RADIATION AND THE

RADIATIO}I MIASM
Or: *Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friendr'Reconsidered
Cases and Discussion

Linda Showler, ilD

Qhis article also appeared in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and
Patients. November I 998.)

"It is essential that holistic health practitioners understand the profound

impact miasns have on chronic diseases . . - llhat ustmlly happens today
is that the client is treated with natural remedies, yet the underlying
miasmatic problems are not considered or even qamined. The overt
symptons are treated, but the underlying cause is not confronted . . .
Efectively treating the miasms is essential if the holistic health movement
is n reach i*full potential ofrestoring people to health in mind, body, and
.
spirit . . There are now three nay inherited miasms: the radiation,
petrochemical (I) and the heauy metal miasm." (2)

Case One:
Audrey called me in mid-March,1997, out of desperation. She
is 82 years old and ovdr the phone she sounds vital and bright despite her
serious health problems. "For six months now my legs have been swollen
so bad I have to use shoes two sizes larger than normal," she says. "And
they've had these sores all over them since 1995 that won't heal. The
doctors don't know what's wrong with me. They gave me stnong dises of
diuretics, and that worked great for a little while, but now nothing is
woddng." A dermatologist told her the lesions are disseminated superfi-
cial actinic porokeratosis. This refers to a rare inherited disease that occurs
in old age, mostly in women, on sun-exposed areas of the body. He told
her there is no cure: the lesions can be frozen ofi, and cortisone ointrrent
can be used to reduce the inflammation.
Shortlyafterthisphone call Audrcycame in forherfirstvisit. She
related hermedical historyand qmptoms with excellent recall and good
humor. She looks healthy and strong, and has bright, clear eyes. She
r€pofts that she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1993, and has ascites.
Her liverenzymes are always elevated (AST, forexample, ranges from 98-
130 U/L). She also has peripheral neuropathy in her fea, and ataxia. I can

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see that her abdomen is indeed quite distended. Her lower legs are
moderately edematous, and the lesions are not a pretty sight. There are
dozens of scaftered circular ulcerations ofvarying sizes, from one to three
cm. in diameter. They are pink-red to red-brown in color. There are also
fairly large areas ofpink-red skin that have an unhealthy spongy look. In
short, her legs are a terrible mess.
I ask about stressors. Her son, Kurt, was diagnosed with lym-
phoma in I 988 and died at age 43 in I 992. This was devastating to Audrey,
and she feels she still hasnlt fully recovered from that prolonged shess.
Then her husband fell ilI, and she nursed him for several years before his
death in 1996.
Past medical problems include a tonsillectomy at 28 years old for
repeated pharyngitis. She also had a mastectomy for breast cancer in I 954,
andreceivedradiation therapy and abloodnansfusion atthattime. In 1979
she had the fint signs of lymphedema in the arm where lynph nodes had
been removed at the time ofthe mastectomy. This has been a problem on
and offsince then. As we get ready to go into the exam room, Audrey
remarks, 'You know, that radiation therapy made me sick as a dog. They
really blasted me. I was still in my thirties, with three young children. The
doctors wanted me to live."
We're in the exam room now and I'm using AK (applied
kinesiology) to investigate Audrey's symptoms. ts the primary cause of
the lesions on her legs physical (3), emotional or miasmatic (4), I ask. It
is miasmatic. Applying a screening procedure I developed using AI! I
determined that the specific miasm causing these lesions is a radiation
layer (5), and that this is the first layer to treat. I made the assumption that
this miasm was caused by the intensive radiation therapy Audrey had
received 43 yeani ago, and proceeded to explore radiation-relate,{rubrics.
There is a rubric in Robin Muriaticumphy's Homeopathic Medi-
cal Repertory in the toxicity section that I chose to review. "Radiation,
bums from: Calc-f,, Cadm-s, Fl-ac, Rad-br, Sol, X-Ray. " Fluoric acid was
indicated (using AK) as the correct remedy to clearthis radiation layer for
Audrey, in a 200C potency. I felt a little nervous giving Audrey a dose of
Fluoric acid 200C. She is a very vital woman, but she also has some
significant problems on the physical level, and she's 82 years old. I put my
nerves aside, and she took the remedy on the evening ofApril 4. On April
7 when I anived home late in the evening, Audrey had left a message on
my answering machine. "I'm so sorry to bother you but I thought you
should know that I've had a fever and chills since this evening, and my left
leg is very red and sore, and it lools infected. I don't feel very well."
I got back in the car, and drove to her home, worried about

