EBOLA Rears Its Head Again!
by Sally Tamplin DSH PCH MARH, Florida, USA
Keywords: Ebola, World Health Organization, Minnesota, Homeopathy, Liberia, MP3 file, eRemedy, Sierra Leone, Coherence Apps, Genus epidemicus, Homeopaths Without Borders.
Ebola has been classified as one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It was on everyone’s radar as it took center stage upon the world health platform during 2014 and until early 2015, then the world began to see fewer outbreaks in West Africa and less reporting in the media. The virus is fragile and breaks down within hours or days if it is not actively replicating. It is spread between humans through direct contact with infected blood, bodily fluids or organs. As of early October 2015, 11,312 people have died of the disease. The World Health Organization says that people have a 50/50 chance of survival. There are currently no vaccines although some are being tested. Experimental drugs have been used on some of those who have been very ill with the disease; they have saved some but not everyone. Ebola patients are generally discharged from medical care once the virus can no longer be detected in the blood.
If you have been following the world news you will be aware that the 39-year-old British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, remains in a serious but stable condition in a London hospital. Something unexpected has occurred and sent cries of surprise and shock waves throughout the medical community. Nurse Pauline had returned from Sierra Leone in December 2014, she was on leave from her assignment with the charity “Save the Children.” Pauline had been working in an Ebola unit. She felt unwell on the journey home to Scotland and eventually was admitted to a specialist isolation unit in London where she was treated for the better part of a month for the disease. She had a high viral load and was very ill at that time. What is remarkable about this story and extremely disconcerting for the remaining estimated 17,000 survivors of this terrible disease is the fact that the virus has re-emerged in her body and caused a relapse. This second full-blown attack had at one stage placed her on the critical ill list. Dr. Jacob Mirman, of Minnesota, and I approached The Royal Free Hospital, London and offered our help in light of our small but successful efforts to offer homeopathic assistance in Liberia.
This resurgence of Pauline’s illness did not resemble the notorious, classical face of the virus with its usual fever, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding. That’s why it was not picked up immediately when she visited an out-of-hours acute care surgery near her home in Glasgow, Scotland. There is now much speculation amongst the medical community as to how many other survivors in West Africa may have succumbed to a second bout of Ebola and actually passed away from the kind of life-threatening complications that Pauline is currently experiencing. It is known that survivors of past outbreaks do deal with long-term health issues that can be extremely debilitating. It is possible that many others have experienced relapses but that these have gone undocumented in a country where doctors are few and far between and health care is only available to the privileged.
The WHO says that there is only one other well-documented Ebola survivor who had suffered severe complications after recovering from the virus. American infectious disease expert Dr. Ian Crozier was originally infected in September 2014 whilst also treating patients in Sierra Leone. Dr. Crozier was treated in Atlanta and eventually sent home to Arizona after being given a clean bill of health. However, he began to struggle with severe joint and muscle pain and stiffness, fatigue and he lost the hearing in his left ear. A few months after his initial recovery he returned to Atlanta and Emory University Hospital as his left eye had become very painful and inflamed. A needle biopsy showed that the inside of his eye contained hundreds of millions of copies of the multiplying Ebola virus. His eyeball had become soft, at one point it even changed color from blue to green, and he temporarily went blind in his left eye. Eventually he recovered and thankfully tests revealed that his tears did not contain the virus and that he posed no danger to others. A recent report from WHO found that changes in vision have been reported by roughly 25% of survivors. If untreated these eye problems can cause blindness.
It would seem that the Ebola virus might persist in parts of the body where immune cells cannot reach after a patient recovers from the active state of the disease. Recent research published in the March edition of “The New England Medical Journal” has found that Ebola lingered in semen for nine months post active disease. When the disease was actively raging last year this fact had also been noted but at that follow up, only three months had been mentioned. As well as the inner eyeball and semen other sites that have been mentioned by the current scientific research include the central nervous system, breast milk, amniotic fluid and the placenta.
