Proposed,
Experimental and Theoretical, Non-Invasive
Do-It-Yourself
Methods For Parasite, Fungal, Viral, Pathogen and Chemical Neutralization
In
CROHN’S
DISEASE & ULCERATIVE COLITIS
By
William
G. Drew, Ph.D.
By training I am a
Neuropsychopharmacologist. People with my training typically
teach medical students and doctors while they are in allopathic
medical schools or while they are going through their internships
or residency. I was no different in this background.
The teaching of numerous
courses in pharmacology, neuropharmacology and neuropsychology
to hundreds of medical students and dozens of graduate students
over nearly a fifteen-year period was not without consequences.
My research work resulted in approximately 50 published studies
in well respected, peer-reviewed medical journals and was meritoriously
sufficent to win $4.6 million in federal research grants.
However, growing dissatisfaction
with the allopathic practice of medicine and the negative influence
their philosophy and affiliations exert on basic medical research
prompted an early retirement. Then began years of intensive
self-reflection and work to de-bias my scientific and medical
underpinnings. Concurrently, I was suffering from coronary artery
disease and lived through 3 heart attacks, six angioplasties
and a triple bypass operation. Ten months later the bypass shunts
had closed and I nearly lost my life, when, in the first week
of May 1995, my heart stopped 5 times. I realized that to continue
to rely on conventional medicine would have worrisome consequences.
Desperately I looked for alternatives just to stay alive. I
found them and got much more than I ever believed possible.
Thankfully, to look
at me now you would never know just how sick I had been. Without
some reference point, one fails to appreciate change. Accordingly,
it is hard to see just how fatally flawed allopathic medicine
really is. Tragically, these analogies reveal the true extent
of our health ignorance, a blindness that has not only been
extended, but exploited fully by a drug industry that should
be held accountable for the lethal consequences of their acts.
Pharmaceutical
misrepresentations have done great harm in terms of human consequences.
Together with the strategic alliances these corporate powerhouses
have forged with the cereal industry, the dead food industry,
the chemical lobbies, and the on-going complicity of the medical
profession, the public is in grave danger of a total health
collapse. Not only is allopathic medicine fatally flawed, support
industries operate with hidden agendas and now control medical
and nutritional advertising, promotions, research grants, and
regulatory agencies. There can be no restoration of health,
promotion of basic research or effective alleviation of diseases
when the parties involved have vested interests in maintaining
sub-optimal public health and "captured" control of
regulatory agencies.
Along with thousands
of other health professionals I now feel that many aspects of the practice
of medicine are immoral, unethical, impractical, financially
devastating and must be stopped. The immorality comes from the inescapable fact
that the medical establishment not only holds sick people hostage
but makes a business, even a monopoly out of illness and suffering.
This is immoral. I would not necessarily hold this view had
I not been witness to repeated medical establishment cover ups
and deliberate attempts to discredit revolutionary findings
and cures that would end human suffering on a massive scale.
These were acts done by those with vested interests in keeping
people sick. It is immoral to deprive people of access to information,
new or old, that can cure diseases, remove the underlying causes
of sickness or that can restore health.
It is imperative that all people take back the
power to restore their own physical and financial health. As
Dr. Clark has stated, "The human species can no longer afford to make a business
out of illness...The concept of health as a narrow professional
concern is obsolete." So it is with this understanding and from this
background that Health Restoration Consultants came into being.
By "Empowering Through Knowledge" we
now have new ways of looking at and ridding ourselves of Crohn’s
Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.
NOTICE
TO THE READER
The opinions
expressed in this informational brochure are based on my scientific
research and the published scientific and clinical research
of others, notably Hulda Clark, Ph.D., N.D., Michael Murray,
N.D., Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. and Leo Galland, M.D.
Be advised that
the information contained in this brochure is for educational
purposes only. No prescriptive advice is being offered. The
treatments outlined herein are not intended to be a replacement
or a substitute for other forms of medical treatment, conventional
or otherwise. ALWAYS CONSULT WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER HEALTH
CARE PROVIDER WHEN ILL.
Be advised also
that everyone is unique, in different states of health, different
in age, sex and environmental background and may respond differently
to any conventional medical treatment or other forms of treatment.
Any new treatment carries with it the added need to be cautious
and apply common sense.
DISCLAIMER
TO THE READER
Any use of this
information carries with it the expressed and implied understanding
that we cannot be responsible for any adverse effects believed
due to its use. This is an informational brochure only. The
author has provided safe dosage information on the herbs and
nutritional supplements wherever appropriate. Again, remember
that everyone is different and the need for using common sense
cannot be overestimated.
Readers are strongly
advised to acquire and read The
Cure for All Cancers by Hulda R. Clark, Ph.D. N.D., as well
as The
Cure for All Diseases by the same author.
PARASITE
ERADICATION PROGRAM PROGRESSION CHART
SPECIAL
PROGRAM FOR CROHN’S DISEASE AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS
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Black
Walnut Tincture
2hrs
before or after supper
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Wormwood
Capsules
2
hrs before or after supper
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Clove
Capsules |
L-Ornithine
Capsules |
Para-Min
(With
Meals)
|
Colloidial
4xSilver
1
dp full in 8oz water
once in AM
once in PM
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Shigella
&Salmonella
homeopathic
1dp full at
B L S
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Echinacea
Capsules |
Zap
with Zapper |
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tsp in 8 oz water |
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at bedtime |
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dp per meal |
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tsp in 8 oz water |
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dp per meal |
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tsp in 8 oz water |
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dp per meal |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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dp per meal |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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tsp in 8 oz water |
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dp per meal |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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hour
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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as needed |
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tsp in 8oz water |
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as needed |
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hour
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tsp in 8oz water |
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as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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3
tsp in 8oz water |
7
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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tsp in 8 oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
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2-6
as needed |
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dp per meal |
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hour
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| 25 |
4
tsp in 8oz water |
8
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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dp AM/PM |
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1
dp per meal |
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2
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2
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1
hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
8
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3
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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2
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dp AM/PM |
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1
dp per meal |
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2
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2
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2
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1
hour
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| 27 |
4
tsp in 8oz water |
8
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3
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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2
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dp AM/PM |
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1
dp per meal |
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1
hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
8
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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dp AM/PM |
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1
dp per meal |
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1
hour
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4
tsp in 8oz water |
8
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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dp AM/PM |
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1
dp per meal |
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hour
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| 30 |
4
tsp in 8oz water |
8
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3
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2-6
as needed |
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dp AM/PM |
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dp per meal |
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1
hour
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| Program
key |
Attention-Once
the 30 day program is complete, you will need to do
a weekly maintenance to keep parasite colonies in
check.
|
| B
L S= Breakfast, Lunch, Supper |
| dp=
Dropperful |
Once
a week you should take the following: 2 tsp. Black Walnut
Hull Tincture |
| tsp=
Teaspoon |
2
dp Colloidal Silver AM/PM |
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3
Clove Capsules at B L S |
| Note:
8oz. of water can be substituted with juice |
2
Para-Min at B L S |
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3
Wormwood Combinations 2 hours before supper |
WEEK 1
· Wormwood: The numbers
of capsules shown above should be taken before or after supper
with water.
· ZAP with Beck unit. Days
1 - 21 ZAP 60 min. minimum; preferrably 2 hours.
· Take Aerobic 07 in water
according to schedule in Appendix. Continue until 3 bottles
are consumed.
· Take 1-3 scoops Intestamine
3 times daily as directed.
· Supplement with Nature’s
Biotic, a soil-based microorganism [SBO] probiotic as directed
(see Appendix).
WEEK 2
· Bowel cleansing is critically
important. Do modified Vega-Lax and Miracle 7 Colon Cleanse.
Continue Miracle 7
Colon Cleanser until at
least 12 bottles have been used. If IBD symptoms are too severe
with Vega-Lax and Miracle 7 follow
Tyler Program for cleansing
the intestine. The colon must be cleaned completely.
· Begin liver, gallbladder
and kidney flush and cleanse as instructed.
· Take 1000 mg organic flax
seed oil, 1000 mg Borage Seed Oil and 1500 mg evening primrose
oil daily.
· Take 500 mg Taurine (empty
stomach).
· Take 250 mg vitamin B-6
(or Pyrodoxal 5’-phosphate) daily.
· Take 1 sublingual vitamin
B-12/Foliplex cap daily.
· Take 1 activated B-Complex
capsule daily.
· Take 4,000 mg vitamin
C daily(SpectraScorb).
· Take 400 I.U. vitamin
E daily.
· Take 1 Tbs bee pollen
each meal.
· Take 3 Basic Preventive
5 tablets each meal this week. Thereafter, take 2 tablets each
meal.
· Take 2 Natural Beta-Carotene
caps daily.
· Take 1 Similase cap 5
times daily(at meals and between).
· Take 1 Lipanase tablet
each meal.
WEEK 3
· Take 50 mg grapeseed extract
mixture 8 times daily for next 14 days; 6 times daily next 30
days; 3 times daily thereafter.
· Take 2 organic alfalfa
leaf tablets 3 times daily with meals.
· Take 1 garlic (PGF400or
Kyolic No. 101) tablet each meal.
· Take 1 Turmeric capsule
each meal.
· Drink 2 oz high quality
Aloe Vera Juice twice daily or 1 Tbs of Aloe Vera Gel twice
daily. Supplement with 2 Immuno600
capsules twice daily. If
symptoms of immune suppression are severe, take MPS-Gold liquid
as directed.
· Take burdock root, Echinacea,
Fenugreek, golden seal, licorice, marshmallow root, pau d’arco,
red clover, silymarin, slippery elm extracts on an alternating
basis using one extract for three days before switching to the
next extract.
· Take 500 mg (1 capsule)
Niacinamide at each meal.
· Take a calcium and magnesium
supplement (e.g. OsteoGard) with each meal.
· Take 3 Cal-Mag Butyrate
caps after each meal this week; take 2 caps after meals next
2 weeks; 1 cap after meals thereafter.
WEEK 4
· Begin following diet recommendations
in Elaine Gotschall’s book "Breaking the Vicious
Cycle." Kirkton Press, Ontario, 1994.
· Drink an 8-oz glass of
fresh carrot juice (with kale or spinach leaf added) and an
8-oz glass of fresh cabbage juice (unless
allergic to cabbage juice)
daily.
· Eat a high fiber diet
containing lots of oat bran, brown rice, barley and other whole
grains except wheat. Lentils, rice cakes
are good.
· Drink 128 oz (1 gallon)
clean drinking water throughout each day. Use "suck bottle"
and drink at room temperature.
· Drink lobelia tea at least
twice each day. Use lobelia extract in enemas to control inflammation
of the colon.
· Eliminate all forms of
milk, cream, all dairy foods including ice cream, sour cream,
cheezes, etc. Eat no foods containing carrageenan, a milk protein
stabilizer obtained from red seaweed.
· Eliminate saltwater fish,
hard sausage, pickled cabbage and baked products made from the
fermentation of yeast.
· Eliminate ALCOHOL, caffeine,
all carbonated beverages (soda pops), chocolate, corn, eggs,
all artificially preserved foods, fried and greasy foods, margarine,
meat, pepper, tobacco, and ALL white flour foods.
· Avoid fats and as much
cooking oils as possible. These make the diarrhea worse.
· Avoid refined carbohydrates
such as the standard, dry, boxed breakfast cereals, and all
products containing sugars.
· Avoid wheat in all forms.
Sprouted wheat can be eaten as can sprouted wheat / sprouted
grain breads (Ezekiel Bread)
· If you have mercury toxcity
(from dental amalgams) or from environmental ingestion, go on
Mercury Detoxification Program immediately. Begin Oral Chelation
to remove mercury form the body, especially from the gut epithelium.
· Take 4 tablets thioctic
acid daily during detox program for first 30 days, 2 tabs later.
· Take IGA+ and GSH reduced
Glutathione as directed.
CROHN’S
DISEASE & ULCERATIVE COLITIS
The origins of many chronic
health problems including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative
colitis can be found in disturbed or compromised digestive function.
Toxins, altered permeability and parasites are generally to
blame for virtually all gastrointestinal dysfunction. But the
problem doesn't simply remain a gastrointestinal problem. The
consequences of toxins, intestinal permeability defects and
parasites can lead to profound health consequences. These conditions
may occur singly (i.e. independently) or in clusters (i.e. groups
of conditions) producing cumulative damage which leads to a
cascade of chronic illness.
Chemicals that are foreign to
the body are called xenobiotics. Toxicity due to xenobiotics
can produce damage affecting all organs and systems in the body.
Common signs and symptoms of xenobiotic toxicity include weakness,
headache, neurologic disturbances, multiple chemical sensitivities,
immune dysfunction and liver disorders. The gastrointestinal
tract is the most common route of exposure to these toxins.
The mucosal cell lining of the intestines must remain healthy
and intact in order to limit absorption of xenobiotics.
Increased intestinal permeability
is known as "leaky gut" or leaky gut syndrome (LGS).
LGS is characterized by increased absorption of xenobiotics,
increased absorption of endogenously produced toxins (endotoxins),
antigens, immune complexes and intact microorganisms normally
confined to the intestinal lumen. When permeability defects
become chronic the result is the appearance of certain autoimmune
diseases, liver dysfunction, septicemia and other systemic disorders.
Parasitic infections, yeast
infections (candidiasis) and other imbalances in intestinal
microflora can damage the lining of the gastrointestinal tract.
In fact, some investigators believe that the origins of most
Inflammatory Bowel Disorders (IBD) are due to parasites, fungal
disorders and microbiotic disorders of the gut. All of these
organisms can produce chronic insults to the gut wall producing
abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, and can lead to the development
of malabsorption, inflammatory bowel disorders and ultimately
to leaky gut syndrome. Endotoxins and antigens produced by intestinal
pathogens are then absorbed systemically producing allergic
responses, autoimmune illness, liver damage and other toxic
reactions.
Even in the healthiest individuals
some "leaking" of gut contents into the blood stream
is normal. The intestinal endotoxins and xenobiotics that are
absorbed from the gut are principally detoxified by the liver.
Liver detoxification pathways transform toxic molecules into
less toxic metabolites which can then be excreted. The liver's
capacity to handle detox functions can be impaired due to excessive
exposure to toxins as well as deficiencies in key nutrients.
Signs and symptoms of toxicity often occur as a result of compromised
liver function.
Gut-associated chronic illness
requires several approaches. Three broad objectives include
reducing exposure to xenobiotics, normalizing gastrointestinal
function, and supporting liver detoxification. Reducing the
exposure to xenobiotics decreases the body's burden of toxins.
Normalizing gastrointestinal function helps improve digestion,
reduce intestinal endotoxins, eliminate parasites and maintain
gut wall integrity. Supporting liver detoxification assists
the body in transforming and eliminating xenobiotics and endotoxins.
The pathological increase in
permeability of the intestinal mucosa has been referred to as
leaky gut syndrome. Leaky gut syndrome (LGS) is the problem
in inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative
colitis, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome.
LGS is involved in virtually
all food allergies and certain auto-immune diseases
such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus
erythematosus and atopic and eczematous dermatitis, vasculitis,
intestinal toxemia (endotoxemia) microbial translocation, dysbiosis,
joint pain and inflammation, fatigue, malabsorption
and other diseases including chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis,
Guillain-Barre syndrome, herpes and others. Obviously, correcting
LGS dysfunctions is critical to the success of any program designed
to conquer ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease.
CROHN’S DISEASE
This disease usually begins
in teenagers (about age 14) and on up to age 30. Crohn’s
is a chronic inflammatory disorder usually producing ulcerations
within various segments of the digestive tract. Inflammation
may occur in the mouth, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, jejunum,
ileum, colon, rectum and anus. Lymph nodes in close proximity
to these structures typically show inflammatory involvement.
When the small intestine is involved, the disease is referred
to as regional enteritis.
Crohn’s disease involving the colon is referred to as Crohn’s
disease of the colon or granulomatous
colitis.
In Crohn’s disease the
entire thickness of the bowel wall is inflammed. Strangely,
in about 40% of cases the granulomas are poorly developed or
completely absent.
Patients typically suffer from
intermittent episodes of diarrhea and a low-grade fever. Anorexia
or severe loss of appetite may be a primary result or a psychological
result of the pain that usually accompanies episodes. Weight
loss is almost inevitable. Excessive flatulence and malaise
also characterize this disease and nausea is not uncommon.
Crohn’s disease usually results in steatorrhea or
excessive amounts of fat in the stool with the result that the
stools are pale brown to yellow in color and typically float.
Floating is always an indication of too much fat in the stool
and is usually not related to flatulance which also may be trapped
in the stool. Contrary to what some texts (and so-called
"authorities") say, stools should sink. So
that there is absolutely no confusion I am going to say this
differently-- stools should not float!
The right lower quadrant of
the abdomen is usually very tender with signs of peritoneal
irritation that can be mistaken for appendicitis. Classic Crohn’s
disease reveals an abnormality of the terminal ileum (last segment
of small intestines) on X-ray analysis. Crohn’s patients
may exhibit pain in the upper abdomen as well.
The disease is cyclic in that
it appears to go through exacerbations (flair ups) and remissions.
As the inflammation subsides scar tissue forms. This scaring
typically narrows the lumen (food passageway) of the intestines
and may necessitate surgery to relieve the stricture if severe
enough.
Crohn’s patients are known
to develop fistulas. Fistulas are abnormal passage ways that
try to short-circuit sections of the intestine. These passage
ways usually involve abnormal connections from one loop of the
intestine to another but passage ways to other organs are not
uncommon.
