Didn’t he develop and sell a proprietary herbal supplement based upon Oxymatrine (see my previous post)? Presumably he made or makes money from that? There’s a trademark and a company that seems registered to a family member.
https://www.equilibranthealth.com/
https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Equilibrant
Sophora Health LLC company details
Firstly, he does not charge you regarding paperwork he signs for school or government forms. Every doctor I have met so far, both in my own country and overseas charge you for this. Even if I haven’t gone in appointment, rather all through email I am still charged.
Secondly, his supplement include Vitamin A 2,000 IU, Vitamin D 150 IU, calcium 600mg, selenium 30mcg, herbal blend 1,500mg of astragalus root extract, shrubby Sophora root extract, olive leaf extract, shiitake mushroom extract. He sells 90 tablets for 55 USD.
The key ingredient here is oxymartine which is the Sophora root extract (20% oxymartine). The only other brand that sells oxymartine is White tiger brand which for me is being sold at 44 USD (84 tablets) from Amazon. This will only include the oxymartine and nothing else. There is really not a huge price difference but hard to compare the two due to the ingredient list and dosing. I do not think this would count as a doctor trying to make huge profits at this price range.
Thirdly, A friend of mine who visited him payed 500$ for a full check up, even follow-ups. This is standard prices for most specialists. I payed the same price for my own specialist and only got one follow up appointment and had to pay for extra. Some friends of mine in Australia who are seeing a specialists are paying the same price. My friend had his follow-up lasting for 6-7 months without any further payment - again very contradicting to a doctor who wish to make a lot of money.
Before chia begins this treatment with oxymartine he does blood tests to check for different enteroviruses. Certain viruses do not respond much if at all to oxymartine. From there Dr chia says it is up to the patient if they wish to try the treatment or not to see if it responds. One of the patients I know who saw him had a specific strand that is particularly difficult so chia let him now prior to treatment. He decided to try and he tried for 3 months. Dr chia informed him that he could stop trying the treatment since he isn’t seeing any effect. From my understanding most doctors who wish to profit will tell the patients they have to keep taking it to see effects which leads me until my next point
There has been reports of patients having major benefit in their symptoms. In these patients, especially those in the beginning of his experiment with oxymartine, he thought the patients could stop treatment. So the patients did, and symptoms quickly returned from working back to bedbound. Then he informed the patient to start treatment again after seeing high titers in the blood once again, and symptoms improved. This happened to a range of his patients. This is why he now states if it works you may have to be on it for a lifetime especially since we don’t have effective antivirals for it as per now, which is something he wish could change.
A doctor encouraging a search for an antiviral that will fully eradicate a virus and symptoms is not someone who is greedy imo
Lastly I wish to also respond to the comment regarding Dr chia being the only one finding enteroviruses in us. This is false, I have come across multiple patients in the community who has seen other doctors and ME clinics which has found enteroviruses with a very abnormally high amount of titers
Now regarding the testing you can find more information of how it’s done under “Detection of non-cytolytic infections”
https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Non-cytolytic_enterovirus#Detection_of_non-cytolytic_infections
Please note that Dr chia was not the first to be able to find positive chronic enteroviruses in humans through more advanced testings. We might believe we have good testing tools in today’s world, but it seems that we do not and many tools aren’t able to pick up a range of different pathogens. It’s another great issue which needs to be addressed in my opinion. I would also advice you to look further into the tissue biopsy Dr chia has conducted in ME patients.
I understand many doctors out wish to sell us ridiculous protocols filled with medication and supplements. I understand there are many who have fallen for this and wasted tons of money, but seeing the history of Dr chia and his patients I cannot see any evidence for stating that he is only after money.
