A SCIENCE OF SALVATION FROM SUFFERING

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Dearest Dr Sircus,

 

Please accept my pranam. It gives me a thrill to be corresponding

with you because I am a great fan of yours and take care not to miss

any article by you. I usually read most of your newsletters more than

once enchanted by the way you explain even difficult subjects. I also

redistribute your newsletters to all other medical groups I

to, without your permission of course !!

 

Coming to the present subject, I was actually quoting the founder of

the biochemic system of medicine, Dr Schussler. According to him

salts of Iron, Calcium and Magnesium are related. He calls them

Ferrum Phosphoricum, Calcarea Phosphoricum and Magnesium Phosphoricum.

 

When the body falls short of Iron, an essential part of haemoglobin

which is created in the bone marrow, it starts replacing it with the

calcium from the bones, and again when calcium is in short supply,

magnesium is drawn out of the system.

 

Therefore in the treatment of anaemia he suggests Calcarea Phos to be

the remedy. He also says that in case of cramps, Magnesia Phos should

be supplemented with Calcarea Phos.

 

I am not disagreeing with your article however. I read and, as usual,

thoroughly enjoyed it. Maybe the properties of the elements and their

salts is different?

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

ayurveda, "Mark Sircus Ac., OMD"

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> I am afraid I will have to disagree with you Jagannath. Yes

magnesium and calcium are deeply related but not in the way you

indicate. Below is a chapter from my book on the subject.

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Hey well said - we give everyone Magnesium here and get laughed at for it -

what a bonus! Magnesium for some and laughter for others - some of us even

get both!

 

Best,

 

Jane

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

 

 

And in today's age I recommend mangesium for everyone and everything....and

for anemia I love spirulina.

 

Mark

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> Medical authorities claim that the widespread incidence of

> osteoporosis and tooth decay in western countries can be prevented

> with a high calcium intake. However Asian and African populations

> with a low intake (about 300 mg) of calcium daily have very little

> osteoporosis. Bantu women with an intake of 200 to 300 mg of

> calcium daily have the lowest incidence of osteoporosis in the

> world.[4] In western countries with a high intake of dairy products

> the average calcium intake is about 1000 mg. With a low magnesium

> intake, calcium moves out of the bones to increase tissue levels,

> while a high magnesium intake causes calcium to move from the

> tissues into the bones. Thus high magnesium levels leads to bone

> mineralization.

 

other things going on here besides Mg is higher vit D consumption (or

exposure, in tropical regions), and also the high levels of vitamin K

in the leafy greens and other foods such as the japanese fermented

soy products; better acid/alkaline balance too, generally, than

western countries

 

and about Mg, since i didn't see it mentioned per se, is that

magnesium is required for the activation of alkaline phosphatase, an

enzyme involved in forming calcium crystals in bone, and for the

conversion of vitamin D into its biologically active form

 

> Later in 1998, Harvard researchers published a study of dairy

> product intake among 526 men diagnosed with prostate cancer and 536

> similar men not diagnosed with the disease. That study found a 50%

> increase in prostate cancer risk and a near doubling of risk of

> metastatic prostate cancer among men consuming high amounts of

> dairy products, likely due, say the researchers, to the high total

> amount of calcium in such a diet. The most recent Harvard study on

> the topic, published in October 2001, looked at dairy product

> intake among 20,885 men and found men consuming the most dairy

> products had about 32% higher risk of developing prostate cancer

> than those consuming the least.

 

and i think this may be more related to potent chemical estrogens

found in dairy

 

best... todd caldecott

 

Caldecott

todd (AT) toddcaldecott (DOT) com

www.toddcaldecott.com

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Hi Jane, who is we and where is we?????????? Sounds like you are having fun at least.

 

Last night I realized I had not written a chapter specifically about magnesium and pain especially transdermal magnesium chloride treatment and pain relief. My book is finished and ready to go to the printer this week but I shouted out hold the presses..........here is the draft I put together last night,,,what do you all think?

 

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Transdermal Magnesium Therapy

Ideal Pain Management

 

 

Americans' intake of magnesium dropped 50% in the

last century, and the consequences are quite painful.

 

 

It was not until I was received the following story from my research assistant Claudia French, who works as a psychiatric nurse in a private hospital, that I noticed I had forgotten to directly address the issue of pain management and magnesium.

 

 

Yesterday I witnessed one of the most amazing benefits of transdermal magnesium I have seen. I work with another RN who is afflicted with arthritis, especially in her hands, and frequent muscle cramping/spasms in her legs. She has been using magnesium but became lax. Before leaving for work yesterday I received a phone call from her begging me to please bring with me some magnesium oil, as her hands were so cramped up and painful that she could barely stand to continue working.

 

 

When I got there, her hands and fingers were very contorted in spasm. Her fingers were curled up and stiff and her legs were cramping badly. She reported they had been this way all day, and the pain was driving her to tears. She immediately slathered the magnesium oil all over her hands. We were in report and she wanted it on her hands right away so the entire nursing staff watched and within 5 minutes you could visibly see her fingers extend back to normal and the finger movement return. We could literally see the relaxation taking place. It was simply amazing. Within minutes her hands were completely relaxed and functional again and stayed that way the remainder of the evening. She also applied the magnesium to her legs and got relief .

