He’s Not Autistic, But…How We Pulled Our Son from the Mouth of the Abyss by Tenna Merchent, eBooks 2007; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
Excerpts from the book – (7% indicates location in the Kindle version of the book, instead of page numbers).
Excerpts from – “An Important Message to the Reader” from author, Tenna Merchent…
7% This book is an account of my own experiences in seeking treatment for my son’s physical ailments.
Traditional Western medicine has its value and place. I am simply sharing our experiences, what worked for us and what has not.
I strongly recommend that you consult conventional medical doctors before you make the decision to use these approaches so you will understand the risks of doing so.
End of excerpts from – An Important Message to the Reader from author, Tenna Merchent
Excerpts from Tenna’s book, with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
7% What was it like to write this book? It was a calling, a mission, an assignment.
I kept thinking when Clay was sick, “I need to be writing this down. But I was too tired and too stressed.
I knew Clay was very sick – it wasn’t just back-to-back colds – but the pediatrician didn’t believe me.
8% Writing this book also made me grateful. Clay has been healthy for a long time now; I sometimes take it for granted.
Committing this story to paper vividly reminded me of how bad things really were, how miserable we all were, and how desperate I was to find answers. I always want to be grateful for this miraculous gift.
If you are reading this, you or someone you love probably has aluminum, yeast, parasites, or reverse polarity.
9% Now that I’ve written this story and some of my loved ones have read it, they really understand how hard things were.
It’s also frightening to write about something so unconventional. Many people accept stories of healing in the Bible; nevertheless, most do not believe it can happen today. Healing does take place today. God still works miracles. I know, because I’ve lived them.
I talk about God and Jesus in this book. If you are of another faith, please feel free to use the name of your divinity instead. The story of our illness and recovery is too important to be overlooked because of religious differences.
10% - 12% “He’s Not Autistic, But…”
Those are just the things we know he’s allergic to. Eating is like walking through a minefield.
Luckily he’s not allergic to wheat, although people keep trying to get us to take him off of it because so many autistic children are allergic to wheat.
“He’s not autistic, but…” I kept hearing myself say as I explained Clay’s behavior, illnesses, inability to sleep through the night, and sensory issues.
< My Thoughts > “He’s not autistic, but…” I kept hearing myself say as I explained Clay’s behavior…
Ventola, et al. (2006) claim in their study that 195 children that have failed to be diagnosed with ‘autism’ have ‘something else’. Something that is consistent with impairments in socialization skills, joint attention skills and some aspects of communication, play, and sensory processing. They go on to say that these children have developmental delays, but are ‘less’ impaired than those who met the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder. These children seem more adaptable than the ASD children, although they share the same behavioral differences.
12% His doctor said, "A child like Clay who is at risk for autism shouldn’t have vaccines." I responded, “My husband is going to ask me why he’s at risk for autism….”
“Well, I wouldn’t label him like that, but he does share a biomedical spectrum of disorders with the autistic,” he responded.
It was too late; he had already told me my son was at risk for autism. I was scared stiff.
This was a new doctor for Clay, a specialist in lost causes: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autism, cancer, and immune disorders.
He was the first M.D. to admit there was something wrong with Clay.
His new doctor said Clay was not producing growth hormone, and he wasn’t absorbing the nutrients from the food he ate. He put him on melatonin for sleep, a liquid multivitamin, … Probiotics, Nystatin and Diflucan for yeast.
< My Thoughts > “...new doctor for Clay, a specialist in lost causes: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autism, cancer, and immune disorders.”
In an article 2017 by Marci Wheeler; An Introduction to Possible Biomedical Causes and Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorders, this contributor from Indiana University, Bloomington, identifies the following –
“While there is no universally accepted theory or causation, there is likely a complex relationship between genetic predisposition and an environmental trigger. This article highlights the biomedical theories of causation and is an attempt to provide basic information. It is not to be considered a recommendation or endorsement, simply an understanding of how some families pursue certain biomedical interventions.”
There are four broad areas of focus, intertwined and each affects the other…Gastrointestinal abnormalities, immune dysfunctions, detoxification irregularities and nutritional deficiencies or imbalances; where one of the areas may impact the other.
