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Magnesium Chloride is an important mineral,as the air we breath. It is a mineral we don't hear much about, Yet a lack of it will bring cellular life to a stand still
Monday, 20 September 2010
Magnesium Chloride is an important mineral,as the air we breath. It is a mineral we don't hear much about, Yet a lack of it will bring cellular life to a stand still:
Magnesium chloride is one of many minerals found in ocean water. According to pain management specialist Dr. Norman Shealy, most people are deficient in the mineral magnesium, and this causes chronic conditions including fibromyalgia, migraine, heart disease and possibly even cancer. You can take magnesium orally, but your digestive tract does not easily absorb it. For severe deficiency, IV infusions may be needed. The easiest delivery method is through the skin via a magnesium chloride bath or oil.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
Nigari flakes
Purified water
Jar or bottle with lid
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Purchase nigari flakes at an Asian food market or online. Nigari flakes are magnesium chloride derived from sea salt and are usually used for making tofu. A one-pound container typically costs less than $2. One online source is NaturalImport.com (see Resources for a link).
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Pour nigari flakes into a one-quart bottle or jar until filled. Fill loosely and do not pack the flakes down. A one-pound bag of flakes will probably be enough for at least two bottles.
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Add enough purified water to cover the flakes completely (one to two cups). You may need to do this slowly to avoid overflowing the jar. The water will absorb into the flakes gradually, so you may need to add more water after a while to fill the jar.
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Allow two or three days for the water and flakes to fully incorporate, SilverMedicine.org recommends. Even though no oil exists in either the water or the nigari flakes, the mixture will take on an oily look and feel. Once it has reached this murky stage, you can begin using it.
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Apply the magnesium chloride oil to aching muscles and joints, rubbing it in thoroughly. It will be absorbed through your skin to replenish your cells with the magnesium they need for more efficient function. Sheahy states on his website that most pain is the result of overstressed cells, and sufficient magnesium alleviates this stress. A study published in the European Journal of Anaesthesiolog by H. Kara, et al, showed that magnesium supplementation before and during surgery greatly reduced postoperative pain.
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Soak in magnesium chloride for an overall tonic to raise your body's levels of this important mineral. Add five cups of nigari flakes to a tub of warm (not hot) water and soak in it until the water gets too cold for comfort. Fibromyalgia and migraine sufferers, as well as those with high blood pressure and heart problems, can benefit from this soak three or four times a week until their magnesium levels have normalized. For maintenance, soak two times a week.
Magnesium Chloride is an important mineral,as the air we breath. It is a mineral we don't hear much about, Yet a lack of it will bring cellular life to a stand still
Magnesium Chloride is an important mineral,as the air we breath. It is a mineral we don't hear much about, Yet a lack of it will bring cellular life to a stand still:
Magnesium Chloride is an important mineral,as the air we breath. It is a mineral we don't hear much about, Yet a lack of it will bring cellular life to a stand still Side Effects of Magnesium chloride - for the Consumer
Magnesium Chloride Sustained-Release Tablets
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects. Check with your doctor if any of these most COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome when using Magnesium Chloride Sustained-Release Tablets:
Diarrhea.
Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur when using Magnesium Chloride Sustained-Release Tablets:
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); nausea; slow reflexes.
Side Effects by Body System
Other
Other side effects have resulted from toxicity (hypermagnesemia). Mild hypermagnesemia is generally well-tolerated. Moderate or severe hypermagnesemia primarily affects the nervous and cardiovascular systems. The effects of hypermagnesemia may be worsened by the presence of hypocalcemia, especially in patients with uremia.
Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal side effects have included diarrhea. Magnesium toxicity has been associated with nausea (magnesium levels of 4 to 5 mEq/L) and rare cases of paralytic ileus (magnesium levels greater than 5 mEq/L).
Nervous system
Nervous system side effects have resulted from the suppression of neuromuscular transmission in the CNS and at the neuromuscular junction by magnesium (antagonized by calcium). The degree of severity of these side effects has been dependent on the serum magnesium level. Clinically, if serum magnesium (Mg) levels increase to 4 to 7 mEq/L, there may be a decrease in tendon reflexes, muscle weakness and/or mental confusion/sedation. At levels of 7 to 10 mEq/L the respiratory rate slows and the blood pressure falls. At levels of 10 to 15 mEq/L there is usually profound mental depression, areflexia, coma and respiratory paralysis. Magnesium also has a curare-like effect at the neuromuscular junction at serum levels above 10 mEq/L. Death is not uncommon when serum magnesium levels rise to 15 mEq/L.