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 septicemia. She was in bed, and looked quite alert and well. She had a
fever of 99.2. As I talked to her and examined her legs, she began to shake
with the chills. The lesions on her right leg were drying up. Some had
formed scabs, and there was quite a bit ofdesquamation occurring all over
the leg, just like a sunburn peeling. Her left leg had turned a duskier red
and felt hot. There was no sign of septicemia. A small drainage site had
opened up a few inches above the lateral malleolus, and a yellowish serous
fluid dripped from it continuously. She reported that this had begun on
April 5, and she had used dozens of washcloths already to absorb the
abundant drainage. Even as I watched, fluid welled up and flowed nonstop
down her leg. Some of the lesions on the left leg were also beginning to
heal, and there were areas of desquamation here and there. The edema
looked about the same. I was impressed with the rapidity of her response
to the remedy.
I visited Audrey several times overthe following five days. The
fever and chills abated after two days, and an annoying headache lasted
three days. By April l0 she began to feel better, and her right leg was
almost normal in size. "I can bend my knee again!" she demonstrated,
sticking her leg out ofthe bedclothes. All the lesions on this leg were dry,
and many of the scabs had fallen off. The leg was covered with peeling
skin. The left leg continued its constant drainage, and was still a dusky red.
Most ofthe lesions had begun healing, and the leg was no longer hot to the
touch. On April 12 her left leg was a lighter shade of red and continued
draining. She was feeling quite good, her appetite had increased, and she'd
been up visiting relatives all afternoon. Overthe next week or so her legs
continued to heal, and as of this writing, in July I 998, Audrey,s legs remain
free ofthese lesions, and free ofthe unhealthy areas ofred, spongy tissue.

Case Two:
I think Audrey acquired a radiation miasm over 40 year ago as a
result of her treatment for cancer. This layer was held in her body as a
potential for physical illness for decades, and only began to manifest
symptoms after her body was worn down by several major emotional
traumas.
The following case is that ofa simple "rash," illustrating another
way a radiation layer can be acquired.
Tina, 15 years old, is in excellent health. She came to the office
in early April 1997, complaining of a pruritic rash of a week's duration. It
was not getting better as the days went on. I noticed in her chart that she,d
come in for a rash some years earlier, in August, that I hadn't been able to
get a handle on. It had abated slowly on its own. This recent rash was mild,

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pink-red, diffirse, and maculopapular. It covered her face, upper chest,
neck and arms. I asked the routine questions about possible food reactions,
soaps, lotions, environmental exposures, medications' etc. We got no-
where with this. So I did my AK screening process' and a miasm was
pinpointed-the radiation miasm. I also ascertained that this miasm was
acquired, not inherited. When I questioned Tina about this, she recalled
that her mother had said Tina had been sunburned very badly several times
as a young child. Tina needed So/ 200C which, to my delight and
amusement, had just arrived via UPS two hours before her office call. In
my recent work with clients, I had realized that I would probably eventu-
ally need all the radiation remedies, and one week earlier had ordered the
more "exotic" ones I didn't have in stock. This order had includedX-Ray
and So/ (potentized sunlight). I had tried to understand why Tina's
eruption had erupted at this time, and realized that the sun had finally made
its spring debut in our neck of the woods about two weeks earlier. Tina's
rash occurred on the sun-exposed areas of her body. Within several days
oftaking her remedy, Tina's rash disappeared and has not returned.

