Hi Everyone!

So as many of you can tell, I haven’t been updating this blog for some time.

Optimum wellness has another blog program, which requires a different platform, I will be blogging there from  now on, Hopefully at least monthly.

I invite you all to follow me on my new blog, located at: http://drpaultheriaultnd.wordpress.com/

I will continue to use this site as my website. I will be updating some of my programs section in the near future to reflect the recent training I’ve received in CEASE therapy as well. Please do see my new blog for a entry on CEASE, and its potential use.

Thank you all. Take Care of Yourselves!

-Dr Paul

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Hi Everybody. I Finally got my ideal human diet talk up on youtube and synchronised to the powerpoint presentation I used.

This talk was arranged by optimum onsite. Optimum onsite arranges for onsite treatment and education of companies. Chiropractic, Massage, Acupuncture and Naturopathic treatment is available for use in any companies location in Calgary. Please do contact Optimum Onsite if youre interested in having me speak, or if youre interested in having providers come to your building. Onsites web address is:  http://www.optimumonsite.com .

Here is my video. I hope you all enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK8ls4-Rs1I.

Hi everyone!

After a long, damp and hot summer, fall has finally arrived. With fall, our bodies begin purging the accumulated toxins in preparation for winter, and our bodies begin to adapt to the steady cycles of work in both the school year and the end of the vacation cycle.

Now is the time to begin to prepare for winter, cleansing ourselves of the toxins we accumulated in the summer, and preparing our immune systems for the upcoming slowdown in our metabolism.

As such, I have introduced a new program for my established patients to stimulate the immune system both in preparation for the winter months and the increased rate of infection, and to prevent more serious immune issues, such as cancer.

New Cancer Prevention Program:

This new program of mine involves one class in which we will discuss cancer prevention strategies with diet and exercise. One series of injections, which will be administered at home by yourself (with some instruction by myself in injection technique) and two supplements, which will assist your immune system in becoming more acknowledging of cancer, and more aware to potential cancerous cells.

I will describe this new program on my upcoming blog post. Look for it next week!

This program will be exclusively for my existing patients. The class will be on Thursday, November 14^th at 6pm.

The total cost of the program will be $300. This includes supplies and supplements.

Anyone wishing to join my practice for this program will require an intake beforehand. The cost for this will be $450, which includes a 25% discount for the intake visit.

New Genetics Testing:

I have also begun offering a new genetics test. This test is run from a sample of saliva, and tests for several hundred genetic sequences which are then used to determine someones metabolic profile. Using this information, we can determine the nutrients you need in greater than normal amounts in order to prevent long term diseases of metabolism, and to create a better metabolic environment overall. These advances should allow us to prevent most of the genetically determined or genetically influenced diseases.

I am now offering the test and metabolic profile for $200.

If any of you wish to book in for these, please do call our office at 403-255-1350.
Also, please feel free to email me at drpaultheriault.nd@gmail.com

Take care of yourselves!
Dr. Paul!.

Samuel Hahnemann died in 1844. At the time of his death, miasmatic theory remained incomplete, and was often rejected by homeopaths, or used only as a supplement to practice.

In the early part of the 20^th century, a Dr Nebel added to Hahnemann;s original three miasms, with a fourth, tuberculinism. This miasm was characterized by emaciation, romantic fantasies, exhaustion and chronic lung diseases.

During the long sleep of homeopathy in the twentieth century, very little thought was given to miasms in general, or homeopathy at all. However, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, interest in holistic medicine, and homeopathy began to rise again. At this time, a new group of thinkers such as my own teacher Gerard Geuniot, Vithoulkas, Jeremy Sherr and other began to emerge. Along with these figures came an influx of ideas from german trained nature doctors, who had maintained a more active tradition across the atlantic.

One of the most major ideas to emerge from this period was a reinterpretation of the idea of miasms. In the light of the work done earlier in the century on drainage, and the methods the body had for dealing with toxins (to be explored in another blog).

In this light, the traditional miasms of psora, sycotic and syphilis combine, with the new miasm of tuberculosis, to form an integrated model of the human bodies’ journey through health and disease.

