In the Spring of 1990, approximately 50 people agreed to take part in the initial testing of Paper Doctor remedies. These people ranged in age from their early 20s to their mid 60s, and lived all across the U.S.The following reports are excerpted from letters received or transcribed from telephone conversations held with these people, who volunteered the following information regarding their use of various remedies, as noted. Their reports are presented here to convey a sense of other user's experiences, and to teach by analyzing their encounters with Paper Doctor remedies. The Paper Doctor User Reports
ALLERGIES Report 1: A woman, aged 51, who lived in Sonoma, California, developed a severe allergic response to pollen in May, 1990. She had violent, continual sneezing, burning watery eyes, burning throat, and shortness of breath on going outside her house. In addition, she felt lethargic and anxious, and was unable to sleep well at night due to continual sneezing. She claimed the pollen in Sonoma was so thick, it was visible in the air. She had to hold a handkerchief over her nose and mouth whenever she left the house. Many of her friends were having a similar experience. Strong allergic reactions to pollen are commonplace in her community every Spring.
This woman experienced her symptoms continuously for eight or nine days before using The Paper Doctor. Then she used the ALLERGIES remedy three times the first day. By that afternoon her allergies were definitely worse, so she continued to repeat the remedy for the rest of the day. By the next morning her allergies were nearly gone. She was able to walk outside without a handkerchief, and did not experience any allergic reaction. Her friends in the community continued to have their allergic problems for the next month.
Analysis of Report 1: This person had a "healing crisis" after the first glass of the ALLERGIES remedy. This caused a temporary worsening of her symptoms for the rest of that day.
Misinterpreting the healing crisis to mean that her complaint to be getting worse, she continued to use the remedy. Probably she would have had the same results had she stopped after one glass of the remedy.
Once a "healing crisis" occurs, one's complaint will usually disappear within a few hours by itself, without additional assistance from the remedies. The trick is to learn to recognize a "healing crisis", and distinguish it from a true worsening of the complaint. See
How To Evaluate A Remedy , page 55, for a discussion of the "healing crisis".Report 2:
A woman, aged 63, tried unsuccessfully to use the ALLERGIES remedy. She has had a long history of respiratory troubles, beginning with chronic sinus problems as a child.In her twenties she had an operation on her sinuses. Afterward she was better, but within a year developed severe migraine headaches, which continued for more than twenty years despite all types of treatment.
In her mid-forties, she developed cysts on her ovaries, which were removed. After this surgery her migraines disappeared! But in her fifties she grew severely depressed, and after many years of prescription medications was given shock treatments.
Since that time she has had various allergies, continual dizziness, uncontrollable rapid eye movements, and other diverse sensory problems. She used the ALLERGIES remedy 6 times in one day, without experiencing any results. Although advised to use the RESISTANCE remedy next, she refused, and would not try any other Paper Doctor remedies. Nor would she explain the reason for her actions.
Analysis of Report 2: Obviously ALLERGIES was not the correct remedy in this situation. However, because the person gave up on The Paper Doctor afterwards, it is impossible to know whether other remedies in the book might have been successful.
This example teaches that her expectation from The Paper Doctor was too high, and that she wasn't persevering enough. No one should expect the first remedy they use to perform a cure. It takes experience to learn how the Paper Doctor remedies work, and often many remedies are necessary to completely relieve a long-standing complaint, such as this woman had.
FIRST AID, RESISTANCE, and SINUS INFLAMMATION should have been tried, each in turn, in whatever order seemed appropriate to the user. In addition, this woman's "allergies" might have had an emotional basis, for which HURRYING, WORRYING, MOODINESS, or STRESS might have been appropriate.
I include this report to demonstrate what you already suspect: that Paper Doctor remedies don't always work; that if any remedy fails to work, you must try another remedy, and learn how to learn from your failures; and that you can't always choose the right remedy just by its name.
Since this woman's medical history was difficult, perhaps none of the remedies in this book could have helped. However, we will never know for sure.
Often people who have serious, long-standing problems are eager to try new healing ideas. But just as often they are impatient for quick relief. Take it as a rule of thumb that the longer you have had a complaint, the longer it will probably take to relieve it - by any method.
And look at this way. If modern medicine has not been able to cure a person's complaint, what chance does The Paper Doctor have?
This book holds no miracle cures. Paper Doctor remedies are most likely to work for persons whose complaints can be relieved by most other forms of healing as well. People would be wise to choose The Paper Doctor for its easy-to-use, inexpensive, self-administering, non-toxic properties, not because the hope for a miracle.
Report 3: A young athletic male, age 23, over a period of days woke up each morning sneezing, with a runny nose and feeling tired. He had been using Paper Doctor remedies for several months, and was familiar with the procedure.
