Arriving in Tanzania

After a long flight via Addis Ababa I arrive in Tanzania. I meet many fellow travelers on route to all corners of Africa- Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania. Mostly they are spreading knowledge and technology. One has a system of making water from air, another is in communications, and me doing homeopathy in Africa. Everyone is supportive, as have been all my friends and acquaintances at home. Most think it is a great project and wish me luck, others think I am totally mad. I'm not sure which is right.

Together with my faithful and indefatigable partner Tina Quirk in NY, we have worked for 10 years towards this day. Most of this has been, for me, boring, wearisome and ultimately unfruitful work. But it had to be done- there were many things we could not have known at the outset. We spent many years trying to find a partner in Africa, spent much time on each contact, and mostly they fell through. There was the dean of a large South African hospital, professors at an alternative medicine dept in a well known university, and many others. The only contact that has endured is Sigsbert Rwegasira- our brother homoeopath in Tanzania, and his supporting group of homoeopaths from Ireland, whom I shall be meeting in Tanzania.

During these years, some of our aims have fallen by the wayside, due to the many obstacles on the way. We hoped for a big research project, huge clinics and laboratories. My belief was that with a water tight super academic research, we could show the world the miracles that we witness daily. But at this time it is not to be. To get a research under way you need academic partners and funds. Partners are difficult to find if there are no funds. It appears that you don't get funds unless you have some research, and you can't do research unless you have funds and partners. It’s a catch 222, and we got caught in it, big time.

Applying for funds is extremely tedious. You have to get it right for each fund, and each fund is different. The details must be precisely right, fulfilling the exact demands of each particular fund, and most difficult, getting past an unsupportive committee of anonymous board members. Personally I have neither the qualifications nor patience for this kind of thing, so it was mostly Tina who fought these windmills, with grumpy email support from me. And so far we have failed to raise the funds we hoped for. It works like this: There are three buzz words that need to click into place: AIDS, Africa and Homoeopathy. There is plenty of money for AIDS, and there is plenty of money for Africa, but when it comes to homoeopathy- brick wall.

If I sound frustrated about this, it is because I am. After 10 years of emailing and conferencing and applying, I remembered what I have always known. Homoeopathy is the odd man out in medicine, too radical, too different and too threatening. Conventional powers don't want to know. Other than the odd enlightened word of support there is little support out there for homoeopathic projects. So I went back to the original aims, those that begin in Paragraph 1 of the Organon.

I have decided that the main aim is to get out there and help as many people as possible. I , like many homoeopathic colleagues, have seen the tremendous benefit we can bring to AIDS patients. With the little funding that I have I will start working with Sigsbert in his existing clinics seeing as many AIDS patients as I can. Together with Margot from Ireland we will check out the other areas of Tanzania and look for more opportunities to treat the sick. That is the first and high mission.

The second mission is to search for a ‘genus epidemicus’. This means collating all the data ‘as if one person' and searching for those remedies that cover the common denominators and the strange, rare and peculiars. This will not be simple. For one, this disease is a shape shifter, an immune deficiency that will take on the shape of its attacker. It can look like meningitis, tuberculosis, fungal infections, cancer and many other guises. We will have to look deeper to the underlying level. I am not planning to follow the many new paths of homoeopathy that have addressed AIDS and the epidemic. That does not mean I don't believe they work, I am sure they do to help a lot, but I choose to follow the classical way as described by Hahnemann; taking many individual cases and putting them together As If One Person, finding a group of remedies and then prescribing them individually. Alongside this I will strive to develop a deeper understanding of what this epidemic is about, and to incorporate my understanding into the process of choosing the remedies.

The second problem with finding the ‘genus epidemicus’ is that there is no guarantee that this is an epidemic. It may seem like that to the mediapathic eye, but there are many characteristics that don’t fit. Epidemics are usually rapid, acute, febrile diseases, which AIDS is not. Nevertheless, it is infectious. So only experience will tell, and I believe that experience should be somewhere between 500-1000 cases. I hope I get to see them, and I really hope there is a ‘genus epidemicus’ because that will make all the difference. If we can come up with a short list of remedies, we can easily teach it to health providers, and spread the knowledge through Africa. If we can't, then we have to rely on high class individual homoeopathy which is much more difficult to teach.

