Negative Ions improve asthma and other respiratory conditions. 

1. Brazilian hospitals now commonly use negative ion generators to treat breathing problems, after a test involving 36 children with asthmatic allergies. In each case, the problem was consistent or crippling. During the treatment, only one of them suffered an asthma attack. Afterward, no attacks were suffered by any of the children that sustained regular negative ion therapy (Soyka, 1991).

2. In 1966, a hospital in Jerusalem conducted a study involving 38 babies, between the ages of two and twelve months, with about the same degree of respiratory problems. The babies were separated into two groups of nineteen. One group was treated with nothing but a negative ion electronic air cleaner, while the second group was administered the standard treatment, which included drugs and antibiotics with side effects. The babies in the group treated with the negative ion air purifier were cured of asthma and bronchitis much more quickly than those in the control group. The babies in the negative ion group were also found to be less prone to rebound attacks. Less scientifically, doctors found that the babies treated by negative ion-enriched air didn’t cry as often or as loudly. But as Fred Soyka, the author of The Ion Effect puts it, “there is nothing subjective about a bawling baby” (Soyka, 1991).

3. In 1975, an East German doctor, who had by then treated more than 11,000 individuals with various respiratory conditions with a negative ion electronic air cleaner, said that his patients reported with “monotonous regularity” that the therapy had worked (Soyka, 1991).

4. In the early 1960s, Dr. A. P. Wehner used negative ion generators to treat over 1,000 patients in the U. S. suffering from various respiratory ills, such as bronchial asthma, pulmunary emphysema, laryngitis, bronchitis, dry hacking cough, upper respiratory tract infection, and allergies. He reported that the symptoms completely disappeared in 30.3% of the cases, improved significantly in 42.3% of the cases, showed some improvement in 20% of the cases, and showed no signs of improvement in 7.4% of the cases (Wehner, 1962).

5. In Britain, two Oxford University statisticians conducted a study among victims of asthma, bronchitis, and hay fever. The sample was randomly selected from a list of people who had purchased a negative ion air purifier. Through interviews, they found that 18 of 24 asthmatics, 13 of 17 bronchitis sufferers, 11 of 12 hay fever victims, and 6 of 10 suffering from nasal catarrh, reported that the product had noticeably improved their condition. A few even reported that it cured their condition (Soyka, 1991).

6. Postive ions, which occur in high levels in many indoor environments, inhibit the body’s ability to prevent pollutants and contaminates from entering the vulnerable areas of the respiratory tract. However, an overdose of negative ions has proven to provide counteraction to this effect (Kreuger, 1974; Soyka, 1991; Tchijewski, 1960).

Reduce and/or destroy bacteria, viruses, and other microbes 

1. A recent study by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture found that ionizing a room led to 52% less dust in the air, and 95% less bacteria in the air (since many of the pollutants found in the air reside on floating dust particles).

2. The Agriculture Research Service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture tested the effectiveness of ionizers for removing dust in a poultry hatchery. The dust level is very high in such an environment. In this study, the use of an ionizer resulted in dust removal efficiencies that averaged between 81.1 and 92.2%. The airborne transmission of salmonella (to the eggs) was also significantly reduced as a result.

3. Journal of Hygiene

Scientists showed that ionization reduced bacterial levels in burns and plastic surgery units by over 96% after a two week period, which results in much better and more rapid healing of patients.

4. Journal of Applied Microbiology

The use of negative ions was even found by scientists to reduce the presence of airborne viruses by about 40%. A study featured in the 1987 issue also showed the negative ions are free from any adverse side effects.

Negative Ions are needed in order to take in Oxygen.

1. Russian scientist, Dr. A. L. Tchijewsky, tried raising mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits in totally de-ionized air. Almost all of them died within two weeks due to an inability to utilize oxygen properly (Tchijewski, 1960).

2. Tchijewsky’s colleague, Dr. D. A. Lapitsky, tried raising small animals in air completely devoid of oxygen. He added only negative ions to the air as they were about to die from asphyxiation. At which point, their respiration frequency drastically increased, as they began to sit up and run around the chamber (Tchijewski, 1960).

3.  Former NASA scientist James B. Beal, who came across the negative ion problem while studying the type of environment needed in space capsules, wrote: “The human race was developed in ionized air. Nature used the ions in developing our biological processes.” In other words, people have been designed to function properly in an environment that contains certain level of ionization (Soyka, 1991).

4.   Fred Soyka, author of “The Ion Effect” reports that based on the 5,000 plus scientific documents that have been published regarding negative ion studies, all support the conclusion that an overload of negative ions seems to be beneficial (Soyka, 1991).

Negative Ions counteract the effects of smoking.

1. High levels of negative ions neutralize the effect that tobacco smoke has on the cilia. Cilia are the microscopic hairs located in the trachea that move rapidly back and forth to prevent pollutants and toxins from traveling into the vulnerable areas of the respiratory tract. The faster the cilia move, the more effective they are. However, tobacco smoke slows down the ciliary beat, diminishing the body’s ability to keep cancer-causing pollutants from entering the depths of the respiratory tract. Tests have shown though, that adding high levels of negative ions to the air accelerates the ciliary beat to normal levels (Soyka, 1991).

Negative Ions help prevent respiratory-related illnesses. 

1. In a study conducted in a Swiss textile mill, negative ionizers were placed in two, 60’ by 60’ rooms, each containing 22 employees. In one room, the negative ion electronic air cleaner was turned on during the course of the study. In the other room, the negative ion air purifier was permanently turned off, although the employees in this room were led to believe they were working in a room enriched by negative ions. During this six-month study, a total of 22 sick days were lost by employees working in the room in which the negative ionizer was operating. In the room where the machine was not operating, a total of 64 days were lost to sickness. During a month-long flu epidemic, the first group lost a total of 3 days to sickness, while the second group lost a total of 40 days to sickness (Stark, 1971).

2. In a test involving a Swiss bank office, one group of 309 worked in a negative ion-treated environment. A second group of 362 worked in an untreated environment. Over the next several months, for every day lost to respiratory illness (cold, flu, laryngitis, etc.) in group one, 16 days were lost to respiratory illness in group two (Soyka, 1991).

3. In a Surrey University study at the Norwich Union Insurance Group headquarters, eight negative ion generators were placed in the computer and data preparation section. Before the test, the research team spent a month compiling incident rates for complaints of sickness and headaches. During the test in which the negative ion air purification systems were in operation, incidents of sickness and headaches were reduced by 78%. After testing was completed, the Norwich Union opted to keep the negative ion electronic air cleaners (Soyka, 1991).

Negative Ions help prevent migraine headaches.

