Guest guest Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Thanks to luckypig for this article. According to my research, glutathione (GSH) can only be manufactured in our own body, at the cellular level. You CAN NOT eat glutathione because it just won't work. But fortunately, there are certainly several ways to increase your cellular glutathione level, but the safest way is to use the "undenatured whey protein". (Note: Denatured whey protein from regular supplement stores does NOT increase the glutathione level.) I cannot go into details of how important GSH is in our body because it'll take a long time to type them up, including over 20 years of researches and studies. Please email me directly if you are interested in finding out more about it....the greatest "medical breakthrough" since penicillin. But first, check out WedMd.com's articles regarding GSH, or simply search for the word glutathione. webmd.com/search/search_results?query=glutathione & filter=mywebmd_all_filter Enjoy your day!!!! David NY luckypig <luckypig wrote: Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C & Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 whey-protein:refer to notmilk.com " You are what you eat " is what I thought it was, maybe I'm wrong, altho I am pretty dern healthy at a young 41 frankincense and myrrh learn what the ancient ones knew about these two and their medicinal properties Maybe it's just me but the rift between the people that are followers of mainstream medicine and those of Holistic practices seems to be widening, anyone else notice this in your area? Karl In , " David C. " <dchoneybear> wrote: > Thanks to luckypig for this article. According to my research, glutathione (GSH) can only be manufactured in our own body, at the cellular level. You CAN NOT eat glutathione because it just won't work. > > But fortunately, there are certainly several ways to increase your cellular glutathione level, but the safest way is to use the " undenatured whey protein " . (Note: Denatured whey protein from regular supplement stores does NOT increase the glutathione level.) > > I cannot go into details of how important GSH is in our body because it'll take a long time to type them up, including over 20 years of researches and studies. Please email me directly if you are interested in finding out more about it....the greatest " medical breakthrough " since penicillin. > > But first, check out WedMd.com's articles regarding GSH, or simply search for the word glutathione. webmd.com/search/search_results? query=glutathione & filter=mywebmd_all_filter > > Enjoy your day!!!! > David NY > > > > luckypig <luckypig@i...> wrote: > Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C & Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 > > Thanks to luckypig for this article. According to my research, > glutathione (GSH) can only be manufactured in our own body, at the > cellular level. You CAN NOT eat glutathione because it just won't > work. That's true for most cells; however, lung, sinus and bowel cells are able to locally absorb glutathione through their cell walls. Glutathione has not been developed to get to the bowel cells; it is broken up in the stomach and digestive tract. Glutathione nasal spray and aerosol inhalers are on the market; they are useful, but you've got to question the wisdom of local treatement when low glutathione is a systemic problem. Cold processed whey with selenium is the best glutathione precursor; the FDA agrees in this document: http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/00/slides/3652s1_05/sld001.htm Mannatech's Ambrotose increases glutathione production, but this will rely on the precursors being present too. Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hi Guro: The whey protein that I referred to is undenatured whey protein, different from the health food stores' regular whey protein. So their nutritional functions are very different. You asked a very good question and have asked by many. Mad Cow disease is a "transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle." "Milk and milk products are not believed to pose any risk for transmitting mad cow disease to humans. Experiments have shown that milk from mad cow-infected cows has not caused infections. " - WedMd.com Mad Cow disease has never been reported to be passed along through milk products. The World Health Organization (WHO) has extensively studied this possibility, and has concluded that milk products hold no risk. Hope this helps! David NYGuro Dennis Servaes <guro wrote: How safe is whey? For instance is it logical to consume dairy products when Mad Cow disease is here?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hi Guro: The whey protein that I referred to is undenatured whey protein, different from the health food stores' regular whey protein. So their nutritional functions are very different. You asked a very good question and have asked by many. Mad Cow disease is a "transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle." "Milk and milk products are not believed to pose any risk for transmitting mad cow disease to humans. Experiments have shown that milk from mad cow-infected cows has not caused infections. " - WedMd.com Mad Cow disease has never been reported to be passed along through milk products. The World Health Organization (WHO) has extensively studied this possibility, and has concluded that milk products hold no risk. Hope this helps! David NYGuro Dennis Servaes <guro wrote: How safe is whey? For instance is it logical to consume dairy products when Mad Cow disease is here?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 --- Hi! Studies in Great Britain have proven that the prion that causes Madcow IS transferred to the ground via the urine and there is a whole lot more protein in milk than in urine that means that the risk is greatly increased over drinking cow urine and in contaminated cattle the transfer to the ground via the urine was 100% . doesn't sound like a very good risk to take does it? The Italian Gov linked madcow to CJD released 2/2/04 after a long embargo. Our mainstream media will not even air the findings my land of milk and honey consists of virgin honey and goatsmilk(20 min digestion versus approx10hrs for cow milk) in the US the only cattle that are tested for Madcow are downer cattle that means the ones tested are not the healthy ones that our primary food supply comes from(only Japan tests every cow) downers are usually " amendments " used as fertilizers and feed for other animals including human ( certain lowend processed foods) A side of beef is exactly that! a bovine specimen that is literally cut exactly down the middle with the main nerve( the spinal cord) being cut in half the blades that do the cutting are rinsed with a slurry that washes over the whole carcass .IF that spinal cord is contaminated so is the whole specimen due to the slurry that keeps the blades clean, and the blood that made bloodmeal, the gelatin etc,etc,etc) It Only takes 1 that is correct one 1/2gram gelcap to transmit the prion that causes Madcow ending in certain death,( just like the cattle you've seen on TV) how many of those have you taken in your lifetime?? hope that helps karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 > Studies in Great Britain have proven that the prion that causes > Madcow IS transferred to the ground via the urine and there is a whole > lot more protein in milk than in urine that means that the risk is > greatly increased over drinking cow urine and in contaminated cattle > the transfer to the ground via the urine was 100% . doesn't sound like > a very good risk to take does it? Doesn't mean that at all. Protein in urine is a waste product; protein in milk is a saved product. The scare should be seen for what it is; there remains no risk that we can ascertain from the milk. However, people practicing 'poor man's urotherapy' i.e. drinking cow urine may be placing themselves at risk if the cow has prion disease But again, this 'disease' is linked to incorrect manganese and copper ratio. Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 --- namsate Duncan , I have to say that overall I admire your knowledge base, but I have to admit that youre info on madcow is disheartening are you a cattleman?just curious?, how many research papers concerning prion transmissability have you read? what causes madcow is not the point how transmissable it it IS THE POINT!,Transmissability tests do not lie! what in the world would make anyone think that only some of the infected protein(prion) would be dangerous? the body( cattle,human or whatever) is riddled with nerves/protein , the lungs have exposed nerves that fluid passes over regularly thus contaminating that fluid which is then what, sneezed out coughed out etc, the eyes also have nerves which are exposed to fluid that can then transmit the disease, the transmissability test prove how contagious this is and most people will never grasp it. there are over 300 people right now with CJD(sporadic proven to be linked to Madcow genetically) in America! NOW wait that is more than 1 in 1,000.000 per annum kinda blows the governments rate of infection doesn't it? rate of infection is more like 17 per day most of which are either classified as alsheimers or mental cases the latter being the one the medical community tried to pass off on my mother. hell I used to have a considerable amount of $$$$$$$$$ stashed away but I blew it all to prove those LIARS wrong then sold homes like in a game of monopoly when that was gone to continue to expose the LIES that our food supply is the safest in the world yeah it is if you grew it yourself and tested for all there is to test for! !!!! go ahead and eat cow products if you think it's safe! why dont you talk about the fact that only downer cattle are tested? greedy robber cattlebarons stand to kill millions in this country alone, because people that have not studied transmissability tests are saying oh! dont' worry it! our beef/ milk is the safest in the world, that is total BS!! Japan's beef is the safest in the world as they are the ONLY country that literally tests every damn cow our cheap ass cattle industry refuses to test every cow because it would only reveal the true nature of the problem , the land of milk and honey was what kind of milk?? well what do shepherds , shepherd? definitely not cattle!!!! more like goats and sheep.. no offense intended Namsate karl KNOW THE REAL RISK READ THE TRANSMISSABILITY REPORTS! MADCOW IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER!!!!!!!!! In , Duncan Crow <duncancrow@s...> wrote: > > Studies in Great Britain have proven that the prion that causes > > Madcow IS transferred to the ground via the urine and there is a whole > > lot more protein in milk than in urine that means that the risk is > > greatly increased over drinking cow urine and in contaminated cattle > > the transfer to the ground via the urine was 100% . doesn't sound like > > a very good risk to take does it? > > Doesn't mean that at all. Protein in urine is a waste product; > protein in milk is a saved product. > > The scare should be seen for what it is; there remains no risk that > we can ascertain from the milk. > > However, people practicing 'poor man's urotherapy' i.e. drinking cow > urine may be placing themselves at risk if the cow has prion disease > > > But again, this 'disease' is linked to incorrect manganese and copper > ratio. > > Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Right on Grasshopper! I worked in a feed store and know that fish and other farm animals can be fed sheep or cow food. Both sheep and Cows have gotten mad cow disease from their food, so that puts all Americans eatin meat in a wide margin for dementia very soon. I was planning to hunt for deer, but when I found out that deer feeding on the same ground that cattle were raised on became infected with mad cow disease I changed my mind. That was three years ago! Now years later a downed cow was finally tested and found to contain prions of MAD COW!!!! Dah... If you look at the news lately, you can wonder how long some of the people making news have been eating prion laden meats....... The key to the universe is avoid prion laden BS. Guro Dennis Servaes grasshopper <k_t723 wrote: ---namsate Duncan , I have to say that overall I admire your knowledge base, but I have to admit that youre info on madcow is disheartening are you a cattleman?just curious?, how many research papers concerning prion transmissability have you read? what causes madcow is not the point how transmissable it it IS THE POINT!,Transmissability tests do not lie! what in the world would make anyone think that only some of the infected protein(prion) would be dangerous? the body( cattle,human or whatever) is riddled with nerves/protein , the lungs have exposed nerves that fluid passes over regularly thus contaminating that fluid which is then what, sneezed out coughed out etc, the eyes also have nerves which are exposed to fluid that can then transmit the disease, the transmissability test prove how contagious this is and most people will never grasp it. there are over 300 people right now with CJD(sporadic proven to be linked to Madcow genetically) in America! NOW wait that is more than 1 in 1,000.000 per annum kinda blows the governments rate of infection doesn't it? rate of infection is more like 17 per day most of which are either classified as alsheimers or mental cases the latter being the one the medical community tried to pass off on my mother.hell I used to have a considerable amount of $$$$$$$$$ stashed away but I blew it all to prove those LIARS wrong then sold homes like in a game of monopoly when that was gone to continue to expose the LIES that our food supply is the safest in the worldyeah it is if you grew it yourself and tested for all there is to test for! !!!!go ahead and eat cow products if you think it's safe!why dont you talk about the fact that only downer cattle are tested? greedy robber cattlebarons stand to kill millions in this country alone, because people that have not studied transmissability tests are saying oh! dont' worry it! our beef/ milk is the safest in the world, that is total BS!! Japan's beef is the safest in the world as they are the ONLY country that literally tests every damn cowour cheap ass cattle industry refuses to test every cow because it would only reveal the true nature of the problem , the land of milk and honey was what kind of milk??well what do shepherds , shepherd? definitely not cattle!!!!more like goats and sheep..no offense intendedNamsatekarlKNOW THE REAL RISK READ THE TRANSMISSABILITY REPORTS!MADCOW IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER!!!!!!!!!In , Duncan Crow <duncancrow@s...