October 10, 1995

Jerome Kassirer, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
Richard M. Glass, M.D., Deputy Editor, Journal of American Medical Association

Re: Curing Chronic Ailments: Validating the Energy Concept with Neuro-BioEnergetics (NBE) Treatment,                    Submitted Manuscript

Dear Dr. Kassirer, Horton, and Glass:

This letter is in response to your rejection of the above referenced manuscript. To my knowledge, this is the first time in the history of medicine that a scientific paper, substantiated by unparalleled evidence, irrefutable clinical results, and over 350 references from Western research data, demonstrated how chronic ailments can be cured without the use of drugs or surgery. With the current alarming growth of degenerative, immune deficient, and drug-resistant disorders, I cannot understand your lack of interest in the material presented.  It is also difficult to envision why a prestigious, scientific journal would dismiss a paper of such significance without making an attempt to verify the truth concerning the facts presented, and without subjecting it to review by experts in this field, considering the dramatic impact the NBE concept would have in reducing the cost of health care. The paper deserves more careful consideration for the following reasons:

•  I. Its focus and content adhere to the purported objectives of medicine

  II. Validating the energy concept is part of a major paradigm shift in science today.

  III. There is a parallel trend in the current health care shifting from fighting (physical) ailments to promoting total wellness, which includes mental (energy) conditions.

  IV. Physicians must learn to identify and treat the causes, or the underlying disease, and not merely treat its symptoms with drugs or surgery.

  V. The primary objective of medicine is to heal the patient, not to preserve a discipline that is deemed scientific based on prevalent dogma.

  VI. The NBE approach is a critical factor in solving the current health care crisis in the United States.

  VII. Validating the Energy Concept in medicine is a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of science and medicine.

I. The focus and content of the paper adhere to the purported objectives of medicine.

The paper begins with a quote from an NEJM editorial, advising physicians to seek alternatives that are new, ancient, or unproven when all other therapies have failed.   This was exactly done.  In addition, the Eastern energy concept was validated with scientific data and produced positive clinical results. The paper ended with a quote from a JAMA editorial, warning physicians "to do no harm." Similar rhetoric promoting quality care and cost containment dominates today's medical, government, and lay literature. NBE treatment is a low cost and relatively harmless procedure, as no more than 10-15 cc of 0.05% Marcaine is used per treatment. The method also avoids the expensive diagnostic tests, dangerous drugs, and unnecessary surgeries that are presently used to treat chronic ailments.

• Point: Medicine will lose its credibility if it does not practice what it preaches.

II. Validating the energy concept is part of a major paradigm shift in science today.

The old paradigm of Newtonian science, derived from observation of the physical world, posits the world as discrete, solid entities working in a giant clockwork fashion. This is being replaced by a new paradigm, based on more accurate energy research from quantum and relativity physics, which is proving that everything in the universe is actually all energy, a holism with infinite numbers of connected, constantly varying components, of which the human being (mind-body) is but one example. The Newtonian theory of the physical world consisting of positive space/time, increasing entropy, and permanent mechanical objects only provide an approximation of the facts. The emerging new paradigm, based on the Einsteinian concept is redefining reality in more accurate terms.

This is exemplified by Nobel laureate Prigogine's repudiation of the second law of thermodynamics by the demonstration of negative entropy in an organic process such as polymerization, Stanford professor W. Tiller's model of negative entropy and negative space/time for the world of higher energies, Stephen Hawking's "remembering the future" in a contracting universe, and the increasing awareness of consciousness as a causal reality by world renowned scientists, as stated in my paper. Conventional medicine fails to treat chronic disorders because it investigates only the physical component, which is energy in the form of matter, but ignores the electromagnetic element which is responsible for the active intelligence and emotions that provides the information as well as power to maintain health.  

• Point: A similar paradigm shift in medicine is inevitable!

III. There is a parallel trend in the current health care shifting from fighting (physical) diseases to promoting total wellness, which includes mental (energy) conditions.

There is a global health care movement away from high-cost drugs and surgery to less expensive, less harmful, natural remedies. A proliferation of interest in alternative therapies is affirmed by Harvard professor David Eisenberg who has published a study in NEJM in 1993 showing that 425 million people in the U.S. consulted alternative therapists compared to 388 million who consulted primary physicians, even though they had to pay for these "fringe" remedies out of their own pocket. Pending in the U.S. Congress are two bills which will legalize alternative therapies, S.1035 and H.R. 2019, called the Access to Medical Treatment Act. Bill S.1035 is sponsored by Senator Daschle, and cosponsored by, among others, Senators Dole and Harkin. H.R. 2019 is sponsored by Congressman DeFazio and cosponsored by Congressmen DeLay, Cox and others. When Senator Daschle introduced AMTA in Congress in 1994, he told his fellow Senators:

"It would be remiss if I did not take a moment to mention one other person, someone who has been instrumental in sparking my interest in this issue. That person is Berkley Bedell, a former Congressman from the Sixth District of Iowa. His story was one of the main catalysts in my decision to develop the Access to Medical Treatment Act, and provides powerful testimony to the need for this type of legislation.