1. Migraine headaches originate when an overload of serotonin causes the diameter of blood vessels leading to the brain to dilate, and get wider in the brain. Consequently, blood flow increases, and pain receptors in the vessels are stretched, which leads to the excrutiating pain associated with a migraine headache (Borne, 1998; others). In numerous tests and studies though, negative ion treatment has proven to prevent the overproduction of serotonin, and therefore the subsequent migraine headaches (Kreuger, 1957; Soyka, 1991; Sulman, 1974).

Negative Ions are natural anti-depressant.

1.  In a study conducted by Columbia University, 25 people with SAD (Seasonal Affective Depression) sat in front of a negative ion air purifier for a half hour every morning for a month. Half the subjects were given a low level of negative ions, and the other half a high level. The higher level of negative ion treatment proved to be as effective against SAD as antidepressants, such as Prozac and Zolof, and without the side effects of these drugs (Finley, 1996).

2. Positive ions, which are found in abundance in most indoor environements, cause an overproduction of serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps the body deal with mental, emotional, and physiological stress. An overproduction initially causes hyperactivity, which rapidly leads to anxiety, and in some cases depression. Negative ion treatment has proven to be successful in reducing the overproduction of serotonin, and therefore successful in alleviating depression in some cases (Kreuger, 1957).

Negative Ions help combat fatigue.

1. In 1957, a study published in the Journal of General Physiology concluded that negative ions reduce the overproduction of serotonin, a neurohormone that leads to exhaustion, among other things, when overproduced (Kreuger, 1957).

Negative Ions enhance mental performance and concentration.

1. In 1969, Dr. Sulman, head of the department of Applied Pharmacology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem at the time, brought in groups of people to spend some time in a room low in negative ions, and also in a room that contained an “overdose” of negative ions. While in each room, subjects were given word, figure, and symbol tests. They scored “significantly higher” on these tests when they were in the negative ion-enriched room. Plus, while in the negative ion room, they showed (via the electroencephalogram) a slower, stronger pulse rate of Alpha waves from the brain. Alpha wave rythms are a measure of the brain’s acitivity and health. A slow, strong Alpha wave pulse rate indicates healthiness, calmness, and heightened alertness. When the subjects were in the negative ion-deficient room, they showed signs of irratibility and fatigue in addition to lower test performance (Sulman, 1974).

2. In the study conducted by Surrey University at the Norwich Union Insurance Group headquarters, the employees in the computer and data preparation section that were exposed to high levels of negative ions showed a 28% increase in overall task performance. The more difficult the task, the more dramatic the improvement tended to be (Soyka, 1991).

3. In 1972 in Geneva, statistics showed that whenever there was a drastic change in the weather, and a consequent drop in the negative ion concentration in the air, traffic accident rates rose by more than 50% (Soyka, 1991).

Negative Ions enhance physical performance.

1. After World War II, the Russians extensively studied the relationship between negative ions and physical performance. A team of doctors, psychologists, and physicists observed and measured the performance of Olympic athletes in various conditions of negative ions levels. In each test of physical performance, the group that trained in facilities, and stayed in quarters high in negative ion concentration showed tremendous improvements in performance in comparison to the control group (Minkh, 1961).

Negative Ions help us sleep better.

1. In 1969, French researcher found that the overproduction of the neurohormone serotonin caused sleeplessness and nightmares. In using a negative ion electronic air cleaner to treat a group of people experiencing sleeping problems as a result of serotonin overproduction, he found that most of them were able to sleep better (Soyka, 1991).

Negative Ions aid in the treatment of burn patients.

1. In 1959, Dr. Kornbleuh treated a group of 138 burn victims at Northeastern General Hospital with negatived ionized air. Within this group, 57.3% suffered significantly less pain and discomfort, while healing more quickly and thoroughly. Only 22.5% of the control group (the group of burn victims treated through conventional methods rather than negative ionization) experienced similar improvements in the same time frame.

Statistically, the odds are 1,000 to 1 that these results were coincidental. This study, along with other follow up tests, were evidence enough for the hospital, which subsequently equipped its postoperative wards with negative ion generators. The effectiveness of negative ion treatment in these tests are likely a result of the extraordinary ability of negative ions to remove pollutants from the air, resulting in reduced infection and irritation of burn wounds (Kornbleuh, 1959).

Biography 

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Dr. Dean Black made a lifelong study of nutrition and health maintenance. A graduate of Brigham Young University, he earned his PhD at Penn State University, and served as a professor at Brigham Young University and the University of California. Dean is listed in America Men and Women of Science, the Sigma Xi, a national scientific honorary society. He was a 1979 recipient of the Outstanding Public Service Award form the Provo, Utah Women’s Council. Dr. Black served as president of Naturalife International, Inc. and was president of the Sunrider Corporation from 1982 through 1984. His interest in gerontology spurred Dean Black’s deep interest in natural healing principles. He made the study of health maintenance a life long pursuit.

Science is the pursuit of truth. Isn’t that true? Yet science can literally be used as a barricade to the discovery of truth. Double blind studies have been used and can be used to deceive. I was once on a debate with a man who was the head of a very large “anti-quackery” organization in the United States. I mentioned certain healing methods, and he said he would like to see some double blind studies on this. That’s a very simple request isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as it sounds.

THE DOUBLE BLIND STUDY

In a double blind study, two groups of subjects are matched; they have to be identical in almost every regard. In an ideal double blind study, you would have identical twins and split them into two groups. Then you would administer the substance you are testing to one group, and to the other group you would administer a placebo. The placebo must look, taste, smell, feel, and in every fashion be identical to the drug, so that nobody can tell who is getting what. The fact that the patient does not know what he is getting is the first ‘blindness’. The second ‘blindness’ is that the doctor does not know. You can’t let anybody involved know what they are doing. Why? You might introduce a factor which would confuse and confound the results. It’s called the placebo effect. Now, that’s a very sensible thing to do, but the only reason for doing it is to be able to explain what’s causing the results.

The focus of science is to explain, but what is the purpose of the healing arts? To heal. I am suggesting that to explain and to heal are not the same goal. We make a very serious error when we combine the healing enterprise of medicine and transform it into the research enterprise of science. Let me give you an example. Some doctors are reporting about a patient in a journal article. He was given BCG immunotherapy, which involves giving a type of bacteria to the patient. Unfortunately, the patient died from the infectious condition caused by the therapy. The doctors performed an autopsy after his death, and the autopsy showed that the cancer patient’s tumours had become smaller which they explained as a beneficial effect of the therapy. The patient had died, and yet they were still able to speak of a beneficial effect of the therapy. How can that be? Were they wearing their healer’s hat when they said that? No, they were wearing their researcher hat. For a researcher, cancer is the scourge of mankind, but the healer is concerned about the individual patient. Cancer is a war to the researcher. You have the tumour that is the enemy, and you have the doctors who are fighting the tumour, and the patient is the battlefield! One individual battlefield is of very little consequence in a sense, compared to the outcome of the whole war.