Retrieved from – https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/An-Introduction-to-Possible-Biomedical-Causes-and-Treatments-for-Autism-Spectrum-Disorders.
12% Most autistic children have food allergies – typically milk, corn, soy, eggs, and wheat, the big five allergens. …gluten-free/casein-free diets are also popular for autistic children. But I had done my homework on allergies, and I knew Clay wasn’t allergic to wheat. I wasn’t about to restrict his diet any more than it already was.
12% At age two, Clay’s allergies became our focus of attention because he was severely allergic. His symptom would come on quickly and sometimes violently.
If he ate eggs, he would projectile vomit; if he got batter with eggs in it on his skin, he would break out in a rash.
Anything with cow’s milk in it would cause profuse and immediate mucous; he couldn’t even eat cheese.
Table salt coming in contact with his skin would cause hives, and chocolate would cause immediate head-banging and toe-walking.
Oats would cause his face to flush and his ears to get red. Feathers and dust caused sneezing and tons of mucous.
13% His body was telling me, “I’m miserable; I can’t take it anymore, make this pain go away.”
Every morning I would lay in bed with my hand on his chest, feeling and listening to his labored breathing and the gurgling mucous in his chest and nose and pray for a miracle.
14% Clay had systemic yeast, another typical problem for autistic children. But the test did show a healthy amount of acidophilus in his digestive tract, which the doctor was very surprised about. I had been giving Clay powdered acidophilus with at least one meal a day for about a year… (Acidophilus is also referred to as a probiotic.)
When yeast grows out of control because of a lack of beneficial bacteria, bad things happen. The yeast can spread from the digestive system to the rest of the body, causing a systemic yeast infection. The yeast becomes a parasite, rather than a balancing friend.
Yeast needs sugar to grow and survive; then it creates alcohol as a waste.
My brother-in-law describes it not so eloquently as, “Yeast eats sugar and poops alcohol.” That’s why it’s used in the production of beer and wine.
As a result, a person with a yeast overgrowth will crave refined carbohydrates, and then be tired after eating them because of the alcohol waste caused by the yeast organisms.
This too causes extreme mood swings because of the imbalances it causes in the bloodstream.
If you have a yeast overgrowth, you have aluminum. Aluminum kills bacteria. That’s why it’s used so widely as a preservative.
Aluminum was the underlying problem for both Clay and me. If you have a yeast overgrowth, you have to get rid of the aluminum first. Then you can go on a yeast-free diet to get the overgrowth under control.
15% We were later to find out his illness started with me. I was the carrier for his underlying problem, which turned out to be aluminum. I passed it on to him while he was in the womb and while I was breastfeeding.
We furthermore continued to contaminate him and me with aluminum in a number of the ways after he was born:
16% Releasing Clay’s aluminum was a huge change and improvement for him; then clearing the parasites brought him the rest of the way to good health.
32% … I sought out an herbalist who used energy testing to determine what was going on with the body. She indicated Clay had aluminum toxicity and yeast overgrowth.
She gave him homeopathic remedies for both; although I still saw no improvement in his condition.
Since “I was conflicted about this homeopath, I tested it (which I’ll explain in the next section), and got a yes. I continued to see her until I found a better practitioner.”
About this time I began energy testing everything I put in my mouth or my son’s. This is something I learned to do when I was in college, and played with from time to time although I didn’t take it very seriously.
I can’t overemphasize the importance of testing. There have been so many times when I had a nagging feeling something wasn’t right, other than all logic pointed to doing it anyway.
When my ego (the logical side) and my intuition are doing battle, testing is the perfect way for me to get to the bottom of the issue.
I have learned if it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t.
33% There are several ways to energy test using the muscles of your own body, or the muscles of someone else’s, both of which are called muscle testing, or kinesiology.
Testing gives me the confidence to reclaim my power.
51% When I found out about the links between autism, lack of speech, sleep disorders, yeast and allergies. I became almost obsessed with the subject. My son had all of these problems; did that mean he was in the autistic spectrum?
52% I didn’t want Clay to be diagnosed with autism, even if it was just Asperger’s.
I didn’t want him going through his whole life with that label, and the burden of being required to tell teachers, counselors, and anyone else who might care for him.
