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Dirt can protect your child
Dirt pills may help to ease kids' asthmaEan Higgins
27apr06
CHILDREN are to be given a 'dirt pill' to provide the germs they missed out on as toddlers as part of a revolutionary treatment for asthma.
Researcher Susan Prescott said asthmatic children would receive daily medication that would include a mixture of different strains of probiotic bacteria and antioxidants.
The bacteria will replicate the germs to which, it is thought, the children did not receive enough exposure at an early age.
As a result, they failed to develop immunity and went on to suffer allergic reactions, including asthma.
Professor Prescott, of Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and the University of Western Australia, is recruiting 180 asthmatic children aged between seven and 12 for the study.
Some will receive the dirt pill, containing a 'friendly bacteria ... plus antioxidants normally present in a healthy diet'. Others will be given a placebo.
Researchers will monitor the degree to which symptoms improve, including frequency of asthmatic attacks, exercise tolerance and breathing capacity.
Professor Prescott said if the experiment worked it could lead to an improvement in the lives of millions of young asthmatics.
It is the latest attempt to counter a rising trend of childhood asthma in affluent countries, which is widely thought to be a product of inadequate early exposure to germs, and a diet with insufficient fruit and other antioxidant-rich foods.
A parallel study will test an even more intriguing theory -- that exposure to more germs could reduce the chances of pregnant mothers passing allergies on to their babies.
Among the first subjects of the experiment will be Perth seven-year-old, Kelsey Ruscoe.
As a toddler, her mother Leechelle, a kindergarten teacher, kept a clean house, and the family did not have pets.
A year ago, and without warning, Kelsey started coughing, her breathing became laboured and she went pale. 'It really hurt my chest, I was only halfway breathing,' she said.
Tests indicate Kelsey is asthmatic as a result of an allergy to dust mites and cats.
Professor Prescott said the treatment she will receive as part of her study could increase her immunity. 'Some kinds of exposure can actually protect you. Cats, for example, have lots of bugs,' she said.
walkin on 2006-04-28
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What news Walkin!
Kids in India will be very happy coz their Moms always coaxing them to have a bath !
Kids in India will be very happy coz their Moms always coaxing them to have a bath !
♡ PANKAJ VARMA last decade
It protects all animals as well all kids in third world.
Believe me, anytime I see a river, I go and drink its water. When I first saw Nile in Cairo I made a cup of my hands and drank its water, one local gentle man said, 'Even we don't do it because these days all rivers are polluted.'
Believe me, anytime I see a river, I go and drink its water. When I first saw Nile in Cairo I made a cup of my hands and drank its water, one local gentle man said, 'Even we don't do it because these days all rivers are polluted.'
kuldeep last decade
Greetings
I spent my earlier childhood deep in the Malaysian jungles where elephants, tigers and snakes were common encounters. One day,
while playing near paddy fields, we scouted a well-digger. We curiously approached him. Surprisely, he offered us sweets and asked us to defecate in the nearby bushes, which we did. The next two days, we saw him collecting our fecal matter and drying it in the sun from a healthy distance. On the third day, he wrapped our dried up fecal matter in some leaves he collected and lowered it into the oozing well. This remained a puzzle to me all these years. In my search of holistic truth I came across this article.
The Bacillus Subtilis Story
Dr. Rothschild backed up his point by telling us the story of the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis, a bacterial microorganism that is commonly found in the environment rather than in humans, yet is well known by modern science to be very friendly to the human system. It can promote dramatic healing benefits in humans, even though it isn't one of the native microbes that normally inhabit the human body. According to Dr. Rothschild, the story of Bacillus subtilis goes like this:
The bacillus subtilis was discovered by the Nazi German medical corps in 1941, toward the end of their African campaign. At the time, the German military victory was at its height. But the German high command became genuinely alarmed when hundreds upon hundreds of soldiers in North Africa suddenly began dying every week. Oddly, the Nazi soldiers weren't dying because of British General Montgomery's retaliatory bombs and shrapnel, but instead, they were dying of uncontrollable dysentery.
