Research indicates that lupus is more common — and may be more severe — in African-American, Native American and Hispanic women than in Caucasian women in the United States.

Lupus cases are increasing, according to the National Institutes of Health. However, this may be the result of improved testing and greater awareness of the disease.

Hormone therapy — This approach tricks the body into thinking it is pregnant and therefore halts the menstrual cycle and stops women from getting their periods. It is most effective when the endometrial implants are small. At best, hormone therapy can send endometriosis into remission; the remission may last even months or years after the hormones are stopped.

The downside is that all of these drugs can have negative side effects, some of which are quite significant. Contraceptives, oral or injectable, can be successful with the fewest side effects. Examples include Depo-Provera, an injection, or Micronor, a low-dose contraceptive pill. Unlike other contraceptive pills in which the woman takes hormones for three weeks and then stops for a week to menstruate, these hormones are taken continuously in order to prevent the menstrual cycle. Another hormone, danazol, is sometimes prescribed to inhibit ovarian hormone production. But because danazol is an androgenic drug and a derivative of testosterone, it can have side effects including deepening of the voice; hair growth in new parts of the body, such as the face or back; weight gain; and acne. A woman is unlikely to get pregnant while she is taking danazol. However, since the drug can cause female fetuses to develop abnormally, sexually active women on danazol are advised to use a barrier method of birth control, such as a diaphragm or condom. Gonadotropin releasing hormone, or GnRH, agonists such as Lupron are usually only prescribed for six months because they have significant side effects. Since these drugs effectively mimic menopause, the side effects resemble those of menopause: hot flashes, headaches, depression and decreased bone density. Because the side effects can be so debilitating, some doctors rarely prescribe GnRH agonists to treat endometriosis.

Surgery — In some cases, doctors may suggest surgery performed under anesthesia to remove or destroy the implants in an attempt to reduce pain and increase the chances of pregnancy. In surgical laparoscopy, the surgeon looks through the laparoscope and uses tiny instruments to trim, burn away or remove the implants with a laser. This surgery uses tiny incisions and causes less bleeding and scarring than abdominal surgery. In other cases, doctors will perform open surgery, called laparotomy, particularly in cases in which the disease is advanced. The incisions are larger and the hospital stay and recovery time are longer. Surgery doesn?t prevent the disease from recurring. As a last resort, in the most aggressive cases of endometriosis, a woman may be advised to have surgery to remove the uterus, ovaries and all implants. After such surgery, endometriosis rarely comes back.
Anecdotally, some women have said that alternative therapies such as special diets, Chinese medicine, homeopathy and allergy management have been helpful in treating the endometriosis symptoms. However, there have been no scientifically controlled trials on such treatments.

Whether women should get pregnant to help their endometriosis is a delicate issue for doctors. There is no doubt that pregnancy can send the disease into remission, reducing pain and halting implant growth. Like many of the hormones used to treat endometriosis, pregnancy stops the body from ovulating monthly and continuing the cycle that advances the disease. However, doctors are appropriately hesitant to recommend pregnancy as a treatment unless the woman is ready to have a child — emotionally, practically and financially. Endometriosis sometimes creates an aggravating Catch-22: Pregnancy may halt the disease, but the disease may make pregnancy impossible.

Because endometriosis can cause infertility, most doctors will warn women who have the disease that if they want to get pregnant, sooner is better than later. Researchers believe that the longer the disease is present, the more likely it is that it will cause infertility. A woman trying to conceive must stop taking hormones used to treat endometriosis, since they may either prevent pregnancy or damage the fetus. If she is younger than 30 and doesn’t have a severe case of endometriosis, doctors often recommend that she first try to conceive by having unprotected sex for six months.

If she does not succeed in getting pregnant, the doctor may consider surgery to reduce diseased tissue. Because endometriosis has a tendency to recur, pregnancy rates are the highest during the first year after surgery.

Endometriosis often recedes or disappears after a woman goes through menopause. However, estrogen replacement therapy may reactivate the disease.

Originating in China, t’ai chi combines slow, graceful Kung Fu movements with inner awareness and breathing techniques. “T’ai chi is an effective remedy for stress, lethargy and mental sluggishness, too,” says t’ai chi instructor Ken Long, who combines Western, scientific relaxation methods with Eastern t’ai chi techniques. “At the end of a two-minute t’ai chi exercise, you should feel clearheaded, alert, more energetic and have a deeper sense of calm.”

Traditionally performed on land, t’ai chi can also be done in chest-deep water. Its movements can be incorporated into the warm-up, conditioning and cool-down phases of an aqua fitness class. “Because water adds both resistance and support, it provides an ideal environment for slow, rounded, flowing movements,” says Carol Argo, the California-based creator of water t’ai chi and an AFAA-certified instructor and trainer for the Aquatic Exercise Association. “The challenge is to overcome the effects of buoyancy and remain grounded.”