As did a number of us in the Senate, I had the privilege of serving Congressman Bedell for several years in the House of Representatives. During his tenure in the house, he acquired a well-earned reputation for the intellectual honesty and commitment to principle, as well as for tilting the occasional windmill. In more than one instance, he appeared out of step with conventional opinion and subsequently proved to be ahead of his time.

As some may remember, Congressman Bedell was ill with Lyme disease when he left the House at the end of the 100th Congress. Having tried several unsuccessful rounds of conventional treatments consisting of heavy doses of antibiotics, the cost of which ran well into the thousands of dollars, he turned to an alternative treatment that he believes cured his disease...He estimates that the total cost for this alternative treatment was a few hundred dollars.

In spite of Congressman Bedell's amazing recovery, and the fact that this same treatment appeared to be effective in some cases of Lyme disease, the treatment can no longer be administered because it has not gone through the FDA approval process.

Not long after he recovered from Lyme disease, Congressman Bedell discovered he had prostate cancer. He again found conventional medicine to be unsuccessful and turned to alternative medicine. This time he had to leave the country to obtain his treatment. Once again, however, alternative medicine appears to have been successful thus far--he has been free of cancer for 5 years.

Mr. President, there are people in our country who are desperate, as was Berkley Bedell, for cures that conventional medicine simply does not seem to be able to provide. It is a tragedy that, in a nation that considers itself a world leader in the area of health care, many potentially helpful alternative treatments remain unavailable to those without the financial resources to seek them abroad.

The Access to Medical Treatment Act attempts to address this situation. Its intent is twofold: First, to allow increased access to alternative treatments: and second, to allow increased opportunities for the trial of alternative treatments that may prove to be extremely effective."

A similar desperate situation occurred with Congressman Jim Moran from Virginia, who sought an alternative therapy when his daughter became so ill from chemotherapy for her brain tumor. He believes that alternative therapies "are an inherently more cost-effective approach to health and wellness." He wrote in a commentary in the September 1995 issue of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine:

"Alternative medicine has offered our daughter a pain-free coexistence with a dreadful disease in an environment we can control. We have found an alternative approach that has given strength to our daughter and to our family.

I have found that alternative therapies generally require a greater level of involvement by the patient in the healing process than does conventional medicine, which takes control out of the hands of patients and their families, placing it in the hands of often impersonal "technicians" with greater and greater degrees of specialization. Let's face it. Conventional therapies are often painful and have very real, often devastating consequences.

I believe that if all policymakers had a similar firsthand experience with alternative medicine, they would readily encourage medicine's receptivity and responsiveness to the preservation of health and prevention of disease. The focus of health reform would be on bridging the gap between the world of disease and the far more preferable world of health. Such a bridge is particularly important at a time when the cost of treating disease, illness, and injury accounts for almost $1 trillion annually."

There are thousands of people with similar problems, who would greatly benefit from the information in my paper. The ability of NBE therapy to enhance immunity is excellent. Although I have limited experience in treating cancer with this method, some of my successful outcomes were very dramatic, with no side effects. And in truly terminal cases, the remarkable ability of NBE treatment to alleviate pain, nausea, and the other side effects of orthodox therapies render it indispensable as an adjunct to conventional treatment.

A bill in Oregon called "The Alternative Medical Treatment," H.B.3340, was recently vetoed by physician-turned Governor John Kitzhaber. However, in a campaign described as "brilliant" by the media, a powerful coalition of grassroots organizations led by Citizens For Health, subsequently convinced the legislature to override the veto by a landslide margin of 27-2 in the Senate and 55-4 in the House. Moreover, infuriated by the revocation of the license of an Oregon physician for practicing "nonconventional" medicine, the citizens will be filing an amicus curiae on behalf of the doctor to return his license, and they further intend to introduce legislation that will require all disciplinary hearings by the Medical Board be made public.

The NEJM recently "moved swiftly" to publish a small study on abortion involving 178 women using methotrexate and misoprostol. For the NEJM, a quick acceptance of such an "observational study" is unusual, but the journal felt that "the study is important because it involved almost 200 patients with consistent results, and a very important potential use of the drugs." In contrast, the study presented in my paper demonstrated a therapy involving 1,000 patients, with consistent outcomes, and essentially no side effects, in the treatment of the entire spectrum of chronic disorders, and the NEJM dismissed it because "its focus, content, and interest to [the journal's] readers were such that it would not meet [their] needs!" In the presence of today's overwhelming sentiment against the indiscriminate use of toxic drugs, especially in such a controversial area as abortion, where antiabortionists have gone as far as repeatedly committing homicides to prevent it, the NEJM's publication of the abortion study and rejection of my paper is difficult to justified.

Since 1988, the German High Court has held that physicians are obliged to use alternative therapies when orthodox treatments have failed. A doctor who does not conform can be found guilty of unethical conduct. In Italy, Norway and most Western European countries, a form of energy medicine is practiced, and health insurance agencies are required by law to pay for these services. Alternative medicine is also prevalent in Mexico and other South American countries.

All of the Asian countries have practiced energy medicine for thousands of years. Many of the pharmaceutical remedies used today are derived from herbs and natural substances that have been used by "healers" from time immemorial. Why is the popularity of alternative therapies growing so rapidly around the world? The answer is clear, because the treatments work, with less side effects than drugs and surgery, AND THE PEOPLE WANT THEM!!

