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San Dimas, CA- Healthnotes Newswire of November 1, 2001 issued a strong rebuttal to any idea that natural remedies provide protection against biological weapons such as anthrax. Alan R. Gaby, MD, endowed professor of nutrition at Bastry University in Kenmore, Washington, rebuts a report written by Bill Sardi, California-based health journalist, that has been widely circulated through the internet and on radio programs in recent days. Dr. Gaby says "the conclusions drawn from this research are unwarranted and potentially dangerous."
Confusion over antibiotic properties of garlic
Gaby says it is inappropriate to assume that herbs such as garlic would be effective against anthrax merely because it has shown activity against other ogranisms. But Sardi counters that studies in fact do confirm that components in garlic are specifically active against anthrax. Sardi reveals a laboratory study published in the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology which measured the kill zone for anthrax in millimeters for the following antibiotics: crude garlic extract 30mm, tetracycline 23mm, erythromycin 21mm, streptomycin 25mm, penicillin 26mm. "Crude garlic extract outperformed the same drugs that are now being used to treat anthax," says Sardi.
Gaby says test tube research does not always equate with human studies. For example, Gaby says garlic has been shown to be effective in test tubes against H. pylori, the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers and cancer, but has not been demonstrated in human studies. Sardi rejects this criticism and notes that the widely-used drug CIPRO was never proven to work against anthrax in any human study and was approved by the FDA on test tube studies alone. Sardi says anthrax is highly sensitive to fresh garlic which provides a significant amount of allicin, the active antibiotic agent in garlic. Sardi's article on natural remedies for anthrax recommended consumers search for products that provide allicin. "The studies Dr. Gaby cited which appear to show it does not work against H. pylori used garlic powder and garlic oil which provide little or no allicin," says Sardi. "I would not anticipate garlic powder or oil to kill many bugs of any kind," says Sardi.
Remove the iron to kill the germs
Dr. Gaby discounts the action of iron-binders such as IP6 rice bran extract against anthrax. But Gaby's rebuttal, says Sardi, admits animals did live a bit longer when exposed to botulism, which is all the public is looking for. "In case the antibiotics aren't available in time, my report accurately indicates some natural remedies may buy anthrax victims some time so they can access the antibiotic drugs."
"The human body responds to germs of any kind by reducing the absorption of iron in the gastric tract and producing proteins in the liver that bind up all the circulating iron to keep it from encouraging the growth of bacteria like anthrax. IP6 is just mimicing what the body is doing. All of the mycin antibiotics (adriamycin, streptomycin, neomycin) utilize iron binding as their method of killing bacteria," says Sardi. Thomas F. Emery writes in his book Iron and Your Health, that "the potential uses of iron binders are limitless. Infectious diseases may be virtually abolished in both plants and animals."
IP6 was not suggested as any everyday supplement since it can induce anemia in the long term. But iron withholding is a common method of controlling germs that can universally be applied to any bacterium, virus or fungi, says Sardi. "It is unfortunate that Dr. Gaby is unfamiliar with the role of iron in the control of infectious disease," says Sardi. Various reports indicate modern medicine is actively seeking a non-toxic iron chelating (removing) drug to treat diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and other germ-induced diseases. "Nature already provides a potent and non-toxic iron binder in rice bran extract, but conventional medicine refuses to recognize it," says Sardi.
Is there a natural remedy against nerve gases?
Dr. Gaby cricticizes the suggestion that huperzine, a derivative of Chinese club moss, could be effective against nerve gases. Gaby cites a recent study showing that it would take massive doses of huperzine to provide protection from nerve gases. Sardi says Gaby is correct on this count, and huperzine was injected in the studies the Army conducted, but notes that huperzine was found to be superior to physostigmine, the current drug used in army field packs against nerve gas, and that the report cited by Dr. Gaby concluded that "huperzine appears as a promising compound to protect subjects against organophosphorus intoxication (nerve gas)." Huperzine is not harmful even at doses 150 times over common consumption levels and certainly beats carrying around gas masks, says Sardi.
