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If you had acne and treated it with conventional drugs to suppress it, and now your acne is “cured” but you have allergies that you didn’t have before - did you really cure the acne?

Most people think yes, you’ve solved the skin problem and now you have a different problem to take to the allergy specialist. This is the fallacy of conventional specialization!

In reality, the acne is an inflammatory process that the body produces to try to get rid of some kind of toxin, whether from outside or a toxin produced by the body itself. For some reason, it couldn’t be eliminated at the level of normal excretion (sweating, urination, mucus, etc.). So it had to bring in the heating quality of inflammation to do the job.

When you suppress that process, you push it more deeply into the system, where different symptoms crop up, and now they’re even more difficult to treat and begin to involve tissue degeneration.

The “Table of Homotoxicology” is a wonderful visual aid and model for understanding the difference between a disease process and a healing process, so that when you have symptoms you can see the larger context of what they really mean.

The table shows the various phases the body uses to try to get rid of these toxins, and the various conditions that can appear at each phase. The idea is that we want to get the condition to move in the healing direction, to push the toxins out of the system.

But commonly, drugs such as antibiotics and anti-inflammatories are used to make symptoms go away, and they’re very good at that, but we’ll see how they actually can suppress this healing process and lead to a progression of the disease process.

In this article I’ll give you a little introduction to how to use the table of Homotoxicology to understand the direction of symptoms - whether they’re moving toward deeper disease or are going in a healing direction.

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Let’s take the example of allergies and acne one step further. You have chronic allergies, which means that your body isn’t easily throwing off toxins, and they’re on their way to beginning to cause cellular damage. But you’re treating that properly without suppressing it, and your allergy symptoms are improving, although now you have a bad case of acne.

What does the acne really mean, besides just being a new symptom that you’re tempted to suppress or make it go away however you can?

Now that you have the acne, that’s a very important indication! Acne is an inflammatory process, indicating that your body is trying to repair the damage of the chronic allergies. This inflammation, although it’s uncomfortable is actuallly a favorable response!

You see, we’re looking at the direction in which the process is proceeding. To go from acne to chronic allergies is an unfavorable direction - the disease process. But now with the acne inflammation, you’re proceeding in a healing direction toward proper elimination of toxins. The body is trying to move toxins outward so that they don’t progress to do damage on the cellular level.

What we need to do now is to support this healing process, and we can use nutrition, tissue salts, and various other regimenal methods.

If you were to use antibiotics for the acne, you might get some symptom relief, but you’d actually be suppressing this healing process, which would be like sabotage. It would be like anything else that gives you short-term gain but hurts you more in the longer run.

You would be driving the disturbance deeper into the system, and then it would be expressed later, most likely in a more serious condition. So we want to avoid that. What we can do is to help you feel better with remedies that don’t sabotage your long-term gain, while focusing our efforts on what is going to maximize your healing.

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Now let’s look at the example, on Dr Reckeweg’s Table of Homotoxicology. Don’t let the name intimidate you - it’s a wonderful model and very clear visual aid for understanding the difference between a disease process and a healing process.

Here is a shortened form of the table

More detailed table

To illustrate how it works, in the table look under the column titled Inflammation Phase, and you’ll see acne listed there. Now look over to the right, under the column for Impregnation phase, you’ll see allergies.

What this means is that if someone has chronic allergies, it’s because they have gone through the phases on the left side of the chart, over to the right side of the chart which represents disease processes that are beginning to affect the cellular level.

The left-hand half of the chart shows functional disturbances that haven’t produced actual tissue damage. In the functional phases, the body is still fairly well able to throw off the toxins, as they haven’t penetrated very deeply yet. Some of the symptoms in the functional phases can be quite intense, as with pneumonia or meningitis. But as you move to the right of the chart, the conditions are becoming more degenerative, more embedded in the tissues.

So if a person had acne, and then later they’re developing chronic allergies, you can see that they are in a disease process, going from left to right on the table.

But if someone has allergies, and they’re being treated properly to remove the disease blockages, and now they’re developing acne, now they are going from right to left, reversing the disease process, moving in the direction of healing!

In this context, the appearance of acne is a good thing and should not be suppressed with antibiotics but treated properly and supported so that the person can move through the inflammation phase and back to the excretory phase to the left.

The healing process goes from right to left on the chart, although not all the in-between phases will manifest, and this is really just a rule of thumb to understand what direction the person is going in, when they had one problem and then another problem crops up.

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The key to all this is that the symptom itself does not give you an understanding of what is happening and how to treat it. Depending on whether you’re going from right to left or left to right, meningitis or pneumonia or acne (or other inflammatory condition) may be a healing process, and usually is!

A common problem is getting stuck in the inflammatory phase, and then the person gets anxious and thinks they need to suppress the inflammation. What they really need is to treat it properly to get it moving so it resolves to the left on the chart, not to suppress it and drive it toward the right.

Many people try eliminating wheat/gluten and grains from their diet, to find that the gluten-free breads are pretty awful. Here are some really tasty alternatives!

First some quick-bread recipes using almond flour, that are easy to make. They’re all grain-free, although some contain ingredients that are somewhat of a compromise– heated dairy products and honey, for example (which are terrific raw).

But for some people, getting off wheat or grains is an important step, and these can help fill in the gap. Usually you can make some substitutions if you don’t like certain ingredients. These recipes are rather forgiving, not like yeasted breads that can fail miserably if you deviate from the recipe.