Similarity of Crohn’s
to Ulcerative Colitis
Crohn’s disease is similar
to ulcerative colitis in many ways. In both diseases there is
a loss of appetite, abdominal pain, malaise and rectal bleeding.
The primary difference between Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis
is the degree of involvement of the intestinal wall. In ulcerative
colitis the inflammation is typically limited to the mucosal
lining and submucosa. In Crohn’s, the inflammation extends
all the way through the wall.
ULCERATIVE COLITIS
The second disease of the Inflammatory
Bowel Diseases (IBD), ulcerative colitis, involves the mucous
membranes lining the colon. When these become inflammed, ulcers
can form which can then bleed and/or hemorrhage causing bloody
diarrhea, pain, flatulence, bloating and the formation of diverticula.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease:
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
ABO BLOOD TYPES
Foods can react with blood antigens
depending on the blood type of the patient. Some researchers
believe that all foods contain chemical groups referred to as
lectins which are immunologically reactive within certain blood
types. Lectins are somewhat similar to antigens and may react
with the antibodies on the blood cells that characterize blood
types. Accordingly, chemical groups within blood type O react
with many types of vegetables, grains but rarely with red meats.
This means that Type O’s usually fair very poorly as vegetarians
and thrive on diets containing red meats. Type O persons were
originally hunters.
Blood Type A on the other hand
react significantly with most meats. Type A persons were the
original agrarians or plant cultivators and most should be vegetarians
since their blood and tissue chemistry is strongly compatible
with most vegetables. Type A people show adverse cellular reactions
to red meats that almost invariably lead to severe digestive
and circulatory problems.
Food lectins cause digestive
irritation by attaching to the mucosal lining of the intestines.
In Type A’s the culprit is red meat; in Type O’s the
culprit could be certain vegetables. But the end result is irritated
mucosa in the digestive tract which could be diagnosed as Crohn’s
disease or ulcerative colitis.
According to James D’Adamo,
N.D. "In Type A’s and Type
AB’s, Crohn’s disease and colitis often involve a
major stress component. If you have Type A or Type AB blood
and suffer from inflammatory bowel disease, pay careful attention
to your stress patterns..." and seek additional information as to how to bring the
stress under control.
"Type O’s tend to develop the
more ulcerative form of colitis that causes bleeding with elimination.
This is probably due to the lack of adequate clotting factors
in their blood. Type A’s, Type AB’s and Type B’s
tend to develop more of a mucous colitis, which is not as bloody.
In either case, follow the diet for your blood type."
(James D’Adamo, Eat Right 4 Your Type, Putnam, 1996).
What this is saying is that
if you are a Type O for example, your IBD condition may reflect
your inability to properly digest grains and pasta. If, on the
other hand you were a Type A, your IBD may be due to your inability
to properly digest red meats.
FUNGAL DISEASES AND MYCOTOXINS
Recent evidence suggests that
a major causative factor in IBDs is the presence of mycotoxins.
Mycotoxins are biologically active substances produced by fungi.
Virtually all mycotoxins are poisonous and are anti-predatory
and often serve the function of being territorially protective.
This ensures a perpetual existence for the fungus.
Because of their extreme toxicity many mycotoxins exhibit
profound anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-protozoan activity.
One good example is ethyl alcohol, the alcoholic ingredient
in beers, wines and liquor, produced by a common fungus, the
brewer’s yeast. Ethyl
alcohol is easily the most widely consumed mycotoxin but few
ever realize this. Mycotoxins
are also anti-insect, anti-animal and anti-human as well.
Back in the 1930s and 1940s
about one thousand mycotoxins were studied by pharmacologists
for possible utilization as antibiotics. Penicillin is one such
mycotoxin with a history of usefulness as an antibiotic in man.
However, the majority of mycotoxins proved too toxic to use
since serious target organ injury usually occurs. Consider for
example, cyclosporin. Cyclosporin is a mycotoxin with the ability
to suppress the immune system. Sounds good to this point and
indeed, cyclosporin does find utility in organ transplants.
Without cyclosporin organ transplants would usually be rejected
immediately. But a price is paid for the use of cyclosporin.
Cyclosporin when used for prevention of transplant rejection
causes cancer, atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia in ALL humans
who have received it. Cyclosporin also causes gout and other diseases. So the
down side is not good news at all!
Aside from
confirming a fungal etiology of atherosclerosis, the data on
fungal and/or mycotoxin induced diseases is steadily mounting.
For example, acute gouty arthritis, alcoholic cirrhosis, familial
mediterranean fever, Mollaret’s meningitis, Bechet’s
syndrome, psoriasis, thrombocytopenic purpura, chronic lymphocytic
leukemia, amyloidoisis, leukocytoclastic vasculitis, sarcoid
arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, hyperlipidemia and inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD) may all be caused by fungi and their mycotoxins.
These disorders respond well to the standard gout medication
colchicine (derived from the crocus plant). In fact, colchicine
prevents experimental atherosclerosis, casein (a milk protein)
induced amyloidosis and Cushing’s disease.
Some fungal disorders are
responsive to Nystatin. For example, psoriasis, IBD, ADD, ADHD and multiple
sclerosis are all nystatin responsive.
Some fungal disorders are
responsive to griseiofulvin. These include: atherosclerosis resulting in angina,
systemic sclerosis, Raynaud’s syndrome and disease.
Some fungal disorders are
responsive to allopurinol and include sarcoidosis, oxalate nephrolithopathy
(kidney stones), idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome in
newborns and Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy.
And the list of diseases goes on and many suspect that we have
only scratched the surface.
How are all of these mycotoxins
and fungi getting into us?
Stored food! By stored is meant
packaged, canned and fermented foods, frozen foods and dehydrated
foods. One study which sterilized the surface of corn and then
studied how many different types of fungal organisms were inside
is shocking. This carefully controlled study of surface sterilized
corn revealed 25 different species of fungus living inside the
kernel. Equally as amazing, surface sterilized peanuts contained
26 different fungi inside! It is suspected than most grains
are contaminated. The trick is to limit the contamination.
Mycotoxins contained in stored
foods have been documented to cause diverse diseases. Make no mistake about this - mycotoxins
can cause fatal diseases.
For example, aflatoxin causes
leukemia in children, liver cancer in adults and can cause Crohn’s disease.
Urinary tract cancers are strongly associated with ochratoxin
blood levels. It is discouraging to learn that up to 90% of
nursing mothers have mycotoxins in their milk.
How do you prevent this?
Dietary changes are the only
answer to controlling mycotoxin exposure. Some foods must be
avoided; some increased.
AVOIDANCE:
The diet must seek to eliminate foods that contain mycotoxins.
The diet
must also stop feeding the fungi already in the gut. The primary fuels of the fungal family are diets rich
in sugar, fruit, oils, fats, and fermented foods. The primary
fermented foods we consume are beer, wine, bread and cheese.
If you
want to get over Crohn’s and/or ulcerative colitis it is
absolutely imperative that these types of foods be avoided at
all costs.
INCREASED:
It is well known that increased consumption of fish oils, garlic,
onions, herbs, spices, soy products and green vegetables result
in decreased fungal growth. Decreased
fungal growth results in decreased mycotoxin production.
Mycotoxin toxicity
is drastically reduced by eating fiber rich diets. Fiber speeds the removal of mycotoxins produced by fungus
organisms in the intestines.
As might be expected it is not
uncommon for complications to occur. For example, many Crohn’s
patients develop arthritis, but more usually anlylosing spondylitis
(a special form of arthritis of the spine); liver diseases including
perhaps hepatitis, and eye damage.
Conventional Medical Treatment
Conventional treatment approaches to progressive episodes
of Crohn’s may be fairly characterized as being of progressively
diminishing effectiveness. That is, fair to good responses are
initially seen with anti-inflammatory steroidal agents, antibiotics
and immune system suppression. Most sufferers show diminished
responses to such treatments with time. This suggests that Crohn’s
becomes refractory to this crude approach. Approximately 66% of all Crohn’s
patients eventually require surgery if the conventional monopoly
approaches are followed. But the downside of this is simply that even with surgical
intervention, the disease will still re-occur. Some studies
show that as many as 10% of Crohn’s patients ultimately
die from complications of the disease.
The Contribution of Allergies
to Crohn’s Disease
To illustrate yet again the
refusal of allopathic medicine to consider and use nutritional
interventions in treating Crohn’s simply know that Dr.
Albert Rowe in 1953 – that’s more than 40 years ago
– described the role of food allergies in the etiology
and perpetuation of the disease. But continuing studies still
don’t seem to make much of a dent in the stubborn, money-making
armour of gastrointestinal medicine and surgery. For example,
in 1993 Riordan and associates published a study in the highly
respected British journal Lancet which involved the treatment
of 136 active Crohn’s patients with an "exclusion
diet" known as an elemental diet. Only 93 of the patients
were able to continue the diet for 14 days. Of these 84% experienced
a resolution of symptoms. One-half of the 93 patients were then
given steroid treatment and returned to their normal diet. The
other half was instructed to introduce 1 new food daily and
to exclude thereafter any food that precipitated symptoms.
The results were by medical
standards spectacular. This method of food testing uncovered
many precipitators of common symptoms including: corn, wheat,
milk, yeast, eggs, potatoes, rye, tea and coffee. Those who
remained on the diet that "excluded" symptom provokers
remained free of Crohn’s episodes for an average of 7.5
months while those that returned to their "usual"
diet had a mean time to symptom recurrence of 3.8 months. So
diet alone seems to double the symptom free period. But more
importantly, of those patients that continued to remain on the
"elimination diet," 45% remained in remission for
at least two years.
From 1994 through 1996 Health Restoration Consultants
provided information and guidance to help more than a dozen
Crohn’s patients achieve complete remission (unpublished
observations). The procedures recommended by Health Restoration
Consultants (and which were followed by all 14 patients) differed from the above study (and all other known studies) in
that before any specific "elimination"
diet and "allergy reduction" diet was begun, the patients
were each required to undergo a "complete" parasite
elimination program involving:
- a 21-day herbal treatment
followed by weekly maintenance dosages (for up to 12 months)
to prevent parasite repopulation;
- parasite reduction and
elimination from the blood, lymph, organs and tissues through
the use of electrical pulse generators placed over the radial
and ulnar arteries of the wrist (e.g. the Beck Zapper) or
the administration of electrical pulses to the palms of
the hands (e.g. the Clark Zapper), and
- complete intestinal cleansing
lasting for at least 6 months.
Once the above three steps were
well underway specific dietary changes and recommendations were
instituted that attempted to carefully eliminate food allergens
and symptom precipitators.
Most of the Crohn’s patients
involved in the Health Restoration Consultants studies reported
dramatic improvement in symptoms following the three steps above.
Virtually complete remission was achieved once food allergens
and symptom precipitators were eliminated. If subjects remained
on the diet and continued to maintain themselves parasite free,
there were no recurrences of Crohn’s symptoms. To date
12 of the 14 original subjects of this study have remained symptom
free. Two subjects relapsed because of failure to maintain adherance
to the dietary recommendations or because they failed to maintain
themselves parasite free.
Thus, earlier studies have shown
that when specific dietary instructions were followed nearly
half of all Crohn’s disease patients were able to maintain
themselves symptom free. By simply cleansing the intestines
and eliminating most parasites and maintaining themselves "clean,"
the number of Crohn’s patients reporting freedom from symptoms
can be increased significantly. It is unknown how long the remissions
may last.
The earlier cited study has
been confirmed by other researchers and yet the establishment
by and large still continues to ignore the findings. Why? Because
is it lucrative to "treat" Crohn’s disease with
drugs, hospitalize the victims and continue to do intestinal
resections (remove segments of gut). After all, no gastrointerologist
or surgeon can pay his mortgage or support a lavish life style
simply by showing his patients what to eat!
It is important to note that
an earlier "confirming" study found that the brassica
family of vegetables could trigger Crohn’s disease recurrence.
The brassica family includes cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,
Brussels sprouts and turnips (Jones, et al., Lancet, 1985).
Biological
Treatment Procedures For
Leaky
Gut Conditions
As early as 1968 a naturopathic
physician named Paavo O. Airola, reported on the results of
some highly successful biological treatment procedures for curing
arthritis in European clinics. Arthritis is but one of the many
conditions related to leaky gut disorders. Crohn’s
disease and ulcerative colitis are also in the leaky gut family
of disturbances.
One of the most prominent treatment
centers using this powerful and highly successful method of
treatment is the Brandals Health Clinic located in Sodertalje
near Stockholm, Sweden.
The Miracles at Brandal
Dr. Airola provides narrative
accounts of many of the thousands of patients cured of arthritis
and other chronic degenerative diseases at Brandal. Virtually
all arthritic patients admitted for treatment at Brandal are
remarkable in that all suffer from severe pain, mild to profound
deformity and many are so crippled and debilitated that they
arrive in wheelchairs or on stretchers.
The cures were based on the
work, research and self experimentation of a courageous and
very determined lady, Alma Nissen, who 25 years earlier had
desperately sought relief from her own severe and debilitating
arthritis. Ms. Nissen relates:
"Twenty
five years ago I was so incapacitated by arthritis that I
was practically bedridden. After trying all the available
medical treatments, consulting dozens of doctors, and several
fruitless stays in hospitals I was becoming progressively
worse. My hands and fingers were stiff and in constant pain.
I could not bend myself, walk, or even turn myself in bed.
In addition, I had a chronic ovary inflammation and constant
migraine. I was suffering from a bad case of insomnia with
resulting nervous exhaustion. I also was chronically constipated.
. .
I felt hopeless.
Nobody could help me. I could not see my way out of the indescribable
suffering I had to endure. But my spirit was strong and wouldn't
give up. I was not willing to accept my lot as a bedridden
invalid for the rest of my life. With the typical Scandanavian
sisu and perseverance I rebelled against my fate. I
wanted to live, become healthy again. . .
A book by
a British physician, Sir Robert McCarrison, gave me new hope
and became the turning point in my life. It opened my eyes
to the relation between nutrition and health. I started to
experiment with myself. I changed my diet. I fasted. I drank
fresh vegetable juices and broths made with cooked vegetables.
I drank herb teas. I took enemas and utilized colonic irrigation
to cleanse my intestines of accumulated toxins and wastes.
I read all I could on the nature-cure methods and picked up
ideas here and there. I met the famous Danish raw-diet pioneer
Dr. Kristine Nolfi, M.D., and read and studied her book The
Living Foods. I also took heat treatments and hydrobaths.
I must admit, I didn't have much faith in much of what I did,
but desperate as I was, I was willing to try anything.
Imagine my
surprise when I started to feel better and better! The stiffness
in my joints started to disappear. I slept better; pain gave
way, and after just a few months I was, to my and everybody's
amazement, completely cured!
This was 25
years ago and I never had a sick day since. No traces of arthritis...Would
you like to see how flexible and elastic my body is?"...
Now when I
cured myself I was so overjoyed with the discoveries I made
that I wanted to share them with others and help as many as
I could. I visited Dr. McCarrison and he advised me to open
a clinic and help other arthritics regain their health.
Encouraged
by the enthusiastic endorsement of this great scientist, I
transformed my seven-room apartment in Copenhagen to an arthritis
clinic. Patients came from everywhere. They were brought in
on stretchers; they came supported on crutches; they came
in wheelchairs. And after four to eight weeks on my simple
regime they left the clinic on their own feet, without wheelchairs
and crutches. The grateful patients spread the news of their
cures and a long line of patients were waiting to come in
under my care.
My arthritis
therapies and extraordinary results became widely publicized
in the press. The Norwegian Medical Association invited me
to present a lecture on my therapies before the leading medical
authorities of the country....
My fame spread
to Sweden and a wealthy benefactor offered the Brandal, a
beautiful estate with a large villa, for my disposition, to
be used as a rheumatic clinic. I accepted gratefully. That
was 13 years ago. During these years we have helped thousands
of arthritis sufferers. . ." (Paavo O. Airola, There
Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968, Parker Publishing Co.
New York).
Many cases are described in Dr. Airola's book. With the
high success rate seen at Brandal and many other European clinics
treating arthritis, the question arises as to why this approach
to treatment has been absent in the U.S. for all these years?
Insufficient time? Not hardly. Recall that his book was written
in 1968 and was based on extensive clinical findings including
double-blind, controlled studies published in peer reviewed
journals. Some of the findings actually extend back as far as
25 years and most of the cases discussed in the book utilized
procedures that had been in use since 1957 or 1958 - or at least
10 years. Yet,
even as of November, 1998, some 40 years later, neither the
Arthritis Foundation, the American Medical Association nor the
average American allopathic physician, were acting as if they
had heard of or believed in this highly successful treatment
approach.
Offering a reason why the arthritic
public is still in the dark, Dr. Airola relates:
"The
reason why you do not hear about this from your television
screen is because there is no money in selling knowledge,
truth, education. You cannot pack knowledge in a bright labeled
bottle, as pill manufacturers do, and make a million dollar
business out of it.
When
your doctor tells you that there is no cure for arthritis
he means that there is no cure for arthritis with a drug or
a knife -- because the pharmacological and surgical treatments
are virtually the only curative methods accepted and employed
by the average orthodox, allopathic medical doctor. And they
are 100 percent correct: There is no cure for arthritis
with drug or knife.
But
there definitely is a cure for arthritis with biological therapeutic
methods. Thousands of arthritis sufferers throughout the world
have obtained complete freedom from pain, recession of swollen
joints, and disappearance of every trace of this crippling
and agonizing disease. There are dozens of clinics and
spas in Europe where arthritis is cured today, along with
most of the other common ailments and chronic diseases.