Health Effects:
Many people are now suffering from radiation and petrochemical
miasms. The pollution of our planet Earth is the main cause of these
miasms. In a paper published this spring (6) I wrote at length about the
DDT miasm (a petrochemical miasm). As an introduction to a discussion
ofthe radiation miasm and its effects on health, I would like to quote from
Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing:
"The radiation miasm is associated with the massive increase in
background radiation, especially since World War II. It contributes to
premature aging, slower cell division, deterioration of the en$ocrine
system, weakening of bone tissues, anemia, arthritis, hair loss, allergies,
bacterial inflammations especially in the brain, deterioration of the mus-
cular system, and cancer, especially leukemia and skin cancer. Skin
disorders such as lupus, rashes, and loss of skin elasticity occur. Individu-
als are furthermore subject to hardening of the arteries and the full
spectrum of heart diseases. Females are prone to miscarriage and exces-
sive menstrual bleeding, while men experience sterility or a drop in the
sperm count."
To begin to understand how the radiation miasm might manifest
on the physical level as illness, it is worthwhile to review the symptoms
that can occur from ionizing radiation sickness. The radiation miasm, as
with any miasm, will exhibit symptoms of the "real" illness, in attenuated
form. It is especially important to consider the presence of a radiation

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miasm in patients with leukemia and other blood disorders referable to the
bme marrow, such as idiopathic thrombocytopenia. Obviously, a thera-
peutic drug miasm (such as methotrexate) could also cause or contribute
to these serious illnesses. Such an illness in a young child can result, at
lcast in part, from drug, chemical or radiation miasms that are inherited.
A glance at the Merck Manual section on radiation reactions and
injuries gives the practitioner a basic grasp of where this miasm might
manifest on the physical level. "Tissues vary in response to immediate
radiation injury, in descending order of sensitivity: ( I ) lymphoid cells, (2)
gonads, (3) proliferating bone marrow cells, (4) bowel epithelial cells, (5)
epidermis, (6) hepatic cells, (7) epithelium of lung alveoli and biliary
passages, (8) kidney epithelial cells, (9) endothelial cells (pleura and
peritoneum), (10) nerve cells, (ll) bone cells, and (12) muscle and
connective tissue. Generally, the more rapid the turnover of the cell, the
greater the radiation sensitivity." Until recently, it had been thought that
tbe endocrine glands are fairly radioresistant. Mounting evidence, how-
wer, indicates that even small doses of radiation can sometimes lead to
lasting impairment of glandular function. The pancreas, parathyroid,
thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and pineal glands have endocrine functions, as
well as the gonads.
How might this list translate into commonly-seen conditions in
a family practice? In my own practice, one of the most frequent manifes-
tations ofthe radiation miasm is hypochlorhydria. The patient complains
of chronic indigestion, and improves with hydrochloric acid supplemen-
tation. It is my assumption that the parietal cells of the stomach are quite
radiation-sensitive. Another cornmon condition associated with this
miasm is acne rosacea, which is often ameliorated by hydrochloric acid
supplementation. Many other "odd" skin conditions can be succegsfully
heated with the appropriate radiation remedy. These include granuloma
annulare (see Sharon's case below) and actinic keratosis. Whenever a
patient reports that their rash is exacerbated by exposure to the sun, I begin
to suspect the radiation miasm as a potential contributor to the condition.
Lupus, of course, is well-known for its photosensitivity. Hypoglycemia
and hyperglycemia (diabetes) are also often radiation-related, as are
hypothyroidism and hyperparathyroidism. These endocrine disorders
in most patients are usually caused by several miasms, and therefore one
remedy alone doesn't often provide complete relief. A simple example is
hypothyroidism in a patient with a DDT and a radiation miasm. The serum
TSH will not begin to normalize until both layers are cleared.