•  Point: As a leading medical journal, you and your readers should be fully aware of the sweeping changes that are taking place worldwide concerning patient care that seeks "wellness" as opposed to the "treatment of disease." The reluctance of orthodox medicine to acknowledge this public desire, or to seek solutions other than drugs or surgery, and the indifference to the plight of the patients as well as today's exorbitant health care cost, is turning the doctor-patient relationship into one of confrontation and mistrust. Furthermore, the more organized medicine attempts to use its political clout against the public, the deeper the chasm between the physician and the patient becomes. Eventually the public will win. If nothing else, medicine needs to investigate promising options for pure economic survival.

IV. Physicians must learn to identify and treat the causes, or the underlying disease, not just treat its symptoms with drugs or surgery.

After a century of clinical practice, and billions of dollars spent on research, modern medicine has not yet been able to delineate the difference between the symptoms and causes of chronic ailments. The myriad of Western syndromes, such as arthritis, asthma, and hypertension, etc., are only a description of the symptoms, but not the causes of the individual disorders. Over time, the use of medical jargon has misled both physicians and patients into believing that these syndromes are the real maladies that caused the symptoms, whereas in reality the underlying maladies involve a disharmony between both the physical component and the energy system which controls the being as a whole.

Because of the lack of knowledge about the energy concept, various symptoms of a single underlying  malady are frequently being treated with a multiplicity of drugs and/or surgeries by different specialists, who do not realize that they are in fact treating the different symptoms of the same underlying disease!! This point cannot be overemphasized and will be further elucidated on in another article. Scientific study is meaningless without a clear understanding of the distinction between the underlying causes and its secondary symptoms.

 What is the point of having five different double-blind controlled studies to assess five different remedies for the five symptoms of a single, unknown underlying disorder?

Please pause for a moment to consider the possibility of this situation. You will see that it can happen. It is in fact happening all the time! Billions of research dollars are presently being wasted in this absurd manner. Especially for pharmaceutical remedies, where chronic suppression of a symptom invariably leads to new symptoms and exacerbation of other symptoms, due to the toxic effect of the drugs. This irrational medical practice occurs because current Western knowledge is not sufficient enough to detect these preorganic deteriorations, or ascribe them to the adverse action of the drugs. Quoting from a commentary by an internist from A Piece of My Mind in the February 27, 1991 issue of JAMA:

"Who among us has not repeatedly seen claims for fourth-generation drugs with no side effects, new operations that yield glowing results with minimal complications, or the latest infallible , high-tech diagnostic procedure...only to discover months or years later that these claims missed the truth by miles."

The enormous number of clinical trials has produced more controversy than consensus in the treatment of chronic ailments. Hormone replacement therapy, therapy for breast cancer and prostate cancer are a few examples. Billions of dollars spent on research in cancer and AIDS has not produced a solid protocol that a physician can follow to get predictable results. According to John Cairns of the Harvard School of Public Health, besides the moderate success with Hodgkin's disease, and a few hematological malignancies, there is no real demonstrable benefit of chemotherapy for any of the major cancers. Yet chemotherapy continues to be a standard therapy for most cancers. Even Jackie Kennedy refused further chemotherapy for her cancer--she realized that she would experience dreadful side effects, with only a very small chance of success. There is no wonder why the public are becoming skeptical, as the editor of What Doctors Don't Tell You commented in the August 1995 issue:

"Doctors believes so fervently in the power of their tools that they are willing to suspend all reasonable skepticism about current and new medical treatments--so long as these treatments fit in with orthodox medical assumption. Most doctors and researchers operate on the assumption of a priori benefit, whether or not a given remedy has actually been proven. It's the reason they don't need medical studies to prove or disprove their practice. We know what we're doing is right."

Please pause for another moment and consider, why after a century of clinical practice, thousands of "double-blind controlled studies" world wide, and billions of dollars expended, we are no closer to finding a cure for any chronic disease now than when we started? If anything, a cure for chronic disease seems so remote that anyone claiming the contrary is dismissed as a fraud! Without using any government money, I have produced remarkable results in thousands of cases covering essentially  the entire spectrum of physical and mental maladies, where the symptoms of the disease, as well as the need for any continuous therapy are completely eliminated. In contrast, after enormous amount of research, modern medicine has yet come up with one anecdotal case comparable to those that were presented in my paper. Something must be wrong! Could there be inherent flaws in our research methodology? Is it possible that we may have been looking in the wrong place for answers?

The answer to both of these questions, although painful, is yes! Firstly, the manner of dividing the body into different parts to be treated separately is scientifically wrong!! Secondly, the underlying cause in most chronic ailments are not due to physical factors, but rather to compromised energy and blood flow to the afflicted tissue. Infection, for example, is due to  reduced energy and circulation, resulting in an attenuated immunity, which allows for the proliferation of microbes. As depicted by the analogy in my paper, treating an infection with antibiotics without first restoring the energy and blood flow, is similar to calling in federal troops to quash a riot, without first clearing the traffic jam which caused the riot initially.

