I have been reading alt.support.sinusitis for a few years but never
posted. I hesitate to call what I have sinusitis because my symptoms
don't really match everything I've read here. For instance, unless I
have a cold, I haven't had to deal with a lot of phlem in my sinus
passages. I'm not even particularly congested in the mornings, which
many people post that they have problem with. I don't even have to
blow my nose very much, like some sufferers.

I bought the water pik and the Grossan attachment, but it gave limited
relief after a year of use. Some relief, but not enough to make it
worthwhile for the mess it creates and the time it takes.

The problem for me seems to be more with swollen nasal passages than
with filled nasal passages, but believe me, both of those things will
keep you from breathing well. I suspect allergies to be at the bottom
of my difficulty breathing. Cigarette smoke, house dust, perfume, and
a whole raft of other things can clog my head for days. Not clogged
with mucus, but the air passages in my head get so swollen that air
can't get through.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say what I did that finally seems to have
worked but someone may be helped by this. I woke up this morning
immediately realizing that something was different because I CAN
BREATHE. It's an astonishing feeling to be able to feel good clean air
going right down from your head to your lungs. I think I"ve been
breathing half way most of my life- with one nostril or the other
pretty much open and the other almost completely closed.

For the past two weeks, I've been catching about 4-8oz. of mid-stream
urine in a cup. Then it's down the hatch. I've been doing it for about
3 weeks and thinking of stopping because nothing was happening, but
this morning I CAN BREATHE.

OK, maybe everyone isn't desperate enough to give this a go but here's
the URL (and an excerpt) for more info anyway. Peace out.

http://biomedx.com/urine/

YOUR BODY'S OWN MEDICINE

Sometimes you may find, that as much as you try to eat right, to take
the appropriate nutritional supplements, to exercise, to drink plenty
of pure water - you still just don't get better or solve your
particular health challenge. When you cannot find a practitioner in
your sphere that is able to get to the core of what ails you, these
are the times when you may need a little extra help. In that light I'd
like to review homeopathy/isopathy and your body's own medicine.

Homeopathy

In definition, homeopathy is: A therapeutic method, which clinically
applies the Law of Similars and uses medically active substances at
infinitesimal doses.

Ok, so lets say you get sick with the flu. By using the Law of
Similars, you would give yourself an additional dose of some same or
similar flu virus, and this would stimulate your immune system to go
into battle. That's using the Law of Similars. However, in homeopathy,
you never take the similar substance full strength. You take an
infinitesimally smaller amount. Actually, it is so small as to be
unmeasurable by physical scientific instruments.

To get to such a small level, the original substance goes through a
dilution process. For example, suppose you were making a flu remedy.
You would take, for instance, 99 drops of distilled water and add one
drop of flu virus. You would vigorously shake that solution 50 to 100
times (homeopaths call this succussing). Then you would take a drop of
that solution and add it to another 99 drops of water and shake again.
Then take a drop of that solution and do it again, and again, and
again, etc. By the time the homeopath is through with this process,
any scientific laboratory could analyze the solution and all they
would say is that the substance is just water. BUT, and this is a big
but, the power of the remedy is in the vibrational imprint that has
been stamped on the water itself by the original flu drop and through
each successive generation. And this is where we get into quantum
physics and subtle energy, areas where our physical sciences are not
yet capable of going.

When the body is given a homeopathic remedy, it is stimulated into
action, not because of the physical or chemical nature of the
substance, but because of the energetic nature. The body receives new
vibratory information and acts accordingly. Now to anyone trained in
the physical sciences, this is not provable. But whether you believe
this yourself or not is irrelevant, the fact is, homeopathics can be a
very powerful healing resource when used correctly.

Isopathy

In the Rot & Rust educational tour in the microscopy section, we have
a discussion about the colloids of life in the blood. These are
hypothetical constructs which say if the terrain of the blood (i.e.
the bloods pH balance, mineral balance etc.) gets shifted, the
elemental forms, the colloidal particles known as the protits or
somatids, will change their shape to adapt to the new environment.
What they change into can be pathogenic (disease producing) to the
body.

