White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Final Report, March 2002.

Over the past 30 years, public interest in and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) systems, approaches, and products has risen steadily in the United States. Depending on how CAM is defined, an estimated 6.5 %1 to as much as 43%2 of the U.S. population has used some form of CAM.

Until recently, the primary response of Federal, state, and local health care regulatory agencies to this phenomenon was to restrict access to and delivery of CAM services to protect the public from unproven and potentially dangerous treatments. Since the early 1990s, however, scientific evidence has begun to emerge suggesting that some CAM approaches and products, when used appropriately, can be beneficial for treating illness and promoting health. As this evidence is collected and disseminated to the wider health care community and the public, it should provide a reliable basis for making policy decisions that will facilitate the public’s access to safe and effective CAM approaches and products.

The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) was established in March 2000 to address issues related to access and delivery of CAM, priorities for research, and the need for better education of consumers and health care professionals about CAM. The President’s Executive Order No. 13147 establishing the Commission states that its primary task is to provide, through the Secretary of Health and Human Services, legislative and administrative recommendations for ensuring that public policy maximizes the potential benefits of CAM therapies to consumers.

Ann Intern Med 2001 Aug 21;135(4):262-8

Kessler RC, Davis RB, Foster DF, Van Rompay MI, Walters EE, Wilkey SA, Kaptchuk TJ, Eisenberg DM.

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. [email protected]

BACKGROUND: Although recent research has shown that many people in the United States use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, little is known about time trends in use. OBJECTIVE: To present data on time trends in CAM therapy use in the United States over the past half-century. DESIGN: Nationally representative telephone survey of 2055 respondents that obtained information on current use, lifetime use, and age at first use for 20 CAM therapies. SETTING: The 48 contiguous U.S. states. PARTICIPANTS: Household residents 18 years of age and older. MEASUREMENT: Retrospective self-reports of age at first use for each of 20 CAM therapies. RESULTS: Previously reported analyses of these data showed that more than one third of the U.S. population was currently using CAM therapy in the year of the interview (1997). Subsequent analyses of lifetime use and age at onset showed that 67.6% of respondents had used at least one CAM therapy in their lifetime. Lifetime use steadily increased with age across three age cohorts: Approximately 3 of every 10 respondents in the pre-baby boom cohort, 5 of 10 in the baby boom cohort, and 7 of 10 in the post-baby boom cohort reported using some type of CAM therapy by age 33 years. Of respondents who ever used a CAM therapy, nearly half continued to use many years later. A wide range of individual CAM therapies increased in use over time, and the growth was similar across all major sociodemographic sectors of the study sample. CONCLUSIONS: Use of CAM therapies by a large proportion of the study sample is the result of a secular trend that began at least a half century ago. This trend suggests a continuing demand for CAM therapies that will affect health care delivery for the foreseeable future.

Pollens are off the chart in the Boston area today. Even though I have demonstrated that I can completely clear pollens from my system with the FSCAN while running, I decided not to run cross country this morning. Predominate pollens are oak (499868), birch (487665), and grass (476917). I’m allergic to all of them and even though I have a good air cleaner in my bedroom and slept with the windows closed, I woke up with a stuffy nose. Running the frequencies indicated for a couple of minutes each flushed out my sinuses, cleared my eyes, etc.

Pollens are various substances depending on the current state of the plant. They are living things that grow in your body like an infection. They get into the blood stream and can travel to any organ system in the body. They are easily neutralized with the FSCAN by treating at the right frequencies in the high 400KHZ range.

Because the pollen substance, even from the same plant, alters during the season, and because there are many different types of plants, it is essential to identify the exact set of frequencies needed for time and place. There are multiple ways to do this and the one I use has been discussed in a previous note.

Medical error is well documented as the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. and medication errors alone are the 4th leading cause of death. These numbers are based on studies in hospitals where medical error is routinely underreported. They do not include outpatient deaths which probably exceed inpatient deaths. As an example, here is a widely prescribed drug that 25% of the time is prescribed, even though there is a black box warning on the package that the patient should not be receiving this drug. Effects can be deadly as noted in:

Horlen, C. et al. Frequency of Inappropriate Metformin Prescriptions. JAMA Vol. 287 No. 19, May 15, 2002.