> wrote:> > Studies in Great Britain have proven that the prion that causes > > Madcow IS transferred to the ground via the urine and there is a whole> > lot more protein in milk than in urine that means that the risk is> > greatly increased over drinking cow urine and in contaminated cattle> > the transfer to the ground via the urine was 100% . doesn't sound like> > a very good risk to take does it?> > Doesn't mean that at all. Protein in urine is a waste product; > protein in milk is a saved product.> > The scare should be seen for what it is; there remains no risk that > we can ascertain from the milk. > > However, people practicing 'poor man's urotherapy' i.e. drinking cow > urine may be placing themselves at risk if the cow has prion disease > > > But again, this 'disease' is linked to incorrect manganese and copper > ratio.> > Duncan Crow«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§ - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! §Subscribe:......... - To :.... - Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion. Always consult with a qualified health practitioner before deciding on any course of treatment, especially for serious or life-threatening illnesses.**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 here read this grasshopper if you already have not " Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every Year? January 7, 2004 by Michael Greger, M.D. for the Organic Consumers Association October 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam started losing his mind. One month he was delivering a keynote business address, the next he couldn't form a complete sentence. Once athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn't eat. After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no longer offer any hope. " Just take him home and love him, " the doctor counseled his family.[1,2,3] Peter's tragic death, October 2002, may have been caused by Mad Cow disease. Seven years earlier and 5000 miles away, Stephen Churchill was the first in England to die. His first symptoms of depression and dizziness gave way to a living nightmare of terrifying hallucinations; he was dead in 12 months at age 19.[4] Next was Peter Hall, 20, who showed the first signs of depression around Christmas, 1994. By the next Christmas, he couldn't walk, talk, or do anything for himself.[5] Then it was Anna's turn, then Michelle's. Michelle Bowen, age 29, died in a coma three weeks after giving birth to her son via emergency cesarean section. Then it was Alison's turn. These were the first five named victims of Britain's Mad Cow epidemic. They died from what the British Secretary of Health called the worst form of death imaginable, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a relentlessly progressive and invariably fatal human dementia.[6] The announcement of their deaths, released on March 20, 1996 (ironically, Meatout Day[7]), reversed the British government's decade-old stance that British beef was safe to eat.[8] It is now considered an " incontestable fact " that these human deaths in Britain were caused by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow disease.[9] Bovine means " cow or cattle, " spongiform means " sponge-like, " and encephalopathy means " brain disease. " Mad Cow disease is caused by unconventional pathogens called prions--literally infectious proteins--which, because of their unique structure, are practically invulnerable, surviving even incineration[10] at temperatures hot enough to melt lead.[11] The leading theory as to how cows got Mad Cow disease in the first place is by eating diseased sheep infected with a sheep spongiform encephalopathy called scrapie.[12] In humans, prions can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a human spongiform encephalopathy whose clinical picture can involve weekly deterioration into blindness and epilepsy as one's brain becomes riddled with tiny holes. We've known about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for decades, since well before the first mad cow was discovered in 1985. Some cases of CJD seemed to run in families; other cases seemed to just arise spontaneously in about one in a million people every year, and were hence dubbed " sporadic. " The new form of CJD caused by eating beef from cows infected with Mad Cow disease, though, seemed to differ from the classic sporadic CJD. The CJD caused by infected meat has tended to strike younger people, has produced more psychotic symptoms, and has often dragged on for a year or more. The most defining characteristic, though, was found when their brains were sampled. The brain pathology was vividly reminiscent of Kuru, a disease once found in a New Guinea tribe of cannibals who ate the brains of their dead.[13] Scientists called this new form of the disease " variant " CJD. Other than Charlene, a 24 year old woman now so tragically dying in Florida, who was probably infected in Britain, there have been no reported cases of variant CJD in the U.S.[14] Hundreds of confirmed cases of the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, however, arise in the United States every year,[15] but the beef industry is quick to point out these are cases of sporadic CJD, not the new variant known to be caused by Mad Cow disease.[16] Of course, no one knows what causes sporadic CJD. New research, discussed below, suggests that not hundreds but thousands of Americans die of sporadic CJD every year, and that some of these CJD deaths may be caused by eating infected meat after all. Although the fact that Mad Cow disease causes variant CJD had already been strongly established, researchers at the University College of London nevertheless created transgenic mice complete with " humanized " brains genetically engineered with human genes to try to prove the link once and for all. When the researchers injected one strain of the " humanized " mice with infected cow brains, they came down with the same brain damage seen in human variant CJD, as expected. But when they tried this in a different strain of transgenic " humanized " mice, those mice got sick too, but most got sick from what looked exactly like sporadic CJD! The Mad Cow prions caused a disease that had a molecular signature indistinguishable from sporadic CJD. To the extent that animal experiments can simulate human results, their shocking conclusion was that eating infected meat might be responsible for some cases of sporadic CJD in addition to the expected variant CJD. The researchers concluded that " it is therefore possible that some patients with [what looks like]... sporadic CJD may have a disease arising from BSE exposure. " [17] Laura Manuelidis, section chief of surgery in the neuropathology department at Yale University comments, " Now people are beginning to realize that because something looks like sporadic CJD they can't necessarily conclude that it's not linked to [Mad Cow disease]... " [18] This is not the first time meat was linked to sporadic CJD. In 2001, a team of French researchers found, to their complete surprise, a strain of scrapie-- " mad sheep " disease--that caused the same brain damage in mice as sporadic CJD.