Of course, the Germans were aware that dysentery was caused by pathogenic (i.e., disease-causing) bacteria from local food and water sources. But in those days, there were no antibiotics. Sulfur was already on the market, but only in a topical non-ingestible form. So with no medication available with which to stop the plague of dysentery, the Nazis quickly began looking for other means to help their dying soldiers.
The German high command immediately sent out a contingent of scientists, physicians, chemists, biochemist, bacteriologists and other experts to help solve the problem. W'th typical German circumspection, these top experts reasoned that there must be a natural way to counteract the deadly bacteria causing the dysentery because, if there wasn't, the millions of Arabs living in the region would have been dead long ago.
Therefore, the Germans' first step was to closely scrutinize the native Arabs, and see whether or not they were affected by dysentery. What they discovered was that the Arabs also caught dysentery, but at the first sign of diarrhea [the #1 symptom of dysentery-Ed.] the Arabs would do something quite incredible: They would immediately begin following around a horse or camel until it would drop its dung. Then, the affected Arab would pick up the warm dung droppings, and quickly gulp them down! This strange procedure effectively eliminated the dysentery almost overnight.
Once the good hygienic Germans finally recovered from the shock of seeing the Arab natives gulping down warm camel dung, they quickly realized that there must be something in the dung that somehow counteracted the harmful bacteria that caused the dysentery. They questioned the Arabs, who told them that they had no idea why it worked, but that their fathers had always done so, as had their forefathers and it had always worked. The only caveat was that the camel or horse dung had to be ingested while still warm and fresh, because it had no effect on the dysentery if ingested cold.
So the Nazis began carefully examining fresh camel and horse dung. What they discovered was that it was teeming with a powerful bacterial microorganism which later came to be called Bacillus subtilis. This bacteria, it turned out, is so strong that it practically cannibalizes all harmful microorganisms in the human body-particularly pathogenic bacteria like the virulent strain which was causing dysentery in the German troops.
Within a very short time, the Nazis began producing hundreds and thousands of gallons of active Bacillus subtilis cultures for their troops to ingesk And bingo, no more dysentery! Soon afterwards, the Germans even discovered the process by which the Bacillus subtilis cultures could be dried and placed into easily ingestible capsules. From that time forward, the resourceful Germans had no more problems with losing troops from dysentery.
Still Benefiting Health-Savvy Individuals
For many years afterwards, cultures of Bacillus subtilis were sold worldwide as a medicinal product (sold in the U.S. and Mexico, for example, under the brand name Bacti-Subtil) rapidly becoming the world's leading treatment for dysentery and other intestinal problems. Unfortunately for Americans, this popular bacterial supplement that cures intestinal infections began losing favor in the late 1950's and early 1960's, upon the advent of synthetic antibiotics which were heavily touted by the giant pharmaceutical companies as 'wonder drugs,' even though they cost five times as much as Bacti-Subtil, and took three times longer to accomplish the same results. Nonetheless, Bacillus subtilis remains one of the most potent and beneficial of all health-promoting and immunestimulating bacteria. According to clinical studies documented in the medical research report, Immunostimulation by Bacillus Subtilis Preparations, by micro-biologist J. Harmann, the cell wall components of ingested Bacillus Subtilis are able to activate nearly all systems of the human immune defense, including the activation of at least three specific antibodies (IgM, IgG and IgA secretion) which are highly effective against many of the harmful viruses, fungi and bacterial pathogens which regularly attempt to invade and infect the human system.
Bacillus subtilis is still used widely today in Germany, France and Israel, where safe, effective all-natural therapeutic products are more highly esteemed by the health-savvy public than the more expensive synthetic drugs espoused by the orthodox medical establishment with all of their dangerous side effects.