Cardiovascular
The cardiovascular consequences of hypermagnesemia are due to peripheral vasodilation. Hypotension may be observed when serum magnesium levels rise to 7 to 10 mEq/L, becoming severe when serum magnesium levels rise above 10 mEq/L. Magnesium can also depress myocardial conductivity at levels greater than 10 mEq/L. This can result in bradyarrhythmias. While some patients are inexplicably able to tolerate extraordinary magnesium levels, there is a significant risk of asystole when levels rise to 25 mEq/L. The risk of cardiotoxicity from hypermagnesemia is increased in the presence of hypocalcemia, hyperkalemia, acidosis, digitalis therapy, and renal insufficiency.
Cardiovascular side effects have included hypotension, depressed myocardial conductivity and asystole.
Metabolic
Acute hypermagnesemia may cause hypocalcemia due to suppression of the release of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and competition for renal tubular reabsorption between calcium (Ca) and magnesium. The latter can lead to decreased Ca reabsorption and hypercalciuria, which aggravates the hypocalcemia produced by decreased release of PTH.
Metabolic side effects have included hypocalcemia.
General
Magnesium chloride is generally well tolerated.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Magnesium Chloride is an important mineral,as the air we breath. It is a mineral we don't hear much about, Yet a lack of it will bring cellular life to a stand still
Magnesium Chloride In Acute And Chronic Diseases
Health through Nutrition
Practical Health
..."The opposition was total: Professors of Medicine, Medical Peer-Reviews, the Academy itself, all were against the two doctors. "Official Medicine" saw in Magnesium Chloride Therapy a threat to its new and growing business: vaccinations."...
See also: Magnesium: Research Misconduct?
Here is another under used mineral. Like Vitamin C, it to is nearly miraculous for the depth and scope of it's application.
The comparison between to two is uncanny imagine what they could do combined?
Both these supplements were (and are) able to cure polio but ran up against the vaccine racket.
Some other benefits are:
..."Many of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can be overcome with high magnesium supplementation....
...In a trial with 30 epileptics 450 mg of magnesium supplied daily successfully controlled seizures. Another study found that the lower the magnesium blood levels the more severe was the epilepsy. In most cases magnesium works best in combination with vitamin B6 and zinc...
....Countries with the highest calcium to magnesium ratios (high calcium and low magnesium levels) in soil and water have the highest incidence of cardiovascular disease. At the top of the list is Australia....
See also: Orthomolecular Solutions to Heart Disease
...In an American study the death rate due to diabetes was four times higher in areas with low magnesium water levels as compared to areas with high levels of magnesium in the water....
...In a New Zealand study it was found that caries-resistant teeth had on average twice the amount of magnesium as caries-prone teeth....
....Many studies have shown an increased cancer rate in regions with low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water. In Egypt the cancer rate was only about 10% of that in Europe and America. In the rural fellah it was practically non-existent. The main difference was an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3 g in these cancer-free populations, ten times more than in most western countries.
See also:
Magnesium Chloride - Effective In Treating Urinary Troubles Of Prostate
Recent Research Shows Intravenous C Can be Effective Against Some Cancers
Why Magnesium Chloride?
...."both magnesium as well as chloride have other important functions in keeping us young and healthy. Chloride, of course, is required to produce a large quantity of gastric acid each day and is also needed to stimulate starch-digesting enzymes. Magnesium is the mineral of rejuvenation and prevents the calcification of our organs and tissues that is characteristic of the old-age related degeneration of our body.
Using other magnesium salts is less advantageous because these have to be converted into chlorides in the body anyway. We may use magnesium as oxide or carbonate but then we need to produce additional hydrochloric acid to absorb them. Many aging individuals, especially with chronic diseases who desperately need more magnesium cannot produce sufficient hydrochloric acid and then cannot absorb the oxide or carbonate. Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate. It is soluble but not well absorbed and acts mainly as a laxative. Chelated magnesium is well absorbed but much more expensive and lacks the beneficial contribution of the chloride ions. Orotates are good but very expensive for the amount of magnesium that they provide and both orotates and chelates seem to lack the infection-fighting potential of the magnesium chloride."....
See Walter Last's MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE for Health & Rejuvenation for much expanded review of this miracle mineral.
