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Body - Mind - Spirit - Natural Health Site
BODY - MIND - SPIRIT:
Index of Articles on Insights To Healthy Living
The natural healing arts have been with us for ages, and can often be very powerful
- by engaging and supporting our body's Innate Wisdom. We need to pay attention
to what helps us keep in balance, especially in these times of high stress living,
immune breakdown, and pollution. If your body-mind-spirit responds to something
you read - then listen! It may be trying to tell you something important!
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BODY
HEALTH ENHANCEMENT - HEALTH HAZARDS
HEALTH ENHANCEMENT
Phytotonic Nectar of 9 Fruits (including seed & peels) and 2 Roots combined with Andes
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High anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects have had many Encouraging results are being
reported in many acute and chronic conditions by those using this All-Natural Anti-Inflammatory
Anti-Oxidant Tonic!
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Transfer Factor Immune System Modulation
Can your immune system be modulated to defend against: Allergies, Asthma, Chronic Fatigue,
Sinusitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Type 1 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Crohn's Disease, Lupus,
Psoriasis, or Eczema? In many cases, these can be Auto Immune Disorders.
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"Everything Your Doctor Hasn't Shared With You About The Causes of PMS and
Menopausal Discomfort"
. . . and the Revolutionary Natural Solution by Beth Ellyn
Rosenthal
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The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen by Anthony G. Payne, N.M.D., Ph.D., M.D. (hon.)
A Proposed Approach for Effecting Lysis in Solid Tumors
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Alternative Health - History
Today we have the majority of mainstream, "conventional", medical practitioners who have
graduated from those pharmaceutical sponsored medical schools believing that laboratory
produced medicines are very, very good and plant based, herbal medicines are very, very bad.
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Sulfur (MSM)
A Basic Essential Nutrient Needed Now, More than Ever Before
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Colloidal Silver
The Rediscovery of a Super Antibiotic?
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Sleep Disorders and HGH
Why is there excess fat and loss of muscle mass as one gets older?
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Cat's Claw for Arthritis, AIDS, Cancer, and Anti-Aging?
Peruvian Rain Forest Research
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Calcium, Magnesium, and Boron
Is There A Boron - Arthritis Connection?
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Holistic Medicine
Becoming a Partner in the Healing Process
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Your Own Perfect Medicine?
You May Think That You've Heard It All!
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Healing Touch
Hands, Hearts, Intentions
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Do No Harm
The Philosophy of Natural Healing
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The Miracle of Magnetics
Every Cell and Atom is a Magnetic Dynamo!
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Homeopathy
The Safer Medicine
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Aromatherapy
The Therapy That Makes Scents
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Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
What Has Been Learned From Decades of Research
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The Utimate Secret to Long Life
A Method Tested and Confirmed By Science
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Prozac of the Deep - Essential Fatty Acids:
Are Dietary Fats Required For a Healthy Nervous and Immune System?
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Top 10 Best-Researched Herbs
Few Are Aware of the Multitude of Scientific Studies by Steven Taormina
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Make Health Your Priority! You Deserve It! by Wayne Pickering, N.D., Sc.M.
There's No Wiser Investment Than The One You Make In Yourself
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Are There Rules For Getting Well and Staying Well?
The Main Secrets To a Healthy Life
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Can Herbs Heal You? by Jean Carper
Documenting Scientifically Why It Makes Sense to Try Natural Remedies
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HEALTH HAZARDS
Bras and Breast Cancer: Increased Breast Cancer Rates Noted by R. L. Reed
Women Who Wear Bras Versus Those That Do Not
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Cancer Mistreatment? by John Robbins
75% of Oncologists Would Not Participate in Chemotherapy Trials If They Had Cancer
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Splicing Away Regulations Down on the Animal Pharm by Susan Wright
An In-depth Review of Genetic Engineering and Its Implications for the Future
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Gulf War Illness Special Reports by Donald S. McAlvaney
U.S. Government Involvement in Biological Warfare and Its Cover-up
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Dare To Think! by Darlene Sherrell
. . . a message about fluoride
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Artificial Sweeteners:
The Bitter Truth
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SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome by Eileen Nauman, DHM(UK), EMT
What Alternative Medicine Care Givers Need to Know
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Emerging Viruses - AIDS & Ebola by Dr. Leonard Horowitz
CIA-Military Industrial Genocidal Germ Warfare Program
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Gulf War Syndrome - Biological Warfare? by Captain Joyce Riley
Corporate Bio-Genocide?
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The Hidden Dangers of Water
Should You Worry or Ignore the Facts?
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Estrogen Hormone Replacement Risks: "Should Not Be Given Casually"
Risks and Side Effects Associated With Estrogen Therapy
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Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides
Greatest Scientific Fraud of this Century?
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The Air You Breathe
Sick Building Syndrome and Building Related Illness
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Hormone Heresy: Estrogen's Deadly Truth
A Major Medical Mistake and an Unforseen Environmental Hazard
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Hidden Microwave Cooking Hazards
Abnormal Changes In Human Blood and Immune Systems the Result?
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Epidemic Brain Dysfunction
"50% of U.S. Population Has Significant . . . Brain Chemical Imbalances"
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MIND
Thirty-two Keys: A Collection of Ideas About Life by Ken McIsaac
A free online life happiness book. Self-help ideas on living happily and reducing stress. Don't
worry be happy!
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Character, Courage, and Conscience by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Usually Painful Decision To Do the Right Thing
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Flower Essences by Lila Devi and Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer
Using the help of nature to turn problems into opportunities ands of imbalance into qualities of
harmony.
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Are You Getting Enlightened or Losing Your Mind? by Dennis Gersten, M.D.
A Spiritual Program for Mental Fitness
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Guided Imagery in Hospitals? by Leslie Davenport
Pictures We See in Our Minds, Our Feelings, and Our Inner Senses
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Success With Attention Deficit Disorders and Hyperactivity by Allen Buresz, D.C.
The Natural Health Approach
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Thought Forms by Edna Ballard
Nothing Compels Us to Think In Ways We Do Not Want
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Depression by Lelia Griswold
A Pathway Home to the Self
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Kripalu Yoga . . . A Way To Better Health
Increasing Knowledge of Our Physical and Mental Needs
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The Mind - Body Connection
An Orthodontist's Insights
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Rules For Getting Well and Staying Well
The Main Secrets to a Healthy Life
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SPIRIT
The Illumined Heart: Why the Grail only appears to the pure of heart. by Richard Smoley
The "Holy Grail" is the heart - illumined and awakened so that it may serve as a receptacle for
Divine Energies.
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How To Get Great Results When You Pray by Craig Donaldson
Prayer is one of the oldest forms of devotion on the planet. It is a wonderful source of joy, comfort
and spiritual upliftment for millions of people the world over and still remains one of the most
effective means of connecting with God (or whatever you choose to call the Creator). It can be as
simple as a "thank you" to the universe, or deep and holy prayer uttered from the heart. Here are
some simple practices you can use to increase the power of your own prayer.
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Frontier Science and Human Development by Paul von Ward
"Subtle energy" refers to the medium through which consciousness acts on the realm of matter
and energy. According to a National Institutes of Health study, at least 52 terms are used for
"subtle energy": chi, prana, Holy Spirit, manna, ether, orgone, biomagnetism and zeropoint,
among many others in our current vocabulary. Regardless of the label, it appears to contribute to
many phenomena not currently explained by conventional science: telekinesis, remote sensing,
telepathy, gut or heartbased intuition, healing by prayer or other non-physical means,
biocommunication between species, etc.
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What is the True Nature of Reality? by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Deepak Chopra gives a brief glimpse into the quantum mechanical body-mind, to at least attempt
to understand the exact nature of what the human body is like and also the exact nature of what
the Cosmic Body is like.
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Nourishing the Energy Body by Jule Klotter
"Creativity, Intuition, and Wisdom Originate in the Dynamic Chaos of the Energy Field"
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Saved by the Light by Dannion Brinkley
The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing."
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Universal Aspects of Healing by Angeles Arrien
Transcript from a talk at "Dreaming the New Dream Conference"
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Sufi Healing
Practiced Exclusively by the Sufis for Centuries
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Money and Spirit Forum by Fred Brown
By being aware of your attitudes toward money, you could avoid making the same mistakes your
parents made.
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Divine Healing
Serving as a Conduit for God's Healing Energy
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Auras by Edna Ballard
Attracting the Same Quality We Already Have Within
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Grace by Edna Ballard
The Law of Balance and the Law of Forgiveness
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Pranic Healing
Making Use of Prana (Vital Energy) for Healing
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Drawing From Jewish Traditions by Marthajoy Aft
For Practical Spiritual Healing
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These articles are provided for information and research purposes only. Please be aware that
the Natural Health and Longevity Resource Center does not necessarily endorse or control
the content of many of these articles, nor is it responsible for any claims, opinions or
information accessed therein.
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Auto Immune Disorders
Find out how you can modulate your immune system to defend against: Allergies, Asthma, Chronic
Fatigue, Sinusitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Type 1 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Crohn's Disease, Lupus,
Psoriasis , Eczema. In many cases, these are Auto Immune Disorders. Therapy for these types of
disorders should include an immune system "modulator", such as the Transfer Factor.
Infectious diseases, such as measles, strep, and staph killed 180,000 loved ones last year. A strong
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Myasthenia gravis
Emos-Lumbert myasthenic syndrome
Stiff man syndrome
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Multiple Sclerosis
Gullain-Barre syndrome
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating
Polyradiculoneuropathy
Multifocal motor neuropathy with
Conduction block
Chronic neuropathy with monoclonal
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Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders
Opsoclonus-myoclonujs syndrome
Cerebellar degneration
Encephalomyelitis
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Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis
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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura
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Wengener's granulomatosis
Temporal arteritis
Taksyasa's arteritis
Kawasaki's disease
Isolated vasculitis of the Central nervous system
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Wild Yam Cream - Natural Progesterone Cream - Natural Health
Hot Flash - Wild Yam Cream
by Beth Ellyn Rosenthal
Everything Your Doctor Hasn't Shared With You About The
Causes of PMS
and Menopausal Discomfort . . . and the Revolutionary Natural
Solution
Why women from 13 to 60 need the Wild Yam Cream . . . and some
men too.
Ninety percent of American women suffer from some type of menstrual problem. I
suspect your PMS story can’t be as bad as mine. But parts of our stories probably
match. If you’re like me, you’ve suffered from the day you had your first period:
Debilitating cramps. Wild mood swings. Super sensitive breasts. Pain that would make
a line backer double over.
Fortunately, I’ve finally found relief. Now you can, too.
Here’s my tale. In the late 1940s, my mother desperately tried to have a baby. After
two heartbreaking miscarriages, she heard about a special study at the University of
Chicago. The researchers there were testing a promising new drug that would allow
her to carry a baby to term.
During her pregnancy my mother received 52 injections of a drug called DES, which
turned out to be an artificial form of estrogen. The stuff did everything it promised!
She got her dream: me. But DES turned out to be my nightmare. Later, as we DES
babies grew up, these same researchers discovered this massive exposure to estrogen as
fetuses caused severe deformities in the sexual organs of both males and females.
(What will they find out 20 years from now about estrogen replacement therapy?)
In my case, I was born with cervical cancer. And I only have one working ovary. My
uterus is in backwards. And I’m too embarrassed to tell you the rest! But the point
here is, my messed up system created menstrual problems I wouldn’t wish on my worst
enemy. I take that back. I would!
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PMS: The Bitch From Hell
Ovaries alternate releasing eggs once a month. When it’s my non-working ovary’s
turn, I suffer no menstrual cramps or hot flashes. But I dread the months when the egg
comes from the functional ovary. For 10 days before my period, I experience pain
equal to natural child birth. Only drugs with strong narcotics put a dent in the agony.
My sister, who lives in Canada, sends me pain pills that are not available here so I
could have enough presence to get dressed and go to work.
Talk about PMS. Hey, it was no secret in my case. I am the bitch from hell!
Things got worse as I got older. The physicians felt my exposure to DES intensified the
typical symptom of menopause.
At age 44, I am perimenopausal. (Perimenopause is the decade before menopause
when women’s bodies slowly and subtly begin to prepare for menopause.
Perimenopause typically starts around age 40, but can begin as early as 35.) The hot
flashes, which I had only experienced right before my period, intensified and became
common throughout the month. My wild mood swings, which before had only been the
hallmark of PMS, affected me all month long. There were times when an emotional
cloud engulfed me for 30 days straight, choking me in a fog of malaise. And, for the
first time in my life, I couldn’t fall asleep. Or stay asleep.
Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. In fact, I had become a prisoner of my
menstrual cycles. I prayed for relief. But I was very picky about the solutions I
sampled. After spending a lifetime coping with the sad side effects of an artificial
“wonder” drug, I was not about to make the same mistake twice. I certainly wasn’t
going to take more artificial estrogen. (Been there, done that.)If the solution wasn’t 100
percent natural, I wasn’t interested.
The Natural Solution
Last year I got lucky. I learned about a natural form of progesterone made from a wild
Mexican yam. This jar of peach colored cream looks, smells and feels like an expensive
cosmetic. I rub one-quarter teaspoon of the sweet smelling cream on different parts of
my body twice a day during the second half of my menstrual cycle. (You’ll read why
the timing is so critical later.) My friend who turned me onto the cream promised this
was the panacea I was looking for. I was willing to invest the meager sum to find out.
I have to admit, at first I was skeptical. That a simple cream could take the pain away.
Or exorcise my mood swings. Or cool the hot flashes. But this natural form of
progesterone did all of that and more.
What follows is my story. I can only tell you what happened to me... and I have no idea
what the wild yam cream will do for you. However, if the cream could work for me, a
woman toxic with estrogen -- which is the worst case scenario -- imagine what it could
do for you, a normal female?
The First Week: Increased Libido
I started rubbing the cream on the soft areas of my body on day 9 of my menstrual
cycle. (Day 1 is the day my period begins.) For that first week (days 1-8), my body is
producing all the progesterone it needs. My ovaries, which produce the hormone, don’t
need any help from their friends! I only start applying the cream when my body can’t
produce enough progesterone to keep my hormones (specifically the ratio between
estrogen and progesterone) in balance.
I apply the cream transdermally, which means absorption through the skin. Have you
seen people on cruise ships with patches behind their ears? That was scopolamine,
which helps fight motion sickness. The nicotine patch works the same way.
If you are trying to get pregnant, don’t use the cream until day 15 (after you’ve
ovulated.) One of progesterone’s tasks is to keep the egg in the other ovary from being
released. (If that happens, fraternal twins could result.) However, this job makes
progesterone a mild form of birth control. So women trying to get pregnant should
start the cream after ovulation just to be safe.
Progesterone has another job. It increases female (and male) sexual libido. And that
was the first thing I noticed. Suddenly, I became a very sexual creature. My life is busy
-- the kid, work, house work, taking care of the dogs -- usually I barely find time to
work out, much less make love. But the progesterone cream rearranged my priorities.
Forget the house work! The man in my life noticed a big change and vowed to pay for
all future jars of wild yam cream.
Adding the cream to my regimen also created a wonderful sense of euphoria. What it
did was even out my mood swings. It made my depressions less depressing but made
my “wins” so much more wonderful. I found myself losing my temper less because I
was not as irritable as usual. I now could handle the roadblocks life put in my path
with more equanimity. I had this wonderful sense of calm despite the storm around
me.
The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, because I got downsized right out of a
job. Instead of panicking, my typical reaction to money pressures, I calmly crafted a
plan to look for new opportunities. This was the first time in my life I didn’t overreact.
I shook my head in wonder!
This new feeling extended through PMS week. With enough progesterone in my
system, my bitchiness just disappeared. Everything in the world seemed too wonderful.
PMS Week: No Pain, All Gain!
But the true test of the cream’s efficacy came during the week before menstruation
with the working ovary. I typically start getting hot flashes seven days before the onset
of my period. That’s when my family and my co-workers start avoiding me. The day
before my period the crippling cramps begin. For four days I live in a
narcotics-induced haze to quell the pain.
But this time, none of this happened. When I got my period, I experienced slight
cramping. I rubbed one-eighth of a teaspoon of the cream on my abdomen every 30
minutes until the pain subsided. In two hours, I felt nothing! No more pain killers. I
didn’t even need an aspirin! The yam cream passed its acid test.
Women who have migraine headaches right before their periods can rub the cream on
the back of their necks every 30 minutes until they get relief.
Why does this happen? Because nature’s natural balance is upset: the system is
rebelling against too much estrogen and too little progesterone. Scientists don’t really
know what causes this imbalance. Either the ovaries just don’t produce enough
progesterone. Or they produce too much estrogen. In my case, I had too much estrogen
to start with. Either way, the ratio is off, making your life miserable.
But the week before menstruation is exactly the time your body is counting on the right
amount of progesterone to be coursing through your veins. You see, one of
progesterone’s tasks is to relax all your smooth muscle tissues, including the ones
contracting the uterus to dispel the unused uterine lining. Without this hormone,
which is one of the best muscle relaxers in nature, your uterus and other involuntary
muscles will contract with greater force than necessary, causing cramps and migraine
headaches. Add the progesterone and poof! The aches go away.
A Month Later: Bigger Breasts
I’m small and athletic. All my life, except during pregnancy, I barely fit into a A cup
bra. I wear lace teddies instead of lace bras because I really have nothing to support.
The instructions with the cream say to apply it to various parts of the body, including
the breasts. So I began applying the cream to my breasts every fourth day.
Deep into my second cycle on the yam cream, I began to notice my shirts were
becoming a bit tight across the front. Then I stared in the mirror. My breasts were
growing! Here, on the cusp of menopause I’m going through puberty.
Three months later, I’m spilling out of a B cup. One friend, who is flat chested like me,
has gone up two cup sizes.
However, another friend of mine paid good money for breast reduction surgery. The
last thing she needs is bigger breasts. She makes sure the yam cream goes nowhere
near her chest. Instead, she applies it to her stomach, inner thighs, neck and arms. So
far, she’s noticed no change.
Why is this happening? Beats me! But I’d guess the correct amount of progesterone
triggers puberty-like reactions in women. Maybe age has nothing to do with it!
Three Months Later: Bye Bye Wrinkles
After 90 days of use, I had an unusual experience. My son and I were having dinner at
our favorite restaurant. He was dallying while the waitress impatiently waited for his
order. I said, “Son, please tell the women what you want.”
The waitress stared at me in shock. “Son?” she said. “This can’t be your son!” The
waitress thought I was his date! He’s 17 and I’m 44. I was flattered, but I knew this
was an anomaly. But then we went to New Orleans for his college interview at Tulane.
The waiter at the N’Awlins Cookery thought the same thing. That was twice in one
month.
I never intended to have the cream make me look younger! Having my life back was
certainly enough.
Can Men Use The Wild Yam Cream?
I sold a jar of wild yam cream to a man in my office who wanted the jar for his wife.
Three days later the wife called on the phone. He was out of the office, so I asked her
how she enjoyed the cream. She said, What cream?
When he returned, I asked him what he was doing with the cream. After he turned
red, he explained that as he got older, he had trouble reaching orgasm. He wanted the
cream to help him out here. He felt extra progesterone would give him the boost he
needed. It must have worked, because he bought a second jar for his wife!
How Your Biochemistry Can Work For You
Why does progesterone make all this happen? Here’s a basic science lesson.
Nature likes balance. PMS and menopause are caused by an natural imbalance,
typically too much estrogen and not enough progesterone. The result makes your life a
misery.
A Science Lesson
The science comes from Dr. Betty Kamen, who has a Ph.D. in nutrition. Her wonderful
book, “Hormone Replacement Therapy: Yes or No? How To Make An Informed
Decision About Estrogen, Progesterone & Other Strategies for Dealing with PMS,
Menopause and Osteoporosis” is an easy-to-read and informative primer on the
subject. I will just excerpt the easy parts here.
Hormones are biochemical substances that are produced by your glands. Even your
ovaries are a gland because they also produce hormones.
Your body uses hormones to control other actions in your body. For example, your
thyroid controls your metabolic rate. Since most of those actions take place far from
the producing site (your thyroid gland is near the neck; your stomach digests food), the
glands deposit hormones into the bloodstream. The hormones keep floating
downstream until specialized receptors recognize them. The hormones and their
receptors are like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. They fit together exactly No other piece can
take their place. In the body, hormone A won’t fit into hormone B’s receptors;
Hormone A just floats by hormone B’s receptors in its search for a perfect match.
Your glands manufacture their own hormones. They use three basic building blocks:
amino acids, proteins and cholesterol. Hormones made from cholesterol are called
steroid hormones. Your sex hormones are steroid hormones made from cholesterol.
(Isn’t that interesting.)
Before puberty, the adrenal glands manufacture all sex hormones. Between puberty
and menopause, the ovaries take over in women. Both glands split the job after
menopause. The testes manufacture hormones in men.
Progesterone is the natural building block for all the steroid hormones, making both
estrogens (associated with females) and androgens (for males.) Your body makes all
the progesterone you need during the first eight days of your menstrual cycle. The
progesterone levels shoot up to halt ovulation and trigger menstruation on about day
12. They continue at a high level until eight days after ovulation. If fertilization has not
occurred, the muscles in your uterus contract to expel the rich uterine tissue that
would nourish a pregnancy.
Women who are prone to PMS typically suffer from low progesterone levels. The
natural solution is to return the two hormones to the balance nature intended for your
body. During the second half of your cycle, if your body has more estrogen than
progesterone, it is important to try to recreate the correct ratio to eliminate the
symptoms. That includes:
1. Maintaining your body’s ability to produce progesterone and/or
adding progesterone to the body naturally AND
2. avoiding foods that will keep your estrogen levels high.
Correcting the Ratio: Eating Right
Eating properly can go a long way in encouraging your ovaries and/or adrenal glands
to produce more progesterone.
Here I’m on firm ground. My company, Meltdown International, uses a scientific test
that accurately measures your body’s biochemistry. The test results are an Owner’s
Manual to your body that includes a road map that leads you back to health. The road
map includes how to eat properly to fix the problems. I call it the grocery store
solution, since you can find your “cure” in the supermarket.
All the research here comes from Dr. David Watts, another Ph.D. in nutrition, who is
the research director of one of the six federally approved labs licensed to perform this
test, the Tissue Mineral Analysis.
No Junk Foods
First, junk foods have to go. If you can use very little sugar and not much salt, you’ll go
a long way toward returning your body to its natural balance. That means avoiding
processed foods and eating more fresh fruits and grains (complex carbohydrates).
More Zinc
Second, eat foods high in zinc. Zinc is one of the controlling nutrients for progesterone
production. The old wive’s tale about oysters being a great aphrodisiac is scientifically
correct, since oysters are loaded with zinc.
This may not be politically correct, but lean protein has the greatest single impact on
zinc absorption. Lean protein consists of lean meat (top round, not greasy
hamburgers), lean pork, chicken and turkey (without the skin), fish, shellfish and eggs.
If you are a vegetarian and suffer from PMS, you might want to start eating protein
two days before PMS is scheduled to begin and then stop when your period begins.
Cut Out Copper
You can lower estrogen levels by slashing your copper intake. Copper keeps estrogen
levels high. The following foods are high in copper in relation to zinc. Avoid these until
you get your menstrual/menopausal problems under control:
1. Almonds
2. Avocado
3. Baker’s Yeast
4. Bran flakes
5. Brazil nuts
6. Chocolate
7. Crab
8. Grapes
9. Liver
10. Lobster
11. Haddock
12. Herring
13. Mushrooms
14. Peanut Butter
15. Pecans
16. Sesame seeds
17. Shrimp
18. Sunflower Seeds
19. Trout
20. Walnuts
I know you’ll have no trouble giving up liver, but chocolate, lobster, mushrooms and
grapes? Sigh.
How do you know if you have too much copper? Brown spots on your face or skin are
a good sign. This means the liver has filtered out so much copper it is depositing the
excess amounts in your skin. If your nipples turn from pink to brown, that’s another
sign of copper poisoning. Of course, a Tissue Mineral Analysis (TMA) is a good way to
know for sure.
Judging from the hundreds of TMAs I’ve seen in the last five years, American women
are severely toxic with copper. It’s my guess this is why we’re having a much harder
time with PMS and menopause than our grandmothers did. We have to get our
copper/zinc ratios in balance, ladies!
How did our generation get so toxic with copper? Birth control, for one. Copper is a
primary component of the Pill since it helps control the ovulation cycle. Most IUDs are
made of copper, too. Today, you might be using these forms of birth control. But so did
your mother! You might have been born with too much copper to start with. And now
you’re adding more! Which means your system may have much more copper than it
needs.
There are other sources of copper poisoning. Copper pipes also leach the metal into
drinking water. If you have a swimming pool, your green algicide is pure copper. And
if you love your copper pots, guess what? They’re seasoning your food, too.
Here are the aches and pain of copper toxicity: frontal headaches, depression, fatigue,
constipation, emotional volatility, weight gain and food cravings. Sounds like PMS to
me!
Avoid external sources of estrogen
Another consideration: Avoid external sources of estrogen, which means dairy
products and beef that were commercially raised. These animals are loaded with
estrogen and other growth hormones on the feed lot. These hormones remain in the
flesh and/or milk and can be absorbed by your body when you eat them. Hopefully
your liver will filter them out. But some might get through. You need less estrogen, not
more!
Myself, I don’t eat dairy products, except for plain yogurt. I get my chicken from an
organic farm (The Good Earth Farm in Celeste, Texas) where I know they are range
fed and killed the day before I purchase them. Most of my vegetables come from the
Good Earth Farm, one of only 16 organic farms certified by the state of Texas. And I
only buy beef at Whole Foods, a health food market in Texas whose integrity I trust in
these matters. The store guarantees its beef is naturally grain feed with no hormones.
Correcting the Ratio: Adding Progesterone
Of course, the progesterone cream takes up where Mother Nature left off. I’m sold on
the natural solution, the wild yam cream. But what about artificial forms of
progesterone? Will they help? Not as much. Because one of your liver’s most
important functions is to break down foreign hormones by returning them to your
digestive tract. There, they bind with other substances so they can be excreted, not
absorbed. Birth control pills became a reality when scientists found a way for the
artificial estrogen to be absorbed by the intestines. But this is not yet true with
estrogen replacement hormones, making them difficult to administer by mouth. It’s
tough to fool your liver!
I swear by my wild yam cream. It has turned my life around -- naturally. As Mikey
said on TV, “Try it, you’ll like it."
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The Revised Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen
for Effecting Lysis in Solid Tumors
Anthony G. Payne, N.M.D., Ph.D., M.D. (hon.)
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Keywords: antiangiogenic; anti-anxiety; ATP; cancer; cobalt phthalocyanines; Cone metabolic therapy; COX
pathway; cyclooxygenase pathway; Essential Fatty Acids; experimental cancer treatment; ferritin-mediated
intracellular hyperthermia; gamma radiation; high protein diet; hyperthermia; hypoxic cell clusters; insulin; iron
phthalocyanines; pulsed magnetic fields; lactate; lipoxygenase; LOX pathway; melatonin; NDGA; oncolysis;
oncolytic; p53 gene; paleodiet; quercitin; solid tumors; thyroid hormone
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Background
The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is based on the seminal work of former NASA scientist Clarence Cone, Jr.,
Ph.D. My permutation of the oncolytic approach to treating solid tumors was first published during December
1996. Since that time this species of metabolic therapy has been further refined and modified so as to make
achieving oncolysis more probable. This paper outlines my hypothesis and the revised (2001) and updated
regimen in its entirety.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Li-Chuan Chen, Ph.D., a former post-doctoral fellow at the NIH's Center for Alternative &
Complementary Medicine, who provided information and insights which helped me take the Metabolic Oncolytic
Regimen the next step forward in its evolution. And to Stephen G. Ayre, M.D., and the late Donato Perez Garcia
Y'Bellon, M.D. , both of whom I had the distinct pleasure of meeting at a NIH sponsored conference (POMES) in
Bethesda, Maryland, for the insights afforded by their innovative use of insulin and chemotherapeutic agents in
http://www.all-natural.com/oncolytic.html (1 of 26) [9/22/2007 7:18:49 PM]
the treatment of cancer (Insulin Potentiation Therapy).
Summary
The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is based on an approach to achieving lysis in solid tumors pioneered by
Clarence Cone, Jr., Ph.D. (NASA, retired). Dr. Cone's novel therapy, which is reflected in patents granted various
versions of same [U.S. patent #s 4,724,230 (1988), 4,724,234 (1988), and 4,935,450 (1990)] essentially involves
manipulating various metabolic and biochemical pathways such that tumors produce prodigous quantities of lactic
acid. This is achieved using a specific dietary regimen plus various synthetic and natural drugs , e.g,., the
bioflavinoid quercitin is employed to block export of lactate from the tumor which results in a lethal drop in
intratumor pH. [The Cone therapy involves two treatment phases with a resting or nontreatment interval between
them].
The principle shortcoming of the Cone therapy lies in the fact that it is hypoxic clusters within certain solid
tumors - and not the entire tumor - which synthesizes and exports lactic acid (Something which came to light after
Dr. Cone's original patent application was filed). The Cone therapy is thus very appropriate and quite effective in
helping eradicate hypoxic intratumor cell communities. It does not, however, address the lysis of the non-hypoxic
regions of solid tumors per se.
The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is a marriage of Cone's basic hypoxic tumor cell lysing technique with others
geared to deal a lethal blow to both hypoxic and non-hypoxic tumor cells. It also incorporates compounds and
therapeutic techniques which complement the Cone approach (Most of which were not available and/or widely
used when Dr. Cone filed for his patents).
Body of Paper
Fifty percent (50%) or more of solid tumors are characterized by specific genetic and extragenetic (intracellular)
features that create a therapeutic "window of opportunity" for effecting oncolysis via the manipulation of various
metabolic pathways. A brief review of certain aspects of tumor cell biology is needed to demonstrate this. One of
the key players in the genesis of solid tumors is the p53 gene [We all inherit a maternal and paternal copy of this
particular regulatory gene]. In normal cells the p53 gene complex is not active.However, when cells incur damage
viz exposure to ionizing radiation, toxic agents, etc., the p53 genes switch on and begin synthesizing a protein
which typically arrests cell growth (thus allowing time for DNA repair) or activates a cellular self-destruct
mechanism called apoptosis. When mutations occur in either the maternal or paternal copy of the p53 gene in a
tumor cell - but not both - the cell will produce the p53 protein and, in the increasingly hypoxic environment that
accompanies tumor growth, undergoes apoptosis. In essence, the oxygen efficit encourages tumor cell lysis.
Unfortunately, tumors circumvent this effect by creating new blood vessels (neovascularization) which provide
needed oxygen and nutrients. These vessels are usually very leaky such that blood plasma readily infiltrates
intracellular spaces. This process generates intratumor pressures that impede blood flow and thereby reestablishes
an oxygen deficit.
This picture is complicated by the tendency of tumors to give rise to cells which possess mutations to both
maternal and paternal copies of the p53 gene. These cells do not produce the p53 protein and thus multiply
unchecked. They are typically the most aggressive and drug resistant cells in a tumor - and tend to thrive in the
most hypoxic regions of same [Those cells able to produce p53 protein die off in the hypoxic intratumor
microenvironment. Those lacking functional p53 genes proliferate and thus give rise to clusters of like cells within
the tumor].
Given this profile, it follows that the most effective therapeutic approach would be to encourage tumor
microenvironment hypoxia via interference with angiogenesis (neovascularization). This will facilitate the lysis of
tumor cells that synthesis viable p53 protein.
But what about those tumor cells that do not produce p53 protein? Would not encouraging intratumor hypoxia
select for especially aggressive tumor cells? It will indeed. Actually, it adds nothing new to the clinical picture as
this selection process is well under way early on in tumorigenesis. As we cannot presently circumvent this
process, the principle objective becomes one of introducing therapeutic agents and metabolic challenges that have
a selective and lethal effect on hypoxic cells.
As the suppression of the neovascularization or angiogenesis mechanism can be effected in a rather
straightforward manner via the introduction of antiangiogenic drugs or natural compounds, e.g. thalidomide,
possibly certain shark cartilage extracts, etc., we will focus primarily on the metabolic processes unique to tumor
cells in the grip of profound hypoxia (and how we can effectively exploit same).
The Hypoxic Cells' Dependence on
Anaerobic Processes
Tumor cells that lack sufficient oxygen to engage aerobic metabolic pathways typically begin to rely on anaerobic
ones to supply needed substrate. These cells convert most of their pyruvate to lactate (and not acetyl Coenzyme A
[AcCoA]), which is then excreted from same (1-3). This cellular aberration has several consequences: Only a
small percentage (5-6%) of the chemical energy in glucose molecules can be liberated and utilized [Glucose is
totally oxidized in normal cells]. As a result, the rate at which tumor cells can generate ATP (from glucose via the
Respiratory Chain and Acid Cycle) is limited. To prevent cell lysis due to energy deprivation, malignant cells
begin to rely on the mitochondrial B(eta)-oxidation of fatty acids to AcCoA (which can then enter the Citric Acid
Cycle) and on the enzymatic transformation of amino acids into metabolically useful compounds (4,5).
The reliance of hypoxic tumor cells on this "alternative" metabolic pathway can be exploited along these lines:
(a) The oxidative catabolism of free fatty acids and amino acids (via the Respiratory Chain and Citric Acid Cycle)
might be inhibited in hypoxic cancer cells via the judicious use of agents which inhibit their availability, i.e.,
partially inhibit hepatic fatty acid synthesis and keep plasma amino acid levels within the normal range, thus
decreasing ATP production;
and
(b) The ATP that is produced could be rapidly depleted by (the) use of compounds that stimulate ATPase activity.
The net effect of a and b (above) should be rather straightforward:
Hypoxic tumor cells will compensate for this compromised metabolic state of affairs by increasing the rate of
intracellular glycolysis. This, too, can be exploited by the introduction of substances that interfere with the
shuttling of lactate out of the tumor cell. This will cause a drop in the intracellular pH level that will undermine
vital cancer cell metabolic processes (6). Tumor cell lysis is anticipated. What is needed then are therapeutic
agents and dietary measures that will:
·
Limit the hepatic synthesis of free fatty acids plus inhibit lipolysis elsewhere in the cancer patient's
body.
·
Keep plasma amino acid levels within the range required to sustain general health [Normal cells will rapidly
utilize the amino acids liberated by the catabolism of foods. Excess aminos - typically the end result of metabolic
processes stimulated by the stress-induced release of adrenal hormones - will be available for use by cancer cells].
·
Interfere with the transport of lactate out of the hypoxic tumor cells.
·
Provide sufficient nourishment and caloric intake to meet the metabolic requirements of normal cells
without supplying excess fats or protein that will be used to meet the metabolic needs of tumor cells.
The following are compounds that will help achieve the therapeutic objectives delineated above for the p53
protein-producing tumor cells, as well as those which do not synthesis the protein.
Limonene
The 10-carbon compound limonene has been shown to inhibit the synthesis of ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q10) in
tumor cell mitochondria, thereby reducing the amount of chemical energy produced to meet metabolic needs (7).
It also blocks protein prenylation, a process crucial to the synthesis of proteins involved in regulating cell growth
and cycling (Coleman et al, in press). Lavender (Lavendula) oil is rich in limonene.
L-Hydroxycitrate
This compound inhibits ATP citrate lyase, i.e., the cytoplasmic enzyme that cleaves citrate to produce AcCoA and
oxalo-acetate (8). Numerous animal studies have shown that L-hydroxycitrate significantly depresses in vivo
lipogenesis in a dose dependent manner in the liver, adipose tissues, and small intestine (9). This therapeutic
activity is of immense clinical value, as tumors release or bring about the release of lipolytic agents which free up
fatty acids for the synthesis of new tumor cells (McDevitt et al, 1995).
It should be noted that L-hydroxycitrate, in both animal and human trials, has demonstrated a mild anorexiant
effect which might limit its use in patients with tumor-induced anorexia and cachexia (NOTE: Recent studies
indicate that L-hydroxycitrate may not exert any appreciable weight-reducing effects). However,
L-hydroxycitrate's appetite suppressant effects should be offset by the administration of exogenous thyroid
hormone [Thyroid is an integral part of the oncolytic regimen]. Update: In recently published clinical trials,
L-hydroxycitrate failed to induce significant weight loss. The anorexiant effect would appear a nonissue.
Interestingly, the cachexia commonly associated with malignancy should in many ways be addressed by the
Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen. In animal studies, insulin has been found to drop during certain stages of tumor
formation. The MOR includes use of exogenous insulin - see below (This insures glucose availability to normal
cells, as well as increasing cell membrane permeability - which may potentiate the cytotoxicity of various agents
used in the Regimen); glucose is often converted to fat before being utilized. The MOR introduces
L-hydroxycitrate which partially inhibits the conversion of glucose and other sugars derived from dietary
carbohydrates to lipids. This glucose is available to provide energy for normal cells, as well as substate the
hypoxic tumor cells will turn into lactate (Which will be at least partially blocked from being shuttled out of the
tumor cells by quercitin - see below); while most hepatic glucose processing "plugs into" the Cori Cycle, i.e.,
glucose from the liver is transported to the muscles where it is converted into pyruvate and back to glucose (Then
to lactate - which circulates back to the liver and is converted into pyruvate, then glucose - which leaves the liver
and travels back to active muscles, etc.) The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen should appreciably interfere with
lactate transport out of not only hypoxic tumor cells, but active muscle tissue as well, thus "throwing a monkey
wrench" into the Cori Cycle.
Melatonin
The pineal-synthesized hormone melatonin is a fatty acid transport inhibitor (10). Depriving tumor cells of
metabolically useful fatty acids is an important component of the MOR.
Concentrated Garlic or Insulin i.m.
Concentrated garlic extract or preferably exogenously supplied insulin [Isophane - slow release] will elevate the
level of circulating (free) insulin in cancer patients (11). Ths is desirable, as insulin has a pronounced
anti-lipolytic effect (12). It also is increases cell permeability thus making it easier for chemotherapeutic drugs to
have a lethal effect on tumor cells. The physicians who pioneered Insulin Potentiation Therapy (Donato Perez
Garcia , M.D. , his son Donato Perez Garcia y Bellon, M.D., and grandson Donato Perez Garcia, M.D.) report that
the doses of conventional cytotoxic and other antitumor drugs employed to lyse cancer cells is reduced manyfold
(Go to http://www.iptq.com/)
Thyroid
Exogenous thyroid hormone should contribute to the achieve of desired (oncolytic) objectives by: (1) increasing
hepatic removal and degradation of cortisol, which brings about plasma reductions of same; and (2) stimulating
ATPase activity (so as to "waste" ATP).
The lipolytic activity of thyroid hormone should be offset by the anti-lipolytic effects of insulin and prostaglandin
E1.
It should be noted that the diet advocated herein (See Dietary Guidelines section below) which closely mirrors
the paleodiet (Stone Age Diet), has been found to boost thyroid levels in one published study (University Of
Illinois At Urbana-Champaign is the original source):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/04/010404080611.htm
Quercitin
This bioflavinoid interferes with intracellular mechanisms that transport lactate out of cancer cells dependent on
anaerobic metabolic processes [Its interaction with the calcium regulatory protein calmodulin appears to have an
added antitumor effect (13)]. When lactate shuttling is compromised intracellular pH falls resulting in cell lysis
(apoptosis).
The apoptosis-inducing effect of an acidic pH has support from a study showing that alkalinization of
lovastatin-treated tumor cells abolished the cytotoxicity of the drug (14). Lovastatin's cyctotoxicity is linked
primarily to its ability to create an acidic intracellular pH. The acidic pH induces the activation of a pH-dependent
endonuclease which causes DNA fragmentation. It has been demonstrated that this particular enzyme can be
rapidly inactivated by the stimulation of the Na/H antiporter, an acid exporter, with phorbol ester. This strongly
implicates an acidic pH and pH-dependent endonuclease in effecting cell lysis (Chen, LC, 1996).
Accordingly, it seems likely that quercitin-induced lactic acidosis in (glycolytic) tumor cells may bring about
pH-endonuclease activity that leads to tumor cell die off.
NOTE: Quercitin has been shown to have cytotoxic effects via such mechanisms as: (a) Arrest of cell progression
at the G1/S interphase (Two studies indicate blockage at the G2/M interphase); (b) suppression of glycolysis and
ATP production; (c) interference with ion pump systems; (d) interference with various signal transduction
pathways (Protein kinase C, casein kinase II, etc.); and (e) inhibits DNA polymerase B and I (15). [Quercitin is
also an effective 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor. Recently published studies indicate that arachidonic acid stimulates the
growth of several types of cancer viz-a-viz being metabolized through the 5-lipoxygenase pathway into 5-HETE
series of eicosataenoids (16)].
Essential Fatty Acids
(If dietary omega 3 intake is low - more below under Fats): Supplementation with a source of essential fatty acids
which, in the context of this cancer treatment approach, should: (a) Help provide modest levels of those fatty acids
required to maintain general health and; (b) serve as a substrate for the synthesis of various prostaglandins - PGE1
being of immense value because it inhibits lipolysis (17). Emphasis to be on a high omega 3 to omega 6 fatty
acids intake. The rationale? Archidonate lipoxygenase (LOX) and their metabolites appear to play an integral role
in mediating growth factors which support tumor cell proliferation and growth. The LOX pathway may also be a
vital component in the regulation of tumor cell survival and apoptosis (18).
(Liquid) Shark Cartilage
Shark cartilage contains proteins that inhibit tumor-produced collagenases crucial to angiogenesis, as well as a
single protein dubbed "cartilage derived inhibitor" (CDI) which blocks endothelial cell migration and proliferation
[A crucial pathway in angiogenesis] (19). When tumors are deprived of the ability to form new blood vessels, they
fail to thrive and in at least some instances become encapsulated and experience partial or complete lysis (20).
Animal experiments and human clinical trials involving cartilage extracts in the treatment of various neoplasia
carried out by I. William Lane, Ph.D., et al produced evidence of efficacy sufficiently compelling to convince
FDA officials to grant an IND [Investigational New Drug] application. NCI sponsored clinical trials involving
Lane's (patented) pharmaceutical grade shark were in the works during 1997, but support was subsequently
withdrawn when NCI officials determined the evidence on hand was not compelling enough to justify pursuing
same. The NCI has, however, expressed a willingness to reverse itself should proponents produce compelling new
evidence of shark cartilage's efficacy (in the treatment of cancer).
While the evidence to-date concerning shark cartilage's ability to retard or arrest tumor neovascularization may
not be copious or indisputably substantive, there is (in the author's opinion) sufficient data to indicate that there is
probably "smoke in the woodpile.” According to many experts, shark cartilage is poorly absorbed when taken in
the form of a encapsulated powder or as a powder mixed with water or fruit juice. There is a liquid extract version
which is reputed to be bioassimilable. NIH sponsored clinical trials involving same are in the works (2001).
It should be noted that bovine cartilage and the soybean isoflavone genistein have both shown antiangiogenic
activity. They are not herein recommended due to the fact (that) neither contains antiantiogenic proteins in
quantities close to rivaling shark cartilage [Drs. I. William Lane and A. Lee estimate that shark cartilage contains
1,000 more potential antiangiogenic activity per shark than
is true of individual bovines]. (21)
NOTE: There are a number of other antiangiogenic inhibitors presently undergoing testing in clinical trials.
Among those showing tremendous promise: Interleukin-12, pentosan polysulfate, platelet factor 4, thalidomide,
and TNP. Angiostatin and Endostatin, two fairly new entries in the antiangiogenic family of drugs, ave produced
remarkable results in animal experiments.Also, tetrathiomolybdate (TM), a pharmaceutical employed to lower
serum and tissue copper levels in persons suffering from Wilson's
Disease, has shown promise in effecting angiogenesis in Phase I clinical trials involving patients with Metastatic
cancer (Clin Cancer Res., 2000 Jan; (1):1-10)
[Also: Garlic raises endogenous nitric oxide levels, which has an antiangiogenic effect. Published research
indicates that garlic boosts the activity of NO synthase, but not owed to its high content of arginine nor to the
phytochemical allicin (22, 23)].
Calmative Botanic Formula Plus Auto-suggestion, Cognitive Therapy,
Biofeedback or other Stress-Attenuating Measures
Cancer patients typically present with substantially levated serum free fatty acid and amino acid levels. This is
due, in part, to cancer treatment (and response) related fears and anxiety. These powerful emotions trigger adrenal
hormone release - the physiological effects of which include activation of adipocyte lipase (resulting in
mobilization of free fatty acids) and partial inhibition of protein synthesis, i.e., the plasma amino acids which are
normally (readily) utilized by nonmalignant cells for protein synthesis are only partially used resulting in an
increase in the availability of amino acids to meet tumor cell metabolic needs.
It is vitally important, therefore, to provide the cancer patient with anxiolytic phytomedicines or pharmaceuticals
plus supportive psychological therapy (or biofeedback) to minimize fear and anxiety-related stress [Or provide a
referral to a qualified psychologist, psychiatrist, or other health care professional who can design a comprehensive
stress management program]. Stress can also be attenuated by sexual release in patients interested in and capable
of engaging in same. In my own clinical experience (informed by published animal and human trials), an extract
of Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica), Kava Kava Root (Piper methysticum), Valerian Root (Valeriana officinalis) or
Passion Flower (Passiflora incarnata) is usually quite effective. One of the more potent anxiolytic/calmative
formulas I have employed in ameliorating stress in cancer patients is a Traditional Chinese drug called the
Zizyphus Combination [Suan-Tsao-Jen-Tang]. In a comparative double blind study, the Zizyphus Combination
[250 mgs. TID per os] were fully comparable to those of diazepam [2 mgs. TID per os].
There was one crucial difference between the two: When taken at bedtime, the Zizyphus Combination did not
leave patients drowsy or otherwise impaired upon rising (24).
DIETARY GUIDELINES
Protein
35% of caloric intake should be in the form of protein (Emphasis on nonplant protein sources. This should be
sufficient to maintain nitrogen balance.) NOTE: Patients with kidney disease or other serious health conditions
should consult their primary care physician concerning the adviseability of consuming high protein meals.
Protein with a high "biologic value", i.e., a mix of all the essential amino acids (plus a high proportion of omega 3
fatty acids. Ideally: A 4:1 ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 fatty acids.) Emphasis: Cold water fish.
Carbohydrates
Approximately 35% of the patient's caloric intake is to come from complex carbohydrates. However, beans,
bread, potatoes, and all grains should be eaten rarely, if at all. These foods were introduced only recently
(Neolithic period) and the emerging consensus among many experts in evolutionary nutrition is that our bodies do
not benefit (in the long run) from reliance of such foods.
Raw and steamed vegetables and fruits should comprize the bulk of the patient’s carbohydrate intake.
Fats
Dietary and supplemental forms of fat should provide 20-30% of (daily) calories. Example: A 70 kg. man will
require approximately 2,000 calories/day - 400 calories (44 grams - 20% level) of which should come from fats
(Primarily omega-3 rich fatty acid sources/supplement).
Caveat: The use of fish oils is contraindicated for patients on blood thinners or who are diabetic.
Caloric and nitrogen intake should be calculated with a mind to meeting the patient's essential metabolic
requirements. Allowances must be made, of course, for the increase in metabolic rate wrought by use of
exogenous thyroid plus the patient's daily level of physical activity.
Protein or nitrogen (N) requirements to maintain nitrogen balance can be estimated by calculating nitrogen losses:
Total N loss (gm/d) = Nurine + Nstool + Nskin.
Where Nurine = Range of 1.3-1.7 gm/d
Average estimated from urinary urea N (mg/d) x daily urine volume (dl) divided by 0.8.
Nstool = 1-2 gm/d
Nskin = 0.3 gm/d
Normal total N loss = Range of 2.9-5.9 (Mean 4.4) gm/d
Protein estimated as follows:
N(g) x 6.5 = Protein (grams)
From Internal Medicine, Diagnosis & Therapy (1988-1989). Edited by Jay H. Stein, M.D., Appleton & Lange, pp.
246-7.
The diet should include plenty of potassium-rich foods. High magnesium foods and drinking water are to be
eschewed. The rationale is simple: Increases in potassium ion concentration stimulate the secretion of insulin
(Desirable in terms of treatment objectives). Magnesium is inhibitory (25).
THE DAILY ONCOLYTIC REGIMEN
AM MEAL
The emphasis should be on fruit and protein. The consumption of fruit after rising is consonant with primate
dietary patterns [Patterns virtually all "higher" primates became adapted to over the millenia]. In the case of
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), our evolutionary siblings (99% identical genome), fruits are consumed early in
the morning thereby providing fructose and other sugars needed to replenish fasting serum glucose levels.
Interestingly, neuropeptide Y - which stimulates carbohydrate craving - peaks during the early part of the day.
This lend support to the view that the general primate metabolic machinery has been conserved throughout the
course of hominoid and hominid evolution. For a detailed exploration of diets that are consonant with our species'
evolved nature, peruse The Paleolithic Presciption (1988) and/or visit the Paleolithic Diet Page at
http://www.panix.com/~paleodiet/
Prior to: 250 mgs. L-hydroxycitrate (20 minutes before the meal)
500 mgs. quercitin (See note below)
With: 10-30 drops Lavendula oil mixed into fruit juice or water.
After: 2-3 grams concentrated garlic or 5-15 units insulin suspension [Isophane] injected i.m. approximately
30-45 minutes following the A.M. meal. If insulin is used, a glucometer or other method must be employed (by
the patient or caregiver) to measure his or her serum glucose level - and monitor same at regular intervals
throughout the day. If hypoglycemia occurs, the patient should consume a sucrose rich candy or beverage (26).
1/2 to 1 grain thyroid
Antiangiogenic drug or liquid shark cartilage [Dosage depends on the nature of the drug or supplement used, e.g.,
thalidomide, liquid shark cartilage, an extract or preparation consisting largely of the antiangiogenic proteins, etc.]
Botanic or pharmaceutical calmative (If needed)
NOTE: As quercitin is very poorly absorbed in the human gut, it is recommended that patients take a more
bioavailable form such as water soluble quercitin hydrate or "activated" quercitin [Activated quercitin is a
combination of quercitin and bromelin and magnesium ascorbate. According to literature published by a major
"activated" quercitin manufacturer/distributor, Threshold Enterprises Ltd. (Source Naturals brand), various
clinical studies have demonstrated that vitamin C improves the absorption of quercitin]. Interestingly, the
marriage of ascorbate with quercitin packs its own therapeutic punch. To whit: A quercitin-ascorbate blend
inhibited HBT squamous cell carcinoma cells in one study (27).
MID-DAY MEAL
The emphasis should be on complex carbohydrates and protein.
Prior to: 250 mgs. L-hydroxycitrate [20 minutes prior to meal]
500 mgs. quercitin
With: 10-30 drops Lavendula oil mixed into fruit juice or water
After: If Isophane insulin was not used in the AM, 2-3 grams concentrated garlic.
1/2 to 1 grain thyroid
Omega-3 fatty acid supplement*
Botanic or pharmaceutical calmative
Antiangiogenic drug or liquid shark cartilage [See AM Meal entry]
Melatonin
PM MEAL
Complex carbohydrates and protein foods are emphasized.
Prior to: 250 mg. L-hydroxycitrate (20 minutes before meal.)
With: 10-30 drops Lavendula oil mixed into water or fruit juice/
After: If Isophane insulin was not used in the A.M., 2-3 grams concentrated garlic.
Omega 3 fatty acid supplement*
* If dietary omega 3 fatty acid intake meets the patient's daily intake level (in grams), there is no need to take an
omega 3 fatty acid supplement.
SPECIAL NOTE - For patients who cannot readily obtain sufficient omega-3 fatty acids through the diet: In my
experience, patients often find that the most convenient way way of getting supplemental fats is to mix and
consume omega-3 rich Flaxseed oil with low fat or non-fat cottage cheese or small quantities of reduced fat
peanut or soy butter.
Botanic or pharmaceutical calmative
Antiantiogenic drug or liquid shark cartilage [See AM Meal entry]
Melatonin (Before retiring)
Low Dose Gamma Radiation Used in Tandem with Lipoxygenase Inhibitors
A recent addition to the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is low dose radiotherapy (in tumors types with a
demonstrated susceptibility to same) coupled with the use of lipoxygenase inhibiting pharmaceuticals or natural
substances. This combination was first suggested to the author by in vitro research carried out at the Institute of
Biophysics in Czechoslovakia (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic). Researchers at the Institute found
that when human carcinoma HS578T and monoblastoid U937 cell lines were treated with the lipoxygenase
inhibitors norhydroguaiaretic (NDGA) and escultein - then exposed to low dose gamma radiation (1GY) (3H)-thymidine incorporation and cell proliferation was suppressed [NOTE: Quercitin compromises lipoxygenase
activities both in vitro and in vivo. The cyclooxygenase inhibitor piroxicam had no effect (28)].
Additional Supporting Evidence: German scientists treated mice with Lewis cell lung cancer with various
combinations of i.p. administered collagenase, cyclooxygenase, and lipoxygenase inhibitors plus radiation. The
most effective modulation of tumor growth (2.8 - 3.3. fold increaes in tumor growth delay) was seen in animals
treated with a combination of moncycline (collagenase inhibitor)/suldinac (cyclooxygenase inhibitor) plus
radiation and phenidone (Lipoxygenase inhibitor)/suldinac plus radiation (29).
NDGA (Nordihydroguariaretic acid): A General Lipoxygenase Inhibitor and ATP Depleting Agent
NDGA, a chemical compound present in the botanical Larrea tridentata (Chaparral) - once widely used in various
folk treatments for cancer - has shown efficacy in inducing tumor cell lysis in numerous in vitro studies. In one
laboratory experiment, NDGA and a 12-LOX selective inhibitor brought about rapid and dose-dependent
apoptosis of serum cultured W256 cells (as well as other tumor cell lines including leukemia) (30). In another
study, NDGA inhibited an ATP sensitive osmolyte channel in hepatoma cell line HepG2 by virtue of its ability to
deplete ATP (31). These properties make NDGA a compound worth further investigation, especially in terms of
its efficacy when used in tandem with novel cancer treatment approaches such as the Metabolic Oncolytic
Regimen.
CAUTIONARY NOTE: Readers and physicians are discouraged from utilizing either Larrea tridentata or
purified NDGA in conjunction with the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen (or any other cancer treatment). During
1992-4 eighteen cases of hepatoxicity were reported to the F.D.A. involving Chaparral ingestion. Thirteen cases
did show clear evidence of liver toxicity including cholestatic hepatitis (4 persons) with progression to cirrhosis.
Two of the thirteen developed fulminant liver failure that required liver transplantation (32).
However, there is a newly patented nontoxic extract of Larrea tridentata which should be available on the market
shortly (U.S. Patent # 6,039,955, March 21, 2000). It would be entirely approrpiate for cancer patients to use this
species of NDGA. The use of lipoxygenase inhibitors and low dose radiation is a relatively new area of medical
research and to-date has primarily involved cell cultures. However, the rationale for employing both (where
appropriate) is scientifically credible and consonate with extant knowledge of tumor cell biology. As radiotherapy
is used quite effectively in the management and even eradication of some solid tumors, patients who elect to
undergo the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen - in combination with radiotherapy - would be well advised to discuss
the use of a lipoxygenase inhibitor with his/her oncologist.
Admittedly, this is one of the more tenuous component of the MOR. However, as this paper represents a synthesis
of what has been utilized in clinical practice - with the hypothetical but promising - I would be remiss not to
include it.
Compounds Whose Effects on Various Metabolic Pathways Should Complement the Activity of the
Therapeutic Agents Cited Previously
Orange Peel Oil (Limonene source); azaleic acid (Evidence indicates it interferes with vital biological processes in
tumor cell mitochondria) (33); Tirapazamine (3-amino-1,2,4-neozotrizine 1,4 dioxide) - a pharmaceutical that is
specifically cytotoxic to hypoxic cancer cells (34). Developed by J. Martin Brown et al at Stanford Medical
School, tirapazimine has completed Phase I/ II clinical trials at various centers (1997). The results were
encouraging in some forms of cancer, but it is far too early to know if the drug will produce statistically
significant increases in survival); Amionoglutethimide – an anxioloytic agent viz its ability to lower adrenal
levels. Various studies have shown that this drug blocks adrenal steroidogenesis by inhibiting desmolase
conversion to pregnenolone (35); penylacetate phenylacetylglutamine (The end metabolite of this compound is
structually similar to glutamine – a preferred metabolic substrate in some tumors. It blocks the uptake of
glutamine through ASC amino acid transporter) (36). Also: thrombospondin, various metalloproteinase inhibitors
and interferons, transforming growth factor beta, and platelet factor 4 (PF4).
Hyperthermia: A Useful Therapeutic Adjunct
Hyperthermia lowers tissue pH and thus should adroitly complement the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen (At least
in cases involving relatively superficial solid tumors). Interestingly, quercitin is a hyperthermic sensitizer by
virtue of its ability to block lactic acid transport and heat protein synthesis. Normally tumors develop
thermoresistance via the production of heat shock protein. Quercitin helps circumvent this process and thus leave
the tumor susceptible to hyperthermia therapy [In cervical carcinoma cells, quercitin did not exert cytotoxic
effects at normal body temperatures, but did potentiate hyperthermia-induced toxicity at 41 degrees Centigrade
(105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) (37) ]. If local or regional heating of a tumor is not feasible owed to disseminated
malignancy, whole body hyperthermia can be induced. One method which has demonstrated efficacy in a
randomized double blind trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering is Mixed Bacterial Vaccine (Coley's) (38). Another is
to employ a hyperthermia chamber such as he Aquatherm unit being utlized at the University of Wisconsin (The
UW Hospital & Clinic Hyperthermia Project website is: http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/sections/medonc/wbh).
Two Novel Theoretical Methods of Inducing Intratumor Hyperthermia
The following are two admittedly very theoretical approachs to inducing intratumor hyperthermia sufficient to
effect tumor cell lysis.
1)
Ferritin-mediated electromagnetic hyperthermia
In a paper published in the journal Medical Hypotheses [(2000) 54(2), 177-179)], the authors suggest that an
alternating magnetic field no greater than ~ 100 KHz (kilohertz) should induce heating of intracellular ferritin
sufficient to lyse tumor cells without adversely effecting normal tissues and cells. The iron core in ferritin is
strongly paramagnetic and thus can be utilized to produce heat via the Brown and Neel effects (respectively).
Since ferritin is often found at higher levels in neoplastic cells than normal ones, this makes achieving
hyperthermia by way of an externally applied high frequency magnetic field very probable.
Japanese, German, and other researchers have published many papers indicating that intracellular hyperthermia
sufficent to achieve cell lysis is possible employing magnetite cationic liposomes and other 'magnetic fluids.'
(39,40). The ferritin mediated approach, while different from the aforementioned, retains many features in
common and should be explored in the laboratory and in well controlled clinical trials.
A possible permutation to this approach which occurred to the author is this: Introduce magnetotactic bacterial
vectors in vivo which have been genetically engineered or artifically selected to seek out and bind to specific
tumor cell antigens. If achievable, the magnetotactic bacteria might provide sufficient iron once inside tumor cells
to make achieving eletromagnetic heating more certain.
NOTE: Interestingly, there is published animal studies indicating that hyperthermia used in tandem with glucose
administration enhances the tumor lysing impact of the former (41, 42). As the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is
geared, in part, to boost intratumor glucose levels (thus raising the rate of lactate synthesis), the use of the MOR in
combintion with hyperthermia is logically compelling.
It should be noted that researchers at Jefferson Medical College found that i.v. and iv. plus oral glucose effectively
lowered tumor extracellular pH in 17 nondiabetic cancer patients at Henan Tumor Hospital. These scientists were
looking into boosting tumor acidification as a potential thermoradiosensitizer (43).
2) While dwelling on the merit of inducing electromagnetic intracellular heating using 'magnetic fluids' and/or
ferritin, it occurred to me that iron and cobalt phthalocyanines might be exploited to achieve sufficient
intracellular hyperthermia to lyse tumor cells.
The phthalocyanines are being employed in photodynamic oncolytic therapy (research) with varying degrees of
success. Since these compounds are selectively retained by tumors, resist photochemical and chemical
breakdown, are essentially non-toxic, and can be synthesized readily with a neutron-activated nuclide (boron
compounds) and as conjugates with epidermal growth factor (thus making tumor cell targeting more contain),
they are very attractive to cancer researchers (44).
Setting aside the photodynamic use aspect, there is the electromagnetic heating potential of the iron and
cobalt-bearing phthalocyanines (PCs) to consider. As mentioned above (#1), iron is very paramagnetic. Cobalt,
while less responsive to a magnetic field than iron, might still be of merit in instances where use of iron might
boost tumor growth in micrometasteses which are strongly suspected to exist but not confirmable using extant
detection technology.
Cautionary note: Copper plays a role in angiogenesis and thus may be contraindicated save as a heroic measure,
especially in patients on tetrathiomolybdate (TM).
Clinical Efficacy - Cone Metabolic Method
In his patent application, Dr. Clarence D. Cone, Jr., reported that partial to complete oncolysis was achieved in
patients with a variety of cancers. Here is a sampling:
Female age 52 Tongue
Male age 57 Throat
Male age 70 Stomach
Female age 47 Cecum
Female age 54 Colon
Male age 45 Breast
Female age 57 Ovary
Female age 60 Uterus
Male age 65 Kidney
Male age 59 Prostate
Male age 49 Pancreas
Male age 49 Lymphoma
Male age 47 Melanoma
Female age 48 Basal Cell (skin)
Male age 66 Leukemia
Male age 50 Bone Sarcoma
Select Case histories:
Female, age 57. Diagnosed with infiltrating ductal cell carcinoma of the breast (Terminal inflammatory stage).
Multiple biopsied specimens confirmed diagnosis. Prior treatments: Surgery, radiotherapy (4000 rads), intensive
chemotherapy (Mitoxin). Treated using the Cone regimen: By day 20 the tumor was reduced 70%. By day 75 the
patient was reported to be in good psychological condition and active while remaining on the regimen (Phase II).
Female, age 54. Diagnosed with advanced colon adenocarcinoma, extenstive liver metastases. Confirmed by
multiple biopsied specimens and ultrasound scans. Classified as inoperable. Had no standard cancer treatments.
By day 16 on the Cone regimen the tumor was reduced by 87.5%. By day 12 of Phase II treatment the tumor was
reduced 83.5% [The starting size of the tumor in Phase II was bigger than in Phase I. It is not known whether the
tumor grew during the resting interval between treatment phases. Note: There is no resting or non-treatment phase
in my version of the Cone metabolic therapy - author].
Male, age 57. Diagnosed with epidermoid carcinoma of the larynx, metastasized to the left neck. Confirmed by
multiple biopsied specimens, CT scans and xerograms. No standard cancer treatments undertaken. By day 13 on
the regimen the tumor was reduced by 88%. After the resting interval and at the start of Phase II, the tumor grew
back to 4 cms. By day 13 the tumor was non-palpable.
Male, age 59. Diagnosed with (moderately differentiated) Metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Confirmed
by multiple biopsied specimens, cytoscopy and bone scans. Treated prior to undergoing the Cone regimen with
laetrile, vitamin A, oral enzymes, hormone therapy, and surgery (TURP). By Day 22 of Phase I the patient was
asymptomatic. At the start of Phase II the prostate was enlarged and very hard. By day fifteen the patient was in
excellent condition and asymptomatic. Prostate size was reduced to normal.
Two select but representative cases of patients who utilized the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen
Male, age 59. Diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma (4 cm. tumor - lower lobe - left lung. Metastases to the
lymph nodes and mediastinum. Diagnosis confirmed by CT scan, biopsied specimens, and endoscopic
examination of the tumor. Classified as inoperable and terminal, the patient elected to forego conventional
treatment and undergo the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen.
By the 26th day on the Regimen, lymph nodes were no longer palpable and tumor in left lung was 95%
obliterated. Patient achieved full remission and is now 7+ years post-diagnosis.
Female, age 38. Diagnosed with oral cancer (squamous cell) with metastases to the larynx and both lungs.
Diagnosis confirmed by multiple biopsied specimens. Patient declined surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy,
as these offered little but hope of cure. After receiving material on the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen, patient
chose to undergo same (Her oncologist agreed to supervise her treatment and monitor her progress or lack
thereof). By the 43rd on the Regimen, tumors at all cites were reduced an average of 78%. By day 91, no evidence
of cancer could be detected by biopsy or CT scan. Patient has been in remission for 10+ years to-date.
Comments
In at least some instances the dramatic responses seen in patients who had standard therapies prior to commencing
either the Cone therapy or the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen are probably due (in large part) to same. What is
interesting is that there were good responses, i.e., partial and total remission, in patients who had no standard
cancer therapy prior to undergoing the Cone regimen and my permutation (respectively).
Concluding Remarks
The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is still very much in its earliest developmental stages (1988-present). It must be
stated that there were treatment failures on the Cone therapy and among patients on my version. This is not
unexpected, as no cancer therapy - standard or non-standard - always effects tumor lysis (Partial or complete).
Biomedical researchers and research-oriented naturopathic, osteopathic and allopathic physicians are invited to
acquaint themselves with and employ this species of metabolic therapy in the treatment of various solid tumors.
Since this is admittedly a very experimental approach to effecting oncolysis, it is hoped that the MOR will be
used either as an adjunctive measure in tandem with more established oncolytic methods or, in the case of end
stage cancer patients, as a heroic measure possibly employed in concert with other promising therapeutic agents or
techniques.
I would urge those who use the MOR diligently accrue and freely communicate their findings and observations
with me (and any interested researcher or clinician). If the data provided indicates a statistically significant
response in one or more types of cancer, i.e., average survival times greater than rates reported of other therapies
on such databases as SEERS, etc., justification will exist to pursue funding of a more formal clinical investigation.
Update & Reiterated Request: Feedback from 1997-present from physicians who have utilized the MOR has been
disappointingly scant. It is hoped that those who elect to utilize the MOR in treating patients with solid tumors
will do follow-up and report treatment failures and successes to me by e-mail or regular mail (contact addresses
below)
Author Background & Contact Information
Dr. Anthony G. Payne was an instructor at Teikyo University of Science & Technology (Toyko, Japan) until late
1999. In early 2000 he became an instructor at the Minami-Atami ALS School, Atami-shi, Japan.
Payne's original paper on the Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen, which appeared in the Townsend Letter for Doctors
(December 1996), earned him 2 medals in medicine and an honorary M.D. degree in recognition of its therapeutic
potential [Open International University's 1997 Royal Order of Physicians Gold Medal in Medicine and Scientist
of the Year].
Dr. Payne and his wife, Sachi, reside in the Tokyo area of Japan.
