LIVE BLOOD ANALYSIS NATURAL therapies

You stare in awe at the blood cells floating lazily across the screen in front of you. The background looks like the Milky Way, A window into occasionally studded with sparkling ‘moon rocks’. The eeriness of the scene belies the truths to be revealed about your health. This is live blood analysis. This article has been co-authored with Dr Okker Botha

our inner world Live blood analysis, also known as HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE nutritional or dark-field Live blood analysis is especially useful in microscopy, is fundamentally the analysis of preventive health care. The red blood cells living blood under a powerful microscope, carry oxygen and the plasma carries nutrients – live blood analysis connected to a camera. to every cell in the body. The state of health or ill-health of the blood therefore affects every The condition and quality of our in the body, so it is clear that by improving cells has a direct impact on our present and the health of the blood, one can improve the future health, with signs of stress and disease health of the body. appearing in the blood years before they manifest as symptoms in the body. Researchers all over the world have examined and studied live capillary blood for many years. THE BIOLOGICAL TERRAIN Although many different approaches have Live blood testing enables one to see exactly been used and many opinions expressed, a how one’s blood behaves in the body, giving central truth has emerged: the human body a clear picture of health at a cellular level. cannot live with an unnatural diet or an DR DAVID NYE, As a practitioner, I am not looking to make unhealthy lifestyle. MB CHB, M F HOM a diagnosis from patterns seen, but rather (UK), DIP HOM (CEDH), assessing the biological terrain, which may This has been a basic concept of natural is a registered medical appear as pH imbalances and so on. medicine for thousands of years, but many of doctor, homeopath and us still believe that one can cheat Nature and acupuncturist practising To understand the concept of ‘terrain’, just still survive. We are deluded into thinking that integrative medicine in think of a vegetable garden: if the terrain, or we can continue to eat unhealthily, and just Panorama, Cape Town. soil, is in a healthy condition, the plants will take a pill to counteract the symptoms when He has been in family grow vigorously and will be free of disease and we get sick. practice since 1982 with parasites. Similarly, if the terrain in the human his wife Dr Sandi Nye. body is healthy, , viruses and fungi will LIVE BLOOD ANALYSIS VERSUS He has held office in the South African Comple- be repelled, metabolic processes will proceed CONVENTIONAL TESTING mentary Medical Asso- unhindered, and disease will not be enabled. Live blood analysis is a quick and efficient way ciation, the Homeopathic By examining the live blood, it is possible to of assessing the health of a patient. A drop of Association of South assess the body’s terrain and anticipate the blood is examined under a special microscope Africa and the South Afri- onset of disease long before it manifests. which has both dark-field and bright-field can Society of Integrative One has the opportunity to correct current options. Very quickly one can see nutritional Medicine over the past imbalances, in order to improve current and deficiencies, which organs are stressed, 10 years. Website: www. prevent future ill-health. heavy-metal toxicities, and imbalances in greenhousehealth.com

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acidity or pH. The toxic effects of a typical changes for any significant length of time. interpreted by an iridologist, the body planes Western lifestyle are easily demonstrated. This When live blood analysis has enabled you to are represented in the coagulation pattern. is not a diagnostic tool but confirms what is see the abnormalities that need correction, Disturbances relating to the adrenals or re- already suspected, and also serves to monitor and you have been involved in the discussion productive system are found at the centre of and demonstrate progress and response to of why it’s necessary to do something the spot. Further out are bands correspond- treatment. about them, you are motivated to make

Patients often By examining the live blood, it is start to feel possible to assess the body’s terrain quickly, • better and anticipate the onset of disease and they can • visually The advantage of examining blood in its the recommended improvements. Another fresh state is that one can gain much more motivation is that patients often start to feel appreciate their • information than when blood is sent for better quickly, and they can visually appreciate conventional pathological testing. When a their progress at the next visit. progress at the haematologist (or nowadays more often a computer) examines a blood slide, they are The development of most chronic and degen- next visit looking at dead blood cells that have been erative illnesses can be prevented with early fixed and stained. They count the relative nutritional intervention. Live blood analysis numbers and look at structure, but they can detect many nutritional imbalances and cannot assess how the cells are functioning. deficiencies, which are major contributing fac- ing to vital organs, then lymph tissues, then The chemical pathologist measures levels tors in the development of these conditions, finally the skin. It is therefore possible to de- of and other substances in the long before conventional blood testing can termine which parts of the body are holding blood, and issues the result in relation to a demonstrate any abnormalities. toxins, and therefore currently ill, or at risk of standard reference range. The patient’s doctor developing disease. then interprets these results and prescribes LAYERED DRIED BLOOD ANALYSIS pharmaceutical medications to correct the A test often performed in conjunction with live CONCLUSION abnormalities. Some of these medications blood analysis is called layered dried blood Live blood analysis is a simple and very may need to be taken for life. analysis or the oxidative stress test. A drop of graphic way to gain fuller understanding of blood is pressed onto a slide to make eight one’s health issues. It is a non-invasive test, With live blood analysis, the patient gets to consecutive smears, which are allowed to which can reveal much about one’s current see the abnormalities directly, and participates coagulate and dry. The patterns of coagulation state of health. There are many health in discussing them. It is usually possible to reveal further information about the state of practitioners in South Africa who use live correct them with the adoption of healthier the terrain, and provide signs that corroborate blood analysis to reliably demonstrate what eating habits, lifestyle modifications and information already revealed by the live blood patients ought to know, giving them the natural supplements. analysis. means to correct imbalances in their quest for optimal health. Many people who are told to modify their In a similar way to how the body is repre- lifestyle don’t persist with the necessary sented in the iris of the eye, which can be

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