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CEASE therapy or homeopathy, any luck?

terrorhawk

Hi everyone,

I'm new on here so please be gentle. 

I have a 9 year old daughter diagnosed with ASD when she was 4.  She has alot of the common problems-speech delay, global developmental delay, poor fine and gross motor skills, poor communication/comprehension, sensory problems...etc etc.

She used to be much more severly affected by her condition, especially her sensory ones which have subsided with therapies and general organic improvement and being desensitised by life in general.

A few years ago we had a consultation with Jonathan Toomey and picked up alot of tips about how to change our lives, a lot of which we did.  Prior to this we already had our daughter on high doses of fish oils which made a marked difference.

I came across homeopathy in the form of teething powders for grizzly babies (sure most people have used them).  My youngest has severe reactions to antibiotics and I needed to find any alternative safe form of medicine and remembered the teething powders I'd used on all my children with great success for many years.

I have since bought a few books, read articles online and bought myself a little kit to use at home.  I've used it countless times with excellent results.....how does it work?!  No idea!!!  To be honest, I don't care, I just know that on some weird level, it does!

Anyway, I have now stumbled across something called CEASE therapy which seems to be abit harsher than classical homeopathy.  I'm dubious about trying this as don't want bad reactions for my daughter but interested to know if anyone has used it and what the outcome was.

Thanks for any comments.

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  • AlanFreestone said:

    Hello classic codger

    I've no intention of prolonging a 'debate' with zone tripper, however I felt it important to give my side of the argument in case the casual reader is left with a false impression of CEASE. Smile

    I would hope that my replies were contributing to this discussion, rather than hijacking it. I'm a CEASE therapist with a lot of experience in treating children with autism & I'm happy to answer any questions that people may have about the subject. 

    As far as faith playing a part in the healing process, yes I'd agree with you that it can be very important. However I very often only deal with the parents of my patients...and only online. So it's unlikely that any sort of therapeutic relationship could be contributing to the child's improvements (especially as the majority all already taking supplements etc...my little sugar pills are just one more thing that their mum gives them to take)

    Alan 

    Alan,

    I asked a series of rational questions, which any parent with an enquiring mind, a GCSE in Science, and a child with Autism might ask!

    • Please provide links to peer-reviewed research papers, clinical trials, the clinical evidence-base, etc for homeopathy and CEASE.
    • Please list your medical credentials; qualifications, professional memberships, and where one can read your phD thesis (if you have a phD from an accredited university or medical school).
    • Please provide the same for your claim that Autism is caused by toxicity
    These are perfectly valid questions to be asking.  

    I found your website yesterday.  

    You have a bsc (Hons) degree in Homeopathy from the Centre of Homeopathic Education (validated by the Middlesex University).  However, the CHE is the only college/university that is apparently still offerring a degree in Homeopathy; I tried searching for other colleges and universities in the UK offerring such a qualification, but could not find one.  

    Prior to this, you worked as an engineer in the Royal Air Force.  

    (By your own admission, you do not have any degrees, masters degrees or phDs in neuroscience, toxicology, medicine, chemistry or biochemistry, or any other academic qualification required to make authoritative statements like "Autism is caused by toxicity".  And such statements would need to be supported by peer-reviewed scientific papers and accepted by the scientific and medical community.  One cannot make a claim without august evidence and expect it to be accepted.)  

    In addition to making the scientifically unsubstantiated claim that "Autism is caused by toxicity", on the home page of your website you also repeated the internationally discredited claim regarding the MMR vaccine!

    I tried searching for your name on a number of Homeopathic professsional associations, but I could not seem to find you listed as a Homeopath.   

    Parents of children with Autism, as well as adults with Autism such as myself, deserve to know the credentials of individuals making discredited and/or unsubstantiated medical and toxicological claims.  
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  • AlanFreestone said:

    Hello classic codger

    I've no intention of prolonging a 'debate' with zone tripper, however I felt it important to give my side of the argument in case the casual reader is left with a false impression of CEASE. Smile

    I would hope that my replies were contributing to this discussion, rather than hijacking it. I'm a CEASE therapist with a lot of experience in treating children with autism & I'm happy to answer any questions that people may have about the subject. 

    As far as faith playing a part in the healing process, yes I'd agree with you that it can be very important. However I very often only deal with the parents of my patients...and only online. So it's unlikely that any sort of therapeutic relationship could be contributing to the child's improvements (especially as the majority all already taking supplements etc...my little sugar pills are just one more thing that their mum gives them to take)

    Alan 

    Alan,

    I asked a series of rational questions, which any parent with an enquiring mind, a GCSE in Science, and a child with Autism might ask!

    • Please provide links to peer-reviewed research papers, clinical trials, the clinical evidence-base, etc for homeopathy and CEASE.
    • Please list your medical credentials; qualifications, professional memberships, and where one can read your phD thesis (if you have a phD from an accredited university or medical school).
    • Please provide the same for your claim that Autism is caused by toxicity
    These are perfectly valid questions to be asking.  

    I found your website yesterday.  

    You have a bsc (Hons) degree in Homeopathy from the Centre of Homeopathic Education (validated by the Middlesex University).  However, the CHE is the only college/university that is apparently still offerring a degree in Homeopathy; I tried searching for other colleges and universities in the UK offerring such a qualification, but could not find one.  

    Prior to this, you worked as an engineer in the Royal Air Force.  

    (By your own admission, you do not have any degrees, masters degrees or phDs in neuroscience, toxicology, medicine, chemistry or biochemistry, or any other academic qualification required to make authoritative statements like "Autism is caused by toxicity".  And such statements would need to be supported by peer-reviewed scientific papers and accepted by the scientific and medical community.  One cannot make a claim without august evidence and expect it to be accepted.)  

    In addition to making the scientifically unsubstantiated claim that "Autism is caused by toxicity", on the home page of your website you also repeated the internationally discredited claim regarding the MMR vaccine!

    I tried searching for your name on a number of Homeopathic professsional associations, but I could not seem to find you listed as a Homeopath.   

    Parents of children with Autism, as well as adults with Autism such as myself, deserve to know the credentials of individuals making discredited and/or unsubstantiated medical and toxicological claims.  
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