NEW APPROACH TO IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS)PRESS RELEASE LONDON SEPTEMBER 2008 THE MODERN MANAGEMENT OF IBS INCLUDES TREATING DENTAL MERCURY TOXICITY, ALKALISING THE INNER BILOGICAL TERRAIN, TREATING INTESTINAL PARASITES, AND CORRECTING DYSBIOSIS (UNHEALTHY INTESTINAL MICRO ORGANISMS). EACH PATIENT NEEDS INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT. THIS NEW HOLISTIC APPROACH HAS BEEN PIONEERED AT THE LONDON CLINIC FOR ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE . THE WEBSITE OF THIS CLINIC IS www.vegatest.info. WITH VEGATESTING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SELECTION IS THROUGH COMPUTERISED ELECTRONICS, ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR CUMBERSOME BLOOD TESTS AND ENDOSCOPIES. THE RATIONALE OF THIS NEW APPROACH IS SUMMARISED BELOW. Irritable bowel syndrome (I.B.S.) is the most common digestive disorder. It may be associated with headaches and migraine, joint pain, eczema and other skin problems, nausea, abdominal pain, bloating, and irregular bowel motions. Conventional medical treatment targets symptoms, and is likely to be a combination of antispasmodics and bulk laxatives. The most important treatable causes of IBS are mercury poisoning from dental amalgam fillings, dysbiosis (unhealthy intestinal micro-organisms such as salmonella paratyphi, candida albicans and Giardia lamblia. To understand the holistic management of IBS, it helps to compare the bowel to a vegetable patch. A healthy organic vegetable patch will have just the right acid/alkali balance, good soil bacteria, and the right soil nutrients. On such an ideal terrain, plants flourish. On the other hand, a soil that is too acidic depleted of nutrients and organic matter will not support healthy plants over run with pests. One approach to the problem might be to spray pesticide: while the alternative approach would be to improve the soil terrain by adding limes to alkalise it and selected nutrients and organic matter. With medicine, this is equivalent to treating an unhealthy internal biological terrain with alkalising vegetable supplements, selected minerals and vitamins and with selected probiotics. In medicine, simply prescribing antibiotics is equivalent to simply spraying an unhealthy vegetable patch with insecticide. For well over a century, there have been two opposing medical theories about the causes of infection, each put forward by eminent nineteenth century French biologists. Louis Pasteur’s school of thought favoured antibiotics, while Claude Barnard’s favoured improving the biological terrain. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) instigated the view that micro organisms came from external sources, and proposed the ‘germ’ theory of infection: germs can only be picked up as a result of airborne contamination or through direct body contact. He considered that germs cannot form spontaneously. His theories were supported by a German physician, Robert Koch (1843-1910), who, as a result of treating infected wounded soldiers, concluded in his well known Koch’s postulates, that germs can be identified microscopically, isolated in laboratory cultures and then transmitted from one host to another. At about the same time, Claude Barnard (1813-78), a French researcher and bacteriologist took a different view. Barnard proposed the milieu intérieur (‘inner biological environment’) theory of infection. In this theory, micro-organisms only become pathogenic when the body’s inner environment is unhealthy – in practice this usually means too acidic. It is now evident that both schools of thought are partially right. For example, low grade chronic infections as frequently underlie irritable bowel syndrome, respond to improvement of the biological terrain; while acute infections, on the other hand, respond to antibiotic therapy. The wise physician, however, would also treat the biological terrain even when dealing with an acute infection. In today’s world, mercury poisoning from dental amalgam fillings, electro magnetic, agricultural, industrial and petro-chemical pollution, together with unhealthy eating habits are liable to undermine our biological terrains and weaken our immune systems, paving the way for the establishment of chronic infectious disease. Shortly before he died in 1895, Pasteur conceded to Barnard, saying ‘the terrain is everything: the organism is nothing.’ (La bactérie n’est rien. C’est le terrain qui fait tout). Sometimes individuals appear to contract infectious disease without exposure to an obvious source of infection. The puzzle of how apparently ‘spontaneous’ infection arises was first addressed by a contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908). Bechamp studied sterile living red blood corpuscles under a powerful microscope over a period of time, and observed newly formed viruses and bacteria develop from dot-like particles of matter, which he called ‘microzymas’. His on-going research showed that these microzymas, (which were subsequently considered to be ethereal morphogenic information fields), could spontaneously develop into viruses and/or bacteria. He found that the acidity or alkalinity of the inner terrain of the culture medium could influence the type of micro-organism that developed. He noted that a relatively acidic biological terrain favoured the emergence of pathogenic micro flora. Bechamp’s pleomorphic discovery of spontaneous development of infection was incompatible with Pasteur’s and Koch’s monomorphic theory. Bechamp’s findings supported the view that rational medicine should concentrate on the inner terrain rather than on researching antibiotics. An acidic biological terrain, not only predisposes to chronic infection, but it also causes release of calcium from bone, and magnesium from muscle. This is the body’s way of trying to correct the acidity. The result is osteoporosis and muscle fatigue. Recommended alkalising foods include fruit and vegetables, especially beans, kale, spinach and broccoli. Acid promoting foods to be avoided include white bread, coffee, alcohol, meat, sugar, and sugary drinks, especially cola, which contains phosphoric acid. Therapeutically, it is possible to prescribe supplements of concentrated vegetable extracts such as barley grass. Reference. The pH Miracle by Robert and Shelley Young. Warner Paperbacks 2003. ISBN:978-0-7515-3406-1 THE CAUSES OF IBSPredisposing factors include the following. - An acidic biological terrain, from eating too much acid forming food that favours the growth of intestinal pathogens.
