Hemaview

Translated literally, this process is ‘an observation of live blood’.  With a tiny finger prick, a sample of your blood enables the Naturopath to ‘read’ your health profile or your current pathophysiology.  This consultation is a visual one and you are able to watch everything on a monitor.

It is an excellent way of assessing your current health.  The Naturopath will translate the findings for you to enable you to find out about your immune competence, bacterial, viral and fungal blood appraisal, nutritional assessment, functional imbalances and degenerative changes.

The information provides an excellent basis for the Naturopath to provide the most accurate professional recommendations on your health.  It enables early detection of problem areas.  And it is also beneficial in the treatment of pathologies such as lethargy, allergies, stomach dysfunction and general health.

Having a regular Haemaview consultation is an excellent way of keeping track of your health.  As you make changes you can also see how problem areas respond and watch your health improve.

The Heamaview blood test involves taking a sample of blood (approximately one to two drops) and observing the health of this sample under magnification. This technique avidly shows the health of red and white blood cells including those cells essential for our immune status (ie the natural killer cells and the helper T cells).

There are two prerequisites to the successful prevention and treatment of chronic disease:

Detection: identifying the disease processes operating in the individual patient;

Monitoring the treatment: ie observing the progress of health improvement through a system that provides treatment feedback.

This is where the great strength of the Haemaview lies: it can show the effects of degenerative aging (oxidation, inflammation etc) on the blood, and by inference on the rest of the body. More importantly it will show these effects to you and motivate you to make necessary changes to your lifestyle. In addition, subsequent screenings will show the benefits that the treatment and lifestyle changes are having on the state of you inner health. 

A valuable tool in the diagnosis of people's health problems.

When trying to discern the problem facing a person in terms of their health, one of the best indicators is a person’s blood.

Blood, it is said, is thicker than water, not because it will stop dripping after a while, but because it contains the multitude of components that circulate through our bodies carrying nutrients and immune particles to the organs and muscles and taking waste products and dead cells for disposal. In the blood the main constituent is plasma, which makes up about 55% of the blood volume. This plasma is about 90% proteins, 1% organic acids and 1% salts. The plasma has a critical role in immunity and clotting activity. The fluid that remains after clotting has occurred is called serum.

Healthy blood should have around 97% red blood cells, 3% white blood cells and some platelets.

The red blood cells are sacs of haemoglobin, (which gives blood its red colour), and is the substance which carries the oxygen to the bodies tissues. Another action of the red blood cells is to collect the CO2 that is the waste product of metabolism and carry it back to the lungs where it can be filtered out and breathed out.

Every one should be familiar with the usual blood tests carried out by the pathology lab that are done when one is ill to find the various levels of material that the blood is carrying around. These tests are done using blood that is dried, stained or treated in a manner to detect specific components so they may be measured.

But there is another way of looking at blood that presents a different aspect.
This system is called ‘live blood analysis’, and is done using a powerful microscope coupled with a monitor so the make up of the blood can be viewed in real time.

Hemaview has been around for many years but it is only recently that with the use of monitors and computers patients are able to view their blood easily on screen in real time.
This system allows you to view the particles that make up the blood and to see the quality of these constituents. It does not replace the normal blood tests done by a GP but you can see variations in the white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, as well as microbial forms. It is good to see a whole screen of nicely formed red blood cells moving about in a quiet easy manner, but a screen that shows the cells with jagged edges, misshaped bodies or surrounded by large numbers of white blood cells, is a good indicator that further investigation is required and may well act as a pointer as to where the problem is coming from.

The emphasis of live blood screening is very much on the nutritional side of things and will clearly show the state of the blood in terms of 

• Antioxidants  
• Essential Fatty Acids  
• Iron  
• Immune support  
• Vitamin B12 or folate  
• Lipotropic nutriments  
• Digestive enzymes  
• Gut permeability  
• Antioxidant