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Homeopathy Journal
                                      Homeopathy Journal

                              UNDERSTANDING AND HEALING VACCINE INJURIES
                                   By Joette Calabrese, HMC,CCH, RSHom (NA)
                                          By Anke Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH





               My father had only one useful arm. The other was left permanently  homeopathic remedy made from arsenic. These
            paralyzed after he contracted polio at the age of thirteen while walking  remedies have been researched on animals
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            through a burning Berlin at the end of World War II. He spent months in  and humans; trials are currently underway in
            an iron lung and almost died.                                 India to use homeopathic arsenic to help people
               Growing up, I was inoculated against polio and other infectious  poisoned by arsenic-contaminated drinking
            diseases and remember feeling gratitude and reverence for vaccination,  water. 8-11
            this miracle of modern medicine. Little did I know that decades later I   We also have some interesting research
            would become an outspoken critic of current vaccination practices after  looking at homeopathic preparations of cad-
            several years of completely unexpected and shocking clinical experience  mium, 12,13  mercury 14-18  and lead  to help with
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            with vaccine injuries.                                        toxicity from these heavy metals.
                                                                              Getting back to vaccines—according to
            TINUS SMITS AND AUTISM                                        Tinus Smits, if a vaccine was suspected to have
               It all started in the spring of 2011, when I bought a book titled Au-  hurt a child or adult, a homeopathic remedy
            tism, Beyond Despair, by the Dutch medical doctor and homeopath Tinus  prepared from this vaccine could potentially
            Smits.  I had been interested in autism since graduating from naturopathic  help, rendering these homeopathic remedies not
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            college in 1991 and kept abreast of new publications. Over the years, I had  only therapeutic, but also diagnostic.
            treated many children with autism and other developmental disorders—  I soon took training to learn to use the Smits
            sometimes with success, but sometimes with absolutely no results at all.  system properly. I met other practitioners do-
               A couple of the failures still play on my mind to this day, including  ing the same work. We documented cases and
            a little autistic boy who was severely hyperactive and smeared the walls  exchanged information. It quickly became clear
            and furniture with his feces when he was not climbing them. Nothing I  that vaccine injuries were pervasive in children
            tried helped him.                                             and were disguised as many different illnesses
               Tinus Smits described his experience of treating more than three  and syndromes—allergies, asthma, hyperac-
            hundred children with autism over thirty years using, among other things,  tivity, insomnia, diabetes, bowel and eating
            homeopathic remedies made from vaccines. In his opinion, about 70  disorders,  epilepsy,  speech  delays,  sensory
            percent of children on the autism spectrum had been primarily affected  processing disorders, social anxiety, obsessive-
            by vaccines, and the rest predominantly by medications and chemicals.  compulsive disorder (OCD), tics, autism and
            Most had been affected by multiple factors.                   even death. Something else that became appar-
               I could not put the book down, and when it was done, I had to deal  ent to us was that most vaccine injuries were
            with a huge and painful paradigm shift: Vaccines looked as if they could  delayed reactions, delayed on average by two
            seriously harm children even though we were giving them to protect  to four months, an observation that has been
            children.                                                     confirmed from immunology. 20
                                                                              Since no vaccines on the childhood sched-
            HOMEOPATHY AND TAUTOPATHY                                     ule have ever been tested for longer than a
               Homeopathy is based on the idea that a substance that can cause  maximum of six weeks (the MMR vaccine for
            symptoms in a healthy organism can heal similar symptoms in a sick  measles, mumps and rubella)—and most of
            one. Of course, the remedies are used in homeopathic form and are for  them for only a few days—there is no “scien-
            the most part so highly diluted as to be immaterial. There is a sub-branch  tific” documentation of these delayed reactions.
            of homeopathy called tautopathy, which uses—again, in homeopathic  My personal estimate is that at least 90 percent
            form—substances known or suspected to cause problems to address  of vaccine injuries are delayed reactions and
            the same. For example, arsenic poisoning can be alleviated by using a  therefore not recognized as such. In some cases,

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