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Analogy reference. Wm. Lee Cowden MD The chronically ill human body is like a bathtub full of dirty water full of toxins and/or pathogens overflowing out of the tub. All the dirty water overflowing out of the bathtub represents symptoms of disease. At the top of the bathtub there is a faucet running dirty water into the bathtub. These dirty water faucets represent polluted inhaled air, nutrient-depleted foods eaten (that are toxic from steroids, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, heavy metals, partially hydrogenated oils, etc.), toxic heavy metals, toxic relationships, toxic conscious and sub-conscious emotions, electro-magnetic pollution, radioactive substances, etc. There is also a faucet running clean water into the bathtub. This faucet can either be completely turned off or barely dripping into the tub. All the drains at the bottom of the bathtub (representing the detox mechanisms of the bowel, liver, kidney, lymph) are plugged up, preventing the dirty water from draining out of the bathtub. The clean water faucet represents fresh air, purified water, good foods and vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other nutrients, sunshine, exercise, relaxation, good relationships, peace, joy, love, the will to live and a purpose in life. In order to stop the dirty water from overflowing, and to progressively lower the level of dirty water in the bathtub, one must open up the drains at the bottom of the bathtub by enhancing the detox mechanisms of the body and turn down or off as many of the dirty water faucets as possible while, at the same time, opening wide the clean water faucets at the top of the bathtub. In doing these things, not only does the level of the dirty water go down, but the water becomes cleaner and cleaner so that, eventually, the bottom of the bathtub can be seen. This analogy represents complete wellness, not just the absence of symptoms. Our plan of care considers the spiritual well-being, mental- emotional and physical well-being of the individual. Naturopathic modalities include but are not limited to, education and counseling on foods, exercise, non-medical physical therapies such as lymphatic therapy, bodywork, sound, light, electro-magnetic and bio-energetic therapies. Beneficial supplementation and homeopathic preparations are included in a plan of care to help stimulate, promote, and maintain the individual’s whole body function and its self-healing processes. Our plan of care considers the spiritual well-being, mental-emotional and physical well-being of the individual. Naturopathic modalities include but is not limited to, education and counseling on foods, exercise, non-medical physical therapies such as lymphatic therapy, non-manipulative bodywork, sound, light, electro-magnetic and bio-energetic therapies. Included are beneficial supplementation and homeopathic preparations to help stimulate, promote, and maintain the individual’s whole-body function and its self-healing processes.

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” ― Hippocrates ***These are suggestions for the general population. Seek the advice of your practitioner for specific dietary needs and health challenges. Enzyme rich foods: Papaya, pineapple, kimchi, sauerkraut or other fermented vegetables, Kiwi, blueberries, avocado, mango, green vegetables, bitter vegetables such as arugula, brussel sprouts, dandelion, kale, endive; Banana, mango, papaya, and grapes are to be eaten in moderation since they are higher in fructose. Green Juice Drinks Choose 3 or more of the following ingredients to run through a Juicer. Kale – lacinto, green, red Mustard greens, collard greens, green chard, rainbow chard, dandelion greens Spinach, Parsley, Cilantro, Celery, Cucumber, bok choy, etc. Red beets in moderation Carrots in moderation Fruits suggestions: pineapple, granny smith apple, lemon, lime, kiwi, berries, mango, papaya, peach, avocado These are suggestions for green drinks. 3/4 of the ingredients are greens approximately and 1/4 of the ingredients are fruits. Beets and carrots are in moderation. They contain more grams of fructose than green vegetables. Add water to dilute as desired. Be Creative! Just remember to use a ratio of more greens than fruits! Smoothies: Make a smoothie simply by adding 1 or more of the following ingredients into your green drink: almond milk, hemp milk, hemp seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, sprouted seeds, sesame seeds, avocado, only 1/4 banana to thicken Optional: 1 TBSP powdered protein or collagen powder of choice for additional protein Quality supplemental protein and collagen powder is available from https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/chhjs Optional: grated/shaved ice, whole leaf stevia or honey to taste Be creative! Almond Milk 1 Cup Almonds (Soak 24 hours and blend thoroughly into a puree with water until smooth Lemon Ginger Drink 1 peeled lemon 1 Apple 1 finger fresh ginger 1 cucumber as desired 1 bunch celery 1 bunch cilantro 1 bunch parsley 1 bunch fresh mint Juice all ingredients and add water to dilute as desired Sore Throat Hot Tea 1 chopped lemon with rind 1-2 fingers of freshly chopped ginger 1 tsp of honey to taste (manuka or raw local) Place ingredients in a mug and pour boiled water over ingredients and let it simmer. Sip this hot lemon-ginger tea slowly throughout the day for a sore throat. You may make this several times per day. ***Contact your practitioner as needed

