IN 1988, Burton Goldberg and the editors of ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE DIGEST got 26 American doctors to discuss, in a book, the herbs and other unorthodox procedures they employ to treat chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and environment illness. These diseases had reached epidemic proportions in the United States, mainstream medicine either had no permanent solution to their nuances or were complicating matters, but some doctors using alternative medicine protocols were achieving good results. The ground breaking book was appropriately entitled “Chronic Fatigue, Fibromalgia and Environmental Illness”. It was subtitled “26 Doctors Show How They Reverse These Conditions with Clinically Proven Alternative Therapies.”
I guess you’d ask: “what has this got to do with fertility challenges?”
My answer will be: “Well, probably everything you can think of.”
Didn’t our wise elders discover long ago, that whatever troubled the eye affected the nose as well? That’s another way of saying the entire body is interlinked. Chronic fatigue is loss of energy in the cell. Well, can a fatigued ovary or testes produce optimal levels of hormones required for fertility? Fibromyalgia is pain in the nerves, muscles, tendons and connective tissue. Pain is an indication of irritation or gross poisoning. Which organ or system can work optionally in this condition? Isn’t infertility another way of saying the reproductive organs are not functioning optimally? Environmental illness is caused by all those poisons (chemical, noise, heavy metals or electricity or radiation) to which we are all exposed these days in huge magnitude. Only last week, this column tried to explain how heavy metals, especially mercury, may cause infertility. These 26 doctors speak elaborarately about mercury poisoning. I learned all over again from Dr. Dierich Klinhadt, M.D., P.h.D., that mercury and other heavy metal poisoning is a cause of premature ejaculation, from which many Nigerian men suffer, and Pelvic Inflamatory Disease (PID), a cause of gynaecological disorders experienced by women, and prostate problems in men.
Now, I can see many people sit up smartly, eyes opened wider. How I wish that I remembered Dr. Klinghard last Saturday when a young woman called on me in the office for a herbal solution to premature ejaculation. She is a pharmacology student at a university who was researching into herbs that may correct the problem. She was to open up some rats and inject the Vas deferens with chemicals which would induce premature ejaculation. Thereafter, she would inject infusion of these herbs in varying dosages to see which works best. As premature ejaculation was an outcome of nerve and smooth muscle spasms, which may occur in any part of the body, I made some useful suggestions to these; I would now add Dr Klinghadt’s.
But before I come to Dr Klinghadt, I would like to mention again that mercury exposure comes not only from mercury amalgam tooth fillings but, also, from water and fish oil. Many people now know of the importance of fish oil supplements for DHA and EPA, to protect the brain, eyes, nerves, ovaries and testes, the kidneys and to prevent or to moderate inflammation and pain. But the wrong type of fish oil may not only be counterproductive; it may be but deadly. For industrialised nations dump a lot of mercury waste into the oceans and seas. All manner of fish in deep sea are, therefore, exposed to mercury poisoning. We not only eat fish but use the oil for medicine as well. Some countries are strict about the quality of fish oil sold as food supplements. Some others do not bother so much. If these do at all, it is only about fish oil sold in their domestic markets. The export market, in Europe, Canada and the United States, where standards are high, count little. A pharmacist educated me about this about 20 years ago. I wanted to buy from his store the bottled brand of Cod Liver Oil. The price he called was about three times the price of the popular brands. I asked him why this was so. He told me the one he stocked was made in Hull, England, the other from Asia. As of today, this huge price gap occurs, also in the Cod Liver Oil softgel market in Nigeria. To worsen matters, unscrupulous Nigerian businessmen who cannot get the rules bent for them in Europe ship-in poor quality products from elsewhere. There is no doubt that these products would be cheaper where the producer did not have to spend extra money cleaning out mercury from Cod Liver Oil or other fish oils. Perhap these traders do not even know the implications of their corner – cutting. For me, and perhaps for other people who cannot do without Cod Liver Oil or fish oil, this old Yoruba adage counts much: Eni ti o nwa ifa, nwa ofo (whoever seeks cheap, seeks misfortune.)!
Dr. Klinghardt
It is now well known that
(1) Mercury from tooth fillings or other sources converts in the body from elemental mercury to methylmecury, which is about 100 times more poisonous and easily crosses the brain blood barrier to lodge in brain cells and damage them. Maybe this is why cases of brain tumour are growing in number.