Payne can be reached most readily by e-mail at mailto:ExpatriateWizard@japan.co.jp.
Dr. Payne's mailing address is Tanokura 2F, 1017-1 Shimotaga, Atami-shi, Shizuoka, 413-0102, Japan.
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Original paper copyright 1996 by Dr. Anthony G. Payne. All rights reserved.
Revised edition copyright 2001 by Dr. Anthony G.Payne. All rights reserved.
This article is provided for information and research purposes only. Please be aware that the Natural Health and
Longevity Resource Center does not necessarily endorse or control the content of this article, nor is it responsible
for any claims, opinions or information accessed therein.
Another article by Dr. Anthony Payne concerning a novel approach to eradicating iron-laden cancer cells:
"Exploiting intracellular iron and iron-rich compounds to effect tumor cell lysis"
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Alternative Health - A History
Alternative Health is the focus of discussion for this page, with the
emphasis on the history of Alternative Health and the evolution of
Alternative Health in the cultures of the Western World. The emphasis of
Alternative Health is on herbal medicines and more information on
herbals can be found by clicking the previous herbal medicines link.
Alternative Health is as old as mankind and for thousands of years it
was the only kind of health around, in other words, it was conventional
health care. A bit of imagination and the origin of Alternative Health
becomes clear. Virtually every account of the History of Mankind
suggests that for a very long time humans were hunters and gatherers.
There was a definite allocation of tasks for the men, women, and
children of those early societies. Because men were normally bigger
and stronger than women and children, the men had the formidable task
of bringing fresh meat back to the campfire. They were the hunters.
The women and children were responsible for the less dangerous work
of finding fruits, vegetables, and any other edible flora that could be
gathered. Women, of course, along with children and injured or disabled
men, became the gatherers.
Over the millennia it became obvious to some women that certain
particular vegetation had curative properties for some of the ailments
that beset humans. The knowledge they acquired was passed down
from one generation to another and a huge cultural base of medical
information was established, all based on the curative properties of
what we now know as herbs. That cultural knowledge base is what we
now call Alternative Health and it was then the standard. Certain
women who were accomplished at tapping into this knowledge became
known by various names that all basically mean "Healer".
The First Healers
The typical Healer would be adept at identifying the herbs that were
effective treatments for the common illnesses and processing those
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herbs so that they could be used most effectively against those
illnesses. Most of the processing would involve using the herbs to make
a soup or broth. Because of their important role, the women Healers
were highly respected members of their societies.
The Witch Hunts
So it came to pass that some men became envious of the women
Healers and conspired to take the healing industry away from them.
How, you ask? Why it was easy! They took advantage of the religious
hysteria of the Middle Ages and started a rumor that the Healers were
consorts of the devil. The Healers were portrayed as witches or hags
stirring their brew. The brew was explained as being made up of as evil
potions and not health giving herbs. The vicious lies worked and many
women were killed and other healers went into hiding. As a result of the
Witch Hunts, the healing industry was taken over by men.
The Pharmaceuticals
The first drugs were, of course, processed herbs. As medical knowledge
became more sophisticated, techniques were refined and we had
Aspirin, derived from the bark of the willow tree and penicillin which
was discovered on moldy bread. Then along came companies, the
pharmaceuticals, which employed chemists who were able to replicate
many plant based medicines in a laboratory. Wow! They became huge
profit makers and began to donate large sums of money to medical
schools. Then they began to, and still do, dictate that which should be
taught in those medical schools. Laboratory-produced medicine was
deemed to be "in" and Alternative Medicine, herbal medicine, was "out".
Today we have the majority of mainstream, "conventional", medical
practitioners who have graduated from those pharmaceutical-sponsored
medical schools believing that laboratory produced medicines are very,
very good and plant based, herbal medicines are very, very bad. The
result of this kind of thinking is shocking. Read it in this newsletter
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Oh yes, by the way, the foundation of the entire science of healing,
herbs, now comes under the category of Alternative Health. How is that
for irony?
Conclusions
Health Care is a multi-billion dollar industry. Alternative Health
accounts for only a small percentage of that amount. Those billions of
dollars mean a lot of political clout and advertising money to perpetuate
the smoke and mirrors illusion that treating the symptoms of a disease
is better methodology than treating the whole body.
When only symptoms are treated there will be residual disease. When
the whole body is treated the immune system is strengthened and then
the immune system eliminates the disease.
Use the wonderful technology of conventional Health Care to have your
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Sulfur (MSM)
A Basic Essential Nutrient Needed Now, More than Ever
Before
Methylsulfonylmethane is a relatively new dietary supplement form of sulfur that is found in
our living tissues. MSM supports healthy connective tissues like tendons, ligaments, and
muscle. Thus, it is important in conditions such as arthritis, muscle pains, bursitis, etc. MSM
should be considered an integral part of any health care practice because of its physiological
action, indirect importance, and current / future uses.
To understand MSM, some background information is necessary. MSM is a
"naturally-occurring nutrient found in normal human diets" (1). It gets into the diet through
the sulfur cycle. Ocean plankton release sulfur compounds which rise into the ozone where
ultra-violet light makes MSM and DMSO. DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide, is a precursor to
MSM. MSM and DMSO return to the surface of the earth in rain (1). Plants concentrate
MSM and return it to the earth and the sea. Evaporation into the air results in their return to
the earth (1).
MSM has a unique action on body tissues. It decreases the pressure inside the cell. In
removing fluids and toxins, sulfur affects the cell membrane. MSM is an organic form of
sulfur, whereas sulfites in foodstuffs are inorganic. Sue Williams states "sulfur is present in
all cells" and is in the form of "organic compounds throughout the body’ (2). However,
sulfur can be found in the body in sulfate forms. It forms sulfate compounds with sodium,
potassium, magnesium, and selenium. MSM has a significance, because sulfur compounds
are found everywhere throughout the body and in nature.
Sulfur has an indirect importance, because sulfur compounds play a role in many body
organs and systems. Sulfur is in the hair, skin, and nails. Many amino acids, the building
blocks of protein, have sulfur as a component. Taurine is a sulfur-containing amino acid
formed from methionine (2). Taurine stabilizes cell membranes (2). Methionine contains
sulfur, detoxifies cells, and is involved in pain relief (2). Carnitine comes from methionine
and transports long chain fatty acids preventing accumulations of lipoproteins (2). Many
B-complex vitamins interact with or contain sulfur. Sulfur is needed for insulin production.
One current use of MSM is for joint problems, as sulfur is found in and near osseous
structures. Sulfur supports healthy muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Arthritic conditions
have responded to oral MSM. Some researchers note results from MSM when used for
post-exercise muscle pain (1). MSM normalizes pressure inside cells and removes toxins.
Oregon Health Sciences University has conducted arthritis studies with mice. The mice
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which received MSM had "no degeneration of articular cartilage" (1). The other non-MSM
mice had cartilaginous degeneration. The university has used MSM on over 12,000 patents.
Researchers make no claim about MSM as a supplement, but osteoarthritis, rheumatoid
arthritis, muscle soreness and muscle pain respond to oral MSM.
One researcher claims MSM is about as safe as water. One should drink extra water with
MSM use. There are other dietary factors to consider.
Avoiding nightshade plants has helped arthritis patients (tomatoes / potatoes / green
pepper/eggplant). Biotin and vitamin C help the body assimilate MSM. Biotin and vitamin C
are found in fresh fruits. Eating fresh fruits while taking MSM could be helpful.
In addition to arthritis, it may have other future uses. Dr. Stanley Jacob believes ,'most
people are deficient' in sulfur (1). Insulin synthesis depends upon sulfur. Many vitamins
require or contain sulfur. Some researchers claim it has many future uses such as in allergies
(1).
A good MSM product is both safe and effective. The MSM source for MSM supplements is
often lignin from pine trees. Lignin is a molecule in plants that is part of a plant's cell wall.
Lignin oxidation in oak wine barrels results in the vanilla flavors of wines. The pine tree
lignin is an ideal source for a good MSM product.
For those who do not want to take MSM as a supplement, food sources of sulfur are as
follows: sunflower seeds, garlic, lentils, soybeans, and yogurt. Persons with kidney
problems or recurrent kidney stones may not want to take MSM. Certain renal tubular
defects can make a person susceptible to recurrent kidney stones (2). Other kidney defects
include errors of metabolism in which processing of sulfur amino acids is altered (2). Such
persons may wish to avoid MSM.
One thousand to three thousand milligrams per day is a typical dosage range, but some
people take well above that amount. This author takes MSM alone.
From the cell walls of pine trees to the cells of the human body, a good MSM supplement
can contribute to good health.
Conditions That Have Reportedly Responded to MSM Supplements
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Acne
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Allergies
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Arthritis
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Asthma
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Candida Yeast Infections
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Chronic Fatigue
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Constipation
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Diabetes
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Digestive Disorders
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Fragile Hair & Nails
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Migraine Headaches
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Muscle Pain & Cramps
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Parasites
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Skin Damage & Aging
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Toxic Build-up
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Ulcers
A body made up of healthy, flexible cells will not only feel better, it will look better too.
The body is continuously at work replacing old, worn out cells with new ones. The process
goes on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without stop. When all the raw materials needed for
cell-building are available, it is a very efficient process. When there are deficiencies, the
new cells may be weak, rigid or deformed.
One of the most important raw materials for building healthy new cells is a form of organic
sulfur known as methyl sulfonyl methane (MSM). This element is so essential to life that it
is found in every cell of every plant and every animal. Sulfur makes up 0.25% of human
body weight. However neither plants nor animals can use elemental sulfur directly. Sulfur is
not easily available to living organisms in its inorganic form.
MSM is not a medicine, a drug, or a food additive. It is a food. MSM is an organic form of
sulfur that can be easily absorbed and utilized by the body. Although DMSO and MSM are
chemically similar, each is unique. MSM is a pure, stable, white crystalline powder without
the unpleasant smell or taste of DMSO. (1-3) Also, MSM does not give you a strong body
odor like DMSO.
Since sulfur is a component of all cells, it is essential that the body have a plentiful supply of
this mineral in its usable form. There is a positive synergistic effect on building healthier
cells when MSM is taken in combination with vitamin C. The new cells are more pliable
and permeable, allowing fluids to pass through the tissue more easily. (1) Internally this
means more efficient elimination of toxins, a reduction in inflammation and pain - so you
feel better. On the outside it shows up as a softer, smoother complexion, stronger hair and
nails - so you look better.
MSM for Relief of Pain and Inflammation
Approximately half of the total body sulfur is concentrated in the muscles, skin and bones.
One of the most significant uses of MSM as a supplement is its demonstrated ability to
relieve pain and inflammation. When rigid fibrous tissue cells swell and become inflamed,
pressure and pain result. Since MSM can restore flexibility and permeability to cell walls,
fluids can pass through the tissues more easily. This helps equalize pressure and reduce or
eliminate the cause of pain. Harmful substances such as lactic acid and toxins are allowed to
flow out, while nutrients are permitted to flow in. This prevents the pressure buildup in cells
that causes inflammation. (1)
MSM has shown a remarkable ability to reduce or eliminate muscle soreness and cramps
both in geriatric patients and in athletes. It's even given to race horses before a race to
prevent muscle soreness, and afterward to reduce the risk of cramping. People with arthritis
report substantial and long-lasting relief with MSM supplements. Taken along with
glucosamine, a key substance in the process of rebuilding cartilage, MSM can relieve pain
and help repair worn or damaged cartilage in joints, ligaments and tendons with healthy,
flexible new cells. (1)
How Does MSM Work?
MSM makes cell walls permeable, allowing water and nutrients to freely flow into cells and
allowing wastes and toxins to properly flow out. The body uses MSM along with Vitamin
C to create new, healthy cells, and MSM provides the flexible bond between the cells.
Without proper levels of MSM, our bodies are unable to build good healthy cells, and this
leads to problems such as lost flexibility, scar tissue, wrinkles, varicose veins, hardened
arteries, damaged lung tissues, dry cracking skin, digestive disorders, joint problems, and
inability to defend against allergic reactions to food, animals and plants.
MSM is an anti-oxidant that helps to clean the blood stream and flush toxins trapped in our
cells. It is also a foreign protein and free radical scavenger. In order to maintain good
health, we need to supplement our diets with MSM, to enable the body to heal itself. The
body uses what it needs, and after 12 hours will flush out any excess amounts.
The Beauty Mineral for Hair, Skin and Nails
Sulfur has been called nature's "beauty mineral" because it is needed to keep the hair glossy
and smooth and keeps the complexion clear and youthful. It is needed for synthesis of
collagen and is prevalent in keratin, a tough protein substance necessary for health and
maintenance of the skin, nails and hair.
MSM is responsible for the flexible disulfide bonds between cells, including those that make
up the skin. It blocks undesirable chemical and physical cross-linking or bonding of
collagen which is associated with tough, aging skin. Con consequently MSM enhances
tissue pliability and encourages repair f damaged skin. If there is insufficient sulfur in the
body when new cells are being manufactured, the new cells will be rigid. This rigidity can
contribute to cracking, wrinkling and unsightly scar tissue. When sufficient sulfur is present
for new cells, the skin is softer, smoother and more flexible. MSM provides that sulfur.
Acne, including the severe acne rosacea, responds favorably to MSM supplements.
Adequate sulfur and vitamin C are also needed for healing. When the body is deficient in
these nutrients, the new tissue will be elevated leaving an unattractive, raised scar. Because
MSM makes the skin more permeable and pliant, it can also help prevent blistering and
promote faster healing from sunburn or wind damage.
With MSM supplements, nails show not only an increase in growth rate, but also increased
toughness and resistance to chipping and cracking. This effect has been seen both in human
nails and horses hoofs.
Allergens, Toxins and Parasites
Flexible, permeable cells are also important in that they allow toxins, allergens and foreign
substances to be flushed out of the body more easily . When skin cells are soft and
permeable, many toxins can be eliminated through the sweat glands, which takes some of
the load off the liver and kidneys. While MSM is not a cure for allergies, supplementation
may reduce symptoms by allowing allergens to be removed from the body more quickly.
Even reactions to insect bites, poison ivy and poison oak are less severe when the diet is
supplemented with MSM. Vitamin C is also synergistic in this application in that it can
lower histamine levels.
MSM has also shown amazing anti-parasitic action against Giardia, Trichomonas,
roundworms, nematodes, Enterobius and other intestinal worms. When parasites attach
themselves to the intestinal lining, they can live, reproduce and rob the body of nutrients
indefinitely. MSM blocks parasites by competing for receptor sites on the mucous
membrane. When parasites can not attach themselves, they are simply flushed out of the
system.
The same is true with food allergens. MSM coats mucosal surfaces and occupies the binding
sites that could otherwise be used by challenging food allergens. It can also bind with
offending agents to produce harmless substances which are then excreted from the body.
This facilitates normal digestion and assimilation and allows the body to get maximum
nutritional value from foods that would otherwise cause a reaction. Individuals who
experience an allergic response to certain foods have reported improved or complete
tolerance to those foods when they take MSM supplements. Healthy flexible colon tissues
along with improved digestion, can also relieve constipation.
Diabetes
Sulfur is also a component of insulin, the hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism
and insufficient sulfur may result in decreased insulin production. It is also possible that a
lack of bio-available sulfur would make the cells so rigid and impermeable that they become
unable to absorb sugar from the blood efficiently, leaving blood sugar levels elevated.
Studies indicate that regular MSM supplements which cause the cell to become permeable,
could help balance blood sugar and allow the overworked pancreas to return to normal.
Why Supplement?
Since sulfur is present in every cell of every living thing, it might seem that we would get
plenty of this essential mineral from dietary sources and should not need supplements, but
that may not be the case. Meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products are the main sources of
dietary sulfur, but we have been advised to restrict or remove many of those foods from our
diets. Vegetarians, especially those who do not eat eggs, are at particular risk for sulfur
deficiency. Plants cells contain sulfur but not in abundant quantities and much of the MSM
present in unprocessed foods is lost in washing, cooking or steaming. And, of course, MSM
levels decline noticeably with age - doesn't everything? So, the older you get, the more
important it becomes to maintain adequate sulfur levels in the body.
Usage and Toxicity
Due to its positive effects, particularly in maintaining healthy cell formation, 2,000 to 6,000
mg. of supplemental MSM daily is recommended. Of course, the optimum daily dosage of
MSM depends largely on body size, age and the nature and severity of any deficiency
symptoms you may be experiencing. Since vitamin C provides a positive synergistic it
should be taken along with MSM.
MSM ranks in the "extremely low" toxicity category with a toxicity profile similar to that of
water. When oral supplements are taken, the body will distribute MSM where it is needed.
After about 12 hours, any excess amounts will be flushed out of the body. MSM, a member
of the sulfur family, should never be confused with sulfa drugs to which some people are
allergic.
References:
1. Total Health. 1998. "MSM". Feb/Mar, Vol., 20 No. 1. pp. 30-31.
2. Williams, S. 1997. Nutrition & Diet Therapy (8th ed.). Academic Press, N.Y., N.Y.
3. Thomas, C. 1993. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, (1 7th Ed.). F.A. Davis
Company, Philadelphia, PA.
4. Mindell, Earl L., The MSM Miracle - Enhance your health with organic sulfur, Keats
Good Health Guide, Keats Publishing, Inc., New Canaan, CT, 1997
5. Herschler, R. J., "Methylsulfonylmethane in Cosmetics", 1984, Cardinal Associates,
Inc.
6. Whitaker, J., "Try MSM for Relief from Muscular Pain", Health and Healing, Oct.
1997
7. Kirschmann, J. D. and Dunne, L. J., Nutrition Almanac, Second Edition,
McGraw-Hill, 1984
8. Balch, J. F. and Balch P.A., Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Avery Publishing,
Garden City Park, NY, 1990
This is not to render advice or to diagnose / treat / prevent / cure any disease. The
data herein is as current / accurate as possible. Nothing stated here should be
considered as medical advice for dealing with a given problem. You should consult
your health care professional for individual guidance for specific health problems.
This page on MSM is simply a collection of information in the public domain, and
presented strictly for informational and educational use only. No claims whatsoever
can be made as to the specific benefits accruing from the use of MSM. Anyone with
knowledge of additional information on MSM is highly encouraged to e-mail that
information so that it can be shared with others who may be interested.
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Colloidal Silver - Super Antibiotic Rediscovery? - Natural Health
Colloidal Silver The Rediscovery of a Super Antibiotic?
Colloidal silver appears to be a powerful, natural antibiotic and preventative against
infections. Acting as a catalyst, it reportedly disables the enzyme that one-celled
bacteria, viruses and fungi need for their oxygen metabolism. They suffocate without
corresponding harm occurring to human enzymes or parts of the human body
chemistry. The result is the destruction of disease-causing organisms in the body and
in the food.
Early Research
Colloidal silver was in common use until 1938. Many remember their grandparents
putting silver dollars in milk to prolong its freshness at room temperature. At the turn
of the century, scientists had discovered that the body's most important fluids are
colloidal in nature: suspended ultra-fine particles. Blood, for example, carries nutrition
and oxygen to the body cells. This led to studies with colloidal silver. Prior to 1938,
colloidal silver was used by physicians as a mainstream antibiotic treatment and was
considered quite "high-tech." Production methods, however, were costly. The
pharmaceutical industry moved in, causing colloidal research to be set aside in favor of
fast working and financially lucrative drugs.
The Food and Drug Administration today classifies colloidal silver as a pre-1938 drug.
A letter from the FDA dated 9/13/91 states: "These products may continue to be
marketed . . . as long as they are advertised and labeled for the same use as in 1938 and
as long as they are manufactured in the original manner." Some of the manufacturing
methods used before 1938 are still used today. An electro-colloidal process, which is
known to be the best method, is used.
Contemporary Studies
While studying regeneration of limbs, spinal cords and organs in the late 1970s, Robert
O. Becker, M.D., author of The Body Electric, discovered that silver ions promote bone
growth and kill surrounding bacteria. The March 1978 issue of Science Digest, in an
article, "Our Mightiest Germ Fighter," reported: "Thanks to eye-opening research,
silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a
half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail
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to develop. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic." The article ended with a quote by
Dr. Harry Margraf, a biochemist and pioneering silver researcher who worked with
the late Carl Moyer, M.D., chairman of Washington University's Department of
Surgery in the 1970s: "Silver is the best all-around germ fighter we have."
How It Works
The presence of colloidal silver near a virus, fungus, bacterium or any other single
celled pathogen disables its oxygen metabolism enzyme, its chemical lung, so to say.
Within a few minutes, the pathogen suffocates and dies, and is cleared out of the body
by the immune, lymphatic and elimination systems. Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics,
which destroy beneficial enzymes, colloidal silver leaves these tissue-cell enzymes
intact, as they are radically different from the enzymes of primitive single-celled life.
Thus colloidal silver is absolutely safe for humans, reptiles, plants and all multi-celled
living matter.
Product Quality
Many brands of colloidal silver are inferior. The highest grade is produced by the
electro-colloidal / non-chemical method where the silver particles and water have been
colloided, i.e., dispersed within and bound to each other by an electric current. The
super-fine silver particles are suspended indefinitely in demineralized water. The ideal
color of colloidal silver is a golden yellow. Darker colors indicate larger silver particles
that tend to collect at the bottom of the container and are not true colloids. If a product
contains a stabilizer or lists trace elements other than silver, or if it needs to be shaken,
it is inferior. If a product requires refrigeration, some other ingredient is present that
could spoil. The container and dropper must be glass, as plastic cannot preserve the
silver in liquid suspension for any length of time. Some brands with high
concentrations of silver may actually not be completely safe. High concentrations of
silver do not kill disease germs more effectively than the safe range of 3 to 5 parts per
million (ppm.).
Ingesting Colloidal Silver
Taken orally, the silver solution is absorbed from the mouth into the bloodstream, then
transported quickly to the body cells. Swishing the solution under the tongue briefly
before swallowing may result in faster absorption. In three to four days the silver may
accumulate in the tissues sufficiently for benefits to begin. Colloidal silver is eliminated
by the kidneys, lymph system and bowel after several weeks. If routinely exposed to
dangerous pathogenic germs, some recommend a regular daily intake as a protection.
In cases of minor burns, an accumulation of colloidal silver may hasten healing,
reducing the possibility of scar tissue and infection. It is believed by many in the
natural healing arts that the lives of millions of people who are susceptible to chronic
low-grade infections can be enhanced by this preventative health measure.
Chronic or Serious Conditions
1 teaspoon of 5 ppm. colloidal silver equals about 25 micrograms (mcg.) of silver. 1 - 4
teaspoons per day (25 - 100 mcg.) is generally considered to be a "nutritional amount"
and is reported to be safe to use for extended periods of time. Amounts higher than this
are generally considered "therapeutic amounts" and should only be used periodically.
In cases of illness, natural health practitioners have often recommended taking double
or triple the "nutritional amount" for 30 to 45 days, then dropping down to a smaller
maintenance dose. Amounts from 1 - 32 ounces per day have reportedly been used in
acute conditions.
If your body is extremely ill or toxic, do not be in a hurry to clear up everything at
once. If pathogens are killed off too quickly, the body's five eliminatory channels (liver,
kidneys, skin, lungs and bowel) may be temporarily overloaded, causing flu-like
conditions, headache, extreme fatigue, dizziness, nausea or aching muscles. Ease off on
the colloidal silver to a smaller amount and increase your distilled water intake.
Regular bowel movements are a must in order to relieve the discomforts of
detoxification. Resolve to reduce sugar and saturated fats from the diet, and exercise
more. Given the opportunity, the body's natural ability to heal may amaze you.
Topical Uses
Some have used colloidal silver in a nasal spray mister - to reach the sinuses and nasal
passages. Spray bottles have been used for topical use on kitchen and bathroom
surfaces, skin, sore throat, eyes, burns, etc. Colloidal silver is painless on cuts,
abrasions, in open wounds, in the nostrils for a stuffy nose, and even in a baby's eyes
because, unlike some antiseptics, it does not destroy tissue cells. It's excellent as an
underarm deodorant, since most underarm odor is caused by bacteria breaking down
substances released by the sweat glands!
Some Common Uses of Colloidal Silver
Natural health practitioners have for years recommended taking one tablespoon daily,
for four days, to establish a level, then one teaspoon daily for maintenance
(proportional to body weight for children). After six weeks, a pause of several weeks
has also been recommended by some natural healing arts doctors. Also, colloidal silver
can be applied directly to cuts, scrapes, and open sores, or on a bandage for warts. It
can be applied on eczema, itches, acne or bug bites. To purify water, add one
tablespoon per gallon, shake well and wait six minutes. Mixed this way, it's tasteless. It
is not an allopathic poison.
Veterinary and Garden Use
Colloidal silver has worked just as well on pets of all kinds. Used in proportion to body
weight, it should bring the same results. In the garden, field or greenhouse, add enough
to the water or soil - and the plants will do the rest.
Tolerance To Disease Organisms
We have all heard of the "super-germs" that are resistant to most modern antibiotics.
Some believe that single-celled germs cannot mutate into silver-resistant forms, as
happens with conventional antibiotics. Therefore no tolerance to colloidal silver would
develop through mutation. Also, colloidal silver has not been demonstrated to interact
or interfere with other medicines being taken. Inside the body, silver apparently does
not form toxic compounds or react with anything other than a germ's
oxygen-metabolizing enzyme. Colloidal silver may truly be a safe, natural remedy for
many of mankind's ills.
Additionally, there has never been a drug interaction reported between colloidal silver
and any other medication. It's difficult to overdose - unless large amounts are ingested.
Colloidal silver has been reported by users to be both a remedy and a prevention for
numerous infections, colds, flus, and fermentations due to various bacteria, viruses or
fungi, even the non-apparent low-grade, general body infections many people have.
Living organisms are in the colloidal chemical state, not the crystalline state.
Substances already in that form may be more readily assimilated by the body.
Colloidal silver is the most useable form of a reputedly effective germ fighter.
A colloidal suspension is ultra-fine particles of one substance, suspended by an electric
charge in another substance. Homogenized milk and aerosol sprays are colloidal
suspensions. Colloidal silver is pure, metallic silver (not a chemical compound) of
particles 15 atoms or fewer, each with a positive electric charge, and attached to a
molecule of simple protein. This new particle floats in pure water. The electric charge
is stronger than gravity so the silver particles don't sink.
Colloidal Silver in Advance of Illness?
When the possibility of germ exposure is higher, colloidal silver can be taken orally
each day or applied topically when there is a skin problem. It's like having a second
defense system. The silver acts only as a catalyst and is stabilized. It is non-toxic,
except to one-cell plants and animals, and is non-addicting. It also apparently kills
parasites because they have a one cell egg stage in their reproductive cycle.
Older folks reportedly feel younger because their body energies are used for other uses
than constantly fighting disease. Digestion has also been reportedly better. Medical
research has shown that silver promotes more rapid healing, with less scar tissue, even
in the case of severe burns. Successes have been reported in cases that previously have
been given up by established doctors. Colloidal silver is tasteless and won't sting even a
baby's eyes, and won't upset your stomach.
More Than 650 Diseases Helped?
Colloidal silver has been reported to kill 650 micro-organisms, many of which are
associated with human diseases. This does not automatically mean that taking colloidal
silver will "cure" diseases "caused" by these germs. Colloidal silver only kills
micro-organisms when they are in contact with it for a sufficient period of time. The
human body is a complex system which may prevent high enough concentrations of
colloidal silver from reaching the "affected area".
The basic guideline that has been recommended for using colloidal silver is that it
usually "works" if you can get a high enough concentration to the "affected area".
Some will want to experiment with "higher amounts" (such as 8 or more ounces at a
time) to find out what it takes to accomplish this. Do not use colloidal silver if you are
allergic to contact with silver metals, or if you notice any digestive upset after use.
The following is a partial list of the more than 650 diseases that colloidal silver has
been reputed to be successful against: acne, AIDS (Reference 8), allergies, appendicitis,
arthritis, athlete's foot, bladder inflammation, blood parasites, blood poisoning, boils,
burns, cancer (References 2, 4, 7), candida, cholera, colitis, conjunctivitis, cystitis,
dermatitis, diabetes (Reference 1), dysentery, eczema, fibrositis, gastritis, gonorrhea,
hay fever, herpes, impetigo, indigestion, keratitis, leprosy, leukemia, lupus,
lymphangitis, Lyme disease, malaria, meningitis, neurasthenia, parasitic infections:
viral, fungal and bacterial pneumonia, pleurisy, prostate, pruritus ani, psoriasis,
purulent opthalmia, rhinitis, rheumatism, ringworm, scarlet fever, septic conditions of
the eyes, ears, mouth, and throat, seborrhea, septicemia, shingles, skin cancer,
staphylococcus and streptococcus infections, stomach flu, syphilis, thyroid,
tuberculosis, tonsillitis, toxemia, trachoma, all forms of virus, warts, whooping cough,
yeast infection, stomach ulcer, canine parovirus and other veterinary uses, and fungal
and viral attacks on plants. Simply spray diluted silver on the leaves and add to the
soil.
References
1. "Use of Colloids in Health and Disease." Colloidal silver has proven particularly effective in
cases of intestinal troubles. Dr. Henry Crooks found that "silver in the colloidal state is highly
germicidal, quite harmless to humans and absolutely non-toxic. Rather than in a chemical
compound, the silver in the colloidal state may be applied in a much more concentrated form,
with correspondingly better results. All virus, fungus, bacterium, streptococcus,
staphylococcus, and other pathogenic organisms are killed in three or four minutes upon
contact. There are no side effects whatsoever from the highest concentrations."
2. Dr. Robert Becker, " The Body Electric," recognized a correlation between low silver levels
and sickness. He said the silver deficiency was responsible for the improper functioning of the
immune system. Dr. Becker's experiments conclude that silver works on the full spectrum of
pathogens without any side effects or damage to any part of the body. He also states that the
silver was doing something more than killing disease organisms. It was also causing major
growth stimulation of injured tissues. Burn patients and elderly patients noticed more rapid
healing. He discovered that all cancer cells change back to normal cells. All strains of
pathogens resistant to other antibiotics are killed by colloidal silver. Yet at that time he
couldn't find a silver supplement on the market.
3. "Silver, Our Mightiest Germ Fighter," ScienceDigest, March 1978. As an antibiotic, colloidal
silver kills over 650 disease causing organisms, and resistant strains fail to develop. Silver is
the best all-around germ fighter we have and is absolutely non-toxic! Doctors report that,
taken internally, it works against syphilis, cholera, malaria, diabetes and severe burns.
Richard L. Davies, executive director of the Silver Institute which monitors silver technology
in 37 countries, reports: "In four years we've described 87 important new medical uses for
silver."
4. Dr. Bjorn Nordstrom, of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, has used silver in his cancer
treatment method. He says the whole thing is quite simple. This brought rapid remission in
patients given up on by other doctors.
5. The FDA has stated that because colloidal silver is accepted as a pre-1938 medication, it may
continue to be marketed. Letter, 13 September 1991, received from consumer safety officer
Harold Davis, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
6. "Colloidal Preparations of Silver in Pharmacy," British Medical Journal, February 1923:
"Pure Silver is entirely non-irritant. In tests at very high concentrations, it has been shown
repeatedly that the rapidly exerted disinfectant action is of considerable therapeutic value."
7. Dr. Otto Warberg (Nobel Prize Winner, 1932) stated that "Cancer is caused by the lack of
oxygen and the fermentation of sugars."
8. Provo Herald, 13 February 1992, page D1: "Colloidal Silver as a Remedy for AIDS.quot;
9. American Drug Index, section on Inorganic Pharmaceutical Chemistry, recognized silver for
its germicidal action, calling a stabilized form: Mild Silver Protein. There are several
concentrations of Mild Silver Protein.
10. The Condensed Medical Dictionary, 6th Edition: Mild Silver Protein is listed for medicinal use.
The 4s protein-2 is the trace used as a stabilizer.
11. Medicinal Silver Home Remedies, Maurice Worthington, M.D., 1928.
12. "Colloidal Silver Preparations of Silver in Pharmacy," British Medical Journal, 1932.
13. Royalty, worldwide, have been called "Blue Bloods," because of the silver content in their
blood, even from birth. They used real silverware, ate from silver dishes, and stored their food
in silver containers. There were no doctors. The common people were often sick with
something.
14. Colloidal Silver, The Antibiotic Alternative by Lloyd Michael Canty and Zane Baranowski,
CN. $4.60 each, plus 50 cents postage each. The Association for Advanced Colloid Research,
232 NE Lincoln St. Suite 1, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124. 503-640-0810.
15. World Without Cancer by G. Edward Griffin. History of allopathic medicine in America.
$9.95, plus $2.00 for postage. The Cancer Control Society, 2043 N. Berendo, Los Angeles, CA
90027. (213) 663-7801
16. The Body Electric and Cross Currents by Dr. Robert Becker.
17. Secrets of the Soil by Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins.
18. Murder by Injection by Eustace Mullin. History of the AMA, also addresses, the Drug Trust,
fluoridation, Aids and other health problems. $15.00 plus $1.50 postage. The National
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Quoting, Dr. Frederick Macy, one of the country’s outstanding bacteriologists.
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22. Searle, A.B. The use of Colloids in Health and Disease. The British Medical Journal. Nov,
1913, p. 83 Dr. Henry Crookes,
23. Colloidal Silver, Where have you been? by Iris A. Moore, The New Times, Seattle WA, May
1994
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of a Colloidal Silver Complex. Surgical Forum Vol. 17, 1966, pp. 76-78 Also Quoting, Dr.
Harry Margraf
25. Report on Colloidal Silver, The Best Kept Secret, by Martha Duncan.
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disinfection of bacteria and viruses. Quoting, Dr. Richard Davies, The Silver Institute, Wash,
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Morrisville, NY 13408
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33. Magnesium Oxtazone, Colloid Research foundation, 1-800-487-5463
34. Newsweek Magazine, May 22,1995. Outbreak of Fear
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Sleep Disorders and HGH - Human Growth Hormone
Sleep Disorders and HGH
Human Growth Hormone (HGH) has long been viewed as a remedy for aging and the
diseases associated with the aging process. Research published in the AMA Journal of
August 16, 2000 links sleep disorders to a lack of HGH.
In an article on research undertaken at the University of Chicago, headed by Professor
Eve van Cauter, published in the August 16, 2000 AMA Journal, a link was found
between the sleep disorders in 149 men aged between 16 and 83 and the lack of Human
Growth Hormone (HGH) in their blood.
This lack of HGH was found to be a possible cause of "middle age spread" in the test
subjects, and they theorized that the lack of HGH in older persons was a reason for the
typical build up of fat and the loss of muscle mass.
HGH is produced naturally in the body, particularly at night during deep or slow wave
sleep, and this component of sleep in the men was found to decrease from 20% for men
25 years or younger when their HGH levels were highest, to 5% for those over 35. By
the age of 45, the research found that the men had almost lost the ability to fall into a
deep sleep once they had awakened during the night. It found that by 50 years, the
amount of sleep had declined by 27% a decade. They also established that growth
hormone secretion decreased by 75% over this period.
There was nothing to link the reduction in sleep to a lack of HGH - this research
showed a counter link - that less HGH was produced by the body because of less deep
sleep. However, HGH replacement therapy has confirmed that patients taking HGH
do sleep better.
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diagnose / treat / prevent / cure any disease. Consult your health care professional for individual guidance for specific health
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Cat's Claw for Arthritis, Cancer, AIDS, and Premature Aging?
Cat's Claw for Arthritis, Cancer, AIDS,
Degenerative Diseases, and Premature Aging?
Studies Beginning in the 1970's Suggest
Many Uses for Cat's Claw
A new botanical nutrient, Uncaria Tomentosa, is being called by many the "Miracle
Herb from the Rain Forest of Peru". It has been drawing increasingly more interest
among the proponents of natural health care. Although virtually unheard of in the
United States until recently, the beneficial effects of the Peruvian herb Uncaria
tomentosa, commonly known as "una de gato" in Spanish and "cat's claw" in English,
have been studied at research facilities in Peru, Austria, Germany, England, Hungary
and Italy, since the 1970's. These studies suggest that the herb may be beneficial in the
treatment of arthritis, bursitis, allergies, diabetes, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome,
cancer, herpes, organic depression, menstrual irregularities and disorders of the
stomach and intestines. (References 1, 2, 3)
Properties attributed to cat's claw include:
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Adaptogenic
Anti-microbial
Antioxidant
Anti-viral
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-tumor
This emergence of knowledge about the activity of cat's claw could not have come at a
better time! Many people have become fearful that the war on cancer is being lost, that
new potentially deadly viruses are evolving, and that more deadly "super-bacteria"
are developing due to over use of prescription antibiotics. This is why increased
attention is being placed upon "Nature's Pharmacy", the botanical or herbal nutrients
that offer so much hope.
In referring to cat's claw, Newsweek reported that this "rain forest herb has been long
used to treat asthma, ulcers, and cancer. ("Nature's Biggest Sellers", Newsweek,
November 6, 1995, page 68) In an article in Newlife, this herb was described as having
so many therapeutic uses that it far surpasses such well known botanicals as
Echinacea, Golden Seal, Astragalus, Siberian Ginseng, as well as Reishi and Shaitake
mushrooms. ("Cat's Claw - A Wonder Herb from the Peruvian Rain Forest", Newlife,
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February, 1995)
Dr. Brent Davis described cat's claw as "The Opener of the Way" in referring to its
ability to detoxify the intestinal Tract and to treat a variety of stomach and bowel
disorders. ( Cat's Claw News, May/June, 1995)
The anti-inflammatory qualities of cat's claw have been found to be useful in the
treatment of arthritis. ( Journal of Natural Products, 54: Page 453, 1991; Arthritis News,
1: Summer, 1989)
The possible anti-cancer qualities of cat's claw were explored in a study on the
mutagenic (ability to create mutations) activity in cigarette smokers' urine.
Non-smokers did not show mutagenic activity in their urine, while cigarette smokers
did. After taking this natural plant substance, smokers' urine showed a dramatic
decrease of mutagenic activity. ("Mutagenic and Antimutagenic Activity of Uncaria",
Journal of Ethnopharmacy, 38: page 63, 1993)
The Effects of Cat's Claw on Intestinal
Permeability
(Leaky Gut Syndrome)
After using cat's claw in working with approximately 150 patients between 1988 and
1992, Dr. Brent Davis reports that "Uncaria tomentosa has the ability to break
through severe intestinal derangements that no other available products can touch."
He refers to the herb as "the opener of the way" because of its remarkable ability to
cleanse the entire intestinal tract and help patients suffering from many different
stomach and bowel disorders including leaky bowel syndrome. irritable bowel
syndrome, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, hemorrhoids. fistulas. gastritis, ulcers,
parasites and intestinal flora imbalance. (References 1,2,3)
By cleansing the intestinal walls, cat's claw enables the body to better absorb nutrients,
thus helping to correct nutritional imbalances created by digestive blockages.
(Reference 2) Many doctors today believe that cat's claw may have a "profound ability
to get rid of deep-seated infection lodged in the bowel and perhaps even the mesentery,
which can derange the uterus and associated anatomic parts: the prostate, liver,
spleen, kidneys, thymus and thyroid, for starters."(5) Davis calls cat's claw "a world
class herb which has the power to arrest and reverse deep-seated pathology allowing a
more rapid return to health...'' (References l, 2)
The Ashanika Indians of Peru have long regarded una de gato tea as a sacred
beverage. It is used as a cleansing and tonic herb for the immune, intestinal and
structural systems.
In traditional medicine of Peru, una de gato is categorized as a "warm plant" or, more
accurately, for warm conditions (inflammations) including arthritis, gastritis, asthma
and dermal and genito-urinary tract inflammations. It is also used to treat diabetes,
cancer, tumors, viral infections, menstrual disorders convalescence and debility. A few
tribes also use cat's claw as a remedy for dysentery, (Reference 6) and at least one tribe
uses the herb to treat gonorrhea. (Reference 7)
Cat's Claw Can Reduce Pain and Inflammation in
Arthritic Conditions
The anti-inflammatory effects of cat's claw have proven beneficial in the treatment of
arthritis, rheumatism, bursitis and gout. As an antioxidant, it also helps protect cells
from damage caused by free radicals. Its beneficial effects in treating arthritis pain
may also be due, in part, to its ability to cleanse the digestive tract and aid in removing
toxins from the body. Arthritis, joint pain and inflammation as well as chronic fatigue,
allergies, immune deficiency and a host of other conditions have been associated with
defects in intestinal permeability (leaky bowel syndrome! and toxin overload.
(References 9, 10)
Some of the glycosides present in the herb may also add protection from pain. This
may explain, in part, how cat's claw has been helpful in reducing pain associated with
chemotherapy, radiation treatment and AZT use. (Reference l1)
A wealth of beneficial phytochemicals have been found in cat's claw including quinovic
acid glycosides, several oxindol alkaloids, proanthocyanidins, polyphenols, triterpines
and the plant sterols beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol and campesterol. (References l, 3)
Researchers believe that the activity of the whole plant extract is greater than the sum
of its parts. (References 3, 5, 7)
Cat's Claw Alkaloids Stimulate General Immunity
Unique alkaloids in una de gato seem to enhance the immune system in a general way.
These alkaloids have a pronounced effect on the ability of white blood cells to engulf
and digest harmful micro-organisms and foreign matter. (Reference 3) Austrian
researcher Klaus Keplinger has obtained two U.S. patents for isolating some of the
herb's major components. According to these patents, six oxindol alkaloids have been
isolated from cat's claw and four of these have been proven "suitable for the
unspecified stimulation of the immunologic system". Laboratory testing has shown
these alkaloids to have a pronounced enhancement effect on phagocytosis (the ability
of the white blood cells and macrophages to attack, engulf and digest harmful
micro-organisms, foreign matter and debris). The most immunologically active
alkaloid appears to be isoteropodine or isomer A. (References 1, 2) Cat's claw has also
been shown to increase the production of leukocytes and specifically T4 lymphocytes,
thus blocking the advance of many viral illnesses. Quinovic acid glycosides in cat's
claw back up the immune system and protect the body from viruses and virus caused
cancers. (References l, 2)
Dr. Donna Schwontkowski, D.C., calls cat's claw the most powerful immune-enhancer
of all the herbs native to the Peruvian Amazon. Preliminary studies suggest that the
herb has the ability to stop viral infections in the early stages, help patients who are
chemically sensitive, fight opportunistic infections in AIDS patients and de-crease the
visible size of some skin tumors and cysts. (References 3, 8) According to Dr. Satya
Ambrose, N. D., cats claw seems to enhance overall immunity while increasing stamina
and energy in patients who suffer from physical and mental exhaustion due to an
overactive or stressful lifestyle. (Reference 3)
Rynchophylline Inhibits Platelet Aggregation and
Thrombosis
Rynchophylline, a fifth alkaloid found in Uncaria tomentosa, has been studied at the
Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In laboratory testing,
rynchophylline displays an ability to inhibit platelet aggregation and thrombosis. This
suggests that cat's claw may be useful in preventing strokes and reducing the risk of
heart attack by lowering blood pressure, increasing circulation, inhibiting formation of
plaque on arterial walls and formation of blood clots in the brain, heart and arteries.
(Reference 2)
It is important to understand that most of the clinical research, trials and reports
completed to date which show the alkaloids to be antiviral, anti-inflammatory,
immuno-stimulating, antimutagenic, antioxidant and have other benefits, are tests
determining the alkaloid's active principals "in-vitro". This means they have been
proven in the test tube - not "in-vivo", or in the human body. While these in-vitro tests
are very promising, many more in-vivo tests will be needed to determine the true
efficacy of this plant for specific diseases in humans.
Three trials that could be considered in-vivo, were in fact, human studies. Two were
performed using "Krallendorn" which is a cat's claw extract produced by a German
company called Immodal. One of these documents is termed a "therapy observation"
and spans a ten year period with 78 patients suffering from brain tumors treated with
Krallendorn. Another is a summary of a trial with 32 HIV-infected patients treated
with Krallendorn from 1987 to 1991. The third in-vivo test was performed by an
Italian group studying the plant's antimutagenic properties on smokers and
non-smokers.
In-vivo tests and trials are currently underway at several institutions in several
countries and some preliminary results look promising, but the final results are not in
yet. Cat's claw has not been clinically proven to cure AIDS or cancer.
One of the best sources on cat's claw is the book, The Saga of the Cat's Claw, by Dr.
Fernando Cabieses. Dr. Cabieses is a well known neurologist and neurosurgeon with
residency in Lima, Peru. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Mayor de San
Marcos and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Trujillo, Piura, Cajamarca,
Chiclayo, Cusco, Arequipa and Garcilaso de la Vega. He is also Clinical Professor of
Neurosurgery at the University of Miami, Florida, a member of the World Health
Organization Committee for Traditional Medicine and is the Chairman of the Instituto
Nacional de Medicina Tradicional of Peru, a branch of the Ministry of Health (The
National Institute of Traditional Medicine of Peru). He has studied cat's claw
extensively, as well as all available clinical research reports and trials. In his book, he
gives a clear and easily understood translation of each of the clinical in-vitro studies
and what they mean. We would like to share his views on cat's claw concerning AIDS
in his book:
"Therefore, 'in-vitro', we already know that the alkaloids of our plant
stimulate the immune mechanisms. This is excellent. It opens a promising
avenue of research "in-vivo" in order to determine whether these
substances are active in conditions where the immune system is depressed.
None of us is unaware of AIDS, the horrible monster stalking humanity,
and much hue and cry has been raised about Uncaria tomentosa's effects
as a miracle cure for this cursed condition. But so far, no such cure exists.
Most of the alleged successes are the works of quacks, adventurers and
outright swindlers. Some of the noise comes from a few bona-fide but
ignorant physicians or others influenced by cases which are certainly
interesting but, unfortunately, poorly documented. The subject demands
much more study, and to speak now of "cures" when the evaluation is still
under way cruelly raises false hopes in desperate people. Several Peruvian
groups, among them Professor Eduardo Gotuzzo and Doctor Rosario
Rojas, are currently conducting topnotch studies which should soon give
us more reliable information."
Dr. Cabieses' closing statements in The Saga of the Cat's Claw are the
following:
"The proper design of research protocols for human application in
neoplastic diseases and in severe problems of immune deficiency (AIDS) is
not child's play, and the limits between the possible and the desirable are
frequently cloudy and diffuse. A link between "in vitro" and "in vivo" is
now being designed in Peruvian medical institutions of great prestige like
the University Cayetano Heredia and Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades
Neoplasicas, as well as under the direction of experts in alternative
medicines like natural medicine (Father Edmundo Szeliga, Doctor Mirez,
Doctor Lida Obregon) and homeopathy (Dr. F. P. Iaccarino). This leads
me to believe that it won't be too long, dear reader, before you and I can sit
down together again for a second edition of this monograph.
"Meanwhile, what should we do? What should you and I do with all the
information invading our homes and our hospitals about "Una de Gato" in
Peru? What do we do, dear aunt of my neighbor? What do we do, dear
doctor, respected colleague? Do we resist the tide and abstain from using
this interesting plant of our jungle? What do we tell our friend, the
desperate father of the young fellow who has AIDS? Do we tell him to
ignore this ray of hope? Do we, as doctors, tell our patient suffering from a
malignant tumor not to seek refuge in "Una de Gato", at least to satisfy his
desperate relatives? Or do we tell our patients and our friends to buy a
ticket to this lottery and see what happens with "Una de Gato"? Do we
love Uncaria or not? Do we accept it or prohibit it?
"Biology's dizzying advances have confronted us with hundreds of
dilemmas like this one. When you face a true dilemma, you suddenly find
that you have no answers. A dilemma is a question without answers. Or, to
put it better, a dilemma is a question with two or more answers, whose
every answer is at once attractive and defensible and capable of leading us
to defeat and frustration. Modern biology has brought us to a vast field
paved with dilemmas like this; disoriented, we now seek satisfaction for all
our doubts and questions. Such satisfaction does not exist. A road there
must be built and found in the labyrinth of biological dilemmas, and the
way to do so is called Bio-ethics.
"The ethics of Biology: a science that still does not clearly exist. An elusive,
slippery, unattainable moral law. A set of rules where it is always difficult
to find what is good, what is proper, what is just. A time bomb hidden
behind each scientific discovery.
"That is why I wrote this monograph. To shed some light on this difficult
path. Here we have a "new" medication which is recommended and
praised by many people who have used it. Here we have scientific evidence
that it is not toxic. Laboratory tests carried out in serious academic
institutions prove that the extracts of this plant have clear
anti-inflammatory effects, that it has some action modulating the immune
mechanisms, and that, in certain circumstances, it inhibits the crazed
growth of cancerous cells. . . .
"So we still have not identified the active principal? We have not identified
how it works? For two hundred years, quina bark saved more lives
annually than those killed by the atomic bomb in 1945. And during all
those years, nobody knew that there was an alkaloid which would later be
named Quinine. For a hundred years, humankind used aspirin to stop pain
and inflammation, though nobody knew until the discovery of
prostaglandins why it worked.
"Of course, in this dangerous quagmire of official indecision, the
indifference of the authorities and the absence of controls acts as an
incentive to fraud, to the illegal substitution of products, to falsification,
adulteration and deceit. These should lead us, physicians and conscientious
citizens, to help our patients and friends help themselves against con artists
and quacks and who promote spurious and adulterated products. All
physicians who have patients taking this particular medicinal plant should
try to document seriously and scientifically all those cases, positive or
negative, in order to gather enough scientific information about the
medical effects of Uncaria."
The following are quotes that have been extracted from the
compilation of many documents from around the world. These are
the opinions and claims of each individual author:
Excerpted from the book: Herbs of the Amazon - Traditional
and Common Uses, by Dr. Donna Schwontkowski, Doctor of
Chiropractic:
"Una de Gato is considered one of the most important botanicals in the
rain forest. In Peru, Una de Gato tea is used as a medicinal herb with
almost unlimited curative properties. This herb is a powerful cellular
rejuvenator. It has been used for the treatment of gastritis (inflammation
of the stomach), ulcers, cancer, arthritis, rheumatism, irregularities of the
female cycle, and acne. It is also used to treat organic depression. External
applications of Una de Gato include the treatment of wounds, fungus,
fistulas and hemorrhoids. European research shows that Una de Gato
activates the immune system by increasing lymphocytic (white blood cell)
activity."
Excerpted from the book: Traditional Uses of Rainforest
Botanicals by John Easterling:
"It is considered one of the most important botanicals in the Rainforest.
By supporting and enhancing immune system function, Una de Gato is
indicated in a broad spectrum of conditions including all types of
infections. Urarina tribesman of Peru tell stories of Una de Gato curing
tumors. Una de Gato was one of the plants researched by the National
Institute for Health as an anti-cancer agent. Studies from various
laboratories indicate it normalizes the immunoglobins by activating
T-lymphocytes and macrophages."
Excerpted from the book: Powerful and Unusual Herbs from
the Amazon and China, Published by the World Preservation
Society:
"Una de Gato from the Peruvian rain forest is a favorite for stimulating
the immune system. World wide research done on this powerful herb has
led scientists to patent many of the single chemicals found in it for use in
healing cancer, arthritis, AIDS, and other diseases. However, traditional
wisdom shows that using the whole plant can be far more powerful than
any one isolated ingredient."
Excerpted from The Herb Quarterly, Winter 1994, in an
article titled "Cat's Claw (Una de Gato) A Wondrous Herb
From the Amazon Rain Forest" by Phillip Steinberg:
"In July 1989, U.S. Patent No 4,844,901 was issued to an Austrian scientist
named Klaus Keplinger, and a second patent, No. 4,940,725, was issued to
him in July 1990. These patents explain how Dr. Keplinger isolated six
oxindole alkaloids from the root of Uncaria tomentosa and that four of
these alkaloids have been proven to be "suitable for the unspecified
stimulation of the immunologic system". According to Keplinger's
research, these four alkaloids have been shown to have a pronounced
enhancement effect on phagocytosis (the ability of the white blood cells and
macrophages to attack, engulf and digest harmful micro-organisms,
foreign matter, and debris.) According to both patents, the most
immunologically active alkaloid is isopteropodine or isomer A. Besides
isomer A and the other three immuno-stimulating alkaloids, there exists
another alkaloid known as rynchophylline. This alkaloid has been studied
at the Shanghai College of Traditional Medicine. According to their
findings, rynchophylline has demonstrated an ability to inhibit platelet
aggregation and Thrombosis, which suggests that rynchophylline may be
useful in preventing strokes and reducing the risk of heart attack by
lowering blood pressure, increasing circulation, and inhibiting both the
formation of plaque on the arterial walls and the formation of blood clots
in the brain, heart, and arteries."
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Their Combined Roles in Maintaining Bone Strength
You have often heard the old saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones ...", but have you
ever realized what other dangers exist to your bones? How about deficiencies in magnesium,
calcium, and boron? Together, boron, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D help to prevent
osteoporosis.(4)
Consider the following fact. Sixty-eight percent of all Americans are not getting enough calcium.
(2) With back and joint problems affecting greater segments of the population, it would be helpful
to know some basic facts. According to the United States Food and Drug Administration, calcium
is essential to strong bones.
Approximately 75 percent of the United States population is deficient in magnesium. Recent
reports show magnesium to be beneficial in migraine headaches, depression, and chronic fatigue
syndrome. (2) Properly produced magnesium chelate has reduced PMS [premenstrual syndrome]
symptoms.(1) In general, magnesium helps in comfort and relaxation.
You have also heard the old saying: "You are what your eat". It now appears that a more correct
version of that saying should be: "You are what you absorb". A mineral that is not absorbed
cannot get into the bones to strengthen them. The amount absorbed is more important than the
quantity consumed.
In the case of calcium, there is widespread use of inorganic forms of calcium for supplementation,
such as oyster shells. Yet by properly combining [chelating] calcium with an amino acid [a
component of protein] to create an organic chelate, 57 percent more replacement calcium was
delivered to the bones than with inorganic calcium.(2)
Chelated minerals provide 3 to 10 times greater absorption than the non-chelated ones, and are
thus well worth the small additional cost. Another example is magnesium, which is absorbed 87
percent when properly chelated, but only absorbed 16 percent when taken in an inorganic
non-chelated form.(2)
The mineral boron may retard bone loss.(4) Since osteoporosis is occuring in larger numbers of
the population, this is important news. Bones have osteoclasts that break down old or damaged
bone cells, while the osteoblasts work to replace the lost bone. Osteoporosis occurs when the
osteoblasts can not replace lost bone tissue as fast as the osteoclasts break it down. Osteoclasts
deplete bone at a faster rate after menopause, leaving women at a greater risk of bone
degredation. Boron appears to have a moderating effect on this process.
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Is There A Boron - Arthritis Connection?
Over the last decade it has become common knowledge among nutritionally oriented health care
practitioners that there seems to be an interesting relationship between lower selenium levels in
the soil and higher incidence of breast cancer. As one looks at a map of the USA in which shaded
areas represent low levels of selenium in the soil and then compares it to a map where territories
with higher reported cases of breast cancer per capita are shaded, the two maps resemble each
other to a great extent.
A similar picture is being presented by Rex E. Newnham, Ph.D., D.O., to demonstrate a high
probability for a causative relationship between the lack of the mineral boron in the diet and the
manifestation of arthritis (as observed in various populations around the world).
In an article published in the Journal of Applied Nutrition,(5) Newnham brings to our attention the
following interesting observations:
1. Thirty years ago it was observed that a patient with osteoarthritis who lived in Australia in
an area where the soil was deficient in boron, responded well to 6 mg. of boron a day.
Within three weeks he experienced reduction of swelling and stiffness. Once he was free of
symptoms for a full year without taking boron, symptoms returned. After returning to taking
boron his condition improved once again within ten days.
2. Populations that live in an area where the soil or the drinking water contain high levels of
boron are free of arthritis (boron intake of 910 mg./day). Low boron levels in soil or water
correlate with much higher than average incidence of arthritis (boron intake of less than 2
mg./day).
3. Unpublished information from Australia reveals that thousands of people consumed boron
tablets in the form of borax (a cockroach poison containing 10% elemental boron).
Surprisingly the use of this product as a nutritional supplement was only promoted by word
of mouth.
4. Populations in Jamaica, Mauritius and Fiji where either the soil or the diet is low in boron
show a higher than average occurrence of arthritis.
5. The amount of boron in soil is directly proportional to the amount of organic matter.
Therefore, highly fertilized crops (with commercial fertilizer) provide much smaller
quantities of boron.
6. South African natives who ate a high boron diet had a 3% incidence of arthritis. After they
moved into town and changed their diet they fell into the sad statistics of modern city
dwellers who average 20% incidence of arthritis.
7. Some hot mineral spas in New Zealand where the water boron content is very high
acquired the reputation of healing arthritis.
8. Animals with arthritic symptoms showed improvement with a dose of 1 mg./25 Kg. of body
weight and returned to normal activity.
9. The observations which were studied suggest that boron intake at the level of 5-6 mg./day
is consistent with prevention of arthritis. A higher dose may be required for treatment.
References
1. Abraham, Dr., University of California - Los Angeles
2. Graff, D., Research on Mineral Absoprtion, Weber State University, International
Conference on Human Nutrition, 1995
3. Heaney, R.P. MD., Creighton University, Calcified Tissue International, 1990
4. Mindell, Earl Vitamin Bible, 1991
5. Newnham, Ph.D., D.O., Rex E. Journal of Applied Nutrition, (Volume 46, Issue 3, 1994)
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Holistic Medicine - Natural Health
Holistic Medicine
Becoming a Partner in the Healing Process
by Ronald R. Parks, M.P.H., M.D.
The notion of Holistic Medicine has been around for many years. But why, now, has interest in
this area skyrocketed, grabbed center stage so to speak, and attracted so many new adherents
and supporters? I think that the move towards holistic medicine was begun by a few conscious
souls rebelling against health care which was high tech, un-personal, authoritarian, and
increasingly bureaucratic and commercial. We desired a more caring, humanistic approach encompassing the mind, body, emotions; to be nurtured and empowered, treated with respect,
and made a partner in the healing process.
With the growing interest in holistic medicine, there has become an increasing number of
practicing holistic physicians and health care providers who have increasingly put into practice
some of these sought-after ideals. They have preferred the safer, less costly, more effective and
natural treatments, along with an emphasis on empowerment of the person, as a partner in
their own health care and healing. As more of the treatment outcomes of holistic practitioners
are getting reported in the scientific literature as showing efficacy, safety, and positive benefits,
a greater degree of acceptance and acknowledgment by conventional medicine is being seen.
There has been great reluctance to give full support, however, as much of the conventional
health care establishment is so wedded to many approaches and technologies that have not
proven their merit or superiority to holistic medicine practices.
Financial issues have also been a factor, as hospitals, for example, have become so heavily
vested in certain technologies, such as bypass surgery and angioplasties for coronary artery
therapies. There is, however, a growing literature showing that, in many cases, more
conservative management--especially holistic oriented approaches--work as well, with a
tremendous added safety factor. An example would be the impressive heart research study
done by Dean Ornish, M.D. He used a holistic approach and showed reversal of coronary
artery blockage with arteriography studies, using a nutritional low fat diet, exercise, yoga, and
group support. There is also growing body of evidence that chelation therapy, which involves
the administration in the vein of a medication called EDTA, improves symptoms associated
with coronary artery disease and circulation problems, in a safe, and less costly way than
traditional, invasive and surgical procedures for the same problems.
Informed consumers of health care services have been seeking out and switching their health
care to holistic health care providers in greater numbers than ever before, because of several
more recent factors. One has been the recent major shift in the health care system to corporate
medicine, or managed care, with profits and cost saving being the bottom line. These
large-sized businesses were initially begun on an ethical basis. The goal was to match good
patient care with cost effectiveness, monitored clinical outcomes, and collaborative
relationships between providers of care. Managed care providers, however, have often
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degenerated into what I see as unethical businesses, that lack clinical leadership. They attempt
to reduce cost by keeping out sicker patients, tangling medical care and clinical
decision-making into a maze of bureaucratic red tape, and providing, in some cases, incentive
to clinicians to provide less care. There have also been the large commercial drug companies
that have developed and marketed drugs which are less safe and less effective than the more
natural alternatives, such as botanical, nutritional, or other holistic approaches used by holistic
health care providers.
A recent positive trend has been in the medical schools, which are beginning to invite holistic
physicians to lecture or to develop programs in the schools to complement their more
conventional curricula. The National Institute of Health has developed an office to support and
research holistic and alternative medicine practices. Some states are now passing laws to
protect and support the practices of holistic providers, as they have sometimes been the subject
of harassment by their more conservative colleagues, for their different orientation, techniques,
and approaches to health care. With these current trends, the changing needs and perceptions
by a more informed public, and the increasing scientific validation of holistic approaches, I see
the holistic paradigm coming of age--the new frontier of health care and human awareness.
Author: Ronald R. Parks, M.P.H., M.D. Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 2, Summer
1995, Baltimore Maryland. Ronald R. Parks, M.P.H., M.D. has completed medical and specialty training in internal
medicine and preventive medicine, is board certified in psychiatry, and is a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist.
His current practice specializes in nutritional, preventive medicine and holistic psychiatry, and can be reached at (410)
486-5656.
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Your Own Perfect Medicine? - Natural Health and Longevity Resource Center
Your Own Perfect Medicine
by Martha Christy
You may think that when it comes to alternative health therapies - you've heard it all.
But there is one natural therapy you've probably never heard of - even though it's one of
the most powerful, most researched and most medically proven natural cures ever
discovered.
No matter how hard it may be for you to stomach, the fact is that knowing the truth
about this incredible natural substance will be one of the most crucial health facts you'll
ever learn. And one of the most remarkable things about this incomparable natural
therapy is that the medical community has already been aware of its astounding efficacy
for decades, and yet none of us has ever been told about it. Why? Maybe they think it's
too controversial. Or maybe, more accurately, there wasn't any monetary reward for
telling people what scientists know about one of the most extraordinary natural healing
elements in the world.
But no matter why the medical establishment has chosen to keep his invaluable
information a secret, it's time that every man, woman and child be told about the only
health tool in the world that is always available to everyone and never out of reach physically or financially. So I want you to sit back, open your mind and get ready to hear
the incredible medical facts about human urine - the facts that will change your life.
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Every one of us has a right to know that our bodies produce an invaluable source of
nourishment and healing that we can utilize to heal ourselves and to maintain our lives
and our health in both everyday circumstances and in emergencies and life-threatening
situations.
Two news articles from the past that recently came across my desk vividly illustrate the
absolutely tragic consequences of the public's lack of information and our completely
unfounded misconceptions regarding our bodies' own perfect medicine:
Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News, October 16, 1992:
"In Egypt, rescue workers found a 37-year-old man alive in earthquake rubble.
He survived almost 82 hours by drinking his own urine. His wife, daughter and
mother would not and they died."
Associated Press, July, 1985:
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I don't think there's any question that these women and the child would not
have died had they simply been aware of the truth that not only would their own
urine not harm them, but would, in fact, have provided a power-packed
combination of liquid nutrients and critical immune factors that would have
sustained them in good health until help arrived.
The Medical Proof
For almost the entire course of the 20th century, unknown to the public, doctors and
medical researchers have been proving in both laboratory and clinical testing that our
own urine is an enormous source of vital nutrients, vitamins, hormones, enzymes and
critical antibodies that cannot be duplicated or derived from any other source. They use
urine for healing cancer, heart disease, allergies, auto-immune diseases, diabetes, asthma,
infertility, infections, wounds and on and on -- yet we're taught that urine is a toxic waste
product. This discrepancy between the medical truth and the public information
regarding urine is ludicrous and, as the news releases you've just read demonstrate, can
mean the difference between life and death to you and to your loved ones.
When I contracted a crippling, incurable disease early in life, I used every available
conventional medical and alternative healing method over the course of many years
without success. When an acquaintance suggested I try "urine therapy" I though she'd
lost her mind, but with no options left, I swallowed my prejudice and decided to give it a
go. To my own (and everyone else's) amazement, my healing was so rapid and so
profound with urine therapy that no question remained in my mind that someone in the
medical community had to know more than they were telling about this incredible body
substance. And as a matter of fact, they did know more - a lot more.
After many months of haunting university libraries, scanning countless microfiche files
and poring over piles of medical journals, I had amassed a small mountain of astounding
research studies, findings and files on the use of urine in medicine and healing, I
discovered, among numerous other things, that urine, far from being a toxic body waste,
was actually a purified derivative of the blood made by the kidneys which contains, not
body wastes, but rather an incredible array of critically important nutrients, enzymes,
hormones, natural antibodies and immune defense agents.
At the end of it all, as I sat tiredly in my chair eyeing the stacks of research papers
covering my desk, I realized that the medical community had pulled off one of the biggest
hoodwinks in history. Take for instance the doctor who reported that "urine acts as an
excellent and safe natural vaccine and has been shown to cure a wide variety of disorders
including hepatitis, whooping-cough, asthma, hay fever, hives, migraines, intestinal
dysfunctions, etc. It is completely safe and causes no side effects." (J. Plesch, M.D., The
Medical Press, 1947); or the oncologist who reported that "a patient with intractable
ovarian cancer was treated with Human Urine Derivative and is now completely well and
enjoying the rest of her life." (Dr. M. Soeda, University of Tokyo, 1968). These
remarkable findings were published in medical journals - but did you ever hear about
them?
And what about the immunologist who, after extensive clinical and laboratory research
stated: "It was rapidly appreciated that undiluted urine administered orally was
therapeutically effective for Immune Therapy and was initiated when it became obvious
that an allergic condition had become uncontrollable." (Dr. C.W. Wilson, 1983, Law
Hospital, Scotland). Or the Harvard medical researchers who discovered that active
"antibodies to cholera, typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, polio, leptospira and salmonella
have been found in the unconcentrated urine of infected individuals." (Lerner,
Remington & Finland, Harvard Medical School, 1962). What abut the Scandinavian
researcher who, in 1951, conclusively proved that human urine can completely destroy
tuberculosis? It's a deadly disease, and is now resistant to antibiotics. Isn't it time
someone told us that our own urine is medically proven to be anti-tubercule?
Then there's the research into wounds and burns using urea (the primary solid
component of urine). As only one research study among many reported: "In America,
urea has been used for the treatment of various infected wounds and it has been found to
be extremely efficient...even the deepest wound can be treated effectively.... Urea
treatment has been successful where other treatments have failed. For external staph
infections we found urea preferable to any other dressing...there are no
contra-indications to its use." (Dr. L. Muldavis, 1938, Royal Free Hospital, London).