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 Case Three:
Here is a simple case of poor blood sugar regulation. Delia is a healthy 49-
year-old woman, andworks as abank teller. "I'm hypoglycemic," she tells
me. Her problems began at least four years ago: "I have to eat right before
bed, or f wake up in the middle of the night with the shakes' my skin
crawling, and feeling weird all over. If I eat in the middle of the night, I
feel a lol better. But if I sleep through this, I'll wake up in the morning
feeling sick all over, shaky and very scatter-brained. It will take me most
of the morning, after eating, to begin to feel even close to normal again' I
also have this unreal craving for sweets I've never had before I'vejust
got to have sugar." She also mentioned that both she and her
-
hairdresser
have noticed that she's been losing more hair than usual over the past six
months. Her first treatment addressed the presence of a radiation miasm,
and she took a dose of Plumbum lM on September 12, 1997'
One month later, during her follow-up appoinfinent, Delia re-
ported that
.'Around October I st, I stopped taking extra chromium because
i stopped needing to eat before going to bed or during the night. In the
morning I feel a lot better; even my energy is much better in the morning.
Right now I wouldn't even be able to say I have a blood sugar problem
I,m at least 80o/o better. Even my handwriting is smoother in general!" At
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the time of this writing in July 1998, Delia remains about 80% improved
in terms ofher previous hypoglycemic symptoms. She finds that she still
doesn't feel quite as well if she eats an evening meal without a significant
portion of a high-protein food. Why isn't she 100% improved? I would
guess that this is because she probably needs treatment at some time in the
futr.n" for another miasm that is affecting her body's ability to regulate
blood sugar levels.
Another fairly cornmon condition related to the radiation miasm
is, predictably, alopecia areata and alopecia totalis. And lastly, for the
cornmon conditions, is low back pain. It is not yet clear to me why this
miasm so often is the culprit in cases of chronic low back pain, but I have
seen it often enough to understand there is frequently a connection
between the two. Successful treatment of the radiation miasm can result
in relief from chronic back pain in those cases where years of high-quality
chiropractic care, physical therapy and nutritional therapy (read: physical
level treatment) have not cured. Possibly this is related to the sensitivity
of muscle and connective tissue to radiation'
Interms ofmore serious conditions, cancersand blood dyscrasias
could almost certainly require treatment of a radiation layer in some
' patients, and they almost certainly will require treatrnent for other layers
as well. Disorders ofthe immune system might also require treatrnent
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fu radiation miasm, as might the symptom of poor wd h.t-
*the radiation goAucoe
Another point of interest here is the fact that ty
fssion products appears to act synergistically with other environmental
TFnts known to be carcinogenic, such as ordinary air pollutants, diesel
frmes, dust, asbestos, cigarette smoke, pesticides, herbicides and exog-
cnous hormones. This has been demonstrated in numerous laboratory
sndies and for individuals exposed occupationally." Extrapolating from
rtis evidence, we can consider the possibility that the combination of a
rediation miasrn, plus one or more petrochemical (l) layers in an indi-
viriral would significantly increase that person's risk of developing
crrcer. This line ofreasoning would also go a long way in explaining why
ertain cancers "run" in some families. Since miasms can be inherited, this
night be at least one piece ofthe "genetic" pvzzle ofinherited cancers.

Rcmedies:
Which homeopathic remedies can treat radiation miasms? In my
ownexperience, the remedy mostcommonly needed isR adium bromatum,
fullowed closelyby Uranium nitricum. Other remedies often called for are
Graphites and Plumbum metallicum. Less often needed arc X-Ray, Sol,
htsticam, Plutonium and Diamond. Of interest here is the fact that after
it goes through its long process ofradioactive decay, Uranium finally
transforms into the inactive element qllp1's your guess? lead
- -
(Plunbum). Uranium-238 has a halflife of 4.5 billion years and under-
goes more than a dozen changes before becoming a stable form of lead. I
bave used F/aoric scid three times now to treat the radiation miasm, and
cach ofthese patients had a history ofhaving had intensive radiation
terapy for cancer. The Plutonium I've used only one time, and this was
fora woman who worked at the Hanford nuclearreactor site for threeyears
while plutonium was being manufactured. I have wondered if many
peoplewho livednearthis site inthe 1940's and 1950's will needa specific
remedy for exposure to radioactive iodine- l3 I , by far the most common
pollutant released by those reactors. Cadmium sulph and Cadmium
nuriaticum I've used only several times, and always to treat cancer
miasms that are apparently linked to radiation in some kind of causal
lTrenner.

