Welcome to Song of Health
 From Dr. Jared Zeff, N.D.
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 test 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 testing 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 testing 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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