Now these medical reports are only a few of the more than 50 research studies I compiled
and published in the book Your Own Perfect Medicine, but they certainly give an
indication of the importance of what we've never been told about urine by the medical
community. As far back as 1954, the Journal of the American Medical Association (July
issue) reported that "More scientific papers have probably been published on urine than
on any other organic compound." Another publication revealed that "more than 1,000
technical and scientific papers, related only to low molecular weight substances in urine,
appeared in medical and scientific literature in one single year." All this fuss about a
substance that we're told is nothing more than a body waste?
I think one of the most interesting pieces of information on urine I came across was the
fact that the amniotic fluid that surrounds human infants in the womb is primarily urine.
Actually, the infant "breathes in" urine-filled amniotic fluid continually, and without this
fluid, the lungs don't develop. Doctors also believe that the softness of baby skin and the
ability of in-utero infants to heal quickly without scarring after pre-birth surgery is due
to the therapeutic properties of the urine-filled amniotic fluid.
Reports on the extraordinary external benefits of urine abound as well. Medical studies
relate remarkable cases of stubborn or "incurable" chronic, severe eczema that
miraculously disappear with urine therapy. Because urine is both anti-viral and
anti-bacterial, it's ideal for treating cuts, wounds and abrasions of all kinds. Acne, rashes,
athlete's foot and fungal skin problems respond dramatically to urine soaks and
compresses as well. (You'll find complete instructions for using urine therapy internally
and externally in Your Own Perfect Medicine.)
For home use or emergency treatment care for wounds, poisonous bites or stings, and
even broken bones, urine is an incomparable, proven natural healing agent that provides
instantaneous therapeutic benefits under any circumstances.
For years, people have said to me, "Well, I have heard of people surviving by ingesting
their own urine, but I thought it was just a myth." Myth it isn't. Medical fact it is. As Dr.
John R. Herman remarked in his article which appeared in the New York State Journal of
Medicine in June, 1980: "Auto-uropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts of the
world and continues to flourish today....there is unknown to most of us, a wide usage of
uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous advantages
of this modality. Actually, the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully checked
and no items not found in human diet are found in it. Percentages differ, but urinary
constituents are valuable to human metabolism."
Your Body's Own Super-Nutrition Therapy
In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A.H. Free, published his book
Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in which he remarked that not only is urine a
sterile body compound (purer than distilled water), but that "it is now recognized that
urine contains thousands of compounds, and as new, more sensitive analytical tools
evolve, it is quite certain that new constituents of urine will be recognized." Among the
urine constituents mentioned in Dr. Free's revealing treatise is a list of nutrients that will
knock your socks off. As Dr. Free comments, the ingredients listed below are only a few
critical nutrients found in urine:
Alanine, total ..... 38 mg/day
Arginine, total ..... 32 mg/day
Ascorbic acid ..... 30 mg/day
Allantoin ..... 12 mg/day
Amino acids, total ..... 2.1 g/day
Bicarbonate ..... 140 mg/day
Biotin ..... 35 mg/day
Calcium ..... 23 mg/day
Creatinine ..... 1.4 mg/day
Cystine ..... 120 mg/day
Dopamine ..... 0.40 mg/day
Epinephrine ..... 0.01 mg/day
Folic acid ..... 4 mg/day
Glucose ..... 100 mg/day
Glutamic acid ..... 308 mg/day
Glycine ..... 455 mg/day
Inositol ..... 14 mg/day
Iodine ..... 0.25 mg/day
Iron ..... 0.5 mg/day
Lysine, total ..... 56 mg/day
Magnesium ..... 100 mg/day
Manganese ..... 0.5 mg/day
Methionine, total ..... 10 mg/day
Nitrogen, total ..... 15 g/day
Ornithine ..... 10 mg/day
Pantothenic acid ..... 3 mg/day
Phenylalanine ..... 21 mg/day
Phosphorus, organic ..... 9 mg/day
Potassium ..... 2.5 mg/day
Proteins, total ..... 5 mg/day
Riboflavin ..... 0.9 mg/day
Tryptophan, total ..... 28 mg/day
Tyrosine, total ..... 50 mg/day
Urea ..... 24.5 mg/day
Vitamin B6 ..... 100 mg/day
Vitamin B12 ..... 0.03 mg/day
Zinc ..... 1.4 mg/day
As you read over this extraordinary list of nutritional elements, you can begin to
understand why the stories you may have heard of people surviving on their own urine
are true. But what about other elements in urine that you've heard about?
Clearing Up the Misconceptions
If you asked a person on the street what uric acid is, he or she would invariably answer
that it's a toxic body waste. No so, say medical researchers at the University of California
at Berkeley who in 1982 reported they had discovered that "uric acid destroys
body-damaging, cancer-causing free radicals and is considered to be one of the
physiological factors that enable human beings to live so much longer than other
mammals."
But what about urea? Urea is in urine and isn't that the toxic stuff that causes uremic
poisoning? Actually, medical researchers discovered many decades ago that urea, far
from being a toxic body waste, is an incredibly versatile, far-reaching and effective
medicinal agent. In numerous medical studies, it was shown that urea is one of the most
potent non-toxic virucidal agents ever discovered. In one particular study, the rabies and
polio virus [sic] were killed so quickly and efficiently by concentrated urea, that even the
laconic researchers themselves were surprised: "Urea is such a relatively inactive
substance and certainly not a protoplasmic poison such as are most virucidal agents, that
it is in a way surprising that rabies and poliomyelitis are killed so easily by urea
solutions" (McKay & Schroeder, Society of Experimental Biology, 1936).
In reality, Urea is an FDA-approved medicinal agent that doctors and researchers utilize
in an amazing variety of therapeutic modalities. Because of its remarkable and
comprehensive anti-neoplastic (anti-tumor) properties, it's presently being used in
anti-cancer drugs and is extensively studied for use in cancer treatments. The urea
compound drug, glicazide, is used successfully by the medical establishment in treating
both insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent diabetics.
As a natural diuretic, urea is unparalleled, and is a proven and accepted treatment in
cases of edema or swelling such as excess cerebral and spinal pressure, glaucoma,
epilepsy, meningitis, even premenstrual edema and many other disorders in which excess
fluid is a problem. As one American neurosurgeon reported regarding a patient who
nearly died form complications following brain surgery: "Urea was administered
intravenously as an emergency measure. Within 20 minutes from the start of injection,
her blood pressure had returned to normal....from this time on her recovery was
uneventful. In this case, urea was definitely life-saving, because prior to its
administration, the patient's survival was unlikely. In many similar instances urea was
found to be life-saving" (Dr. M. Javid, University of Wisconsin).
The Physiological Answer to a Therapeutic Mystery
The medical findings on urine and urine constituents are overwhelming, and yet it's
difficult for most people to understand why our bodies excrete elements that are so
obviously valuable to human health and well-being.
The commonly-asked question, "If your urine is so good for you, why does your body
excrete it?" is best answered by looking into how our kidneys function. As your blood
moves through the circulatory system, it flows through the kidneys at a rate of about
1200 ml of blood per minute. Inside the kidneys, the blood is continuously filtered
through a huge system of minute tubules called nephron which sift out excess water,
vitamins, minerals, enzymes, salts, and hundreds of other elements including vital
antibodies, urea and uric acid.
A large portion of these key physiological elements are reabsorbed into the bloodstream,
but a certain amount of critical blood constituents are pooled by the kidney into a liquid
which doctors refer to as a "plasma ultrafiltrate" (we call it urine). Much of this sterile,
nutrient filled ultrafiltrate, or urine, is reabsorbed and some remains in the kidney for a
period of time and is eventually released into a tube called the urethra which empties the
urine into the bladder where it is finally excreted. Now you're probably wondering why
the body excretes valuable nutrients, water, hormones, enzymes, etc. that are critical to
body functioning. Doesn't it make more sense to retain these elements? If urine is a
collection of such life-sustaining elements, why does the body get rid of it?
The answer is that the kidneys excrete a portion of urine as a way of removing certain
key elements in your blood that are simply not needed at a specific point in time. For
instance, you've just been out jogging. You come home and have one or two big glasses of
water to drink. Now at this point you've probably taken in more water than your body
actually needs. But not to worry -- your kidneys will balance the amount of water
delivered into your bloodstream by your copious water drinking and through the urine
will excrete whatever amount of water from the blood that isn't needed at the time.
Now water is certainly a life-sustaining element the body cannot do without. So why is it
excreted from the body? The answer is obvious. There are times when there's too much
water in your system and it needs to be excreted.
It's a physiological fact that in order for us to function normally, the amounts or
concentrations of every element in our blood must be carefully and strictly controlled
and this is done by the kidneys. Too much water in the blood is fatal. Too much salt in
the blood is deadly. As wonderful a nutrient as vitamin C is, too high a concentration of it
or any nutrient could kill you. This is why the kidneys excrete valuable elements from the
body -- too much of any good thing isn't good for your health.
The same is true of urea. People who have heard of uremic poisoning are surprised when
they read the medical research showing urea to be a widely-used, FDA-approved
medicine. But just like any other element in the blood, urea only becomes dangerous to
the body when the kidneys are damaged or diseased and can't properly balance the
amount of urea (and all other substances) in the bloodstream.
Your kidneys aren't doing damage to your body by getting rid of particular excess
nutrients, they're just simply excreting the precise amount not presently needed by your
body at a given time. And the same goes for practically every nutrient, enzyme, hormone,
antibody, etc. that are critical to your survival -- the kidneys keep what your body needs
at a certain time, and excretes what it isn't momentarily using into your urine. And as
medical scientists and doctors have discovered, these urinary ingredients extracted from
the blood can be therapeutic magic bullets.
A Billion Dollar Industry
Despite what the public has been led to believe about urine, pharmaceutical companies
have grossed billions of dollars from the sale of drugs made from urine constituents.
Pergonal, a fertility drug made from human urine, earned a reported $855 million in
sales in 1992, and sales ($1400 a month per patient) have increased yearly. Urokinase, a
urine ingredient, is used in drug form and sold as a "miracle blood clot dissolver" for
unblocking coronary arteries. Urea, medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers
in the world has been a boon to cosmetic companies who package it in expensive,
glamorized creams and lotions. Ever used Murine ear drops? They're made from
carbamide -- another name for synthetic urea.
When you look at the real facts, the tragedy of the general disinformation campaign on
urine is surpassed only by the irony of our unwitting, and often incredibly expensive
purchases of what we all mistakenly but firmly believe to be our bodies' "useless" and
"offensive" waste-product, urine.
New Acceptance for a Misunderstood Therapy
Because of the nearly all-pervasive public misunderstanding about what urine is and how
it can be of immense medical benefit to us, the often amazing anecdotal stories of healing
and survival via urine have been routinely ignored, ridiculed or have been written off as
"old wives' tales." But when people learn the real facts, these stories take on a
significance that not even doctors are now willing to ignore.
Since the first release of Your Own Perfect Medicine, rather than the doubt and derision I
expected to encounter, I was amazed at the tens of thousands of people who have
willingly accepted the information in the book. Many people (including doctors) have
come forward to tell me about their own experiences or about news stories they've read
that tell about using urine medicinally and in survival situations:
Dr. David G. Williams, Alternative Newsletter, August, 1994:
"Several months ago I watched the movie Alive. It's the true story of a South American
soccer team whose airplane crashed in snow-capped mountains in the dead of winter. The
team was stranded for a couple months and survived only by eating the flesh of those who
had died either during the crash or later from injuries. A portion of the movie focused on
two individuals whose initial wounds progressed into serious infections.
Knowing no way to treat these two, the survivors could only attempt to comfort them.
Eventually the infection led to death. Watching the intense suffering of these people made
me wonder if there was more that could have been done to save them. I now feel it's very
possible that these two people, and thousands of others around the world would still be alive
if they had been aware of the therapeutic effects of urine.
With urine therapy, you get all the benefits of urea plus the additional antibodies, vitamins,
minerals, amino acids, hormones and more."
Dr. William Hitt, Clinica Hitt, Mexico
January, 1995
"Experience has shown that intramuscular injections of urine are the best methods for
handling a myriad of immunological illnesses including psoriasis, basal call carcinoma,
asthma and many other disorders."
Reuter Report
August 14, 1990
"Four Sri Lankan commandos who drifted in a boat more than 1,000 miles to Thailand
after they had been ambushed and given up for dead were given a rapturous welcome when
they returned home. 'They managed to survive on the boat by catching turtles and drinking
urine,' a military officer said."
Kyodo News Service, Tokyo
July 30, 1990
"A male cook was pulled out of the rubble of the Hyatt Hotel early Monday morning, 14
days after a powerful earthquake devastated the northern Philippines, officials said. Dry,
with only minor bruises on his body, he told reporters he survived by drinking his own
urine."
At a time when new viruses and bacteria are outwitting even the best efforts of space-age
medicine, and increasingly frequent natural disasters put basic necessities out of reach,
the facts about the one medical and survival tool that the FDA can't regulate and that's
always there when you need it most, may well become the greatest survival lesson any of
us will ever learn.
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The author of this article, Martha Christy, is a medical research writer, natural health consultant and author
of Your Own Perfect Medicine, as well as several other books on natural healing. Your Own Perfect Medicine is
available for $23.90 from FutureMed, Inc., Box 13837, Scottsdale, AZ 85265, or call 1-800-800-8849.
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The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy (Amethyst Books/Gateway Books, ISBN
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One Woman's Experiences
Just wanted to say how grateful I am to Martha Christy for writing her book. I was
skeptical at first - who wouldn't be? But I have been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis
for 7 years (I'm 34) to the point where I have been nearly disabled at times; hospitalized
because of the pain at times; and unable to function as a mother to my newborn 3 years
ago.
I started with "MY" own perfect medicine about 16 months ago, and within 3 days... yes
THREE DAYS my aches were dramatically decreased, my swollen joints began
'unswelling' and over the past 16 months my 'sed' rate has dropped from an alarming 90
- 100 to about 27; almost normal!!
Just wanted to let you know that Perfect Medicine is RIGHT ON in my opinion. Now, if
we could just get others to understand. No one in my family understands even the
concept of it... so needless to say not even my husband knows I'm doing this. They all just
think "it's a miracle" that I'm feeling so much better. Well, it is a miracle. My OWN
miracle!
By the way, I have also used the therapy to relieve dry skin patches on my legs and face,
and minor acne problems. Have also sprayed it into my hair on nights when my husband
works... and left it over night. When I washed in the morning, my hair was soft and
shiny, and the dry spots were much smoother. And minor acne all but disappears over
night. I swear by this stuff!!!
Sincerely,
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Healing Touch
What is a healing touch and who is the healer? Hands, Hearts, Intentions, focus on the judicious use of energy, applied
with love and science equals healing and wholeness which is facilitated with the healer.
There are many traditions from ancient groups such as Maya, Hindu, Native American, Laplander and Chinese to the
newly (re)discovered contemporary modalities such as Healing Touch, Terra Mater, Therapeutic Touch and Hands of
Light that facilitate the healing of dis-ease.
Dis-ease can manifest cellularly, energetically, physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually in many
combinations on the body or in the mind. This sometimes stimulates in the person in dis-ease to seek out a healer. The
one who wants to be healed often arrives at the healers door from a path of equanimity to despair in search of an
illusive wholeness after trying many approaches.What is it that the healer can facilitate? Who is the Healer?
The healer is one who has embarked upon a path that has required intention, courage, self awareness, skill levels,
compassion, integrity and honesty to experience their own fears of limitation and encounter their own healing.
What does a healing session involve?
The healer listens with their whole being to the `voice' of the body and trusts that body's wisdom to heal. The healer
centers themselves and gathers an energy into themselves and radiates it out to the healer in the form of a steady
outflowing stream of radiant energy. This energy is a free circulation of force between the person to be healed, the
healer, and facilitates relaxation, alleviates anxieties and promotes stimulation of the whole self to balance.
The healer must have the ability to keep the will in the background and send as a conductor the healing radiance out
upon a stream of love-energy and not be invested in the outcome. The healer understands that love is energy and that
it is a substance as dense as matter.
Often the recipient of this energy, while lying comfortably on a table or sitting upright in a chair fully clothed will
experience body sensations. The sensations may be of temperature changes, joy, sadness, itching, unsolicited
memories, see colors and shapes, deep rest or sleep. These body experiences are responses to the varieties of touch
delivered by the individual healers modality and skill. The touch can be on or near the body and be very soft or deep.
The session can be from 15 minutes to an hour.
Currently the NIH in The Alternative Medicine Department is finding 10 research projects in the efficacy of touch
healing. There is much documented research on the benefits of therapeutic touch and it is currently being taught to
nurses, physicians and physical therapists as a complement to many forms of medicine.
The reintroduction of the healer, the ancient art of a Healer's Touch to the mainstream is timely and much needed
today. The co-joining of the many strands of "care" and medicine are symbolic, necessary and evidenced in the
symbol of the caduceus. Two snakes , two branches of care entwined around a staff with wings. The symbol of bright
health in balance, a holistic approach to well-being.
Written by Wolf, a certified practitioner of shiatsu, Reiki, Terra Mater, cranial sacral, among other healing modalities.
She can be reached at (410) 764-1405. Originally printed in the Baltimore Resources Journal, Volume 9, No. 2:
Summer 1995
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"Do No Harm"
The Philosophy of Natural Healing
by Dr. Dori Luneski
The true meaning of a preventive approach to health care is to first exclude the "simpler" causes of disease, and then
think of the more complicated. The simple truth is that dehydration alone can cause any symptom or disease.
Dehydration eventually causes loss of functions, and various "thirst signals" are too often treated as symptoms, rather
than getting to the cause. There are three main causes of most sub-health conditions:
1. Intracellular malnutrition
2. Intracellular toxicity
3. Intracellular dehydration
The basic assumption behind natural healing is that the human body is linked to the properties of natural organic
substances. The philosophy of natural healing is that your body is capable of healing itself once proper conditions are
provided. Herbal therapy is a natural way to help the body heal itself. Herbal remedies neutralize or eliminate from
your body the harmful substances that impair its power to heal itself, and provide natural nutrients in their most
absorbable form. In the chaotic condition of "modern medicine" and the crying need of the millions, is our grand
opportunity to understand the truth about the ancient, honorable, and beneficial science of natural healing with herbs.
Homeopathy is another method of stimulating the body's own healing processes. If you have a symptom, your vital
force is down! It is your depressed vital force, not your symptom, that is the origin of disease. Homeopathy is a
holistic science, and treats the whole person. Health is not the absence of disease ... it is a universal good condition on
all levels--physical, emotional and mental. Homeopathy works on the principle of resonance, like when a singer
shatters glass on a special note that matches the energy of the glass. The source of the homeopathic remedy has certain
symptoms if taken in excess, and when these symptoms match yours exactly, the two energies combine like the singer
who breaks glass, and increases the overall energy. This increased energy raises your vital force and you are now
stronger to overcome the symptoms.
To change the "level of health" you must change the person's constitution or "vital force"--a subtle governing energy
that organizes and directs physical and chemical action of the body. Efficiency of your vital force is reflected in
degrees of health or illness. The present transition toward health and wholeness, rather than disease, has enhanced the
growing awareness and importance of subtle energies and influences that encourage the body to heal itself.
Symptoms are an expression of your vital force's effort to heal. Do not suppress your body's attempts to communicate
with you!
1. Do not treat thirst with drugs.
2. Understand the healing properties of herbs and allow nature to help in the healing process.
3. Understand that treating symptoms is masking the fact your vital force is down; you need to be dealing with
that, rather than just temporarily wanting to feel better.
Every physical, emotional, or mental symptom gives us a particular message, and we need to acknowledge these
messages. every true healing process is an affirmation of our wholeness . . . and any condition should "first do no
harm."
Author: Dori Luneski. Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 2, Summer 1995, Baltimore
Maryland. Dori Luneski is a naturopathic doctor practicing in Frederick. She can be reached at (410) 418-5969.
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Miracle of Magnetics
by Dr. William Pawluk, MD, MSc.
The human body floats in a sea of magnetic fields - those of the earth, moon, sun, and other galactic fields.
The body is full of magnetic materials. Every cell and atom of the body is a small magnetic dynamo. The
body's fields, which are very tiny, are measured in devices called SQUIDS. The earth's field is 100,000
times or more stronger than the body's! We are so dependent on the earth's fields that astronauts in space for
long periods require artificial magnetic fields to maintain health.
Magnetic fields penetrate the body as if it were air. Nothing in the body stands in the way of a magnetic
field. The body is 70% or more water, which doesn't reduce or block magnetic fields. A strong magnet held
on one side of the hand can easily deflect a compass needle on the other side of the same hand.
SQUIDS show that tissues exposed to magnets have enhanced magnetic signals afterward for some time.
Various types of magnets produce these effects. They include permanent magnets, such as flat magnetic
pads and electromagnets of various kinds, such as MRI machines and nerve conduction testing devices.
Some acupuncturists use permanent magnets because they are painless and allow treatment to continue after
a visit. While a student in acupuncture, I was experimenting on myself with two of the most powerful
acupuncture magnets available. In two separate trials, I felt an obvious buzzing sensation in my chest and
abdomen. By chance I stimulated two acupuncture meridians! This proved that magnets significantly affect
acupuncture points and meridians. I also worked with a physician friend who owns some sensitive electrical
testing equipment. We were able to show that magnets increase the energy (chi) flow along a hand
meridian. In my practice, I now frequently replace needles for magnets.
Magnetics act on the body in many ways:
● They stimulate the acupuncture points and meridians. In this way, they can be used for all kinds of
problems, especially for pain, fibromyalgia and muscle strains.
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They work on red blood cells because they contain iron. I placed a round bullseye magnet on a
nurse's knee bruise following a ski injury. The next morning she had a perfect bullseye pattern over
her bruise!
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Most people report warmth and gentle tingling under the magnets. Europeans have measured
increased blood flow. Others have seen this on thermograms too.
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They affect some chemical processes within and between cells. Chemists use sensitive magnetic
equipment to measure simple and complex molecules. Researchers at Harvard found that salt water
passes a membrane quicker with a magnetic field.
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They can affect nerve signals. High strength magnets can cause anesthesia, through a principle in
physics called the Hall effect. Dr. Robert Becker (author of Body Electric) put salamanders to sleep
before surgery with electromagnets more safely than anesthetics. Magnets can stop epileptic
seizures. They are also used to study and map nerve structures deep in the brain, normally only
accessible during brain surgery.
I hope the above has helped to inform you about the exciting new field of biomagnetics which has great
potential to help people. We are clearly seeing a new day in medical sciences and health care with the
expanded awareness and use of complementary techniques of care.
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Several books have been written on magnetic therapy. Check your library or bookstore.
Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 2, Summer 1995, Baltimore Maryland. Dr. William
Pawluk, MD, MSc has been a Board-certified family doctor since 1974, has training in acupuncture, hypnosis and
homeopathy and is on the faculty at Hopkins. He can be reached at 410-484-7333.
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Homeopathy
The Safer Medicine
by Doug Campbell, RPh.
Homeopathy is a therapeutic method of medicine in which very dilute doses of natural
active substances (plant, animal, or mineral origins) are administered to a patient to treat
symptoms that would be induced in a healthy individual by ingestion of that same
substance.
Homeopathy is an approach to health that is quite different from methods that are seen
in the pharmacy everyday. Conventional medicine attempts to restore health by killing
invading organisms, replacing hormones or enzymes, or interfering with disease
processes. Calcium blockers are an example. Homeopathy stimulates the body's own
defenses to correct illness and allow symptoms to dissipate. The minute dose of drug
substance used in homeopathy does not cause any of the side effects that have become
such a problem for the physician, pharmacist and patient.
Homeopathic medicines are different from herbal products. In addition to conventional
drugs, homeopathic drug products are the only other form of official and regulated
medicine in the United States. Homeopathic medicines are now receiving a much higher
level of consumer interest. As patients explore alternative medical methods, pharmacists
are asked to comment about natural and homeopathic drug products. They are also
asked common questions about effectiveness, reliability, possible interactions with other
medications, or how they are regulated or approved.
The principles of Homeopathy were known and employed five hundred years before the
birth of Christ by the Greek physician Hippocrates. This dosage-dependent,
contradictory action of medically active substances was not to become universally known
until it was rediscovered by Samuel Hahnemann, M.D., a German physician, in the 18th
century.
Dr. Hahnemann, distressed by the barbaric medical methods of his day like bleeding,
purging, and the use of leeches, chose to leave the practice of medicine and supported his
family by translating medical, scientific, and botanical books. It was during this period
that he uncovered the ancient "Principle of Similars." Hahnemann's first application of
this newly-found principle were his observation of the toxicologic effects of cinchona
bark, which was then being used to treat malaria. The bark often produced attacks of
fever very much like the malaria fever. When tiny doses of the homeopathic cinchona
were administered to the malaria-infected patients, the malaria fevers were reduced.
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He named his discovery "The Principle of Similars".
After his discovery, Hahnemann spent the rest of his years developing and cataloging the
relationship between disease and conditions (symptoms) and the toxic effects of natural,
medically-active substances. Administration of crude quantities of these substances to a
healthy individual with the intention of developing a symptom picture is called a
"proving." Clinically, an individual who has a disease displays a certain group of
symptoms, which can be identified with the same symptom-complex that has been
developed and catalogued in the health volunteer proving group. Clinically, the substance
that produces the same symptom complex during the proving which the patient is
currently exhibiting in their illness is the remedy prescribed by the physician.
The most common example offered to explain this "Principle of Similars" is Ipecac. A
large dose of Ipecac is given to a healthy individual to induce vomiting. However, a
patient suffering from nausea and vomiting improves when a homeopathic dose of Ipecac
is administered.
The "Principle of Similars" of Homeopathy may be summarized as:
● Every pharmacologically active substance produces symptoms in a healthy,
sensitive individual which are characteristic of that substance.
● Each disease has a characteristic set of symptoms.
● An illness can be cured by administering to a patient a small, homeopathically
prepared dose of the same substance which, during a proving, produced symptoms
similar to the illness in healthy individuals.
Today there are over 2,000 substances catalogued that describe symptom pictures of the
most common conditions like allergies, colds, flu, and bruises. According to The New
England Journal of Medicine (1993) approximately 2.5 million Americans, one percent of
the U.S. population, used Homeopathy in 1990 - an indication that it has become a
growing part of American health care. Homeopathy is truly a safer medicine - because it
has no harmful side effects!
Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 2, Summer 1995, Baltimore Maryland. Doug Campbell, RPh,
is a registered and homeopathic pharmacist and owner of the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Towson, MD.
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Aromatherapy
The Therapy That Makes Scents
by Corinne Friedman
The pure essences distilled from aromatic plants have been prized for their health-giving qualities for
thousands of years. Using the beneficial properties of oils, you can treat common ailments, promote good
health and emotional well-being, and enhance every aspect of your life. These potent, volatile essences are
nature's gift to mind, body, and spirit.
Essential oils can evoke smell imagery; sometimes the smell of a certain aroma can instantly bring back
memories of a childhood scene. Some scents can make us feel relaxed while others can make us feel
energized and alive--this is the power of aroma.
For centuries it has been common knowledge that scents produce mental and physical responses. Using
plant, flower, and spice essences for beauty treatments (and to help with physical ailments) is common and
has been practiced since ancient times.
Today, aromatherapy is moving out of the "health alternatives" and into the mainstream, such as in the
workplace (to improve productivity, especially in the afternoon, when companies release lemon or
peppermint through vent ducts - a great "pick-me-up"!). Airlines and hotels are also looking at
aromatherapy as a jet-lag cure.
Some believe that essential oils contain the vital force of plants, hormones, vitamins, enzymes, minerals,
and the consciousness of the plant. They provide a therapeutic effect by elevating or suppressing action
within the body. The oils enhance brain wave functions and improve psychic and spiritual awareness,
working directly with the sensory motor system, and thus bringing balance to the body.
The chemical components of the oils, after analysis, show that they have anti-bacterial, anti-fungal,
anti-viral, and anti-parasitic qualities. Many of the oils also support the function of the immune system by
acting as an antiseptic and healing agent. Additionally, some oils can affect the hormonal system, while
others can stimulate an opening to emotional blocks.
I have witnessed the profound effects of essential oils, creating mental, emotional, and physical shifts.
People report feeling more joyful, happier, and uplifted. I like applying lemongrass on the pulse points,
such as the temples, wrists, and ankles to enhance emotional expression. In addition, rubbing lavender on
the feet aids in relaxation and promotes balance.
Essential oils have a tremendous affect on our bodies, and will continue to play a major role in our health
preservation during these times of increasing disease and stress. Sometimes the quality of essential oils can
vary greatly. Because essential oils carry specific vibratory frequency, they must be of excellent quality.
Corinne Friedman began working with the holistic model in 1980 and has been practicing Aromatherapy
since 1990. She practices Aromatherapy at her company: Renewal, located in Palo Alto, California
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A NEW VIEW OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY:
This report brings together, for the first time, what has been learned
about physical activity and health from decades of research. Among its
major findings:
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People who are usually inactive can improve their health and
well-being by becoming even moderately active on a regular basis.
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Physical activity need not be strenuous to achieve health benefits.
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Greater health benefits can be achieved by increasing the amount
(duration, frequency, or intensity) of physical activity.
THE BENEFITS OF REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY:
Regular physical activity that is performed on most days of the week
reduces the risk of developing or dying from some of the leading causes
of illness and death in the United States. Regular physical activity
improves health in the following ways:
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Reduces the risk of dying prematurely.
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Reduces the risk of dying from heart disease.
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Reduces the risk of developing diabetes.
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Reduces the risk of developing high blood pressure.
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Helps reduce blood pressure in people who already have high
blood pressure.
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Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.
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Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety.
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Helps control weight.
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Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints.
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Helps older adults become stronger and better able to move about
without falling.
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Promotes psychological well-being.
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A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN:
Given the numerous health benefits of physical activity, the hazards of
being inactive are clear. Physical inactivity is a serious, nationwide
problem. Its scope poses a public health challenge for reducing the
national burden of unnecessary illness and premature death.
WHAT IS A MODERATE AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY?
As the examples listed in the box show, a moderate amount of physical
activity* can be achieved in a variety of ways. People can select
activities that they enjoy and that fit into their daily lives. Because
amount of activity is a function of duration, intensity, and frequency, the
same amount of activity can be obtained in longer sessions of
moderately intense activities (such as brisk walking) as in shorter
sessions of more strenuous activities (such as running): +
EXAMPLES OF MODERATE AMOUNTS OF ACTIVITY:
Less Vigorous, More Time
Washing and waxing a car for 45-60 minutes
Washing windows or floors for 45-60 minutes
Playing volleyball for 45 minutes
Playing touch football for 30-45 minutes
Gardening for 30-45 minutes
Wheeling self in wheelchair for 30-40 minutes
Walking 1 3/4 miles in 35 minutes (20 min/mile)
Basketball (shooting baskets) for 30 minutes
Bicycling 5 miles in 30 minutes
Dancing fast (social) for 30 minutes
Pushing a stroller 1 1/2 miles in 30 minutes
Raking leaves for 30 minutes
Walking 2 miles in 30 minutes (15 min/mile)
Water aerobics for 30 minutes
Swimming laps for 20 minutes
Wheelchair basketball for 20 minutes
Basketball (playing a game) for 15-20 minutes
Bicycling 4 miles in 15 minutes
Jumping rope for 15 minutes
Running 1 1/2 miles in 15 minutes (10 min/mile)
Shoveling snow for 15 minutes
Stairwalking for 15 minutes
More Vigorous, Less Time
* A moderate amount of physical activity is roughly equivalent to
physical activity that uses approximately 150 Calories (kcal) of energy
per day, or 1,000 Calories per week.
+ Some activities can be performed at various intensities; the suggested
durations correspond to expected intensity of effort.
PRECAUTIONS FOR A HEALTHY START:
To avoid soreness and injury, individuals contemplating an increase in
physical activity should start out slowly and gradually build up to the
desired amount to give the body time to adjust. People with chronic
health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, or obesity, or who are
at high risk for these problems should first consult a physician before
beginning a new program of physical activity. Also, men over age 40 and
women over age 50 who plan to begin a new vigorous physical activity
program should consult a physician first to be sure they do not have
heart disease or other health problems.
STATUS OF THE NATION - A NEED FOR CHANGE:
Adults
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More than 60 percent of adults do not achieve the recommended
amount of regular physical activity. In fact, 25 percent of all adults
are not active at all.
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Inactivity increases with age and is more common among women
than men and among those with lower income and less education
than among those with higher income or education
Adolescents and Young Adults
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Nearly half of young people aged 12-21 are not vigorously active
on a regular basis.
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Physical activity declines dramatically with age during
adolescence.
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Female adolescents are much less physically active than male
adolescents.
High School Students
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In high school, enrollment in daily physical education classes
dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 25 percent in 1995.
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Only 19 percent of all high school students are physically active for
20 minutes or more in physical education classes every day during
the school week.
IDEAS FOR IMPROVEMENT:
This report identifies promising ways to help people include more
physical activity in their daily lives.
●
Well-designed programs in schools to increase physical activity in
physical education classes have been shown to be effective.
●
Carefully planned counseling by health care providers and worksite
activity programs can increase individuals' physical activity levels.
●
Promising approaches being tried in some communities around the
nation include opening school buildings and shopping malls for
walking before or after regular hours, as well as building bicycle
and walking paths separated from automobile traffic. Revising
building codes to require accessible stairwells is another idea that
has been suggested
SPECIAL MESSAGES FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS:
Older Adults
No one is too old to enjoy the benefits of regular physical activity.
Of special interest to older adults is evidence that
muscle-strengthening exercises can reduce the risk of falling and
fracturing bones and can improve the ability to live independently.
Parents
Parents can help their children maintain a physically active lifestyle
by providing encouragement and opportunities for physical
activity. Family events can include opportunities for everyone in
the family to be active.
Teenagers
Regular physical activity improves strength, builds lean muscle,
and decreases body fat. It can build stronger bones to last a
lifetime.
Dieters
Regular physical activity burns Calories and preserves lean muscle
mass. It is a key component of any weight loss effort and is
important for controlling weight.
People with High Blood Pressure
Regular physical activity helps lower blood pressure.
People Feeling Anxious, Depressed, or Moody
Regular physical activity improves mood, helps
relieve depression, and increases feelings of well-being.
People with Arthritis
Regular physical activity can help control joint swelling
and pain. Physical activity of the type and amount
recommended for health has not been shown to cause
arthritis.
People with Disabilities
Regular physical activity can help people with chronic,
disabling conditions improve their stamina and muscle
strength and can improve psychological well-being and
quality of life by increasing the ability to perform
activities of daily life.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, MS K-46
4770 Buford Highway, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724
1-888-CDC-4NRG or 1-888-232-4674 (Toll Free)
http://www.cdc.gov
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701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
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The Ultimate Secret to Long Life
In the 1930's, researchers discovered that they could extend the life of rats by 33% if they limited them to a very
low-calorie diet. Not only did the animals live longer, they suffered fewer late-life diseases, appeared more youthful, and
their bodies' biological aging processes were slowed. Since that time, scientists have produced similar life-extending
results with many other creatures, ranging from fruit flies to fish.
Is caloric restriction per se responsible for the observed benefits, or some other factor that is reduced when calories are
cut? Studies show that limiting either fat, protein or carbohydrate, without accompanying caloric reduction, does not seem
to increase maximum life span. Nor does supplementation with extra antioxidants and multivitamins. Varying the types of
fats, carbohydrates and proteins ingested also had no effect. In fact, no other intervention except caloric restriction has yet
been shown to slow aging.
Can caloric reduction work in humans? Probably, but there is no definite proof. Human life spans are long compared to
many other creatures, and longevity studies can . . . well, take a lifetime. Then, there is the added difficulty of finding
human volunteers willing to stay a little bit hungry their whole lives. Studies with primates, our close genetic cousins,
provide some clues. Investigations on monkeys have been underway since 1987, and preliminary results suggest that
caloric restriction increases both health and life span in primates. Biomarkers of aging, such as insulin levels, glucose
levels and blood pressure, lead researchers to conclude that monkeys eating less age more slowly.
In most studies of this nature, calories are restricted by 30 to 50% of what the animal would normally eat. Care is taken to
see that enough vitamins, minerals, protein and fat are ingested for the proper functioning of tissues. On this regime,
monkeys seem healthy and happy, albeit anxious for their meals.
Here in the U.S., the participants of the Biosphere 2 experiment were forced to eat a low-calorie diet for two years because
their food production was less than projected. They experienced the same anti-aging trends in biomarkers as were found in
the monkey experiments.
There are many hypotheses to explain the life-extension power of a low calorie diet. The one that has the most support
posits that low calorie intake reduces the amount of free radical damage to cellular mitochondria, although no one knows
the mechanism of how this might occur.
While it seems probable that caloric restriction is an effective way to prolong life, researchers warn of some pitfalls for
those attempting such a regime. Care should be taken that the diet is adequate in vitamins, minerals, protein and other
nutrients. In addition to suffering hunger pangs, if the diet is too severe, it also is possible that the ability to handle stresses,
such as cold temperatures or infection, could be compromised. Women may become less fertile or stop ovulating, and this
might increase the risk of osteoporosis and loss of muscle mass later in life. Anyone under 20 years old should not engage
in caloric restriction.
Based on information released by the United States National Institute of Health, April, 1996, and in Scientific American,
Jan. 1996; appeared in Spectrum #47, March/April 1996 (For 1 year subscription, send $20.00 [outside U.S.A.-$28.00] to
Spectrum, 2702-D Camellia Drive, Durham, NC 27705)
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Prozac of the Deep
Prozac of the Deep
Scientists are concerned that some people, in well-intentioned attempts to stave off heart disease, are going too far in
cutting the fat from their diets. Dietary fats are a necessary ingredient for physical health, and may even protect
against mental illness.
Essential fatty acids are dietary fats required for a healthy nervous and immune system. For example,
docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an important constituent of brain cell membranes. Many fats can be synthesized by
the body, but some, like DHA, must be obtained through the diet. DHA is an omega-3 polyunsaturated fat, and the
omega-3-type fats must be kept in balance with omega-6 fats to insure that proper physiological functioning can be
maintained. While omega-6's are abundant in the typical American diet - occurring in most vegetable oils - omega-3's
are harder to come by. One good source, however, is fish.
Scientists believe that too few omega-3 fats can increase the risk of depression, so moderating our intake of
omega-6's, and consuming more fish, may protect us from depression and suicide. In one study, when animal fats
were replaced with fish in the diet, participants' levels of depression declined. Another indicator of omega3's
mood-lifting powers are epidemiological studies showing that in countries where people eat a lot of fish, such as
Japan and Taiwan, there is ten times less depression that in North America.
Achieving mental-emotional healing through dietary changes would always seem preferable to drug therapy. Drugs
are not only expensive, but they bring the risk of undesirable side effects. For example, Prozac, the most widely
prescribed medicine for depression, is now suspected of increasing the likelihood of premature delivery and health
problems for newborns.
Based on information in: Psychology Today, May/June 1996; From Spectrum #52, January/February 1997, page 15
(For 1 year subscription, send $20.00 [outside U.S.A.-$28.00] to Spectrum, 2702-D Camellia Drive, Durham, NC
27705)
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Top Ten Best-Researched Herbs
by Steven Taormina
Beautiful to behold in nature, many plants have been used medicinally for thousands of
years. Here are ten proven medicinal herbs that scientists have tested in clinical studies.
Few people are aware of the multitude of scientific studies done on plants. This
information should not be used as medical advice.
Garlic
"If we were to design a drug that had perfect properties according to what we know about
heart disease and associated risk factors, we couldn't improve on garlic," says Amanda
McQuade-Crawford, herbalist and director of the Ojai Center of Phytotherapy in Ojai, Calif.
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Regular use of garlic is associated with the prevention of cardiovascular disease, she
explains. Garlic raises protective HDLs (high-density lipoproteins), while it lowers harmful
LDLs (low-density lipoproteins) and triglycerides (blood fats). Garlic is also known to help
lower high blood pressure, she says. Garlic aids in cancer prevention by raising the body's
level of glutathione transferase, a liver enzyme known to detoxify the body of carcinogens,
says McQuade-Crawford. In China, researchers found gastric cancer was reduced where
garlic intake was high. Other researchers have noted improved helper/suppressor ratios of
T-cells in AIDS patients who take garlic. Proven to work against various micro-organisms
including bacteria resistant to antibiotics, garlic is known to be antifungal and antiviral,
she adds.
Hawthorn
The berries of this flowering shrub are best used for the heart, says McQuade-Crawford.
Hawthorn aids the heart's pumping action by opening the coronary arteries to nourish the
heart muscle. The herb can also slow a rapid heart rate and strengthen a failing heart.
Hawthorn usually lowers high blood pressure, especially a raised diastolic high blood
pressure, and it benefits low blood pressure due to weak heart muscles with arrhythmia
(irregular heart rhythm).
"Hawthorn takes a long time to do its best -- six months or longer. In the style of a true
herbal tonic, it can be taken safely and effectively over time for its best effects," notes
McQuade-Crawford.
Ginkgo Biloba
Ginkgo Biloba extract from the ginkgo tree has been shown to benefit visual function by
improving microcirculation to the eyes especially among patients suffering from senile
macular degeneration, a common condition thought to involve free radical damage, says
Steven Schechter, N.D., author of Fighting Radiation & Chemical Pollutants With Foods,
Herbs &Vitamins (Vitality, Ink).
More than 280 scientific studies indicate standardized ginkgo extract prevents and/or
benefits ailments such as vertigo, tinnitus, inner ear disturbances, memory impairment,
ability to concentrate, anxiety, depression, neurological disorders, senility, circulatory
disorders, edema and Raynaud's disease (a vascular disorder). Ginkgo extract improves
the quality and increases the quantity of capillary circulation, thus increasing blood flow to
the brain, heart and tissues in organs and glands, Schechter says. In addition, he notes,
the flavonoids in ginkgo are potent free radical scavengers.
Ephedra
Also known in Chinese as ma huang, ephedra may be the world's oldest herb cultivated for
medicinal purposes, dating back nearly 5,000 years, says McQuade-Crawford. It's
commonly used in cold formulas as a decongestant.
"Ephedra is a great bronchial dilator," McQuade-Crawford says. It helps asthma sufferers
by opening the sinus passages and has an antihistamine effect which aids chronic and
acute allergies. Ephedra also acts as a circulatory stimulant to blood pressure and heart
function; it elevates blood pressure. Ephedra's main constituent is ephedrine, which
increases adrenaline secretion in our bodies. The boost you get from ephedra stimulates
certain glands, muscles and tissue functions, while it suppresses others.
"In the long term, ephedra's adrenaline overdrive can lead to chronic stress and even to
degenerative disease," warns McQuade-Crawford. She notes this is important for people
using ephedra for dietary weight loss or "pep pill" purposes because the effects of
ephedra linger in the body long after the herb is gone. "Ephedra shouldn't be used with
drugs for the heart or for the lungs and never with antidepressant drugs. It's not for use
with the weak or the ill and when used long term, dosages should be conservative,"
McQuade-Crawford cautions.
Licorice
Licorice has been most recently researched as an antiviral and in the treatment of
gastrointestinal ulceration, explains McQuade-Crawford. Its soothing, anti-inflammatory
and relaxing actions help smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal tract on contact.
"Licorice gets into a painful, contracted, tight digestive tract and coats the raw places,
relaxes the clenched-up muscles and acts as a local anti-inflammatory," she says. Licorice
also increases bile secretion. Licorice is indicated for any gastrointestinal ulcers,
including mouth ulcers. The root is indicated for chronic coughs and bronchitis as a
soothing decongestant. It's also indicated in small amounts to reduce sugar cravings.
The Chinese often use licorice to improve the taste and the effects of other herbs in
complex formulas. Japanese research has shown licorice to decrease high testosterone
levels in women with ovarian cysts and to increase their fertility. Large amounts of licorice
or long-term use raises blood pressure in some people.
Bilberry
A strong antioxidant, bilberry benefits your circulatory system, eyes, heart and brain, and
helps generate overall good health, says Schechter. Bilberry fruit contains a type of
flavonoid called anthocyanosides, which are responsible for increasing flexibility of
capillaries and increasing blood flow.
Research shows that standardized extract of bilberry can enlarge range of vision and
improve sharpness of images, enhance ability to focus, and improve blurred vision,
eyestrain and nearsightedness. Bilberry extract also helps strengthen coronary arteries
and helps prevent atherosclerosis and venous insufficiency, which causes swollen ankles
and feet. "Since adding bilberry to my own health program, I've noticed my muscles seem
to recover slightly faster, I experience less muscular pain and my vision has improved
from 20/100 to approximately 20/50," says Schechter.
Echinacea
Decades of research prove echinacea's value for aiding the immune system, Schechter
explains. Studies have determined echinacea's ability to activate white blood cells and
stimulate the regeneration of the cellular connective tissue and the epidermis. Schechter
notes that echinacea's infection-fighting properties stem from its ability to neutralize a
harmful enzyme involved in the infection process. Echinacea also increases two vital
components of your immune system that consume and eliminate invading organisms and
foreign particles.
German studies have shown echinacea extract contains proteins that help protect
noninfected cells against viral infections, one reason why echinacea is regarded as an
influenza preventor. Another German study found echinacea effective in allergy treatment
because it helps prevent tissue inflammation due to harmful foreign toxins.
Milk Thistle
"I consider standardized milk thistle seed extract the most beneficial herbal product for
liver detoxification, regeneration and protection, and, in general, one of the most
universally necessary herbal products for the 1990s," says Schechter. He notes that the
stress of toxins from chemical pollutants, pharmaceuticals, alcohol, tobacco smoke, drugs
and different forms of radiation have cumulative side effects that need to be addressed.
More than 120 scientific studies have shown that milk thistle extract regenerates, regulates
and strengthens liver functions. Because free radicals attack the liver, primarily the fat
tissue in the liver, the antioxidant qualities of milk thistle are extremely beneficial. Milk
thistle stimulates your body to produce superoxide dismutase, which is one of two primary
antioxidants the body can manufacture.
Astragalus
Astragalus has been used as an immunity booster in China for nearly 4,000 years,
according to Rob McCaleb, founder of the Herb Research Foundation in Boulder, Colo.
Astragalus extracts can increase immune system efficiency by increasing immune activity.
One study found that astragalus extracts could increase the impaired immune function of
blood cells up to and sometimes beyond normal cell ability.
According to Planetary Herbology (Lotus Press) by Michael Tierra, N.D., astragalus helps
strengthen digestion, raise metabolism, strengthen the immune system and promote
wound healing. It can also treat chronic weakness of the lungs, shortness of breath, low
energy, prolapse of internal organs, spontaneous sweating, chronic lesions and deficiency
edema.
Ginseng
Ginseng is one of the most widely studied herbs, having been the subject of more than
3,000 scientific studies to investigate how ginseng helps improve a person's physical
and/or mental performance, notes McCaleb. Studies have shown ginseng helps increase
memory and learning by improving circulation. It's also been shown to reduce cholesterol
and protect the liver from toxins. Ginseng, according to Tierra, is known to strengthen the
lungs, nourish body fluids and calm the spirit. It may be used for shock, collapse and heart
weakness, as well as for promoting longevity and increasing resistance to disease.
A Japanese study showed cancerous liver cells could be reverted to normal cells in a Petri
dish culture when treated with Panax ginseng extract. Siberian ginseng has also been
shown to stimulate the immune system.
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Make Health Your Priority! You Deserve It!
Make Health Your Priority!
You Deserve It!
by Wayne Pickering, N.D., Sc.M.
Most of us would agree that there are miracles in nature, but how many of us have a sense of wonder for the amazing creature
that we are? When we hold a thing in high regard, we give it deferential treatment. If you owned 100% of the stock in a
blue-chip corporation, would it make sense to sell your stock cheap? Yet, with little regard for the laws of nature (i.e., cause
and effect), we too often do not take responsibility for our own health, and in this act of omission, we throw it away.
To cite just a few of the miracles in nature: did you know that ocean waves come in sets, precisely 18 to the minute, exactly
300 feet apart; or that all beans grow from left to right. If you unravel them and attempt to force them to grow from right to
left, they will die within 72 hours; this is the nature of beans. Did you know that birds flying in formation are able to fly at
greater velocity with less effort when they do that? You are aware that all life knows instinctively how it is to sustain and
propagate itself. There is every reason to be in awe of the many miracles in nature that surround us. There is also ample
evidence to convince us that the human creature is no less marvelous. Consider just the body. Look at your hands. Nothing
that man has created excels the human hand in dexterity. Did you know that our fingernails grow at exactly the same rate that
the earth's plates move? Some kind of rhythm connection? Have you considered that there are over 5 billion people on this
planet and no two fingerprints are alike? Each one is unique. Doesn't that mean you're special?
We have a brain that would require a land mass the size of the state of Texas to recreate in its full function. Dr. Wayne Dyer.
) To duplicate just the memory portion would require a computer in excess of the size of the Empire State Building.
An impressive miracle, in my mind, is the simple requirement for this body's maintenance. No machine can approach its
flawless design. When we eat, we put food into one orifice (usually the mouth) and all 260 bones are lubricated. Over 50
different chemicals are replenished. To maintain your automobile you need axle grease for your axle; oil; transmission fluid;
windshield wiper fluid; water for the radiator; gas; and anti-freeze where the temperatures drop, but the body, at one stop,
gets it all - the digestive juices, the blood, the lymph, the sperm or the egg, the tear drop.
If all 600 of our muscles pulled together in one direction, we could lift as much as 25 tons. Actually, in times of perceived
need, men and women have, without stopping to think about whether they could or not, lifted weights far beyond what
usually is considered possible.
Every day our blood travels 168 million miles. That's 6,720 times around the earth's globe. We have enough carbon for 9,000
lead pencils and sufficient calcium to completely whitewash a chicken coop. Every five days, our whole intestinal lining is
renewed. Every eleven days, our respiratory lining is replenished. Every fifteen days, all our white corpuscles are replaced; it
takes 120 days for the red corpuscles. Every six months, we have a new bloodstream. Every eleven months, we have a new
cell structure, and we get a new set of bones every two years. An entirely new body is recreated every seven years. Without
considering any aspect other than our physical bodies, we are splendid creatures.
Common sense tells us there's no wiser investment than the one you make in yourself. Yet, it's been estimated that only 2
percent of all people think logically; about 8 percent think when they begin to suffer; and 90% would rather die than think.
You may be in that 2 percent since you are still reading this article.
Dr. Lester Breslow, Dean of The School of Public Health at the University of California says you can add as many as 14
years to your life by switching from a bad life-style to a good one. That sounds like a good trade-off, but don't put it off too
long. Yesterday is gone; a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note as good as gold if you make wise use of today your legal tender.
Studies tell us that old age doesn't cause illness. Not everybody who gets old, gets sick. By design we're healthy. How do we
lose it? Haven't we all seen people who sacrificed their health pursuing wealth and overindulging in it's "accompanying
pleasures," who then turned around and spent their wealth in an attempt to regain their health? Often it's too late. Have you
noticed how even the word 'healthy' is formed naturally by your mouth when you say it? Now say, 'sickly.' You have to hsss;
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it's unnatural.
The scientific community tells us that disease stems from crud in the blood. How did it get there? I say we get it from being
drunk with junk. We don't catch disease; we earn it. A U.S. Surgeon General's report as far back as 1979 warned that the
Standard American Diet (SAD) is dangerous and was related to the deaths of one and a half million Americans that year
(that's over 62%). A ground swell of people have changed their life-styles and eating habits since then. However, the masses
are still under the hypnotic influence of advertising and the easy accessibility and increasing variety of processed foods
promoted by the great American food industry.
Recently, the FDA decided that makers of bread and grains should add folic acid to all "enriched" products. One small
attempt to put back in a little of the nutriment that has been removed from our food. Maybe we haven't consciously figured it
out yet, but the vicious cycle is somewhat familiar to all of us. We take Rolaids for stomach problems, Listerine because the
smell of it is coming out of our mouths, Right Guard because it gives our bodies its odor, EX-Lax to get it out of us, and
Preparation H to medicate ourselves from the unnatural strain of it. Hundreds of thousands start the day with caffeine and in
spite of profuse warnings, many are still dependent on nicotine. Some people can't relax without alcohol and/or tranquilizers,
sleep without sleeping pills, or begin a day without something that fizzes. Those bubbling alkalizers wash away yesterday's
brown tastes just long enough to make room for today's. So, why do we "do" all this junk? Right off, there are three obstacles
that interfere with wiser choices:
1. Convenience. It 's quick, it 's easy. It's everywhere and everybody's doing it.
2. Temptation! It smells good, activates your memory and your taste buds. You gotta have it!
3. Something called WION (that's Widespread Ignorance On Nutrition). I was the chairman of the board of that group
for years.
I was sick, fat, poor, and miserable for half of my life. When I was told that I'd die by thirty I got scared. I wasn't ready. There
are things I wanted to do. I resolved to do them. At forty, I got my first trophy in a triathlon and I left poverty to begin to
share with others what I'd learned.
If you're tired of the brown taste and are ready for a new start in life, you need to know the importance of the following:
A - Attitude
Go for what you want in life. Don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff. When you can't fight and you can't flee, then
flow, says Dr. Robert Eliot, author and director of the Institute of Stress Medicine in Denver. Become aware of the
connection between your own values and interactions with others, and feeling good about yourself. Forgive yourself when
you don't measure up and forgive others when they need it. The ability to find the humor in the human situation is a definite
plus. Hearty laughter gives a sense of deep relaxation, and tends to soften your perspective on problems. It also eases pain.
N - Nutrition
Your body was uniquely designed to employ a series of four processes to make use of the food you eat for its maintenance.
Junk foods will not serve this purpose. Overeating is further abuse of the body which renders food indigestible and unusable
to the body's needs. Combining foods improperly can create an overload of work for the body also. The latter three items are
unnecessary stress we place on the body which deplete our energy.
E - Exercise
Action is fundamental to our well-being. Our bodies were made for it. Everybody knows about the feel-good endorphins
released by the brain during physical exercise. There is more. The energy producing part of the cell, mitochondria, expands
during exercise. Because of this expansion, you have more energy during exercise. I recommend walking a fifteen minute
mile, which adds up to 4 miles in one hour. Exercise stimulates the immune system, increases muscular strength and
flexibility, and expands cardiovascular reserves. It also acts as an emotional and psychological defuser.
W - Water
Drink clean water. Dr. Melvin Beltz, a medical professor and cardiovascular surgeon for many years, believes distilled water
is best. Fluids are essential, meaning eight glasses, including fruit and vegetable Juices and water.
S - Sunshine
Sunshine assists the body in detoxifying, revitalizes it and "is a nutritive 'substance' of great importance (to it), " said the late
Herbert Shelton, a Natural Hygienist. Avoid it in the hottest hours (between 10:00 am and 2:00 p.m.), but don't underestimate
its benefits.
T - Trust
That's the opposite of worry. Trust your own intuitive wisdom, says research psychologist Lewis M. Andrews, who comes
down hard on value-free psychiatry. If you are true to yourself (your own heartfelt values of honesty and tolerance), the two
will reinforce each other. You may call the Source of this wisdom a Higher Power. The "T" could be a reminder to be
thankful for all the gifts of your life.
A - Air
It is essential that we have fresh, clean air to breathe. That we have open windows whenever possible, especially at night. We
need to guard against becoming shallow breathers, especially when feeling stressed.
R - Rest
Rest is the defuser for each day. Without it, we would all be insane. Studies show that the dream stage of sleep, REM, helps
people permanently remember skills they learned 3ust hours earlier. When it is interrupted, they had trouble remembering. I
take an hour nap every day, which has the rejuvenating factor of two extra hours of sleep each night. Various mental
exercises, such as the "relaxation response" proposed by Dr. Herbert Benson, author of several books on the subject, offer
similar ways to relax body and mind.
T - Temperance
Balance in everything is the key. Work. Play. Rest. Exercise. Your intuitive wisdom (again), if it's tuned, will help you to
avoid or correct imbalances.
Since we are magnificent creatures, a lot might be expected of us. Yet, according to former Secretary of Health and Human
Services, Otis R. Bowen, (USA Today, Oct. 15, 1993) almost half of the country's hundreds of thousands of death result from
irresponsible or self-destructive behavior. AIDS is relatively new, he says, but added that cardiovascular disease, lung cancer
and alcoholism are all primarily the result of behavior.
Some people don't learn early enough that the best thing in life isn't a thing. It's life. The 24 hours - 86,400 seconds that we
have every day. We can play the game and we can win. Win! - that stands for: What's Important Now? What's important now
is to understand that our bodies are not garbage dumps. We are marvels of design with purpose. Treat yourself right. You're
special! You deserve to be healthy!
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The main secrets to a healthy life are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Be thankful.
Bless the lives of others.
Healthy people serve others while the unhealthy are too often consumed with themselves and their own problems.
Learn to forgive and let go, so you can get on with your life. Many studies have now shown that forgiving
enhances health and helps prevent chemical changes in the body that may lead to disease.
5. Live in harmony with those around you. Be a peacemaker.
6. Learn to accept whatever decision is made. Do your best to keep your peace of mind. Peace is a healer.
7. Learn from your mistakes and allow others to do the same. Don't stand over people and supervise every move.
Learn to give others the opportunity to grow and grow up.
8. Don't talk about your misfortunes or illnesses. It doesn't do any good for you or the other person you tell, and it
presents an opportunity for them to do the same to you. Save it for your doctor. He's paid to listen to your
problems.
9. Don't gossip. Gossip that comes through the grapevine is usually sour grapes. Be a person who speaks for the one
who can not.
10. Spend 10 minutes a day meditating on how you can become a better person. Replace negative thoughts with
positive ones. Listen to and follow your conscience.
11. Exercise daily.
a. Keep your spine and joints limber.
b. Develop your abdominal muscles.
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c. Expand your lungs with specific exercises on a regular schedule.
d. Keep flexible and strong.
12. Walk 10 minutes barefoot in the dewy grass or sand everyday. You'll sleep better.
13. No smoking or drinking alcohol or caffeine. Both nicotine and alcohol are depressant drugs. Both require energy to
detoxify the body, which energy is better used for life and healing processes. Avoid anything that is addictive or
habit forming.
14. Go to bed by 9 pm when you can. If you are tired during the day, rest more. Rest allows the body to give its full
attention and energy to healing and rebuilding tissues. Write down your problems at the end of the day and go over
them first thing in the morning when you are refreshed, so you can look at them with a fresh mind and body.
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Bras and Breast Cancer - Women Who Wear Bras Versus Those That Do Not
Bras and Breast Cancer
by Ralph L. Reed, Ph.D.
Although I am an environmental chemist (Ph.D in biochemistry), I have been doing a
lot of literature research on breast cancer since I saw an article on the National
Library of Medicine database over a year ago. That article documented an increase in
breast cancer rates between women who do wear bras versus those that do not.
That Harvard study fascinated me and I searched the medical literature for possible
explanations. In January 1996, I discovered the book by Singer and Grismaijer and
their explanation of impaired lymphatic flow intrigued me. I have since read
everything that I can find on lymphatic flow. What I have found has amazed me, but
that is another story. I can supply you with lots of info if you like. In essence, what
Singer and Grismaijer found was that the odds of getting breast cancer dramatically
increased with bra-wearing over 12 hours per day.
● Women who wore their bras 24 hours per day had a 3 out of 4 chance of
developing breast cancer (in their study, n=2056 for the cancer group and
n=2674 for the standard group).
● Women who wore bras more than 12 hour per day but not to bed had a 1 out of
7 risk.
● Women who wore their bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk.
● Women who wore bras rarely or never had a 1 out of 168 chance of getting
breast cancer. The overall difference between 24 hour wearing and not at all was
a 125-fold difference.
The results of this study are compelling, even considering that it was not a "controlled
study" for other risk factors. Bear in mind that known (published in medical journals)
risk factors for breast cancer are mostly in the range of less than three-fold differences.
It should also be noted that Singer and Grismaijer surveyed bra-wearing behavior of
the past, which is excellent for a disease with such a long development period. In their
book, the authors show how most of the known risk factors can be related to
bra-wearing behavior and/or the lymphatic system.
For example, breast feeding and pregnancy cause full development of the mammary
lymphatics. Also, women of higher economic status have higher breast cancer rates,
and one would expect that they would wear their bras more hours per day. Women
who excercise have lower risk, which could relate to better lymphatic circulation (and I
would add, more breast movement).
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To this discussion, I would like to add that lymphatic circulation in many tissues
(especially the primary lymphatics) are highly dependent on MOVEMENT. When you
sit for a long time on an airplane flight, your feet and ankles can swell, because
lymphatic circulation goes to near zero. Wearing a bra, especially a constricting one
with underwires, and especially to bed, prevents normal lymphatic flow and would
likely lead to anoxia (lower than normal oxygen content), which has been related to
fibrosis, which has been linked to increased cancer risk.
Women evolved under conditions where there was BREAST MOVEMENT with every
step that they took when they walked or ran. My reading of the scientific literature
about lymphatic flow shows me that this may be as important as the constriction
factor. Every subtle bounce of the breast while moving, walking, running, etc. gently
massages the breast and increases lymphatic flow and thus cleans the breast of toxins
and wastes that arise from cellular metabolism.
Of course, there may be other mechanisms for the damage that bras apparently cause.
One such mechanism could be temperature. Breasts are external organs and have a
naturally lower temperature. Cancers can be temperature-dependent. Breast cancer is
hormone-dependent. Temperature can alter hormone function. Breast temperature
changes throughout the monthly cycle.
All these facts are from the medical literature. By whatever mechanism, someone will
eventually explain why Singer and Grismaijer found a 125-fold difference in cancer
rates between bra-free breasts and those constricted by 24-hour-per-day bra-wearing.
If you haven't already done so, I suggest that you read the book by Singer and
Grismaijer ( Dressed to Kill,Avery Press, 1995). (By the way, I have no connection to
the authors; I think that they live in Canada.)
Also, just for an interesting experiment, the next time you walk down the street, notice
visually how constricting bras are. On many women you can actually see "dents"
around the sides of their chests where there bras are, even in something as opaque as a
black t-shirt.
A physical therapist friend of mine, after reading Dressed to Kill, said that she was
amazed at what she saw in her practice at a local medical clinic. She noticed how many
women have red creases and grooves on the their bodies caused by their bras. Singer
and Grismajer also suggest that you simply stop wearing one for two weeks and see
how you feel.
By the way, I have heard that they are currently working on a new study. The research
is to study whether benign fibrocystic breast disease can be treated by stopping
bra-wearing for eight weeks. That should be very interesting; this time they are
involving medical doctors, from what I've heard.
Years ago, many people thought that the idea of cigarettes causing lung cancer was
funny. Even if further research with highly controlled studies only shows a difference
of 5-fold, or even 2-fold, it will be no laughing matter.
The author, Ralph L. Reed, Ph.D. can be reached at reedr@ucs.orst.edu
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Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing
Reclaiming Our Health
Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of
True Healing
by John Robbins
Although the nation spends $1 trillion each year on medical care, many in our
country cannot afford the most basic coverage and the toll in human suffering
from degenerative diseases continues to rise. In his rousing and inspiring style,
John Robbins, author of the acclaimed best-seller Diet for a New
America, turns his attention to the national debate on health
care, taking an epic look at the human and financial
consequences of the polarization of traditional and alternative
medicine.
Calling for nothing short of a revolution in the basic beliefs on which health care is based, he convincingly
demonstrates the enormous human and financial costs of the polarization of conventional and alternative
medicine. Although Americans spend far more money on medical care than any other people in the world,
many of us cannot afford the most basic coverage; we rank 25th among the world's nations in infant mortality;
the toll in human suffering from degenerative disease continues to rise; the danger from virulent
communicable diseases is increasing daily; and, meanwhile, women are growing increasingly frustrated with
the care they receive from a male-dominated system. There are answers to these problems, and Reclaiming
Our Health presents a brilliant, refreshing, and uplifting new vision of what health care
in America might be as well as practical solutions for us as individuals and for a
health-care system gone awry.
Robbins attacks the heart of health care controversy: the increasing polarization of conventional and
alternative medicine. His discussion provides a strong vision of how to remedy a failing health care system
through the integration of different self-care and management techniques, from diet modifications to relaxation
techniques.
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CANCER MISTREATMENT?
Percentage of cancer patients whose lives are predictably saved by chemotherapy - 3%
Conclusive evidence (majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influcence
on survival or quality of life - none.
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Percentage of oncologists who said if they had cancer they would not participate in
chemotherapy trials due to its "ineffectiveness and its unacceptable toxicity" - 75%
Percentage of people with cancer in the U.S. who receive chemotherapy - 75%.
Company that accounts for nearly half of the chemotherapy sales in the world Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
● Chairman of the board of Bristol-Meyers - Richard L. Gelb.
● Mr. Gelb's other job: vice chairman, board of overseers, board of managers,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, World's largest private cancer
treatment and research center.
Chairman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering's board of overseers, board of managers - John S.
Reed.
● Reed's other job - director, Philip Morris (tobacco company).
Director, Ivax, Inc., a prominent chemotherapy company - Samuel Broder.
● Broder's other job (until 1995) - executive director, National Cancer Institute.
from Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing by
John Robbins (publisher: H.J. Kramer, P.O. Box 1082, Tiburon, CA 94920)
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Splicing Away Regulations Down on the Animal Pharm
Splicing Away Regulations Down on the
Animal Pharm
by Susan Wright
The following article by Prof. Susan Wright is an excellent in-depth review of genetic engineering
and its implications for the future. If you have the time and the interest to read this long expose,
you'll find it a worthwhile use of your time.
Twenty-five years ago, the first rather clumsy genetic engineering techniques were immediately
recognized as aimed at the molecular basis of life. The human race had acquired the ability to
wreak change on the "interior" as well as the "exterior" of earth's ecosystems. Doors began to
open to designer bugs able to make a huge range of proteins for the pharmaceutical and chemical
industries, and, further down the road, to genetic techniques capable of revolutionizing the
slow-paced plant and animal breeding industries and the treatment of genetic diseases.
Government, agribusiness, pharmaceutical and chemical capital has been moving through those
doors ever since.
A quarter-century on, the brave new world of genetic engineering is populated by some
remarkable and disturbing creations. The crassly utilitarian norms that are guiding innovations
have so far produced animals to be used as factories for producing drugs; cows stuffed with bovine
growth hormone; plants constructed to grow in soil drenched with herbicides that would normally
kill them, as well as every other green thing in sight; bacteria that chew up materials used in
weapons systems; and cross-eyed, arthritic pigs that yield more meat. What's most disturbing is
that the genetic reconstruction of life is advancing on a global scale with almost no informed
public discussion or effective oversight, and in the case of certain military uses, without even
public knowledge.