Laser Energetic Detoxification therapy is fast, powerful and gentle and can be beneficial to the most fragile and sensitive.  The LED is a highly effective rapid detoxification therapy and are theoretically related to the immediate effects of photon and light therapy on the physics of cellular function. The body’s ability to detox varies with each individual. If for any reason, your ability to detox is compromised, or you have a chronic illness, or have experienced traumatic events, and increased stress, your system is holding onto a lot of toxins.  Your internal terrain is polluted, and then creates an environment for pathogenic organisms to thrive and multiply.  Overlooking a toxic internal terrain will make it especially difficult to overcome pathogenic organisms. Wm. Lee Cowden, MD, with others, were integral in developing this specific system called laser energetic detoxification. This method shakes loose specific toxins within 25 hours so it can be more rapidly eliminated from the body through the body's primary detoxification organs such as the liver, lymphatics, kidneys, and large intestines.  This form of detox is very specific and systematic. How Does Laser Energetic Detoxification Work? During LED, a laser light passes through a clear glass vial of a homeopathic substance and sweeps the body so it can release and/or resolve substances that are contributing to inflammation, pain, allergies, infections, immune system disorders, and other conditions. Re-exposure to a substance in a concentrated form might require repeating a LED for that substance. For most individuals, 2-3 sessions are needed to experience a change.  Depending upon the individual, a session may need to be repeated at a later date. This type of detoxification appears to hold tremendous promise for those patients who are toxin overloaded and chronically ill because of the toxicity. Unlike pharmaceutical medicine, which works primarily by chemically blocking or stimulating biochemical pathways in the body, LED works on the quantum physical properties of the body. Also LED carries information into the cells of the body via photons (light) very similar to the bio-photons produced by each human cell. Fritz-Albert Popp, PhD and others have proven that bio-photons produced by human cells are responsible for information transfer between cells and tissues that regulates cell growth, cell differentiation, and biochemical activities (such as cellular detoxification). The person is tested for specific toxins such as pesticides, fungicides, toxic metals, solvents, chemicals, some toxic medications, mycotoxins, and bio-toxins, in their internal environment.  Key findings indicate whether the rapid laser detoxification would likely be helpful for the patient. Then these toxins must be eliminated as much as possible in order to clean up their internal terrain. For example, the presence of harmful sulfa drugs and toxins in the tissues prevents the affected person from being able to effectively take up into their tissues sulfur-containing nutrients and detoxification substances containing sulfur. The elimination of sulfa-based toxins, such as sulfites, sulfates can be essential for detoxification and recovery Another key finding is that many chronically ill patients develop autoimmune disorder because of man-made toxin such as pesticides, herbicides, solvents, or other chemicals. The immune system then identifies those toxins to the tissue or specific organs as being foreign. After that, the immune system continues to attack the altered cells in the tissues. The toxin(s) responsible for causing this type of auto-immune response can be identified with forms of energetic testing. The next highest priority for an LED treatment after identifying the auto-immunity from specific chemicals or pesticides is usually for heavy metals, especially the various forms of mercury. Mercury is held up by most parasites and certain other pathogens in the body. When these pathogens are killed, the mercury dumps back into the body and may need to be treated again. After all the mercury is effectively treated with LED and other oral supplements, other critical heavy metals are usually treated next. Then, after the heavy metals, other pesticides and herbicides not treated as part of the autoimmunity process usually take the next highest priority.  After the critical pesticides and herbicides are mobilized, formaldehyde and formic acid, benzene, xylene and toluene, PCB, phthalates, petroleum byproducts as well as other man-made toxins are considered. After that come mycotoxins and other bio-toxins, vaccine residuals and other pharmaceuticals may be mobilized. A special infrared light shining through the appropriate homeopathic vial, or a precision pulsed light emitting diode, or plasma lights can be used to help remove toxins from specific “stubborn” locations in the body. Red and infrared (RIR) light therapy can also substitute for neural therapy to target specific tissues or organs in the body. If an infrared light treatment is done before an LED on the areas of greatest inflammation (toxic focus) due to recent surgeries, recent injuries, or other trauma), the toxins from the LED is much more likely to thoroughly and completely pass through the entire body. If necessary, the infrared light therapy can be used to drive specific toxins out of that tissue or organ so that the patient may proceed with the next phase of detoxification. Sometimes an acute situation arises unassociated with an LED requiring treatment of a toxin, pathogen or both in a specific area of the body in which other forms of therapies may be implemented. It is still necessary to follow practitioner recommended supplemental botanicals, nutrients, and homeopathics to work synergistically with the LED. These will work together to bring improvement in a shorter period of time when combined with the LED therapy. Lymphatic therapy prior to an LED is usually recommended and additional lymphatic therapies may be necessary to consider.