< My Thoughts > “I didn’t want him going through his whole life with that label…”
Special Needs Children: Should I Label My Kid? By Terri Cettina
Retrieved from: http://www.parenting.com/article/special-needs-children on 6/26/17
For some, it's a godsend. For others, it's a stigmatizing professional opinion—and sometimes even a misdiagnosis. Read about kids who were labeled with a disorder, and what it meant, for better and for worse.
“A label changed our life”
Those in favor of labeling point out that the best treatment starts early: The quicker you pinpoint what's ailing your child, the faster you can get him extra support or even medication.
There's also a relief that comes with being able to “blame” a medical disorder.
When a diagnosis like ADHD is stamped on a folder, parents and professionals may stop looking for other solutions.
One child’s parents disagreed at first about the label and medication. His dad worried the label would be a license to coast—that he'd get used to special treatment. When he started taking Ritalin, his life changed.
Getting another opinion, a doctor recommended lead testing, as symptoms of lead poisoning can mimic ADHD. They discovered that the entire family (both parents, and both children) had contracted lead poisoning from their dinnerware. It hit the youngest the hardest.
Diet can affect kids' behavior; we had our son tested for food intolerances. Sure enough, food dyes and dairy popped up. And he lived on cheese and yogurt. Within five days of going dairy-free, “I kid you not; my son began looking in my eyes again.”
Although the diagnosis was crushing, one parent says it was also a huge help. “We came up with ways to make her life easier,” she says. “She's calmer now, as we know what she needs.” And the insurance company approved her therapy.
Many parents point to the lens that finally swayed them one way or the other: their child's self-esteem. “I understand when parents say they don't want to put a ‘ceiling’ on their child's potential by labeling them. But older kids tell me ‘I always knew I was different’.”
52% I was afraid it would influence their expectations of him and his behavior, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. At this point in time I had taken Clay to anyone I thought might be able to help.
The osteopath and herbalist were the only two who seemed to be helping. All the others said they could help, but we didn’t see any results.
With the strict allergy diet, and removal of incoming aluminum, Clay’s head-banging and toe-walking had almost stopped, but he still wasn’t speaking. He was cranky, sickly, and not sleeping well.
My mother had an appointment with a master herbalist in Northern Indiana, and I decided to go along.
53% He looked in my eyes with a magnifying glass and flashlight, and told me, “You don’t have allergies, you have aluminum. You’re allergic to everything.”
“What can I do about it?” He said, “It’s done, it’s gone.” And he was right. I didn’t know what he did, and at this point didn’t care.
I felt different immediately. I knew he had cured my allergies. …The change was miraculous.
I decided to drive up on a Sunday night with my husband and son in tow, to be there first thing on Monday when they take walk-ins.
…I was told it would probably be 1:30 before he could see us, but I knew it would bring Clay’s cure, so we waited.
…As we suspected, Clay still had aluminum, and he released it on the spot. I asked him if Clay would still be allergic, and he said no.
My Thoughts > “…Clay still had aluminum…”
Just to give you some idea of how aluminum might get into one’s system, here is an brief excerpt from Web.MD., online –
“Heavy metal poisoning is the accumulation of heavy metals, in toxic amounts, in the soft tissues of the body. Symptoms and physical findings associated with this vary according to the metal accumulated. Most heavy metals commonly associated with poisoning of humans are lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. This poisoning may occur as a result of industrial exposure, air or water pollution, foods, medicines, improperly coated food containers, or the ingestion of lead-based paints.”
Other significant metals are aluminum, gold, copper, silver, and zinc; as well as all heavy metals.
53% My heart just flew. I was so grateful. He also checked other things and worked on him in other ways.
When we left, I was walking on cloud nine. Clay slept well that night, and every night for the next ten nights. He was a new baby, and I was a new person.
< My Thoughts > “My heart just flew. I was so grateful.”
Tenna Merchant shares with me that she is now willing to reveal the name of this master herbalist; Solomon Wickey, of Indiana. Here is something I found written about him, although you can find much more out there, with a little looking. Smiles.
Faith healer Solomon Wickey dies at 75 / The Journal Gazette.
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, OBITUARIES: Solomon Wickey, Amish faith healer, dies • August 6, 2013. Accused of practicing medicine without a license, the long-time faith healer relied on God and herbs.