At the outset, it was noticed that gene-splicing had a downside. Grave warnings were issued about
its social misuse, about the health and environmental hazards of modified organisms, about the
ethical problems of using our technical ingenuity on ourselves and other life-forms. In the course
of the debates that followed, millions of pages flowed forth from committees, hearings,
international bodies and the courts. And since all this happened in the heyday of the photocopying
machine and the U.S. "sunshine" laws, both the controversy and the behind-the-scenes
calculations by leaders of science and industry were captured in hard copy. Genetic engineering is
perhaps the best-documented technology ever to emerge from a laboratory.
In the early 1970s leaders of biomedical research quickly moved to contain the emerging ethical
and social issues. A partial moratorium on research in 1974 was followed by the famous
international conference at Asilomar, California, where scientists addressed the hazards of genetic
engineering and agreed to impose controls on their own research. These events were celebrated as
acts of scientific responsibility. But they were also pre-emptive strikes, demonstrating that control
of genetic engineering was best left in the hands of experts, and defining the problem as one that
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only experts could address --that of "containing" possible biohazards. With that definition, genetic
engineers were soon back at work under voluntary controls issued by the National Institutes of
Health in 1976.
When intense controversy over these controls erupted shortly after their inception, however,
biomedical researchers closed ranks, launching a sophisticated campaign against legislation
designed to regulate genetic engineering and investigate its long-term effects. New evidence
unavailable to the public at the time of these struggles shows that researchers closeted at the
N.I.H. in 1976 decided to conduct a P.R. campaign aimed at persuading the public that hazards
were exaggerated.
Claiming that science was under attack, they agreed to direct public attention to the inability of
bacteria used for experiments to cause epidemics -- an argument they knew was simplistic and
misleading. In the words of one scientist: "In terms of P.R., you have to hit epidemics, because that
is what people are afraid of, and if we can make a strong argument about epidemics and make it
stick, then a lot of this public thing will go away....It's molecular politics, not molecular biology."
The same group also agreed not to pursue experiments to test worst-case scenarios. Instead, they
would do a "slick New York Times type of experiment" - one likely to produce negative results
that would persuade reporters that the field was harmless.
Arguments for the safety of genetic engineering created many converts, just as commercial
applications in the field began to loom on the horizon. In 1977 scientists demonstrated that
bacteria could be persuaded to make a human protein. If this was possible, why not insulin,
growth hormone and supercows making more milk? At this point, the president of the
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association weighed in against regulation: "It is quite possible
that legislation could be so restrictive, so much of a disincentive, that our people wouldn't lose
interest...they would go overseas."
Stunned by the ferocity of the scientists' lobbying effort, soothed by the public relations campaign
issuing from the N.I.H. and intimidated by the P.M.A.'s threat to move elsewhere, Congress
retreated. Concern that the United States would lose out in the "genetic engineering race" became
the new mantra. Rapid deregulation followed.
Now we are confronting the legacy of our failure to face the issues posed by genetic engineering.
While the techniques have grown in power, precision and range of application, even the limited
regulation that was put in place has been virtually dismantled. With one or two exceptions for
genes encoding a few o the most dangerous toxins, pretty much any gene can be cloned in any
organism. Most experiments and industrial processes involving genetic engineering are overseen
only by local committees appointed by the institution doing the cloning.
Furthermore, the fundamental purpose of the original controls -- containment -- has been
overturned. In the Reagan years, the N.I.H.'s prohibition on the release of genetically engineered
organisms into the environment was replaced by a patchwork of existing regulatory law with
plenty of loopholes. In theory, the Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection
Agency regulate releases of novel plants and microbes. In practice, these agencies have already
allowed more than 2,000 experimental releases, indicating just how vigorously their "control" is
exercised.
Moreover, changes in patent law are fueling aggressive efforts to monopolize novel gene
combinations and the living things in which they are introduced. The landmark 1980 Supreme
Court decision in Diamond v. Chakrabarty established patentability for any living thing "under
the sun made by man." Over the past fifteen years, the Patent Office has taken this decision to
cover cells, microbes, plants, animals -- all living things except, presumably, ourselves. But who
knows? Lawyer George Annas argues that there's nothing to prevent cloning enthusiasts from
pursuing patents for genetically modified human embryos.
The once-unthinkable idea that a microbe, a plant variety or an animal breed could be owned has
become accepted practice under the patent law of many industrialized countries. During the
recent GATT negotiations, the United States pressed hard for similar practices in the Third
World. All genes are now seen as keys to new products. Not only the gene-rich ecosystems of Third
World countries but also the cells and genes of indigenous peoples are now envisioned as lucrative
targets. In the rush to stake claims on cell-lines and DNA samples, companies and scientists are
committing what the Rural Advancement Fund International calls "acts of biopiracy," violating
the rights of the people and countries from which the samples are taken. RAFI has launched a
campaign to take the issue to the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
A host of transgenic creatures is emerging from genetic engineering laboratories. Typically, these
creatures are portrayed as benign additions to the natural world, bringing "better, healthier lives
to people," as Amgen regularly tells the listeners of National Public Radio. Few of biotechnology's
critics would deny that the field will yield some useful products; Eli Lilly's human insulin and
Merck's hepatitis B vaccine already help millions of people. Crops that can grow in the desert or
resist major pests, and vaccines for diseases like AIDS and malaria, would be beneficial.
Nevertheless, many of the applications prominent on corporate and military agendas pose
explosive social, ethical and environmental problems. The following is a small sample:
Transgenic plants. Agrichemical and seed corporations are well on the way to developing a wide
range of transgenic crops and biopesticides. The most visible are those that will reach
supermarkets. Calgene's Flavr Savr tomato, which can sit on store shelves for extended periods
without turning into mush, made headlines in 1994. But the most lucrative products are emerging
with much less fanfare. Over the past decade, corporations and the government have poured
millions into developing plants and trees that tolerate the toxic effects of herbicides. According to
the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Agriculture Department has received hundreds of
applications for field trials of these crops. Two of them -- a cotton resistant to bromoxynil and
soybeans resistant to Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate, better known as Roundup -- have already
been approved. The E.P.A. must also approve any new use of a herbicide. Last year the agency
cleared the way for full-scale commercialization by approving the sale of bromoxynil for a
quarter-million acres of bromoxynil-resistant cotton. In the pipeline at the Agriculture
Department are measures that will weaken the agency's oversight of trials of transgenic plants and
expedite full-scale approvals.
The agrichemical industry claims that engineering herbicide tolerance will encourage the use of a
new generation of "environmentally friendly" herbicides. The Biotechnology Working Group, a
coalition of environmental, labor and other organizations, says there's no such thing: Herbicides
have toxic effects on plants and animals; the more they are used, the greater the likelihood of
producing herbicide-resistant weeds, contamination of water supplies and destruction of wildlife
habitats. While producers claim that their present efforts are limited to resistance to less toxic
herbicides, there is no guarantee they will accept this limitation in the future. Indeed, many
research and development efforts have focused on crop resistance to high-toxicity herbicides such
as 2,4 D and atrazine.
Environmentalists cite yet other worrisome scenarios for transgenic plants; the truth is, no one is
able to predict what might happen in the long run. But if the past behavior of the National
Institutes of Health is any guide, the Agriculture Department's risk-assessment program is
unlikely to investigate worst-case scenarios or wait years for results before granting approval.
Animal pharms. Meanwhile, back at the barn, bio-engineers are turning animals into factories to
make drugs in their milk or blood. They're also making pigs and chickens with flesh that can be
easily microwaved and bovine growth hormone (BGH) to increase milk production in dairy cows.
The latter product has proved particularly controversial. Consumer organizations in the United
States an elsewhere argue that injections of the hormone cause health problems in cattle, thereby
increasing the use of antibiotics and in turn leaving antibiotic residues in milk. They also point to
the risks of increasing the presence in milk of insulin growth factor, which stunts growth. And it's
not as if there is a pressing need for milk. Michael Harness of the Consumers Union points out
that, because of the existing milk surplus, taxpayers have spent billions of dollars over the past
decade keeping milk off the market. One may well ask, Who needs bovine growth hormone? The
answer seems to be the four leading corporations -- American Cyanamid, Eli Lilly, Monsanto and
Upjohn -- that are promoting BGH worldwide.
Genetically altered humans. Applying genetic engineering to humans faces major technical
hurdles. "Humans are not simply large mice," a recent scientific review states, and the
introduction of novel genes to correct for genetic diseases or cancer is no simple mechanical
matter. The human body tends to reject anything foreign, like a virus carrying a corrective gene
into a diseased cell. Nevertheless, corporations are aggressively promoting human gene therapy
even though no genetic cures are yet in sight. Researchers are moving quickly to clinical trials, 62
percent of which are funded by the private sector. The inserted gene, the protein it encodes and
the drugs that make the gene function are all seen as likely commercial prospects. "Three for the
price of one," was the way an editor of an industry newsletter recently acclaimed the approach.
So far, experimental human gene treatments have been limited to treating life-threatening
diseases. They have also been confined to altering somatic cells, as opposed to the sex, or
germ-line, cells that pass on altered genes to future generations. But expansion of these horizons is
already foreseen. In 1994, the successful replacement of sperm-forming cells of a mouse with
similar cells from another mouse at the University of Pennsylvania was hailed as potentially
capable of "shaping future generations." Researchers already talk of treating non-life-threatening
conditions like dwarfism or infertility.
We are approaching the time, perhaps ten or twenty years away, when gene alteration will be
offered as a service. On whom should it be used? For what purposes? Where should the lines for
human genetic interventions be drawn? No committee outside the N.I.H. has been established to
address these questions. The research-dominated N.I.H., judging from its history, will insure that
the boundaries change in tandem with researchers' shifting goals. But with so many of those doing
research directly in the pay of the drug companies, who will insure that human needs, not profits,
are foremost in the minds of those who decide priorities for human gene alteration?
Military applications. After maintaining a low profile for use of the biological sciences throughout
the turbulent 1970s, the Defense Department quietly initiated military applications of
biotechnology in the 1980s. Citing a menacing Soviet biological warfare threat, the department
embarked on efforts to use the new biotechnology to make therapeutic agents, detection devices
and vaccines to protect against biological weapons.
Vaccines might sound like a viable form of protection, but in practice they present huge problems.
There are about thirty known biological weapons agents, and genetic engineering may expand that
number almost indefinitely. The long latency period between vaccination and the body's immune
response and the logistical problems of manufacturing and deploying vaccines pose further
obstacles. Undaunted by the prospect of multiple injections for U.S. soldiers in war zones and the
risks such procedures carry [see Laura Flanders, "Mal de Guerre," March 7, 1994], the Pentagon
aimed vaccines against more than forty different microbes.
More recently, the military has launched scarier schemes for biotechnology. On the one hand,
"anti-materiel" bacteria are being investigated for their capacity to degrade militarily significant
substances like rubber, engine lubricants and other critical components of weapons systems. On
the other, novel, opiumlike substances whose minute presence induces sleep, euphoria, anxiety,
submissiveness or temporary blindness are being pursued for their potential as incapacitants.
Genetic engineering offers ways to refine both applications.
In principle, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention prohibit
recourse to the use of such technologies. The biological treaty bans development, production and
stockpiling of microbes and toxins made by living things for any weapons purpose. Pursuit of
"anti-materiel" bacteria should therefore be taken as a violation. The Chemical Weapons
Convention, however, allows development of "riot control agents" for "law enforcement." It is
apparently through this loophole that the Pentagon is pursuing work on novel incapacitants. This
year, Congress approved $36 million for a new, largely secret "non-lethal" weapons program.
The cornucopia of prizes from genetic engineering projected in the optimistic 1970s is rapidly
becoming a mare's-nest of transgenic creations that we neither need nor want. Can we reverse
genetically engineered evolution? Not easily, and not without an educated and active public. But
there are models for alternative responses. In pre-Thatcher Britain, a broadly composed
committee that advised the government on genetic engineering policy moved much more
cautiously than its U.S. counterpart, involving unions in policy-making at the local and national
levels. In India, a well-informed public debate addressing the social impact of monopolizing
life-forms continues. Despite their weaknesses, the treaties banning biological and chemical
weapons show that harmful technology can be curbed when people all over the world press for
restraints.
It's time for another Asilomar conference, this time led by those at the receiving end of genetic
technology, to take a long look at the genetically reconstructed worlds being designed by
corporations and the military. Or must we wait for a genetic Chernobyl?
Susan Wright, a historian of science, teaches at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Molecular Politics
(University of Chicago Press) and co-author of Preventing a Biological Arms Race (M.I.T. Press). A recent
recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, her current research focuses on North-South differences over the
development and implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention.
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by Donald S. McAlvaney, Editor,
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Part I. What is Gulf War Illness (GWI)?
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Part IIa Where did Gulf War Illness come from?
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Part IIb Saddam's Revenge:
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Part IIc Forced Innoculations of U.S. Troops
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Part III. U.S. Government Involvement in Biological Warfare.
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Dare To Think
. . . a message about fluoride
by Darlene Sherrell
Just in time for Children's Dental Health Month, (February 1997) the Reader's Digest published HOW HONEST
ARE DENTISTS?, by William Ecenbarger, winner of the George Polk Award for Investigative Journalism. The
article revealed that in 28 states dentists examined the same set of x-rays and the same set of pearly whites, and then
recommended widely differing treatments, with price tags to match: $500.00 to $29,850.00. They didn't seem to
know what to do or how much to charge for doing it. "I got 50 opinions," Ecenbarger writes, "and I am not
comforted."
This article, however, barely scratches the surface with regard to dishonesty. For decades, the American Dental
Association has worked hand in glove with industry to cover up the toxic properties of fluoride, causing untold pain
and suffering among an unsuspecting population urged to trust their dentists, trust their government, trust their
political leaders, no matter what.
In the early 1930s, when American Dentistry was becoming aware of the damage fluoride can cause during the
development of our children's teeth, there was a great call to remove the fluoride naturally present in water supplies.
Communities in sixteen states had observed disfiguring stains and pits in their children's teeth. In 1940 the Journal of
Dental Research contained a report describing a survey of the inhabitants of St. David, Arizona, where water supplies
contained 1.6 to 4 parts per million of fluoride There was no apparent dental benefit from fluoride. In fact, more than
half the people in all age groups over the age of twenty-three had artificial dentures. With this new awareness came
fear.
Industries necessary for the production of electricity, aluminum, refrigerants, pesticides, etc., were facing costly
litigation due to an emerging environmental consciousness. The Country was facing a great dilemma: impossible
choices involving survival. Our military forces could not function without the tools of war -- tools that could simply
not be made if we were going to restrict the release of fluoride into our environment. Emissions from smokestacks,
and in wastewater could not be limited beyond a certain degree, and laborers could not be given the benefit of an
absolutely safe workplace.
Today, there are near-daily news reports covering past mistakes -- not because of conspiracies, but good intentions -the pavement, they say, on the road to Hell. Today, as then, we are being led by persons with a hidden agenda. The
promoters of water fluoridation who speak through the mouth of the American Dental Association are not isolated
from those whose concerns are manufacturing costs. Instead, they are one.
Years ago, when I found dozens of discrepancies between the descriptions (abstracts) of scientific journal articles and
the journal articles themselves; I also found that the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Dental Association
actually prefer to rely on the abstracts -- even though the discrepancies involve the movement of decimal points, and
simple errors in arithmetic. Like Ecenbarger, I was not comforted . . . it didn't make sense.
Particularly disturbing were the discrepancies involving the quantity of fluoride capable of destroying a child's smile
or causing osteoporosis, arthritis, lower back pain, heartburn, stomach cramps, diarrhea. These were not theories, but
descriptions of the fate of hundreds of millions of people who developed Dental Fluorosis or Crippling Skeletal
Fluorosis. . . not necessarily from fluoridated water, but from fluoride -- regardless of the source.
Although few of us are aware of the truly ubiquitous nature of fluorides, or their role in our lives and our history; we
all understand the words overdose and side effect. Sooner or later, we must face the fact that our children are
threatened, as we are, by a legacy of errors. The time has come for common sense, and change.
The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Dental Association are currently promoting the idea of universal
mandatory water fluoridation. Why? Their own experts point out that cavity rates have decreased worldwide, without
regard to the fluoride in a water supply . . . and without any connection between the fluoride in children's teeth and
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their experience with cavities. There's no benefit in exceeding the recommended dose, they say. On the contrary, the
U.S. Public Health Service says fluoride makes dental enamel more porous, and makes bone more brittle.
During the last twenty years Uncle Sam's Experts have had a great deal to say about the nature of fluoride . . . things
everyone should know. The problem is that Policy requires that these things never see the light of day. They lie
buried under executive summaries and official interpretations handed out in press releases. . . but facts are facts -- no
matter whose slick mouthpiece or distinguished scientist tries to tell you otherwise. Most of what you think you know
about fluoride just isn't so. Consider the facts . . . check the references, and dare to think.
According to the National Research Council's 1993 review "It has been calculated that the amount of fluoride
ingested with toothpaste (or mouth rinse) by children who live in a community with optimally fluoridated water, who
have good control of swallowing, and who brush (or rinse) twice a day is approximately equal to the daily intake of
fluoride with food, water, and beverages. In the case of younger children or those who, for any other reason, have
poor control of swallowing, the daily intake of fluoride from dental products could exceed dietary intake.
"Investigators seeking to examine the possible relation between fluoride intake and health outcomes, such as dental
caries, fluorosis, or quality of bone, need to be aware of the complex situation that exists today. It is no longer
feasible to estimate with reasonable accuracy the level of fluoride exposure simply on the basis of concentration in
drinking water supply."
Although the recommended "upper limit" for children is 0.04 to 0.07 mg/kg/day (milligrams per kilogram of body
weight per day), and the "optimum" is 0.04 mg/kg/day; the National Academy of Sciences, National Research
Council (NAS/NRC) reported in 1993: "Recent estimates of daily intake of fluoride from food and drink by North
American children up to 2 years of age are 0.01 to 0.16 mg/kg in areas without fluoridation and 0.03 to 0.13 mg/kg in
areas with fluoridation."
In 1951, NAS/NRC wrote: "For practical public health purposes, it has been proposed that a safe level has been
reached when not more than 10 to 15 per cent of children age 12-14 years, who have used water supplies since birth,
and who have been examined under standard conditions, show the mildest detectable type of mottled enamel"
In 1993 NAS/NRC reported that in optimally fluoridated Augusta, Georgia, 80.9% of the children aged 12-14 had
mottled enamel due to excess fluoride. Most was mild to very mild, but moderate to severe fluorosis was found in
14% of the children. Some studies, they report, have found that with increasing fluoride, the number of cavities
increases as well. They also note, "the most severe forms of dental fluorosis might be more than a cosmetic defect if
enough fluorotic enamel is fractured and lost to cause pain, adversely affect food choices, compromise chewing
efficiency, and require complex dental treatment."
In 1977 the National Research Council (NAS/NRC) reported: "The possibility of mutagenesis due to hydrogen
fluoride is potentially important in cancer of the stomach. ... the much higher stomach cancer rates in Japan are
related to intake patterns that are compatible with a hypothesis that fluoride is the crucial factor involved."
NAS/NRC also noted that "a retention of 2 mg/day would mean that an average individual would experience skeletal
fluorosis after 40 years, based on an accumulation of 10,000 ppm fluoride in bone ash." It is generally agreed that
approximately one-half of the total daily intake of fluoride will be retained. . . thus, according to our most prestigious
scientists, the ingestion of less than 5 milligrams (mg) of fluoride daily will result, after 40 years, in the condition
called Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis.
In 1977, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) explained, "Fluorine and some of its
compounds are primary irritants of skin, eyes, mucous membranes, and lungs. Thermal or chemical burns may result
from contact ... even when they involve small body areas (less than 3%) can cause systemic effects of fluoride
poisoning by absorption of the fluoride through the skin." Brief exposure to inhaled fluorine "has caused sore throat
and chest pain, irreversible damage to the lungs, and death. Gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diffuse
abdominal cramps and diarrhea can be expected. Large doses produce central nervous system involvement with
twitching of muscle groups, ... convulsions, and coma." Fluoride is the active ingredient in the deadly nerve gas,
Sarin, and in the fungicide Flusilazole, which caused crop damage and physical ailments in 40 states in the early 90s.
Teflon is a fluoride product, as is freon.
In the 1940s, the U.S. Public Health Service was reporting a total daily fluoride intake from typical diets in the range
of 0.2 to 0.3 milligrams. If the drinking water contained about 1 part per million fluoride, the total daily intake could
be expected to reach about 1 to 1-1/2 milligrams.
By the 1970s, the total from dietary sources had increased to as much as 3.44 mg/day, even in non-fluoridated areas;
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and by 1991, the range in total daily dosage had exceeded 6-1/2 milligrams in areas said to enjoy optimal
fluoridation; exceeding 7 mg/day in areas having 2 or more ppm in the water supply.
Once confined almost exclusively to drinking water, fluorides now reach us from a variety of sources, including
virtually every food and beverage item; as well as dental products and drugs.
"Whereas dental fluorosis is easily recognized," said the World Health Organization in 1970, "the skeletal
involvement is not clinically obvious until the advanced stage of crippling fluorosis ... early cases may be
misdiagnosed as rheumatoid- or osteo-arthritis."
If we place our trust in the wisdom of the American Dental Association, and their pamphlet, Fluoridation Facts, we
learn that for adults, "The possibility of adverse health effects from continuous low level consumption of fluoride
over long periods has been studied by the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy found that the daily intake
required to produce symptoms of chronic toxicity after years of consumption, is 20 to 80 milligrams or more
depending upon body weight. Such heavy doses are associated with water supplies that contain at least ten parts per
million of natural fluoride." However, if we take the time to check the World Health Organization reference cited by
the ADA, we can immediately see that the dosage figures are just 2 to 8 mg per day, and the water supplies generally
contain less than 1 part per million of natural fluoride.
The reference cited by NAS/NRC describes the development of Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis after exposures of
eleven years duration, with a daily total expressed as 0.2 to 0.35 mg/kg/day. . . the equivalent, in terms of lifetime
exposure to 2 milligrams daily for each 110 pounds of body weight. (lifetime = 55 to 96-1/4 years)
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that 2 is considerably less than 7 -- trusting your dentist in the matter of
water fluoridation requires a certain leap of faith.
NIOSH connects the dots between dentistry, industry, and fluoride in listing the various sources and uses of fluoride:
"Elemental fluorine is used in the conversion of uranium tetrafluoride to uranium hexafluoride, in the synthesis of
organic and inorganic fluorine compounds, and as an oxidizer in rocket fuel.
"Hydrogen fluoride, hydrofluoric acid, and its salts are used in the production of organic and inorganic fluorine
compounds such as fluorides and plastics; as a catalyst, in the petroleum industry; as an insecticide; and to arrest the
fermentation in brewing. It is utilized in the aluminum industry, in separating uranium isotopes, in cleaning cast iron,
copper and brass, in removing effloresence from brick and bone, in removing sand from metallic castings, in frosting
and etching glass and enamel, in polishing crystal, in enameling and galvanizing iron, in working silk, in dye, and
analytical chemistry, and to increase the porosity of ceramics. Fluorides are used as an electrolyte in aluminum
manufacture, in smelting nickel, copper, gold, and silver, as a catalyst for organic reactions, a wood preservative, a
fluoridation agent for drinking water, a bleaching agent for cane seats, in pesticides, rodenticides, and as a
fermentation inhibitor. They are utilized in the manufacture of steel, iron, glass, ceramics, pottery, enamels, in
castings for welding rods, and in cleaning graphite, metals, windows, and glassware. Exposure to fluorides may also
occur during preparation of fertilizer from phosphate rock."
When I wrote to the National Academy of Sciences asking for the source of the 20 to 80 mg/day figures in the ADA
pamphlet, they said the figures came from Harold C. Hodge, Ph.D., who was formerly Chairman of the NAS/NRC
Committee on Toxicology. Dr. Hodge was also a consultant to several industries, involved in the development of the
atomic bomb, worked with the Atomic Energy Commission, and participated in panels convened by NAS/NRC in
1951 and 1953. Panel chairman, Kenneth Maxcy, was consultant to the Secretary of War and editor for one of the
leading industrial health journals. Panel member Francis Heyroth was Assistant Director of the Kettering Laboratory
at the University of Cincinnati -- source of the abstracts used by the ADA as well as the Dental Division of the Public
Health Service. Kettering's sponsors included aluminum, steel, petroleum, and chemical companies; and Kettering's
director, Robert Kehoe, was medical director of the Ethyl Corporation, consultant to the Tennessee Valley Authority,
the Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Air Force, and the Division of Occupational Medicine of the Public Health
Service. He was a primary spokesman for the safety of fluoridation, and also testified for the safety of atmospheric
lead from auto exhausts.
Hodge prepared a chart of fluoride effects for NAS/NRC in 1953, naming Roholm as his data source; and offered it
in testimony before Congress in 1954, as they considered a bill to outlaw water fluoridation.
However, in order to convert the original data into a milligram per day figure, Hodge had to apply the mg/kg figures
to a typical range in body weight. He chose 100 to 229 pounds. . . multiplying 100 times 0.2 to get 20 mg/day, and
then multiplying 229 times 0.35 to get 80 mg/day -- the dosage in his chart and in the ADA pamphlet. Hodge had
neglected to convert pounds to kilograms; and in doing so, he created an artificial margin of safety for water
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fluoridation. The erroneous figures found their way into hundreds of pamphlets, magazine articles, journals, and
textbooks; unchecked for forty years.
The fluoride that is added to community water supplies does not come from a clean laboratory -- it comes with the
rest of the scrubber water from the smokestacks of the fertilizer or aluminum industry. . . contaminated with other
poisons in small but measurable quantities that industry considers safe. Just think of the savings!
The erroneous 20-80 mg figures created by the alliance of dentistry, industry, and national security made this
possible. However, the error was corrected by the National Research Council's Board on Environmental Studies and
Toxicology in the 1993 review for EPA titled Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride. (page 59)
Although the new figures are 10 to 20 mg/day for 10 to 20 years, the total quantity of fluoride ingested is the single
most important factor in determining the clinical course of skeletal fluorosis. The severity of symptoms correlates
directly with the level and duration of exposure, so that the advanced crippling stages can occur at any age, and has
been reported even in pediatric age groups. If the time span is expanded to 40 to 80 years, the intake producing
crippling would be 2-1/2 to 5 mg/day.
The symptoms of phase one skeletal fluorosis include sporadic pain and stiffness of joints, with minor osteosclerosis
of the pelvis and vertebral column. Phase two is described as chronic joint pain, arthritic symptoms, slight
calcification of ligaments, increased osteosclerosis of cancellous bones, with or without osteoporosis of the long
bones; and phase three, limitation of joint movement, calcification of ligaments in the neck and vertebral column,
crippling deformities of the spine and major joints, muscle wasting, and neurological defects with compression of the
spinal cord. The condition has been observed in many countries throughout the world, but has never been a
"reportable disease" in the United States.
This, then, is the risk we face with excess fluoride; and since fluoride is the 13th most abundant element and widely
distributed throughout the earth, arthritis from fluoride has been a threat since the earliest times.
There is also the strong possibility of a connection between fluoride intake and kidney stones. In 1987 the fifth
edition of Trace Elements in Human and Animal Nutrition was published by Academic Press; edited by Walter
Mertz, U.S. Department of Agriculture. It describes symptoms including headache, gastrointestinal problems, and the
arthritic complaints mentioned earlier; adding, "Although the exact genesis of renal stones in fluoride toxicity is not
known, it is conjectured that insoluble calcium fluoride is deposited in the urinary tract as a nucleus around which
other salts are deposited." They also discuss "neighborhood fluorosis," caused by the discharge of fluoride in
smokestack emissions, mentioning reports from Ohio, where Chi Vit, an enamel factory in Urbana, managed to avoid
the purchase of smokestack scrubbers in the late 1970s. As is the custom, the American Dental Association provided
speakers to assure residents that fluoride is harmless. Anyone who disagreed was obviously misinformed, they said.
"Trust your dentist."
In 1977, NIOSH explained, "Substances that act chemically to produce injury to organs and tissues of the body
usually do so by two basic means: either by depressing or by stimulating the activity of the enzyme systems. A single
substance may have more than one pathway and site of action. Multiple pathways of action may be invoked simply
by differing doses of the toxic agent; low doses may stimulate enzyme action, high doses depress and inhibit the
same or different enzyme systems. This is a characteristic action of most, if not all, toxic substances, including
arsenic, benzene, chloroform, cobalt, fluoride, and vanadium.
"Potentiation and synergism, the enhanced toxicity of two or more simultaneously acting substances, can be
explained by the action of one preventing the elimination or the metabolism of the other, wholly or in part, thus
maintaining elevated systemic levels of the toxic agent, resulting in an observed toxicity greater than the additive
toxicity of the combined components.
NIOSH quotes: "A. Marier, in his report, Environmental Fluoride, states that 'In several surveys in which sulphur
dioxide had been suspected as the primary air pollutant, fluoride was found to be the factor responsible for
environmental blight.' He points out that industries that release fluoride effluents also use fossil fuel as an energy
source, thereby emitting significant quantities of sulphur dioxide, and comments on possible synergistic effects.
'Synergistic' means that a substance stimulates and enhances the effect of another substance. Thus, if the two occur
together, the combined effect would be greater than the sum of either occurring alone. It is a phenomenon well
known in pharmacology, but it does not appear to have been seriously considered in connection with fluoride from
the medical point of view. So far, only environmentalists have looked at it.
"A large number of pesticides, chiefly organic phosphates and carbamates, act in the body by blocking this enzyme
action, thus allowing excessive amounts of the muscle stimulator to accumulate. The excessive stimulation results in
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paralysis of the host."
If all this comes as a surprise to you, it is precisely because too many civic leaders, and others, have trusted their
dentists in matters that have nothing to do with dentistry. Even more alarming, according to William L. Marcus,
Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor, Office of Science and Technology, Environmental Protection Agency, "the levels of
fluoride found in the bones of rodents who had osteosarcoma (bone cancer) was lower than the level found in human
adults exposed to allowable levels of fluoride ... with the exception of fluoride, no other compounds including
radioactive compounds, have been able to produce osteosarcomas in rodents."
Children have died in the dentist's chair after treatment with topical fluoride. Adults have died during kidney dialysis
when fluoride spills occurred but were not reported. Household products, including toothpaste, have caused serious
illness among unsuspecting consumers.
In February of 1972 the ADA reported that in fluoridated cities, the dentists reaped a net profit 17% higher than in
nonfluoridated cities. And, today, although the vast majority of children are already showing clear signs of fluoride
overdose, dentists follow the party line, arguing for universal mandatory water fluoridation, while ignoring current
studies showing no significant difference in tooth decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas
worldwide.
In summary: documents sent to me by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, and the Director of
the Centers for Disease Control, describe increasing numbers of children whose teeth require complex dental
treatment because of excess fluoride; and adults with headaches, back pain, gastro-intestinal problems, arthritic
symptoms, and hyperparathyroidism; but no correlation between cavities and the fluoride incorporated into dental
enamel, except that with increased dosage, cavities tend to increase as well.
In 1979, Edward Groth III, Senior Staff Officer, Environmental Studies Board, National Research Council, wrote:
"...the politically minded zealots have used tactics of intimidation, professional and financial reprisals, derogatory
personal attacks, and relentless public relations propaganda to silence scientific critics, to prevent the publication of
adverse evidence, and to make politically untenable any interpretation except the official view, that fluoridation is
absolutely safe. Can scientific evidence really be suppressed in the free world? Easily."
Obviously, things are not always what they seem. . . bargains not always bargains; and, as Francis Bacon observed,
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
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16. Journal of Dental Research (1933) volume 13, page 139,140
17. Fluoridation Facts, American Dental Association
Who is Darlene Sherrell?
The Detroit News headline for March 28, 1978 read, "State study to find out if we're fluoride OD's. The article
quoted Craig Ruff, an aide to Governor Milliken: "It's a good example of what one citizen on a white horse can do."
On the previous day, in the capitol, the State Journal quoted Dr. Maurice Reizen, Director of the Michigan
Department of Public Health, who said "There is nobody more knowledgable or dedicated on this subject than
Darlene Sherrell."
In a recent talk, she described herself as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen. I have often been asked questions about my credentials . . . my background . . . my
qualification to speak or write about fluoride . . . my right, so to speak, to disagree with a dentist or physician.
So, let's get it over with. Beyond what I learned at my mother's knee, plus a few of the tricks of arithmetic from my
father, I am largely self-educated. Take a look at my school records and you'll find I missed a great deal of time
because of illness.
However, at twenty-seven I was the administrative assistant to the Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, in
charge of preparing the budget, maintaining the library, checking the citations in opinions, recruiting new law clerks,
purchasing, public relations, etc. I had a large office to myself, with my name on the door, a state car and expense
account, and was expected to keep the other judges on their toes with respect to getting their opinions written on
time.
After leaving the court I worked as research associate for the American Business Men's Research Foundation, an
educational organization concerned with beverage alcohol. We produced educational materials for schools and
helped bring about recognition of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Still later, my concern for the environment and growing knowledge of nutrition and agricultural practices caused me
to gather a group of people together for the purpose of establishing a new 501c3 -- a non-profit tax-exempt
foundation -- which I called Orenda. We taught classes in natural foods cooking, co-op buying, organic gardening
methods, solar and wind power, identifying wild edible plants, herbal remedies, etc. I published a monthly newsletter
called The Golden Thread. With the exception of $15.00 to file the original papers, everything was done by the barter
method. . . with contributions paying for postage and materials costs.
During my early youth I suffered with arthritis, asthma, gastrointestinal problems, and chemical sensitivities. When I
was eighteen an episode with anaphylactic shock almost killed me. Within a year, there were two others, less severe.
Until the age of twenty five, my medical problems were a mystery.
I began to study nutrition, and within a year, every sign of arthritis, allergies, chronic fatigue, etc. were gone. . . but
still, I had no knowledge of fluoride. Without realizing it, I was avoiding fluoride.
In 1976, while living in Lansing, Michigan, I met our local typical little old lady in tennis shoes, carrying a large
paper shopping bag full of tattered newspaper clippings and copies of magazine articles about fluoride. She told me
fluoride caused cancer and was put into our water to keep us docile. I was 35, she was in her mid- 60s, and I
immediately classified her as a nutcase.
Then, one day, I got curious and looked in my pharmacology book to see what I could find about fluoride. What I
found changed my life.
I learned that when the drinking water contained about one part per million of fluoride, 10 to 15 percent of the
children would show a faint change in the appearance of their teeth called dental fluorosis; but with 2 or 3 parts per
million, nearly all will be affected by this first and only visible sign of fluoride poisoning. I also learned that fluoride
is the key ingredient in a widely used cancer drug called 5-FU. The cells die because fluorine enters into one of the
molecules in DNA -- the genetic material.
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At that time, I lived very near to Michigan State University, was not employed, and was able to spend as much time
as I needed at the science library. Not having gone to college, I was unaware of the indexing which makes a search of
the literature much easier. I began my study with the year 1930, and the dental journals. This was before computers
took over. I pulled each book off the shelf and looked at the index in the back, searching for anything mentioning
fluoride. With each article I found references to other articles, and the names of other journals. I carried rolls of
nickels and made copies to read at home. There were well over a thousand, spanning the years to 1976, and have
been many more since then.
Now, let me tell you. When a person of my age sees The Atomic Energy Commission listed as the sponsor of an
article about tooth decay, it brings up a red flag. . . and when an article called Toxicological Evidence for the Safety
of Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies is based on studies involving "a man, or six people in South Africa, two
people, heights and weights, pediatric exams, rabbits, sheep, cattle, swine, pooled urine samples, and x-rays," it
doesn't require much intelligence to suspect that something is wrong. Comments such as "we excluded everyone with
symptoms of disease, no matter how mild," will grab the attention. After all, what were they looking for, if not
symptoms of disease. These were safety studies!
During the early years, before anyone suggested adding fluoride to the water supply, everyone seemed hell-bent on
removing it.
H. Trendley Dean, who later became known as the "father of fluoridation" wrote about an apparent tendency to a
higher incidence of gingivitis, and a greater proportion of filled teeth lost due to their brittleness. He wrote "The same
amount of fluorine that causes a mild toxic reaction in one individual may cause a severe reaction in another. In other
words, we are dealing with a low-grade chronic poisoning of the formative dental organ, . . . some authors have
called attention to an apparent delay in the eruption of permanent teeth of children living in endemic areas."
In 1942, an article in The Lancet reported, "The family derived their water from a surface well containing at different
times 0.3 to 1.2 ppm fluorine. All the children show severe dental fluorosis with pitting of the teeth." In another
article, in the journal Radiology, skeletal fluorosis is described in an area having just 1.2 ppm fluoride in the water
supply. . . though most reviews describe this case with the erroneous figure 12 ppm.
The Journal of the American Dental Association reported that at 1.6 to 4 ppm, 50% or more past age 24 have false
teeth because of fluoride damage to their own. . . and the journal Oral Surgery reported mottled enamel at 0.5 ppm
fluoride. This was at a time when the food supplied only 0.2 to 0.3 milligrams of fluoride daily, and there was no
such thing as fluoride toothpaste or mouthwash.
I noticed that after 17 years of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, 19.3% of continuous resident white children, and 40.2%
of continuous resident black children had dental fluorosis.
In poverty areas of Puerto Rico, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there was relatively little
reduction in dental caries, but dental fluorosis was common.
I learned that the original suggestions for benefits from fluoride came from industries being sued for fluoride
pollution, and that fluorides have caused more damage to crops and livestock than any other airborne pollutant . . .
and learned that the fluorides added to city water supplies are not naturally occurring calcium or magnesium fluoride,
but the contents of smokestack scrubber water -- difficult to dispose of because they are so corrosive, and so deadly
to all living things.
In the areas of Texas, where dental health was good, the soil and water contained elements which help to de-toxify
fluorides. An article in Caries Research reported that 42 elements can be incorporated into developing enamel. The
Journal of the American Dental Association reported that "There was no significant difference in the fluoride content
of high and low caries individuals," and strontium was more closely associated with dental health. The journal
Archives of Oral Biology reported: "Studies which show that there are substantial differences in caries prevalence
between localities which have equivalent fluoride concentrations in water supplies substantiate the possible role of
other trace elements."
I found several reports of skeletal fluorosis -- from areas having less fluoride in the water supply than EPA considers
safe today. . . and in reading the Occupational Health journals, noticed that over the years the pre-employment
physicals included measurements of fluoride in urine which were higher and higher as the years passed. The rules for
Workmens Compensation were established to eliminate anyone whose exposure to fluoride was below the 20 to 80
milligram per day mark, for 10 to 20 years -- an erroneous figure established by Harold Hodge in 1953.
Each time I wrote to the Michigan Department of Public Health asking about a particular point, the answer contained
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references to journal articles, but the articles themselves failed to support the answers.
Eventually, I learned that the Public Health Service used abstracts -- not journal articles -- and that was the difference
between my opinion and theirs. They were following industries' version, which often included the movement of
decimal points or significant differences in describing study methods. . . and with these side-by-side examples, easy
enough for a child to see and understand; I was able to convince the Governor of my State, as well as several
legislators, to abandon their faith in the advice of the experts at Public Health.
One day, in a fruitless attempt to instruct the chief of the dental division, I showed him several dozen examples of the
side-by-side discrepancies -- using only the most obvious. After looking at the fraudulent abstracts, he said, "Look,
lady, if the abstracts don't agree with the originals, there must be something wrong with the originals." He went on to
explain that he had been involved when fluoridation began in Grand Rapids . . . they had always used the abstracts
from the Kettering Laboratory, he said, . . . they must be right!
Now, as I said earlier, I did not go to college, and have no claim to superior intelligence regarding water fluoridation;
but, when I see studies involving rats that show increasing cavities with increasing doses of fluoride, or studies
involving pooled urine samples which have been controlled for fluoride content ahead of time, or see the major
proportion of the data rejected in order to support a pre-determined conclusion, and see that almost all of the books
used by the Public Health Service have been funded by industries threatened with litigation due to fluoride pollution;
my nose knows. . . something smells of deception.
I have kept up a correspondence with the U.S. Public Health Service for over twenty years, asking in vain for the
name of just one safety study in which the researchers actually looked for the symptoms of skeletal fluorosis.
According to all that I can find, these occur prior to the advanced crippling stage of the disease when x-rays are
useful. I have asked to know why no physicians have ever been allowed to report cases of skeletal fluorosis. I have
asked why EPA's maximum contaminant level for fluoride in drinking water does not take into account the fluoride
ingested from foods, dental products, or other beverages -- which, today, usually represent three-quarters of the daily
dosage in a fluoridated area. I've asked why, with all the mounting evidence of overdosage, they still want to add
more fluoride to our diet.
In 1989 I began writing to the National Academy of Sciences, asking for the basis of their 20 to 80 mg/day threshold
dosage for skeletal fluorosis. These figures appear in the American Dental Association's pamphlet, Fluoridation
Facts, as well as in numerous magazine articles, journals, textbooks, etc. After more than two years, the Academy
identified Hodge's interpretation of Roholm as the data source.
Roholm studied the effects of fluoride on cryolite workers who were exposed to 0.2 to 0.35 milligrams of fluoride per
kilogram of body weight per day for several years. Although some developed crippling skeletal fluorosis in a very
short time, in general, after 2-1/2 years, the first stage of the disease appeared. After 4-1/2 years, the second stage;
and after 11 years, crippling skeletal fluorosis appeared.
Simple arithmetic told me that either Hodge was assuming that these men weighed as much as 1600 pounds, or he
was severely challenged mathematically. It was obvious he had neglected to convert pounds to kilograms when he
applied Roholm's data to a typical range in body weight (100 to 229 pounds). He simply multiplied 0.2 times 100 to
get 20, and multiplied 0.35 times 229 to get 80 milligrams. Then, rather than say 11 years or less, he said 10 to 20
years.
Because this error involved arithmetic, rather than scientific opinion, and because I had the support of Dr. Robert J.
Carton, who was, at that time, a senior official at EPA, and Senator Bob Graham of Florida; the National Research
Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology was forced to correct the 40-year old error.
Their new figures agree with the data source, and are equivalent to 2-1/2 to 5 milligrams of fluoride daily for 40 to 80
years. With approximately half the daily dosage, or half the time, the second stage of fluorosis can be expected. . . but
the symptoms are not considered "adverse health effects," and are not currently included in regulations governing the
amount of fluoride allowed in water -- or anything else. These early symptoms are not crippling, but simply arthritis
and osteoporosis.
Over the years, everything I have written about fluoride has been confirmed in official documents published by Uncle
Sam. In 1976, without knowing the term itself, I wrote about hyperparathyroidism -- the effect of fluoride on the
calcium content of our blood. . . which is regulated very closely by the parathyroid gland, and results in osteoporosis.
I was concerned about increasing numbers of children whose teeth would need expensive dental treatment because of
fluoride damage, and concerned about people whose arthritis would be caused by excess dietary fluoride. I managed
to change the law in Michigan, giving people the right to vote on the issue of water fluoridation. Michigan was the
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first state to repeal their mandatory fluoridation law.
However, to this day, I read about "experts" speaking for the American Dental Association or the Public Health
Service, who appear before groups shouting that fluorides do not accumulate, cannot harm anyone, and are essential
to life. I often wonder what it would mean to have those letters attached to my name, indicating that I'm qualified as a
professional, but suspect I'd rather not. I think, perhaps, they would only mean that I'd have to keep my mouth shut if
I wanted to keep my job.
Letter to Senator John Glenn
Darlene Sherrell
426 Heritage Oaks Drive
Eugene, Oregon 97405
12 February 1997
E-Mail:
sherrell@sipnsurf.com
FAX: 541 345 1786
The Honorable John Glenn
United States Senate
Dear Senator Glenn,
I believe your efforts regarding the Human Research Subject Protections Act
of 1997 may very well be the most important of your career; and am writing
to call your attention to another example of ethically-suspect research on
human subjects -- including children and other vulnerable populations.
The enclosed letter from Robert J. Carton, Ph.D., dated April 24, 1992,
refers to my correspondence with the National Academy of Sciences regarding
the quantity of fluoride which produces an arthritic condition known as
Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis . . . the risk Americans are being forced to
take without their informed consent.
Because current U.S. policy regarding fluoride was based on an error in
arithmetic, rather than one involving scientific opinion, the National
Research Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology was forced
to correct NAS/NRC's official estimate of the quantity of fluoride which
results in Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis. This quantity is smaller than
current daily intake estimates published in 1991 by the Department of
Health and Human Services.
Your own personal knowledge (or lack of knowledge) of the symptoms of
chronic fluoride poisoning, the various sources of fluoride in your diet,
and the quantity of fluoride you ingest on a daily basis, from all sources,
-- as well as the quantity of fluoride capable of causing adverse health
effects -- is the proof I offer. Were you informed?
On 9 November 1995, when the Director of the Centers for Disease Control
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wrote to Senator Graham in response to my concerns, he mentioned "new
research." I wrote to Dr. Satcher on 1 February 1996, calling his attention
to the fact that the "margin of safety" with water fluoridation was the
product of an error in arithmetic corrected by NAS/NRC in 1993. I wrote
again on 1 January 1997, asking Dr. Satcher about the status of the new
research he mentioned: "Is it being done on U.S. citizens without their
knowledge or consent? Have our physicians been notified? Are they now able
to report suspected cases of skeletal fluorosis which mimic arthritis? Have
they been notified of the erroneous dosage figures?" I wrote again on 21
January 1997. Officials at the CDC have been avoiding my questions about
dosage and reporting for twenty years.
Senator Ron Wyden wrote to Dr. Satcher on 4 February 1997, asking to see a
copy of his reply. Will you join him? Will you begin your noble effort
with the most flagrant example of all?
With respect,
Darlene Sherrell
cc: The Honorable Senator Ron Wyden
Darlene Sherrell, 426 Heritage Oaks Drive, Eugene, Oregon 97405
E-Mail: sherrell@sipnsurf.com; Phone/Fax 541-345-1786
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SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
What Alternative Medicine Care Givers Need to Know
by Eileen Nauman, DHM(UK), EMT
One of the most harrowing events a parent can face is the death of their baby by SIDS - sudden infant death
syndrome. A definition needs to be supplied for SIDS so we all have a basis of understanding: It is defined
as a sudden, unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant under one year of age which remains
unexplained after the performance of a complete postmortem investigation, including an autopsy, an
examination of the scene of the death, and review of the child's medical history.
What does this have to do with homeopathy and the other alternative health professions? Everything. We
must be prepared for such an eventuality in our profession, whether we're a homeopath, midwife, an
oriental doctor of medicine, an acupuncturist, herbalist, Reikie healer, or flower essence practitioner. We all
deal with real life situations. We are not immune to this occurring either within our own family, or to our
clients/patients. Understanding SIDS, and knowing what to say and not to say, can help not only the parents
through this very stressful time, but the alternative health care giver, as well.
It is in this spirit, that this article has been formulated and brought together; through education we can
render even more healing rather than bumbling through it because we didn't know how to handle such an
awkward, heart-rending event in one of our patient's lives.
Biggest Killer Of Children Under One Year Of
Age
The number one cause of death for infants under one year of age, SIDS, is sometimes called "crib death."
Over 6,000 families a year are struck. SIDS kills one in every five-hundred babies. That comes out to one
baby dying of SIDS every hour of the day. After 30 years of research, scientists still cannot find one
definite cause or causes for SIDS.
Another little known fact is that more children die of SIDS in one year than those who die of cancer, heart
disease, pneumonia, child abuse, AIDS, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy combined during their first
14 years.
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SIDS Statistics From Arizona
Deaths: Arizona 50/year - U.S. 6,000/year
Age Range: 3 weeks to 12 months, most frequently 2 to 4 months
When: More frequently in winter months
Physical
Exhibits no external signs of injury.
Exhibits "natural" appearance of a deceased baby:
Lividity - settling of blood, pink-purple mottled marking on head and facial area if found face down .
Frothy drainage from nose/mouth.
Body stiffness (rigor mortis) - takes place quickly in infants (about 3 hours).
Appears to be well-developed, though may be small for age.
Other siblings appear to be normal and healthy.
Risk Factors For SIDS
Prone (face down) sleeping position. (Child is found sleeping on its stomach).
Poor prenatal care.
Smoking during and/or after pregnancy.
Use of illegal drugs.
Maternal age less than 20 years.
Premature low birth weight infants.
Multiple births.
Soft bedding, waterbeds.
What SIDS Is Not
There is no testing available to tell anxious parents if their baby is potentially a SIDS baby. It is a diagnosis
which is made only after death, when all other causes have been ruled out. Currently, there is nothing that
can be done to prevent SIDS, although some strategies which have helped the SIDS death rate go down,
will be discuss further in this article. Due to ongoing medical research SIDS is NOT caused by the
following:
1. SIDS is not caused by lack of love.
2. SIDS is not caused by suffocation, vomiting or choking.
3. SIDS is not contagious.
4. SIDS is not hereditary.
5. SIDS is not caused by baby shots, vitamin deficiency, or hormone imbalance.
6. SIDS is not caused by allergies or infection.
7. SIDS is not caused by a sleeping parent laying over on the baby.
The Facts About SIDS
1. Babies between 2 and 4 months old are most often victims of SIDS, but older and younger babies
also die of SIDS.
2. Death occurs in seconds, usually during sleep, and the baby does not suffer.
3. Cases of SIDS have been reported through history, as far back as the Old Testament.
4. Most SIDS victims have appeared to be healthy before death.
5. SIDS occurs in families of ALL social and economic levels.
If You Are Pregnant, What Positive Steps Can
You Take?
1.
2.
3.
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5.
Do not drink alcohol during pregnancy.
Do not smoke during pregnancy.
Avoid going into a house where others are smoking. Avoid people who do smoke.
Go to the doctor or clinic early in pregnancy.
Ask the doctor or nurse in the clinic about "good foods to eat" as well as any potential vitamins or
minerals (such as folic acid) that you might take during your pregnancy.
6. Seek support from family and friends during pregnancy.
7. After the baby is born, take your baby to the doctor for regularly scheduled visits and examination.
Things You Can Do To Prevent SIDS
1. Put your healthy baby on his or her back or side to sleep. Do this when your baby is being put down
for a nap or to bed for the night.
2. Some mothers worry that if you put a baby on their back that spit up or vomit may choke them while
they are sleeping. There is no evidence that sleeping on the back causes choking. Millions of babies
around the world now sleep on their back or side and doctors have not found an increase in choking
or other problems.
3. Some babies don't like sleeping on their back or side, but most get used to it. Talk to your nurse or
doctor if you have questions about your baby's sleep.
4. BEDDING: Make sure your baby sleeps on a firm mattress or other firm surface. Don't use fluffy
blankets or comforters under the baby. Don't let a baby sleep on a waterbed, sheepskin, a pillow, or
other soft material. When your baby is very young, don't place soft stuffed toys or a pillows in the
crib with him or her. Some babies have smothered with these soft materials in their crib.
5. TEMPERATURE: Babies should be kept warm, but they should not be allowed to get TOO warm.
Keep the temperature in your baby's room so that it feels comfortable to you.
6. SMOKE FREE: Create a smoke-free zone around your baby. No one should smoke around your
baby. Babies and young children exposed to smoke have more colds and other diseases, as well as
an INCREASED risk of SIDS.
7. DOCTOR OR CLINIC VISITS: If your baby seems sick, call your doctor or clinic right away.
8. PRENATAL CARE: A good start for any baby is for mothers to have received early and regular
prenatal care. The risk of SIDS is higher for babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy. It is
also important to your baby's well being for pregnant women not to use alcohol or drugs (unless
prescribed by a doctor).
9. BREAST FEEDING: If possible, you should consider breast feeding your baby. Breast milk helps to
keep your baby healthy.
Comforting Bereaved Parents Following SIDS
Although alternative health practitioners are not usually medical doctors, they will, inevitably, within the
course of their lifetime as a caregiver, have to deal, more than likely, with a SIDS parent. Or, perhaps the
baby was under our care, which makes it even more important not only legally, but from an education stand
point, as well. It is better to be prepared for such an event, than to have our client or patient tearfully call us
up and be reaching out for help from us, and we stand in stunned silence instead of knowing what to say,
instead. Being prepared is, in itself, an act of being a catalyst for their healing, instead of their guilt or
shame over the loss of their baby. Here's what you can do as a homeopath or health care giver:
1. Listen quietly, allow parent(s) to express their pain.
2. Mention the deceased child by name, and talk about the child's special endearing qualities (only if
you knew the child).
3. Say you are sorry. Admit your own helplessness and frustration. Cry if you feel like it.
4. Reassure parents that they did everything they could, that the medical care their child received was
the best, or whatever else you know to be TRUE and POSITIVE about the care given to their child.
5. Encourage siblings to express as much grief as they are feeling.
6. Allow parents to express anger. Anger is healthy. Recognize a parent's need to talk about the child
they have lost as much and as often as they want, or to review the circumstances of the death as
often as they like.
7. Encourage parents to talk openly about their feelings, but don't push.
8. Encourage parents to be HONEST about what kind of help they REALLY want from others.
9. Everyone's needs and desires are different. Be sure the kindness, you plan is acceptable beforehand
by confirming it with parents. Give specific examples of what you can do and what you can offer.
10. Give special attention to siblings. They are hurt and confused also, and their parents may be
incapable of being very supportive at this time. Encourage them to verbalize their feelings.
11. Remember the parents with a note and a phone call on the birthday or the death anniversary of the
deceased child. Just say, 'I wanted you to know I was thinking of you and remembering (child's
name) ." Or, 'I'm just checking in."
12. Assure parents SIDS cannot be predicted, they could not prevent it, and they did not cause SIDS.
13. Encourage support group participation and peer contact.
Don't Say The Following
1. Don't avoid parents because YOU are uncomfortable. Being avoided by friends and professionals
adds pain to an already painful experience.
2. Don't make comments which suggest that the care given to the child at home, in the hospital, or at
the child care facility was inadequate. Parents are plagued by feelings of doubt and guilt without any
help from their family, friends, or professionals.
3. Don't change the subject when they mention their dead child, or avoid mentioning the child's name
for fear of reminding them of their pain. They haven't forgotten it, even years later.
4. AVOID clichés such as: It was 'God's Will' or that "He needed' their child. Parents will spiritualize a
child's death if and when they are ready.
5. Don't point out that they can "always have another child", or suggest that they should be grateful for
their other children. They may be unable to have other children. Children are not interchangeable
and cannot replace each other.
6. Don't give advice about how they should feel or do. Feelings are never right or wrong - they just
are! (Siblings as well)
7. Don't say, "Call if you need anything." They need you to reach out to them.
8. Don't say, 'You ought to be feeling better by now" or anything else which implies judgment about
their feelings.
9. Don't say you know how they feel or understand their pain.
10. Don't assume their grieving is over in a few weeks or even a few months. They will need ongoing
support for AT LEAST A YEAR OR LONGER!
11. Don't try to find something positive, such as a moral lesson or closer family ties because of the
child's death. The family will come to this realization on their own, if or when it occurs.
A Web Site That May Offer Help
For parents who are needing to grieve as well as looking for support of those who have actually gone
through this terrible process, there are on-line web sites run by Joanne Cacciatore, who lost a baby to SIDS.
She is a powerful spokeswoman in Arizona, and the nation, for parents who have suffered this loss as well.
The web sites are:
●
http://www.azsids.org
●
http://www.netcom.com/~jcaccia/miss.html
References
1. Arizona SIDS Alliance, Phoenix, AZ
2. Otto Bremer Foundation
3. US Public Health Service, American Academy of Pediatrics, SIDS Alliance and Association of
SIDS Program professionals
4. Forensics Medicine with
5. Arizona SIDS Advisory Council
Copyright © 1997 Eileen Nauman; All Rights Reserved
Eileen Nauman is a homeopath with 27 years of experience in the field, as well as being a registered
EMT with the state of Arizona. She is the author of POISONS THAT HEAL, a book on epidemics
and homeopathy, and her latest work, due out in January, 1998, HELP! and HOMEOPATHY, on
what to do in an emergency after you've called 911 to help homeopathically. She can be reached at
her website, http://www.medicinegarden.com or privately at docbones@sedona.net. She also has an
alternative medicine list, athena@medicinegarden.com, which is open to those who want to learn
about alternative methods of healing for themselves and their family.
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Emerging Viruses - AIDS - Ebola - Dr. Leonard Horowitz - Natural Health and Longevity Resource Center
Emerging Viruses - AIDS & Ebola
by Dr. Leonard Horowitz
This is the first in-depth exploration into the origins of HIV and Ebola. Claims that these
"emerging viruses" naturally evolved and then jumped species from ape to man seem grossly
unfounded in light of the compelling evidence assembled in this extraordinary text.
Alternatively, the possibility that these bizarre germs were laboratory creations, accidentally
or intentionally transmitted via tainted hepatitis and smallpox vaccines in the U.S. and Africa
- as numerous authorities have alleged - is investigated herein. This book reviews the
numerous viral vaccine studies conducted simultaneously in New York City and Central
West Africa by a narrow network of virologists working for major military-medical
contractors under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the World Health
Organization (WHO). Included is Dr. Robert Gallo, the notorious discoverer of the AIDS
virus. The text presents bizarre and horrifying facts about the biological weapons race of the
1960s and early 1970's when these researchers developed countless immune system ravaging
viruses, and experimented with an assortment of antidote vaccines allegedly for "defense"
and cancer prevention.
The iatrogenic and genocidal theories of AIDS are meticulously explored within the social
and political context of this stormy period of American military science. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) activities and foreign policy initiatives in Central Africa in response to the
alleged threats posed by communism, black nationalism, and Third World populations are
examined. The important roles played by political leaders including National Security
Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger, Department of Health, Education and Welfare secretaries
Frank Carlucci, Jr. and Joseph Califano, presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and
economic notables Nelson and Laurence Rockerfeller are considered. The text hauntingly
dissects the potential motives and administrative mechanisms underlying the prevalent belief
that HIV and Ebola may have been deliberately deployed, and that the AIDS epidemic may
be accomplishing what was desired.
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Deadly Diplomacy
Creating A "New World Order"
Dr. Leonard Horowitz's Search for the Origin of AIDS
Revealed a Shocking
CIA - Military Industrial Genocidal Germ Warfare
Program.
In 1948, Henry Kissinger, a 23-year-old American intelligence officer, recruited Nazi
expatriates to serve in top positions in American military, aerospace, and biological science
and medicine. Twenty years later, he left Harvard's esteemed faculty and resigned a lucrative
position as Nelson Rockefeller's foreign policy attache' to become President Nixon's closest
advisor and director of the National Security Council. Seeking alternatives to tactical nuclear
weapons to bolster America's "diplomacy" abroad, the paranoid and egomaniacal Kissinger
quickly ordered the Army's Chief of Staff to requisition $10 million from Congress for the
development and testing of AIDS-like viruses. Within ten years, the AIDS and Ebola
epidemics erupted coincidentally in the regions of Africa ravaged by CIA military covert
operations also ordered by Kissinger.
In 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, claimed credit for discovering
the AIDS virus. He announced it most likely originated from a monkey virus which
spontaneously mutated and naturally jumped species. Deadly Diplomacy presents shocking
new evidence that Dr. Gallo was a biological weapons contractor for the CIA's top secret
"Project: MKNAOMI," and was paid to produce and test AIDS-like viruses as early as 1970.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz has followed an incriminating paper trail leading from Dr. Kissinger
to Dr. Gallo and a network of scientists, to Merck, Sharp and Dohme, the world's largest
pharmaceutical company to the CIA, NATO and OTRAG - a West German Nazi-linked
company in Zaire - with ties to Litton Industries, a leading American military contractor, to
Black African and homosexual American genocide.
About Leonard Horowitz
Dr. Leonard Horowitz is an internationally known authority of behavioral science and public
health education. He received his doctorate from Tufts University in dental medicine, a
Master of Public Health degree in behavioral science from Harvard University, and a
Masters of Arts degree in health education from Beacon College. He served on the faculties
of Tufts and Harvard Universities and Leslie College's Institute for the Arts and Human
Development, directed a multidisciplinary health center for over a decade, and currently
serves as President of a nonprofit health educational corporation.
Regarded as one of American Healthcare's most inspiring motivational speakers, and a
prolific author with 10 books and more than 80 scientific and lay publications to his credit,
Dr. Horowitz has been a frequent guest on nationally syndicated radio and television talk
shows throughout North America and England.
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Captain Joyce Riley : Gulf War Syndrome
Gulf War Syndrome
Biological Warfare Conducted on U.S. Military Members, and
Corporate Bio-Genocide Levied on the Planetary Population
A Lecture By Captain Joyce Riley in Houston, Texas on January 15, 1996
Transcript by Leading Edge Research Group, P.O. Box 7530, Yelm, Washington 98597
With Editorial Commentary by Val Valerian World Wide Web Site: http://www.trufax.org
Introduction
(Applause) Thank you so very much. I am Joyce Riley, and I am here because I love my God and
I love my country, and I love my fellow man. We are going to hear a story tonight that
unfortunately is the saddest story, not only of the 20th century, but of America's history. You are
going to hear about the destruction of the United States military. I am sorry to have to bring you
this story. I wish it wasn't true. I wish that I could protect you from what you are going to hear
tonight, because it has taken me a year to investigate this story. During that time, I went through
the worst depression you can imagine. I finally came to the conclusion one day that - yes, our
country had provided the biologicals to Saddam Hussein that were used on our troops. Our troops
are sick and they are dying.
My story started in 1991, when I decided to go back to the Air Force Reserve. I had been
stationed in the late 1970's in New York State, and I had been involved as a flight nurse in the Air
Force. I got out and was living my life, but then I heard that there was a war and that many of our
men were going to die if they didn't have adequate care, and that they needed trained flight
nurses. So, I decided to back into the service of my country. I went back to Kelly Air Force Base in
San Antonio and I volunteered to go to Saudi Arabia. As it was, I didn't go to Saudi Arabia
because the cease-fire came, so I served active duty missions on a C-130 aircraft for about six
months. After that, I returned back to Houston to my job, where I was a heart, lung, kidney and
liver transplant nurse in Houston, Texas. I became very ill and I could get no answers. I didn't
know why I was sick. No one would talk with me about it. No one would help me with it, and I had
to find out the answers myself, alone.
The Problem
So, I began the investigation myself to answer the question of why I was sick. I didn't even go to
the Persian Gulf. They call it the Persian Gulf disease and the Persian Gulf Registry. They do that
for a reason, because then they can exclude all of us who are sick who didn't go to the Persian
Gulf. Well, I didn't go and I was still sick, and I wanted to know why. The only thing I had in
common with those who did go is that I had received the immunizations and that I had a lot of
contact with Gulf War veterans who were returning back to the states, and with other members of
our unit. Little did we know at the time that the biologicals that were used were impregnated in the
equipment they had, such as tents and duffle bags. It was being spread to all of us and we didn't
even know it. We were being told a lie. America, I am sorry to tell you that we have been told one
of the biggest lies this country has ever perpetrated upon us. They are telling us there is no Gulf
War disease. They are telling us biologicals were not used. They are not even telling you that
between 10,000 to 12,000 Gulf war vets have already died.
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I began my investigation and I went into depression the day I realized we had been lied to. I had
been involved with President Bush and with the White House, because I had been involved in
organ transplantation. I wrote a letter and called the White House and invited him to come to
Houston with Dr. Cooley to sign an organ donor card. He and Barbara did accept the invitation,
and I met with them, and they signed an organ donor card. President Bush told me at the time
that "I appreciate what you are doing. If this had been available years ago, perhaps my daughter
Robin might not have died." He told me that. Well, little did I know that during that same time they
were making the poisons that were going to eventually kill us. At the end of the program, I am
going to play an open letter I wrote to President Bush. He lives in Houston, as do all of the players
in what you are about to hear tonight. They all reside in Houston.
I do believe that the Lord gave me this story to tell, because a nurse from Houston, Texas just
doesn't "come across" this information -- that biological warfare has been perpetrated on the
American people. I knew when I heard the story that I had to move on it. I had to let Americans
know. I would not be quiet, because, you see, I knew that the government was actively covering it
up.
What I am going to show you tonight is not opinion. It is not conjecture. It is proof. I am going to
show you documentation on the overhead projector -- the evidence to support what I am saying to
you.
The basic fact is that biological agents were used on our troops. Chemical agents were used on
our troops. Germ warfare was used on our troops -- using biologicals that were made in the
United States of America. It was made in Houston, Texas and Boca Raton, Florida. It was passed
through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and through companies such as American Type
Culture Collection (ATCC) in Maryland. It was passed to Saddam Hussein -- sold to Saddam
Hussein, as late as 1989. Just prior to the war. The American government was involved in the
provision of biological warfare (components) to Saddam Hussein. They knew exactly what they
were doing. Our troops did not know what to expect, nor were they protected. We later found out
that we had no adequate biological/chemical detection capability. The lies are going on and on. I
released the story on my radio show on May 4, 1995 with Drs. Garth and Nancy Nicholson. We
had security in the studio because I had made the mistake of sending out some news releases in
advance. I was afraid that we would be stopped from doing the program. We had someone there
to argue a temporary restraining order, if necessary. But, we didn't need it. Drs. Garth and Nancy
Nicholson named names, places and times. The sad part is that it is real. When I heard them
naming names and places, I thought "oh, my word. I'm going to have ten lawyers on my door
tomorrow."
No one showed up. No one has come to me and said, "you shouldn't be saying this". The reason
being that they don't want to fight me in court. They know its true. So, what I am going to show
you tonight is absolute evidence of the saddest story in American history.
A Letter
I am going to start with a letter written to me from a young man in Wichita, Kansas. It begins,
"please forgive me for not writing sooner. I have been out of town on the job. My only hope is to
reach other vets and the public to let them know it is true and many of us are dying from this
illness. I will not give up until we are recognized and taken care of by our government, who
continues to blackball us on this endless journey." That is one Gulf War veteran who understands,
and I have received so many phone calls it has been impossible to return them.
At our unit at Kelly Air Force base, we were very spirited, with a mission to fulfill. We were going
to take care of that mission. Well, unfortunately, it was not the way it was. Let's go back in time
and look at a little history. I am going to show you a lot of information that is incredibly important.
You must understand that America has been doing this for a long period of time. It has been
experimenting on both civilians and military members.
1970 Vaccine "Safety" Tests at the University of Maryland
(Slide Shown) This is a 1970 article that appeared in a newspaper in Maryland (reads article):
"Research volunteers. Volunteers needed for 30 day in-patient vaccine safety tests. Very pleasant
environment. Pay $20 per day. Call the University of Maryland." One lady did call that number and
was involved in those tests. She is very ill today. They experimented on her. That was not the first
time that experimentation was done.