In short, the incredible Bacillus subtilis, which is commonly found in the outside environment rather than in the human intestinal system, continues to benefit mankind ever since its unusual discovery by the Germans in 1941. What's more, it is only one small example of the multitude of 'friendly' microorganisms which can create tremendous benefits for humans when ingested, even though they are not necessarily 'native' microorganisms to the human system.
http://users.penn.com/~rarearts/soilbasedorganisims.htm
With regards
Lew
I spent my earlier childhood deep in the Malaysian jungles where elephants, tigers and snakes were common encounters. One day,
while playing near paddy fields, we scouted a well-digger. We curiously approached him. Surprisely, he offered us sweets and asked us to defecate in the nearby bushes, which we did. The next two days, we saw him collecting our fecal matter and drying it in the sun from a healthy distance. On the third day, he wrapped our dried up fecal matter in some leaves he collected and lowered it into the oozing well. This remained a puzzle to me all these years. In my search of holistic truth I came across this article.
The Bacillus Subtilis Story
Dr. Rothschild backed up his point by telling us the story of the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis, a bacterial microorganism that is commonly found in the environment rather than in humans, yet is well known by modern science to be very friendly to the human system. It can promote dramatic healing benefits in humans, even though it isn't one of the native microbes that normally inhabit the human body. According to Dr. Rothschild, the story of Bacillus subtilis goes like this:
The bacillus subtilis was discovered by the Nazi German medical corps in 1941, toward the end of their African campaign. At the time, the German military victory was at its height. But the German high command became genuinely alarmed when hundreds upon hundreds of soldiers in North Africa suddenly began dying every week. Oddly, the Nazi soldiers weren't dying because of British General Montgomery's retaliatory bombs and shrapnel, but instead, they were dying of uncontrollable dysentery.
Of course, the Germans were aware that dysentery was caused by pathogenic (i.e., disease-causing) bacteria from local food and water sources. But in those days, there were no antibiotics. Sulfur was already on the market, but only in a topical non-ingestible form. So with no medication available with which to stop the plague of dysentery, the Nazis quickly began looking for other means to help their dying soldiers.
The German high command immediately sent out a contingent of scientists, physicians, chemists, biochemist, bacteriologists and other experts to help solve the problem. W'th typical German circumspection, these top experts reasoned that there must be a natural way to counteract the deadly bacteria causing the dysentery because, if there wasn't, the millions of Arabs living in the region would have been dead long ago.
Therefore, the Germans' first step was to closely scrutinize the native Arabs, and see whether or not they were affected by dysentery. What they discovered was that the Arabs also caught dysentery, but at the first sign of diarrhea [the #1 symptom of dysentery-Ed.] the Arabs would do something quite incredible: They would immediately begin following around a horse or camel until it would drop its dung. Then, the affected Arab would pick up the warm dung droppings, and quickly gulp them down! This strange procedure effectively eliminated the dysentery almost overnight.
Once the good hygienic Germans finally recovered from the shock of seeing the Arab natives gulping down warm camel dung, they quickly realized that there must be something in the dung that somehow counteracted the harmful bacteria that caused the dysentery. They questioned the Arabs, who told them that they had no idea why it worked, but that their fathers had always done so, as had their forefathers and it had always worked. The only caveat was that the camel or horse dung had to be ingested while still warm and fresh, because it had no effect on the dysentery if ingested cold.
So the Nazis began carefully examining fresh camel and horse dung. What they discovered was that it was teeming with a powerful bacterial microorganism which later came to be called Bacillus subtilis. This bacteria, it turned out, is so strong that it practically cannibalizes all harmful microorganisms in the human body-particularly pathogenic bacteria like the virulent strain which was causing dysentery in the German troops.
Within a very short time, the Nazis began producing hundreds and thousands of gallons of active Bacillus subtilis cultures for their troops to ingesk And bingo, no more dysentery! Soon afterwards, the Germans even discovered the process by which the Bacillus subtilis cultures could be dried and placed into easily ingestible capsules. From that time forward, the resourceful Germans had no more problems with losing troops from dysentery.
