This section contains a miscellaneous collection of tips, tricks, hints, and cautions gathered from many people's experiences making and using Paper Doctor remedies. If you have questions about using the remedies, hopefully you can find the answer here.TIPS ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
- Never discontinue any prescription medication, or alter its prescribed dosage, without your doctor's consent.
- Never substitute a Paper Doctor remedy for any prescription medication.
- Paper Doctor remedies are intended for use by healthy people who are not regularly taking prescription medications.
- Some Paper Doctor remedies may work while you are using some prescription medications.
Others may not work at all. This is due to the powerful action of medical drugs. The only way to find out if a particular Paper Doctor remedy will work while you are taking a particular medication is to try the remedy a few times.
- Paper Doctor remedies cannot remove the side effects caused by prescription drugs.
All prescription drugs cause new complaints known as side effects. Some of these will appear soon after you begin taking your prescription medication. It will be easy to see that these complaints are side effects caused by your medication. Other complaints may not appear until after you have used the medication for many weeks, so you may not realize that they too are side effects caused by your medication.
If the complaint for which you are using Paper Doctor remedy is actually the side effect of your prescription medication, it is likely that the Paper Doctor remedy will not relieve it, or will relieve it only temporarily. Since each dose of your prescription medication will recreate the side effect, if the Paper Doctor remedy is able to relieve it, the side effect will soon return.
- Over-the-counter drugs are intended for occasional use.
Never use any over-the-counter drug continuously without your doctor's consent.
- Over-the-counter drugs can be dangerous.
Some combinations of over-the-counter drugs, when taken together (even though each drug is used according to its recommended dosage) can be dangerous or fatal to some people. The dangerous ingredients are acetaminophen and ibuprofen, found in popular pain killers.
(For example, see "High Risk Pain Pills", The Atlantic, December 1989. The author cites examples in which unsuspecting persons received organ-damaging or lethal doses of acetaminophen by using several over-the-counter drugs containing this ingredient at the same time. When using pain killers, be careful!)
- Do not use over-the-counter drugs and Paper Doctor remedies at the same time.
If you take over-the-counter drugs and Paper Doctor remedies at the same time, most likely the Paper Doctor remedies will be prevented from acting by the powerful effect of the over-the-counter drug.
The only way to find out if a particular Paper Doctor remedy will work while you are using a particular over-the-counter drug is to try them together. However, this is not recommended, since the Paper Doctor remedy will be trying to strengthen the body's Healing Response while the over-the-counter drug will be attempting to block it. This conflicting activity could make you sick!
- Over-the-counter drugs cause side effects.
If the complaint for which you are using a Paper Doctor remedy is actually the side effect of an over-the-counter drug, the Paper Doctor remedy probably will not work. The powerful suppressive action of the over-the-counter drug will most likely thwart the efforts of the Paper Doctor remedy.
- Use only one remedy at a time for one complaint at a time.
Always work to improve one complaint at a time. It will be tempting to work on two, three or more complaints at once. But this is not recommended, for two reasons. One, you can become confused and lose track of which remedy is doing what. This will lead you to take too many remedies. Two, if you take too many remedies, the Healing Response can become over-stimulated. (See number 8, below) It is better to finish with one complaint, then begin on the next. This linear method takes only a little longer and gives consistent results.
- Never use contradictory remedies within an hour of each other.
A "contradictory remedy" is one whose action is the opposite of the remedy you have just used. For example, Energy Boost and Fatigue are contradictory. One will let you relax, the other can give more energy. Contradictory remedies can over-stimulate the Healing Response. You can use Fatigue, then Energy Boost if you wait an hour or more between them.
- How to make a remedy start working faster.
Make your remedy. Drink the water but don't swallow it. Instead, hold it in the front of your mouth, under your tongue, for 3 to 5 seconds. Then swallow it.
- How to make a remedy more effective:
Repetition, not the size of the dose, makes a remedy more effective. To get better results from any remedy, make and drink it more frequently. Here's one easy way: make your remedy. Drink approximately one-half of it. Wait two minutes. Now drink the remainder. You have just used the remedy twice within two minutes. Repeat this procedure once again. You have now used the remedy 4 times in less than 10 minutes. Feel free to use any remedy in this way. But be sure to stop using the remedy when you start to feel better! Note: leaving your glass on the magnet longer than the required 5 minutes does not make the remedy stronger.
- Having food or drink in your mouth when you take a remedy may hinder its effectiveness.
If you are having trouble getting a remedy to work, drink it only when your mouth has been free of food or drink for 10 to 15 minutes. Toothpaste, mouthwash, soft drinks, gum, candy or mints act like food.
- If a complaint gets better or disappears from using one or more remedies but returns again later:
First, look for a different remedy, which might work better. Second, could your complaint be a side effect from a drug you are taking? All drugs, whether from a prescription, an over-the-counter drug medication, or from an illegal source, cause side effects. If you are not taking any drugs, try the remedyADDICTIVE HABITS , page 77. It can help break any repetitive pattern, even that of a recurring complaint. There is one other possibility. Your complaint could be constitutional in nature. This means that it will not disappear permanently until your entire level of health has been raised. A properly trained homeopath or acupuncturist should be able to help raise the level of your health.