This is the reason for the many failures of antibiotic treatment, such as happened in Congressman Bedell's Lyme disease. The 36 year old nurse who did not respond to six sinus surgeries and three years of antibiotics (Case 52 in my paper), her 18 month old son whose otitis media continued to drain in spite of surgery and one year of frequent antibiotics (Case 53), and the repeated failures of the patients in Case 54 and 55 to respond to antibiotics for chronic sinusitis are all examples. (See attached letters.)

What is going to happen when new infectious agents, that our current antibiotics cannot control, begin to spread around the world? What can we do if the Ebola virus, or other hemorrhagic fever viruses, which are among the most deadly biological agents, begin to propagate? Infections by these viruses have already been reported in the U.S. during the past few years. Epidemics from these microbes could give a whole new meaning to "Out of Africa," and the resultant mortality can only stagger the imagination! In view of the escalating drug-resistant problems, and the unequivocal efficacy of the NBE method in resolving the failure of conventional therapy in immune deficient disorders, can one afford not to investigate the NBE approach?

Similarly, surgical repair or removal of a malfunctioning organ masks only one symptom of an underlying disease that caused the organ malfunction, but does not resolve the other symptoms of the same disease. Restoring the deranged energy/blood circulation, which is the underlying cause of the organ malfunction, will clear all symptoms of the disease, including the organ malfunction. This is exemplified by the complete reversal of the total uterine prolapse in Case 40, the reduction of the enlarged fibroid uterus back to normal size in Case 39, and the restoration of normal menstruation in the patient with premature menopause in Case 42, thereby eliminating her need for hormone replacement therapy prescribed by her Gynecologist.

With the plethora of information in today's medical literature, there is a dismal lack of information on truly effective treatments which do not involve drugs or surgery. Most surgical or pharmaceutical "breakthroughs" eventually become obsolete due to adverse side effects or their limitation of efficacy. Innovative studies, new diagnostic tests and evaluations are mostly unproductive in chronic ailments, because they cannot cure. As stated in my paper, the popular practice of trigger point injections (also known as neural/fascial therapy) is a form of NBE treatment. Yet without understanding its mechanism, optimal outcomes will not be achieved, and may result in unnecessary harm. Should we let our fellow physicians continue "shooting in the dark," when information to improve their result is available?

An abstract called "Curing Chronic Pain Disorders" which I recently submitted to the American Pain Society, after much confusion, was similarly rejected. The objection was that the synopsis (limited to 250 words) had no hypothesis and only a promise to prove that chronic disorders are curable. The emphasis on form over substance in this case is just a cover up to preserve the status quo. It is difficult to believe that physicians are not interested in a cure of chronic disorders, from which they derive most of their income. What is not realized is that the survival of the medical profession in today's competitive climate hinges on the ability of physicians to heal the patient. A medical journal, or society, will not survive in this turbulent medical climate if it continues to only provide information which rehashes on facsimiles of old discoveries and stale concepts of yesteryear, but does not teach new innovative treatments that can cure chronic ailments.

• Point: Medicine needs to distinguish the real disease from its symptoms. It is not scientific to perform an experiment, double-blind controlled study included, on just one symptom (such as hypertension) of a disease, without considering the underlying cause of the disease itself and its other symptoms ALL TOGETHER IN ONE STUDY! It is only that the association of the symptom of hypertension and the other symptoms caused by the same disease is presently unknown in the West. The current manner of suppressing each of the different symptoms of a disease with a different drug or drugs causes more harm than good. The advent of energy medicine will change the old era of symptomatic medicine to a new era of curative medicine and natural healing. Is it not time that we in medicine begin to investigate new solutions that are based on higher levels of science?

V. The primary objective of medicine is to heal the patient, not to preserve a discipline that is deemed scientific, based on current dogma.

I am a Western trained scientist. I completed my undergraduate study at the California Institute of Technology, and medical and anesthesia training at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Prior to medical school, I had no knowledge of Chinese medicine. I too was skeptical. If it was so good, why has it failed to make significant progress in 2,000 years, or to convince the world of its many proclaimed benefits? The shortcoming of oriental medicine is its lack of effective modalities to control severe symptoms. Hence, the Chinese have not been able to affirm their concept. On the other hand, the dilemma in Western medicine is that there is no known etiology for any chronic ailment. The therapy is not "scientific" if the cause of the ailment is unknown and untreated.

Nevertheless, the countless benefits of Western medicine cannot be denied. Chinese medicine can be translated in scientific terms only with a knowledge of Western medicine. Without the anesthetic techniques, validating the energy concept is difficult if not impossible. Moreover, the causality of disease is not a linear effect, but rather a complex system of interconnected, feedback components. Physical symptoms resulting from energy problems, if untreated, become an important factor in aggravating the underlying energy blockage. Hence, the power of Western medicine in controlling severe symptoms makes it indispensable in treating difficult maladies, acute trauma, and in preventing serious epidemics.

It is the synthesis of the strength of the two systems, Western technology and Eastern principle, which produces seemingly incredible results that they are usually dismissed as impossible or fraudulent. Resubmitted are sample letters from thousands of cases that I have treated to verify the efficacy of the NBE treatment.

