John Diamond, M.D.

I well remember the school bully who used to taunt some kids that there were adopted. Although it wasn’t true, they would become extremely disturbed. Why?

I’ve found that many people believe, in their unconscious, that they are adopted – in spite of the reality. Why? Because they feel so unloved by their parents, especially their mothers, that they think they must be adopted. “No natural mother would treat me as badly as she does.” The bully’s taunt confirmed their worst fear. “She’s never loved me – and she never will.”

Not surprisingly, this particular problem relates to the liver meridian: unhappiness, not smiled on by the mother, yearning for her love, desperately seeking it everywhere. (It relates specifically to the acupuncture point Liver 8.)

For this I frequently recommend – as a part of an overall approach – the herb pennyroyal. Obviously, this is not a customary indication for it, but a higher, more esoteric, use is also inherent in most herbs and many food supplements.

Of course, I always find this adoption problem in those that have actually been adopted. And I usually find several other problems as well. For instance, the intimacy problem: not allowing anyone, even the spouse or children, to get too close. This also relates to Liver 8. For this I do not recommend pennyroyal, (for each problem, even at the same acupuncture point, relates to a different herb) but instead a particular combination of milk thistle flowerhead, seedcoat and leaf succus, with culver’s root.

Another approach is to use not herbs but various specific food supplements. For the adopted problem I recommend Allergy Research’s Lutein and Mastica, and for the intimacy problem their Lutein and Laktoferrin. Often I recommend both the herbs and the supplements.

A bigger difficulty for an adoptee is what I can the fusion problem: the inability to deeply bond with another, to become as one. It’s as if he says, “I opened by heart to her (my first mother) and she abandoned me, so I’m never going to open it again.”

They want love with a written guarantee: “I’ll open my heart only when I get a written guarantee I won’t be hurt.”

Not closed-hearted just to his wife (and of course his two mothers) but to all – even the trees and the sunset. I always find a fusion problem with an adoptee – and virtually always with the adoptive mother. (Perhaps this is one of the reasons she could not conceive.) But it is a also a very common problem in the general populace, a very common problem indeed. It is one of the chief obstacles to marital happiness. In this regard, it is my experience that a fusion problem between the parents is one of the basic causes of many childhood disturbances.

There can be no deep love, no real grateful enjoyment of life, no spiritual enrichment, when we hold back from opening our hearts, when we keep them closed.

This problem relates to the heart meridian: the meridian of forgiveness – or anger.

I deal with it holistically – and over time. There is no “quick fix” for such a deep problem. It will be overcome eventually through spiritual evolution , nothing less.

However, as well as actuating the specific point (Heart 5), a herb and a combination of supplements can be very useful. They certainly greatly reduce the problem, for a time, but more importantly give an intimation of what it feels like to have the trust and courage and faith to open the heart regardless. Now they know in what direction they should proceed, to what goal. This to become their Homing Thought.

The herb for the fusion problem is sarsparilla, the food supplements are a combination of Allergy Research’s Perm A Vite and two amino acids, lysine and alanine.

What I have outlined above is an example of MetaPhytoNutrientTherapy:

Meta: beyond the usual
Phyto: plants and herbs
Nutrient: food supplements
Therapy: actuating the innate healing power.

There are ways, other newer ways – beyond the usual – in which the meridians and herbs and foods can be used – always as part of a holistic approach – to help us to overcome our deepest suffering. Meta means beyond. Here beyond the usual concepts of psychology and acupuncture and herbology and nutrition. All integrated holistically.

John Diamond, M.D.

A natural remedy or a chemical is usually given to treat a specific condition. And for this particular purpose it may be quite successful. But nonetheless, detailed and precise testing will show that many supplements – and all chemicals – have a serious negative effect: they lower the patient's Life Energy. And this is his Innate Healing Power, the real force for health, for recovery.

Any substance that does this can only be of superficial benefit, although at times, of course, this is certainly desirable. But it should never be at the expense of the patient's Life Energy – in fact it should always enhance it.

Some remedies do this, but many, far too many, have the very opposite effect. And these, however specifically efficacious they may be, I cannot recommend. For my work is with the Life Energy: helping It to carry out Its designated task, rather than imposing on It, weakening It. In other words, therapy, or healing, as distinct from treatment. Treatment imposes, whereas therapy encourages, supports: is an attendant to the Life Energy within the sufferer.

It is interesting that nearly all of the products of some supplement companies raise the Life Energy as well as carrying out their specific roles, whereas those of others (even when very similar) have the opposite effect on the Life Energy.

I am reminded of my mother and her mother, both wonderful cooks. They always tasted the food while cooking, and their taste was always right. So it is, in a way, with some manufacturers. They are good cooks. It is as if they "taste" the supplement and then add "a pinch of this or that" to make it "just right" – like Little Bear's porridge. They somehow seem almost to sense the Life Energy enhancing power, or not, and, if necessary, correct "the taste". So frequently with supplements otherwise very desirable, this is not the case, and I then have to add a "pinch of this or that" as needed. Here's how:

Every supplement I recommend I first test, at a very deep level, on a number of subjects by having them chew it. If it raises the Life Energy – fine. If not, I determine the specific problem at the specific point on the specific meridian that it has induced. For instance, I have just tested a heart supplement and I find that it weakens the over-all Life Energy, specifically through the heart meridian. The point that is affected is Heart 3, and of the particular problems associated with Heart 3, it is that which I call Cold-Heartedness.

The sufferer on questioning admits that since starting the supplement, which had been prescribed for him two weeks ago by another practitioner, he has felt emotionally cold and aloof, especially from his wife. An element of calculatedness, dispassionateness, even cruelty, has come into him. And we now know it came in every time he took the supplement. Yes, his heart has been helped – but only his physical heart. And even it will be in some way impaired by the induced disturbance to his heart meridian, which of course supplies Life Energy, chi, to his heart.

The answer here was simple: just add some Hawthorne Berry to the supplement, as it is the remedy for this specific Heart 3 problem. What a shame the manufacturer didn't have better "taste".

It is interesting that the negative effect of the supplement frequently relates to the specific meridian associated with the organ for which the supplement is recommended – in this case, the heart meridian. Often thyroid supplements negatively effect the thyroid (triple heater) meridian, and so on.

I must stress that these problems will only be revealed on deep levels of testing. And I would also like to add that the recommended "pinch" to improve the "taste" must itself be Life Energy enhancing. For instance, not just any old Hawthorne Berry preparation will be "just right".

And what of chemicals? They virtually all have a negative effect. One day, when I have enough courage, I will give a list of their negative meridian effects and, when available, their corrections. We don't expect chemicals to raise the Life Energy, but it does seem more than reasonable that natural remedies should do so, for they are encouraging Nature to do the healing.

If only the manufacturers had a good sense of "taste"!