Foot Patches Quicken recovery time

I'm on holiday at the moment and doing lots of heavy lifting work outside, overdid it on Tuesday and worked ten hours cutting back brambles and mucking out a sheep hut.

Was beginning to feel very soar at the end of the day with aching muscles so I put a couple of patches on each foot and one on the small of the back and while I wasn't 100% yesterday it certainly took the sting out of it all and my recover time was much quicker.

I think the only problem I'm going to have is that I might run out of patch it before my holiday is over so might have to ration them and bring 2 boxes next time ;-)

Laetrile (B17) Cancer and the FDA

Following on from A Town Called Allopath, I read a great book recently "Alive and Well" by Philip E. Binzel, Jr., M.D. ISBN: 0912986174

It is the story of "One Doctor's Experience with Nutrition in the Treatment of Cancer Patients". Again like the video from Dr Mercola's site it was shocking to hear of the behavior of the FDA in trying to suppress the use of Laetrile also kown as B17 and Apricot Kernal.

Here's an excerpt from the chapter 1 of the book Alive and Well.


Dr. Halstead then took the stand. He carried with him a book which he put in his lap. Under direct questioning from Mr Coe, Dr Halstead explained how all substances known to man can be toxic. He showed that while some oxygen is necessary to maintain life, too much oxygen can be fatal. He went through the same procedure with water, salt and other substances. He then showed that aspirin, sugar and salt were, milligram-for-milligram, hundreds of times more toxic than Laetrile.

On cross-examination, the FDA attorney asked Dr Halstead to give the toxicity figure for some substance (I don't remember what the substance was). Dr. Halstead said, pointing to the book in his lap but never opening it, "on page 311, Table 2, in this book you will find that the toxicity of that substance is ..." (whatever it was). The FDA attorney then named another substance and asked for its toxicity figure. Dr Halstead answered, "On page 419, Table 3 shows it to be ..." (whatever it was). The attorney tried a third time. Again, Dr Halstead came up with the page number, table number and toxicity.

The three FDA attorneys stared at each other for a minute, then one of them said, "How do you know all of this?" Dr Halstead calmly replied. "Because I wrote the book." "Impossible!" yelled the attorney. Without saying a word Dr Halstead took the book from his lap and handed it to Judge Bohanon. The Judge opened the book to its first page and read the following. "textbook of Toxicology, written by Dr Bruce Halstead, as commissioned by the food and Drug Administration of the United States." The Judge said to the FDA attorneys, "You fellows should have known that. You didn't do your homework very well." The FDA attorneys had enough of Dr Halstead. They dismissed him from the stand.

When Mr Coe informed Judge Bohanon that the defense concluded its testimony, the Judge turned to the FDA attorneys and said, "The court is now prepared to hear your witnesses and view your evidence." One FDA attorney replied, "Your Honor, we don't have any." The rest of the dialogue went like this:

Judge: "You are telling me that you have filled suit in this court that Laetrile is toxic, and you don't have a single witness or a shred of evidence to support such a suit?"

Attorney: "Yes that is correct, Your Honor."

Judge: "Then why have you filed such a suit?"

Attorney: "Because, Your Honor, Laetrile may be dangerous."

Judge: "Dangerous to whom?"

Attorney: "Dangerous to the Federal Government, Your Honor."

Judge: "How could Laetrile possibly be dangerous to the Federal Government?"

Attorney: "Because, Your Honor, the Government may lose control."

With this the Judge, now obviously angered, slammed down his gavel and said, "Case dismissed!"

As Mr. Coe, Dr Halstead, Bob Bradford, Betty and I left the court house, we saw a six-foot by four-foot poster on the wall in the lobby. It read in large letters, "BEWARE OF LAETRILE! IT IS TOXIC!" At the bottom, in small print was the statement, "Must be posted in all Government buildings by order of the Food and Drug Administration of the United States."

Is it possible that the FDA was lying to the people?


This is one of them books that's a right riveting read as well as being informative, well researched and presented.

What I found very balanced about the book is that it was very clear in not making Laetrile out to be a magic bullet but that it was a complete Nutritional plan that was called for and that the dosages of each vitamin needed to be in the correct ratio's.

As a final sanity check the reader is absolutely deterred not to self diagnose and try and treat themselves for cancer from this book.

A town called allopath

Most people who are health concious likly have already had an insight in to the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. All the same if you haven't seen it yet it makes for good watching

You can watch the complete video here

Dr Mercola's has been a leading voice in the natural health industry for a number of years and his site is a great resource.

Cleansing your inards

To me cleansing is more about purgative treatments and remedies, I would think of doing a liver cleanse as cleansing (guess the name is a bit of a give away), but I'd also include gravity enemas, colonic irrigation and various herbal teas as doing cleansing type things, if you think about it, it can really just be the context you say something in or the way you say it.

The ultimate cleanser has to be water, well we're made of the stuff, if you can get a good source of drinking water you're on you're way. If you use a water filter, be sure it filters out chlorine, fluoride and heavy metals.

I did my first Liver Cleanse at the Harmonology Centre up in the Black Isle of Scotland, and what a place to do it in, roaming hills, pine forests and dolphins, made drinking epson salts and sitting on the bog all morning worth it. These results aren't mine but I was there the morning this prize winning marrow was expelled, urgh.

Parasites definitely come in to the cleansing category for me, I just hope Dr. Hulda Clarks Zapper took care of the likes of this little guy in the photo and all his cousins ;-)