Trauma is stored in the body and the subconscious. This trauma influences a persons impulses and personalities, fears and addictions, negative thoughts and emotions. Voice mapping is a form of cognitive biofeedback using sound frequencies to release the traumas that have been stored in the cells of the body and the subconscious. Voice mapping was developed by Calvin Young, who based his work on the research of early sound healers such as Alfred Tomatis and Edwards. Using a technology called the EVOX helps facilitate this voice mapping. A combination of sounds in the voice are recorded, analyzed and then sound frequencies are fed back to the person. The sound frequencies from the person's voice are influenced by buried memories, mental and emotional stressors. These frequencies stimulate and then balance a relevant memory and muscle connection which affects the sound frequencies coming from the vocal chords. Voice Mapping analyzes the sound frequencies in a person’s voice for missing frequencies which correlate to blocked or unacknowledged emotions related to a certain person, event, or task. Missing sound frequencies from the voice are identified and played back to the person. These sound frequencies facilitate subconscious releases in the brain that trigger certain responses in behavior and in the physical body and can thereby be helpful in fighting chronic health or behavior problems. Toxic emotions bind chemicals and toxins in the body and inhibit, to a degree, the release of these toxins through the body’s natural detoxification pathways. Thereby, when emotional blocks are released, the body’s cells, tissues, and organs function more optimally. Early in life we subconsciously create complex mechanisms to protect us from early traumatic and stressful experiences. These subconscious mechanisms function as coping skills that help us endure and survive difficult events and chronically painful conditions throughout our lives. If the brain is storing a memory connected to stress and trauma, that memory may be causing an imbalance in the body. That imbalance is a contributing factor to current behavioral, emotional, and physical challenges. During this biofeedback process, you may recall forgotten memories, experience strong emotional releases, and realize insights that can help you break free of rigid thinking, unresolved grief, anger, or other buried emotions that keep you stuck in repetitive life patterns or illness. Working with the frequencies in a person’s voice, the EVOX is a highly effective biofeedback process, helping to change negative beliefs and attitudes about oneself, others, events, and also helps to quickly resolve anger, phobias, grief, etc. The EVOX is a tool to facilitate the release of emotional and mental blocks and is also beneficial for students and athletes who are looking to overcome specific challenges and improve performance.

