Homeopathic Alternative to Vaccines

You may want to consider the homeopathic alternative to vaccines, called "nosodes." Like vaccines, nosodes contain an infinitesimal bit of the disease against which the host is to be immunized. The differences are subtle but profound. A far smaller amount of the disease is isolated and prepared as a tincture, then diluted with nine drops of water or alcohol and shaken exactly 108 times, so as to add kinetic energy to the dilution. After several more dilutions with exponentially more water or alcohol (ninety-nine drops for the second dilution, 999 drops for the third, and so on, with the dilution shaken 108 times at each stage), the nosode is then said to be "potentized." This means that it retains none of the actual isolate of the disease, only the isolate's "energy memory," which can provoke the immune system into producing antibodies without any risks of virulence.

If this sounds a bit like witchcraft--well, it is arcane, but only to those who've never heard of nosode or seen them work. In fact, nosodes have been used in Europe since the nineteenth century, and are championed by a growing number of homeopathic veterinarians in this country. John Fudens, D.V.M, had written about them, and offers the analogy of a car's combustion engine to explain the "energy" that nosodes impart. "We don't use gasoline to power our cars," he observes. "The gasoline is mixed with air and exploded by a spark. It is the energy released by this process that drives our car, not the raw gasoline." By the same logic, he adds, "we do not use natural gas, coal, or diesel fuel that power stations consume to heat, cool, and light our homes. We use the energy of those materials broken down by the stations. The energy is called electricity. We cannot see this energy directly, only indirectly, in our homes and offices. The same principle is made with homeopathic nosodes."