101/Antioxidants The Practical Issues

By Robert DiSilvestro, PhD

In the early 1970s, I asked my introductory biochemistry professor about vitamin E. He answered by asking, “How important can an antioxidant be?” The implication was that antioxidants do something, but there isn’t a practical reason to think much about them. As it turns out, there may be no aspect of nutrition with a wider range of influence on health than antioxidants. Although the degree to which antioxidants can remedy existing symptoms of various health problems is still being investigated, eating antioxidants is likely to have a positive effect on your health.

To understand antioxidants, you first must understand free radicals. Free radicals are reactive molecules with an unpaired electron, and they show up in our bodies as a result of various biological and environmental processes. The body makes free radicals to kill bacteria, and they are a byproduct of some body reactions. They also enter the body due to outside toxins such as exposure to cigarette smoke and air pollutants. Free radicals look for a match for their unpaired electrons, and they complete this partnership by taking electrons from other molecules. A molecule that loses an electron can break apart and turn into a new free radical. This starts a chain reaction of electron thefts and broken molecules until something stops the process, such as the meeting of two free radicals. These damaging interactions are called oxidant reactions. Antioxidants can prevent free-radical–induced oxidant damage. This can work in various ways, so we need a variety of antioxidants.

Vitamin E was the first nutrient to receive attention as an antioxidant. Vitamin E is a chain-breaking anti-oxidant in that it stops the chain reactions described above. Vitamin E does this for chain reactions involving lipids (fats and fat-like molecules) such as those in cell membranes and LDL (the blood transporter of the so- called bad cholesterol). This can be relevant to many health issues, but vitamin E’s impact on cardiovascular disease is especially interesting. One reason is that oxidant damage to LDL initiates atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). In one study, the response was greater with increased vitamin E doses, but some effect was seen with as little as 25 IU. In contrast, another study suggested at least 400 IU was necessary to cause an effect. The latter intake typically requires supplements. Natural vitamin E supplements (d-alpha-tocopherol) are more potent in the body than synthetic (dl-alpha-tocopherol). In addition, some evidence suggests supplements containing a family of vitamin E compounds are more potent than d-alpha-tocopherol on its own. The best food sources of vitamin E are vegetable oils and foods high in those oils, such as almonds and wheat germ.

Vitamin E supplementation has been criticized by some recent studies, which suggest daily intake of 400 IU of vitamin E can actually be harmful. This conclusion is still speculative, though, since the effects seem small and the results cannot be fully interpreted until more statistical analysis is conducted. Also, the negative findings of one of the studies were attributable to more variables than just vitamin E intake.

Another disappointing outcome of these recent studies is that vitamin E supplements did not seem to prevent cardiovascular disease. In considering these findings, though, we need to take into account three important points: The study participants were in poor health before the studies began and may have been beyond the point at which vitamin E would have helped; the subjects were very diverse, especially in terms of drugs and other therapy being used, clouding the differences between treatment groups; and vitamin E may work best in cooperation with other antioxidants.

One potential partner is vitamin C, which in test tubes has the same chain-breaking antioxidant actions as vitamin E. However, unlike vitamin E, which works with lipids, vitamin C works with molecules that dissolve in water. In other test tube experiments, vitamin C can recycle vitamin E to make its antioxidant functions more potent, and studies are starting to support the efficacy of vitamins C and E in combination. The vitamin C intake needed for optimal antioxidant action may exceed the recommended dietary allowance (RDA). You can easily get two to four times the RDA of vitamin C by consuming citrus fruits, their juices, and certain other fruits and vegetables, such as berries, melons, asparagus, leafy green vegetables, tomatoes, or red peppers.

Selenium is part of antioxidant enzymes (protein catalysts that accelerate specific reactions). A selenium enzyme family eliminates hydrogen peroxide, which is easily converted into free radicals in the body. The selenium provided by the typical American diet is plenty to ensure high blood levels of this enzyme family, but optimal tissue levels might need additional intake. Some research suggests that increasing daily selenium intake to 200 mcg, either through supplementation or by eating Brazil nuts, which are high in selenium, may lower cancer risk, but more research is needed to establish whether this effect is significant and whether it is caused by selenium’s antioxidant functions.

Three other minerals—zinc, magnesium, and copper—also have antioxidant functions. Zinc and magnesium can stabilize cell membranes, which makes them less apt to make free radicals. In addition, these minerals suppress production of molecules that signal cells to make radicals. Also, copper and zinc inhibit stored body iron from making free radicals. Many people consume less than the RDA of zinc, magnesium, and copper. Moreover, many conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, raise needs for these minerals. Although some people can eat adequate levels of these minerals, others are likely to be helped by supplements. This issue can get complicated and should be discussed with a dietitian.

Besides essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, plant foods and herbs contain compounds called phytochemicals. They are not required for basic body function but can have health-promoting properties. In other words, you can live without them, but you may live longer and better with them. One example is flavonoids, which are found in many plants, although the types and amounts vary with different sources. Green tea, soy protein, and certain grape products, including red wine, have especially high amounts of flavonoids. Although it’s well known that green tea flavonoids are good antioxidants and soy products promote health, many people may not realize that soy’s value is derived in part from its antioxidant flavonoids (a particular kind called isoflavones). Current research makes it very likely that green tea and soy intake provides benefits relevant to a variety of health issues. However, how much you should consume and how much benefit you can expect are still hazy issues. Green tea and soy protein flavonoids can be found in supplemental form, although studies suggest that these flavonoids might work best when consumed in whole-food products.

Food oils do not usually contain phytochemicals, but an exception is olive oil, which contains chemical relatives of flavonoids. High intake of supplement versions of these flavonoids may help prevent or treat rheumatoid arthritis, though the research is still in the early stages. Even so, using olive oil instead of other oils can provide an antioxidant boost.

Another class of antioxidant phytochemicals is the carotenoids, which are especially good at getting rid of one particular oxidant. One of the carotenoids, beta-carotene, is found in carrots and other orange-colored fruits and vegetables. Beta-carotene is a unique molecule in nutrition. About 15 percent of it is converted to vitamin A, and the rest acts as a phytochemical. One study of smokers suggested that high doses of supplemental beta-carotene could be dangerous. Eating carrots and other food sources of beta-carotene is usually safe, though in fair-skinned people, high dietary intake of beta-carotene can cause the skin to temporarily appear yellowish.

Numerous other carotenoids are not converted to vitamin A; they are strictly phytochemicals. Two of these are lycopene (found in tomato products) and lutein (found primarily in leafy green vegetables and, to some extent, in fruits such as oranges). Lycopene seems to be especially active in the prostate and liver, and lutein has high activity in the eyes. Once again, it’s hard to relate an exact intake of these compounds to an exact reduction in disease risk. Even so, it would seem to be a good idea to eat the richest sources of these carotenoids regularly. Along these lines, Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a nutrition professor at Harvard, has written: “Overall, when you look at the limited data that exist on diet and prostate cancer, the consistency of the indication of a potential benefit of lycopene is remarkable.”

Interestingly, in a rat study from our laboratory, tomato extract produced a better liver antioxidant effect than did synthetic isolated lycopene. Still, this difference may not hold for all future studies.

Be careful when considering versions of well-known vitamin supplements that advertise added lycopene or lutein. Typically, the amount added is too small to have any effect. For example, one product has a few hundred micrograms of lycopene, whereas a can of tomato juice can have 28 milligrams (28,000 micrograms).

Many other antioxidants exist, but the ones discussed here have the most scientific evidence in their favor. Of course, more research is needed to further clarify the effects and usefulness of all these antioxidants, but it is clear that they have actions that should help prevent or treat many health problems.

 

© 1999-2008 Natural Solutions: Vibrant Health, Balanced Living/Alternative Medicine/InnoVision Health Media

 

 

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A Few Facts About Colloidal Silver

First, a few words about the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA places severe restrictions on what can be said about colloidal silver in advertising and labeling. In fact, in spite of its history of safe and effective use, the FDA has ruled that it can only be described as a mineral supplement or dietary supplement. 

In essence, the FDA has ruled that the American public no longer has the right to know about the benefits of colloidal silver.

Colloidal silver is tasteless, odorless, won’t sting, and won’t upset the stomach. There are no known side effects whatsoever in animals or humans. It contains no free radicals, as the silver acts as a catalyst and is stabilized.

Since silver kills only bacteria that is anaerobic or nitrogen breathing, the friendly bacteria in the digestive tract are immune to it due to the fact that they are oxygen breathing, (aerobic).

This is not a chemical compound containing silver, but pure (99.999 %) silver in a monatomic form, held in suspension, in pure steam-distilled water, by the tiny electric charge on each atom.

The Association for Colloidal Research has reported that: “Medical Journal Reports and documented studies spanning 100 years, indicate no known side effects from properly manufactured colloidal silver in animal or human testing. There has never been a reported reaction with colloidal silver and any prescription medication…”

Even the FDA has acknowledged no side effects from colloidal silver as evidenced by the following correspondence:

October 14, 1999

Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department Of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

Dear Sirs/Madam,

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and in regard your August 17th, 1999 ruling regarding colloidal silver, could you please supply the following documentation on which you based your decision?

1. The number of deaths related to the consumption of colloidal silver.

2. The number of allergic reactions to the consumption of colloidal silver.

3. The number of harmful drug interactions from both OTC and prescription drugs when combined with colloidal silver.

4. The number of reported cases of Argyria from colloidal silver made with the AC or DC electrical process.

5. The number of cases of Argyria from colloidal silver that did not contain protein stabilizers.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this request.

Sincerely,

Brent Finnegan

 

The FDA response:

Public Health Service
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Office of Training and Communication
Freedom of Information Staff HFD-205
5600 Fishers Lane 12 B 05
Rockville, Maryland 20857  

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES  

November 3, 1999  

In Response Refer to File: F99-22589  

Brent Finnigan Takoma (sic), WA 98408  

Dear Mr. Finnigan:  

This is in response to your request of 10/14/99, in which you requested adverse events associated with the use of Colloidal Silver. Your request was received in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on 10/25/99. We have searched the records from FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) and have been unable to locate any cases that would be responsive to your request.

Charges of $3.50 (Search $3.50, Review $0, Reproduction $0, Computer time $0) will be included in a monthly invoice.

DO NOT SEND ANY PAYMENT UNTIL YOU RECEIVE AN INVOICE.

If there are any problems with this response, please notify us in writing of your specific problem(s).

Please reference the above file number.

Sincerely,

Hal Stepper
Freedom of Information Technician
Office of Training and Communications
Freedom of Information Staff, HFD-205

 

 

Herxheimer Effect

The only effect reported by some colloidal silver users is a phenomenon called the "Herxheimer effect", named after doctor Karl Herxheimer (who identified this phenomenon).

Sometimes, when taking colloidal silver for the first time, some people may experience symptoms like a mild headache, cold, or the flu. The reason is that colloidal silver is so efficient at eradicating pathogens, that the body may not adequately get rid of them fast enough through the normal organs of elimination and it resorts to the secondary ones, the lungs, sinuses and skin.

The user may experience mild diarrhea, as the body tries to flush itself out. In that case, one merely needs to reduce the dose or completely abstain for a day or so. Once the body has been completely cleansed, these symptoms will not reappear.

 

Argyria

Argyria is the graying of the skin. Colloidal silver can be produced either chemically or electrically. Argyria is a result of ingesting high doses of CHEMICALLY produced colloidal silver. There has never been a case of Argyria caused by ELECTRICALLY produced colloidal silver.

Please be absolutely clear about this, electrically produced silver colloid DOES NOT cause Argyria. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been taking ELECTRICALLY produced colloidal silver for decades. Tthe concern is with silver salts, NOT colloidal silver.

 

Chemically Produced Colloidal Silver

Chemically produced colloidal silver causes Argyria. Colloidal silver was widely used in the early 1900's. Scientists at the time discovered that if they CHEMICALLY COMBINED the silver colloid with a protein, it would not only be better digested, they could produce it in greater concentration.

This led to silver nitrate and silver salts. Before the early 1900's there had never been any negative side effects with ingesting silver, so testing the toxicity was not a big concern. But before the toxicity was tested, doctors at the time had already begun to use it on their patients.

As we know now, silver nitrate and other silver salts were toxic in high doses. It caused Argyria, a cosmetic bluing or graying of the skin produced by a build-up of un-dissolved silver particles in the tissues.

 

Electrically Produced Colloidal Silver

Electrically produced colloidal silver is completely safe and non-toxic. There has never been a single case of argyria caused from electrically produced silver colloid. It has been consumed by humans for years without any negative side effects. IT IS SAFE, NON-TOXIC, AND EFFECTIVE.

 

EPA and CDC Conclusion

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Poison Control Center reports no toxicity listing for Colloidal Silver; it is therefore considered harmless. Dr. Samuel Etris, a senior consultant at The Silver Institute, stated that there has never been any allergenic, toxic or carcinogenic reactions to colloidal silver. The U.S. Government's Center for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed that fact in 1995.

However, all of the silver salts are identified as toxic, although the only adverse effect noted is Argyria. Therefore, the concern is with silver salts NOT colloidal silver.

In the case of an improperly prepared silver colloid, even though produced by electrolysis, compounds may be produced such as silver oxide, silver chloride, silver nitrate, etc., which have been recorded as having side effects that are detrimental to health.

Colloidal silver should not be used along with intravenous EDTA chelation, as silver is a metal and EDTA works by absorbing and removing metals from the blood. For this reason, the two work in opposition to each other.

Colloidal silver is non-toxic, non-addictive, and has no side effects, UNLESS you are allergic to silver (see red box below). The body develops no tolerance to colloidal silver and one cannot overdose.

A Few Words of Advise

What I have attempted to do here is condense into a few pages what takes YEARS to master. And, I might add, this information barely skims the surface of the subject!

Unfortunately, since this medium (internet) cannot possibly expand upon all that there is about the subject, particularly the spiritual and physical purpose and functioning of the chakras, I omitted them as well as the "detailed" breathing and visualization exercises.

But, because some information is vitally important to know and understand, I feel compelled to at least post some of it below in an effort to help some of you reach SOME level of awareness. IMHO, to know and understand this overview summary is vital if you are to pass your own Initiation. There's a little clue for you.

(1) There is physical and there is psychic energy. We attain physical energy through what we eat, drink and breathe, and psychic energy from our psychic (chakra) centers, which perform like transformers. These transformers tap the invisible Sea of Energy (air) that surrounds us.

(2) All energy vibrates at different frequencies, from the lowest (physical) to the highest (psychic.) Do you understand and comprehend this?

(3) Buy a yoga book and Learn the Secrets of Breathing. This is a very important part of the whole process - believe me! If nothing else, do these breathing exercises everyday. Your emotional well-being will change. I guarantee it

(4) Learn to be more AWARE. Ask yourself: Why did I feel good or bad when someone insulted me. Why should I be effected so? What was it that I said or did to cause that reaction, feeling, comment, etc? This is the way you begin to study yourself -- To Know ThySelf.

(5) As you become more AWARE of your words and actions, you will come to realize that you have adopted a higher standard, and that many of your worries, frustrations, and defeats will no longer trouble you.

(6) With Higher Awareness, you will gain a better insight into the way things really are and acquire the knowledge of CAUSES. With this valuable knowledge you will gain the ability to generate certain Causes and CONTROL their Effects. This is real POWER.

(7) You are the end product of your OWN decisions, actions, thoughts, ideas, desires, passions, etc. Karma is "the working of the Law of Cause and Effect as it applies to the results of decisions reached and thought held by the ensouled forms capable of FREE CHOICE."

(8) We live in a world of illusions created by our own creation. There is a cloud of "self-created" energetic beings existing in the finer grades of matter and hovering about you that, believe it or not, creates your karma. They are responsible for what you sense as "sensations." They translate the vibrations of what you think into what you know and recognize as sight, feeling, taste, smell, and sound. By your WILL, your emotions and desires are constantly influencing this cloud of entities around you. You generate and send out thought forms AND you act like a magnet and draw to you the thought forms of others. Reread (7) above.

(9) Your good or evil thoughts, desires, and intentions also have an effect on others. Happy people enjoy happiness, whereas misery loves company. Think about that.

(10) Conscience is the Beginning of Wisdom. Listen to the voice of conscience every time you are faced with a new and unique action and you will gradually come to know you have within you a never failing guidance that with use will keep you within the law. When this happens, you will begin to liquidate more debts than you currently contract.

(11) Learn to become humble in things you do and learn to live more for the sake of others and less for your own satisfaction. Meet ill with good will and hate with love, and disarm and disintegrate the harmful intentions of others. Avert bad personal karma. Neutralize the bad vibrations with good. I know this is easy to say ...

(12) You can modify karmic action by Knowledge of CAUSES. When you understand this, you can use Karmic Force to effect Karmic Results. With knowledge of the CAUSES you will be able to set up the EFFECTS in the future that YOU desire. Do NOT be a pawn of fate.

(13) By changing your attitude, you can change your future.

(14) Feel free to add new or modify the chakra exercises given.

(15) There are only a handful of esoteric schools in the world that can give you some of the training that has been revealed here. Keep in mind, very few people are even aware of these teachings, let alone the key to these secrets you now possess.

(16) Many of these teachings are truly ancient. The private records date their origins back to the time of the Ancient Egyptian Mystery Schools and the reign of Thutmose III.

(17) We learn by doing, so waste no time. If you would discover your hidden abilities and put them to work, why not start now. Thoughtful experiment and persistent striving are the keys. You must do the work!

(18) You have been given the techniques. So your rate of progress is now up to You. Reference: Wisdom of the Mystic Masters by Joseph Weed

Adding a Little Culture to Your Life

By Corinna Richards

As recently as just several years ago, consumers faced few choices when it came to probiotics, or beneficial bacteria, those “good little bugs” that keep the “bad bugs” living inside us in check. Beyond live-culture yogurt, not many people knew where to find friendly bacteria. For those who did, there were relatively few products from which to choose.

Although the term probiotics was, in fact, first used in scientific literature in 1965 (in Science magazine), these days we know much more about these beneficial bacteria and how essential they are to our health. (For a good overview, read “Probiotics: An Old Story Takes On New Meaning,” Issue 44/November 2001.) At the most basic level, probiotics help maintain the proper balance and functioning of our gastrointestinal fauna, crucial to absorbing nutrients from our food and eliminating toxins.

Probiotics also play a major role in bolstering our immune systems. Having an imbalanced gut ecology leaves us vulnerable to a wide range of infections from the urinary tract to the lungs and all the way up to the sinuses—and can cause ailments as transient as 24-hour diarrhea or as chronic as autoimmune diseases.

One cause of GI imbalances is the overuse of antibiotics—both as prescribed by doctors and from consumption of meat and dairy products containing antibiotic residues. Another is eating a diet high in refined, processed foods. And food allergies, which are common yet often go undiagnosed, can wreak havoc throughout our gastrointestinal tracts. Research has resulted not just in a greater understanding of the vital role that probiotics play, but also in an explosion in the number and varieties of supplements now available. But what makes a probiotic product superior? And how can we know what we’re buying?

For optimal effectiveness, a probiotic supplement needs to fulfill three criteria: First, it should contain the most beneficial strains of bacteria. Second, it needs to deliver sufficient numbers of live bacteria into your gastrointestinal tract. And third, the bacteria must be able to live, at least for a time, in your body.

