“Dr Jarvis, what am I going to do? One of these girls is a racehorse and the other is a farm horse.”
The mother had five-year-old twin daughters. One was nervous, highly-strung, irritable, always ready to fight. The other had a calm, even disposition, peaceful and quiet. The racehorse twin kept her sister and her mother in a permanent state of upset. Spanking made it worse. She blew up. The mother had no idea how to live with the child.
Jarvis’s answer was two drops of Lugol’s solution of iodine plus a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water. Given any time the child’s temper shifted into high gear. Two weeks later the mother reported that her racehorse daughter had quieted within two hours of the first dose. With continued use, the child could be managed. By the time she graduated high school the tantrums of her early years were behind her. She married. She kept her home. If she ever again felt her constitution slip into high gear, she knew what to do about it.¹
That five-year-old, today, would be evaluated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or oppositional defiant disorder, prescribed a Schedule II controlled substance (methylphenidate or amphetamine), and monitored for years. The CDC now reports that roughly one in nine American children between the ages of three and seventeen has been diagnosed with ADHD, and a majority of them take a prescription stimulant.
Two treatments. Two therapeutic worlds. Between them sits a constitutional framework that used to be recognized and a set of industrial and pharmaceutical decisions that made it invisible. (…)
How I’d Explain It to a Six-Year-Old
Some children come into the world wound up like a racehorse. Others come into the world calm like a farm horse. Both kinds are normal.
A long time ago, a country doctor noticed that the wound-up children became calmer, within about two hours, when they drank a glass of water with a spoonful of vinegar, a spoonful of honey, and two tiny drops of a medicine called iodine. He tried it many times. It kept working.
Iodine is a mineral that comes from the sea. It helps a small gland in your neck do its job. Without enough iodine, some children stay wound up all the time.
Bread used to have iodine in it. Then bakers stopped putting it in and started using a different chemical, called bromine, that actually pushes iodine out of the body. So children now get less of what they need and more of what steals it.
When a wound-up child sees the doctor today, they are usually given a very strong medicine that changes how the brain works, often for many years.
The old drink is still around. Vinegar and honey are in every kitchen. Iodine is at the drugstore. A day of the drink costs less than a piece of candy. That is what this essay is about.
Read the full article here: https://www.unbekoming.com/p/two-drops-of-iodine-for-the-racehorse
Posted by Trump.
330 years later there’s still no Amish child that’s unvaccinated with autism.
All the Amish children with autism were vaccinated.
That’s the only thing these kids have that’s different. They have the same environment, same food. But when vaccines are introduced they suddenly get autism.
(Source: https://t.me/thepeopleslawyerchannel/16485)