And that is the third mission, teaching homoeopathy, spreading what we learn, using Sigsbert’s School and any other means possible. We need to get homoeopathy known throughout Africa, because millions are dying of AIDS and malaria and TB, and the pharmaceutical companies keep pushing their expensive, non curing, mal inducing drugs. Homoeopathy is a wonderful solution for Africa- curative, gentle, natural, and affordable. No side effects- just effective!

The last aim is to collect enough data to convince the powers that be. This is not simple. You can't just bring a cured video case. Anything less then rock solid is 'anecdotal' and doesn't count. Each case needs a CD4-count, viral load count, and lengthy questionnaires. And if we get that, will it be enough? In some ways I now doubt it. It seems the blind don't choose to see. But I will try anyway.

Alongside my frustration is the good feeling I get from the support of those who count - my homoeopathic friends. There have been many good wishes and supportive messages. And there have been contributions from those that can least afford to give. Good friends, who have made the effort, walked the talk and made this voyage possible. Dynamis students who still believe in the ideas we talked about. In my heart I thank them all. And then I land. Tanzania.

After making it through customs, I meet Sigs. He looks good, and it is good to see him- as solid as ever, and feeling better after a long illness. Dar es Salaam is hot and wet, one of the reasons I dread coming, but as I drive through the slums I see that new banks and high rise building have grown since I was last here- a sign of pre global collapse growth.

Sigs and I are both no good at small talk, so we start with big talk. He tells me how AIDS is still growing, and that malaria is spreading to regions where it was previously unknown. The 'miracle' antiretroviral drugs are failing in many cases as the virus mutates, and there is no African budget for 'second line' antiretrovirals. It should be clear that AIDS sufferers in the West can go through over 10 different ARV cocktails to keep them alive. Meanwhile, there are horrendous side effects that are not talked about. Kidney and liver problems and physical mutations. In particular he tells me of women on ARV's, whose breasts grow to enormous proportions while the lower body withers.

Sigs has been studying AIDS closely, both in the clinic and in theory. He explains something to me that I was not clear on till now. The HIV DNA is genetically very similar to human DNA. This is one of the reasons to suspect possible human engineering of the virus, but this is another story (there are countless conspiracy theories when it comes to AIDS). Anyway, he tells me that it is a fact that CD4 cells cannot fight HIV viruses, because they appear so similar, a case of like killing like. In fact, the HIV virus uses the CD4 cells to duplicate in, shredding their DNA into little pieces and mixing with it. The CD4 count only indicates the body's ability to fight off opportunistic infections and not HIV.

When a remedy is given the CD4 count often drops initially. This seems to be a bad sign, but in fact it is good, because the body is destroying many infected 'dud' CD4s. But after a while healthy CD4s begin to grow, a case of aggravations followed by amelioration? His theory is that what actually kills off the HIV are macrophages, defense cells that are usually lazy and inactive, but keep cancer and other bad cells at bay, including HIV. He thinks that when the remedy works it stimulates these macrophages to become more numerous or active, and that when they start chomping on HIV it activates their big brother to wade into action- the killer T4 cells. This theory is based on some recent research undertaken in Tanzania.


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You should also definitely read
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Sigs proposes that counting the macrophages in the blood may be a good indicator to the state of the patient. Shortly after, we find out that a viral load test costs $100- we definitely can't afford that, so it puts a kink in the proof game. Sigh.

At the end of a long day I am pretty tired. I need to study some AIDS and do some repertory work on the epidemic. And write a blog.

Meanwhile, you should all read the book ’28 Stories of AIDS in Africa’, by Stephanie Nolen. It is one of the best real account of AIDS in Africa.

The great news is that Sigs has 100 AIDS patients lined up, so we can get to work soon. And that’s what this is all is about.