The science behind the strain
Our intestines contain approximately four pounds of intestinal bacteria, consisting of some 400 species. Every day several ounces more are produced and excreted. Specific species have been shown to colonize different areas of the GI tract and to have different therapeutic effects. And while some probiotics are able to reside in the GI tract for only about a day after consumption, others can hang around for up to three weeks. Fragile species such as Lactobacillus reuteri, as well as L. acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum, which are often added to yogurt, may need to be replaced daily.

Species are derived from a variety of sources, including humans (extracted from sources like colon biopsies), dairy products (from fermented milk and cheese), animals (cows and pigs), plants (lichee nuts) and soil (soil-based organisms, or SBOs). Once isolated in labs, the bacteria are then purified and cultured. Is it important to get a probiotic derived from humans? That depends on whom you ask. Silvano Arnoldo, sales manager at probiotics supplier Chr. Hansen BioSystems says, “You can find the same strain in animals as in humans. The important thing is the science behind the strain, which must show that the strain is compatible to the human GI tract.” But other manufacturers, like nutritionist Brenda Lynn Petesch, supervisor of research and development for Wakunaga of America, disagree. Petesch says human-derived probiotics are more likely to colonize the human body.

The language of probiotics
There are three important terms to keep in mind when choosing a probiotic: genus, species and strain. For example, Lactobacillus (genus), acidophilus (species), DDS-1 (strain). Genus is the broadest classification and strain is the most defined; the strain will give you the most specific information about the microorganism. Unfortunately, you won’t see strains listed on product labels.

To ascertain what strains of bacteria are in a product, you must contact the manufacturer (the telephone number or website will be listed on the label). For general purposes, it may not be important to know exactly which strains (determined by DNA testing) are used in your probiotic product and what the latest research has shown their functions to be—but it is important to make sure the manufacturer knows! And if you suffer from a specific health condition, this information becomes more crucial, since different strains may have quite different therapeutic benefits.

Which probiotic is right for you?
Beneficial microorganisms that normally inhabit the human colon become fairly well-established shortly after birth and remain relatively stable throughout life. So do we need to take extra infusions of probiotics if we’re healthy? If so, do we need them continuously? Lita Lee, Ph.D., author of The Enzyme Cure, says, “a healthy colon doesn’t need continuous anything. We create the need for probiotics by our refined, processed diets and the overuse of antibiotics.” Add to this the gut-wrenching effects of eating factory-farmed meat, drinking too much alcohol and living a typical stress-filled life, and probiotics may be just what the doctor should order to get your insides in tip-top shape.

As early as the dawn of the 20th century, researchers had begun to see the benefits of adding friendly bacteria to adult diets; Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Elie Metchnikoff linked yogurt consumption to longevity in Bulgarians in 1907.

Probiotics are still associated with general health and vitality, but current research suggests they can also be helpful in treating specific conditions. For instance, studies have shown that children suffering from chronic diarrhea recover faster when fed yogurt with probiotic cultures. Allan Walker, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, says that introducing this type of probiotic bacteria into children’s diets can reduce their chances of ending up with allergic diseases such as lactose intolerance, asthma, eczema and rhinitis by as much as 50%.

There are hundreds of studies showing specific benefits of probiotic supplementation for numerous health conditions in all age groups, but probiotics have obvious benefits for intestinal problems. William Stuppy, M.D., a renowned gastroenterologist in Los Angeles, says he generally relies on Horizon Quest’s Probacillus Plus. It contains two strains, Lactobacillus acidophilus LaCH-5, and Bifidobacterium-Bb12.

Dr. Stuppy prescribes probiotics to virtually all of his patients. He has used probiotics as part of a program for curing infectious colitis, yeast infections (including Candida albicans) and even Crohn’s disease. (Dr. Stuppy recolonizes his own innards by using Probacillus Plus for one month, two or three times per year.)

A 1999 study in Finland found that children drinking milk with Lactobacillus GG (also known as L. rhamnosus) had fewer respiratory illnesses, evidence the species can increase immunity. L. GG can also survive bile and stomach acids, making it an effective treatment for traveler’s diarrhea, colitis and candida. Another study showed that L. GG may be effective for eczema in children if the child’s mother ingests it while she’s pregnant.

L. salivarius benefits the digestive system by breaking down undigested protein and detoxifying the GI tract. Studies at the University of Nebraska show that this species in general may help prevent colon cancer. W. Lee Cowden, M.D., of Ft. Worth, Texas, prescribes a single species L. salivarius to his patients suffering from fungal infections such as candida and aspergillus.

Dr. Cowden also prescribes L. plantarum for patients with viral infections, or with rapidly advancing cancers. L. plantarum has also been clinically tested for its effects on irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Subjects who were given this species showed a decrease in pain and other IBS symptoms. Studies at the University of Helsinki have also shown that L. plantarum helps to preserve and increase omega-3 fatty acids, which may help to decrease cholesterol levels.

L. acidophilus DDS-1 can be used with, and for several weeks after, a course of antibiotics to prevent diarrhea or allergic reaction as well as dysbiosis. The American Journal of Gastroenterology has reported that this strain is highly resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics such as penicillin, streptomycin and aureomycin. Both L. salivarius and L. johnsonii have also been shown to destroy Helicobacter pylori, a cause of ulcers.

Choosing your supplement
Most probiotic supplements for consumers contain at least two genuses: a lactobacillus intended to colonize the intestine and a bifidobacterium for the colon. Some products contain more. Dr. Cowden says he takes a product that contains 12 types of bacteria, which includes the four genuses lactobacillus, streptococcus, enterococcus and bifidobacterium.

According to Lita Lee, combinations of different species and even strains are useful because they can simultaneously prevent a number of disorders. In supplements containing a number of different probiotics, each one may need to be delivered to a different neighborhood along the gastrointestinal tract to work properly. Encapsulating beneficial bacteria in vitamin E or wheat germ oil—known as oil-matrix delivery—solves the problem. The oil won’t break down in the stomach, so the different species can survive the gastric juices and reach their destinations intact.

Manufacturers often centrifuge their cultures to separate the bacteria. Therefore, it’s important to find out whether they discard the “supernatant”—the liquid excess produced by centrifuging—or include it in the supplement. Many studies have shown that probiotics containing their supernatant are up to 50% more potent than those without it. Not only is the supernatant a ready source of nourishment for the microorganisms, it also acts as a buffer against gastric acids. Some product labels recommend taking the supplement with or shortly after eating, as this is when gastric aids are lowest. Natasha Trenev, president of probiotic manufacturer Natren, points out that if the label recommends taking the product with or shortly after meals, it may have had the supernatant removed. Otherwise, supplements can be taken when convenient and as often as directed on the label.

Overuse of some supplements, particularly concentrated combinations, can cause some stomach discomfort. However, lower potencies and more fragile probiotics (such as L. acidophilus) must be taken on a regular basis to be effective. Though probiotics are not toxic, if you are considering taking a supplement continually it is best to discuss the benefits and dosages with your health practitioner.

How potent are your probiotics?
If you’ve decided you want to add a little live culture to your gastrointestinal ecosystem, the next thing you need to know is how much. The usual measurement for probiotics is in Colony Forming Units, or CFUs. This refers to the number of live bacteria present in each serving. The typical daily dosage recommendation is 3 billion to 5 billion CFUs. Although most products claim to provide several billion CFUs per serving, label potency claims can only be guaranteed at the time of manufacture, as transportation and storage conditions can affect levels. In a recent independent laboratory analysis conducted by Supplement Watch, eight out of the nine supplements tested contained less than 20% of the organisms claimed—four of the nine showed only 1% of them. Some products even contained different species of probiotics than those stated on the label—or none at all. So it is of the utmost importance that you contact suppliers for data on supplements—make sure they offer a guarantee—and that you check with your local health food store or health practitioner for advice on the most reputable products.

The shelf life of probiotic microorganisms varies depending on the species, the strain and the combination—and exposure to heat, light and moisture should always be kept to an absolute minimum. Freeze-drying helps, so if you are looking for a supplement that will take you longer than a few weeks to finish, then you probably want to consider a freeze-dried product. Supplements like “living liquids,” even when refrigerated, have a shorter shelf life than the freeze-dried kind.

Freeze-dried probiotics do eventually deteriorate. Each time they are exposed to air, the moisture in the air will literally wake up some of the bugs. They wake up hungry, and once they use up all available food in the bottle, they start dying and the supplement’s potency is reduced. For this reason, some manufacturers add prebiotics—food for the probiotic bacteria—and other nutrients in the capsule. Most suppliers contain a desiccant bag to help minimize moisture damage; Morganics’ AZ 2-12 contains silica within the capsules. The type of container is also important. Glass bottles keep out moisture better than plastic bottles. Dark colored glass—preferably amber-tinted—helps keeps out light.

Many brands of probiotic are now treated in various other ways to extend shelf life. For example, Chr. Hansen BioSystems manufactures probiotic supplements in sachets touted to survive at room temperature for up to 18 months. Despite such claims, most health practitioners recommend keeping your probiotic refrigerated to extend its life as long as possible, and make sure the label includes an expiration date. It’s also a good idea to ask suppliers if their products are transported to the retailer in refrigerated vans. If the probiotics have not been refrigerated in transit, then it is quite possible they will be dead on arrival.

Considering all of the above, how can you be certain that your supplement is alive and kicking when you’re ready to take it? There’s a simple test you can conduct at home. First—and this is important—wait until you know you’ll be home alone for a few hours. Then, take two to three times the recommended amount. If within a few hours you are experiencing bloating and flatulence, then you can rest assured that your new colonies of probiotic organisms have taken up residence and are cleansing your gastrointestinal system.

Prebiotics: feed your friendly bugs
Bacteria need nourishment, which they obtain from our diet, particularly from a fiber known as fructooligosaccharides. If you’re not a fan of foods high in fructooligosaccharides, such as beans, cauliflower and broccoli, you can feed your friendly microflora with a prebiotic supplement such as Optiflora, Inuflora or Caprinol. Or you can take a “synbiotic” supplement, which combines prebiotics and probiotics in a single product—which is rather like having your friendly bugs travel with a packed lunch.

When considering a prebiotic, there are two important things to remember. First, prebiotics are of no benefit to lactobacillus products. Second, not only beneficial bacteria feed on them. Natasha Trenev warns that prebiotics may also stimulate secondary pathogens like Klebsiella, which is the primary cause of irritable bowel syndrome.

The End Result
If obtaining all this information sounds like a lot of work, well, it can be. Sometimes finding the right supplement is simply a matter of experimentation: Try using one product for a month or two and then try another, and then another. Products vary in the size and recommended number of capsules, and whether the dosage is to be taken before or during meals; see which regimen works best for you. Most of all, see which product makes you feel best and, ideally, helps resolve any nagging health issues. You can also consult with a healthcare professional, such as a certified nutritionist or naturopathic physician, who should be able to recommend specific products and test you for compatibility using kinesiology or electrodermal screening. Your practitioner may offer a private label product line of probiotics, which should be comparable in price to the quality retail products that are available at your health food store.

Finding the probiotic product that works best for you can be enormously rewarding: Cultivating intestinal health through proper bacterial ecology is essential for proper absorption of nutrients and elimination of waste. This will go a long way toward preventing practically any disease you can name, from traveler’s diarrhea to cancer. It is, in fact, the biological foundation of health.

 

© 1999-2008 Natural Solutions: Vibrant Health, Balanced Living/Alternative Medicine/InnoVision Health Media

In 1988 this article started a mini revolution in the alternative health care community because of its information on hydrogen peroxide and ozone. BY WAVES FOREST

Several dozen AIDS patients have not only reversed their death sentences, but are now back at work, completely free of the disease. They destroyed the virus in their blood by hyper-oxygenation, known in various forms as oxygen therapy, bio-oxidative therapy or auto-chemotherapy.

This is a simple, inexpensive and very broad spectrum healing process that many feel could force a complete overhaul of the medical industry. The two basic types of oxygen therapy are ozone blood infusion, and absorption of oxygen water (hydrogen peroxide) at very low concentrations.

It turns out that the AIDS virus cannot tolerate high oxygen levels in its victims' blood. Not only that, every other disease organism tested so far apparently has the same weakness. Even cancer growths contract and disappear when the oxygen saturation is sufficiently increased in the fluids surrounding them, since they are anaerobic.

AIDS, herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr, cytomeglaovirus and other lipid envelope virus are readily destroyed by hyper-oxygenating the patient's blood with ozone. This was demonstrated by, among others, Dr. Horst Kief in Bad Hersfeld, West Germany.

Dr. Kief has already cured a number of AIDS victims by drawing blood, infusing it with ozone and returning it to the patient, at regular intervals until all the virus is gone. (He can be reached through Biozon Ozon-Technik GmbH, An Der Haune #10, Bad Hersfeld, D-6430, Federal Republic of Germany.) Dr. S. Rilling of Stuttgart and Dr. Renate Viebahn of Iffezheim are among the growing number of physicians who have obtained similar results with their patients.

They are with Arztlich Gesellschaft fur Ozontherapie and JrJ Hansler GmbH, respectively.

THE BASIS OF BIO-OXIDATIVE THERAPIES

For many years the health sciences have been seeking to identify the primary physical cause of all diseases, and the cure-all that this basic principle would yield. Now both have been found, but their utter simplicity makes them difficult to accept at first, since it seems like if it's that easy, we should have been using them all along.

Our bodies are composed mostly of water, which is eighth-ninths oxygen. Most nutritional studies tend to get caught up in the small details of biochemistry and overlook our most abundant and essential element, and the fundamental role of its depletion in causing illness. Of all the elements the body needs, only oxygen is in such constant demand that its absence brings death in minutes.

The main difference, for healing purposes, between benign micro-organisms (including our own cells), and those which cause disease, is that the latter require much lower oxygen levels. This is due to their more primitive evolutionary origins, during the ages when free oxygen was far less abundant.

Now their descendants can only survive in low-oxygen environments such as accompany stagnation and decay. To become a growth medium for such parasites, one has to have allowed the oxygen saturation of the body's fluids to drop well below the optimum level for healthy cell growth and function.

The simplest substances available for restoring one's oxygen balance to a healthy range are ozone (O3), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is much easier to obtain and use. These are both highly toxic when concentrated, which has tended to obscure their germicidal value except as a skin antiseptic.

But when diluted to therapeutic levels (for H2O2, 1/2 of 1% or less), they are not only non-toxic but uniquely beneficial.

OZONE BLOOD TREATMENT

Ozone overcomes the AIDS virus by a fundamentally different process than usually attempted with drugs. Instead of burdening the liver and immune system with more elaborate toxic substances, ozone simply oxidizes the molecules in the shell of the virus.

The treatment is remarkably simple. The ozone is produced by forcing oxygen through a metal tube carrying a 300-volt charge.

A pint of blood is drawn from the patient and placed in an infusion bottle. The ozone is then forced into the bottle and mixed in by shaking gently, whereupon the blood turns bright cardinal red. As the ozone molecules dissolve into the blood they give up their third oxygen atom, releasing considerable energy which destroys all lipid-envelope virus, and apparently most other disease organisms as well, while leaving blood cells unharmed.

It also oxygenates the blood to a greater degree than is usually reached, what with poor air and sluggish breathing habits. The treated blood is then given back to the patient. This treatment is given from twice a week to twice a day, depending on how advanced the disease is. The strengthened blood confers some of its veridical properties to the rest of the patient's blood as it disperses.

The disease will not return, as long as the patient maintains his blood in an oxygen-positive state, through proper breathing, exercise, and clean diet.

A Dr. Preuss, in Stuttgart, has written up ten case histories of AIDS patients he has cured by this method. But his and the other physicians' reports of cures are all anecdotal rather than in the form of "controlled studies," since they could not be expected to treat some patients and deny treatment to others just for the purpose of accumulating evidence.

Thus their results are not considered "proof" by the U.S. medical community. So the Medizone Company in New York has taken on the task of doing the controlled studies required for the treatment to be approved in the U.S. for general use.

MEDIZONE TESTING OZONE BLOOD TREATMENT

Last summer Medizone obtained from the FDA and IND (Investigative New Drug) approval for ozone, which falls under the heading of drugs even though it isn't.

They verified that ozone destroys the AIDS virus in vitro, and completed their animal tests in the fall of 1986. The tests demonstrated no indication of toxicity, at ten times the equivalent amount that is proposed for human treatment.

The Medizone Co. is at 123 E. 54th St., Ste. 2B, New York, NY 10022; phone is 212-421-0303.

Medizone was granted U.S. Patent #4,632,980 on December 30, 1986, on "inactivating lipid-envelope viruses in blood that is returned to a mammalian host." In humans, this includes AIDS, herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr virus, and cytomeglao virus, among others. Medizone obtained tentative FDA approval in April 1987 to begin human testing, but for a variety of "bureaucratic reasons" the FDA has postponed the actual start of the tests 4 times now, with requests for further data, some of which had already been given to them.

Months have passed, along with several thousand AIDS victims, since the first announced starting date was postponed. The Medizone staff if hoping to finally begin around November 1st, but are no longer announcing expected starting dates with much confidence.

"There are no technical problems, but this is the FDA we're dealing with, after all." As the Company's future hangs on their decision, no one at Medizone wants to risk antagonizing the FDA, by speculating about their actual motives for stalling on a cure for this unprecedented epidemic.

All this has been with virtually no publicity. The official reason for this is that the accepted procedure for publishing medical breakthroughs is to complete all the tests first, even though victims may die waiting for the cautious, methodical testing procedure to run its course. No one in the industry wants to raise false hopes, let alone repeat the medical disasters that have resulted in the past, from rushing approval on new treatments.

On the other hand, the enormously expensive and dubiously effective drug AZT was widely publicized many months before it was approved in the U.S. as its ongoing research into possible AIDS vaccines. In fact, former FDA Commissioner Frank Young has even announced a proposal to make experimental drugs available to AIDS victims as swiftly as possible, without waiting for the full FDA approval procedure to be completed.

So there appears to be a severe double standard involved here. It seems that highly profitable "treatments" with serious side effects can be promoted through massive news coverage, while an actual cure, repeatedly demonstrated in Europe, with minimal cost and no apparent harmful effects, must be delayed and kept quiet while panic and deaths mount. Surely at this state the benefits of unauthorized publicity will outweigh the risks.

SAFE PURIFICATION OF BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSIONS

Ozone infusion also provides a simple method of purifying stored blood and blood components, eliminating any possibility of disease being transmitted by transfusion. It also pre-oxygenates blood to be transfused, greatly reducing the burden on the body receiving the blood.

This application alone, of the Medizone process has enormous profit potential, and the treatment will have vast international demand as the news spreads.

This has not gone unnoticed by various investment analysts. Confidential: Report from Zurich, Penny Stock Insider and Low-Priced Stock Edition, among others, are urging their readers to get in on Medizone now, comparing the opportunity to getting in on Zerox, IBM or Polaroid when they were still unknown.

Various physicians have independently discovered ozone to be also effective against cancer, leukemia, arthritis, coronary heart disease, arterial circulation disorders, colitis, gum diseases, and assorted children's diseases. Some of these findings have now been collected and published in the volume, Medical Applications of Ozone, available from the International Ozone Association, 83 Oakwood Terrace, Norwalk, CT 06850.

