Evaluation Criteria
The following specific criteria have been used in evaluating these various medical approaches.
1. How does a specific medical system define health or disease?
2. Its capability to ascertain the true underlying causes of illness versus their mere secondary by-products – "the domino effect."
3. What diagnostic methods does it use to determine these causes, i.e., laboratory, tissue analysis, physical examination, imaging, structural, energetic? What is the meaning of the findings in relation to the true causes of illness?
4. Therapeutic means that address the findings, their efficacy, specificity and lack of iatrogenicity.
5. What is its ability to operate on the most fundamental domain of human physiology – cellular fields?
6. Does a modality take into consideration physiologic reserve of the sick and augments it or just uses it up indiscriminately just to abate symptoms or findings?
7. Is it able to identify and address other factors that sustain a disease (lifestyle, environmental, emotional, etc.), and how effectively does it address them?
8. How inclusive is it of other medical modalities that can be helpful in patient’s management?
9. What model does it use to skillfully integrate these modalities without setting them to a detriment to a patient on a collision course?
10. What are the short- and long-term outcomes?
11. Does it lead, in the long run, to treatment dependency?
12. Does it result in the overall improvement in health or simply masks/suppresses symptoms?
13. What are the means of maintenance, prevention and their effectiveness?
14. How cost effective is it?
15. And, at last, what is the rate of emergence of crippling degenerative diseases down the road? Is it the same, better or worse than the median age-related statistics?
Evaluation of Medical Approaches
There are three major factors that, in one way or another, sustain any disease.
1. Causative Agents
(toxicological, biological, metabolic,
physical, emotional, etc.)
2. Constitutional Weaknesses
(genetic or acquired)
3. Factors that Block Healing
(environmental, lifestyle,
psychological, etc.)
In the great majority of cases, these factors can be fully identified and addressed only through the deep and specific diagnostic and therapeutic interventions that operate at the most fundamental level of Man’s physiology — Energy.
This section presents brief assessments of the prevailing therapeutic and diagnostic approaches, based on their respective paradigms’ ability to pinpoint and properly address these factors.
Here is a good example of this that has been sent to me recently as a matter of inquiry ("to do or not to do?") by a very experienced alternative MD, who was lured by the seeming sophistication of the program in spite of its high cost and time commitment involved. The text has been edited due to professional ethics.
The _____ Biological Medicine Network is pleased to present the start of a two-year curriculum of _____ Biological Medicine consisting of four weekend seminars [in the Massachusetts area] and four workshops [at _____, New Mexico]. The combined eight weekends are designed as a comprehensive study of the principles and practices of _____ Biological Medicine as taught by Dr. _____, Medical Director of the _____Klinik in _____.
Please see the following pages regarding details for the entire two-year seminar series.
This intensive seminar series is designed for MDs, NDs, RNs, DDSs, DCs and DOs; allied health care practitioners; and those attending school in the holistic medical field. Certificates will be awarded after each seminar and workshop. Receipt of the PBMN diploma entitles the practitioner to a one-week internship at the _____ Klinik in _____.
Participants who complete the entire two-year certification process will be invited to a one-week, complimentary internship at the _____ Klinik.
The full registration fee for each seminar and each workshop is $800. The early registration fee is $725 and early registration dates will be announced. A student discount of $100 is available.
To be become certified, candidates must be allied health care practitioners
[MD, ND, RN, DO, DC, DDS] or attending school in the health care field.Seminar 1
November 10-12, 2006 at _____, _____ Massachusetts
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, MD, DDSThis foundational seminar introduces the essential concepts of Biological Medicine, illuminating biological regulation, the polymorphistic model, and homotoxicology. The role of Biological Dentistry, homeopathy and isopathy will be examined. Through an exploration of the mind/body paradigm, the psychoemotional themes of illness, and clinical approaches to the patient, seminar participants will draw toward the heart of Biological Medicine. Additional Mini Workshops in Darkfield Microscopy, Remedies, Energetic Anatomy and Physiology, and Intake and Assessment Skills will be offered.
Workshop 1
February 9-11, 2007 at _____, _____New Mexico
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, DDSWorkshops teach specific diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of the Biological Medicine model. The primary focus of Workshop 1 is diagnosis, with presentations on physical examination techniques including Traditional Chinese Medicine tongue diagnosis, computer regulation thermography, and medical microscopy (layered dried blood analysis and live blood analysis in darkfield). This Workshop includes Part 1 of a four-part survey of Biological Dentistry. Case presentations will clarify applications of the presented techniques.