Still Benefiting Health-Savvy Individuals
For many years afterwards, cultures of Bacillus subtilis were sold worldwide as a medicinal product (sold in the U.S. and Mexico, for example, under the brand name Bacti-Subtil) rapidly becoming the world's leading treatment for dysentery and other intestinal problems. Unfortunately for Americans, this popular bacterial supplement that cures intestinal infections began losing favor in the late 1950's and early 1960's, upon the advent of synthetic antibiotics which were heavily touted by the giant pharmaceutical companies as 'wonder drugs,' even though they cost five times as much as Bacti-Subtil, and took three times longer to accomplish the same results. Nonetheless, Bacillus subtilis remains one of the most potent and beneficial of all health-promoting and immunestimulating bacteria. According to clinical studies documented in the medical research report, Immunostimulation by Bacillus Subtilis Preparations, by micro-biologist J. Harmann, the cell wall components of ingested Bacillus Subtilis are able to activate nearly all systems of the human immune defense, including the activation of at least three specific antibodies (IgM, IgG and IgA secretion) which are highly effective against many of the harmful viruses, fungi and bacterial pathogens which regularly attempt to invade and infect the human system.
Bacillus subtilis is still used widely today in Germany, France and Israel, where safe, effective all-natural therapeutic products are more highly esteemed by the health-savvy public than the more expensive synthetic drugs espoused by the orthodox medical establishment with all of their dangerous side effects.
In short, the incredible Bacillus subtilis, which is commonly found in the outside environment rather than in the human intestinal system, continues to benefit mankind ever since its unusual discovery by the Germans in 1941. What's more, it is only one small example of the multitude of 'friendly' microorganisms which can create tremendous benefits for humans when ingested, even though they are not necessarily 'native' microorganisms to the human system.
http://users.penn.com/~rarearts/soilbasedorganisims.htm
With regards
Lew
homeopathy last decade
Dear Walkin,
These guys are prompting Simon Broadlay to export 'horse-shi.....t' !
He is going to have a 'handling and despatch' problem.
Pankaj Varma
These guys are prompting Simon Broadlay to export 'horse-shi.....t' !
He is going to have a 'handling and despatch' problem.
Pankaj Varma
♡ PANKAJ VARMA last decade
homeopathy, thanks for the story. Very informative and educational. Thanks for bringing this stuff, otherwise one may never come across this.
kuldeep last decade
Interesting stories, Walkin and Homeopathy....
Seems a shame, but Bacti-Subtil is not available in this country (that I could find), but is available in parts of Europe.
On the other hand, 'dirt organisms' seem to be available through at least one company here.
Tracy
Seems a shame, but Bacti-Subtil is not available in this country (that I could find), but is available in parts of Europe.
On the other hand, 'dirt organisms' seem to be available through at least one company here.
Tracy
Truthfinder last decade
Greetings to all who have read my ' dirt '.
Healthy Habit or Mental Illness?
The habit of eating clay, mud or dirt is known as geophagy. Some experts lump it into the same category as pica, which is the abnormal urge to eat coins, paint, soap or other non-food items. Cultures worldwide have practiced geophagy for centuries, from the ancient Greeks to Native Americans. In most places the habit is limited to women, especially women who are pregnant or of childbearing age.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=health&id=3497523
In my experience, geophagy is not only limited to pregnant women but also to mineral deficient conditions observed in all age groups.
' Dirt ' from Mother Earth is the primordial nutrient source for the sustenance of all Gaia 's organisms.
With regards
Lew
Healthy Habit or Mental Illness?
The habit of eating clay, mud or dirt is known as geophagy. Some experts lump it into the same category as pica, which is the abnormal urge to eat coins, paint, soap or other non-food items. Cultures worldwide have practiced geophagy for centuries, from the ancient Greeks to Native Americans. In most places the habit is limited to women, especially women who are pregnant or of childbearing age.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=health&id=3497523
In my experience, geophagy is not only limited to pregnant women but also to mineral deficient conditions observed in all age groups.
' Dirt ' from Mother Earth is the primordial nutrient source for the sustenance of all Gaia 's organisms.
With regards
Lew
homeopathy last decade
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