Unfortunately, a more detailed book, on how to exploit magnesiumÂ’s properties to prevent and treat various condition, CURARSI CON IL MAGNESIO (HOW TO CURE WITH MAGNESIUM) by R. Vergini is only available in Italian, French and Spanish. If there is a reader who should like to translate this in English they can go to the foreign translations and rights page here with email address of the woman managing them.
Chris Gupta
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MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES
Raul Vergini,MD
Back in 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet,MD, was looking for a solution to cleanse wounds, because he had found out that the traditional antiseptic solutions actually mortified tissues and facilitated the infection instead of preventing it.
He tested several mineral solutions and discovered that a Magnesium Chloride solution was not only harmless for tissues, but it had also a great effect over leucocytic activity and phagocytosis; so it was perfect for external wounds treatment.
Dr.Delbet performed a lot of "in vitro" and "in vivo" experiments with this solution and he became aware that it was good not only for external applications, but it was also a powerful immuno-stimulant if taken by injections or even by mouth. He called this effect "cytophilaxis". In some "in vivo" experiments it was able to increase phagocytosis rate up to 300%.
Dr.Delbet serendipitously discovered that this oral solution had also a tonic effect on many people and so became aware that the Magnesium Chloride had an effect on the whole organism. In a brief time, he received communications of very good therapeutics effects of this "therapy" from people that were taking Magnesium Chloride for its tonic properties and who were suffering from various ailments. Prof.Delbet began to closely study the subject and verified that the Magnesium Chloride solution was a very good therapy for a long list of diseases.
He obtained very good results in: colitis, angiocholitis and cholecystitis in the digestive apparatus; Parkinson's Disease, senile tremors and muscular cramps in the nervous system; acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts, itch of various origins and chilblains in the skin.
There was a strengthening of hair and nails, a good effect on diseases typical of the aged (impotency, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory troubles), and on diseases of allergic origin (hay-fever, asthma, urticaria and anaphylactic reactions).
Then Prof.Delbet began to investigate the relationship between Magnesium and Cancer. After a lot of clinical and experimental studies, he found that Magnesium Chloride had a very good effect on prevention of cancer and that it was able to cure several precancerous conditions: leucoplasia, hyperkeratosis, chronic mastitis, etc.
Epidemiological studies confirmed Delbet's views and demonstrated that the regions with soil more rich in magnesium had less cancer incidence, and vice versa.
In 1943 another French doctor, A.Neveu,MD, used the Magnesium Chloride solution in a case of diphteria to reduce the risks of anaphylactic reaction due to the anti-diphteric serum that he was ready to administer. To his great surprise, when the next day the laboratory results confirmed the diagnosis of diphteria, the little girl was completely cured, before he could use the serum.
He credited the immuno-stimulant activity to the solution for this result, and he tested it in some other diphteric patients. All the patients were cured in a very short time (24-48 hours), with no after-effects.
As Magnesium Chloride has no direct effect on bacteria (i.e.it is not an antibiotic ), Neveu thought that its action was aspecific, immuno-enhancing, so it could be useful, in the same manner, also against viral diseases. So he began to treat some cases of poliomyelitis, and had the same wonderful results.
He was very excited and tried to divulge the therapy, but he ran into a wall of hostility and obstructionism from "Official Medicine". Neither Neveu or Delbet (who was a member of the Academy of Medicine) was able to diffuse Neveu's extraordinary results.
The opposition was total: Professors of Medicine, Medical Peer-Reviews, the Academy itself, all were against the two doctors. "Official Medicine" saw in Magnesium Chloride Therapy a threat to its new and growing business: vaccinations.
Dr. Neveu wasn't discouraged by this and continued to test this therapy in a wide range of diseases. He obtained very good results in: pharyngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness, common cold, influenza, asthma, bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary emphysema, "children diseases" (whooping-cough, measles, rubella, mumps, scarlet fever...), alimentary and professional poisonings, gastroenteritis, boils, abscesses, erysipelas, whitlow, septic pricks (wounds), puerperal fever and osteomyelitis.
But the indications for Magnesium Chloride therapy don't end here. In more recent years other physicians (and I among these) have verified many of Delbet's and Neveu's applications and have tried the therapy in other pathologies: asthmatic acute attack, shock, tetanus (for these the solution is administered by intravenous injection); herpes zoster, acute and chronic conjunctivitis, optic neuritis, rheumatic diseases, many allergic diseases, spring- asthenia and Cronic Fatigue Syndrome (even in cancer it can be an useful adjuvant.
