Cilantro - Mercury Toxicity - Oral Chelation

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Oral Chelation of Heavy Metals:

Mercury, Lead, and Aluminum

Many people today suffer from what is often broadly referred to as " heavy metal

toxicity. " The most common source of toxicity is mercury from dental fillings.

When the so-called " silver " fillings are put in the teeth, they are roughly

49-53% mercury. In other words, the filling is an amalgam that contains some

silver as well as what is for some people a lethal amount of mercury. To

determine the extent of possible mercury poisoning, studies were conducted on

sheep. The fillings were removed after six months and found to contain only

about a fifth of the mercury that was present when the fillings were first put

into the teeth. The rest of the mercury had been leeched into the system and

was found in significant concentrations in the brain and small intestines,

though the liver and kidneys and lungs were also impacted by the mercury.

 

In environmentally conscious dentistry, mercury is disposed of as a hazardous

waste. In some countries, such as Germany and Sweden, the governments are

paying for mercury removal; however, in the United States, the American Dental

Association, Federal Government, and suppliers of amalgam dental materials

insist that mercury is safe and that it poses no health risks . . . except, it

seems, for Duluth, Minnesota, where mercury amalgams are prohibited.

 

Basically, insistence on the safety of amalgams is not just nonsense, but

criminally irresponsible. For many people, mercury is a very significant cause

of ill health. Symptoms range from muscle spasms to severe neurological

problems such as paralysis and memory loss. For years, many people have been

going through the quite expensive procedure of having amalgam fillings replaced

with more stable and less toxic dental materials and following this ordeal with

various types of also expensive chelation using intravenous vitamins and

sometimes other substances.

 

Quite accidentally, a researcher named Dr. Yoshiaki Omura discovered that some

patients were excreting more toxic metals after consuming a Chinese soup

containing cilantro. Cilantro is a common herb whose seed, coriander, is a

familiar culinary spice. In China, cilantro is called Chinese parsley, and it

is used in cooking. It is also common in some Italian dishes. It is a member

of the carrot family and has a distinct taste that most people either love or

hate.

 

Chelation

I have known about the dangers of heavy metal poisoning for many years. My

grandfather was a metallurgist and warned our family never to use food packaged

in aluminum. The studies supporting his knowledge started coming out some

thirty or more years ago. Chelation methods became a respected protocol of

alternative medicine soon thereafter. The Omura study is relatively more

recent, but I heard about cilantro several years ago; and, fortunately, I happen

to like the taste of cilantro.

 

I was eager to make a product that was " fresh, " not just another tincture.

Obviously, people can eat cilantro, make pesto of it, juice it, and ingest it

however they choose; but my experience is that most people are more compliant

when the method of delivery of the herb is simple. So, we made an extract using

fresh juice from organically grown cilantro. The result was dazzling, a gem

quality luminescent green liquid that remains stable due to the alcohol.

 

Advice from Dentists

Years ago, I began having my dental work done by environmental dentists. The

first dentist retired from his practice on the advice of his personal physician

who said that the swelling in his brain had become life threatening.

 

When a patient has mercury amalgam fillings removed by a properly trained

dentist, the patient is somewhat protected by a rubber dam that reduces the risk

of swallowing the dental materials that are removed. The problem is that mercury

is so volatile that the vapor is absorbed by both patient and dentist, but

dentists tend to suffer more than patients from this vapor. The vapor can be so

dangerous that sharing a sauna with someone with a mouth full of mercury can be

toxic for everyone in the sauna.

 

The dentist who took over the practice from the retiring pioneer discussed a

number of cases of spontaneous remissions of cancer following mercury amalgam

removal. This said, he advised me not to bother with the mercury in my mouth.

Stubborn as I am, I insisted he do one quadrant. He said, " Ingrid, if it ain't

broke, don't fix it. " What I didn't know at the time was that I personally am

probably more sensitive to composite fillings than mercury. They are estrogenic

and the lidocaine is a carcinogen so I eventually realized that people with

cavities are between a rock and a hard place. This said, there are tests that

help people to determine which substances are most suitable for them, but all

these tests do raise the cost of dental work.

 

Anyway, I came to regret having the mercury removed, not that I missed the

mercury but the composites have not been a dream either.

 

Experimentation

In 1995, I was bitten all up and down my leg by a lady spider. I was paralyzed

by the bacterial neurotoxin and have since that time shown more of the classic

symptoms of sensitivity to heavy metal poisoning. I thus decided to try the

first batch of cilantro on myself. The results were dramatic: my brain felt

like it was " spewing. " Sorry, I can't find a better word. On a purely physical

level, I felt tingling sensations. In my dreams, I saw spurting, like an ink

jet printer. My hair started to feel like it was coated with something awful

and the smell was ghastly.

 

The tingling sensations lasted about five days and then subsided markedly.

However, I had some muscle cramps so decided to add trace minerals and seaweed

to my regime. I was also extremely careful to drink a lot of fluids, including

my own delicious tea that I made to support lymphatic drainage. During the

first two weeks, my skin felt like it was coated with something awful. I took

baths in Epsom salts and found an oil slick on the surface of the water and

residue on the tub that looked like gray sand, exactly what yet another dentist

told me to expect. He said his wife actually had little dots percolating up

through her skin that looked like tiny beads.

 

I do not think this kind of chelation is for the faint of heart, but it is now

three weeks since I started and I feel fine. The nasty odors and residues on

the hair and skin seem to be over.

 

 

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