About Us

You are Earth Clinic. The site is all about you. Without your ideas, your experiences, your trials/errors/successes, and without your generous feedback and support this site wouldn’t be more than a few happy, healthy people out there on their own without a community to share our joy. As that community of shared knowledge, generations and nations full of it, we have brought health and hope through safe, inexpensive, natural cures and home remedies to people around the world. Thank you!

Earth Clinic currently has central offices in Atlanta and correspondents from around the globe, including the irreplaceable Ted (see his bio below); however, it began in 1999, very simply as our founder and owner, Deirdre's private healing site in Los Angeles. On a bit of a whim, she added a page on – you guessed it! – apple cider vinegar after having such success with it for allergies and sinus infections. As it turned out, people were much more interested in the few home remedies posted on our site than in the alternative healing modalities that had been our founder's specialty. The site as you know it blossomed from that first uncertain seed into an orchard full of effective, home-tested, and community-vetted remedies and cures proven through years on this site and in the homes of commonsense families for centuries.

Did we mention that most of these cures cost you around a buck a piece? Or that we have no interest in being the one to collect that dollar from you? That’s how we’re different, not a billion-dollar biotech trying to foist an expensive half-cure off on you but a friend, a neighbor who knows that we hold each other in our hands, for mutual health and happiness.

With that in mind, we continue in our commitment to all of you, even through the current, awkward adolescence of the site as we try to redesign a more perfect, more helpful, most comfortable Earth Clinic for our community. Please continue to send your new discoveries, your secret old family remedies, your successes, your worries, and your good thoughts our way. Your ideas inspire us and your kindness gives us hope that in each other's hands we can all be healed again.



DEIRDRE LAYNE
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Atlanta, Georgia

Deirdre Layne, a widely respected expert in natural remedies, is Earth Clinic’s Founder and Executive Director, constantly in touch with the daily conversation within the Earth Clinic community and looking to uncover the next revelation in the world of natural remedies.

Deirdre’s career in health and healing began 22 years ago with her training in energy healing techniques that relieve interconnected physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses or imbalances. Having established her therapeutic services in Los Angeles, California, she currently maintains a healing practice at the Atlanta Center for Energy Medicine.

Deirdre (pronounced Dear-dree) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College. Her training in healing followed, starting in 1989. Deirdre's greatest influence has been in studying natural healing under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed healer and author, Rosalyn L. Bruyere, since 1991. Deirdre was ordained by Rosalyn Bruyere as a non-denominational Minister of Healing and received her Master of Natural Theology in Sacred Healing through the Healing Light Center. Deirdre has traveled extensively to study spiritual healing, folk medicine and native remedies in Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal.

In 2000, Deirdre was invited by the California Pacific Medical Center to be one of the healer-participants in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Distant Healing Study to determine the effects of Distant Healing, as an intervention performed either by experienced healers or nurses, on rates and severity of AIDS-related symptoms, medication side effects, adverse events, medical utilization, and scores on two psychological and quality of life inventories.

This background in practical and experimental work provided Deirdre with insight into the overall state of human health in modern society and led to her creation of EarthClinic.com, one of the Top 5 health and healing sites, where she could share her acquired knowledge and channel it into a global community of inherited wisdom about health and illness.

With over 12 years of training and competing in the Martial Arts, Deirdre has extended her unique knowledge of the body dynamism and the Yin & Yang flow of energy. Deirdre is a nationally ranked medalist in Traditional Karate. She is a second-degree black belt and an assistant instructor at Traditional Karate Atlanta.

 

DANIEL P. KRAY
SENIOR EDITOR
d.kray@earthclinic.com

Deirdre brought Dan Kray into the Earth Clinic community as a contributor and editor to help with the mechanics of our websites and get the Earth Clinic voice to reach even further. Deirdre selected him rather anonymously from a freelance contracting website. Yet his initial proposal so clearly stood out from among dozens in its vital energy, which exactly matched that of the Earth Clinic community, that the collaboration was a natural choice and has continued through several productive years.

Of course, those projects particularly include Earth Clinic's first book, Apple Cider Vinegar, and hopefully several other titles to come.

Dan calls on years of experience as a freelance writer and editor, previous work ghostwriting a memoir, and several years working as Senior Editor for Earth Clinic. Mr. Kray has been the Senior Writer and Editor for several websites in addition to magazine and other original work. His previous experience in publishing, research, and general knowledge of the health field help him to bring a different perspective and energy to the community and all our Earth Clinic projects. He is a resident of a bucolic New York village.

 

LIZA MILLER
CLINIC MODERATOR

Since July 2011, Liza has been the site’s Clinic Moderator, reviewing all of your excellent feedback and remedy contributions and guiding all those thoughts to their proper categories within the site by hand. Her own lifelong and wide-ranging interest in natural remedies has made her a perfect fit for our site!

PARHATSATHID NABADALUNG (AKA TED)
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Bangkok, Thailand
parhatsathid@gmail.com

If you've been a frequent visitor to our site, you've no doubt read many articles from our friend Ted. Ted is his American name, but his real Thai name is Parhatsathid Nabadalung. Back in 2003, Ted started corresponding with Earth Clinic and we instantly recognized his genius. We are extremely grateful that he has chosen to continue answering many of our tricky health questions, as he is a big reason why our site is now so content-rich. In order to support his continuing research, his medical treatment of clients in Thailand, and to thank him for all the effort he offers the Earth Clinic community, we have chosen to make Ted a paid contributor to the site.

We asked Ted to send us a little blurb about himself because everyone wants to know: Who's Ted?

08/05/2006: Ted writes, "Was born in Bangkok, Thailand but studied in U.S. from 1965-1981, in more than 25 high schools, and four different colleges and universities, and also further pursued undergraduate and graduate in two more countries majoring in arts, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, computer, and business, before settling down in the field of computers.

