Dr. Stephen Bourne, following a long career in general medical practice, now specialises in bio-resonance (bio-regulatory) medicine using vegatest technology. He uses the latest computerised Vegatest Expert device. His approach is to identify and address the causes of ill health and to prescribe herbal, nutritional and homoeopathic medicaments in order to support natural healing. Please click on "testimonials" above for patient feedback, and on topics set out in the blue right hand column below for additional information.
ABOUT THE CLINIC
Conventional medicine uses drugs with side effects to suppress rather than cure clinical findings such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, pain and irregular bowel syndrome. All too often, the side effects make the patient feel even worse than before, and more drugs are prescribed to combat the side effects. Many general practitioners sometimes write the abreviation, 'TATT' (TIRED ALL THE TIME), on their hospital blood test request forms. When the blood test results turn out to be normal, the doctors are liable to conclude that the hapless patient is simply imagining the symptoms. The essence of the problem is that conventional doctors are not taught in their medical school training about common health hazards such as toxicity, dysbiosis, food sensitivity, candida, dental mercury poisoning and harmful electro-magnetic radiation (see below).
Progressive medicine identifies and treats the underlying causes of ill health, e.g. an impaired immune system, dysbiosis, allergies, toxicity due to environmental pollution, harmful electro-magnetic radiation, mercury poisoning from metallic dental fillings, an over acidic biological terrain and antibiotic resistant infections.
Dysbiosis is caused by inflammatory intestinal micro flora. It can result from unhealthy eating, taking too many conventional antibiotics, dental mercury poisoning and electro-magnetic radiation. It leads to 'leaky gut syndrome' with an impaired immune system, food sensitivities, dermatitis, arthritis, migraine and eventually to chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndromes.
Dr. Stephen Bourne MB, MRCGP, Dip Homotox (Hons) is a retired GP and an experienced vegatester. He is a member of the British Register of Complementary Practitioners and Chairman of the British Society of Homotoxicology. He lectures on complementary medicine at the Biomedic Centre in London.
People who attend here have a wide range of health problems, ranging from serious (chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, dermatitis etc.) to simply feeling a bit run down. This clinic is special in that as a result of accurate causal diagnosis and individually selected health promoting treatments, patient make a genuine recovery.
A health check-up using the computerized Vegatest shows:
1. The health index -degree of toxicity.
2. The causes of ill health.
3. Stressed body organs.
4. Allergies and sensitivities.
5. Nutritional deficiencies.
6. The indicated medications.
Treatment is selected from modern homoeopathic, nutritional and herbal medicines.
This clinic is located in Finchley, North London.
The web site is www.vegatest.info.
Telephone enquiries are welcome: 020 8632 0119 and 07717 833702.
Consultation
Preliminary and menopause consultation: £50.
Initial full consultation: £150.
Follow-up consultation: £100.
A preliminary consultation covers causal diagnosis and allergy testing.
A menopause consultation covers treatment selection for the climacteric.
An initial full consultation covers causal diagnosis, allergy testing and treatment selection.
Please phone the clinic to discuss options. Contact details including a map can be
found by clicking on 'contact' (top left).
Credit cards are not accepted.
The cost of medication is not included.
GENERAL INTEREST
Menopause
Treatment is selected from a wide range of nutritional, herbal and complex homoeopathic preparations. In particular, we stock EST cream (Essential Support Treatment). This contains oestrogen and progesterone, which is identical to natural human hormone and therefore does not have the disadvantages of synthetic prescription preparations.
Allergy and clinical ecology
Clinical ecology is the study of illness caused wholly or partially by food and/or chemical sensitivity. It entails diagnosing and treating toxic environmental factors. This approach can help in the management of psychological illness, poor general health, arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine, asthma and eczema and urticaria (hives).
Hypersensitivity in adults
Hypersensitivity reactions in adults are most prevalent in people with a high toxic load. Underlying causes include dental mercury poisoning, traffic fumes, geopathic stress (earth radiation), psychological stress, dysbiosis (possibly related to dental mercury, antibiotic treatment, unhealthy eating and oral contraception), constipation, candidiasis, intestinal parasites, over eating addictive foods, and pancreatic and liver dysfunction.
Hypersensitivity in children
Cows milk intolerance (usually lactose), house dust mite (skin problems) and intestinal micro-parasites (especially giardia lamblia) and emotional stress are relatively common examples of underlying causes. Dysbiosis generally needs to be treated with selected probiotics (supplements of healthy intestinal micro-flora). Immunisation may adversely affect the immune system and lead to hypersensitivity reactions; this can be treated with homoeopathy.
Food intolerance
Food intolerances can cause both 'immediate hypersensitivity' reactions (hives or urticaria and acute gastro-intestinal disturbances), and 'delayed hypersensitivity reactions (arthritis, migraine, eczema and irritable bowel syndrome). The majority of people with food sensitivity are generally intolerant to several foods or drinks. Even so, simply eliminating just one main poorly tolerated food can often result in a significant clinical improvement. Treatment involves identifying and and addressing underlying causes (dysbiosis, candida etc) and homoeopathic desensitisation.
Candidiasis
This is due to an internal yeast (fungal) infection, which forms a cobweb like mesh over the lining of the intestine, causing inflammation and enabling tiny food particles to penetrate through the intestine into the body, with consequent allergic reactions. Yeast in the intestine ferments sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide, and results in lethargy and bloating. Predisposing factors include dental mercury poisoning, unhealthy eating, dysbiosis (unhealthy intestinal micro flora), antibiotics and oral contraceptives. Eating too much junk food tends to make the body become over acidic, which encourages candida development. Treatment includes preliminary attention to the biological terrain and a diet low in yeast and sugar and selected herbal and complex homoeopathic medication. Treatment selection is with Vegatesting (modern German bio-resonance technology).