Iliemonds and the Radiation Miasm

Case Four:
Now, via a case example, I would like to say a few words about
diamonds and their interesting relationship with the radiation miasm.
Sharon is an elementary school teacher in her mid40's who came in for

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a first office call in May 1997. She complained of I ) chronic low back pain,
2) a chronic rash diagnosed granuloma annulare, and 3) chronic fatigue.
Her back problems had begun in her early teens, but were quite manage-
ableuntil about fouryears ago, during atime ofprolonged stress onthejob'
"I was in such pain," she related, "and my muscles got totally rigid." After
two epidural steroid treatments in November of 1996 that provided no
relief, she had surgery in October ofthat year for "a bulging disc." The
surgery wentwell, buttwomonths laterherback "went outagain" and she
had a second surgery. Since then her back is better, "although I still have
back pain that comes and goes."
Her main complaint today, however, is fatigue. "For over three
months now, since the surgeries, I'm so tired I can barely drive myself
home from work at the end of the day, and this isn't normal for me." Her
energy level is half of what it usually is. The rash began about four years
ago as a small ring under her right arm near the axilla. This has grown
bigger slowly over the years, and is now approximately four by ten cm.
Similar lesions have appeared over the years in addition to the axillary
lesion: on her left elbow, her hands, ankles, and thigh. The dermatologist
told her it was granuloma annulare, and that there is no cure for it. Sharon
reported that he said the cause for this condition is unknown. Granuloma
annulare can look very much like ringworm, but culture after culture was
negative for fungus. Sharon's rash appeared as large and small irregular
lesions with serpiginous, raised borders, varying in color from dull purple-
red to brown. It was quite an odd-looking rash certainly not belonging
to eruptions of the garden-variety sort.
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Using AK, I determined that Sharon first needed treatment for a
radiation miasm, using IJranium nitricum 200C. She receivedthis on June
2, 1997. On her follow-up appointrnent July 28, 1997, she reportqd that
"My back is doing really well, much betterthan when I first saw you. And
my energy is at least 75% better- it's not all the way there yet, but it's so
much better!" She said the skin lesions first flared up brighter red and more
raised, but now the borders are barely raised. None ofthe lesions are
purple-red now; they' ve all faded to a light brown. And three of the lesions
have disappeared altogether. She also spontaneously reports that her sugar
cravings are markedly decreased, a symptom she hadn't reported during
herprevious office visit. As of this writing in July 1998, Sharon's energy
is normal, her back continues to do well, and faint discolorations of the skin
are all that are left of the granuloma annulare.
When I treat patients, I always use AK to determine whether
anything they are exposed to (diet, medications, etc.) will have an antidot-
ing effect on their remedy. In Sharon's case, I kept getting that, yes,