Argo recommends wearing aquatic shoes for better traction and to protect the bottom of your feet while practicing water t’ai chi. “T’ai chi is rooted in the feet, issued through the legs, controlled by the waist, and expressed through the hands,” she adds. “You only use the amount of energy needed to execute the movements.”

Argo cautions that t’ai chi movements should only be performed after your body is thoroughly warmed. Therapy pools with temperatures near 90 degrees are preferable, but not necessary. To help prevent being chilled in a typical pool, you can add power and speed to your movements, or you can alternate slow movements with fast ones.

For proper body positioning, pay attention to your posture and breathing. Your back should be straight and your head erect. To avoid a stiff posture, Argo suggests imagining that your head is suspended from above. You should focus your eyes straight ahead or follow the movements of your hands. Keep your breathing deep and relaxed, with your mind alert and concentrated on the activity.

Exhale naturally through your mouth and inhale naturally through your nose. Relax your arms with your shoulders sunk and your elbows slightly bent.

To find an aqua fitness class that is either devoted to water t’ai chi or that integrates the relaxing movements into a traditional class, contact your local fitness facilities with pools. Over the last three years, hundreds of instructors have learned the techniques of water t’ai chi, so your chances of finding instruction are fairly good.

Scarlet fever can have serious complications if it goes untreated. It can lead to abscesses on the tonsils or, rarely, rheumatic fever, which may develop two to three weeks after the rash appears.

After treatment with antibiotics for 10 days, or one shot of penicillin, the fever, sore throat and headache usually disappear, although the rash may linger.

The good news is that prompt treatment for scarlet fever usually results in full recovery.

As a female enters her teens, her ovaries begin releasing one or more eggs every month into the fallopian tubes, which carry them to the uterus.

If a man’s sperm fertilizes an egg in the uterus, pregnancy can result. With tubal sterilization, a surgical procedure closes the fallopian tubes.

Although it is a simple operation, it is permanent, and there is some risk of complications, such as infection or a reaction to the anesthesia.

Teen classes are also a unique option at the 92nd St. Y. These classes are exclusively for exercisers ages 12 to 17, and include energetic instructors and “trendy” classes. Currently, classes include yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, cardio kickboxing, group cycling and aerobics.

The emphasis on the program is not burning calories or being the best, but rather, learning new skills within a supportive peer group. In a truly progressive step, the Y also constructed a new Teen Locker Room to accompany the program.

Classes for young children are also a part of the 92nd St. Y’s program. All Winners is a children’s exercise program that emphasizes fun.

“If kids feel that they are playing games, exercise becomes habit at an early age,” explains Holland. Classes include Magic Gym (for ages three to five)

Big Top 92 (for ages six to 10) and Total Jam (for ages eight to 11).

In 1997, the Alesse pill made its appearance containing only 20 micrograms of estrogen. Today, the pill has 10 times less progestin than in the early models.

Together, the two hormones suppress ovulation.

This dramatically lower dose has made the pill more user-friendly and appealing, resulting in fewer estrogen-related side effects such as nausea, breast tenderness, moodiness and bloating.

“This finding substantiates the view, previously considered rather heretical, that nonchromosomal inheritance (cytoplasmic inheritance) is a genuine phenomenon which can be understood in molecular terms”.

and:

“The belief that the activity of DNA cannot be modified except by mutational events must be revised”.

and:

“These observations carry implications of the greatest importance, since they assert that the classical dichotomy between the gene and the environment is illusory. Alteration of the cellular environment by administration of external agents (e.g. hormones) can directly influence the genetic material”. (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1967)

The above information was confirmed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1993:

“It is now known that small amounts of additional genetic information are present in the DNA of much smaller chromosomes located in two types of organelles in the cytoplasm.”

These scientific discoveries of almost three decades ago confirm in principle the possibility of hereditary transmission of cytoplasmic changes caused by the environment, whether by disease, chronic malnutrition or pollution of the environment. Since this discovery of cytoplasmic inheritance the homeopathic theories of genetic transmission of miasmic damage can no longer be considered as unscientific nonsense. (de Ruyter 1994, pp. 65-66)

People may wonder if homeopathic treatment in the first three months of pregnancy might not cause abnormalities in the developing fetus. Homeopathy has been used for almost 200 years, including during pregnancy for the various complaints that pregnant woman develop, and nobody has ever proved that it has done any harm. Orthodox medicine has maintained for almost 200 years that homeopathic remedies are so diluted that they cannot possibly have any effects. So how could they possibly do harm in early pregnancy? If one really wanted to worry about possible harmful effects of remedies in early pregnancy then there would be more reason to worry about the effects on the developing fetus of such common over the counter medicines as aspirin, paracetamol, and cough mixtures, or the effects of a host of food colors and additives or inhaled insecticides which are present in the environment in concentrations much higher than those of homeopathic remedies. (de Ruyter 1994, p. 68)

To make absolutely sure that there cannot be any accusations later on that homeopathic treatment in early pregnancy might have caused fetal deformity, one should wait until after the third month of pregnancy before starting Vannier’s prenatal homeopathy.

