Matrix Therapy
The Matrix includes all anatomical and functional components of the extracellular environment, including blood vessels, lymph vessels autonomic nerves, sometimes sensory or motor nerves, fibroblasts, collagen, elastin, glucosaminoglycans and other proteoglycans, cell membranes of neighboring cells, cells of the immune system (mostly TH-1) and nutrients and informational substances on their way into, or away from, the cell.
Microbes set up housekeeping in the matrix in areas which have become toxic. These areas are not patrolled by the cells of the immune system and yet are equally vulnerable to toxic substances as other healthy cells of the organism are. Many microbes have learned to live and flourish in the presence of high levels of toxins. Nutrients pass into the cell easily when the matrix is clean. When defective, transport is impaired. Microbes and toxins are the basis for most or all auto-immune diseases. Microbial byproducts and toxic metals act as haptens. They attach themselves to the cell wall and mark the cell for the host's immune system as foreign. This cell will become a target for the immune system and will be attacked.
Klinghardt Matrix Therapy (KMT) uses microcurrent, infrared and laser technology, color therapy and energy psychology to achieve microbial inhibition, lymph drainage, detoxification and emotional balancing.
Mercury alone is toxic. Together with zinc it is many times more toxic. Add in a little copper and silver, as in dental amalgam fillings and the detrimental effect to the body increases manifold. The toxin-induced impairment of our immune system allows microorganisms to enter our system. Once established, they are hard to conquer and removing the causative toxin is no longer enough.
According to Bechamp's milieu theory, for each equivalent of stored toxins there is an equal amount of pathogenic microorganisms in the body. The flare-up of previously hidden infections occurs regularly during mercury detoxification. For example, patients who are infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, are often unaware of their illness. They start to become more symptomatic during or after a successful mercury detoxification program. The same is true for infections with mycoplasma, streptococci, tuberculosis and others. It is important to anticipate the temporarily enhanced growth of microorganisms during a successful detox program.
Then there is a latent period in which the microorganisms are already recovered, but the host's immune system is not. During this time, the practitioner has to prescribe appropriate antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral and antimycoplasma medications in natural form. These include freeze dried garlic, bee propolis, colloidal gold and microbial inhibition microcurrent frequencies. Microcurrent frequencies help because bugs recognize each other through frequency, not through biochemical signatures. Microbial inhibition frequencies entrain the body to recognize the microbes instead of self.
It is also important to be aware that the immune system in a patient with unresolved psycho-emotional material and compartmentalized toxins is unable to recognize and eliminate the microorganisms present in the toxic areas of the body. For each unresolved psycho-emotional conflict or trauma there is an equivalent of stored toxin and an equivalent of pathogenic microorganisms.
To successfully detoxify the body the three issues have to be addressed simultaneously. The triad of detoxification, according to Dr. Klinghardt, includes detoxification of the physical body, treatment of latent micro-organisms and parasites, and treatment of unresolved psycho-emotional issues.
The Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology offers a Matrix Therapy class taught by Dr. Klinghardt. Descriptions are in our Course Catalog. Check our calendar for course date.