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mething would antidote the (Jranium nitricum, but after ten minutes of
rying to pinpoint the potential offender, I'd gotten nowhere and was quite
nustratea. I certainly couldn't give the remedy knowing it would probably
be nullified. So we continued to wrack our brains, and I continued my
muscle-testing, using Sharon's arms. And as we bumbled along fruitlessly
I found my attention being drawn to the diamond ring Sharon was wearing
m one hand. In a peevish mood at that point, I decided rather flippantly
o ask if the ring was the problem, and finally I received an unexpected
and
Jes." Well, that certainly threw me! Disbelieving, I double-checked,
triple-checked. Then, reluctantly, I told Sharon that it looked like her nice
ring might be the problem. She stared at her hand, and then said to me,
'You know, this was my grandmother's ring. I never wore any diamonds
until I turned 40, and then I began to wear her ring. It was within a year
after I began to wear this that my severe back problems began. And my
skin started to flare up about that same time, too."
To make a long story short, I've heard versions ofthis same story
numerous times, from different clients-always women. I have learned
that diamonds will often strongly aggravate a radiation miasm, and that
diamonds will antidote radiation remedies (and coffee won't). It is
important to counsel clients to swear off diamonds temporarily, and to
store their diamonds away from their beds and work areas while they are
being treated for a radiation miasm. women (and their husbands) will be
more compliant with thisunorthodox prescription when they are reassured
that it's only temporary, and that they can resume wearing their wedding
ring after the radiation miasm is cleared (this usually takes no more than
six weeks). Men being treated for this miasm need to ask their partners not
to wear diamonds in their company until the layer is successfully cleared.
Even a small diamond in a watch can have an antidoting effect. It is
interesting that some people ne ed Graphites to clear the radiation miasm.
*high" form of graphite. As noted above, homeopathic
Diamonds are the
Diamond will also clear this miasm when indicated. Since graphite and
diamond are both essentially just carbon, it makes sense to consider that
the other carbon remedies in our materia medica might also have the power
to treat radiation miasms, particularly Cc rbo veg and Carboneun. These,
and other remedies such as Calcarea carb and Baryta carb, are the more
adulterated forms ofcarbon, and therefore may lack the p ower of Graphites
and Diamond to fieat this miasm effectively.

Summary:
In closing, I'd like to state the obvious: this is preliminary and
sketchy research at this point. I have been quite pleased with my results

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thus far in treating clients for chemical, drug and radiation miasms. It is d
my hope that the provings, and the clinical observations and results of o
many homeopaths will eventually provide the kind ofdetailed information G
we need in order to practice with a high degree of effectiveness when F
treating these common miasms and their profound effects on health.
5
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Footnotes
6
l. "Petrochemical," in my experience, includes all the pesticide and s
herbicide miasms, plastics miasms, and all the other petrochemical prod- I
ucts people have been exposed to in the past century.

2. Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing. Gurudas. Casandra Press,

1983. Pages 38-43.

3. "Physical level" causes include diet, vitamin/mineral deficiencies,

vertebraVjoint subluxations, lack of sleep, etc. It is obviously enormously
helpful-and downright essential in terms of acfsnl "ss1's"-to be able
to ascertain whether a problem is stemming from the physical level, the
miasmatic (vibrational) level, orthe emotional level. In otherwords, ifthe
root of a problem is miasmatic, then supplements, fasting, colonics,
prescription drugs, surgery and other physical level treatments will never
actually cure the condition. The problem may well be ameliorated or even
disappear for a time, but will always be held in the body as a potential for
disease, and as a potential to be passed on to one's children, because
vibrational level problems cannot be cured with physical level medi-
cine. In my own practice, I find that the physical level is rarely the cquse
of any given chronic problem. In a population base of poverty-stricken
patients, however, it goes without saying that the physical level of
causation would assume far greater importance.

4. To avoid confusion, I'd like to make it clear that when I use AK with
clients, I ask questions about their health silently in other words, I
"think" the questions. I began doing this about a year- ago, when patient
after patient wanted to know if I could ask the questions about their health
so they couldn't hear them. They were all concerned that their reactions
to the questions might influence the muscle-testing. As it appears to make
no difference whether I ask aloud or not, I now routinely question silently,
'pausing now and then in order to fill the patient in on the information I'm
receiving. It is not within the scope of this paper to elaborate on, or to

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&fend the use of AK in homeopathic practice. I can only say that it works
consistently and fabulously well for me, despite the fact that I don't
cntirely unde rstand how it works. I C/ Dr. Showler's letter in Simillimum,
Fall 1998, page 91. ed.l
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5. "Layer" in this paper is synonymous with "miasm" and with "vibra-
donal layer."

6. "DDT: A 20th Century Miasm." Linda Showler, ND. Simillimum,

Spring 1998, and the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, April
1998.

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