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From Dr. Jared Zeff, ND

Greetings to the Subscribers of Song of Health.
 
After 4 years of naturopathic medical school, and two years in practice, I had decided that I needed more knowledge. I just did not really know how to restore people to health. I did not know how to treat really sick people. I had decided to return to medical school and pursue an MD degree in order to become a better naturopath. I thought that IV delivery of vitamins might be more powerful than simply oral dosages. (This was almost 30 years ago, when naturopaths did not do IV vitamin therapy.) I thought I would learn more about medicine. I had begun the application process to the University of Oregon medical school, and was on track to enter there in a few months.

A few weeks later, I happened to hear an older doctor speak at a conference, Dr. Harold Dick. As he told it, treating the difficult cases and restoring them to health was easy. It was the impossible cases that were the challenge. Well, either he was full of hot air, or perhaps he really knew something.  Soon after that, I had a man call me with a terminal kidney disease. He was under the care of the doctors at the University of Southern California medical school, one of the most prestigious on the west coast. They had told him there was no cure for his terminal disease. Could I help him? I told him I did not know how, but there was an old doctor in Spokane who might be able to, Dr. Harold Dick. So I arranged to take this man to see Dr. Dick, and I would spend the day with the doctor following him in his clinic.

At Dr. Dick’s I was amazed by what I saw. The first three cases I encountered were all people with incurable disease, and they were recovering! That day, I began a study with Dr. Dick that continued for many years. I stopped my application to the University of Oregon. I slowly learned the old naturopathy, something I had not encountered in school. The man with the kidney disease began to recover, and his doctors were amazed. All he had done was adopt a new diet, based upon Dr. Dick’s “allergy test”, begin hydrotherapy, and take a kidney tonic. It seemed so simple, but it was working.  I asked Dr. Dick to explain it, to teach me.  He told me that it was the hydrotherapy.

I began to adopt these methods in my clinic, but at first I saw no real success. I was doing the hydrotherapy, using the herbal formulas, but nothing was happening. I traveled to Dr. Dick's clinic each month for a few days, then went back to my own to continue my work with my patients. I just wasn't getting the results I saw him getting. Finally, I realized that each case began with a specific dietary change, based on an old evaluation that Dr. Dick had learned from Dr. O. G. Carroll. The diet was really the key, not the hydrotherapy.

It took me three years with Dr. Dick to really learn that evaluation method, which is the cornerstone of my practice to this day. I learned the hydrotherapy. I studied his approach to herbal medicine and homeopathy. As I adopted his techniques of dietary evaluation and advice, I began to see these “impossible” cases turn around. I have watched this happen for over 25 years now, each time amazed. It has been my joy and my privilege to have studied with this great man, and to help preserve and continue these techniques that were almost lost. We see impossible cases heal now on a daily basis. I praise God and give Him thanks for leading me to Dr. Dick and allowing me to learn from him.

I am thankful to Sandy Strom for creating this website to make it easier for people to adopt this approach to a healthier diet.
 
Jared Zeff, N.D.
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