The Dark Side of Taking Medications

One of my “all-time” favorite newspaper cartoons pictured a doctor handing a patient a bottle of pills. The caption read, “Take one of these…and if you wake up in the morning, take another!” 

All humor aside, I want to pass on a medical truth that very few doctors even realize, and if you realized what the drugs and remedies were doing, you too would think twice before choosing to take them for very long.

It is a Law of Pharmacology; Every natural and pharmaceutical medicine’s primary side-effect is also its primary action! In other words, symptoms a medication will fix, it will also cause, if the medication is taken for too long. Some readers of this article will say there is no research supporting this topic. This opinion could not be further from the truth. There are over 2200 pages covering more than 1200 medicinal substances in a Materia Medica, that represent the cumulative research of global researchers from the last 200+ years detailing the predicable effects of long-term use of each substance. There are over 2000 pages in the Physician's Desk Reference with the known effects of over 1100 medications.

Before you read on, I want to be clear. This article is not about being anti-pharmaceutical or anti-natural medicine. It is about being aware that when you are taking either form of treatment there is a very predictable outcome, that can be contributing or directly causing the worsening or the perpetuation of your symptoms.

The facts presented here do not dispute the fact that your remedy/medication of choice is possibly saving your life, or increasing the quality of your life. It is simply saying that often if your symptoms return or your medication stops working, it may be due to this phenomenon. It is often at this point that your doctor must change your medication to avoid the predictable long-term effects described in this article.

The longer you take a medicine, the more symptoms will begin to appear as a result of the "proving of the medicine," even if you only took the medicine at a low dosage.

The word, "Proving" in this medical context, is a homeopathic medicine term. For over 200 years, in order to determine what a new medicine will treat, researchers give repeated doses of the homeopathic medicine to healthy research volunteers, and document very carefully what signs and symptoms begin happening as a result of taking too much of the medicine.

By "proving" a remedy in this way they know that the symptoms that the medicine will cause in a healthy person, it will fix in a sick person with those same symptoms.

However, if the sick person were to take the medicine too long, or take too large a dosage, they will also "prove" the remedy, and the symptoms that were initially corrected by the medicine will return along with more drug-specific symptoms, which were caused by the scope of that particular medicine's actions on the body. (Of course, there are direct chemical toxicity, and allergic reactions that can be causing symptoms as well, however I am discussing the completely separate issue of pharmacology, called pharmacological proving of medication.)

If you listen to the television commercials about various drugs they will tell you at the end of the commercial that the primary side-effect of the antidepressants, Prozac, Lexapro, Celexa, and others is depression, severe depression, and suicidal tendencies...the worst type of depression. 

All insomnia medications, such as Lunesta, Ambien, and others, have increased sleeplessness as their primary side-effect from taking it too long.

The anti-seizure medication, Neurotin and others, have increased seizures listed as their primary side-effect from taking it too long.

The most common pain-reliever, Hydrocodone, has increased pain as one of its primary side-effects.

On the natural medicine side of things:
The homeopathic remedy Rhus Toxicodendron is fantastic for helping the body correct skin rashes,  and joint pain, but if taken too long or in too high of a dosage it can cause skin rashes and joint pain.

Echinacea is a popular remedy for helping the body quickly get over the flu, yet if taken too long it will cause flu-like symptoms.

The truth is that even if a medication is perfect for “curing” what is wrong with you, as it is fixing things in the body eventually you reach the point where the correction is complete and you should discontinue the medicine. So many people think if their symptoms are getting worse, that they need to take more of their medication. Very often these people go from bad to worse by increasing their dosage.

If you continue the remedy beyond the point of it being needed by your body, you literally go through the correction and out the other side, "Proving the drug." You will start manifesting an drug-induced, energetic “computer virus,” that causes many of the same symptoms again.

If pharmaceuticals were a real solution to health problems you wouldn't need to take them forever...risking the very predictable "side-effects" of having taken the drug too long. Say no to drug-induced illusions of health.

People who have been on many type of medications for a long time often suffer from these drug-induced symptoms, but due to the fact that the drug-induced symptoms match their original symptoms, they think their symptoms are from their illness.  This is especially true when the medication is only working to suppress the symptoms. 

One of the little known facts about this Law of Pharmacology is that often these drug-induced symptoms from Proving the drug, often remain even after discontinuing the drug. These symptoms are truly a drug-induced computer virus in the software of the body. The only known way to help correct these computer viruses in the body is through Tautopathic remedies, which I will be addressing in my next article.

True healing never seeks to mask symptoms, since that would defeat the whole point of...truly healing.