According to this model, most people start life in psora, which is assumed to be the healthiest state. These beings will periodically purge their body of toxins, and disease products via rashes, diarrhea, and other discharges rapidly. These people tend to get short lived violent illnesses, and then rapidly recover, feeling better than before. If the toxic load in their bodies exceeds what they can excrete, they move on into the second miasm, sycosis.

Sycotic patients tend to store their toxins in areas where they cannot cause damage, such as joints, fat and connective tissue. This tends to cause joint pain, and often issues such as water retention and increased weight. Issues with emotions, such as holding onto negative experiences and thoughts, also tend to occur.

If the body cannot store any more toxins, it will begin to cannibalize its own resources, such as minerals to excrete the toxicity. This is known as the tuberculinic miasm, mentioned above. These people also tend towards chronic fatigue, exhaustion, and lung pathologies.

If the body runs out of resources, it moves into the syphilitic miasm, and blow wounds and ulcers within itself. These wounds usually leak fluid, which contains the toxicity that the body is attempting to dislodge. However, since our society does not permit open wounds to leak fluid, these sores and wounds are usually sealed surgically. At this point the toxicity that the body has been dealing with by various means is fully present for the first time. Now the serious degenerative diseases of cancer, mental illness, autoimmunity and death soon result.

In my next blog, I will be discussing drainage, and the relationship of Geuniots miasms to drainage.

Take care of yourselves!

Sources: Geuniot, G. From Natural Medceine to Medecine of the Individual. 2010. Editions Amyris. Brussells..

One of the most difficult topics in homeopathy is the idea of miasms.

Miasma were first described by Samuel Hahnemann in his Book “The Chrnoic Diseases” in 1810. After a period of practice success in treating acute disease, Hahnemann began to find more difficulty in his patients suffering from chronic disease. What had been immediate improvements when treating acute infections became a long and drawn out process with many ups and downs, and many seeming setbacks.

Over time, a pattern to these setbacks was noticed. Hahnemann postulated three deeper chronic patterns of disease, or miasms, that afflicted patients.

The first and most common was named Psora. It was defined as an itching disease and was identified with the vast majority of chronic diseases such as leprosy and cancer. It was normally removed by the body developing an itch disease, such as scabies or psoriasis. The suppression of itches via topical lotions was responsible, in Hahnemanns view, for the vast majority of chronic disease.

The second Miasm was called Sycosis. It was identified with the Figwart disease (not Gonorrhoea as is commonly assumed) a sexually transmitted infection common in Hahnemanns time. In a chronic form it was responsible for a number of symptoms of excessive growth, such as skin groths and tags, as well as a number of urinary issues.

The third miasm was Syphilis. It was identified with the disease we also call syphilis today, and was held to be responsible for a number of symptoms of diseases such as ulcerations, insanity and destructive tissue changes in its chronic form.

Upon identifying which miasm or miasms a patient suffers from, the doctor can administer the appropriate anti-miasmatic remedy. Miasma ultimately are curable conditions, but treating them requires a small amount of knowledge about thier nature. This will be elaborated in my next blog post.

Take care of yourselves!

Sources:

Hahnemann, S. The Chronic Diseases. 1810. Available online at http://books.google.ca/books?id=wxw4AAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=y
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As many of you who follow my facebook page may know, I recently had one of my patients pass away. My patient was chronically disabled, and was prone to bouts of pneumonia.

When I assumed care of him in august 2012, we was expected to live only a few more weeks. He was socially withdrawn, had no energy, and took no joy in his previous hobbies. Under Quality naturopathic care (particularly an excellent homeopathic) he recovered his energy, zest for life, interest in the outside world, social interactions, and his joy.

He was able to stay outside his hospital until February 2013. At this point he got a mild pneumonia. I was actually leaving town for a small while. I visited my patient, and his mother in the hospital. He was being wonderfully cared for by the nurses and staff of the Foothills hospital. He was very happy, lucid, and looked to be doing wonderfully on IV antibiotics. I made some time to connect to the patient, held his hand for a while, then left, confident that he would receive the best care. Two days later the patients mother informed me of his death from viral pneumonia. He apparently had been lucid until the last several hours, when he lost consciousness, then rapidly passed on with his mother beside him.