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CHOCOLATE: Nuts into blender with purified water to make a nutmilk soup Pour into double boiler Pour unsweetened dark cooking cocoa Add 5-15 drops stevia liquid(nutramedix) or Lo han extract for sweetener to taste Pour into a glass dish Place in freezer Cut into squares and Place frozen chocolate squares on top of wax paper for storage in a ziplock bag back in freezer for storage. For low-carb, low sugar recipes, watch "Know the Cause" on TV with Doug Kaufmann or goto his link for recipes https://knowthecause.com/category/recipes/

Grounding, also called earthing, is a therapeutic technique that the ground and nature electrically reconnects you to the earth. This technique is based on grounding physics to explain how electrical charges from the earth can have positive effects on your body. Schumann frequencies from the earth have positive effects on your body by absorbing harmful ions from the body that have accumulated from chronic exposure to EMF/EMR. When we live primarily indoors or walk outside wearing rubber soled shoes, we prevent our feet from being able to absorb the earth’s schumann frequencies which are necessary for our bodies. Rubber soles are not conductive, but our bodies are. There are many types of grounding tools a person can use such as grounding equipment connected to a metal rod stuck in the ground, quality grounding mats, grounding sheets or blankets, grounding socks. But the most foolproof and effective method of grounding is actually being outside walking barefoot on the ground, lying on the ground, wading in water outside in a lake, ocean, river, stream - being connected to nature. People have reported improvement from inflammation, fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease. In the late 19th century, a back-to-nature movement in Germany claimed many health benefits from being barefoot outdoors, even in cold weather. In the 1920s, White, a medical doctor, investigated the practice of sleeping grounded after being informed by some individuals that they could not sleep properly “unless they were on the ground or connected to the ground in some way,” such as with copper wires attached to grounded-to-Earth water, gas, or radiator pipes. He reported improved sleeping using these techniques. However, these ideas never caught on in mainstream society. References: About grounding. (n.d.). groundology.co.uk/about-grounding Brown R, et al. (2015). Grounding after moderate eccentric contractions reduces muscle damage. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590684/ J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 291541. Published online 2012 Jan 12. doi: 10.1155/2012/291541 PMCID: PMC3265077 PMID: 22291721 Earthing: Health Implications of Reconnecting the Human Body to the Earth's Surface Electrons

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” - Pablo Picasso “It is the special province of music to move the heart.” - Johann Sebastian Bach Through the expression of art and music, people experience hope and healing for themselves and for others. Studies have shown that art heals by changing a person's physiology and attitude. Art and music change the body's physiology from stress and fear to relaxation and inspiration. Art and music affect a person's brain wave patterns, hormonal balance, neurotransmitters, autonomic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, immune system and blood flow to organs. Neuro-physiologists have found that art, music, sound, tones, dance, prayer, and healing are associated with similar brain wave patterns and mind body changes, which are deeply connected in feeling and meaning. Art and music change a person's perceptions and outlook on life, attitude, emotional state and help people with life challenges. Artistic expression can be a means of personal transformation, physical, emotional and spiritual healing. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” - Thomas Merton “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” - George Bernard Shaw “Art is not a handicraft, but the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” - Leo Tolstoy "Parting of the Sea"

The Center for Holistic Healing incorporates color into many of our protocols. COLOR Therapy has long been shown to relax the frontal lobe of the brain where a person’s emotions are primarily housed. COLOR Therapy using colored therapy glasses or colored LED lights helps ‘loosen’ resistant emotions within a persons psyche and relax the nervous system that tends to grasp hold of specific toxins. Some toxins become resistant to mobilizing out of cells so it becomes difficult for the body to excrete them through its primary detoxification organs. This makes color therapy useful when used simultaneously with other detoxification protocols. COLOR carries specific frequencies or wave lengths that trigger a response in the brain, nervous system and other organs in the body. Color and body correlations include but are not limited to: BLUE - central nervous system and sympathetic nervous system, thyroid, pineal, head region; calming, cooling, inflammation, throat chakra 5 VIOLET and PURPLE - pineal-pituitary glands, the brain and eyes; chakras 6 and 7 INDIGO - neck, mouth, nose, and teeth; emotional expression TURQUOISE - lungs and thymus, trachea and esophagus, chakra 5 GREEN – liver, gallbladder meridians, the tonsils and lymphatics, heart and spleen, pituitary, thymus, muscular system, heart, lungs, breasts, upper extremities; swelling, edema, drainage, decongestion, inflammation, heart chakra 4 YELLOW-ORANGE - pancreas, stomach, intestines, bones, joints; production of melatonin, a sleep hormone; solar plexus chakra 3 YELLOW - kidneys and bladder, pancreas, adrenals, solar plexus chakra 3 RED - blood, reproductive organs, small intestines and bladder, adrenals, sensory nervous systems (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell), circulation, immune system, lower extremities, skin; burns, root chakra 1 MAGENTA – heart AMBER – lymphatics, pancreas, digestion, liver, gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, intestines, solar plexus chakra 3