[19] " This means we cannot rule out that at least some sporadic CJD may be caused by some strains of scrapie, " says team member Jean-Philippe Deslys of the French Atomic Energy Commission's medical research laboratory.[20] Population studies had failed to show a link between CJD and lamb chops, but this French research provided an explanation why. There seem to be six types of sporadic CJD and there are more than 20 strains of scrapie. If only some sheep strains affect only some people, studies of entire populations may not clearly show the relationship. Monkeys fed infected sheep brains certainly come down with the disease.[21] Hundreds of " mad sheep " were found in the U.S. in 2003.[22] Scrapie remains such a problem in the United States that the USDA has issued a scrapie " declaration of emergency. " [23] Maybe some cases of sporadic CJD in the U.S. are caused by sheep meat as well.[24] Pork is also a potential source of infection. Cattle remains are still boiled down and legally fed to pigs (as well as chickens) in this country. The FDA allows this exemption because no " naturally occurring " porcine (pig) spongiform encephalopathy has ever been found. But American farmers typically kill pigs at just five months of age, long before the disease is expected to show symptoms. And, because pigs are packed so tightly together, it would be difficult to spot neurological conditions like spongiformencephalopathies, whose most obvious symptoms are movement and gait disturbances. We do know, however, that pigs are susceptible to the disease--laboratory experiments show that pigs can indeed be infected by Mad Cow brains[25]--and hundreds of thousands of downer pigs, too sick or crippled by injury to even walk, arrive at U.S. slaughterhouses every year.[26] A number of epidemiological studies have suggested a link between pork consumption and sporadic CJD. Analyzing peoples' diet histories, the development of CJD was associated with eating roast pork, ham, hot dogs, pork chops, smoked pork, and scrapple (a kind of pork pudding made from various hog carcass scraps). The researchers concluded, " The present study indicated that consumption of pork as well as its processed products (e.g., ham, scrapple) may be considered as risk factors in the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. " Compared to people that didn't eat ham, for example, those who included ham in their diet seemed ten times more likely to develop CJD.[27] In fact, the USDA may have actually recorded an outbreak of " mad pig " disease in New York 25 years ago, but still refuses to reopen the investigation despite petitions from the Consumer's Union (the publishers of Consumer Reports magazine).[28] Sporadic CJD has also been associated with weekly beef consumption,[29] as well as the consumption of roast lamb,[30] veal, venison, brains in general,[31] and, in North America, seafood.[32,33] The development of CJD has also, surprisingly, been significantly linked to exposure to animal products in fertilizer,[34] sport fishing and deer hunting in the U.S.,[35] and frequent exposure to leather products.[36] We do not know at this time whether chicken meat poses a risk. There was a preliminary report of ostriches allegedly fed risky feed in German zoos who seemed to come down with a spongiform encephalopathy.[37] Even if chickens and turkeys themselves are not susceptible, though, they may become so-called " silent carriers " of Mad Cow prions and pass them on to human consumers.[38] Dateline NBC quoted D. Carleton Gajdusek, the first to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on prion diseases,[39] as saying, " it's got to be in the pigs as well as the cattle. It's got to be passing through the chickens. " [40] Dr. Paul Brown, medical director for the US Public Health Service, believes that pigs and poultry could indeed be harboring Mad Cow disease and passing it on to humans, adding that pigs are especially sensitive to the disease. " It's speculation, " he says, " but I am perfectly serious. " [41] The recent exclusion of most cow brains, eyes, spinal cords, and intestines from the human food supply may make beef safer, but where are those tissues going? These potentially infectious tissues continue to go into animal feed for chickens, other poultry, pigs, and pets (as well as being rendered into products like tallow for use in cosmetics, the safety of which is currently under review[42]). Until the federal government stops the feeding of slaughterhouse waste, manure, and blood to all farm animals, the safety of meat in America cannot be guaranteed. The hundreds of American families stricken by sporadic CJD every year have been told that it just occurs by random chance. Professor Collinge, the head of the University College of London lab, noted " When you counsel those who have the classical sporadic disease, you tell them that it arises spontaneously out of the blue. I guess we can no longer say that. " " We are not saying that all or even most cases of sporadic CJD are as a result of BSE exposure, " Professor Collinge continued, " but some more recent cases may be--the incidence of sporadic CJD has shown an upward trend in the UK over the last decade... serious consideration should be given to a proportion of this rise being BSE-related. Switzerland, which has had a substantial BSE epidemic, has noted a sharp recent increase in sporadic CJD. " [43] In the Nineties, Switzerland had the highest rate of Mad Cow disease in continental Europe, and their rate of sporadic CJD doubled.[44] We don't know exactly what's happening to the rate of CJD in this country, in part because CJD is not an officially notifiable illness.[45] Currently only a few states have such a requirement. Because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not actively monitor the disease on a national level,[46] a rise similar to the one in Europe could be missed.[47] In spite of this, a number of U.S. CJD clusters have already been found. In the largest known U.S. outbreak of sporadic cases to date,[48] five times the expected rate was found to be associated with cheese consumption in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.[49] A striking increase in CJD over expected levels was also reported in Florida[50] and New York (Nassau County)[51] with anecdotal reports of clusters of deaths in Oregon[52] and New Jersey.