He made and drank two glasses each of THE COLD PREVENTATIVE and STIMULATING YOUR HEALING RESPONSE every morning for the next four days. By the end of each day he felt much better. However, the next morning he would awaken with sneezing fits, sniffles and low energy again. By the fourth day he decided that he must not be using the right remedy, because contrary to his previous experience with Paper Doctor remedies, he wasn't getting lasting results.
So he asked himself, "What kind of agent would be like a cold but cause my problem over and over again every day?" Unable to answer this question, he looked up his primary complaint, "Sneezing", in the
Complaint's Index (page 341). There he found this listing:Allergies, page 81Allergies?! The only remedy in this list he had not tried! Could he possibly have allergies? He looked up the ALLERGIES remedy on page 81 and read the description of its healing action. He realized for the first time that the symptoms of allergies and those of a cold could be similar.
Stimulating Your Healing Response, page 253
The Cold Preventative, page 277He started to use the ALLERGIES remedy. After one glass his energy returned. Something inside of him was definitely altered. He reported "Inside I just felt better." With several additional glasses of ALLERGIES, his complaint disappeared that day and did not return.
Analysis of Report 3: This report give us an opportunity to understand what it means to "match" your complaint to the right Paper Doctor remedy.
When you use a remedy for which there is no match - that is, a remedy which has no history of relieving a complaint like yours - nothing will happen. We say the remedy did not work.
When you use a remedy that matches your complaint - that is, a remedy which has previously demonstrated that it can relieve complaints similar to yours - the remedy will definitely "do something". Our example demonstrated that THE COLD PREVENTATIVE remedy, or STIMULATING YOUR HEALING RESPONSE, or both together, can relieve sniffles and help improve low energy. They "did something" for this person.
However, this improvement did not hold. Somehow, these remedies were not a close enough "match" to the subject's actual complaint to relieve it permanently. In this case, ALLERGIES, a remedy also known to improve sneezing, sniffles and low energy, was a better match.
The correct remedy was chosen secondarily - by learning from the effects of the first one and then applying what was learned to the second choice. Notice that this person used the Complaint's Index, page 341, to help solve his problem. The Complaint's Index is a tool designed just for this purpose.
It is from these opportunities - to try remedies, then analyze what happened - that your real knowledge of Paper Doctor remedies, and natural healing in general, will be acquired.
In other words, when a remedy fails to work, learn all you can from the event. That way your successes will bring relief, and your failures will bring new knowledge.
BRONCHIAL IRRITATION Report 4: A woman, tall and thin, age 55, and a professional caterer to private parties in a wealthy area, had a history of acute and chronic bronchitis extending back many years. She periodically suffered bouts of painful coughing. Neither her doctor, nor her chiropractor, nor her masseur were able to help. When one of these attacks began she felt desperate, because each time she was so debilitated by her condition that she couldn't work. As it turned out, she was given a copy of the Paper Doctor only a few days before an acute bronchial attack came on. She reported frequent deep coughing with knife-like pains in her chest each time she coughed. Soon her entire chest was aching.
After visiting all three of her healers in one day, and without getting any relief, she was on the verge of canceling a catered party that would provide her with a month's income. At this point she decided to give The Paper Doctor a try.
She made and drank one glass of BRONCHIAL IRRITATION before going to bed, then one more on waking in the morning. She reported feeling so much better that she wondered whether she had just imagined her previous pain. By noon she knew her work at the party could proceed. She continued using the remedy all day and by evening her complaint was entirely gone.
She did not have another acute attack for two months. When it did come on, her attack was much less severe than expected, and one glass of BRONCHIAL IRRITATION was all she needed to gain complete relief.
After two months she had not had any further attacks, even though she traveled repeatedly, a situation which in the past seemed always to bring on coughing.
Analysis of Report 4: This is one example of a Paper Doctor remedy that made a good match without a "healing crisis" occurring.
Before taking too much credit for this healing event, we should remember that the person does have long-standing chronic bronchial problems, sometimes leading to pneumonia. The Paper Doctor remedies cannot reach deeply enough to effect a permanent change in this situation. However, they may be able to relieve the person's acute condition over and over again, perhaps for years.
This person needs a deeper healing to raise her level of health enough that her chronic bronchitis will be permanently cured.
THE COLD PREVENTATIVE Report 5: A middle-aged woman had just returned from a trip to visit her parents in Texas when she came down with a cold. She had a bad cough that kept her awake at night, with continual sniffles, and watery eyes. She generally felt "wiped out". She wasn't able to work. That day she used THE COLD PREVENTATIVE and STIMULATING YOUR HEALING RESPONSE together, three times each. She was not better the next morning after coughing all night, but repeated her two remedies as before. At the end of the second day she felt no improvement at all. At this point she began using the RESISTANCE remedy.
