Treating Disease with Holistic Medicine

Short Version: The disease model that is emerging is as follows:

1) The symptom is that which is visible.

2) Underneath or within it, we find most often a chronic infection.

3) Underneath the infection, we find the altered body terrain, mostly the presence of toxic metals.

4) Underneath that we find unresolved psycho-emotional trauma.

The choice of metal or toxin and its location in the body is created and guided by the subconscious mind.

End of Short Version

Long Version: The Cause of Disease is unresolved psycho-emotional trauma according to Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, a medical doctor from Germany who is a leader in holistic medicine and known throughout the world for his research. Read this page to discover the fascinating explanation and the reasons why this is true.

[Dr. Schmidt's words are in brackets. The last paragraph on the bottom of this page is a great summation of the cause of disease if you want to skip to the bottom.]

[It is possible to deposit toxins in your body like mercury even when not chronically exposed from sources such as dental fillings or polluted fish. Mercury and other toxins are everywhere, they are in the water we drink or bathe in, the food we eat and the air we breathe. We are all exposed to toxins all the time. The main question is: why are some people more affected by these toxins than others? How are some people able to detoxify their body while others cannot? The following paragraphs from Dr. Klinghardt describe the answer.]

Why do patients that are exposed to mercury deposit the toxin in various areas of their body?

Some deposit the mercury in their hypothalamus (and develop multiple hormone problems), or in their limbic system (depression). Others deposit it in the adrenals (fatigue), or in the long bones (osteoporosis, leukemia). Some deposit it in the pelvis (interstitial cystitis), in the autonomic and sensory ganglia (chronic pain syndromes); some in the connective tissue (scleroderma, lupus), or in the cranial nerves (tinnitus, cataracts, TMJ problems, loss of smell), or in the muscles (fibromyalgia).

As you would assume, multiple causes can be identified. [They include but are not limited to the following eight...]

1) Past physical trauma (such as closed head injury) will make the brain susceptible to becoming a storage site for lead, aluminum and mercury.

2) Food allergies often cause a low-grade encephalitis or joint inflammation, setting up those areas to become targets for toxic deposits.

3) Geopathic stress -- Significant numbers of patients were found sleeping on underground water lines or too close to electrical equipment. Metals concentrate in the body regions most compromised.

4) Scars and other foci can create abnormal electrical signals that can alter the function of the ANS (autonomic nervous system). The abnormal impulses often cause areas of vasoconstriction and hypoperfusion, which again become metal storage sites.

5) Structural abnormalities -- TMJ problems and cranio-sacral dysfunctions often are responsible for impairment of blood flow and lymphatic drainage in affected areas.

6) Biochemical deficiencies -- If the patient has a chronic zinc deficiency, the prostate, which has a large turnover of zinc, starts to incorporate other 2-valent metals (such as Hg++, Pb++).

7) Environmental toxicity (solvents, pesticides, wood preservatives, etc.) has a synergistic effect with most toxic metals. Metals will often accumulate in body parts that have been chemically injured at a prior time.

8) Unresolved psycho-emotional trauma and unresolved problems in the family system.

This last cause -- unresolved psycho-emotional trauma -- is by far the most common factor determining where which metal will be stored in the body and which infectious agent will thrive in what area of the body. This issue has been underestimated by most, due to a lack of appropriate, quick and precise therapeutic interventions.[This is very important!]

[Dr. Klinghardt has] developed a type of biofeedback psychotherapy called psychoneurobiology (APN). The core of this approach is the dialogue with the subconscious mind. Any type of ART [Autonomic Reflex Testing] technique (muscle testing, EAV, brainwave biofeedback, etc.) may be used to obtain answers and engage in the dialogue [with the subconscious mind].

[Dr. Schmidt uses holistic (alternative therapy medicine) treatments, an autonomic reflex muscle testing technique that engages in dialogue with the subconscious mind. See "Healing Process With Dr. Schmidt" and “Message From Dr. Schmidt” webpages.]

The technique is aimed at uncovering any unresolved past traumatic event and processing the material in a way that is healing to both the patient and their family.

Patients who responded poorly or were unresponsive to prior treatment with appropriately selected... remedies and detox agents, responded dramatically by treating the patient first with [ART], thereby unloading emotional material, correcting limiting beliefs and creating an opportunity for healing between living and dead family members.

In fact, every parameter of their biochemistry, including bio-terrain measurements like tissue and blood pH, osmolality, conductivity but also including hormone levels, mineral levels, etc. move in a direction toward normal after successful [ART] treatments. Results are often permanent.

The disease model that is emerging from these observations looks as follows:

The symptom is that which is visible or apparent and usually the reason the patient comes to us. Underneath or within it, we find most often a chronic infection. Underneath the infection, we find the altered milieu -- mostly the presence of toxic metals. Underneath that, the reason why it is there (other than the obvious necessary exposure), the selection of location, the choice of metal -- are all created and guided by the subconscious mind and determined by the type, severity and date of unresolved psycho-emotional trauma or material.

I was pretty scared when she said, "I feel like I want to punch somebody!" I had been working on this patient for issues relating to her abusive husband. I was working on one issue energetically when she started to cry. She asked me, "Why am I crying?" I told her, "It's the energy work and we are removing that emotion that is locked inside you." She asked me, "Should I just keep crying?" My response was, "I don't know, sure." as I handed her some tissue. I went back to the energy work immediately. She said, "Now, I'm angry! I feel like I want to punch somebody!" Again, I immediately went back to the energy work and this emotion was removed. She felt normal again. She had three distinct emotions arise from within herself in 90 seconds. The target of the energy work was for her to not be weak on any issue, including her husband. At her second visit, positive results were announced but will remain confidential.

A woman came to see me because of an abusive relationship she had had in the past. Her ex-husband would strike her in the face. She became very wary of anything getting close to her face. One day her 4 year old son slapped her in the face. It took her several hours to cool down. She said that she had not been "in such a place" for a long time. That meant her state of arousal for fighting had been extreme and the last time this had happened was many years ago while she was living with the abusive man. This heightened sense of fighting was frightening to her. We did holistic (alternative therapy medicine) treatments for a short period of time. Talking to her on the phone for several weeks afterwards, she stated that there had been several instances of her son touching or slapping her face and once he was waving a spatula around her face. She was okay with all of this and had no emotions towards those actions.

In the late fall of 2002, a patient was recalling the healing journey she had taken in the last year. It started with a divorce. She began weekly and then bi-monthly psycho-therapy sessions for the course of that year. In that period of time, she had only been through 4 sessions of holistic (alternative therapy medicine) treatments with me to clear relationship issues. In the end of this journey, she had mentioned that those 4 sessions were as healing as one year and "many thousands of dollars" worth of psycho-therapy.

At a health fair, I asked a woman to think of a person that she didn't like. "Oh, that's easy." she said. I muscle tested her to determine that it really was an issue for her, and her arm was weak. I stood behind her to clear the hatred energy she had for this person. This was an exceptional moment for me because we were in such a large room, I could really sense how big the energy was that was being cleared. It was immense over her whole body and it left her from front to back and from her feet up to the ceiling. I thought to myself "WOW" when it was happening. When it was done I asked her how she felt about that person. She said that it was her boss and now he doesn't really matter anymore! She was very happy about that, and she told me the same thing several times over the phone in the following two weeks. She never made it into my office to be a patient because she had a fear of driving on highways. I should have cleared her of that first!