Understanding and Healing Vaccine Injuries with Homeopathy

IN BRIEF

Vaccines, like all medical products, have the potential to cause adverse reactions in some people. Homeopathy may be able to support healing in healing in such cases. 
Anke shares her journey of discovering that vaccine injuries exist and illustrates possible remedy approaches with cases from her practice. 

By Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH, originally published in Wise Traditions Magazine, Weston Price Foundation

A LITTLE BACKGROUND

My father had only one useful arm. The other was left permanently paralyzed after he contracted polio at the age of thirteen while walking through a burning Berlin at the end of World War II. He spent months in an iron lung and almost died.

Growing up, I was inoculated against polio and other infectious diseases and remember feeling gratitude and reverence for vaccination, this miracle of modern medicine. Little did I know that decades later I would become an outspoken critic of current vaccination practices after several years of completely unexpected and shocking clinical experience with vaccine injuries.

TINUS SMITS AND AUTISM

It all started in the spring of 2011, when I bought a book titled Au­tism, Beyond Despair, by the Dutch medical doctor and homeopath Tinus Smits.1 I had been interested in autism since graduating from naturopathic college in 1991 and kept abreast of new publications. Over the years, I had treated many children with autism and other developmental disorders— sometimes with success, but sometimes with absolutely no results at all.

A couple of the failures still play on my mind to this day, including a little autistic boy who was severely hyperactive and smeared the walls and furniture with his feces when he was not climbing them. Nothing I tried helped him.

Tinus Smits described his experience of treating more than three hundred children with autism over thirty years using, among other things, homeopathic remedies made from vaccines. In his opinion, about 70 percent of children on the autism spectrum had been primarily affected by vaccines, and the rest predominantly by medications and chemicals. Most had been affected by multiple factors.
I could not put the book down, and when it was done, I had to deal with a huge and painful paradigm shift: Vaccines looked as if they could seriously harm children even though we were giving them to protect children.

HOMEOPATHY AND TAUTOPATHY

Homeopathy is based on the idea that a substance that can cause symptoms in a healthy organism can heal similar symptoms in a sick one. Of course, the remedies are used in homeopathic form and are for the most part so highly diluted as to be immaterial. There is a sub-branch of homeopathy called tautopathy, which uses—again, in homeopathic form—substances known or suspected to cause problems to address the same. For example, arsenic poisoning can be alleviated by using a homeopathic remedy made from arsenic. These remedies have been researched on animals2-7 and humans; trials are currently underway in India to use homeopathic arsenic to help people poisoned by arsenic-contaminated drinking water.8-11

We also have some interesting research looking at homeopathic preparations of cad­mium,12,13 mercury14-18 and lead19 to help with toxicity from these heavy metals.
Getting back to vaccines—according to Tinus Smits, if a vaccine was suspected to have hurt a child or adult, a homeopathic remedy prepared from this vaccine could potentially help, rendering these homeopathic remedies not only therapeutic, but also diagnostic.
I soon took training to learn to use the Smits system properly. I met other practitioners do­ing the same work. We documented cases and exchanged information. It quickly became clear that vaccine injuries were pervasive in children and were disguised as many different illnesses and syndromes—allergies, asthma, hyperac­tivity, insomnia, diabetes, bowel and eating disorders, epilepsy, speech delays, sensory processing disorders, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), tics, autism and even death. Something else that became appar­ent to us was that most vaccine injuries were delayed reactions, delayed on average by two to four months, an observation that has been confirmed from immunology.20

Since no vaccines on the childhood sched­ule have ever been tested for longer than a maximum of six weeks (the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella)—and most of them for only a few days—there is no “scien­tific” documentation of these delayed reactions. My personal estimate is that at least 90 percent of vaccine injuries are delayed reactions and therefore not recognized as such. In some cases, both immediate and delayed reactions appear. Thus the proportion of vaccine injuries due to immediate, severe reactions is relatively small, yet even so the Internet is full of tens of thou­sands of documented reports by individuals and parents from around the world describing their or their children’s descent into chronic illness after vaccines. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the U.S. has paid out in excess of four billion dollars since its inception in 1986—and Harvard University has estimated that only about 1 percent of vaccine injuries ever get reported, never mind settled through the compensation program.21

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