AMISH HERBALIST 'CURES' ARE IN HIGH DEMAND
Published: November 29, 1981
BERNE, Ind., Nov. 28— To the end of a dusty road, past miles of cornfields, they come. From California and Ohio and as far away as Central Europe, they bring their headaches, back pains and liver problems.
In the corner of a barn behind a curtain, Solomon Wickey tells them to sit in a straight-backed chair, then gazes into their eyes and suggests a herb.
Sage, he says, prevents night sweats. Peppermint helps ease gallbladder pains. Thyme settles troubled nerves. He says he can tell by a person's eyes what is needed.
Some gaze back into Mr. Wickey's solemn brown eyes and swear by his wisdom. In the barn that doubles as his office, letters thanking him for curing everything from colds to spastic conditions crowd a bulletin board.
The advice costs nothing. Mr. Wickey, an Amish farmer who is not a licensed doctor, charges only for the herbs, although many people leave donations.
Retrieved from: http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/08/solomon-wickey-amish-faith-healer-dies/
53% My sister would call every day and ask, “How’s he doing? What did he eat? Is he having any symptoms?” I would excitedly tell her how wonderfully he was doing.
I felt like I had hit the lottery! He said Mommy for the first time about two months after our visit. I couldn’t believe my ears. It felt so good.
He quickly learned to speak, and within four months, Clay would say almost anything, and he was speaking in sentences.
My faith in God was renewed. I thanked Him every day for saving my son and me, and I continue to do so.
55% So, how did the master herbalist cure us? He simply released the aluminum.
There are so many things that can be cured just by releasing them. No herbs, no homeopathies, no exercises – just a prayer of release.
There are three steps in releasing:
End of excerpts from Tenna’s book
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< My Thoughts > “Following the last excerpt (59%)…”
Following the last excerpt (59%), are the author’s chapters covering – Releasing, Imprinting Remedies, Release Codes, Parasites, Speech and Music Therapy, Why Did Clay Recover When Other Children Don’t, I’m Finally Fertile at Age 43, and The Happy Ending. This book includes a full appendix of sources and resources; names and titles of important people and books.
Reading this book may cause a paradigm shift for many people. Expanding our minds and exploring all avenues leading to or away from autism, at least by reading about them in perhaps a new way.
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References used in < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
Ventola, P., Kleinman, J. Pandey, J., Wilson, L., Esser, E., Boorstein, H., Dumont-Mathieu, T., Marshia, G., Barton, M., Hodgson, S., Green, J., Fein, D. (2006). Differentiating Between Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Developmental Disabilities in Children Who Failed a Screening Instrument for ASD.; Journal of Developmental Disorders: 37:425-436.
Excerpts from the book – (7% indicates location in the Kindle version of the book, instead of page numbers).
Excerpts from – “An Important Message to the Reader” from author, Tenna Merchent…
7% This book is an account of my own experiences in seeking treatment for my son’s physical ailments.
Traditional Western medicine has its value and place. I am simply sharing our experiences, what worked for us and what has not.
I strongly recommend that you consult conventional medical doctors before you make the decision to use these approaches so you will understand the risks of doing so.
End of excerpts from – An Important Message to the Reader from author, Tenna Merchent
Excerpts from Tenna’s book, with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
7% What was it like to write this book? It was a calling, a mission, an assignment.
I kept thinking when Clay was sick, “I need to be writing this down. But I was too tired and too stressed.
I knew Clay was very sick – it wasn’t just back-to-back colds – but the pediatrician didn’t believe me.
8% Writing this book also made me grateful. Clay has been healthy for a long time now; I sometimes take it for granted.
Committing this story to paper vividly reminded me of how bad things really were, how miserable we all were, and how desperate I was to find answers. I always want to be grateful for this miraculous gift.
If you are reading this, you or someone you love probably has aluminum, yeast, parasites, or reverse polarity.
9% Now that I’ve written this story and some of my loved ones have read it, they really understand how hard things were.
It’s also frightening to write about something so unconventional. Many people accept stories of healing in the Bible; nevertheless, most do not believe it can happen today. Healing does take place today. God still works miracles. I know, because I’ve lived them.
I talk about God and Jesus in this book. If you are of another faith, please feel free to use the name of your divinity instead. The story of our illness and recovery is too important to be overlooked because of religious differences.
