Holistic Approaches for You and Your Doctor to Discuss
Cardiovascular Disease
The following is a partial listing of alternative treatments that may be used in addition to, or in place of medication or surgery. Dosages have purposely been left out to avoid patients treating themselves. Herbals can be very potent and it is extremely important you confer with your doctor before deciding what and how much to take. Please note that all supplements are not created equal. The sources I have mentioned here are from all over the world and of excellent quality. Your doctor can pursue the referenced footnotes to decide on a dosage if needed.
1. Tissue (Cell) Salts can be used at any stage of any illness. There are 12 cell salts that the body cannot do without. Mostly all disease is a result of a deficiency of one or more of these tissue salts. Below is a list of all 12:
- Calcium group: Calc Flor, Calc Phos, Calc Sulph
- Sodium group: Nat Mur, Nat Phos, Nat Sulph
- Kali (potassium) group: Kali Mur, Kali Phos, Kali Sulph
- Magnesium group: Mag Phos
- Ferrum (Iron) Phos
- Silica or Silicea
For a better explanation of this topic see, What Causes Illness?
2. Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was studied at Hahnemann Hospital in the 1940s and is now used in Europe, Russia and America. It kills existing viruses usually within 24 to 48 hours--some of the antibiotic resistant strains may take two or three treatments. When used with photo-oxidation it can bathe the heart and internal organs in oxygen with virtually no side effects thus strengthening the entire immune system and allowing the body to heal itself. For more information on this life-saving treatment that has literally saved hundreds from near death, read Into the Light by William Campbell Douglass, MD. [Second Opinion Publishing 800-728-2288]
Antibiotics for heart disease proven not effective
In 2002 several headlines stated that heart disease and atherosclerosis were the result of infections caused by pathogens like Chlamydia pneumoniae. This caused antibiotics to be touted as a major breakthrough that could help eliminate our number one killer. German researchers disagree.
A randomized, double blind study was conducted throughout Germany involving 872 heart-attack patients from 68 different medical centers. Half of the group was given antibiotics along with their regular treatment and the other half received a placebo. The one year survival rate for those on the antibiotics was 93.5% compared to 94% on the placebo. There was no significant difference in survival rates between the two groups, and there was also no difference in complications or the need for additional surgeries. This study was presented at the 24th Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany.
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