In retrospect, I don’t really know why I made such an effort to connect to this patient in this visit. I fully expected to return and continue his treatment. Now I wonder if some part of me knew this would be our last visit together……

This has gotten me thinking. I remember my fathers death from cancer over about 5 months in 2008-2009, and the profound suffering and despair that process caused in dad, myself, and my family. I also have begun to revisit some of the older ethnographic accounts of death, in which very aged individuals simply do not wake up one day, or consciously make their transition ( such as in aboriginal australia).

I also began remembering a few accounts of palliative homeopathic care. Often in these cases, patients would approach a homeopathic physician when a patient was near death, and the proper administration of a remedy would often speed death up, and enable the patient to die in the fastest, least painful way possible. I also began remembering the account of a classmate of mine, who was treating a patient with end stage HIV/AIDS in africa. This patient had been on the verge of death for about 6 months. The administration of a well chosen homeopathic had permitted him to pass that night.

All these stories tend to lead me to a few ideas:

1. Death in a healthy society/culture is short, relatively rapid and painless after a long and healthy life.
2. The long and drawn out process of death that is so common in our culture is not healthy, or natural, but a reflection of profound illness.
3. Natural Medicine, and in particular Homeopathic medicine seem to return people in this society, at least somewhat, to that natural death process.

Im not intending to write a manifesto for Naturopathic Palliative care. I do not have the experience needed for that. But I am increasing convinced that such a thing is needed, and badly in North America. How badly do we need a return to natural modes of living, and how much more badly do we need a return to natural modes of dying when our last months are spent in agony, pain and terror.

I hope I live to see this.

Take care of Yourselves!

Dr Paul.

(P.S. I apologize for a lack of sources for this blog).

Hi Everybody. Happy New Year!

In my last blog post, we discussed the latest developments in homeopathy surrounding the practice of triturations. I did not mention in great detail however, that I myself have become a practitioner within this field.

This brief blog post will discuss my experiences of triturations, and the limited clinical experience I have acquired in using them.

Compared with the popular trituration texts, I have similar experiences in the first through fourth rounds of trituration. The first three rounds of trituration, in my experience, show the conventional homeopathic picture of a substance, usually in a state of crisis. Remedies on this level tend to show a being caught in a state (as discussed in previous blog posts). The fourth level usually contains an insight, which resolves the problems and emotions of that state.

However at the fifth triturations and above, my experience begins to differ from the published versions. The common version is that the triturations access increasingly collective issues. As taken from Hogeland and Schriebman (P 176)

C5: The Individual unconscious and archetypes
C6: The Collective unconsciousness, Humanity as a whole
C7: Global Archetypes and global issues
C8: Oneness, beyond rational understanding.

As well often at these higher levels, in addition to sensations and states, a large amount of conceptual information, sometimes in the forms of ideas, other time in the form of verbatim texts.

My own experience differs from that presented above. While I do experience the ideas and texts in the triturations above C4 but I notice a polarity occurring in those rounds as well. The odd numbered rounds (C5, C7, C9, C11) tend to present me with a problem. The solution to this problem is present in the even round following (C6, C8, C10, C12 respectively). I go to higher levels of trituration than the germans do, but I also find greater and greater levels of significance to the data received as the rounds of trituration increase.

As of the date of the writing, I have preformed a number of triturations on a variety of substances. I do plan on publishing these triturations at some point in the next year or two.

Clinically I have begun to use these remedies. I have noticed so far, that administering these remedies from higher triturations leads to a slow adoption of the insights described by the trituration in the patient. More on this topic will be forthcoming, as it becomes available.

Take care of yourselves.

Dr Paul.

References:

Hogeland, A. & Schriebman, J. The Trituration Handbook: Into the Heart of Homeopathy. 2008 Homeopathy West: El Cerrito, CA.
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