Now, does medicine have a cure for cancer? The fact of the matter is that the death rate for cancer has increased from 130 per 100,000 to 134 per 100,000 in the past 18 years since the United States made a declaration of war against cancer in the National Cancer Act. All cancer therapies are experimental, because there are no therapies today that work. I am suggesting that medicine has no business being primarily a research enterprise. But if we don’t have cures, how can we discover them without research? The problem is that the nature of the research that medicine has set up for itself is not a wise kind of research.

When we establish this double-blind design as the research method of medical science, it creates certain problems. A research project was done at the University of Texas at the M.D. Anderson Hospital, in which they tested Chinese herbs on cancer patients. They found that the Chinese herbs had the effect of restoring a very weak immune system not only back to normal, but above normal in these cancer patients in almost 90% of the cases. This research which was published in the journal, Cancer, led to an interview of the senior researcher of the study in the Los Angeles Times. In this article, the researcher stated: “We have something that works, or at least seems to work.” Now, is there any therapy today that works against cancer? This medical scientist says he has found one that works or seems to work. In the huge effort today to find a cancer cure wouldn’t this be big news? Some preliminary research in Houston has also shown that two herbs may be able to rebuild the body’s natural immunity in AIDS patients. Then, the researcher said: “Unfortunately, we do not know how or why it works, and until we do, we cannot develop this as a modern medicine.” That is the exact quote.

Tell me, then, what is the exact goal of research? Is it to discover if the herb works, or to explain how it works? It’s just to explain how it works. They’ve already seen that it works. The journal article even points out that clinical evidence in China has shown a very significant result with the use of these herbs. Now, in order to develop modern drugs from traditional Chinese medicine, there are very strict scientific procedures and criteria which must be followed.

THE PATENTING OF A NEW DRUG

The research method used in developing a modern drug means identifying, isolating and synthesizing the active element as the very first step. They must study how they work, evaluate them in clinical use, test their toxicology and so on. You notice the first step in the research protocol is to identify and isolate the active ingredients. When you do that, what happens to the herb? It’s gone! The herb literally vanishes. In the United States, the interesting thing is that in order to get through the research protocol, it will cost you 70 to 120 million dollars. Now, that’s not really so bad, because look at the money you could make if you had a cancer cure. 70 to 120 million dollars is nothing compared to that. For the expenditure that you invest, they give you a patent on your product which is good for 17 years. Do you see the problem this creates for us now? You can’t patent a herb. So if someone wants to have his herbal product approved by the Food and Drug Administration, he spends 70 million dollars on this whole process, and at the end of it he has no patent protection. Anyone can go and sell this herb, and the person will not be able to recover the investment he has made.

I was so intrigued by this situation, that I called the senior researcher who had studied the Chinese herbs and asked him what had happened to his project. The article had come out in 1983 and I called him in 1987. He told me that since the article was published, all the money for the project had been cancelled. He lost his laboratory and had to pay a research assistant out of his own pocket. Finally, he couldn’t do that anymore, and he gave up the project and began something else. I offered to try to obtain private funding for him, but he told me not to do that. He said, “If I try to pursue this any further I’ll lose my job.” So here we have the cancer cure that works, and yet it can’t be pursued because you can’t patent it. The laws are set up to prove a particular kind of product, a patentable chemical that has commercial value. The financial investment is so high that it can’t be done with a natural product. And as a consequence, for ever more, until these laws change, it will always be true that natural products are not approved. The reason there is no scientific evidence for natural products is that no one is going to pay for it. The other problem is that the protocol calls for isolating and purifying the active ingredient. Take the plant and tear it apart. From the natural healing prospective, that destroys something. From the scientific prospective that modern medicine follows, it does not destroy anything because the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts. From the natural healing standpoint, we say that to break up a whole is counter-productive. You lose properties of the whole substance. The scientific perspective tends to say, if you can’t measure it by an instrument, what have you lost – it doesn’t exist. For example there is a food component called lecithin which contains a molecule called choline. Choline is a critical part of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. Pure choline should be better for the person from the scientific standpoint because it is pure. Lecithin, should theoretically be not so good because it is not pure. Nevertheless, lecithin is more effective than choline. The lecithin acts more slowly when it is taken, but its peak effectiveness is 280% above baseline for the lecithin versus 65% for the choline. Twelve hours later, the lecithin is still at its peak, but the choline disappears after only 4 hours.

The claim for the purified chemicals is that they are more accurate, easier to control and more scientific, and yet, from a natural healing prospective something is lost in the process.

VITAMIN C, STRESS AND CANCER

There was a study done on vitamin C and cancer by Linus Pauling. He took 100 patients and gave them 10 grams of vitamin C per day, and matched them with 100 patients to whom he gave no vitamin C, and he compared the two groups. Eighteen percent of the patients who took vitamin C survived the study period. None of the patients in the other group survived the study period. Sixteen percent of the patients who took vitamin C recovered completely. This study was criticized because it was not double-blind. So other people did double blind studies but they did not replicate Pauling’s results. All of the patients died.

Let me give you an explanation why Linus Pauling’s study worked. Hans Selye, the great stress researcher, says there are three stages to stress. The first is the stage of alarm. Then you go into the stage of adaptation. In this stage you are coping. Eventually, if the coping is unsuccessful, the patient goes into what he calls the stage of exhaustion in which the patient gives up. In the alarm stage and the exhaustion stage, something happens physiologically that is very intriguing. The body’s level of cortisol becomes very high. Cortisol is a chemical that depresses the immune system. So, when we are in any kind of state of uncertainty, or when we are exhausted emotionally, cortisol becomes elevated, and the immune system becomes depressed. There is a condition called uncontrollability, or helplessness in which we feel we do not have the capacity to control our environment. If you put a patient in a condition in which he feels he has no control, he will physiologically go into a state that depresses the immune system. Selye says the state of exhaustion precedes death. If cancer patients are in the state of exhaustion, they will be high in cortisol. The higher the cortisol, the worse the cancer.

In Pauling’s study, the patients were encouraged to improve, and 16% did return back to normal. It is possible the belief and inspiration they received from their doctor took them out of the stage of exhaustion back into the stage of adaptation, raised their immunity and they healed. In the double-blind study, what’s the purpose? By deliberate design, it keeps the patient helpless. Its purpose is to cancel any effects of the mind. Presumably, that leaves the patient in a normal state. No, there is no such thing as a neutral state of the mind. Either the patient’s mind is engaging in the challenge or the patient has given up. In natural healing, we enroll the patient’s mind in the healing process. We capture the hope of the patient. In medical literature there are 754 articles on cancer and vitamin C. I sampled at random 65 of those articles. Of those 65, 57 had positive results and 8 had negative results about the effect of vitamin C on the immune system. So the evidence is so overwhelming that vitamin C has an effect on the immune system, for anybody to deny it, he has to be ignorant or totally deceiving. We now have a situation that has been set up literally to use science as an effort to keep us from learning the truth and we have to make an effort to have clinical research and therapeutic settings become acceptable as investigating tools.