(2) In the brain, Methylmecury has been blamed for “neurodepressive diseases such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
(3) Within 24 hours of injecting any muscle of a monkey with a minute dose of mercury, it appears in the brain and spinal cord, and later in the lungs and lining of the kidneys, bloodstream adrenal glands, lungs, connective tissue and the endocrine glands.
(4) In the brain, mercury tends to lodge in the hypothalamus, which controls the sympathetic nervous system which, in turn, controls such activities as heart beat, digestion etc.
(5) If mercury attaches to the cell membrane, it may so transform the cell that, misrecognising it as a foreign body, the immune system attacks the cell.
(6) Unlike in other parts of the body where half of mercury concentrations may be expelled in about six weeks, mercury is more tenacious in the nerves.
As Dr. Klinghard puts it: “The main devastating effect of mercury in the nervous system is that it interferes with the energy production inside each cell. The nerve cell is impaired in its entity to detoxify itself (and excrete the mercury) and in its ability to nurture itself. The cell becomes toxic and dies, or lives in a state of chronic malnutrition. A multitude of illness usually associate neurological symptoms result”:
The editors of this book cite some of these as “chronic viral and fungal illness, recurrent episodes of bacterial infection and chronic fatigue”. They add:
“By curious self-preservation reflex of the body, the emergence of these conditions can be viewed as a way of accommodating the heavy metal presence, speculates Dr.Klinghard. Most of not all chronic infectious diseases are not caused by immune system to an otherwise lethal heavy metal environment” he says. Mercury suffocates the cells and they die, so the immune system cultivates fungi and bacteria which are able to bind large amounts of the toxic metals in their respective cell walls, thereby enabling the patient cells to breathe”.
The implications, of course, are that these micro organisms will deplete the body’s food pantry and emit toxic wastes which have to be promptly and efficiently evacuated.”
Noting that mercury exposure causes a severe zinc depletion, as zinc, involved in the production of about 200 enzymes is needed to bind to and evacuate mercury, Dr. Klinghard suggested: “As soon as anybody has any type of medical illness or symptoms, whether, medical or emotional, the amalgam fillings should be removed and the mercury resides should be eliminated from the body, especially the brain”.
Neural therapy
As reported in this book, this medical procedure may help reproductive and prostate problems caused by mercury or other heavy metal poisoning of the nerves.
The thought behind this therapy begins with the fact that mercury is heavier than water which is why, like similar metals, it is called a heavy metal, Being heavier than water, mercury literally “falls” to the floor of the body. In the mouth, it affects the lower jaw, gums and teeth. It makes the thyroid gland in the neck underactive (hypothynedism), a cause of sluggishness, obesity and reproductive hassles. In the pelvic floor, close to where reproductive organs are located, mercury and other heavy metals accumulate in the frankenhauser’s ganglion. This is a nerve junction box or relay station, so to say.
As the editors of the book report Dr Klinghardt saying: “An accumulation of mercury in this nerve plexus accounts for premature ejaculation and an enlarged prostate. In men and endometriosis, pelvic pain, and hormone dysfunction in women”.
To understand neural therapy and how it may help infertility and a variety of other health discomfitures, one must understand the lay-out of the nervous system. This system is like an outlay of telephone wires which connect every table telephone nationwide to a central control unit. In the body, this unit is the body, and the table telephone sets are in every organ, every cell. There are two broad types of Nervous System: The
(1) Central nervous system (CNS) which controls all Voluntary activities, and the
(2) Autonomic Nervous system (ANS) which control involuntary activities such as the heart rate, digestion perspiration, breathing, blood circulation etc. The ANS branches into the (a) sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and the (b) Para Sympathetic Nervous System (PSNS). The Sympathetic nervous system sympathises with our desire for survival and do many things, including pumping us with hormones such as adrenalin, and extra blood sugar, to prepare us for emergencies (fight or flight). This is a stressful situation we need to traverse to survive. The Parasympathetic nervous system calms us down when the dust has settled. If we have to be permanently on fire, as it were, our lives would be short. So would it also be if there was no occasional short fire to pep us up. This, a healthy balance must exist between both arm of the Autonomic Nervous System if our systems are to run well. Any wonder that hormonal imbalances have been linked to inco-ordination of the nervous system!