WHO has claimed that sexual transmission of the disease is rare; there is approximately 20 suspected cases to date where this has occurred. Nevertheless, this is cause for concern and may be why other sporadic outbreaks have been documented. What does all this mean to us? We have to be vigilant. This disease could rear its ugly head again and our homeopathic remedies may be of service once again, hopefully their action will be better understood and accepted as the medical community shake their heads and have very little to offer to fight either the initial infection or prevent it from recurring in those who already succumbed but had the good fortune to survive.
Many of you may be asking, “what remedies and where were they used?” So……here is our story:
In 2004, Dr. Jacob Mirman and I set about creating an informative website and a carefully researched homeopathic kit to help our fellow travelers in the event of pandemic influenza. A time that has not yet come, nevertheless we are prepared and have total faith in the fruits of our labors. www.flusolution.net . When Ebola reared its ugly head we knew it was time to put our heads together again and work on the solution. It probably doesn't get much worse than this terrible, destructive virus called Ebola, named after the river valley in Africa where it first reared its head. The disease has isolated people and in their time of greatest need the victims find themselves very much alone writhing in pain in their own bodily filth. Those who attend them wear protective suits and human contact is shunned. Is this the new leprosy? Those suffering in the last throws of Ebola are often called “the living dead.” It probably won’t surprise many of you reading this article that the main remedy shining its beneficial light over those in their time of greatest need is Merc Sol. Mercurius is so well known to all of us as being the main remedy of our syphilitic miasm.
Jacob Mirman and I, Boston-based homeopath, Heidi Martin, and Dr. Bill Gray from California, along with our Minnesota homeopathic community chose to do something and we actually saved lives in West Africa!
Sunday, June 14,th 2015 was a special one for our homeopathic family. I had the great privilege of meeting Pastor Seaiwon Aaron Dickson; he gave me a big hug and thanked me for saving his own life and that of his wife, Dr. Flinhway Dickson, and their five children.
We had lunch in the beautiful Walnut room at Macy 's flagship store in the heart of downtown Chicago. This restaurant looks as if it hasn't changed much since it opened its doors in 1907. I took some time to reflect upon the homeopathic community from that era when our system of medicine was so prominent in the state of Illinois and I cast a thought for those who have inspired us all so much, doctors such as James Tyler Kent and his colleagues who possibly dined within its elegant walls.
One of my homeopathic clients from Chicago had suggested to me that this would be a good venue to finally close the circle with Pastor Seaiwon Aaron Dickson. He had been our main contact in Liberia to get our Ebola kits distributed. The Bach Flower Essence Walnut is all about staying on one's path, never allowing others to deter you and keeping going even when the road is tough and riddled with hurdles, the flower offers protection and helps us to take the next step.
We never gave up in our efforts to bring homeopathic remedies to West Africa. We did the research, produced the Ebola Homeopathy Kit of 14 remedies in ascending potencies* and worked tirelessly to get the remedies into Liberia accompanied by carefully written instructions for medical staff to follow.
* The Ebola Kits that we sent to Liberia were as follows:
Gelsemium, Belladonna, Arsenicum Album, Baptisia, Merc Sol, Nux Vomica, Veratrum Album, China , Ipecac, Phos, Pyrogen, Bothrops, Crot H and Carbo Veg.
Each remedy was sent in 30c, 200c and 1 M liquid potencies. In addition, we included the CM potency for Carbo Veg.
There was so much red tape, so many dead ends, frustration and too many fruitless efforts to foster viable contacts. We constantly battled with the logistics of good communication. Then there was the considerable expense, but still we soldiered on. We eventually found a friend in Pastor Seaiwon Aaron Dickson, someone of considerable standing in his community and someone who was willing to trust our homeopathic remedies.