10% - 12% “He’s Not Autistic, But…”
- For no reason, he bangs his head on window ledges, asphalt, the floor, and with his hands.
- He frequently walks on his toes, and sometimes spins in circles.
- He’s extremely allergic to milk, corn, soy, eggs, oats, chocolate, feathers, and dust.
Those are just the things we know he’s allergic to. Eating is like walking through a minefield.
Luckily he’s not allergic to wheat, although people keep trying to get us to take him off of it because so many autistic children are allergic to wheat.
- He’s two years old and can only say about eight things, mostly no, bu for ball (which he uses to describe almost everything), and du for dad. A two-year-old should have a 50-word vocabulary and be using two-word sentences. At nine months old he used to say mama or randomly string noises together to make words, but that skill is long gone.
- He’s sick most of the time and a cold means at least two weeks of hell for the whole family.
- His nose and chest are constantly congested and mucous shoots down to his chest when he sneezes.
- He doesn’t sleep for more than two or three hours at a time, waking frequently and crying.
- He’s unhappy most of the time, grunting and crying; smiling is rare.
- He wants to be held all the time and refuses to walk even though he’s capable; Mommy’s back hurts most of the time as a result.
- He insists on climbing up on the bar in the den every night, and paces back and forth, endlessly. It doesn’t actually make him 'happy' he’s just less unhappy. He grunts as he does it. Every night feels like a test of endurance.
- He absolutely hates to ride in the car. A fifteen-minute drive puts Mommy in a full sweat, and an hour drive is almost out of the question.
- We have to cut his hair when he sleeps because he becomes so hysterical and thrashes so much at the barber we’re afraid he’ll get hurt.
- Noises frighten him so much we carry a headset intended for a gun range in our diaper bag. …A lawn mower backfiring during one of our walks can start a complete meltdown that will ruin the rest of the day for him.
- The tags in his clothes bother him to the point we have to surgically remove them from every shirt to make sure no plastic thread or part of the tag is left to rub his skin. He won’t wear shirts with snaps... because something about the snaps bothers him.
- His shoelaces have to be tied backwards, because he wants them exactly perpendicular to his leg. He becomes explosive if I forget and hurriedly tie them my normal way.
- He has systemic yeast.
- He makes eye contact, although I frequently find him looking through me instead of at me.
- He likes to watch fans, although not as much as he did when he was a baby.
- He sometimes crawls on the floor on his hands and knees and bizarrely drags his head as he moves across the floor.
“He’s not autistic, but…” I kept hearing myself say as I explained Clay’s behavior, illnesses, inability to sleep through the night, and sensory issues.
< My Thoughts > “He’s not autistic, but…” I kept hearing myself say as I explained Clay’s behavior…
Ventola, et al. (2006) claim in their study that 195 children that have failed to be diagnosed with ‘autism’ have ‘something else’. Something that is consistent with impairments in socialization skills, joint attention skills and some aspects of communication, play, and sensory processing. They go on to say that these children have developmental delays, but are ‘less’ impaired than those who met the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder. These children seem more adaptable than the ASD children, although they share the same behavioral differences.
12% His doctor said, "A child like Clay who is at risk for autism shouldn’t have vaccines." I responded, “My husband is going to ask me why he’s at risk for autism….”
“Well, I wouldn’t label him like that, but he does share a biomedical spectrum of disorders with the autistic,” he responded.
It was too late; he had already told me my son was at risk for autism. I was scared stiff.
This was a new doctor for Clay, a specialist in lost causes: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autism, cancer, and immune disorders.
He was the first M.D. to admit there was something wrong with Clay.
His new doctor said Clay was not producing growth hormone, and he wasn’t absorbing the nutrients from the food he ate. He put him on melatonin for sleep, a liquid multivitamin, … Probiotics, Nystatin and Diflucan for yeast.
< My Thoughts > “...new doctor for Clay, a specialist in lost causes: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autism, cancer, and immune disorders.”
