Re: Positive Health Online | Article - Boron: Major Cause and Cure for Arthritis

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Thanks, Joyce. I will add a second one in and see how it goes. I can be very

sensitive to supplements and medications, so I always start out cautiously.

mara

> If I were you, and if no stomach issues, take 100mg two times per day....take

with food if you need to.

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> I've never had stomach issues with the G.E. all these yrs...

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> I weigh 160 or so, and take 400mg at least per day...G.E. addresses SO MUCH

more too.

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> There is a Muscadine Grape Seed (not extract) and it comes in 500mg caps and

some days I use these...The Muscadine Grape is HIGH in resveratrol. I've tried

so many and mix them up. Get my G.S.E. and Muscadine mostly from vitacost.....

jam

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> To: DimethylSulfoxide-DMSO

> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 10:54 AM

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> I'm taking 100 mg per day. I weigh about 110 pounds.

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> mara

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> > Mara, it take some time, the body tissues have to get saturated, best to up

dose for a while, don't know how much you are taking.

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> > I still blow my nose on occasion, but it's going on 17 yrs and have NEVER

taken a drug for the stuff I dealt with all my life before 1995.

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> > To: DimethylSulfoxide-DMSO

> > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 10:40 AM

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Cause and Cure for Arthritis

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> > Hi Joyce,

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> > Thanks to you I'm taking grape seed extract--going on a week now. How long

did it take to get rid of the sinus stuff completely?

> > mara

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> > > Cure is a big word, but cures can happen....I was cured of allergy/sinus

and sinus headaches with grape seed extract...so who knows....

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> > > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:24 AM

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> > > I don't know if it " cures " it, but I'm into my 3rd week coming up with

12mg daily for the 3month recommendation....I buy Natrol brand and just bought

Natures Way brand....6 mg two times per day....

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> > > If it quiets it, I'm happy....cure would be great....

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> > > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:22 PM

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> > > Does Boron / Borax actually cure arthritis ? If so, where is the best

quality, and preferably low cost, source for Boron and Borax ? Thanks. Bruce

Chesley

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http://www.positivehealth.com/article/nutrition/boron-major-cause-and-cure-for-a\

rthritis Boron: Major Cause and Cure for Arthritisby Rex E Newnham(more info)

> > > listed in nutrition, originally published in issue 92 - September 2003

> > > The ResearchForty years ago, I developed arthritis that made walking

difficult, so I went to the local doctor who gave me medicine that did not help.

So I realized that there must be a reason for my arthritis and went looking for

it. At the time, I had recently moved from a home on good clay soil to a home on

sandy soil, and I was teaching chemistry, soil science and agricultural botany

at Fremantle Technical College, Australia. The clay soil had grown good quality

fruit and vegetables, and the sandy soil gave a good crop in the first year, but

after this everything showed mineral deficiencies, as is common on many sandy

soils. So I looked into the properties of all these minerals to see if there was

anything to do with bone or joints in man or animal.

> > > Nothing relevant was found, but one of the deficient minerals was boron

and this was written off as not needed by man or animal, yet I knew that, in the

green plant, boron was needed for proper usage of calcium. Bone contains a lot

of calcium, so I wondered if boron could have anything to do with the calcium in

bone. The most common compound of boron was borax, so I looked into the

properties of borax. It had about the same toxicity as common salt or sodium

chloride – about 50 grams was a lethal dose.

> > > Borax is often labelled as 'poison', but salt is not. Nevertheless, I took

30 mg (less than one thousandth of a dangerous dose of borax) twice a day; that

is the amount that would stick to a wet finger tip. In ten days the pain was

less, in two weeks the swelling was going down and in three weeks all the pain,

swelling and stiffness had gone. So I stopped taking the borax, but a year later

it all returned, so I took some more borax and soon all the pain, swelling and

stiffness had gone again. I took more doses from time to time. Plants will not

grow unless there is some boron in the soil, so by eating fruit and vegetables

we all get some boron.

> > > I told other people who had arthritis and they were getting well, but it

meant buying a packet of borax which was labelled 'poison, for killing

cockroaches and ants'. That put people off so they asked me to have borax made

up into a tablet that was not labelled 'poison'. So I did this and had 1000

bottles of tablets made. It took me two years to sell these, then I had 2000

bottles made and these went in six months, then 5000 went in six months, then

another 5000, which went in four months, then another 5000, which went in two

months. I then did a foolish thing and went to a drug company in Melbourne to

see if they would make and sell these tablets. At first they seemed interested

and they paid for a double blind clinical trial at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Then they realized that borax could not be patented, so they lost interest, and

even made the Australian government declare that boron should be made a legal

poison. That made me a criminal and I

> > > was fined for selling a poison. I gave up teaching and studied to become a

naturopath and nutritionist. I then went to New Zealand, South Africa, Britain

and America where boron was not a legal poison. The double blind clinical trial

lasted five years and was a success – 80% of those who used boron got better and

those who used a placebo did not get better.