So that we could move forward, I taught a number of homeopathy classes in Chicago to help raise the funding for our project. My son James generously made a large contribution, and Jacob and I were given a lot of financial help from our community of homeopaths in Minnesota. John Morgan from Helios sent us some remedies that were needed to complete our Ebola Kits. The culmination of this enormous effort was Pastor Seaiwon Dickson, whom I had never met before, asking me to pass on his heartfelt thanks to all in our homeopathic community who helped in one way or another to get the remedies into Liberia and for those who prayed for his recovery in the hour of his greatest need.
We talked about his ordeal and how he never gave up hope. As serendipity would have it, the time when Seaiwon really needed homeopathy was the day in January when I sent him a text message, I had not heard from him for some time, I was asking how things were going with getting the Ebola Kits distributed and his talks with the Liberian Government on our behalf. He happened to have his cell phone with him as he lay dying in an Ebola treatment unit. He sent me a text message describing how he was bleeding from all orifices and was in the last stages of the disease. I told him to hang on and immediately Jacob Mirman, Bill Gray and I put our heads together and based upon Bill Gray’s success with Merc Sol in Sierra Leone and the totality of Seaiwon’s symptoms I advised him to take Merc Sol beginning with 30c and repeated hourly. I posted an urgent message on our Minnesota Homeopathic Association Yahoo group asking our community to pray for Seaiwon and his family and to focus on the remedy Merc Sol. Many homeopaths wrote back reporting that they had opened their Materia Medicas at Merc Sol and were meditating on the remedy and sending healing thoughts to Liberia.
Later, the nurse who was caring for him was advised by Heidi Martin to give Belladonna as his fever rose and he became delirious. In the latter part of his healing, we advised him to take China officinalis. This helped to restore Seaiwon’s weak, emaciated body.
At lunch, in Chicago, Seaiwon recalled how his extended family camped outside the Ebola treatment unit and took it in turns to don protective suits and go in and clean him up, how his wife's medical colleagues never gave up on her, they could not afford to lose another Liberian medical doctor, and how in awe they all were when they witnessed the miracle of homeopathy. Seaiwon emphasized that those who could rise above the disease, those who could see themselves in the time to come, happy and healthy and back with their families, had the greatest chance of overcoming the virus. In his treatment ward Seaiwon was the one who urged his companions to drink and eat and not to give in.
Seaiwon spoke fondly of his nurse, Mary, who risked her medical license to administer the homeopathic remedies and who followed his instructions to carefully document everything even if he had failed to pull through. Once Mary and her colleagues had witnessed the miracle of Merc Sol, and Belladonna, they began to use the remedies on Seaiwon’s family and others in the Liberian treatment unit. Seaiwon estimated that homeopathy had a 90% success rate in the treatment unit where the remedies were used.
Mary wrote this text message in Jan 2015:
"We scrub in PPE (personal protective equipment including clothes ) every 8 hours and enter in the isolation to see patients. Just got out of the isolation to see patients. Just got out from isolation ward and Aaron is much stable. I have removed the restraining cord from him and have served remedy as per instructions. Let’s keep praying as the remedy is taking effect.”
In a later text ------- “His God he serves is powerful as we gave out on him and were preparing to write out our report on his expiration but out of the blue sky came this miracle. We have seen and dealt with Ebola cases but this one (recovery) is shocking."
At lunch Seaiwon was quick to acknowledge that his survival and that of his family and others in his Ebola treatment unit was a testament to the effectiveness of our homeopathic Materia Medica. Presently we understand that the three main remedies being used were Merc Sol, Belladonna, and China officinalis.
He (Seaiwon) has far reaching plans for the future, his life is based upon service and he and his wife are presently building a clinic and a school, his wife wants to offer an integrative medical practice and can see how homeopathy will become a big part of that vision in Liberia. They will welcome the homeopathic community to come and visit to help teach them how to use the remedies effectively. Jeremy Sherr, who has been in Tanzania working with AIDS for the last 8 years, has already offered his Homeopathy for Health in Africa Course Material.
