Louisa L. Williams - Radical Medicine: Cutting-Edge Natural Therapies That Treat the Root Causes of Disease

Radical Medicine is an outstanding book, an important and useful contribution to natural medicine.

PABLO BELLAVITE, M.D., COAUTHOR OF THE EMERGING SCIENCE OF HOMEOPATHY

Radical Medicine brings tremendous scope, wisdom, and experience to the table. I am looking forward to integrating its pearls into my practice.

CHRIS JEONG, L.AC.

Radical Medicine is truly amazinga wonderful work with such depth that I didnt want to put it down. I thought I knew more than most doctors in certain areas but was surprised when I felt an eagerness to get back to working with holistic medicine while reading it. I didnt think there was any resource out there that would elicit that reaction. I am blown away at its depth.

JAMES JOHNSON, HOLISTIC HEALTH ADVOCATE

Im amazed at Louisa L. Williamss knowledge in holistic dentistrygreat book!

FRANCES CHEN, D.D.S.

Radical Medicine is cutting-edge, comprehensive, and easy for my clients to read.

ROBLEY PRYOR, COLONIC THERAPIST

Very impressivethere are no competitors to this unique book.

JOHN IAMS, PHYSICAL THERAPIST,

FOUNDER OF THE PRIMAL REFLEX RELEASE TECHNIQUE

Radical Medicine is terrific. I appreciate the central role it has correctly ascribed to the harm being inflicted by traditional dentistry.

CHARLES G. BROWN, ESQ., NATIONAL COUNSEL, CONSUMERS FOR DENTAL CHOICE

Radical Medicine is breathtaking. The coverage of all areas of health is amazing, including the accurate history of craniopathy. Louisa L. Williams is to be congratulated for creating a masterpiece.

REID RASMUSSEN, D.C., CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN

RADICAL MEDICINE

Cutting-Edge Natural Therapies That Treat the Root Causes of Disease

Louisa L. Williams, M.S., D.C., N.D.

Healing Arts Press

Rochester, Vermont Toronto, Canada

To my patients, who honor me with their trust and perseverance, and whose courage to live the principles embodied in Radical Medicine despite the pressure from an allopathically oriented media and often doubting family and friendshas inspired and shaped the contents of every aspect of this book.

NAVIGATING RADICAL MEDICINE

Radical Medicine was written for holistically oriented individuals who are not satisfied with simply getting by with marginal health and for those healthcare practitioners who are committed to supporting their patients in the pursuit of optimal health.

Reading chronologically from chapter 1 through chapter 18 will provide you with a good overview of the typical flow of treatment protocols for most individuals. In clinical practice the specific trees (the dental and tonsil focal infections or scar interference fields described in chapters 11, 12, and 13) are often treated after the larger forest (the systemic drainage and detoxification protocols detailed in chapters 2, 3, and 4) has been addressed.

However, for those who are already quite knowledgeable in holistic health, reading a chapter of interest out of the normal order should pose no challenge. Each part is comprehensive and complete enough on its own to be understood, especially if you refer to the glossary for the definition of any unfamiliar terms.

Helpful resources for obtaining recommended products and further information are provided throughout the book as well as in the resources section at the end..

Although this book is inteneded for both practitioners and patients alike, Radical Medicine is not your typical self-help book. While there are a few home treatments that you can do yourselfsuch as the elimination/challenge test for food allergies described in chapter 6for the most part the treatments recommended in this book must be administered by well-trained and knowledgeable professionals.

It is always essential to remember that any therapeutic measure effective enough to significantly help can also hurt, especially if employed by an inexperienced individual.

Therefore, potential patients should earnestly seek out holistic physicians, dentists, and other practitioners who are able to diagnose the underlying causes of their particular dysfunction or disease and prescribe the most effective treatments.

The information presented in this book is intended to provide insight and complement the advice of your physician, not replace it. Please refer to appendix 1, Description of Holistic Practitioners, for more information and to the resources section for help in locating appropriate professionals.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A true accounting of all the holistic practitioners who should be acknowledged here would take up many more pages than this brief section allows. Let me just say, however, that I am truly indebted to all the very devoted and hardworking colleagues from whom I have learned so much, and who have been instrumental in the evolution of this book. It has been, and continues to be, a great privilege to be a part of this holistic community in which we all share the same dedication to healing without harm.

Specifically, my very genuine thanks and gratitude go to:

Mikhael Adams, N.D.; the late Grard Guniot, M.D.; and Etienne Vandekerkhove for their insight into the European field of drainage and their encyclopedic knowledge of the gemmotherapy remedies.

Dan Green, D.D.S.; Douglas Cook, D.D.S.; Oloph Granath, D.D.S.; Scott Loman, D.D.S.; and Robert Jarvis, D.D.S.; for their input into chapters 3 and 11, based on their invaluable experience in the fore-front of the field of holistic dentistry.

Sally Fallon, for her courage in tirelessly propagating sound nutritional advice based on ancestral wisdom and valid scientific research that is so well conveyed in her book, Nourishing Traditions, and her journal, Wise Traditions, which are both greatly referenced throughout this book, and especially in chapter 5.

Marie Bishop and Christopher Cogswell, for their encouragement, editing support, extensive holistic knowledge, and insightful suggestions.

Jerry Bouquot, D.D.S., for the use of his clear and convincing photographs of a healthy jawbone as compared to a dead gangrenous one, which is typically seen in dental focal infection sites.

Joan Grinzi, R.N., executive director of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, who facilitated the use of the before-and-after photos of native peoples seen in chapter 16 from the incomparable research of Americas father of holistic dentistry, Weston A. Price, D.D.S.

Raymond Silkman, D.D.S., and Terrance Spahl, D.D.S., two orthopedically oriented holistic dentists who generously shared their valuable patient photographs that so graphically illustrate in chapter 16 the very serious structural malformations that can occur from deficient nutrition, the incorrect use of braces, and other factors.

Jerome Mittelman, D.D.S., and Beverly Mittelman, B.S., C.N.C., for their very demonstrative photos of dental malocclusion generated by prolonged thumb-sucking and pacifier use.

Carmen Marcadis, D.C., for her constructive criticism and exceptionally helpful editing suggestions in chapter 17.

Bryan Janssen; Perry Janssen, M.A.; Terry Saracino; and Mitch Visnick; for their editing and insights in chapter 18, based on their years of personal and professional experience undergoing as well as teaching psychospiritual approaches.

Robert Shane, for his input and suggestions in the energetic testing material in appendix 3, based on his numerous years of experience working with a multitude of various energetic testing methods.

And finally, I want to thank my colleague Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D., for the invaluable knowledge and extensive clinical expertise I have gained from his brilliant teaching and insight, which contributed tremendously to the writing of chapters 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, as well as other parts of this book.