posted 04-08-2002 02:53 PM
I have been looking around the internet recently regarding health, and found many articles ( mainly all the same, just cut and pasted ) about people doing "liver flushes" to "clean out" their liver and gallbladder. At first it sounded intriguing (although strange), but after talking to my father ( who is an expert in the medical field ), he sat down with me and we both researched the idea ( i am in medicine also ),
and although i do believe there will be a place for some alternative medicine, i do like to see scientific evidence beforehand, and this whole "procedure" is something i urge people who are doing it, to STOP.
Im not trying to "disown" anyone, its just a good idea to let the public know about unproven treatments.
Read on, hope this helps some people out!:
Hulda Clark's Liver Flush
"It was about the size of a golf ball!!! I was teasing
her that her liver wasn't even as big as these
HUGE things coming out of her!" [2]
No this isn't an exerpt from the film
"Aliens",
this is an actual testemonial to another procedure
practiced by Hulda Regehr Clark, the "Liver Flush".
According to Clark: "For many persons,
including
children, the biliary tubing is choked with
gallstones. Some develop allergies or hives but some
have no symptoms. No stomach infection such as ulcers
or intestinal bloating can be cured
permanently without removing these gallstones from the
liver." [1]
The procedure goes as follows:
The patient must first do a regular "zapping"
the
week before doing the cleanse, using Hulda Clark's
patented "Zapper" to rid the body of parasites which,
according to Clark, can stop your urinary tract, and
kidney from working properly during the cleanse.
A mixture of epsom salts and water is taken at
6pm,
and 8pm intervals. At 10pm, the patient must consume
1/2 cup of olive oil, and 2/3 cup of grapefruit juice,
then immediately lie down, and if the patient is
having problems sleeping, then they must also take 4
capsules of the amino acid L-Ornithine to help with
insomnia.
Upon waking, the patient must take another
dose of
epsom salts with water, and then retired back to bed.
Two hours later, they must consume the last dose of
the epsom salt mixture and this finishes the
procedure.
After taking all of this in, the patient will
now
make numerous trips to the washroom to expel the
waste.
The procedure must be repeated once a week until 2000
stones are counted in total from the first bowel
movement, to the last.
In truth, real gallstones are faceted
polyhedra in
shape (multiple faced polygons), almost like a rough
stone, or else shaped like mulberries. What you'll get
from the recipe are perfect gelatanoid
spheres.
One of my correspondents describes a friend
who saved the spheres and displayed them to his
friends,
quoted as finding as many as 3000 stones in a sitting.
Real gallstones would also cause alot of pain
when
passed through the cystic and common bile ducts.
If the patient were to pass up to 3000 stones, they
would be in chronic pain for some time.
Gallstones also sink in water. (As an autopsy
pathologist, I'm very familiar with this.) The
"gallstones" you'll produce from this recipe will
float, as Hulda Regehr Clark points out "..gallstones
float because of the cholesterol inside."[1]
If you know a little basic chemistry, you'll
realize
what is happening. The Epsom salts are magnesium
sulfate, and the grapefruit contains some complex
carbohydrates. When these slosh around in the stomch
and small intestine, they'll form a tough film which
will encase drops of olive oil. This will produce some
yellowish balls which will infact float in the toilet,
though these are not gallstones.
Some of the patients goe as far to
even claim that
along with the "stones", parasites are also being
removed, as one patient is quoted as saying:
"...but the weirdest of it is something that looks
somewhat like a large white lima bean, sort of smooth
on one side and the other side....well, it looks
almost like it was once, ALIVE." [2]
The quote at the beginning of this report is
from a
mother who suspected her 10 year old daughter of
having a gallstone problem, and used the liver flush
on
her, and was "disappointed that my daughter was
vomiting the mixture."[2]
As well, patients are told that there is no
need for
gallbladder removal because instead you can use this
cleanse to rid the body of all stones which will cause
your gallbladder and liver to function properly.
This is a sad case, as users of the yahoo
bulletin
board promoting these cleanses are cancelling their
appointments with surgeons to opt for the cleanse
instead.
Science aside, Hulda Regehr Clark, the author
of the
books "The Cure for all Cancers" and "The Cure For
HIV/AIDS" promotes this.
Since she claims to have both a doctorate in
naturopathy and a Ph.D. in
something (the latter implying having done substantial
original lab
research), one would think she would have made an
experiment with a real gallstone and discovered that
it sinks. She calls gallstones "such small stones"
though they're obviously 7-10 mm across. She thinks
the stones she displayed formed in the liver and
"rolled" into the gallbladder which is false. She says
gallstones "can be of any color" which is a hoot. She
also claims that the major cause of gallstones is
wearing shoes.
If you want to believe Hulda Clark or the
other
countless naturopath's who are recommending this, that
is your business. If you try the purge, please chew
your grapefruit up thoroughly.
Otherwise, you're asking for a gastic bezoar and a
trip to the endoscopist to remove the obstruction.
Or you could just stop wearing shoes.
References :
1. "The Cure for all Diseases": Copyright 1995 by
Hulda Regehr Clark, Ph.D., N.D. All rights reserved.
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