Alkalizing Your Body
Causal Therapy For Latent Acidosis
by Dennis Myers
Getting at the cause, the Causal Therapy for the removal of the deposit-hydrochloric-acid
logically consists of removing excess acid from the organism while decreasing
the intake of protein acids. This Causal Therapy is done in two ways;
by adding bases (sodium, potassium bicarbonate, etc.) and by removing
acids (amino-acid metabolites).
A. Cooked protein consumption is the biggest contributor
to acidity. Greatly reduce proteins:
- eggs
- all meats (it doesn't matter if it is beef, fish or chicken)
- all dairy products, especially pasteurized
- grains, such as bread, pasta, crackers
- cereals (oatmeal is one of the highest protein containing foods)
- beans (a handful of kidney beans for example has a much protein in
it as a lamb chop)
- nuts - almonds, walnuts, pecans, brazil, pistachio
B. Increase the intake of fruits and vegetables.
An "apple a day does keep the doctor away". Protein depletes
us of our main minerals; sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and chloride.
These are the main electrolyte ions called macro-minerals - we need a
lot of them. When we get them from fruits and vegetables, they are in
the right form.
C. Balanced Base Powder
One can take, by mouth, the necessary quick bases (sodium bicarbonate
and potassium bicarbonate) that the body needs to neutralize stored acids
in the body and correct the relative base deficiency, the "latent
acidosis". Balanced Base Powder also provides necessary chloride
ions in the form of whole salt and potassium chloride that are needed
to recharge the hydrochloric acid producing ability of the stomach, and
thereby and even more importantly, its sodium bicarbonate producing ability.
Take 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of Balanced Base Powder in water or juice between
meals. If this is not available, use the same amount of baking soda
in water or fruit juice, between meals and before bed, i.e. three times
a day.
The important thing is to take it on an empty stomach, so it can bind
with the excess "deposit acid" from the acid producing cells
lining the stomach (thereby generating more bicarbonate that goes into
the blood stream) and not interfere with the production of acid that is
needed at the times of eating. One needs acid in the stomach to digest
food so the Balanced Base Powder or baking soda should not be taken around
meal times.
If you eat breakfast at 8:00 A.M. and lunch at noon then you would take
the first dose of Base Powder at 10:00 A.M., you would take another between
lunch and dinner. It is best to sip it slowly, so it can react with acid
from the stomach over a longer time, not all at once as with one big gulp.
If there isn't time to sip it, just drink it anyway. This, done consistently,
over time, is what makes the difference.
It is best not to eat before you retire at night. If you don't eat
before bed time then you can take 1/2 to 1 tsp. of Base Powder before
bed also. If you do eat before bed then you would not take the Base Powder
that night.
The amount of Base Powder you take should be determined based on your
urine pH at the same times as you would take the Base Powder (don't
take the Base Powder and check your urine on the same day), i.e. between
meals, say at 10:00 A.M. or 2:00 P.M.. The urine should be kept at a
pH of 7.0 to 8.0 at all such times. If it is below this number, i.e.
if it still acid then you need more Base Powder. If the pH stays between
7.0 and 8.0 then you can try to decrease the amount of powder.
It is not necessary to check these pHs often, the pH of the urine
at 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M., once every week, and later per month, is
sufficient.
It takes a long time for us to become acid, for the connective tissues
and cells of the body to become saturated with the stored acids. For the
same reasons, it will take some time to de-acidify the body, to neutralize
and excrete all the stored acids. This process can take one to two years
depending on how ill and/or old you are. This method is not a quick fix,
but it will prevent and eliminate the problems that come with being too
acid, namely the problems of pleomorphic, chronic, degenerative disease.
D. Magnesium
Magnesium is an important macro mineral that needs to be replaced. It
is not included in the Base Powder because of its laxative effects. Everyone
that is in any state of acidosis requires extra potassium and magnesium
as these are lost from the urine and cells when your acidity rises. The
Potassium is in the Base Powder. You can use Magnesium citrate,
obtained from a drug store laxative section. If you drink the whole bottle
it will clean you out quite well. Minerals are best taken on an empty
stomach. There is a better option: transdermal magnesium - energetically
treated magnesium chloride that is absorbed through your skin. It not
only supplements your magnesium, but also the much needed chloride ion.
