gall stones analyzed... yup; soap.

[Guest guest]

and Gallstone flushes by Jim Macdonald.

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=413022

Gallstones will do no harm if the are left alone, sat at the bottom

of a gallbladder full of nice runny bile.

Zoe

Medical Herbalist

MNIMH RGN Dip Phyt.

www.herbaljournal.co.uk

www.zoehawes.co.uk

Bath

01761 439 920

Begin forwarded message:

>

> Date: 28 January 2010 04:57:39 GMT

> To: herbstudent , Herb

> Subject: [herb] " gall stones " analyzed... yup; soap.

> Reply-To: Herb

>

> Came across this recently; it's an article from the Lancet where

> they took

> the " gallstones " produced by an olive oil lemon juice " liver/gall

> bladder

> flush " and analyzed them to see what they were. Go figure, they

> ~are~ soap,

> as has been stated (but without, to my knowledge, a citation of an

> analysis)

> in the past.

>

> So, here's a link:

>

> http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=413022

>

> " Microscopic examination of our patient's stones revealed that they

> lacked

> any crystalline structure, melted to an oily green liquid after 10

> min at

> 40oC, and contained no cholesterol, bilirubin, or calcium by

> established wet

> chemical methods. Traditional faecal fat extraction techniques

> indicated

> that the stones contained fatty acids that required acid hydrolysis

> to give

> free fatty acids before extraction into ether. These fatty acids

> accounted

> for 75% of the original material.

>

> Experimentation revealed that mixing equal volumes of oleic acid

> (the major

> component of olive oil) and lemon juice produced several semi solid

> white

> balls after the addition of a small volume of a potassium hydroxide

> solution. On air drying at room temperature, these balls became

> quite solid

> and hard.

> We conclude, therefore, that these green " stones " resulted from the

> action

> of gastric lipases on the simple and mixed triacylglycerols that

> make up

> olive oil, yielding long chain carboxylic acids (mainly oleic

> acid). This

> process was followed by saponification into large insoluble

> micelles of

> potassium carboxylates (lemon juice contains a high concentration of

> potassium) or " soap stones " . The cholesterol stones noted on

> ultrasound were

> removed by surgery. "

>

> <http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=413022>(you can also get a PDF

> direct

> from the Lancet site, but you need membership)

>

> Info worth having, if perhaps anyone has any clients that refuse to

> believe

> that this practice is a sham without objective proof.

> --

> jim mcdonald

> ~herbalist~

> www.herbcraft.org

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