“Owen’s eye contact has gone from one second to several minutes at times! I’m actually almost a bit uncomfortable with the intensity of his gaze now.” Not only that, but he learned to use the word ‘no’ and was trying to say other words, all major improvements after only eight weeks of treatment with CEASE Therapy, a new integrated treatment method for autism which is based on homeopathy.

Owen, an adorable three-and-a-half-year-old boy, was born healthy and strong but started to show changes in his health after intensive IV and oral antibiotic therapy at only nine weeks old. He was never vaccinated. Signs of regression were noted by 16 months, preceded by more antibiotics. He began toe-walking, started banging his head on the floor when angry and lost the eight to ten words he already had one by one until he couldn’t even say ‘uh-oh’ anymore. A sadly familiar story to many parents of children diagnosed with autism.

According to recent US CDC statistics, 1 in 68 children and 1 in 42 boys are now being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder compared to 1 in 1000 only 20 years ago. Autism rates are increasing by 17% a year and nobody seems to know why.

Conventional treatments for autism include behavioural therapy which is helpful but expensive, time-consuming and not curative. Diet changes and biomedical therapies have become popular and are clearly helping many children, but these protocols can also be costly and difficult to follow and are therefore out of reach for many parents. In addition they do not address the deeper causes of autism. A number of medications are also being tried with temporary success, including antifungals and antivirals.

Owen had already been on a gluten, casein and soy-free diet from 24 months old which helped him to sleep through the night and reduced hyperactive behaviour. He had been given numerous supplements as well as courses of Fluconazole, Nystatin and Valacyclovir which helped temporarily.

He had also had intensive ABA therapy for the past five months. “The eye contact is something we’ve been targeting with ABA since November of 2012 for 12 hours a week”, the mother reported. “He was expected to look for at least “1-Mississippi” each time we called his name.”

His success rate with this was about 30% until about the beginning of April when it suddenly jumped to 80%, for several seconds at a time, where it has remained.

“Recently he has been turning almost every time we call and on several occasions has sustained eye contact for over a minute.”

This dramatic change was noted after only two weeks on Polyantibioticum, a homeopathic remedy made from several antibiotics. He has steadily improved since then, in fact, within another months he made eye contact 100% of the time. And all this for only a few dollars for a homeopathic remedy compared to $40,000+ in ABA.

I first learned about Polyantibioticum through reading ‘Autism – Beyond Despair’, Dr. Tinus Smit’s book on his system of CEASE Therapy. Dr. Smits was a Dutch homeopath and medical doctor who practiced homeopathy for over 30 years and treated more than 300 children with autism.

Dr. Smits observed that children who developed physical problems after vaccinations or antibiotics often also improved mentally and emotionally when they were treated with homeopathic remedies made from the offending substances. He found that treatment was gentler and more effective if a few supplements, such as vitamin C and fish oil were used in addition. He called the integrated system he developed ‘CEASE Therapy’

CEASE stands for ‘Complete Elimination of Autism Spectrum Expression’. Not only does it offer effective treatment for these conditions, it helps to identify the causative factors, a radical discovery.

Over time he applied this discovery to children with many different problems. Responses to the correct remedies are dramatically obvious, often creating an aggravation followed by improvement. Dr. Smits found that numerous substances could contribute to autism, including antibiotics, other medications, vaccines, plastics and environmental toxins as well as emotional traumas. Most children have been affected by multiple factors, that’s why they are all different and no single cause for autism has been discovered.

Flash back to July 26, 2011. The phone rang at 8 am. I picked up the receiver and was greeted by bloodcurdling screams. Suddenly I was wide awake.

“Hi, it’s Sue, Adam’s mother. We gave him his first dose of Pediacel 30 CH yesterday and he woke up at 6 am screaming like this. He is inconsolable. What should we do?”

“I’m sorry, Sue, I’m afraid he’ll have to scream it out.”

He had an aggravation, a clear sign that the remedy was working. Fortunately, Adam’s mother was already familiar with homeopathy. He screamed for a total of five hours straight but a week later I received an update: “In the last week we have noticed that he has been more active mentally. He is using hand signals now. He is starting to make more sounds, like “beh” and he hasn’t done that for the last several months. He is screeching less.”

Adam’s family had delayed vaccinating him until he was over a year old, but then the doctor decided to catch up and ‘gave him everything all at once’. After that he stopped babbling and became withdrawn. He was never diagnosed as autistic, but rather as suffering from a language disorder. Adam recovered beautifully within about six months between CEASE Therapy to clear any vaccine damage and speech therapy. Fortunately we were able to treat him immediately, otherwise he might have deteriorated more.

CEASE Therapy not only helps children with autism, but virtually all children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental or behavioural disorders. I have used it successfully on children with PDD-NOS, ADD/ADHD, sensory processing disorders, language disorders, learning disabilities, anxiety and aggression. All of these conditions are on the rise with as many as one in five children diagnosed now.

CEASE Therapy offer real hope for these disabling conditions. It is effective, affordable and addresses the root causes of these disorders, offering hope for the prevention of these conditions for generations to come.

Dr. Anke Zimmermann, ND, www.drzimmermann.org