Lyme disease is commonly recognized by the public as an infectious disease caused by the Borrelia bacterium. There are roughly two dozen species in the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. But not all are human pathogens. Various species are further divided into hundreds of strains worldwide. A health care provider should consider the probability of other co-infections usually associated with Lyme, such as Babesia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Bartonella. These co-infections can cause symptoms of their own. Lyme can affect any system of the body such as the neurological system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, detoxification systems, the joint and muscular structures, heart, brain, digestive system and the brain. Typical acute symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans.  Some people may experience numbness or tingling in some areas which can be mistaken for other neurological diseases. The most complex cases are multi-faceted with long-term symptoms.  It is not uncommon to find associated psyche-emotional involvement, a history of trauma, genetic snps, and multi-organ system stress.  Visual disturbances, chronic fatigue, generalized joint and myo-fascial ache, brain fog, and seizures are other reported complaints. Some individuals have difficulty metabolizing and absorbing herbal remedies and supplements.  The Center for Holistic Healing welcomes the simple and most complex cases to help individuals return to an active life. Lyme Disease most commonly is acquired from the bite of an infected black-legged tick. But there have been multiple reports and articles indicating that it is spread by other means as well. Testing at a time within the first few weeks of exposure after signs of EM is unlikely to give a positive result because it takes time to develop antibodies to the infection. Current tests sometimes fail to identify patients who do have Lyme disease if testing is done too early or too late in the illness. A negative test result alone is not sufficient to definitively rule out Lyme disease as the cause of your symptoms. Common tests for Lyme disease include ELISAs and Western blots. Both tests work by detecting the patient’s antibodies reacting to the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. Many factors affect that response and the tests’ ability to measure it, and can produce both false positive and false negative results. A CD-57can be helpful in determining a positive result. With low CD 57 counts, Lyme disease and Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections might be considered, but remains inconclusive as a diagnosis. For complete research and updates on Lyme Disease, refer to ilads.org. References: 1 The Centers for Disease Control website, https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html. Last visited 11/1/17. 2 Vector-borne diseases. European Environment Agency. Last visited 1/31/18. 3 Smith RP, Schoen RT, Rahn DW, et al. Clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of early lyme disease in patients with microbiologically confirmed erythema migrans. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2002;136(6):421–428. [PubMed]

Very often when a person has an invasive procedure such as surgery or a trauma that results in a scar to the tissues, including contusive scars, without skin break, the emotions that were present at the moment of that event become trapped in the scar. When the scar is treated by mudding, German Neural Therapy, by laser therapy, or with percussion therapy, the client often experiences an emotional release. A person with numerous scars most likely has trapped emotions in those areas from the trauma. Thereby, when these scars are relieved, persons can experience a release of emotions as well. For example, in my experience when an abdominal surgical scar was treated by percussion therapy, the client had uncontrollable crying and trembling for nearly one hour. Another client who had neural therapy on a plastic surgery scar on her face started weeping and could not stop for several hours. This latter client had been told by her husband before the surgery that she was looking so old that she was no longer attractive to him. When a scar is treated by German Neural Therapy, the insertion of a needle into the scar tissue causes an additional trauma, both physically and sometimes emotionally. For this reason, I prefer to treat scars with a combination of percussion therapy followed by mudding, a clay therapy.

