Roger Guttridge meets a Dorset doctor who is using unconventional methods of treating infertility-and two of the mums he has treated A Shaftesbury mum’s hopes of adding a second child to her family were tragically shattered when she was involved in a serious car crash in Wiltshire.
Sarah (not her real name) was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she suffered serious leg, rib and shoulder injuries.
She also lost her unborn baby, despite surgeons’ efforts to deliver it by Caesarean section. Within a few months Sarah was expecting again but this time had an ectopic pregnancy which ruptured.

“Luckily I survived but in the healing process things had obviously taken a turn for the worse” she says.
“I’m sure this was a result of the accident. I had conceived perfectly healthy children before that.
“I was now down to one Fallopian tube and turning 36. I think this was my lowest point.”
“The accident and losing a baby was awful and then suffering an ectopic pregnancy sounded the alarm bells.”
“My hopes of having another child were severely dash”

At this point Sarah and her husband decided to seek IVF treatment and they went to into it full of optimism. But two years later, after two courses of IVF and having a frozen embryo put back, she had still not conceived. By the time the couple were preparing for a third course of IVF, their chances of success had been further reduced by an illness, which dramatically lowered Sarah’s husband’s sperm count. At this point Sarah heard about Verwood doctor’s successful treatment of her friend Emma, from Blandfod.

Emma conceived her first child very quickly, miscarried her second at 18 weeks, then tired unsuccessfully for two years to conceive again.
Dr Rob Jacob, a conventionally-trained former GP and hospital doctor, who now uses “complemtary” methods, carried out some electronic tests. ”I had been feeling slightly ‘fluey’ and not at my best for some time but knew there was nothing wrong” says Emma.

“My GPs thought I had become severely depressed but I wasn’t.”Dr Jacobs diagnosed a virus in my ovaries, which was stopping me from getting pregnant, and a second virus in my uterus, in which would have caused the miscarriage.

“We had done two trips to South Africa and one to Dubai and I had picked up something there.” “It was fantastic that somebody finally believed me” Dr Jacobs, who has studied Chinese medicine and German biogical medicine, put Emma on a course of treatment specifically tailored for her condition. It included Chinese herbs and flower essen therapy. This was in1999 and Emma became preganantsoon after. Her second child was born the following year and she has since had a third child (conceived at the first attempt) before returning to Dr. Jacobs for contraceptive advice! I’m convinced that without Dr Jacob we would not have our second and third children” she said.

My gynecologist was equally thrilled. I have a huge respect for the medical profession but there is definitely room for complementary as well as conventional medicine. Hearing Emma’s Tale, Sarah headed for Dr Jacobs’ Evergreen Health clinic in Manor Road, Verwood- and was immediately impressed when his tests detected chickenpox in her system. “It indicated to me that he knew what he was talking about because I had caught chickenpox from my daughter the previous summer,” she said “He found various other things and gave me all the sorts of things to take, including Chinese herbs to improve fertility and homeopathic drops to take out viruses and pesticides.

“he also gave my husband some drops. Few days later, my husband gave another sample and miraculously his sperm count was back up to what it should have been”

Soon after Dr.Jacobs gave them both the all-clear,Sarah found she was pregnant. She gave birth to healthy son the following summer.

A third child was born 15 month after that.Sara and Emma are among 16 women whom Dr. Jacobs has treated for infertility since the early 1990s.
Some, including these two, had "secondary" infertility which means they had in the past but could no longer do so.

Others had "primary" infertility. After discounting those who did not complete the course of treatment, Dr.Jacobs claims a success rate
of 87.6 per cent, with success defined as those who became pregnant. Those who gave birth to at least one child number 66 per cent.
"It's a pretty small sample but the success rate is so much better than the 22 per cent of IVF that I beleve it needs to be more widely known" he says."most of those who come here have already had IVF. the vast mejority o my patients come here because convententional medicine hasn't worked. "conventional medicine can usally find no reason for them not being pegnant". For diagnois and to select appropriate heral and remdies, Dr Jacob uses electronic "vega test" machines, developed and widely used in Germany buy reraly used in this country...

The machine measure the electrical properties of acupuncture points, allowing precise diagnoses to be made about the state of the bodily organs.
"The electronic methods are such more sensetive than conventional methods,"says Dr.Jacob. "The main treatment I use is what's called complexhomeopathic and herbal remedies which seemto be effect by viruses. I also use Chinese herbs."There are different viruses and the people themselves are different and you can actually match the remedies to the virus and the patient".Dr.Jacob says research in Germany revealed that many chronic illnesses whose cause at least in part by viruses."this apperars true of such illnesses as high blood presure.arthritis.thyroid diease,chronic fatige syndrome infertility and multiple sclerosis.

"Electro-dermak screening reveals the presence of a persistent viral infection in all these diseases."Underlying and causing virus infection there are often found to be toxins picked up fromthe enviroment such as amalgam, mercury,from dental amalgam and industril pollutants."Bacteria, Fungi, parasites, psychologial and spritual factors an man-made elector-magnatic fields and microwave raiations may also underline disease states."