Some of the medical uses of ozone have been appreciated for hears in Europe, Brazil and elsewhere, as well as its advantages over chlorine for water treatment (no toxic residues, 5000 times more rapid disinfection) but it's still relatively unknown in the U.S.

OXYGEN WATER

A much simpler type of Oxygen Therapy uses hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is what ozone (O3) forms on contact with water.

It can be taken orally if diluted with water to 1/200 or less, absorbed through the skin by bathing in it (anywhere from 1-8 pints of 3% H2O2 in a standard size bathtub half full), or in severe cases it can be injected (250 cc of .075% to .15%, or roughly 1/1300 to 1/650). Injections obviously require a physician's assistance, but self-treatment is possible with oral and skin applications.

The principle is the same as with ozone blood treatment. All hostile microorganisms prefer lower oxygen levels than the body's cells require to remain healthy. Boosting the oxygen level revitalizes normal cells while killing virus and other pathogens.

The domestic sales of hydrogen peroxide are rising at 15% per year, as the news of this option spreads at the grassroots level. The rapid expansion of the peroxide movement is especially remarkable considering there has been almost no media coverage, and in fact the FDA, American Cancer Society and other enforcers of established medicine have tried hard to discourage the practice.

Hydrogen peroxide is the only germicidal agent composed only of water and oxygen. Like ozone, it kills disease organisms by oxidation as it spreads through the patient's tissues.

This also destroys cancerous growths which are anaerobic. Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Otto Warbug demonstrated over fifty years ago the basic difference between normal cells and cancer cells. Both drive energy from glucose, but the normal cell requires oxygen to combine with the glucose, while cancer cells break down glucose without oxygen, yielding only 1/15 the energy per glucose molecule that a normal cell produces.

This is why cancer cells have such a huge appetite for sugar, and also why people who consume excessive quantities of sugar tend to get cancer more often.

The anaerobic breakdown of glucose by cancer cells forms large amounts of lactic acid as a waste product, the same substances formed by fermentation of lactose, as in spoiled milk. The liver converts some of this back into glucose, in an attempt to salvage a food source from a toxic waste.

In doing this the liver only uses 1/5 the energy per glucose molecule that a normal cell can then derive from it, but that's three times the energy a cancer cell will get from it. The more the weak, deranged cancer cells multiply, the more energy is lost to the normal cells. Thus we find that low levels of both oxygen and energy tend to occur where cancer is present, and vice versa.

This wasteful metabolism becomes self sustaining and dominant unless the oxygen and/or energy levels are sharply increased, or the cancer's food source eliminated.

HEART TRANSPLANT PIONEER RECOMMENDS OXYGEN WATER

Dr. Christian Bernard, who performed the first heart transplant, said in March 1986 that he was taking peroxide and water himself, several times daily to reduce arthritis and aging, and he recommended it highly at that time.

Since then he has come under heavy attack by the medical establishment for this position, and now states that he "is not involved" with the peroxide movement. But he does not retract his original endorsement, nor deny that he still uses it personally.

Over a hundred physicians are already curing a broad assortment of "incurables" with this natural anti-microbial agent. This includes some forty or more in the U.S. A principal liaison to these free-thinking physicians is Dr. Charles H. Farr, who wrote The Therapeutic Use of Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide.

He directs the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, and publishes the IBOM newsletter which contains procedural updates and technical refinements for physicians using intravenous H2O2 therapy on their patients. By classifying the treatments as experimental they can get around the FDA's archaic restrictions for now, until massive public demand and/or media exposure force official approval.

Dr. Farr summarizes the beneficial effects of H2O2 in IBOM issue #2; these include killing bacteria, protozoa, yeast, and virus, oxidizing lipids from arterial walls, increasing oxygen tension intracellularly, stimulating oxidative enzymes, returning elasticity to arterial walls, dilating coronary vessels, and regulating membrane transport.

H2O2 CAN BE SELF ADMINISTERED

The oral and skin applications offer the option of home treatment as no blood needs to be drawn, and hydrogen peroxide is cheap and plentiful. Keep it diluted though; in high concentrations it can irritate sensitive skin and induce vomiting when ingested. (Veterinarians routinely give common 3% H2O2 to animals that have swallowed poison, to make them throw it up.)

The starting dosage is one ounce of 5% (1/200) H2O2 in water, and some will find they need to start with less. As the peroxide contacts pathogens in the stomach it liberates free oxygen, so those with high levels of virus and streptococcus in their stomachs may feel slight nausea while the reaction is occurring.

The dosage is increased by an ounce per day, up to five ounces on the fifth day, then finally up to five ounces three times daily for a week (or until disease is no longer present). Then the dosage is tapered back down over a five-week period.

Food-grade or Re-agent (these are 35%, dangerous if undiluted) is better for internal use since the common USP 3% H2O2 contains small amounts of chemical stabilizers and other impurities. It can still be used if food grade is unavailable; it just isn't as pure.

An alternate dosage regimen uses three drops of 35% H2O2 in a glass of water, three times a day, which is then increased by a drop per dose, per day, up to 25 drops per dose in extreme cases. Candidiasis victims should start at one drop per dose, and build their tolerance gradually. Some find the taste rather bleachy and unpleasant, and may wish to chase it with plain water. It can also be mixed with fruit juice, and citrus juices in particular cover the taste pretty well.

Adding seven drops of 35% H2O2 to a gallon of drinking water and shaking well purifies it and gives it a pleasant waterfall-like flavor.

For more dosage details and extensive references on H2O2 to a gallon of drinking water and shaking well purifies it and gives it a pleasant waterfall-like flavor.

These gentlemen have continued the research initiated by Dr. Edward Carl Rosenow (1875-1966). They have located over 4000 peer-reviewed medical articles on the applications of hydrogen peroxide, some dating back to the 1800's.

They received the National Health Federations Pioneer Award in Medicine three years ago for this ongoing research. Walter Grotz, in particular, has been touring and lecturing extensively on the benefits of self-administered H2O2, literally saving lives wherever he goes, and bringing hope to people who had been told their cases were hopeless.

Dr. Kurt W. Donsbach at the Bio-Genesis Institute in Rosarita Beach, Baja Mexico (619-428-8585), has achieved a remission rate exceeding 70% in over 300 patients, at last count, most of whom had been previously told they were beyond hope, and had "tried everything else." Bio-oxidative therapies are now applied to all cases that arrive at this clinic, and all respond except for some of those who arrive already very close to death. The Guadalajara Medical School, Mexico's largest, is initiating their own tests this summer, and will add it to their curriculum upon verification.

As Dr. Donsbach has pointed out, no U.S. clinic or institution has ever tested intravenous H2O2 as a treatment for cancer, so any claim that is not effective is not based on clinical trial, and amount to willful dis-information.

The Gerson Institute and La Gloria Clinic in Mexico are also using hydrogen peroxide therapies on their patients, after the staff tested it on themselves and found it to be beneficial.

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN NATURE

Hydrogen peroxide occurs naturally in rain and snow, from atmospheric ozone, and in mountain streams where rushing water is continuously aerated. Most of us learned at an early age to drink from a stream only where the waters running white, because that's where it gets cleansed of germs. The reason is that H2O2 is forming there due to the waters rapid agitation, and that's what kills any harmful microbes present.

By just shaking a bottle of water vigorously for a while you can tuck enough extra oxygen into it to form detectable amounts of H2O2, improving its purity, flavor and vitality.

It turns out that the spring waters at Lourdes, France, long recognized for their remarkable healing properties, are very high in natural hydrogen peroxide. The spring is fed by high-altitude snow melt, so the snow apparently absorbs unusually large quantities of ozone on its way from the upper atmosphere. Other less-known high altitude springs are said to be likewise effective.

Similar benefits can be obtained in a swimming pool or hot tub, by discarding the chlorinating system and simply pouring in H2O2 or by bubbling ozone through the water. One simple method of making pool-grade ozone is to pump air past an enclosed ultra-violet lamp.

Raw, un-cooked vegetables and fruits contain natural hydrogen peroxide. Cooking drives off the extra oxygen. Fresh fruit juices are well known for their blood-cleansing and revitalizing capabilities, particularly when they are not combined with other foods; this is largely due to the H2O2 they contain. Reconstituted frozen juices have much less, and are no longer "alive," thus they are not nearly as effective.

H2O2 IS HEART OF IMMUNE SYSTEM

Mother's milk contains a high amount of H2O2, especially colostrum, the first milk secreted after birth, which activates the new born's immune system. H2O2 is the first line of the body's defense systems, and key to many other metabolic processes.

Under conditions of optimum health, H2O2 is produced by the body's defense systems, and key to many other metabolic processes.

Under conditions of optimum health, H2O2 is produced by the body's immune system in whatever amounts are needed to quickly destroy any invading hostile organisms. It is made by combining water in the body with the free oxygen that is supposed to be constantly available. When the body is oxygen-starved, it can't produce enough H2O2 to wipe out invading pathogens, which can then get the upper hand and cause visible disease.

OXYGEN BOOST IS KEY TO OTHER HEALING METHODS

When penicillin is effective against infection, it is largely due to the formation of bactericidal amounts of H2O2, when glucose is oxidized by O2 in the presence of penicillin notation. (General Biochemistry, Fruton & Simmonds 577.1 F944 p. 339)

Much has been made of the healing properties of Interferon, but it is unbelievably expensive. However, much of its effectiveness is apparently due to the fact that it stimulates production of H2O2 and other oxygen intermediates, which are a key factor in reactivating the immune system. (Journal of Interferon Research Vol. 3, #2,1983 p. 143-151.)

Thus Interferon may turn out to be simply a very elaborate way to accomplish essentially the same thing as the H2O2 regimen.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) has long been recognized as essential to the proper use of oxygen by the cells. Dr. Linus Pauling has demonstrated that large doses of Vitamin C are effective against cancer. The mainstream medical community still has not acknowledged this discovery, let alone put it to use, despite Dr. Pauling's credentials. As it turns out, vitamin C actually creates extra H2O2 in the body.

Organic Germanium (bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide) is gaining increasing recognition as a potent healing substance, primarily through the work of Dr. Kazuhiko Asai. This compound directly increases the body's oxygen supply, as it contains a great deal of oxygen in a form that can be easily assimilated. (See Miracle Cure; Organic Germanium by Dr. Assai, Japan Publications, Inc., Tokyo and New York.)

Taheebo (aka Pau D'Arco or Lapacho Colorado) is a tree that grows in the Andes and fixes high concentrations of oxygen in crytalline form into its inner bark. The bark has been used for centuries by the native peoples of the area to prevent and reverse illnesses, and it is one reason why they do not get cancer.

In recent years it has become popular in the U.S., and it gets by the FDA as an "herbal tea" whose distributors wisely make no medical claims for it. Again, much of its effectiveness is apparently due to its high oxygen content, released in solution when brewed as a tea.

CAUSES OF OXYGEN DEPLETION

There are several very common practices that drop a person's oxygen level far below where it should ideally be. At sea level, 20% of the atmosphere is supposed to be oxygen, but city air goes down as low as 10%, due to smog and removal of trees. Air that tastes bad induces a tendency to breathe shallowly, getting even less oxygen to the blood. So does lack of exercise.

The carbon monoxide (CO) in smog does not normally occur in nature in much quantity since it's formed by incomplete combustion of carbon compounds. It is electrically unbalanced, so it seeks to bond with any available oxygen to form the more stable carbon dioxide (CO2).

Those who breathe too much carbon monoxide tend to die fast or slow depending on the concentration. It strips oxygen molecules from the blood to form CO2, which the body can't use and must exhale, at least until its oxygen runs out. The fact that the body considers CO2, a waste product, by the way, doesn't say much for carbonated beverages.

Tap water is very low in oxygen, having had no opportunity to be aerated during its journey through the pipes, and being loaded down with chlorine and various contaminants. Since cooking drives the extra oxygen out of vegetables, if one's diet is mostly cooked or processed foods, there's yet another oxygen source lost.

EATING FASTING AND OXYGEN BALANCE

Overeating is so common in the U.S. it's considered "normal". One cause is the widespread use of oral antibiotics. While destroying the target germs, these drugs also kill off one's intestinal flora, which are needed for healthy digestion. With these friendly bacteria gone, digestive efficiency plummets.

As a result, the sensation of hunger comes more often and lasts longer, as the body tries to compensate for ineffective digestion by increasing the amount consumed.

Even just eating daily, without ever giving the gastrointestinal tract a rest, loads down the blood with toxins and impurities, especially uric acid crystals. Under a microscope these resemble tiny coffin-lids, interestingly enough, another clue to our Creator's whimsical sense of humor.

When the waste products exceed the cleansing capacity of the kidneys, the blood ends up having to just haul it around the body and stash it wherever possible. These toxins literally take up so much room in the blood cells that the cells can't take on enough oxygen when they pass through the lungs. the bloods primary function of picking up and distributing oxygen gets blocked by overuse of the garbage hauling function.

Fasting restores healthy by giving the overloaded blood cells a chance to dump the toxins and inert matter through normal organs of elimination at a rate they can handle, instead of through the skin, as in acne, or other inappropriate places. If the fast is long enough, accumulated residues in the body are also scoured out and expelled, giving a considerable spiritual resurgence once all the backlog is cleared away.

While the debris is flushing out, various toxic reactions may come and go. Once the blood is cleansed the red corpuscles have a lot more room for oxygen molecules, the oxygen saturation of the tissues is high, and health and energy are boosted considerably. Each breath now gives more life than it was able to in the bloods earlier state.

Most long-lived native peoples, who are not affected by our common diseases, either include fasting as a regular part of their yearly food cycles, or eat much less overall, than industrialized peoples.

Today many Americans are existing at such high levels of toxicity, that their toxic reactions when attempting to fast can seem intense enough to make them start eating again before any serious cleansing can be accomplished.

Fortunately one can partially bypass the lungs and get the blood oxygen level back up, by taking oxygenated water internally and through the skin. Several weeks of detoxification with this regimen will also make it much easier to fast without discomfort, if one chooses. It reduces appetite, logically enough, to a level more in line with the body's actual needs.

The bacteria that aid digestion are not killed by oral use of H2O2, as long as it's diluted properly.

OXYWATER MAY EVEN CURE STUPIDITY

Perhaps the greatest potential benefit is the reversal of the sight brain damage caused by long-term oxygen depletion, which can be observed in the "average" human, and is sometimes not all that slight.

It's well known that after about 9 minutes of no oxygen, from drowning or whatever, you can kiss your brain goodbye. But the implications of constant gradual oxygen starvation in our cities somehow escape notice, despite the tiredness, depression, irritability, poor judgment and health problems affecting so many citizens.

Increasing the oxygen supply to the brain and nervous system will reverse these conditions. The oxygen water regimen improves alertness, reflexes, memory and apparently intelligence, and may offer the elderly a new weapon against senility and related disorders.

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are reported to be responding to it. Alcoholics who start taking H2O2 soon lose interest in alcohol, and the thirst does not come back. Look up what alcohol does with your blood oxygen and your ability to use it, and you'll see why.

One possible spin-off of a coming major increase in the blood oxygen supply to human brains is that various short-sighted oxygen-depleting activities such as deforestation, and other unintelligent practices, should fade from the scene. Americans especially, will have an opportunity to outgrow many stupid things.

It's strange that the common drug aspirin "stops pain" by interfering with the nervous systems ability to use oxygen, in the electrochemical reactions needed to transmit impulses.

Though maybe it's not that strange, considering that the Bayer Company which originated it was a subsidiary of IG Farben, the German chemical conglomerate that is famous for, among other things, developing and mass-producing the lethal gas Zyklon-Bk specifically for exterminations at Nazi death camps.

ECONOMIC INERTIA

Dr. Terry McGrath, the CEO at Medizone, confirmed that hydrogen peroxide would in principle act much like ozone in destroying the AIDS virus, but pointed out that it's never likely to be tested and proven in the laboratory.

There's simply n economic incentive, since it's an un-patentable process and offers no more commercial returns than most other natural remedies. So it's completely up to the individual patients and concerned citizens to push these options out into the open, immediately, before various companies get too financially committed to the assumption that AIDS (or any other disease) will continue to spread and be incurable.

This is as good a place as any for the FDA-required disclaimer: "Information given here is for research and educational purposes only and is not intended to prescribe treatment."

VERTERINARY AND AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS

Humans aren't the only life form that benefits from compensation for their oxygen-deficient air, water and/or lifestyle. H2O2 in animals drinking water, not enough to taste unpleasant, knocks out a growing list of illnesses.

Locally, cats have gotten rid of their feline leukemia and clamydia, and are back to their old energetic slapstick selves. Distemper in dogs has been reversed with H2O2, and a growing number of farmers are applying it to their livestock to cut losses from disease and infected wounds.

Plants grow better with an ounce of 3% H2O2 per quart of water they're given. Spray the solution on their leaves as well. Seeds germinate faster, with bigger sprouts, when they are first soaked in 1 ounce of 3% H2O2 to a pint of water. Instead of cutting trees that are diseased or otherwise struggling, spray them with H2O2 and water (1 part 3% to 32 parts water).

WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY IN USE?

The obvious question is, if hyper-oxygenation is so simple and effective, why has it taken so long to discover it? Ozone is hardly new and hydrogen peroxide has been on the market for over a century. Why aren't all the doctors already using it? How come this story isn't all over the major news outlets?

Turning the question around helps clarify the problem. Just exactly what would happen if a cure was discovered that was completely effective against the vast majority of diseases, ridiculously cheap and plentiful, and in most cases could be self administered without a physician?

Would the current medical establishment welcome a breakthrough that could render 98% of all drugs, testing and disease related surgery obsolete? What would the response be of the pharmaceutical industrialists, hospital chain owners, health insurance moguls, AMA, and FDA?

Would you expect to read of hear such an announcement from any medical journal or media outlet owned by people financially committed to the medical status quo, which is practically all of them? How many want to help their own occupation become unnecessary?

And if the cure had already been suppressed once, wouldn't the possible blame for allowing people to die without it provide even more incentive to continue keeping the whole thing quite?

All right then. This is precisely the situation that exists,and the cure has indeed been around for ages. It has been independently reported effective against virtually every disease at one time or another, in thousands of public-domain medical articles, which had never been collected and correlated until recently. And it is so simple and basic that concealing it from most physicians and the general public has required a tremendous smoke screen or artificial complications, narrow specializations, symptomatic classifications and user hostile treatments.

If this is so, it follows that the more profit-fixated elements of the medical establishment will not be too thrilled about the recent surge of interest in oxygen therapies. The drug industry has expanded enormously since WWII, while America's level of health has dropped from the world's highest to the lowest among the industrialized nations. It does look as if the bottom line has been money and not health, for a long time.

The battle for the future of medicine, between Nature's truth and lucrative lies, is about to really heat up. We can expect to see dis-information articles and newscasts with persuasive medical experts, some of whom will even believe what they're saying, warning of the dangers of hydrogen peroxide, ozone, and even regular oxygen.

These reports will attempt to blur the distinction between using therapeutic dosages at safe dilutions, and the harmful effects of excessive concentrations. Plenty of grisly examples are available, of what happens when various tissues are over-oxidized.