(Slide Shown) This is another article that appeared: "University of Maryland may have tested
drugs for the CIA." How many of you are familiar with MKULTRA. It involved the experimental use
of LSD on the public without their knowledge. I'll read a little more of this article. "The Central
Intelligence Agency has notified the University of Maryland that the school may have been
involved in so-called mind-bending tests and drug experiments sponsored by the agency between
1953 and 1964. The University is about one of eighty institutions that conducted experiments
under a program code-named MKULTRA." It goes on to identify where the tests were done, and
states that they are now going to protect all the researchers involved with the program. They want
to provide the researchers with confidentiality. However, those that were experimented upon do
not even know they were involved in a test. "Critics disclose that human subjects did not know
what they were getting either before or after the tests, and both the Army and the institutions
involved said they did not follow up on the personnel." Now, I want you to notice here that the
people involved in this were 44 colleges, 15 research foundations or chemical companies, 12
hospitals and three prisons. Now, we are going to go into prisons in just a few minutes as far as
how it was tested on the prisoners.
1970 Appropriation of Money to Create Human Immune Deficiency Virus
(Slide Shown) Another document that I want you to remember as long as you live is this. This
document appeared on my fax machine. I believe it to be the origin of the appropriation of the
money to make the AIDS virus [Editor note: See Matrix III Volume One]. This is the appropriations
hearing for 1970 for the Department of Defense. It is House Bill 15090. I want you to see that the
Department of Defense appropriated $10 million in 1970 to make a synthetic biological agent. Ask
yourself why the Department of Defense needs this kind of agent. There are two things about the
field of biological agents I would like to mention. One is the possibility of technological surprise. It
says that "we believe that within a period of five to ten years, it would be possible to produce a
synthetic biological agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could
have been acquired." What does that sound like to you? It goes on down here to say, "within the
next five to ten years, it would probably be possible to make a new ineffective microorganism
which could be different in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organism.
Most importantly, it might be damaging to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon
which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease." Basically this says it
will destroy the immune system. This was appropriated in 1970. In 1975 the first recorded "AIDS"
related death occurred. Perfect timing. It goes on to say, "a research program to explore feasibility
could be completed in approximately five years at a cost of $10 million." Now, look at this part
down here, which says, "it is a highly controversial issue and there are many who believe such
research should not be undertaken, lest it lead to yet another method of mass killing of large
populations." That is in your government documentation. Now, getting involved with killing of large
numbers of people is not what a government is for. I want you to get this document. Get this
House Bill.
What the Government and Media Say About Gulf War Syndrome
What is the U.S. Government saying about the Gulf War? This is an 1996 article from Time
Magazine that says, "No Gas Used Against the Troops." What is the government propaganda
saying? They are saying that "there is no scientific or medical evidence that chemical or biological
weapons were deployed at any level against us." That is an absolute lie. I will show you proof that
they knew that chemical and biological agents were used. After my radio show, an article came
out in the Houston Chronicle which said, "Gulf War Syndrome Doesn't Exist". Now, here we have
a documented number of Gulf War veterans that have already died, and they come out and say
there is no Gulf War illness. There is something really wrong. Now, you didn't hear much about
the Gulf War illness for about four years, until the Nicholsons went forward with this information.
Here is another article from the Washington Times , "Pentagon Says There Is No Gulf War
Disease." That article also came out shortly after we went on the air. The Los Angeles Times,
"Government Study of Veterans Finds No Evidence of Gulf War Disease."
Now, let's look at the documentation from the Persian Gulf Veterans Coordinating Board, which is
nothing but cover-up information. They are not telling the veterans the truth. They told us that they
contacted every one of us to see if we were sick. No one contacted us. I have not heard of any
person being contacted. But, look at this. A million men and women went to the Gulf. That's a
large number of people. Why do we need to go over there in the first place? What were we doing
over there? I am not sure.
What Was Really Behind the Gulf War: Malthusian Population Reduction
[Editor Note: The reason for the Gulf War, upon analysis, was threefold. It was to infect the U.S.
military and subsequently the U.S. and world population, and secondly to reacquire Kuwait oil
fields, which are owned by a well-known family in London, and thirdly to test weaponry on Iraq, to
whom factions sold weapons to be used against our own troops. Part of the cover-up involved
with Gulf War syndrome is also meant to conceal the fact that President Bush and other members
of his administration held stock in some of the biotech companies that produced the biological
weapons used against U.S. troops and shipped to Iraq. Another part of the cover-up involves
conventional arms, specifically a company known as U.S. Arms, who sold Iraq conventional
weapons to be used against U.S. troops. Former Secretary of Agriculture Ron Brown, who was in
the aircraft that was blown up in Bosnia, was on the board of Directors of U.S. Arms. Four
individuals on the plane were to testify in an upcoming hearing. Traces of thermite, denoting
explosives, were found on the bodies. Thirty-seven people were murdered. President Clinton
recently claimed Executive Privilege as a reason for not disclosing certain documents to
Congress relating to arms shipments to Iraq. Do you understand, yet? Other reasons for securing
the area involved control of vital earth grid points in Southern Iraq. Interestingly, there are also
large underground facilities in the Middle East, some of them of rather ancient, and alien, origin,
which still today contain high-tech equipment].
50% of Gulf War Veterans Are No Longer in the Service More Than 10,000 Are Dead
A million Gulf War vets went, and a million of them have the potential of being sick. I will tell you a
little bit why later. By their own admission, some 697,000 active duty service members and some
180,000 national guard went to the Gulf. What they say now is that 489,000 of them have since
separated from the military. Now, ask yourself why in an all-volunteer force, after a war, would
50% of the individuals involved get out of the military? It is not a statistic that even makes sense.
One out every two have gotten out of the military since Desert Storm? I wonder why. Possibly
because they had to, because they were sick and were forced out.
This is another figure that scares me. To date, the VA reports that more than 489,400 Gulf War
veterans have received medical care in VA facilities. One out of every two. Ask yourself why. You
don't go to the VA unless you have no where else to go.
Here is another item that was faxed to me from the VA. You see here that by their own admission
they say that 5,729 Gulf War veterans have died since the war. We know the figure is now
between 10,000 to 12,000.
Clinton-appointed Chairman of Joint Chiefs and Secretary of Defense
Lie in 1994 About Presence of Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Gulf
This is an item that came out from Chief of Staff Shalikashvilli and Secretary William Perry. This
letter came out May 24, 1994. It says, "There have been reports in the press of the possibility that
some of you were exposed to biological weapons agents. There is no information, classified or
unclassified, that indicates that chemical or biological weapons were used in the Persian Gulf.
There have also been reports that some veterans believe there are restrictions on what they can
say about potential exposures. Anybody attached to CBW units needs to know that they are free
to speak now. You should not feel constrained to discuss these issues." The Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense say there were no chemical or biological
weapons used. In fact, there is plenty of evidence. It has already been presented on the floor of
the Senate, and I am going to show it to you. [ Editor Note: Here she is referring to the Reigle
Report. We might also remind you that the father of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was
in the Nazi SS ].
Active Duty Military Intimidated Into Silence
I was approached at one point in time by someone who lead me to Drs. Garth and Nancy
Nicholson, who are heroes in my mind. They are both Ph.D. scientists at the M.D.Anderson
Cancer Center. Their daughter was in the 101st Airborne that did deep insertions into Iraq. Many
of the 101st Airborne have called me and many of them are sick. The 82nd Airborne is sick. Men
and women at Fort Hood, Texas are sick. Camp Pendleton. Camp LeJeune. Fort Riley is really
sick right now. These people are not allowed to talk about this in the military. They are not allowed
to tell people about the Gulf War Illness. They are not allowed to admit to it. I have even visited
Gulf War vets at Brook Army Medical Hospital, and they are not even allowed to talk about it. I
took some Gulf War information over there and the patients had to hide it so the doctors would
not see it. So, the Nicholson's daughter came back from Iraq sick. She gave the disease to the
family - to Garth and Nancy, who live in Houston, and also to the family cat. The cat died. Before
the cat died, they tested all of their blood. They found that they were positive for something called
Mycoplasma Incognitas, which is the chief biological agent we find to be responsible for a lot of
the illness of the veterans.
Mycoplasma Incognitas
I will explain this to you by saying that Mycoplasma Incognitas is between the size of a bacteria
and a virus. It travels through a population, and as long as your immune system is all right it will
not affect you. But, according to the Nicholson's, who are both Ph.D. cellular biologists, they found
that the scientists who were involved in this horrible plot inserted 40% of the HIV envelope gene
into the Mycoplasma. What this means is that it doesn't give you HIV, but it gives you the
symptoms. So, they found this and realized that they had a germ warfare agent on their hands. It
is the first biological agent identified. There have been others.
U.S. Government Refuses to Dispense Known Treatment to
Affected People
The Nicholson's went to the laboratory to discover how to treat this. They found that an antibiotic
called Doxycycline was the most effective. The United States military will not allow military
members under their control to have Doxycycline or VA hospitals to dispense Doxycycline. They
are simply not allowed to have it. I got a call from a Special Forces commander who had been
retired for one year. He said:
"I have had it. I came home. I served my country. I got my blood sent to Dr.
Nicholson for free testing and got my prescription for Doxycycline. I went to have it
filled and not only did that take away my military ID card, but they would not allow
me to have the Doxycycline to save my life."
You see, the disease is contagious, and now the wives and children are getting it. It is going to
affect you in the general population. That is why it is so important to understand how serious this
is. It is not just the United States. It is a worldwide program. There were 28 countries that served
with the United States in Iraq. All 28 countries now report that their men and women are also sick.
But Drs. Garth and Nancy Nicholson revealed that a Houston company was involved in the
manufacture of a biological weapon that was sold to Iraq and was used on American soldiers in
the Gulf War. Since we came out with the names of these companies, there have been lawsuits
filed against those corporations.
Symptoms of the Syndrome
These are the symptoms of the syndrome. You may look at this and it may not seem very
significant to you, so if you look at aching joints and go to your doctor and say "I have aching
joints" or you say "I have chronic fatigue ", or you say "I don't have the memory I used to", they
will not say anything. When I am talking about memory loss, I am talking about the kind where
you have to wear a beeper so your family can find you. One young man told me, "I can only
remember today. I can't remember what happened yesterday." He was 27 years old. We are
talking about a problem known as night sweats. Any Gulf War veteran who has the Mycoplasma
knows about night sweats. You have to change your linens twice a night. The muscle spasms get
so bad that you can't stand it and people scream in pain. There is also loss of eyesight, breathing
problems, and chest pains because the Mycoplasma settles in the atrium of the heart. All of these
are problems that become worse.
The problem is that the government is telling the people of the United States "there is no Gulf War
Illness". The doctors in this country think there is no Gulf War Illness. So, when people come in
and complain about the symptoms , they are turned aside and told that the problem is
psychological in nature.
Deformed Children Caused by U.S. Corporate Genocide
Now, you are not being told about the babies that are being born deformed. There is a Gulf War
Baby Foundation formed to register babies who have contracted the syndrome. There are so
many that are being born deformed. You are not being told about this. Dan Rather doesn't tell you
about it, does he? No. And so, you think that if it isn't on the nightly news it must not be true,
right? If a tree falls in the forest and Dan Rather doesn't cover it, does it still make a noise? Think
about it.
Gulf War babies are severely deformed. In fact, according to Nation Magazine, "studies have
shown that 67% of babies born to Gulf War veterans are deformed. What have they done to our
future generations? What have they done to their DNA?
There was an article that appeared in Life Magazine in November 1995 featuring a man in the
82nd Airborne at Fort Brag, North Carolina. This young man has a child with no arms and no legs.
I know of a nurse in San Antonio who knows of 50 children like this.
When our soldiers risked their lives in the Gulf, they never imagined that their children would face
these consequences or that their country would turn its back on them. You are hearing what
perhaps 1% of the country knows today. It will take your help to get this story out. There is no way
these parents can afford to take care of these children. (Shows pictures of children).
The Reigle Reports and Congressional Knowledge About the
Problem Covered Up
This is something that the government is trying to keep you from knowing about. The Reigle
report is evidence that biological and chemical weapons were used on our troops. It was
presented to the United States Senate, but it has been withheld from you. They don't want you to
see it. A news release went out that Senator Reigle from Michigan was a brave man for doing
this. He is no longer in the Senate. He had to pay for the report to be done. The Feb 1994 news
release said, "Reigle Uncovers U.S. Shipment of Biological Warfare Materials to Iraq Prior to Gulf
War". The release went on to say, "there is evidence of transmission to family members. I am
deeply troubled that the United States permitted the sale of deadly biological agents to a country
with a known biological warfare program." There is no blood ban stopping Gulf War veterans from
donating blood to the general blood supply that the general population uses. Reigle also sent a
letter to Secretary of Defense Perry on Feb 9, 1994 and talked about the exposure of Gulf War
veterans and the transmission of the disease to spouses and children. He found out that we had
been exporting these biological substances through ATCC. This information is known to every
Senator that was in office in 1994. Why aren't they doing something about it. Why weren't you told
about it? Reigle also said to Secretary Perry, "without proper treatment and testing, their condition
will worsen. They cannot wait. Many are now destitute, with their savings spent on medical care
not provided by the government.
According to Senator Reigle, "the Department of Defense refuses to acknowledge any part of the
problem. Their blanket denials are not credible. To my mind, there is no more serious crime than
an official military cover-up of facts that could prevent more effective diagnosis and treatment of
sick U.S. veterans. It is an astonishing example that the Defense Department is going to deny
reality."
The Veterans Administration is not treating Gulf War veterans, but only monitoring their blood to
see how well the biological warfare agents worked. They are not treating the Gulf War veterans.
(Here she details the bacteriological substance shipped. See attachment from the Reigle Report
at the end of this transcript).
Proof of Chemical Weapon Use from the Schwartzkoff NBC Log
(Slide Shown) Here is how we know the biologicals were used. What I am showing you was once
a classified document. It is part of the Chemical-Biological log that belonged to General Norman
Schwartzkoff in CENTCOM. He was responsible for central command. The NBC log is sort of a
roadmap of the war and what transpired. You can see here that it says, "Colonel Dunn has
confirmed that the soldiers of the 3rd AD have blisters, characteristic of mustard chemical agent,
on upper and lower arms." Remember the official statement? "No Biological or Chemical
Weapons Used". The log continues, "ARCENT advised that casualty happened on afternoon of
28 Feb, a reddening of the skin and small blisters." I want you to know that I talked to several of
the MEDIVAC flight nurses who accompanied the troops out of the theater of operations, and they
told me that many of the men had no skin on them, that their skin was falling off. Evidence of a
chemical burn. So, this is known information. Some of the autopsies done at Dover, Delaware
found that some of the deaths were due to chemical poisoning.
Schwartzkoff's NBC log continues, "Msgt Blue called. Subject: Commanders Guidance for
Disposition of captured chemical and biological munitions." They had captured them and they
knew they existed. Continuing, "field destruction is OK, but bulk destruction may have
international implications." I have a number of these pages that were released under a FOIA
request, and there are about 100 pages that were released to the Gulf War Veterans of Georgia.
My hat is off to all the Gulf War Veterans that have been trying to take this message to the public
for the last four years.
(Slide Shown) Anybody who was in Desert Storm knows what these are. The little "PB" pills which
are a pre-treatment pill for a nerve agent. In other words, if you were going to be affected by a
nerve agent such as Soman, you would take this pill in advance and it was supposed to help you.
However, you should never take this unless you actually are affected, because it builds up in the
body and it creates many problems.
International Media Comes to the U.S. to Investigate
(Slide Shown) This is an article that came out of the Sunday Times in London. The BBC has been
over here investigating this quite heavily because they have so many people in England that are
sick from all of this. The Italian equivalent to "60 Minutes" has been over here filming on the
subject, because the Italian soldiers are sick also. It's country after country.
U.S. Companies Sold Iraq New Genocidal Anthrax Toxin
This is why I am scared about what is going on with the biological warfare. It hasn't stopped,
because Saddam Hussein still has these things. Reading the Sunday Times article, we see that
"Russia has developed a powerful new poison with no antidote that could be used in biological
weapons. It is a variation of the anthrax toxin that causes death within days. It has been
genetically engineered to make it resistant to antibiotics. The toxin is so powerful that a tiny
amount that would fit on a pinhead would theoretically kill 500,000 people." Can you imagine what
that would do to the WATER SUPPLY? Saddam Hussein had thousands of pounds of this
substance that was given to him by United States companies.
Veteran Medical Files Destroyed or Missing
Guess what happened to our veterans medical files? They are destroyed. There was actually an
attorney who was sent to prison for destroying veterans medical files. Many of the medical files of
Gulf War veterans are missing. No only are they missing, but now the proof that they received the
vaccinations is now missing.
Gulf War Participants Force-Injected With Experimental Vaccines
Let's talk about how we were affected on the biological side. The first way was with the
immunizations. We were given 10 or 11 immunizations prior to going to the gulf. We don't know
everything we got. Some of us got sick afterwards. The Anthrax vaccinations were given over in
the Gulf, in the theater of operations, and you were forced to submit to it. If you didn't take it, you
were court-martialed. People were put into a room like this, the doors were locked, and they had
security guards with side arm who stood by while people were forced to take this injection. Why?
Why would they do this to people? The Anthrax "vaccine" had not been approved and was
experimental. The injection for Botulism was also dangerous. All of these things in combination
created a problem.
The Soviet Doctrine: The Biological Cocktail
But, the real problem that we believe to be the main transmission agent was via the SCUD-B and
FROG missiles. You see, the SCUD missiles that Hussein used on us had biological and
chemical agents in them. When the Patriots shot them down, it rained biological and chemical
agents down on the troops. In terms of biological warfare, they used what is called the SOVIET
DOCTRINE, in which 18-20 biological agents were mixed together in the tanks of the SCUD
missiles. Because the batch contained so many biological agents, it effectively confuses the
diagnosis and the treatment process. Now, ask yourself this.
Media Projects Responsibility on Iraq for U.S. Crimes
What is the press coming out and saying? If you read the media, which I hope you don't, you will
see an article in the Kansas City Star on October 14th that said, "Iraq Sanctioned", in which they
claimed "Iraq lied to us about having and using biological weapons." You know as well as I do that
they have satellites in the sky that enable them to see what you are having for dinner. You know
they knew what Hussein had, because they sold it to them. Absolutely.
This is what I want you to be watching for, because this is going to be the cover story. They are
going to have to deal with the Gulf War illness because so many people have it now. In fact, I will
tell you now that because we know that over 10,000 have already died, and we believe 500,000
of our Gulf War veterans to be sick, Dr. Nicholson told me that 20% of the people around the
theater of operations (United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, etc.) are now sick. It is coming to a place
near you , believe me. The chronic fatigue syndrome. I got a call from a doctor the other day who
told me that he has 15 patients with CFS, and they don't know anyone who went to the Gulf War.
It's transmissible through sex and through kissing, because it is now found in the dental floss test,
where you can see evidence of the mycoplasma. It is communicable and it is going to be growing.
A doctor called me the other day, and he said, "I don't know what's going on. I volunteered to take
care of these Gulf War veterans because the VA wouldn't take care of them, and now I'm sick
with the same problem. Can you help me understand why I'm sick?" I said, "don't you know its a
communicable disease?" He had no idea, because the official position of the U.S. Government is
that "there is no Gulf War illness."
Peter Kawaja has been talking about the fact that "GF" was used during the war. Nobody ever
mentioned "GF" or even heard of it, except Peter Kawaja, and he kept saying "GF was used."
Well, the substance called "GF" is made by the U.S. Department of the Army. The government
made it. I have evidence in the government logs of "GF" having been used during the war, but no
one ever addressed "GF" until a U.S. News and World Report article came out on September 11,
1995. In this, they have the UN inspector going over to Iraq and inspecting the SCUDS and
voicing the "sudden realization" that "Oh, they had all this nasty stuff over there after all that the
Iraqis didn't tell us about". Well, I have evidence in a Pentagon report that shows that we knew
about it more than 30 days before the war started. The U.S. government knew it was in the
SCUDS, because the U.S. companies sold it to Iraq in the first place. It's interesting that in this
story the UN inspector is trying to cover himself by saying what he did. The fact that "GF" is
mentioned in Schwartzkoff's NBC log also proves the military knew it was there.
The True Origin of The "New" Emerging Biological Diseases is the
Biological Cocktail Thrust on the Planet By U.S. Companies,
Disguised in the Media as "Mysterious New Diseases" from
"Nowhere" In Order to Cover Up Crimes Against Humanity and
Genocide
An article came out in Scientific American in October 1995 that was very fascinating reading.
They have to deal with the results of this biological warfare, because too many people are getting
sick and too many people are dying. How are they going to deal with it? The title of the article in
Scientific American was, "Dangers from new viral plagues." Have you been seeing anything in the
newspaper about Dengue fever in South America, or about these "strange" viral hemorragic
diseases that are " suddenly attacking us" from " nowhere "? Guess what. They came out of the
Gulf War! And, they are now calling it "emerging viruses". Hemorragic fever viruses are among
the most dangerous biological agents known. The Ebola virus. You didn't hear about that before
the Gulf War, did you?
The article in the Scientific American wants you to believe that all of a sudden we are going to be
having all these incredible viruses, all over the world , appearing for no reason at all. Many
biologists are saying that they never heard of any of these things before. How many of you ever
heard of the Hantavirus before the Gulf War? Remember the Hantavirus in New Mexico, caused
by "mouse droppings"? I guess we didn't have mouse droppings before the Gulf War, right? We
didn't hear about Ebola before the Gulf War. We didn't hear so much about Chronic Fatigue
before the Gulf War. A lot of these things we never had a problem with before the Gulf War. A lot
of them were used during that time and supplied by United States companies.
Now, the media tells you "why" we are "going to have this incredible problem." Scientific American
tells us, "the primary cause of most cases of hemorragic fever is ecological disruption resulting
from human activity." In other words, we cut down too many trees in the rain forest and those
bugs are going to get us. That's what they are trying to get you to believe, that it is because of
cutting down too many trees in the rain forest. Well, they are calling them hemorragic fever
viruses now. I've never heard of hemorragic fever viruses. I've been a nurse for 25 years and I
have never heard about them. But, now some of the Gulf War illnesses contain hemorragic fever
viruses. Some Gulf War veterans have called me and have said that they are bleeding from every
part of their body. It is similar to the Ebola virus, but it takes two years to kill them - slowly. How
many of you have seen the movie Outbreak? That is your homework.
Were the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave Deaths Really Something Else?
Why am I concerned about this? I was having lunch with Peter Kawaja, and I noticed this article in
USA Today, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Remember when there was that period of
incredible heatwaves in Chicago and all these people were dying? Well, look here in this article,
where it shows lines of refrigerated trucks brought in to store bodies. Since when did we have so
many bodies that we had to put them in trucks? This is the part that concerns me: The bodies
were stored in nine donated refrigerated trucks that were to be destroyed after use. Now, if we
went and destroyed every hospital and funeral home after a body was in there, we wouldn't have
much left, would we? Why would they want to destroy the trucks? Were they contaminated? Was
there a disease? I don't know. All I know is that when you read material in the newspaper, check it
out very carefully. Ask questions! Don't assume they are telling you the whole story.
U.S. Ships Enough Biological Agents To Iraq to Kill the Entire
Planet
(Slide Shown) Now, this was faxed to me by people in Britain. Remember that we said that this
new Anthrax toxin could kill 500,000 people with an amount on the head of a pin? United States
companies shipped Saddam Hussein 1,500 gallons of Anthrax. It had already been loaded into
bombs and missile warheads in Baghdad. Out of 39 tons of biological warfare agents imported by
Iraq from the United States, each ton could have produced ten tons of biological warfare material.
How much does he need, anyway?
The Post Gulf-War Emergence of Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Over 50,000 U.S. and British troops have suffered symptoms, ranging from broken down immune
systems to wasting flesh. How many of you have heard of flesh-eating bacteria? Didn't hear about
it before the Gulf War, did you? Wonder why? It's part of it. Some of the Gulf War babies are born
with flesh-eating bacteria already hard at work.
U.S. Government Increases Budget to Bury Veterans But Denies
Them Money for Assistance
(Slide Shown) This is an article from a British newspaper. It says, "the U.S. Defense Department
has increased its budget for burial of Gulf War veterans." They haven't announced this too widely
in the United States, have they? That's what they are doing. They are denying the problem exists,
denying that biological weapons were used, and increasing the capability to bury people. How can
we treat people like this?
The Attempt to Bring George Bush to a War Crimes Tribunal
Thwarted by U.S. "Justice" Department in 1993
Did you know that George Bush was almost brought up before a Grand Jury? He was
subpoenaed in an illegal export case that involved shipment of biological agents to Saddam
Hussein. You didn't know about that, did you? He was. In 1993 the "Justice Department" said, "he
doesn't have to do it." George Bush was brought up before a war crimes tribunal. You didn't know
about that either, right? Get the book by Ramsey Clark.
Emergence of Post-Gulf War Biological Problems Coincides With
Massive National Injection Programs
So, what are we doing in America? We are inoculating everybody. Why? Why is the government
so big on inoculating everybody. Every newspaper in the country had a front page color picture of
inoculation. They are trying to justify it. Why? In Houston, you can drive down a certain street
where they have nurses lined up along the street. You put your arm out the window of the car and
they inject you. Why? America, we have to stop holding out our arms to anybody that comes
along and says, "We're from the government. We are going to help you. You need this shot". Why
do I need this shot? I got too many shots during the Gulf War and I paid dearly for it. I will never
do that again. Know your rights.
U.S. Troops Inoculated Before Going to Bosnia Are Coming Down
With the Same Symptoms
(Slide Shown) Why does this picture appear in the paper? They are inoculating all the troops
going to Bosnia. I am just now starting to get reports from the troops in Bosnia that some of them
now have the characteristic rash, which is a cardinal clinical sign of the Gulf War Illness. Its the
only sign you can see at this early stage, until they start losing weight, their hair, and start aging.
Many people come to me when they discover that they have this rash. It's a sign of biological and
chemical warfare. WE ARE DOING IT TO OUR TROOPS IN BOSNIA.
U.S. Troops Inoculated Before Going to Somalia Are Coming Down
With the Same Symptoms
The U.S. troops that are coming back from Somalia are coming back sick, too, with all the same
symptoms and problems as the Persian Gulf veterans.
Bush and Clinton "Justice Departments" Refuse to Prosecute
Bioweapon Supply Companies Under the Trading With the Enemy
Act
Now, I want to show you this. It appeared in Media Bypass recently. It was January 1996. In this
issue, Sarah McClendon, who was a wire service person in Washington, has kind of seen the
light. She is in her 80's now, but she follows every story. I want you to see what she has written,
because she was a "government person" beforehand. And now, I will tell you, that she has truly
"changed sides."
She writes, "Proof is building up stronger than ever that big U.S. corporations [Editor Note: The
U.S. Government is also a corporation] made the weapons that Saddam Hussein used to kill
American soldiers in the Persian Gulf War. These corporations also provided the chemical and
biological weapons that the Iraqis used to make thousands of surviving soldiers ill. Both the Bush
and Clinton Administration Justice Departments agreed not to prosecute for TRADING WITH THE
ENEMY."
[Editor Note: Now, this is an interesting coincidence, because it is exactly what Prescott Bush and
the Rockefellers did before and during World War II, when they materially and financially
supported the buildup and creation of Nazi Germany, and later Communist Russia, to create
extreme forms of National Socialism and International Socialism, in order to anger the planetary
population, who would stamp these forms of socialism out and make way for International
Corporate Capitalism, which is Global Socialism, or otherwise known as the New World Order.
Any good student of history will find the prosecutions levied for Trading With the Enemy on U.S.
companies during this period in history. Don't believe any of this? Do your homework! The same
people have been at it behind the scenes for the last 60 years doing the same thing. When you
then see Operation Paperclip and Project 63 in action for 30 years . . . . . well, welcome to the
covert 4th Reich in disguise. All the research is in Matrix III Volume Two, of what they are doing,
how they are doing it and why. Read it and understand. Everything is there.]
You have heard about the Trading With the Enemy Act? Guess who has really been trading with
the enemy? Now they are being openly accused of it. The Media Bypass article continues: "The
buildup of Iraq's weapons was paid for by U.S. taxpayers, and this business was conducted for
years before the Persian Gulf War, and after it started. Such trading with the enemy is tantamount
to TREASON. Since when did treason become a civil case? Federal Judge Schub of Atlanta,
before whom the case came during the Bush era, said in a phone call to Attorney General Janet
Reno, that "anyone who believes there was not grounds for prosecution, has to believe in
never-never land."
[Editor note: The Bush era has not ended. How quaint that Judge Schub should call Janet Reno,
who herself is guilty of election fraud in Florida, and is a firm believer in never-never land -without a means of self defense against tyranny, of course. Furthermore, Janet Reno cannot
legally hold the position of Attorney General, because she is an agent of a foreign power and
works for Interpol, which has been historically connected with rejects from Nazi Germany. Well,
another human example of never clone alone, at the very least. It reminds me of the situation in
Congress a few years ago when one upset Congressmen referred to others as "Reptilian
Bastards"]
By the way, these items for the SCUD missiles that were given to Saddam Hussein were made in
Connecticut and in Pittsburgh. The Media Bypass article continues, "Because Iraq defaulted on
payment for the biological agents received from U.S. companies, American taxpayers ended up
stuck with the bill for weapons that were later used against coalition forces." Part of the reason it
was covered up is that President Bush's father was involved with Brown Brothers Harriman Bank,
which was involved with the transactions.
How was this cover-up of the manufacture of weapons for Iraq arranged in the United States?
Bush arranged for 70% of the policy-makers in the Department of Justice to remain in their jobs
when Clinton was elected. The official stance from the Justice Department is, "we cannot talk
about this, because the independent prosecutor has said, through the courts, that no one is to
discuss this investigation officially, until it is finished." Now, there is someone who is really giving
out official information, but it doesn't come out in the media -- only in Media Bypass.
Media Mistakenly Releases Truth About Doxycycline Then Issues
Cover-up Stories
(Slide Shown) Ok, this just came out the other day. I was in Connecticut doing a radio show on
the Gulf War issue, and I was taking a break for a commercial, when all of a sudden CBS radio
comes over the main feed and says, "the Gulf War illness is found to be helped by the antibiotic
Doxycycline." I couldn't believe it. We pushed the federal government to admitting this.
[Editor Note: I thought you might find it interesting that CBS has had long time connections to the
Central Intelligence Agency]
I called CBS news and they faxed me the news release. I thought, "now they'll be able to get
Doxycycline from the military." Guess what happens the next day. Good old Associated Press, the
cover-up news agency, comes out with "Report Urges More Attention to Psychological Problems".
Here we are, back again, to saying that all the symptoms are psychological. And so they had
another cover-up news release that came out just this past week to cover-up the one that came
out that told the truth. That's what's happening.
United States Military To Expand Presence In the Persian Gulf
After Clinton Executive Order
Here is another article which recently came out. It says, "U.S. to Expand Presence as Persian
Gulf Deterrent." On January 7th, another press release said, "The United States will expand on its
already massive military presence in the Persian Gulf ". How many of you knew we still had
massive military presence in the Persian Gulf? We thought the war was over. They are sending
troops over there every three months, and those biological agents are still bound to the silica in
the sand, and those troops are getting ill and calling me. I just got a copy of the executive order
that Clinton just passed to bring in more reservists into active service. Why are they doing that, I
wonder. Through the use of Executive Orders, they are signing away all our rights. This is what
concerns me. Look at this. Executive Order 10011 allows the government to take over all health,
education and welfare functions. Is that what we are going to do now, with this incredible problem
we've got?
The Convention on Biological Diversity: Nature Worship A State
Religion
(Slide Shown) This is the Convention on Biological Diversity. I just got a copy of this, and I don't
know how many of you have seen this. I think that you would be interested in knowing what it
calls for. Guess what they want to do? Objective: To make nature worship a state religion. To
make man equal to all other species. Now, when you start getting really involved, the way I am
now, there are a lot of people that don't want you to do it. I got this letter from the Department of
the Navy, which is the closest station to where I am, and they said, "Dear Captain Riley, Our
desire is to medically evaluate you, as soon as possible." You'll have to catch me, and I don't
think you're going to.
Sexually Transmitted Cancer
Peter Kawaja has been talking about this. Guess what. This just came out on 10/10/95. There is
such a thing as sexually transmitted cancer. Isn't it strange that all these things we've been talking
about are now coming out? Let me tell you about Peter Kawaja. He operated under a government
code name. The reason he did this is that he found out that biological agents were being made in
the United States, and he was aware of the fact that it was essentially treason, and that it was
wrong, and he went to the CIA, FBI and U.S. Customs and told them that this was going on.
Product Ingredient Technology and Dr. Barbouti
He told them that "they are making biological agents in Boca Raton, Florida, and that they are
being used for germ warfare." The government then said to him to let them know everything he
found out, and they wanted to stay on top of it. Peter was a security systems person that was
hired to do security contracts. In doing so, he was able to see what was happening at this plant,
called P.I.T, the Product Ingredient Technology plant. This plant was a project of Dr. Barbouti,
who is from Houston. His son still lives in Houston. Dr. Barbouti had been involved in the (illegal)
sales of arms to Iraq, had originally built the biological warfare plant in Libya, had come to the
United States and had cloned the Libyan plant in Boca Raton, Florida. They said they were
making a cherry flavoring there. That was the cover story. Well, he got a letter after he signed the
contract to do the security arrangement. In the letter, PIT stated that "we forgot to tell you that we
need a cyanide detection system."
Now, if Saddam Hussein had wanted to kill our soldiers, he would have just outright killed them
with mustard or cyanide, right? That wasn't the plan. The plan was to give them a long-term
illness that they would bring back to their families. What better way to give a country a disease
than to give it to the military, who move all over the country. This was an experiment in biological
warfare. Well, this cyanide that was to be made in Boca Raton was for Prussian Blue , which is a
hydrogen cyanide derivative, and the purpose for its manufacture was that it was placed in the
SCUD rockets with the biochemical substances. When the missile blew up, the Prussian Blue
would deteriorate the materials of which the gas masks were made , especially the filters. So,
even if they did put their protective gear on, it wouldn't work. All the time, they thought the
chemical suits were protecting them. Again, this Prussian Blue was made by a company in the
United States.
The Bush Administration Response to Discovery
When Peter Kawaja continued to get this information and found out about all of this, he then did
something the government did not expect him to do. He wire tapped all the telephones at the PIT
plant. He wire tapped all the phones at the corporate living quarters of the International
Headquarters of IBI International (Ishan Barbouti International). When he wiretapped all of these
phones, he heard Congressmen, officials in the Bush administration, high-level world officials, and
he found out that he had been had -- that this was a joint venture with the United States
government. Now, they realized that he had tapped the phone lines, and they served him with a
"War Powers Act Subpoena" -- the first one ever issued since World War II. It takes an Executive
Order from the President to issue this. They came to his business with armed guards and took all
his recordings, documents -- everything. This is significant. He was not served with the affidavit of
the search warrant to go along with it, all of this evidence remains at the Department of Justice
and it is being held under "national security" until "the investigation" is "complete."
What the British Press Knew in 1991 That Americans Did Not
However, look what came out of the British press. On January 17, 1991. Let me show you how
much information the British press had. Look at this, "Boca Plant begins trail to Washington." You
see, what Peter Kawaja did is that he sent a FedEx letter to the NSA telling them terrorists were in
the United States making biological weapons, and he wanted President Bush to know. That is
when they came and took his documents. Here are more British headlines, "Congress Probes
Linking Gates to Arms Deal" and "Barbouti Acted in Accord with U.S. Plan Toward Iraq" and
"Gates and Secord Linked to Iraqi Pipeline". Down here, in the Financial Times of London, July 3,
1991, there is an article "U.S. Cyanide Shipped to Iraq Despite Warnings to CIA", and "Iraqi's
Florida Plant Tied to Poison Gas: Export of Chemical Feared". Ishan Barbouti, by the way, died
one week before the war began. He is buried under eight feet of cement, "for religious purposes",
in London.
The Federal Lawsuit Against the Perpetrators
(Slide Shown) This is a lawsuit that Peter Kawaja has filed in the Southern District Court of
Florida. He is charging war crimes against the Bush administration. He has filed a lawsuit against
100 federal agents. I will show you part of what he has done. He has accused them of war crimes,
concealment, conspiracy, corruption, aiding and abetting, fraud, obstruction of justice, tampering
with a witness, and more. You see, he was called three times to be a witness for a Federal Grand
Jury against Barbouti. There is a lot that we can't go into because of time. He is doing this Pro Se,
by the way. It has been in the system for two years now, and he has kept it there. He is saying
that they attempted to conceal U.S. Government dealings with terrorists and terrorist nations -the same terrorists the Bush administration had publicly declared war against. Under item "I" in
this lawsuit, it reads, "to conceal from the American public, and from American forces, and their
families, who were knowingly placed in harms way, that the same terrorist nations the Bush
administration had declared war against, had acquired new weapons of mass destruction from the
United States , which American forces could not defend against." This information is in the court
system, and Peter needs support. We are aware of this case, and we are going to be watching
this case. By the way, when he filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Government, they didn't come
back and deny anything. They simply said " we deserve immunity, because we are the United
States Government."
(Slide Shown) This is part of the deposition of one of the agents involved. It says here, "I can
assure you that if drums of cyanide left our plant, Dr. Barbouti had his reasons, either to be used
against American troops or terrorist acts against the United States at home." It is amazing to see
this in a deposition.
The Clinton Cover-up and the Psychotropic Drugging of Poisoned
Veterans
So, Peter Kawaja sent all the information to President Clinton on September 4, 1994. Clinton then
started a "Presidential Advisory Task Force". I don't know if you have heard anything about this or
not, but it is a whitewash and cover-up. It is incredible that they are making the American people
think that they are really looking into the Gulf War illness. They called me the other day, and
asked me, "can you tell us what you think is causing the Gulf War illness?" I said, it doesn't make
any difference what I think. Twelve thousand troops are already dead, and you need to be finding
out what's doing it. We all know what is doing it - biological and chemical warfare. They said,
"well, we can't pinpoint exactly what virus or bacteria is causing the problem, so we can't treat it." I
said, you say you don't know what causes cancer, but you treat that!" It is amazing that they are
taking this stance, dragging their feet, and trying to make the Gulf War vets feel that it is "their
fault." You have 23 year-old Marines that are being told it is "all in your head" and being placed on
Prozac and other psychotropic drugs. They have been sedated. I had one young man call me,
and he was practically drooling, and he said, quot;please don't stop doing what you are doing". I
said, what I need is to have the Gulf War veterans behind me. He said, "I'm so sedated, I couldn't
get angry if I wanted to." That's the problem. They have either given them the psychotropic drugs,
or they have bought them off with a 10% disability, $89 per month, which makes them feel like
they are getting something they deserve.
America has been lied to, and it is going to stop. We have to get to the mainstream. I would
encourage you to contact your Congressman and your newspapers. Do not let this stop. I want to
see letters from your Senators either admitting or denying all of this. If they were in office in 1994,
they have been exposed to the Reigle Report.
In closing, I want to say that we need your prayers, and the veterans need your prayers. I am only
here as a messenger. I am just one person that is not going to be quiet about this. I am not going
to let our Gulf War veterans die and suffer without American knowing what happened to them.
Please do what you can to get the word out.
Note: Gulf War Vets -- You may write to Captain Joyce Riley with your story or your request for assistance.
Her address is: 2931 Highland Lakes, Missouri City, Texas 77459. Her FAX number is 1-713-438-4581.
The above information has been posted at the Leading Edge Research Group Internet Web Site.
Leading Edge Research Group, P.O. Box 7530, Yelm, Washington 98597 U.S.A.
http://www.trufax.org
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
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The Hidden Dangers of Water
An EPA report on the status of the nation's lakes, rivers, and estuaries says that while
water quality is not getting worse in America, neither is any progress being made. More
than one third of all waterways are reported to be unsuitable for fishing or swimming
because of pollution. Most contaminants are sewage and bacteria, fertilizer, toxic metals,
oil and grease. Typical sources of the pollution include runoff from farms, industrial
waste, and city sewer discharge.
Newsweek: "Several million Americans are drinking water that is potentially hazardous
due to chemical or bacterial contamination."
L.A. Times: "Communities with drinking water contamination by chemicals are being hit
with strange patterns of illness."
ABC Network News: "U.S. Industries...generate some 88,000,000 pounds of toxic wastes a
year, 90 percent of which, the E.PA. estimates, are improperly disposed."
The New York Times, June 2, 1995: "More than 1 in 5 Americans unknowingly drink tap
water polluted with feces, radiation or other contaminants...Nearly 1,000 deaths each
year and at least 400,000 cases of waterborne illness may be attributed to contaminated
water. . "
Houston Chronicle, June 2, 1995: "The parasite [cryptosporidium] that killed more than
100 people in Milwaukee two years ago has been found in drinking water systems that
serve 45 million people..."
USA TODAY, March 30, 1995: "Parasite in water is widespread...can be dangerous, even
fatal, to people with weakened immune systems."
U.S. News & World Report, June 26, 1995: "Some individuals, federal officials said last
week, should not drink water straight from the tap because a disease causing parasite can
slip right through many municipal water treatment systems."
The Washington Post, June 2, 1995: "Federal statutes do not require municipal water
authorities to clean cryptosporidium from water reservoirs."
With over 70,000 chemicals now in use and with the introduction of a 1,000 more each
year, drinking water contamination is increasing at an alarming rate. According to a
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leading citizen lobby, U.S. drinking water has 2,100 toxic chemicals causing cancer, cell
mutation, and nervous disorders. Existing treatment plants were not designed to remove
the new toxic chemicals, and the government is slow to regulate the high rate of
contamination. Responsible citizens are left to educate and protect themselves from the
world's greatest environmental threat - chemically contaminated water.
Aluminum and Alzheimer's Disease
If you have ever wondered why there is such an astounding increase in Alzheimer's
disease, the answer may have finally been found. In the April 1995 issue of the
international science journal, Neurotoxicology, a private Australian research group
reported that the widespread use of aluminum salts to purify water may lead to brain
damage and may account for the large scale loss of memory experienced by people
suffering from Alzheimer's disease!
The Australia Institute of Biomedical Research, based in Sydney, reported that
experiments with rats showed that tiny amounts of aluminum consumed in water found
its way to their brains and accumulated there. It has been known for twenty years that if
aluminum accumulated in the brain over a period of time, it could kill off neurons and
cause memory loss. Institute researcher Judie Walton noted the worldwide massive
increase in Alzheimer's disease over the past 70 years. She pointed out: "We are drinking
it and eating it throughout our lifetimes, so by the time we are quite old we have had a lot
of exposure to aluminum." Aluminum is also found in food emulsifiers, anti-perspirant
deodorants, baking powder, some toothpastes, and many of the commonly used cooking
utensils.
The research on rats found measurable amounts of aluminum in their brains after just
one glass of aluminum treated water. Walton observed: "We really should look seriously
at revisiting this possibility that aluminum addition to foods and drinking water is a
health hazard." Due to the concerns about a link between aluminum and Alzheimer's
disease, Sydney, Australia's largest city, is already gradually withdrawing aluminum
treatment of water.
Using aluminum to purify water may be even more dangerous than the use of fluoride
and chlorine in our water. It is believed that the problem is worsened by the action of
fluoride in facilitating the absorption of aluminum.
The Worsening Contamination of Water
It has been estimated that 53 million Americans, about 20 percent of the population, have
been drinking water that is contaminated with feces, radiation, lead, or other poisons.
This is according to data collected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
in 1993-1994. This was a 7.6 million increase over 1992!
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) reported that it had tested 29 Midwestern
cities and towns and found that all had herbicides present in the drinking water. In one
Illinois city, they found that the level of the weed killer cyanazine in the public water
supply was 34 times above the federal standards. The EWG estimated that 20 to 25
million Americans are now drinking water polluted with herbicides. Research in
laboratories has shown a higher incidence of cancer and birth defects in animals fed with
food containing herbicides .
The EWG conservatively attributed at least 1000 deaths each year, and about 400,000
cases of waterborne illness, to contaminated tap water. Besides hazards for the
unsuspecting general population, experts have noted the serious health consequences that
exist for infants and children.
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Estrogen Hormone Replacement Risks
Women can now get the benefits of hormone replacement therapy without the risks and
negative side effects of estrogen. A cream containing natural progesterone (from Mexican
Wild Yam) is now being successfully used to treat symptoms of menopause and
premenstrual syndrome (PMS) related to hormonal deficiencies and imbalances. (1,2,3,4,6)
Estrogen Replacement: The Good and the
Bad
For many years, estrogen replacement therapy has been used to treat menopausal symptoms.
Estrogen slows bone loss and the progression of osteoporosis. Then the bad news came . . .
a series of studies links estrogen replacement to increased risk of breast cancer.(7) Then
confusing news . . . studies show estrogen therapy reduces the risk of cardiovascular
disease.(3) Which would you rather have? More bad news . . . a later study links estrogen
replacement with increased risk of lupus erythematosus.(9) Many doctors now feel that
estrogen should not be given casually, particualrly to women with a family history of breast
cancer. And the good news is . . . natural progesterone can raise and balance hormone levels
without the risks and side effects associated with estrogen therapy. (1,2,3,4,6)
Osteoporosis: Is Calcium Enough?
Adequate calcium intake is a must for postmenopausal women. One gram to 1.5 grams daily
is suggested. However, the age-dependent reduction in skeletal bone mass that begins in the
thirties cannot be completely stopped by adequate calcium intake alone. In a comparison
study, calcium supplementation alone resulted in significant slowing of bone loss from the
femoral neck and improved calcium balance, but was less effective than calcium in
conjunction with hormone replacement. (4)
Estrogen Slows Loss . . . Progesterone
Rebuilds
Loss of bone density is generally related to an age-dependent decrease in gonadal hormones.
The dramatic reduction in these hormones with menopause is associated with a sharp
decrease in trabecular bone and a slower decrease in cortical bone.(5) Osteoporosis at
menopause may be due more to a lack of progesterone than estrogen. There is a greater
decline in progesterone than in estrogen and progesterone begins to decline earlier. While
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estrogen slows bone loss somewhat, progesterone can actually rebuild bone.(2) Dr. John R.
Lee, M.D., reported a 10% increase in bone density in the first 6 to 12 months, followed by
annual increases of 3-5% which stabilized at the levels of healthy 35 year olds. He found
that progesterone encouraged the development of new bone in areas of low bone density.
His office-based study reviewed 6 years experience with 100 postmenopausal women using
a transdermal cream containing natural progesterone from Mexican wild yam, in
conjunction with traditional ostoporosis therapy including diet, nutritional supplements and
exercise. (1,2)
Progesterone Relieves Menopausal
Complaints
Natural progesterone cream applied to the skin also eases hot flashes, depression and mood
swings associated with menopause.(3) In Dr. Lee's experience he found that natural
progesterone can protect against facial hair and male pattern baldness that some women
have after menopause. As for side effects...the women felt better, had more energy, some
cases of vaginal dryness improved and sexual interest increased. (2)
PMS Appears to Be a Progesterone
Deficiency
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) affects over 25 million women every month. This broad
range of recurring symptoms usually appears between ovulation and the onset of
menstruation when progesterone levels are low and estrogen is dominant. This hormonal
imbalance which produces a variety of symptoms...bloating, anxiety, irritability, moodiness,
food cravings, crying, breast tenderness, fatigue, depression and anxiety...could be
considered a progesterone deficiency. Progesterone can restore balance and relieve PMS
symptoms. Dr. K. Dalton, who has successfully used progesterone therapy for over 30 years
in England, reports complete relief of symptoms for patients. (11)
Hypothyroidism and Other Disorders
Dr. Lee also found that his patients who were hypothyroid no longer needed thyroid
supplements because progesterone can increase the action of thyroid hormone in the cell.
Estrogen, on the other hand, interferes with this action.(2) Thyroid replacement in excess
may also aggravate bone loss.(6) Since progesterone promotes balance and is a precursor for
other hormones it is also useful in treating a number of other female disorders. Dr. Lee
found it very effective in treating fibrocystic breast disease as well as uterine fibroids,
urinary tract infections, ovarian cysts and endometriosis. (2)
Natural Hormones Found in Plants
The natural progesterone used by Dr. Lee is found in about 5,000 plants, but is particularly
abundant in the Mexican wild yam. The natural progesterone is identical to that in the
human body. It is not the same as synthetic progestins. The alteration of progestins can
account for side effects including breast cancer, facial hair growth, depression,
cardiovascular disease, liver disorders and other problems associated with progestin use. (2)
The compound, diosgenin, was originally isolated by Professor Russell Marker in the
1940's. The Mexican wild yam was the source for the original birth-control pill. Diosgenin
is essentially a progesterone molecule with a smaller molecule addition. Mexican wild yam
also contains dihydroepiandrosterone or DHEA, an adrenal hormone that decreases with age
and in certain degenerative conditions including postmenopausal osteoporosis.(8) Although
a balance of estrogen and progesterone is most beneficial, progesterone enhances receptor
sensitivity to estrogen, so supplemental estrogen may not even be needed. Also, many plants
also contain estrogenic compounds (estriol). Japanese women, whose diet is high in
plant-derived estrogens, particularly from soybeans, have very little menopausal discomfort.
They also have the lowest rates of two major killers of American women . . . coronary artery
disease and cancer.(3) The most commonly prescribed form of estrogen is derived from the
urine of pregnant mares. Estrogens from plants are more similar to human estrogen than
estrogen from horses. Plant-based estriol appears to have no cancer risk and may possibly
have a better overall effect.(10) Herbal products such as dong quai, licorice and alfalfa all
contain nontoxic estrogenic factors. These "phytoestrogens" exert low estrogenic effects,
approximately 1/400th the potency of human endogenous estrogens.(6) Supplementation
with evening primrose oil and flaxseed oil can help the adrenal glands produce more
estrogen. (3)
Use of Transdermal Progesterone Cream
By using a transdermal cream formula, the natural progesterone is allowed to flow through
the skin and go directly into the bloodstream, completely bypassing digestion. The cream is
applied to the largest possible area of thin skin such as the inside of the arms or legs, the
face and neck, the upper chest and the abdomen. A two ounce jar should be used up over the
course of a month. In postmenopausal women, the cream may be used 2 to 3 weeks of the
month and then discontinued until the next month. Before menopause it is used from about
day 12 to day 26 of the menstrual cycle. It should always be discontinued for at least 5 to 7
days each month. Otherwise the body may become insensitive to its effects.(2) Since
progesterone enhances receptor sensitivity to estrogen, women who are taking estrogen
should reduce their estrogen dose in half when starting progesterone. Many will be able to
eliminate or reduce estrogen further in the next several months. For those taking progestin
who want to use natural progesterone, Dr. Lee recommends tapering off the progestin
gradually by cutting the dose in half for the first month as the cream is added. Then cut in
half again the second month, taking it every other day if necessary. By the third month, the
progestin can be safely discontinued. (2)
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1. Lee, John R., "Osteoporosis Reversal, The Role of Progesterone", International Clinical Nutrition
Review, July, 1990;10(3):384-391.
2. Barnard, Neal, M.D., "Natural Progesterone: Is Estrogen the Wrong Hormone?", Good Medicine,
Spring 1994; 11-13.
3. Gleason, Sharon, menopause: It's Not a Disease. Natural Approaches to a Change of Life", Good
Medicine, Spring 1994;8-10.
4. Aloia, John F., M.D., et al, Calcium Supplementation with and without Hormone Replacement
Therapy to Prevent Postmenopausal Bone Loss", Annals of Internal Med., January 15,
1994;120(2):97-103.
5. Bronner, Felix, Calcium and Osteoporosis", American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
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6. Kidd, Parris M., Ph.D., "An Integrative Lifestyle: Nutritional Strategy for Lowering Osteoporosis
Risker Townsend Letter for Doctors, May 1992; 400 - 405
7. Steinberg, Karen K., Ph.D., MSc, et al, "Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Estrogen Replacement
Therapy on the Risk of Breast Cancer", JAMA, April 17, 1991;265(15): 1985 - 90
8. Hendler, S., The Doctors' Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990
9. Sanchez-Guerrero, Jorge, M.D., MSc, et al, "Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy and the Risk for
Developing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus", Annals of Internal Med., March 15, 1995;122(6): 430
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Biological Effect of Fluorides
Scientific Facts on the
Biological Effects of Fluorides
1. Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to
the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage,
lungs, kidney and trachea.
A.K. Susheela and Mohan Jha, " Effects of Fluoride on Cortical and Cancellous Bone
Composition," IRCS Medical Sciences: Library Compendium, Vol. 9, No.11, pp. 1021-1022
(1981); Y. D. Sharma, " Effect of Sodium Fluoride on Collagen Cross-Link Precursors,"
Toxicological Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 97-100 (1982); A. K. Susheela and D. Mukerjee, "
Fluoride poisoning and the Effect of Collagen Biosynthesis of Osseous and Nonosseous
Tissue," Toxicological European Research, Vol. 3, No.2, pp. 99-104 (1981); Y.D. Sharma, "
Variations in the Metabolism and Maturation of Collagen after Fluoride Ingestion,"
Biochemica et Biophysica Acta, Vol. 715, pp. 137-141 (1982); Marian Drozdz et al., "
Studies on the Influence of Fluoride Compounds upon Connective Tissue Metabolism in
Growing Rats" and "Effect of Sodium Fluoride With and Without Simultaneous Exposure to
Hydrogen Fluoride on Collagen Metabolism," Journal of Toxicological Medicine, Vol. 4,
pp. 151-157 (1984).
2. Fluoride stimulates granule formation and oxygen consumption
in white blood cells, but inhibits these processes when the white
blood cell is challenged by a foreign agent in the blood.
Robert A. Clark, " Neutrophil Iodintion Reaction Induced by Fluoride: Implications for
Degranulation and Metabolic Activation," Blood, Vol. 57, pp. 913-921 (1981).
3. Fluoride depletes the energy reserves and the ability of white
blood cells to properly destroy foreign agents by the process of
phagocytosis. As little as 0.2 ppm fluoride stimulates superoxide
production in resting white blood cells, virtually abolishing
phagocytosis. Even micro-molar amounts of fluoride, below 1 ppm,
may seriously depress the ability of white blood cells to destroy
pathogenic agents.
John Curnette, et al, " Fluoride-mediated Activation of the Respiratory Burst in Human
Neutrophils," Journal of Clinical Investigation, Vol. 63, pp. 637-647 (1979); W. L. Gabler
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and P. A. Leong, ., " Fluoride Inhibition of Polymorphonumclear Leukocytes," Journal of
Dental Research, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 1933-1939 (1979); W. L. Gabler, et al., " Effect of
Fluoride on the Kinetics of Superoxide Generation by Fluoride," Journal of Dental
Research, Vol. 64, p. 281 (1985); A. S. Kozlyuk, et al., " Immune Status of Children in
Chemically Contaminated Environments," Zdravookhranenie, Issue 3, pp. 6-9 (1987)
4. Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the
body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer
prone individuals.
Alfred Taylor and Nell C. Taylor, " Effect of Sodium Fluoride on Tumor Growth,"
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol. 119, p. 252 (1965);
Shiela Gibson, " Effects of Fluoride on Immune System Function," Complementary Medical
Research, Vol. 6, pp. 111-113 (1992); Peter Wilkinson, " Inhibition of the Immune System
With Low Levels of Fluorides," Testimony before the Scottish High Court in Edinburgh in
the Case of McColl vs. Strathclyde Regional Council, pp. 17723-18150, 19328-19492, and
Exhibit 636, (1982); D. W. Allman and M. Benac, " Effect of Inorganic Fluoride Salts on
Urine and Cyclic AMP Concentration in Vivo," Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 55
(Supplement B), p. 523 (1976); S. Jaouni and D. W. Allman, " Effect of Sodium Fluoride
and Aluminum on Adenylate Cyclase and Phosphodiesterase Activity," Journal of Dental
Research, Vol. 64, p. 201 (1985)
5. Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the blood.
S. K. Jain and A. K. Susheela, " Effect of Sodium Fluoride on Antibody Formation in
Rabbits," Environmental Research, Vol. 44, pp. 117-125 (1987)
6. Fluoride depresses thyroid activity.
Viktor Gorlitzer Von Mundy, " Influence of Fluorine and Iodine on the Metabolism,
Particularly on the Thyroid Gland," Muenchener Medicische Wochenschrift, Vol. 105, pp.
182-186 (1963); A. Benagiano, "The Effect of Sodium Fluoride on Thyroid Enzymes and
Basal Metabolism in the Rat," Annali Di Stomatologia, Vol. 14, pp. 601-619 (1965); Donald
Hillman, et al., " Hypothyroidism and Anemia Related to Fluoride in Dairy Cattle," Journal
of Dairy Science, Vol. 62, No.3, pp. .416-423 (1979); V. Stole and J. Podoba, " Effect of
Fluoride on the Biogenesis of Thyroid Hormones," Nature, Vol. 188, No. 4753, pp. 855-856
(1960); Pierre Galleti and Gustave Joyet, " Effect of Fluorine on Thyroid Iodine Metabolism
and Hyperthyroidism," Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol. 18, pp.
1102-1110 (1958)
7. Fluorides have a disruptive effect on various tissues in the body.
T. Takamorim " The Heart Changes in Growing Albino Rats Fed on Varied Contents of
Fluorine," The Toxicology of Fluorine Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, Oct 1962, pp.
125-129; Vilber A. O. Bello and Hillel J. Gitelman, " High Fluoride Exposure in
Hemodialysis Patients," American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol. 15, pp. 320-324 (1990);
Y. Yoshisa, " Experimental Studies on Chronic Fluorine Poisoning," Japanese Journal of
Industrial Health, Vol. 1, pp. 683-690 (1959)
8. Fluoride promotes development of bone cancer.
J.K. Mauer, et al., " Two-Year Cacinogenicity Study Of Sodium Fluoride In Rats," Journal of
the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 82, pp. 1118-1126 (1990); Proctor and Gamble "
Carcinogenicity Studies with Sodium Fluoride in Rats" National Institute of Environmenrtal
Health Sciences Presentation, July 27, 1985; S. E. Hrudley et al., " Drinking Water
Fluoridation and Osteosarcoma," Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 81, pp. 415-416
(1990); P. D. Cohn, " A Brief Report on the Association of Drinking Water Fluoridation and
Incidence of Osteosarcoma in Young Males," New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton,
New Jersey, Nov. 1992; M. C. Mahoney et al., " Bone Cancer Incidence Rates in New
York," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 81, pp. 81, 475 (1991); Irwin Herskowitz
and Isabel Norton, " Increased Incidence of Melanotic Tumors Following Treatment with
Sodium Fluoride," Genetics Vol. 48, pp. 307-310 (1963); J. A. Disney, et al., " A Case Study
in Testing the Conventional Wisdom: School Based Fluoride Mouth Rinse Programs in the
USA," Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Vol. 18, pp. 46-56 (1990); D. J.
Newell, " Fluoridation of Water Supplies and Cancer - An Association?," Applied Statistics,
Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 125-135 (1977)
9. Fluorides cause premature aging of the human body.
Nicholas Leone, et al., " Medical Aspects of Excessive Fluoride in a Water Supply," Public
Health Reports, Vol. 69, pp. 925-936 (1954); J. David Erikson, " Mortality of Selected Cities
with Fluoridated and Non-Fluoridated Water Supplies," New England Journal of Medicine,
Vol. 298, pp. 1112-1116 (1978); " The Village Where People Are Old Before Their Time,"
Stern Magazine, Vol. 30, pp. 107-108, 111-112 (1978)
10. Fluoride ingestion from mouth rinses and dentifrices in
children is extremely hazardous to biological development, life span
and general health.
Yngve Ericsson and Britta Forsman, " Fluoride Retained From Mouth Rinses and
Dentifrices In Preschool Children," Caries Research, Vol. 3, pp. 290-299 (1969); W. L.
Augenstein, et al., " Fluoride Ingestion In Children: A Review Of 87 Cases," Pediatrics, Vol.
88, pp. 907-912, (1991); Charles Wax, " Field Investigation Report," State of Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, March 19, 1980, 67 pages; George Waldbott, "
Mass Intoxication from Over-Fluoridation in Drinking Water," Clinical Toxicology, Vol.
18, No.5, pp. 531-541 (1981)
Other Facts
The contents of a family size tube of fluoridated toothpaste is
enough to kill a 25 pound child.
In 1991, the Akron (Ohio) Regional Poison Center reported that "death has been reported
following ingestion of 16mg/kg of fluoride. Only 1/10 of an ounce of fluoride could kill a
100 pound adult. According to the Center, "fluoride toothpaste contains up to 1mg/gram of
fluoride." Even Proctor and Gamble, the makers of Crest, acknowledge that a family-sized
tube "theoretically contains enough fluoride to kill a small child."
Fluorides have been used to modify behavior and mood of human
beings.
It is a little known fact that fluoride compounds were added to the drinking water of
prisoners to keep them docile and inhibit questioning of authority, both in Nazi prison
camps in World War II and in the Soviet gulags in Siberia.
Fluorides are medically categorized as protoplasmic poisons, which
is why they are used to kill rodents.
The September 18, 1943 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, states,
"fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane
by inhibiting certain enzymes. The exact mechanisms of such actions are obscure."
Fluoride consumption by human beings increases the general
cancer death rate.
In 1975 Dr. John Yiamouyiannis published a preliminary survey which showed that people
in fluoridated areas have a higher cancer death rate than those in non-fluoridated areas. The
National Cancer Institute attempted to refute the studies. Later in 1975 Yiamouyiannis
joined with Dr. Dean Burk, chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute (1939-1974) in
performing other studies which were then included in the Congressional Record by
Congressman Delaney, who was the original author of the Delaney Amendment, which
prohibited the addition of cancer-causing substances to food used for human consumption.
Both reports confirmed the existence of a link between fluoridation and cancer. (Note:
Obviously Dr. Burk felt free to agree with scientific truth only after his tenure at National
Cancer Institute ended, since his job depended on towing the party line).
Fluorides have little or no effect on decay prevention in humans.
In 1990 Dr. John Colquhoun was forced into early retirement in New Zealand after he
conducted a study on 60,000 school children and found no difference in tooth decay
between fluoridated and unfluoridated areas. He additionally found that a substantial
number of children in fluoridated areas suffered from dental fluorosis. He made the study
public.
There is no scientific data that shows that fluoride mouth rinses
and tablets are safe for human use.
In 1989 a study by Hildebolt, et al. on 6,000 school children contradicted any alleged benefit
from the use of sodium fluorides. A 1990 study by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis on 39,000
school children contradicted any alleged benefits from the use of sodium fluorides. In 1992
Michael Perrone, a legislative assistant in New Jersey, contacted the FDA requesting all
information regarding the safety and effectiveness of fluoride tablets and drops. After 6
months of stalling, the FDA admitted they had no data to show that fluoride tablets or drops
were either safe or effective. They informed Perrone that they will "probably have to pull
the tablets and drops off the market."
The fact that fluoride toothpastes and school based mouth rinses
are packaged in aluminum accentuates the effect on the body.
In 1976, Dr. D. Allman and coworkers from Indiana University School of Medicine fed
animals 1 part-per-million (ppm) fluoride and found that in the presence of aluminum, in a
concentration as small as 20 parts per billion, fluoride is able to cause an even larger
increase in cyclic AMP levels. Cyclic AMP inhibits the migration rate of white blood
cells, as well as the ability of the white blood cell to destroy pathogenic
(disease-causing) organisms. Reference: Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 55, Sup B, p.
523, 1976, " Effect of Inorganic Fluoride Salts on Urine and Tissue Cyclic AMP
Concentration in Vivo". (Note: It is no small accident that toothpaste tubes containing
fluoride are often made of aluminum)
"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century"
Robert Carlton, Ph. D., former U. S. EPA scientist on " Marketplace" Canadian Broadcast
Company, Nov. 24, 1992
"Regarding fluoridation, the EPA should act immediately to
protect the public, not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence
of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other effects"
William Marcus, Ph. D., senior EPA toxicologist, Covert Action, Fall 1992, p. 66
The above information has been posted at the Leading Edge Research Group Internet Web Site.
Leading Edge Research Group, P.O. Box 7530, Yelm, Washington 98597 USA - Email: trufax@trufax.org
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The Air You Breathe
The Air You Breathe
"Sick Building Syndrome" and Building-Related Illness
by Toni Meixner
Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). Building Related Illness (BRI).These are terms that have recently made
it to the forefront of environmental issues, usually as they relate to the workplace.The ambient air in the
workplace and on airplanes has been studied and regulated. Current funding has been appropriated to
further research the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of public places. But the question has to be asked, "Can
poor IAQ affect your home environment?" The answer is a resounding, "YES!"
Energy problems, first encountered in the early 1970s, necessitated a re-evaluation of construction
practices and materials. The effort to reduce dependency on foreign oil resulted in more energy efficient
building practices. Unfortunately, the new buildings were no longer able to "breathe." As the
recirculation of the inside air increased, so did the evergrowing list of contaminants. Gradually the air has
become a breeding ground for a number of maladies resulting in Sick Building Syndrome. SBS occurs
when building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that are apparently related to the
time they spend in the building, but in which no specific illness or cause can be identified.
Symptoms associated with SBS include: headaches, nausea, dizziness, respiratory problems, coughing,
wheezing and eye, nose or throat irritations, just to name a few. According to David Levine of Scientific
Control, Inc.,"I am called in to test the air in a home when clients have been to their doctor ten times and
still can't find out why they feel so poorly. Often, they'll say they feel better at work than they do at
home." "Sometimes," said Ernest Michaelson of ECM Environmental Consultants, "a person may even
feel better in one part of a house than they do in another."
Building Related Illness, a more serious condition, is brought on by exposure to the building air where
symptoms of diagnosable illness are identified (e.g. certain allergies or infections) and can be directly
attributed to environmental agents in the air. BRIs account for a 69 percent increase in requests for
investigation by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health over the last fifteen years.
Basically, the sources for SBS and BRI break down into two major categories contributing to IAQ
problems: Heating, Air Conditioning and Ventilation (HVAC) Systems, and contaminants. The HVAC
system controls the circulation of air throughout the building, the introduction of fresh air into the mix,
and the filtration of airborne particles. Poorly ventilated or seldom cleaned, these systems can pump
contaminants through the house again and again.
