Brain Protocol

I have been told by my naturopath that it is used to stimulate the proper development of the immune, digestive and nervous system that has not properly developed since childhood due to trauma. I was recently put on this protocol and there is a LOT of homeopathic remedies involved. I have not researched it but due to my condition am willing to try this protocol. I'd be interested in anybody else has heard of this!

Unless you tell us what symptoms (in detail) are beign thrown up by the patient's anotomy, it is impossible for a homeopath to guide you.

The same disease....say hepatitis for the sake of example......will have six possible answers depending upon the symptoms being experienced by the patient.

Best,
PANKAJ VARMA

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just recently put on hoeopathic drops prescribed by my naturopathic doctor for brain protocol. several people have requested more information on it and there doesnt seem to be too many resources. are there any people who have followed this protocol willing to give testimony on their results. i am willing to do this but concerned about side effects and of couse the cost. i would really appreciate some feedback and reassurrance that this is beneficial.

I have had some significant symptoms from this treatment. The first segment I was very weepy and angry. The second segment which deals with the endocrine system has brough some emotional weepiness, but some very intense vertigo which my ND is presuming is coming from the protocol. Had no idea it would be this rough.

I see this is a fairly rare protocol and some old unanswered posts are here. But...in case anyone wants to discuss the brain protocol, I am happy to. I'm currently completing my second time through the third phase of this process and have been through phases 1 and 2 twice. It's been such a long and frustrating road at times. But it's really helping me.

Anyone else out there doing this?

do tell us more about it !

do you know the names of the remedies they are adding in the mix ?


Best,
Pankaj Varma

pankaj, i'd be happy to give you the remedies, but i'll have to look them up. there are too many to remember off the top of my head.

needhelp, i think every practitioner has their preferred way of administering the protocol, especially depending on what your specific goal is and your physical makeup.

i am taking it for mild depression and for add without hyperactivity. i have experienced marked effects from each phase. they seem to bring different emotions/systems to the fore. on this second time through the protocol, i'm not noticing the mental effects as strongly, but i'll try to summarize my experience.

phase 1: depression lifted, anxiety lifted, felt easy going, almost lazy. intense cravings for fats, like cookies. (my ND said this is probably partly due to new brain development, which utilizes fats.)

phase 2: felt sort of emotionally dead, and cravings continued, experienced bloating.

phase 3: felt sad for the first week, and then very happy and stable. renewed interest in taking care of tasks and a sense of being centered and focused. fat cravings subsided, cravings for fruit.

the protocol is very powerful and, i think it could make a person experience lots of things, like crying fits, or vivid dreams or whatever. if these effects aren't manageable, maybe the body isn't ready yet. my ND told me at the beginning that if i was uncomfortable with anything i was feeling i should stop, and we'd reevaluate. my ND wouldn't even try it with me until she detoxed me through diet and other homeopathic drops for almost a year.

needhelp, the protocol that i'm following is three weeks on a single phase and one week off. my ND said an alternative way to do it is to do one week of phase 1, one week of phase 2, pone week of phase 3, and one week off. your remedies might be different, though.

i've taken some breaks, too, so i've been doing this protocol in some form since december. it has been a process that requires much patience and focus on the light at the end of the tunnel.

oh that's really interesting. i've definitely felt a change in my expressiveness. for one thing, it's easier for me to communicate my thoughts clearly. for another, i'm not as inhibited because i feel more centered. so i'm more open than i used to be.

my ND explained the same thing about the different systems and glands. which phase are you taking? or phases?

i wish i could comment on the duration of your treatment, but all i know is my own experience. do you like your ND and trust her? also, do you buy the remedies through her or through the company? drops or pellets? i wonder if that makes a difference in the cost at all.

well, if i remember right, one or two of the remedies from phase two are ones my ND gave me separately when she was detoxing me. maybe you're tired because they're kicking in. i usually get really tired for a day or two a week into the new phase.

how much longer do you have to go? you've been on this for a while now, right? do you feel like it's helping you?

pankaj, i found the sheet with the remedies list, and it would probably be easier for me to just fax it to you, if you've got access to a fax. can you email me your #? my addy is quickclaude(atsign)hotmail(dot)com.