Anti-oxygenation propaganda pieces will probably not mention that over the years the FDA has approved H2O2 as a skin antiseptic at full 3% strength, as a hair bleaching agent at 6%, and for internal use as an additive to milk and in aseptic long shelf life packaging.

Nor are they likely to acknowledge that many European countries use ozone and H2O2 in their cities water supply, and that they enjoy much better health than in the U.S. And they will be unable to truthfully cite any examples of people who were harmed by using H2O2 in the correct demonstrated therapeutic concentrations.

It is vital for Americans to realize the current economic dynamics don't allow the businessmen in charge of the health industry any incentive at all, to make people permanently healthy and lose them as customers. It's the same reason why the energy conglomerates do not encourage citizens to become energy-self-sufficient, the Pentagon has no incentive to stop wars, and the American Psychiatric Association sees no advantage to ending mental illness.

Fortunately, the majority of physicians really do want to see their patients get well. They also wouldn't mind regaining the respect and admiration with which physicians were once more widely regarded.

When it comes down to a choice between saving lives and protecting profits, most will be brave enough to overhaul their medical belief systems, discard obsolete methodologies, and basically tell the pharmaceutical conglomerates to go shove it. The rest will simply get left behind.

SOURCES FOR FOOD-GRADE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

Most pharmacists have never even heard of it, so it's usually a waste of time to ask them. A number of chemical supply houses have 35% H2O2 available; check your local directories and call a few.

Under FDA pressure, DuPont and possible other major chemical companies have recently issued warnings to their distributors, not to sell hydrogen peroxide to people who want it for healing purposes. So when you inquire, if they ask what you want it for, it will unfortunately be necessary to lie.

If you say you want it as a cleaning agent, that's at least pretty close to the truth.

Several physicians quietly sell it through the mail, but they aren't the same ones promoting its healing properties, for obvious FDA-related reasons. A good source in California, though he can ship it anywhere, is Dr. A.J. McDonald, at P.O. Box 775, Lodi, CA 95240; 209-368-8681/12$/pint.

Your best move would be to share this information with owners of health-food stores in your area. Call them and ask if they have food-grade H2O2 (some already do) and tell them why you want it and how it works. Encourage them to carry it and give them Dr. McDonald's address if they don't seem inclined to track down a local source.

Clean room-grade 30% H2O2 (used for cleaning in computer rooms since it is a powerful disinfectant and leaves no residue when it evaporates) is reported to be just as pure as food grade and much cheaper.

Check with labs that make "wafer fabrication" chemicals, or contact the manufacturers of silicon chips and other computer parts, and the data processing complexes that might use it in their clean rooms, and ask where they buy it. The more sources become known, the harder it will be for anyone to make it unavailable.

GET THE WORD OUT

Write your elected officials, send copies of this information, and point out what will happen to a politician whose constituents learn he knew of a cure for cancer and AIDS but didn't tell them about it. Call in on radio talk shows and share the good news, or send copies to their reporters and program directors, especially at listener-supported stations as these are less likely to suppress it. Don't assume your local papers have already heard of this; write letters to editors, and/or send copies of this report. Tack it up on every bulletin board you see, and post it on all relevant computer bulletin boards.

If you know teachers, physicians, or health officials who can still think for themselves, tell them about this and give the references. Notify your local police officials that hyper-oxygenation gives them a way of making sure they'll be safe from infection due to contact with AIDS carriers. If you're really feeling bold, walk into the local hospital's cancer wards and hand a copy of this report to anyone who can still read, and slip out the back door before their doctors walk in. Share it with anyone you know who has a health problem, even a minor one; H2O2 apparently works on everything from acne to warts.

Above all, stop buying the idea that cancer, AIDS, and other "terminal" illnesses are automatic death sentences. When you hear some celebrity you like is sick or dying of this or that, look up their mailing address in Who's Who or whatever, and mail them this information. If the address is for an agent, who are notorious for blocking attempted communications to their client, you might include a cover letter, stating that the enclosed vital news is also being sent to their client's family members, and that if he or she learns through them that there was life-saving information sent but held up at the agent's, that agent will be out of a job. Act like you have the clout it takes to make a difference, and you soon will.

Major scientific breakthroughs go through three stages; first they are ridiculed, then violently opposed, and finally they are accepted as having been self-evident all along. Let's see if we can short-cut those first two stages a bit, OK?

FURTHER INFORMATION SOURCES:

Waves Forest, P.O. Box 768, Monterey, CA 93942 or www.familyhealthnews.com

Alternative Medicine - The Healthy Choice
By Jem Bacchus

Alternative and Conventional Medicines are the two main systems of healing in use today and the utmost caution should be taken to choose wisely.

Being healthy is of crucial importance in the life of everyone. I do not believe that there is anyone who relishes the anguish of disease. Without health you cannot function properly in any area of your life.

Whether enjoying the normal faculties of life or mentally unbalanced, every person would rather be perfectly healthy than endure the tortures of pain, sickness and disease, but there comes a time when we must seek medical help.

It is unfortunate that instead of healing the sick, very often some medicines interfere with the natural process of healing, resulting in additional suffering and further deterioration of health.

In ancient times, illness was cured by the use of herbs and other natural therapies which always proved very effective. Today, those same therapies as well as modern discoveres based on those of ancient times are referred to as alternative medicine and the public has been brainwashed into believing that the treatments are worthless; yet, many diseases that have been deemed 'incurable' are being healed by alternative means but, unfortunately, these cures have never been heard of by countless sufferers.

What is called conventional medicine (also referred to as mainstream, standard, allopathic or orthodox medicine), is man-made synthetic drugs that were not in existence in ancient times. Interestingly, so many diseases were not around in those days as there are today.

The main difference between the two systems is that alternative medicine is concerned about the prevention of disease and pays attention to and deals with the cause by treating the body as a whole. It focuses on preventing disease before it starts. It views the presence of disease as an imbalance of the emotional, mental and physical state of a person and endeavors to support and strengthen the immune system by natural means.

Alternative medicine contends that the body is naturally able to heal itself and remain stable - known in medicine as homeostasis.

On the other hand, conventional medicine is not concerned with preventing disease but rather with using synthetic drugs to cure an already established ailment. It is more interested in treating just the symptoms of disease by scientific techniques and technology instead of treating the whole person.

Many conventional drugs are said to have the potential to damage the liver and kidneys, and cause mental depression, heart falure, cancer and other adverse side effects. Now, if that is so, why are they still being manufactured and sold to the public? Where is the concern for public health and safety?

Note that since the introduction of conventional medicine, instead of there being greater relief from illness, there has been an exponential surge of diseases wreaking havoc in the lives of unsuspecting mortals. Why is this so?

If conventional medicine were the answer to health problems, why are there so many more diseases prevalent today? The interesting thing is that a name is readily given to each new disease and some form of synthetic remedy is quickly manufactured for sale!

Conventional medicine has been so well advertised that the public is convinced that it is the only way they can get relief from devastating illnesses. They jump at the announcement of any new supposedly super healing conventional medicine and with no hesitation embark upon treating themselves. This is especially so in the case of weight loss.

The sad thing is that no real cure is realized from these, whereas there are natural remedies that have been proven to cure. I can personally attest to certain cures that I have experienced through the use of natural remedies.

It is well known that some drug manufacturers have had to withdraw their dangerous medication because of the likelihood of patients suffering heart attack and stroke. Most synthetic drugs, if not all, have dangerous side effects of which the public is unaware. Some are very detrimental to unborn babies. So why are these drugs still being sold and at such exorbitant prices?

The general public is not sufficiently made aware of the dangers of conventional drugs. For obvious reasons, no attempt to do so is made by those who should educate the unwary and encourage the use of alternative medicine.

Obviously, if disease is prevented by natural means before resulting in the breakdown of the immune system which is the body's mechanism of defence against illness, serious diseases such as cancer and other so-called incurable diseases would be revented, and so there would be little need for the administration of expensive conventional medicine since that would be necessary only in case of surgery and other traumatic conditions.

Sad to say, it is reported that nutritional supplements as well as some alternative medicines packaged by some unscrupulous manufacturers are not quite what their labels indicate, and that the potency is far below what is required to be effective. This is not to suggest that they are toxic, but rather that they are not quite as effective as they should be.

If this is so, my personal feeling is that such persons should be exposed and their names posted in full view for all to see. This should curb that undesirable practice. One must therefore be very cautious when choosing nutritional supplements as well as alternative medicines.

Another point that I think worthy of note is about products so readily put on the skin. Most of them are formulated with harmful synthetic substances that get into the blood stream and invariably cause dangerous side effects. As it is said, what you would not eat, you should not put on your skin.

Remember that the skin absorbs and cannot differentiate between synthetic chemicals and natural substances. You may not see the adverse effects now, but years later your skin would speak for itself. You do not want to look older than your age, do you? Then do not poison yourself with the topical application of toxic skin products.

No one should be so busy so as not be able to find time to learn about the natural substances that they could take to protect their own bodies and prevent diseases. Many thousands of persons might have been alive today if only they had known, and had been encouraged to use natural remedies.

I enjoy reading to find out about ancient formulas and treatments that have resurfaced today, as well as new discoveries of natural healing methods and remedies that are gaining momentum amongst health conscious persons.

Ï have collected lots of information on herbal remedies. Among them are such topics as heart health the natural way, aromatherapy essential oils, homeopathy, beautiful skin care, skin diseases, healing for conditions such as acne, hemorrhoids, eczema, etc., weightloss, and many other natural health remedies and detailed information on how to make your own from nature's herbs, vitamins and nutrients.

Many persons seem to be convinced that natural remedies made by God do not have the efficacy of the synthetic remedies made by man!

God who made this world has said "the leaves of the trees for healing of the nations." God is truth and cannot lie. Isn't it time that we took Him at his word?

Why should we put our trust in Satan and his lies and put no confidence in God and His truth?

Since there seems to be no confidence in what God has made, Why don't we make our own water, sunshine, trees, and fresh air? Why do we walk upon God's earth? We should make our own basic items to concoct synthetic remedies instead of corrupting the things that God has made.

You can seek relief from disease either through natural alternative medicine by which you can maintain good health and save; or, through conventional medicine with its ill effects of costly synthetic prescription drugs at the risk of further deterioration of your health. It is up to you to prevent poisoning yourself, avoid unnecessary pain and suffering, and be healthy.

Keep this in mind:

If you really want to fight disease, Natural Medicine is the Healthy Choice; But, if you'd rather be deceased, Synthetic Medicine might be the Deadly Choice!!

This article is written for information only and is not intended to suggest treatment of any disease. Information contained herein is based on facts I have gathered and just want to share with interested persons. Anyone suffering from a disease or has any other medical issue is advised to consult a recognized practitioner.

Jem Bacchus is a certified Natural Health Consultant and takes pleasure in sharing what she has learned with others. She is also author and webmaster of the website http://1-personal-improvement.com

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Antibiotics known as Quinolones (e.g.: ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, among others) have been associated with some or all of the following adverse drug reactions:    http://www.antibiotics.org/

• Tendonitis, Tendon Rupture, Tendon, Ligament, Joint and Muscle Damage
• Vision Damage, Hearing Loss, Taste Perversion
• Peripheral Neuropathy (Tingling, burning sensation)
• Insomnia, Nightmares, Anxiety Attacks, Depersonalization, Cognitive Disorders
• Brain, Heart, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Blood and Endocrine Disorders
• Severe Psychotic Reactions, Suicidal Thoughts or Actions
• Gastrointestinal Damage

Should you have experienced any of the above, after taking an antibiotic, you are far from being alone! Many others have experienced similar long term problems as a result of being prescribed these drugs. Despite the fact that such events have been reported for more than forty years, your physician is either unwilling or unable to recognize, treat, and report such events.

For more than forty years the FDA has allowed the manufacturers of this class of chemotherapeutic agents to be aggressively marketed as "safe and effective antibiotics with an excellent safety profiles and to be remarkably free of clinically significant adverse effects." This has been done in spite of compelling evidence to the contrary. Evidence that the FDA has ignored since 1939. For almost forty years the FDA has turned a blind eye to the severe, crippling and at times fatal adverse drug reactions associated with these chemotherapeutic agents. Even going so far as to allow these drugs to be marketed to physicians as safe antibiotics with minimum side effects.

Antibiotics may exhibit adverse drug reactions that resolve upon cessation of therapy or modification of the therapeutic dose, however, the toxic adverse drug reactions associated with some antibiotics appear to be not dose dependant and do NOT resolve upon cessation of therapy in many cases. In these cases such adverse drug reactions do not even manifest until weeks, months and even years after such therapy has been terminated. These latent reactions also do NOT appear to resolve and become chronic conditions to which there is no known treatment protocol. Tens of thousands (literally) of patients may have died as a result of such therapy and hundreds of thousands more have had their lives destroyed by these drugs. Yet the FDA does nothing to prevent this ongoing carnage and continues to approve additional agents without a moment’s hesitation.

Many victims of adverse reactions to antibiotics face the fact that their lives have been completely destroyed. Many face loss of job and income, some face breakup of the family. Some have even committed suicide because of the pain inflicted by these drugs.

In 1982 spontaneous tendon ruptures were reported to have occurred long after such therapy had been terminated. In some cases well over a year later. Year after year numerous case studies, clinical trials and medical journal entries have documented this severe and crippling adverse drug reaction, often times citing the co-administration of steroids to be a contributory factor. The FDA has ignored this research and continued to approve additional agents and monographs devoid of this caveat for over twenty years. Only recently has the following warning been added to the monographs, twenty years later.

"Achilles and other tendon ruptures that required surgical repair or resulted in prolonged disability have been reported ... should be discontinued if the patient experiences pain, inflammation, or rupture of a tendon."

The patient being advised to:

"To discontinue treatment; rest and refrain from exercise; and inform their physician if they experience pain, inflammation or rupture of a tendon "

Yet when the patient presents with tendon pain and/or rupture he or she is told it cannot possibly be the drug by the attending physician. For more than fourteen years the FDA turned a blind eye to this until Public Citizen filed a petition demanding that they take action. They failed to do so. Despite the overwhelming evidence presented by Public Citizen, who demanded that at the very least a black box warning be added to the monographs and a "Dear Doctor" letter be sent, the FDA did nothing. No black box warning and no information provided to the prescribing physician, who to this day does not associate such spontaneous rupture to antibiotic therapy. The clueless physician also prescribes STEROIDS to treat such events once they manifest in his or her patient. Which results in severe injury to the patient with the resulting tendon ruptures. . In fact the FDA has recently approved yet another antibiotic with severe rash being a known adverse drug reaction together with the approval of the use of STEROIDS to treat such an event once it manifest in the patient.

Compounding the problem is that there are numerous drugs which should not be taken in combination with this class of antibiotics. There are increased risks of injury when they are taken in combination with corticosteriods (e.g.: Prednisone, Flovent, Nasarel, Azmacort, Advair Disku, Methylprednisolone Dospak, Elocon Cream, Desoximetasone Cream, and Sterapred) and when taken in combinations with non-steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs (NSAIDs) (e.g.: Motrin, Pamprin, Aleve, Advil, and Ibuprofen, among others). Physicians are frequently not aware of these contraindications and prescribe dangerous combinations of drugs which cause severe injuries to their patients. Physicians may also not be able to identify that their patient is suffering an adverse reaction and instruct them to continue to take more of the antibiotic resulting in very serious and perhaps preventable injuries.

The warnings within the monographs for this class of chemotherapeutic agents minimizes, trivializes, and distorts the potential risk involved in such therapy and claim that such events resolve upon cessation of therapy.

Antibiotics known as Quinolones (e.g.: ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, among others) have been associated with some or all of the following adverse drug reactions:    http://www.antibiotics.org/

• Tendonitis, Tendon Rupture, Tendon, Ligament, Joint and Muscle Damage
• Vision Damage, Hearing Loss, Taste Perversion
• Peripheral Neuropathy (Tingling, burning sensation)
• Insomnia, Nightmares, Anxiety Attacks, Depersonalization, Cognitive Disorders
• Brain, Heart, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Blood and Endocrine Disorders
• Severe Psychotic Reactions, Suicidal Thoughts or Actions
• Gastrointestinal Damage

Should you have experienced any of the above, after taking an antibiotic, you are far from being alone! Many others have experienced similar long term problems as a result of being prescribed these drugs. Despite the fact that such events have been reported for more than forty years, your physician is either unwilling or unable to recognize, treat, and report such events.

For more than forty years the FDA has allowed the manufacturers of this class of chemotherapeutic agents to be aggressively marketed as "safe and effective antibiotics with an excellent safety profiles and to be remarkably free of clinically significant adverse effects." This has been done in spite of compelling evidence to the contrary. Evidence that the FDA has ignored since 1939. For almost forty years the FDA has turned a blind eye to the severe, crippling and at times fatal adverse drug reactions associated with these chemotherapeutic agents. Even going so far as to allow these drugs to be marketed to physicians as safe antibiotics with minimum side effects.

Antibiotics may exhibit adverse drug reactions that resolve upon cessation of therapy or modification of the therapeutic dose, however, the toxic adverse drug reactions associated with some antibiotics appear to be not dose dependant and do NOT resolve upon cessation of therapy in many cases. In these cases such adverse drug reactions do not even manifest until weeks, months and even years after such therapy has been terminated. These latent reactions also do NOT appear to resolve and become chronic conditions to which there is no known treatment protocol. Tens of thousands (literally) of patients may have died as a result of such therapy and hundreds of thousands more have had their lives destroyed by these drugs. Yet the FDA does nothing to prevent this ongoing carnage and continues to approve additional agents without a moment’s hesitation.

Many victims of adverse reactions to antibiotics face the fact that their lives have been completely destroyed. Many face loss of job and income, some face breakup of the family. Some have even committed suicide because of the pain inflicted by these drugs.

In 1982 spontaneous tendon ruptures were reported to have occurred long after such therapy had been terminated. In some cases well over a year later. Year after year numerous case studies, clinical trials and medical journal entries have documented this severe and crippling adverse drug reaction, often times citing the co-administration of steroids to be a contributory factor. The FDA has ignored this research and continued to approve additional agents and monographs devoid of this caveat for over twenty years. Only recently has the following warning been added to the monographs, twenty years later.

"Achilles and other tendon ruptures that required surgical repair or resulted in prolonged disability have been reported ... should be discontinued if the patient experiences pain, inflammation, or rupture of a tendon."

The patient being advised to:

"To discontinue treatment; rest and refrain from exercise; and inform their physician if they experience pain, inflammation or rupture of a tendon "

Yet when the patient presents with tendon pain and/or rupture he or she is told it cannot possibly be the drug by the attending physician. For more than fourteen years the FDA turned a blind eye to this until Public Citizen filed a petition demanding that they take action. They failed to do so. Despite the overwhelming evidence presented by Public Citizen, who demanded that at the very least a black box warning be added to the monographs and a "Dear Doctor" letter be sent, the FDA did nothing. No black box warning and no information provided to the prescribing physician, who to this day does not associate such spontaneous rupture to antibiotic therapy. The clueless physician also prescribes STEROIDS to treat such events once they manifest in his or her patient. Which results in severe injury to the patient with the resulting tendon ruptures. . In fact the FDA has recently approved yet another antibiotic with severe rash being a known adverse drug reaction together with the approval of the use of STEROIDS to treat such an event once it manifest in the patient.