Dr. Black has written a few books including: Health at the Crossroads: Exploring the Conflict Between Natural Healing and Conventional Medicine

This short, well-researched book takes a look at the problems of traditional medical treatment that fight the body’s natural healing efforts versus natural medicinal protocols such as herbal remedies and homeopathy that work with the body to overcome illness. A lengthy historical background precedes easily understood discussions of health-related topics of interest to the general population. Coverage includes the controversial Vitamin C experiments, chemotherapy treatments for cancer, the fallacy in using double-blind testing for new medications. Dr. Black raises interesting points with regard to the scientific method as it relates to medical treatment. He explains how the healing principle does not require scientific explanation. For exarnple, many Chinese herbal remedies have been known to be successful for thousands of years although never “proven” via classical scientific experiments; thus, Western medical authorities ignore them. Dr. Black warns of the dangers of overly restrictive health laws that limit products and treatments outside the medical model and maintains that laws should not take sides in scientific issues. He purports that “natural healing is neither more nor less fraudulent than medicine” and advises on how to deal with fraud in either system. The most important feature of the book is Black’s championship for merging the two system instead of wasting so much effort in fighting. He maintains that “natural healing and medicine together form a more complete system than either forms alone.” An appendix of natural healing lists resources ranging from Alcoholics Anonymous and the La Leche League to the Center for Chinese Medicine. Black’s promotion for support, coordination, and synchronization of natural healing and traditional medicine make this book an excellent choice for public and medical libraries as well as for bookstores serving alternative-lifestyle clientele. Highly recommended.

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Dr. de Vries is the director of seven health clinics in Britain, including the Mokoiya Health Centre in Troon, Scotland, one of Britain’s best known alternative medicine clinics. He uses a wide range of therapies to treat degenerative diseases including proper nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy, special mineral baths and herbal medicine. He pioneered alternative medicine in Holland, and together with Dr. Alfred Vogel, established the very first alternative health clinic in that country. He is the author of a popular series of books which focuses on alternative treatments using herbs and diet for degenerative diseases. The accomplishments of Jan de Vries have won him international acclaim and he has been presented with the prestigious Dag Hammarskjold Award for outstanding contribution to humanitarian causes. He is a scientific member of the Cancer Research Board in Britain and is presently doing research in Arcen, Holland for the European Commission, investigating the effectiveness of herbal medicine.

It was about 30 years ago that Dr. Vogel and I lectured in Amsterdam, and at that time we did not have the common problems that we do today, like diverticulitis, diverticulosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and Crohn’s Disease. Dr. Vogel mentioned that there are four things we should look at in order to increase the quality of our health: quality of food, quantity of food, digestion of food and absorption of food. You don’t get any quality from angel delight pudding or a tin of tomato soup which has never seen a tomato. You get quality of food from food which is cell renewing, because that is what life is all about, a renewing of cells and cell tissue.

ACID-ALKALINE BALANCE

With all these digestive problems, the acid-alkaline balance of your system is very important. Diverticulitis, diverticulosis, peptic ulcers, gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, psoriasis, eczema are all born in an overly acid system. The worst food to eat is from the pig because it’s the highest animal acid and highest animal fat – two things we could do without. You only need to take a sample of your urine. In all the thirty-five years I have been in practice, people with peptic ulcers, duodenal ulcers, gastric ulcers are all overly acidic. You must get rid of acid foods. Many ulcer conditions can be cleared up by the juice of a raw potato. (Mind you, 90%+ of potatoes now are genetically engineered, and highly contaminated, so everything would have to be completely organic and green). You take a potato with the skin, wash it well and grate it. Then you push the juice out of it, you get just a little, and you take that first thing in the morning, and it is excellent for filtering acidity. It is a very good alkaline food. There is also a good remedy, a little blue flower called the corn flower. It is a very good acid binder and will even desensitize people who are allergic to wheat and some grains. It is available in health food stores as Centaurium from Dr. Vogel.

CANDIDA ALBICANS

We all have Candida Albicans, but thankfully it is not active in everybody. But you can make it active through eating the wrong kinds of foods and wrong food patterns. You can have a problem in a very short time. Many Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients have started with the Candida because Candida will rob your immune system. Knowing how much harm it does, the first thing I will do is ask the patient to remove five foods from the diet, that’s all: coffee, cheese, mushrooms, wine, chocolate, sugar and fermented food like yeast. Candida loves these foods. Now that’s only five foods I ask them to remove. It is so important that you don’t continue these foods because your immune system gets so depleted from the active Candida that you invite all kinds of invaders to cause even more problems. I have seen lately so often that many terminal cancer patients have an active Candida. Devil’s Claw is a remedy that Dr. Vogel and I brought to Europe many years ago and it is a wonderful remedy to help Candida.

ALLERGIES

The allergy problem is very much related to stomach and bowel problems. When we have allergy problems, we have to learn to combine foods correctly, especially foods we might be allergic to. There is no point in eliminating a whole list of foods in trying to solve your problem. It is very often the combination of foods. If you get the combination right, you will be all right. For instance, you may be able to eat a banana, but when you combine it with other foods you may have a problem. There are two very jealous foods which you should always eat alone – the melon and the banana. If you strengthen the immune system, some of the allergies will disappear. I have outlined proper food combining in my book, Nature’s Gift of Food.

IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

If you get plaquing of food which doesn’t digest in the sigmoid colon, that is when health problems arise. That is what Candida loves the most. When you get plaquing, it is very difficult to remove it. That is the reason why it is so important that you have the right roughage in your diet. The most common cause of the irritable bowel problem is drinking coffee, number one. It is very important to remove coffee from the diet. Instead of drinking coffee, drink peppermint tea. I am a great believer in keeping things simple, and I have helped many irritable bowel problems with drinking peppermint tea and balancing the diet. It is very important that you get a good healthy mucous in the bowel. Some people take many colonic irrigations, many enemas, many laxatives. They think they can remove that old plaque that sits and ferments if they remove it with a lot of ammunition. No, you can’t do it that way. You have to take action and do some simple things like drinking peppermint tea and flaxseed. The little insignificant seed of the flax fills your mouth with a good healthy mucous which is fantastic for the bowel because the bowel needs the right mucous for its processes. That is the right remedy. One of the finest flax remedies is Linoforce from Dr. Vogel. Watery stools and diarrhea are very often caused by a lack of friendly bacteria in the bowel. Healthy mucous and acidophilus should be present in the bowel. When watery stool and diarrhea appear, that is very often lacking. Take a jar of natural yoghurt and some acidophilus or bifidum every day. The herbal remedy Tormentavena is also very helpful.

