Restoring immunity, the autonomic nervous system, and bioenergetic reciprocity for a fuller expression of innate healing in naturopathic medicine

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients,  April, 2007  by Paul Yanick

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Naturopathic medicine recognizes that health and healing depend on the integrity of the whole person. As such, doctors of naturopathic medicine emphasize the treatment of disease through the stimulation, enhancement, and support of the inherent healing capacity of the person. Qi, or the body's vital life force, is under the control of innate intelligence and is expressed in negative and positive polarities (different from the Yin-Yang coordinates of Oriental medicine). Maximizing innate healing requires a greater recognition of the reciprocal polarities of this energetic phenomena in nature.

Reciprocity--a fundamental value in augmenting innate intelligence--is found in immune TH-1/TH-2 cytokine responses, in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), and in the way innate intelligence controls and governs the healing response. Augmenting the reciprocity of nature's bipolar harmonic energies on a multi-dimensional anatomical basis is essential for the body to resist infections, reject tumors, inhibit carcinogenesis, detoxify pollutants, and heal itself.

Nature's recipes for getting the body in tune are vastly different from the man-made creations of nutritional and pharmaceutical science. Nature employs a supercontinuum of reciprocal, harmonic polarities to heal the body. Assessing this on a clinical level required the development of a homeopathic harmonic scale of polarities. Then, the performance efficiency and reciprocity of innate intelligence could be quantified. Reflecting the plurality of ancient healing traditions, I coined the name "Quantic Harmony" (QH). QH became a way to describe the reciprocal, bipolar actions of innate intelligence and its influence on the inherent healing capacity of the patient.

QH concepts reflect a reformulation of Oriental medicine to meet the health care needs of the twenty-first century. This was necessary, because ancient healing systems were developed in a different time, when no one needed antidotes for environmental toxicity, electro-pollution, or the thousands of man-made synthetic chemicals that infiltrate our modern day world. QH can guide naturopathic practitioners to interact, cultivate, and guide innate healing in mathematical and scientific terms. When disrupted by chemical or electro-pollution, or man-made United States Pharmacopeia (USP) vitamins, QH values deteriorate, diminishing one's inherent healing capacity.

Restoring QH values helps restore immune bipolar TH-1 and TH-2 functions and ANS regulation so the body is more resilient to stress. Understanding QH helps the clinician to gain contact with the body's inner physician, a hidden and powerful primal energetic zone where innate intelligence--manifested in interwoven patterns of inseparable links and circular chains--can perform its healing miracles on the human organism.

When naturopaths align their focus and the patient's focus on QH, integrative healing energy can be dispersed with greater efficiency to stress- and pollutant-damaged areas of the body. By palpating and prodding these pathways, doctors will gain access to the body's primal energetic zones where innate intelligence, echoing the logic and evidence of quantum physics, can regulate innate healing. (1-6) It is important to note that the reciprocity of QH tells us about energetic interactions and relationships and the struggle for the human organism to maintain harmony and balance in a world full of chaos and toxic challenges.

When the polarity of nature is diminished, the body loses its innate ability to rebalance itself following stressful events and the immune system gets stuck in a dominant TH-1 or TH-2 cytokine response. The result: the body can't digest food completely or fully detoxify and excrete excess toxins. On the other hand, when QH is restored, a physiological and energetic reorganization occurs which brings the body into synchrony with the flux and flow of bipolar energies. The theme of this article is that by restoring the reciprocity of QH polarities, doctors can restore the functional unity of innate intelligence throughout the entire organism. Such a change in thinking moves us decades ahead of what we call natural or alternative medicine. Within the paradigm, there is no single remedy, therapy, panacea, perfect diet, or "magic bullet." Emphasis is not on single organ or meridian therapy. Instead, we are motivated to engage in getting the body more synchronized, animated, and connected to the harmonic bipolar forces that entwine us with nature and weave the web of our existence.

Appreciation of this model of health care requires a humble admission that the human body is no longer in symbiosis with nature as it was hundreds and thousands of years ago. Our physical shape, the quality of our movement and flexibility, and even our nourishment are being compromised. For this reason, ancient principles of herbal medicine and modern day synthetic nutritional approaches fall short of compensating for health issues that revolve around disharmonic states of QH. Clearly, the restoration of innate healing and innate immune functions should be the primary focus in naturopathic medicine.