This is the biological aspect to the disease process in the body as
espoused by some thinkers. When Professor Enderlein (ref. Rot & Rust)
was doing all of his research in this area, he believed the
developmental life cycle of an internal parasite to be real. He knew
that disease was brought about by a shifted internal metabolic
balance. To get well, you had to rebalance that metabolism.
Understanding these concepts, in relation to also theorizing a totally
biological nature of disease, he developed biological preparations to
speed the healing process. Today these preparations are made primarily
by companies most notably out of Germany.

As biological preparations, they work on a supposedly unique level.
If  microbes do indeed evolve in the blood to a pathogenic level, then
to get well, you would want to de-evolve those same microorganisms
back to a stage where they no longer present a problem.. The primary
way to do this is through diet (i.e. rebalance pH). But in severe
situations, you could accelerate the process biologically. This is
where Enderlein's remedies would come into play. He theorized that if
you have a microbe at one late developmental stage in the body that is
causing problems, you could introduce the earlier stage of that same
type of microbe and they would mate and become a lesser form. This is
how his isopathic remedies work (iso meaning equal or same).

Enderlein's so-called protit was seen as a colloid of life--a
progenitor to later stages of development if the pH of the blood gets
thrown off. To de-evolve the later pathogenic stages, the re-
introduction of new cultured young protits back into the blood, would
see the pathogenic forms become lesser, apathogenic forms. This is the
basis for Enderleins isopathic remedies. It claims to promote gentle
and effective self healing through biological means.

Understanding these two concepts of homeopathy and isopathy, is going
to lead to a further understanding of just what the power may be that
is behind the effectiveness of the medicine your own body produces.

The Product of Your Own Metabolism

The first time I was exposed to the concept that the body makes its
own medicine, it was through a friend who was introduced to it through
an eastern Indian "guru" type of fellow. I thought it was interesting
but a wacky kind of idea and I never thought about it again - until I
came across a book. The book is entitled, "Your Own Perfect Medicine"
by Martha Christy. She has an interesting story to tell.

Ms. Christy was sick. Very sick. For a very long time. Pelvic
inflammatory disease, ulcerative colitis, Chron's disease, chronic
fatigue syndrome, Hashimoto's disease, mononucleosis. She had severe
kidney infections, two miscarriages, chronic cystitis, severe candida,
endometriosis, adrenal insufficiency, serious chronic ear and sinus
infections, food and chemical allergies. And that wasn't the half of
it. She had every conceivable medical test, her share of surgery, and
drugs - plenty of them. Then she tried all forms of alternative
therapy. Homeopathy, herbs, mega-vitamins and liv-cell treatments in
Mexico. After traditional medicine failed to work, she and her husband
spent over $100,000 trying to get her well with alternative
approaches. Nothing worked.

And then one day, her husband brought home a little book that told of
how individuals had been cured of even the worst diseases with a
seemingly strange and little-known natural therapy. Soon afterwards,
she began the therapy herself. From the first day she began, she
received almost instantaneous relief from her incurable constipation
and fluid retention. Within a week, her severe abdominal and pelvic
pain was gone.

The chronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and external) soon
disappeared and her food allergies, exhaustion, and digestive problems
all began to heal.

After a few more months, her colds, flu, sore throats and on again off
again viral symptoms disappeared. Her hair which had fallen out by the
handfuls after her fifth surgery became thick and lustrous. Her weight
normalized, and her energy and strength came back. After nearly 30
years of non-stop illness, Martha Christy was whole again.

What was this therapy that she had discovered? What was this therapy
that has helped seriously ill patients gain complete remissions from
their afflictions? What was it that she actually did?

Well, here it is. She orally and medicinally re-consumed her own
urine.

Whoa! Gag! She did what?

That's what I thought when I first heard about this. But I also
absolutely needed to know more. What I discovered is that urine is not
the substance we think it is. In her book, Martha Christy explains
what urine is....

In Layman's Language

Urine is not, as many believe, the excess water from food and liquids
that goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body as
"waste". It is much different and much more. When you eat, the food
you ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines
into extremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny
tubules in the intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into
the blood stream.