Irritable bowel syndrome
There is no magic bullet for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). At this clinic, we have found that IBS sufferers tend to be chronically infected with intestinal micro-parasites, particularly with Giardia Lamblia and Entamoeba Hystolytica. Difficult to eradicate parasite cysts underlie the cyclical and chronic nature of IBS, and unless these cysts are removed with selected systemic enzyme therapy, the parasitic infection will recur. Predisposing factors to chronic intestinal parasite infection include insufficient stomach acid, holidays abroad, dental mercury poisoning, harmful electro-magnetic radiation, dysbiosis (need for selected probiotics), putrefactive material in the colon, and a weakened immune system. Management entails identifying and treating the underlying cause/s, and supporting the immune system. At this clinic we use modern German bio-resonance technology and clinical kinesiology for diagnosis and treatment selection. Treatment is with nutritional medicine, herbal preparations and modern homeopathy. Please click on the side bar topic for additional information.
Chronic fatigue syndrome (Myalgic encephalomyelitis)
There is no magic bullet for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). CFS is the consequence of a severely impaired immune system. Causes include unresolved virus infections, harmful electro-magnetic radiation, dental mercury poisoning, unhealthy intestinal micro-flora (candida, micro-parasites) and nutritional deficiencies. Management entails identifying and treating the underlying cause/s, and supporting the immune system. At this clinic we use modern German bio-resonance technology or clinical kinesiology for diagnosis and treatment selection. Treatment is selected from extensive ranges of nutritional and herbal preparations and modern homeopathy. Please click on the side bar topic for additional information.
Cancer
In 1936, Hans Selye presented his General Adaptation Syndrome in Montreal, Canada, in which he showed through animal research that chronic ill health results from exposure to any kind of prolonged stress (psychological, physical and chemical), and that prolonged exposure may eventually lead to cancer. Bereavement, radiation, and poisoning with asbestos and tobacco are well documented examples of stress related causes of cancer. Selye also found that long term exposure to stress undermines the body's capacity for self-regulation. From a therapeutic standpoint, it follows that cancer treatment should endeavor to reduce exposure to stress and to support natural healing.
Orthodox medicine perceives only the tumour as the problem, and therefore attempts to eradicate cancer with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Even if a tumour is eradicated, it is liable to recur more aggressively since the underlying stress factors have not been addressed, and because the immune system has been further weakened aand stressed by the immuno-suppressive 'treatment'.
Chemotherapy, with all its cruel and degrading side effects, is in fact remarkably ineffective, contributing only about 2% to the five year cancer survival rate. These amounts to only about an extra five weeks of life over a five year period (1).
An independent pilot study of anti-oxidants (including COQ10) showed an increase in the average survival rate of cancer patients by 40% (from 12 to 17 months). Treatment of cancer with harmless anti-oxidants alone therefore achieves better longevity than highly toxic chemotherapy (2). There is some evidence that curcumin (turmeric) also has anti-cancer properties (3). At this clinic, treatment is selected on an individual basis from ranges of treatment options under vegatest control.
Anyone who has doubts about conventional cancer treatment should consider reading "CANCER - THE FULL MENU" by Rolf Gordon (www.dulwichhealth.co.uk). In a straightforward way, this book explains progressive immuno-supportive treatment of cancer on the one hand, and conventional immune-suppressive treatment on the other. From the many case histories outlined in the book, it seems that an immuno-supportive approach to cancer achieves significantly better clinical results than an immuno-suppressive one. Readers are, nevertheless, advised to make up their own minds as the subject is controversial. In particular, the book emphasizes the importance of identifying and eliminating harmful earth radiation. He also recommends anti-oxidants, alkalising the biological terrain and treating micro-parasites. Please click on 'geopathic testing' on the blue right hand column for information about harmful electro-magnetic radiation and cancer.
A young woman, Polly Noble, has recently overcome cancer through a special diet which included green juices, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables and kelp noodles. She has written a book (The Cancer Journey - Peridot).describing her experiences. At this clinic for cancer patients, we also recommend such a diet, rich in anti-oxidants and low in dairy products, animal protein and sugar. We also identify and address specific underlying causes of cancer such as environmental toxicity, heavy metal toxicity (particulally cadmium from traffic fumes and dental mercury) and electro-magnetic radiation. With vegatesting, the underlying causal stress factors causing cancer can be identified with a view to reducing and eliminating them. In addition, appropriate immuno-supportive medication can be selected and prescribed.
During December 2010 and Jan 2011, a basal cell carcinoma (rodent ulcer) at the tip of an ear responded well to selected immuno-supportive treatment at this clinic. The cancer had been confirmed with biopsy at a local hospital outptients. Although surgical treatment was recommended by the consultant dermatoloigist, it was declined by the patient since all trace of the cancer had gone several weeks before the hospital appointment for surgical treatment. Photos and additional information are available on request. A year later there was no evidence of recurrence.
We recommend a diet, rich in anti-oxidants and low in dairy products, animal protein and sugar. We also consider Rolf Gordon's approach to cancer treatment (see above) and identify and address other causes of cancer (e.g. heavy metal toxicity, environmental toxicity and a compromised immune system). Treatment is selected from extensive ranges of nutritional, herbal and modern (complex) homoeopathic medications.
1. In Super Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and
Stephen Dubner. ISBN 978-0-713-9990-7:84.
2. J Int Med Res. 2009 Nov-Dec; 37(6) 1961-71.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curcumin#Anticarcinogenic_effects. |