"Fight like with like." "Disease is a process starting with the weakening of the immune system eventually with physical pathology as a result. Physical pathology is therefore the result of the disease not the cause.” -Samuel Hahnemann Homeopathy has been considered a type of energy medicine.  German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered homeopathy in the early 1800’s. Homeopathy uses natural substances and live organisms, tissues, plants, and other organic substances and uses the electro-magnetic frequencies from these substances through a process of dilution as a remedy for diseases. They are safe for the most sensitive and fragile patients, for babies and pregnant mothers and they do not interact with prescription drugs. A homeopathic is an extremely diluted herb, mineral or animal product that works not chemically, but through quantum physical effects in the body. Complex homeopathy is a mixture of more than one of these substances, while classical homeopathy used only one substance. Because of the extreme dilution, sensitivities to these products are rarely a problem, except a few people become sensitive to the glycerin or grain alcohol in some liquid homeopathics. Homeopathy stimulates the body through the immune and/or nervous system(s) to change its response to an existing imbalance, thereby stimulating the body to heal itself. Homeopathics are usually labeled with numbers and letters following the names of the constituents. Detoxification remedies sometimes cause clients to experience detoxification symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, or flu-like symptoms within a few minutes to 3-4 days after starting these remedies. If this happens, discontinue the product for a day or two to give the body a chance to catch up with its cleansing process, then slowly reintroduce the product

When your pH (acid/alkaline balance) is consistently outside of normal range, disease always develops. Some possible diseases that might occur from this imbalance are mental disturbances, sluggish metabolism, overgrowth of bacteria or fungus in the body, or cancer. This pH balancing can usually be done totally through the adjustment of your diet. For most people, the pH of saliva just before meals (and at least 4 hours after the last food, nutrient, or juice intake) should be about 6.8. This must be tested with pH paper that ranges from 5.5 to 8.0 for accurate results. If there are a lot of bacteria in the mouth (which produce organic acids), the pH may appear lower than it really is. In this case, do the following before testing: a. Brush the teeth thoroughly with salt as an abrasive. b. Thoroughly rinse the mouth with 1% hydrogen peroxide. (Mix 1 part hydrogen peroxide with 2 parts water.) Do not swallow hydrogen peroxide mixture. c. Thoroughly rinse the mouth with water and spit all of the water out. d. Test the saliva pH 30 to 45 minutes after the last mouth rinsing. The saliva measurement should be done on the fourth spit. Spit into the sink or trash three times and spit the fourth time onto the pH paper. Be careful not to touch with your fingers the end of the paper upon which you spit as this could alter the results. A pH below 6.6 is too acidic, and a pH above 7.0 is too alkaline for ideal health. To perform the following test (noted in this paragraph only), you must have an empty stomach and omit all homeopathics and supplements until this test is over. After testing your pH, then eat a non-allergenic fruit, and retest your saliva pH one hour later. This will help you determine whether you need to eat more fruits and vegetables or more fish, chicken, turkey, healthy oils, nuts, seeds. If the results move further out of range after eating the fruit, then eat a piece of meat and retest your pH 4 hours later. If it has now come into balance, this will signify that you require more animal-source protein (or nuts, seeds and oils plus L-tyrosine and L-phenylalamine) in your diet. Once basic dietary changes have been determined by this technique, you should measure your pH before breakfast and supper and 4 hours after each of these meals each day for at least four consecutive days. During these four or more days, record all your pH measurements and the times they were taken in a diary, along with the time of consumption and amounts and types of all foods and drinks consumed. Once you have your dietary needs adjusted to keep your pH between 6.6-7.0, and then continue to check your pH four times a day only one day a week so that you are sure that you are maintaining the proper balance. After you are symptom-free, you may check your pH one day per month to assure that you are maintaining the proper balance. Remember that food allergens can cause tissue and saliva acidity. Some people who are initially vegetarian by nature and sympathetic in metabolic type, if exposed to protracted physical and/or emotional stress, can exhaust their adrenal glands and change to a type of metabolism that requires more meat (or more nuts, seeds, oils, tyrosine and/or phenylalamine). Those who require fish or meat for their metabolic type would be wise to not eat raw or excessively well-done fish or meat because undercooked meat and fish increases the risk of parasitism, and overcooked fish increases the risk of cancer. When consuming meat or fish, is it advisable to take one plant-source digestive enzyme (like Plantzyme) at the middle and at the end of each meal. If you cannot balance your pH in one or two weeks, it is important that you discuss the information that you have recorded with your Doctor. Adapted from Wm. Lee Cowden, MD