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Cilantro

Oral Chelation of Heavy Metals:

 Mercury, Lead, and Aluminum

Many people today suffer from what is often broadly referred to as "heavy metal toxicity."  The most common source of toxicity is mercury from dental fillings.  When the so-called "silver" fillings are put in the teeth, they are roughly 49-53% mercury.  In other words, the filling is an amalgam that contains some silver as well as what is for some people a lethal amount of mercury.  To determine the extent of possible mercury poisoning, studies were conducted on sheep.  The fillings were removed after six months and found to contain only about a fifth of the mercury that was present when the fillings were first put into the teeth.  The rest of the mercury had been leeched into the system and was found in significant concentrations in the brain and small intestines, though the liver and kidneys and lungs were also impacted by the mercury.

In environmentally conscious dentistry, mercury is disposed of as a hazardous waste.  In some countries, such as Germany and Sweden, the governments are paying for mercury removal; however, in the United States, the American Dental Association, Federal Government, and suppliers of amalgam dental materials insist that mercury is safe and that it poses no health risks . . . except, it seems, for Duluth, Minnesota, where mercury amalgams are prohibited.

Basically, insistence on the safety of amalgams is not just nonsense, but criminally irresponsible. For many people, mercury is a very significant cause of ill health.  Symptoms range from muscle spasms to severe neurological problems such as paralysis and memory loss.  For years, many people have been going through the quite expensive procedure of having amalgam fillings replaced with more stable and less toxic dental materials and following this ordeal with various types of also expensive chelation using intravenous vitamins and sometimes other substances.

Quite accidentally, a researcher named Dr. Yoshiaki Omura discovered that some patients were excreting more toxic metals after consuming a Chinese soup containing cilantro.  Cilantro is a common herb whose seed, coriander, is a familial culinary spice.  In China, cilantro is called Chinese parsley, and it is used in cooking.  It is also common in some Italian dishes.  It is a member of the carrot family and has a distinct taste that most people either love or hate.

Chelation

I have known about the dangers of heavy metal poisoning for many years.  My grandfather was a metallurgist and warned our family never to use food packaged in aluminum.  The studies supporting his knowledge started coming out some thirty or more years ago.  Chelation methods became a respected protocol of alternative medicine soon thereafter.  The Omura study is relatively more recent, but I heard about cilantro several years ago; and, fortunately, I happen to like the taste of cilantro.

I was eager to make a product that was "fresh," not just another tincture.  Obviously, people can eat cilantro, make pesto of it, juice it, and ingest it however they choose; but my experience is that most people are more compliant when the method of delivery of the herb is simple.  So, we made an extract using fresh juice from organically grown cilantro.  The result was dazzling, a gem quality luminescent green liquid that remains stable due to the alcohol.

Advice from Dentists

Years ago, I began having my dental work done by environmental dentists.  The first dentist retired from his practice on the advice of his personal physician who said that the swelling in his brain had become life threatening.  

When a patient has mercury amalgam fillings removed by a properly trained dentist, the patient is somewhat protected by a rubber dam that reduces the risk of swallowing the dental materials that are removed.  The problem is that mercury is so volatile that the vapor is absorbed by both patient and dentist, but dentists tend to suffer more than patients from this vapor.  The vapor can be so dangerous that sharing a sauna with someone with a mouth full of mercury can be toxic for everyone in the sauna.

The dentist who took over the practice from the retiring pioneer discussed a number of cases of spontaneous remissions of cancer following mercury amalgam removal.  This said, he advised me not to bother with the mercury in my mouth.  Stubborn as I am, I insisted he do one quadrant.  He said, "Ingrid, if it ain't broke, don't fix it."  What I didn't know at the time was that I personally am probably more sensitive to composite fillings than mercury.  They are estrogenic and the lidocaine is a carcinogen so I eventually realized that people with cavities are between a rock and a hard place.  This said, there are tests that help people to determine which substances are most suitable for them, but all these tests do raise the cost of dental work.

Anyway, I came to regret having the mercury removed, not that I missed the mercury but the composites have not been a dream either.  

Experimentation

In 1995, I was bitten all up and down my leg by a lady spider.  I was paralyzed by the bacterial neurotoxin and have since that time shown more of the classic symptoms of sensitivity to heavy metal poisoning.  I thus decided to try the first batch of cilantro on myself.  The results were dramatic:  my brain felt like it was "spewing."  Sorry, I can't find a better word.  On a purely physical level, I felt tingling sensations.  In my dreams, I saw spurting, like an ink jet printer.  My hair started to feel like it was coated with something awful and the smell was ghastly.

The tingling sensations lasted about five days and then subsided markedly.  However, I had some muscle cramps so decided to add trace minerals and seaweed to my regime.  I was also extremely careful to drink a lot of fluids, including my own delicious tea that I made to support lymphatic drainage.  During the first two weeks, my skin felt like it was coated with something awful.  I took baths in Epsom salts and found an oil slick on the surface of the water and residue on the tub that looked like gray sand, exactly what yet another dentist told me to expect.  He said his wife actually had little dots percolating up through her skin that looked like tiny beads.

I do not think this kind of chelation is for the faint of heart, but it is now three weeks since I started and I feel fine.  The nasty odors and residues on the hair and skin seem to be over.  

Should You Use This Product?

It is never possible nor wise to speak for another, but people who are suffering from neurological complaints, including memory issues, might consider having a hair and/or blood analysis done to determine the extent to which they might have metals in their system.  When the metals are present, they tend to interfere with synaptic responses.  They also aggravate the tendency towards free radical toxicity which, in turn, affects many other physiological functions, most especially the intestines.

If someone were to embark on a program of heavy metal chelation, they would probably also be wise to contact a health care practitioner who is experienced with the subject of heavy metal toxicity as well as removal of the substances.  If someone did want to do this on their own, it would be sensible to support the use of cilantro with formulae that aid the functioning of the liver, kidneys, and eliminatory channels as well as to anticipate some fairly extreme ion exchanges between minerals in the body so that electrolyte balance and trace mineral balance is temporarily disturbed.  I have created a list of adjunctive products that I think will support the use of cilantro and would appreciate feedback from others, especially from those who are willing to do baseline hair analysis followed by repeat testing in three and six months.

Speculation

When detoxifying the body of harmful parasites using pharmacological measures, the medicines are quite toxic due to the use of arsenic and other compounds that often also are found as contaminants in amalgams. It seems possible due to the highly preliminary feedback I have been receiving on cilantro use that when heavy metals are removed from the body, parasite populations may increase. This is a "speculation," not a "fact." However, it seems an important enough consideration that those intending to chelate metals from their body evaluate the merits of an evaluation of the presence of parasites before jumping feet first into a radical toxic metal removal program.

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