It's clear that our persistence has helped to lay the foundation for homeopathy in Liberia. Creating and sustaining our Ebola Project has not been easy but Seaiwon’s message is clear, those who hang onto hope and can see and project to a brighter time to come will succeed. I learned a powerful lesson, “never give up!” We continue the work and I assured Seaiwon we would be there in the time to come when our remedies may again be of great service.
Bill’s Story
Bill Gray, MD, is Founder and Chairman of Coherence Apps, LLC. It turns out that the energetic signal in homeopathic remedies can be extracted via a device consisting of a simple coil connected to an amplifier and digitizer, and the resulting signal can be stored on a computer as a .wav file or a MP3 file. Jacques Benveniste, a French researcher doing immunology research, developed this technique originally in the 1990s. He demonstrated this in repeated laboratory experiments. Of course, homeopathic principles require choosing the correct remedy in a given sudden onset situation, so Coherence Apps LLC has taken the next step and designed eRemedy selection based on homeopathic principles.
Sympsohn Yajoh, an entrepreneur in Freetown who came forward on Facebook, spearheads the Ebola effort in Sierra Leone. He diligently worked to get government permission to enter treatment centers using PPEs donated by California investors, but the bureaucracy was impenetrable. Informally, he was able to treat three Ebola cases, two in serious condition just like Seaiwon and on the verge of death, and one a health worker who made a gloving mistake with his PPE. All three were symptom-free within four hours after receiving 6 to 8 plays of homeopathic Merc sol made into MP3 files and played on a cellphone for ten seconds.
These cases resulted in active efforts to build the first homeopathic hospital in Sierra Leone. The structure was constructed, but the roof blew off in a severe storm. So now the team is slowly and painstakingly reconstructing the roof in cement. Presently, the rains have almost stopped and building work will resume soon. Dr. Bill Gray’s Coherence Apps website with treatment modules for 23 acute diseases (including malaria, typhoid, cholera, and childbirth) will be launched soon. Sympsohn is now on the UNICEF and WHO panels with flying teams to handle Ebola, so there may well be more opportunities to use eRemedies to treat some cases.
Helping to move homeopathy forward in Africa
If you can help to support Bill Gray in this venture, I am sure that he would love to hear from you. As a global community we need to stand together so our light continues to shine on. Bill can be reached at bill.coherenceapps@gmail.com
If you are interested in becoming personally involved with helping to further develop homeopathy in Liberia, please contact Sally sally.tamplin@gmail.com www.flusolution.net
If you are interested in supporting our good friend and teacher Jeremy Sherr and his remarkable work in Africa please take a look at www.homeopathyforhealthinafrica.org
* The Ebola Kits that we sent to Liberia were as follows:
Gelsemium, Belladonna, Arsenicum Album, Baptisia, Merc Sol, Nux Vomica, Veratrum Album, China , Ipecac, Phos, Pyrogen, Bothrops, Crot H and Carbo Veg.
Each remedy was sent in 30c, 200c and 1 M liquid potencies. In addition, we included the CM potency for Carbo Veg
Sally with Pastor Seaiwon Aaron Dickson at the Walnut Room in Chicago
A major part of this article was published in the summer 2015 edition of, “Homeopathy in Practice” the UK journal of, The Alliance of Registered Homeopaths (MARH).
This article was also partly written using information taken from, “The Guardian Newspaper” – Sarah Boseley, Health editor Friday October 16, 2015, and BBC News, “When Ebola lingers: a survivor’s story” - Tulip Mazumdar, Global health reporter on Tuesday October 20, 2015.
Sally Tamplin is a graduate from The School of Homeopathy, UK and Dynamis School. She has been in professional practice since 2002 in the USA and the UK. Sally is a distance learning tutor for The School of Homeopathy, UK and has always been interested in third world issues. Sally has volunteered in Haiti with Homeopaths without Borders and in fundraising for Jeremy Sherr and his Tanzania Homeopathy Project. She is co-author of www.Flusolution.net