Dr. Gaby challenges the notion that other food supplements such as melatonin and N-acetyl cysteine could provide protection against anthrax. Sardi says the way the anthrax germ works is that it enters the macrophage immune-fighting cells and withdraws glutathione, a major antioxidant. This kills the macrophages. Sardi says any attempt to elevate glutathione levels could be beneficial, though high doses may be required.
When all the antibiotic drugs fail, then what?
"It's only a matter of time when all germs become resistant to man-made antibiotic drugs, then all of humanity will be forced to rely on these natural antibiotic agents and immune boosters," says Sardi. "Already there are germs that are resistant to vancomycin, considered the antibiotic of last resort, to be used when other germ-killing drugs fail. Consider that oil of oregano was recently tested at Georgetown University against drug-resistant forms of Staphylococcus and found to out-perform drugs like steptomycin, penicillin and vancomycin," emphasizes Sardi. "We already lose about 14,000 lives to antibiotic-resistant bacteria annually, lives which could possibly be saved by employing these natural remedies that induce no drug resistance," he says. "If the public prophylactically used allicin-rich garlic, oil of oregano and other antibiotic spices in their meals we might significantly reduce the 76 million cases of food poisoning that occur annually in the US, which results in 5000 deaths. How long is the public going to kept from this information, how many more have to die before we begin to see the folly of this all," asks Sardi.
A recent study appears to back Sardi's claims. About 20% of meat samples obtained from grocery stores contained antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Health authorities are already recommending antibiotic drug stop being used routinely in animals. "What are we going to do when they say the same thing for humans?" asks Sardi.
Nothing dangerous
Sardi says his report is warranted and suggested no remedies that would endanger public health. To the contrary, the widely promoted drug CIPRO is now reported to cause side effects in 1 in 6 users and can kill users on the first dose. Sardi says natural antibiotics like oil of oregano and allicin in garlic do not induce antibiotic resistance as do the patented antibiotic drugs. "The public is being left empty handed, and they want to know what to do to boost their immune system and to kill of unfriendly bacteria. When doctors and hospitals are not accessible, and antibiotic drugs are not available, these natural remdies provide a third-line of defense against biological toxins. My report provided the public with accurate and useful information," says Sardi. His website is www.askbillsardi.com ####
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Chris Gupta
At 09:50 PM 11/1/2001 -0500, TrevStar22@aol.com wrote:
> Saw the following story from Rense.com and another site. It really is >good news. I wish they would tell us the name of the disinfectant. If the >government ignores this a big stink should be raised.
Scientists discover anthrax cure
VIENNA: A substance that can destroy anthrax within seconds and could revolutionise the fight against bio-terrorism has been discovered in Austria, scientists said here Wednesday.
The spray acts as an anthrax "disinfectant", killing anthrax spores in envelopes, on surfaces, on the skin and even in the nose, scientist Apostolos Georgopolous of Vienna General Hospital told AFP. If it passes tests by Austrian health authorities, the spray could revolutionise the treatment of suspicious powders which have brought government offices, media centres and airports across the world to a standstill since the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11.
While anthrax scares currently mean whole buildings have to be evacuated, the new spray could decontaminate the room where a suspicious powder is found without affecting the rest of the building, according to Austrian state health office spokesman Martin Glier.
The new substance was used in Vienna General Hospital as a disinfectant for some months before doctors decided to test it to see if it killed anthrax bacteria as well last weekend, Georgopoulos explained. "We have found that in practice it is very easy to handle and that it works very well on anthrax, you just spray it on a surface or an envelope and then it's gone. You can even spray it on skin or in the nose," he said.
Austrian health authorities are running tests on the substance to see if it can be marketed to a wider audience to deal with anthrax alerts. "We are doing our best to speed up the process," Glier said.