Conclusion

Dr. Lйon Vannier started in medical practice before World War I. He founded the Centre Homeopathique de France in 1931 and was its President for many years. In 1950 he founded the Maison de L’Homeopathie as a meeting place for French and foreign homeopaths and as a teaching centre. (Homeopathie Francaise 1954, pp. 453 and 460) In 1955 Dr. Vannier celebrated having practiced medicine for 50 years. He died in 1961 at the age of 84.

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The drug picture of Marmorek was first described in French by Vannier in 1947 (Vannier 1947, pp. 317-325). The late Dr. O.A. Julian gave a drug picture of Marmorek in his book Treatise on Dynamised Micro Immunotherapy which appeared in English translation in 1980 (Julian 1988, pp. 314-319). My book Computer Homeopathy also contains an English description of the drug picture of Marmorek. (de Ruyter 1994, pp. 203-205)

The tuberculin Marmorek was described by Vannier in 1912. Its full name is ‘serum of Marmorek’. It was described by Marmorek in 1903 in the Academie de Medicine of Paris. This serum was obtained from horses vaccinated by the filtrates of young cultures of tubercular bacilli called “primitive” (Julian 1988).

Marmorek in 30C or 200C potency can be used, in combination with drainage treatment, in febrile conditions of patients in a paratuberculous state when the use of tuberculinum is completely contraindicated according to Vannier.

The nosode Marmorek is obtainable from homeopathic manufacturers such as the Laboratoires Homeopathiques de France in Paris, France and from Brauer Biotherapies Pty. Ltd. in Tanunda S.A., Australia.

Prenatal Homeopathy

Instead of waiting until a child is born and starts to display symptoms of a constitutional nosodal condition, Vannier treated the mother during her pregnancy with homeopathic remedies, using month after month the nosodes indicated by the medical history of the mother and the father in a manner as outlined above. In a paper published in 1955 Dr. Vannier reported that he had used ante-natal homeopathy for 30 years. (Vannier 1955, p.2)

Vannier maintained that the hereditary transmission of noxious nosodal elements can be arrested by homeopathic treatment to the benefit of the individual and his or her descendants. (Vannier npd, p. 205)

Of course, to an orthodox physician the assertion that nosodal conditions like the miasms of tuberculosis, syphilis, and sycosis can be transmitted to the next generation is a medical heresy directly contradicting the genetic rule: “acquired characteristics are not transmitted genetically.”

On the other hand, it has been known for a long time that tuberculosis tends to ‘run in families’. Lay people have suspected for many years that cancer too tends to “run in families” (Harsanyi & Hutton 1982, p.85). This was traditionally explained away as “coincidence” and “old wives tales” by orthodox medicine. However, doctors recognize today that a woman with a history of breast cancer in the direct ascending female line has several hundred percent more probability of getting breast cancer herself than a woman without such a history. A similar observation seems to apply to colon cancer.

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Once the patient becomes clinically well, he or she may remain so for months and, particularly in the case of children, sometimes for years. Symptoms might then return and the patient should be encouraged to return for homeopathic treatment. It has been my experience over the years that a patient might perhaps need 12 months of homeopathic treatment to become clinically well. Then the patient might remain well for six months. After symptoms return a further six month course of treatment might give the patient another period of perhaps 10 months of being well. As the periods of intermittent homeopathic treatment continue, an adult patient with a chronic condition might eventually obtain periods of up to three years of being clinically well. In children this period of up to three years of freedom from symptoms is usually reached much more quickly, still depending on how long the child has had the condition before homeopathic treatment was started.

Drainage treatment is not based on theoretical speculations but on practical experience. Vannier used it for 38 years from 1912 to 1950 before he published his method (de Ruyter 1994, p. 48). I have successfully used drainage treatment since I read about it in 1950.

Low homeopathic potencies such as 3X and 2X are not really homeopathic remedies but are herbal remedies (if they are made from herbs) and drugs (if they are made from other materials). They have true pharmacological actions. So like other pharmacological and herbal drugs they may have side effects which are not just ‘remedy aggravations’. It is best not to use homeopathic remedies in lower than 6X potencies if one wants to avoid problems.

It was Vannier’s recommendation that if the nosode Tuberculinum was the most prominent one among the patient’s nosodes, then Tuberculinum 200C should not be used during the first course of treatment. Instead I have always used the nosode Marmorek C200 during the first monthly course (de Ruyter 1994, pp. 58 & 144). According to Dr. Vannier this helps to prevent or greatly minimize any possible remedy aggravations.