The biological methods employed by these clinics are: dietetic
restrictions, fasting, herbal treatments, juice therapies,
biological medicines, heat treatments, massage, manipulations,
hydro-therapies, and a number of other drugless treatments."[emphasis
added]
The patients discharged from
Brandal or any of the dozens of other clinics have learned to
follow the routines they learned there and when put into practice
at home these patients continue to be disease free. These routines
include hot and cold showers, dry brush massages, exercises
and a healthful diet.
Biological Treatments
that Cure Leaky Gut Disorders
Biological therapies are aimed
at
(1) correcting the abnormal
and health-destroying conditions which cause leaky gut disorders,
and,
(2) assisting the body heal
itself.
This latter step is accomplished
by normalizing all the metabolic processes, cleansing the body
of the accumulated toxins and wastes, strengthening the functions
of all vital organs, revitalizing glandular activity, establishing
chemical balance and in sum, simply rebuilding the health of
the patient.
Drug Withdrawal
Conventional drugs (NSAIDs,
steroids, etc.) are used only to mask and suppress the symptoms.
These
forms of treatments (i.e. drugs) have absolutely no place in
biological treatment programs.
It is important to understand
that virtually all arthritic drugs and drugs used in the treatment
of Crohn’s disease are aimed at pain elimination. To suppress
pain without attempting to eliminate the original cause is contrary
to the philosophy of biological medicine.
Rule # 1 becomes:
Complete withdrawal of all drugs.
It has already been amply demonstrated
that to obtain lasting results, the withdrawal of all drugs
is imperative.
Diet
This is the dominant form of
treatment. Many observations show that the diets of most (probably
all) arthritics and Crohn’s suffers are deficient in vital
nutrients for prolonged periods. Diets for these two classes
of disorders are also typically loaded with overcooked, canned,
frozen, devitalized and over-refined foods. Usually great amounts
of empty calories are consumed from white sugar and white flour.
Add to this the problem of overeating, alcohol, smoking, coffee,
failure to exercise and this results in a general breakdown
of health.
The corrective diet utilized
during the first two to four weeks of biological treatment therapy
consists primarily of raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables with
some cooked foods. Most of the procedures use boiled potatoes
and vegetable soups in addition to the raw foods. All the clinics
use raw milk in the form of homemade soured milk.
Some of the clinics exclude
all cooked foods during
the first phase of treatment as well as all foods of animal
origin including meats, fish, eggs, milk, butter and cheeze.
Breads and cooked cereals are also eliminated as well during
the first two to four weeks. Raw nuts, seeds and sprouted grains
are included in the raw food.
Therapeutic
Fasting
The quintessential biological
treatment modality employed in all the biological clinics is
fasting. Fasting
is something that most allopathic physicians do not understand
nor are they ever taught. Therefore don’t waste your time
trying to get your doctor to approve of fasting – he’ll
think you are crazy and will typically respond with some statement
like "only a fool would starve themselves when we all know
that food heals."
Therapeutic fasting is the
total abstinence from food. This is done to promote healing
and for the restoration of health. Large numbers of studies
all confirm the therapeutic value of fasting. All
doctors who employ fasting testify that fasting indeed works.
In fact, fasting is perhaps the most efficient way known to
correct virtually any disease.
Dr. Airola says
"The
therapeutic value of fasting is based on the following physiological
facts:
1. Autolysis
is a known metabolic phenomenon of self-digestion or disintegration
of the body's own tissues.
2. Therapeutic
fasting induces the development of autolysis and directs its
physiological effect for constructive healing purposes.
To clarify:
when disease takes hold of the body it is usually because
of the weakened defensive mechanism and impaired normal functions
of the vital organs. Due to continuous neglect in feeding
the body properly and failure to observe the other rules of
health, the glandular activity and metabolic rate slows down
and the eliminative organs lose their efficiency. Many of
the toxins and metabolic wastes remain in the body and are
deposited in the tissues, causing autointoxication. In rheumatic
diseases these wastes, such as uric acid crystals and mineral
compounds including heavy metal toxins and other un-natural
chemicals (i.e. xenobiotics), are deposited in the joints
and soft tissues.
Now, we must
recognize the fact that the body's own healing powers are
constantly trying to correct any and all defects, disturbances
and damages if given the slightest chance. Such a chance and
opportunity for self-regeneration and healing is made possible
during the fast.
First,
during prolonged fast (after the first three days) the body
will burn and digest its own tissues by the process of autolysis,
or self-digestion. In its wisdom -- and here lies the secret
of the extraordinary effectiveness of fasting as curative
therapy! -- the body will only decompose and burn those substances
and tissues which are diseased, damaged, or of lesser importance
to the body economy, such as all morbid accumulations, tumors,
abscesses, damaged tissues, fat deposits, etc. These are consumed
and utilized first. The essential tissues of vital organs
are spared.
Second,
the eliminating and cleansing capacity of the eliminative
organs -- lungs, liver, kidneys, and skin -- is increased
during fasting, and masses of accumulated metabolic wastes
and toxins are quickly expelled. This is evident in the following
typical symptoms of fasting: offensive breath, dark urine
(concentration of toxins in urine ten times higher than normal
--" ... "continuous and generous discharge of feces,
skin eruptions, perspiration, catarrhal elimination, etc.
Third,
a fast affords a physiological rest to the digestive and protective
organs of the body. After fasting, the digestion and utilization
of food is greatly improved, which makes the assimilation
of all the important nutrients more effective.
Fourth,
a fast exerts a normalizing and stabilizing effect on all
the physiological, nervous, and mental functions. The nervous
system is regenerated; mental powers improved; glandular chemistry
and secretions are normalized.
It is easy
to see, then, why fasting is such an effective therapeutic
measure in treatment of a great variety of diseases, including
arthritis.
Fresh
Juices
Although the
classic form of fasting is the so-called pure water fast (abstinence
from all foods and drinks with the exception of pure water),
all the practitioners I interviewed in European clinics, including
the champion of therapeutic fasting in modern times, Dr. Otto
Buchinger, Jr., use fresh juices, vegetable broths, and herb
teas during fasting.
Biologically
oriented doctors feel that freshly pressed vegetable and fruit
juices, given to the patient during the fast, will speed his
recovery. This is attributed to the fact that raw vegetables
and fruit juices, as well as freshly made vegetable broth,
are rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and trace elements,
which help to normalize the bodily processes and speed up
recovery. At the same time, they are very easily assimilated
directly into the bloodstream without putting a strain on
the digestive organs.
Juices most
frequently used in Sweden are: carrot juice, apple juice,
black currant juice, and tomato juice.
Vegetable
Broth
Vegetable
broth is made by boiling all kinds of available vegetables,
but predominantly potatoes, carrots, and celery, chopped to
about half-inch pieces, for 30 minutes in a pot of water ...
Then it is strained and the vegetables are thrown away. The remaining liquid is a highly alkaline, mineral-packed broth,
which is considered to be of extraordinary importance in biological
arthritis therapy. It combats acidosis or a tendency toward
a high acidity in the bloodstream and tissues. It helps to normalize the mineral balance in the tissues,
which, according to Dr. Lars-Erik Essen, is of utmost importance
for the effectiveness of the fast.
Both vegetable
broth and fresh vegetables and fruit juices are concentrated
nutrition. Perhaps, it would be more appropriate to call such
therapy a liquid diet, rather than a fast.
Herb
Teas
All biological
clinics use various herb teas, both during fasting and while
on a diet.
The medicinal
value of herbs is well known. Herb medicines are the oldest
remedy known to man.
The herb teas
used in Swedish clinics are usually made from native herbs:
rose hips (very rich in vitamin C), peppermint, milfoil, etc...
Enema
Fasting is
always accompanied by enemas, or colonic baths, taken two
or three times a day. Most clinics administer an enema twice
a day; some, like Kjorkagarden and Vita Nova, three times
a day, two or three small enemas at a time. An enema is generally
considered to be an extremely important measure for keeping
the large intestine clean from wastes and speeding evacuation
of toxic matter from the system through the bowels.
Intermediate
Diet
After the
fast is broken, the patient is put on a special diet. This
consists of an abundance of raw vegetables and fruits, vegetable
and fruit juices, some cooked dishes, such as boiled potatoes,
vegetable soups, beans, homemade soured milk (from raw unpasturized
milk), whey cheeze, and salt-free cottage cheese.
Colonic
Irrigation
In addition
to an enema the patients who have a record of chronic constipation
prior to coming to the clinic (a common affliction of many
arthritics) are given a colonic irrigation once or twice during
the first week. This is a treatment which employs a specially
constructed appliance to thoroughly wash the large intestine
and colonic tract.
Hot
and Cold Shower
One of the
treatments which many practitioners, particularly at the Brandals
Clinic, attach a great importance to, is an alternating hot
and cold shower. It is administered in the morning.
The procedure
is as follows: First, a warm shower for about ten to 15 minutes
to get the body really warmed up. This is followed by a cold
shower for approximately one to three minutes. Water should
be as cold as the patient can stand. After that the patient
receives a vigorous dry brushing with a stiff brush and is
rubbed with a coarse towel until he is completely warmed up.
The
importance of the alternating hot and cold shower lies in
the fact that it stimulates the adrenal and other endocrine
glands and reactivates their functions. Alma Nissen calls
such a shower "a cortisone injection -- but without cortisone's
undesirable side effects!"
Sufficient
Rest
All biological
clinics stress the importance of sufficient rest for patients
with arthritis. After lunch, 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M., there
is an obligatory quiet hour, when all patients take a long
afternoon nap.
Exercise
Various therapeutic
exercises are a standard routine in the biological clinic.
Exercises are adapted to the condition of the patient. Walks
in the woods are encouraged -- all the Swedish clinics which
I visited are surrounded by beautiful woods that afford invigorating
walks in the fresh air. In addition, special relaxation gymnastics
are given in some clinics.
Baths
Therapeutic
baths are an important part of the biological program. In
addition to alternating hot and cold showers, mentioned before,
the following baths are employed: whirlpool massage, sitz
bath, Kuhne-bath, steam bath, sauna, Gusse-shower, warm sand
bath (Bircher-Benner), etc.
Massage
Dry brush
massage is an important therapeutic measure. It stimulates
the circulation; brings the blood to the skin; keeps skin
clean from dead cells and impurities; and opens pores. The skin is your biggest eliminative
organ and it is of vital importance that it functions as such
efficiently.
In addition,
conventional massage -- so-called Swedish massage -- is frequently
used to help the affected joints to regain their lost elasticity
and movements.
Many Other
Forms
Many other
forms of biological treatments are used in addition to the
"standards" outlined above. Every clinic has its
own specialities. Bjorkagarden stresses vacuum massage and
modern cupping as being of extraordinary importance. Vita
Nova uses nontoxic biological medicines in the form of subcutaneous
injections. Various forms of heat treatments are used in almost
all clinics: high-frequency, pulsed, short-wave therapy; infrared
heat lamps; cold and hot packs; mud packs (Heilerde); etc.
Positive
Attitude
The importance
of positive attitude on the part of patients is emphasized
in all clinics. After years of pain and suffering, persons
afflicted with arthritis are often irritable, tense, bitter,
and resentful. These negative emotions can do much to make
efforts to regain health difficult, even impossible.
Therefore,
fostering a positive, trustful attitude in the patient and
insuring his thorough understanding of the various biological
treatments and expected reactions is a very important part
of the total program in every biological clinic. Several evenings every week special
lectures are presented to acquaint new patients with the intricate
metabolic processes of the body and the functions of various
organs. The causative factors leading to the development of
the disease are explained. The mechanics and effects of biological
treatments, as well as the whole philosophy of biological
medicine, is made clear and comprehensive. The fact that there are no shortcuts to the cure of
arthritis is emphasized. A biological program of treatments
is not easy. There are no specific miracle treatments, no
specific diets which can cure arthritis. Arthritis can be
cured only by the efforts of the body's own healing powers.
With the assistance of the wide arsenal of biological treatments
and with the full and cheerful cooperation of the patient
it can be done. It is done every day. But in order to achieve
lasting and effective results, full co-operation and a positive
effort on the part of the patient is imperative.
The
patient must understand that the cure is possible only if
he is willing to discard completely his former mode of living
and accept a new way of life.
He must have the willingness and determination to follow the
new biological programs and have a trustful and cooperative
attitude. The negative attitude will lock up the healing forces
of the body, whereas a positive attitude will unlock them
and spur them into full action.
It requires
a certain amount of intelligence, understanding, and patience,
in addition to a sense of determination and self-discipline,
to undertake a biological program of treatments and not give
up before noticeable results are observed. It often takes
time to induce a betterment. . ."
Biological
Methods Scientifically Proven
By now it
must be evident to the average reader that the biological
approach to arthritis is quite different from conventional
practices. As with every new concept and new approach, it
takes an unprejudiced and objective attitude on the part of
practitioners to be able to grasp and accept the new discoveries.
It is natural to be doubtful and even skeptical of something
which is contrary to common practice and the accepted line
of thought. Moreover, the new biological approach seems to
be so down-to-earth simple that for a technologically minded
and pseudoscientifically trained, twentieth century space-oriented
man it may seem too simple to be true. However, hundreds of
medical doctors in Europe have given this down-to-earth, commonsense,
nature-cure approach a fair trial. They were soon convinced
of its extraordinary merits. Its effectiveness is proven by
actual result-producing application on thousands upon thousands
of successfully treated patients...
It
is unfortunate, indeed, that it takes such a long time before
new discoveries and original ideas become universally accepted
and officially endorsed. Millions of sick people suffer because
of unwillingness on the part of conservative practitioners
to accept and use new, unconventional methods of treatment.
. ." (Paavo O.
Airola, There Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968,
Parker Publishing Co. New York).
NUTRITION:
A VITAL ROLE IN CURING CROHN’S AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
Problems steming
from faulty nutrition is perhaps the most important causative
factor in the etiology (causative history) of any degenerative
disease including arthritis and the IBDs. Not only must digestion
be improved, the foods that are being digested must be correct,
whole and organic. The digestive wastes must be eliminated quickly
and efficiently as well.
Nutritional
Misconceptions Held by Most Americans
A problem that
always arises is the average American's conception of what he
eats. He often believes that he is eating properly. For
example, he might say to you that he has always tried to eat
healthy foods. He may say that he eats plenty of meat and eggs,
and drinks lots of milk. He may also say that he eats cereal
for breakfast, and one or two vegetables with his meat each
day. He will often tell you that he eats his "One-A-Day"
vitamin each day, faithfully. He honestly believes that this
is a health diet.
But in actuality
he is eating lots of polluted animal protein; devitalized, foodless
cereals; canned vegetables and instant mashed potatoes; white
bread; sugared desserts where even ordinary sugar is missing,
having been replaced by corn syrup (i.e. synthetic sugar) and
where hydrogenated vegetable oils and tons of preservatives
are used to prevent the junk from going stale. Imagine having
to eat stale junk food. After all, fresh junk food is bad enough.
There are essentially
seven rules that must be followed regarding foods.
1. Natural
Foods
The first rule
of optimum nutrition is that you must eat natural foods.
This is because the condition of your health is in direct relation
to the naturalness of the foods you eat.
Here in the
United States we have almost lost our ability to tell what is
natural and what is not. For example, we think that eggs are
eggs and that any egg therefore is natural. Wrong. "Eggs
laid by hens which have access to the outdoors, green grass,
seeds, insects, and worms are natural, fertile eggs full of
nutritive value. But eggs produced in an egg factory, by hens
who never see a rooster, nor sunlight, and eat only synthetic
laying mash, are not natural. Not only is the chemical composition
of such an egg altered and unbalanced, but also its nutritional
value is far below that of a natural egg."
The fruits and
vegetables that you eat should also grow in healthy, fertile
soils, without chemical fertilizers or sprays. The importance of eating organic foods
cannot be over stated.
Even the milk we drink must be organic. Cheese, meats, and other
products derived from animals must be organic as well. This
means that they must come from healthy animals fed organically
grown fodder and not artificially raised with the help of hormones,
antibiotics, fat promoters, milk-fat enhancers, etc.
2. Whole
Foods
The second rule
of vital nutrition is that your foods must be whole, complete,
unrefined and unadulterated. Examples of whole foods include:
whole wheat, brown rice, oranges, sugar cane (not corn syrup)
and potatoes are all whole foods. Sugar is not a whole food!
Whole foods
are simply foods which still contain all the nutrients which
nature intended us to eat. They have all the vitamins (with
certain exceptions), minerals (with certain exceptions), proteins,
carbohydrates and a natural compliment of enzymes which are
essential to good health. Whole foods are unrefined. Whole foods
are not concentrates, nor parts of whole foods.
It is hard to
believe that upwards of 95 percent of the foods consumed by
the average American today has been tampered with in some manner,
adulterated in some manner, overcooked, and processed in such
a manner that it is virtually devitalized of all nutritional
value. White bread, white sugar, breakfast cereals are examples
of devitalized, nutritionless foods. And our children only know
Honey-Nut Cheerios.
Remember, only
whole foods can supply optimum nutrition for optimum health.
3. Living
Foods
The third rule
of vital nutrition is that every food you eat should be eaten
as fresh as possible. They should be eaten raw in the case of
fruits and vegetables. They should not be cooked, canned or
frozen. If cooking is necessary, they should be cooked as little
as possible, preferably steamed or cooked with little or no
water. All of the broths that result from cooking should be
consumed as well.
Raw foods are
necessary for proper nutrition because of the enzymes they contain.
Cooking always destroys the enzymes in food. Completely destroyed.
The heat of cooking also damages some of the vitamins, particularly
vitamins B and C.