“Metformin is commonly used in the management of type 2 diabetes. More than 25 million prescriptions for metformin were written in 2000, making it the most commonly prescribed branded diabetes medication in the United States. Metformin has been associated with the development of lactic acidosis, and since its initial marketing in 1995 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required a “black box” warning in the package insert. Labeled contraindications include renal dysfunction and congestive heart failure (CHF) requiring pharmacologic treatment. We sought to determine the frequency of metformin use in a sample of patients with these 2 primary contraindications to therapy…

“In our review, almost one quarter of patients with a prescription for metformin had 1 or more absolute contraindications. Several recent studies in Europe have documented similar rates of inappropriate metformin prescribing. Adverse event reports suggest the incidence of metformin-associated lactic acidosis is between 1 in 10000 to 1 in 100000 patient-years. In the first 14 months after its release in the United States, the FDA received 47 confirmed cases of lactic acidosis associated with metformin, with a 42% mortality rate. More than 90% of patients had relative or absolute contraindications to metformin.”

I started to write a note on a recent article about Linus Pauling and realized it needed a preface. Linus was one of my mentors and he had a distinctively different view of medicine than the average physician. He was probably the smartest and most knowledgeable person I have ever worked with and was really bent out of shape because he shared some of his data on DNA structure with Watson and Crick and they got the Nobel Prize. He, of course, already was the only person on the planet who had singlehandedly received two Noble Prizes, but he felt strongly he deserved a third for discovering the structure of DNA. I could never figure out whether this was a character flaw or whether he was right. He was right about most things.

Linus used the scientific method to innovate and break new ground. Most work in science is reworking old ground and making minor improvements. Doing a major overhaul of any scientific theory is risky. When you stick your neck out, you take a lot of flak, and Dr. Pauling was very controversial, particularly among the medical profession.

“Part of the scientific method is that the investigator be willing to accept all the facts. He must not be prejudiced; prejudice might keep him from giving proper consideration to some of the facts or to some of the logical arguments involved in applying the scientific method, and in this way keep him from getting the right answer. If you were to say, “I’ve made up my mind, don’t confuse me with a lot of facts,” you would not be applying the scientific method.” Linus Pauling

Quite often I share some data with another scientist or engineer and the response is, “That is so out of the conventional context of scientific thinking, how could it possibly be true?”

Facts are facts and people regularly ignore, dismiss, or suppress pieces of data that do not fit in to their preconceived notions. Thinking is useful to discover patterns in facts, which can then be used to infer the result of future experiments, i.e. predict future facts. Thinking is useless to science if it is illusion, and when you ignore, dismiss, or suppress odd pieces of data, you use your thinking to build a sand castle of imagination, the basis of “conventional wisdom.” Illusion is great for authors, playrights, and movie makers, but not so great for scientists. For example, as I noted previously, a recent journal article by John Bailar, M.D, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Public Health at the University of Colorado, pointed out there has been no significant decrease in the death rate from cancer in the last 20 years. Similar information has been published on mammography not providing any reduction in the breast cancer death rate, and so forth. Thus we are in illusion about the nature of the disease, the mechanisms of tumor growth, and the treatment of the problem.

Another important priniciple in the scientific method is that experiments must be able to be replicated by different individuals. So if you find yourself immediately discounting a set of data that is important, and that it upsets your applecart in some way, then if you practice the scientific method you owe it to yourself to replicate the experiment and prove it wrong or right. As many innovators have discovered, the most interesting and important data is the data that does not fit the current scientific paridigm because that is exactly where new breakthroughs occur.

So virtually all great scientific breakthroughs punch holes in conventional scientific thinking and show that the old way was, as least in some sense, an illusion. As Thomas Kuhn has pointed out in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” scientists often hold on to old illusions until they die and a new generation has to come along to adopt new science which does a better job of explaining or incorporated new facts. Peter Drucker points out the same phenomenon in “Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” Any new innovation is at high risk of the “cuckoo” effect. The cuckoo lays it eggs in other birds nests. If the other bird realizes this, the eggs are destroyed. Any organization instinctively tries to eliminate anything new and unusual that appears in its midst, and scientists are not exempt from this psychological problem.

This is particularly true in medicine, which is still more of an art than science. Despite the lip service given to “evidence based medicine,” i.e. medicine based on replicated studies in the major journals, over 80% of medical practice is not evidence based. And many practices that have been proven to be useless in the journals are still practiced extensively. As the Institute of Medicine has noted, many practices which kill hundreds of thousands of people every year have been clearly documented in the literature as bad practices, yet people and insitutions ignore them. Tradition has been more important than medical safety.