Compounding the problem is that there are numerous drugs which should not be taken in combination with this class of antibiotics. There are increased risks of injury when they are taken in combination with corticosteriods (e.g.: Prednisone, Flovent, Nasarel, Azmacort, Advair Disku, Methylprednisolone Dospak, Elocon Cream, Desoximetasone Cream, and Sterapred) and when taken in combinations with non-steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs (NSAIDs) (e.g.: Motrin, Pamprin, Aleve, Advil, and Ibuprofen, among others). Physicians are frequently not aware of these contraindications and prescribe dangerous combinations of drugs which cause severe injuries to their patients. Physicians may also not be able to identify that their patient is suffering an adverse reaction and instruct them to continue to take more of the antibiotic resulting in very serious and perhaps preventable injuries.

The warnings within the monographs for this class of chemotherapeutic agents minimizes, trivializes, and distorts the potential risk involved in such therapy and claim that such events resolve upon cessation of therapy.

Balancing and Charging the Chakras

by Julia Jablonski

While the word "chakra" has Hindu (Sanskrit) roots, the energy involved is not partial to any particular religion. It is a universal energy, and all people inhabiting physical bodies on this earth have them. These energy vortexes are the channels through which spiritual energy flows through to manifest in the physical. (Matter is merely slowed down or crystallized energy, hence, our bodies are energy!) The chakras and other smaller energy vortexes (such as acupuncture points) are openings and channels for universal energy to flow into and out of the aura. Through chakra meditation and learning and experience with the energetic nature of the universe, we can awaken our conscious minds to our true spiritual natures.

The following is a general summary of my current understanding of the physical locations and elements associated with each chakra. Over the years I have noticed some discrepancies between how different people "define" each chakra, (particularly the second and third chakras), but the differences have only been minor. Certainly the colors and locations of the chakras are generally consistent. The base chakra extends down and the crown chakra extends up, while the chakras in between have vortexes both to the front of the body and to the back.

*The first chakra is located at the base of the spine and is associated with red. It is the chakra that governs our physical existence, our bodies and our health.

*The second chakra is located in the area of the womb or spleen, and is associated with the color orange. This chakra governs creativity, and some say emotion. (I associate emotion with the third and fourth chakras).

*The third chakra is located at the solar plexus and is associated with the color gold (yellow). It is associated with the will or desire.

*The fourth chakra (the middle chakra in the chain of seven) is the heart chakra and is associated with the color green, and also the color rose, which is the "color of love." This chakra is connected with emotion and human love.

*The fifth chakra is located at the throat and is a bright blue. It governs communication and personal magnetism. It is the chakra that most influences intercommunication and our "personas." It is also the link between emotion and thought.

*The sixth chakra is located at the third eye (mid-forehead) and is indigo (deep purply/blue). This chakra is associated with thought (though some say the third chakra governs thought) and with vision, particularly psychic vision. It is also the chakra of spiritual love and connection.

*The seventh chakra is at the crown of the head, and is violet fading to white further away from the body. This chakra is our connection to our "higher selves" and to the "divine." It is associated with wisdom and integration of our eternal selves with our current physical selves. It is like our umbilical cord to "God."

When all the chakras are "whirling," open, bright and clean, then our chakra system is balanced. When a chakra becomes blocked, damaged, or muddied with residual energy, then our physical and emotional health can be affected. Often this occurs habitually as the result of negative or incomplete belief systems. The effects of our habits, feelings, beliefs, thoughts, fears and desires can be found in our chakras.

For example, if you eat poorly (a lot of processed food, for instance) and don't exercise, chances are your root (red) chakra is going to become sluggish, darkened and dull. If you "close off" your emotions because they're painful or overwhelming, your heart chakra is likely to become tight and closed and block emotional energy. If you are extremely centered in your intellect, you may have a bulging and bright brow chakra, but a disproportionately small heart chakra or root chakra. Or perhaps you're cerebrally focused on finding answers to deep questions about "reality" (as I was for many years). In the West we tend to value the upper chakras over the lower chakras. This probably has its roots in our ancestors' religious aversion to the "flesh" and their focus on the rewards of "heaven."

The goal is a strong, clear, balanced energy system. The more open, clear and balanced the chakras, the more energy can flow through your system. This energy is essential for vitality, health, and continued growth on all levels.

The meditation:

I use this type of meditation whenever I need to "recharge" and when beginning astral projection practice and sometimes when beginning psychic readings. More commonly I used a grounding meditation when performing readings. Both are effective and powerful.

Lie or sit in a relaxed and comfortable position, as you would for any meditation. Your spine should be straight and your head in alignment with your body. This meditation is in script mode, should one want to tape it and listen to it while performing the meditation. It is preferable to learn about energy and the methods of balancing, cleansing and charging the chakras and allow one's own inner voice to lead the meditation. The following is just one way of performing this balancing.

Allow your meditations to evolve and to reflect your individual values and beliefs. If taped, a slow, deliberate pace should be used with a mild voice and the appropriate pauses. The body should already be relaxed and the mind tranquil when beginning this meditation. Eyes are closed.

Now that you are relaxed and feeling very much at peace, take a moment to ground yourself here in this moment, in this body, in this place, in this time...

Take some deep breaths...in...and out...in...and out...

Follow the breath as it flows toward your nostrils, as it enters your nose, as it fills your lungs and then as it is expelled. That's it, just relax into this quiet moment. Breathe in...follow your breath...and out.

In...and out.

Feel where your body meets the (chair/bed/floor). Become aware of your body from head to toe, of your weight, of the heaviness of your limbs.

Now focus on the area at the base of the spine, the area between your legs. This is the root chakra. Its energy is red, and it governs your physical body, your physical health and vitality. In your mind, study the appearance of this chakra; note its color and vitality. Mentally envision the chakra and note any symbolic symptoms of dis-ease.

Have you been caring well for your body? If your chakra is dusty, dirty, torn, or otherwise less than a perfectly brilliant red whirling vortex, imagine your hands (or those of a guide) working on the chakra. If it is dirty, clean away the dirt and throw it into an imaginary pail with a lid. Allow those hands to repair any imperfections, and when the chakra is clean, mentally take the pail and hurl it into the sun. Watch it as it travels through space and then bursts into a zillion bits of energy upon solar contact. Allow the sun to recycle this energy back into the universe.

Now turn your attention back to the root chakra. It is clean and red. You are surrounded by infinite root energy. Imagine the room glowing red with this energy, feel its strength and power. See red swirls of energy flowing to your root chakra. You can feel this as a tingling as the energy fills your root chakra. As the energy swirls in, your chakra grows large and deep red and strong. Allow the energy to fill your chakra until it is so vital that it extends several feet out from your body. In your mind you can see your root chakra, a brilliant red swirling vortex of physical energy.

Now turn your focus up to your abdomen, to the area of the "womb" or spleen. This is the orange chakra, that which controls clear thinking and creativity. Take a moment to observe the chakra. Note its color, its vitality. Is it clean and strong? Or is there work to be done here? Allow those invisible hands to cleanse the chakra, to repair or heal it. Discard any imperfections in the pail, and send the pail to the sun to recycle the energy.

Focus on the orange chakra again. It is now clean and whole, and a bright orange. Call out to the universe for orange creative energy and feel the space around you begin to glow orange. With a tingle you feel the energy begin to swirl into your chakra, charging it with vitality, with creativity, with clear-thought. Watch as your orange chakra grows and whirls, until it extends out from your body for several feet, just as the red root chakra is still whirling and strong.

Turn from the red chakra, up through the orange chakra, to the solar plexus. This is the heart of the yellow chakra, that which governs will and ambition. Take a few moments to examine this chakra. Note its color and appearance. Have you been lazy of late, or perhaps too driven? Examine your will through this chakra. Allow the invisible hands to cleanse the chakra and heal it, discarding any imperfections or impurities in the pail. Send the pail to the sun for recycling.

Now return your attention to the yellow chakra, that of will. It is now clean and a bright yellow. 'Universe, send me yellow energy, will energy, energy to achieve my goals, to work for that which I value and desire.' Feel the yellow energy surrounding your body, and with a tingle feel the energy swirl into your solar plexus. In your mind you can see your red/root chakra glowing, whirling, your orange/womb chakra pulsing brilliantly, and your yellow/solar plexus chakra glowing strongly, extending several feet out from your body.

Turn your attention to the middle of your chest, to the heart chakra, the green chakra. You may feel an instant wave of emotion. This chakra governs your feelings, your emotional connections to others and to the universe, to life itself. Examine this chakra. Note its color, vitality, any impurities. Gently allow those invisible hands to cleanse and purify the chakra. Reflect a moment on how you've been feeling emotionally lately. Are there bindings holding in pain? Or is the chakra tight and hard with anger? Release any tensions, imperfections or impurities to the pail. Send them to the sun for recycling. They are still yours if you choose to hold them, but for now, release any pain or anger.

Now focus back on the heart chakra. It is clean and a beautiful green color. It whirls strongly and evenly. 'Universe, send me green energy for my heart! Open my heart to the world, to all beings big and small, with compassion for our shared experiences and journey. Fill my heart with love energy, that I may in turn give love to others.' Feel the green energy whirling into your heart. Watch the chakra grow and glow and spin with this new energy.

From the red chakra through the orange chakra through the yellow chakra through the green chakra, your chakras are cleansed and charged and huge with energy.

Focus on the throat, center of the blue chakra which governs communication and personal magnetism. Examine the chakra, noting the color and any imperfections. Perhaps you haven't been honoring your own beliefs and speaking out when you should. Or perhaps you've been talking over others, or not listening well. Perhaps you've been feeling shy and afraid to extend your energy in communication. Allow the hands to heal and cleanse the chakra and when finished, send the impurities to the sun for recycling.

Now the chakra is clean and strong and bright blue. Feel the air fill with blue universal energy. Feel the throat open as this energy swirls into the throat chakra. This energy charges your aura with magnetism, drawing others to you. Feel your throat open with this swirling, strong blue energy.

Focus on the middle of your forehead, the third eye. This chakra is indigo and governs psychic vision and intuition. Examine the chakra for imperfections. Perhaps it is locked up due to fear. Perhaps it no longer spins out of neglect/stagnation. Allow the hands to cleanse the chakra, to heal any imperfections and recycle them in the sun. Now look at the chakra. It is a beautiful deep indigo, clean and whirling.

There is psychic energy available to you beyond measure. Feel it charge the air, swirl in and around and fill your third eye chakra with deep, vital indigo energy. Feel the third eye open, and note any mental visions as this occurs. Now is a good time to pray for increased psychic power. Note the red/root chakra, the orange/womb chakra, bright, strong, big! Move your attention up to the yellow/solar plexus chakra, to the green/heart chakra, open and brilliant, to the blue/throat chakra and the indigo/third eye chakra. Your chakras are huge, whirling, and fully charged.

Now focus your attention at the crown of your head. This chakra is violet near the body, fading to white further away. This chakra governs your connection to the universe/God/Goddess/The Creator, etc... This chakra is like an umbilical cord to "home." Reflect on your spirituality of late, examine the chakra and allow any healing needed. In my experience this chakra generally needs much less work than the others.

Allow the hands to heal, to cleanse, and recycle the discarded energy in the sun. Now examine the chakra. It is brilliantly violet, glowing white around the outside. Mentally reach out to that which you consider your "source..." to "God" or the Universe. Feel the response, the energy flowing back to you. Pray for the peace and joy of a strong crown chakra connection. Feel the violet energy flowing in, a loving embrace of your whole self, of your soul. See the crown chakra grow enormous, and the white energy surround your body.

All your chakras are now clean, charged and in balance. From the red/root chakra, to the orange/womb chakra, to the yellow/solar plexus chakra, to the green/heart chakra, to the blue/throat chakra, to the deep purple/third eye to the violet/crown, your chakras are spinning and whirling, full of energy and vitality. See the white energy that extends up and out from the crown chakra enveloping your whole body in an egg of white energy.

You are completely refreshed, calm, and peaceful. Your energy is balanced. You are full of vitality.

Beneficial, ‘Normalizing', and Stimulating Frequencies

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The following frequencies fall generally into the category of "Bio-Energetic or Bio-Resonance Nutrition / Balancing", rather than the "Rifeing" approach of ‘blasting apart pathogens'. These experimental frequencies are offered as ‘balancing' or ‘normalizing' or ‘stimulating' to body system functions.

This fits with the view and understanding of the body as an energetic system, rather than as a biochemical ‘machine'. Resonance Energy is then theoretically received by the body as "Energetic Information".

Books by Dr. James L. Oschman, MD, ["Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis"] and Dr. Richard Gerber, M.D. ["Vibrational Medicine For The 21st Century"], will provide further background for this viewpoint for those interested in researching this subject further.

The potential power of the ‘intentionality' involved in using these frequencies for these specific purposes should also not be overlooked or underestimated. Much remains to be learned and written. Feedback on the research application of these frequencies and results will be welcomed.

Normalize Adrenal Function 1335 Hz

Normalize Pituitary Function 635 Hz

Stimulate Increased / Normalized HGH Production [Pituitary] 1725 Hz, 645 Hz, 1342 Hz

Stimulate Normal Pineal Function 480 Hz

Stimulate Normalized Hypothalamus Function 1534 Hz, 1413 Hz, 1351 Hz

Normalize Endocrine System Function 1537 Hz

Stimulate / Normalize Immune System Function 835 Hz

Stimulate Normal Colon Function 635 Hz

Stimulate Normal Thyroid Function 763 Hz

Normalize Progesterone Levels ; (in sequence ) 763 Hz, 1446 Hz, 1443 Hz, 763 Hz

Normalize Estrogen Production Levels : male & female 1351 Hz

Normalize Testosterone Production Levels: Male 1444 Hz

Normalize Testosterone Production Levels: Female 1445 Hz

Stimulate Normal Pancreas Function 654 Hz

Stimulate Normal Liver Function 751 Hz

Stimulate Normal Kidney Function 625 Hz

Stimulate Normal Heart Function 696 Hz

Normalize Blood Pressure 15 Hz

Stimulate Normal Nervous System Function 764 Hz

Stimulate Normal Lymph System Function 676 Hz

Stimulate Increased Lymph System Circulation 15 Hz (15.2 Hz)

Stimulate Normalized Blood Circulation 337 Hz

Stimulate Increased Blood Flow / Circulation 17 Hz

Normalize Red Blood Cell Production 1524 Hz

Normalize White Blood Cell Production 1434 Hz

Normalize Hemoglobin Production 2452 Hz

Stimulate the Reinforcement of DNA Integrity 528 Hz

Stimulate the Reinforcement of RNA Integrity 637 Hz

Stimulate Clarity of Thought / Mental Function 35 Hz

Stimulate the Stabilization Of Emotional States 15 Hz

Stimulate The Clearing of Emotional Trauma / Energy Blocks 15 Hz

Stimulate The Balancing Of Spiritual Well-Being 1565 Hz

Reduce Chemical Sensitivity 443 Hz

Reduce Electrical Sensitivity 657 Hz

Stimulate the Normalization of Calcium Metabolism 326 Hz

Stimulate the Healing Of Nerves 2.0 Hz, 657 Hz, 10,000 Hz, 5,000 Hz

Stimulate The Healing Of Bones 7.0 Hz

Stimulate the Healing Of Ligaments 9.7 Hz

Stimulate The Healing Of Muscles 13.5 Hz

Stimulate the healing of Capillaries 15.2 Hz

Reduce Swelling of Herneated Disc 25.4 Hz; 326 Hz, 15 Hz

Reduce Excess Fluid Retention in Joints & Tissues 15 Hz, 24.3 Hz

Reduce General Back Pain (Fibromyalgia) 326 Hz to 328 Hz

Stimulate Inocine Production (stroke recovery, etc.) 2642 Hz

Accellerate the healing & clearing of scarring 5.9 Hz

More will be added as they become available.

Most dramatic results have been reported with some of these frequencies when used with the EM+ systems, using direct contact of the plasma tube with the selected target area desired to be affected, while also using a stainless steel grounding plate, sometimes directly opposite the area to be affected. Using two plasma tubes simultaneously may also be approproate research technique in some instances. Use of these frequencies with Contact Pad application systems as well as with Pulsed Monochromatic Light Systems may also be suitable research approaches.

WARNING: Direct contact with the plasma tubes should not be used with RF Carrier based radiant Plasma systems such as the Rife/Bare design based systems, due to the likelyhood of producing severe RF burns. They were not designed for this mode of resonant frequency induction. Oschman's book, as well as Robert O. Becker's book, "Cross Currents" should be referenced for further information on possible "stress effects" and adverse reactions to exposures to RF fields.

Disclaimer: This material is being offered as theoretical research / experimental information only. No guarantees are offered or implied as to their safety or efficacy in any or all cases. If and How you might choose to use this material in your own research is up to you. For medical advice in dealing with health challenges, please consult with your health care professional of choice. Further precautionary advice: Researchers who may be suceptible to seisure disorders should approach the use of frequencies below about 60 Hz with caution.

Bringing Intuition Home to Your Child by Sonia Choquette

I constantly remind parents that developing an awareness of inner guidance is only one part of the equation for living an intuitive life. The other is having the willingness and flexibility to accept and respond to the sixth sense when it does show up. You and your children won’t receive its value and benefits unless you can fully embrace its subtle messages and act accordingly. Intuition is a gift, but at times it may require that you change plans, break with tradition, rock the boat, challenge authority, or reverse your direction—and believe me, it often will.

Inner wisdom exists to help us make better decisions and prevent us from making costly or disruptive mistakes. It also serves to direct our attention to the best ways of achieving goals, alert us to potential problems and dangers, and protect us and keep us safely on our path. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that intuition—especially a child’s—is likely to call for a change of plans.

This is a very important message for moms and dads because one of the greatest blocks to children’s six-sensory awakening usually lies in the parents’ unconscious or automatic inclination to tune out their kids’ insights as a matter of habit.

For example, recently I was on a plane going from Minneapolis to Denver and was seated next to a well-dressed businessman and his six- or seven-year-old son. During the flight, the father took out The Wall Street Journal and began to read, while the boy, who sat between us, played with some sort of electronic game. I leaned back in my seat, deciding to meditate for a while.

A short time later, the child said, “Dad, I saw an angel in my room last night!” Hearing this, I opened my eyes.

Without even looking up from his paper, his father responded, “You were just dreaming.”

There was silence, then a moment later his son spoke again, “No, I was awake, and she was in the corner just smiling at me.”

The newspaper snapped as his dad turned the page and insisted, “There’s no such thing. You were sleeping.” And he continued to read.

The boy stopped playing his game but kept staring down at it. He took a breath and gave it one final try. “Dad, it was real. I was awake, and she was very beautiful.”

Now the man seemed annoyed. “Son, this is nonsense! Now if you can put it out of your mind, we’ll read a book together.”

A puzzled look crossed the child’s face, as if he were having an internal debate. Then he said, “Okay, let’s do it.” The father put his paper away, and they began to read.

My heart sank. The little boy had just made an extremely difficult decision. He’d had a wonderful spiritual experience and obviously wanted to share it with his dad, who had dismissed him without a thought. He’d also gotten his son to drop the subject in exchange for his full attention.