[53] Perhaps particularly worrisome is the seeming increase in CJD deaths among young people in this country. In the 18 years between 1979 and 1996, only a single case of sporadic CJD was found in someone under 30. Whereas between 1997 and 2001, five people under 30 died of sporadic CJD. So five young Americans dying in five years, as opposed to one young case in the previous 18 years. The true prevalence of CJD among any age group in this country remains a mystery, though, in part because it is so commonly misdiagnosed.[54] The most frequent misdiagnosis of CJD among the elderly is Alzheimer's disease.[55] Neither CJD nor Alzheimer's can be conclusively diagnosed without a brain biopsy,[56] and the symptoms and pathology of both diseases overlap. There can be spongy changes in Alzheimer's, for example, and senile Alzheimer's plaques in CJD.[57] Stanley Prusiner, the scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of prions, speculates that Alzheimer's may even turn out to be a prion disease as well.[58] In younger victims, CJD is more often misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis or as a severe viral infection.[59] Over the last 20 years the rates of Alzheimer's disease in the United States have skyrocketed.[60] According to the CDC, Alzheimer's Disease is now the eighth leading cause of death in the United States,[61] afflicting an estimated 4 million Americans.[62] Twenty percent or more of people clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, though, are found at autopsy not to have had Alzheimer's at all.[63] A number of autopsy studies have shown that a few percent of Alzheimer's deaths may in fact be CJD. Given the new research showing that infected beef may be responsible for some sporadic CJD, thousands of Americans may already be dying because of Mad Cow disease every year.[64] Nobel Laureate Gajdusek, for example, estimates that 1% of people showing up in Alzheimer clinics actually have CJD.[65] At Yale, out of a series of 46 patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, six were proven to have CJD at autopsy.[66] In another study of brain biopsies, out of a dozen patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's according to established criteria, three of them were actually dying from CJD.[67] An informal survey of neuropathologists registered a suspicion that CJD accounts for 2-12% of all dementias in general.[68] Two autopsy studies showed a CJD rate among dementia deaths of about 3%.[69,70] A third study, at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 5% of patients diagnosed with dementia had CJD.[71] Although only a few hundred cases of sporadic CJD are officially reported in the U.S. annually,[72] hundreds of thousands of Americans die with dementia every year.[73] Thousands of these deaths may actually be from CJD caused by eating infected meat. The incubation period for human spongiform encephalopathies such as CJD can be decades.[74] This means it can be years between eating infected meat and getting diagnosed with the death sentence of CJD. Although only about 150 people have so far been diagnosed with variant CJD worldwide, it will be many years before the final death toll is known. In the United States, an unknown number of animals are infected with Mad Cow disease, causing an unknown number of human deaths from CJD. The U.S. should immediately begin testing all cows destined for human consumption, as is done in Japan, should stop feeding slaughterhouse waste to all farm animals (see http://organicconsumers.org/madcow/GregerBSE.cfm), and should immediately enact an active national surveillance program for CJD.[75] Five years ago this week, the Center for Food Safety, the Humane Farming Association, the Center for Media & Democracy, and ten families of CJD victims petitioned the FDA and the CDC to immediately enact a national CJD monitoring system, including the mandatory reporting of CJD in all 50 states.[76] The petition was denied.[77] The CDC argued that their passive surveillance system tracking death certificate diagnoses was adequate. Their analysis of death certificates in three states and two cities, for example, showed an overall stable and typical one in a million CJD incidence rate from 1979 to 1993.[78] But CJD is so often misdiagnosed, and autopsies are so infrequently done, that this system may not provide an accurate assessment.[79] In 1997, the CDC set up the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University to analyze brain tissue from CJD victims in the U.S. in hopes of tracking any new developments. In Europe, surveillance centers have been seeing most, if not all, cases of CJD. The U.S. center sees less than half. " I'm very unhappy with the numbers, " laments Pierluigi Gambetti , the director of the Center. " The British and Germans politely smile when they see we examine 30% or 40% of the cases, " he says. " They know unless you examine 80% or more, you are not in touch. " [80] " The chance of losing an important case is high. " [81] One problem is that many doctors don't even know the Center exists. And neither the CDC nor the Center are evidently authorized to reach out to them directly to bolster surveillance efforts, because it's currently up to each state individually to determine how--or even whether--they will track the disease. In Europe, in contrast, the national centers work directly with each affected family and their physicians.[82] In the U.S., most CJD cases--even the confirmed ones--seem to just fall through the cracks. In fact, based on the autopsy studies at Yale and elsewhere, it seems most CJD cases in the U.S. aren't even picked up in the first place. Autopsy rates have dropped in the U.S. from 50% in the Sixties to less than 10% at present.[83] Although one reason autopsies are rarely performed on atypical dementia cases is that medical professionals are afraid of catching the disease,[84] the primary reason for the decline in autopsy rates in general appears to be financial. There is currently no direct reimbursement to doctors or hospitals for doing autopsies, which often forces the family to absorb the cost of transporting the body to an autopsy center and having the brain samples taken, a tab that can run upwards of $1500.[85] Another problem is that the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center itself remains underfunded. Paul Brown, medical director for the National Institutes of Health, has described the Center's budget as " pitiful, " complaining that " there isn't any budget for CJD surveillance. " [86] To adequately survey America's 290 million residents, " you need a lot of money. " UK CJD expert Robert Will explains, " There was a CJD meeting of families in America in which... [the CDC] got attacked fairly vigorously because there wasn't proper surveillance. You could only do proper surveillance if you have adequate resources. " [87] " I compare this to the early days of AIDS, " says protein chemist Shu Chen, who directs the Center's lab, " when no one wanted to deal with the crisis. " [88] Andrew Kimbrell, the director of the Center for Food Safety, a D.C.