Even freezing
destroys the nutritive value of foods. Canning, drying (dehydrating),
preserving and keeping such foods stored for long periods of
time also destroy the nutritive value of foods.
Raw foods act
as intestinal cleansers. They are the best preventive measure
against constipation.
Cooked food
is dead food. Only living foods can build and/or restore health.
4. Poison-Free
Foods
The next rule
is simply that your food must be poison free. If you can't get
foods that are organic and free of colorants, waxes, etc, at
least wash them thoroughly before preparing them. Special peroxide-containing
products are especially useful in de-contaminating all foods.
Remember, there are more than 3,500 different chemicals used
in the processing of foods. Our deteriorating health rests squarely
on the shoulders of the chemical industry's powerful lobby!
Perhaps the most sobering indictment of the exact extent of
the poisoning is to be found in the book Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills by Russell Blaylock, M.D. This
is "must" reading for all people concerned about proper
nutrition.
5. Balanced
Diet
You can forget
that stupid little pyramid that is supposed to represent the
latest Washington-based information on what we should eat. That
stupid little pyramid represents the absolute worst of all corporate
science. It is hype and propaganda to further the poisoning
of America. It is being touted for no other reason than greed
and is supported by vealot groups who are in the main too ignorant
to pour sugar out of the bag it comes in. And the most amazing
thing is that the American Medical Association fully supports
this garbage and has mad its members unwitting "patsies"
in supporting this disaster.
All you need
to know is that the optimum diet for optimum health and vitality
is a diet low in animal protein and rich in natural carbohydrates
and protein foods from vegetable sources. Such a diet would
include raw fruits and vegetables.
6. Undereating
It is a fact
that undereating leads to longevity. Foods eaten in excess of
your bodily needs act as poisons, interfering with digestion,
causing internal sluggishness, gas and incomplete assimilation.
Excess foods are the greatest causes of fermentation and putrefaction.
7. Correct
Eating Habits
It is not only
what you eat but how you eat that is important. We are not what
we eat, but rather what we assimilate.
Many of us gulp
our food, without chewing it properly. Many of us eat out of
habit, eating when we are not hungry. All foods must be properly
chewed and chewed thoroughly. Never eat in a hurry. It is also
necessary to eat in a relaxed atmosphere.
Eating should
be a pleasure. But eat to live, don't live to eat.
NUTRITIONAL
SUPPORT FOR G.I. AND LIVER FUNCTION IN
CROHN’S
DISEASE & ULCERATIVE COLITIS
Because Leaky Gut Syndrome is
the basis of most disturbed gut and G.I. functions, it is desirable
to correct even the slightest disturbances in function in all
the organs involved. Beginning with the stomach it is best to
assist the digestive process with dietary enzymes.
1. Take 1-3 Similase® capsules
3 times daily at the beginning of meals. CAUTION: If you
are suffering from or have been diagnosed as having gastritis,
gastric or duodenal ulcers do not use Similase®.
Similase® is a highly concentrated
plant enzyme digestive formula designed for persons on an average
mixed diet containing carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber and
dairy products.
Alternatively, bulk food enzymes
may be used. Bulk enzymes are best applied from plastic salt-shaker
type dispensers (e.g. Tupperware) that can be carried with you
everywhere you go. I believe that the best enzymes on the market
are Food-N-Zymes
by Enzymes International. Patrick Quillin in the book Beating
Cancer with Nutrition claims that TwinLabs Super
Enzyme Caps are the best.
2. It is impossible to overstate
the necessity of reestablishing normal beneficial bacteria populations
in the intestines. The best policy is to provide diverse forms
of beneficial bacteria in the nutritional support program. Accordingly,
natural foods rich in acidophilis (e.g. organic yogurt) should
be eaten as often as possible. But no matter how much natural
foods you consume you still will not receive enough friendly
flora. The advent of probiotic products supplying soil-based
organisms (i.e. SBOs) represent the most significant advancement
in intestinal reflorestation and disease prevention of the century.
Take Nature’s Biotic®
capsules accoridng to label and insert instructions gradually
working up to 1 capsule before each meal with at least 8 oz
of pure drinking water. This will supply your system with
all that is necessary to properly re-florestate your entire
gastrointestinal tract.
3. The intestines retain vast
amounts of toxins when normal functions are disturbed. These
toxins must be removed if there is to be any hope of recovering
from the diverse ravages of LGS. This process is best begun
through products that absorb intestinal toxins. If you suffer
from intense intestinal cramping as a result of trying to use
Vega-Lax or other Cascara-containing products it is best that
you begin with a gentler product like Tyler Encapsulations’
Fiber Formula.
Take 6 Fiber Formula® capsules
on an empty stomach with a large glass of water. Repeat twice
daily. This will provide psyllium hull powder, oat bran,
bentonite powder, bromelain (a digestive aid), papain, guar
gum, marshmallow root, prune powder, vitamin C, Echinacea, Goldenseal,
Cranesbill and Ginger root.
4. It is probable that in most
cases of Leaky Gut Syndrome heavy metal poisoning is involved.
Heavy metals create massive amounts of tissue damage through
their ability to generate free radicals. Free radicals are easily
as damaging as radiation, if not more so. It becomes necessary
to reduce oxidative damage.
Oxyperm®, is a targeted antioxidant
support for the gastrointestinal mucosa. This product supplies
quercetin, ginko flavone glycosides, N-Acetyl-L-Cystein, beta
carotene, selenium and vitamins C, E and zinc.
Take 1 to 2 Oxyperm® capsules
with meals three times daily.
5. The intestinal mucosa needs
to be nourished if one is ever to overcome the ravages of LGS.
Permeability Factors® is a product designed to supply nutritional
support to the mucosa. This product supplies L-Glutamine, N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine,
Gamma Linolenic Acid, Gamma Oryzanol, Vitamin E and Phosphatidyl
Choline in a base of Safflower oil.
L-Glutamine provides energy
to small intestinal mucosa, supports secretory IgA production
(an immune factor), and promotes mucosal integrity. N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine
(NAG) supplies naturally-occurring glycoconjugate precursor
for production of protective intestinal mucin. Gamma Linolenic
Acid (GLA) is a polyunsaturated fatty acid precursor for prostaglandin
E1 synthesis. Gamma Oryzanol is a natural component of rice
oil studied for its effects on gastrointestinal mucosa.
Phosphatidyl Choline has been
shown to protect and restore the gastrointestinal mucosa from
chemical irritation by strengthening the mucous-phospholipid
layer. Lecithin, an important dietary source of Phosphatidyl
Choline, has been shown to prevent disruption of the mucosal
barrier due to bile salt injury.
Take 2 Permeability Factors®
softgel capsules 3 times daily between meals.
6. The liver is overworked in
all diseases caused by LGS. Accordingly, the liver must be supplied
with nutrients essential to phase I and II liver detoxication.
These nutrients include antioxidants, conjugating agents, glutathione
precursors, sulfhydryl and methyl donors, vitamin and mineral
cofactors.
Take 1-2 Detoxication Factors®
capsules 3 times daily between meals.
MODIFIED
Herbal
Home Colonic Program
Digestive system and
colon health have reached an all time low in the United States.
Diseases of the digestive tract are on the rise.
In 1994 the #1 cancer
among men and women was rectalcolon.
Modern lifestyle has taken its
toll on our digestive system. Refined, processed, low fiber
foods, animal fats, environmental chemicals, lack of exercise
and an ever increasing level of stress all contribute to our
current gastrointestinal health crisis.
The frequency at which a normal,
healthy person should move their bowels has been a great misconception
among the public and most medical professionals. For years doctors
have thought that anywhere between 1 bowel movement a day and
1 a week was normal. In the examination of more primitive peoples
we find that their bowels move much more frequently, 2 to 3
times daily on the average. This is because these people eat
better, get more exercise and have much less stress. What we
have learned is that it is normal to have 1 bowel movement
a day for each meal you eat (if you eat 3 meals you should
have 3 bowel movements).
The Merck Manual,
the medical industry's standard text for the diagnosis and treatment
of disease tells us that colon degeneration is on the rise.
The incidence of diverticulosis has increased dramatically over
the last 40 years. It states that in 1950 only 10 percent of
adults over the age of 45 had this disease. In 1955 diverticulosis
had increased to 15 percent. By 1972 just over 30 percent of
the population suffered from this disorder and by 1987 it had
increased to near 50 percent. The latest edition states that
the incidence increases rapidly over age 40 and that "every
person will have many" [diverticula] if they live long
enough. Every American adult will have herniation of the large
intestine.
Diverticula are saccular herniations
that protrude through the wall of the colon. These "bowel
pockets" are like "bubbles" on the sides of innertubes
that have been over inflated. Diverticula are almost always
asymptomatic (you can't feel them). They are caused by a sluggish,
constipated bowel. These pockets fill with old fecal material
full of putrefaction and toxins. These toxic materials can be
re absorbed back into the bloodstream. This can infect the entire
body causing all types of toxic reactions.
A sluggish bowel can retain
many pounds of old, toxic and poisonous fecal matter. Studies
have shown that some people may retain 40 or more pounds of
this material in their large intestine. Many times the real
cause behind sickness and disease is retention and re absorption
of this toxic waste.
The first step in everyone's
health program should be stimulating, cleaning and toning all
the elimination organs and systems, and the bowel is one of
the best places to begin. Bowel cleansing for the person suffering
from Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis requires a slightly
modified approach.
MODIFIED
Herbal Home Colonic Program
Day #1. If you suffer
from IBD (Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis) start with 1/2
capsule of Vega-Lax intestinal corrective formula during or
just after your evening meal. This formula works best when mixed
with food. Drink at least 8 oz of pure drinking water after
the meal.
Day #2. This morning
(by noon) you should notice an increase in your bowel action
and in the amount of fecal matter that you eliminate. The consistency
should also be softer. If you do not notice any difference in
your bowel behavior today or if the difference was not dramatic
don't worry. Take one capsule of Vega-Lax with lunch (with 8
oz water). Then tonight take one more Vega-Lax capsule (again
with 8 oz water). That's 2 capsules total for the day. Reduce
the dosage if excessive diarrhea or physical discomfort results.
You may find that only 1 Vega-Lax capsule per day will do
the job.
Days #3-7. Continue
taking 1 Vega-Lax capsule (or less) with lunch (with 8 oz water)
and one Vega-Lax capsule (or less) with supper (with 8 oz water).
If your bowels are moving satisfactorily (i.e. noticeable improvement)
stay at this dosage for the rest of the week.
If you are not moving satisfactorily,
you will need to increase your dosage every evening by
1/2 Vega-Lax capsule until you notice a dramatic difference
in the way your bowel works.
If you suffer from severe episodes
of Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis you may have to decrease
the dose of Vega-Lax from 1 capsule at lunch and supper to 1/2
capsule. In individuals that are very sensitive it may be satisfactory
to take only 1/2 capsule per day to achieve the desired number
of bowel movements. The object is to comfortably get to a
point where you are having a minimum of 3 bowel movements per
day.
By the end of the first week
you should know what your dosage is. This is your "established
dose." If you still do not know what dose consistently
results in 3 to 5 bowel movements per day remain on this
formula alone for an additional week to get regulated
before you go on to the next step.
Week #2. At the beginning
of week two is when you start the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser.
We will take this formula 2 times each day beginning in the
morning after breakfast.
On arising (before breakfast)
drink 8 ounce Hot Lemon-Water Flush1. After breakfast and dinner
take the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser capsules according to the
following weight schedule:
Adults: Under 100 lbs.: 4
capsules a.m. and 4 capsules p.m.
101 - 175 lbs.: 5 capsules
a.m. and 5 capsules p.m.
Over 175 lbs.: 6 capsules
a.m. and 6 capsules p.m.
with 8 ounces of diluted, organic
juice (fruit or vegetable) or Hydrating Drink2.
Within an hour after taking
the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser, drink an additional 8 ounces of
pure drinking water, Hydrating Drink, or herbal tea. Try to
consume between 80 and 128 ounces of liquid each day. This makes
the Colonic Program much more effective.
During week #2 you will continue
to take your "established dose" of Vega-Lax as usual.
You may find it necessary to increase the dose slightly since
the Miracle 7 has a tendency to slow down bowel movement slightly.
Here it is necessary for you to use your judgement. The object
once again is to have 3 to 5 good bowel movements per day.
If you suffer from Crohn’s
or ulcerative colitis it has been our experience that you need
to plan on taking at least 10 bottles of the Miracle 7 Colon
Cleanser in order to get the bowels thoroughly cleaned.
Vega-Lax
Intestinal Corrective Formula
Ingredients:
Each capsule contains 194 mg Senna leaves and pods (Cassia
marilandica), 194 mg Cascara Sagrada aged bark (Rhamnus
purshiana), as well as 35 mg of a dehydrated aloe vera gel
referred to as Glucomannon. This dose of Glucomannon powder
is equivalent of 700 mg Aloe Vera liquid gel.
Therapeutic action:
This stimulating formula is cleansing, healing and strengthening
to the entire gastrointestinal system. It stimulates your peristaltic
action (the muscular movement of the intestines) and over time
strengthens the muscles of the large intestine, halts putrefaction
and disinfects, soothes and heals the mucous membrane lining
of the entire digestive tract. This herbal formula also improves
digestion, relieves gas and cramps, increases the flow of bile
which in turn cleans the gall bladder, bile ducts and liver.
It also helps to destroy Candida albicans overgrowth
and promotes a healthy intestinal flora. In combination with
the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser it helps destroy and expel intestinal
parasites, increases gastrointestinal circulation and is anti-bacterial,
anti-viral and anti-fungal.
Contraindications: Do
not use during pregnancy without the guidance of a competent
health care professional.
Miracle
7 Colon Cleanser
Ingredients:
Each capsule contains a skillfully blended mixture of natural
and organic ingredients consisting of Psyllium Seed Hull Powder,
Pharmaceutical Grade Bentonite Clay, Citrus Pectin, Lactobacillus
Acidophilus, Wheat Grass Powder, Apple Fiber, Golden Seal Root,
Gentian, Buckthorn, Rhubarb Root, Cascara Sagrada, whole leaf
Aloe Vera and spices.
Therapeutic action:
This cleansing and soothing formula is to be used during week
two with the Vega-Lax intestinal corrective formula. In combination
with the Vega-Lax, this formula becomes a highly powerful purifier
and intestinal vacuum. This formula will draw old fecal matter
off the walls of your colon and out of any bowel pockets. It
will also draw out poisons, toxins, heavy metals such as mercury
and lead and even remove radioactive material such as strontium
90. This formula will also remove over 3,000 known drug residues.
Its natural mucilaginous properties will soften old, hardened
fecal matter for easy removal and also make it an excellent
remedy for any inflammation in the stomach and intestines.
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Footnotes: 1) Hot Lemon-Water
Flush and 2) Hydrating Drink are prepared according to directions
included on separate sheets.
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Relation of MercuryAmalgam
Fillings to Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis
Mercury is one of the most toxic elements on
earth. It is linked to many of the most degenerative and horrible
diseases known to man. It is unfortunate that these diseases
are virtually all iatrogenic - diseases caused by inappropriate
medical / dental treatment.
Mercury is one of the deadliest toxins known
to man. Its toxicity may well prove to be the most invasive
and widespread disease in the history of mankind. Mercury poisoning
causes many common medical and mental problems including but
definitely not limited to:
· generalized morning stiffness
· joint pain
· rheumatoid arthritis
· mixed connective tissue disease
· skin rashes
· subcutaneous nodules (skin bumps)
· multiple sclerosis
· amyotropic lateral sclerosis
· neurological symptoms
· ringing in the ears
· burning and numbness sensations
· dry eyes and mouth
· immune dysfunction
· axillary lymph node swelling
· digestive disorders
· malnutrition
· leaky gut syndrome
· dysbiosis
· yeast and pathogenic bacteria
infections
· chronic fatigue
· depression
· circulatory diseases
· atherosclerosis
and the list goes on and on.
Most of the mercury in our bodies comes from
the amalgams used to fill teeth. Though called silver fillings
because of their silver appearance, these fillings contain 50
percent or more mercury along with other dangerous and toxic
metals including copper, nickel, and tin.
Mercury can cause serious dementia, depression
and short-term memory loss as well as all of the above listed
symptoms and diseases. The American Dental Association (ADA)
has known about the extreme toxicity of mercury for many years,
yet they continue to deny that mercury in amalgams is toxic
and they are adamant in denying that mercury leaches out of
the filling. For many years now the ADA has been extremely active
in keeping dental patients from learning that dentists have
poisoned more than 85 percent of our population!
The ADA continues to fight a rear-guard battle
to cover up their culpability in much the same way that tobacco
and the cigarette industry have covered up and/or suppressed
information suggesting that their products were connected with
any disease entity. This is the same type of criminal negligence
that surrounded the use of silicone breast implants, asbestos,
intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs), and pickup truck
gas tanks. It's all about greed and stupidity, egos and reputations
and from one perspective represents the most reprehensible form
of unethical and immoral behavior imaginable.
Dentists have known about the deadly consequences
of mercury for many years. Mercury amalgams were introduced
into the United States in 1833, more than 160 years ago and
were denounced at that time by large numbers of American dentists.
The opposition was so strong that the American Society of Dental
Surgeons, formed in 1840, required its members to sign pledges
promising not to use amalgams. And in 1848 they actually found
11 members of the society guilty of malpractice for using amalgams.
All were suspended resulting in such an uproar that the Society
had no choice but to disband in 1856. Its successor was the
American Dental Association. Dental amalgams were not in good
repute until after 1895 at which time it is believed that the
ADA supported their use.