Since the anthrax scare started with the October 5 death of a photo editor in Florida, two postal workers in Washington have died and another 12 people have been infected with the disease
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Vitamin C Against Anthrax
For those who don't know, Robert Cathcart was the inventor of the first
effective prosthetic hip replacement. For the past twenty or so years
he has practiced clinical medicine with emphasis on orthomolecular
treatment. He gave up being a "mechanic," as he once put it to me.
>>From Dr. Robert Cathcart, MD http://www.orthomed.com/
Anthrax
It seems to be impossible to get through to any government officials. As the bioterrorist crisis deepens, no one is listening. Please send messages to everyone you can think of in the Federal Government, State Governments, CDC, NIH, news media and anyone else who should be interested to look at this website, http://www.orthomed.com We undoubtedly can ameliorate anthrax and can probably cure most cases of inhalation anthrax with massive doses of ascorbate and the appropriate antibiotics. We also block most of the allergic reactions to such drugs as Cipro. So far I get no responses from anyone. How many deaths do there have to be before they will listen. If other agents such as smallpox, Ebola, Lassa fever, Marburg virus, etc. are used the morbidity and mortality would be decreased by the proper use of massive doses of ascorbate.
First I want to admit that I have never seen a case of anthrax. However, I can say with absolute certainty that massive doses of ascorbate will ameliorate the disease. The reason for this is that all infectious diseases cause most of their injury to us by way of free radicals. Sufficient doses of ascorbate will neutralize the free radicals. This is simply a matter of chemistry. Free radicals are molecules that lack an electron. Free radical scavengers act by donating electrons thereby neutralizing the free radicals. What has not been realized is that the human body is very tolerant to massive amounts of ascorbate that carry massive amounts of electrons. When you provide enough electrons, you will neutralize the free radicals generated by infectious diseases.
There are several important facts to bear in mind when thinking about ascorbate.
1. When ascorbate loses its two extra electrons to neutralize two free radicals, it becomes dehydroascorbate (DHA) which has a half-life of only a few minutes. So that if the DHA is not rereduced back to ascorbate rapidly, the ascorbate is permanently lost. If this destroys all of the ascorbate in the diseased tissues, I call this acute induced scurvy.
2. Ordinarily, the mitochondria provide the electrons to refuel or rereduce the DHA back to ascorbate but when the mitochondria are damaged in the area of inflammation not only are the mitochondria not able to refuel the ascorbate, the damaged mitochondria become to source of massive amounts of free radicals.
3. White cells require a small amount of ascorbate to eat up bacteria so that when free radicals rob the electrons from vitamin C, there is rapidly not enough ascorbate left to fuel the white cells so the body is unable to defend itself until sufficient antibodies build up.
4. Free radicals turn on antibodies but it takes several days for a significant amount of antibodies to fight the infection to be produced. However, some antibodies may be activated against antibiotics given to treat the disease and this can cause serious allergic reactions.
5. The more serious the disease is, the more free radicals are produced and therefore the more ascorbate is destroyed. This results in acute induced scurvy. Moderate doses of ascorbate may, depending upon how toxic the disease is, prevent the spread of this acute induced scurvy. This is why the moderately high doses recommended by Linus Pauling reduced the incidence of complications of the common cold. However, to neutralize all the free radicals in the primary sites of infectious diseases, it takes more massive doses of ascorbate.
6. There appears to be a threshold dose, the amount of ascorbate necessary depends upon the toxicity (the amount of free radicals) of the disease. The necessary amount of ascorbate will be that which can drive the electrons into the tissues primarily involved in the disease and neutralize all the free radicals. Doses of ascorbate less than that necessary to drive the electrons into the tissues primarily involved in the disease will not cure or ameliorate the disease.