Now, these nerves do not run in unbroken straight lines. There are what we may call “function boxes” along the long lines. These “boxes” are actually a bundling of nerves called the nerve ganglia. A single bundle is a gaglion. Mercury and other heavy metals travel down the nerve pathway to, and accumulates in the ganglia. In the ganglia, the accumulation blocks nerve flow. The blockage of nerve flow is better understood by the example of blockage of blood circulation or lymph circulation. There is tension in and around tissue and organs which are cut off from supplies. Hypertension, organ damage, heart attack and strokes may follow. Unhindered nerve flow not only opens communication and feedback linkages between the brain and all parts of the body, nerve energy from cerebrospinal fluid keeps the cells alive. Many of the articles of fashion popular among women, such as the lipstick (contains thallium), jewelry, hair treatment chemicals, bath soaps and body creams, for example, leach dangerous substances into the bloodstream, and from there into the nerves and the ganglia.
In neural therapy, Dr Dietrich Klinghardt and other doctors mentioned in the book inject ganglia, scars, muscle trigger points, acupuncture point etc, with substances which relax blockages and tensions in them, and then frees bound, built-up poisons for elimination.
In respect of the Frankenhauser’s ganglion, where, as easier stated, heavy metal toxicity
Can cause premature ejaculation in men and pelvic inflammatory disease and hormonal imbalance in women, the editors of the book say: “Neural therapy cleans up” this ganglion (just above the pubic bone) with a local anesthetic. This opens up most of the ionic channels in the cell wall; the cell is then able to excrete a high number of its toxic components’
This painless injection spurs the body to dump a large amount of mercury into the urine: Dr Klinghardt says.
When I remember many cases of premature ejaculation and chronic erectile dysfunction which defy many nutritional supplements and herbs, and of many uncompromising female fertility problems, I wonder if the frank Hauser’s ganglin is a hurdle yet to clear.
Helpful as neural therapy of Frank Hauser’s ganglin is for the liberation of the reproduction system, for example, Dr Klinghardt follows up the therapy with herbs such as CHLORELA and CILANTRO (PARSELY) to usher the toxins out the blood and bowels.
The editors say:
“The herb Cilantro is known to detoxify the brain and central nervous system of heavy metals. Taking it in an alcohol – based tincture guarantees fast delivery of the Cilantro to the brain, he says.
But while Cilantro moves heavy metals out of the brain and spinal cord, it doesn’t evacuate them from the body. This lob goes to Chlorella an algae and the likes of it, which bind mercury and eliminates it through faeces. For this, 12 capsules (each of 330mg) daily are prescribed.
Dr Daniel F Royal, D.O, says he, too, uses Chlorella to detoxify the body, especially connective tissue, of mercury and heavy metals. In his arsenal, also, are L – glutathione, Kyolic, Garlic, Silymarin (milk thistles), Vitamin CC 8,000-16,000 mg daily, or decrease to tolerable dosage of diarrhea occurs, Vitamin B Complex, Pregnerolone, DMPS (2 – 3, dimercapfopane, 1 sulphate) probiotics and used by Russians to treat workers injured by exposure to heavy metals and then researched in Germany and Japan for about 40years.
In the case study of heavy metal detoxification presented by Dr Van Benschowtein, Chinese herbs were used to clear bacteria, Viruses and heavy metals. These included “Chrysanthemum, Angelica dahurica, Isatis, Buplerurumum, Salvia, Playfycodon, Lucicidium and Fractus lucium.
What a week it is again. A promise remains a debt. I haven’t forgotten about the promise on Yarrow and Wheat Germ Oil, two fertility aids, especially for women. I got carried away by heavy metal poisoning which many women suffer from without realising it. Often, one meets a woman whose neck has been “burned”, so to say, by poor quality metal necklace. The skin rejected the metal, but it was forced upon it in the name of fashion. I know of a young woman who reacts to any metal necklace, whatever the quality. She always fell ill. I’ve seen people who have burning sensations all over. While this may be a signal over of elevated blood sugar or excess Uric acid, for example, couldn’t heavy metals have disturbed normal cellular life in the glucose balancing mechanism? When vision fades or dulls, are heavy metals in the optic nerve? There is no doubt that they present in rheumatoid arthritis. Detoxification of poisons from the body is in urgent need of mankind today. Thank you Mr. Burton Goldberg and editors of Alternative Medicine Digest for a wonderful book which I recommended for home health libraries.
To be continued