Linda (Case A attached) had failed to obtain relief from every imaginable therapy, conventional and unconventional, for rheumatoid arthritis over the past 13 years, including selling her house as recommended by her doctor to avoid allergies! She finally lost hope from suffering from intense pain, as well as extensive arthritic and surgical disfigurements. The first NBE treatment cleared most of her symptoms, and she left our office "with a smile on [her] face and joy in [her] heart!"

Case 21. After 26 years of constant pain from two failed back surgeries, Judith was on her third attempt at suicide when she learned about us. As she stated in her letter, the first NBE therapy provided so much relief that she left my office with her "heart soaring with hope!" and she further urged that my paper be published because it "may save someone's life" as I did hers.

Case 49. Lon is the 43 year old man who was told by experts at UCLA that he would die without a combined liver and heart transplant, which they would not perform due to the high surgical risk and his precarious condition. After three months of NBE therapy, he has been feeling fine and has not required any form of treatment for the past four months.

Case 63. Jeff is the 18 year old young man who attempted to commit suicide five months ago because of chronic depression. The depression essentially disappeared after the first NBE treatment. And after 18 treatments, he has not needed any kind of treatment for the past three months. Quoting from the enclosed letter from him: "And I have something that I never thought I would achieve, a zest for life. Life is exciting! Some days I'm just amazed by all it has to offer. I'm just as amazed that I am able to say that."

Quoting from another patient David U. (Case B) who came to me recently for chronic fatigue and depression: "I cannot say enough about the treatment. After one session, my depression, which I've had on and off since 1976, was much improved, my breathing improved 100% , chronic fatigue is no longer a problem. My outlook on life has improved 100%. I no longer dread getting up each day. Confidence has been restored, and in general, life is worth living."

Isn't this what medicine is all about? They also clearly illustrate why medical costs are so high. Without our intervention, Linda, Judy and Jeff would have continued to suffer and financially drain the health care system until they succeeded in their suicide attempts. The conventional treatment for Lon would have cost upward of $500,000 for the organ transplants and the intensive care required for his recovery, with the most likely scenario being that the patient died soon thereafter due to treatment complications.

There are thousands of patients waiting for organ transplants, most of whom either cannot afford the costs, or would suffer adversely from these high risk procedures. I have receive numerous inquiries on whether there are other doctors who practice a similar therapy to mine. An elderly man from New York (Case C) wrote to me because his wife is suffering from circulation complication of edema, hepatosplenomegaly and dyspnea from a prior open heart surgery, and is not a candidate for another operation. (Note that her surgery only mechanically alleviated the symptom, but did not rectify the underlying circulatory disturbance of the smaller vessels). Should we let these patients die, or let them and their physicians know that there are better and less costly alternatives?

I can continue with hundreds of similar examples, but shall end with the tragic story of Diane (Case 5), which is a sobering lesson for all of us. Diane nearly died from the complication of methotrexate and two years of agonizing conventional therapies used to treat her rheumatoid arthritis. These included numerous hospitalizations, amputation of all toes on one foot due to skin ulcers and osteomyelitis, intensive care for septicemia, repeated skin grafts, hyperbaric oxygen, etc. In contrast, most of her problem was healed within three months of NBE treatments! Yet when her symptoms recurred two years later, her physicians, who had witnessed her severe complication with chemotherapy and her miraculous recovery from our treatment, steadfastly treated her again with chemotherapy, and managed the resulting renal complications with orthodox modalities until she died, at the age of 40.

These cases should alert us to re-examine our attitude toward science and the real objective of medicine. Judy, Jeff, Diane, and numerous other patients, despite clearly documented benefits from NBE therapy which they could not obtain from other treatments, all had problems with approval for this therapy from insurance medical reviewers. Being scientific in medicine has no meaning, if one loses sight of the real objective in medicine. It is tragic when dogma and prejudice have become so ingrained, that it blinds all reasonable judgment and common sense such that one can no longer recognize positive results if it is contrary to current beliefs, even when it is proven to be beneficial for patients. After all, what good is "science," if it harms rather than improves lives?

• Point: For humanitarian reasons and medicine's slogan "TO DO NO HARM", the medical profession should investigate other alternatives, such as the NBE method, that are more effective, less harmful and less expensive than conventional drugs or surgery. We have used aspirin for years solely based on clinical evidence. ---- THE REMARKABLE RESULTS PRESENTED IN THE PAPER ALONE MERIT ITS PUBLICATION, let alone the fact that it is supported by over 350 references from scientific data.

VI. The NBE approach is a critical factor in solving the current health care crisis in the United States.

A root cause of today's health care crisis is the inability of conventional drugs and surgery to effectively cure chronic disorders, as they only treat symptoms but not the real disease that caused these symptoms. Chronically ill patients spend their lives consulting one specialist after another, and repeating countless diagnostic tests and/or procedures, but always ending up with more drugs and/or surgeries.   Excessive use of powerful pharmaceutical and surgical remedies weaken these patients. While the symptoms of the disease are being suppressed with progressively stronger drugs, the root condition and the patient continues to deteriorate, contributing to the current surge of degenerative disorders. The reluctance of orthodox medicine to accept alternative therapies other than drugs or surgery only deepens the problem. These factors, along with the lack of true prevention, ecological pollution, excessive stress, improper nutrition and life styles has resulted in the progressive deterioration of general health in modern societies.

