Successful Vaccination in Cuba by Didi Ananda Ruchira

[David Kent Warkentin]

From Didi Ananda Ruchira:

Africa Homeopaths Network - NOSODES 2008 History is made in Cuba
 
Greetings all,
 
A historical and inspiring event took place 10-12 December 2008 in Havana Cuba that I had the honor to attend. There, the Carlos J Finlay Institute under the guidance of its director-general, Dra. Conception Campa Huergo and Dr. Gustavo Bravo and others hosted NOSODES 2008, an International Meeting on Homeoprophilaxis, Homeopathic Immunization and Nosodes against Epidemics.
 
Homeopaths from Cuba, S America, Canada, Australia, UK, and Kenya (yours truly) made presentations on the wide varieties of successful disease prevention using homeopathy and more specifically, nosodes.
 
Each presentation was more amazing than the previous. All were very remarkable and notable in the field of research and science. Some of the topics included Childhood Disease Prevention, Homeopathic prophylaxis as an aspect of gov'tal programs, Nosodes Genus Epidemicus and Compexes, Homeoprophylaxis on Agronomy, Homeoprophylaxis on Veternary, Homeoprophylaxis in TB, Homeoprophylaxis in Chagas disease, Homeoprophylaxis in hepatitis, Homeoprophylaxis in Malaria (yours truly, again) and the list of presentations goes on.
 
(I am sorry for my lack of variety of adjectives for this email - "remarkable", "awesome" and "amazing" will be repeated often because I have no other way to express my opinion of this conference)
 
Some of the speakers (known to our English speaking homeopaths) were Martine Jourde, Issac Golden (Aus), Kate Birch (Canada), Tony Pincus (Ainsworth, UK), Leo Van Gelder (NL) & Lindsay Hickey (UK). A number of Cuban & SAmerican homeopaths also presented their work. All have done unique work in the field of homeopathy & epidemic disease.
 
THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC LEPTOSPIROSIS IN CUBA
But none of these remarkable speakers, each presenting their amazing work in disease prevention and use of nosodes could not hold a candle to the historical accomplishment of the Cubans in their presentation of controlling the local endemic-epidemic disease of Leptospirosis.
 
Now, the Finlay Institute is primarily the Cuban research institute that produces allopathic vaccinations for their country. Since Cuba is outcasted by the USA government, they have come to depend on themselves for the making of medicines, health care programs, etc. And since the Cuba is not under the yoke of the international pharmaceutical juggernaut, they are not held back from adopting homeopathy and other alternative medicines wholeheartedly into their national health programmes. The Finlay director-general herself is very pro-homeopathy (not to mention, besides, a macrobiotic vegetarian).
 
To put it simply, what they presented is this:
 
Cuba goes through a yearly cycle of Leptospirosis epidemic, especially after the hurricanes flood the countryside and water pollution reaches its height. (Leptospirosis: infectious disease caused by the spirochaete Leptospira transmitted to humans from rats, giving jaundice and kidney damage. Can cause death)
 
Annually the population is exposed to the disease, most especially after hurricanes.
 
Until Aug 2007, the Finlay Institute (a part of the Ministry of Public Health, Cuba) has been distributing its own allopathic Lepto vaccination. August is the height of the hurricane season. Annually, many are left homeless, flooded out and under the stress of disaster situation. There is a sharp rise in the lepto epidemic.
 
The usual expectancy of infection even with allopathic vaccination would have been around a few thousands, with some deaths included.
 
Part of the reason for this is that the high cost of vaccination prevents putting but the most at-risk populations (ie children, pregnant women, elderly) on vaccination. The cost of such limited vaccination is about US$3,000.000.
 
But in Aug 2007, Finlay put approximately 5,000,000 people (yes! 5 million!) in 2 provinces on homeopathic nosode prophylaxis at the cost of about only US$ 200,000.
 
That figure represents the entire population of the 2 provinces. The prophylaxis consisted of 2 single doses about 2 weeks apart. Included in the dose was the Lepto nosode + some Bach flower remedies to address the mental distress of the disaster situation.
 
How very amazing it was to watch this presentation being made. Up to the point, the presenters were showing us graph after graph of the usual rise of the epidemic, year after year, even with the use of allopathic vaccination. Each year the graphs would edge higher and higher towards the year-end, reaching up to the thousands of infected.
 