We need innovation in medicine and it will not come from business as usual!

I had dinner at Flora’s Restaurant (delicious Canadian mussels and slow cooked lamb) in Arlington, MA, at the bar where there was a vase of purple lilacs. My eyes were irritated and watering and since I’ve been tested as allergic to lilacs, I suspected them. When I got home the frequency 485797HZ was needed for both me and my spouse. Just to check to see if this really was from lilacs, I went outside and picked a white lilac off a bush in my yard and its frequency was 486877HZ, pretty close to the purple lilacs. Treating for the former frequency, I got a positive indication and it cleared up my eyes. I put a blood smear slide on the FSCAN imprinter and got a strong indication from the Aurameter that it was in my blood and traveling to other organ systems in my body.

After treatment, my eyes started watering again. I tested my shirt and it tested positive for lilac pollen. So my shirt was reinfecting me. Apparently, these allergens easily get into your clothes!

Firing up the EM6+, I ran the handheld plasma tube over my body like a security agent in the airport waving the metal detecting wand. Using the Aurameter as an indicator of effectiveness of the plasma tube near various parts of my body, I confirmed that the lilac allergens where traveling to various organ systems. If you make sure live pollens are not resident in organ systems throughout the body, you will completely avoid the tired and run down experience that allergic individuals suffer on a regular basis.

Timing of New Black Box Warnings and Withdrawals for Prescription Medications

Karen E. Lasser, MD, MPH; Paul D. Allen, MD, MPH; Steffie J. Woolhandler, MD, MPH; David U. Himmelstein, MD; Sidney M. Wolfe, MD; David H. Bor, MD

Context: Recently approved drugs may be more likely to have unrecognized adverse drug reactions (ADRs) than established drugs, but no recent studies have examined how frequently postmarketing surveillance identifies important ADRs.

Objective: To determine the frequency and timing of discovery of new ADRs described in black box warnings or necessitating withdrawal of the drug from the market.

Design and Setting: Examination of the Physicians’ Desk Reference for all new chemical entities approved by the US Food and Drug Administration between 1975 and 1999, and all drugs withdrawn from the market between 1975 and 2000 (with or without a prior black box warning).

Main Outcome Measures: Frequency of and time to a new black box warning or drug withdrawal.

Results: A total of 548 new chemical entities were approved in 1975-1999; 56 (10.2%) acquired a new black box warning or were withdrawn. Forty-five drugs (8.2%) acquired 1 or more black box warnings and 16 (2.9%) were withdrawn from the market. In Kaplan-Meier analyses, the estimated probability of acquiring a new black box warning or being withdrawn from the market over 25 years was 20%. Eighty-one major changes to drug labeling in the Physicians’ Desk Reference occurred including the addition of 1 or more black box warnings per drug, or drug withdrawal. In Kaplan-Meier analyses, half of these changes occurred within 7 years of drug introduction; half of the withdrawals occurred within 2 years.

Conclusions: Serious ADRs commonly emerge after Food and Drug Administration approval. The safety of new agents cannot be known with certainty until a drug has been on the market for many years.

JAMA. 2002;287:2215-2220

The chart above is an FSCAN DIRP chart generated by scanning in Rife frequency range from 1-10000HZ at an increment of 1HZ. This scan contains octaves of resonance of every microorganism in the body, as well as resonances from ions in the body. Distilled water will resonant at specific frequencies, for example.

When this chart was presented at the Future of Health Technology Conference at the MIT MediaLab last September, some of the leading scientists on the planet had a chance to review it. They immediately pointed out that intrepreting this frequency data is a complex task akin to spectral analysis of physical specimens. Resonance is a periodic phenomenon which occurs at octave and harmonic frequencies. Often an offending organism causing a clinical problem is a very small peak in the midst of other larger peaks, and so forth.

This has caused some members of the RIFE community to view the DIRP function on the FSCAN an useless. It is like searching for a needle in a haystack if you simply scan across the entire frequency spectrum. However, it you know what you are looking for and where to find it, the FSCAN can pinpoint the exact frequency or frequencies for you in many cases.

I use the DIRP function as a crosscheck on frequencies obtained through the Cameron Aurameter as indicated elsewhere in the FSCAN FAQ. In addition, there are some cases where multiple strains of an organism with slightly different frequencies are causing clinical symptoms and treatment is not successful unless you hit every strain. The DIRP function has been useful in this regard.