Secondly, the monopolistic control of health care by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries has resulted in ulterior motives among some of those involved in the medical field, who seek fervently to develop expensive and powerful remedies mainly for profit, and ignore the harm they can produce. Capitalizing on this medical bonanza, the legal profession has joined in with an avalanche of frivolous litigations, culminating in a malpractice crisis. These factors, along with the failure of government to oversee fraud and abuse in the health care industry and the apathy of the public as well as the medial profession to promote true prevention have led to the astronomical medical cost and the health care crisis.

The solution to this problem is not managed care or government regulation. Denying care to patients and slaving physicians to progressively lower fees by managed care contains cost only temporarily, as they do not address the aforementioned root problem of treating symptoms but not the underlying causes of the disease. For example, two HMO officials recently became my patients. One is the Chief of Anesthesia at a Kaiser Permanente hospital, who has had unrelenting back pain despite years of various therapies. He came to me as a last resort. I essentially eliminated his pain with two treatments. He then referred his skeptical, reluctant administrator who was scheduled to have a total knee operation. I also eradicated the pain of this second patient (See Case D), thus avoiding surgeries for both of these patients, as we have done for countless other patients. In addition, the physician with the hepatitis, his wife with the infertility problem, and the surgeon with hyperemesis Gravidarum, (See Cases 48, 44 and 45, respectively) are employees of managed care organizations.

The unchecked growth of managed care organizations would only drain precious health care dollars away from much needed patient care to profit-oriented owners and administrators. We have encountered numerous HMO patients who were repeatedly denied NBE treatment, even though it was the only therapy that has helped them. One of these patients (Case 23) is pursuing legal action against his HMO. A few patients pay for our service out of their own pocket. Another patient has to sell three government bonds for the $3,500 estimated cost for our therapy. Please note from the enclosed letter of his (Case E) that my treatment was recommended by his HMO, yet they would not pay for it.

The majority of these elderly HMO patients who needed my care, however, would withdraw from their HMO organizations, use their Medicare benefit to obtain our treatment, then rejoin the organizations. This switching back and forth costs Medicare extra expenditures for the necessary care of these patients which is the contractual responsibility of the HMO's. It is also unfair for our elderly citizens who have paid into the social security system all of their lives, to be subjected to this financial and medical inconvenience, not to mention the stress they have to endure worrying about the effect of health reform on their future medical care.

Drastically reducing the Medicare budget, as proposed by the Republican leaders, is not the answer either, because all it means is denying the elderly their social security benefits which they had paid into during their productive years. Neither is President Clinton's recent promise to bail out the bankrupted Los Angeles County health care system, which resulted in the closure of 29 health care facilities and threatens the continuous operation of the mammoth Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. This bailout may solve the budget crisis this year, but what about next year and beyond? Robbing from tax resources to pay for the fiscal and medical irresponsibility of governmental institutions is dishonest. The ultimate solution to this problem rests on physicians learning how to cure and prevent chronic disease, which presently cannot be accomplished by conventional medicine because of its limited understanding of the human healing mechanism.

In summary, never in history has any nation spent as much for health care as does the U.S. today. Medical cost was a nominal expense 50 years ago without managed care. Managed care may be viable with the young and healthy, but it will be disastrous for older and sicker patients. As the baby boomer generation becomes older and develops the chronic maladies that afflict the elderly, HMO's will be so overburdened, because they lack the skill to cure chronic ailments. They will have to deny care more often just to financially survive. The Bureau of the Census estimates that the population of age 85 and over will jump from 3 million in 1990 to 5.7 million in 2010, and to 17.7 million in 2050! Seventy million baby boomers will be eligible for their Medicare benefits in the year 2010. Geriatric care using our current medical system could absorb up to half of the U.S. GDP. Managed care may look good to Congress now, but it could financially destroy the country in the coming years. It is most urgent that we learn to cure chronic illnesses now while we have the time! A free market with doctors practicing less expensive alternatives which can cure and prevent diseases, such as the NBE method, will dramatically reduce cost, eliminate the need for managed care, and solve the health care crisis.

• Point: Even for those HMO patients, whose treatments are readily available, the root problem of not curing the underlying causes of a disease needs to be addressed. Health reform by budget reduction only means curtailment of health services, and passing the costs onto the tax payers. The ultimate reform-solution is to resolve the root problem in medicine, by learning how to cure chronic disease. The NBE approach, with its lack of inherent side effects, and its ability to cure the underlying disease, thus avoiding expensive surgeries and the long term use of drugs, is the critical factor in solving the health care crisis.

VII. VALIDATING THE ENERGY CONCEPT IN MEDICINE IS A REVOLUTIONARY BREAKTHROUGH IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE.