DIVERTICULITIS AND DIVERTICULOSIS

Once you have these problems, you probably have an incurable situation. But you can control it if you start to help yourself with a good diet. Make sure that you take the right remedies. Then it will often become non-active. Fibre must be increased in the diet. When flatulence and bloated feelings occur, patients can benefit from taking Arabiaforce, a herb preparation for stimulating stomach activity, and promotion of appetite. Garlic is a wonderful remedy and it has tremendous antiseptic properties and is of great benefit in these cases. The worst thing for either diverticulitis or diverticulosis is taking antibiotics. Friendly bacteria in the bowels are destroyed and the condition could easily go from bad to worse.

CHRONIC CONSTIPATION AND BLEEDING OF THE BOWEL

Constipation can lead to a lot of problems. Sometimes it’s good to have a colonic irrigation, but don’t get addicted to it. I have some patients who almost need it three times a week, and that’s no good, because your bowel should do it itself. It’s very important that once you have had a clean out to take things like Linoforce which is simple linseed, and follow a good diet. For chronic bleeding of the bowel you have to be very careful and see your doctor about it. Take the remedy Witch Hazel – Hamamelis Virginiana, which is excellent. And the constant bloating that you have can be helped with the remedy Tormentavena.

COLITIS

In treating colitis, raw vegetables are not very helpful until the colitis has cleared, not even juices. It is better to cook vegetables, although it is against my usual principles to say this. But years of practice have proved that it is a mistake for people with Candida or even thrush to eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, but this keeps the thrush going all the time. You have to cook your vegetables and fruit or you will never really get completely rid of the thrush. It is also important not to eat fruits and vegetables together because fruit and vegetables together make a very indigestible food. You bombard you digestive system. It is better to eat them separately or leave 20 minutes between eating them.

HIATUS HERNIAS

I am terribly against an operation for a hiatus hernia. It is a very big operation and it is not always successful. Osteopathically I am usually able to adjust it and to give people the freedom they need. Hiatus hernias are often caused by wrong food patterns, such as eating too quickly and not mixing food with saliva as it is chewed. It is better to take six small meals than three big ones because you overload the system.

DETOXIFICATION

The alarm bells which tell you that you have digestive problems are swollen tummies, irregular bowel movements from constipation to diarrhea. These problems have increased lately and there is a very simple remedy that I prescribe 100 times more often than I did ten years ago. It’s called Tormentavena from Dr. Vogel and it regulates the bowel movements and removes some of the toxicity. If foods really upset you, if you have any of these problems, detoxifying is very important. There are a lot of good cleansing foods like watercress, garlic, leeks, and onions. They will help you detoxify and there are detoxifying courses like the Rasayana Program from Dr. Vogel to cleanse the colon and stomach. Candida hates it, and all the viruses and bacteria hate it when you detoxify.

SORE THROAT

The throat is becoming almost a cesspool of bacteria. A throat infection affects the whole body and can lead to so many problems. So it is very important to use a good natural antiseptic. I am not a great friend of dairy food but there is one I do like and that is the leftover when you make cheese – the whey of the milk which is an excellent remedy for the pancreas, and for diabetes, but also a very good antiseptic for the throat. Molkosan from Dr. Vogel contains concentrated liquid whey and is available in health food stores. Take a teaspoonful twice a day and this will disinfect the throat beautifully. When you have chest congestion and don’t breathe freely, drink a little extra peppermint tea, or some camomile tea and take Echinaforce, a good natural antibiotic.

Chlorine is a toxic chemical. It is used in water treatment to reduce and kill forms of biological agents, such as bacteria and viruses found in water systems. Chlorine is harmful to you when you drink it and when it is absorbed into our skin and inhaled into your lungs when you shower. It has been estimated that the “shower steam” in your bathroom can contain up to 100 times the amount of chlorine than the water, because chlorine evaporates out of water at a relatively low temperature. If you bathe or shower in unfiltered tap water you are inhaling and absorbing chlorine into your body.

Conditions contributed to or aggravated by chlorine exposure:
· Respiratory Conditions (nose, throat, lungs, sinuses): Asthma, bronchitis
· Hair: Dry, brittle
· Skin: Dry, flaking, dandruff, itching, rashes (especially with infants and children)
· Eye irritations and other conditions

Chlorine is universally used to chemically disinfect water. It kills germs, bacteria and other living organisms. Chlorine readily passes through the cell wall and attaches to the fatty acids of the cell, disrupting the life sustaining functions. The human body is composed of billions of cells. Most people are aware that the quality of their drinking water can be improved by filtering their tap water or buying bottled water. However, many do not realize that they are addressing only a part of the problem.

One half of our daily chlorine exposure is from showering. Chlorine is not only absorbed through the skin, but also re-vaporized in the shower, inhaled into the lungs, and transferred directly into the blood system. In fact, the chlorine exposure from one shower is equal to an entire day’s amount of drinking the same water. Drinking filtered or bottled water only does half the job. For people who are concerned about their health and are willing to take the responsibility to do something about it, a top quality shower water filter is an affordable solution to the problem.

Showering in Chlorinated Water: Quotes from Respected Authorities

Americans are becoming more aware of the contaminants in our nation’s water supplies and many are installing water filters to purify their drinking water. Yet most continue to bathe and shower straight from the tap, unaware that inhaling unfiltered shower vapors (steam) is more harmful than actually drinking the water itself. During a shower, toxic chloroform evaporates into the surrounding air you breathe. In addition, The Center for Study of Responsive Law’s, Troubled Water on Tap report, states that over 2,100 contaminants have been found in drinking water. Of those 2,100, 190 are known to cause adverse health effects. In total, 97 carcinogens, 82 mutagens and suspected mutagens (cause cell mutations), 23 tumor promoters and 28 acute and chronic toxic contaminants have been detected in U.S. drinking water. According to East West magazine, consumers should purchase shower head filters which remove chlorine and other contaminants to prevent exposure to chloroform [and other toxic substances].”
-Center for Study of Responsive Law, Consumers Research Magazine, East West, July 1989.

“A long, hot shower can be dangerous. The toxic chemicals are inhaled in high concentrations.”
- Bottom Line – August 1987, J Andelman, Ph. D.