(parentheses to throw off spammers.)

i get bloated from phases 1 and 2, and if i eat anything i'm intolerant to (gluten or dairy), i gain like two pounds instantly.

i'm just a layperson, but i agree with your ND that there is a strong connection between physical and emotional health. many kinesthetic experts believe there's a link between forward hunching posture and turning emotions inward. yogis believe that backbends and other poses that stretch the shoulders and open the chest work on a literal level (opening the heart area). it might not hurt to add something like that to your approach if you haven't already. maybe it would help things come together faster.

i was just going to give pankaj the unda #s and tissue salts list. i have them on a preprinted sheet. you're right, it's a lot of info if i were to go deeper than that. we're probably taking most of the same remedies because unda makes the protocol recommendations to the practitioners. i think they tweak it now and then based on feedback from the field.

it sounds like you're taking a very well-rounded approach, which is great. congratulations on doing that. it's certainly not easy all the time, is it? especially all the diet changes. ugh.

my nd calls some of the other remedies (the non-numbered ones) tissue salts. i take one in every phase that is a pellet. the rest are drops.

maybe i'm making an incorrect assumption about unda making the recommendations. i think i inferred that because my nd gave me a printout she created that lists all the remedies in the protocol and how they should be taken (7 drops am/pm, etc.). she called unda to check on the remedy numbers because she had heard they updated what they were including in the protocol. a couple of the numbers had changed from her original printout.

if you take a look at those ingredient lists for the numbered remedies, you see a lot of the same homeopathic preparations in different combinations. for instance, my printout says that for phase 2, you take unda's 9, 24 and 1. but when i ordered the drops from unda, they had replaced 1 with 20. but i'm guessing these aren't far apart from each other and are very minor modifications that probably don't interfere with the outcome. in other words, i hope i wasn't implying that we're human guinea pigs! :)

my nd has even gone through the protocol herself.

i've heard that, too, about wheat. i was under the impression that the processing is one of the reasons people are having a harder time tolerating it. so if you're good with it, lucky you.

when i ordered, they asked me if i wanted drops or pellets. i chose drops because it takes less time that way. the pellets are actually tablets. but now i've completely misplaced the sheet i was going to fax to pankaj, who's not given me a fax # yet. i'll have to get back to you on the names tomorrow.

I just found the sheet. Here are the tablets I've taken:

Phase 1: Calc carb 4CH
Phase 2: Calc phos 4CH
Phase 3: Calc fluor 4CH

Is this the same as what you're taking?

all the other remedies are drops. there are 4-5 other ones for each phase. my tablets are always taken at night before bedtime on Tues, Thurs, and Sat.

i know why it's called a protocol now! it is such a regimen. certain drops one day, other drops another day, some drops all 7 days. phew!

because you're going through it week by week, you might take the remedies in different combinations than i do. good luck with week 4. i just finished phase 3 and have to schedule an appt with the ND. i hope i don't have to repeat all 3 phases again.

yeah, i guess the 'protocol' is pretty individualized.

i take the unda numbers + 1 or 2 other drops, depending on the phase, in the am/pm and then there's a drop every night at bedtime + the tablet every other night at bedtime.

because mine are liquids, i'm supposed to take them at least a minute apart. i guess so they get absorbed separately.

hmm, are you more withdrawn because you're calmer and quieter? some of the changes i've noticed are pretty subtle.

i hope things start to come together for you. out of curiosity, did you notice any change in this with the corpus callosum pellets (phase 3, i think)? i was taking that daily before the brain protocol and found it helped me feel more centered about communicating, and i had an easier time verbalizing my thoughts and emotions.