Prior to World War II a German chemist named
Dr. Alfred Stock published many articles on the dangers of mercury
fillings. A colorado dentist, Hal Huggins has spoken out against
amalgams for more than 20 years now. His book "It's
All In Your Head" will teach you everything the
ADA is trying to cover up. Read it and you will then know more
about mercury toxicity than 99 percent of all American dentists.
Your dentist may attempt to refute the bad information
on mercury amalgams because he is under pressure from the ADA
to deny that this mercury leaches out. He also is probably unaware
that a bacteria in your mouth -- Streptococcus mutans
-- can transform mercury into methyl mercury which is 100 times
more toxic than metallic mercury. Don't listen to or believe
what he says (that mercury is safe) because he is parroting
back ADA propaganda. The ADA has published and distributed guidelines
for all dentists to use when answering questions regarding amalgams.
Your dentist lives under
the very real threat of having his license revoked for speaking
negatively about amalgams. Thus it is
necessary that you read this book and discover for yourself
the incredible potential that amalgam has for destruction.
What is Mercury Toxicity?
Dr. Huggins poses some questions that you might
ask:
"Am I mercury toxic? Can you test
my mercury levels? Just what is mercury toxicity anyway?
These are common and confusing questions. Mercury attacks
many systems in the body. If is attacked just one, like
the polio virus or measles virus do, it would be quite easy
to identify. The diagnosis of mercury toxicity is based
on both the number of changes and the degree of these changes.
White blood cells usually increase as a response to the
introduction of amalgam. If these cells go up from 5000
count to 7000 count, this is not especially noteable. If
the count goes from 5000 to 50,000, then we are talking
about leukemia. This is quite noteable. The white cell count
bears much more weight in diagnosis at 50,000 than 7,000.
Many measurable areas can be affected by mercury. Excerpting
from our 1989 edition of the Applications Textbook, here
are some of the mental gymnastics involved in generating
a diagnosis:
Consider:
White cells above 7500 or below 4500
Hematocrit above 50% or below 40%
Lymphocytes above 2800 or below 1800
Serum total protein above 7.5 g% or below 6.4 g%
Serum triglycerides above 150 mg%
BUN above 18 or below 12 mg%
Hair Nickel above 1.5 ppm
Hair Mercury above 1.5 ppm or below 0.4 ppm
Hair Aluminum above 15 ppm
Hair Manganese below 0.3 ppm
Immune reactions to Aluminum, Nickel, Mercury, Copper,
and Gold
Oxyhemoglobin below 55% saturation
Presence of root canal treated teeth
Grouping of symptoms
Presence of both amalgam and gold
Magnitude and polarity of electrical current
T-subset and DNA analysis.
This is just a partial list of potentially
affected areas. Add to this, the intensity and direction
of each reaction and it is obvious that diagnosis
of mercury toxicity becomes a professional judgement call.
Since each of these reactions potentially affects several
others, it becomes increasingly more important to rely upon
professional judgement than a single test result."
(Huggins, It's All in Your Head, Life Sciences
Press, 1989).
Make no mistake about it, hundreds of thousands
of Americans show such changes in blood chemistry, mineral analysis
and body function. If you have amalgam fillings, you, too, are
very likely to exhibit such changes. No one is immune.
The nation is in the midst of a grave health
crisis. It is a pandemic of environmental diseases in which
mercury is intimately involved. Regardless of what the dental
and medical authorities claim, mercury has been clearly linked,
either directly or indirectly with a great many of these diseases.
Volumes of material have been
written on the cytotoxic effects of mercury. Many studies have
been conducted on the detremental effects of mercury on human
subjects. Literally thousands of anecdotal reports have been
reported on the horrible consequences of mercury toxicity in
people. It is incomprehensible that organized medicine and dentisry
still refuse to acknowledge the voluminous research findings
that clearly implicate this toxic heavy metal in the etiology
of most of our diseases.
Mercury may have given you heart problems in
the form of heart attacks, chest pain, tachycardia, murmurs,
heart blockages, or other problems. Mercury could very well
be the reason you suffer from high or low blood pressure. It
is very likely that mercury is the cause of unexplained skin
rashes, excessive itching, red flushes, rough skin and acne.
Mercury is the culprit responsible for the horrible functional
degeneration seen in multiple sclerosis, and its spinal form
-- amyotropic lateral sclerosis or ALS). It is also involved
in shingles, numbness in any body part, epilepsy or convulsions,
twitching, and knee or leg jerks especially at night. But mercury
also attacks the digestive system causing diverticulitis, ulcers,
Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disorder, indigestion from
most all causes, bloating, poor appetite, diarrhea and constipation.
It is involved in Graves disease, and
other endocrine diseases including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism,
and pancreatic dysfunction including diabetes. Mercury is involved
in problems of the ovaries, testes, painful menstruation, irregular
menstruation, premature menopause, and tipped uterus. It is
a likely culprit in cervical erosion and PMS. Mercury is also
involved in almost all problems pertaining to the prostate gland
in men. It's involvement in grey penis and lack of sensitivity
in that organ is legendary. In fact, mercury may be the leading
cause of impotence in men.
Mercury toxicity may underlie the phenomenal
weight problems Americans have. It may be responsible for being
underweight and/or being overweight. It is invariably found
in cases of chronically low or subnormal temperature (hypothyroidism).
But mercury also causes emotional problems often
leading to the loss of friends and relatives (i.e. divorces).
For example, mercury can bring about sudden bursts of anger,
massive depression, death wish mentation, suicide, extreme irritability,
and divorces. It and aluminum are invariably involved in Alzheimers
disease. It is involved in rheumatoid and osteoid arthritis,
bursitis, tennis elbow, painful joints, Friedreich's ataxia,
asthma, osteomyelitis, psoriasis, sickle cell anemia, chronic
anemia, kidney stones, and virtually all allergies.
Are you ever bothered by metallic tastes in
your mouth, frequency headaches, noises in your ears, ringing
in your ears, chronic eye inflammations, chronic fatigue? Are
you quick to tire? Do you have swollen lymph nodes, hearing
loss, excessive sweating, cold hands and feet, motion sickness,
slow healing, skin fungus infections, Candida infections, leg
cramps, or dizziness? Do you have to get up at night to urinate,
or experience frequent urinations during the day? Do you suffer
from insomnia? Are you tired on waking up, have trouble making
decisions (i.e. indecision constipation)? Are you guilty of
perpetual procrastination? Do you seem to have more than your
fair share of sore throats? Have you had mono? Mercury probably
is responsible for mononucleosis and for false positives in
venereal disease tests. It is always involved in leukemia, Hodgkin's
disease, and many other grave disorders.
Now are you ready to believe that mercury may
have affected your life? Hopefully, the above and the questionnaire
below will awaken you as to the danger you face and the danger
that everyone in your family faces.
Exactly What Does Mercury From Amalgams Do
?
Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, speaking on the amalgam
controversy states:
"From a scientific point
of view there is no more "controversy" about the
ill health effects of the metals contained in and released
by the typical dental amalgam fillings. The sheep and monkey
studies conducted at the University of Calgary, Canada --
under the guidance of Dr. Murray Vimy DDS -- showed that radioactively
labeled mercury released from freshly and correctly placed
amalgam fillings (in a monkey study) appeared quickly in the
kidneys, brain and wall of the intestines. Through its affinity
for sulfhydryl-groups mercury bonds very firmly to structures
in the nervous system. Other studies showed that mercury is
taken up in the periphery by all nerve endings (i.e. the hypoglossal
nerve of the tongue, the autonomic nerves of the lungs or
intestinal wall and
connective tissue) and rapidly transported
inside the axon of the nerves (axonal transport) to the spinal
cord and brainstem. On its way from the periphery to the brain,
mercury immobilizes the enzyme that is essential for "making"
tubulin. Tubulin forms tubular structures within each nerve,
along which the nerve cell transports metabolic waste from
the nerve cell into the periphery and along which the nutrients
required by the nerve cell are transported from the periphery
to the cell. Once mercury has traveled up the axon, the nerve
cell is impaired in its ability to detoxify itself and in
its ability to nurture itself. The cell becomes toxic and
dies -- or lives in a state of chronic malnutrition. The mercury
that has entered the nerve cell can no longer be excreted
in the normal axonal transport routes (some can exit the Ca++
and Na+ channels) and begins to exert its more well-known
ill-effects on the mitochondria, nucleus and other organelles
of the cell. A multitude of illnesses, usually associated
with neurological symptoms, result." (Dietrich
Klinghardt, Amalgam/Mercury Detox as a Treatment for
Chronic Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Illnesses, Paper
presented at the Sept. 1996 Annual Meeting of the International
and American Academy of Clinical Nutrition, San Diego, CA).
Besides being in considerable trouble, what
does all of this information mean?
It means you now have an explanation for chronic
illnesses of all sorts. In some patients this explains chronic
viral illnesses. Others now know why they have suffered for
years from parasite infections, chronic gastrointestinal disorders
including IBD, herpes, shingles, mouth ulcers, fungal illnesses,
chronic sinusitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bladder infections,
prostate infections, or HIV-related infections. The good news
is that most such patients experience dramatic recoveries following
an aggressive mercury / amalgam detoxification program.
Mercury and Nervous System Poisoning
Very quickly after entering the body, mercury
becomes tightly bound in the nervous system. Mercury can be
found in the brain, spinal cord, ganglia, autonomic ganglia,
and peripheral motor neurons (running to muscles). Because mercury
is swallowed when amalgam fillings exist in the mouth, mercury
is also capable of being quickly absorbed by gut epithelium
and the enterogenic nervous system (the gut’s own nervous
system) which regulates most gut activities including peristalsis.
Because it is so quickly absorbed by the nervous
system very little is left to be absorbed by other tissues including
the connective tissues. Thus, mercury appears to have a high
affinity for nervous tissue and as a result it usually does
not appear in the blood, hair, urine, feces or waste waters
(e.g. sweat). For this reason trace mineral analysis of hair
or blood may not show any mercury levels and an erroneous conclusion
that "the patient does not appear to have mercury toxicity"
results. Simply stated: Mercury does not appear to enter certain
"compartments."
Mercury in the nervous system results in diverse
phychological and neurological problems. All of these symptoms
are discussed in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
publication entitled: The Toxicological Profile of Mercury.
Mercury and Immune System Repression
It has been known for many years that mercury
impairs the immune system. With impairment comes a chronic susceptibility
to infections, if not chronic sickness. Mercury detoxification
programs almost invariably lead to immune system enhancement.
Amalgam fillings typically convey immunity to
antibiotics. This means that antibiotics may no longer be able
to kill or control certain bacteria when mercury is present.
This coupled with mercury-induced immune system impairment can
often lead to grave consequences when serious pathogenic infections
strike.
It is possible that mercury
is the only known substance with the ability to induce resistance
to antibiotics. In the regard it is well
known that gum diseases which are resistant to antibiotics quickly
reverse once the amalgams are removed.
Fungal infections are also
promoted by mercury poisoning and chronic mercury toxicity.
Some believe that Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis are fungal
diseases! Thus, it appears that susceptibility to bacterial and fungal diseases
are directly related to the degree of mercury toxicity. This
raises an interesting hypothesis regarding just exactly why
these diseases appear to be chronically tolerated.
Klinghardt's Axiom
Dr. Klinghardt's axiom says:
"Most -- if not all -- chronic infectious
diseases are not caused by a failure of the immune system, but
are a conscious adaptation of the immune system to an otherwise
lethal heavy metal environment."
That does this mean? It means essentially that
because mercury
"suffocates the the intracellular respiratory mechanism and can
cause cell death [that] the immune system makes a deal; it
cultivates fungi and bacteria that can bind large amounts
of toxic metals. The gain: the cells can breath. The cost:
the system has to provide nutrition for the microorganisms
and has to deal with their metabolic products ("toxins").
That does not imply that the tolerated guest cannot grow out
of control, as it sometimes clearly does. Therefore, there
is still a limited place for antifungal / antibacterial treatment
-- but only for the acute phase of the disease. A so-called
"die-off effect" (the sometimes severe crisis or
even lethal reaction a patient can have in the initial stages
of aggressive pharmaceutical antifungal or antibacterial treatment)
is often nothing else but acute heavy metal toxicity -- metals
released from the cell walls of dying microorganisms as suggested
by my own correlation of clinical syndromes and urinalysis
for metals." (Dietrich Klinghardt, Amalgam/Mercury Detox as a Treatment for
Chronic Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Illnesses, Paper
presented at the Sept. 1996 Annual Meeting of the International
and American Academy of Clinical Nutrition, San Diego, CA).
Is this axiom correct? Dr. Klinghardt's results
as well as my own results suggest that this is correct because
when patients are put through a thorough mercury detox program,
there is always a dramatic improvement in the clinical picture
for chronic Candida infections.
Complete Wellness Systems uses a mercury detox
program described below. One of the primary ingredients in this
detox program is chlorella. Chlorella has powerful mercury chelating
actions which are thought to be due to its cell wall. Something
in the protein coat of the cracked cell wall binds the mercury.
Pretreatment with chlorella before challenge with DMSA or DMPS
(specific mercury chelators) will increase the urinary excretion
of mercury anywhere from 300 to 1800 percent.
Mercury Detoxification Program
All of the physiological and neurological disorders
associated with mercury toxicity should be treated as if mercury
poisoning and long-term mercury toxicity had been confirmed.
To remove mercury not related to dental amalgams, the program
below can be started at any time.
In the case of dental amalgam
removal, detoxification should begin at least two weeks before
dental amalgam removal and continue for at least 3 months after
the last amalgam is removed. Usual length of time to eliminate
mercury is 3 to 6 months.
The following treatment regimen is an excellent
method of reducing mercury toxicity by eliminating mercury from
the body. The predominant process is that of chelation -- the
process whereby chelating substances (i.e. those that can form
"claw-like" bonding with heavy metals) are taken orally
and the chelated metals are then eliminated through the kidneys.
Because this represents an oral chelation program,
it is important to understand that 3 to 6 months will be required
to remove the mercury and that the cost is considerably less
than going through a standard i.v. chelation therapy program.
A Higher Standard in Oral
Chelation Therapy
Chelation is a natural chemical process that
goes on in your body all the time. Virtually all key metabolic
functions are dependent on chelation. For example, iron in our
diet is chelated to form hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying molecules.
Cobalt is chelated to form cyanocobalamin or vitamin B-12. Chelation
is a process that goes on in plants also. Magnesium is chelated
to form chlorophyll in plants. In fact, without chelation there
would be no life.
Chelation is a chemical reaction usually involving
the bonding of an organic, ring compound with dissolved metals
in your body. Organic ring compounds include many organic acids
like citric acid (from citrus fruits), lactic acid (the sore
muscle culprit), acetic acid (plentiful in vinegar), and ascorbic
acid (vitamin C) among others. All of these natural acids (classified
as weak acids) have the ability to seize and/or "sequester"
metal atoms such as calcium, lead, iron and zinc. Seizing or
sequestering is easy to visualize once you understand that "chelation"
is derived from the Greek root word "chele" which
means "claw." Chelation is a "claw-like"
bonding between an organic ring compound and a metal not unlike
the way a lobster claw might clamp down on some object. This
bonding is relatively strong and often permanent. Once chelated,
toxic metals can now be safely eliminated from the body, usually
in the urine.
Certain foods are natural chelators. In fact,
foods provide the foundation for a profound and powerful approach
to restoring and enhancing health. Many orthomolecular nutritionists
and conscientious health care practitioners believe that the
natural chelators found in certain foods and supplements are
the key to a healthy life.
The effectiveness of foods and nutrients as
chelators can be dramatically enhanced by combining them in
specific formulations. Certain combinations of food chelators
taken regularly are more than capable of reversing atherosclerosis
(hardening of the arteries) and rejuvenating the cardiovascular
system through their natural ability to remove toxic heavy metals
from arteries, cells and organs. This is not theoretical hype.
Many medical research studies report a complete clearing of
coronary arteries and other arteries throughout the body. In
fact, the results have been so impressive that some countries
now routinely recommend such food programs for preventing heart
disease (e.g. National Health Board of Holland).
The oral chelation program developed by Health
Restoration Consultants is based upon a more powerful and more
effective formulation designed to be maximally effective in
removing toxic metals such as lead, cadmium, mercury, strontium,
thallium, and other dangerous heavy metals commonly found in
tissues. Removal is necessary to prevent the catastrophic free
radical damage these toxic metals cause. You might say that
Health Restoration Consultants has created a higher standard
for oral chelation.
Though slower than intravenous EDTA chelation
therapy (which must be performed by a chelation doctor), natural
chelation (with food substances and supplements) can be performed
by you at home or at work. When used regularly and in accordance
with directions, you will ultimately realize the same benefits
that hundreds of thousands of patients have realized from iv
EDTA chelation therapy.
While EDTA chelation therapy will only remove
one of the three forms of mercury, it will remove most of the
other toxic metals. But EDTA will not cross the blood brain
barrier. DMPS will not cross the blood brain barrier either.
DMSA, another chelator with a specific affinity for mercury
shows only limited ability to cross the blood brain barrier.
Foods that exhibit specific abilities to chelate
mercury are capable of crossing the blood brain barrier and
thereby remove mercury from neurons. Chlorella pyreneidosa,
an algae, has been shown to be capable of mobilizing mercury
bound up in nervous tissue. However, the predominant ability
of Chlorella to bind (chelate) mercury is exerted on non-neurologic
structures and compartments such as muscles, ligaments, skin,
connective tissue and in the bones.
Cilantro, or Chinese parsley, can mobilize
mercury and other toxic metals very quickly in nervous tissue.