“We conclude that skin absorption of contaminants in drinking water has been underestimated and that ingestion may not constitute the sole or even primary route of exposure.”
-American Journal of Public Health, May, 1984, Vol. 74, No. 5

“Ironically, even the Chlorine widely used to disinfect water produces Carcinogenic traces. Studies indicate the suspect chemicals can also be inhaled and absorbed through the skin during showering and bathing.”
- U. S. News & World Report – 29 July 1991, Is your Water Safe – The Dangerous State of Your Water

“Taking showers is a health risk, according to research presented last week in a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Showers – and to a lesser extent baths – lead to a greater exposure to toxic chemicals contained in water supplies than does drinking water. The chemicals evaporate out of the water and are inhaled. They can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others.”
- New Scientist -18 September 1986, Ian Anderson

“Studies have documented the presence in the drinking water of many potentially toxic volatile organic chemicals (VOC’s)- from chloroform and pesticides to carbon tetrachloride. Such findings have spurred investigations into the inhalation hazards these compounds may pose when released in the air during baths and showers. However, because shower and tub equipment, as well as other design features, differed widely in these experiments, air releases for a single VOC could vary up to 10-fold from one studied system to another.”
-John C. Little, Lawrence Berkeley (California) Laboratory, Science News, August 15, 1992

“The steamy air of a shower contains significant amounts of a least two cancer-causing chemicals that evaporate out of water.”
-J Andelman, Professor of Water Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh

“Almost two decades have passed since known or suspected human carcinogens were first found in municipal water supplies. One of them, chloroform, produced by the chlorination process, exposes millions of Americans. The potential for a major public health problem is unquestionably there, and yet, progress has been slow.”
-Dr. Peter Isacson, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine

“Skin absorption of contaminant has been underestimated and ingestion may not constitute the sole or even primary route of exposure.”
- American Journal of-Public Health – Dr. Halina Brown

“Showering is suspected as the primary cause of elevated of chloroform in nearly every home because of the chlorine in the water. Chloroform [a known carcinogen] levels increase up to 100 times during a ten-minute shower in residential water”
- Environmental Protection Agency – Dr. Lance Wallace

“I tell my friends to take quick, cold showers”, said Julian B. Andelman, Professor of Water Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, who claimed that the longer and hotter the shower, the more chemicals build up in the air.
San Jose Mercury News, September 11, 1986

“Many investigators have reported on the toxicity and unexpected high penetration rates of volatile organic chemicals.”
-American Journal of Public Health

“A Professor of Water Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh claims that exposure to vaporized chemicals in the water supplies through showering, bathing, and inhalation is 100 greater than through drinking the water.”
- The Nader Report, Troubled Waters on Tap – Center for Study of Responsive Law

“The National Academy of Sciences estimates that 200 to 1000 people die in the United States each year from cancers caused by ingesting the contaminants in water. The major health threat posed by these pollutants is far more likely to be from their inhalation as air pollutants. The reason that emissions are high is because water droplets dispersed by the shower head have a larger surface-to-value ratio than water streaming into the bath.”
- Science News-Vol. 130, Janet Raloff

Dangers in the Shower

A new study from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine claims that you risk permanent nervous system (brain) damage if you regularly inhale water vapor, when showering, which contains manganese.

What is Manganese?

Manganese is one of the most abundant metals in the earth and is used extensively in making steel, welding rods, paints, fireworks, fertilizers, varnish, livestock supplements and so forth. It’s also added to gasoline to reduce engine knocking.

Manganese is likely found so extensively in water supplies because it is highly abundant in the earth and because of its use in gasoline.

Most everyone is exposed to small levels of manganese from the food they eat or mineral supplements they take. Low levels of manganese are essential for good health, but high levels of manganese are toxic.

What Researchers Found

Iif your water supply has high levels of manganese, the water company is free to say that it is completely safe — even when it could, in fact, be the exact opposite.

The analysis was conducted by Dr. John Spangler, M.D. and Dr. Robert Elsner, Ph.D.

They analyzed the levels of manganese that caused central nervous system damage in rodents by accumulating inside their brains. They then reviewed medical literature and animal studies to determine how much manganese people would absorb by showering a mere 10 minutes a day.

They found that by taking brief, daily showers over the course of 10 years, children would be exposed to three times the level of manganese that the rodents were exposed to; adults would be exposed to 50 times more.

This also indicates that adults taking “brief showers” for only one year would still be exposed to five times more manganese than those rodents who suffered brain damage.

The doctors felt that even though all individuals could be at risk from manganese toxicity as a result of their water supply, children, pregnant women, the elderly and those being treated for liver disease are at the highest risk, even when exposed to low doses of manganese when showering.

Additional Facts

These doctors are very concerned about your exposure to manganese levels that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently says are safe for drinking water. The EPA standard for “safe levels” of manganese in drinking water supplies is 0.5 milligrams per liter.

But that standard for manganese is a “secondary standard,” which means the EPA only considers manganese to be a nuisance and not a health hazard. And because it is a secondary standard, it is completely unenforceable by the EPA.

So, if your water supply has high levels of manganese, the water company is free to say that it is completely safe — even when it could, in fact, be the exact opposite.

Worse, the EPA standard was based on anticipated exposure by ingesting drinking water. But this new study states that “drinking water” is not the hazard for exposure to manganese toxicity. Instead, the danger is absorbing manganese from water vapor inhalation when showering.

By the way, in the years since the EPA standard was set, and before this latest research, other studies have shown that inhaling manganese dust could result in nervous system damage, learning and coordination disabilities and behavioral changes that are very similar to Parkinson’s disease. In fact, back in 1993 the National Institute of Health issued a statement that occupational exposure to manganese for periods of just six months to two years could result in a disease of the central nervous system that resembles Parkinson’s disease.

Moreover, these researchers feel that inhaling manganese from water vapor bypasses the blood supply and travels directly to your brain. Once there, it can cause extensive nervous system damage.

How Much Manganese is in Your Water?

Whether you are on a public water system or a private well, you really should find out if manganese or other dangerous contaminants are in your water. If you are on a public water system (85 percent of people are), chances are good that you are exposed to some level of manganese, trihalomethanes, haloaecetic acids, chlorine and other harmful contaminants.

Once you determine the type and level of contaminants in your water supply, you can get the right water treatment system to purify it; and you can consult your health practitioner to help reverse any damage you may have suffered from exposure to those contaminants.

MSNBC cites another study that states that women who swallow semen while performing oral sex have less of a chance of developing preeclampsia, a high-blood pressure disorder that can come with pregnancy.  There have been many studies on the benefits of sex. Aside from being a pleasurable experience, sex is said to boost the immune system among many other health-related pluses. However, more specifically semen has its health benefits too.

Believe it or not, there are sperm pills on the market which can make sperm taste and look better.

What is in semen?

Sperm is only 1% of semen. The rest is water, mucous, sugar and other acids and bases. According to SemenTherapy.com, semen contains:

ascorbic acid (vitamin C, for tissue maintenance)
blood-group antigens (from immune system)
calcium (mineral)
chlorine (oxidizing agent)
cholesterol (steroid alcohol present in body fluids)
chlorine (base, part of the vitamin B complex)
citric acid (occurs during cellular metabolism)
creatine (nitrogenous substance found in muscle)
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
fructose (sugar used for energy)
glutathione (peptide amino acid)
Glycoproteins (cancer fighting agent)
hyaluronidase (enzyme)
inositol (sugar found in muscles)
lactic acid (byproduct of muscle use)
magnesium (mineral)
nitrogen (gas found in all living tissue)
phosphorus (mineral)
prostaglandins (good for pregnancy)
potassium (mineral)
purine (compound of uric acid)
pyrimidine (organic base)
pyruvic acid (formed from either glucose or glycogen)
selenium (cancer fighting agent)
sodium (salt)
sorbitol (body alcohol)
spermidine (catalytic enzyme)
spermine (ammonia compound found in sperm)
urea (from urine)
uric acid (from urine)
vitamin B12 (for proper function of nervous system and metabolism)
zinc (mineral)

Semen Could Be an Antidepressant

A study at the State University of New York at Albany says there is a positive correlation between unprotected sex and lower depression rates, according to an MSNBC article. While the article and researchers do not condone unprotected sex (the article in fact has a disclaimer), the results showed that females who had sex without a condom had lower depression levels by those who used them during sexual encounters, or abstained from sex.

