Note From Madonna Guy ND
Chief Clinician New Leaf Natural Therapies
Wynnum, Brisbane, Australia
I hate articles like the one below… The heading indicates that a doctor using alternative therapies ‘killed’ 5 patients by using these alternative therapies. When you read on it was ‘crazy therapies’ she was using – “concoction of minerals, industrial solvents and paint stripper” – okay, so they’re alternative but this is NOT the way naturopaths like us work!!!
We can absolutely help cancer survivers in so many ways:
- supporting the immune system
- maintaining healthy weight through programme
- finding genetic defects with our live blood analysis and working to reverse them
- detoxification of the chemicals such as chemo and radiation that are known to stay in the body for many, many years…
- kinesiology for the stress and re-booting of immune systems, detoxification pathways and endocrine systems
- pain protocols with frequency specific microcurrent
- lymphatic drainage massage and infrared saunas to help the detox process
Ah well… read on!
THE Australian doctor at the centre of a coronial inquest into the deaths of five cancer patients who received an alternative therapy in her Perth home has disappeared.
Counsel assisting the coroner Celia Kemp yesterday told the inquest they had been unable to serve Alexandra Boyd with a summons to give evidence.
Dr Boyd’s lawyer, Richard Lawson, also said he could not find her. “I don’t know where Dr Boyd is,” he said. “I haven’t heard from Dr Boyd for weeks.”
Mr Lawson handed deputy coroner Evelyn Vicker a letter from a clinical psychiatrist, which was not read to the court. He said he had not been able to speak to the psychiatrist either.
The five patients had received a concoction of minerals, industrial solvents and paint stripper while being treated in Dr Boyd’s Mosman Park home in 2005. They later died, some after vomiting green fluid and suffering chronic diarrhoea. It was part of a treatment promoted by disgraced doctor Hellfried Sartori, who trained in Austria and was later deregistered in several US states, and served jail time in the US for practising without a licence.
He was not registered to practise medicine in Australia either, but the inquest has heard he gave instructions to staff at Dr Boyd’s home from Thailand. Registered nurse Merrilee Baker yesterday told the inquest that when she worked at the home she thought there was no risk in injecting patients with the chemicals, but she had since changed her mind.
Dr Kemp asked Ms Baker why staff had administered peppermint for nausea and not taken the temperature of a patient, who was later found to have developed a serious infection and died.
She questioned why Ms Baker had administered intensive intravenous treatment on the oral orders of another nurse acting on instruction from Sartori.
“I’m suggesting you were aware what you were doing was not consistent with accepted nursing practice,” Dr Kemp said.
Ms Baker said she would be “very wary” of acting on oral orders again, but said patients had received a “higher” level of care than they would have in hospital.
For example, there is one frequency that is only useful for shingles and herpes. In acute shingles conditions it eliminates the pain and prevents the blisters from breaking out. In herpes outbreaks it eliminates the pain and heals the blisters in hours with only a two hour treatment. Depending on how many viral particles have been released into the system, a 2nd or 3rd treatment may be necessary if the shingles has been around for some time.
There are government restrictions on what we can say, report or claim as an effect of the use of microcurrent as a device for the treatment of any condition other than a general “treatment of pain” statement.