If the correct amounts of cilantro are given, the mercury contained
in the nervous tissue is removed and can be measured in the
urine, stools, or can be re-distributed to other tissues (e.g.
connective tissues) for later removal.
Mercury that enters the body's mobile pool can
be reabsorbed from the bowel contents in the small intestine
and colon. Therefore to prevent this from happening, cilantro
must be used in excess on the days that DMPS or DMSA is given.
Bowel transit times must also be decreased to move the feces
out of the body as quickly as possible. This can be accomplished
by using large doses of Vitamin C, magnesium and fiber laxatives.
Benefits of Chelation
Chelation, whether from natural foods or synthetic
amino acid chelators (i.e. EDTA), can prevent coronary artery
disease, strokes, protect against heart attacks and restore
impaired circulation. But that's not all that chelation does.
Chelation reverses senility and Alzheimer's disease thereby
improving memory. Chelation reverses diabetic gangrene, and
restores impaired vision. Chelation prevents the deposition
of cholesterol in the liver, reduces blood cholesterol, decreases
high blood pressure, will correct about half of all cardiac
rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), reduces heart irritability,
removes calcium from arterial plaques, helps dissolve kidney
stones, reduces serum iron, protects against iron overdosing
and poisoning, and improves heart function.
Chelation can heal necrotic ulcers of the skin
and improve vision in diabetics (diabetic retinopathy). It decreases
macular degeneration and dissolves cataracts. It corrects impotence
through the restoration of normal blood flow to the penis and
through its ability to chelate nickel, a toxic metal that often
accumulates there. It unplugs carotid artery plaque build up
and can also unplug renal arteries thereby reducing blood pressure.
Chelation can remove heavy metals from the gut and help restore
normal gut functions while correcting chronic bacterial imbalances
caused by heavy metals. But perhaps the most meaningful way to think about all
the benefits that chelation provides is to simply understand
that chelation therapy actually reverse the aging process.
Chelation therapy prevents osteoarthritis, causes
rheumatoid arthritis symptoms to disappear, smooths skin wrinkles,
cleans out metabolic wastes from the mitochondria (energy factories)
in all cells and thereby returns cells to an earlier (i.e. younger)
level of metabolic efficiency. The feelings of wellness and
euphoria that result are profound. In fact, most people report
feeling better than they have ever felt in their lives.
It's not uncommon to feel better after beginning
an exercise program or while losing weight. And indeed, compared
to the way you felt before you started exercising or losing
weight, you do feel like a "10" on the "1-10"
scale. But there are differing degrees of wellness. What most
believe was a "10" after a successful diet, turns
out to be only a "1" on the "feel good"
scale once they experience the benefits of chelation. In fact,
people who have been chelated report that their motivation changes,
even including changes in their system of values. They typically
feel so good that they become health conscious for the first
time in their lives.
Becoming health conscious is particularly notable
for smokers. For smokers the results can be profound. Now instead
of smoking to feel better, they realize that smoking provides
the exact opposite. The desire to stay off of cigarettes becomes
exceedingly strong. It is too bad that the medical establishment
by and large refuses to accept chelation therapy. This is tragic since chelation therapy provides a proven,
speedy reversal of the health consequences of a 10, 20, or 30-year
cigarette habit.
The Higher Standard in Oral Chelation
The Complete Wellness Systems Oral Chelation
Program is not a diet. It is a carefully formulated mixture
of specific and highly beneficial ingredients including food
stuffs, seeds, herbs, nutrients, oils, vitamins and minerals.
Each ingredient is either a well-documented chelating agent
or is present to support the chelators or enhance their effectiveness.
Some of the ingredients are there to protect you from the damaging
effects of free radicals as they are moved out of your body.
The Oral Chelation Formulas contains the purest
forms of granulated lecithin, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, brewer's
yeast, bone meal, raw wheat germ, bee pollen, dried juice from
young barley plants, Chlorella, kelp, and brown rice. In addition
to the potent chelators found in these natural foods, our unique
formulation has been enhanced with powerful chelators, antioxidants
and nutritional cofactors (synergists). Formula II contains
free-form EDTA.
The Formulas contain supplemental chelating
agents including: L-Methionine, L-Glycine, L-Glutamic Acid,
Taurine, L-Glutamine, Choline, Inositol, L-Ornithine-L-Aspartate,
L-Serine, L-Histidine, L-Carnitine and Broccoli Extract. They
also contain powerful antioxidants including: N-Acetyl-L-Cystein,
reduced L-Glutathione, Coenzyme Q-10, Vitamin C, Beta Carotene,
Selenium, SOD (superoxide dismutase), Catalase, Quercetin, Proanthocyanidins
(grape seed extract), Silybum extract (80% Silymarin), and Vitamin
E (d-alpha tocopheryl succinate). Formula II contains free-form
EDTA.
Nutritional cofactors have been added including:
Vitamins B-1, B-2, B-3, B-5, B-6 and B-12 along with Coenzyme
B-12. It also contains Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin A, Magnesium
(citrate, malate, ascorbate), Zinc Picolinate, Copper Sebacate,
Molybdemun Citrate and Manganese Glycinate.
The Oral Chelation Program
Phase I: Days 1-90
Oral Chelation Formula I (KEEP
REFRIGERATED)
Take one tablespoon of Higher Standard Oral Chelation Formula
I twice daily, between meals for the first 90 days. Simply mix
1 level tablespoon in 4 to 6 oz pure drinking water, stir thoroughly
and drink. The partially chopped sunflower seeds may be swallowed
as such or chewed.
Take 1 oz. complete colloidal minerals for each 100 pounds
body weight twice daily.
Phase II: Days 91-180
Oral Chelation Formula II (KEEP
REFRIGERATED)
Oral Chelation Formula II has been designed to further enhance
and speed up the beneficial chelation process during the next
3 months. Formula II contains much higher concentrations of
specific chelators and antioxidants plus it contains free-form
EDTA, not a magnesium and sodium salt of EDTA as used in i.v.
chelation. Take one tablespoon of Formula II twice daily, between
meals for the second 90 days (i.e. 91-180 days). Simply mix
1 level tablespoon in 4 to 6 oz pure drinking water, stir thoroughly
and drink. The partially chopped sunflower seeds may be swallowed
as such or chewed.
Take 1 oz. complete colloidal minerals for each 100 pounds
body weight twice daily.
Phase III: Days 181-365
Oral Chelation Formula II (KEEP
REFRIGERATED) + Detoxication FactorsTM
The benefits of the Oral Chelation
Program are maintained by using a product manufactured by Tyler
Encapsulations. This detoxification product is specifically
formulated for maximum bioavailability and hypoallergenicity.
Take one tablespoon of Formula II twice daily, between meals
for the second 180 days. Simply mix 1 level tablespoon in 4
to 6 oz pure drinking water, stir thoroughly and drink. The
partially chopped sunflower seeds may be swallowed as such or
chewed.
Take 2 Detoxication FactorsTM capsules
three times daily between meals for the next 6 months.
Take 1 oz. complete colloidal minerals for each 100 pounds
body weight twice daily.
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The Complete Wellness Systems Oral Chelation
Formulas I and II are supplied in handy, resealable 1 pint containers.
These statements have not been evaluated
by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not
intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
© 1998 · Complete Wellness
Systems
Individual Herbal Products
The following describes certain herbal products
that may be used in any mercury detoxification program depending
on the severity of the mercury toxicity. Information is provided
on dose levels and frequency of usage. Best results can be obtained
by using the Oral Chelation Formulas and supplementing with
individual herbal products.
Chlorella -- green
micro algae with open (cracked) cell walls. The cracking is
usually accomplished in the freeze drying of these algae and
helps you digest this product.
Chlorella is beneficial in the removal of mercury
because of its ability to move mercury out of connective tissue
so that all chelating agents including DMSA (by prescription
only), ginko biloba or garlic for example can remove it from
the body.
To supplement the Chlorella present in the Oral
Chelation Formula I and II, take 1 200 mg Chlorella tablet daily
for the first 2 weeks after amalgam removal. Then increase to
3 200 mg tablets daily (i.e. 1 at each meal) and finally increase
to 3 200 mg tablets taken 3 times daily (i.e. 3 at each meal).
Maintain that dose level for at least 45 days.
Studies have shown that preparing a subject
with Chlorella before EDTA chelation therapy will increase the
amount of mercury removed by EDTA by a minimum of 300 percent!
Chlorella may cause diarrhea as the dose level
is increased. This will usually disappear as your body becomes
used to this supplement.
Reduced L-Glutathione --
Recent research indicates that reduced L-Glutathione is an exceptionally
powerful detoxifying substance that is critically important
in liver detoxification reactions.
Reduced glutathione is vital to a broad range
of cellular functions including antioxidation, detoxication,
and the maintenance of the reduced biochemical state found in
healthy cells. It also plays an essential role in protein structure
formation, DNA synthesis and repair, immune function, and the
regulation of cellular proliferation.
Glutathione exists in both a reduced and oxidized
state, but it is the reduced state in which all of the vital
biological functions of glutathione are carried out. In normal,
healthy cells, oxidized glutathione is quickly recycled back
to the reduced state. The optimal ratio of intracellular glutathione
ranges from 100:1 to 400:1 in favor of the reduced state.
Research has shown that oxidative stress, exposure
to toxins and toxic heavy metals such as mercury can result
in the inability to recycle enough reduced glutathione to meet
basic cellular needs. Decreased intracellular levels of reduced
glutathione are associated with a number of chronic degenerative
diseases.
Recancostat® contains reduced glutathione
in combination with anthocyans. Anthocyans are members of the
bioflavonoid family and possess significant antioxidant characteristics.
Studies have shown that specific anthocyans possess a unique
ability to regenerate reduced glutathione from oxidized glutathione
even in the presence of oxidizing agents (e.g. mercury), free
radicals (created by free radical generators like mercury) and
toxic compounds. Recancostat® keeps glutathione in the
reduced state almost perpetually and comes close to being a
biochemical "perpetual motion machine." It is a patented
product, totally unique.
In cases of severe mercury toxicity take
2 Recancostat® capsules between meals 3 times daily. Before
bed open one Recancostat capsule and dissolve contents under
the tongue.
In less severe mercury toxicity cases take
1 Recancostat® capsule between meals 3 times daily dissolving
the contents of the last one under the tongue.
Mercury toxicity requires other agents besides
reduced glutathione. N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine, Vitamin E and Selenium
are also necessary to protect the body from the oxidative damages
of mercury and to safely remove the mercury from the body. For
severe mercury toxicity
Take 2 capsules of IGA+ 2 times daily.
Silymarin -- milk
thistle seed has profound activity in the liver and can speed
up liver detoxification reactions while actually promoting increased
levels of biochemicals needed in the detox reactions.
If digestive problems are believed to accompany
the mercury toxicity, take 2 to 4 Hepatic Complex C42 capsules
between meals 3 times daily.
Otherwise, take 1 to 2 Lipotropic Complex
capsules 2 to 3 times daily with meals or as directed.
DHEA -- dihydroepiandosterone
-- an adrenal hormone precursor that helps improve stressed
adrenal function.
Take 1 25-mg capsules DHEA daily.
Selenium -- a
powerful anti-oxidant with the ability to assist in chelation.
Selenium is often thought of as a specific antidote to mercury.
During acute detox take up to 500 mcg of Selenium
daily. After the acute stage, take 50 mcg 3 times daily between
meals. Selenium is present in above products.
Acidophilus --
it is necessary to restore the microflora in the intestines
because mercury adversely affects their levels and profiles.
Soil based organisms are better microorganisms to reestablish
microflora populations in a severely depleted gut.
Take Nature’s Biotics Capsules according
to label directions until complete re-florastation is complete.
Remain on the product at least 6 months. Be sure to drink lots
of water – preferrably 128 oz (1 gallon) per day.
DMSA -- (2,3-dimercaptosuccinic
acid) -- an effective prescription agent for binding heavy metals.
Can cross the blood-brain barrier and help remove heavy metals
from neuronal and glial tisues.
On the day of amalgam removal, take 3 100 mg
capsules both in the morning prior to removal and on the day
after removal. Take 30 minutes before or after eating.
Once the amalgams have been removed and after
you have been on this supplement program for 3 months, on
one occassion only, take 2 capsules (100 mg each) 3
times daily for 3 days. (Source: Daniel Royal, Health Hazard
in Your Teeth - Alternative Medicine Digest: Issue
13, 1996, pp 42-43)
Cilantro Buy
fresh organic cilantro. Wash and put approximately 1 cup in
blender with small amount of water. Add 1/4 cup of sea salt
and 2 tbs of cold pressed olive oil. Blend until creamy.
Take 1 tablespoon 3 times daily with meals.
May by used as a salad dressing. Use more if mercury toxicity
is profound enough to cause depression, Alzheimers or brain
fog.
WARNING: DO
NOT USE CILANTRO UNTIL WELL INTO THE CHELATION PROGRAM. OTHERWISE,
CILANTRO WILL CARRY MERCURY INTO THE BRAIN AND THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO HAPPEN!
Thioctic Acid
Thioctic Acid or Lipoic Acid has been shown to be a powerful
toxic metal chelator with the ability to bind mercury, lead
and other hazardous metals such as beryllium, thallium and thulium
(a common contaminant in all Ester C preparations.) Thioctic
acid is a powerful antioxidant with the unique ability to exert
its actions in both the aqueous and lipid (fat) compartments
of the body.
A Note on
Hookworms
There are at least four species
of hookworms that infect man. These include: (1) Necator
americanus, (2) Ancylostoma duodenale, and, rarely,
(3) A. braziliense, (4) A. caninum, and (5) A.
ceylanicum.
Adult hookworms are small, cylindrical,
fusiform, grayish white nematodes with females measuring 9 to
13 mm in length and 0.35 to 0.6 mm in diameter. These worms
have a relatively thick cuticle. The various species may be
differentiated by the number of teeth in their mouths. A.
duodenale has two ventral pairs of teeth while A. caninum
has three ventral pairs.
The life cycles of all species
are similar (and similar to Strongyloides). Eggs, passed in
the feces mature in the soil and produce larvae (rhabditiform
larvae) which feed actively upon bacteria and organic debris,
molt for a second time to become slender, nonfeeding, infective
filariform larvae.
Filariform larvae gain access
to humans through hair follicles, pores, and even through unbroken
skin. Damp clinging soil facilitates infection. Access usually
occurs through the skin on the foot and between the toes. The
larvae enter the lymphatic system or venules and are carried
in the blood or lymph through the heart to the lungs, where
because of their size, they are unable to pass the capillary
barrier and therefore break out of the capillaries into the
alveoli. They ascend the bronchi and trachea and are finally
swallowed where they pass into the gastrointestinal tract to
lodge in the intestines. This larval blood and pulmonary migration
takes about 1 week. During this week the larvae undergo a third
molt and acquire a temporary mouth capsule, which enables the
adolescent worm to feed. After a fourth molt at about the 13th
day, they acquire adult characteristics, and mature egg-laying
females are produced in 5 to 6 weeks.
The hookworms attach to the
mucosa of the small intestines by their buccal capsules. The
favorite spot is the upper small intestine, but in heavy infections the worms may be present as far as the
ileum. They suck the host's blood and mucosal substances by
the tracile pull of the contracting esophagus. They also secrete
an anticoagulant to keep the blood flowing into their mouths.
Since the blood passes rapidly through the hookworm, it is possible
that simple diffusible substances are consumed. As much as 0.03
ml of blood may be sucked out of you every 24 hours by N.
americanus, while A. duodenale can suck out anywhere
from 0.15 to 0.26 ml of blood in 24 hours. Approximately 50
percent of the red blood cells are hemolyzed during passage
through the worms intestine. A. duodenale infections can persist
for 6 to 8 years and longer. They lay 20,00 eggs daily.
The consequences of having only
a few worms in your intestines is insignificant. The problem
is there may be thousands of these worms present. It has been
estimated that throughout the world, the hookworms harbored
by only 500 million people, cause a daily blood loss of more
than 1 million liters of blood. That represents a total blood
volume equivalent to that found in a city the size of Erie,
PA or Austin, TX.
Notes on Strongyloides
Strongyloides stercoralis
is the causative agent in many disorders including manic depression,
and migraine headaches. People are the principal hosts for this
parasite but dogs and monkeys have a similar parasite. In the
adult form it is probable that only females exist since no male
forms have been reliably identified.
The parasitic female is small,
measuring 2.2 mm in length by 0.04 mm in diameter. These are
very small parasites about the size of the standard hyphen (
- ). These worms are colorless, semitransparent filariform nematodes
with a finely striated cuticle.
These nematodes
penetrate the mucosa of the intestinal villi where they burrow
in serpentine channels in the mucosa, depositing thin-shelled,
transparent eggs and securing nourishment. The worms are most
frequent in the duodenum and upper jejunum, but in heavy infections,
the pylorus, both the small and large intestines and the proximal
bile duct and pancreatic duct may be involved.
As deposited in the intestinal
mucosa, the eggs measure only 54 x 32 µ (i.e. microns). They
hatch into larvae (rhabditiform larvae) that pass into the lumen
of the intestine and out in the bowel movements. Eggs are rarely
found in the stool.
After 2 to 3 days in the soil,
the larva molts into a long, slender, nonfeeding, infective
filariform larva about 700µ in length. The infective filariform
larvae penetrate the human skin, enter the venous circulation,
and pass through the right heart into the lungs, where they
penetrate into the alveoli. From the lungs the adolescent parasites
ascend to the glottis, are swallowed, and reach the upper part
of the small intestine where they develop into full grown adults.
