Friends and co sufferers; I really don¹t know anything about it, how it is supposed to work, if it works, or its theories. I only know that after sampling magnesia phosphorica I had what can only be called a dramatic recovery from debilitating seizures that would have ended my working career. I leave the discussions of its supposed efficacy to others.
As I stated, it could all be a coincidence, and the seizures stopped on their own. But all this reminds me of the experience with pit viper snake bite treatment in the US, how a chance discovery offered a dramatic improvement over current treatments, and how the medical establishment fought its adoption for two decades because they couldn¹t figure out how it was supposed to work. About 35 years ago, two workers were in the Venezuelan bush when one got nailed by a large pit viper, similar to our own rattle snakes and moccasins. While trying to get themselves to a hospital some many miles away, the bitten man accidently shocked his infected arm on one of the spark plug wires of their truck, as they were trying to get it started and going for help. Once underway and after about 20 minutes the symptoms of the snake venom infectionextreme general sickness, the swelling of the infected limb, semi-consciousness, had fallen away mysteriously. Tracing their actions they recalled the heavy shock across the wound by the spark plug lead. There was no other intervention nor possible explanation. After telling this story, others in the bush started experimenting and found that, sure enough, a big shock across the bite from a pit viper stopped the poison in its tracks, but only if administered soon after the bite. After that, it was too late and the usual necrosis set in. They also discovered that it did nothing for treating the bite from a cobra which acts directly on the nerves of the heart and diaphragm. For years doctors in emergency rooms refused to administer a shock to snake bite victims because they insisted that there was no theory that explained why it was supposed to work, even while linesmen, pipeline workers, ranchers and others gratefully used electric shock to stop the poison and return to work and health within a matter of hours or days rather than months of nursing a limb that had most of its flesh removed after necrosis set in from the pit viper venom. Workers and outdoorsmen now went into the bush with a small holstered taser fork to use, not just on their selves in case of a snake bite, but also on their dogs and livestock. Only at the end of the 1990s a working theory was offered that explained how shocking the wound stopped envenomation: What happens is that the venom binds to blood and other cells using electric polarity at the sub-molecular level. The electric current across the bite completely neutralizes this polarity so the venom molecules cannot bind to tissue. It is then simply flushed out of the bloodstream through the kidneys, and you are left with an ordinary bite wound. Meanwhile two decades had passed until doctors finally began using tasers in emergency rooms on pit viper bite victims, relieving them of both months of suffering and permanent disfigurement from conventional treatments, and from a massive hospital bill. For me, as a practicing economist, this story was very instructive. I don¹t care about the theories or arguments. I only care about getting better. Dalton Dalton H. Garis, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics And Petroleum Market Behavior The Petroleum Institute P.O. Box 2533, Umm al Nar Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Office: +971-02-607-5070/5297 Mobile: +971-50-668-5760-- From: Janet Dunn <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:34:21 -0700 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [TMIC] Mag Phos Resent-From: <[email protected]> Resent-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:34:22 -0700 Hello to all; I have ³listened² in on the whole conversation about Mag Phos, as we call it in the alternative medicine world. There are several different strengths of Mag Phos, and then there is the tissue salt. Dalton: what strength were you taking? If you were taking 6x, then that is a good thing there are very rarely any side effects from that, as it is a tissue salt, one of the twelve essential minerals that our cells need. Then there is the homeopathic version: it can come in anything from 1M, 30c, 30x, 6D, etc etc. Both the tissue salt and the homeopathic Mag Phos do similar things, but with a homeopathic remedy, you can ³prove² the remedy. You can take too much of it, and then aggravate the very symptoms that you were trying to get rid of. The symptoms can become much worse, then you need the corresponding antidote homeopathic remedy, or time, to ease up the symptoms. I am not sure what strength you were taking, or how much of it you took. But that is a possibility that you proved the remedy. Or it could just be as someone else said (maybe Barbara or Janice?) (talk about memory, and the email is long gone) : perhaps, feeling good, you over did it and caused a fatigue I need a rest day. Just my two cents, Janet