By evening her cough was terrible. She sent her husband to the drug store to buy some cough medicine to help her sleep. She used the cough medicine a few times, and kept taking the RESISTANCE remedy.
The next morning, her cough was gone. She noticed strong feelings of guilt about her parents, whom she had just visited, and about whom she had many unresolved negative memories. She realized that it was only because of her sense of guilt and obligation that she made her trip to Texas. She remembered how upset she had felt during her visit because her parents would not talk to her about important emotional issues from her past. She cried, then, realizing that due to her father's illness she might never be able to resolve her bad feelings toward him. Even though she still felt sick, she had strong feelings of guilt, obligation and frustration in this situation with her parents.
All that day her cold symptoms continued to get better. She used no more remedies and no more cough medicine. By the next day, she felt emotionally more at peace. Her cold was gone.
She had this to say about her experience: "My mind wants to think about these (Paper Doctor) remedies, 'I will just drink it and have this marvelous instantaneous recovery wit all my energy back.' But, every time I use them, it doesn't work this way. It's slower, and the healing brings revelations."
Analysis of Report 5:
This incident reveals the meaning of a "psychological cold". This is a type of cold that is caused by emotional suppression, not by a virus. Often THE COLD PREVENTATIVE will not work in this situation. If RESISTANCE is used, it tends to bring forth the emotional state behind the complaint. One must be willing to experience his or her suppressed emotions and try to resolve them. Then the "cold" will disappear.This is why RESISTANCE is always the remedy to try when your first remedy doesn't work. There may be an emotional block to the healing action, and RESISTANCE can uncover it.
As a side note: This person should not have continued to use THE COLD PREVENTATIVE and STIMULATING YOUR HEALING RESPONSE beyond the first day. By doing so, she unnecessarily prolonged her suffering, instead, she should have switched to RESISTANCE the second day.
When you can see that your chosen remedy is not working, switch to RESISTANCE, or another appropriate remedy. Certainly there is no need to continue any remedy for more than one day without results. (However, when using the "psychological" remedies, you might want to wait several days before you decide that they aren't working.)
Second side note: Our volunteer reported that by the evening of the day during which she starting using the RESISTANCE remedy her cough was severe that she sent her husband to the store for cough medicine - which she subsequently took. Could it be that her worsening cough was a "healing crisis", and would have subsided by itself without the cough medicine?
STIMULATING YOUR HEALING RESPONSE Report 6: "I had a sore throat for about 4 days before trying a remedy. I used the remedy STIMULATING YOUR HEALING RESPONSE for just one day (6 times). "Before using the remedy my symptoms included a sore throat, an occasional cough and phlegm in my throat. After using the remedy for one day I definitely noticed an improvement in all of my symptoms.
"Your remedies are interesting. However, I probably don't care enough about my health to use these remedies regularly."
This brief report came from a 28 year old male.
Analysis of Report 6:
This young man probably enjoys pretty good health, or he wouldn't be taking it so lightly. Though he is skeptical of The Paper Doctor, the remedy appears to have worked for him.Until a person has successfully used the Paper Doctor remedies on several complaints, he or she is not likely to believe that "it wasn't just placebo". So his reaction is quite normal for someone using the remedies for the first time.
You could say that buying this book is a commitment to trying at least three remedies. It may take that long to get a feel for how these remedies work, and what to expect when you use them.
TOOTHACHE Report 7: From a older woman, who developed a toothache while traveling to the East Coast on business. "My toothache appeared suddenly and seemed to be all over the left side of my face - both upper and lower jaw - so that I wasn't sure just which tooth it was at first. Finally I figured out that it was the one my dentist said needed root canal work.
"This was a major toothache. I mean A MAJOR TOOTHACHE. My only thought was for how to get through the trip in one piece and back home to my dentist.
"Then I remembered your book (she means The Paper Doctor) which I had reluctantly lugged along. I made the toothache remedy about 5 times a day for 4 days ... and the pain stopped! Was I surprised, relieved! Even a week later, after the trip was over and I was safely back home - the pain still had not returned."
Analysis of Report 7: Well, it's reassuring to know that this remedy worked, since toothache pain is often unendurable and the last thing you want to have happen when traveling. Therefore, this is an important remedy to have in The Paper Doctor. To my knowledge there are no non-toxic toothache remedies on the market that really work.
On the negative side, the fact that this person had to use so many glasses of the remedy is a little disconcerting. It's was also time-consuming for her. Perhaps other people might not be willing to keep using the remedy the way this person did.
