Francine Weigand was diagnosed with osteoporosis in her left hip in 2003. The disease was controlled with medication for the next three years, with no improvement but also no further deterioration. In 2006, Francine attended a 5-day Basic Eden Energy Medicine Training in Santa Fe. Donna gave her specific recommendations, which Francine did on a daily basis. Three months later, a new bone density scan showed no signs of the disease and no problems at all with the hip bone.

Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones lose mass and deteriorate structurally, becoming fragile and more likely to break. There is no medical cure, through there are medicines which can be used to stop or slow the progression of the deterioration. Any bone can be affected, but the increased susceptibility to fracture is especially noticeable in the hip, spine and wrist.

Francine was diagnosed with osteoporosis in her left hip 5 years ago, at the age of 41. She’d gone to the doctor because of a notice she’d received that advised her that bone density scans were now available through her insurance plan. While she did not realize that she had osteoperosis, she occasionally had trouble sleeping because of some pain in her hip, which she attributed that to an earlier sports injury.

The primary care physician that she saw ordered the bone density scan and based on the results made a preliminary diagnosis of osteoporosis. It was unusual because of her young age and the fact that it only presented in one hip. At the suggestion of her doctor, she went to see a specialist at Mass General in Boston. He ordered another bone scan to verify the diagnosis. He confirmed that Francine did indeed have osteoporosis in her left hip.

The only treatment available was medication – either Alendronate (brand name Fosomax) or Risedronate (brand name Actonel). She had a bad reaction on Fosomax and reluctantly started the Actonel.

One year later a follow up bone scan showed that progress of the disease had been arrested, but there was no improvement in the density of the bone. She returned yearly after that for two more years and got essentially the same report: no deterioration, but no improvement either.

In November of 2006 Francine attended the 5-day seminar in Santa Fe and at one point was brought up on stage. Donna demonstrated the impact of triple warmer, showing how not only spleen, but other meridians as well can be depleted by triple warmer. In Francine’s case it was kidney. Donna also showed how using the 9-heart exercise to energize radiant circuits can also be used to strengthen spleen. But there was more, as Francine describes: "With a quick glance from Donna, she asked if I had problems with my bones on the left side of my body. As you can imagine, I was shocked that she knew this by just looking at me!" Francine described her condition to Donna and later, after the demonstration, Donna spoke to Francine and suggested that she do some homework: daily routine, flush kidney, flush circulation/sex, flush lungs, and do the 9-heart exercise.

Francine did those steps every day after the class. In February of 2007, just 3 months later, she had another bone scan. This time the scan revealed no signs of the disease and her primary care physician advised her to get off the medication right away. The doctor was not open to the suggestion that energy medicine may have had something to do with the reversal and said that it was probably a misdiagnosis from the beginning. But, after Francine asked her to review the original scans, her physician admitted that the earlier scans did show evidence of the disease. She "just shrugged her shoulders," unable to offer any explanation for the sudden change.