The affirmation of humans as energy entities and consciousness as a causality is perhaps the most revolutionary discovery in the history of science and medicine. The contemporary view of the mind being a functional byproduct of, and existing within the confine of the mechanical brain is wrong. It fails to explain intelligence and autonomy, both of which are lost at biological death, even though the brain and other body parts remain intact. It also does not account for the numerous mental effects exterior to the body, which have been verified by volumes of scientific studies. For forty years since the death of Einstein, researchers have failed to uncover the secret to his intellectual brilliance from the brain donated by the late scientist. It is futile to attempt to unveil this secret now, because what Einstein left is only the hardware (brain) of his intellectual system. The software (mind), the mastermind behind his genius, has left the physical plane at his biological death, and has returned home to the ethereal (energy) world.

When Semmelweis first introduced antisepsis by the washing of hands with antiseptic solution in the 1800's, it was ignored by the scientific community despite his repeated demonstrations of drastic reductions of mortality from puerperal infection by means of this prophylaxis. The skepticism was due to the fact that germs were not discernable at that time. Similarly, because the world of the consciousness is not detectable with current technology, allopathic medicine has so far ignored the voluminous scientific data on nonlocal mental phenomena such as extrasensory perceptions and telekinesis. The critical proof which allopathic medicine can no longer dismiss is the seemingly incredible results that can be produced with NBE therapy, based on the energy concept, on a consistent basis for a broad spectrum of chronic disorders, including mental ailments.

A most significant finding of my paper is that emotional factors, which are usually neglected by orthodox medicine, are a main cause of energy derangement in the overwhelming majority of chronic disorders. Conventional drugs and psychoanalysis do not alleviate emotional problem at the root level. To effectively cure chronic ailments, alternatives other than these conventional modalities are needed.

The claim that the whole spectrum of chronic syndromes are curable is indeed revolutionary! Yet when one consider that Western syndromes are merely descriptions of the physical effects caused by energy derangements, it then follows that by having a map of the energy system (meridians) and the skill to assess and resolve energy derangements when they occur, one can alleviate any physical symptom, irrespective of what names are given to describe them. The analogy would be similar to having a map of California, and the ability to ascertain and clear any traffic jam when it becomes a problem. Once the traffic blockages are cleared, the social disturbances caused by the traffic problem will eventually resolve. It does not matter what name is used to label the social turmoil, whether one calls it "multiple sclerotic traffic jam syndrome," or the "Ebola riot syndrome," etc.

The energy concept explains not only oriental medicine, but also homeopathy, psychic phenomena, and other mysteries that could not be previously explained. It asserts that the laws of physics must conform to those of metaphysics, because both the body and the mind are components of the electromagnetic continuum. Moreover, identification of humans as energy entities provides deep insight as to the origin and fate of humankind. This concept has far reaching implications in science, religion, ethics and other aspects of humanity.

Finally, our survival on this planet is balanced on a harmony between the physical and the ethereal world, which means an equilibrium between the body and mind, materialism and spirituality, science and religion, technological advancement and natural preservation... The world today is spiraling out of balance because of our insatiable desire for materialistic gains. The price we've paid in exchange for physical convenience is the pollution of the environment, destruction of the ozone sphere and the rain forest, as well as the threat of nuclear holocaust. Tampering with food products by adding harmful preservatives, the reduction of physical activities due to modern conveniences, and the increase of emotional strain and drug consumption associated with contemporary living is progressively weakening the genetic stock of the modern human. The artificial prolongation of present life spans is offset by a reduced quality of life, and will eventually be shorten by these ever growing and menacing deleterious factors. Hence, the gradual collapse of the ecosystem is bringing about an insidious genocide on a massive scale.

• Point: With our ecological balance and the long term survival of the human race in peril, an understanding of the energy concept in medicine is not only urgent but necessary for leaders in the scientific community. It would be a mistake not to give my paper serious consideration.

I hope that you do not consider this too aggressive in pursuing the publication of my paper. I am nostalgic for the good old days when doctors were regarded by their patients as friends of the family, and the profession was highly respected. The glitter of molecular biology and high-tech medicine has somehow lured us into a fragmented practice of subspecialization, where organ parts and laboratory tests are treated, and the patient as a whole human being is neglected.

The present trend encouraging primary care over subspecialization is an intuitive awakening among the medical profession that the current medical approach of biomolecular/mechanical reductionism is unnatural. The energy concept has provided a profound insight that not only is this approach unnatural, but it is also scientifically wrong!

It is analogous to a situation where a plumbing leak in a building is causing multiple damages and instead of fixing the source of the problem (the leak) along with all the damages as a whole -- plumber, electrician, painter, and other "specialists" are called in to mask the individual symptom separately. And when the symptomatic cover-up proves inadequate, endless "double-blind experiments" are performed to evaluate other chemical or mechanical solutions to repair  each of the damaged areas. With all the expensive diagnostic tests, surgeries, endless drugs, and unproductive researches, our irrational medical system is similar to a bottomless pit, draining our resources and damaging the health of our citizens. ALL OF THESE WASTEFUL EXPENSES AND HEALTH HAZARDS CAN BE AVOIDED BY USING THE NBE APPROACH, AS DEMONSTRATED BY 1000 CASES PRESENTED IN MY PAPER.