 

 

About 30 minutes after applying the oil, she held up her hands for everyone to see, and showed us the arthritic nodules on some fingers. She described how painful these always are to touch. But she poked and prodded them telling us how there was no pain now. She was able to continue working and doing the extensive writing that is a large part of our work without any further discomfort.

 

 

Pain relief and muscle relaxation for people with arthritis and muscle cramping is an important and significant benefit of magnesium oil. The rapid relief, visible to us all was really amazing!

 

 

 

Dr. Linda Rapson, who specializes in treating chronic pain, believes that about 70 per cent of her patients who complain of muscle pain, cramps and fatigue are showing signs of magnesium deficiency. "Virtually all of them improve when I put them on magnesium," says Rapson, who runs a busy Toronto pain clinic. "It may sound too good to be true, but it's a fact." She's seen the mineral work in those with fibromyalgia, migraines and constipation. "The scientific community should take a good hard look at this."

Lynne Suo is one of Dr. Rapson's patients. She had been using painkillers and steroids for years to try to ease the pain of her arthritis and fibromyalgia. Dr. Rapson started her on 675 units of magnesium a day. Within days, Suo called Dr. Rapson to report a surprising change. "I went from being in constant pain almost throughout the day and night to having moments of pain. And for me that was a huge improvement," says Suo, a former college English teacher. She dismisses suggestions that the change is a placebo effect. "I was not one day without pain and now I don't have to take heavy pain medication," she reports.

We know that a lack of magnesium underlies our epidemic of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and osteoporosis. Minus magnesium, hearts beat irregularly; arteries stiffen, constrict and clog; blood pressure rises; blood tends to clot; muscles spasm; insulin grows weaker and blood sugar jumps; bones lose strength; and pain signals intensify.

"Many people needlessly suffer pain - including fibromyalgia, migraines and muscle cramps - because they do not get enough magnesium," says Mildred Seelig, M.D., a leading magnesium researcher at the University of North Carolina. The problem is exacerbated when they load up on calcium, thinking it will help, when in fact, an overabundance of calcium flushes magnesium out of cells, compromising the effectiveness of both minerals. Prescription medications, such as antidepressants, tranquilizers and pain medications, only treat the symptoms. Magnesium treats the symptoms while it simultaneously addresses the cause of much of the pain and disease we experience. In fact, it could be surmised that pain and disease is one residual effect of magnesium deficiency, or a mineral imbalance.

Intravenous infusions of magnesium sulphate reduced intra and

postoperative analgesic consumption in a recent clinical study.[ii]

Why is magnesium not promoted by doctors as the pain relief medicine it truly is? "It's not taught in medical schools," says Dr. Mildred Seelig, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina. She has been studying magnesium for years and is writing a book, due out next year, urging doctors and patients not to overlook this essential mineral. "It's not being promoted because pharmaceutical companies don't make money selling magnesium," says Dr. Seelig. "So there is no big push to get magnesium understood and taken by the average (North) American."

Experimental systemic and intrathecal injection of magnesium

suppressed neuropathic pain responses via a spinal site of action in rats

with chronic constriction injury of the sciatic and saphenous nerves.[iii]

Mention magnesium, and many people conjure up images of a hard, silvery alloy used to fashion parts for aircraft and automobiles, or machinery that needs to resist corrosion. Mention it as a pain reliever second to none and people will scratch their head and wonder what's wrong with you. Considering that magnesium behaves like an NMDA receptor antagonist, researchers investigated the effect of the combination of magnesium and morphine in experimental models of chronic and tonic pain. They found that magnesium alone induced a significant antihyperalgesic effect in mononeuropathic and diabetic rats after a cumulative dose of 90 mg/kg. Magnesium was found to amplify the analgesic effect of low-dose morphine in conditions of sustained pain. Considering the good tolerability of magnesium, these findings have clinical applications in neuropathic and persistent pain.[iv]

The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor plays an important role in the mechanisms underlying central sensitization in the spinal cord, which is critically important for the establishment of several chronic neuropathic pain states.[v] In its inactive state the NMDA receptor is blocked by the presence of a centrally positioned magnesium ion.

Medical scientists from the Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Management, University Hospital Lewisham, London, think the beneficial effect of magnesium in terms of pain management may result from the physiological action of magnesium as a non-competitive antagonist of the NMDA-receptor. It is likely that the intravenous magnesium infusion increased the Mg++ concentration gradient between the extracellular fluid and the cell membranes, causing block of the NMDA-receptor and subsequent pain relief.

In the 90's cardiovascular biologist Dr. Burton M. Altura of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn witnessed a therapeutic benefit of magnesium in acute symptoms, such as headache pain. Altura administered a solution containing 1 gram of magnesium sulfate intravenously to 40 patients who visited a headache clinic in the throes of moderate to severe pain. They treated not only migraine sufferers but also persons with cluster headaches and chronic daily headaches.