E. Vomiting
Vomiting also rids the body of excess acid. Perhaps old time doctors
were justified in their use of emetics, medicines that help you vomit.
Emetica (Apomorphine, Ipecac) were frequently used for the purpose of
correcting one's mineral balance. The problem created by this method
is that as the hydrochloric acid (HCl) is expelled, the excess acid (H+)
ion is eliminated, but the needed chloride (Cl-) ion is also
eliminated resulting in a relative chloride deficiency. Chloride ion must
be replaced if it is lost through vomiting. The chloride ion can be replenished
by sole therapy (whole salt brine) or salt baths with Dead Sea salt or
Magnesium Chloride.
Making yourself vomit after eating something you 'shouldn't
haven eaten', is not bulimia, just because you did it. In the process,
it does rid the body of the 'dietary indiscretion' along with,
excess acid.
F. Intravenous Sodium Bicarbonate
This simple, harmless and cheap practice can be set
up with your medical practitioner. Mix 35 cc of 8.4% Sodium Bicarbonate
(70 meq) plus 24 cc of 20% Magnesium chloride (70 meq) in 500 cc of sterile
water. This solution is isotonic and variations can be made to suit the
situation. This solution can be administered over a period of one hour
or more.
The only problems I have ever had with this IV alkalization were in
one patient in kidney failure (ready for dialysis) and one in heart failure
in which case it was necessary to use lasix. I recommend this IV one time
per week, except in very ill patients where it can be given every day.
I have treated all types of patients with IVs like this. It will de-acidify
quite thoroughly. For instance ulcers, in time will just go away.
G. Micro-Minerals or trace minerals
There are some ninety identified trace minerals, including gold, silver,
and many others that get depleted all the time. These trace minerals used
to come from plants, as they were in the soil the plants grew in. Most
of our farm land has been over farmed with the use of NPK fertilizer (nitrogen,
phosphorus and potassium) used today. The trace minerals are no longer
there.
Adding a trace mineral supplement is a great idea. You can use whole
salt, such as Himalayan Crystal salt, teaspoon of brine every day. You
can also drink a third of a glass of sea water every day. Eating seaweed,
kelp, spirulina and other Superfood blends can help a lot.
Liquid trace mineral supplements are preferred over powdered. Clark's
Minerals is the oldest, least expensive and well known. These liquid trace
minerals come from the mud of volcanoes. The trace minerals are still
present deep under ground. Another way is to fertilize your garden with
rock dust. Coal, being crushed dinosaurs and the like, has all the trace
minerals in it too.
H. Drainage Remedies
If only we'd quit putting toxins into our bodies. But 'we all
know better' so really we don't talk about that one issue. We
pay doctors to say they can 'take care of' our indiscretions but
it has very little to do with medicine.
Use herbal remedies to increase the flow of the excretory organs of
the body, namely the kidneys, the liver and the intestinal system, in
that order. These organs of course are the organs that have to do the
work in eliminating the toxins and acids.
Pythagoras, after a trying career as a physician, ended up saying that
the only good medicine was fresh air, healthy food, exercise etc. Every
physician is 'trying', trying to heal, to help yet there is a
basic paradox contained in the concept of "healing". Who is
kidding who? Doctors don't heal anybody. The patient does, and if
they are in the mood, they can even do it by will. Give Nature a break.
If you don't choose to eat poisons when you are healthy, why would
you do that when you are sick? All drugs are poisons, even concentrated
herbal medicines, all of them. If they aren't poisons they are foods.
Kidneys
Your kidneys are the most difficult to stimulate and take the longest
to clear. Your kidney cleanse should be started first and kept up for
some time. Herbs that help the kidneys include dandelion (the most specific
herb for the kidneys), uva ursi, bucchu, horsetail tea (a good mineral
tea), juniper berries (a good diuretic), golden rod, asparagus and parsley.
Parsley as food is the best for the kidneys, it nourishes them specifically.
Uva Ursi contains a chemical that is changed by the kidneys, as it passes
through them, into phenol as in Lysol. This is a urinary disinfectant
and works well. Fresh asparagus juice is an excellent diuretic. Golden
Rod is good for acute and chronic conditions of the renal system, promoting
diuresis and excretion of matter usually eliminated with the urine. Horsetail
Tea is used in Germany as a diuretic for edema, gout, enuresis, and dysuria.