The list of contaminants is long and getting longer. The number one concern on the part of homeowners
today is a naturally occurring gas called radon. (Radon is currently the second leading cause of lung
cancer in this country). Residuals from a burning process that find leaking chimneys or gas furnaces can
cause an increase in the carbon monoxide levels. Off-gases from the formaldehyde base in new carpet
padding or fumes from synthetic fibers can also be irritants. Business machine off-gases and tobacco
smoke add to the problem. Biological contaminants such as mildew, mold, dust mites, bacteria and
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pollens rank high as potential culprits. Jim Flannery of Consolidated Safety Services reports, "People
don't realize that strep and staph infections can grow in their duct work." Other pollutants are hazardous
airborne particulates, such as asbestos and dust from oxidizing lead paint. This list just scratches the
surface of the possibilities.
There are many strategies a homeowner can employ to diagnose and remedy the IAQ problems within
his or her own environment. Questions about IAQ can be answered by an inspection of the premises,
generally over a twenty-four hour period.This inspection results in a report designating the trouble spots.
No single test, however, can identify all of the components of ambient air. Testing usually includes:
temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, radon, volatile organic air
contaminants, fresh air supply and exchange and air velocity. Occasionally, more detailed laboratory
testing might be necessary to clearly identify a contaminant. Upon conclusion of the evaluation of the
test results, an extensive report including the findings and where they fall on the acceptable standards
scale will identify problem areas. Recommendations for mitigation should also be included in the report.
David Levine assures that, "This testing is relatively inexpensive."
Some remedies may be as simple as keeping lids tightly secured on paint and solvent cans or changing
the filters on an air handling system. David Levine suggests regular cleaning of the duct work, especially
if the home is older or there has been new construction in the area. Jim Flannery recommends a constant
airflow in the case of new carpet, draperies or furniture. Ernest Michaelson says, "Off-gases from new
carpet will often dissipate over a 3 to 12 month period." The best precaution against irritation is a proper
balance of airflow. Keeping the humidity regulated is also effective. Oneil M. Banks, PhD, a Certified
Industrial Hygienist with Scientific Control, confirms, "Molds can not grow when the humidity is
maintained between 30 and 50 percent."
Many other remedies exist; however, those methods may be more complicated or costly. As an example,
a ventilation system may be needed to mitigate rate. At this time the Maryland Department of
Environment encourages builders to use "safer substitutes" during the design, construction and
remodeling of homes in an effort to prevent future problems. Sick Building Syndrome and Building
Related Illness are the environmental buzzwords of the Ô90s. For a chemically-sensitive segment of the
society, these words can hold the possible explanation for chronic discomfort that has been plaguing
them. Since Americans spend an average of 90 percent of their time indoors, be it home, workplace or
entertainment spot, perhaps even the less chemically-sensitive are affected. Health care reform will
continue to heighten interest in this important environmental issue. Meanwhile, local environmental
agencies can supply information regarding "the air you breathe."
Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 2, Summer 1995, Baltimore Maryland.
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Hormone Heresy - Estrogen's Deadly Truth, Part 1
Hormone Heresy
Estrogen's Deadly Truth, Part 1
by Sherrill Sellman
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 3, #4 (June - July 1996)
Women are misinformed about their hormones, to the detriment of
their health,
while drug companies reap huge profits at their expense.
For over 300 years, beginning in the 13th century and continuing well into the 16th century, the Inquisition
was a reign of terror for the vast majority of people living throughout Europe and Scandinavia. The
political, economic and religious forces of that time joined together to consolidate their power by
eliminating those whom they perceived as impeding their ultimate objectives.
The unfortunate target of their efforts were the keepers of the healing arts and the ancient spiritual and
cultural wisdoms. Historians debate the exact toll of such a hellish time - whether it was several hundreds of
thousands or as many as nine million people - but what is undebatable is that the vast majority of the
victims were women. In fact, the Inquisition is now regarded as a period of genocide against women, which
successfully divested women of their power, self-respect, wealth, healing arts, and prominence and
influence in their communities.
The Inquisition guaranteed that the Church fathers were the indisputable spiritual authorities. It was also
successful in enshrining medical knowledge securely in the realm of men, since the Inquisition decreed that
only trained medical doctors could now practice the healing arts and, needless to say, medical schools were
barred to women (for that matter, so was any form of education).
What a relief that such a violent and misogynous era ended long ago. Or did it? Unfortunately, it appears
that some traditions linger on. Women of today are still prey to vast political and economic interests, with
dire consequences to their health, financial independence and personal power. Perhaps the Inquisition didn't
end at all but just took on a more subtle and devious form.
Women are certainly big business to the medical and pharmaceutical interests. According to John Archer,
author of Bad Medicine, about 600,000 hysterectomies are performed every year in the USA, and about
45,000 in Australia. (1) In 1994, it was estimated that 45,000 Australian women were taking hormone
replacement therapy (HRT). (2) Many women are presently encouraged to remain on HRT for the rest of
their post-menopausal lives.
According to Dr. Stanley West, noted infertility specialist, chief of reproductive endocrinology at St.
Vincent's Hospital, New York, and author of The Hysterectomy Hoax, about 90 per cent of all
hysterectomies are unnecessary. Gynecological consultants to Ralph Nader's Public Health Research Group
reached a similar conclusion in 1991 in their book, Women's Health Alert. According to Dr. West, the only
100 percent appropriate reason for performing an hysterectomy is for treating cancer of the reproductive
organs. (3) However, hysterectomies are all too frequently offered as treatment for a variety of conditions
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including endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, pelvic inflammatory disease and uterine prolapse.
It is no accident that gynecologists happen to be the highest earners of all specialists. Throughout their
lives, women are encouraged to be subjected continuously to various medical treatments and procedures.
Natural female functions, from menstruation through childbirth and into menopause, are taken over by
medical and pharmaceutical interventions. Barraged by misinformation, myths, propaganda and, in some
cases, downright lies, it's no wonder that so many women are thoroughly confused about matters relating to
their own bodies and their health.
The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy
Perhaps there's no topic of greater confusion to women than the highly publicized introduction of HRT for
the menopausal woman. It is touted as the best thing for liberating women since the discovery of oral
contraceptives - even though the statistics now show that the wide use of the Pill has given rise to health
hazards such as breast cancer, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease on a scale previously
unknown in medicine. (4)
Investigation into the theory of hormone replacement goes all the way back to the 1930s with the research
of Dr. Serge Voronoff. His research involved implanting fresh monkey's testicles into men's scrotums, with
limited effectiveness. Offshoots of his research led to the grafting of monkey ovaries in women, with rather
dire consequences. After several fatalities (to both monkeys and women), the search was redirected to the
use of synthetic estrogen. With the advent of World War II, research was put on hold.
Menopause didn't really come into vogue as a topic of concern for the medical profession until the 1960s. In
1966 a New York gynecologist, Dr. Robert Wilson, wrote a best seller called Feminine Forever, extolling
the virtues of estrogen replacement to save women from the "tragedy of menopause which often destroys
her character as well as her health." His book sold over 100,000 copies in the first year. Wilson
energetically promoted menopause as a condition of "living decay." According to him, estrogen
replacement was a kind of long sought after youth pill that would save poor, fading women from the horrors
of age. He popularized the erroneous belief that menopause is a deficiency disease.
Women's magazines eagerly seized upon his ideas and extensively promoted his concepts. This pleased
Wilson no end, since he had earlier set up The Wilson Foundation for the sole purpose of promoting the use
of estrogen drugs. The pharmaceutical industry generously contributed over US$1.3 million to his
Foundation. Each year he received funds from such companies as Searle, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories and
Upjohn which made hormone products that Wilson claimed were effective in treating and preventing
menopause. Pharmaceutical companies jumped on the bandwagon with aggressive promotions and
advertising campaigns. His message hit a receptive chord: mid-life women need hormone drugs to be
rescued from the inevitable horrors and decrepitude of this terrible deficiency disease called menopause.
Wilson pioneered the use of unopposed estrogen. However, there had been no formal assessment of the
safety of estrogen therapy or its long term effects. Unopposed estrogen went out of vogue when it became
obviously apparent that it shortened the lifetime of its users. In 1975, The New England Journal of
Medicine examined the rates of endometrial cancer for estrogen consumers, concluding that the risk was
seven and a half times greater for estrogen users. Women who had used estrogen for seven years or longer
were 14 times more likely to develop cancer. (5)
As the popularity of unopposed estrogen therapy waned, new approaches were sought. The focus was also
directed away from the false claims of preserving feminine beauty and youthfulness and towards more
urgent health matters. The pharmaceutical industry resurrected estrogen replacement therapy with the new
'safe' hormone replacement therapy - a combination of synthetic progesterone and estrogen which would
supposedly protect menopausal women not only from cardiovascular disease but also from the ravages of
osteoporosis.
While the so-called 'experts' on women's health are reassuring women that there are no, or at least only very
minor, unpleasant side effects, Dr. Lynette J. Dumble, Senior Research Fellow at the University of
Melbourne's Department of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, believes that "the sole basis of HRT
is to create a commercial market that is highly profitable for the pharmaceutical companies and doctors.
The supposed benefits of HRT are totally unproven." She believes that HRT not only exacerbates the
presenting health problems but also contributes to the acceleration of the aging process of women. It either
hastens the onset of other medical conditions or worsens the existing ones.
This perspective seems to be validated by the recent findings from a landmark study, published in The New
England Journal of Medicine in 1995, involving 121,700 women, which revealed startling effects from
HRT. It warned that women who used HRT to offset the symptoms of menopause also increased their
chance of developing breast cancer by 30 to 40 per cent by taking the hormone for more than five years. In
women aged between 60 and 64, the risk of breast cancer rose to 70 per cent after five years of HRT.
Finally, the study concluded that women using HRT were 45 per cent more likely to die from breast cancer
than those who chose not to use HRT or used it for less than five years. (6)
According to Leslie Kenton, author of Passage to Power, "everybody who is anybody will tell you that
menopause is an estrogen-deficiency disease and that you will need to take more estrogen as you approach
mid-life. What may surprise you is this: not only is most of such commonly given advice on menopause
wrong, a great deal of it can be positively dangerous."
Fortunately there is another side to the hormone story - a perspective that not only can assist women of all
ages to attain greater health but also to reclaim a greater sense of power, responsibility and dignity in their
lives.
A Brief Gynecological Tour of a Woman's Body
In order to understand the HRT debate, it is important, first, to have a rudimentary knowledge of a woman's
cyclic nature. Until recently, doctors thought that menopause began when all the eggs in the ovaries had
been used up. However, recent work has shown that menopause is probably not triggered by the ovaries but
by the brain. It seems that both puberty and menopause are brain-driven events.
Menstruation depends on a complex network of hormonal communications between the ovary, the
hypothalamus and the pituitary gland in the brain. The hypothalamus secretes gonadotropin releasing
hormone (GnRH) which triggers the production of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) by the pituitary
gland. The FSH then stimulates the growth of the egg follicles (a small excretory sac or gland) in the
ovaries to trigger ovulation. As the egg follicles grow, estrogen is manufactured and released into the blood.
This chain reaction is not just one way. Estradiol, one of the ovarian estrogens in the bloodstream, also acts
on the hypothalamus, causing a change in GnRH. Next, this altered hormone stimulates the pituitary to
produce luteinising hormone (LH) which causes the egg follicles to burst and the ovum to be released. After
the egg is expelled, progesterone is also manufactured by the collapsed egg follicle which develops into the
corpus luteum.
All the hormones released during the menstrual cycle are secreted not in a constant, steady way but at
dramatically different rates during different parts of the 28 day cycle.
For the first eight to 11 days of the menstrual cycle, a woman's ovaries make lots of estrogen. Estrogen
prepares the follicles for the release of one of the eggs. It is estrogen which proliferates the changes that
take place at puberty: the growth of breasts, the development of the reproductive system and the shape of a
woman's body.
The rate of estrogen secretion begins to fall off on about day 13, one day before ovulation occurs. As
estrogen falls, progesterone begins to rise, stimulating very rapid growth of the follicle. Beginning with this
secretion of progesterone, ovulation occurs too. After the egg has been released from the follicle (known as
the luteal stage of a woman's cycle), the follicle begins to change, enlarging and becoming a unique organ
known as the corpus luteum. Progesterone is secreted from the corpus luteum, this tiny organ with a huge
capacity for hormone production. The surge of progesterone at the time of ovulation is the source of libido -
not estrogen, as is commonly believed.
After 10 or 12 days, if fertilization does not occur, ovarian production of progesterone falls dramatically. It
is this sudden decline in progesterone levels that triggers the shedding of the secretory endometrium (the
menses), leading to a renewal of the entire menstrual cycle.
Ovarian estrogen and progesterone stimulate the growth of the endometrium, or lining of the uterus, in
preparation for fertilization. Estrogen proliferates the growth of endometrial tissue, and progesterone
facilitates the secretory lining of the uterus so the fertilized egg can implant successfully. Adequate
progesterone, therefore, is the hormone most essential to the survival of the fertilized egg and the fetus.
At around 40 years of age, the interaction between hormones alters, eventually leading to menopause. It is
still not clear how. Menopause may start with changes in the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland rather
than in the ovaries. Scientists have conducted experiments where young mice have had their ovaries
replaced with those from aged animals no longer capable of reproducing. The young mice can mate and
give birth. This shows that old ovaries placed in a young environment are capable of responding. On the
other hand, when young ovaries are put into old mice, these mice cannot reproduce. (7)
Whatever the mechanism triggering menopause, as fewer egg follicles are stimulated, the amount of
estrogen and progesterone being produced by the ovaries declines although other hormones continue to be
produced. By no means do the ovaries shrivel up and cease functioning, as is popularly believed. With the
reduction of these hormones, menstruation becomes scantier and erratic and eventually ceases.
However, other body sites such as the adrenal glands, skin, muscle, brain, pineal gland, hair follicles and
body fat are capable of making these same hormones, enabling the female body to make healthy
adjustments in hormonal balance after menopause - provided a woman has taken good care of herself
during the pre-menopausal years with proper lifestyle, diet and attention to mental and emotional health.
Menopausal women have the opportunity to enter this phase of life empowered in their wisdom and
creativity as never before. They have access to profound inner knowing. The renowned sociologist
Margaret Mead said, "There is nothing more powerful than a menopausal woman with zest!" In many
cultures around the world, menopause is a transition and an initiation into the fulfillment of a woman's
power, totally symptom-free. She is held in the highest regard in her community as a wise, respected elder.
The Myth of Estrogen and Synthetic Progestins
The earlier research that led to the synthesis of estrogen made possible the development of the oral
contraceptive by 1960. With consent of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Pill was widely
marketed as an effective, convenient method of birth control. True sexual liberation for women was at hand
at last.
However, the entire basis for the FDA's consent was the result of clinical studies conducted on 132 Puerto
Rican women who had taken the Pill for one year or longer. (8) (Never mind the fact that there were five
women who died during the study without any investigation into the cause of their deaths.)
By the mid-1970s the death toll of women from heart attacks and strokes began to attract public notice. A
newer, supposedly safer Pill was then created with a lower dose of estrogen. But, in fact, there has never
been any valid scientific proof that the Pill is safe - nor, for that matter, that any of the other forms of
contraception presently available are safe. Women are only now discovering the price they have been
paying for their sexual freedom: by altering their hormonal balance, many varied and devastating emotional
and physiological dysfunctions have been created.
It is now 35 years on from the introduction of oral contraception and there are presently about 60 million
women worldwide who are, in effect, 'trial-ing' the Pill. Its safety and long term effects have still not been
established conclusively. It is interesting to note, however, that it has produced a wide assortment of
adverse effects and side effects and has a significant link to breast cancer, high blood pressure and, in
particular, cardiovascular disease - the major cause of female deaths in Australia. In 1992, 27,833 women
died from heart disease and strokes, compared to 2,438 from breast cancer. (9) Is this merely a coincidence,
or do these statistics indicate, perhaps, the harmful side effects of tampering with hormones?
While proclaimed also as the primary missing ingredient for the menopausal woman, estrogen is strongly
recommended by the medical and pharmaceutical industries for the prevention of cardiovascular disease
and osteoporosis. Just about any doctor's surgery you walk into these days will warn women of the inherent
risks of going through menopause and, for that matter, the post-menopausal years without the protection of
estrogen. Women are further reminded, once again, that menopause is a deficiency disease, which
supposedly means that they are lacking estrogen and therefore must have supplemental doses to maintain
their health.
As Dr. Lynette Dumble has noted, "Broadly speaking, cardiovascular prevention in women has
overwhelmingly focused on hormone replacement. Yet, as Elizabeth Barrett-Connor emphasizes, the Big
Trial, the Coronary Drug Project of 1973 that included two estrogen regimens, was conducted in men. As
part of the Big Trial design, estrogen doses extravagantly in excess of physiological levels were deliberately
administered to men in order to induce gynaecomastia [enlargement of male breasts] as an indicator of
successful feminisation. This resulted in thrombosis and impotence and ultimately led to research failure
because of treatment discontinuations amongst the study's participants." (10)
According to medical practitioner, independent researcher and author Dr. John Lee, the one notable study
(known as the Boston Health Study, conducted with a large sampling of nurses) which formed the entire
basis of the positive estrogen-cardiovascular link, was radically flawed. Although there is ample evidence
from numerous other studies showing that, indeed, the opposite is true - i.e., estrogen is a significant factor
in creating heart disease - these findings have been virtually ignored in the frenzy for profits. He goes on to
say that the pharmaceutical advertisements also neglected to mention the fact that stroke death incidence
from that study was 50 per cent higher among the estrogen users.
Dr. Lee has compiled a list of side effects and physiological impairments which result from taking estrogen.
They include increased risk of endometrial cancer, increased body fat, salt and fluid retention, depression
and headaches, impaired blood sugar control (hypoglycemia), loss of zinc and retention of copper, reduced
oxygen levels in all cells, thickened bile and promoted gall bladder disease, increased likelihood of breast
fibrocysts and uterine fibroids, interference with thyroid activity, decreased sex drive, excessive
blood-clotting, reduced vascular tone, endometriosis, uterine cramping, infertility, and restraint of osteoclast
function.
With so many side effects and dangerous complications, a woman must think very carefully about the HRT
decision. Unfortunately, most doctors will tell her that there is no other alternative. While certainly most
doctors are well-meaning and sincerely concerned about their patients, their primary source of education
and product information comes directly from the pharmaceutical companies. Since most women also lack
essential education and understanding about their options, menopause can be perceived as a rather
frightening and perilous time.
Enter Natural Progesterone
For the past 15 years, Dr. Lee has conducted independent research into a natural, plant derived form of
progesterone. His non-pharmaceutically-funded research presents a much broader understanding of a
woman's hormonal options and offers a totally safe, effective alternative that is free of all side effects. He
has found that this natural hormone - used in conjunction with a good diet and lifestyle changes - is capable
of eliminating much of the suffering associated both with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and menopause.
Thousands of women in the Western world now use natural progesterone - generally in the form of a
non-prescription cream which is rubbed into the body. They claim that they not only have relief from
female symptoms but experience increased vitality, better skin and renewed emotional balance.
Natural progesterone seems to have been totally overlooked by medical science while the erroneous focus
has been on estrogen. Considering that it is non-patentable and inexpensive, it not surprising that this is so.
It is important, however, to have a much greater understanding and appreciation for this remarkable
hormone.
As was previously mentioned, it is progesterone that is responsible for maintaining the secretory
endometrium which is necessary for the survival of the embryo as well as the developing fetus throughout
gestation. It is little realized, however, that progesterone is the mother of all hormones. Progesterone is the
important precursor in the biosynthesis of adrenal corticosteroids (hormones that protect against stress) and
of all sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen). This means that progesterone has the capacity to be turned
into other hormones further down the pathways as and when the body needs them. The point needs to be
emphasized that estrogen and testosterone are end metabolic products made from progesterone. Without
adequate progesterone, estrogen and testosterone will not be sufficiently available to the body. Besides
being a precursor to sex hormones, progesterone also facilitates many other important, intrinsic
physiological functions (which will be discussed later).
The Estrogen Dominance Effect
Female problems seem to be on the rise. Between 40 and 60 per cent of all women in the West suffer from
PMS. In addition, women also suffer from a plethora of symptoms, some menopausal and others not.
Something quite alarming certainly seems to be happening to women. There is indication that proper
hormonal balance necessary for a woman's body to function healthily is being interfered with by a number
of factors. Research has revealed that a good portion of women in their 30s (and some even younger), long
before the onset of menopause, on occasion will not ovulate during their menstrual month. (11) Without
ovulation, no corpus luteum results and no progesterone is made. A progesterone deficiency ensues.
Several problems can result from this deficiency. One is the month long presence of unopposed estrogen
with all its attendant side effects, as already mentioned. Another is the generally unrecognized problem of
progesterone's role in osteoporosis. Contemporary medicine is still unaware that progesterone stimulates
osteoblast-mediated new bone formation. Actually, it is progesterone that stimulates new bone tissue and is
capable of reversing osteoporosis at any age. Lack of progesterone means that new osteoblasts are not
created and osteoporosis can arise. (12) A third major problem results from the interrelationship between
progesterone loss and stress. Stress combined with a bad diet can induce anovulatory cycles. The
consequent lack of progesterone interferes with the production of the stress-combating hormones,
exacerbating stress conditions that give rise to further anovulatory cycles. And so the vicious cycle
continues.
Another major factor contributing to this imbalance between estrogen and progesterone is environmental in
nature. We in the industrialized world now live immersed in a rising sea of petrochemical derivatives. They
are in our air, food and water. These chemicals include pesticides and herbicides (such as DDT, dieldrin,
heptachlor, etc.) as well as various plastics (polycarbonated plastics found in babies bottles and water jugs)
and PCBs. These estrogen-mimics are highly fat-soluble, not biodegradable or well excreted, and
accumulate in fat tissue of animals and humans. These chemicals have an uncanny ability to mimic natural
estrogen. They are given the name "xeno-estrogens" since, although they are foreign chemicals, they are
taken up by the estrogen receptor sites in the body, seriously interfering with natural biochemical changes.
Mounting research is now revealing an alarming situation worldwide created by the inundation of these
hormone-mimics. In a recently released book, Our Stolen Future, authors Theo Colburn of the World
Wildlife Fund, Dianne Dumanoski of The Boston Globe and John Peterson Meyers, a zoologist, have
identified 51 hormone mimics, each able to unleash a torrent of effects such as reduced sperm production,
cell division and sculpting of the developing brain. These mimics are not only linked to the recent discovery
that human sperm counts worldwide have plunged by 50 per cent between 1938 and 1990 but also to genital
deformities, breast, prostate and testicular cancer, and neurological disorders. (10)
Dr. Lee has discovered a consistent theme running through women's complaints of the distressing and often
debilitating symptoms of PMS, peri-menopause and menopause: too much estrogen, or, as he has termed it,
"estrogen dominance".
Now, instead of estrogen playing its essential role within the well balanced symphony of steroid hormones
in a woman's body, it has begun to overshadow the other players, creating biochemical dissonance. The last
thing in the world a woman's body needs is more estrogen - either in the form of contraceptives or HRT.
Then, when the estrogen-dominant symptoms appear, guess what is prescribed? More estrogen! The
delicate natural estrogen/progesterone balance is radically altered due to too much estrogen. Progesterone
deficiency is then exacerbated even more.
Dr. Lee has been able to balance the estrogen-dominance effect through the use of transdermal natural
progesterone cream. Natural progesterone, a cholesterol derivative, is made from wild Mexican yams or
soybeans whose active ingredients are an exact molecular match of the body's own progesterone. It is
interesting to note that in countries in Asia and South America where women eat either the wild yams or
soybeans, the term "hot flush" doesn't even exist in their languages. They also rarely suffer from the host of
female problems presently plaguing Western women.
Supplementation with natural progesterone corrects the real problem: progesterone deficiency. Natural
progesterone is not known to have any side effects; nor have any toxic levels been found to date. Natural
progesterone increases libido, prevents cancer of the womb, protects against fibrocystic breast disease,
helps protect against breast cancer, maintains the uterus lining, hydrates and oxygenates the skin, reverses
facial hair growth and hair thinning, acts as a natural diuretic, helps eliminate depression and increase a
sense of well being, encourages fat burning and the use of stored energy, normalizes blood clotting, and is a
precursor to other important stress and sex hormones. Even the two most prevalent menopausal symptoms hot flushes and vaginal dryness - quickly disappear with applications of natural progesterone.
There is one other very significant benefit of natural progesterone that deserves a bit more attention. While
most people are under the assumption that estrogen protects against osteoporosis - one of the biggest selling
points for which a woman is encouraged to take HRT - this is definitely not the case.
The early studies on which the estrogen protection assumption was based had gross scientific defects.
Canadian researcher Jerilyn Prior, chief endocrinologist at the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver, and her colleagues, reporting in The New England Journal of Medicine, confirmed that
estrogen's role in osteoporosis is only a minor one. In their studies of female athletes, they found that
osteoporosis occurs to the degree that they become progesterone-deficient, even though their estrogen levels
seem to remain normal. Prior continued her research with non-athletic women. They showed the same
results. While both these groups of women were menstruating, they had anovulatory cycles and, therefore,
were progesterone-deficient.
Prior then went on to discover that anovulation and a short phase cycle now occur in up to 50 per cent of
North American women's menstrual cycles during the final reproductive years. (14) Unfortunately, these
major findings went relatively unnoticed in the medical community.
As a result of her extensive review of published scientific evidence in this area, Prior confirmed that it is not
estrogen but progesterone which is the bone-trophic hormone; that is, the bone builder. She was even able
to identify progesterone receptor sites on osteoblast cells (bone tissue building cells). Nobody has ever
found osteoblast receptors for estrogen. The bottom line is that it is in women with progesterone deficiency
that bone loss occurs. (15)
These results were verified by a three year study of 63 post-menopausal women with osteoporosis. Women
using transdermal progesterone cream experienced an average 7 to 8 per cent bone mass density increase in
the first year, 4 to 5 per cent the second year, and 3 to 4 per cent in the third year! Untreated women in this
age category typically lose 1.5 per cent bone mass density per year! These results have not been found with
any other form of hormone replacement therapy or dietary supplementation. (16)
Dr. Lee believes that the use of natural progesterone in conjunction with dietary and lifestyle change can
not only stop osteoporosis but can actually reverse it - even in women aged 70 or more.
At this point, it is important to make the distinction between the natural progesterone that is produced by
the body and the synthetic progesterone analogues classified as progestins, such as Provera, Duphaston and
Primulut. As you will learn, there is a big difference between the two in their effect in the body, although
doctors most often use their names interchangeably. Since natural progesterone is not a patentable product,
the pharmaceutical companies have molecularly altered it to produce synthetic progestins commonly used
in contraceptives and HRT.
Synthetic progestins, because they are not exact replicas of the body's natural progesterone, unfortunately
create a long list of side effects, some of which are quite severe. A partial list includes headaches,
depression, fluid retention, increased risk of birth defects and early abortion, liver dysfunction, breast
tenderness, breakthrough bleeding, acne, hirsutism (hair growth), insomnia, edema, weight changes,
pulmonary embolism and premenstrual-like syndrome. (17)
Most importantly, progestins lack the intrinsic physiological benefits of progesterone, thus they cannot
function in the major biosynthetic pathways as progesterone does and they disrupt many fundamental
processes in the body. Progesterone is an essential hormone that also plays a part in the development of
healthy nerve cells and brain and thyroid function. Progestins tend to block the body's ability to produce
and utilize natural progesterone to maintain these life promoting functions.
The hormone story is certainly a very complicated one. Up until now, only one version of the story has been
available to the majority of Western women, especially Australian women. Serious doubt has been cast on
the efficacy and appropriateness of estrogen and progestins in all the forms they take. Women are certainly
suffering from a wide variety of female complaints.
What complicates the hormone story is that the prescribed treatments for these complaints are actually
making the problem worse. Without understanding the far reaching side effects of estrogen dominance and
progestin, doctors are misdiagnosing the cause of these aggravated conditions. Often, other drugs are then
prescribed with disastrous side effects, as the spiral of unnecessary medication increases. What is the
ultimate toll, not only on a woman's deteriorating health and emotional well being but also on her financial
situation, her relationships and her career?
Without adequate knowledge, education and access to natural products, women have been easy prey to the
powerful campaigns of the multinational drug companies that have convinced doctors as well as
governments of their claims. It is becoming more evident that women's interests are not always best met
through such a biased approach. It is also not unusual for profits to take precedence over health and well
being. The last thing a woman needs is to have her natural bodily functions denigrated to deficiency
diseases - thus necessitating ongoing medical attention.
It is indeed time for women to take even greater responsibility for their health, their choices and their
lifestyles. The greatest weapon against compliance and ignorance is knowledge. It's time to ask poignant
questions of your health provider, to demand answers and to be willing to investigate safe, alternative
approaches. It is apparent that women will need to participate in educating their doctors about the other
choices that exist as well as the ones that they prefer.
Certainly, women have it well within their own power not only to find safe, natural and effective ways to
heal themselves but to live long, full lives, preserving their vitality, youthfulness and health. Women
deserve the right to appreciate themselves and their bodies through all the stages of life. As women find the
way to return to a greater balance within themselves, they will know profoundly the truth of what Dr.
Deepak Chopra has said about women: "Feminine wisdom is the intelligence at the heart of creation."
Effects of Estrogen Dominance
1. When estrogen is not balanced by progesterone, it can produce weight gain, headaches, bad temper,
chronic fatigue and loss of interest in sex - all of which are part of the clinically recognized
premenstrual syndrome.
2. Not only has it been well established that estrogen dominance encourages the development of breast
cancer thanks to estrogen's proliferative actions, it also stimulates breast tissue and can, in time,
trigger fibrocystic breast disease - a condition which wanes when natural progesterone is introduced
to balance the estrogen.
3. By definition, excess estrogen implies a progesterone deficiency. This, in turn, leads to a decrease in
the rate of new bone formation in a woman's body by the osteoblasts - the cells responsible for
doing this job. Although most doctors are not yet aware of it, this is the prime cause of osteoporosis.
4. Estrogen dominance increases the risk of fibroids. One of the interesting facts about fibroids - often
remarked on by doctors - is that, regardless of the size, fibroids commonly atrophy once menopause
arrives and a woman's ovaries are no longer making estrogen. Doctors who commonly use
progesterone with their patients have discovered that giving a woman natural progesterone will also
cause fibroids to atrophy.
5. In estrogen dominant menstruating women where progesterone is not peaking and falling in a
normal way each month, the ordered shedding of the womb lining doesn't take place. Menstruation
becomes irregular. This condition can usually be corrected by making lifestyle changes and using a
natural progesterone product. It is easy to diagnose by having a doctor measure the level of
progesterone in the blood at certain times of the month.
6. Endometrial cancer (cancer of the womb) develops only where there is estrogen dominance or
unopposed estrogen. This, too, can be prevented by the use of natural progesterone. The use of the
synthetic progestins may also help prevent it, which is why a growing number of doctors no longer
give estrogen without combining it with a progesterone drug during HRT. However, all synthetic
progestins have side effects.
7. Water logging of the cells and an increase in intercellular sodium, which predispose a woman to
high blood pressure or hypertension, frequently occur with estrogen dominance. These can also be
side effects of taking synthetic progestogen [progestins]. A natural progesterone cream usually
clears it up.
8. The risk of stroke and heart disease is increased dramatically when a woman is estrogen-dominant.
(Source: Leslie Kenton, Passage to Power, Random House, UK, 1995)
Anti-aging Benefits of Natural Progesterone
1. Progesterone is a primary precursor in the biosynthesis of the adrenal corticosteroids. Without
adequate progesterone, synthesis of the cortisones is impaired and the body turns to alternate
pathways. These alternate pathways have masculine-producing side effects such as long facial hairs
and thinning of scalp hair. Further impaired corticosteroid production results in a decrease in the
ability to handle stress, e.g., surgery, trauma or emotional stress.
2. Many peri- or post-menopausal women with clinical signs of hypothyroidism, such as fatigue, lack
of energy, intolerance to cold, are actually suffering from unrecognized estrogen dominance and
will benefit from supplementation with natural progesterone.
3. Estrogen and most of the synthetic progestins increase intracellular sodium and water uptake. The
effect of this is hypertension. Natural progesterone is a natural diuretic and prevents the cell's uptake
of sodium and water, thus preventing hypertension.
4. Whereas estrogen impairs homeostatic control of glucose levels, natural progesterone stabilizes
them. Thus, natural progesterone can be beneficial to both those with diabetes and those with
reactive hypoglycemia. Estrogen should be contraindicated in patients with diabetes.
5. Thinning and wrinkled skin is a sign of lack of hydration in the skin. It is common in peri- and
post-menopausal women and is a sure sign of hormone depletion. Transdermal natural progesterone
is a skin moisturizer which restores skin hydration.
6. Progesterone serves a role in keeping brain cells healthy. A disorder such as premature senility
(Alzheimer's disease) may be, at least in part, another example of disease secondary to progesterone
deficiency.
7. Progesterone is essential for the healthy development of the myelin sheath which protects the nerve
cells. Low progesterone levels lead to recurring aches and pains.
8. Progesterone creates and promotes an enhanced sense of emotional well being and psychological
self-sufficiency.
9. Progesterone is responsible for enhancing the libido.
(Source: John R. Lee, M.D., Slowing the Aging Process with Natural Progesterone, BLL Publishing,
CA, USA, 1994, p. 14)
End notes:
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17.
Archer, John, Bad Medicine, Simon & Schuster, Australia, 1995, p. 191.
Op. cit., p. 217.
Op. cit., p. 192.
Op. cit., p. 211.
Coney, Sandra, The Menopause Industry, Spinifex Press Pty Ltd., Australia, 1991, pp. 164-165.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June 1995.
Coney, Sandra, op. cit., p. 584.
Archer, John, op. cit., p. 210.
Archer, John, op. cit., p. 211.
(a) Dumble, Lynette J., Ph.D., M.Sc., "Odds Against Women with Heart Disease", presented at
Health Sharing Women's Forum, Royal College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14
September 1995. (b) Barrett-Connor, Elizabeth, "Heart Disease in Women", Fertility and Sterility
(1994), 62(2):127S-132S.
Lee, John R., M.D., Natural Progesterone: The Multiple Role of a Remarkable Hormone, BLL
Publishing, California, USA, 1993, p. 29.
Ibid.
Newsweek, 18 March 1996.
Kenton, Leslie, Passage to Power, Random House, UK, 1995, pp. 19-20.
Ibid.
Lee, John R., M.D., "Osteoporosis Reversal: The Role of Progesterone", International Clinical
Nutrition Review (1990), 10:384-391.
Lee, John R., M.D., Slowing the Aging Process with Natural Progesterone, BLL Publishing,
California, USA, 1994, p. 12.
© 1996 by Sherrill Sellman The author presently lives in Melbourne where she conducts a private psychotherapy practice
and also devotes time to lecturing, training and writing. She is a contributing writer to holistic publications in Australia,
New Zealand, Canada and the United States on topics of interest and concern to her, relating to health, women's
empowerment, relationships, and personal and planetary transformation. She can be contacted at Light Unlimited, Locked
Bag 8000 - MDC, Kew, Victoria 3101, Australia, Telephone +61 (03) 9840 6496. Fax: +61 (03) 9855 9991 E-mail:
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Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking
Recent research shows that microwave oven-cooked food suffers severe molecular
damage. When eaten, it causes abnormal changes in human blood and immune
systems. Not surprisingly, the public has been denied details on these significant health
dangers.
Extracted from NEXUS Magazine, Volume 2, #25 (April-May '95).
Originally printed from the April 1994 edition of Acres, USA.
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Back in May of 1989, after Tom Valentine first moved to St Paul, Minnesota, he heard
on the car radio a short announcement that bolted him upright in the driver's seat.
The announcement was sponsored by Young Families, the Minnesota Extension
Service of the University of Minnesota:
"Although microwaves heat food quickly, they are not recommended for
heating a baby's bottle," the announcement said. The bottle may seem cool
to the touch, but the liquid inside may become extremely hot and could
burn the baby's mouth and throat. Also, the buildup of steam in a closed
container such as a baby's bottle could cause it to explode. "Heating the
bottle in a microwave can cause slight changes in the milk. In infant
formulas, there may be a loss of some vitamins. In expressed breast milk,
some protective properties may be destroyed." The report went on.
"Warming a bottle by holding it under tap water or by setting it in a bowl
of warm water, then testing it on your wrist before feeding, may take a few
minutes longer, but it is much safer."
Valentine asked himself: If an established institution like the University of Minnesota
can warn about the loss of particular nutrient qualities in microwaved baby formula or
mother's milk, then somebody must know something about microwaving they are not
telling everybody.
A LAWSUIT
In early 1991, word leaked out about a lawsuit in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma
Levitt had hip surgery, only to be killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse
"warmed the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven"!
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mode of heating technology one uses. However, it is quite apparent that there is more
to 'heating' with microwaves than we've been led to believe.
Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed-but not in microwave ovens! In the case of
Mrs Levitt, the microwaving altered the blood and it killed her.
Does it not therefore follow that this form of heating does, indeed, do 'something
different' to the substances being heated? Is it not prudent to determine what that
'something different' might do?
A funny thing happened on the way to the bank with all that microwave oven revenue:
nobody thought about the obvious. Only 'health nuts' who are constantly aware of the
value of quality nutrition discerned a problem with the widespread 'denaturing' of our
food. Enter Hans Hertel.
HANS HERTEL
In the tiny town of Wattenwil, near Basel in Switzerland, there lives a scientist who is
alarmed at the lack of purity and naturalness in the many pursuits of modern
mankind. He worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the many major
Swiss food companies that do business on a global scale. A few years ago, he was fired
from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it.
"The world needs our help," Hans Hertel told Tom Valentine as they shared a fine
meal at a resort hotel in Todtmoss, Germany. "We, the scientists, carry the main
responsibility for the present unacceptable conditions. It is therefore our job to correct
the situation and bring the remedy to the world. I am striving to bring man and
techniques back into harmony with nature. We can have wonderful technologies
without violating nature."
Hans is an intense man, driven by personal knowledge of violations of nature by
corporate man and his state-supported monopolies in science, technology and
education. At the same time, as the two talked, his intensity shattered into a warm
smile and he spoke of the way things could be if mankind's immense talent were to
work with nature and not against her.
Hans Hertel is the first scientist to conceive of and carry out a quality study on the
effects of microwaved nutrients on the blood and physiology of human beings. This
small but well-controlled study pointed the firm finger at a degenerative force of
microwave ovens and the food produced in them. The conclusion was clear: microwave
cooking changed the nutrients so that changes took place in the participants' blood;
these were not healthy changes but were changes that could cause deterioration in the
human systems.
Working with Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the
University Institute for Biochemistry, Hertel not only conceived of the study and
carried it out, he was one of eight participants.
"To control as many variables as possible, we selected eight individuals who were strict
macrobiotic diet participants from the Macrobiotic Institute at Kientel, Switzerland,"
Hertel explained. "We were all housed in the same hotel environment for eight weeks.
There was no smoking, no alcohol and no sex."
One can readily see that this protocol makes sense. After all, how could you tell about
subtle changes in a human's blood from eating microwaved food if smoking, booze,
junk food, pollution, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and everything else in the
common environment were also present?
"We had one American, one Canadian and six Europeans in the group. I was the
oldest at 64 years, the others were in their 20s and 30s," Hertel added.
Valentine published the results of this study in Search for Health in the Spring of 1992.
But the follow-up information is available only in a later edition, and also in Acres,
USA.
In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of the food
variants on an empty stomach. The food variants were: raw milk from a biofarm (no.
1); the same milk conventionally cooked (no. 2); pasteurised milk from Intermilk
Berne (no. 3); the same raw milk cooked in a microwave oven (no. 4); raw vegetables
from an organic farm (no. 5); the same vegetables cooked conventionally (no. 6); the
same vegetables frozen and defrosted in the microwave oven (no. 7); and the same
vegetables cooked in the microwave oven (no. 8). The overall experiment had some of
the earmarks of the Pottenger cat studies, except that now human beings were test
objects, the experiment's time-frame was shorter, and a new heat form was tested.
Once the volunteers were isolated at the resort hotel, the test began. Blood samples
were taken from every volunteer immediately before eating. Then blood samples were
taken at defined intervals after eating from the above-numbered milk or vegetable
preparations.
Significant changes were discovered in the blood of the volunteers who consumed foods
cooked in the microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all haemoglobin
values and cholesterol values, especially the HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad
cholesterol) values and ratio. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct
short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of
all the other variants. Each of these indicators point in a direction away from robust
health and toward degeneration. Additionally, there was a highly significant
association between the amount of microwave energy in the test foods and the
luminous power of luminescent bacteria exposed to serum from test persons who ate
that food. This led Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies may,
indeed, be passed along to man inductively via consumption of microwaved food.
"This process is based on physical principles and has already been confirmed in the
literature," Hertel explained. The apparent additional energy exhibited by the
luminescent bacteria was merely extra confirmation.
"There is extensive scientific literature concerning the hazardous effects of direct
microwave radiation on living systems," Hertel continued. "It is astonishing, therefore,
to realise how little effort has been made to replace this detrimental technique of
microwaves with technology more in accordance with nature.
"Technically produced microwaves are based on the principle of alternating current.
Atoms, molecules and cells hit by this hard electromagnetic radiation are forced to
reverse polarity 1 to 100 billion times a second. There are no atoms, molecules or cells
of any organic system able to withstand such a violent, destructive power for any
extended period of time, not even in the low energy range of milliwatts.
"Of all the natural substances-which are polar-the oxygen of water molecules reacts
most sensitively. This is how microwave cooking heat is generated-friction from this
violence in water molecules. Structures of molecules are torn apart, molecules are
forcefully deformed (called structural isomerism) and thus become impaired in
quality.
HEATING FOOD
"This is contrary to conventional heating of food, in which heat transfers
convectionally from without to within. Cooking by microwaves begins within the cells
and molecules where water is present and where the energy is transformed into
frictional heat."
The question naturally arises: What about microwaves from the sun? Aren't they
harmful?
Hertel responded: "The microwaves from the Sun are based on principles of pulsed
direct current. These rays create no frictional heat in organic substance."
In addition to violent frictional heat effects (called thermic effects), there are also
athermic effects which have hardly ever been taken into account, Hertel added.
"These athermic effects are not presently measurable, but they can also deform the
structures of molecules and have qualitative consequences. For example, the
weakening of cell membranes by microwaves is used in the field of gene altering
technology. Because of the force involved, the cells are actually broken, thereby
neutralising the electrical potentials-the very life of the cells-between the outer and
inner sides of the cell membranes. Impaired cells become easy prey for viruses, fungi
and other micro-organisms. The natural repair mechanisms are suppressed, and cells
are forced to adapt to a state of energy emergency: they switch from aerobic to
anaerobic respiration. Instead of water and carbon dioxide, hydrogen peroxide and
carbon monoxide are produced."
It has long been pointed out in the literature that any reversal of healthy cell processes
may occur because of a number of reasons, and our cells then revert from a "robust
oxidation" to an unhealthy "fermentation".
The same violent friction and athermic deformations that can occur in our bodies
when we are subjected to radar or microwaves, happens to the molecules in the food
cooked in a microwave oven. In fact, when anyone microwaves food, the oven exerts a
power input of about 1,000 watts or more. This radiation results in destruction and
deformation of molecules of food, and in the formation of new compounds (called
radiolytic compounds) unknown to man and nature.
Today's established science and technology argues forcefully that microwaved food
and irradiated foods do not have any significantly higher "radiolytic compounds" than
do broiled, baked or other conventionally cooked foods-but microwaving does produce
more of these critters. Curiously, neither established science nor our ever-protective
government has conducted tests-on the blood of the eaters-of the effects of eating
various kinds of cooked foods. Hertel and his group did test it, and the indication is
clear that something is amiss and that larger studies should be funded. The apparently
toxic effects of microwave cooking is another in a long list of unnatural additives in our
daily diets. However, the establishment has not taken kindly to this work.
"The first drawing of blood samples took place on an empty stomach at 7.45 each
morning," Hertel explained. "The second drawing of blood took place 15 minutes after
the food intake. The third drawing was two hours later."
From each sample, 50 millilitres of blood was used for the chemistry and five
millimetres for the haematology and the luminescence. The haematological
examinations took place immediately after drawing the samples. Erythrocytes,
haemoglobin, mean haemoglobin concentration, mean haemoglobin content,
leukocytes and lymphocytes were measured. The chemical analysis consisted of iron,
total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.
The results of erythrocyte, haemoglobin, haematocrit and leukocyte determinations
were at the "lower limits of normal" in those tested following the eating of the
microwaved samples.
"These results show anaemic tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced
during the second month of the study," Hertel added. "And with those decreasing
values, there was a corresponding increase of cholesterol values."
Hertel admits that stress factors, from getting punctured for the blood samples so often
each day, for example, cannot be ruled out, but the established baseline for each
individual became the "zero values" marker, and only changes from the zero values
were statistically determined.
With only one round of test substances completed, the different effects between
conventionally prepared food and microwaved food were marginal-although noticed as
definite "tendencies". As the test continued, the differences in the blood markers
became "statistically significant". The changes are generally considered to be signs of
stress on the body. For example, erythrocytes tended to increase after eating vegetables
from the microwave oven. Haemoglobin and both of the mean concentration and
content haemoglobin markers also tended to decrease significantly after eating the
microwaved substances.
LEUKOCYTOSIS
"Leukocytosis," Hertel explained, "which cannot be accounted for by normal daily
deviations such as following the intake of food, is taken seriously by haematologists.
Leukocyte response is especially sensitive to stress. They are often signs of pathogenic
effects on the living system, such as poisoning and cell damage. The increase of
leukocytes with the microwaved foods was more pronounced than with all the other
variants. It appears that these marked increases were caused entirely by ingesting the
microwaved substances."
The cholesterol markers were very interesting, Hertel stressed:
"Common scientific belief states that cholesterol values usually alter slowly over longer
periods of time. In this study, the markers increased rapidly after the consumption of
the microwaved vegetables. However, with milk, the cholesterol values remained the
same and even decreased with the raw milk significantly."
Hertel believes his study tends to confirm newer scientific data that suggest cholesterol
may rapidly increase in the blood secondary to acute stress. "Also," he added, "blood
cholesterol levels are less influenced by cholesterol content of food than by stress
factors. Such stress-causing factors can apparently consist of foods which contain
virtually no cholesterol-the microwaved vegetables."
It is plain to see that this individually financed and conducted study has enough meat
in it to make anyone with a modicum of common sense sit up and take notice. Food
from the microwave oven caused abnormal changes, representing stress, to occur in
the blood of all the test individuals. Biological individuality, a key variable that makes
a mockery of many allegedly scientific studies, was well accounted for by the
established baselines.
So, how has the brilliant world of modern technology, medicine and 'protect the
public' government reacted to this impressive effort?
A GAG ORDER
As soon as Hertel and Blanc announced their results, the hammer of authority
slammed down on them. A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of
Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry, known simply as FEA,
struck swiftly. They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Kanton Bern, to
issue a 'gag order' against Hertel and Blanc. The attack was so ferocious that Blanc
quickly recanted his support-but it was too late. He had already put into writing his
views on the validity of the studies where he concurred with the opinion that
microwaved food caused the blood abnormalities.
Hertel stood his ground, and today is steadfastly demanding his rights to a trial.
Preliminary hearings on the matter have been appealed to higher courts, and it's quite
obvious the powers that be do not want a 'show trial' to erupt on this issue.
In March 1993, the court handed down this decision based upon the complaint of the
FEA:
Consideration
1. Request from the plaintiff (FEA) to prohibit the defendant (Dr Ing.
Hans Hertel) from declaring that food prepared in the microwave
oven shall be dangerous to health and lead to changes in the blood of
consumers, giving reference to pathologic troubles as also indicative
for the beginning of a cancerous process. The defendant shall be
prohibited from repeating such a statement in publications and in
public talks by punishment laid down in the law.
2. The jurisdiction of the judge is given according to law.
3. The active legitimacy of the plaintiff is given according to the law.
4. The passive legitimacy of the defendant is given by the fact that he is
the author of the polemic [published study] in question, especially
since the present new and revised law allows to exclude the necessity
of a competitive situation, therefore delinquents may also be persons
who are not co-competitors, but may damage the competing position
of others by mere declarations.
[Apparently, Swiss corporations have lobbied in a law that nails
"delinquents" who disparage products and might do damage to
commerce by such remarks. So far, the US Constitution still
preserves freedom of the press.]
5. Considering the relevant situation it is referred to three
publications: the public renunciation [sic] of the so-called co-author
Professor Bernard Blanc, the expertise of Professor Teuber [expert
witness from the FEA] about the above-mentioned publication, the
opinion of the public health authorities with regard to the present
stage of research with microwave ovens as well as to repeated
statements from the side of the defendant about the danger of such
ovens.
6. It is not considered of importance whether or not the polemic of the
defendant meets the approval of the public, because all that is
necessary is that a possibility exists that such a statement could find
approval with people not being experts themselves. Also, advertising
involving fear is not allowed and is always disqualified by the law.
The necessity for a fast interference is in no case more advised than
in the processes of competition. Basically, the defendant has the right
to defend himself against such accusations. This right, however, can
be denied in cases of pressing danger with regard to impairing the
rights of the plaintiff when this is requested.
Conclusion
On grounds of this pending request of the plaintiff, the court arrives at the
conclusion that because of special presuppositions as in this case, a definite
disadvantage for the plaintiff does exist, which may not easily be repaired,
and therefore must be considered to be of immediate danger. The case thus
warrants the request of the plaintiff to be justified, even without hearing
the defendant. Also, because it is not known when the defendant will bring
further statements into the public.
The judge is also of the opinion that because the publications are made up
to appear as scientific, and therefore especially reliable-looking, they may
cause additional bad disadvantages. It must be added that there does
obviously not exist a just reason for this publication because there is no
public interest for pseudo-scientific unproved declarations. Finally, these
ordered measures do not prove to be disproportionate.
The defendant is prohibited, under punishment of up to F5,000, or up to
one year in prison, to declare that food prepared in microwave ovens is
dangerous to health and leads to pathologic troubles as also indicative for
the beginning of a cancerous process.
The plaintiff pays the costs.
(Signed) President of the Court of Seftigen Kraemer."
If you cannot imagine this kind of decision coming from a court in the United States,
you have not been paying attention to the advances of administrative law.
Hertel defied the court and has loudly demanded a fair hearing on the truth of his
claims. The court has continued to delay, dodge, appeal and avoid any media-catching
confrontation. As of this writing, Hans is still waiting for a hearing with media
coverage-and he's still talking and publishing his findings.
"They have not been able to intimidate me into silence, and I will not accept their
conditions," Hertel declared. "I have appeared at large seminars in Germany, and the
study results have been well-received. Also, I think the authorities are aware that
scientists at Ciba-Geigy [the world's largest pharmaceutical company, headquartered
in Switzerland] have vowed to support me in court."
As those powerful special interests in Switzerland who desire to sell microwave ovens
by the millions continued to suppress open debate on this vital issue for modern
civilisation, new microwave developments blossomed in the United States.
INFANT DANGER
In the journal Pediatrics (vol. 89, no. 4, April 1992), there appeared an article titled,
"Effects of Microwave Radiation on Anti-infective Factors in Human Milk". Richard
Quan, M.D. from Dallas, Texas, was the lead name of the study team. John A. Kerner,
M.D., from Stanford University, was also on the research team, and he was quoted in a
summary article on the research that appeared in the 25 April 1992 issue of Science
News. To get the full flavour of what may lie ahead for microwaving, here is that
summary article:
"Women who work outside the home can express and store breast milk for feedings
when they are away. But parents and caregivers should be careful how they warm this
milk. A new study shows that microwaving human milk-even at a low setting-can
destroy some of its important disease-fighting capabilities.
"Breast milk can be refrigerated safely for a few days or frozen for up to a month;
however, studies have shown that heating the milk well above body
temperature-37&degree;C-can break down not only its antibodies to infectious agents,
but also its lysozymes or bacteria-digesting enzymes. So, when paediatrician John A.
Kerner, Jr, witnessed neonatal nurses routinely thawing or reheating breast milk with
the microwave oven in their lounge, he became concerned.
"In the April 1992 issue of Pediatrics (Part I), he and his Stanford University
co-workers reported finding that unheated breast milk that was microwaved lost
lysozyme activity, antibodies and fostered the growth of more potentially pathogenic
bacteria. Milk heated at a high setting (72&degree;C to 98&degree;C) lost 96 per cent
of its immunoglobulin-A antibodies, agents that fend off invading microbes.
"What really surprised him, Kerner said, was finding some loss of anti-infective
properties in the milk microwaved at a low setting-and to a mean of just
33.5&degree;C. Adverse changes at such low temperatures suggest ' microwaving itself
may in fact cause some injury to the milk above and beyond the heating'.
"But Randall M. Goldblum of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
disagrees, saying: 'I don't see any compelling evidence that the microwaves did any harm.
It was the heating.' Lysozyme and antibody degradation in the coolest samples may
simply reflect the development of small hot spots-potentially 60&degree;C or
above-during microwaving, noted Madeleine Sigman-Grant of Pennsylvania State
University, University Park. And that's to be expected, she said, because microwave
heating is inherently uneven-and quite unpredictable when volumes less than four
millilitres are involved, as was the case in the Kerner's study.
"Goldblum considers use of a microwave to thaw milk an especially bad idea, since it is
likely to boil some of the milk before all has even liquefied. Stanford University
Medical Center no longer microwaves breast milk, Kerner notes. And that's
appropriate, Sigman-Grant believes, because of the small volumes of milk that
hospitals typically serve newborns-especially premature infants."
CHASING A STORY
Journalist Tom Valentine, after chasing this story, found it interesting that 'scientists'
have so many 'beliefs' to express rather than prove fact. Yet facts eventually snuff out
credential-based conjecture.
Researcher Quan, in a phone interview, said that he believed the results of research so
far warranted further detailed study of the effects of microwave cooking on nutrients.
The summary sentence in an abstract of the research paper is very clear:
"Microwaving appears to be contra-indicated at high temperatures, and questions
regarding its safety exist even at low temperatures."
The final statement of the study conclusion reads:
"This preliminary study suggests that microwaving human milk could be
detrimental. Further studies are needed to determine whether and how
microwaving could safely be done."
Unfortunately, further studies are not scheduled at this time.
If there are so many indications that the effects of microwaves on foods can degrade
the foods far above the known breakdowns of standard cooking, is it not reasonable to
conduct exhaustive studies on living, breathing human beings to determine if it's
possible that eating microwaved foods continuously, as many people do, can be
significantly detrimental to individual health?
If you wanted to introduce a herbal supplement into the American mainstream and
make any health claims for it, you would be subjected to exhaustive documentation
and costly research. Yet the microwave-oven industry had only to prove that the
dangerous microwaves could, indeed, be contained within the oven and not escape into
the surrounding area where the radiation could do damage to people. The industry
must admit that some microwaves escape even in the best-made ovens. So far, not one
thought has been given by the industry to the possibility that the nutrients could be so
altered as to be deleterious to health.
Well, this makes sense in a land that encourages farmers to poison crops and soils with
massive amounts of synthesised chemicals, and encourages food processors to use
additives that enhance shelf-life of foods regardless of the potential for degrading the
health of the consumer.
How many hundreds of pounds of microwaved food per capita is consumed in America
each year? Are we going to continue to take it from established authority, without
question, on the premise that they know best?
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is, they damage the brain or impair its functioning. Researchers from the New York University School of
Medicine, using Brain Electrical Activity Map technology, have found that people who crave sugar, junk food,
drugs, etc., do so because they are trying to correct an existing brain imbalance. It is a form of self-medication.
For example, people with depression have damage to the frontal lobe of their brain, which shows up as
reduced electrical brain activity during scans. When these individuals take sugar or drugs, their brain map
temporarily becomes normalized. Unfortunately, with repeated use, the abnormalities worsen.
Modern society is suffering an epidemic of abnormal brain functioning, and there are many contributing
causes - lead poisoning, asbestos, high-fat diets, fluorescent lights, drugs, nutrient-depleted foods, and so on. A
recent study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) revealed that 50% of the U.S. population has
significant Axis I disorders or brain chemical imbalances. Possible symptoms of this condition include anxiety,
depression, insomnia, and somatization disorder. Ninety percent of the population fit psychiatric diagnostic
classifications that are, in many ways, precursors to severe brain chemical imbalances.
Some adventurous doctors are going beyond accepted medical procedures in order to treat these ubiquitous
brain dysfunctions. They use "smart" drugs, such as eldepryl, tyrosine, anti-depressants, DHEA, as well as
nutrients and herbs such as ginkgo biloba, antioxidants, amino acid supplements, high doses of vitamin E, etc.
In addition, cranial electrical stimulation is applied to further normalize brain function.
Research has indicated that sweets and junk food are the gateway to alcohol, and alcohol is the gateway to
drugs. Unfortunately, many of today's youth do not understand that drugs are harmful, evidenced by the fact
that the use of drugs continues to rise in this age bracket. However, the Brain Electrical Activity Map can be
used as an educational tool to show teens pictures of the brain's activity, so they can see for themselves the
abnormalities that arise from a poor diet and drugs.
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Character, Courage, and Conscience
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Sample Article From the Dr. Laura Newsletter
I know what you'd like. Be honest. Generally you'd like to get your own way, get whatever you want, get back at
anyone whom you perceive as having crossed you, get your dreams and fantasies to come true right now, get ahead
with less sacrifice and effort, and get away with murder (figuratively, I hope) all without any consequences or regrets.
Such power. Sound heavenly? Think about it more. I believe that this selection of apparent goodies would be a
welcome basket into hell. Can you really imagine enjoying a life without altruism, compassion, sacrifice,
commitment, obligation, work, goals, cooperation, love, and companionship? That's just some of what you'd miss if
you were capable of those powers. And think of what life would be like for you if others had those powers. Oh no!
Sounds awful, doesn't it? Yes, it does. But, do you realize how often you do try to create a life with one or more of
those powers? If you're reacting with an immediate, "Not me!" - think again. Think of all the times you've tried to cut
life's corners, played helpless, taken without returning, told stories on others, threatened and hurt, lied and
manipulated, used and discarded, disdained or ignored the welfare of others, sacrificed your obligation to someone
else's needs for personal gain, sold out on a principle for money or fame . . . and so it goes.
The modern day "out," or excuse for such behaviors, is generally psychological: "Considering my hurts,
disappointments, and traumas, I can't be responsible for the havoc I wreak in the lives of others or the mess I've made
of my own life." Oh puhleeese. Do you really believe that only those people graced with great genetics, perfect
parentage, and ideal social conditions can and will behave with character, courage, and conscience? Do you really
believe that laziness, gutlessness, and selfishness are products only of some form of psychoneurosis? Nonsense.
The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful
decision to do the right thing. This is the book to get you on that path, and to keep you focused on those goals.
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ethical behavior. And I came to that conclusion by listening to your stories for almost two decades.
I began my radio talk-program career simultaneously with my training in Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy. My
education as a psychotherapist focused on the dynamic (interpersonal pressures and challenges) and unconscious
motivations (inner compulsive drives) for people's behaviors and for their problems in coping with life. The training
didn't exactly say that people were not at all responsible for their condition, but it did emphasize that external
situations and internal angst provided an almost inexorable force that became explanation, if not excuse, for all the
inappropriate, self-defeating, even destructive behaviors that messed up their lives.
Consequently, my early on-air radio dialogues were directed toward providing insights concerning the origins of the
caller's uncomfortable, frustrating, and sometimes downright scary predicaments. I actually got quite good at moving
with the caller toward an understanding of how their unfinished developmental stages, unmet needs, experiences of
loss and frustration, hurts and fears led to their present-day problems. You know, associations like: "Your father
abandoned you at a young age and of course you'd be scared to trust men. That explains your promiscuity. Now that
you know that..."
Neat package. Too neat. It worried me. First, I was bothered by the notion that just because an objectively bad
experience happened, that it necessarily caused the person's present problems. Reality just wouldn't support that
position. All people to whom that event occurred did not turn out with the same type or quality of life. I switched my
thinking from cause-effect to possible influence, as I worried just how great a role blaming something in the past and
reverence for victimhood were functioning to help people stay stuck.
Since all people are not similarly affected by similar life experiences, I factored into my reasoning the unique,
basically genetic personality of each caller. If you question the genetic contribution, simply ask any parent of more
than one child whether or not the personalities of their kids have been different from each other and relatively
consistent from birth. Not everyone responds to the same threat or input with the same response; the reactions of
individuals are not simple, predictable, knee-jerk responses.
Finally, it struck me that even profound anger, hurt, or fear do not merely trip-wire a specific reaction; human beings
control and re-direct emotions all the time, even over-ride them with conscious determination and often pay a
considerable emotional price of pain to accomplish this noble task.
The bottom line is that, regardless of the facts of our past, notwithstanding our perceptions and beliefs about ourselves
and life based on that past, we can and must make decisions and take actions that require something more special
about us as human beings than simple emotional reactions.
With this realization, I began to develop a profound respect for the choices humans are capable of making under
circumstances ranging from the apparently mundane (like the young woman not getting her "own way" in her
relationship who decides to appreciate what she does have without diminishing it with regrets about what she doesn't
have) to the deeply profound (like the man who finds out his old girlfriend is a single mother with his two-year-old
daughter and makes the child's welfare his priority, sacrificing a new job, home, and current relationship to move
close to and parent his child). Callers were teaching me about the tenacity of spirit and nobility of purpose with which
people can choose to behave - where sacrifice and suffering are seen as part of the elevation of the soul in
accomplishing something truly special: being human.
I don't take the issue of our humanity lightly. My B.S. and Ph.D. are in Biology and Human Physiology, respectively.
I'm awed by the majesty and miracle of even single-celled creatures, much less the complex physiology and behavior
of the evolutionary epitome of life on earth, Homo sapiens.
But, there is something that separates human beings from being too simply categorized as yet another animal, and that
something is morality. Without morality, we are no more than termites seeking survival and gratification at every
moment and at all costs. With morality, we transcend instinct and simple equations of learned response.
More and more I began to see that the problems people wanted to solve, resolve, or avoid in the first place need to be
approached along the lines of right and wrong. This is an anathema to much of the psychological establishment,
among whom feelings reign supreme, values are relative, and where there is no judgment and little challenge. I started
talking about honor, integrity and ethics in tandem with the more traditional psychological approach and BANG!!!
My radio program took off and became an international phenomenon, while purely psychology-oriented shows have
more or less dropped by the wayside.
The basic premise of my radio program and books has been that, regardless of emotional angst or tremendous
temptation, to be fully human and to benefit maximally from the life experience, you must get back to the 3 C's:
Character, Courage, and Conscience.
I begin each hour of my program with "I've Got A New Attitude," sung by Patti LaBelle, because it expresses my
belief that it is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough,
challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals, or getting goodies or good vibes right now.
You have character when you most often choose ideals.
I've often told my listeners that, once an ant finds a crumb, it is instinctively driven to communicate to the other ants
about the find and then help bring the food to the colony. The ant is not being good by bringing home the bacon; it is
responding to an inner biological program. No choice involved. And where there is no choice, there is no morality.
Humans can choose between selfishness (or survival) and generosity (or sacrifice). You have courage when you most
often choose generosity.
I've also described that children learn very early which behaviors get parental smiles and which get parental frowns or
spanks. At this early stage, right and wrong has only to do with reward and punishment. However, with maturity, you
learn to respect the wisdom, protection, benefits and promise of a moral life. You have conscience when you most
often compel yourself to do what is right for its own sake.
I truly believe that we, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied
on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
This book is partly prophylactic in intent. My aim is to show you how an adherence to the 3 C's can help you prevent
personal and interpersonal problems and dilemmas. It is also true that the concepts and illustrative examples within
this book can guide and direct you toward repairing and restoring your spirit, your relationships, and your life.
Now go take on the challenges of Character, Courage, and Conscience.
We highly recommend subscribing to Dr. Laura's Perspectives Newsletter. Check out Dr.
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How Flower Essences Work
an excerpt from
The Essential Flower Essence Handbook
by Lila Devi
Listening to Nature to Set
Ourselves Free
The essence of flowers — a poetic idea,
to be sure. Much more than that in a
practical sense, flower essences have
proven to users the world over that their
energies do make a difference — subtly
yet often unmistakably assisting us to
put our higher nature to work. You can
find the story of Edward Bach, who
developed the first of the essences about
a century ago, on the bookshelves of
most stores and pharmacies that carry
the small but potent vials.
To help spread the message of just what
flower essences are and how they work,
we offer you excerpts from a couple of
recently published books on the subject.
The first will answer your questions on a
practical level; the second excerpt is a
glimpse into the author's intuitive
development of flower essences from
desert plants, a more mystical treatment
of what is, indeed, an intuitive and
mystical endeavor.
What Are Flower Essences?
Flower essences are herbal tinctures that strengthen
and balance us on the psychological and emotional
levels of our being. Prepared from pure spring water
and the blossoms themselves, they are set for three
hours in direct sunlight. They are stored in a dark bottle
and are preserved in a brandy base. Flower essences
are taken two to four drops at a time, four times a day,
under the tongue or applied topically if brandy
sensitivity is present. They are best not taken with
food: Take ten minutes before a meal or one hour
afterward. Essences may be taken more often if
desired. Results range from immediate and dramatic to
mild and more gentle. People will often notice changes
in their eating and sleeping habits and/or dreaming
patterns, energy levels, ability to form new insights and
resolutions.
[Consider Master's Flower Essences, for example.]
Started in 1977, the Master's Flower Essences are the
second oldest essence line in existence. They are
prepared specifically from the organic blossoms of
fruits, a few nuts and vegetables that give them the
added benefit of being familiar to us and more easily
assessed. Craving oranges? Eating lots of almonds?
Great essence clues!
The Active Ingredient
"I was playing out the same things over and over in my
mind for months," recounted Stephen of a difficult
breakup. "Now it's over and done with. The essences
really allowed me to let go of what I was holding on to
and release the pain." With the assistance of flower
essences to vibrationally remind us of who we already
are, we can break the false hypnotism of our human
frailty.
Through the high vibratory rate of the blossoms from
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which they are prepared, flower essences interact with
our willingness and commitment to change ourselves.
Willingness and commitment equal energy, the active
ingredient in flower essence therapy. The essences both
honor and activate our life force, the true source of
healing. They act as catalysts, or pump-primers. For
this reason, we may rightfully take credit for the
changes that we co-create through taking the essences.
A common response to them is, "I'm not sure if they're
helping, but I do feel better!" Or, "I really feel like
myself again." And since happiness is our natural state,
it is only natural to want to return to it.
Energy generates magnetism, and a stronger
magnetism vibrationally influences a weaker one. If,
for example, a strongly negative person shakes hands
with a weaker positive person, the weaker person will
be negatively influenced. The opposite is also the case.