Finally, when all else fails, I have done a scan an interval in the chart above, for example 1-200HZ and began treating every peak looking for positive clinical effects. This was helpful in flushing out problems and getting information needed to attack them more precisely. For example, most people will have tinea parasites in them from athletes foot or jock itch infections and may have had the infections almost from birth (maybe infected at birth!). These infections have been topically treated with many different medications. As a result, they are resistant to almost every treatment and have moved away from the feet or groin into more hospitable parts of the body where they are safe. The brain is a favorite habitat. Also, they have established a symbiosis with other organisms like candida yeast which makes it impossible to eliminate the parasite without eliminating the yeast and vice versa. And the parasites and the yeast suppress the immune system so they are relatively invisible to your normal biological defense mechanisms. Scanning and treating in the 1-200HZ ranges, flushing out the organisms, clearing away the underbrush of random viruses and bacteria, enabled me to obtain enough information to deal effectively with this problem. My conclusion is that tinea infections should never be treated topically because the cure is worse than the disease.

For more charts and graphs, as well as pictures of blood after FSCAN treatment, see Dick Loyd’s Royal Rife site.

An important contribution has been made to the area of frequency medicine by Hulda Clark, who discovered “plate zapping.” She found that putting a microscopic slide of a specific tissue into the magnetic field of the electrical circuit caused power transfer to occur primary at the site of similar tissue in the human body. By putting a microscopic slide on the FSCAN imprinter, I found the same effect could be achieved.

Therefore, if you have a bacterial infection in the lung and you know the exact frequency, you can put a lung tissue slide on the imprinter and treat your body at that frequency with the FSCAN and get quicker and more effective results on the lung tissue. With the right clinical procedure with the FSCAN, it should be virtually impossible to die of pneumonia except due to medical error.

If you know the exact organism and can put a microscopic slide of the organism on the imprinter as well, you get a double barrel effect.

It is important to realize that other tissue in the body gets less energy transfer. Because of this, I treat the whole body first, then go to specific organs where I know there are problems.

If I have positively identified the organism, I can put the microscopic slide of the organism on the imprinter and be sure that the organism will be eliminated throughout the body with sufficient treatment at the right frequency. This is rarely the case, however, and in the case of a pleomorphic organism like a parasite with four distinct life cycle stages, you must have slides of each stage to get the desired effect, along with the exact frequency of each stage.

Finally, many if not most parasites release other organisms when killed, particularly candida. I often put a candida slide on the imprinter when treating parasites and Hulda Clark has extensive recommendations for slides of other organisms in her Syncrometer Science Laboratory Manual.

I’m getting a lot of email asking questions about the FSCAN which I mentioned in several previous postings. Since the same questions are coming from many different sources, I’m beginning to build an FSCAN Frequently Asked Questions document.

A study of the Rife literature referenced in the rifers list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rifers/) will indicate that Rife may have achieved positive results with the frequency devices he built because of harmonics in the transmission of radio frequency wave forms. Using square waves generates many harmonics which my tests indicate destroy parasites and other microorganisms more effectively than sine waves.

In the case of positive offset of the waveform, Hulda Clark has observed that this inhibits microorganisms, whereas a sine wave which goes positive and negative may actually enhance the growth of some organisms. My tests indicate that positive offset is more effective so I always use it for both Clark and Rife frequencies.

Rife frequencies, or we should say Rife/Chrane frequencies since Chrane used frequencies below 10000 HZ because of the limitations of his hardware, are no different than Clark frequencies in my view. They are clearly, at least in most cases, lower octaves of the Clark frequencies for the same organism. I use square wave DC offset for Rife frequences as well. If I do not get positive tests results with a Clark frequency and a lower octave of that frequency in the Rife range, I assume that I do not have the exact Clark frequency of the organism. This is a good check on the accuracy of the frequency being used.

I am using one of the older FSCANs depicted in the photo above with the three switches on the back to set square wave and offset. I always have the middle switch up and the other two down. The producers of the FSCAN point out that accurate square waves may not be generated at frequencies higher than 100KHZ. While that may be true, my tests indicate that better effects are achieved by setting the device for square waves in the Clark frequency range, indicating that even a crude square wave is better than none at all. When in Rife mode, I always turn amplitude full up unless it is physically uncomfortable. Higher amplitude means more power transfer and quicker effect.