In an article 2017 by Marci Wheeler; An Introduction to Possible Biomedical Causes and Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorders, this contributor from Indiana University, Bloomington, identifies the following –
“While there is no universally accepted theory or causation, there is likely a complex relationship between genetic predisposition and an environmental trigger. This article highlights the biomedical theories of causation and is an attempt to provide basic information. It is not to be considered a recommendation or endorsement, simply an understanding of how some families pursue certain biomedical interventions.”
There are four broad areas of focus, intertwined and each affects the other…Gastrointestinal abnormalities, immune dysfunctions, detoxification irregularities and nutritional deficiencies or imbalances; where one of the areas may impact the other.
- Bacteria, yeast or fungus overgrowth; may be treated with anti-fungal medication
- “Leaky gut” defined as an increased permeability of the intestinal lining and may possibly affect the brain; may be treated with gluten & casein-free diets.
- Alteration of intestinal flora as a result of earlier antibiotic use; may be treated with probiotics.
- Immune dysfunction, thought to be genetically linked to environmentally acquired ailments; may be treated with an anti-viral medication.
Retrieved from – https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/An-Introduction-to-Possible-Biomedical-Causes-and-Treatments-for-Autism-Spectrum-Disorders.
12% Most autistic children have food allergies – typically milk, corn, soy, eggs, and wheat, the big five allergens. …gluten-free/casein-free diets are also popular for autistic children. But I had done my homework on allergies, and I knew Clay wasn’t allergic to wheat. I wasn’t about to restrict his diet any more than it already was.
12% At age two, Clay’s allergies became our focus of attention because he was severely allergic. His symptom would come on quickly and sometimes violently.
If he ate eggs, he would projectile vomit; if he got batter with eggs in it on his skin, he would break out in a rash.
Anything with cow’s milk in it would cause profuse and immediate mucous; he couldn’t even eat cheese.
Table salt coming in contact with his skin would cause hives, and chocolate would cause immediate head-banging and toe-walking.
Oats would cause his face to flush and his ears to get red. Feathers and dust caused sneezing and tons of mucous.
13% His body was telling me, “I’m miserable; I can’t take it anymore, make this pain go away.”
Every morning I would lay in bed with my hand on his chest, feeling and listening to his labored breathing and the gurgling mucous in his chest and nose and pray for a miracle.
14% Clay had systemic yeast, another typical problem for autistic children. But the test did show a healthy amount of acidophilus in his digestive tract, which the doctor was very surprised about. I had been giving Clay powdered acidophilus with at least one meal a day for about a year… (Acidophilus is also referred to as a probiotic.)
When yeast grows out of control because of a lack of beneficial bacteria, bad things happen. The yeast can spread from the digestive system to the rest of the body, causing a systemic yeast infection. The yeast becomes a parasite, rather than a balancing friend.
Yeast needs sugar to grow and survive; then it creates alcohol as a waste.
My brother-in-law describes it not so eloquently as, “Yeast eats sugar and poops alcohol.” That’s why it’s used in the production of beer and wine.
As a result, a person with a yeast overgrowth will crave refined carbohydrates, and then be tired after eating them because of the alcohol waste caused by the yeast organisms.
This too causes extreme mood swings because of the imbalances it causes in the bloodstream.
If you have a yeast overgrowth, you have aluminum. Aluminum kills bacteria. That’s why it’s used so widely as a preservative.
Aluminum was the underlying problem for both Clay and me. If you have a yeast overgrowth, you have to get rid of the aluminum first. Then you can go on a yeast-free diet to get the overgrowth under control.
15% We were later to find out his illness started with me. I was the carrier for his underlying problem, which turned out to be aluminum. I passed it on to him while he was in the womb and while I was breastfeeding.
We furthermore continued to contaminate him and me with aluminum in a number of the ways after he was born:
- Consuming things packaged in cans and foil
- Taking prescription and nonprescription medication that contained aluminum
- Cooking with aluminum cookware
- Getting a flu shot every year, which contains aluminum and other toxins.
- Baby shots, or vaccines, which contain aluminum
- Using toothpaste packaged in aluminum
- Consuming table salt and baking soda, which are two of the number of ways aluminum gets into our bodies
16% Releasing Clay’s aluminum was a huge change and improvement for him; then clearing the parasites brought him the rest of the way to good health.
32% … I sought out an herbalist who used energy testing to determine what was going on with the body. She indicated Clay had aluminum toxicity and yeast overgrowth.