But this time, within 2 weeks after Aug 2007, the rising lines literally dropped off the chart to ZERO-Ten infections only! Yes. Near-zero infections, zero deaths from leptospirosis after Aug 2007. And in 2008, no deaths, infections less than 10 a month.
 
HISTORY MADE for Homeopathy
This mass treatment of 5 million people with homeopathy, I don't believe, has been done anywhere else in the world, not even in India, where homeopathy enjoys the shelter of the government.
 
And the awesome results of going from hundreds of infected to near-zero in the period of a few weeks, also is historical. My jaw dropped as I watched the graphs demonstrate their success.
 
The Cuban team readily admits that they have not invented anything new as far as homeopathic philosophy or application. They have simply followed what we homeopaths know to work. And since they have no pharmaceutical multi-nationals to stop them, they were able to do it on a massive scale unknown in the history of homeopathy.
 
What is remarkable is their application to such a large population, and its dramatic success, with full scientific verification. The results are incontrovertible and undeniable even by the most rabid of anti-homeopaths.
 
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I'm eagerly awaiting their formal publication in the medical journals of this remarkable event. I'm sure once these medical results are published, homeopaths will have more "weapons" in our "arsenal" to fight for our existence and for the adoption of homeopathy in national health programmes in industrialized and developing countries.
 
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As a word or two about Dra Heurgo, Dr. Bravo and the rest of the Cuban team. Truly remarkable people. "Concita" as Dra Heurgo is lovingly known by the people of Cuba, is well known and loved as a woman who has done remarkable work to improve the health of the population. I found her to be a remarkable person - untiring, passionate about her work and compassionate in her motivation to serve her fellow human beings.
 
I should like to nominate her for the Nobel Prize.
 
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Sincerely,
Didi Ananda Ruchira
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[Joerg Wichmann]

Thank you, David, for publishing this fascinating report.
First of all I want to say: If this is true, it would be a revolution in medicine, and it would solve many problems that we have today.
But it is also true, that - if this method really works - we as classical homeopaths would have to revolutionize our theories as well. If medical epidemic prevention on millions of people with potentized mixtures of remedies prescribed after isopathic and other ideas really works, there would absolutely be no reason for classical homeopaths to lean back and say: We´ve always said so! -  No, we have not. Such a method would contradict classical homeopathic ideas even more than allopathic ones.
No law of similars, no individualization, no single remedy, nothing of what we believe to be necessary for a remedy to work.
If what the report says is true, so much the better for many millions of people who suffer from epidemics, floods, malnutrition, misplaced allopathic treatment and the greed of pharmaceutical industry. And we should be very happy about this - and after having been happy rethink our classical homeopathic theories and methods.
It would be worth it.
-  if all this is true...
I must admit that my conviction as well as my experience of healing and other processes in life has taught me until now, that there is never a quick-and-easy way. If you chose not to pay the price now, you have to pay it later. Let´s hope that I am wrong and the report is right.
Joerg Wichmann

[Jana Shiloh]

So wonderful to have read this- is there any way of learning more about the other papers presented David?

As for the use of prophylaxis in homeopathy there have been many instances of it in our history. Check out some of it in RW! Andre Saine gave a long lecture based on his research re: scarlet fever and cholera. He found the suggested process for less urgent diseases was starting with 30c every other week for 2 weeks (2 doses) then 200c the same way. Then the next year up it to 1M and 10m. I can't remember if he then said they went up to 50M or not. This lecture was about 20 yrs ago and I don't remember the well known homeopaths he quoted- I believe I remember they we both Americans and Europeans. Then the Argentinian homeopath (cannot recall his name at this moment) who lectured here said that in his country people had a choice of vaccinations for polio or homeopathic prophylaxis. It was accepted, legal and extremely effective!
The other approach has been to use the genus epidemicus for the prophylaxis (Belladonna was used that way for Scarlet Fever during one outbreak).

In any case I use influenzinum for people who do not want the vaccine but do insist on some form of protection and this year just made a nosode from a very nasty flu some patient had who seems to have just responded to Drosera. I do not know if it was "swine" or not. I will use it for others with the other influenzinums. They have been very successful in the past ( or maybe homeopathic patients are just not so susceptible).

[David Kent Warkentin]

Hi Jana,
(Its been far too many years!)
You'd have to ask Didi for more info - pretty interesting though.
I think I heard Andre Saine discuss this in Costa Rica one year - very scholarly.  I looked on his website and didn't see anything - but yes he'd be the one to ask for a historical perspective...
Ciao
David