These non-toxic remedies are not harmful. They cause no side effects. But, like anything, it is possible to overuse them. This situation will occur only if you disregard the instructions accompanying each remedy. DON'T DO THAT.
- If you overuse the Paper Doctor remedies, your Healing Response can get temporarily over-stimulated. You may notice one of the following sensations:
a tingling feeling
a 'wired' feeling
a feeling of being too keyed up
- What to do if you overuse the remedies:
If you notice any of the above sensations and think you might have overused one or more Paper Doctor remedies, do this:
- Stop using the remedies. Wait for the effect to wear off, which will be in an hour or so.
- Do not use any more Paper Doctor remedies until one day after the sensation disappears. In order words, give it a rest. Especially do not attempt to relieve your sensations with more remedies!
- Learn from this experience. Look over
Remedy Log record (see page 332). Count how many remedies you have used recently. Try to use the remedies less frequently, or more intelligently.- Don't combine remedies.
Never try to combine remedies by pouring the water containing one remedy into the water containing another. If you do this, the results you get would be unpredictable.
- How to use two remedies at once:
Sometimes the instructions accompanying a remedy will tell you to use two remedies at once. What this means is: make and drink the first remedy, add water to your glass, then make and drink the second remedy.
- After you make a remedy, don't remove your glass from the magnetic pattern page until you are ready to drink the remedy.
In other words, don't leave a remedy just sitting around your house. Later you may not remember what the glass contains. Or, the remedy may get antidoted. When you remove a glass from a pattern, drink the remedy immediately. Simple rule, no confusion.
- Some people who are heavy coffee drinkers may have trouble getting good results from Paper Doctor remedies.
This is because the remedies activate your Healing Response through the nervous system, and coffee over-stimulates the nervous system. In effect, coffee can antidote Paper Doctor remedies before they have a change to work. This does not happen to everyone, coffee drinkers must experiment. PS. If you want to break your stimulant addiction habit, try
ADDICTIVE HABITS , page 77.
- Don't take shortcuts.
Each remedy you use correctly will bring relief from your complaints and additional knowledge about how Paper Doctor remedies work. Do not destroy your opportunity for relief and knowledge by trying to take shortcuts. Just follow the instructions in this book.
TIPS ON MISCELLANEOUS POINTS
- Don't mark or draw on any magnetic pattern page.
Any extraneous mark on the page could alter the quality of the remedy that is made, with unpredictable consequences.
- Do not bend, crease or fold any magnetic pattern page.
This would distort or destroy the pattern's remedy-making ability.
- For your safety, and the safety of others, don't photocopy the remedy patterns.
Don't try to make a remedy from a pattern which you know has been photocopied.
The reason is this: photocopy machines slightly distort the images they reproduce, making them a little larger or smaller than the original. For most reproductive work, this makes absolutely no difference. For the Paper Doctor remedies, however, any change in the properties of the pattern will produce weak or distorted remedies, with unpredictable consequences.
The Paper Doctor remedies will only work as described when they are made from a bound book purchased from a reputable book dealer.
- Don't laminate the magnetic patterns.
They won't work.
It's interesting to note that magnetic pattern pages which have been laminated (to preserve them against water damage) will no longer make remedies. This is apparently because there is no longer a surface pattern for the magnet to 'read'. Instead, the paper surface is ubiquitously flat - it contains no usable data.
- To keep water from damaging a magnet pattern page,
carefully wipe off the bottom of your cup or glass before placing it on the magnetic pattern. You can also use the acetate sheet which comes in the envelope with the Remedy Board; place it under your glass.
- If you damage or lose your Remedy Board:
You can order a replacement from us. See
Additional Paper Doctor Products , page 365.
- Interference from electromagnetic fields will distort your remedy.
If you make remedies near your TV., stereo or any other strong source of electromagnetic radiation, the remedies you make may be distorted in unpredictable ways. Though they can't hurt you, such remedies won't work very well either. It's best to make remedies on a wooden table. But even that's no guarantee; one user reported that his wooden table actually had four magnets imbedded into it!
ForTo be certain your work surface is magnetic field-free:
Slowly sweep the surface with an ordinary pocket compass, watching for any sudden swings or deviations of the needle. Such deviations mean a powerful magnetic influence is near, and can distort your remedies.
- How to give Paper Doctor remedies to a pet.
Paper Doctor remedies will work as well as for pets as it does for humans. However, you still must choose your remedies carefully. Remember that pets can't give verbal feedback, so you must watch their behavior closely to be sure they are really improving.
Make the remedy in your water glass, as always. While the remedy is being prepared, clean your pet's water dish and fill it with fresh water. When the remedy is made, pour it into the water in your pet's dish. Alternately, you can try to pour it directly into their mouth.
Observe your pet's behavior to decide if the remedy was effective. Repeat the remedy as needed. But don't give your pet too many remedies too fast! See item 8, page 63.
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