Book: Magnesium, The Nutrient That Could Change Your Life - 4. THE BLOOD

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4. THE BLOOD

 

In this chapter we will show how magnesium increases the efficiency of the

white blood cells. For this we will turn to the celebrated work of Pierre

Delbet, called Politique Préventif du Cancer.

 

 

There is, on the average, only one of these cells for each 150 of the red

blood cells. These white corpuscles have a unique power. When the

bloodstream is invaded by harmful bacteria or any other foreign matter, these

white

cells are somehow attracted to the source of the invasion, such as a wound,

and go to work actually swallowing, and digesting the foreign matter and

thus rendering it harmless. They do the same with any foreign bodies that

infiltrate the bloodstream. They are the body's first and most important

defense against all types of infection.

 

 

But to increase the number of such cells circulating in the bloodstream

would be a very dangerous thing. Leukemia, cancer of the blood, is marked by

precisely such an increase. The destructive capacity of these cells is so

great that their numbers must be kept at normal proportions for fear of the

damage they might do our own systems if they got out of hand.

 

 

But on the other hand, think what it could mean if we could induce the

white cells in our blood to double their protective activity without any

increase in numbers. It would reduce sharply the possibility that invaders of

the bloodstream could get by these defenders and do consequent damage to our

systems. It would mean that the need for drugs to fight bacterial invasions

would be just about eliminated. It would mean bringing the protective

ability of everybody's blood up to the level that is now possessed by the

superbly healthy individual.

 

 

And that is just what Pierre Delbet claims that magnesium can do for us.

He describes this in a paper he submitted in collaboration with Dr.

Karalanopoulo to the French Academy of Science, September 6, 1915, titled

Cytophylaxis, which means work done by the white cells or phagocytes in

destroying

invaders of the bloodstream.

 

 

The paper summarized a study Delbet made of the effect on body cells of

various known solutions used to dress wounds, in order to find a better

solution. He mixed in test tubes white corpuscles, microbes, and the solution

to

be tested, then studied the destruction of foreign bodies by the white

cells after a lapse of 20 minutes. He used 16,000 white blood cells and 19,716

microbes.

 

 

Of the solutions studied, potassium permanganate and Labarraque's solution

destroyed the red and white corpuscles to such an extent that it was

impossible to recognize anything in the preparations. A similar effect was

noted

with Formalin.

 

 

Other solutions were less destructive. These included hydrogen peroxide,

phenolic acid, Gram's solution, and cyanide of mercury. Sodium chloride was

somewhat better.

 

 

Tests showed that, as antiseptics, these solutions were inadequate. The

problem was to kill the microbes without killing the blood cells.

 

 

Since table salt (sodium chloride) showed up best in all these tests,

various solutions of this type were tested but did not compare with the

effectiveness of magnesium chloride. Delbet says, " A solution of magnesium

chloride at 12.1 parts per 1,000 gave extraordinary results. It increased the

proportion of phagocytosis [killing microbes] by 75 per cent as compared with

the solution of sodium chloride at 8 parts per 1,000 which itself gave 63 per

cent more than the Locke-Ringer's solution. The increase is based on the

number of polynucleates [white cells] as well as the phagocytic

[germ-destroying] power of each of them.

 

 

" These experiments prove that a solution of desiccated chloride of

magnesium at 12.1 parts per 1,000 has a special effect on the white corpuscles,

which is not the case with either physiological serum [a solution of chloride

of sodium at seven parts per 1,000] or seawater, or the solution of

Locke-Ringer which was considered best for maintaining the activity of cells.

 

" Consequently, a solution of chloride of magnesium was better than all the

solutions previously used in the washing and dressing of wounds. "

 

 

In another communication to the French Academy of Medicine (September 7,

1915), Dr. Delbet describes researches that proved the effectiveness of

magnesium within the body. He injected 150 cc. of a solution of magnesium

chloride into the vein of a dog, taking a blood sample before the injection and

a second one 35 minutes afterward. Then the white corpuscles were presented

with microbes from the same culture to see their effect on or power to

destroy them.

 

 

Five hundred white cells in the first sample destroyed 245 microbes. Five

hundred white cells from the second destroyed 681. This increase in

microbe-killing under the influence of magnesium chloride was 180 percent over

the

other solutions.

 

 

More experiments were performed; in one there was an increase to 129

percent, in another, 333 percent.

 

 

Thus not only is the action of chloride of magnesium effective outside of

the body but also inside. And the magnesium solution is not toxic.

 

 

Delbet says,

 

" Used in dressings and in subcutaneous injections, the solution of

chloride of magnesium, in my opinion, seemed to be effective. I think it

enabled

me to avoid amputating the thigh of a soldier which I decided to amputate

for an arthritis of the knee with the crushing of the knee-cap and of the

external condyle of the femur.

 

" These experiments have enlarged to a remarkable extent the role of

cytophylaxis. From a mere technique in dressing wounds it has become a general

method which not only increases the resistance of the body against infection,

but also against vitamin deficiency, against anaphylaxis, senile decay and

cancer.

 

" I first used chloride of magnesium alone. At the beginning of 1928, after

becoming acquainted with the famous works of Grignard on the synthetic

power of the organo-magnesic compounds, I added to chloride small quantities

of other halogenous salts of this metal. After some tentative efforts, I

arrived in collaboration with Dr. Chapelle at the formula which I have

described on page 15. [of this book]. It has been named 'delbiase.' Since

March,

1928, all my experimental and clinical researches have been carried out with

delbiase. "

 

 

Regarding what Delbet means by delbiase, the following is a quote from his

book above mentioned:

 

" The fine work of Grignard on the possibility of synthesizing organic

compounds of magnesium led me to add to magnesium chloride small quantities of

other halogenated salts of this metal: bromide, iodide, fluoride. I made

compounds of which the formula is the following:

 

Magnesium chloride

0.592

 

Magnesium bromide

0.020

 

Magnesium iodide

0.0001

 

Magnesium fluoride

0.0009

 

 

" In the anhydrous alts, those supposedly desiccated by crystallization,

this is the result:

 

Magnesium chloride anhydrous

0.379

 

Magnesium bromide

0.013

 

Magnesium iodide

0.000072

 

Magnesium fluoride

0.00009

 

 

" These compounds are named delbiase. "