The blood circulates throughout your body carrying these food
molecules and other nutrients, along with critical immune defense and
regulating elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies,
plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all
manufactured at different locations in the body.

As the blood circulates, it passes through the liver where toxins are
removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solid waste.
Eventually, this now purified "cleaned" blood makes its way to the
kidneys. When blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an
immensely complex and intricate system of minute tubules called
nephron through which the blood is literally "squeezed" at high
pressure. This filtering process removes excess amounts of water,
salts and other elements in the blood that your body does not need at
the time.

These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of a
purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the
constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then
reabsorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The
remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and
is then excreted from the body.

The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your
blood balanced. When your body doesn't need something at a particular
time, it is excreted - not because it is toxic or poisonous or bad for
the body, but simply because the body does not need that particular
element at the time.

Medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the
blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when
reintroduced to the body, they boost the body's immune defenses and
stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.

A Nutrient Rich Powerhouse

In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A. H. Free,
published his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in
which he remarked that not only is urine a sterile body compound
(purer than distilled water), but that it is now recognized that urine
contains literally thousands of compounds. Among the urine
constituents mentioned in Dr. Free's treatise is a list of nutrients
that will knock your socks off. Here's just a few...

Alanine, Arginine, Ascorbic acid, Allantoin, Amino acids, Bicarbonate,
Biotin, Calcium,  Creatinine, Cystine, DHEA, Dopamine, Epinephrine,
Folic acid, Glucose, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Inositol,  Iodine, Iron,
Lysine, Magnesium, Manganese, Melatonin, Methionine, Nitrogen,
Ornithane, Pantothenic acid, Phenylalaline, Phosphorus, Potassium,
Proteins, Riboflavin,  Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Urea,  Vitamin B6,
Vitamin B12,  Zinc/

Stories have been told of individuals who have both lived and died by
being trapped in places without food and water for days. Those that
survived did so because they drank their own urine, those that
perished did not. The ones that died probably could not overcome the
mis-informed thoughts that urine is a waste product of the body. It's
not. It's just a substance the body secretes that contains elements
not needed at the time.

Despite what you may have been led to believe about urine,
pharmaceutical companies have grossed billions of dollars from the
sale of drugs made from urine constituents. Research is happening
every day in labs attempting to isolate specific elements of urine so
they can create new drugs and patent the substances. For instance,
Pergonal is a fertility drug made from human urine. 1992 sales of this
drug were reported at $855 million while it costs a patient $1400 a
month to consume. Urokinase, a urine ingredient, is used in drug form
and sold as a miracle blood clot dissolver for unblocking coronary
arteries. Urea, medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers in
the world, is packaged in expensive creams and lotions. Take the M out
of Murine eye drops and what do you have? Yep. It's made from
carbamide - another name for synthetic urea.

A Powerful Healer

To get some understanding of how urine can be such a powerful healing
substance in and of itself, let's take a look at how urine therapy has
been known to completely eliminate allergies.

We read where researchers have discovered that allergic responses are
caused by "renegade" white blood cells that inappropriately attack
substances even when they may be no threat to the body. So it is the
activity of these renegade white blood cells, called antigen
receptors, that needs to be corrected in order to cure the allergy.

In 1982, studies published by Dr. William Linscott (in Basic and
Clinical Immunology) showed that when these antigen receptors (or
renegade white blood cells) are reintroduced into the body, the body
actually developed antibodies to these antigen receptors, and the
antibodies then stopped the allergic response.

Realizing that the urine of allergic individuals contains the allergy
causing antigen receptors, researchers thought that to re-introduce
the urine back to the allergic individual would mean antibodies would
be produced which would then stop the allergic response. And that is
exactly what happens. Allergies have been completely turned around
with urine therapy.

Using urine in this way to cure the allergy, is one form of isopathic
treatment. You're using the same substance that is causing the
allergy, to be reintroduced to the body to have the body manufacture
its own antibody to it. If you grasp this point, you may be able to
see the ability of this therapy to be used in just about any illness
the body may experience.