One strategy you can use when you need to repeat a remedy and don't have much time is to double the usage. Make and drink each remedy twice in succession. Busy people could do this only in morning and night, and still get in four glasses a day.
Other remedies that might have helped her are: FIRST AID, FEARFULNESS, PAIN, STRESS, and of course, RESISTANCE.
STRESS Report 8: A woman about 45 wrote me that she attended a town meeting recently in which she had to make a presentation. I have known her for years, and for years have listened to her tell how she hates to speak in public because she always feels so nervous about it. I'm sure she did very well with her presentation, but she reported afterward that she "was shot. I felt very tense, nervous, and completely exhausted. So when I got home I took one glass of the stress remedy. Surprisingly, my stuff disappeared in about five minutes!" When I queried her later, she said one glass did it; she never needed another. Analysis of Report 8: This woman turned out to be the first person to report to me concerning the STRESS remedy. I have included her report to show that sometimes Paper Doctor remedies can act very quickly and completely, without repetition. In order for this to happen, the remedy has to be a good match with one's complaint. There is no way to know beforehand how good your match is or how many glasses will be needed.
Notice that this woman waited until her complaint (stress) appeared, then she used the remedy. I mentioned to her at the time that she might try it as a preventative, to be used before a presentation. She replied that she never intended to give another presentation in her life, and so would not be able to find out!
Nevertheless, many Paper Doctor remedies can be used preventively if you know from previous experience how you are likely to react in an upcoming situation. STRESS and BUSINESS PRESSURE are good examples of preventative remedies.
FIRST AID Report 9: I spoke to the manager of a well-known local book shop about the possibility of test marketing The Paper Doctor. She seemed receptive to the idea, and began to think of a way to test it out. She told me that her favorite ivy at home had rust disease on it. Did I think Paper Doctor remedies could help her plant? This was a challenging test! If I was to have any chance of selling my book in her shop, I had better come up with a quick solution to plant rust.
So I said yes, the Paper Doctor remedies could help. I told this woman to make the FIRST AID remedy in a glass, in the usual way, then either pour the water around her plant or pull a leaf from the plant and drop it in the water.
Forgetting about the incident, I didn't contact her again for about 5 weeks, when I phoned to find out whether she would agree to sell copies of The Paper Doctor in her store.
She told me that the store's owner would not agree to it because they only accepted books which were available to them through the regular distribution channels. This simplified their bookkeeping procedures. She did mention, however, that she had tried FIRST AID on her plant, and that the rust had disappeared in about a week!
Regrettable I failed to solicit important details: had she used more than one glass of the remedy? Had she used more than one leaf? Did she pour the remedy on the plant directly, or just drop a leaf into the water as I suggested?
Analysis of Report 9: In theory the Paper Doctor remedies should be as effective with plants as they are with people. This woman's testimony seems to agree with that notion. However, this is one isolated case with a severe shortage of facts.
My suggestion that she used the FIRST AID remedy wasn't brilliant. It's just that FIRST AID is the single most useful remedy in this book. It can always be your first remedy after any physical or psychological trauma. This can include catching a cold, or any disease, which is a kind of trauma. So perhaps her plant was traumatized too.
When your get an interesting healing experience, try to write it down so that you can recall it later. You never know when it might be of benefit. If nothing else - you can send it to me!
Report 10: "Don, I had another amazing (to me) experience with the book. Yesterday John and I were walking in a rough mars and I twisted my ankle. Since we drove all day it didn't start to hurt and swell until afternoon, when we stopped at the motel.
"I took a bath, used the First Aid remedy, put ice on it and rested. I used First Aid twice and Sports Injuries once. By 7 pm it was feeling much better. Today it is well.
"I am surprised because the way it felt yesterday afternoon I could see myself not walking on it for several days. Today I have full movement and no pain! I must say I was very skeptical yesterday, but am so glad I brought the book (on this trip)."
From a woman in Washington State.
Analysis of Report 10: This report typifies good use of The Paper Doctor. The person was traveling. She had a minor accident, and was unable to make a remedy right away. When she could make a remedy, she did so. She also used ice, and rested. And finally, she followed one remedy with a second and completed her healing.
While using The Paper Doctor she was skeptical - but she used the remedies anyway. Result: success. And a much happier finish to her vacation than might have occurred otherwise.
When you have had interesting or unusual experiences with Paper Doctor remedies, call or mail in your report. Perhaps your story will appear in the next edition.
User Profile The typical Paper Doctor user is female, over thirty, and interested in obtaining more control over her own health care. She is either has, or has had, responsibility for the health of family members or friends. She is concerned about pollution, and recognizes the phrase"non-toxic" as a meaningful asset in health care.
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