The doctors at the Hansa Center for Optimum health are able to dynamically test to see if you still need to be taking whatever remedy or supplement we recommended, and will take you off of it as soon as your body has reached its optimum benefit from the remedy. Remember, if you must continue taking a drug or even a natural remedy forever in order to feel good, then it is not reaching the cause of the symptoms. If you can identify and reach the level of cause, then you should be able to discontinue the remedy when the cause has been eliminated.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as bio-identical substances, including insulin and hormone replacements, which do not fall within this law of pharmacy since they are naturally occurring substances in the body. Symptom-suppressing medications can also be necessary when the body has been damaged beyond repair and they are only option left for the person. In an ideal world, symptom-suppressing medications would be only used as a last resort. However that is not how our medical system is set up philosophically, nor could the doctors in mainstream medicine spend the time with each patient that it takes to really dig down and determine the causes, and work with the body to facilitate its ability to heal itself, not to mention the time it takes to counsel their patient on leading a health-promoting life.

In order to help the most people in the shortest time, and as "economically" as possible, it is much more efficient to do labs and test that simply put a name to the illness, and run the drug-recipe someone else determined is best for a generic person with that named illness. Still there are times when the damage caused by surgeries, invasive interventions, traumatic injuries, and damage from chemical/microbial toxins may be too much for anyone to repair, so prescription meds may be all that is left to just manage the symptoms. 

The point of this article is not to demonize natural or prescription meds, but to help people recognized the potential for a worsening of their symptoms from this Law of Pharmacology; taking the same medication for months to years. Your worsened symptoms can often dramatically improve if your doctor switches you to a different med. He may have other Rx choices that would work better for a while.

Every chronic illness started on its path to becoming chronic by the initial actions of your doctor. Choose your doctors wisely!

***Please seek the advise of your physician before discontinuing any pharmaceutical. Severe and life-threatening withdrawal effects are associated with suddenly discontinuing many medications.

The ideal doctor is not a specialist in diseases, but one who understands disease, yet specializes in restoring what is optimum.

For over 20 years the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas has specialized in the restoration of health for people with previously unresponsive and chronic illnesses of virtually all types. Over 85% of people come from other states and countries. If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling, contact our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara, at patientcare@hansacenter.com, for information on the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. For additional info, visit our website at www.HansaCenter.com.

This article is for educational purposes. Before implementing any supplements/remedies always consult with your healthcare professional. Due to the complexity of the human condition there remains the possibility of symptoms getting worse. Again, discuss the ideas presented here with your health care professional before beginning, and stop, or get support, if your condition worsens. This information is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA. The Hansa Center does not treat named diseases, but seeks to restore the body's optimum structural and functional integrity so that the body can rapidly heal itself. 

*Due to the exhaustive time spent per day with each patient, and poor repayment history of insurance companies, we unfortunately cannot accept insurance assignment. We do participate in Care Credit, and accept all major credit cards. We also have scholarships through a 501c3 charitable foundation for those people with chronic illness who are in financial distress. Please call 316-686-5900 ext. 1, for current pricing for our economically-priced, All-inclusive 2-3 weeks intensive packages of care.

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You will often remain sick unless this problem is corrected.

I am going to show you how most of your symptoms are very predictable and how they are all connected to each other. This is a long post, however if you want to finally get well from whatever diagnosis you have been given you should read all of this post. 

Imagine you are on a safari. It is a pitch black night outside and you are in a tent in Africa. A lion roars nearby and you are thinking about how flimsy the fabric is to keep that lion from coming in and eating you! Your sympathetic nervous system kicks into high gear! This is the "fight or flight" mode of your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). 

Your sympathetic nervous system is a built -in, automatic (autonomic) mechanism that increases your ability to survive, by either vigorously fighting the lion, or running away to fight another day! It is very predictable what your sympathetic nervous system will do in this stressful situation with the lion. All of your senses will go on maximum alert. The pupils in your eyes will dilate widely in order to see the slightest indication of the lion. Your ears will strain, to hear the slightest noise. Your muscles will ripple and tremble with tension as huge amounts of energy have been diverted to the muscles so that you have super-human reflexes and strength! 

In the super stimulation of the sympathetic nervous response to the roaring lion, your bladder can empty without warning, in order for you to flee or fight unimpeded by a full bladder. It is a quick thing to urinate, something you could possibly do even while running or fighting, however a bowel movement takes too long. In the time it takes to have a BM the lion could pounce and you would be defenseless! So your sympathetic nervous system causes the colon to shutdown. 

The meal you ate sits like a brick in your stomach. The sympathetic nervous system shut down digestion, diverting the energy to the muscles. After all, what is more important, digesting or fighting and/or running away from a hungry, man-eating lion? 