> > > I then travelled to places where there was more or less than the normal

amount of arthritis, and to places where there was more or less than the normal

1.5 parts per million [ppm] boron in the soil or water. This entailed nine trips

around the world. Some of the highlights of this research were seen early, as in

New Zealand there were spas where arthritic people used to go and bathe in the

water for some weeks, so as to get rid of their arthritis. One of these spas was

at Ngawha, where there was 300 ppm of boron in the water. People had left their

crutches and wheelchairs behind when they got better at Ngawha. Other spas had

30 or 50 ppm boron and people were getting better when they bathed in all of

these. At Carnarvon in Northwest Australia there was 2.5 ppm boron in the soil

and water and people used to go there to enjoy the good climate and to get rid

of their arthritis, but it was really the good food that helped, as the food

grown there had more

> > > boron than is usual. There were 67 people who had arthritis in the

population of 6000, and that is 1%, far less than usual. Inland from Carnarvon

were cattle stations where there was 7.5 ppm boron in the water and there was no

arthritis at all in man or animal.

> > > In South Africa the Xhosa people had 2% with arthritis when in their

native area of Transkei, but when the same people went to the big cities they

soon developed 20% with arthritis. These people ate corn or maize for over 90%

of their diet and, in Transkei, the corn had ten times as much boron as the

commercially grown corn used in the big cities. Jamaica was another very

interesting place; 70% of people had arthritis. I looked into the records of the

agriculture department to find that, since the mid-1800s, a great deal of

nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer had been poured on to the land to produce

sugar. The boron content of the soil had fallen from 1.5 ppm to less than 0.5

ppm and even less in some places. Other sugar producing places such as Mauritius

had similar low boron levels in soil and water; 50% of people had arthritis, and

the amount of juvenile arthritis was increasing greatly.

> > > Fiji is another sugar producing island, but it has two distinct areas and

types of people. Indians grew the sugar in the west and farmed their land with

great quantities of artificial fertilizers. They had 40% with arthritis, while

the native Fijians in the east used little or no fertilizer to grow their native

food, and had only 5% with arthritis. The sugar producing lands were worn out

and low in all the trace minerals, particularly boron, while land used for

farming for centuries, where composts and wastes were returned to the soil, had

1.5 ppm boron or more. Israel is interesting because the water under the coastal

plain had 2.5 ppm boron and this water was used for irrigation and production of

local food crops. The medical authorities showed that only 2% of people had

arthritis.

> > > In Britain and America the soils are becoming less productive because of

the continued use of artificial fertilizers containing only nitrogen and

phosphorus. These two will help to produce big crops but their quality is poor

and only truly organically produced foods have enough of the trace minerals,

including boron. Table 1 shows the relative amounts of arthritis and of boron in

soil and water in these different places.

> > > In summary, where there is plenty of boron in soil, water and food there

is little or no arthritis, but in places where there is little boron in soil,

water and food there is much arthritis. It has also been seen that boron will

harden and strengthen bone and so prevent osteoporosis. Elderly women are

particularly liable to osteoporosis, but a daily supplement of boron will

prevent it because the bones are hard and strong. One elderly woman of 87

recently fell all the way down a flight of stairs, but no bones were broken, due

to the fact that she had one or two boron tablets every day.

> > > There are other people who claim a number of causes for arthritis, such as

cold weather, too much weight, eating plants in the nightshade family and food

allergy, such as that caused by wheat, oats, eggs, chicken, coffee, tea, beef

and pork. Some people have used exclusion diets and have corrected their

arthritis by these means. It is likely that some factors in these allergy

causing foods do affect certain joints or other parts of the body. Many

different methods have been used to help these people, such as the use of zinc

supplements, copper supplements, nicotinamide, evening primrose oil and others.

All these can help some pain but none of them seems to help the great majority

of joint pains or arthritis in the same way as a boron supplement, which helps

98% of all arthritic pains.

> > > Osteoporosis is not arthritis, but it often follows on after a person has

had arthritis for some years. It is more serious than is arthritis because it

can lead to broken bones when a person falls. Yet recently there have been a

number of very old ladies who have fallen badly, such as down a flight of stairs

or on to a stone wall, but they did not suffer any fractures because they had

been using Osteo-Trace, the common boron supplement, for some years and their

bones were in good, strong condition. Because boron will help to strengthen

bones so preventing osteoporosis, then it is only logical to realize that when

bones are strong and in good condition there will be less arthritis.

> > > Further InformationA recent move has been to start the Arthritis and

Rheumatism Natural Therapy Research Association [ARNTRA], and for this a

quarterly newsletter has been written and sent out to members every three

months. Membership costs £15 a year and new members are also given the book

Arthritis Without Drugs. The secretary of ARNTRA is Professor Ken , 12

Clive Road, West Dulwich, London. SE21 8BY.

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