Newsletter August

Our Health Tip:

“Freshly pressed cucumber juice taken in sips has a detoxifying effect and normalizes over-acidified blood. Unsalted cucumber juice has a very beneficial effect on the intestines, kidneys, lungs and skin.”

This is a quote from an excellent herbal book by Richard Wilford “Health through Medicinal Plants.”
This is particularly true when the cucumbers come from peaceable farming, without liquid or solid manure, without chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. This makes the cucumbers more digestible. Patients with sensitive stomachs tell us this repeatedly. You can order cucumbers from peaceable farming here.

Do you have a tip from your home remedies? Send it to us; perhaps it can be helpful for many people.

“Is Prevention Better than Curing?”

This is the title of an article in the latest issue of the “Deutsche Ärzteblatt.” It takes a very critical look at preventive measures that are currently highly praised. The tenor: Prevention in its current form is of no provable value/benefit regarding the percentage of people who become sick or die from specific diseases. Some details about the two most important preventative measures for breast cancer in women and colorectal cancer:

Mammography Screening for Early Detection of Breast Cancer:

“According to the updated data of a Cochrane Review (= what is sufficiently verified medically by studies) mammography screening of women between 50 and 69 years of age leads to a decrease of 15% in deaths from breast cancer. Of 2,000 women in this age group, one less dies of breast cancer. At the same time, ten of these 2,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and treated (= operation, chemotherapy and/or radiation), which wouldn’t have happened without the screening. (over diagnoses and over-treatment) The total deaths from cancer remain the same.
The national health insurances in Germany budget an additional 400 million Euro for this quality-ensured national mammography screening.” (DÄB p. 1529)

Colonoscopy for Early Detection of Colon Cancer

“Even more questionable are the data concerning screening for intestinal cancer using colonoscopy.” (DÄB p. 1503) Here one should know that 80% of the those examined receive painkilling or tranquillizing medicine, which can, for example, lead to car accidents, broken bones or falls after the examination. In addition, the extreme cleansing of the colon and abstention from eating can lead to complications in certain persons.
Doctor of Medicine Ingrid Mühlhauser of the University of Hamburg, author of this article, concludes:
“ Nonparticipation (in preventive measures) must be free of sanctions. Therefore, before the propagandizing of such measures, the proof of a positive benefit-harm ratio must be confirmed beyond doubt. Valid (verified) data concerning benefit and harm exist for few of the recommended and practiced measures. The benefit is limited even for effective intervention and the possible harm for the individual is almost always greater than the benefit.”

Our commentary:

“Prevention Is Better than Curing.” This is also the title of a pamphlet written by the doctors at the HG Naturklinik some time ago. And we still unconditionally affirm this statement.
How can this be explained despite this scathing evaluation of the recommended preventive measures? Because in our opinion these preventive measures do not represent real prevention, but at best a later recognition.
And the above-named numbers do not take into consideration the suffering, misery and health consequences for people who, based on false positive test results, undergo operations, chemotherapy and radiation.
A cancer, for example, does not develop suddenly. There is often a triggering moment for cancer, but the milieu in the body often changes long before. Thus, the timely recognition of a body milieu that could develop in the direction of cancer is helpful for effective prevention.
This body milieu is influenced by many different factors. They include: diet, lifestyle, environmental pollution, all kinds of stress, conflicts with one’s fellowman, just to name the most important ones.
Since there are meanwhile countless studies demonstrating the positive influence of reconciliation with our fellow man on the course of cancer, and since we know that eating meat can trigger colorectal cancer, then these aspects must naturally also contribute to the development of these diseases. And so, these aspects must also be part of genuine prevention.
Thus, the following factors must absolutely be part of a genuine prevention:

  • eating habits
  • lifestyle
  • stress factors
  • intrapersonal conflicts, such as meaning and motivation in one’s own life
  • possible environmental pollution
  • conflicts with our fellowman
  • how we treat nature

just to name a few.
This combined with early detection measures, such as, for instance, a change in a person’s feeling of well-being; early detection tests, for example, blood smear tests and dark-field microscopy, heart-rate variability test to determine the state of the nervous system, measurement of electrothermal screening as help in evaluating the space between cells, which is not determined in usual procedures, and determination of micronutrient levels offers the chance of a genuine and comprehensive early detection. Then, through specific treatments and a change in one’s diet and lifestyle, genuine prevention becomes possible.
We have experienced this many times over the course of years. However, on the one hand, it requires much experience and capability on the side of the physician to summarize and evaluate the various information and test results, as well as the patient’s willingness to change something in his life. Both aspects are not often present. Preferred are measures costing millions and billions, which apparently do not require such active participation from the patient.
But herein lies a tremendous chance. We, ourselves, have it in hand, whether cancer develops in us, for instance, and, if so, how it takes it’s course. But when we have first ended up in the treadmill of anxiety, despair, treatments, etc., it is much more difficult.
This is why we have developed our holistic checkups; and patients from all over the world come for them. Because it still holds true: “Prevention Is Better than Curing.”

In conclusion, the quote of the week:

»Meat doesn’t make the meal worse, but the one who eats it.«

Karlheinz Deschner, Dr. of Philosophy, historian, literary scholar, philosopher and award-winning author