Blood rushes to the head and the heart begins to increase its energy, beating hard and fast, to get ready for the upcoming fight or flight. The adrenal glands secrete cortisol to open up the cells to receiving more blood sugar and thyroid hormones, as adrenaline supercharges the entire body. The lion roars again, closer this time. The sympathetic nervous system causes the thyroid to crank out more T3 and brings more of its reserve T4 online to be converted to T3 as needed in order to increase overall cellular receptivity to blood glucose. 

The skin tightens and every hair stands on end like little antennae, sensing the slightest change in the breeze. Every aspect of the body is on high alert. Your body is maximally sensitive to any change in its environment. You are jumpy and vigilant for any threat. 

The night turns to day, you dare not leave your tent, since you can still hear the lion pacing...at least you think it’s still the lion...dare you stick your head out of the tent to check and see? No, it is too scary a thought, being eaten alive. So you stay in your tent, as still as possible, every sense still poised to address any sign of the lion tearing through the tent... 

Get the picture? This story is what many of you are going through because your autonomic nervous system views the situations of prolonged stress in your life, such as chronic illness, work, or abusive people, just like the analogy of the roaring lion! 

Now imagine what would happen if you never left the tent, or the perception of danger from infections or situations continued for months and years, and your sympathetic nervous system never relaxed? 

All the same things we saw with the lion would be happening all the time. Your heart rate would stay too fast, and due to everything else going wrong in your body your heart might start skipping beats and palpitating. Your food never would seem to digest, and you would start seeing undigested food in your bowel movement. Your bladder would constantly feel like you need to go, so your mineral/electrolyte balance would be messed up, making your energy and brain clarity impossible to maintain. 

Your colon would be constipated. Your muscles would be tight and painful from all the strain. You would suffer from light and sound sensitivity. You would become more sensitive to electromagnetic pollution and to other people's energy.

Your thyroid would begin to strain under the constant work and would weaken or start to have too much T3, and Reverse T3 would start to elevate to keep you from having too much thyroid hormone stimulation. 

There would be too much cortisol and adrenaline so your anxiety and panic would be through the roof, for what seems to be no reason. 

The cells of the body would become insensitive to the hormones and glucose, since you are just sitting there idle in the tent of your illness not really doing anything but waiting for the lion (illness) to go away. 

Sleep would be impossible since you are too stimulated and overwhelmed, and never feel safe. You feel a little safer during the daytime, so you sleep all day.

The mind races thinking of all of the possibilities. Round and round your mind goes. You cannot turn it off now...it is stuck in a biochemical loop. 

Do you see that all of these symptoms are connected? Every system of the body is affected so there are potentially dozens of symptoms. The symptoms are just as predictable as what goes on when a lion is outside of your tent!

Unfortunately, mainstream medicine is geared to treat the symptoms only and so they throw pharmaceutical drugs into this mess. They will give you symptom-treating drugs that unclog your constipation. Purple pill to stop the indigestion. Beta blockers for the heart. Anti-anxiety meds to calm you. Antidepressants to help with everything, since obviously you come across to them as being very depressed. Muscle relaxants are given to ease the tight, painful muscles, and tranquilizers to sedate you to sleep. You are given Synthroid to supposedly treat the low thyroid hormones. Blood sugar regulators to force the glucose out of the bloodstream. 

Your body becomes more dysfunctional and toxic from all the drugs and disease. None of these pharmaceuticals are treating the functional causes. Almost 100% of pharmaceuticals are treating only the symptoms. Yes, your thyroid is fatigued and you are low in T3, but taking Synthroid or other thyroid hormone supplements are not treating the cause.  And yes, you likely feel better with these pharmaceuticals than without them, but their effectiveness will only be short term, since the illness, the cause, remains untreated and continues to get worse.

As the saying goes, "The worse it gets, the worse it gets. The better it gets the better it gets." It is never, "The worse the cause of a problem gets the better it gets." Nor is it, "The better it gets the worse it gets!" If through proper treatment the dysfunctions can be nudged toward actually working better, then it gets progressively better.

This is where 90% if not more of the chronically ill crowd is living. The lion is the illness, by whatever name. The Autonomic Nervous System is an automatic mechanism that gets triggered by stress of any type. Structural stress, biochemical stress, mental/emotional stress, and/or environmental/bioenergetic stress. 

Any stress puts stress on every aspect of the body, mind, and spirit. One cannot pluck one strand of a spider web without vibrating the entire web. The body, mind, and spirit are an intertwined web. Break a thread and the shape of the entire web changes. 

True healing necessarily will ALWAYS need to repair the broken threads of the Autonomic Nervous System and calm the Sympathetic nervous system before lasting health can be restored. 

This is what Post-Traumatic Stress disorder is all about, whether the stress was from horrific war, such as with "Wounded Warriors", or the stress of profound illness and the life changes it causes. 

