NEWS ALERT !
ASPIRIN, BY PRESCRIPTION ONLY !
by Tommy Cichanowski
Aspirin interferes with
interferon, one of the chief components of the human body's immune system.
Recent studies have
provided me with the information I needed to fulfill my desire to learn how my
mother died. The doctors said she died of cancer, but this information
indicates that it was her heavy use of aspirin that prevented her body's own
anticancer mechanism from working properly. How the cancer started in the first
place is not a critical point of concern. I have been convinced that almost
everyone develops a few cancer cells each year. The problem arises when the
body fails to recognize the newly formed cells as being "out of
place", and therefore dangerous. Normally the cancer cells would be
attacked and devoured by your white blood cells or isolated and poisoned by the
tumor mechanism. The substance interferon is an essential part of these
anticancer forces. However, aspirin has been shown to prevent interferon from
functioning properly. The result is that the cancer cells go unchecked? They
spread, and ultimately destroy a vital organ resulting in death.
Aspirin and vitamin C have
a very unusual relationship. It is curious because it reverses when cold
symptoms are present. Vitamin C has been shown to have an important role in
fighting disease and is needed to help interferon do its job. The absorption of
vitamin C by leukocytes (white blood cells) is inhibited when aspirin is taken.
After a week of daily use the vitamin C content of the cells drops to one-third
of its normal level. However, if viral cold symptoms are present, taking
vitamin C and aspirin together results in significantly higher vitamin C levels
in the cells than they have normally.
Aspirin also inhibits
blood clotting, which for some can be good and for others can be quite harmful.
Aspirin is a double edged sword, having both positive and negative potentials
and really should not be taken without supervision.
Mother was taking large
amounts of aspirin for relief from her arthritis
and the doctors prescribed even larger dosages for her pain after the cancer
was discovered. It is obvious now that aspirin played an important part in
mother's death.
An interesting question
arises; Was it the aspirin that killed mother or that which caused the
arthritis? Pin-pointing the cause of the arthritis is more difficult than
establishing the link between aspirin and interferon.
Arthritis is defined as an
inflammation of a joint. So technically a bruise could inflame a joint and be
termed arthritis. Loss of the joint's natural lubrication will allow 'the bones
to rub together and cause inflammation also. Poor nutrition inhibits new cell
production and calcium utilization and this too will cause the arthritic
condition. So far all this is common knowledge in the medical world. However,
the single most prevalent cause of arthritis may turn out to be Pasteurized milk? In particular the milk's sugar
lactose. The case involving lactose is strong, well documented and little
known.
Student nurses are
instructed to watch out for lactose induced comma which can result in death.
Put simply, for a severely intolerant person, drinking pasteurized milk can be
fatal. The key words in the last statement are pasteurized and can be. Lactose
can not be used directly by the body. It must be broken own into simple sugars
by an enzyme like Lactase or one of several bacteria such as Acidophilus. These
bacteria are usually in raw milk. They are the organisms responsible for
turning milk into yogurt and they can survive in our intestinal systems.
Pasteurizing kills the
bacteria in the milk. This keeps the milk from turning into yogurt on the
grocer's shelf. The oral antibiotics that the doctors prescribe for your infection,
not only kills the offending bacteria but also the beneficial bacteria living
in your intestine, including Acidophilus, that help you digest your food.
As the level of undigested
lactose increases in the body a series of symptoms begins to unfold, sometimes
terminating in death. There is good reason to believe that this might account
for some cases of crib death. Studies done with new-born calves have resulted
in death for those who were being raised on pasteurized milk.
One of the first common
symptoms of lactose intolerance to appear in infants is congestion. Many
mothers and doctors mistake these symptoms for a "common cold" and
the child may be given an antibiotic and/or decongestant. This treatment makes
the problem worse Diarrhea will often develop next. If the doctor realizes it
is not a "bug" causing the problem., he might be aware enough to
recognize that the child is having problems with milk. But it is the milk
protein that is most often suspect. So the doctor may recommend Soy milk next.
If the soy formula contains, lactose and if the child's system is unable to
quickly rid itself of the lactose the problems continue. (My system takes two
to three weeks, unaided by Lactase or Acidophilus, to clear itself of the
lactose in one patty of butter.) Rashes will develop, the child becomes
hyper-tense, often hyperactive and has problems sleeping. The tension makes it
hard to relax and concentrate and therefore interferes with the learning
process.
I have given a combination
of Lactase and Acidophilus to several children under nine months with
congestion and / or diarrhea and the symptoms cleared in a day or two. I have
given this combination to a five year old who would often be sent to the
hospital because of her "asthma condition" and her condition cleared
overnight.
It is the lactose induced
hypertension that concerns us here.
Tension restricts blood
flow and inhibits the body's ability to repair itself. This, plus the fact that
tension puts added pressure on one's joints is how I see arthritis developing
from lactose induced tension. The connection between milk and arthritis has
also been noted by other researchers.