She gave him homeopathic remedies for both; although I still saw no improvement in his condition.
Since “I was conflicted about this homeopath, I tested it (which I’ll explain in the next section), and got a yes. I continued to see her until I found a better practitioner.”
About this time I began energy testing everything I put in my mouth or my son’s. This is something I learned to do when I was in college, and played with from time to time although I didn’t take it very seriously.
I can’t overemphasize the importance of testing. There have been so many times when I had a nagging feeling something wasn’t right, other than all logic pointed to doing it anyway.
When my ego (the logical side) and my intuition are doing battle, testing is the perfect way for me to get to the bottom of the issue.
I have learned if it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t.
33% There are several ways to energy test using the muscles of your own body, or the muscles of someone else’s, both of which are called muscle testing, or kinesiology.
Testing gives me the confidence to reclaim my power.
51% When I found out about the links between autism, lack of speech, sleep disorders, yeast and allergies. I became almost obsessed with the subject. My son had all of these problems; did that mean he was in the autistic spectrum?
52% I didn’t want Clay to be diagnosed with autism, even if it was just Asperger’s.
I didn’t want him going through his whole life with that label, and the burden of being required to tell teachers, counselors, and anyone else who might care for him.
< My Thoughts > “I didn’t want him going through his whole life with that label…”
Special Needs Children: Should I Label My Kid? By Terri Cettina
Retrieved from: http://www.parenting.com/article/special-needs-children on 6/26/17
For some, it's a godsend. For others, it's a stigmatizing professional opinion—and sometimes even a misdiagnosis. Read about kids who were labeled with a disorder, and what it meant, for better and for worse.
“A label changed our life”
Those in favor of labeling point out that the best treatment starts early: The quicker you pinpoint what's ailing your child, the faster you can get him extra support or even medication.
There's also a relief that comes with being able to “blame” a medical disorder.
When a diagnosis like ADHD is stamped on a folder, parents and professionals may stop looking for other solutions.
One child’s parents disagreed at first about the label and medication. His dad worried the label would be a license to coast—that he'd get used to special treatment. When he started taking Ritalin, his life changed.
Getting another opinion, a doctor recommended lead testing, as symptoms of lead poisoning can mimic ADHD. They discovered that the entire family (both parents, and both children) had contracted lead poisoning from their dinnerware. It hit the youngest the hardest.
Diet can affect kids' behavior; we had our son tested for food intolerances. Sure enough, food dyes and dairy popped up. And he lived on cheese and yogurt. Within five days of going dairy-free, “I kid you not; my son began looking in my eyes again.”
Although the diagnosis was crushing, one parent says it was also a huge help. “We came up with ways to make her life easier,” she says. “She's calmer now, as we know what she needs.” And the insurance company approved her therapy.
Many parents point to the lens that finally swayed them one way or the other: their child's self-esteem. “I understand when parents say they don't want to put a ‘ceiling’ on their child's potential by labeling them. But older kids tell me ‘I always knew I was different’.”
52% I was afraid it would influence their expectations of him and his behavior, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. At this point in time I had taken Clay to anyone I thought might be able to help.
- Two pediatricians
- Osteopath
- Homeopath
- Ear, nose, and throat specialist (ENT)
- Allergist
- Naturopath
- Emotional healer
- Herbalist
- Speech therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Immune disorder specialist
The osteopath and herbalist were the only two who seemed to be helping. All the others said they could help, but we didn’t see any results.
With the strict allergy diet, and removal of incoming aluminum, Clay’s head-banging and toe-walking had almost stopped, but he still wasn’t speaking. He was cranky, sickly, and not sleeping well.
My mother had an appointment with a master herbalist in Northern Indiana, and I decided to go along.
53% He looked in my eyes with a magnifying glass and flashlight, and told me, “You don’t have allergies, you have aluminum. You’re allergic to everything.”
“What can I do about it?” He said, “It’s done, it’s gone.” And he was right. I didn’t know what he did, and at this point didn’t care.
I felt different immediately. I knew he had cured my allergies. …The change was miraculous.
I decided to drive up on a Sunday night with my husband and son in tow, to be there first thing on Monday when they take walk-ins.
…I was told it would probably be 1:30 before he could see us, but I knew it would bring Clay’s cure, so we waited.