They read together for a while. The child was clearly enjoying interacting with his dad, but eventually the man got up and went to the bathroom. While he was gone, the boy picked up the electronic game and began to play once again.

Pondering how he was being cut off from his intuitive life, I impulsively leaned over to him and said, “You know what? I believe you did see an angel!”

With that, his whole face lit up. Then his father returned, and that was the end of our conversation.

What I witnessed on that flight is, sadly, very common. All too often, it only takes a dismissive remark from an insensitive or unaware parent to disconnect a child from their inner knowing. As one woman put it, “If intuition were a fire . . . my mother would be a firefighter!”

Even those who are committed to encouraging the development of their kids’ sixth sense can fall prey to negative responses. As human beings, we’re all creatures of habit, especially when it comes to intuition; and some of our ingrained tendencies contain blind spots that interfere with our goals.

Kids receive spontaneous six-sensory messages more readily than adults do; and as parents, we need to listen to them. After years of being indoctrinated to look for what the agenda calls for—for what seems to be instead of what is—our own intuitive edge begins to dull. In contrast, children usually have a pretty keen ability to discern what’s what.

A good way to keep their instincts sharp, as well as reawaken your own, is to respect their first impressions, listen to their vibes, allow their natural responses, and encourage them to share their feelings with you. Take them seriously and believe what your kids are telling you, even if it seems unlikely or puts you in an uncomfortable or even awkward position.

A simple change in your awareness and habits in this area can create tremendous breakthroughs in sparking and validating your children’s gifts, and also reactivate your own intuition. Pay attention to what they’re saying, what they want to do, and what you want to do. If you recognize their vibes as an important response to energy, then you’ll understand how a sensitive mind picks up these frequencies. In fact, a kid’s clear mind can sense many things adults overlook or filter out because they don’t want to know. Children do tune in to what we’re tuning out, and they need you to show them that the information they’re receiving matters.

Excerpt from The Intuitive Spark: Bringing Intuition Home to Your Child, Your Family, and You by Sonia Choquette.

'...still the money pours in for "Cancer Research" from kind-hearted, well-meaning people in spite of the fact that the much-advertised "cures" and "discoveries" invariably turn out, year after year, to be no cure at all but rather an aggravation of the trouble, the proof of this being the steady increase of the disease on all sides... Surely there should be some result to show as a partial excuse for the torturing of so many animals...the public still does not realise that nothing is likely to happen, no progress ever likely or even possible whilst the research is done on demonstrably wrong lines.' Morley Steynor - 1940 Since these words, countless billions of pounds/dollars/animals have been squandered; whilst the disease has steadily reached the point of seriously threatening the continuation of the human species. Clearly, even given the level of intelligence of the research laboratory inmates, the situation could not possibly be explained by sheer, crass stupidity alone.

'A solution to cancer would mean the termination of research programs, the obsolescence of skills, the end of dreams of personal glory. Triumph over cancer would dry up contributions to self-perpetuating charities�It would mortally threaten the present clinical establishment by rendering obsolete the expensive surgical, radiological and chemotherapeutic treatments in which so much money, training and equipment is invested�The new therapy must be disbelieved, denied, discouraged and disallowed at all costs; regardless of actual testing results and, preferably, without any testing at all.'²²

The UK cancer research fund-raising syndicate are clawing in well over �100 million each year. The highly-paid PR. spivs, administrators, organisers, commission-paid agents...aided by an army of semi-conscious supporters - many of whom have seen their relatives and friends destroyed by the treatments produced by the very same organisations that they are supporting - have created by far the biggest fraud, medical or otherwise, in history. Animal research plays a major part in the global scam: 800 ways have been found to artificially induce tumours in animals; not one with an atom of relevance to spontaneously occurring cancer in humans. Dr Linus Pauling, double Nobel Laureate, declared: 'Everyone should know that the "War on Cancer" is, largely, a fraud.'

The Pauling Institute were reduced to advertising in the Wall Street Journal for funds: 'Our research shows that the incidence and severity of cancer depends on diet. We urgently want to refine that research so that it may help to decrease suffering from human cancer. The US government has absolutely and continually refused to support Dr Pauling and his colleagues here in this work...'²⁶

Ascorbate in the Control of Leukaemia

'Hypo-ascorbemia...is caused by humans carrying a defective gene for the production of the liver enzyme, L-gulonolactone oxidase...(due)�to a mutation occurring in a primate ancestor of man. The lack of this enzyme in the human liver...prevents us from synthesising our own ascorbic acid...This defective gene is common to all mankind, therefore chronic hypo-ascorbemia is now our most prevalent disease...It is possible that the chronic sub-clinical scurvy, existing in the victim since infancy, may be a factor in initiating the leukaemia... It is a hard clinical fact that leukaemics have pathologically low levels of ascorbic acid in their blood plasma...what kills most leukaemics is...haemorrhage and infection...Both...are pathognomonic symptoms of scurvy. In the one case where complete remission was achieved and maintained in myelogenous leukaemia, the patient took 24 to 42 grams of ascorbic acid per day... It is inconceivable that no-one appears to have followed this up...in any of the thousands of cases of leukaemia which appear each year. What is wrong with the public-supported charities for cancer and leukaemia...?...without the scurvy, leukaemia may be a relatively benign, non-fatal condition... I wrote�a paper...in attempt to have the therapy clinically-tested..I sent the paper to three cancer journals and three blood journals. It was refused by all...Two...without even reading it...I cannot help wondering how many lives could have been saved and how much suffering could have been avoided had the editors...permitted publication.' Dr. Irwin Stone

Dr. Stone could have hardly expected the fraudsters of the multi-billion dollar/pound 'Leukaemia Research' empire to abandon their solid gold source and admit that the disease responded to a simple, inexpensive, non-patentable regime of vitamin C or fruit and vegetable juices allied to simple herbs; as was demonstrated by Rudolf Breuss²⁹ and others. Nor are the pseudo-researchers interested in pointing the finger at the deluge of cancer-causing synthetics coming from their friends in other vivisection laboratories. The antibiotic chloramphenicol (chloromycetin) '�was tried out for long periods on dogs and found to produce only a transient anaemia, but fatal results have followed its use in human disease.'³¹

'...even one capsule of chloromycetin could cause�leukaemia�I remember a child dying of aplastic anaemia after a general practitioner had prescribed chloromycetin for a cold�For a cold - a virus infection!� The parents were crying, the kid was bleeding. I was warned by several physicians that grave consequences would befall me if I told the parents that their beautiful child was dying because of a doctor's mindless prescription.' Lasko - The Great Billion Dollar Medical Swindle

Not content with merely keeping quiet about the carcinogens pouring from the medical/petrochemical industry, the 'Imperial Cancer Research Fund' have gone out of their way to protect their close brethren in the cancer machine: 'One of the biggest myths in recent years is that there is a cancer epidemic caused by exposure to radiation, pollution, pesticides and food additives. The truth is that these factors have very little to do with the majority of cancers in this country.'

The Cook Report on Cancer Quacks

1994 saw two distinct threats to the Cancer Business: the first UK conference on oxygen therapies, used to treat cancer etc., and a proposed trial, for the first time with NHS monitoring, of a nutritional treatment for cancer. This latter, no doubt, sent shock waves through the industry. Until that time the cartel had successfully blocked all attempts to organise any trial of a safe, effective therapy involving the NHS. After the Bristol debacle, the cancer boys were extra keen that no trial should be allowed to begin, let alone be completed. On realising that a trial request had slipped through the net, the Syndicate turned, naturally, to ITV. ITV being dependent on the petro/pharma mafia for its existence, allocated the task of exposing the 'cancer quacks' to the experts, the Cook team at Central TV. On December 22 1994, the Cook Report was used to attack a doctor using the same treatment - the Gerson Therapy - which was to be used in the trial. The treatment has been used for well over 60 years on a wide variety of chronic conditions including 'terminal' cancer. Cook stated that the therapy had caused deaths in the USA, a total fabrication and an hilarious comment considering the countless millions killed by the orthodox onslaught. Being of an intriguingly low standard of pseudo-journalism, even by Cook Report standards, the piece would not have impressed any half-intelligent viewer but it did give a fascinating insight into the links between ITV and the cancer combine. The Cook team correctly reasoned that those libelled in the programme would not have the finances to sue the petro-backed ITV. Gordon McVie, of the CRC, one of the bodies censured for its part in the Bristol centre scandal, was a natural for the programme and declared: 'If I knew of a doctor who claimed to cure cancer by manipulation of the diet I would ask someone in high places to investigate that claim.' McVie was sent, recorded delivery, the required information but was, unfortunately, too busy to organise the investigation. Early in 1996, the Cook gang were forced to transmit the first apology, on air, concerning one of the practitioners: we still await the rest.

Cannabis compound 'halts cancer'
http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/2/hi/health/7098340.stm

A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe.
The California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute team are hopeful that cannabidiol or CBD could be a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.

Unlike cannabis, CBD does not have any psychoactive properties so its use would not violate laws, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics reports.

The authors stressed that they were not suggesting patients smoke marijuana.

They added that it would be highly unlikely that effective concentrations of CBD could be reached by smoking cannabis.

CBD works by blocking the activity of a gene called Id-1 which is believed to be responsible for the aggressive spread of cancer cells away from the original tumour site - a process called metastasis.

Past work has shown CBD can block aggressive human brain cancers.

The latest work found CBD appeared to have a similar effect on breast cancer cells in the lab.

Future hope

Lead researcher Dr Sean McAllister said: "Right now we have a limited range of options in treating aggressive forms of cancer.

"Those treatments, such as chemotherapy, can be effective but they can also be extremely toxic and difficult for patients.

"This compound offers the hope of a non-toxic therapy that could achieve the same results without any of the painful side effects."

Dr Joanna Owens of Cancer Research UK said: "This research is at a very early stage.

"The findings will need to be followed up with clinical trials in humans to see if the CBD is safe, and whether the beneficial effects can be replicated.

"Several cancer drugs based on plant chemicals are already used widely, such as vincristine - which is derived from a type of flower called Madagascar Periwinkle and is used to treat breast and lung cancer. It will be interesting to see whether CBD will join them."

Maria Leadbeater of Breast Cancer Care said: "Many people experience side-effects while having chemotherapy, such as nausea and an increased risk of infection, which can take both a physical and emotional toll.

"Any drug that has fewer side-effects will, of course, be of great interest."

But she added: "It is clear that much more research needs to be carried out."

List compiled from various sources 0.1-1 Organ and muscle resonances

0.1-3 Delta range, - deep sleep, lucid dreaming, increased immune functions, hypnosis� ; Decreased awareness of the physical world.

0.512 - Extraordinary states of consciousness, high states of meditation, ecstatic states of consciousness, high-level inspiration states, spiritual insight, out-of-body experiences,

0.5 - very relaxing, against headache �, for lower back pain ��; Thyroid, reproductive, excretory stimulant, whole brain toner �

0.5-1.5 Pain relief

0.5-4 Low Delta range, Deep dreamless sleep, trance, suspended animation �; Anti-aging. Reduces amount of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress & aging. Increases the levels of DHEA (anti-aging)

0.9 Euphoria �

1-3 - Delta: deep, dreamless sleep, trance state,; profound relaxation, restorative sleep, feelings of tranquility and peace

1.0 - Feeling of well-being, pituitary stimulation to release growth hormones �

1.5 Abrahams Universal Healing Rate �

1.8 Sinus Congestion seems to clear centering around

2.0 Nerve regeneration

2.06 Associated with coccyx (small triangular bone at end of the spinal column)

2.30 Associated with genitals

2.57 Associated with bladder

2.67 Associated with intestines

3.07 Associated with hara (3cm or 1.5 inch below navel)

3 - 4 Influences physical vision �

3 - 6 Childhood awareness/vivid memories

3 - 8 Theta Range ; deep relaxation, meditation, increased memory, focus, creativity, lucid dreaming, hypnagogic state �

3.4 - Sound sleep

3.5 - Accelerated language retention; �Wholebeing regeneration, DNA stimulation

3.5-7.5 - Theta Range daydreaming: fantasizing, switching thoughts, drowsiness; Theta is strong during internal focus, meditation, prayer. It promotes learning and memory when functioning normally.

3.84 Associated with ovaries

4-7 - Theta Range : recall, fantasy, imagery, creativity, e psychic abilities, & retrieving unconscious material.; bursts of inspiration, twilight sleep learning, deep relaxation, reverie, high levels of awareness, vivid mental imagery.

4.0 - 8.0 HZ Theta State present in dreaming sleep, deep meditation, storehouse of creative inspiration, spiritual connection, subconscious mind; creative insight, twilight ("sleep") learning, vivid mental imagery.

4.0 - Extrasensory perception �; Astral Projection, Telepathy,

4.11 Associated with kidneys (Effects=strength)

4.5 Shamanic State Of Consciousness/Tibetan Buddhist Chants

4.5-6.5 Wakeful dreaming, vivid images �

4.6 Associated with spleen & blood (Effects=Emotional Impulse)

4.9 - Introspection �; Induce relaxation, meditation, & deeper sleep �

5.0 - 10.0 Relaxation �

5.14 Associated with stomach (Effects=Emotional Acceptance)

5.35 Associated with lungs (Effects=Oxygen, Heat)

5.8 (reduce) Fear, Absent-mindedness, Dizziness �

6.0 - long term memory stimulation �

6.0 - 10.0 Creative Visualization - about 6hz for a while, then up to 10hz �

6-9.6 Somatic Responses, tingling, pressure, heat �

6.15 Associated with heart (Effects=love,warmth)

6.30 Hz - Mental & astral projection; accelerated learning & increased memory retention.; (reduce) Anger + Irritability �

7.0 - 8.0 Healing

7.0 - Mental & astral projection, bending objects, psychic surgery; Increased Reaction Time �

7.5 - Inter-awareness of self & purpose; guided meditation; creative thought for art, invention music, etc.; contact with spirit guides for direction; entry into meditation �;

7.8 Schumann Resonance , ESP activation� ��

7.8-8 Stimulates ESP, paranormal �powers

7.83 - Earth Resonance, grounding: Schumann Resonance; anti-jetlag, anti-mind control, improved stress tolerance �; psychic healing experiments �; pituitary stimulation to release growth hormone; Earth Resonance Frequency - 'leaves you feeling revitalized like you've spent a day in the country

8-8.6 Reduced Stress/Anxiety �


8.0-10.0 learning new information Alpha

8.0-12.0 � Low Alpha range �- light relaxation, "super learning", positive thinking. �; Conducive to creative problem solving, accelerated learning, mood elevation, stress reduction, etc., characterized by intuitive insights, creative "juice", inspiration, motivation, daydreams etc. Relaxed, yet alert; Associated with calm, relaxed, unfocused (not concentrating), lucid mental states, dream sleep & pleasant drifting feelings or emotions. ; promotes mental resourcefulness, aids in mental coordination, enhances relaxation,

8-14 - Qi Gong and infratonic Qi Gong machine

8.0 - Past life regression, DNA repair (RAD-6) �; Associated with Base/Muladhara chakra (Color=Red)

8.22 Associated with mouth (Effects=speech, creativity) �

8.6-9.8 Induces sleep, tingling sensations �

9.0 - 13.0 � High Alpha Range �- relaxed, not thinking about anything in particular, sometimes a pleasurable feeling of "floating". Often dominant in certain kinds of meditation, alpha waves have for the past twenty years been associated with calm, lucid mental states (the "alpha state"). 9.0�

14.0 Extremely High Alpha range �- Relaxed & detached awareness, visualization, sensory imagery, light reverie. Also, gateway to meditation - provides bridge between the conscious & subconscious mind.

9.41 - Pyramid frequency

9.6 - Mean dominant frequency associated with earth's magnetic field

9.8-10.6 Alertness �

10 - Enhanced release of serotonin & mood elevator, universally beneficial, use to try effects of other mixes �. Associated with Solar Plexus/Manipura chakra (Color=Yellow)

10-12: HIGH ALPHA RANGE - centering, healing, mind/body connection

10-14 Dream/sleep spindles �

10.2 Catecholamines

10.3 Associated With Nasal Passages (Effects=breathing, taste) �

10.5 - Frequency for healing of body, mind/body unity, firewalking; potent stabilizer & stimulating for the immunity, valuable in convalescence. ��Relaxed alertness, contemplation, body healing, mind over matter ��Lowering Blood Pressure; Associated with Heart/Anahata chakra (Color=Green)

10.6 - Relaxed & alert

10.7 Associated with ears �

11.0 �Stress Reduction

11-14 Focused alertness �

11.0 �Achieve "relaxed yet alert" states.

12.0 - Centering, doorway to all other frequencies �; frequency of earth resonance. �Associated with Throat/Vishuddha chakra (Color=Blue)

12.0-36.0 Beta Range �- dominant brainwave in alert/awake/anxious adults with their eyes open. Comes into play when "listening & thinking during analytical problem solving, judgment, decision making, processing information about the world around us."

12.0-14.0 Learning Frequency - Good for absorbing information

12.0-15.0 Low Beta �- relaxed focus, improved attentive abilities; Treating Hyperactivity ��; Sensorimotor Rhythm �- Used in the treatment of mild autism

13-30 - Beta Range - Normal wakefulness, the taking in & evaluating of various forms of data received through the senses. It's present with worry, anger, fear, hunger & surprise. Waking state, motivation, outer awareness, survival, problem solving, arousal, dendrite growth, combats drowsiness �; Conscious Thinking, Autonomic Processes & Emotions

13.0 - Alleged sphincter resonance; Associated with Brow/Ajna chakra (Color=Indigo/Violet) (Body Parts=Pituitary,Lower Brain, Left Eye, Ears, Nose, Nervous System)(Effects=Visualization, Conceptualization)(Note=A)

13.8 - Associated with Frontal Lobes (Effects=the seventh sense, final decision) �

14-16 - associated with sleep spindles on EEG during second stage of sleep

14-15 - Slows conditioned reflexes �

14.0-30.0 - Beta Range �- This pattern is optimal for intense mental activities such as calculations, linear logical analyses & other highly structured functions

14.0 - Awake & alert; Alert focusing, vitality, concentration

15-24 Euphoria �- tones between 18 HZ & 21 HZ create very pleasant results like a jogger's high.

15 - Chronic pain �; Sound which bypasses the ears for sublimination (auditory cortex) �; Associated with Crown/Sahasrara chakra (Color=Violet/White) (Body Parts=Pineal, Upper Brain, Right Eye)(Effects=Integration of personality & spirituality.)

15.4 - Associated with Cortex �

16.4 Associated with top of head (Effects=spirit, liberation, transcendence) ��

18.0-22.0 - Beta: outward awareness.

18.0+ Beta (high) - fully awake, normal state of alertness, stress & anxiety; Significant improvements in memory, reading & spelling are reported

20.0 - fatigue, energize. Causes distress during labor.

27 - 44 Frequency range that cats purr at - said to have restorative effects on the body, particularly the 'healing and strengthening of bones'

31.32 Pituitary stimulation to release growth hormone; helps muscles recover from injuries, rejuvenation effects)

33 Christ consciousness, hypersensitivity, Pyramid frequency (inside) �

35 Awakening of mid-chakras, balance of chakras

38 Endorphin release

39.0 Schumann Resonance

40-60 Anxiolytic effects & stimulates release of beta-endorphines ��

43 - 193 Carcinomatosis �

50-60 Documented negative effects

55.0 - Yoga; stimulates the kundalini.