It is very, difficult to
prove the relationships I have just described. Human life is very complex and
often several things can cause the same symptoms. For a number of years, a
friend of mine was admitted to the hospital a couple of times a year, with
chronic symptoms the doctors were treating as pneumonia using oxygen tents and
antibiotics. She was finally taken to an allergist. The cause of the symptoms
was an allergy to chocolate. A doctor friend of mine once said to me,
"Treating symptoms is absolute madness". He is right. Taking aspirin
only relieved mother's symptoms. The cause of the symptoms, probably her
reaction to milk, was left untreated because nobody she knew understood the
problem.
I have had some
pharmacology in college and every drug I have studied has its own particular
side effects. In mother's case, aspirin's side effect of inhibiting interferon
killed her.
There is still time to
help others. The FDA considers Lactase and Acidophilus food products, not
drugs, so you don't need a prescription to obtain them. They can be found in
many health food stores. I've never heard of anybody getting too much Lactase
or Acidophilus. The body just digests the excess as it would any other protein
and there are more Acidophilus in a carton of active culture yogurt than you
will find in a whole bottle of tablets.
Please note. Lactase And
Acidophilus will not correct the problem some people have digesting the milk
protein. We still need these cultures, however, because milk sugar is used in
many products including pharmaceuticals. We still can't drink milk or eat
cheese or yogurt, but with the cultures I can eat some butter now. Before I
knew about these cultures my encounters with butter were very painful and
disabling.
Perhaps you might like to
know. I worked on a dairy farm for seven summers and after that I worked for
the Winona Milk Co.. More recently I have worked for a very old company that
pioneered commercial production of symbiotic bacteria cultures. The Dairy
industry has known about lactose problems for many years. Too bad more of us
haven't been told the facts.
This is dedicated to my
mother's friends.
Tommy Cichanowski
Science and Math Weekly
Volume 7, Issue 7 / October 26, 1966
DID YOU KNOW ...
that aspirin overdose is a
killer of children; that the United States consumes about 20 million pounds of
aspirin each year? "Every three days a child dies from an overdose of
aspirin,"
— Dr. James L. Goddard recently told Congress. Coddard is commissioner of
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the governmental agency trying to solve
the problem of death by aspirins.
"Ma, I've got a
headache," Johnny says.
"Go take an
aspirin," Mother commands.
How many times have you
said those words, and how many times have you heard the same answer?
Aspirin has become the
password for relief of all kinds of aches and pains. Is this really true? Does
aspirin really relieve all minor aches and pains?
How much of the relief
obtained is psychological rather than physiological?
To the last question we
can answer, "Does it make any difference so long as the pain goes
away?"
Interesting to note is the
listing of one chemical index. Four helpful effects of aspirin are listed, but
there are 31 hazardous effects. Fortunately, aspirin has an adverse effect
primarily on people allergic to aspirin, who are only a small group.
An overdosage of aspirin,
however, can produce ringing in the ears, headache(??), dizziness, dimness of
vision, mental confusion, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Just what is this magic
little white tablet that can act like an angel one day, and a devil the next?
Strangely enough, an
aspirin really isn't an aspirin. Aspirin is the trademark of the original
manufacturer of the product — the firm of Bayer. The tablet was first
introduced for medicinal purposes in 1899 in Germany. In the U.S., however,
aspirin is what Mother gives you when you complain of a headache. Also, aspirin
is the trade name for acetylsalicylic acid. How aspirin got its name is interesting
reading. For a historical account of aspirin, read the November 1963 issue of
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
Aspirin is a white
crystalline compound, slightly soluble in water, with a formula of C9H8O4.
Children, however, receive a specially candy–coated, colored type that
can become the devil himself. Just about all children below five, bubble with
curiosity and like candy. A bottle of candy–coated aspirin in the hands
of a child can spell trouble. One grain of aspirin per pound of body weight is
considered a toxic dose, according to Dr. Paul Palmisano of FDA's Bureau of
Medicine. Most aspirins contain five grains per tablet.
How does aspirin work?
That is a question that has challenged scientists ever since aspirin was first
introduced as a medicine in the 1890s. A paper on the effects of salicylic acid
was recorded in 1763 (see SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article).
By using laboratory
animals, reasearchers are hoping to learn how aspirin really works. The results
of one series of tests are shown in the graph.
The three lines represent
three groups of rabbits injected with pyrogens — substances that produce
fevers.
The solid colored fine represents a group
receiving 66.7 milligrams of aspirin per kilogram of body weight; the lightly
colored line, a group receiving 22.2 milligrams per kilogram dose. The black
curve represents the control group that got no aspirin.
What can you
say about the effect of aspirin on the temperature of the rabbit groups? What
effect does the amount of dosage have on the lowering of temperature?
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