Asparagus was used by Hippocrates as well as Paracelsus for urinary conditions,
a good diuretic, for gout, skin conditions etc.
Liver
The liver is the most important detoxifying organ of the body and in
most of us needs the utmost attention. Herbs that stimulate the liver
to 'clean the blood' are such things as greater celandine, burdock,
yellow dock, dandelion, echinacea barberry, etc. There are liver extracts
called liver glandulars and liver liquescenses that help regenerate the
liver. One can also manually 'pump' the liver by pressing up and
under the right, lower rib cage where the liver is. Castor oil packs over
the liver area are helpful as is the drinking of lemon juice. Dr. Miller's
BeFree Detox works rather well.
Intestines
Care of the intestinal system, elimination of foods that one is allergic
too and replenishment of the normal bacteria of the intestine is a topic
unto itself. You can read about the rebuilding of intestinal flora elsewhere
on the site.
Skin
You can also stimulate the skin, which is the fourth largest excretory
organ of the body, the kidneys, liver and intestines being the others.
While bathing use a Lufa Sponge or rough wash cloth and rub your skin
until it gets pink. This gets rid of old skin cells, which are acid deposits,
and stimulates the lymph and glands of the skin so they excrete more.
Use a soft brush to stimulate your skin with dry brushing. Use a sauna,
infrared or steam bath.
I. Eliminate Unwanted Toxins
The best way to "eliminate" toxins from the body is to refrain
from consuming more of them or avoid exposure to them. These include such
things as fluoride in toothpaste and the water, mercury from amalgam fillings
in the teeth and exposure to all heavy metals, exposure to pesticides
in the food and environment and unnecessary intake of medicines.
Sweating is an excellent elimination process. A simple way besides the
obvious ways is to take a hot bath, as hot as you can stand it, for 'awhile',
15 minutes, a half an hour. You can put Baking Soda in the bath, a pound
is not too much, along with a cup or so of Magnesium Salts. These suck
acid out of your body and supply Magnesium which is absorbed through the
skin (Epsom Salts are Magnesium sulfate, Magnesium Chloride is better).
When you get out of the bath and bundle up in clothes or a bath robe,
and get under the covers in bed. Lay there for a half hour or so and you
will loose a pound of sweat. It is rather amazing and feels extremely
good.
J. Deep Breathing
Protein is not the only source of acids in our body. As stated earlier,
protein, drugs, and alkaloids produce the hard or strong acids, namely
sulfuric, nitric and phosphoric.
Weak acids are produced in the body by burning of carbohydrates, fat
and the like. Exercise and stress produce lactic acid, also a weak acid.
The weak acids work in about the same way. These acids are not eliminated
like protein, rather they are broken down into water (eliminated by the
kidneys) and carbon dioxide (which is breathed out through the lungs).
These soft or weak acids do not bind minerals the way protein does, but
they are acids and can aggravate an already acidic condition.
For this reason deep breathing is a very important part of eliminating
the acid load of the body. Most of us do not breathe enough. Pranayama
Yoga is a science of breathing, learn it. Take slow, deep breaths as often
as you think of it, relax. Of course aerobic exercise helps here too.
K. Support the lymph system
The lymph system is the detoxifying 'organ'
of the body. The lymph comes from the fluid that surrounds the cells and
therefore is the fluid that carries the toxins and metabolic acid waste
that the cells themselves produce.
Rebounding
Rebounding is a well tested method. Bouncing up and down on a mini-trampoline
promotes the flow of lymph through the body and therefore helps eliminate
unwanted acids and toxins. Massage also does this as does the use of a
'slant board'. You can lay on a board or a surface that puts your
feet higher than your head. This helps the lymph flow out of the lower
parts of the body. Yogic inverted poses also help.
L. Increase the oxygenation of the body
Oxygen burns acids and other toxins and therefore helps in their elimination.
This topic is covered elsewhere. The biggest help are products such as
Co-enzyme Q-10, Glutathione, vitamins.
M. Stress Reduction
Do this by any means possible. Not to make light of this, but it surely
as another topic unto itself. One night without sleep will make you extremely
acid by the next day.
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