-based public interest group, writes, " Given what we know now, it is unconscionable that the CDC is not strictly monitoring these diseases. " [89] Given the presence of Mad Cow disease in the U.S., we need to immediately enact uniform active CJD surveillance on a national level, provide adequate funding not only for autopsies but also for the shipment of bodies, and require mandatory reporting of the disease in all 50 states. In Britain, even feline spongiform encephalopathy, the cat version of Mad Cow disease, is an officially notifiable illness. " No one has looked for CJD systematically in the U.S., " notes NIH medical director Paul Brown. " Ever. " [90] The animal agriculture industries continue to risk public safety, and the government seems to protect the industries' narrow business interests more than it protects its own citizens. Internal USDA documents retrieved through the Freedom of Information Act show that our government did indeed consider a number of precautionary measures as far back as 1991 to protect the American public from Mad Cow disease. According to one such document, however, the USDA explained that the " disadvantage " of these measures was that " the cost to the livestock and rendering industries would be substantial. " [91] Plant sources of protein for farm animals can cost up to 30% more than cattle remains.[92] The Cattlemen's Association admitted a decade ago that animal agribusiness could indeed find economically feasible alternatives to feeding slaughterhouse waste to other animals, but that the they did not want to set a precedent of being ruled by " activists. " [93] Is it a coincidence that USDA Secretary Veneman chose Dale Moore, former chief lobbyist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, as her chief of staff?[94] Or Alison Harrison, former director of public relations for the Cattlemen's Association, as her official spokeswoman?[95] Or that one of the new Mad Cow committee appointees is William Hueston, who was paid by the beef industry to testify against Oprah Winfrey in hopes of convicting her of beef " disparagement " ?[96] After a similar conflict of interest unfolded in Britain, their entire Ministry of Agriculture was dissolved and an independent Food Safety Agency was created, whose sole responsibility is to protect the public's health. Until we learn from Britain's lesson, and until the USDA stops treating this as a PR problem to be managed instead of a serious global threat,[97] millions of Americans will remain at risk. For updates on this evolving crisis, visit the OCA Mad Cow page or send a blank email to DrGregerMadCowUpdates- For background on this important issue, read the excellent book Mad Cow U.S.A., the full text of which is available free online at http://www.prwatch.org, or my report U.S. Violates WHO Guidelines for Mad Cow Disease " . Michael Greger, M.D., has been the Chief BSE Investigator for Farm Sanctuary since 1993 and the Mad Cow Coordinator for the Organic Consumers Association since 2001. Dr. Greger has debated the National Cattlemen's Beef Association before the FDA and was invited as an expert witness at the infamous Oprah Winfrey " meat defamation " trial. He has contributed to many books and articles on the subject, continues to lecture extensively, and currently runs the Mad Cow disease website http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.htm. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine. 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Full text available free online at http://prwatch.org/books/madcow.html 92 Food Chemical News 25 March 1996: 30. 93 Food Chemical News 5 July 1993: 57-59. 94 http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/5884855.htm 95 http://organicconsumers.org/madcow/usda1204.cfm 96 http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q1/oprah.html 97 " World Health Organization says BSE is a major threat " http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/BSE7601.cfm " --- grasshopper <k_t723 wrote: > --- > namsate Duncan , > I have to say that overall I admire your knowledge > base, but I have > to admit that youre info on madcow is disheartening > are you a > cattleman?just curious?, how many research papers > concerning prion > transmissability have you read? what causes madcow > is not the point > how transmissable it it IS THE > POINT!,Transmissability tests do not > lie! what in the world would make anyone think that > only some of the > infected protein(prion) would be dangerous? the > body( cattle,human > or whatever) is riddled with nerves/protein , the > lungs have exposed > nerves that fluid passes over regularly thus > contaminating that > fluid which is then what, sneezed out coughed out > etc, the eyes also > have nerves which are exposed to fluid that can then > transmit the > disease, the transmissability test prove how > contagious this is and > most people will never grasp it. there are over 300 > people right > now with CJD(sporadic proven to be linked to Madcow > genetically) in > America! NOW wait that is more than 1 in 1,000.000 > per annum kinda > blows the governments rate of infection doesn't it? > rate of > infection is more like 17 per day most of which are > either > classified as alsheimers or mental cases the latter > being the one > the medical community tried to pass off on my > mother. > hell I used to have a considerable amount of > $$$$$$$$$ stashed away > but I blew it all to prove those LIARS wrong then > sold homes like in > a game of monopoly when that was gone to continue to > expose the LIES > that our food supply is the safest in the world > yeah it is if you grew it yourself and tested for > all there is to > test for! !!!! > go ahead and eat cow products if you think it's > safe! > why dont you talk about the fact that only downer > cattle are tested? > greedy robber cattlebarons stand to kill millions > in this country > alone, because people that have not studied > transmissability tests > are saying oh! dont' worry it! our beef/ milk is the > safest in the > world, that is total BS!! Japan's beef is the safest > in the world as > they are the ONLY country that literally tests every > damn cow > our cheap ass cattle industry refuses to test every > cow because it > would only reveal the true nature of the problem , > the land of milk and honey was what kind of milk?? > well what do shepherds , shepherd? definitely not > cattle!!!! > more like goats and sheep.. > no offense intended > Namsate > karl > > KNOW THE REAL RISK READ THE TRANSMISSABILITY > REPORTS! > MADCOW IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER!!!!!!!!! > > > > In , Duncan Crow > <duncancrow@s...