…As we suspected, Clay still had aluminum, and he released it on the spot. I asked him if Clay would still be allergic, and he said no.
My Thoughts > “…Clay still had aluminum…”
Just to give you some idea of how aluminum might get into one’s system, here is an brief excerpt from Web.MD., online –
“Heavy metal poisoning is the accumulation of heavy metals, in toxic amounts, in the soft tissues of the body. Symptoms and physical findings associated with this vary according to the metal accumulated. Most heavy metals commonly associated with poisoning of humans are lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. This poisoning may occur as a result of industrial exposure, air or water pollution, foods, medicines, improperly coated food containers, or the ingestion of lead-based paints.”
Other significant metals are aluminum, gold, copper, silver, and zinc; as well as all heavy metals.
53% My heart just flew. I was so grateful. He also checked other things and worked on him in other ways.
When we left, I was walking on cloud nine. Clay slept well that night, and every night for the next ten nights. He was a new baby, and I was a new person.
< My Thoughts > “My heart just flew. I was so grateful.”
Tenna Merchant shares with me that she is now willing to reveal the name of this master herbalist; Solomon Wickey, of Indiana. Here is something I found written about him, although you can find much more out there, with a little looking. Smiles.
Faith healer Solomon Wickey dies at 75 / The Journal Gazette.
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, OBITUARIES: Solomon Wickey, Amish faith healer, dies • August 6, 2013. Accused of practicing medicine without a license, the long-time faith healer relied on God and herbs.
AMISH HERBALIST 'CURES' ARE IN HIGH DEMAND
Published: November 29, 1981
BERNE, Ind., Nov. 28— To the end of a dusty road, past miles of cornfields, they come. From California and Ohio and as far away as Central Europe, they bring their headaches, back pains and liver problems.
In the corner of a barn behind a curtain, Solomon Wickey tells them to sit in a straight-backed chair, then gazes into their eyes and suggests a herb.
Sage, he says, prevents night sweats. Peppermint helps ease gallbladder pains. Thyme settles troubled nerves. He says he can tell by a person's eyes what is needed.
Some gaze back into Mr. Wickey's solemn brown eyes and swear by his wisdom. In the barn that doubles as his office, letters thanking him for curing everything from colds to spastic conditions crowd a bulletin board.
The advice costs nothing. Mr. Wickey, an Amish farmer who is not a licensed doctor, charges only for the herbs, although many people leave donations.
Retrieved from: http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/08/solomon-wickey-amish-faith-healer-dies/
53% My sister would call every day and ask, “How’s he doing? What did he eat? Is he having any symptoms?” I would excitedly tell her how wonderfully he was doing.
I felt like I had hit the lottery! He said Mommy for the first time about two months after our visit. I couldn’t believe my ears. It felt so good.
He quickly learned to speak, and within four months, Clay would say almost anything, and he was speaking in sentences.
My faith in God was renewed. I thanked Him every day for saving my son and me, and I continue to do so.
55% So, how did the master herbalist cure us? He simply released the aluminum.
There are so many things that can be cured just by releasing them. No herbs, no homeopathies, no exercises – just a prayer of release.
There are three steps in releasing:
- Release
- Reabsorb
- Restore
End of excerpts from Tenna’s book
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< My Thoughts > “Following the last excerpt (59%)…”
Following the last excerpt (59%), are the author’s chapters covering – Releasing, Imprinting Remedies, Release Codes, Parasites, Speech and Music Therapy, Why Did Clay Recover When Other Children Don’t, I’m Finally Fertile at Age 43, and The Happy Ending. This book includes a full appendix of sources and resources; names and titles of important people and books.
Reading this book may cause a paradigm shift for many people. Expanding our minds and exploring all avenues leading to or away from autism, at least by reading about them in perhaps a new way.
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References used in < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
Ventola, P., Kleinman, J. Pandey, J., Wilson, L., Esser, E., Boorstein, H., Dumont-Mathieu, T., Marshia, G., Barton, M., Hodgson, S., Green, J., Fein, D. (2006). Differentiating Between Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Developmental Disabilities in Children Who Failed a Screening Instrument for ASD.; Journal of Developmental Disorders: 37:425-436.