83 Third eye opening for some people

108 Total knowing

110.0 Frequency associated with stomach.

256.0 Root Chakra

273.0 Transpersonal Chakra

315.0 - Diaphragm Chakra

320.0 - Solar Plexus Chakra

341.0 - Heart Chakra

416.0 - Psychic Center Chakra

448.0 - Third Eye Chakra

480 - Crown Chakra

2675 - "The Crystal Resonator". A subharmonic of the frequency of quartz crystal. Extremely effective for charging and clearing quartz crystals . � Activates aspects of the auric field.�

5000-8000 HZ � turbo-charges your braincells.

9999 - General vitality & energy � *These frequencies are derived from experimental research conducted by independent scientists from 1950 to 2004 and culled into this list.

CHAKRA ENERGY
Linda Mackenzie, C.H.T., Ph.D. ( c )

The Human Body exists on 3 levels:
Level 1: The Material (dhatus) Level
which includes the physical body, blood, fat, flesh, bone, clay, fluids, air, earth, water, fire and
void space (akasha)
Level 2: The Subtle Level
which consists of prana (vital life force energy), the mind, intellect, ego and the feeling of self.
(please note that prana connects the material and subtle level.)
Level 3: The Spirit Level
which connects to all animate and inanimate energy within the material and subtle levels AND to all animate and inanimate energy outside the body including collective, earth and universal. The spiritual level also has access to Divine (God) energy.

Chakras & Auras: The Monitoring Systems
To protect an individual's mind-body-spirit on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level there are 7 major chakras within the body (although some claim there are an additional 6 which reside outside the body starting over the Crown Chakra) and 7 auric (aura) levels that surround the body. Chakra energy is electrochemical and auric (aura) energy is electromagnetic.

The seven auric fields are the atmospheres arising from and surrounding the body. These fields are the interpreters and transmitters of consciousness energy. This consciousness energy resides in an individual's mind-body-spirit, as well as, in the external collective, earth, universal and Divine (God) energies in which the individual comes in contact with.

Chakra 101
The word chakra actually means "a wheel, disc or any arrangement in circular form or organization" and indicates movement. The major chakras are the esoteric energy centers of the body. Chakras
are the psychic transformation centers of the body, otherwise known as psychophysical energy.

Psychophysical (chakra) energy is electrochemical in nature and is accessed through Prana (vital life force) energy. Divine Energy (which I prefer to call God, but whatever you want to call it is fine with me) creates Prana and the life, mind and matter of every animate and inanimate object. Divine Energy operates through, but is not limited to, Pranic energy. In the case of a human being, Divine Energy operates within, without and through all the energy levels which include: the individual mind-body-spirit energy level, animate and inanimate collective energy level, animate-etheric-collective earth energy level and animate-etheric-collective Universal energy level.

Prana energy operates in the body as an open system, which is not limited to the body's physical, mental or emotional systems. As we breathe, prana is drawn into the nose and is distributed into the body by specific unseen channels called Nadis.

There is the Main Nadi System which connects the 7 major chakras to each other and 72,000 other different Nadis. The 72,000 Nadis are divided into 2 different types of channels:
1) The Invisible Channels which is the channel of the mind and self.
2) The Visible Channel which includes the nerves, muscles, arteries, veins, cardiovascular system, lymphatic system and the acupuncture meridians in the body which work with the central, autonomic, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
The chakras work with both invisible and invisible energies. These chakras are situated throughout the body as mini whirling vortices of energy.

The 7 Major Chakras reside and work in the cerebrospinal (brain-spine) system inside the spinal column and are connected to the Main Nadi System (Shushumna). This is where the chakras control the functioning of the entire human body.

The Shushumna (Main Nadi System) is centrally located and is the only Nadi (channel) that passes through the spinal column. This Main Nadi System is divided into 3 Nadis of which one channel resides in the spinal column and two channels reside in the brain. The Shushumna usually remains dormant when other Nadis are active and subsequently flows when the other Nadis are restrained. This happens when we breathe in prana through both nostrils. We only breathe through both nostrils about ten breaths in every hour, at dawn and at dusk. The other times, when we breathe, we are usually breathing from only one nostril or the other, but not both at the same time.

Chakra Movement
Chakras are active at all times. They are influenced by the energy elements of water, fire, earth, air and void space (akasha). These energy elements produce different physical, emotional and psychic states. The elements move inside the body through the breath and produce chemical changes via the endocrine glands, which mix these secretions directly into the blood instantaneously.

Chakras and the 5 Senses
The first 5 major chakras, located in the spinal cord, are the building blocks of psychophysical existence for the five senses: feeling, taste, sound, smell, and touch. Chakras have a definite relationship to the physical body and its functions. Each of the first five major chakras are connected to a specific sense organ and stores psychophysical energy, which then flows to all 7 major chakras from one chakra to another when activated by the breath.

Kundalini Shakti Energy
Consciousness controls all the forces operating within each chakra. As you grow through awareness chakras become aligned more to our spiritual purpose and our oneness of all things. Kundalini Shakti Energy means "coiled power". It interacts with Universal Energy by using matter to access consciousness energy with the ultimate goal being to reach Divine (God) energy. With extended use and practice of Kundalini Shakti energy, it is said that you can pass through the three knots in the Shushumna that represent feeling, knowing and doing and ultimately reach Supreme Consciousness also known as Supreme Truth. Kundalini Shakti energy is the only energy that pierces the chakras and is the basic force of the body that can connect to Divine (God) Energy.

Chakras & Healing Stones
Since the beginning of civilization people have used gemstones energetically to help aid healing. Placing the appropriate gemstone on an appropriate chakra may help support and improve physical, emotional and spiritual symptoms of dis-ease and illness.

More Chakra Information...
To give you more information, I have pulled together the following chakra charts. The information was derived from many cultures, over many centuries and from personal experience. These days to correctly ascertain the truth about chakras (or any subject) one must get as close to the source of information as possible. Then interpret the truth of the information with their own intuitive ability and then verify their information source with at least three other reliable sources.

CHAKRA CHART 1

Chakra/ Sanskrit Name	Location	Place Of:	Spiritual Qualities	"In Balance" Positive Qualities	"Out of Balance" Negative Qualities
1st Root Muladhara	Perineum below genitals above anus, inside coccyx, base of spine, 3rd vertebrae	Base, Foundation	Intuitive self-protection	self-control, physical strength, patience, vitality, disciplined life, survival instincts	illusion, anger, delusion, cruelty, self-centeredness, greed, violence
2nd Sacral Svadhishthana	spleen, navel, hypogastric plexus	Dwelling Place of Self	Access to key childhood experiences	procreation, family, creativity, sensuality, emotions, memory assimilation	emptiness, fantasy, envy, jealousy anxiety, lies, destructiveness
3rd Solar Plexus Manipura	solar plexus	Personal Power	Psychic Feeling	vision, form, color, ego, Karma, selfless service, intellect	sorrow, fear, shame, sadness, treachery, delusion, foolishness
4th Heart Anahata	heart region, cardiac plexus	Compassion	Psychic Healing	balance, hope, endeavor, growth, inner harmony	indecision, fraud, possessive, egotist, arrogance, incompetence
5th Throat Vishudda	neck region, cartoid plexus	Creativity	Psychic Hearing	knowledge, living without complexity, will, discipline, self-expression	spiritual doubt, negative intellect
6th Third Eye Ajna	point between the eyebrows, pineal plexus	Intuition	Psychic Vision	self-realization , oneness, unity, beyond time vision, imagination
Soma Chakra	above the 3rd Eye in center of forehead	Consciousness Activation	Filling Universal Needs	feeling, knowing, doing
7th Crown Sahasrara	very top of the head	Truth, Reality	Prophecy	formless, positive intellect, happiness, balance, bliss, spirit awareness, Universal access

CHAKRA CHART 2

Chakra	Plane	Sound	Color	Element	Shape	Organ
1st Root	Physical	Buzz, LANG	Red, White	Earth	Square	Nose
2nd Sacral (Navel)	Astral	Ear Ringing, Running Water, VANG	Orange, Blue, Violet	Water	Circle	Tongue
3rd Solar Plexus	Celestial	Flute, RANG	Purple, Golden Yellow	Fire	Triangle	Eyes
4th Heart	Balance	singing bells, seashell roar YANG	Pink, Green	Air	Hexagram	Skin
5th Throat	Human	wind, ocean, HANG	Blue, Turquoise	Void Space (akasha)	Crescent	Ears
6th Third Eye	Austerity	Ohm, mantra, AUM	Indigo, Green	Presence	Circle with 2 petals
7th Crown	Truth	Silence, All Sound	White, Violet, Pale Lavender

CHAKRA CHART 3

Chakra	Experience	Center of:
1st Root	Tactile	physical energy, grounding, self-preservation
2nd Sacral	Emotional	emotional desire, emotion, creativity, spirituality, intention
3rd Solar Plexus	Gut Feel	personal power, ambition, intellect, astral force
4th Heart	Unconditional Love	compassion, love, group consciousness, spirituality
5th Throat	Hearing, Speaking	sound, communication, speech, writing, thought expression
6th 3rd Eye	Sight, Vision	psychic power, spirit energies, higher intuition, light
7th Crown	Whole Concept	enlightenment, dynamic thought, truth, oneness

CHAKRA CHART 4

Chakra	Associted with this Physiological/ Endocrine System	Possible Out of Balance Physical Problems*	Chakra Balancing Crystals*
1st Root	reproductive glands	auto-immune disease, arthritis, cancer, AIDS, CFS, EBV, fatigue, kidney, spinal column	red jasper, hematite, black onyx, ruby
2nd Sacral	genito-urinary tract	gall & kidney stones, reproductive organs, vaginal cancer, prostate cancer, pelvic disease	citrine, carnelian, chrysocolla, lapis lazuli
3rd Solar Plexus	digestive system/ adrenal glands	digestive/adrenal organ illness, diabetes, hypoglocemia, digestive disorders	citrine, amethyst, tigers eye, sodalite
4th Heart	circulatory system/ thymus gland	heart problems, thymus, blood, circulatory, involuntary muscles	rose quartz, aventurine, malachite
5th Throat	respiratory system/ thyroid gland	neck problems, lungs, hypoactive thyroid, throat, jaw, alimentary canal, vocal cords	sodalite, blue topaz, sapphire, flourite, lapis lazuli
6th 3rd Eye	autonomic nervous system/ pituitary gland	cerebellum, nose, pituitary, central nervous system, left eye	iolite, tigers eye, quartz
7th Crown	central nervous system/ pineal gland	cerebrum, pineal gland, right eye	amethyst, rose quartz, clear quartz

*Please note that these are only a partial list of possible problems and gemstones.

Copyright © 2003 Creative Health & Spirit. All Rights Reserved.

Chakra 1 The Sanskrit name for this chakra is Muladhara which means root. The Hindus depict this center as a lotus of four petals within which is a square. This can be seen as representing the four directions, and the firm foundation of the material world, which is symbolized by a square. In the centre is the symbol for the seed sound, believed to contain the essence of the chakra which is lam. These images and sounds are all symbols that can be used to access the chakra when we need to. In the body, the first chakra is located at the perineum, midway between the anus and the genitals. Chakras have been described as vortices of energy. At the level of the first chakra, our vortex is the most dense. To ignore this chakra or its elements is to threaten our very survival, either in our personal lives, or as a planet. If we do not balance this chakra before we progress to others, our growth will be without roots, ungrounded and will lack the stability necessary for longevity. Chakra 2 The second chakra is located in the lower abdomen centered between the navel and the genitals. The element of this chakra is water, and classically, this chakra is the centre of sexuality as well as emotions, sensation, pleasure, movement and nurturance. In Sanskrit, the chakra is called Svadhisthana, from the root "svad", to sweeten. The Hindu symbol for Svadhisthana has six petals, generally of a red (vermillion) colour. It contains a crescent moon, and a lotus within a lotus. The seed sound in the lotus is "vam". The second chakra is related to the moon. Like the moon's pull on the tides, our desires and passions can move great oceans of energy. The moon rules the mysterious, the unseen, the dark, and the feminine. This gives the centre a very subtle power of its own as we move from our depths outward to create change in the world. At the level of the second chakra, desire and duality play a distinct role-that of getting us motivated for movement and change. Through our desires we expand. Desire is the expression of the physical and spiritual needs of the being. It is like the movement of water. It is the nature of water to move with gravity. If water is held back in its path, a pressure will build up. This pressure will gradually erode whatever is holding it back. It is the nature of the water to flow in a particular direction, and the water has no preference as to what form it follows to get there. All rivers lead eventually to the sea. All rivers find the path of least resistance. Thwarted desires are often saying that we are not traveling the path of least reisitance. If our consciousness is inward instead of outward, we will find another way.

Clairsentience is the psychic sense of the second chakra, the first "stirrings" of higher consciousness and the development of greater sensitivity toward others. It is the ability to sense other people's emotions, also called empathy. It is experienced as a subltle feeling, but as if we were experiencing the feeling ourselves. Most people are clairsentient to some degree. the phenomenon usually occurs more strongly in people who have a proclivity for clairvoyance or telepathy characteristic of the upper chakras. Clairsentience is a valuable source of information in healing and helpful in the development of psychism. With conscious attention, it is an aid rather than a detriment.

Chakra 3

From earth to water to fire. The first chakra was one of solidity, stability, focus and form. Through the undimensional eyes of the first chakra we experienced unity. Within this unity we then found difference, change and movement. Through the second chakra we saw dark and light, the passions of duality and choice, emotion and desire. We expanded our instincts from our own survival to the desire for pleasure, nurturance and the need to reach out and expand. When these two levels are put together, we find that they create a third and unique state of existence: energy - the field made by the dance of matter and movement. In physical terms we call it combustion; in the body it is metabolism; psychologically, it relates to personal power and will; and in our outer lives, it is the realm of action.

This is the third chakra. Its element is Fire and its purpose is transformation. The third chakra transforms the inertia of earth and water into action, energy and power. The first two chakras flow downward, subject to gravity and to forms already in existence. Fire flows upsward, destroying form and taking the raw energy to a new dimension.

At chakra three we reach deep into our sense of self, established at the base level, and find a point of dynamic balance between extremes. We temper our desires - not controlling them , but shaping them, riding on their passion, directing it. We create a third point withing ourselves, newly expanded from the growth of the second chakra. We emerge from the pasivity of earth and water and take conscious, deliberate action. We release ourselves from the duality below, and ride upon the constant flux of many points as they combine together. The second chakra presents choices. Out of choices, fueled by desire, the will is born. Will is the conscious combination of mind and action, the overcoming of inertia, and the essential spark that ignites the flames of our power. The task of the third chakra is to overcome inertia. In order to develop and heal ourselves at this third chakra level, we must re-examine our concept of the power which involves control of one part over another. Instead we can replace it with a cooncept of power as integration, power from within, the power of an organism's wholeness, and its ability to connect with the power around us in all of life. When we think about power, we can think about it as an active verb rather than a noun. We think in terms of "power to" inistead of "power over".

In The Body the third chakra is located in the solar plexus, over the adrenal glands. This is where we get those "butterfly' feelings when we're nervous. The third chakra rules over the metabolic system, and is responsible for the regulation and distribution of emtabolic energy throughout the body. This is done throught the combustion of matter (food) into energy (action and heat). Malfunctions digestive system such as diabetes, hypoglycemia or stomach ulcers relate directly to this centre.

In Sanskrit the chakra is called Manipura, which means "lustrous gem" because it shines bright like the sun. Its symbol is a lotus with ten petals,within which is a downward pointing triangle, surrounded by three T-shaped "svastikas" (Hindu symbols for fire). Within the lotus is a ram, a powerful and energetic animal, usually associated with Agni, Hindu god of fire. The seed sound for this chakra is Ram.

To break the cycle of fear and withdrawal takes a reconnection with the self in a loving and accepting way. If we are not in touch with our ground, our bodies our passions and pleasures, desires and unions, we have no fuel for our fire.

Chakra 4

From the active, fiery solar plexus, we are thrust into a new and different realm. From the world of the body and manifestation, we break deeper into the softer touch of spirit. From the focus on the self and its desires and actions, we embrace a larger pattern, and dance our tiny part within the web. We transcend our ego, and grow toward something greater, deeper, stronger. As we embrace the Heavens,we have more than ourselves. We expand. We have reached the central part of the chakra system. It is our core, the inner spirit that unites all the other forces above and below, within and without. Above, we have our abstract spirit, the mental realms, and below we have our "worldly" chakras. The task of chakra four is to integrate and balance the realms of the mind and body. In so doing, it brings a radiant sense of wholeness to the entire organsim and a realization that we are an exquisite combination of both spirit and matter. Within this sense of wholeness lies the seed of inner peace, which takes root and grows firm as this chakra is opened. The symbol for the heart chakra is a circle of 12 lotus petals surrounding two intersecting triangles, forming a six-pointed star. The triangles represent the descent of spirit into the body and the ascent of matter rising to meet spirit. In the heart, the cosmic and the earth energies combine, forming a star that radiates from the center of the chakra. The six points can also be seen as relating to the six other chakras, each represented at this center. The colour for this chakra is green, and its seed sound is Lam.

The heart chakra is the center of love. The love we experience at the level of the heart chakra is distinctly different from the more sexual and passinate love of the second chakra. At the fourth chakra, the love is no longer object dependent. The love we feel is felt toward everything we encounter, because it is felt within as a state of being. At the heart, our love is no longer one of need or desire. Instead, it is one of joyous acceptance of our place among all things, of a deep peace that comes from lack of need, and of a radiating quality that comes from harmony within the self. Love takes the emotional content of the second chakra and balances it with understanding from the seventh. The understanding tempers the desire, and allows us to see beyond our own needs. The element of this chakra is air, the least dense of our physical elements. Air, as an element, is commonly associated with knowledge, love and things that are light and spirited. Air represents freedom, as inthe birds that fly. Air represents lightness, simplicity and softness. Air also represents breath,the vital energy of life. The Hindus call it prana, the Chinese call it chi, the Japanese call it ki.

Chakra 5

Sound...rhythm...vibration...words. Powerful rulers of our lives, we take these things for granted. Using them, responding to them, creating them anew each day, we are the subjects of rhythm upon rhythm, endlessly interweaving to create the fabric of all that we experience. From the first cries of a newborn child to the harmonies of a symphony, we can hear the sound of consciousness reaching out to connect with others and echo back upon itself again.

Communication is the means whereby consciousness extends itself from one place to another. Invisible, sometimes even inaudible, communication is the connecting principle that makes life possible. From the DNA encoded messages of living cells to the spoken or written word, from the nerve impulses connecting mind and body to the broadcast waves connecting continent to continent, communication is the heart of coordination among all living things.

Chakra five is the center of sound, vibration and self-expression. It is the realm of consciousness that controls, creates, transmits and receives communication, both within ourselves and between each other. It is the center of dynamic creativity, of synthesizing old ideas into something new. Its attributes include listening, speaking, writing, chanting, telepathy and any of the arts-especially those related to sound and language.

