Dr. Peter-Hansen Volkmann, MD.

General causes of pain and illness
Various causes can lead to chronic diseases. Often, the disease becomes evident only after the appearance of a common symptom: pain!

Pain is also always an alarming indication of a serious deficiency in orthomolecular substances such as Zinc, Manganese, Magnesium or Vitamins and unsaturated fatty acids as well. Orthomolecular deficiency can cause acute pain in the locomotor apparatus as well as chronic and long-term sustained pain.
 

Volkmann's triad of causes leading to chronic diseases

1.  Malnutrition: faulty dietary habits such as consumption of fast food, Cola, chocolates, etc., as well as antibiotics which disturb regular and gradual digestion and normal intestinal functions.

2.  Decolonization: long-term decolonization of the intestine; i.e. intestinal infection with pathogenic germs such as Candida, Amoeba and others. These germs as well as the toxins they produce cause disturbance to the normal intestinal functions, leading to mal-digestion and mal-absorption.

3.  Lack of essential substances: even healthy organic food is meanwhile poor in essential substances due to its contamination with acidic rain.

Over a prolonged period of time, the previously mentioned factors lead to a lack of essential substances, which develops ultimately into an orthomolecular deficiency syndrome.

Volkmann's therapy triad in cases of chronic illness and pain syndromes

1. Change of diet into fresh and more natural products from the surrounding areas, as well as ready-made meals, fast food and other sources of chemical food additives.

2.  Use of hoT substitutes as a means of biological nutrition upgrading, i.e. supplementation with pure minerals, trace elements, omega fatty acids and others to improve detoxification and basic regulation.

3. Orthomolecular intestinal regeneration-OIR- during a period of 4 weeks: a two-step procedure using symbiosis-enhancing balanced preparations, which help free the small intestine, and subsequently the large intestine, from Candida and other harmful germs without the need for a special Candida diet.

Selection of orthomolecular substances in pain syndromes
 

The following table indicates the relation between some specific orthomolecular substances and certain functional areas and muscles in the body. In more than 80% of cases suffering from chronic pain, muscle pain was spontaneously and remarkably reduced or disappeared completely after administration of specific pure substances

Determination of orthomolecular requirements

The correlation between bodily functions and calorie intake is generally well-known. However, still completely unknown is the link between the effect of mental exertion and stress on the hormonal system, and deficiency of orthomolecular substances, for example through eating fast food. Yet many studies carried out during the seventies to the nineties have proven repeatedly an evident link. The body requirement of orthomolecular substances increases exponentially with increased mental effort. Deficiency of these substances causes a significant increase in the incident of chronic diseases such as allergies and neurodermatitis, as well as chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases, cancers and infertility.

hoT and competitive sports

Orthomolecular pain treatment methods for athletes developed in our practice differ from the official German recommendations with regards the high doses used which are based on oral tests. Here, oral tests using the recommended substances are done aiming to eliminate the pain in cases where disturbance of joint functions or meridian regulation for example are found.

Eight years of morphine-spontaneous oral pain relief

During the lecture about surgical pain therapy at a private hospital in south Germany, a 35year old patient was introduced to me. Ten years before he had had an accident, and had since undergone several surgeries to the vertebral column in an effort to relieve severe pain. Although he had been receiving 250-300 g of morphine daily during previous 8 years to ease his pain, nevertheless he suffered from constant pain which highly restricted the quality of his life. He was incapable of moving unless aided by his walking support, and could not raise his feet more than 10 cm above the ground. I carried out several oral tests using different orthomolecular substances and achieved many successful results varying from reduction to disappearance of pain (see diagram with pain score 0-10). Some tests achieved no change, while others even lead to an increase of pain irritability. Doctors as well as the patient were greatly amazed when the pain completely disappeared after administering Q 10 and vitamin C, so that the patient could raise his feet 35 cm above the ground without suffering from any pain! Testing with 3-symbiose plus afterwards caused another surprise: the muscular hardness of the neck and shoulder area that had existed for years, together with restricted rotation of the cervical vertebrae to approx. 25-0-25o, spontaneously increased to 90-0-90 o without causing the slightest pain.

Oral testing of pure orthomolecular substances to eliminate pain

The painful joint or area should be first mobilized until the pain threshold is reached, then put back into a relaxed starting position as far as possible. Finally, small samples of several hypoallergenic substances are given orally in succession, i.e. pure substances such as Zinc, Magnesium or a combination of trace elements, and the patient is asked to chew them slowly.

As soon as the patient has a sample chewed in his mouth, he is asked to move the affected area again and to describe any pain changes according to the following:

1.  Quality of pain: dull, sharp, burning, gnawing etc.

2.  Intensity of pain: the range starts from 0=free of pain to 10=unbearable. A subjective assessment of changes can usually be provided (see the above diagram).

3.  Localization of pain: does the pain still exist in the same area prior to the test or has it traveled?

4. The extent of mobility: changes in active joint mobility can be immediately measured or estimated. This is especially impressive in the shoulder and cervical vertebrae area, as well as in evaluating the distance of fingers to the ground.

In the absence of pronounced pain or significantly restricted joint mobility in one of the extremities, the degree of rotation of cervical vertebrae can be taken as an indicator. Upon examining the cervical vertebrae, restricted rotation is often found which can reach 30-40o. After repeated oral administration of various substances, the angle of rotation increases gradually to reach 100 o on both sides, without chiropractic intervention.

These tests are very impressive in cases where patients suffering from knee joint pain have undergone several joint surgeries. Some athletes become even suspicious of their own sense of pain when their chronic pain, or pain caused by exertion, suddenly completely disappears after such oral tests. Is another surgery necessary? NO! As long as the patient continues treatment for a few months using the tested hypoallergenic orthomolecular substances, physical as well as psychological efficiency increases significantly.

Chronic pain is completely cured within a few months in 80 to 90% of cases.