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Philosophy

5,000 Years of Failure at Finding a Cure for All Diseases

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

This week’s B.J. Palmer excerpt comes from Volume XVIII: The Subluxation Specific – The Adjustment Specific published in 1934. Enjoy!
“For 5,000 years the medical profession have been consistently seeking A SPECIFIC FOR THE CURE OF ALL DISEASES. First one way, then another, they have woven off and on the stage of human effort—always to the [...]

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B.J. Palmer Epigrams To Start Out Your Day

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

B.J. Palmer did a lot of great things in his lifetime. He developed chiropractic, he was influential in the development of radio in this country, he brought the first x-ray machine to the United States, etc., etc.
Because of the many great things he did, it gives a little more credence to the words of wisdom [...]

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Clearing the Air on Liberal and Conservative Health Care

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

I am going to assume that everyone reading this has classified themselves as a liberal or a conservative, be it staunch or moderate. We all have our different views on politics and that’s fine. What I am going to do today is talk about health care in a different light.
When we hear the term liberal [...]

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Small Constants vs Big Variables by Dr. B.J. Palmer of Davenport, IA

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

From Volume XIX- The Known Man by B.J. Palmer in 1936. Enjoy!
“A physician has a dozen ways to “diagnose” a disease, a hundred ways to “treat” it, a thousand kinds of apparatus to “cure” it. Which contrary variable will he use first?
A Chiropractor theoretically has twenty-four vertebrae to adjust, throws in the skull [...]

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Quitting Only Enhances Chiropractic’s Slide Down the Slippery Slope

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

“Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never – in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” -Winston Churchill
I don’t know what’s in the water these days, but I thought I would take the time to vent a frustration of mine on [...]

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B.J. Palmer: Stimulating the Inhibition and Inhibiting the Stimulation

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

Once again, this is from Volume XIX- The Known Man by B.J. Palmer, published in 1936. Enjoy!
“The ordinary and average physician knows no better than to stimulate and inhibit the inhibition and stimulation. He was taught that, accepted it as a true premise, practicing it as such. He sees such in symptoms and pathologies. He [...]

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Perfect Nutrition and Nervous System Interference or OK Diet and Proper Brain-Body Communication?

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

My buddy, Dr. Eric Russell, posed this question on Facebook yesterday:
“Would you rather be subluxated with a perfect diet or subluxation free with a fair diet? Don’t take the easy way out and say both.”
Just so all my readers understand, a vertebral subluxation is a misalignment in the upper cervical spine that causes [...]

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B.J. Palmer: Constant On Feeling, Variable On Pain

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

I read this the other night in Volume XIX – The Known Man by B.J. Palmer. I added spaces for easier readability. Enjoy!
“There is a constant on sensation. People who have no sensation are those with normal feeling and those with no feeling. Healthy organs have normal feeling and normal feeling has no sensation. We [...]

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Medical Jargon Does Not Equal Chiropractic Lexicon

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

With the medical lingo and curriculum invading chiropractic colleges around the country, I thought I would take this blog post to clear up some of the confusion.
Personally, I believe that we as chiropractors, upper cervical or full spine, have a right to our own separate and distinct health profession. What we do is remove interference [...]

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Upper Cervical Chiropractic and a Nicaraguan Girl with Cerebral Palsy

by Dr. Brandon Harshe

(Editor’s note: This is a message from Dr. B.J. Kale, sent out by Dr. Tom Forest in his weekly upper cervical newsletter to doctors and students.)
I wanted to let you know about some great upper cervical work going on.
My team just returned from Nicaragua where we had some truly phenomenal care given.
One case that stands [...]

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