People we have seen at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, who have suffered for months and years with chronic infections, such as Lyme disease, mold/fungal infections, viral, pain syndrome, and other chronic illnesses, have PTSD, or a chronic stress disorder. They do have all of the conditions discussed in this article, even if the bacteria have been corrected through the heroic efforts of great doctors, effectively treating the infections.  

The idea that the illness is just the microbes is misguided. It is a myth that you will be well, symptom-free, as soon as your doctor can finally figure out how to kill every single bacteria and pathological microbe. Helping the body kill the microbes through whatever method is fine, but with today's mutated, and exotic strains of bacteria, unless you can restore optimum function and integrity to the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and convince it that there is no "lion" about to eat you, your body will continue wearing itself down, making you vulnerable to more infections and more dysfunction.

Nothing in my experience can more effectively repair the ANS and calm the sympathetic nervous system than the combination of healing philosophy of American Biological Medicine as practiced at the Hansa Center. No other healing philosophy is better designed and equipped to address everything that has gone wrong in the body, mind, and spirit all at the same time. Doctors specializing in the treatment philosophies of American Biological Medicine specialize in diagnosing and treating every tissue in the human body, and every system of the body, using the most advanced applications of natural medicine. 

The goal is to respect the wisdom of the body. To determine what the body is striving to accomplish, and work to facilitate the body's ability to accomplish what it needs in order to heal, instead of forcing the body into drug-induced illusions of health. 

If you have to take a drug forever in order to feel somewhat normal, then it is not fixing anything. If you are treating the cause, then the cause should eventually go away and you can stop taking the medicine. The conventional doctors convinced you that no one knows the cause and therefore you should just be happy that the drugs can mask the symptoms. If your body is too messed up, if organs and glands have been surgically removed, diseased beyond repair, or otherwise destroyed, then yes, take the symptom-masking drugs, however just because your lab tests are consistently bad, or your doctor is from the top medical school, or goes to the top conferences, or follows the top protocols in conventional medicine, it doesn't mean that their drugs are the best way in the long run.  

If it is possible to restore optimum function, to treat the whole person at the levels of cause, to treat to get every system to work harmoniously together, great health can be finally realized...the lion will often rapidly evaporate into thin air!

It is difficult to find doctors who follow the treatment philosophies of American Biological Medicine. Of course, I feel that the doctors at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health are fantastic, and the best in the world at what we do, however in the spirit of cooperation instead of competition, you can go to these links to find more great clinics that implement various aspects of this powerful way of healing: marioninstitute.org and International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine

For over 20 years the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas has specialized in the restoration of health for people with previously unresponsive and chronic illnesses of virtually all types. Over 85% of people come from other states and countries. If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling, contact our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara, at patientcare@hansacenter.com, for information on the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. For additional info, visit our website at www.HansaCenter.com.

This article is for educational purposes. Before implementing any supplements/remedies always consult with your healthcare professional. Due to the complexity of the human condition there remains the possibility of symptoms getting worse. Again, discuss this protocol with your health care professional before beginning, and stop or get support if your condition worsens. This protocol is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA.

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Part 3 Recovering your Strength and Health During and After Chronic Illness

If all of the organs of your body got all of the energy all of the time there would not be enough energy to go around. Each organ has its time during the day when it gets the most energy.

Based upon this organ circuit clock we can see that the bio-rhythms of the body can get very messed up. The whole clock can be altered due to illness, jet-lag, and switching work shifts from day to night.

Many people tell me their symptoms get worse at a certain time of day. This is a great clue to a doctor who knows the organ clock. If the symptoms are worse at night between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. then the doctor knows that the liver is a good place to look for the source of that problem, since the liver is most active at that time.

Notice that the bladder and kidney circuits should be essentially "turned off" at night, since they have their turn of highest energy between 3 p.m.-7 p.m. So for all of you who urinate all night, yet justify it by the fact that you drink a lot of water, your clock is likely messed up.

It is interesting that your bowels should eliminate right when you wake up to start the day "fresh". Also interesting is that the heart's time of highest energy is between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Lunch time is when most heart attacks occur, due to the most strain being put on the heart at that time frame.

All this is just to show how beautifully we are made, and how just killing bacteria, detoxing, taking supplements, exercising, and eating well is not all that is needed to heal.

So...not only does it take time to heal, but we must also heal our organ time zones!

Your body clock:
5-7 a.m. — Large Intestine
7-9 a.m. — Stomach
9-11 a.m. — Pancreas
11 a.m.-1 p.m. — Heart
1-3 p.m. — Small Intestine
3-5 p.m. — Bladder
5-7 p.m. — Kidney
7-9 p.m. — Reproductive system
9-11 p.m. — Thyroid, adrenal glands
11 p.m.- 1 a.m. — Gall Bladder
1-3 a.m. — Liver
3-5 a.m. — Lung




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