Within 15 minutes, 32 of the men and women-80 percent-experienced relief. Though the headache may not have vanished, the pain lessened by at least 50 percent. In 18 of these individuals, the pain relief lasted at least 24 hours. Blood tests before treatment confirmed that all but four in this latter group had ionized magnesium concentrations that were lower than the average in a related group of pain free individuals. "All nine patients with cluster headaches had their acute headache aborted by magnesium therapy." Migraine sufferers who responded to the treatment experienced a complete alleviation of their current symptoms, including sensitivity to lights and sound. Subsequent studies of additional migraine patients have confirmed a common pattern, Altura says. "Those patients where ionized magnesium in the brain or blood is low will respond to intravenous magnesium very quickly and dramatically."

The combination of heat and magnesium chloride increases circulation and waste removal. The therapeutic effect of magnesium baths is to draw inflammation out of the muscles and joints. A whole new world of pain management will be realized when doctors and patients find out that magnesium chloride from natural sources is available for topical use and that the potential for pain relief is enormous.

Magnesium chloride, when applied directly to the skin is transdermally absorbed and has an almost immediate effect on chronic pain. Transdermal magnesium therapy is also ideal for athletes who need high levels of magnesium. Oral magnesium is much less effective than transdermal magnesium in the treatment of injuries and tired worn out muscles. Perhaps the biggest difference between oral and transdermal supplementation of magnesium is seen in the area of pain management.

A friend of mine Dr. David I. Minkoff called me recently complaining about tired and sore muscles from the strenuous athletic training he, a 58 year old, was subjecting himself to. He was using the magnesium oil but just a little bit of it. I told him to buy a gallon and dump whatever he had into his bath right away.

"I did the magnesium soak two days ago as you said with 4 ozs. The next morning I was better. Yesterday I did a 101 mile bike ride up a 6200 foot mountain. Was out in the heat (90 degrees) for 7 ½ hours and then ran two miles when I got home. I am usually cramped up when I get home after a day like this and feeling pretty done in. But no cramps. Did another soak after the ride and run (I used more as my gallon arrived) and today I am not sore at all. I should be limping around. I did an easy 2.5 mile ocean swim and did another 6 ounces in the tub, then got a massage and my body is feeling good."

Transdermal magnesium therapy is an

ideal pain management treatment system.

According to Dr. Cathy Wong a German study found that mineral supplements increased intracellular magnesium levels by 11% and was associated with a reduction in pain symptoms in 76 out of 82 people with chronic low back pain.[vi] London researchers provide strong evidence that magnesium sulphate produces pain relief in patients with PHN[vii], a neuropathic pain condition.[viii]

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[ii] Koinig H, Wallner T, Marhofer P, Andel H, Horauf K, Mayer N. Magnesium sulphate reduces intra-and postoperative analgesic requirements. Anest Analg 1998; 87(1):206-210.

[iii] Xiao WH, Bennett GJ. Magnesium suppresses neuropathic pain responses in rats via a spinal site of action. Brain Res 1994; 666(2):168-172.

[iv] Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Medicale, Faculte de Medecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Anesthesiology 2002 Mar;96(3):627-32

[v] Woolf CJ, Thompson WN. The induction and maintenance of central sensitization is dependent on N-methyl-D-aspatic acid receptor activation: implications for the treatment of post-injury pain hypersensitivity states. Pain 1991; 44:298-9.

[vi] http://altmedicine.about.com/od/chronicpain/a/back_pain_2.htm

[vii] Post herpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a complication of acute herpes zoster infection (HZ), characterized by severe constant pain and disturbances of the sensory nervous system in the skin area initially affected by the infection.

[viii] Brill, S.; Sedgwick, P.; Hamann, W. Magnesium Relieves Pain in Posterpetic Neuralgia Department of Anaesthetics & Pain Management, University Hospital Lewisham, London, United Kingdom;

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magnesium is required for the activation of alkaline phosphatase, an

enzyme involved in forming calcium crystals in bone, and for the

conversion of vitamin D into its biologically active form

 

 

Thanks Todd will include this in that chapter.

 

Mark

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Victoria Australia is where I am Mark - I used the term "we" loosely for

want of time to be more specific, having observed various alternative MDs

here use Magnesium as an essential part of their prescibing over many years

and where people have asked me for direction for their "supplements" in my

role of RN, I have always started with a good and on-going dose of Magnesum.

One specific and brilliant MD lectures here and I was irritated I suppose

when another RN said in a derogatory one that this Drs patient all recieve

Magesium in one form or another with the implication that it was the

prescriber at fault rather than the general need of the patients. Any work

colleagues who give me the opportunity to recommend Magenesium, and how many

women suffer night cramps? - a multitude! - get instant relief from the

Magesium I go and buy them.

 

Thats it in a nutshell!

 

Jane

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

 

Hi Jane, who is we and where is we?????????? Sounds like you are having fun

at least.