> wrote: > > > Studies in Great Britain have proven that the > prion that causes > > > Madcow IS transferred to the ground via the > urine and there is a > whole > > > lot more protein in milk than in urine that > means that the risk > is > > > greatly increased over drinking cow urine and in > contaminated > cattle > > > the transfer to the ground via the urine was > 100% . doesn't > sound like > > > a very good risk to take does it? > > > > Doesn't mean that at all. Protein in urine is a > waste product; > > protein in milk is a saved product. > > > > The scare should be seen for what it is; there > remains no risk > that > > we can ascertain from the milk. > > > > However, people practicing 'poor man's urotherapy' > i.e. drinking > cow > > urine may be placing themselves at risk if the cow > has prion > disease > > > > > > But again, this 'disease' is linked to incorrect > manganese and > copper > > ratio. > > > > Duncan Crow > > Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 --- and with 20 plus different strains with an incubation period of just 24 months til death to 40 years or more, the only reason the fed has even recognized the disease is because they are having to use damage control methods to obscure the truth about the transmissability of spongiform encephaloathy's but if you prefer to follow the recomendations of a lying government that is your choice and " so be it " I wasn't scared when I willingly took a bullet for this country either! the fact that I was not fearful did not lessen the danger that existed! dont get me wrong I still occassionally eat beef tho' it is from Japan at a cost of about 100$ per lb there is a frequency to create everything that exists and a freq. to destroy anything that exists namaste karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 --- namaste so let me get this straight pastuerization of milk at 167f kills prions are there no nerves exposed to the milk in the cows mammery glands?!! and was that study sponsored by the cattle industry or the CDC which recieves 10 million per annum from the cattle industry for spongiform enc. research? which is 100% used for damage control " We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening. We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air. They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn. " namaste karl In , Duncan Crow <duncancrow@s...> wrote: > > > > Let's see. Urine carries prions, but that doesn not prove milk does > > also. However, that doesn't prove milk to be safe of prions either. > > Other studies have determined the milk is free from prion disease. > > > It looks like you read somewhere about the prions and magnesium. I > > was very curious about those findings myself. For instance, does the > > prion seek or shun magnesium? Guro Dennis Servaes > > Too much manganese antagonizes copper. The prion is activated > I think with manganese, not magnesium. > > Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 David So soon too many forget that other diseases such as AIDS were said to have no proof of transmission by various means of traansmission until thousands of victums succumed to diseases. In a mine field the most obvious way to know you are in a mine field is when someone else blows up. The more cautious and aware person doesn't believe the lies, but remembers and recognizes what is really indicated. All meat and dairy foods should be checked individually for mad cow and other diseases. Guro Dennis Servaes "David C." <dchoneybear wrote: Hi Guro: The whey protein that I referred to is undenatured whey protein, different from the health food stores' regular whey protein. So their nutritional functions are very different. You asked a very good question and have asked by many. Mad Cow disease is a "transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle." "Milk and milk products are not believed to pose any risk for transmitting mad cow disease to humans. Experiments have shown that milk from mad cow-infected cows has not caused infections. " - WedMd.com Mad Cow disease has never been reported to be passed along through milk products. The World Health Organization (WHO) has extensively studied this possibility, and has concluded that milk products hold no risk. Hope this helps! David NYGuro Dennis Servaes <guro wrote: How safe is whey? For instance is it logical to consume dairy products when Mad Cow disease is here??????«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§ - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! §Subscribe:......... - To :.... - Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion. Always consult with a qualified health practitioner before deciding on any course of treatment, especially for serious or life-threatening illnesses.**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107,any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Post subject: Food as Medicine Post subject: Food as Medicine JoAnn Guest Sep 26, 2005 16:55 PDT Post subject: Food as Medicine -- HEADACHE? EAT FISH! Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain. HAY FEVER? EAT YOGURT! Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season. Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily. TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA! Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading... Green tea is great for our immune system)! INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP?) TRY HONEY! Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative. ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!! Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!! Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system) UPSET STOMACH? BANANAS - GINGER!!!!! Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea. BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE!!!! High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria. BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!! Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple. PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME? EAT CORNFLAKES!!!! Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue (I don't really understand the pms one. Kel) MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS! Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much- needed zinc. COLDS? EAT GARLIC! Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.) COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!! A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy. BREAST CANCER? Eat Wheat bran and cabbage. Helps to maintain estrogen at healthy levels. LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!! A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables. ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE !!! Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers. DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES! Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment) CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO! Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!! Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too. BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!! The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar. Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E and fiber. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange. Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants and flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke. Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits and protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you... they're high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young... blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field... they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies) Orange: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer. Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C and Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn uv rays) Guava and Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion) Tomatoes: Very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies http://www.greatestherbsonearth.com/articles/foods_as_medicine.htm ===================================================================== Post subject: Medicinal Components of Cabbages --- Medicinal Components of Cabbages Apr 02, 2005 12:05 PST Brassica oleracea var. capitata http://www.innvista.com/health/herbs/cabbage.htm -- Wild cabbage is native to the coasts of the English Channel and the Mediterranean, but cultivated varieties are produced worldwide as a vegetable.The plant has been cultivated for at least 4,000 years. It has been called: " poor man's medicine chest " and " doctor of the poor " . Cabbages were used by sailors to prevent scurvy. It was also an ancient remedy for TB (tuberculosis). Cabbage has an ancient reputation for " purifying " the blood, a practice seen today as decoctions and fresh cabbage juice are taken as a good cleanser and detoxifier. It was used by the Romans as an antidote to alcohol, believing it counteracted intoxication and prevented, or reduced, a hangover. This concept has some validity since cabbage aids in the " breakdown " of " toxins " in the liver. In a Greek ritual, cabbage was given to expectant mothers shortly before birth in order to establish good breast-milk production, a practice that is carried out by women, of any culture, today. Cabbage leaves have long been used as a poultice to treat infected wounds. --- anti-inflammatory antibacterial anti-rheumatic heals tissues by encouraging cells to proliferate a liver decongestant protects the stomach from " gastric hydrochloric acid " - Components vitamins and minerals (especially A, B, C, E, calcium, sulfur, silica, magnesium, iodine, iron, and phosphorus) chlorophyll mustard oils --- Medicinal Parts -Leaves Extensive modern research largely confirms its ancient use in folk medicine, and it has been shown to " stimulate " the immune system and the production of antibodies. Its sulfur compounds are largely responsible for its antiseptic, antibiotic, and disinfectant actions, particularly in the respiratory system. An amino acid, methionine, found only in raw cabbage, is responsible for promoting the healing effects. As an old remedy for hangovers and used to dry out alcoholics, cabbage is showing through modern research that a substance called " glutamine " can help both peptic ulcers and alcoholism. Its " tumor-inhibiting " constituents are the bioflavonoids, indoles, genistein, and monoterpenes. Poultices have long been used to treat wounds, burns and scalds, boils and carbuncles, bruises and sprains, ulcers, blisters, cold sores, shingles, and bites and stings. Its anti-inflammatory action can benefit swollen and painful joints and help relieve the pain of neuralgia, sciatica, toothache, headaches, migraines, and lumbago. Traditionally, it was applied over the abdomen and left overnight to treat peptic ulcers and bowel problems. Applied during the day to the lower abdomen, it was thought useful in soothing cystitis and renal colic and the relief of " fluid retension " . Poultices, along with cabbage tea or juice, were taken to relieve the pain and soreness of a harsh cough; and, if the poultices were applied to the throat, they helped soothe tonsilitis and laryngitis. To make a poultice, cut out the midrib of a leaf and iron it. Place while still hot onto the area to be treated, being careful not to have it too hot or to leave it on too long as it can cause blisters. Fresh leaves steeped in olive oil can be applied to chapped skin, chilblains, varicose veins, abscesses, and boils. Fresh juices can be used as a diuretic and antiseptic for the urinary tract and to ease fluid retension and to reduce or prevent kidney stones, arthritis, and gout. Gargles made from cabbage juice are used for sore throats. Lotions with the juice can relieve burns, bites, cold sores, acne, impetigo; and, if squeezed into the ear,they can help heal earaches (this must be done by a professional). Eyewash made from cabbage juice and warm water is excellent for sore, tired eyes. Fresh leaves can be placed directly onto wounds or even into a bra for mastitis or engorged breasts. To use, cut out the midrib, and beat the leaf gently to soften it and release its medicinal properties, then place on an affected area. Decoctions are used for digestive problems, including colitis. Syrup made from a decoction can be used for coughs, asthma, and bronchitis. - Traditional Use Because of its " iron " and chlorophyll content, it has long been used to treat anemia. It is taken to treat anxiety, depression, insomnia, exhaustion. Breastfeeding mothers use it to stimulate milk production. In soups and teas, cabbage has long been used during colds, flu, sinusitis, and sore throats. Cabbage has long been used to heal ulcers as it contains " mucilage " that coats the lining of the digestive tract, protecting it from irritants and excessive acid. It is recommended that two or three glasses of freshly extracted juice be taken between meals to relieve peptic ulcers, gastritis, heartburn, and ulcerative colitis. It is used to stimulate the digestion and to relieve constipation. A traditional Russian cure for chronic constipation is one-half glass of salted cabbage juice taken before each meal. However, it can be just as effective without the salt. As a tonic, cabbage has long been used to treat cirrhosis of the liver, as well as lethargy, irritability, and headaches, all symptoms associated with a sluggish liver. Cabbage may help " reduce " blood sugar, so may be of benefit to diabetics. Like other brassicas, cabbage also has the ability to help lower the risk of cancer, especially of the colon, and growth of polyps, which often are a prelude to cancer. When eaten raw, cabbage has been shown to help protect against the effects of radiation. Cabbage also appears to " enhance " the body's ability to " metabolize " estrogen, helping to reduce susceptibility to breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers, if eaten regularly. Externally, cabbage leaves have a soothing antiseptic and healing effect and the ability to draw out toxins from the skin. Cabbage poultices are also excellent for sore throats and hot, swollen joints. Lightly crush the leaves, blanch in boiling water, and wrap around the area. Leave on for two to four hours and renew, as necessary. Care is needed not to blister the skin. _________________ JoAnn Guest mrsjo- www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets _____________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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