7. I would guess that with inhalation anthrax that intravenous sodium ascorbate should be used is doses beginning with at least 180 grams per 24 hours in addition to the Cipro. If the fever is not controlled or the symptoms are not reduced, the dosage and the rate of administration should be increased until they are controlled. The doses of 180 grams per 24 hours would be administered in 3 bottles of lactated Ringer's, D5W. or 1/2NS with 60 grams of sodium ascorbate added per 8 hours. Do not be afraid of increasing the rate of administration. When I give one to two of these bottles in the office I have them run in in 2 to 3 hours each. When I mention a rate that is administered in 24 hours, I mean just that, the rate. If the fever does not abate in the first 3 or 4 hours, the rate should be increased to whatever necessary to break the fever.
For cutaneous anthrax the doses will be less because it is not so toxic as the inhalation form. In patients who have good bowel tolerance, bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid orally along with Cipro will hasten healing and prevent many problems with Cipro. When the inhalation form of the disease has remitted to the point where intravenous sodium ascorbate is no longer necessary, bowel tolerance doses should be given orally until there is complete recovery.
8. Since not everyone exposed to the anthrax bacteria finally manifests the disease, it is almost certain that maintenance doses of ascorbic acid orally taken up to bowel tolerance will decrease the incidence of the disease in those exposed.
9. In case that a patient is sick enough to be hospitalized with an infection or fever of unknown origin, intravenous sodium ascorbate should be given until the fever goes away. Even if the infection is not anthrax, elimination of the free radicals will ameliorate any disease and reduce problems caused by necessary antibiotics. if it is anthrax, smallpox, Ebola, etc., a useful treatment will have already been initiated.
10. When these massive doses of ascorbate are used, allergic reactions to antibiotics such as Cipro is markedly diminished if not eliminated because of the elimination of the free radicals that turn on these adverse reactions.
11. Some have been concerned about dehydroascorbate (DHA) being toxic. Actually, what we are concerned with is the DHA/AA redox couple. This is the problem with small doses of ascorbate. While usually when ascorbate neutralizes free radicals and becomes DHA, the DHA is less oxidizing than the free radicals it neutralizes so no harm is done. However, and this is the safety of massive doses of ascorbate (AA), if the ascorbate is administered in amounts and at a rate at which the redox couple, DHA/AA is kept reducing, then no toxicity results even with the DHA that is produced. Since the half-life of DHA is only a few minutes, maintaining a reducing redox potential is not difficult if one gives enough ascorbate. When the redox couple is kept reducing, it forces the electrons into the tissues involved in the disease and neutralizes all free radicals. This is why the studies on ascorbate where low doses of ascorbate are utilized are ridiculous. To conclude that 1 to 3 grams of ascorbate will take on even the common cold after it gets going is stupid and the people running such a study show their ignorance of what is being claimed about ascorbate and how it should be used. Unfortunately, in the past, a study with positive results for ascorbate is difficult to get published. Negative studies are easily published. One could easily design a clinical experiment on the effects of ascorbate on anthrax with inadequate doses of ascorbate and conclude that ascorbate was of no value in treating anthrax.
12. It is interesting that it is planned to scrub the air in the Senate building somehow with vitamin C filters. Since I have no access to anthrax bacteria, I have no way to tell for sure that intravenous ascorbate would directly kill the anthrax bacteria in a patient. However, I had a patient years ago whose job was to culture water in Lake Tahoe, and culture water going into and out of the sewage plant there. He took a liter of water, added 1 gram of ascorbic acid to the water, and then added a drop of the feces filled water from that going into the sewage plant. He culture that mixture every 15 minutes. In two hours, it was sterile. If one were to administer to a 70 kilogram patient, 120 grams of ascorbate in 2 hours, the concentration in the body would exceed that concentration used in that experiment. I wonder what would happen to the anthrax bacteria at that concentration. In this case, a direct killing effect on the anthrax bacteria could not be ruled out. This killing of the anthrax bacteria would be in addition to its certain neutralizing the free radicals generated by the disease.