- Insufficient healthy intestinal micro flora.
- Intestinal pathogens such as bacteria (e.g. salmonella), fungi (e.g. candida) and parasites (e.g.giardia lamblia, entamoeba hystolytica).
- Psychological stress. This is liable to impair pancreatic function (Earth element in TCM) and lead to digestive enzyme insufficiency.
- Digestive enzyme deficiency results in incomplete digestion, with consequent acidic putrefaction of the partially digested food. This favours the growth of pathogenic micro flora.
- Hypochlorhydria, (insufficient gastric hydrochloric acid) allows pathogens to pass through the stomach into the small intestine. In particular, Giardiasis affecting the jejunum and ileum is known to be associated with gastric hypochlorhydria.
- Toxic dental mercury vapour from dental amalgam fillings poisons healthy intestinal micro-flora and predisposes to the growth of pathogenic ones.
- Prescription drugs especially antibiotics and hormone supplements are at risk of encouraging dysbiosis.
- Interference fields (electro-magnetic and geopathic radiation) provide a terrain that is favourable to pathogens.
10. Urban, industrial and agricultural pollution weaken the immune system and favour dysbiosis.11. Aluminium poisoning from aluminium cooking utensils, and lead poisoning from lead water pipes are also occasionally implicated in IBS. From the above, it is evident that no pharmaceutical organisation will ever find a ‘magic bullet’ for IBS that can be shown to be effective in a double blind clinical trial DYSBIOSIS AND LEAKY GUT SYNDROMEDysbiosis is a syndrome in which pathogenic micro-flora cause inflammation of the intestinal mucosal endothelium. This allows antigenic particles of food to leak through the gut wall and possibly to enter the blood stream and be conveyed to other parts of the body. Wherever these antigenic particles end up, they are liable to attract antibodies with consequent histamine release and an inflammatory response. An inflammatory response in the intestinal wall causes colic, in the head - headaches, in the paranasal sinuses - sinusitis; in the joints - joint pain and inflammation, and in the skin - dermatitis. I.B.S. sufferers can experience any or even all of these symptoms. Leaky gut syndrome also impairs the function of lymph glands that are embedded in the intestinal wall, weakening the immune system and leading to a general deterioration in health. The result of such a generally impaired immune system is liable to be a tendency to so called chronic fatigue syndrome. In individual patients certain foods are liable to consistently provoke symptoms (food intolerance). Since a healthy balance of bacteria in the intestine is needed for absorption of essential nutrients, it is often advisable, when treating dysbiosis, to include nutritional supplementation. TREATMENT OF DYSBIOSISThe treatment of dysbiosis encompasses the following. - Identifying and treating the underlying cause (especially mercury toxicity and an over acidic biological terrain).
- Identifying and treating implicated pathogens (with selected herbs rather than with conventional antibiotics).
- Supplementing with selected probiotics and essential nutrients.
- Identifying and excluding poorly tolerated foods.
- Supporting the immune system.
- Treating stressed organs (e.g. liver, pancreas, adrenal cortex etc.)
INTESTINAL PARASITES AND IBS Giardia lamblia and amoeba (entamoeba hystolytica) are worldwide intestinal parasites, both of which are quite common in Britain. In my own experience, they are the most commonly implicated pathogens in the aetiology of IBS. People with mercury amalgam fillings seem to be particularly susceptible to infection with such intestinal parasites. Intestinal parasites are liable to be picked up in places with poor sanitation. The orthodox diagnosis of intestinal parasites depends on finding positive stools cultures, which is not very reliable because of the high incidence of false negatives associated with the extreme volatility of the parasite ‘cysts’ (trophozoites) during their life cycle. The biological approach to intestinal parasites involves making a diagnosis (e.g. electro acupuncture or kinesiology) that is independent of positive stools cultures, and on using a holistic multi disciplinary approach to treatment. A particular difficulty with intestinal parasites is that in their cystic stages, they tend resist herbal anti-parasitic treatments. The availability of systemic enzyme therapy has helped to overcome this difficulty. Systemic enzyme therapy is a safe treatment consisting of natural biological enzymes that digests the protective parasite cysts so that they become exposed to treatment. Because systemic enzymes are not synthetic and patentable, they do not have a product licence and therefore not promoted to mainstream doctors. TO SUMMARISE, the treatment of IBS involves treating chronic dental mercury poisoning, going on an alkalising diet and/or taking alkalising supplements, taking selected probiotics, having herbal treatment for intestinal parasites in combination with systemic enzyme therapy to dissolve the parasite cysts, that otherwise would resist treatment. Therapy should be selected on an individual basis.
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