The SUNY-Albany study says that semen contains components that can relieve stress and lower depression, and also that the vagina absorbs these components and they can be detected in the bloodstream a few hours after sex.

Looking further into this claim, this AC writer found a Gallup study which revealed similar results. The Gallup researcher measured emotional benefits of semen by dividing 293 female students into groups based on how often their partners used condoms. Then, he administered the Beck Depression Inventory to assess their emotional well-being. Those scoring under 17 on emotional inventory are considered mentally sound.

The results? Gallup found that women who never used condoms scored 8 on the Beck scale; women who used them intermittently scored 10.5; women who frequently used protection came in at 15; and those who swore by condoms scored 11.3.

The Rockall Times in the UK published a story about a similar study, citing that the scientists pushed the results of the study on female coworkers, resulting in increased morale in the research facility. In fact, the study group plans to air television ads promoting semen’s benefits.

So, if one is with a partner they can trust, perhaps in a monogamous relationship reaping the benefits of semen could make one happier-and not just because they are ‘getting some.’

Semen Can Lower Blood Pressure

   The safespace is a non-electric metal substrate holo-gram, which has been permanently encoded by a proprietary process. It is designed to interact with and work to neutralize the toxic effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted by cell phones,
cordless phones and pagers.
   The safespace device effectively neutralizes any electromagnetic field (EMF) disturbance created by any model of digital or analogue cellular or cordless phone. The safespace is not a shield or a deflector. It is designed to interact with the electromagnetic
field and neutralizes the toxic effects of cell phone radiation. The safespace is permanently encoded. It
never has to be replaced due to saturation because it does not absorb radiation.
   Laboratory testing has shown that the natural DNA rewinding process is actually enhanced with the safespace attached to the phone. The safespace device actually resonates with the body to reduce stress. Testing the Safespace on human DNA at Quantum Biology Labs in Northport, NY proved that the safespace device not only nuetralized the detrimental effects of (EMF) Electromagnetic radiation from the cell phone on human DNA but actually reversed the DNA damage. 

Healthy Humans resonate with the Earth’s magnetic fields below 10Hz. Studies have shown that frequencies above 60Hz cause biological stress to our bodies.
Cell phones operate at frequencies several million times higher than 60 Hz. Radiation from cell phones ranges from 800Hz to 2.5GHz.
Approximately 75% of the radiation from the cell antennae penetrates 2 inches into the brain. Cell phones carried in the pocket expose other parts of the body to harmful ELF’s,( I guess you could save money on birth control). Studies have also shown that people who sleep with their cell phones near their bed have impaired REM sleep patterns and reduced melatonin production.
Children are more vulnerable because of developing nervous systems and thinner skulls.
Insurance companies are moving to stop under-writing cellphone companies because of all the potential lawsuits coming down the pike from microwave radiation. 

The Lancet, a British Medical Journal reported a study that radiation from cell phones causes an increase in blood pressure and directly alters cell function in the human body. 

George Carlo, Ph.D., scientist and author of Cell Phones – Invisible Hazard In a Wireless Age. As former chairman of the Wireless Technology Research, Dr. Carlo reviewed more than 50 significant studies and found many serious health problems associated with cell phone use. 

The UK’s National Radiological Protection Board confirms that there is significant absorption of microwave energy, resulting from EMFs from cell phone usage, in the eyes and eye-sockets, brain, nose, tongue and surround-ing muscles. 

Research sponsored by the Department of Health at Bristol Royal Infirmary in western England showed portable telephones may alter memory and interfere with concentration and spatial awareness. The experiment was seen as powerful evidence of how cellular phones might temporarily affect the thoughts of their users. 

Lennart Hardell M.D. examined brain tumor sufferers in a controlled study and found that subjects using a cell phone on either the right or left hand side of the head increased the risk of getting a tumor by two-and-one-half times. 

Bioelectromagnetics published a report showing that digital cellular phone microwaves produced a 40% increase in the activity of the cancer-related enzyme ODCI. 

Studies at the University of Utah found that the thin skulls and smaller heads of children offer less protection against microwaves and, therefore, children have a greater risk of damage to brain cells. 50% more radiation is absorbed by a ten year old than an adult. 

Cellular Industry in Australia sponsored research that was “quietly” released showing that transgenic mice exposed to pulsed digital phone radiation over 18 months had an almost two-and-a-half times higher risk of developing lymphatic cancer than unexposed mice. 

Some scientists estimate that you are now daily exposed to 100 million times the electromagnetic field radiation of your grandparents. Research shows that these fields have a significant disruptive effect on the natural energy levels of your body and induce significant changes in the function of cells, tissues and organs. Your body’s energy, as well as your cellular communication system, is altered by the high frequencies of EMF. This man-made radiation increases stress in the body and significantly reduces one’s ability to effectively recover and maintain normal health. 

The changes observed are similar to biological processes, which scientists believe are involved in the development of adverse health conditions such as impaired brain function, cancer and Alzheimer’s. Science has proven that headaches, memory loss and fatigue are symptoms of a possible, bigger danger. Many neurologists, oncologists and other well-known scientists believe that it is only a matter of time before it is proven true. 

The human body is a strong conductor of electrical energy and is a very effective antenna. 

All of our essential bodily functions are electrical in nature, operating very much like systems of semiconductors which respond to extremely minute electromagnetic (EM) signals. In his book The Body Electric, Dr. Becker discusses the extremely tiny currents and voltages that control the function of our brains, immune systems, glands, digestion and even our fertility. These electrical signals are well within the range of those that can be stimulated in our bodies by ambient radio waves, microwaves and other nonionizing forms of radiation. 

Electromagnetic energy is used by the body to integrate, interrelate, harmonize, and execute diverse physiological processes. Intrinsic energy is in fact created and transmitted in the body, and it controls specific biological functions. Low-strength electromagnetic fields within the physiological frequency range can alter the electroencephalogram, the electrocardiogram, biological rhythms, calcium metabolism, as well as human behavior. 

The myriad sources of electromagnetic (EM) radiation in our environment can permeate our bodies which are extremely sensitive to EM influences.