Flower essences, as living vibrations, both possess and
project magnetism. Their magnetism, being stronger
and more positive than ours when we are out of
balance, elevates us to their level, like being in the
presence of someone who inspires and uplifts us.
Through ingesting the essences or applying them
topically, we place ourselves in their "presence."
In the journey we undertake with flower essences, we
are lifted up to their higher rate of vibration. A musical
metaphor can also illustrate this point. A flower
remedy may be likened to a tuning fork. By attuning
ourselves to it, we become in tune with the song of our
unique perfection. With essences, we look to balance,
and strengthen the personality. And since each
individual is different, there is no pat formula or set
order of essences. An essence program is as unique as
the person following it.
Will the changes initiated by the essences last? People
often ask this question. In most cases, the answer is yes
although none of us are immune to backsliding!
However, it is also true that, as a rule, we heal in
stages, attaining deeper levels of clarity and insight
rather than categorically clearing lifelong issues
instantaneously. If you take Raspberry, for example, to
be freed of the pain of past emotional wounds, you
may experience a response similar to Stephen's
mentioned earlier. The change will most likely be
permanent, provided that your thoughts and actions
continue to support it. If, for example, Sean takes
Tomato to gather the strength and will power to
disentangle himself from an abusive relationship, it
will not serve him to return to that unhealthy situation.
Environment, it has been said, is stronger than will
power.
An Essence for Everything?
Often clients ask, "Is there an essence for everything?"
"Do you have an
essence for my husband's procrastination?" "My
sister-in-law is so overbearing — what do you have to
make her change?" "Which essence works for
insomnia?" "My son is teething. Is there an essence for
his discomfort?" A generic answer is, "Yes, there is an
essence for everything." Implicit in our desire to be
well and whole is the remedy itself. True seeking leads
to sought-after answers.
Enter Flower Essences
Although Corn addresses procrastination and Grape is
wonderful for bossiness, the real issue at hand may not
be other people, but us. Our strength lies in our ability
to work on our issues and confront our own
tailor-made tests. In truth, we are powerless over others
except to the extent that we project a positive
magnetism, inspiring them by our example. And what
victory when the shortcomings of others no longer
negatively affect us! Considerable self-honesty is
necessary in order to realize that the flaws we see in
others may be the same as those we ourselves possess.
If we find bossiness in someone else, it would be
worthwhile to introspect on whether we, too, harbor
that tendency.
As for the second set of questions above: Yes, Lettuce
assists with the emotional states behind insomnia, and
Orange is helpful for teething pain. Flower essences
work with the energy that triggers these physical
issues, and not directly on the actual physiological
states. When peace of mind is restored, any latent seeds
of illness may remain unnourished and thus unable to
sprout. Sometimes, however, illness is necessary; we
needn't look at illness, or even death, as failure.
Essences do not remove our tests; they help clarify
them.
To simplify, all flower essences do the same thing for
every living thing: They restore us to a state of balance
in which our internal, intelligent life force is activated.
Life force is the real healer; the energy of flower
essences merely primes it. And since the uplifting
qualities embodied in the essences are our truest
nature, to resonate with those qualities is only natural.
What Flower Essences Don't Do
Essences do not affect us biochemically, as does
traditional allopathic medicine. Sedatives, for example,
can knock you out for the night. This is not the case
with flower essences. In other words, they allow us to
change; they do not make us change.
A point to remember: Flower essences will not change
us into anything but our true selves. Thus, we never
need worry about misusing them to manipulate our
own, or others' behavior. It is simply not possible.
There's a joke about the man who, upon having his arm
set in a cast, asked the doctor if he would be able to
play the piano when it healed. "Of course," replied the
doctor. "Good," said the man, " I couldn't before." Not
so with flower essences. They allow us to refine who
we already are without altering our essential nature.
The excerpt above was taken from the new book, The
Essential Flower Essence Handbook, Remedies For
Inner Well-Being by Lila Devi, with permission of
publisher Hay House, and is available at all
bookstores or by calling 800/654-5126.
The Alchemy of the Desert
by Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer
Preface
What is the alchemy of the desert? The great work of
the alchemists was to find the way to transform things
with no value into ones of value, such as lead into gold.
The modern alchemist can use the help of nature to
turn problems into opportunities; trauma into
experience; handicaps into assets; lack into abundance;
patterns of imbalance into qualities of harmony.
I offer this book as a supportive guide for those
interested in cultivating their own relationship with the
nature kingdom, especially through the wondrously
unique plant life of the desert.
Every flower essence is a co-creative blending of the
nature kingdom and the blessings of someone of
human consciousness. Each flower essence I have
made and worked with has been prepared with the
highest blessings I can offer for the support and
upliftment of all of humanity. May they be empowered
with the highest capacity for healing and supporting
consciousness.
[This book contains] the result of about fifteen years of
research in co-creating and using desert flower
essences. When I began co-creating the essences, I had
no idea how they worked to create harmony with
myself. I was only aware that when I used them, I
would feel better. I had a great desire to know myself
well enough to recognize exactly how each essence
was working within myself, and to be able to explain
the process to others. In a very short time the patterns,
or the attitudes, of disharmony began to be apparent
within myself (proving that what I ask for, I receive!). I
realized that the awareness of these patterns was a vital
part of being able to understand how to use the
essences with myself and others.
[The question I am asked most often is how I got
started making flower essences. This is the story. It
illustrates the potent healing power of the desert.]
Desert Discovery
...I never desired or imagined that I would return to the
United States where I had been born. Yet the universe,
in its infinite wisdom, had other plans for me. After ten
years of living in my beloved Greece, it became
painfully obvious that I was to return to the United
States. I had no idea of what I wanted to do there.
I met a woman who told me, "I don't know why, but I
feel that I must introduce you to these things called
flower essences."
She couldn't tell me much about them, but I felt a
strange sense of recognition as she showed me some
little bottles of Bach Flower Remedies. Not really
knowing what they were, I began to use them. I had no
idea what they did, but I knew that I felt better for
using them.
After spending one year of wandering about the United
States in deep culture shock, I found myself in Tucson,
Arizona. The first thing I did was to drive out into a
huge cactus forest where I felt immediately at home. I
knew that my wandering was over, that I had found my
home again. The instant attunement with the desert and
all its plants was startlingly powerful for me. I felt as if
I had been here before and I knew that the desert was
very special for me.
I found a secluded house out in the middle of the desert
where I lived all alone. At once I began to cultivate a
relationship with the desert in the same way you would
get to know neighbors or make friends with people. I
simply spent my time with the desert.
Even though I was very attracted to the desert, I was
also very afraid of it at first because it was so strange.
At the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, and through
books, I began to learn about the plant and animal life
so that I could feel comfortable running about the
desert floor. The greatest learning, however, came to
me through my spending time with the plants
themselves. It was as if they had been waiting to share
with me, to show me their strange strategies of
adaptation. They wanted to share with me the ways in
which they could discriminate with their energy, and
how individuated they were.
I fell in love with these unique plants and very quickly
felt very at home among them. Because I did not know
people in or around Tucson, the plants became my
friends just as they had when I was a child.
Here in the Arizona desert we have a huge cactus
called Saguaro. You have probably seen them in the
old western cowboy movies.... This cactus stands erect,
sometimes as tall as fifty-two feet, with great arms that
appear to stretch up high to the heavens. When I see
these magnificent creatures I feel so humble, as if I am
in the presence of something ancient and majestic.
One day as I was driving through a whole forest of
these great cactuses and feeling a deep sense of
oneness with them, I had a powerful experience that
was to change my whole life. It was as if the Saguaros
were talking to me, yet what I heard came from within
myself.
I heard, "Cynthia, why don't you make a flower
essence from us, the Saguaros?"
I was very excited by the idea. Then another realization
struck me very strongly; I didn't know how to make a
flower essence. In fact, I didn't even know exactly what
a flower essence was. I thought that I couldn't actualize
this great idea, so I pretended that this experience
hadn't even happened.
About two weeks later, I was awakened by someone
knocking on my door at 5:30 in the morning. I was
very surprised as I lived out in the wild desert with no
one around. When I opened the door, I saw a Gilia
Woodpecker bird perched on the door jamb. I
experienced the same communication that I had with
the Saguaros. What I heard inside myself this time was,
"Today is the day you will make your first flower
essence, so get up and get ready!" Then the bird flew
away.
What ensued was one of the greatest battles I have
experienced within myself. My mind was convinced
that I was completely crazy. Had I spent too long in the
desert? Was all this really happening to me?
Yet as the same time, within me arose a deep sense of
peace and rightness. All the knowledge that I needed
was right there inside myself. I just needed to listen
and trust. By listening to the wisdom within myself, I
was led through all the steps of making a Saguaro
flower essence.
About a month after I began making flower essences, I
met a woman who was teaching how to make [them].
She verified that the way I was making the essences
was indeed the same way in which others were making
them. I had outer verification that I could trust my
inner wisdom.
I had felt completely alien when I returned to the
United States. In the nature of the desert I saw plants
that looked like aliens from another planet. We had
much in common. In retrospect, I see that it took me
three years to overcome the deepest effects of culture
shock and begin to feel comfortable relating to others.
The flower essences and my ever deepening
relationship with the nature kingdom (and ultimately
myself) were a major support during these demanding
years. The difficulties and challenges that I faced and
resolved were the foundation for the research presented
in this book.
The above was taken from the new book, The Alchemy
of the Desert: a comprehensive guide to desert flower
essences for professional and self-help use, by Cynthia
Athina Kemp Scherer with permission of publisher
Desert Alchemy Editions. Available at bookstores or
from the publisher at P.O. Box 44189, Tucson, AZ
85733; telephone: 520-325-8405; email:
info@desert-alchemy.com;
web:www.desert-alchemy.com.
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Are You Getting Enlightened or Losing Your Mind?
A Spiritual Program for Mental Fitness
by Dennis Gersten MD
A healer in the highest sense of the word, Dr. Gersten has supplemented his medical skills
with uncommon wisdom, compassion, and love. Practical and reassuring, this book tells
readers how to become comfortable with disturbing or disruptive states of minds - from
stress to depression, from paranormal experiences to mystical visions - and how to learn
from and find meaning in them all.
Lily Tomlin once asked, "Why is it that it's called prayer when we talk to God, but when he
answers back it's called schizophrenia?" Almost half of all Americans claim to have had an
unusual spiritual experience and as many more have had problems handling stress,
anxiety, and depression.
In Are You Getting Enlightened or Losing Mind? Dr. Gersten, a practicing psychiatrist
recounts his experiences with his patients and his own spiritual breakthroughs to answer
questions about the entire spectrum of human consciousness - the "normal," "abnormal,"
and "supernormal." This practical, reassuring book of spiritual psychiatry gives readers the
solid information they need to deal with the sense of dislocation and uncertainty that often
accompanies spiritual experiences - as well as the everyday stresses that affect our states
of mind.
Dr. Gersten demonstrates how a spiritual practice can positively influence our mental
health and emotional well-being. His unique, step-by-step program of meditations,
breathwork, and imagery for psychological-spiritual fitness and integrity will appeal to all
seekers on the path with heart.
A doctor of the soul, Gersten clearly differentiates between "getting enlightened" and
"losing one's mind," between miracles and madness, spiritual emergence and mental
emergency. His spiritual practices for mental fitness will enhance your peace of mind;
sharpen your focus and alertness; teach you imagery techniques for gaining perspective
on your problems; and strengthen your core values.
As Dr. Larry Dossey says in his foreword to the book, "Dr. Dennis Gersten is a healer in
the highest sense of the word. He has supplemented his medical skills with uncommon
wisdom, compassion and love, which shine through on every page."
"Dr. Dennis Gersten courageously incorporates spirituality into the practice of medicine,
bringing alive the essence of true healing."
- Judith Orloff M.D., author of Second Sight
"I was enthralled with Are You Getting Enlightened or Losing Your Mind? Dr. Gersten's
courageous, heartfelt, and practical look at the interface between enlightenment and
mental distress is inspiring, authentic, and life-changing. I couldn't put it down. The deep
understanding and healing that Dr. Gersten brings to his psychiatric patients is available,
through this book, to each of us - regardless of our current state of health."
- Christiane Northrup, M.D., Author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"A psychiatrist openly and honestly shares his life's experience. Read what he has lived
and learned so that you can liberate yourself and live fully."
- Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles
"Dr. Gersten masterfully moves readers straight into the day-to-day arena of spiritual
transformation. This is a profound guide that spiritual seekers will celebrate."
- Bradford Keeney, Ph.D., Author of Everyday Soul: Awakening The Spirit In Daily Life
"Some very simple truths and techniques from a caring author. Dennis steps in and out of
'reality' with ease. A brave, courageous book that challenges our assumptions and teaches
in the same breath. Wonderfully cluttered with techniques, anecdotes and stories."
- Peter Jensen, Author of The Inside Edge: High Performance Through Mental Fitness
"In this comprehensive and highly accessible book, Dr. Gersten shares his passion for the
healing potential inherent in a spiritual orientation to life. His twenty years of experience . .
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. have taught him that both mystical experiences and mental illness are real . . . and, most
important, discernible even to the average lay person.... His 'Mental Fitness Techniques'
and program are practical, easily learned tools. They can change your life."
- Janet Quinn, Ph.D., R.N.
"The current medical industry has no models to aid a clinician in distinguishing, assessing,
and helping patients with spiritual experiences. By speaking out and providing integrative
language, Dr. Gersten is helping to transform the excesses of an exclusive, narrow,
biological model."
- Scott Walker, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of
New Mexico
Dr. Larry Dossey writes:
"The deepest passion of the western world is to reunite with the ground of its being," wrote
Richard Tarnas in his 1991 book The Passion of the Western Mind. This unquenchable
desire to touch the Divine is universal. It is the source of the most sublime music, art,
literature, and architecture of every culture.
But if our most intense drives are toward the transcendent, why do references to "the
spiritual" create such emotional and intellectual indigestion in modern medicine and
psychiatry? In our century, health care professionals have avoided religion and spirituality
like the plague. This has created problems not only for patients but for physicians as well.
As a result of this avoidance, medicine has become one of the most spiritually
malnourished professions in our culture.
The reasons why the healing profession has avoided spiritual issues is rooted in the
history of science. Only through great struggle did science finally escape the constraints
and confines of the Church. Scientists discovered early on that a hands-off approach to
religion worked best for both sides. They learned to leave "the spiritual" to religion as they
claimed "the physical" for themselves.
This separation has been disastrous. It has led to the belief that there are basically two
ways in which we can live our lives. We may, on the one hand, choose to be rational,
intellectual, analytical, and scientific. On the other hand, we can choose the path of
intuition, religion, and spirituality.
These paths are divergent; they cannot possibly be brought together. The failure to
harmonize these two vectors in the human psyche has created immense emotional pain
for millions of people in our culture, as they have attempted the unhealthy task of dividing
their minds. Dr. Dennis Gersten shows that this choice is false and artificial. We can have
it both ways; we can honor both our spiritual and intellectual impulses and heal the hurt
that so many feel.
There are pitfalls, to be sure, as Gersten points out. Madness is real, and not every vision
of God or Goddess is authentic. Self-deception is alive and well, as it has always been.
Gersten makes clear that the path toward transcendence is not easy; the spiritual path is
not for wimps. But many have gone before us and the path is well described. Through this
book, Gersten becomes a guide.
Medicine and psychiatry are changing. We are gradually learning to lighten up where
spiritual issues are concerned. The pressure to do so comes not just from patients, who
are hungry for a spiritual spark in healing, but from science itself. For example, there are
currently over 130 controlled experimental studies examining the effect of prayer and the
ability of an empathic, caring, loving person to intervene in the function of a distant, living
being; over half of these studies show statistically that prayer works. In addition, more than
250 studies reveal that religious practices, including prayer, are correlated with better
health and a lower incidence of a broad variety of diseases. We need to admit what our
research shows: that spiritual practice is good for health, both physical and mental. Today
we can say that it isn't just nice or humane to include spiritual concepts in medicine and
psychiatry; it's bad science not to do so.
Gentle rains have begun to fall on some of the spiritual deserts of medicine. The Office of
Alternative Medicine, established in 1992 within the National Institutes of Health, has
funded a study testing the effectiveness of distant, intercessory prayer in a program of
drug and alcohol rehabilitation. A few years ago this study would have been unthinkable.
Not everybody agrees that these developments are a good thing. There are skeptics and
cynics who believe that spirituality is ruinous for the human race, and that our best hope is
to pull ourselves up by our intellectual bootstraps. While we can honor these opinions, we
can observe nonetheless that this is the old-style thinking that creates deep and painful
divisions in the lives of human beings. We must honor all we are, not just isolated parts,
and we must learn to harmonize, not fragment, our psyche. The fact is, most people do not
function well when they are deprived of spiritual experiences. There are spiritual-deficiency
syndromes, just like vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
Andre Malraux, France's great novelist and former minister of culture, said, "The
twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all." There is urgency in the
spiritualization of modern life; time may not be on our side. But the movement has begun.
It gives me great personal pleasure that a physician has written this book, because it tells
me there still are physicians who deeply sense the spiritual dimension of healing. Dr.
Dennis Gersten is a healer in the highest sense of the word. He has supplemented his
technical skills with uncommon wisdom, compassion, and love, which shine through on
every page. It is an honor to add my endorsement to his vision.
- Larry Dossey, M.D. - Author of Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of
Medicine
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Guided Imagery in Hospitals?
by Leslie Davenport
Interest in incorporating guided imagery (directing pictures we see in our minds, our feelings, and our
inner senses) for healing into hospital settings is growing rapidly in the Bay Area. Marin General
Hospital, located in Greenbrae, California, has a newly established program in place that provides free
guided imagery sessions (up to 50 minutes) to patients. The program, staffed by nine volunteers
(professionals in the field of Psychology, with an average of nine years in private practice), is also being
offered to the public on a sliding-scale, the cost of which may be covered by insurance. In addition,
support groups and classes are being offered, which utilize and teach imagery skills for those in treatment
as well as for those who wish to use imagery as a preventative measure. Brookside Hospital, located in
the East Bay, heard about the program at Marin General and now has three volunteers working in their
cancer center doing guided imagery.
This remarkable program is the creation of Leslie Davenport, M.S., M.F.C.C. Davenport, currently
teaching holistic health and transpersonal Psychology Graduate programs at John F. Kennedy University
in Orinda, California, is a graduate of the Academy for Guided Imagery in Marin, California. She began
working through the Chaplain's office at Marin General Hospital approximately four years ago. Her work
there led her to incorporate counseling and guided imagery into the cancer program.
The response she received from the patients and hospital staff was so positive that a year ago, Davenport
wrote a formal proposal to the hospital administration to expand the program hospital-wide. After review
by various hospital committees, approval was given, and a formal affiliation with the Academy for
Guided Imagery was established.
Dr. Martin Rossman, co-director of the Academy, is assisting Davenport in selecting therapists for the
program. Dr. Rossman is a leading authority in guided imagery whose 1989 book, "Healing Yourself," is
considered a major work in this field. "Imagery is the way we think," said Dr. Rossman. "When we
daydream, we're using imagery. The only difference in this setting is that we use imagery to heal."
Davenport adds, "We consider guided imagery as one of the doors open to people. When they open that
door, it gives them an awareness of their bodies, their mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and
teaches them how to use that awareness to help themselves."
Davenport describes her role in guided imagery as that of a midwife. She finds that people intuitively
know what images will help them the most in their healing process. She assists people in relaxing and
listening to their bodies to create a dialog that reconnects body, mind, and spirit in a powerful, holistic
way.
Many directions may be taken in guided imagery, but all include techniques that produce a state of
relaxation. The patient may be asked to be aware of their breath and to let go of physical tensions in a
progressive manner. They then may be asked to seek out a familiar and safe place, or a place that gives
them a sense of expansiveness. "This setting may be a meadow, a beach, or a mountain (according to the
nature and experience of the patient), and provides a sense of protectedness. The technique enables the
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patient to experience their being in a different way, while providing the opportunity to develop
stress-management skills," says Davenport.
Another technique consists of general relaxation imagery and focusing on the area that is causing the
problem or pain. By focusing on the problem or pain, the patient can then describe the pain to the
counselor and try to associate the pain with a specific image. (See images on previous page.) For
example, one patient who responded to the offer for guided imagery, needed help learning how to deal
with chronic pain in her hip. she was asked by her physician not to use any pain medication for two
weeks prior to her total hip replacement surgery (they wanted her post surgical pain management to be
optimal). She was concerned about how she was going to get through the next two weeks without any
pain medication and still function. Davenport explained the guided imagery procedure to her, assisted her
in relaxing, and asked her to describe a picture of her pain. She described seeing a very sharp knife
inserted deep into her hip. Davenport then asked her what she thought she could do to diminish the pain.
This brought up an image of putting her hand on the handle of the knife, slowly withdrawing it, and
placing it into a leather sheath. When asked if there were any other areas that were painful, the patient
described a boulder resting heavily on the muscles in her thigh. She used an image of a crane lifting the
weight off of her leg. Utilizing this technique, the patient was able to reduce her pain by forty to sixty
percent, thus allowing her to comply with her doctor's request.
The last guided imagery technique used includes general relaxation imagery and then having the patient
imagine a wise person or inner-guide that would help them through their healing or pain reduction. The
patient would ask the inner guide questions to gain insight into their pain and healing. A recent patient,
who was recovering from cancer surgery, was able to visualize a warm, white, comforting light that
reduced the pain and swelling at the surgery site. In addition to the physical benefits, he was so grateful
for the reconnection he achieved with his body that he was moved to tears.
As this story illustrates, guided imagery empowers the patient to actively particpate in their healing
process. The patients learn to cope with stress and pain in a new way. Not only does it reduce their pain
and anxiety, it also helps to humanize the high-tech environment of the hospital. The results are
astounding, and it only goes to show that there is a need for this ancient therapy. Hopefully in the future,
further evidence outlining ALL the benefits of guided imagery will come to light and will aid in the
expansion of this essential therapy into a wider arena in the health care field.
For more information about the guided imagery program, contact Leslie Davenport at (415) 925-7932.
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ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder - Hyperactivity - ADHD - Holistic Medicine
Attention Deficit Disorder & Hyperactivity
Success
by Dr. Allen Buresz
What Are the True Facts?
The vast majority of medical doctors consider Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to be of
unknown causes. Yet it's a known fact that the elimination of food additives and refined sugar
produces dramatic improvements. Why haven't you been told this well-known fact?
Considering the advertising revenues, it doesn't take a genius to see why the print and
broadcast media have, for the most part, refused to publicize this vital information!
Studies on Food Additive Use and
Intelligence
Food Additives and Hyperactivity in
Children
ADD, hyperactivity, and dyslexia are believed to be disorders of certain mechanisms of the
central nervous system. Infants and children are the ones most often affected, and most often
subjected to the widespread and indiscriminate use of drugs, especially Ritalin®, for quick
short-cut suppression of deeper problems.
ADD interferes with the child's home, school and social life. Unable to screen out stimuli, the
child is easily distracted. This usually intelligent child receives a label of being
"learning-disabled" and finds the nervous system cannot be slowed down to focus long enough
to complete an assigned task. Other symptoms may be head knocking, self-destructiveness,
temper tantrums, clumsiness and sleep disturbances. ADD may exist with or without the
hyperactivity aspect.
ADD has been diagnosed for hundreds of years, but more recently has become more prevalent
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due to the increased use of chemicals, pollutants, or heavy metal toxicity (such as lead,
mercury, and cadmium). One estimate quotes over l.3 million with Attention Deficit Disorder;
another source quotes up to 3 million with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Although genetics, infections and brain damage (trauma) have been cited as causes of ADD and
LD (Learning Disabilities), these cases are quite rare compared to causes like a dysfunctional
home, heavy metal toxicities, nutritional deficiencies, and food and chemical allergies. The
majority of cases are caused by an immune defect and allergies to food additives, preservatives,
chemicals, or inhalants. To deal adequately with this illness, we must address all these potential
imbalances. Some of the nutritional deficiencies that correlate with LD or ADD are calcium,
magnesium, iodine, iron and zinc. On the other hand, high copper, lead, cadmium and
aluminum levels have also been seen in learning disabled children. (21)
Good nutrition during pregnancy and in the early years of the child' s life may help in
preventing ADD. Eliminating processed foods, artificial flavorings, colorings, preservatives,
and sugars have been shown to help the hyperactivity aspect of the affliction.
Symptoms in Infants and Young Children (21)
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Screaming
Restlessness
Poor or little sleep
Difficult feeding
Refuses affection and cuddles
Head banging or rocking fits or temper tantrums
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Constantly moving
Destructive or disruptive behavior
Accident proneness
Bouts of fatigue, weakness and listlessness
Aggressiveness
Poor concentration ability
Vocal repetition and loudness
Withdrawn behavior
Restlessness
School failure despite normal or high IQ
Poor sleep with nightmares
Poor appetite and erratic eating habits
Poor coordination
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Hypersensitive to odors, lights, sound, heat and cold
Nose and skin picking or hair pulling
Bed wetting (enuresis)
Dark circles or puffiness below the eyes
Red earlobes or red cheeks
Swollen neck glands or fluid behind ear drums
Potential Causes
Many natural health oriented doctors believe that potential causes for the modern epidemic of
Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD) and hyperactivity are:
1. Food additives
2. Refined sugar
3. Poor nutrition
4. Natural light deficiency
5. Food allergies
6. Heavy metal toxicity (such as lead, mercury, or cadmium)
7. Poor teaching methods combined with lack of discipline
Natural Light Deficiency
Dr. John Ott, the pioneer in light-deficiency disorders, proved an association of natural light
deficiency with ADD in the school system in Sarasota, Florida many years ago. You can read
about it in Dr. William Campbell Douglass' book, Into the Light. (A)
Dr. Douglass suggests that if your child or grandchild has been diagnosed with ADD, all the
light bulbs in your home should be replaced with full spectrum lights (everyone should do this
anyway). (8) You might also attempt to get the schools in your area to install full-spectrum
lights.
Food Additives
The belief that food additives can cause hyperactivity in children stemmed from the research of
Benjamin Feingold, M.D. It is commonly referred to as the Feingold Hypothesis. According to
Feingold, perhaps 40 to 50 percent of hyperactive children are sensitive to artificial food colors,
flavors, and preservatives. They may also be sensitive to naturally occurring salicylates and
phenolic compounds in foods.
Dr. Julian Whitaker has observed:
"Feingold's assertion that food additives are a problem in learning disorders has
been subject to great debate over the past two decades. Practices that are profitable
carry on and major economic interests have responded by hiring their own
researchers to combat the results. Questions are asked in ways that will produce
answers that undercut the challenging work and please the funding interests. The
media publishes "conflicting reports." Politicians and regulators cite this conflict
as their reason for inaction. Habits do not change easily. Feingold's work has
stimulated a classic example of such debate, because the American food supply and
American agribusiness is profitably enmeshed in the use of food additives.
Dr. Feingold made his original presentation to the American Medical Association
in 1973. His strong claims were based on experience with 1,200 individuals in
whom behavior disorders were linked to consumption of food additives. Follow-up
research in Australia and Canada has tended to support Feingold's thesis." (27)
Avoiding Ritalin®
In 1996 the World Health Organization warned that Ritalin® over-use has reached dangerous
proportions. Hopefully, by being armed with correct information, you may be able to avoid
using Ritalin® or other similar medications. Use of these drugs on a long-term basis is
questionable. Safety of such long-term use is simply unknown, but many dangerous side effects
have been increasingly observed. Ritalin®, for instance, may provoke seizures and suppress
growth, or it may cause angina, blood pressure changes, depression or any of a very long list of
serious side effects.
Dr. Robert Mendelsohn had once noted: "No one has ever been able to demonstrate that drugs
such as Cylert and Ritalin® improve the academic performance of the children who take
them.... The pupil is drugged to make life easier for his teacher, not to make it better and more
productive for the child." (13)
Success By A Nutritional Approach
Most self-proclaimed "experts" on ADD and Hyperactivity disorders are unaware of the
relationship between nutrition and ADD / ADHD, but they are quick to say that these are not
important nor relevant. However there are enough studies that prove otherwise. For example:
1. A 1994 study at Purdue University found that boys diagnosed with ADHD had lower
levels of the omega-3 essential fatty acid DHA (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
2. A 1997 study found that 95% of ADHD children tested were deficient in magnesium
(Magnesium Research 10, 1997)
3. A 1996 study found that ADHD children had zinc levels that were only 2/3 the level of
those without ADHD (Biological Psychiatry 40, 1996)
The cell membranes and synaptic endings of neurons in our brains and nervous systems are
composed of DHA, an omega-3 essential fatty acid. These membranes go rancid unless
protected with antioxidants. Since most people don't get enough DHA, other types of fats are
incorporated into the brain, but they do not function as well because they are the wrong shape.
Also, the all-important neurotransmitters are manufactured by the body from dietary sources.
In order for these neurotransmitters to function well, the B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, and
Vitamin C must all be present in sufficient amounts. Some studies have shown a relationship
between fatty acid deficiencies and ADD, learning disorders, and behavior problems.
Some dietary suggestions that I have found to be helpful are:
1. VERY IMPORTANT! Supplement with natural concentrated nutritional supplements
containing antioxidants, anti-inflammatory nutrients, vitamins, and essential minerals.
The goal is to improve synaptic cell-to-cell communication.
2. Provide essential fatty acid (EFA) supplements (as in fish oil, flaxseed oil, DHA / EFA
supplements, primrose oil).
3. Adjust the types of fats your family eats (good fats are olive oil, fish oil, canola oil and
flaxseed oil; reduce all others). These are also helpful for the cardiovascular system, and
can reduce the risk of cancer.
4. Eliminate, or at least reduce as much as possible, trans-fats (man-made hydrogenated
oils which can be incorporated into your brain structure - processed food are full of
them). These fats are also worse for your heart than saturated fats and are potential
carcinogens.
5. Avoid food additives and highly processed foods.
Dr. Zoltan Rona, past president of the Canadian Holistic Medical Association, has pointed out
the following important nutritional considerations in his best-selling book, Childhood Illness
and the Allergy Connection:
"Micronutrient deficiencies or dependencies (e.g. zinc) can have deleterious effects
on both short and long term memory. White spots on the nails could be a sign of
zinc deficiency even when blood tests for zinc are normal. The expression, "No
zinc, no think" is not without merit. Many studies have shown that zinc
supplementation is helpful with memory, thinking and I.Q. The best way of getting
zinc is to optimize the diet. The most recently published RDA (Recommended
Dietary Allowance) for adults is 15 mgs. per day. The richest sources of zinc are
generally the high protein foods such as organ meats, seafood (especially shellfish),
oysters, whole grains and legumes (beans and peas). Studies show that cognitive
development can be impaired when there are low iron blood levels. Deficiencies in
B vitamins, particularly vitamin B1 and choline may also be involved.
"Since amino acids are the precursors to the neurotransmitters, low levels can lead
to neurotransmitter deficiency. Higher than accepted levels may lead to
neurotransmitter excess. One example of amino acid excess causing hyperactive
behaviour occurs with the artificial sweetener, aspartame. Some children are
highly sensitive to aspartame and scrupulous attention should be aimed at keeping
this potential neurotoxin out of the child's diet. In children who consume large
amounts of aspartame in soft drinks or other processed foods, amino acids can be
significantly abnormal." (21)
Success Using Homeopathy
In my own clinic I have had the opportunity to treat quite a number of children who have been
diagnosed as being "hyperactive" or having Attention Deficit Disorder. In every case I have
found the following:
● Cervical segmental dysfunction (pressure or irritation in the neck or the junction of the
neck and skull)
● Allergies to one or more foods (usually milk, cane sugar, chocolate, American cheese, or
wheat (with sugar, additives, and cow's milk being the most frequent problems)
● Toxic metal accumulation (usually lead, mercury, copper, or aluminum)
For the spinal nerve pressure or irritation, a few chiropractic adjustments (spinal
manipulations) will usually be enough to correct this component. Occasionally there are other
areas of the spine that are involved (especially in the case of a beginning scoliosis), in which
case other areas of the neuromusculoskeletal system may need to be worked on. Spinal Touch
Treatment has been used by me to effectively correct postural problems and scoliosis, and will
often accelerate the correction of the A.D.D. or hyperactivity problem.
From what I have read of Dr. Upledger on CranioSacral Therapy, he says that ADD is
commonly mechanically caused by an occiput that is jammed too far forward on the cranial
base (apparently a common result of any sort of birth trauma, no matter how minor). Of those
he's treated who've presented with ADD, I believe that he said 60 per cent of those had the
"jammed occiput" condition. Of those with this mechanical problem, he experienced a 100 per
cent cure rate. Unfortunately, the mechanical aspect is rarely examined by parents seeking help
with ADD.
I always recommend elimination of refined sugar and food additives from the diet of the
affected person. This has to be done to the best of one's ability, and obviously is not always 100
percent possible. Conscientious efforts on the parents' part, and frequent trips to health food
stores and organic food suppliers are a must.
Suspension of all dairy product use for the first 6 weeks is also often recommended, since cow's
milk products are very frequently involved in allergic or hypersensitivity reactions in these
cases. A simple "leg length check" can often be useful in narrowing down potential food
allergies. For example, if you suspect milk to be a potential problem, give a few drops of it
under the tongue while the child is lying on his back with shoes on. If the child begins to react
to the milk (or any other food being tested), then the previously equal in length legs will appear
to suddenly become unequal in relation to each other (sometimes by as much as three fourths
of an inch). I think you will be as amazed to see this phenomenon as I was when I first
witnessed it two decades ago!
If there is reason to suspect toxic accumulation of lead, mercury, copper, or aluminum, then I
use Metalstat homeopathic drops from Energique (C) for detoxification of heavy metals. Blood
tests and hair tests are available for accurate testing, but since correction can so easily be
accomplished by inexpensive homeopathic drops, I seldom see a need to insist upon such testing
(which can often add up to hundreds of dollars in expenses). Let's be practical and use common
sense! The beauty of the action of homeopathic drops and remedies is that they function as a
catalyst for the body's own inner healing mechanisms and resources to go into action to correct
health imbalances. If the homeopathic being taken is not necessary, then nothing happens! If
not used excessively, there are no harmful side effects to worry about as are often encountered
with most prescription drugs.
Finally, in addition to all-natural nutritional supplementation (if it is a particularly difficult or
long-term problem), I have the child (and occasionally adults) take twice daily ADD HP (C)
homeopathic drops from Energique. (C) to assist in the reorganization and coordination of the
central nervous system back to an integrated whole. These drops contain homeopathically
prepared potencies of Adrenocorticotropin, L-Dopa Phenolic, Gamma Aminobutyric Acid
Phenolic, Norepinephrine Phenolic, Serotonin Phenolic, Lycopodium Clavatum, Calcarea
Carbonica, Calcarea Phosphorica, as well as some others - and often reduce the time to when
parents can see their children functioning without impairment. I can't recall a case where the
child was not able to get rid of his Ritalin ®, get rid of his allergies, and get rid of the stigma of
"A.D.D." and "hyperactivity" placed upon him or her when the measures discussed in this
article have been carried out.
Just today I had another parent tell me of the tremendous improvement in his son's behavior,
just two weeks after initiating treatment! Especially gratifying are the many reports parents
have relayed to me of the positive comments from teachers about the improved behavior in the
classroom, and the improved grades!
Remember, true health care should always seek to determine the causes of health problems.
Obviously bad health habits and the causes of the problems then need to be eliminated. In my
opinion, simply suppressing the effects of the causes or bad habits with drugs is not the
optimum approach! Despite the fact that this seems almost childishly obvious, what do we see
everywhere around us in today's health care?
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Childhood Vol. 69, 1993, pages 564 - 568
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Keats Publishing, 1990)
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A. Dr. William Campbell Douglass' book, Into the Light, is available for $15.95 plus $2.50
shipping from: Second Opinion Publishing, P.O. Box 467939, Atlanta, GA 31146-7939 U.S.A.,
Telephone: 800-728-2288 or 770-399-5617 (FAX: 770-399-0815).
B. You can order full spectrum lights from: LCI Light and Supply, P.O. Box 427, Mediapolis,
Iowa, 52637 U.S.A., at 800-999-4027 (FAX: 319-394-9473)
C. Energique's ADD-HP homeopathic drops and remedies are available from: Natural Health
L.P..
Dr. Allen Buresz, Chiropractic Physician, has a practice that specializes in a holistic approach at his
Family Health Center in the Chicago suburbs. It includes herbal, nutritional, homeopathic,
chiropractic, massage, and preventive therapeutic methods.
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Thought Forms
by Edna Ballard
Not lightly did the Great Incarnation of Light say: "Condemn not." All the way down the
centuries, since the dawn of time, have the Great Lights in the world of men given us this
same command. Think you then, that it was idle daydreaming or accident that the human
side of each individual should be reminded again and again, in every age to "condemn not judge not - criticize not?"
The Great Ascended Host of Superhuman Beings and Angels, the Great Ones Who have
guided humanity on its path to perfection from its infancy have, throughout eons of time,
reiterated those Commands; and they are still this very moment just as much Cosmic Laws
to all humanity here and elsewhere as they were the very first time they were spoken forth.
They apply to every human being on this planet and there is no such thing as an exception.
If we will exercise our mental muscles a little it will not be difficult for us to grasp the
reason back of this Cosmic Command. First, from the standpoint of each of us, for that is the
nearest thing to us, we do not want to create thought forms with which we fill our own auras
with anything except what is going to bring us harmony, happiness and blessings.
Everyone's primary impulse in life is to be happy. That is our birthright and our Divine
prerogative. Harmony is the fundamental Law of our being. Therefore, if we think, see, feel
or speak an inharmony about any other part of creation, we are that moment building
thought forms of mental substance and energizing them with our feeling and thought.
This is not conjecture. Thought does build form. That Law, we cannot possibly escape. Just
because the average person's eyes do not see the form immediately, is no proof that it does
not exist. There are some, whose faculty of sight has been attuned highly enough to be able
to see thought forms in the aura of others, and sometimes their own, have been shown them.
The day is not far distant when a mechanical device will be built which will as surely show
people their own thought and the form it takes, as the mirror now shows them their bodies.
This takes no stretch of the imagination to prove it. Is not the airplane of today but the
physical form of the thought of the airplane of yesterday? Is not the present Panama Canal
but the form of the thought of the Panama Canal of a few years back? Is not the present city
of New York but the form of the thought of the city of New York in the minds of the people
of New York of a few years ago? If enough human minds think revolution, will not the form
of revolution appear in the political life of any community? Just as surely as this Law
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manifested in the past, just as surely will it continue in the future - in the body, aura and
affairs of either the individual or group of individuals. As the individual fills his own aura
and world with his thought forms, so does the group build the group thoughtform which is
but an aggregate of the thought forms of the minds composing it. Do you not see what a
serious thing happens when we think? Therefore, let us stand guard at the portal of our
thought as the Angel of old with flaming sword to consume every thought form which does
not contain the pattern and manifest peace, harmony and blessings to all mankind.
If we would be protected, must we not also protect? If we refuse to think a thought of
imperfection about another, we are directly recognizing the Diamond Self of him and it will
that moment, act forth to us through his humanity. Learn to bless your own Diamond Self in
every other human being and as surely as you do it only that Self can possibly act back to
you. It works. Try it.
Can the Diamond Self of us cast its perfect pattern upon the mind if that mind is filled with
thoughts of criticism, condemnation, hate and judgment of itself and others? Through a
soiled window His Light does not shine. Your mind is the window through which your
Diamond Self looks at the world around you. Clear as crystal should it be if it is to pour
forth His glory to the world. We cannot receive thoughts of perfection from our Diamond
Self if we keep the mind and aura filled with thought forms of imperfection any more than
the north pole and equator can exist at the same point on our globe.
There is nothing in this universe which compels us to think what we do not want unless we
either refuse to use our will or give it into the charge of some directing agency outside
ourselves. Therefore, we do have absolute and complete control over the creation of the
thought forms with which we fill our own world. It should be our fundamental business in
life to definitely determine that we will only build thought forms that shall go forth to heal,
to bless and to prosper.
Determined effort to listen only to our Diamond Self, for from It comes only thought forms
of perfection, and think only upon its Divine Design will bring all and more of peace and
health and happiness than we can very well imagine in our present state of existence. Every
thought which does not contain perfection emanates from something less than your
Diamond Self and is not your friend.
Our thoughts are our children, our progeny, and since we have given them birth, we alone
must redeem them and carry them up to the perfect standard of our Diamond Self. Thoughts
of Perfection have the power to bring balance and transmute all unlike them into themselves
just as light does the darkness. When we turn on the light, the darkness does not go
somewhere, it simply takes on the nature of, and becomes, light. So do thought forms of
perfection change thought forms of imperfection into themselves by absorbing the energy
and substance contained therein.
Perfection is more powerful than imperfection, else the human race could never have
evolved into anything higher than that from which it started on the human side of its
evolution.
Let us, therefore, obey the eternal Command of all Masters of Light and Wisdom and in the
words of the Master Jesus Christ, we close and with Him say: "What I say unto you, I say
unto all: Watch!"
This article by Edna Ballard is presented here for the first time since it was originally
published in her privately printed newsletter from Chicago, The American Occultist,
Volume 1, Number 7, July 14, 1930. She gained Her Immortal Freedom in the Victory of
the Ascension, reuniting with God's "I AM Presence" - the "Diamond Self", on February 12,
1971 - becoming the Ascended Lady Master Lotus.
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Depression: A Pathway Home to the Self
Depression:
A Pathway Home to the Self
by Lelia Griswold
Ken Wilbur once defined depression as "having nowhere to put your love." Many experience depression after a
significant loss of a dream, loved one, job, health, or a way of life. Adjusting to such a loss triggers feelings of
dispiritedness and hopelessness, and affects people physically/biochemically, mentally, and energetically. This article
will shed light on depression as a transformational teacher that helps us discover how to love, take care of ourselves
and surrender to Spirit.
Phase 1: Reaching Out to a Loving Friend
Transforming depression begins with reaching out to a friend, relative, or professional with whom one has a loving,
heart- and soul-centered connection. A mutually trusting, respectful, and empowering relationship allows the
depressed person to get back in touch with his soul's joy and heart's love, and gives him hope to re-engage with life.
Because the depressed individual's self-image is so negatively distorted, it is essential during this phase that the friend
or professional maintain a vision that upholds the highest truth of who the person is. The love and support of other
friends and relatives is essential, too.
Phase 2:
Moving Back Home to Self
Once a person has made contact with her inner hope, joy and love through the presence of a consistent, loving person,
her next step is to start doing what she really enjoys with people she enjoys being with. Life becomes easier as her
mood gradually shifts to a lighter vibration. She also starts paying more attention to nurturing herself to feel
comfortable, happy and secure. Step by step, she walks the path out of the illusion-filled nightmare of depression back
home to the truth of her Real Self. Physical movements such as yoga, tai chi, dance, running, cycling, or hiking in
nature are recommended. Taking care of any physical symptoms or medical problems is also important during this
phase.
Phase3:
Re-Engaging with Life from a New Place
The diamond buried in the darkness of depression begins to emerge as one re-engages with ordinary life activities
from one's heart and soul as well as the mind, body and emotions. Joy, light and love gradually replace hopelessness
and futility. Working with the inner family/trinity, or inner child, inner mother, and inner father is very beneficial at
this time. As people take time to listen to and satisfy their inner child's needs through their own inner mother and
father, they progressively become more whole. This re-parenting of the inner child allows for internal harmony,
relaxation and deep peace. It also short-circuits people's tendency to engage with one another co-dependently.
Phase 4:
Integration, Maintenance & Following Spirit
The transformation is fully manifest when a person commits to making the physical, mental, and emotional nurturing
and caring for Self a priority in life. At this stage, people begin to realize that nobody can care for them if they don't
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care for themselves. When people confidently "put their love" with themselves first, they are free to receive and share
Spirit's abundant love and guidance without hidden demands or agendas. From this place of wholeness, following
Spirit and doing God's will become natural and deeply satisfying. Depression is transformed into the joy of faith filled
surrender to Spirit!
Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 2, Summer 1995, Baltimore Maryland. Lelia
Griswold, LCSW, M.Ed. is a spiritual therapist, dancer and teacher dedicated to individual transformation and
planetary evolution. She can be reached at The Light Center in Owings Mills, MD, at (410) 521-9465.
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Kripalu Yoga...A Way To Better Health
by Claudia Dudley
Life is stressful.
The evening news provides constant reminder of world, state and community problems, then we
add our own-relationships, work, money...No wonder it's hard to find inner peace these days.
How do you handle stress?
Many of us would rather not deal with it at all, but self-medicate with alcohol, drugs, food and
other addictive behaviors. Others internalize it, and later find themselves with headaches, any
variety of body tensions, and emotional outbursts.
Unfortunately, the stress doesn't end. We need to learn to manage stress before it creates illness.
One way is through the ancient system of self-improvement called hatha yoga. Kripalu yoga is one
of the many styles of teaching hatha yoga.
The practice of Kripalu yoga is designed to lead us to an ever-increasing knowledge of our mind
and body's needs in order to achieve and maintain good physical, mental and spiritual health. In
short, it deals with the whole person. People in my classes range in age from 15 to 86. Many suffer
from a broad range of medical conditions including heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure,
asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, back problems, mental illness, and stress related disorders. Others
are here to improve their strength, flexibility, and balance, as well as cultivate inner stillness.
The course is the same for everyone. We don't emphasize what is wrong with people but rather
what is right with them: their capacity for learning, for mobilizing their inner strengths and for
changing behavior in new and imaginative ways. Each session includes postures, guided breathing,
relaxation and meditation.
Postures (asanas), help lubricate the body. They keep the muscles and joints running smoothly,
stretch and tone the internal organs, and increase circulation, without creating fatigue.
Each person goes to their own limits of strength, flexibility and balance. There's no molding to
some preconceived ideal form; but rather in finding one's own edge, we allow ourselves to be
challenged, without creating pain.
When we're holding a posture we focus on body sensations. If the sensation happens to be an itch
or an ache, then, instead of changing position or putting it out of our mind, we go right into the
sensation. In doing so, it can actually resolve.
The second aspect of a yoga practice is breathing (pranayama). Stop and observe how you're
breathing right now. Are you using the full capacity of your lungs? Most of us do basic survival
breathing, using about 1/7 of our lungs capacities. Yoga emphasizes how to breathe correctly.
Research confirms that consciously directed breathing can have the following benefits: reduced
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stress, sound sleep, clear sinuses, smoking cessation, improved sports performances, relief from
constipation and headaches, reduced allergy and asthma symptoms, relief from menstrual cramps,
lower blood pressure, and emotional calmness.
Relaxation (pratyahara) helps release physical and emotional tension in the body. We relax both
while we're holding the posture and after the posture. Relaxation is crucial for our well being as
well as an important tool for pain relief. If you're in pain and you tense up, you hurt more. Instead
of automatically grabbing for a pill, in yoga we allow ourselves to feel the pain, and relax into it. In
doing so, it starts to dissolve.
Just about all medical programs for healing, whether for emotional, mental or physical problems,
include rest. Rest is also a wonderful preventive tool, yet most of us don't know how to relax, or
feel guilty when we do. So here it is in print: It's OK to RELAX. You'll improve the quality of your
life.
Lastly, we have meditation, which to some may seem like a mystical phenomenon. But another
word for meditation is simply "awareness." It's about paying attention to the only time you have to
live, namely this present moment.
Does your mind ever wander? Worrying about the future or regretting the past? Through focusing
on sensations, meditation quiets the chatter of the mind. And when the mind is quiet, we're not as
angry, worried or anxious.
Hence the practice of yoga brings not only physical health, but also mental health.
Medical research has recently shown that the regular practice of yoga can relieve high blood
pressure, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, chronic fatigue, asthma and varicose veins. In addition,
resistance to tumors and viruses improves, heart conditions improve and cholesterol and blood
sugar levels can be lowered.
Today there is no doubt of yoga's effectiveness as both a curative and preventive medicine.
The best reason of all to practice yoga doesn't come from an article. Ask your body how it feels
when you get up in the morning. Can you do the things you used to be able to do? That's got to be
the best inspiration of all to start practicing Kripalu yoga, and feeling good about the body you live
in.
The Mountain Posture
by Claudia Dudley
Benefits:
This deceptively simple standing posture provides the lessons of postural awareness, pelvic
positioning and leg strengthening that are crucial to back health. It helps correct postural
deviations and their associated pain. The mountain provides the basic alignment for other standing
postures, and leaves you feeling grounded and balanced.
Technique:
1. Stand erect with the feet 2-3 inches apart and arms down by your side. Shift your weight so it
is distributed evenly between the balls and heels of the feet.
2. Lift up your kneecaps by tightening your thighs. Tuck your tailbone under, slightly
contracting your buttocks.
3. Lift the crown of the head, feeling the spine elongate. Slowly raise your arms out to the side
and overhead, stretching your arms from the armpit to the fingers. Palms face each other.
Keep your shoulders relaxed. Lift your fingers up toward the sky.
4. Softly focus your gaze at a point in front of you along the horizon. Hold to your body's limit,
breathing fully.
Claudia Dudley is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher with classes at Union Memorial Hospital and
Franklin Square Hospital. She lectures frequently at GBMC, and holds private and group classes in
Baltimore, Maryland. She can be reached at 377-9382.
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The Mind-Body Connection
by Stan Waese
I am an orthodontist. I have studied many different forms of healing, both allopathic and naturopathic. I
have discovered an excercise that can be done with the mind that promotes healing in any part of the body.
If you agree that disease is caused by thoughts or emotions that weaken the body and allow disease to
occur, than the rational for this type of healing will be very clear.
If you have a sore throat, understand that the sore throat is caused by thought, emotions or feelings that
have weakened the throat. You do NOT HAVE TO KNOW the thoughts, emotions, or feelings that have
done the damage. With your mind, guide or direct the thought, emotions or feelings out of the throat (body)
to allow the energy that occurs around you to enter.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO TAKE ENERGY FROM THOSE WHO MAY BE AROUND YOU. Do not try to
heal the body part directly. The body knows how to heal itself better than you do. Create a
"CONVECTION CURRENT" of energy with the thoughts, emotions and feeling first going out, making
room for the surrounding energy to passively flow in. You will notice an immediate improvement of your
throat! This kind of mental hygiene can help allopathic medicines (such as.antibiotics, etc.), or other
therapies, work more efficiently.
This can also be done to help others. Just create the convection current of energy for another person, even
without them being aware of it. Even if that person is elsewhere in the world. It really works!
There are theories as to why this works, but it is not necessary to believe in them. Nor is it necessary for the
theories to be correct. Please try it and let me know how successful you have been.
Contributed by: Stan Waese, 1100 Sheppard Ave., E. #204, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, M2K 2W1
E-Mail: 76352.2766@compuserve.com
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Introduction to Gnosis #51
The Illumined Heart
by Richard Smoley
The Grail is the heart, illumined and
awakened so that it may serve as a receptacle
for divine energies.
For most of us, the Grail is a mirage or a rainbow's end. We may catch a
glimpse of it, but if we allow ourselves to be led in its direction, we soon
find that it recedes; if we steal a few steps closer, it disappears. And so
the Grail has become the quintessential metaphor for all that is beautiful
but unattainable.
The Grail is usually imagined as a cup or chalice, specifically the cup
used by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper (or used to catch his blood
as it flowed on the cross). Legend has it that after Christ's death and
resurrection, Joseph of Arimathea -- who had lent him his tomb for
something under three days -- took this cup to Glastonbury in
Somersetshire, England.
Glastonbury itself is the site of innumerable legends and fables
connected not only with Joseph of Arimathea but with King Arthur and
his knights; indeed it was said that the bones of Arthur and Guinevere
were unearthed there in medieval times. While this may be mere fable,
it's unquestionably true that Glastonbury functioned as the site of an
abbey from the seventh century till 1536, when Henry VIII ordered the
dissolution of all the monasteries in England. The Gothic ruins of
Glastonbury Abbey can still be seen today, and the town remains a
popular destination for New Age pilgrims.
The Grail too has become intertwined with the legends of Arthur and his
knights; this motif first appears in courtly romances written in the late
twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The oldest is the Perceval of
Chrétien de Troyes, a kind of Bildungsroman in which a young man
proves himself as a knight. During his adventures, he comes to a castle
where he witnesses a strange procession:
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A squire entered from a chamber, grasping by the middle a
white lance. . . . All present beheld the white lance and the
white point, from which a drop of red blood ran down to
the squire's hand. . . .
Then two other squires came in, right handsome, bearing in
their hands candelabra of fine gold and niello work, and in
each candelabrum were at least ten candles. A damsel came
in with these squires, holding between her two hands a
grail. She was beautiful, gracious, splendidly garbed, and as
she entered with the grail in her hands, there was such a
brilliant light that the candles lost their brightness, just as
the stars do when the moon or sun rises. After her came a
damsel holding a carving platter of silver. The grail which
preceded her was of refined gold; and it was set with
precious stones of many kinds.1
The young man is curious about this strange procession, but, minding
his manners, he does not say anything about it. The next morning he
awakes to find the castle empty, and he rides off. Only later, when he
describes the episode to a maiden he meets, does he discover that he has
been the guest of "the rich Fisher King."
"He is still in such pain that he cannot mount a horse," the maiden says,
"but when he wishes to divert himself, he has himself placed in a boat
and goes fishing; therefore he is called the Fisher King." The maiden
also tells the young man that if he had asked the meaning of the Grail
procession, he "would have cured the maimed King, so that he would
have recovered the use of his limbs and would have ruled his lands and
great good would have come of it!"
John Matthews, one of today's best-known writers on Celtic and
Arthurian subjects, ably dissects this strange tale in this issue, but one
thing worth noting about it here is that the Grail itself seems to be a
familiar object. In fact the word "grail" seems to come from the Old
French gradale or graal, and often simply means a large serving-dish.
Later on a hermit tells Perceval, "The rich Fisher is the son of the King
who causes himself to be served with the Grail. But do not think that he
takes from it a pike, a lamprey, or a salmon. The holy man sustains and
refreshes his life with a single Mass wafer. So sacred a thing is the grail,
and he himself is so spiritual, that he needs no more for his
sustenance."2
The most striking thing about this tale is its dreamlike nature. Like a
dream, it seems to lead us toward a number of different meanings, none
of which entirely exhausts its power. Some have seen in it echoes of
pre-Christian Celtic paganism, and indeed another version of this story,
the Peredur, found in the Welsh Mabinogion, is more explicitly pagan,
even including the familiar Celtic theme of a severed head. Others stress
the Greco-Roman origins of the myth: C.G. Jung's wife Emma noted
that some of its main elements can be traced to a novel about Alexander
the Great attributed to one Callisthenes and dating to around 200 A.D.3
On the other hand, as Charles Coulombe's article in this issue stresses,
the Grail legends proper arose at the precise moment in history when the
Catholic Church was formulating the doctrine of transubstantiation. The
idea that the Grail contained the Real Presence of Christ must have been
very much in the minds of Chrétien and the authors of other Grail
romances. Indeed one way of interpreting the Perceval is that the lance
and grail in the procession are images of the broken world of the Fall,
which is to be redeemed in the Eucharist; and the Perceval ends with an
explanation of the mystery of the Eucharist.
But there have been many other interpretations and many other images
for the Grail. In the thirteenth-century Parsifal of Wolfram von
Eschenbach, the Grail is not a cup but a stone fallen from heaven -- the
lapsit exillis. This obscure Latin phrase has called forth many
explanations. Lapsit is a garbled word, meaningless in Latin, but
evoking associations of lapis, "stone," and lapsus, "fallen." Exillis
resembles exilis, "meager" or "poor," also exsilium, "exile," elixir, and
even ex illis, "from those." Most likely it is either a mistake -- another
instance of the barbarous Latin common in the Middle Ages -- or a kind
of Joycean portmanteau word, deliberately cryptic and meant to evoke a
rich nexus of meanings. The image of the stone is itself ancient; in
describing his version of a Grail Castle, Pseudo-Callisthenes says, "A
precious stone, which took the place of a fire, lit the whole temple."
A popular recent interpretation holds that the Grail -- sometimes called
the Sangreal or "Holy Grail" -- isn't an object as such. Instead it refers to
the sang real or "royal blood." This view, popularized by Michael
Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln in Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
holds that the true Sangreal is the lineage of Jesus Christ himself. His
children, borne through Mary Magdalene, eventually came to constitute
the Merovingian dynasty of the Frankish kingdom. The perpetuation of
this bloodline -- and its restoration to the throne of France -- has
supposedly been the preoccupation of a mysterious secret society called
the Prieuré de Sion or Priory of Sion, which has enlisted the help of
various other secret societies throughout the centuries, including the
Templars and the Rosicrucians.
Though there is something engaging about this idea, in the end it has
always seemed to me more like a rejected Indiana Jones script or the
fantasy of obsessive French monarchists than a plausible take on history.
Robert Richardson's article in this issue suggests that a monarchist
fantasy is indeed what it is; he contends that, by means of planting
documents in French libraries, various intriguers have made it seem as if
the extinct Merovingian line not only survived to this day but has a real
connection to the lineage of Jesus Christ.
All of which leaves us asking, what is the Grail? Though, as Charles
Coulombe points out, there are to this day a number of candidates
propounded as the true Grail, it seems likely that the Grail is not just a
mere object, however sacred. Ean Begg's article in this issue suggests
that for C.G. Jung, the Grail was no less than the principium
individuationis, that in us which strives to realize itself and become
conscious. For R.J. Stewart, another well-known writer on Celtic
themes, the Grail is preeminently "the mystery of regeneration."
For others, the Grail is a nonphysical structure within the human
organism. Several months ago I asked Frances Fox, an intuitive
consultant based in Coral Gables, Florida, what enabled her to receive
psychic information, She replied, "We have within us an intuitive sense,
an apparatus that brings in totally clean information" from the psychic
airwaves. This nonphysical apparatus, which overlays the central
nervous system, is what she calls the Grail. "Grail is the French word, a
platter from which you can take anything you want," she explains. "You
can take anything you want off of your consciousness structure." Fox
claims that this structure is in some ways similar to the meridians known
to Chinese medicine, but unlike them, its structure can be altered.
"When your consciousness structure is working right," she adds, "it is in
the shape of a grail."
A similar perspective comes from a Russian Orthodox mystic named
Alexander Mumrikov. Discussing the Prayer of the Heart in a 1993
interview with author Dennis Lewis, Mumrikov observed that if one
carries out this prayer properly, "one senses a kind of chalice opening
upward. . . . The chalice represents the spiritual development of man.
The first sphere is formed at the level of the chest. . . . The second
sphere is compressed at the level of the throat. And the third sphere
opens in the head."
The chalices depicted in the icons of the Orthodox Church, Mumrikov
goes on to say, "represent the science of those people who have learned
how to direct their energy. They are able to feel the chalice in
themselves and to watch the transformation of the energy as it takes
place."4
For me, these two slightly varying pictures given by Fox and Mumrikov
point to what is most important in the Grail. It is certainly not a matter
of a physical artifact. Though most GNOSIS readers would probably
acknowledge that certain objects can serve as repositories of spiritual
power, this only leads to the question of what is to be done with that
power. Nor can the Grail mystery ultimately lie in the Eucharist; if it
were, why would it have so often seemed dangerous and heterodox to
ecclesiastical opinion?
No, what Fox and Mumrikov seem to be pointing toward is what I
believe to be the true mystery inherent in this myth: that the Grail is the
heart, illumined and awakened so that it may serve as a receptacle for
divine energies. To this inner transformation, even the Eucharist is only
a preliminary; hence the discomfort churchmen have always felt around
the concept.
Moreover, as Mumrikov stresses, "there are not many such people" who
have awakened their inner centers in this way, and "in general the
process is a very difficult one." If this is the case, it would explain one
of the central themes in the Grail mythos: that many are called but few
are chosen. It would also explain why the few successful candidates are
those who are pure of heart, for the heart must be pure before it can be
illumined.
Mumrikov's discussion, enlightening as it is, does not explain one
curious fact about the Grail tradition, which is connected with a knightly
quest -- the way of the warrior. The legends arose in this chivalric
setting and faded as the knightly world gave way to modernity. I think it
is no accident that the legend of the Grail crystallized in this context.
There is an ancient tradition that relates the specialized functions of
human society to parts of the individual psyche; society is literally seen
as the individual writ large. The most famous exposition of this view
appears in Plato's Republic. In his ideal state, Plato equates the warrior
class with the emotional part of the human character; he equates the
instinctual, "appetitive" part of the mind with laborers and merchants,
while the philosophers, those who are awake on the intellectual level,
are the rulers or "guardians."5
Today such a picture seems odd, particularly in relating warriors to the
emotions, which are generally portrayed as soft and "feminine." But the
emotions in all of us have their dark and violent sides, and society has
always had to face the problem of how to deal with these aspects.
Chivalry, which attempts to elevate the heart of the warrior, to dedicate
it to high ideals, and to blunt the edges of violence, was the solution
reached by medieval society.
Today it is common to click one's tongue at the ceaseless and
internecine warfare and brutalities of that era. No one can deny that
these took place. But we must also acknowledge the context. The people
at whom this ethos was directed were not sensitive modern-day
Californians who do T'ai Chi regularly and take their holidays at Esalen;
they were only a few generations removed from the barbarians who
sacked the Roman Empire. The myth of the Grail and the chivalric ideal
were probably the best means of introducing some moderation into the
violent culture of the era. Possibly those who formulated the Grail ethos
realized that their solution was imperfect; most realistic solutions are.
All of which leads to the question of the value of the Grail for us now.
Although, as the plethora of books on these themes attest, there is
unquestionably a resurgence of interest in this idea, today it is not
primarily an ethos for warriors. The modern soldier still has dangers to
face and enemies to confront; at the same time it is true that, for better
or for worse, technology has taken to doing more of the work of
warfare. And in any case the military elite, despite its unquestioned
power, does not rule society to the extent that it did in the Middle Ages;
in business-minded America, the famous "military-industrial complex"
is far more dominated by commercial than by military interests.
As a result, the Grail mythos is bound to seem quaint to modern readers,
and this is one source of its appeal. When confronted with the noise and
speed of modern society, one often wants to step into a Burne-Jones
tapestry, with its silent chapels and abundantly tressed maidens. Indeed
most intelligent and sensitive people feel a strong pull to other places
and times, whether dictated by personal inclinations, the books one has
read, or, as some claim, by past-life experiences. As long as it doesn't
blind one to the realities of daily life, there is nothing wrong with this; it
may even add a certain texture and richness to one's character.
Yet I think there is a deeper lesson to be derived from the Grail legends,
which harks back to the essence of the mythos: that the Grail is the
illumined heart. Few of us are going to be knights or warriors in any but
the most attenuated and metaphorical sense of these terms, but we do
retain the possibility that our emotions, refined and purified by insight
and integrity of purpose, can form a chalice into which divine energies
can flow. Like the Grail itself, this ideal may seem remote, elusive, and
unattainable. Yet, as the old legends suggest, there is something in the
very quest for it that may serve as its own justification and reward.
NOTES
1. Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval, in Roger Sherman Loomis and Laura
Hibbard Loomis, eds., Medieval Romances (New York: Modern
Library, 1957), pp. 58-59, 63-64.
2. Ibid., p. 85.
3. Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, The Grail Legend, trans.
Andrea Dykes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 105.
4. Dennis Lewis, "The Place of Energy in the Prayer of Jesus," in Inner
Alchemy (San Francisco), vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1997), p. 3.
5. Plato, Republic, 368a-376a, 414a-416a et passim.
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How To Get Great Results When You Pray
by Craig Donaldson
Gandhi once said, "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."
Prayer is one of the oldest forms of devotion on the planet. It is a wonderful
source of joy, comfort and spiritual upliftment for millions of people the world
over and still remains one of the most effective means of connecting with
God (or whatever you choose to call the Creator). It can be as simple as a
"thank you" to the universe, or deep and holy prayer uttered from the heart.
Here are some simple practices you can use to increase the power of your
own prayer:
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Set Aside A Special Time And Place For Prayer
You can pray more effectively if you have a special time and place for doing
so. The early morning or just before going to bed are good times to pray. It
doesn’t have to long — five minutes is a great start.
It also helps if you have a routine place to pray in. It need not be a whole
room — a private corner in a bedroom or study will do. Find a clean place that
is well lit and aired. You can set up a small altar with some candles, flowers
and crystals, and favorite pictures of saints or angels, pictures of loved ones
or friends in need of healing. This is your private space for going within so
make sure you feel comfortable with it.
Ask God To Help You In Your Prayer
God is not only able to answer your prayer, but He is also able to make your
prayer to Him stronger. You can also ask the Angels or your Higher Self to
help you pray. You have a special contact with God through your Higher Self,
or your Christ Self. Your Christ Self is truly your Best Friend, Inner Teacher
and Voice of Conscience. When you pray, it is your Christ Self who goes
before God to intercede for you.
There are some mantras you can use to help God and your Holy Christ Self to
help you. Jesus once appeared to the fourteenth century saint, Catherine of
Sienna, as she was praying and said to her:
"Do you know, daughter, who you are and Who I AM? If you know
these two things, you would be blessed. You are that which is not;
I AM He Who Is. If you have This Knowledge in your soul, the
enemy can never deceive you; you will escape all His snares; you
will never consent to anything contrary to My Commandments;
and without difficulty you will acquire every Grace, every Truth,
every Light."
Thus Catherine gleaned a profound insight: "God All, I nothing", and the
mantra "Thou the All, I the nothing" was inspired upon her. Every time she
recited it, she was emptying herself for the Divine to enter. You can also use
this mantra before praying to draw closer to your Holy Christ Self.
God Is The Doer
The power of your prayers will increase dramatically when you realize that
God is the Doer. Jesus affirmed this when He said: "I of Mine Own Self can do
nothing. It is the Father in Me which doeth the work." In prayer, it is the Divine
within you appealing to the Divine Above.
The Divine within you is a Part of God that He has placed within you as His
child. It is a Spiritual Flame that burns within your heart, and can increase in
size by the power of fervent prayer. This Spiritual Flame has three "plumes"
which embody the primary attributes of God: Love, Wisdom and Power. This
Flame is the "Kingdom of Heaven" within that Jesus spoke about.
An eleventh-century Byzantine saint called Symeon the New Theologian
spoke of this Flame in the heart: "What words can describe this! . . . I see a
Light which the world does not possess. Sitting in the cell I see within me the
Creator of the world." The Chandogya Upanishad, a sacred Hindu text, tells
us that "The Light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, . . .
this is the Light that shines in our hearts."
One Buddhist text says of this Flame: "The road of Buddha-hood is open to
all. At all times have all living beings the Germ of Buddha-hood in them."
