Sorry to answer a question with a question, but I'm new to the clinic and actually using the therapeutic order.  Isn't the first step "Remove obstacles to health"?  Wouldn't chelation therapy fall into this category?  

I would disagree with this statement.  In the first place, IV therapy violates the vis medicatrix, in my opinion, in that it bypasses the body's wisdom regarding the composition of the blood.  This does not mean that it should never be done, necessarily but that it is a high force intervention. 

 

The therapeutic order contains several concepts.  The first step, really, is to address acute concerns.  The next step is to identify and remove causes.  The plaquing in the arteries is not a cause as much as it is an effect.  I have totally cleared arteries, by evidence of arteriogram, by dietary changes, exercise, and hydrotherapy, much to the amazement of a local cardiologist.  If this is possible, why introduce foreign substances into the blood by an unnatural route which may have significant adverse consequences for the patient?  I am not arguing against chelation therapy, per se, but it is not a first order therapeutic, it is a 6th or 7th order therapeutic by its nature.  At least, in my opinion.

 

Jared Zeff, ND

Salmon Creek, WA