cilantro and mercury poisoning

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Some one was asking how cilantro gets rid of mercury (How does Chlorella or

Cilantro reduce or eliminate thetoxic metals syndrome, you speak of, and by

what mechanism, and what is

your understanding of the cause of this toxic metals syndrome?)

I found this reference to an article

Y.Omura et al, Heart Disease Research Foundation, NY,NY, " Role of

mercury in resistant infections and recovery after Hg detox with

cilantro " , Acupuncture & Electro-Theraputics Research, 20(3):195-229, 1995;

& " Mercury exposure from silver fillings " , Acupunture & Electrotherapy

Res, 1996, 133-

Here's more on mercury:

Subject: Re: mercury levels in oral mucosa- much higher in humans with

amal gam than in fish references will follow

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:38:02 -0500 Bernie Windham

<BWindham@... writes:

Oral Galvanic Action of Amalgam Fillings and Other Metals: Oral Effects

Having dissimilar metals in the teeth(e.g.-amalgam, or gold and mercury)

causes galvanic action, electrical currents, and much higher mercury vapor

levels and levels in oral tissues. (1-9,30) Average mercury levels in

gum tissue near amalgam fillings are about 200 ppm, and are the result of

flow of mercury into the mucous membrane because of galvanic currents with

the mucous membrane serving as cathode and amalgam metals as anode(1-4).

Concentrations of mercury in oral mucosa for a population of patients with

6 or more amalgam fillings taken during oral surgery were 20 times the

level of controls(14). Amalgam also releases significant amounts of

silver, tin, and copper which also have toxic effects, with organic tin

compounds

formed in the body being even more neurotoxic than inorganic mercury.

Some of the oral effects include gingivitis, oral lesions, pain and

discomfort, burning mouth, " metal mouth " , chronic inflamatory response,

lichen planus, autoimmune response, oral cancer,

etc.(4,10,11,15,22,23,25,26,30-34)

Studies have shown that mercury in the gums such as from root caps for

root canaled teeth or result in chronic inflammation, in addtion to

migration to other parts of the body(10,15). Mercury, tin, and silver

from amalgam fillings can be seen in the tissues as amalgam " tatoos " ,

which have been found to accumulate in the oral mucosa as granules along

collagen bundles, blood vessels, nerve sheaths, elastic fibers, membranes,

striated muscle fibers, and acini of minor salivary glands. Dark

granules are also present intracellularly within macrophasges,

multinucleated giant

cells, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts. There is in most cases chronic

inflammatory response or macrophagic reaction the the metals(10,30),

usually in the form of a foreign body granuloma with multinucleated giant

cells of the foreign body and Langhans types.

Average mercury levels are often 1200 ppm near a gold cap on an amalgam

filling due to higher currents when gold is in contact with amalgam

(8,9,11,12,13). These levels are among the highest levels ever measured in

tissues of living organisms, exceeding the highest levels found in

chronically exposed chloralkali workers, those who died in Minamata, or

animals that died from mercury poisoning(29). The FDA/EPA Action Level

for mercury in fish or food is 1 ppm. Warnings are given at 0.5 ppm.

The component mix in amalgams has also been found to be an important

factor in mercury vapor emissions. The level of mercury and copper released

from high copper amalgam is as much as 50 times that of low copper

amalgams(16). Studies have consistently found modern high copper non

gamma-two amalgams have greater release of mercury vapor than conventional

silver amalgams (17-22). While the non gamma-two amalgams were developed

to be less corrosive and less prone to marginal fractures than

conventional silver amalgams, they have been found to be unstable in a

different mechanism when subjected to wear/polishing/ chewing/ brushing:

they form droplets of mercury on the surface of the amalgams(3,23,24).

This has been found to be a factor in the much higher release of mercury

vapor by

the modern non gamma-two amalgams. Recent studies have concluded that

because of the high mercury release levels of modern amalgams, mercury

levels higher than Government health guidelines are being transferred to the

lungs, blood, brain, CNS, kidneys, liver, etc. of large numbers of people

with

amalgam fillings and widespread neurological, immune system, and endocrine

system effects are occuring(25,26,27,28).

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