When you really allow the Divine within you to reach out for help to God
above, the results can be spectacular.
Center In Your Heart
We all use our outer consciousness in daily activities. When we’re at work,
watching TV or playing sport, most often our attention is focused outside of
us. But in prayer, we need to turn our consciousness inward. By doing this
you are "going into the closet to pray". You are shutting your consciousness
to the outside world to go within and spend time with God. You can do this
through a simple exercise.
First, concentrate on your heart and imagine you are breathing through your
heart. Then visualize a brilliant Sun of Light above you. It is so bright it is
almost blinding. Then see this Sun gently descending into your heart. See
yourself entering this brilliant Sphere of Light, where you find your own
special prayer place. You may see your Heart Flame, Holy Christ Self,
Ascended Masters or Angels. Ascended Masters are Spiritual Beings who
once walked the earth like you and me. They balanced their karma, fulfilled
Their reason for being and reunited with, or Ascended back to, God.
Talk to Them about what is on your heart. Don’t be bashful — They dearly
want to be your closest Friends, and will listen to you with Unconditional
Love.
Adjust Your Prayer According To The Will Of God
There may be many things we desire — good health, more money, a better
job, a new car. We all need money and other possessions to live in a material
world, and God is more than happy to supply us with these things if it will
bring us closer to Him.
But God knows what is the best possible Gift for us at any moment. There are
many more things that He can and will give us — Gifts of the Spirit like
Compassion, Wisdom and Healing that will make us a lot happier in
ourselves, and more at peace with others.
So instead of asking that our prayer be answered as we want, you can ask
that your prayer "be adjusted according to the Will of God" to receive the
answer that is best for you and for the souls whom you are praying for.
Use the Name of God
Some people can get great results in prayer just by speaking to God without
using His Name. But when you use the Name of God, "I AM THAT I AM", you
increase the power of your prayer greatly.
When God spoke to Moses out of the Burning Bush, He told him to tell the
children of Israel that His Name is "I AM THAT I AM" and that "This is My
Name forever, and this is My Memorial unto all generations. The Jerusalem
Bible translates this as "This is My Name for all time; by This Name I shall be
invoked for all generations to come." When God revealed His Name to Moses,
He was giving us the authority to invoke Him through His Name. To use this
in prayer, simply pray, "God, in your Name 'I AM THAT I AM', please . . ."
Always pray out loud if possible. There is Power in your voice. God used this
Power when He said "Let there be Light." By using your gift of speech, you
can also increase the effectiveness of your prayer.
Visualize What You Want To Happen
What you think about when you pray can greatly affect the quality of your
prayer. You can increase the power of your prayer by mentally seeing the
answers to your prayers. Always picture something better than you are
experiencing now, and see the answers to your prayers come to life, just like
a movie. You can also visualize brilliant Light surrounding the situation or
problem. If you are working with a particular Master or Angel, see Them
interceding on your behalf.
For example, if you are having difficulty forgiving someone, concentrate on
feelings of Peace, Understanding and Forgiveness. See the two of you
hugging, making up and being friends. See that newfound friendship getting
stronger with understanding and acceptance. Even if you don’t mean it to
start off with and have to grit your teeth to do it, you will find that it works
and, over time, you will be able to love that person.
Let Go
You can increase the power of your prayer by letting go and turning over to
God whatever you are praying about. When you do this, your prayer soars
Heavenward, allowing God and His Angels to work on answering it without
hindrance.
When you don’t let go, your energies can interfere with the prayer being
answered as swiftly and as powerfully as possible. Don’t be attached to the
outcomes of your prayers and try not to anticipate how your desires will be
fulfilled. For many, waiting for the answers to their prayers is their greatest
test. They often become discouraged and give up just as God is about to
answer their prayers.
If you have any doubts about God’s Ability to answer your prayers, turn them
over to Him, and ask Him for the Faith to believe in Him.
Be Grateful
By cultivating Gratitude, you open yourself to receiving more of God’s Gifts.
Gratitude is the Law of Increase. If you thank God not only for the answers
you do receive, but for those you don’t, or unexpected answers, you open
yourself up to receiving more from Him. You can express this at the end of
your prayer, for example, as you adjust your prayer according to God’s Will
you can say: "I thank you God and accept it done now with full Power
according to Your Will. Amen"
You can also express your Gratitude throughout the day to God and send Him
thanks for the answers to your prayers. Don’t be disappointed if your prayers
aren’t answered immediately. God may be trying to lead you in another
direction that will be more beneficial for you.
Prayer is two-way, so don’t forget to listen to God throughout the day for His
Replies. Be prepared for results, even if They aren’t the ones you are
expecting. Many people have had their prayers answered even years later
when they forgot all about them.
Be Specific
The more specific you are in your prayers, the better God is able to answer
you. As long as you are living your life in Harmony and devoting your energy
to helping others, God will help you with the smallest details of your life.
For example if you need a new car, include all the details — cost, make,
model, year, registration, color, condition and mileage. If you need a Spiritual
Gift, such as Compassion, explain the nature of the problem, such as
judgment or criticism, when and where it appears, with whom and how. Ask
God to help you overcome it, and be willing to follow His Guidance from your
heart.
It can help to make a list of all the things you need help with to be more
specific. Ask yourself what you want out of your prayers. You can recite the
list each day in prayer, ticking things off as they are answered, and adding
new things as they arise.
Accept God’s Gifts
God wants to give us a lot — often all that we want and more. When we can
surrender our desires to God and allow Him to give us what He wants, we
open ourselves up to an Infinite Source of Abundance.
There may be times when you feel unworthy of God’s Love and Gifts. If you
don’t feel worthy to accept God’s Gifts, it helps to "act as if". Act as if you are
worthy, and a sense of worthiness will follow. You can also use affirmations
to increase your sense of worthiness, for example, "I AM worthy to be loved
because I AM a child of God." Visualize yourself radiating Love and Light as
God’s child while you repeat this affirmation.
You are a loving and precious child of God and deserve all that He has to
offer.
The Power of Affirmations and Decrees
Another popular form of self-development is the affirmation. Affirmations are
positive statements that affirm what you want to do or what you are seeking
to become. You can also increase the power of affirmations by using God’s
Name, as you can in prayer.
Jesus used God’s Name when He affirmed "I AM the Resurrection and the
Life." Affirmations often simply use "I AM" rather than the full "I AM THAT I
AM". When you say "I AM THAT I AM", you are affirming that God is where
you are. Every time you say "I AM . . . ", you are really saying "God in me is . .
. " and thus drawing to yourself whatever follows. When you affirm "I AM
Illumination", you are saying that God in you is attracting more of the Quality
of Illumination that you possess.
"I AM" is a formula that unlocks God’s Authority and His Energy of Creation
when it is given with love. It is more powerful than other affirmations like "I
will . . ." not only because it uses God’s Name, but because it affirms that you
already are what you are seeking to become in the here and now.
One particularly powerful form of affirmation-prayer is called the decree.
Decrees are a step-up on all forms of prayer and release tremendous amounts
of Spiritual Energy because they combine prayer, meditation and
visualization in the one exercise. Prayer is more devotional and comes from
the heart chakra, while visualization is an exercise of your spiritual sight, or
third eye, and meditation is more an exercise of illumination, which is
centered in the crown chakra. When spoken aloud, decrees use all of the four
higher chakras — heart, throat (speech/power), third eye and crown.
There are decrees for Protection, Healing, Illumination, Love and many other
positive Qualities. One of the simplest decrees for healing and spiritual
development is "I AM a Being of Violet Fire! I AM the Purity God desires!"
The Violet Flame is a Spiritual Energy that changes negative energy into
Light. When you repeat the above decree with love and visualize a Violet
Flame about yourself, you are combining the actions of heart, throat and brow
chakras with the crown chakra, meditating upon God’s Flame and the Purity
He desires you to be. You can start out with just a few minutes at a time, and
see if you don’t feel the Power of decreeing!
References:
Material in this article is based on the following books by Elizabeth Clare Prophet:
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Development
"Subtle energy" is also referred to as chi, prana, Holy Spirit, manna, ether,
or-gone, bio-magnetism and zero-point, among many other names in our current
vocabulary. Regardless of the label, it appears to contribute to many phenomena
not currently explained by conventional science.
This article is the beginning of a series on discoveries by frontier scientists that provide insight into the
multileveled nature of reality and the human senses — and powers that lie beyond the world of the five
senses. Such research provides for new hypotheses related to the existence of the threefaceted model of
the universe, consciousness, subtle energy and physical.
"Subtle energy" refers to the medium through which consciousness acts on the realm of matter and
energy. According to a National Institutes of Health study, at least 52 terms are used for "subtle energy":
chi, prana, holy spirit, manna, ether, orgone, biomagnetism and zeropoint, among many others in our
current vocabulary. Regardless of the label, it appears to contribute to many phenomena not currently
explained by conventional science: telekinesis, remote sensing, telepathy, gut or heartbased intuition,
healing by prayer or other psychic means, biocommunication between species, etc.
Since these phenomena have tangible effects that can be documented but not explained by the known
principles of the electromagnetic (E/M) field of matter/energy, they require that we hypothesize another
force through which conscious intent acts on the affected objects, senses and cells.
Some researchers believe a fuzzy part of the electromagnetic spectrum, beyond gamma rays, constitutes
this force but that it has not yet been discovered due to the lack of refined instrumentation. Just as the
harnessing of radio waves and Xrays had to await the development of new technologies, say these
researchers, the development of more advanced machines will enable humans to make use of this fuzzy
E/M field.
Others, including myself, work on the hypothesis that this force/field exists in correspondence but
parallel to the E/M spectrum and may not have the constraints of that spectrum, such as the speed of
light. More elaboration on the implications of this hypothesis for theory — David Bohm and other
physicists' concepts of nonlocal fields of energy or information — and research — spacebased
experiments that challenge the speedoflight limitations on the transfer of information — comes in
subsequent articles. Here we focus on the work of one subtle energy researcher: Cleve Backster.
Backster's work in the late '60s and early '70s was an important impetus for the best selling The Secret
Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. In the '80s, his work was chronicled by Robert
Stone in The Secret Life of Your Cells. His research journey started with the 1966 almost accidental
rediscovery that plants are sentient and respond to the spontaneous emotions and strongly expressed
intentions of relevant humans. (J. Chandra Bose of India had demonstrated a similar principle in the early
part of the 20th century.) Using an instrument to measure galvanic skin responses (GSR), a part of his
polygraph or lie detector stockintrade, Backster attempted to determine whether it would measure the
moment of rehydration of a plant whose roots were freshly watered. It did not but to his surprise, the
GSR meter registered his threat to burn the plant leaf when he spontaneously thought of the idea.
(Prior to that experience, Backster was noted as one of the foremost experts in the use and interpretation
of the results of the polygraph test. Over the last 30 years he has maintained that reputation, and
enhanced it. (In fact, his refinements on previous polygraph techniques have earned him a worldwide
reputation; they have been validated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.) His mastery
of the theory and practice has benefited thousands of specialists who have participated in or learned from
the principles taught in his San Diegobased Backster School of Lie Detection. He now serves as an
advisor or faculty member for several research and educational institutions. These extraordinary
professional credentials are important because the same scientific acumen and experimental rigor are
applied to his research (observed by me during several days of lab work with Cleve in February 1998) on
what he calls "Primary Perception" and others call "The Backster Effect.")
Subsequent to his accidental discovery, an amazing series of experiments demonstrated that the
expression of genuine emotion and intent by humans caused measurable reactions (primary perception)
in the cells of leaves, fruits, and vegetables. They also reacted to behaviors or changes in states of
animals and insects. Conversely, in what Backster labeled "fainting," plants ceased their normal
functioning when horrific treatment (burning, scalding, and chemical destruction) was continued on the
parallel materials or when the presence of hostile individuals was introduced into the lab. This reaction
seems to correspond to Shock Syndrome in humans. More detailed protocols demonstrated that plants
possess some discriminatory capability, making them capable of distinguishing individuals who have
either destroyed related plants or have very positive intentions; they seem to know who has the
sentiments to become a "green thumb."
Experiments with leukocytes (white cells) indicated that a bond of communication exists between an
individual's thoughts/emotions and his cells after they are removed from the donor's body. Backster
collects cells from the mouth of a donor through a standard clinical procedure, connects them to the
electrodes/meter apparatus, and measures their reactivity to the donor's emotional shifts. These shifts can
be caused by the donor's voluntary initiatives or their involuntary reactions to events or images such as
observed in photographs or movies. Splitscreen videography of the donor's behaviors and the metered
responses of the cell cultures, when other causal or random influences are ruled out, demonstrates some
form of communication.
Using a Faraday cage and lead containers to shield the plant, eggs or yogurt used to sense the
biocommunication, his experiments appear to rule out the E/M spectrum as the medium of transmission.
Tests done with a distance of over three hundred miles between a donor of white cells and the lab
indicates the communication bond is not affected by distance. The action and reaction appear to be
simultaneous, like the splitpair photon experiments by physicists that show one half of the pair reacts
instantaneously to actions taken on the other.
Over the last thirty years literally hundreds of experiments have proved the existence of this
biocommunication known as the "Backster Effect." My own personal participation in one of these
experiments left me without a doubt that a culture of yogurt in a shielded cage showed extraordinary
reactions to feeling that were stirred up in me and two female colleagues as we discussed controversial
gender and power issues. Interestingly, the yogurt did not react to periods of intellectual discussion about
the same issues; it only became agitated when our comments were charged with emotion.
On the basis of this brief review, two characteristics of "subtle energy" communication are clear:
• It happens only when behaviors, thoughts or talk are based in emotions or serious intent. Words or
ideas per se do not elicit a reaction unless they have been energized by some force, such as "subtle
energy."
• Some process of prior attunement between the sender and the receiver is necessary for the
communication link; some higher level of awareness or, at least, frequency resonation is apparently
involved.
While we do yet understand the full nature of the communication involved, nor the qualities of the
medium, some implications emerge from Backster's research.
• The demonstration of "subtle energy" communication supports the morphogenic field concept
postulated by Rupert Sheldrake and others, where an intent-laden force field is transmitted from some
beings to others through an as yet unknown medium.
• The reactions occur at the instant of expression of intent, not when a preset test is administered, thereby
requiring a rethinking of scientific protocols related to the replication of experiments in the area of psi
research.
• The existence of interspecies communication at this level demonstrates the singular and, apparently,
universal nature of consciousness.
• The medium involves the apparent existence of a force that can transfer intentions into changes in the
physical realm.
These implications alone lead to new hypotheses and experiments for better understanding of the power
of innersense communication, healing prayer, self healing, and the dynamics of interpersonal hostility
and attraction. They suggest practices for interbeing openness and protection. Such directions will be
explored in more detail in subsequent articles.
Paul Von Ward, MPA and M.S., is a researcher and writer in the fields of consciousness and frontier
science. His most recent publication is the book Solarian Legacy: Metascience and a New Renaissance,
from Oughten House Publications. It is available in book stores, on Amazon.com, or by calling
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What is the True Nature of Reality?
The Basics of Quantum Healing
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
What I hope to do this morning is to give you a brief glimpse into the quantum mechanical
body-mind, to at least attempt to understand the exact nature of what the human body is like and
also the exact nature of what the Cosmic Body is like.
We use terms like mind and body and universe, but what really is the exact nature of these
things? What is the mind, what is the body, what's the exact nature of physical reality? As
children, we always had questions like, "Where was I before I was born? What am I doing here?
What happens after death? Am I confined to my physical body? Am I just a skin encapsulated ego
in a bag of flesh and bones? What really happens to me? Do I have a local address? Where do I
live in this universe?"
And it's interesting that science today is beginning to ask the same questions. After all science is
the quest for the truth and if you're a real scientist, these are the questions that are most critical to
us.
One of the interesting things that science has found, this should have been obvious all along, is
that what we call perception, what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell, is really the least reliable
test of what reality really is. We cannot trust our senses at all!
After all, the senses tell us that the earth is flat and we don't believe that anymore. The senses tell
us that the ground that we stand on is stationary and we know it's spinning at dizzying speeds and
hurtling through outer space at thousands of miles an hour. The senses tell us things have a
certain taste, smell, size, texture. Maybe that's not the way they really are.
There was an experiment done at Harvard Medical School about 20 years ago. A group of
scientists took some kittens and brought them up in a room that had only horizontal stripes. All the
visual stimuli in the room were horizontal. Another group of kittens was brought up in a room that
had only vertical stripes. And when these kittens grew up to be wise old cats, it turns out that one
group of cats could see only a horizontal world. The other group of cats could see only a vertical
world. And this had nothing to do with the belief system of these cats.
It's a phenomenon that psychologists call Premature Cognitive Commitment. Premature, because
we make it at a very early stage of our development. Cognitive, because that's how they cognize
or see the world. And commitment, because it fixes us to a particular reality, it imprisons us in a
fixed mode of perception.
There are many variations of these experiments. In India, when they train elephants, they take the
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baby elephant and tie it with an iron chain to a huge tree. Then they start cutting the size of the
chain and the tree. Ultimately you can tie the elephant which a big animal now, with a flimsy rope
to a green plant but the elephant is unable to escape. It's made a commitment in its body-mind
that it's in a prison!
Or you can do another simple experiment. Take some flies and put them in a jar. After a while
remove the lid from the jar and you'll find that most of the flies, except for a couple of pioneers,
will not be able to escape. They make a commitment in their body-mind that they're in a prison.
People will tell you who work in aquariums that you can separate fish from each other. They're in
big glass tanks and the separations are transparent glass partitions. You can remove the glass
partition after a while. The fish will swim to the edge of where the partition was and return . They
made a commitment that that's as far as they can go.
All these experiments, and there are many variations of these, are pointing to a very crucial fact
as far as the mechanics of perception is concerned. And that is that our initial sensory
experiences and how we interpret them or how they are interpreted for us actually structure the
very anatomy and physiology of our nervous system in such a way that ultimately the nervous
system serves only one function: to keep reinforcing the initial interpretation. Anything that doesn't
reinforce the initial interpretation doesn't even get into the nervous system. So if you don't have a
concept or a notion or an idea that something exists, then your nervous system won't even take it
in.
That's a very peculiar fact because it tells us that with bits of sensory experience, we'll never be
able to comprehend the whole. We never will be! After all the human eye can see only between
380 and 500 billionths of a meter. There's nothing sacred between 360 and 370. It doesn't exist
for us.
And so too for the other senses. This is true not only of the human species but of all species. A
honeybee, for example, doesn't have the apparatus to see the usual wavelengths that you and I
perceive. It senses ultra-violet. When a honeybee looks at a flower at a distance it doesn't see a
flower. It sees honey from a distance but it misses the flower altogether. A snake would
experience the same thing as infrared radiation which means nothing to you and me. A bat would
experience that as the echo of ultra-sound which also means nothing to you and me. And a
chameleon's eyeballs swivel on two different axis. You can't even remotely imagine what this
would look like to a chameleon.
So what's the real nature of the world? What's it really like? We can't trust the senses. They give
us a very distorted view. They break up that wholeness into a small fragment and we call it reality.
We happen to agree about it. We even call it "objective reality" and we have a whole methodology
that we call "science" to explore that . If you really understand what science is, then science at
least until now has not been a method for exploring the truth. Science has been a method for
exploring our current map of what we think the truth is. And the map is not the territory. The
territory that we explore is really an extension of the map we have. If we don't have the complete
map then we will not explore the territory that is not within the framework of that map.
Sir John Eckles who won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine several years ago made the
statement, "I want you to understand that there are no colors in the real world. That there are no
textures in the real world. There are no fragrances in the real world. There is no beauty, there is
no ugliness. Nothing of the sort. Out there is a chaos of energy soup and energy fields. Literally.
We take that and somewhere inside ourselves we create a world. Somewhere inside ourselves it
all happens."
It's not out there at all! Go to a physicist and ask him what's this made up of? And he'll tell you
there are just four basic forces: gravity, strong interaction, weak interaction and electromagnetism
that make up everything that exists. Gravity is that which holds us to the ground, makes the
planets move and holds them together. The strong interaction holds the nucleus of an atom
together. If you disrupt it you get a nuclear explosion. The weak interaction is a force that is
responsible for transmutation of elements and radioactive decay. And electromagnetism is that
which we experience as light, heat and electricity.
Ask a scientist, "Is there anything else?" and they'll say, "No, there isn't anything else. Everything
that exists out there is made up of these forces." And ultimately even these forces come from one
unified force which scientists today call the Unified Field. And everything that is there, all stars, all
galaxies, all flowers, all human beings, everything that exists is just these forces of nature.
So what is the material world then? The material world is a cord that comes out of these forces
and the cords of intelligence that structure particulate matter in fact exist inside us. We are the
creators of this world. Literally.
There was an interesting conversation I once heard between a spiritual master and his student in
India. At one point the student looked at this master and he said, "I don't know about you. You
must live in a different world." And the master said, "No. We live in exactly the same world. The
only difference is you see yourself in the world, and I see the whole world in myself. It's a minor
perceptual shift that you need to make."
So let's talk about this minor perceptual shift. Because our current understanding is that this world
is made up of matter that exists in space and time. That even human bodies are nothing other
than bits and pieces of matter. That the human body is a physical machine that has somehow
learned to think. That it's the dance of molecules that creates the epi-phenomenon of
consciousness: thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires, concepts, ideas, philosophies, dogma,
religion. All these. Poetry is the expression of the dance of molecules. Somehow these molecules
move around and we get this epi-phenomenon called thought. We have physical machines that
have learned how to think.
And of course this superstition is very pervasive in the world of contemporary medicine also. We
are basically bogged down in the superstition of materialism which says that sensory experience
is the crucial test of reality. Therefore, all our healing methodologies are also based on this
superstition. We have magic bullets for the treatment of illness. And we have the expressions like,
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is." Or if you can't believe you ate the whole thing you can
have a couple of Alka Seltzers. If you can't sleep at night there's a sleeping pill. It will cure
insomnia. You're feeling anxious? There's a tranquilizer. It will give you tranquillity. You have an
infection? Take an antibiotic. It will cure the problem of infection. You have cancer? There's
chemotherapy, radiation, surgery. If you have chest pain, you can pop some nitroglycerin. Better
still, have a bypass operation.
These are the magic bullets that are supposed to get rid of disease and improve our health but in
fact all these magic bullets are symptomatic approaches. They relieve symptoms or at best mask
symptoms while the underlying process remains unchanged. Sometimes they interfere with
mechanisms of disease. And mostly scientific research today is basically elucidating mechanisms
at disease. So if we know how bacteria multiply, we can kill them and then we'll get rid of
infection. If we know how cancer cells multiply, we can kill them and then we'll get rid of cancer. It
doesn't work because mechanisms of disease aren't origins of disease. We can interfere with
mechanisms of disease and disease finds an alternative way of expressing itself.
For example, one of the leading causes of death is not the AIDS virus or HIV disease but from
antibiotic resistant organisms that are acquired in hospitals. Several years ago, the California
Medical Association did a study which revealed that over 100,000 people die in the United States
from antibiotic resistant organisms acquired only in hospitals. The number one cause of drug
addiction in the world is not the street drugs of Colombia, but legal medical prescriptions. And
despite the fact that more people have done research on cancer in this country than have cancer,
despite the fact the incidence of cancer in fact has increased in the last 3 decades, anywhere
from 30-300%, depending on the type of cancer you're talking about. 36% of all patients in a
university hospital, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, were
suffering from iatrogenic disease which means disease as a result of biotechnical medical
intervention: disease a patient had because they happen to see a doctor.
So something is wrong. Something is wrong. I don't mean to really give the impression that
biotechnical medical intervention is not useful. It's extremely useful in acute illness. But it does not
alter the overall expression of disease in a population. It merely changes its expression. We no
longer have epidemics of polio, tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria and smallpox. But in their place
we have higher incidence of cancer, heart disease, degenerative disorders and obesity. The
overall picture hasn't changed because the model that we've structured of the human body is not
the correct model. The human body is not a frozen sculpture fixed in space and time. The human
body is a dynamic bundle of energy, information and intelligence that constantly is renewing itself
and is in exchange with the larger field of energy, information and intelligence that we call the
universe. That in fact if we could really see the human body as it is, not through the artifact of
sensory experience, you would see it to be much more exciting.
The Greek philosopher Heraculutus compared the human body to a river. He said a river is a very
mysterious thing. When you look at a river it looks the same to you in every second of its
existence but in fact it's not the same river. He said you cannot step into the same river twice
because new water flows in all the time.
And it's true also of the human body. If you could understand your body as it really is, you would
see that the real you cannot step into the same flesh and bones twice because in every second of
your existence you're renewing your body, changing it more rapidly, more effortlessly, more
spontaneously and more easily than you can change your clothes. We can take a number of
processes: eating, breathing, digestion, metabolism, elimination, but most fundamentally the
movement of consciousness which expresses itself as these processes, and you would see how
effortlessly, how easily you can change your body and in fact are doing so all the time.
The physical bodies that you're using to sit on these chairs, for example, aren't the ones that you
walked in with a little while ago. Even with one breath you take in 10 to the power of 22 atoms. An
astronomical amount of raw material that ends up as your heart, brain and kidney cells, your
neurons, your DNA. With each breath you breathe out 10 to the power of 22 atoms. It's an
astronomical amount of raw materials that is coming from every bit of your body. You are literally
breathing out bits and pieces of your brain tissue and heart and kidney. Actually, technically
speaking, we are intimately sharing our organs with each other all the time.
The American poet Walt Whitman said, "Every atom belonging to you as well belongs to me." And
this isn't a metaphorical statement at all. "Every atom belonging to you as well belongs to me." I
can't even call my personal body my own. And I try calling everything else my own. I can't even
claim a copyright on my own physical body. Right this moment in your body you have a million
atoms that were once in the body of Christ. Based on radioactive isotope studies and
mathematical computations it can easily be shown that in this moment of your existence you have
a million atoms that were once in the body of Christ, in the body of Gautama Buddha or Leonardo
Da Vinci or Michelangelo or Mr. Saddam Hussein. You can't separate yourself from anything
physically or anybody that has ever existed.
In just the last 3 weeks, a quadrillion atoms, 10 to the power of 15 atoms have gone through your
body that have gone through the body of every other species on this planet. And if you do
radioactive isotope studies which have been done very elegantly, you can prove beyond a
shadow of doubt that you replace 98% of all the atoms in your body in less than one year. You
make a new liver every 6 weeks, a new skin once a month, a new stomach lining every 5 days, a
new skeleton - it seems so hard and solid, but the skeleton you have now you didn't have three
months ago. Even the brain cells that you think with as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen,
as those basic elements, they weren't there one year ago. And the DNA that holds memories of
millions of years of evolutionary time, in fact hundreds of millions of years; the actual raw material
of it comes and goes every six weeks. Those atoms drift in and out like migratory birds every six
weeks.
And if you want to be a real stickler about it and account for the last atom and every little sinew
and collagen and cartilage, then in less than two and a half years you replace every atom in your
body down to the last single atom. So if you think you are your material body then you certainly
have a dilemma. Which one are you talking about? The 1991 model is not the same as the 1990
model or even the one from a few months ago.
So here I stand before you with my l991 model and yet I don't feel that I wasn't here last year. Yet
I don't feel that I wasn't here 2 years ago. Maybe there's a deeper reality to the physical body.
Maybe the physical body is what the Rishis of India call maya, illusion, that which gives us the
appearance of something but in fact there is something else behind the mask of mortality. Behind
that facade of mortality there's something else which outlasts the physical expression of the
physical body.
I stand here with a physical body but I have memories and hopes and aspirations and ideas and
dreams that were there last year, that were there 2 years ago. They also change but not so
rapidly as my physical body. The shelf life of my emotions is a little longer than the shelf life of my
molecules.
So maybe the body is merely the place my memories are calling home for the time being. Maybe
the DNA is also just that place that my evolutionary memory is calling home for the time being.
Maybe I'm not physical molecules that have created the machine or created the epi-phenomenon
of consciousness. Maybe I'm consciousness itself that has learned how to create the physical
machine. Maybe I am a force of intelligence coming out of that same unified field that makes stars
and galaxies and rain forests. Maybe I come from that same place too. And maybe that place was
never born and never died and in fact was always there. I've just forgotten for the moment.
And this is exactly what scientists are beginning to see. Scientists are beginning to see that it is
not thoughts which are a product of molecules, but in fact molecules are structured out of
fluctuations of information in a field of infinite information. That it is consciousness which is the
phenomenon and matter which is the epi-phenomenon. It is consciousness which conceives,
governs, constructs and actually becomes physical matter.
In the last few years we've seen some extraordinary research in this field coming out of
prestigious universities and medical schools and places like the National Institute of Health. About
20 years ago it was discovered, for example, that our thoughts and our feelings have physical
substrate to them. When you think a thought you make a molecule. To think is to practice brain
chemistry. And in fact these thoughts are translated into very precise molecules known as
neuropeptides. '"Neuro"' because they were first found in the brain. And 'peptides' because
they're protein-like molecules. And thoughts, feelings, emotions and desires translate into the flux
of neuropeptides in the brain.
You can think of these neuro-peptides like little keys that fit into very precise locks called
receptors on the cell walls or other neurons. So the way this part of the brain speaks to another
part of the brain is not necessarily in English with an Indian accent, but in the precise language of
these neuropeptides.
What was found subsequently, which was absolutely fascinating was that there were receptors to
neuropeptides not only in brain cells but other parts of the body. So when scientists started
looking for receptors to neuropeptides in cells of the immune system, for example: T cells, B cells,
monocytes and macrophages - when they started looking at them, they found that on the cell
walls of all these there were receptors for the same neuropeptides which are the molecular
substrate of thought.
So your immune cells are in fact constantly eavesdropping on your internal dialogue. Nothing that
you say to yourself, which you're doing all the time, even in sleep, escapes the attention of the
immune cells. Not only that, the immune cells, it was subsequently discovered, can make the
same peptides that the brain makes when it thinks. Now here we come to a startling finding,
because if the immune cell is making the same chemicals that the brain is making when it thinks,
then the immune cell is a thinking cell. It's a conscious little being.
In fact, the more you look at it, the more you find that it behaves just like a neuron. It makes the
same chemical cords that the brain uses for emotion, thought, feeling and desire. An immune cell
has emotions. It has desires. It has an intellect. It knows how to discriminate and remember. It
has to decide when it sees a carcinogen, "Is this a carcinogen? Should I go after it? Should I
leave it alone? Is this a friendly bacteria? Should I go after it or leave it alone?" It has to
remember the last time it encountered something. In fact it remembers the last time somebody
else encountered the same thing.
Your immune cells can immediately recognize anything that has ever been encountered by any
living species. If you are exposed to pneumococus for the first time in your life, your immune cells
still remember the last time somebody somewhere in prehistoric time encountered a
pneumococus and knows how to make the precise antibody to it. It's not only a thinking cell but it
remembers way back into the evolutionary history of not only the human species but other
species as well. So you ask a good neurologist the difference between an immune cell and a
neuron and they'll say there isn't any. The immune cell is a circulating nervous system.
Now if that wasn't enough of a startling discovery, the subsequent discoveries in science have
been even more interesting, because when scientists started looking elsewhere in the body they
found the same phenomenon. When they looked at stomach cells and intestinal cells they found
the same peptides. The stomach cells make the same chemical cords that the brain makes when
it thinks. Of course they're not verbally as elite as the brain, in that they don't think in English or
Swahili, but nevertheless, they are thinking cells. When you say, "I have a gut feeling about such
and such," you're not speaking metaphorically anymore. You're speaking quite literally because
you're gut makes the same chemicals as the brain makes when it thinks. In fact your gut feelings
may be a little more accurate because gut cells haven't yet evolved to the stage of self doubt.
What science is discovering is that we have a thinking body. Every cell in our body thinks. Every
cell in our body is actually a mind. Every cell has its own desires and it communicates with every
other cell. The new word is not mind and body connection, we have a body-mind simultaneously
everywhere.
So when you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If a scientist was
looking inside the heart, he'd find it heavy with sadness. He'll find it heavy with sad molecules. If
you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could look at your skin. He'll find it loaded with
emipramine which is an antidepressant which in fact, has been used in the treatment of
depression by psychiatrists. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded and joyful," and I was to
examine your blood, I would find high levels of interluken and interferon which are powerful
anticancer drugs.
About two years ago, interlukens and interferons were released for the treatment of kidney cancer
and melanoma. The only problem is they're extremely expensive. An initial course of interluken
can cost you something like $40,000. But you could take a joyride on "Magic Mountain" and make
a few million dollars of interluken too. Of course, if that was your idea of fun. In fact it isn't the
joyride at all, it's your interpretation of it. Because if you panicked on that joyride you wouldn't
make interluken, you'd make cortisol adrenaline which is completely the opposite. It destroys the
immune system.
When you have the experience of tranquility, you're body makes Valium and it's identical to the
Valium that Hoffman LaRouch makes except it's made in precise doses for the right target organs.
It doesn't make you feel like a zombie. It is an immuno-modulator. It modulates the activity of the
immune system. Even little white cells know how to make Valium. If you are jittery then your body
makes jittery molecules, adrenaline, more adrenaline, cortisol. And they're not made just by the
adrenal glands. They're made everywhere in the body. Little platelets make adrenaline and they
huddle together in their fright. That's how the clotting cascade starts.
So I think the first major breakthrough in medicine, if that's what we're going to call it, is that the
mind has escaped the confines of the brain. It's not confined to the brain, it's everywhere in our
body. And if that wasn't enough, it seems that now it's breaking the confines of the body - out
there. Our mind is not even imprisoned in our body. It's completely non-local. It's everywhere in
space and time. In fact, our mind is part of a non-local field of information that we can only call the
cosmic mind.
The German philosopher Nietzsche said, "We live on the presumption that we think when it's
equally possible that we are being thought." And, there may be something to that. What we call
our Cosmic Body of the universe may be in fact a projection of our collective consciousness.
We've learned to create that too. Just like we've learned how to create the body, we've learned
how to create the universe.
A few years ago, scientists got interested in a group of hormones called pheromones that were
produced by plants. So if you infect a plant, for example, with gypsy moth, the plants will give off
hormones into the atmosphere called pheromones that immediately inform the rest of the forest
that there's gypsy moth around - be careful. And the rest of the forest will immediately make the
appropriate antibodies to protect itself. A plant is aware. It's got a mind. it informs the others, "This
is what's happening. Watch out!"
Insects communicate through pheromones too. You've seen termites build perfect columns in the
dark with arches that meet at the top, perfect architectural designs. How do they do it? They
communicate through pheromones. Sexual and mating behavior is influenced through
pheromones.
But recently it's been found that these pheromones in fact may also be the molecular substrate of
our emotions. An experiment was done at Stanford, a particularly cruel experiment, where mice
were taken and were given electric shocks. After a while the mice were removed from the room.
Other mice are brought into the room and as soon they enter the room they panic. They release
stress hormones and cortisol because they have inhaled the pheromones of fear.
And now it's known that in fact for every single emotion that we have there is a counterpart, a
molecular event that happens not only inside our body but in fact we release those pheromones
as information substrates into the environment. So now when you say, "l went into this room and I
felt that the atmosphere was really tense." That's physiological. When you say, "I went to this holy
shrine and I felt peace, love and compassion." That's completely understandable from a
physiological point of view. You say, "I don't know what it is about this chap, but he certainly gives
me the creeps." That's also completely understandable.
Emerson, the philosopher, said, "Who you are shouts so loudly in my ears, I cannot hear what
you're saying." And he was making a physiological statement, completely understandable from
the dynamics of how neurobiology operates. What we will call the universe is in fact a Cosmic
Body that we have created in exactly the same way that we have created our physical body.
And in fact, even though the artifact of sensory experience said, "There's a world out there
separate from me and there's something here that's my body that's separate from that," that's not
physiologically true. We are not skin-encapsulated egos confined to a bag of skin and bones. We
may be the Universal Mind itself. There 's a Universal Body that we have, there's a Cosmic Body
that we have and we share our personal body and our Cosmic Body with each other all the time.
And we have learned to create both in exactly the same way, and our Cosmic Bodies are as
crucial to our survival as our personal bodies. They're equally our own.
So, this is the teaching that comes to me, at least I can't take any credit for this incidentally. I'm
just a messenger of a very ancient form of teaching that is known as the Veda, and Ayurveda is
the part of Veda that deals with health, the health of nature. And Veda says that if you just
remember who you are, you'll suddenly recognize that you, in fact, are the Creator.
At one time a fundamentalist preacher met a Vedantist, and the two were talking for a while. After
a while the fundamentalist looked at the Vedantist and he said, "It seems to me that you're an
atheist." And the Vedantist looked back at the fundamentalist and he said, "I used to be one until I
realized I was God." And of course this offended the fundamentalist who said, "Are you denying
the divinity of Jesus Christ?" And the Vedantist said, "Heavens! I've never denied anybody their
divinity. Why would I do it to Jesus Christ ?"
This is the essential teaching of the Vedic tradition, and it has very practical applications. The
Veda says, "As is the atom, so is the universe; as is the microcosm so is the macrocosm; as is
the human body, so is the Cosmic Body; as is the human mind, so is the Cosmic Mind." And if
you feel uncomfortable with the word "Cosmic Mind," we can simply call it a "non-local field of
information with self referral cybernetic feedback loops." I give talks these days at medical
schools and people are very comfortable with that definition.
Our bodies are literally the music of nature. We have here a symphony which is part of a
symphony that has been there forever. The Veda says, "Behind the mask of mortality is that
quantum mechanical body, that subtle Causal Body, it's something you always had. You always
had that. Fire cannot burn it. Water cannot wet it. Wind cannot dry it. Weapons cannot cleave it. It
was never born and it never dies."
Is there any basis for that? Today we are seeing that in fact there is basis. If you could see the
body again as a physicist could see it, all you'd see is atoms. And if you could see the atoms as
they really are, not through the artifact of sensory experience, you'd see these atoms of particles
that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. These particles aren't material
objects at all. They are fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void of energy and
information. If I could see your body not through this sensory artifact, I'd see a huge empty void
with a few scattered dots and a few random electrical discharges here and there 99.999999% of
your body is empty space! And the .000001% of it that appears as matter is also empty space.
So, it's all empty space. The question is what is this empty space? Is it an emptiness of nothing or
a fullness of non-material intelligence? In fact it is a fullness of non-material intelligence...or
information that influences its own expression. And with that definition, it's very obvious that this
empty space is not an emptiness of nothing but a womb of creation. And nature goes back exactly
to that same place, to fashion a galaxy and a rain forest, as it goes to fashion a thought. It's the
same place. And it's inside us, it's our inner space which gives rise with amazing fertility to all
these things that are so crucial to us: right, wrong, God, Heaven, sin, salvation, damnation, grace.
All this comes from the same place. We are it! It's right there.
Bringing that to quantum healing, bringing that whole perspective to quantum healing, we can see
how practical it can become. Because we have to begin to understand the body is really,
ultimately, just a field of ideas. And the universe is just a field of ideas, literally a field.
A scientist by the name of Herbert Specter did an experiment about 20 years ago. He was at the
National Institute of Health, head of Molecular Biology. In this particular experiment he gave mice
an injection of a chemical called Polyisee which stimulates the immune system. He had the mice
smell camphor at the same time. After a while the mice would smell camphor and it would
stimulate the immune system. He took some other mice and gave them psychlophosphamite
which is a chemical that destroys the immune system and had them smell camphor at the same
time. And they smell camphor and they destroy the immune system. Here's 2 groups of mice now.
One that smells camphor and stimulates the immune system. One that smells camphor and
destroys the immune system.
In one group of mice if you give them pneumococcide they get pneumonia and die of it very
quickly. If you give them carcinogens, they get cancer and die of it very quickly. In the other group
nothing happens. And what's the crucial difference between survival and death in these mice? It's
the interpretation of the memory of the smell of camphor.
Is this relevant to us? You bet it is. Because like those mice, we too have conditioned ourselves to
respond to memories in a certain way. We link stimuli to certain memories and every time we're
exposed to those stimuli we reinterpret the universe and ourselves according to the memories.
We become the victim of the stale repetition of outworn memories.
It's estimated that the average human has 60,000 thoughts a day. This is not surprising. What is
disconcerting is that 90% of the thoughts you have today are the ones you had yesterday.
So through the same mechanics we keep creating and become bundles of conditioned reflexes
and responses constantly being triggered by people and circumstance into the same predictable
biochemical responses and ultimately into the same behavioral responses and ultimately into the
same patterns of disease, aging and death. We take our sensory experiences to be real. The
sage, the seer Audishankra, who lived a long, long time ago in the Vedic tradition of India said,
"The reason we grow old and age and die is we see other people growing old, aging and dying.
And what we see we become." What we see, we become - because we hold that to be true. We
cannot see the world again with fresh eyes.
In the Shiva Sutras, which are again thousands of years old, the yogi of all yogis, Shiva himself,
says, "If you want to recreate the world, then look at it with fresh eyes." The way it really is. Look
at it without the camouflage of your own memories. A true yogi says, "I use memories but I don't
let memories use me."
In the Shiva Sutras, again, Lord Shiva says, "Look at a beauteous person or an ordinary object as
if for the first time." How many people can do that? Because they've forgotten to get in touch with
the one who is seeing. We are just a bundle of conditioned reflexes. The outcome of our thoughts
and feelings. But who is having these thoughts and feelings? The one who's having these
thoughts and feelings is not the thought. The one who is having these feelings is the silence
between the thoughts. The one who is having these feelings is consciousness itself. But
consciousness itself is not thought, it's the source of thought.
Recently I had a patient with a very dramatic outcome. I just want to go over a couple of case
histories to show how relevant this is. In fact, how relevant this is to not only our survival as a
species, but the survival of our own planet.
This young patient that I had, (he was in fact from this area) - he was one day repairing an
antenna on the roof and he picked up a wire, but it happened to be live and had 12,000 volts in it.
He was immediately electrocuted. The mechanism of death for this is ventricular fibrillation which
is an electrical event in the heart.
He fell from the roof 15 feet to the ground and as luck would have it he fell with the right impact at
the right place with the right location of his chest with the right amount of angularity to restart
another current and defibrillate. So it's as if God called him and then changed His mind.
And you ask him, "Bob, what happened?" He says, "I went into the gap." I say, "What was there in
the gap?" He says, "It was sheer unbounded joy. It was absolute, total bliss." You ask him, "Were
there any thoughts there?" "No. I didn't have a mind." "Did you have a body?" "No. I didn't have a
body." "So what was there?" He said, "l was just aware. " You ask him, "What were you aware
of?" "I was aware that I was aware. But it was pure wakefulness. I was grounded totally and
completely in the experience of my own immortality."
So much so, that he now doesn't know what the meaning of fear is. In fact, not only was he lucky
to have this experience, but like a true scientist, he started experimenting in this field of pure
awareness. He would go into the gap. Now he knew how to slip into it, and from there he would
put his attention on his leg which had completely burned. There was no muscle - nothing. His
femur was exposed to the atmosphere. Over the course of 2 years, by diving into the gap,
projecting his awareness from there, be has actually regrown a new lower extremity. Because he
found that place from where everything was created. It's his own Self. It's his own Self.
And where is the Self? Is it in the brain? Is it in the body? Where is it? Because this is really the
only important experience as far as the Vedic teaching of India is concerned. It's the only
important experience. The Rishi says, "All your problems exist because you never paid attention
to yourself, only to your experiences." And you're not your experiences. You're the one who's
having those experiences. Enlightenment is not another experience. It's the discovery of the
timeless factor in every experience. And who's that timeless factor? It's you!
Where is the Self? Scientists have been looking for it for a long time. Dr. Penfield the
neurophysiologist and neurosurgeon in Canada, also a Nobel Laureate, when he operated on
patients, he would cut open the skull and look inside. During operations, he'd take an electrode
and stimulate different parts of the brain.
So he'd stimulate some part of the motor cortex and the patient's arm would start going up. That's
the part that controls movement. He'd ask what's happening to the patient. The patient would say,
"My arm is moving up." And then he'd say, "Are you moving your arm?" The patient would say,
"No. It's moving up." Then he'd say, "OK. Now you move it." And the patient would move the arm
up.
No matter where you look you'll never find the decision maker in the brain You'll only find the
execution of those decisions. The motor cortex, for example, in the brain, it's that place that
executes the commands. But where is the commander? You cannot find it. It's not local. It's
everywhere or nowhere depending on your perspective. It's everywhere and nowhere at the same
time. And that's who you are! That's who you are. You're everywhere and nowhere at the same
time. You don't have a local address.
And you're not confined to your physical body either. The Rishi when he finally understands his
from his own experience of immortality, he says, "When I'm in this state, I know for sure that my
real state is this Bliss Consciousness. This bliss that follows me wherever I go. It's closer to me
than my body, and there is no past because what I'm seeking is so near, there is no room for a
past. What I'm seeking is the one who's doing the seeking. It's closer to me than my body, closer
to me than my mind. It follows me wherever I go And when I know this then I'm in bliss."
This is not happiness. Happiness has reasons for it. You're happy because of a reason. But when
you're happy for no reason whatsoever, then you're in bliss When you're grounded in this bliss
then you recognize that you're not in the body, the body is in you You're not in the mind, the mind
is in you. You're not in this universe, the universe is in you. Body, mind, universe just happened to
you because you find them interesting. That's all.
This is ultimate Quantum Healing that gets rid once and for all of the maya of mortality, of the
facade and superstition of materialism. When people get grounded in this experience then they
lose all fear, including the fear of death.
The poet Tagor said, "This is just a remembering." And it, again, comes not by going outside. It
comes by going inside, by doing that inner work, by going inside, by remembering. It comes by
remembering that Silent Witness that was with us. There's a part of you that was with you when
you were born. It was with you when you were a child. It was with you during adolescence. It's
there right now listening. It's independent of all the experiences. It's that Silent Witness inside.
Tagor, in one of his celebrated poems, he says, "I was not aware of the moment when I first
crossed the threshold of this life. What was that power that brought me into this world in the
middle of the night like a little bud that opens up in the forest at midnight. And yet in the morning
when I looked upon the light, I felt that I was no stranger in this world. That the inscrutable without
name and form had taken me in its own arms like my mother. Even so, in the moment of death I
will step into the same unknown that has been ever known to me "
What you need to be afraid of is not the unknown, because that's where we live all the time. What
we need to be afraid of, if anything, is the known! Because the known is the rigid patterns of past
conditioning that imprison us in a prison of space, time, and causation - squeeze us into the
volume of a body in the span of a lifetime. When that's not the way it really is.
He says, "Because l love this life I know I can never fear death. The child cries out when it's
mother takes it from the left breast only to find in the very next moment consolation in the right
one. Space, time, matter, energy are similarly engendered by frequencies of self interaction.
Curving back within myself, I create again and again. Ultimately I'm not all of this, I'm the field
itself."
In the Gita, Lord Krishna, speaking to Arjuna says, "Know yourself as the field and the knower of
the field." The poet Rumi says, "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll
meet you there."
So I'd like to end with a little quote from Franz Kafka, whom everyone remembers as more or less
a writer whose literary reputation rests on his portrayal of acute suffering. But he said something
which is a brilliant affirmation of the path to enlightenment. He said, "You do not need to do
anything, just remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, just wait. Do not even
wait, just be quiet, still and solitary, and the universe will expose itself to you. It has no choice. It
will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
In those words, one feels the breath of reality because they speak to us without disturbing their
own stillness. And if we really want to know what they whisper to us, then we must learn to be
equally still ourselves. Thank you very much.
A Talk Given by Dr. Deepak Chopra, M.D. at the Seattle Center on May 18, 1991.
Originally appeared in Vol. 1, No. 21 of The Sovereign Scribe, P.O. Box 350, McKenna, WA
98558
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Saved by the Light
The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations
He Received
by Dannion Brinkley
Brinkley offers the remarkable story of his two near-death experiences, after being struck by lightning, and
the resulting spiritual transformation that changed his life.
Brinkley relates how he was brought before a group of Beings of Light who revealed to him events that
would have a profound effect upon the world by the year 2000. Of the 117 revelations he recalls, 95 have
already come to pass. His dramatic story serves to inspire and enlighten people everywhere.
Brinkley's autobiographical story is a dramatic one. In 1975, Dannion Brinkley was talking on the phone
during a thunderstorm. He is uneasy and tells the friend on the phone he wants to hang up because of the
lightning. A bolt of lightning hits the phone line, sending thousands of volts into his head and down through
his body. He is blasted into the air. His heart stops and he dies. Whether you believe in life after death and
physic powers, or not, you will be riveted by Brinkley's story. He was revived in the morgue after
twenty-eight minutes after his death and gives a personal account of what happened to him during that
period. Having read a few near-death experience (NDE) books I was skeptical if his story would just be
some sort of rehash of someone else's story. It is as unique as each of us. When doctors pronounced
Brinkley dead he states he was already traveling through a tunnel toward a spirit being who led him into a
light filled crystal city. He entered the "cathedral of knowledge" where Brinkley was told of many world
events yet to come. Maybe the obligatory tunnel traveling was usual but his "education" at the hands of
thirteen angelic teachers is more than unusual in the realm of out of the body experiences.
The straight forward story-telling style is refreshing and so is the detail. Without becoming preachy,
Brinkley relates how the astounding events have changed his life. He also includes interesting stories that
people have related to him about their own near-death experiences. The book can be read at two levels.
After Brinkley's accident he was left with a weak heart, muscles that wouldn't work and a kind of collapsing
fainting spell. You observe his thoughts as he struggles from a paralyzed state to successfully walking
with two canes. What gives a person the will to overcome the odds and walk again? Brinkley down plays
this part of the story but it was a major element in reaching out to me, a reader. His experiences in dealing
with his newly acquired, after NDE, mind reading talents are amusing. Because of the damage to his heart
and body from the electricity, Brinkley describes a second NDE episode and how that played a role in his
current day commitment to life. Two NDE's for the price of one? Well, maybe so, but its a good read.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Ascension of Immortal Saints
Mother Teresa
"Heaven has gained another Star!"
Beloved Mother Teresa left her physical body on September 5, 1997. Beloved Mary,
the Mother of Jesus, announced on September 7, 1997 that this precious Daughter of
God has Ascended and become One with Her beloved Mighty I AM Presence. Mother
Mary said:
" . . . I would likewise speak of another sadness, but of the greatest Joy.
For in the loss of the beloved Mother Teresa, Heaven has gained another
Star. In this day, beloved Teresa has gained Her Ascension in the Light,
and will walk in the Octaves of Light to Radiate Her Greater Help and
Guidance for those who would follow in a selfless Path of Service and
Surrender. Beloved Teresa, with the Guidance of the Ascended Masters in
Council, chose this very time and hour for Her Transition in the Light in
the wake of the passing of a Princess. For it was Her desire that She not be
a great focus of attention. She wished only for the Good which She had
accomplished to continue on. For those Activities of Light that she had
supported, had put Her Whole Momentum behind, to keep up the work, to
not be swayed at Her passing, but to keep putting one foot in front of the
other, in selfless Service and true Charity of the Heart.
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"She was not interested in being ever a center of attention - for Her focus
was upon God. She wished the priorities of Life for each individual to be
turned to their own God Reality and Opportunity in the Light. In all of
Her Service to mankind, She continually turned toward God. She was not
concerned with the comforts of the world, for She had chosen a Path of
Complete Selfless Service.
"The world will mourn, but the Heavens will rejoice. And those who are
connected with their own God Presence will know the great rejoicing in the
heart. For She has accomplished Her Mission on Earth. There was not one
aspect of Her Dharma unfulfilled.
"How many of the devotees of My Heart can say that they have fulfilled
every aspect of the Law that they came into embodiment to do? How many
can say that they have truly emptied their cup and given their all. How
many can say 'I have loved even in the face of those who have tried to
persecute me.'
"For those who have forgotten the walk of the saints, review them, study
them. Learn to appreciate the fact that it is not always easy, but it is a
great reward. Do you think that the walk that Mother Teresa walked was
easy? Oh, We have heard the grumblings of those in embodiment who
have said 'Well, this is too hard. I'm not cut out for this type of life.'
"You must realize, beloved ones, that there are many ministries, many
ways of serving the Light. And if you are to know your calling, you must
first enter the heart - the Secret Chamber. Bow before the Altar. Look into
the Eyes of your own God Presence. Confirm 'I AM THAT I AM'.
"When you have left the Altar, resumed your place in outer activities,
there must be an Overshadowing of your Lifestream by the God Presence
through the dictates of your Holy Christ Self into all of your outer
activities.
"If this is not present, then you are not serving God, but serving the world.
You may serve God in the world, but not the world absent God. I stand as
a Mother of One Who Served God in all, who left a Record of Footsteps
that each of you can follow. . . . "
Beloved Mother Mary
through the Messenger, Carolyn Shearer, September 7, 1997 U.S.A. 8
John Paul II with Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the youngest of three children of an
Albanian builder, on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. She felt that August 27,
1910, the day of her baptism, was her true birthday.
At the age of 18 she joined the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland.
She trained in Dublin, where the motherhouse of the Loreto Sisters was. She chose the
name of Sister Teresa, in memory of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. In December 1928 she
began her journey to India and continued to Darjeeling, at the base of the Himalayan
Mountains, where she would continue her training towards her religious vows. Soon
after, on January 6, 1929 arrived in Calcutta, the capital of Bengal, India to teach at a
school for girls. While in Calcutta, she was moved by the presence of the sick and
dying on the city's streets.
On September 10, 1946, on the long train ride to Darjeeling where she was to go on a
retreat and to recover from suspected tuberculosis, something happened. She had a
life-changing encounter with the Living Presence of the Will of God. Mother Teresa
recalls:
"I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the
hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest
of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity."
She didn't hesitate, she didn't question. She asked permission to leave the Loreto
congregation and to establish a new order of sisters. She received that permission from
Pope Pius XII. Surely it was no coincidence that she chose a simple white sari with
sapphire blue bands (representing God's Will) as her order's garment.
In 1952 Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity began the work for which they
have been noted ever since. Her order received permission from Calcutta officials to
use a portion of the abandoned temple to Kali, the Hindu goddess of transition and
destroyer of demons. Mother Teresa founded here the Kalighat Home for the Dying,
which she named Nirmal Hriday (meaning "Pure Heart"). She and her fellow nuns
gathered dying Indians off the streets of Calcutta and brought them to this home to
care for them during the days before they died.
In an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge, in the book Something Beautiful for God,
Mother Teresa tells how she for the first time picked up a woman from the street.
"The woman was half eaten up by rats and ants. I took her to the hospital,
but they could do nothing for her. They only took her because I refused to
go home unless something was done for her. After they cared for her, I
went straight to the townhall and asked for a place where I could take
these people, because that day I found more people dying in the street. The
employee of health services brought me to the temple of Kali and showed
me the "dormashalah" where the pilgrims used to rest after they
worshipped the goddess Kali. The building was empty and he asked me if I
wanted it. I was very glad with the offer for many reasons, but especially
because it was the center of prayer for Hindus. Within 24 hours we
brought our sick and suffering and started the Home for the Dying
Destitutes."
Ever since then, thousands of men, women and children (more that 42,000) have been
taken from the streets of Calcutta and transported to Nirmal Hriday. Approximately
19,000 of those have had the opportunity to die in an environment of kindness and
love. In their last hours they met human and Divine Love, and could feel that they also
were children of God. For those who didn't die, the Missionaries of Charity tried to
find jobs or they were sent to homes where they could live happily some more years in
a caring home.
Mother Teresa's first orphanage was started in 1953, while in 1957 she and her
Missionaries of Charity began working with lepers. In the years following, her homes
(she called them "tabernacles") have been established in hundreds of locations in the
world. You can contact them at one of their United States locations at: Missionaries of
Charity, 335 East 145th Street, Bronx, New York 10451; or their Calcutta location:
Missionaries of Charity, 54A, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Calcutta 700
016, India.
Just weeks after celebrating her eighty-seventh birthday, Mother Teresa died of
cardiac arrest at 9:30 pm Calcutta, India time on September 5, 1997. Mother Teresa
was given a state funeral by the government of India on September 13, 1997. This day
was the fifty-first anniversary of the day she received a Divine Mission from God.
Mother Teresa's Wisdom
"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing
the Lord Himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"
"The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living
day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give
them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the
loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in
your own family. Find them. Love them. Put your love for them in living action. For in
loving them, you are loving God Himself."
"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much
we give, but how much love we put in the giving."
"To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes
infinite."
"You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position
that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the
luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created
for that."
"Whatever You Did Unto One of the Least, You Did Unto
Me"
by Mother Teresa of Calcutta
From the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February, 1994
"On the last day, Jesus will say to those on His right hand, 'Come enter the Kingdom.
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was
sick and you visited me.' Then Jesus will turn to those on His left hand and say,
'Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and you
did not give me to drink, I was sick and you did not visit me.' These will ask Him,
'When did we see You hungry, or thirsty or sick and did not come to Your help?'. And
Jesus will answer then, 'Whatever you neglected to do unto one of the least of these,
you neglected to do unto Me!'
"As we have gathered here to pray together, I think it will be beautiful if we begin with
a prayer that expresses very well what Jesus wants us to do for the least. St. Francis of
Assisi understood very well these words of Jesus and His life is very well expressed by
a prayer. And this prayer, which we say every day after Holy Communion, always
surprises me very much, because it is very fitting for each one of us. And I always
wonder whether 800 years ago when St. Francis lived, they had the same difficulties
that we have today. I think that some of you already have this prayer of peace - so we
will pray it together.
"Let us thank God for the Opportunity He has given us today to have come here to
pray together. We have come here especially to pray for Peace, Joy, and Love. We are
reminded that Jesus came to bring the good news to the poor. He had told us what is
that good news when He said: 'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.'
He came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each
other. He came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good
to others.
"And God loved the world so much that He gave His Son - it was a giving. God gave
His Son to the Virgin Mary, and what did she do with Him? As soon as Jesus came into
Mary's life, immediately she went in haste to give that good news. And as she came into
the house of her cousin, Elizabeth, Scripture tells us that the unborn child - the child in
the womb of Elizabeth - leapt with joy. While still in the womb of Mary - Jesus
brought Peace to John the Baptist who leapt for joy in the womb of Elizabeth.
"And as if that were not enough, as if it were not enough that God the Son should
become one of us and bring Peace and Joy while still in the womb of Mary, Jesus also
died on the Cross to show that greater Love. He died for you and for me, and for that
leper and for that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street, not
only of Calcutta, but of Africa, and everywhere. Our Sisters serve these poor people in
105 countries throughout the world. Jesus insisted that we love one another as He loves
each one of us. Jesus gave His Life to love us and He tells us that we also have to give
whatever it takes to do good to one another. And in the Gospel Jesus says very clearly:
'Love as I have loved you.'
"Jesus died on the Cross because that is what it took for Him to do good to us - to save
us from our selfishness in sin. He gave up everything to do the Father's Will - to show
us that we too must be willing to give up everything to do God's Will - to love one
another as He loves each of us. That is why we too must give to each other until it hurts.
"It is not enough for us to say: 'I love God', but I also have to love my neighbor. St.
John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor.
How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom
you see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so it is very important for us to
realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I must be willing to give whatever it takes not
to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them. This requires that I be willing to
give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me and I bring injustice, not
peace, to those around me.
"It hurt Jesus to love us. We have been created in His Image for greater things, to love
and to be loved. We just 'put on Christ' as Scripture tells us. And so, we have been
created to love as He loves us. Jesus makes Himself the hungry one, the naked one, the
homeless one, the unwanted one, and He says, "You did it unto Me." On the last day
He will say to those on His right, 'Whatever you did to the least of these, you did to
Me', and He will also say to those on His left, 'Whatever you neglected to do for the
least of these, you neglected to do it for Me'.
"When He was dying on the Cross, Jesus said, 'I thirst'. Jesus is thirsting for our love,
and this is the thirst of everyone, poor or rich alike. We all thirst for the love of others,
that they will go out of their way to avoid harming us and to do good to us. This is the
meaning of truest love, to give until it hurts.
"I can never forget the experience I had in visiting a home where they kept all these
old parents of sons and daughters who had just put them into an institution and
forgotten them - maybe. I saw that in that home these old people had everything - good
food, comfortable place, television, everything, but everyone was looking toward the
door. And I did not see a single one with a smile on the face. I turned to Sister and I
asked: 'Why do these people, who have every comfort here, why are they all looking
toward the door? Why are they not smiling?'
"I am so used to seeing the smiles on our people, even the dying ones smile. And Sister
said: 'This is the way it is nearly every day. They are expecting, they are hoping that a
son or daughter will come to visit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten.' And
see, this neglect to love brings spiritual poverty. Maybe in our own family we have
somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried. Are we
there? Are we willing to give until it hurts in order to be with our families, or do we put
our own interests first? These are the questions we must ask ourselves, especially as we
begin this year of the family. We must remember that love begins at home and we must
also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family."
Notes of Gratitude and Love to Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa's Prayer
References:
1. Chawla, Navin Mother Teresa - The Authorized Biography, (Element, 1996)
2. Clucas, Joan Graff Mother Teresa, (Chelsea House, 1988)
3. Egan, Eileen Suffering Into Joy: What Mother Theresa Teaches About True Joy (Servant
Publications, 1994)
4. Johnson, Linda Carlson Mother Teresa, (Blackbirch Press, 1991)
5. Lapierre, Dominique The City of Joy, (Warner Books, 1992)
6. Lazo, Caroline Evenson Mother Teresa, (Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993)
7. Le Joly, Edward Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Biography, (Harper & Row, 1985)
8. Mother Mary, September 7, 1997 The Temple of The Presence, Copyright © 1997 The Temple
of The Presence ®
9. Mother Teresa A Simple Path (Ballantive Books, 1995)
10. Mother Teresa My Life for the Poor (Ballantive Books, 1996)
11. Mother Teresa Total Surrender (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Publication, 1990)
12. Mother Teresa and Michael Collopy (Photographer) Works of Love Are Works of Peace:
Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Missionaries of Charity (Ignatius Press, 1996)
13. Tames, Richard Mother Teresa, (Franklin Watts, 1989)
14. Zambonini, Franca Teresa of Calcutta: A Pencil in God's Hand, (Alba House, 1993)
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Universal Aspects of Healing
by Angeles Arrien
What are the perennial Wisdoms? What are the roots beyond our cultural imprinting or family conditioning?
What is the glue? What are the global "10 commandments"--the Universal Values?
I have "uncovered" or "recovered" or "discovered" (from the vast pool of everything that has always been
there, just waiting to be "remembered"), four global Universal Values:
1. Universal Value of a deep regard for life. (Thou shalt not murder.)
2. Universal Value to honor and respect what one has created for themselves. (Thou shalt not steal.)
3. Universal Value for Truth. (Thou shalt not lie.)
4. Universal Value for honoring established emotional relationship lines. (Thou shalt not rape.)
Among the Basque people and among the majority of Native People of this land there is what is called the
"Four-Fold Way," and they say that life will be very simple if you just follow these four guidelines:
1. Show Up.
2. Pay Attention.
3. Tell the Truth, without blame or judgment.
4. Don't be Attached to outcome, but open to outcome.
These four Principles and the four Universal Values reveal in all mythology four ways of "Be-ing."
Showing Up --The Way of the Warrior
This is the capacity to Honor and Respect our Self in equal proportion to how we Honor and Respect other
people, the way of Honoring our limits and boundaries and also Respecting other people's limits and
boundaries is an unlimited resource within. Respect means the willingness to look back with care.
The way of the Warrior Honors three Universal Powers:
The Power of Presence--Charisma and magnetism.
The Power of Communication
The Willingness to take a stand --to stand up for oneself--to know what it is we can stand up for.
We could say that Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and Gandhi had all three powers. The actual
archetype of the Warrior is to honor and respect--not to kill! If we develop our concepts of Honor and
Respect, there would not be the warrior that needs to protect and defend -- with "peacekeeper" missiles.
Paying Attention--The Way of the Healer
We need to pay attention to what needs to be done in the moment to heal our own wounds and extend
Healing to other people. There are eight Universal Ways that we can extend Healing:
1. Diet--Diet sustains the body. More than just the food we eat, we must consider the diet of the Mind (What
is, the quality of my thinking?), diet of the Heart (What is the quality of my emotions?), diet of the Spirit
(What is the quality of my Vision, my Feelings, my Intention and my Action?). The formula for Healing is, "I
Observe, I Feel, I Want and I am Willing "
2. Music--Music soothes the savage beast, "Sing for your life."
3. Humor--The capacity to Play and bring Joy in our life. "Beware the man who laughs and his belly does
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not jiggle." --Confucius
4. Love--Our willingness to receive and extend Gratitude, Acknowledgment, Validation, Appreciation and
Acceptance.
5. Environment--Outer (Nature), Internal (Our Home), Deep Internal (Our Self-Worth
and Self-Esteem). How do we Honor the three ingredients of Self Esteem: Self Love, Self-Trust and
Self-Respect?
6. Creative Purpose--The sense of contribution we make Personally, Profes- sionally, Culturally and
Globally.
7. Belief in the Super-Natural--Faith in the Mystery of that which we don't under stand, that which is above
our nature. The capacity to see with the eyesclosed, to walk the Mystical Path with practical feet.
8. Exercise--How we face Change (that which puts us through our movements). The four Universal
Changes are Birth, Initiation (our current test or challenge), Marriage (to merge--what is coming together,
falling into place) and Death (the capacity to let go).
Telling the Truth, without blame or judgment--The Way of the Visionary
The visionary honors Dreams, Visions, Insights and the Inner Voice. The Way of the Visionary recognizes
that there are four Universal Healing Actions:
1. Dancing--The Way of the Warrior
2. Story Telling--The Way of the Healer
3. Singing--The Way of the Visionary
4. Silence--The Way of the Teacher
"And if I see you, I will laugh out loud (with delight). Or I will fall silent (because I've been so deeply moved).
Or I will explode into a thousand pieces (because I've been so inspired). And if I don't, I will be caught in
the cement and stone of my own prison." --Rumi, poet
Don't be attached to outcome, but open to outcome--The Way of the Teacher
As the Rumi poet said, "Beyond Ideas of Wrong doing and Right doing, there's a field. I'll meet you there."
The old Wisdoms are coming forward, asking us to remember the deep inheritance and heritage of who we
are. Asking us to remember not only our Divinity, but our Vision, our Heart, our Intention of why we're here.
Asking us to remember the Actions that we want to take. What is the action that is needed at this point in
Time? It is not the action of separation, but the action of inclusion-- that's the Healing.
Transcript from talk by Angeles Arrien at "Dreaming the New Dream Conference", Sun Valley, Idaho 1988;
Originally presented in Baltimore Resource Journal, Vol 9, No. 3, Fall 1995, Baltimore Maryland.
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