Adoption of the NBE approach by the medical profession will give physicians a powerful new tool. Western physicians, lacking the knowledge of the energy aspect of the body, often believe that the problems of a patients are "all in their head," which further aggravate the frustration level of the patient. Because of the lack of curative or effective therapy, they either tell the patient that "there is nothing that can be done" for their illness, or that they have "to learn to live with the pain" for the rest of their lives. In contrast, the physician skillful in energy medicine can provide immediate hope to the patient as I shall illustrate by this last case involving a young physician assistant (Case E) from Colorado, whose problem is a common dilemma and frustration for today's physician.

Kim has been suffering from nonspecific pain, fatigue, and depression. She has had numerous consultations with neurologist, cardiologist, and with her employer, a Harvard-trained internist, all to no avail. She was deeply perturbed and wrote to me for help, "I have either a rare disease or a very unusual presentation for a somewhat unusual disease, either way, because of my smiling face and a very healthy-seeming physique, no one seems to understand or believe me when I say something is very, very wrong. Each specialist has his/her own interpretation of my `story.' Although the facts, for the most part, are correct, somehow the whole picture is a little off. I sincerely hope that following our discussion, you will be able to offer me some advice."

My attempts to contact her by phone failed. I wrote back to her based solely on the scanty history she had sent me, as the laboratory tests were neither helpful nor relevant:

No astute diagnostician, who is knowledgeable only in Western medicine, will be able to help you. Western medicine repairs only the physical component of the human organism. It provides no understanding of the mental (energetic) element, the disharmony between which the physical component is the cause of most chronic ailments. You do not have a rare or unusual disease. Your ailment is very common. It is most likely a result of mental stress in the past. Your healthy appearance is only an external facade, covering up the deeper underlying discomfort.

No conventional doctor could truly understand what is wrong with you because they were not trained to detect preorganic, or emotional problems. Besides, all they can offer as treatment is drugs or surgery, which only mask the symptoms, but do not address the underlying causes of the problem. As you have keenly noted that bits and pieces of physical abnormalities resulting from your ailment were revealed by the modern diagnostic tests, while the total picture is missed. This is an unfortunate byproduct of the paradigm of mechanical reductionism. All of the consultations and diagnostic studies you went through are of little value in managing your disease. Your case typifies the dilemma faced by patients with chronic disorders. The vast majority of money spent on diagnostic measures, drugs and surgeries for chronic ailments are unnecessary. This is the main reason why we have the astronomical medical cost and the health care crisis today.

Even though I have not yet met you, I know that something is wrong, but not "very, very wrong" with you. Rather, your problem is indeed treatable, in fact, curable! Although there are no guarantees, if my guess that your problem is stress related is correct, you should experience dramatic improvement with my treatment, most likely from the very first visit.

No doubt, you will be skeptical when all the renowned specialists you have consulted have failed to even arrive at a diagnosis. Nonetheless, I believe that you will be convinced that I can help you after reviewing the enclosed material.

Kim came to see me in September, but had time for only one treatment. I was able to verify my suspicion that her problem was caused by a deep-seeded emotional trauma in the past. Although I could not provide her with a dramatic improvement in one treatment, she did notice some improvement and stated she would return for more therapy if possible. For preorganic problems caused by stress such as in Kim's case, the only conventional option of drugs therapy would merely deepen the root disease by further overburdening the already weakened liver and kidney systems. On the other hand, the prognosis for a cure in Kim's case using the NBE method is excellent with minimum or no side effects.

Kim's case is very common.  It is a headache and therapeutic dilemma for conventional physicians, but it is relatively easy to treat with the NBE method.  I have enclosed, along with the attached letters of the aforementioned patients, a video consisting of local and national TV coverage of my work. Additional material that substantiates my results are available upon request. From over one thousand patient letters, I have compiled two books consisting of 700 letters categorized by the patient's Western diagnoses. This information has been sent to my colleagues, government officials, and leaders in the health community. Of the replies, only Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D., and Cathie Guzzetta, R.N., Ph.D., Editors of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine had the foresight to recognize and the courage to comment on the "impressive clinical data."

I have informed Dr. Dossey that I intend to submit my paper to Alternative Therapies. Submitting this article to your journal first was an attempt to begin a dialogue within the entire medical community regarding the next great leap in medical knowledge. I do not claim to have all the answers, nor am I able to cure all ailments in all cases, but I do believe that the best medical system should incorporate all effective modalities, conventional and unconventional. I further believe that we should open our hearts to new concepts, that may--just may lead to new respect for our honored profession, as well as profound benefits for our beloved nation and suffering patients.

In conclusion, Dr. Kassirer, Horton, and Glass, physicians need this kind of knowledge, skill, and confidence to restore the treasured physician-patient relationship that existed in yesterday's golden era of medicine. The NBE approach is relatively easy to learn, and it will eliminate the need for managed care, large staffs, expensive equipment, and the great dependency on diagnostic tests, drugs, surgeries, or hospital care. It is the most efficient and cost effective way for private practitioners to deliver quality health care. This approach, along with true prevention practiced by the patients will resolve both the Medicare problem and the health care crisis in the United States.

I invite you to visit my clinics to authenticate the true facts before making a final decision.

Sincerely,

Yee-Wing Tong, M.D.

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