Energy Medicine. C. Norman Shealy

      It’s interesting that the great physiologist, Irvin Korr, showed circles of complex energy activity in these areas in the nervous system. Thus, the First Chakra would essentially be the sciatic plexus; the Second Chakra the pelvic plexus; the Third Chakra the true solar plexus (even in anatomical terms); the Fourth Chakra the energy of the heart or cardiac plexus itself; the Fifth Chakra the energy of the entire cervical spine, thyroid, and plexus; and the Sixth Chakra the brain. Admittedly, there are significant differences in various descriptions of the physiological, anatomical, and glandular connections of each of these energy centers.

      Clearly, a great deal of the work of Energy Medicine involves both the energy bodies around the body and the chakras. However, let us not forget that everything is energy. Ultimately, Energy Medicine must include all the physical, mental, psychological, spiritual, and energetic approaches to the evaluation of health and the treatment of disease.

      Nutrition and Energy Medicine

      Obviously, many aspects of nutrition are a major part of Energy Medicine. There are certain nutrients, without which we cannot live healthily. These include all of the B vitamins, at least the carotenoids of the vitamin A family, vitamin E, vitamin D₃, a variety of minerals ranging from lithium to calcium to magnesium, boron and iodine, among others; and, of course, the essential amino acids:

      • Arginine

      • Isoleucine

      • Histidine

      • Leucine

      • Methionine

      • Lysine

      • Phenylalanine

      • Tryptophan

      • Threonine

      • Valine

      This list should almost certainly include Taurine. A deficiency of any one of these can cause remarkable symptoms and even ultimately death.

      I must admit that there is one particular nutritional approach that I consider perhaps the single most important of all energetic approaches. That is intravenous vitamin C. For over thirty years, I have used large doses of vitamin C, ranging from 50 to 125 grams of vitamin C in a mixture with magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, vitamin B₁₂, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₆, vitamin B complex, and dexpanthenol. Thirty years ago I treated one of the first cancer patients with this approach, giving him just ten of these intravenous maximum doses of vitamin C in the Myers Cocktail. A bladder cancer the size of an orange disappeared within two weeks. I have done the same in people with excruciating pain from metastatic cancer. It may not turn them around if they are at the terminal stage, but at least they can be made comfortable by a steady drip of this solution, perhaps three bottles per day, with virtually complete relief of pain. At least they don’t have to be completely sedated with narcotics and sedatives. I consider this an unequivocal major adjunct to any treatment of cancer.

      All Body Systems Are Interrelated

      The following chart of Fred Wooten’s Thyroid Brain Model (used by permission), “summarizes” the complex interactions of the body and brain/mind and shows how “everything influences everything.” This is why conventional medicine is so inadequate to treat virtually everything except acute illness. Perhaps Sir William Osler was correct a hundred years ago when he suggested that one should look for one cause of any one illness. At that time our knowledge was limited. We now know that illness is the result of almost unlimited interactive factors, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, chemical, and electromagnetic. It is the interaction of all these factors that determines health.

      Wooten’s chart is almost too complex to understand. However, multiply this small chart by many thousands of chemical and electrical activities in the body reacting to millions of energetic influences from the world around us, and you begin to see the fascinating world of Energy Medicine.

       Fred Wooten’s Thyroid Brain Model