My hobby is in the area of health and health research, where funding mostly comes from part-time teaching in computer auditing and computer maintenance. You can say I spend more time in my hobby then I do with my work!

Early interests in medicine was a bit unusual for me. When I was about 2 1/2 years old, I learned that coal tar products can be used to treat cancer. I could not possibly be born if it hadn't been for my mother's craving for oranges (yes vitamin C is a cure for miscarriage and she ate by the bushels!), as she already had two miscarriages previously.

My father first met my mother, believe it or not, from his lifetime persistent sinus condition, where radiation therapy (radium) didn't work. He was was cured from just taking one month's large dose of vitamin C, from some other patient my mother met who said it cured his sinus.

You can say that if it hadn't been for vitamin C, my mother would not have met my father, and my mother would have also suffered miscarriage and I wouldn't have been born! And my first interests in any vitamin was also vitamin C with publication of Linus Pauling on vitamin C and the common cold! Funny thing about vitamin C is that a couple of years ago, at about aged 43, I was having white hair but I was AGAIN cured by vitamin C with a little help from vitamin B complex.

It was not until sometime around 1973 where a major epidemic of the flu in Texas while going on vacation that I was afflicted with flu that I learned that zinc was a cure and that sugar caused the flu to get worse, especially drinking coke, or anything sweet. It lead me to conclude of acidity problems that I first started to use sodium bicarbonate to treat this problem based on indirect references by Edgar Cayce. That early interest caused me to pursue research as a hobby from 1971 at age about 13 years old and thereafter, I was able a year or so to read about three times the entire book, Reader's Digest Family Medicine (can't remember the exact title), and also read Prevention Magazine.

I also pursued with great interest in the early 1970s before Sandy and Pearson, on vitamin E and vitamin C as well as zinc. Most of my practice stems on this early use of baking soda, zinc, magnesium, vitamin C and vitamin E during that period. Today I am now pursuing simple chemicals as basis for antibiotics as a more safer forms, as well magnetic therapies, electromedicine, scalar technologies, sound therapies, water energy transfer, vibrational medicine, and various other modalities as a treatment for many potentially fatal diseases. Most of the time I spend is answering emails on health questions.

Right now (2006) I am doing hands on experiments such as creating stem cells inside your body using low level electricity, mineral, and nutrients instead of the more expensive highly political stem cells currently in used as a method to treat brain damage and other conditions of old age (senescence). This method of creating stem cells is also infinitely cheaper then the current form of treatment in used."

ABOUT KATHY MIRITELLO
CONSULTING EDITOR
Asheville, NC

Earth Clinic is very pleased to announce that we have been joined by Kathy Miritello, who is helping us run the monthly prayer group as it grows to over 5,000 members!

Kathy has been studying and practicing energy healing with Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere since 2002 and is an ordained graduate of the Crucible Program in the Healing Light Center Church. Kathy is also a 2008 graduate of the Art of Healing program taught by Helen Yamada and Mary Branch Grove.  Inspired by the work of Dion Fortune during World War II and her Society of Inner Light, Kathy began what is known as The Meditation Project in August 2008. Initially started to bring more honesty, integrity and ethics into the U.S. election process, the Meditation Project continues by bringing light and healing to the nation. Kathy has a Master of Philosophy in Cognitive Neuropsychology from George Washington University and lives in Asheville, NC with her greyhound, Jenny.

ABOUT BILL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
San Fernando, Luzon, Philippines

02/20/2010: Bill from San Fernando, Luzon, Philippines writes, "... My own background isn't medical for sure. Although I went to University in UK and studied biology and chemistry for a while, I dropped out to get a job because I was quite an impatient lad in those days. But I've always had an interest in the human body and healing.

Later, I worked in hardware during my early days and finally graduated to becoming a software analyst, eventually going independent as a consultant and contractor. I don't regard myself as medically trained at all wrt alternative therapies, but I am very logical due to my profession. I am now retired in the Philippines, I'm 60 y o and have two grown up sons.

Regarding beliefs, I quite dislike all of the spoiler research and false statistics that have been put out there by research from the big pharmaceuticals and the FDA against herbs used by alternative therapy. I wrote an article about it a while ago, giving all the arguments, with evidence, why I think The Germ Theory approach -- which is what the whole pharmaceutical industry and medical profession is based on -- was so incorrect. This is a very scathing article written by me because, at the time, I was so fed up and frustrated with all the lies and misdirection:

http://slowsmile.hypocrisy.com/2008/09/16/part-2-big-pharma-the-success-of-the-germ-theory/

Although I've had quite a fascination for natural herbal therapy for many years, my interest in using simple body-friendly chemicals is very new, and this interest never really sparked and took off until I had used Ted's remarkably simple alkalizing remedies to successfully cure my candida, and since that time I've made it a point to use, study and learn about the use of natural sea salt, hydrogen peroxide, Magnesium, methylene blue, vitamin C, Sodium thosulfate and a host of other remedies that are mainly based on Ted's advice. If I'm going to help people properly on this site, it just makes sense that I should use and test these cures too, so I know what I'm talking about(...so I don't have to rely so completely on the often dubious research from the pharmaceutical industry). If I read about a cure, I don't usually believe it unless I've used it or have researched, corroborated and made up my own mind about it.

Trouble is, I'm healthy now, nothing wrong with me...LOL. So my own research and testing isn't easy !!
I have also helped people here in the Philippines with arthritis, gout, diabetes and kidney problems using my own herbal remedies derived from my own homegrown herbs as well as from using many of the remedies from this site.

This site is a wonderful gem...!!

Best regards,

Bill"