Some larvae pass through the
pulmonary barrier into the arterial circulation and are distributed
to all the organs and tissues of the body. Some penetrate the
brain. Some penetrate the spinal cord. Others penetrate the
glands. In short, these highly dangerous nematodes can gain
access into any organ in our bodies. They can cross the placenta
and enter a growing fetus with ease. No wonder so many disorders
which might be the result of Strongyloides are currently considered
"genetic."
These worms usually cause no
significant symptoms when they are present in the intestines.
Moderate infections may cause burning or dull to sharp pains
in the midepigastric area. Pressure may elicit pain and tenderness.
Nausea and vomiting may be present, diarrhea
and constipation alternate. Long standing gut infections result
in fatty stools and weight loss. Heavy
infections result in pulmonary symptoms with asthmatic-type
wheezing and cough. Heavy infections can cause death.
Some patients on autopsy show
lung hemorrhaging characteristic of pneumonia. Many Hodgkin's
lymphoma patients shows disseminated strongyloidiasis. The use of corticosteroids appears to
make the worms spread (disseminate). Therefore, the use of steroids
of any kind should be avoided until after a thorough parasite
cleansing including zapping.
Diagnosis of strongyloidiasis
is difficult because there are no distinctive clinical signs
that are strictly unique to this parasite. Most patients present
with symptoms of atypical bronchitis or pneumonitis followed
in a few weeks by a mucous or watery diarrhea, epigastric pain and moderate eosinophilia (ranging
from 10 to 20 percent).
A history of migraine headaches
can be indicative of brain involvement by this parasite. Similarly,
migraines associated with monthly menstrual cycles and PMS also
suggest Strongyloides involvement.
A Note on
Trichinella Spiralis
Trichinosis (or trichiniasis,
trichinelliasis) is caused by a small worm measuring from 1.5
mm to 3.5 mm in length and 0.04 mm to 0.06 mm in diameter. The
larva has a spear-like burrowing tip.
The same animal acts as the
final and intermediate host, harboring the adult parasite temporarily
and the larva for a longer period. In order for the parasite
to complete its life cycle, flesh containing the encysted larvae
must be ingested by another host.
The larval parasite is found
chiefly in humans, hogs, rats, bears, foxes, walruses, dogs,
and cats, but any carnivorous or omnivorous animal may be infected.
Pork usually is the culprit.
When infective larvae are ingested by humans (from pork),
they pass to the upper small intestine, where the capsules are
digested and the larvae released in a few hours. The liberated larvae immediately invade
the intestinal mucosa.
Some larvae become males; some become females. After fertilization
the males are dislodged from the mucosa and carried out in the
bowel movements. The
female increases in size and in about 48 hours, burrows deeply
into the mucosa of the intestinal villi, from the duodenum to
the cecum and even into the large intestines in heavy infections.
By the 5th day the viviparous female worm begins to deposit
larvae into the mucosa and sometimes directly into the lymphatic
vessels including the mesenteric lymph nodes from which they
reach the thoracic duct and enter the blood stream. After passing
through the liver and lung (filters) the larvae are carried
to all parts of the body.
The larvae burrow into muscle
fibers with their spear-like tip. They are capable of encysting
and developing only in striated muscle. In other tissues they
disintegrate, cause inflamation and are absorbed. Among the
muscles most heavily parasitized are the diaphragm, tongue,
various mouth and jaw muscles, extraocular, nuchal, pectoral,
intercostals, deltoid, gluteus, bicepts, gluteus and calf muscles.
The encapsulation process is
dependent on muscle tissue. These larvae cause the degeneration
of muscle fibers plus epithelioid cells and fibroblasts as well
as other tissues. The permanent capsule is completed in about
3 months.
Calcification begins as early
as 6 months to 2 years. This process is usually completed within
18 months. The newly formed cysts are invisible to the naked
eye, but when calcified they appear as fine opaque granules.
They usually do not appear on X-rays.
The full spectrum of signs and
symptoms caused by Trichinosis infections is shown in the table
on the following page. As you can easily see, there are many
signs and symptoms.
The predominating symptoms depend
upon the organs affected. In typical cases the findings are
eosinophilia, edema (around the eyes) muscular pain and tenderness,
headache, fever, shallow and painful breating, and general weakness.
Regarding fever, Trichinosis is one of the few helminthic infections
that often run a consistent fever during its course that may
persist for several weeks.
The disease can cause death.
However, if the patient survives the acute illness, he or she
will recover slowly and show no residual ill effects, although
pain may persist for months. In overwhelming infections death
may occur in 2 to 3 weeks but more often in 4 to 8 weeks from
exhaustion, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, cerebral involvement
or cardiac failure. Weakness, stiffness, rheumatic pain and
loss of dexterity can persist for up to a year or more after
an acute attack. (from Basic Clinical Parasitology, H.W. Brown,
F.A. Neva, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Norwalk, CT 1983).
Trichinosis Symptomatology
and Clinical Differential Diagnosis
Site of Parasites Signs
& Symptoms Simulating Disease
Young adults migrating into
mucosa Nausea Food poisoning
of small intestine Vomiting
Intestinal flu
Diarrhea Appendicitis
24-72 hours Headache
Abdominal pain __________________
Larvae in blood and striated
muscle Edema, periorbital* Conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis* Measles
Photophobia* Rheumatism
10-21 days Fever, chills, sweating*
Arthritis
Muscle pain & spasm* Intercostal
neuritis
Headache Periarteritis nodosa
Eosinophilia* Dermatomyositis
Dyspnea Laryngitis
Sore throat Influenza
Skin eruptions Pleurisy
Pleurisy Pneumonia
Hypostatic pneumonia
Diarrhea or constipation
Larvae in myocardium Precordial
pain Myocarditis
Tachycardia Endocarditis
10-21 days Hypotension
EKG changes
Edema of extremities__________________________
Larvae in brain and meninges
Headache, supraorbital Frontal sinus
Mental apathy Mengitis
14-28 days Delirium, stupor,
coma Encephalitis
Reflexes absent ________________________
* Very common
Iron Overload
or Hemochromatosis
Hemochromatosis is a "forgotten
disease." It lurks inside many of us and usually remains
hidden from ourselves and from many of our doctors.
Iron overload is an enigmatic
disease. It presents its signs and symptoms in many different
combinations of more common diseases such as diabetes, liver
disease, heart disease, arthritis, impotence, chronic fatigue,
amenorrhea (i.e. excruciatingly painful menstrual periods),
shortness of breath, emphysema, cataracts, depression, hearing
loss, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, strokes, inflamatory bowel disease
and other respiratory diseases.
How many of us suffer from this
disorder? The most recent study suggests a ratio of 1 in 100.
Chelation therapy is of value in removing excess iron. Other
than through chelation mechanisms, there is no other natural
way of getting rid of the excess iron that the body accumulates.
A good treatment exists for hemochromatosis: regular withdrawal
of the high-iron blood. This draws the toxic metal out of the
tissues and prevents further damage.
Benzene Detoxification Procedure:
1. Biochemical detoxification
begins with eating fresh, whole lemons peeled but with the inner
white of the peel intact. The enzymes in the lemon's cytochrome
system (oxidative system) are powerful in detoxifying benzene.
The lemon also contains citric acid (a powerful chelating agent)
niacin, vitamin C (another powerful chelator and antioxidant),
bioflavinoids and phospates. After you get used to the sour
taste it will be easier to eat a minimum of 10 (preferably
more) lemons per day. For less severe cases the Hot Lemon-Water
Flush drink early in the morning can substitute for this step.
(See Cleansing and Hydrating Drinks)
Take 1 bioflavonoid tablet
daily.
2. Benzene detoxification requires
high levels of niacin (vitamin B-3). But start out slowly because
niacin causes flushing or reddening of the skin as the capillaries
in your skin dilate. This can be accompanied by histamine release.
leading to occasional itching. This hives like state sometimes
leaves you temporarily spotted looking but is not permanent.
The palms of your hands may itch in the worse cases. Many people
suffer headaches with niacin.
For these reasons it is wise
to start out at a 50 mg dose two to three times per day
and determine how severely you are going to react. Increase
niacin tablets until you are taking 500-800 mg three to four
times daily.
It is necessary to gradually
increase your dose level to the maximum you can tolerate. The
greater your benzene (or xenobiotic) burden, the more intense
these side effects will be. But as your body eliminates
benzene (and/or related xenobiotics) the niacin will no longer
cause the flushing, itching or headaches.
Niacin is necessary in large
doses to detoxify the body of benzene. Some people suffering
from HIV disease for example, have worked themselves up to doses
as large as 1000 mg every two hours or approximately 10 to 12
grams of niacin per day for up to three months. If you can work
your way up to a dose level of 600 - 800 mg every two to four
hours you will be doing remarkably well. Keep at it for as long
as you can. Expect to follow this procedure for at least
3 months but more reasonably, expect to be on niacin for six
to eight months.
Without niacin benzene detoxification
results in Nylon 6 polymer scars. Nylon 6 polymer scars are
wart-like scars that will disappear with UV light therapy.
3. Benzene detox also requires
high levels of other B vitamins. Benzene actually "polymerizes"
the intestional wall resulting in diminished absorption of food
stuffs and sometimes enhanced absorption of viruses, bacteria
and toxins. High levels of liquid B vitamins are necessary to
absorb enough to maintain the detox process. In addition to
niacin (B-3) both B-6 and B-12 play major roles.
Take 3 Activated B-Complex
capsules daily.
Because oral B-12 is poorly
absorbed in LGS, it is necessary to use nasal B-12 products
like "Ener-B" or sublingual forms of B-12. Research
shows several hundred fold increases in circulating levels of
B-12 result from nasal gel or sublingual administration of this
vitamin. Oral forms are not absorbed properly because of the
"clogged" or "polymerized" gut wall.
If you decide to use nasal B-12
Use one "Ener-B"
squeezable ampule (in the nostril) daily for the first week.
Thereafter use one "Ener-B" squeezable ampule
three times weekly.
If you prefer sublingual B-12,
Take one sublingual B-12
(Tyler or AMNI) tablet 3 times daily for the first week.
Thereafter, take two sublingual
B-12 tablets daily.
As the levels of B-complex rise,
there should be changes in the color of the urine. If your urine
remains clear, your body is utilizing all the B vitamins and
you need to take more. Take B-complex at dosage levels sufficient
to maintain a straw color to the urine. Note: If your urine
is brown colored with an odor, you may be excreting nitrobenzene
as well as phenolic and benzyl compounds.
4. Vitamin C is required for
benzene (and other xenobiotic) detoxification. Vitamin C may
not be tolerated very well by patients with Leaky Gut Syndrome.
But it is not the patient that can't tolerate the Vitamin C,
it is the benzene in the patient that causes the problem.
As benzene is detoxified in
this program there is the possibility that the skin may develop
eruptions of a silvery white powder. This is a beneficial effect
of the detox procedure. There may also be headaches.
During the first and second
weeks start your Vitamin C program slowly.
Take 1/8 teaspoon twice daily
during week 1. During week two increase to 1/4 teaspoon twice
daily.
In week three increase to
1/2 teaspoon twice daily.
Thereafter take 3 grams (3,000mg)
to 10 grams (10,000 mg) of vitamin C powder daily.
One gram of Vitamin C powder
is equal to 1/4 teaspoon. Accordingly, 3 grams = 3/4 teaspoon
and 10 grams = 2-1/2 tsp. Divide these dosages into three or
four equal portions and take throughout the day.
5. Take a complete amino acid
supplement (See Honeybee Pollen below).
Take 1 tablespoon High Desert®
Honey Bee Pollen after breakfast, and 1 teaspoon (tsp) before
lunch and 1 tsp before supper. This may be dissolved in
water or sprinkled on various foods. It may also be eaten straight.
Also eat a high cholesterol
diet and take sulfur containing amino acids like cystein.
This is important and runs against popular media coverage and
conceptions regarding cholesterol. Cholesterol is a powerful
antioxidant, necessary in protecting the body during detox reactions
and also necessary in protecting the arteries.
6. Glutathione is helpful but
poor absorption (from LGS) limits the bioavailability. N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine
(NAC) stimulates intracellular glutathione production while
preventing oxidative tissue damage.
Take 1-2 capsules Oxyperm
with meals 3 times daily. Oxyperm is a targeted antioxidant
that supports the intestinal mucosa supplying Quercetin, Ginko
Flavone Glycosides, N-Acetyl-L-Cystein, Beta Carotene, Selenium
and Vitamins C, E and Zinc.
7. Reduced L-Glutathione capsules
help detoxify the body. A better way to maximize the detoxifying
actions of reduced L-glutathione is to use it in a manner that
bypasses the gut. Open the capsules and pour the powder under
the tongue. It will absorb completely. It is not the most pleasant
tasting product in the world, but the end results are definitely
worth the salty-sulfur and smokey taste. The powder is usually
dissolved and absorbed within 7 to 8 minutes. It travels directly
to the liver this way and its potency is not lost in attempting
to traverse a polymerized gut wall.
Dissolve 1 capsule Recancostat®
under the tongue daily.
The faulty digestion in LGS
diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, leads to the production
of toxic by-products such as indole, phenol, skatol, methane,
putrescine, cadaverine and hydrogen gas. It is imperative to
eliminate these toxic byproducts from the body and to stop their
formation. These toxins directly attack the mucosal epithelial
cells and negatively impact the normal barrier functions of
the gut wall.
Equally as important, intestinal
endotoxins like phenol damage beneficial bacteria in the gut
leading to a chronic imbalance in the intestinal flora. This
imbalance is called dysbiosis. When pathogenic bacteria become
predominant the results are intestinal infections, inflammation
of the mucosa and dramatically increased permeability.
It has been shown in laboratory
studies involving monkeys that mercury severely disturbs the
bacteria in the intestines. Monkeys were given dental amalgam
fillings and thereby exposed to highly toxic mercury vapors.
During the control period (before inserting the amalgam fillings)
only 9 percent of the bacteria in the intestines of these monkeys
were resistant to antibiotics. After placing amalgam fillings
in their mouths, the percent of antibiotic resistant bacteria
in the intestines increased to 70 percent! After removing the
amalgam fillings, the antibiotic resistant bacteria dropped
to 12 percent.
8. Ginko Biloba contains compounds
known to scavenge free radicals which provents tissue oxidative
damage. Quercetin (from Saphora Japonica) exhibits stabilizing
effects on intestinal mast cells, inhibits histamine release
and decreases the production of free radicals. Other bioflavinoids
(e.g. rutin) may have similar effects.
Ginkgo biloba is supplied by
1-2 capsules of Oxyperm taken with meals 3 times daily. Oxyperm
is a targeted antioxidant that supports the intestinal mucosa
supplying Quercetin, Ginko Flavone Glycosides, N-Acetyl-L-Cystein,
Beta Carotene, Selenium and Vitamins C, E and Zinc.
9. Goldenseal is one of the
most widely used herbs. Roots of goldenseal exhibit antimicrobial,
astringent and energy stimulating actions. Goldenseal is especially
useful in the treatment of mucous membrane infections. The root
is useful in the treatment of dyspepsia and gastritis. The alkaloids
in the root also have an antispasmodic action, stimulate bile
secretion and are strongly bacteriocidal.
Take 10 - 20 drops of Golden
Seal Tincture (Good Herbs) in 4 oz. pure water 3 times daily
10 - 30 minutes before meals. Use for 7 days, stop. Do not use
for next 7 days. Repeat start and stop procedure. Goldenseal
should not be used continuously. It damages good bacteria populations.
10. Oligosaccharides such as
fructooligosaccharides or "FOS" for short are short-chain
polysaccharides which are not digested by human digestive juices
but which are preferentially consumed by beneficial intestinal
bacteria in the colon. Increased populations of beneficial bacteria
suppress the activity of putrefactive bacteria in the gut, thereby
reducing the formation of toxic fermentation products. FOS is
actually superior to fiber but when used together, the results
can be exciting.
The Colon Aid brand of Acidophilus
contains the FOS (NutraFlora) in each capsule. This minimizes
dysbiosis.
Take 2 Colon Aid capsules
twice daily. Preferable times should be before breakfast
and several hours after supper.
Take Nature’s Biotics
daily according to label instructions.
11. Regular use of Cat's Claw
(Uncaria tomentosa) will assist in healing the intestinal lining.
Research on more than 150 patients over a four year period shows
this herb to be of great value in Crohn's disease, irritable
bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, recurring ulcers, and parasitic
infections. Because of this, it is also of value in all LGS
diseases. Cat's claw seems to "break through severe intestinal
derangements that no other available product can touch..."
Cat's claw can clear up long-term parasitic infections involving
Blastocystis hominis, entamoebas, and giardia, as it it were
breaking up a long standing log jam in intestinal metabolism.
This then enables other therapies to work. Cat's claw is also
reported to have potent antioxidant properties as well.
Take 30 drops of Cat's Claw
Extract (Good Herbs) 5 times daily. Take 30 minutes before each
meal. Mix in 4 - 6 oz of pure drinking water.
12. Honey-Bee Pollen is a phenomenal
product containing all of the essential nutrients now known
to us. It brings the body chemistry into balance, helps digestion,
relieves stress, is phenomenally successful with allergies,
is loaded with enzymes, is high in B-12 and Vitamin E. Good
pollen has been shown to be of immense value in multiple sclerosis.
It builds strength in tired bodies, acts as a tonic and in most
cases can improve and restore the zest for living along with
a healthy appetite and mood.
Honey-Bee Pollen can either
cause weight gain or weight loss depending on whether it is
taken before or after meals.