The chakra of communication, commonly called the "throat chakra" is located in the region of the neck and shoulders. Its colour is blue-a bright cerulean blue, as opposed to the indigo blue of chakra six. It is a lotus with 16 petals, which contain all the vowels of the Sanskrit language. Vowels are typically thought to represent spirit, while consonants represent the harder stuff of matter. The lotus is called Visuddha, which menans "purification". Within the chakra appears, once again, Airavata, the many tusked white elephant. He is within a circle inside a triangle pointing downward, symbolizing the manifestation of speech. The deities are the God Sadasiva and the Goddess Gauri. Each of the deities is shown with five faces.

The associated element of this chakra is ether, otherwise known as Akasha or spirit. This chakra brings an awareness of deeper harmonics hidden in the subtler vibrations of what is known as the "ethereal" realm. It is the last of the seven chakras to have an element associated with it.

Chakra 6

From the dawning of ages, darkness and light have intertwined to bring us one of the greatest gifts of nature's wonder-the ability to see the world around us. Stimulated and enhanced by colours all around us, shape and form are recorded in our mind's eye to dance across our thoughts and bring them to life. From our dreams we manifest our inner visions. From our intuition we"see" our way through situations, making constant decisions, as we discern and organize the patterns we perceive around us.

The "brow chakra" is located in the center of the head behind the forehead, either at eye level or slightly above. It is associated with the third eye, an etheric organ of psychic perception floating between our two physical eyes. The third eye brings us added understanding, much as reading between the lines of a piece of paper gives us added insight into words. The seed sound of this chakra is OM, with special emphasis on the "mm" sound, which vibrates the bones in the face,stimulating this center. There are only 2 petals at the ajna chakra, which resemble wings and symbolize the ability of this chakra to transcend time and space, allowing the inner spirit to "fly" to distant times and places. Chakra six is the centre of "seeing", related to the element light. Through the sensory interpretation of light we obtain information about the world around us. How much we are able to see depends upon how open or developed this chakra is. The gamut of visual and psychic ability run from those who are extremely observant of the physical world to those who are gifted in psychic perception, who can see auras, chakras, details of the astral plane, as well as precognition (seeing events in other times) and remote viewing (seeing into other places).

At the sixth chakra we encounter a higher,faster vibration than that of sound, though of a fundamentally different character. Here we embrace the phenomenon of light, a small part of the larger electromagnetic spectrum. If we consider that a large percentage of our information comes to us in visual form, and that visual information is perceived in the form of patterns of colour, the subtle changes in frequency exhibited by light must have an enormous effect upon our minds and bodies. The chakras too have their own associated colour, which correspond largely with colours used for healing the part of the body associated with each chakra. The colours for the chakras are as follows:

• Chakra One - Red
• Chakra Two - Orange
• Chakra Three - Yellow
• Chakra Four - Green
• Chakra Five - blue
• Chakra Six - indigo
• Chakra Seven - violet
• Chakra Eight - Black
• Chakra Nine - Golden
• Tenth Chakra - Purple - Blue
• Eleventh Chakra - White
• Twelveth Chakra - Silver

Colours, like the sounds associated with each chakra,are another manifestation of the seven planes associated with this system. They are a key to understanding of self and environment,and another tool for the conscious manipulation of our own energies. They can be used in visualization for self-healing and for projecting outward what we want to manifest around us.

The most significant aspect of consciousness at the level of the sixth chakra is its profound degree of psychism, that is, the perception of information in the nonmaterial realm and the ability to make conscious use of those perceptions. The term "clairvoyance" means clear seeing. seeing that is not muddled by the opaque world of material objects normally defining our limited sense of space and time. To be clairvoyant we need to look in the spaces that are clear-to look at the fields of energy, not of objects; to look at relationships, not things; to see the world as a whole, and to reach with our minds directly and clearly for the information we want. The more clarity we have within ourselves, the better we are able to see the subtle properties of the world around us. Secondly, to be clairvoyant we need to see-and as obvious as this may sound, true "seeing' is a process that goes far beyond the one we use to keep furniture from bumping our shins. To "see" implies a far deeper perception than to look. The third eye is a kind of psychic lens through which our higher senses perceive and interpret information, which is then run through the ajna chakra itself, where it is compared and arranged with pre-existing data. Here it is the third eye that looks and the ajna that sees. If you close your eyes and remember your first car, you can see the colour, upholstery and maybe even a small dent on one side. Like the hologram, you in your mind's eye can walk around the car, seeing the front and back as you choose. The actual car need not currently exist. The image exists apartfrom it and by focusing our attention, the image is retrieved. In your mind's eye, you can see what you choose to look at. This is the process of visualization. Clairvoyance is a willed process of visualization. It is a matter of systematically being able to call up relevant information on demand, regardless of whether it had been previously programmed. We transcend at this level. We need not limit accessible information to what has been entered in the past-we can also retrieve information from the future. The only difference is that we are willing the creation of the reference beam that will bring forth the image, rather than waiting for some point in the future where circumstances will call it forth. Once we know where to look for data, we need to know how to look. Accessing memory is a process of finding the right code-the right reference beam to bring the holographic image back to life. The development of clairvoyance depends on the development of the visual screen and the creation of an ordering system with which to access information from the screen.

Chakra 7

The 7th chakra is located at the top of the head and is violet or white in colour. this centre is known to govern our cosmic consciousness and it is here that we begin to understand our spiritual wisdom. The mantra for this centre is AUM and the crystals that help open this centre are Clear quartz, Amethyst, and Chevron Amethyst you can find more crystal linked to this centre on our gems and crystals page.

Chakra 8

The 8th chakra is located at the base of the skull where we find the cerebellum or shamballa as it is also known. it is through the opening of the centre that we begin to manifest advanced spiritual skills like bi-location, etheric projection , invisiblity, and I have found that this centre is linked to the etheric plain. the mantra for opening this chakra is DEE-EE-OH. Crystals that also help open this centre are Petersite, Spirit Amethyst, auora Quartz, Clear Quartz, selenite. it is advised that the lower seven charkas are grounded before working with this chakra. Another way I have found to activate the opening of this chakra is through peripheral vision also known as auric sight. One techique that I personally use is that of sitting infront of a mirror and focusing on the minds eye and once the etheric body is visible moving my focus into the etheric body. this techinque I have found works well with opening this centre. it is within the etheric body or casual body that we find the lower point of the etheric heart the Manasic Permenent atom or generic mind as it is also known.

Chakra 9

The 9th chakra is also known as the upper dan tien located at Pineal Gland and appears like a golden sun just above the minds eye. it is here the christ abilities lie dormant. crystals used with this chakra are sagilite, selenite, and clear quartz.

Chakra 10

The 10th chakra is located just above the heart chakra at the thymus gland or spiritual heart as it is also known. it is here that we find our connection to god. this centre is also known as the centre of yin and yang as it balances the energies flowing from the earth star and the 12th chakra the gods head. Tapping this centre with your index finger twice and repeating the words I AM, I AM will help awaken this centre for best results it is advised that you do this at least 21 times a day, crystals that help open this centre are Raspberry Aura, Aqua Aura, Turquoise, and Aurora Quartz. just to name a few. I Am is a good mantra for this chakra.

Chakra 11

The 11th Chakra is located an inch and a half above the belly button it is here that we find our divine essence known as the soul or soul star as it is also known, and and it is here we find our being that exists beyond the realms of time and space, crystals used with chakra are fire opal, coral, clear quartz merkaba, golden healers, and clear quartz.

Chakra 12

12th Chakra: Silver The passive intuitive "Yin" principle in creation and your innermost link with the Creator - your Divine essence; with opening of this chakra you become more aware of your Divine purpose, with the realisation that all things will be achieved according to Divine Plan.

 

 

 

Earth Star Chakra It is your grounding point where body energy is transformed into earth energy and the reverse. A good healthy foot chakra will help you to more easily manifest things physically, as it is the transformer of your thought energy into the earth system and is the anchor to the physical plane.

12 Chakra : The twelfth chakra  is our inherited link with the prime creator and the grand porthole network of the Universe energy system of wholeness, and is the aggregate of all dimensions and realities.It is here the we learn the ability of moving through the vertical time line, the hara line and BST time travel. 11th Chakra : The eleventh chakra begins the ascension process on an energy level within the individual.  This chakra contains the energetic connections necessary so the individual can manifest advanced spiritual skills, such as travel beyond the limits of time and space, teleportation, bi-location, telekinesis and instantaneous precipitation of thoughts into matter. this chakra is known as the core star. 11th Chakra (Causal Body) -center for awarenes -color is silver -sound is "oh aah ee" 10th Chakra : The tenth chakra starts to open up the individual will begin to manifest many of the skills they have learned in all of their previous lives.  These individuals will seem to excel at anything they undertake and any project they are involved with will take off from their influence. this Chakra is known as the thymus or Soul seat. 10th Chakra (Mental Body) - center for discernment - color is gold - sound is "eh ee eh" 9th Chakra : The ninth chakra is an interesting chakra in that it is in this chakra that all of the Christ abilities lie dormant, waiting to be released and used in the outer and inner worlds. This chakra is known as the Upper Dan Tien. 9th Chakra (Astral Body) - center for knowing - color is white - sound is "aah eee" 8th Chakra : This centre enables the individual to achieve advanced out-of-body projection, spiritual perception, and spiritual wisdom.  I use the word spiritual here because these abilities and ideas are larger than the self and the earth and is were the ability of remote viewing resides. 8th Chakra (Etheric Body) - center for release - color is black - sound is "ee oh eh" 7th Crown Chakra : Miracle worker, csan transcend the laws of nature, total access to the  unconscious and the subconscious. 7th Chakra (Crown) - center for inspiration - colors are violet  and white - tone is "ohm" 6th The Minds Eye : The third eye is the center of psychic powers and higher intuition. You can receive guidance, channeling, and tune into your higher self.  This is the center that enablesyou to experience telepathy, astral travel and past lives and is the centre linked with the abilities of ESP and Clairvoyance. 6th Chakra (Third Eye) -center for vision - color is indigo - tone is "I"(I) Fifth Chakra : Clairaudiance is an ability of the 5th chakra. It is the ability to hear information. The 5th chakra is located in the base of the throat, just below the voice box.  Many think that our inner dialog is just an overactive brain.  We are, however, always receiving information on clairauidant  levels. For example, have you ever tryed to figure out how to do something and "a little birdie" tells you what you should do?  This is your Clairaudiance at work and first telepathic chakra and is the center used in meditation. 5th Chakra (Throat or Ether) - center for truth - color is blue - tone is "E"

Fourth Chakra : The heart chakra is the center of compassion. When the heart is open, you transcend the limits of your people, plants, animals, all of life.  This is the humanitarian center, you care about social causes, like saving the whales and the planet earth, and is the empathic center in the physical body. 4th Chakra (Heart or Air) - center for joy - colors are green and pink - tone is "A"

Third Chakra : Center of personal power.  When the solar plexus is open you have found your unique gift, the work that gives you pleasure and makes you feel fulfilled.  One way to find your gift is to consider what you most enjoyed doing when you were a child, this will giveyou clues about your natural inclinations.  In martial arts the third chakra is considered the center of Chi, the life force energy or prana as it is also known and is one of the key chakras used in the technique of invisibility. 3rd Chakra (Solar Plexus or Fire) - center for manifestation - color is yellow - tone is "O"

Second Chakra : Clairsentience is an ability of the 2nd chakra.  It is the ability to feel energy.  The 2nd chakra is located just below the belly button.  Clairsentience (also know as psychometry) is the ability to hold an object or touch someone and sense the energy surrounding that person, place or thing. A clairsentient is an individual who is empathic and senses energies.  Energies can be light or heavy, smooth or abrasive, prickly or gentle, peaceful and airy or ‘good or bad’.  For example, when sensing a negative situation a clairsentient may feel sick, while a positive experience may feel like butterflies in the stomach, or a sense of feeling safe, peaceful and light. Learning to discern positive and negative energies can make all the difference when making decisions in life.

Spiritual advisors and counselors use clairsentience to feel and sense the information and thought forms in energy fields.  The information about the nature of energies is revealed in colors, lightness, darkness, or emotions such as joy or sadness.  Sometimes clairsentients experience a sense of movement or stillness, relaying past, present and future life events.  This ability is known to beessential for healers, counselors and therapists, or anyone who works with people - especially a psychic or spiritual advisor.  You are processing that information through the 2nd chakra. So when you are feeling energy, validate that you are having a clairsentient experience.Clairsentiance is also one of the main Navigational keys used in teleportation of the physical body. 2nd Chakra (Sacral or Water)-center for creativity-colors are orange and blue-green-tone is "U"

First Chakra: The centre of physical energy and vitality, the energy to succeed in business or material possessions.  Center of manifestations throughout the ancient world in historical and mythological stories, the root chakra has been associated with dragons and snakes.  Dragons are a symbol for the kundalini fire energy.  It is also here that we learn the abilities of grounding and ungrounding from the earth and physical plane through learning to control the Hara line.  The Hara line is the anchor in the physical plane so we must learn how to control the hara line for both teleportation and levitation, that is why we can move beyond the planes of existence and use our ability in levitation. 1st Chakra (Base or Root or Earth) - center for courage - colorsare red and black - tone is low "U"

Color is energy. You will find yourself drawn to one color more than
others. The energy vibration of that color is what you need, at this
moment, in order to improve and balance your emotional state. There are
numerous ways to heal and balance with color. A good rule of thumb is
this: “Energy follows thought” Where we put our thoughts, this is where
the energy goes. By concentrating on a particular healing color, it is
the visualization of that color that will be projected. If we focus on a
color, the energy emanates from our body and begins to change the
frequency that resonates with that particular color. Color is light.
Light, which is split into different wavelengths vibrating at different
speeds and different frequencies. Objects that ABSORB all wavelengths
and DO NOT reflect any, is black. Objects that REFLECT all wavelengths
and DOES reflect everything, is white. Between black and white lies
COLOR. Colors are wavelengths of energy that, to us, appear as color
because of the potential and capabilities of the object to either absorb
or reflect the energy. This basic principle is how we experience color.

The Chakra:
The Chakra are stations along the central axis of your being. Each one
is a point at which energy can be expressed in a certain set of actions,

attitudes and emotions. The Chakra are a map of the soul which you must
move along for healing to happen. These points represent our physical,
mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. When these points are healthy
and in balance, then we are the equivalent.

The Root/Base Chakra
Location: Base of the spine
Color: Red
Element: Earth
Sense: Smell
Musical Keynote: Middle C (vocalized as an "ooh" sound)
Associated Gland: Adrenal
*Controls body solids, such as the spinal column, bones, teeth, and
nails. Also the blood, building process of cells, the colon, and rectal
area.
Gemstones: Agate, Bloodstone, Hematite, Red Coral, Red Garnet, Ruby,
Black Tourmaline, Obsidian
Herbs: Cedar, Clove, Pepper, Vetiver
Essential Oils: Balsam de Peru, Myrrh, Patchouli, Rosewood, Thyme,
Vetiver
Qualities and/or Functions: Survival, power to achieve goals, vitality,
grounding, material security, stability, stillness, courage
Verb: I have

The Sacral/Spleen Chakra:
Location: Below the navel
Color: Orange
Element: Water
Sense: Taste
Musical Keynote: D above middle C (vocalized as the "o" in "home")
Associated Organs/Systems: Reproductive organs, kidneys, bladder
Gemstones: Carnelian, Coral, Gold calcite, Moonstone
Herbs: Damiana, Gardenia, Sandalwood, Ylang-Ylang
Essential Oils: Benzoin, Cardamon, Clary Sage, Elemi, Fennel, Sandalwood

Qualities and/or Functions: Primal feelings, awe, enthusiasm, openness
to others, personal creativity
Verb: I feel

The Solar Plexus Chakra:
Location: Above the navel, but below the chest
Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Sense: Sight
Musical Keynote: E (vocalized as the "o" sound in "top")
Associated Organs/Systems: Pancreas, liver, stomach, spleen, gall
bladder, autonomic nervous system, lower back, muscles
Gemstones: Amber, Citrine, Tiger's Eye, Topaz, Yellow sapphire
Herbs: Bergamot, Carnation, Lavender, Rosemary
Essential Oils: Bergamot, Black Pepper, Cardamon, Cedarwood, Coriander,
Hyssop, Juniper, Lime, Lavender, Rosemary
Qualities and/or Functions: Personal power, social identity, influence,
authority, self-control, energy, will, peace, radiance, joy, inner
harmony, vitality and inner strength
Verb: I can

The Heart Chakra:
Location: The center of the chest
Color: Green or pink
Element: Air
Sense: Touch
Musical Keynote: F (vocalized "ah")
Associated Gland: Thymus
*Controls the heart, blood circulation, immune system, lower lungs, rib
cage, skin, upper back
Gemstones: Emerald, Green Jade, Kunzite, Rose Quartz, Tourmaline
Herbs: Marjoram, Geranium, Jasmine, Lavender, Orris root, Rose oil,
Yarrow
Essential Oils: Marjoram, Geranium, Jasmine, Lavender, Mandarin,
Melissa, Rose, Tangerine, Ylang Ylang
Qualities and/or Functions: Unconditional love, harmony, forgiveness,
healing, compassion, understanding, personal transformation, warmth,
sharing, devotion, selflessness
Verb: I love

The Throat Chakra:
Location: the throat area
Color: blue
Element: Ether
Sense: Sound
Musical Keynote: G (vocalized "eh")
Associated Glands: Thyroid
*Controls the jaw, neck, throat, voice, airways, upper lungs, arms
Gemstones: Aquamarine, Blue sapphire, Chalcedony, Turquoise
Herbs: Benzoin, Basil, Chamomile, Cypress, Eucalyptus, Frankincense,
Sage
Essential Oils: Benzoin, Basil, Chamomile, Cypress, Eucalyptus,
Frankincense, Hyssop, Peppermint, Petitgrain, Rosewood, Sage
Qualities and/or Functions: Creative self-expression, communication,
inspiration, wisdom, confidence, integrity, truth, freedom, independence

Verb: I speak

The Third Eye Chakra
Location: Middle of the forehead
Color: Indigo
Element: Light
Musical Keynote: A (vocalized "ee")
Associated Glands: Pituitary
*Controls the endocrine system, the left brain hemisphere, the left eye,

nose, ears, sinuses, and parts of the nervous system
Gemstones: Azurite, Calcite, Lapis Lazuli, Sodalite, Quartz
Herbs: Jasmine, Mint, Mugwort, Star Anise
Essential Oils: Anise, Angelica Seed, Hyacinth, Jasmine, Juniper, Lemon,

Pine
Qualities and/or Functions: Inner vision, intuition, clairvoyance,
insight, perception, imagination, concentration, peace of mind,
projection of will, manifestation
Verb: I see

The Crown Chakra:
Location: the top of the head
Color: Violet or white
Element: Thought
Musical Keynote: B (vocalized "ohm")
Associated Glands: Pineal
*Controls cerebrum, right brain hemisphere, right eye, central nervous
system
Gemstones: Alexandrite, Amethyst, Clear Quartz, Diamond, Selenite
Herbs: Frankincense, Lotus, Neroli, Rose, Olibanum, Spruce
Essential Oils: Frankincense, Neroli, Rose, Pine
Qualities and/or Functions: Perfection, integration, unity with the
divine, wisdom and purpose, universal consciousness, understanding,
enlightenment
Verb: I know

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