For the past 25 years, Dr. Incao's practice consists of using various methods to help his patients stimulate their own immune system to recover from illness. These methods include homeopathic and herbal remedies, hydrotherapy, massage, eurythmy (movement), art, music and speech. These methods used together form what is called Anthroposophic medicine. Dr. Incao is amongst the very few physicians in the United
States, who speaks out on the reasons behind the decline of our children's health.

"In all modern industrialized nations children no longer die from acute inflammations but instead they suffer from a variety of chronic conditions affecting their immune system (allergies, asthma, diabetes), neurological system (autism, learning and developmental disabilities), and behavioral and emotional stability (depression, suicide, violence and drug use). There are a number of possible specific causes just now being debated across the country, such as vaccine reactions as a cause of diabetes, autism and asthma; excessive antibiotic use as a cause of allergies and asthma; excessive TV and computer use as a cause of behavioral dysfunction in young children; and exposure to fluoride in water and to mercury and aluminum in vaccines as possible causes of neurological dysfunction.

"The mission of Rudolph Steiner, the founding father of Anthroposophic medicine, as well as Waldorf education, was to bring a much-needed healing into human culture and social life. Based on Steiner's model we can answer the question of "what is a healthy
child", as follows: It is the free and full development of a child's individual spirit in the
course of time, so that this active spirit is unhindered in growing to its full expression and full potential within the child's soul, life and body.

"If modern education and medicine are to strengthen our essential humanness, then they must learn that this humanness, this solid ground, derives from the human spirit, not from the human body. As the ancients new, the human spirit manifests in warmth, in fire: the fire of love, the fire of enthusiasm and, in the physical body, that most misunderstood and most feared of all fires - the fire of fever. Fever remodels and renews the body, making it a truer and more responsive instrument of the spirit. How often have mothers told me of their child's developmental leap in emotional and neurological maturity after
working through a fever that was not suppressed with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs! And conversely, how often have I seen children whose inflammations were repeatedly suppressed with these drugs lose their spark and stagnate in their development.

"Seen truly, inflammation is never the real illness; it is always the attempt of our immune system to permeate our inner opacity and coldness with the spirit's healing warmth and light. When this attempt is overzealous and threatens our life or functional capacity, then we can be very grateful that modern medicine has empowered us with the tools and techniques to suppress and control inflammation. But we must use that power with discretion! Health is balance after all, thus we must learn to avoid overshooting that balance with our overzealous efforts to "conquer" illness. What is most urgently needed is a widespread awareness of the critical difference between healing illness and suppressing illness.

The task of healing ourselves, our children and the Earth is one and the same. To accomplish this will require a revolution in all aspects of modern science, and especially in agriculture, medicine, psychology, education and parenting. It will require enormous
enthusiasm and good will. It will require of us nothing less than a practical, down-to-earth embodying of the spirit's fiery, renewing power."

Dr. Incao has successfully been able to avoid the use of immuno-suppressive medications, including antibiotics and vaccinations. He advocates a gentle reinforcement of elimination during illness and the use of several low-potency home remedies. The
importance of runny noses, vomiting and rash helps the child to 'express' the illness, rather than internalizing the illness. The connection between the digestive and nervous system and the overall inter-relatedness of various organ systems is strongly acknowledged by anthroposophic physicians.

Dr. Philip Incao studied Liberal Arts and Life Sciences at Wesleyan University, and received his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1966. He studied anthroposophical medicine in England and Switzerland. Dr. Incao lectures throughout the U.S. about vaccination issues. Dr. Incao's special interest is in strengthening children's health with natural health care to counter-balance the stressful impact of modern life.