STUDIES HAVE SHOWN EXPOSURE TO CELL PHONE RADIATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WIDE RANGE OF HEALTH PROBLEMS  

- Headaches
- Impaired immune system
- Tumors of hearing nerve
- Breakdown in blood-brain barrier
- Reduced melatonin
- Genetic damage
- Interference with pacemakers
- Melanoma of the eye
- Pressure or tingling in the head
- Memory loss
- Brain tumors
- DNA alteration or damage
- Changes in brain electrical activity
- Cardiovascular stress
- Eye problems
- Fatigue 

Warning by the expert appointed
by the cellphone industry
to investigate the safety

“…with medical science indicating increased risks of tumors, cancer, genetic damage and other health problems from the use of cellphones, the government and the cellphone industry have abandoned the public.“
 

This is a statement by Dr George Carlo, a leading scientist, who was trusted by the Mobile Phone Industry in the US to be most competent to correctly assess the safety of the mobile phones. Therefore he was commissioned to make a a very thorough examination. But after a few years of denying the hazards to the satisfaction of his sponsors, he changed his opinion in the face of accumulating evidence about the dangers and wrote a book about it. Here a Youtube video with him: 

Since the public communication of his findings, Dr Carlo “has been threatened, physically attacked, defamed, and his house mysteriously burned down.” Instead of listening to the well founded evaluation of the scientist the mobile phone industry trusted as most suitable for assessing the issue, they did not only ignore his results, but they sought to discredit him personally among reporters and other scientists.  

How can anyone trust research and scientists sponsored by such corporations as it is very evident from the case of Dr Carlo that the corporations do not accept other than favorable results regarding safety?  

Yet it is this pseudoscience that has been used by governments as the justification for continued support to the buildup of the mobile phone system in spite of the increasingly strong evidence about its hazards. 

Source: George Louis Carlo, Ph.D., Martin Schram 

Coca leaves are consumed by chewing and drinking tea or drinking an alcoholic beverage containing cocaleaf extract (tonicum) Studies of various universities have shown that consumption of cocaleaf is not hazardous to your health and not addictive, it is even a valuable source of food to keep you healthy. Consuming cocaleaves on a regular basis protects against cardio-vasculair diseases, coloncancer and tooth decay. This plant is a medicinal against: altitude sickness, depression, obesity high bloodpressure, astmatic bronchitis, diabetes, stomache and colon problems. In the western world the cocaplant has a bad reputation because of the drug cocaine, we can hardly imagine that the consumption of cocaleafs is beneficial to our health because it contains cocaine.

To understand this you have to know more about this plant. Apart from cocaine cocaleaves contain more types of alkaloids each with its own properties. These alkaloids work synergetic, that means that they reinforce each other; that’s why a few grams of cocaleaf are allready active. By consuming 2 grams of cocaleaf with an alkaloid content of 1.25% you get about 25 milligram (=1/40 gram) of alkaloids such as cocaine, ecgonine, hygrine etc. This quantity is enough for a pleasant sensation, you will feel bright, stimulated and relaxed for about 4 hours. Apart from alkaloids cocaleaves contain a lot of proteins, vitamines, minerals and is rich in flavanoids (green tea) wich support the energy processes in your body. You will be stimulated on a mild and pleasant way without damaging your health. Cocaine (cocaine hydrochlorine) is a chemical deriavate of the cocaplant wich is extensively chemically treated and it lacks every comparison with the healthy cocaleaf. Nutritional value of cocaleaves 100 grams: Proteine 19,9 gr. . Vitamine alfa&beta caroteen 16,6 mg. Phosphoros 405 mg B1. 0,8 mg. Potassium 1110 mg. B3 1,7 mg. Calcium 2191 mg. B6 8,6 mg. Magnesium 911 mg. C 2 mg. Iron 36 mg. E 53 mg. Zinc 4 mg. H 0,5 mg. Boron 24 mg. Nicotin acid 5,0 mg Alkaloids are organic nitro based compounds which are produced by many plants. They form an energy reserve in metabolic processes of the plant and helps the plant to defend against insects and deseases.

The chemical structure of alkaloids resembles xeronine which is allso produced by plants in very small amounts. Some plants metabolize their surplus of xeronine into alkaloids, and reverse this proces again if necessary. Xeronine is also important for our metabolism and is very quickly absorbed in our body. That is the reason why alkaloids are so quickly absorbed in our body, because they resemble xeronin. Familiar alkaloids are: Cafeine, Nicotine,Theobromine (choclate), Quinine, Theine (tea). Every alkaloid has a specific effect on our body, it depends on the dose and composition if alkoloids are curative or lethal. In cocaleaves all alkoloids are in balance. By chewing cocaleaves enzymatic processes convert the most of Cocaine into Ecgonine so you don’t experience the “coke rush”. If you ad a little burned lime or sodium bicarbonate to the cocaleaves you do experience a little bit of a coke rush. Because of the alkaline the alkoloids are released very quickly from the leaves and your mouth becomes numb. The consumption of cocaleafs does not stimulate the use of cocaine. It might sound as a paradox but heavy coke users have a benefit of chewing cocaleaves. It takes away the craving for coke and helps to reduce or even stop with the use of cocaine.

If cocaleaves are availeble most people prefer chewing coca leaves instead of using cocaine. Only a small percentage of coca chewers use cocaine. List of alkaloids containing in cocaleafs and its quality’s Cocaine Stimulating, euforic, painkiller Ecgonine Gives stamina and regulates the burning of carbon- hydrates and increases fatt burning Quinoline Prevents from caries and strengthens the gum Globuline Stimulates blood circulation, against altitude sickness and low blood pressure Papaine Promotes digestion, good for skin Pectine Anti diarea, absorbtion of poison Reserpine Against high blood pressure Benzoine Anti ferment, good for skin, mouth, colon, Atropine Dry’s up salival glands, relaxes muscle tonus Hygrine Stimulates salival gland Pyridine Stimulates bloodirculation, aproves the oxygen absorption of brain and muscles. Conine Local anaestesia. Inuline Improves the production of hemoglobine Cocamine Analgetic painkiller, blocks only pain other sensations remain intact.

And since everyone is different the cure for everyone will be different.  Depression cannot be cured with just (bio)chemicals, or universal energies (electricity, magnetics), as Depression is unlike any other ailment.

I understand biochemicals and their effects on neurochemicals, and then brain function and behaviour/mood/personality/emotions…   Some foods will naturally make you happier  (Very Special Article ”GxD’s Grocery List” Coming soon), but is a chemical means always going to be THEE answer for depression?  My common sense says no.

What about how thoughts effect the biochemical make-up of our brains?  Nobody ever talks about that.  We could eat all the happy food in the world, but if our thoughts are still more powerful and have the more profound affect and effect the (bio)chemicals, then (bio)chemicals are just a temporary trick.

So it is the individuals mind and life experience that needs to be re-moulded. And that’s where I come in with this article.

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