Vitamin U

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When is a vitamin not a vitamin? I did a brief look thru google

for Vitamin U. The reasoning for saying it is NOT a vitamin seems rather

odd to me. Is it a " vital amine " or not?

 

Anyone got any experience with Vitamin U? Any good web references?

 

Below is a handful of quotes, with URLs. Most sites keep repeating

the same information, over & over again -- many using the exact same words.

 

 

Alobar

 

 

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Vitamin U is found in raw cabbage and is thought to help with the healing of

skin ulcers and ulcers in the digestive tract. Not much other information

is available - and dosage and toxicity has not been determined. As soon as

more information is available on this nutrient, we will add it to this page.

http://www.anyvitamins.com/vitamin-u-info.htm

Vitamin U

Vitamin U is found in cabbage and is used to treat gastric disorders.

 

 

Chemical Formula: C6H15NO2S

 

Other names: S-Methyl-L-methionine

 

Explanation: Vitamin U is not a vitamin. Vitamins are essential nutrients

that cannot be synthesized (either at all or in sufficient quantities) by a

given organism and therefore must be taken with food for the organism's

continued good health. The term " vitamin U " was coined because the compound

is very effetive in the medical treatment of gastric ulcers. It is found in

raw cabbage leaves and other green vegetables.

 

http://www.reciprocalnet.org/recipnet/showsample.jsp?sampleId=27343981

 

 

Vitamin U is listed in the Merck Index as methylmethioninesulfonium

chloride, a therapeutic agent for the treatment of gastric disorders. It was

originally called vitamin U because of its usefulness against ulceration of

the digestive system. Vitamin U is extracted from cabbages (hence its

alternative name cabagin), and has a strong cabbage-like odour.

 

The traditional use of raw cabbage juice as the treatment of choice for

peptic ulcers would seem to support the use of vitamin U supplements (or

cabbage juice) as a healing aid for damaged and eroded intestinal mucosa,

and this has been extensively confirmed by scientific research, particularly

in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.

The Vitamin U was termd from the fact that a very small quantity of this

compound was effective for the medical treatment of the gastric ulcer. From

the word ulcer came letter " U " . But the Vitamin U isn't vitamin, but it is a

derivativ of the acid methionin. It strengthens the immunsystem of human,

animal, and plant cells. Protects from damage the membran systems of living

sells (the walls cellorganels, etc). Moreover the damage can be stopped and

can easily be regenerated.

 

 

Results of utilization on animal organism

 

a. Keeps growing resistance against illnesses

b. Strengthens capability for bearing stress when changing fodder,

transport, heat, etc.

c. Conformativ annihilation of micotoxins

d. Prevention on liver-diseases (degeneration of liver)

e. Parry from enteritic diseases (Parvo-virus, Distempr.)

f. Makes better use of the feeding

g. Better result in meat-feather and wool production

h. Better breeding index

 

 

Plants

 

a. Resistance against harmful insects

b. Strengthens genetic stabilization

c. Increasing index of quantitativ and qualitativ crop

d. Increasing index in fermentation

e. Increasing speed in developing calluses

 

 

The effect and result of utilization on human organism

 

a. Prevents and cures the external and internal inflammations

b. Cures external and internal ulcers without scars

c. Cures the diabetes

d. Alleviates and cures the 'Craisfelds-Jacobs disease'

e. Reliefs the deficiency disease of immunsystem (AIDS)

f. Ceases bacterial disorders of the genitalies cures giaecological

problems

g. Cures hamorrhoides

h. Helps stopping dependency on drugs and alcohol

i. Strength detoxicalions of the organism

i. Strength weakened organism

 

http://www.enveco.hu/vitaminu/uvitamin.html

 

 

Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1981;81(8):1209-12. Related

Articles, Links

 

[Treatment of depressive conditions with S-methylmethionine (vitamin U)]

 

[Article in Russian]

 

Stoliarov GV, Mys'ko.

 

Results of treating depressive states (manic-depressive psychosis,

involutional and vascular depressions) with S-methylmethionine (vitamin " U " )

are presented. The vitamin was found to produce a marked antidepressant

effect in depressive states of various nosology irrespectively of the

duration of the depression phase or preceding treatment. The authors suggest

that studies of the effect of the vitamin and its clinical use as an

antidepressant should be continued.

 

PMID: 7315057 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstra\

ct & list_uids=7315057