The study strongly suggests that mobile phone use is associated with specific changes in the areas of the brain responsible for activating and coordinating the stress system.”

Another theory is that radiation may disrupt production of the hormone melatonin, which controls the body’s internal rhythms. “

Either way, it is probably best to give the moby a rest – especially at bed time.

Last but by no means least, Mike Dolan, executive director of the Mobile Operators Association, pointed out that the study was inconsistent with other research:

“It is really one small piece in a very large scientific jigsaw. It is a very small effect, one researcher likened it to less than the effect you would see from a cup of coffee.”

Last September a major six-year study by the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) concluded that mobile phone use posed no short-term risk to the brain.

However, the researchers said they could not rule out the possibility that long-term use may raise the risk of cancer.

Of course, some cynics might suggest that since both organisations are starting to admit that there may be health implications associated with mobile use, perhaps there will be less liklihood of successful class actions in the future by people who have been harmed by mobile phone emissions?

Back in The USA

Off to America tomorrow – wonderful – especially as this weather in Blightly is atrocious at the moment. I can’t wait to sink my toes into the white quartz sand of Sand Key. Mind you – lots of work to be done – especially considering that there is much planning to be done to manifest the forthcoming seminars and events I am planning from dream-time to real-time.

You’ll have noticed lots more pops at CAM recently in the press – what on earth is going on? I find it totally amazing that some ostensibly, fairly intelligent, individuals can be so upset by what we (CAM practitioners) do that they need to resort to hugely childish playground attacks. I was very impressed with Patrick Holford’s response to the vile attempts to besmirch his name by a number of little boys who evidently sit in the pockets of the big pharma. (I can’t be bothered to name them here.)

On the plus side, the press response to the regulation issues has been positive – although it seems that the proposed regulatory body will be nothing but a facsimile of the status quo. Basically it is proposed that a register of qualified practitioners is created and that these people are insured, adhere to a code of ethics and disciplinary procedure and that they can be struck off if they transgress the rules of the register. Err, well, that’s exactly what The CMA does. So nothing new there then.

Complementary Medical Practitioners are "Vile Exploiters" of the Vulnerable

So says Prof. Waxman (http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7578/1129)

You’ll need to scroll down a bit on this PDF and the article is called “Shark Cartilage in the Water”. You’ll remember a while back that this headline screamed out at us from the Red Tops. And, of course, since then there have been a few other rather silly, and indeed scientifically invalid attempts to smear a variety of CAM approaches.

I wrote the post below a while back – but the question at the end is still valid – and I would love your opinion . . .

So, once again, it appears that all complementary medical practitioners are to be tarred with the same brush. I have to say that I totally agree with Prof Waxman in that there should, indeed, be measures in place to protect the vulnerable from anyone who would cruelly and cynically exploit them – but feel that it is also important to get the message across that trained complementary medical professionals are not exploiters and these “Vile” people that Prof Waxman describes are no different to muggers who target the weak and vulnerable.

They are NOT complementary medical practitioners. Of course the media had a field day with this one! So, how do you propose that we get the message out there that properly trained Complementary Medical practitioners are safe, effective and offer a hugely valuable service to society – one that is extremely popular with the public and increasingly favoured by GPs?

Think I’m getting the hang of this . . .

Last night we went to one of the Hasting’s Creative Media Centre’s do’s. It was excellent – as always. The discussion was on web optimisation and a whole host of other very interesing thinggs that you can do to optimise your e-life in general. Bill and Edward who gave the presentations were very good speakers indeed and we learnt a great deal. It is their fault actually that I’m now blogging as this was one of the things that came up in conversation and the guys pointed me in the right direction. I also tried – as a result of last night – to sign up for GooglePay – but got chucked off it right at the end of the process – what a drag. Anyone else had the same problem?

I also listed The Survivor’s Guide to Bird Flu: The Complementary Medical Approach on Googlebase – again as suggested last night. It is really easy to upload things and I will report back when I see how this is going. It is a fab book – even if I do say so myself. Mind you, others have said so too and you can read reviews here and you can buy it here. Although the shop is run by CMA(USA) the book and supplements from the SurViva range are actually shipped from the UK. They are all going great guns, I’m delighted to say.