Seminar 2
May 4-6, 2007 at _____, MA area
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, MD; _____, MD, DDSSeminar 2 addresses a wide range of topics, including orthomolecular and Traditional Chinese Medicine perspectives on the Liver/Gallbladder correspondence system, toxicology and detoxification techniques, nutritional therapy, and heart rhythm diagnostics (heart rate variability analysis and biofeedback). Also featured: an introduction to Swiss-German pharmaceutical companies and their biological remedies, notably fungal and bacterial remedies from Sanum-Kehlbeck, spagyric remedies from Pekana, complex homeopathic remedies from HEEL BHI, and plant tincture by CERES. This seminar reinforces Biological Medicine’s emphasis on Biological Dentistry, the mind/ body paradigm and the psychoemotional themes of illness, providing case presentations to illustrate clinical approaches to the individual patient.
Workshop 2
September 14-16, 2007 at ________, _____, New Mexico
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, DDSWorkshop 2 integrates the structural, regulatory, energetic, and psychoemotional diagnostic skills at the heart of Biological Medicine, and explains diagnostic prioritization in relationship to causal chains. Presentations will further examine heart rate variability and live blood analysis (darkfield), and move toward the therapeutic realm with instruction on orthomolecular selection and IV protocols. This workshop’s Biological Dentistry lecture (Part 2 of four) focuses on dental toxicology and toxicological testing.
Seminar 3
November 9-11, 2007 at _____, _____, MA Area
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, MD, DDSThis seminar introduces anthroposophy, anthroposophic remedies, mistletoe therapy, genomic testing, and computer regulation thermography. Presentations will also examine orthomolecular and Traditional Chinese Medicine perspectives on Heart/Small Intestine and Stomach/Spleen patterns of pathology. The gastrointestinal system, including altered bowel permeability, malabsorption, and food sensitivity, will be surveyed from a Biological Medicine perspective. This seminar includes Part 1 of a two-part survey of nutritional protocols, and correlates theory and practice through case study review.
Workshop 3
February 8-10, 2008 at _____ , _____, New Mexico
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, DDSDiagnostic and therapeutic skills receive equal treatment in Workshop 3. The diagnostic techniques of laboratory assessment, functional and toxicological testing, kinesiology, and color psychology will be examined. Therapeutic topics include colon hydrotherapy, Chinese tuina, Part 1 of a two-part lecture on neural therapy, and Part 3 of our survey of Biological Dentistry.
Seminar 4
May 2-4, 2008 at _____, _____, MA Area
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, MD, DDSThis final seminar concludes our survey of pathological patterns with the orthomolecular and Traditional Chinese Medicine perspectives on Kidney/Bladder and Lung/Large Intestine. Also addressed in this seminar: nosodes, apitherapy, bioresonance therapy, chelation therapy, oxidative therapy, and hyperthermia. Immune biology, including biological remedies such as the Sanum haptens, will be explored. This seminar includes the conclusion of the two-part survey of nutritional protocols.
Workshop 4
September 12-14, 2008 at _____, _____, New Mexico
Presenters: _____, MD; _____, OMD, L.Ac; _____, MD; _____, DDSWorkshop 4 will include final lectures on kinesiology and neural therapy, and examine the relationship between acupuncture points, neural therapy, and apitherapy (honey bee venom therapy and therapeutic products of the hive). This workshop includes part 4 of our survey of Biological Dentistry, and as always, clinical case studies illustrate the full flowering of the application of Biological Medicine.
"SYY Integrated Health Systems, Ltd." Analysis of the above program
The conceptual emptiness and off-focus and over-diluted approach toward disease is glaring. While the diagnostic efforts aim primarily at just another row of symptoms instead of true causations of illness which engendered them, the therapies offered, even by the most restrained terms, have to be classified as unnecessary, senseless, ineffective and, potentially, highly iatrogenic.
The end of the analysis.
Returning to our original discussion on this page, it is the objective of SYY Integrated Health Systems, Ltd. to inform health practitioners about many key medical issues through the FCT® curriculum, and equip them with a fundamental working knowledge concerning the benefits, limitations, and proper integration of the major therapeutic and diagnostic approaches.
It is also purposed to empower students with the ability to achieve far superior results and become more successful in their own field through a masterful application of the FCT® system.
These brief assessments are not to be construed as harsh critique, but rather as an impartial analysis of their true limitations.
If some professionals choose to challenge any of the assessments elaborated on this page, they may e-mail their well-substantiated comments with the request to be posted on the Letters page of this website, and note whether they wish to remain anonymous.
It is of interest that since the inception of this website in 1999, we have never received a single disagreement note concerning the subject matter.