See below the recipes for mail-order sources for ingredients.

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Parmesan-Herb Bread
From Lucy’s Specific Carbohydrate Diet Cookbook (posted with permission)

2 1/2 cups almond flour
1 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs (oregano, basil, thyme, etc.)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
3 tablespoons butter, melted
3/4 cup dry curd cottage cheese or Farmer cheese
1/2 cup water
1-2 cloves garlic, optional

Preheat oven to 325F.

Combine dry ingredients (first 5). In blender or food processor, blend all other ingredients until smooth. Stir everything together.

Scoop dough into 3 small buttered loaf pans, or two larger. Bake 50-55 minutes or until done. Cool loaves before removing from pans.

To make crackers, chill the baked loaf (easier to slice when cold), slice baked loaf into 1/4 inch slices, bake at 200 degrees until very crispy.

This bread keeps well in the fridge or freezer.

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Cinnamon-Ginger Cookes

4 tablespoons butter, melted
1/3 cup honey
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 cups almond flour
1/2 cup grated coconut (optional)

Preheat oven to 300F.
Place butter in mixing bowl. Add all other ingredients, stirring flour in last. Form dough into 1-inch diameter balls and place on a buttered cookie sheet. Bake 10-15 minutes, or until done. Watch that they don’t burn around the edges.
You can adjust the spices to taste, or add others like nutmeg, cloves, etc.

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Almond Spice Cake
From Lucy’s Specific Carbohydrate Diet Cookbook

4 tbsp butter, melted
1/3 cup honey + a little more
1/2 cup homemade yogurt
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Spices: 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp allspice, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups almond flour
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1/3 cup raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 310F
In mixing bowl, stir together butter, honey, yogurt, eggs. Stir in all other ingredients. Spread batter into a buttered 8 inch x 8 inch baking pan, or loaf pan. Bake 30 min or until done.
Optional frosting:
1 cup cream cheese or dripped yogurt (let yogurt drain through colander)
6 tbsp butter, room temperature
3 tbsp honey
1 teaspoon vanila extract
Combine all ingredients, chill.
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Banana Bread or muffins
From Lucy’s Specific Carbohydrate Diet Cookbook

3 tbsp butter, melted
1/4 cup honey
2 eggs, beaten
2 ripe bananas, mashed
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups almond flour
1 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)

Preheat oven 310F
In mixing bowl, stir together all ingredients, adding flour and walnuts last. Scoop batter into 3 buttered loaf pans or two large ones, filling 3/4 full. Batter can also go into muffin pans.

Bake loaves 45-50 min; muffins 20-25 min
Cool before slicing.

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ALMOND FLOUR:

Almond flour can be mail ordered through:
Lucy’s Kitchen Shop, 1-888-484-2126 (In WA)
or email Lucy Rosset
Lucy’s Kitchen Shop

Information about the Specific Carbohydrate diet:

The SCD diet is mainly for people with intestinal disorders such as colitis or Crohn’s disease, but is also helpful for all kinds of immune problems and those who don’t tolerate wheat or gluten. It is completely free of sugar and all grain.

See:
Book: Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall

Cookbook: Lucy’s Specific Carbohydrate Diet Cookbook (order directly from Lucy)
Lucy’s Kitchen Shop

CHEBE BREAD is a delicious gluten-free Brazilian bread made from manioc (tapioca).

Hi folks,

Just a quick announcement to smooth out a little technical wrinkle…

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My apologies for not being more clear.

The mailing list I invited you to the other day is my new one, introducing the new incarnation of the Guide for Self Healing website!

The mailing is actually my new free mini-course called Four Keys, which teaches foundational principles for getting healthier.

I needed to get your okay to put you on that list. If you haven’t confirmed, no need to hunt for that email - simply sign up HERE.

I think you’ll enjoy it - it’s a distillation from decades of research and experience, in a very condensed form that packs essential wisdom and practical tips into four short emails.

There will also be periodic newsletters as before, and let me know what topics you’d like to read about.

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Excerpt from Dr. Tim O’Shea’s article, HPV - The First Cancer Vaccine

The first problem is that there are over 100 strains of HPV, only 30 of which are even theoretically linked with cervical cancer. In addition, HPV is present in at least half the normal population, almost never causing any disease or problems whatsoever. Indeed, HPV has never been proven as a pathogen for any disease.

All that has ever been shown is that HPV is sometimes present in cervical cancer tissue, but as we know it’s also present in half the normal population. There is a total lack of evidence that cervical cancer appears in women with HPV more often than in women without it. And yet this will be the focus of the vaccine: to pretend to eliminate this ubiquitous virus from the body.

The second enormous impediment to credibility is that the average age for cervical cancer is 50 years. But the plan is to mandate Gardasil to 12 years olds. And the manufacturer is only claiming efficacy for 5 years. So using their own statistics, this makes the vaccine worthless in the long run, because by the time most females need immunity, it will have worn off long ago.

The original phrase used by Merck to link HPV with cervical cancer was “there is a strong connection.” How that phrase got transformed to ‘is the cause of’ in the past two years is more a matter of marketing than of science.

Gardasil’s not been evaluated for carcinogenicity or impairment of fertility. That’s great. They want to vaccinate all American 12 year olds with a vaccine for cancer and they don’t even know for sure whether or not it causes cancer, or makes the recipients infertile. Yeah, sign my kid up for that one.