Re: [cda-listserv] Re: Drugstore in the dirt -Personal observation - feel free to ignore

[Guest guest]

Jan, How are inmunizations made? Why is there a saying " a hair of the dog... " ? ;

You hit the nail on the head.

Digna

[cda-listserv] Re: Drugstore in the dirt -Personal

observation - feel free to ignore

I can't resist.

As a farm kid that was/is rarely sick, with perfect school attendance many

years, and 7 siblings that were rarely sick and with good health still into

their 50's and 60's, I can't resist commenting that maybe playing in the dirt as

kids was good for us.

I often wonder how much benefit from all those " bugs " eaten (hand to mouth) in

the sandbox, garden, barnyard, chicken coop, playing with numerous " pets, "

hayloft, grain piles and digging in the dirt as a kid! And, many fond memories

walking barefoot- I still hate shoes!

Jan Patenaude, RD

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In a message dated 10/26/2007 10:01:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

fivestar@... writes:

Public release date: 25-Oct-2007

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/gsoa-dit102507.php

Contact: Ann Cairns

acairns@...

Geological Society of America

Drugstore in the dirt

Boulder, CO, USA - French clay that kills several kinds of

disease-causing bacteria is at the forefront of new research into

age-old, nearly forgotten, but surprisingly potent cures. Among the

malevolent bacteria that a French clay has been shown to fight is a

" flesh-eating " bug (M. ulcerans) on the rise in Africa and the germ

called MRSA, which was blamed for the recent deaths of two children in

Virginia and Mississippi.

" There are very compelling reports of clay treating infections, but

that's anecdotal evidence, not science, " said Lynda , an

associate research professor in the School of Earth and Space

Exploration at Arizona State University, Tempe. is coordinating

three teams of U.S. researchers (at ASU, USGS, and SUNY-Buffalo)

studying healing clays under a two-year, $440,000 grant from the

National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary and

Alternative Medicine. Her ASU colleague Haydel is lending her

expertise in clinical medicine to perform the microbiological research.

For thousands of years, people have used clay to heal wounds, soothe

indigestion, and kill intestinal worms. Though the practice has declined

in modern times, the recent rise of drug-resistant germs has scientists

looking more closely at these ancient remedies to learn exactly what

they can do and how they do it.

" We're beginning to generate the first scientific evidence of why some

minerals might kill bacterial organisms and others might not, " said

.

In laboratory tests at ASU's Biodesign Institute, co-PI Haydel, an

assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences, showed that one clay

killed bacteria responsible for many human illnesses, including:

Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA),

penicillin-resistant S. aureus (PRSA), and pathogenic Escherichia coli

(E. coli).

It also killed Mycobacterium ulcerans, a germ related to leprosy and

tuberculosis that causes the flesh-eating disease Buruli ulcer. This

effect was first described in 2002, by Line Brunet de Courssou, a French

humanitarian working in the Ivory Coast, Africa, who cured Buruli ulcers

with daily applications of French clay she knew from childhood.

Currently, advanced cases of Buruli ulcer can only be cured by surgical

excision or amputation.

The new medicinal clay research will be presented on Monday, 29 October

2007, at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver.

In the same session there will be a related presentation describing the

work 100 years ago of Julius Stumpf, a German physician and scientist

who used white clay from Germany to treat a deadly form of Asian

cholera; diphtheria; gangrene; ulcers of the tibia (a bone between the

knee and foot); and the skin disease eczema.

###

**WHEN & WHERE**

Session 109: " Positive and Beneficial Aspects of Earth Sciences in

Public Health "

Monday, 29 October, 1:30-5:30 p.m.

Colorado Convention Center Room 501

View abstract:

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/finalprogram/abstract_127547.htm

View all session abstracts:

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/finalprogram/session_19378.htm

**CONTACT INFORMATION**

Carol

Media Relations, Arizona State University

Telephone:

Cell:

E-mail: carol.hughes@...

For information and assistance during the GSA Annual Meeting, 27-31

October, contact Ann Cairns in the onsite newsroom, Colorado Convention

Center Room 604, +1-, acairns@....

Jan Patenaude, RD

Director of Medical Nutrition

Signet Diagnostic Corporation

(Mountain Time)

(toll free)

Fax:

DineRight4@...

Mediator Release Testing and LEAP Diet Protocol for Irritable Bowel Syndrome,

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