The preceding lists of ailments are by no means exhaustive; maybe other illnesses can be treated with this therapy but, as this is a relatively "young" treatment, we are pioneers, and we need the help of all physicians of good will to definitely establish all the true possibilities of this wonderful therapy.
From a practical standpoint, please remember that only Magnesium CHLORIDE has this "cytophilactic" activity, and no other magnesium salt; probably it's a molecular, and not a merely ionic, matter.
The solution to be used is a 2.5% Magnesium Chloride hexahydrate (MgCl2-6H2O) solution (i.e.: 25 grams/1 liter of water). Dosages are as follows:
- Adults and children over 5 years old..................125 cc
- 4 year old children...........................................100 cc
- 3 year old children...........................................80 cc
- 1-2 year old children........................................60 cc
- over 6 months old children............................... 30 cc
- under 6 months old children..............................15 cc
These doses must be administered BY MOUTH. The only contraindication to Magnesium Chloride Therapy is a severe renal insufficiency*.
As the magnesium chloride has a mild laxative effect, diarrhea sometimes appears on the first days of therapy, expecially when high dosages (i.e. three doses a day) are taken; but this is not a reason to stop the therapy.
The taste of the solution is not very good (it has a bitter-saltish flavor) so a little fruit juice (grapefruit, orange, lemon) can be added to the solution, or it can be even used in the place of water to make the solution itself. Grapefruit juice masks the bitter taste very well (expecially if cold).
For CHRONIC diseases the standard treatment is one dose morning and evening for a long period (several months at least, but it can be continued for years.
In ACUTE diseases the dose is administered every 6 hours (every 3 hours the first two doses if the case is serious); then space every 8 hours and then 12 hours as improvement goes on. After recovery it's better going on with a dose every 12 hours for some days.
As a PREVENTIVE measure, and as a magnesium supplement, one dose a day can be taken indefinitely. Magnesium Chloride, even if it's an inorganic salt, is very well absorbed and it's a very good supplemental magnesium source.
For INTRAVENOUS injection, the formula is:
Magnesium Chloride hexahydrate......................25 grams
Distilled Water.................................................100 cc
Make injections of 10-20cc (very slowly, over 10-20 minutes) once or twice a day. Of course the solution must be sterilized.
This therapy gives very good results also in Veterinary Medicine, at the appropriate dosages depending upon the size and kind of animals.
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Raul Vergini, MD – Italy – author of: "Curarsi con il Magnesio" Red Edizioni -Italy 1994 (book translated in french and spanish but not in english, sorry).
*Dr. Raul Vergini says, that "this is true only for severe renal insufficiency," where an obvious contraindication may exist; but this is also true for all minerals, that cannot be easily eliminated by a seriously impaired kidney. In all other cases, there are no risks. I never heard or read of any problem. The quantity of elemental magnesium contained in a 125 cc dose of the 2.5% solution is around 500 mg. That is not a large dose! Anyway, I think that it is a good precaution to advise people with problems to consult their physician."
Addendum:
According to Raul Vergini, M.D., the 25% solution for IV injections is correct. Personally I never use it, I use only the oral way. But it was used over thirty years ago by some French doctors (5 grams in 20 ml of saline solution of distilled water) to treat tetanus and other less dangerous diseases (asthmatic attacks, choc, opthalmic herpes, herpes zoster, Quincke's oedema, itching, etc.). It was injected very slowly (in 10-20 minutes), and the results were very good.
"Moreover also the Myers' cocktail contains 2-5 ml of a 20% solution of magnesium chloride (along with other products that may contribute to make the solution more diluted). However, I think that if there are problems of 'burning' with the 25% concentration, it should be possible to use, with the same results, a 2.5% solution (the same used by mouth) by dissolving 5 grams of magnesium chloride in 200 ml of distilled water. The solution must be sterilized.
"The intramuscular way is not used because the solution is painful."
[In the United States, Magnesium Chloride hexahydrate can be purchased chemically pure (c.p.) from most chemical supply houses without a prescription: Ed.]
Dose: 1 Table Spoon of Magnesium Chloride to a Litre of water. take a sherry glassful of the Mix and add it to a glass of water or juice and drink 3 times a the day. ( Daily) For Chronic conditions: 2 table spoons to Litre of water, take a sherry glassful of the Mix and add it to a glass of water or juice and drink 3 times a the day.daily
Magnesium Chloride Flakes: 500 grams ( 1/2 Kg) £15 Postage included For further details or purchase email me; naturalhealingcentre@googlemail.com Phone: +44 1376511069