Take 1 tablespoon after breakfast
(to gain wt) and take 1 teaspoon before lunch and 1 teaspoon
before supper.
Honey Bee Pollen acts as a psycho-motor
stimulant without the depressive after effects.
NUTRITIONAL
SUPPORT FOR G.I. AND LIVER FUNCTION IN
Crohns and
Ulcerative Colitis
Because Leaky Gut Syndrome is
the basis of most disturbed gut and G.I. functions, it is desirable
to correct even the slightest disturbances in function in all
the organs involved. Beginning with the stomach it is best to
assist the digestive process with dietary enzymes. This program
of nutritional support for the gastrointestinal and hapatic
systems should be undertaken only after the home colonic intestinal
cleanse (or a comparable cleanse) has been underway for at least
one week or completed and after the parasite cleanse has been
underway for at least one week. It can be used during theraputic
fasting as well.
1. Take 3 Similase® capsules
3 times daily at the beginning of meals. CAUTION: If you
are suffering from or have been diagnosed as having gastritis,
gastric or duodenal ulcers do not use Similase®.
Similase® is a highly concentrated
plant enzyme digestive formula designed for persons on an average
mixed diet containing carbohydrate, protein, fat, fiber and
dairy products.
2. Take 1 Betaine hydrochloride
tablet with each meal.
3. Take 4 Infla-Zyme Forte
tablets daily.
4. Take 1 Lipanase tablet
daily.
5. It is impossible to overstate
the necessity of reestablishing normal beneficial bacteria populations
in the intestines. The best policy is provide diverse forms
of beneficial bacteria in the nutritional support program.
Take 4 Colon Aid capsules
twice daily between meals with at least 8 oz of pure drinking
water. This will supply your system with fructooligosaccharides
(FOS), a food stuff you don't absorb but which enables beneficial
bacteria to fluorish. These capsules will also provide you with
billions of viable, beneficial organisms including Lactobacillus
acidophilus,and Bifodobacterium bifidum.
6. The intestines retain vast
amounts of toxins when normal functions are disturbed. These
toxins must be removed if there is to be any hope of recovering.
This process is best begun through products that absorb intestinal
toxins.
Take 6 Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser
capsules 3 times daily (after breakfast, before supper and at
bed time) on an empty stomach with a large glass of water. This
will provide psyllium hull powder, oat bran, bentonite powder,
bromelain (a digestive aid), papain, guar gum, marshmallow root,
prune powder, vitamin C, Echinacea, Goldenseal, Cranesbill and
Ginger root.
7. It is probable that in most
cases of gut dysfunction (including leaky gut syndrome) that
heavy metal poisoning is involved. Heavy metals create massive
amounts of tissue damage through their ability to generate free
radicals. Free radicals are easily as damaging as radiation,
if not more so. It becomes necessary to reduce oxidative damage.
Oxyperm®, is a targeted antioxidant
support for the gastrointestinal mucosa. This product supplies
quercetin, ginko flavone glycosides, N-Acetyl-L-Cystein, beta
carotene, selenium and vitamins C, E and zinc.
Take 1 to 2 Oxyperm® capsules
with meals three times daily.
8. Mixtures of Reduced Glutathione
and anthocyans show powerful heavy metal chelating effects.
Use Recancostat® in association with any heavy metal detox program.
Take 1 capsule of Recancostat®
twice daily.
9. The intestinal mucosa needs
to be nourished if one is ever to overcome the ravages of IBD.
Permeability Factors® is a product designed to supply nutritional
support to the mucosa.
Take 2 Permeability Factors®
capsules 3 times daily between meals.
10. The liver is overworked
in all IBD patients. Accordingly, the liver must be supplied
with nutrients essential to phase I and II liver detoxication.
Without the proper supply of antioxidants to the liver, the
production of free radicals can cause damage as the liver works
to detox chemicals and toxins. It is important to understand
that free radicals are created naturally by the liver during
all detox reactions.
Take 2 Detoxication Factors®
capsules 3 times daily between meals.
11. Potassium must be delivered
to IBD patients. Potassium salts (including acetate, gluconate
and monophosphate) added to fresh juices help keep the proper
relationship between sodium inside the cell and potassium outside
the cells.
Take 2 - 4 teaspoons of potassium
salt blend in each serving of fresh juice.
12. Cayenne pepper is critically
important to the body in sickness and health. Cayenne stimulates
the circulation dramatically and this is of critical importance
in speeding the movement of white cells into damaged tissues.
The more blood movement into diseased tissues the faster the healing. This has been proven repeatedly time and time again.
The cayenne pepper should be as high in heat units as possible.
The typical health food store variety is only 40,000 Scoville
Units "hot." This is not hot enough. To be
truly effective, the cayenne should be 90,000 Heat Units or
greater.
Take 2 of the 90,000+ Heat
Unit cayenne pepper capsules each meal and more if necessary.
It is even more desirable to take cayenne pepper mixed with
garlic.
13. Coffee enemas play a major
role in keeping the digestive system operating properly. Coffee
(organic) enemas can augment the production of an enzyme - glutathione-S-transferase
- which serves the purpose of a blood "scrubber."
This helps pull toxic materials out of the blood and out of
the liver. In fact, coffee enemas stimulate the production of
this enzyme by up to 700%. No other biological treatment known
exerts this much power in stimulating the production of the
glutathione system. The caffeine contained in the coffee also
exerts powerful stimulating effects on the bile flow from the
liver and gall bladder.
Take a minimum of 3 organic
coffee enemas each week if directed.
Herbal
Home Colonic Program
Digestive system and
colon health have reached an all time low in the United States.
In 1994 the #1 cancer
among men and women was colorectal.
Modern lifestyle has taken its
toll on our digestive system. Refined, processed, low fiber
foods, animal fats, environmental chemicals, lack of exercise
and an ever increasing level of stress all contribute to our
current gastrointestinal health crisis.
The frequency at which a normal,
healthy person should move their bowels has been a great misconception
among the public and most medical professionals. For years doctors
have thought that anywhere between 1 bowel movement a day and
1 a week was normal. In the examination of more primitive peoples
we find that their bowels move much more frequently, 2 to 3
times daily on the average. This is because these people eat
better, get more exercise and have much less stress. What we
have learned is that it is normal to have 1 bowel movement
a day for each meal you eat (if you eat 3 meals you should
have 3 bowel movements).
The Merck Manual,
the medical industry's standard text for the diagnosis and treatment
of disease tells us that colon degeneration is on the rise.
The incidence of diverticulosis has increased dramatically over
the last 40 years. It states that in 1950 only 10 percent of
adults over the age of 45 had this disease. In 1955 diverticulosis
had increased to 15 percent. By 1972 just over 30 percent of
the population suffered from this disorder and by 1987 it had
increased to near 50 percent. The latest edition states that
the incidence increases rapidly over age 40 and that "every
person will have many" [diverticula] if they live long
enough. Every American adult will have herniation of the large
intestine.
Diverticula are saccular herniations
that protrude through the wall of the colon. These "bowel
pockets" are like "bubbles" on the sides of innertubes
that have been over inflated. Diverticula are almost always
asymptomatic (you can't feel them). They are caused by a sluggish,
constipated bowel. These pockets fill with old fecal material
full of putrefaction and toxins. These toxic materials can be
re absorbed back into the bloodstream. This can infect the entire
body causing all types of toxic reactions.
A sluggish bowel can retain
many pounds of old, toxic and poisonous fecal matter. Studies
have shown that some people may retain 40 or more pounds of
this material in their large intestine. Many times the real
cause behind sickness and disease is retention and re absorption
of this toxic waste.
The first step in everyone's
health program should be stimulating, cleaning and toning all
the elimination organs and systems, and the bowel is one of
the best places to begin.
Herbal
Home Colonic Program
Day #1. Start with two
capsules of Vega-Lax intestinal corrective formula during or
just after your evening meal. This formula works best when mixed
with food. Drink at least 8 oz of pure drinking water after
the meal.
Day #2. This morning
(by noon) you should notice an increase in your bowel action
and in the amount of fecal matter that you eliminate. The consistency
should also be softer. If you do not notice any difference in
your bowel behavior today or if the difference was not dramatic
don't worry. Take two capsules of Vega-Lax with lunch (with
8 oz water). Then tonight take two more Vega-Lax capsules (again
with 8 oz water). That's 4 capsules total for the day.
Days #3-7. Continue
taking 2 Vega-Lax capsules with lunch (with 8 oz water) and
two Vega-Lax capsules with supper (with 8 oz water). If your
bowels are moving satisfactorily (i.e. noticeable improvement)
stay at this dosage of 2 capsules with lunch and 2 capsules
with supper for the rest of the week. If you are not moving
satisfactorily, you will need to continue to increase your dosage
every evening by one Vega-Lax capsule until you notice a dramatic
difference in the way your bowel works. It has taken most of
us years to create a sluggish bowel so lets be patient for a
few days and increase by one capsule each day.
By the end of the first week
you should know what your dosage is. This is your "established
dose." If not then remain on this formula alone for
an additional week to get regulated before you go on to the
next step.
Week #2. At the beginning
of week two is when you start the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser.
We will take this formula 2 times each day beginning in the
morning after breakfast.
On arising (before breakfast)
drink 8 ounce Hot Lemon-Water Flush1. After breakfast and dinner
take the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser capsules according to the
following weight schedule:
Adults: Under 100 lbs.: 4
capsules a.m. and 4 capsules p.m.
101 - 175 lbs.: 5 capsules
a.m. and 5 capsules p.m.
Over 175 lbs.: 6 capsules
a.m. and 6 capsules p.m.
with 8 ounces of diluted, organic
juice (fruit or vegetable) or Hydrating Drink2.
Within an hour after taking
the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser, drink an additional 8 ounces of
pure drinking water, Hydrating Drink, or herbal tea. Try to
consume between 80 and 128 ounces of liquid each day. This makes
the Colonic Program much more effective.
During week #2 you will continue
to take your "established dose" of Vega-Lax as usual
but increase the dosage you discovered the first week by one
additional capsule at supper (i.e. your "established dose"
plus 1).
Continue using the Vega-Lax
and Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser for at least 3 months, preferably
6 months. It takes at least 3 months to clean healthy intestines
and usually 6 months to clean and restore unhealthy, sluggish
intestines. It is wise to plan on going through a minimum
of 12 bottles or more of the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser.
Vega-Lax
Intestinal Corrective Formula
Ingredients:
Each capsule contains 194 mg Senna leaves and pods (Cassia
marilandica), 194 mg Cascara Sagrada aged bark (Rhamnus
purshiana), as well as 35 mg of a dehydrated aloe vera gel
referred to as Glucomannon. This dose of Glucomannon powder
is equivalent of 700 mg Aloe Vera liquid gel.
Therapeutic action:
This stimulating formula is cleansing, healing and strengthening
to the entire gastrointestinal system. It stimulates your peristaltic
action (the muscular movement of the intestines) and over time
strengthens the muscles of the large intestine, halts putrefaction
and disinfects, soothes and heals the mucous membrane lining
of the entire digestive tract. This herbal formula also improves
digestion, relieves gas and cramps, increases the flow of bile
which in turn cleans the gall bladder, bile ducts and liver.
It also helps to destroy Candida albicans overgrowth
and promotes a healthy intestinal flora. In combination with
the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser it helps destroy and expel intestinal
parasites, increases gastrointestinal circulation and is anti-bacterial,
anti-viral and anti-fungal.
Contraindications: Do
not use during pregnancy without the guidance of a competent
health care professional.
Miracle
7 Colon Cleanser
Ingredients:
Each capsule contains a skillfully blended mixture of natural
and organic ingredients consisting of Psyllium Seed Hull Powder,
Pharmaceutical Grade Bentonite Clay, Citrus Pectin, Lactobacillus
Acidophilus, Wheat Grass Powder, Apple Fiber, Golden Seal Root,
Gentian, Buckthorn, Rhubarb Root, Cascara Sagrada, whole leaf
Aloe Vera and spices.
Therapeutic action:
This cleansing and soothing formula is to be used during week
two with the Vega-Lax intestinal corrective formula. In combination
with the Vega-Lax, this formula becomes a highly powerful purifier
and intestinal vacuum. This formula will draw old fecal matter
off the walls of your colon and out of any bowel pockets. It
will also draw out poisons, toxins, heavy metals such as mercury
and lead and even remove radioactive material such as strontium
90. This formula will also remove over 3,000 known drug residues.
Its natural mucilaginous properties will soften old, hardened
fecal matter for easy removal and also make it an excellent
remedy for any inflammation in the stomach and intestines.
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Footnotes: 1) Hot Lemon-Water
Flush and 2) Hydrating Drink are prepared according to directions
included on separate sheets.
CLEANSING
AND HYDRATING DRINKS
Hot Lemon-Water Flush
You will drink the Hot Lemon-Water
Flush first thing each morning, to help complete the cleansing
process that has been going on during the night. This drink
flushes all the systems of elimination, especially the kidneys,
the liver, and the colon. It helps to cleanse waste from the
digestive tract and keep your breath sweet.
8-ounce glass of warm, purified
water
Juice of 1/2 fresh lemon
with white pulp pulverized
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Heat water until it is quite
warm (in microwave ). Pour 8-oz of hot water into glass and
add lemon juice and cayenne. You may increase the amount of
cayenne gradually (up to 1/8 teaspoon) as you continue to make
your Hot Lemon-Water Flush each morning.
Lemon juice helps to break up
and dislodge the sticky mucus deposits that tend to clog up
the system. Its powerful enzymes and high vitamin-C content
are natural cleaners, helping to flush your system of toxic
wastes. The bioflavonoids in the white inner rind and fibrous
strands are also very cleansing, so squeeze to deliver the benefits
of these fibrous parts of the lemon as well.
SUGGESTION: Peel lemon only
half way. Cut and place peeled half in blender. Pulverize and
add juice (with ground white, inner rind and seeds) to hot water.
Cayenne pepper aids digestion
by stimulating the production of digestive juices, and helps
to eliminate mucus. It is healing to the respiratory system
and is thought to enhance the effects of many other herbs and
vitamin C. Some people report that drinking hot water alone
early in the morning encourages bowel movements.
Hydrating Drink
You can enhance the hydrating
properties of your purified drinking water by adding a small
amount of natural brown sugar (turbinado). This procedure was
developed by two Australian doctors working with dehydrated
and malnourished African babies near death from starvation and
diarrhea. The results are literally the same as giving intravenous
glucose or sugar water to people in the hospital who cannot
eat solid food.
Prepare the Hydrating Drink
using organically grown apple juice and pure drinking water.
Mix
6 ounces of purified water
with
2 ounces of organic apple
juice
and drink between meals throughout
the day. Or prepare it by mixing
1/2 teaspoon Turbinado with
8 ounces of pure drinking
water.
or
1 tsp Turbinado with
32 oz pure drinking water
Drink as much as you can. Try
to drink 128 ounces at a minimum. Drinking from a plastic cup
with a straw coming through the top makes it much easier to
consume huge volumes.
This drink not only helps flush
toxins from the body, it stimulates the lymphatic system as
well and flushes it as well. It discourages constipation.
"Sily Tea"
One of the most impressive responses
in all of herbology is the response of the liver to an extract
of milk thistle. Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) yields an extract
rich in silymarin. Silymarin actually is a group of flavonoid
compounds which have a well documented and tremendous effect
on protecting the liver from damage as well as enhancing the
body's detoxification process.
Silymarin prevents damage to
the liver by acting as an antioxidant. Silymarin is many times
more potent in its antioxidant activity than vitamin E and vitamin
C.
Silymarin protects against liver
damage by extremely toxic chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride,
amanita toxin (poison mushroom), galactosamine, and praseodymium
nitrate.
Silymarin enhances detoxification
reactions by preventing the depletion of glutathione. The level
of glutathione in the liver is critically and strategically
linked to the liver's ability to detoxify. The higher the glutathione
content, the greater the liver's capacity to detoxify toxic
chemicals.
Typically when our liver is
exposed to toxic chemicals the concentration of glutathione
is substantially reduced. This reduction in glutathione makes
the liver cells susceptible to damage. Silymarin not only prevents
the depletion of glutathione induced by alcohol and other toxic
chemicals, it increases the level of glutathione by up to 35
percent.
Silymarin is very useful in
treating liver diseases including cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis,
fatty infiltration and inflamation of the bile duct. Under ordinary
circumstances the standard dosage for silymarin ranges from
70 to 210 milligrams three times daily.
Prepare Silymarin Tea by adding
4 dropper "squirts"
of silymarin extract (alcoholic extract) to
64 ounces (2 quarts) of pure
drinking water
Drink 4 ounces of this tea (Sily
Tea) every 30 minutes throughout the day until the entire 64
ounces is consumed.
Drink 64 ounces of Sily Tea
daily for the first 14 days of the liver and gut detoxification
program. Thereafter drink 32 ounces of Sily Tea daily.
Aerobic 07
Instructions
Day 1 put 5
drops of Aerobic 07 in 8 oz water and drink. Repeat 3 times
throughout day.
Day 2 put 10
drops of Aerobic 07 in 8 oz of water and drink. Repeat 3 times
daily.
Day 3 put 15
drops of Aerobic 07 in 8 oz of water and drink. Repeat 3 times
daily.
Day 4 put 20
drops of Aerobic 07 in 8 oz of water and drink. Repeat 3 times
daily.
Day 5 put 20
drops of Aerobic 07 in 8 oz of water and drink. Repeat 6 times
daily.
Day 6 + put 20
drops Aerobic 07 in 8 oz water, drink and repeat 8
times daily.
