Homœopathic Links 2016; 29(01): 076
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1572349
Book Review
Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd.

Autism Reversal Toolbox: Strategies, Remedies, Resources

Reviewed by,
Jay Yasgur
1   United States
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Publication Date:
06 March 2016 (online)

Is there anything in this book which the author does not discuss? One could use it as a resource to briefly get acquainted with any number of modalities. And if one wants to visit the esoteric, that too can be arranged, that is, Appendix IV, Will and the Soul: Reintroducing Emanuel Swedenborg.

About a third of the way in, one discovers the principal tools he advocates and calls ‘Workshop Tools’ (after all this book is a toolbox). He discusses what he calls ‘soft focus remedies’ which are useful when the symptom picture is amorphous. These include bowel nosodes, gem essences, cell salts, combination products, for example, UNDA numbers (homeopathic drainage remedies the author relies heavily on in his armamentarium), ‘smoking gun remedies’ (tautopathics used to detox from heavy metals, etc.) and ‘meditative proving remedies possessing general karmic themes resonant with the ASD state (provings conducted by Madeline Evans et al).’

In the following article, ‘Workshop Methods’, Dr. Kantor presents three approaches: Banerji Autism Protocol, the never-been-well-since model and the Sine Wave Approach. An entire article is devoted to this last method which…

…refers to the alternation between moving ‘upward’ to the mental/emotional/behavioural level using constitutional homeopathy, then ‘down’ to the physical level with detoxification and drainage remedies, in a movement reminiscent of a sine wave. In all phases the practitioner must be prepared to deal with crises, regressions, aggravations, and the effects of adjunctive modalities chosen by the families (which can enhance, block or simply confuse the action of our remedies). In a sine-wave-like rhythm, Unda remedies, constitutional, ‘soft focus’ and tautopathic remedies are interwoven with supports intended to clear obstructions due to pharmaceutical or vaccine influence. p. 119.

He proceeds to describe this method in greater detail.

One finds that the traditional Chinese methodologic approach sprinkled throughout. This field, a special knowledge of his, is presented briefly in Appendix III, ‘Will and the Soul in Traditional Chinese Medicine’. In this regard, one might also have a look at Homeopathy through the Chinese Looking Glass: Homeosiniatry Revisited (2010) by Joe Rozencwajg.

This well-produced hardback is divided into five sections before finishing with five appendices. There is a bibliography yet no index. Five instructive cases are offered for the reader's edification.