...sign of our times...
Upon being handed a journal as a gift, a nine year-old asks his mom what it was. The mom says that it was a notebook to record his thoughts and feelings, every day. The kid replies, "You mean, it is a blog...on paper." Reader's Digest, Oct 2008 issueBoron link to Arthritis?
Boron: Cause and Cure (this link no longer works) but the abstract below offers a potential solution to arthritis
by Rex E Newnham
listed in Nutrition, originally published in issue 92 – September 2003
This is an abstract of the full article that appeared in issue 92 of Positive Health magazine. You can read it in full by clicking more.
Forty years ago, Dr Rex Newnham developed arthritis and orthodox medicine did not help. His analysis of the differences between the fertility of clay soil and sandy soil (sandy soil showed mineral deficiencies) led him to look at the connection between mineral deficiencies and arthritis. One of the minerals deficient in the soil was boron, which is needed in the green plant for proper usage of calcium.
He began to take tiny quantities of borax, a compound of boron that is often labelled as a poison. In ten days, the pain lessened and in three weeks the swelling and stiffness had disappeared. Dr Newnham had borax made up into a tablet. He approached a drug company in Melbourne to see if they would produce and sell the tablets, but they realized that borax could not be patented and forced the Australian government to declared it a legal poison. Dr Newnham was fined for selling poison, but he eventually went to other countries and proved an 80% success rate in his treatment.
He went on to carry out research around the world that proved the link between higher levels of boron and lower incidences of arthritis. This was due to the natural occurrence of boron in water and soil and, therefore, food. In Britain and America, soil is becoming less productive because of the use of fertilizers – only truly organically produced foods have enough of the trace minerals, including boron. Boron can also prevent osteoporosis, which often follows on after a person has had arthritis for some years.
Many different methods are used to help people with arthritis, but none has the same success rate as boron, which, according to the author, helps with 98% of arthritic pains.