An Infection Remedy with a Scary Name
Quote of the Week
Hidden Danger of Cholesterol Lowering Drugs
A Muscle That Aches is a Muscle Problem
1.5 Million More People to Be Prescribed Useless Cholesterol Drugs

Have you ever heard of that saying that if you receive a knife wound, it’s the knife that should be treated, not your wound? I can’t remember (or easily find) the details. I think it may be one of those ancient pieces of wisdom from the east. If anyone knows of it, please let me know.

Well, today’s remedy is focussed on that concept.

And it’s a mind expander....

It’s another GREAT remedy for preventing or healing infections from wounds, but you don't hear about it in the home prescribing remedies. Maybe the name is too scary....

It’s a great remedy for any wound that won’t heal, any infections from wounds, abscesses, boils, carbuncles, blood poisoning, bites, vaccinations, herpes zoster and much more beyond your scope as a home prescriber.

The old books say it’s a great remedy for gunshot wounds and problems arising from them.

So I’m letting the cat out of the bag here...

The remedy is called Gunpowder.

As the name suggests it’s made from the old fashioned black gunpowder, which is a mixture, rather than a chemical compound, of carbon, sulphur, potassium and nitrogen, so has properties of all of them.

So, in the past when the world fought with arms that used gunpowder, many would have died from infected gunshot wounds and this would have been their ideal curative remedy.

Things that happen in families (and countries), tend to keep repeating themselves  in new generations. Have you noticed that?

For instance, a child who is abused will often grow into an abusing adult. It’s self perpetuating.

This keeps happening until it is energetically resolved. By that I mean, with a substance that will allow or promote a mental or emotional shift. Homoeopathy does this wonderfully well.

Probably everyone has some distant relatives who were badly injured or died from gunshot wounds, as the human species seems to be at war an awful lot.

Using this remedy may help to resolve those familial or national issues.

I told you it was a mind bender.....

OK, back to more mundane things.

In the old days, the powder was a great favourite of shepherds. They’d rub it into the shearing wounds their sheep sustained, and the wounds healed up easily. They’d often put it in their sandwiches to protect themselves against any infection from treating sheep with foot rot.

Oddly, there’s no mention of it curing foot rot itself. But if the symptoms fit, it will.

Despite the name, it’s not a scary remedy and really should be included in home prescribing kits. I suppose prescribers hope that you would seek professional help if a wound got this bad. And so would I, but there are always potential scenarios when you can’t get to one.

The keynotes of Gunpowder are:

• infected wounds, bites, gunshot wounds
• septic wounds
• boils, carbuncles, abscesses
• blood poisoning
• wounds that won’t heal
• herpes facialis
• food poisoning (Arsenicum album)
• worms, especially lumbrici, ascarides
• many skin ailments, shingles, ivy poisoning

Soldiers used to take a teaspoonful of the powder in hot water for gonorrhoea, presumably successfully, otherwise they wouldn’t have kept doing it.

It always tickles me to give it and I can always guarantee a reaction from the patient

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Quote of the Week

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
~ Leo Tolstoy

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Hidden Danger of Cholesterol Lowering Drugs by Shane Ellison.
As an ex-drug chemist, I witnessed how drug side-effects are hidden from patients and doctors by “big Pharma.” Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lipitor, Crestor, Pravachol, Zocor and Mevacor serve as poignant examples.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs decrease CoQ10 levels within the heart. This essential nutrient serves as an energy producing molecule and is crucial to proper cardiovascular function. Without it, the heart fails. Congestive heart failure is the outcome. This was highlighted when.....

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Health Science Institute
A Muscle That Aches is a Muscle Problem.

A muscle that aches and won't stop aching isn't a problem – it's a crisis. 

On the web site for Lipitor – the most widely used cholesterol-lowering statin drug – you'll find a page that discusses side effects. And two of them are featured as "serious side effects": muscle problems and liver problems.

The web site states: "Lipitor can cause serious muscle problems that can lead to kidney problems, including kidney failure."

Yeah, I'd say that would qualify as a "problem."

The site also states: "These side effects usually go away if your dose is lowered or Lipitor is stopped."

You've got to love that casual "usually" – like it's no big deal, really. Just stop taking the drug and everything will be okay. Usually.

But what if you stop taking the drug and everything is not okay? In fact, it's the opposite of okay. That's what an HSI member wants to know.

I recently received an e-mail from a member who said she felt as if she'd been poisoned by statin use.

Here's her story in a nutshell.

Her doctor puts her on 80 mg of Lipitor per day. After four months her liver function test shows sharply elevated enzymes, so her doctor takes her off the drug to see if the enzymes go down. Two months later, the enzyme level is mostly unchanged, but eventually the numbers begin to drop.

Meanwhile, she has developed the telltale weakness common to muscular myopathy. She even has trouble climbing steps and getting up from a kneeling position. She begins to exercise regularly, but improves her strength only slightly after several months of walking and lifting light weights.

Doing some research on her own she finds that statins deplete the body of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) – an essential nutrient for heart health. She starts taking 900 mg of CoQ10 daily, along with 1,000 mg per day of L-carnitine. Weeks later, she still hasn't seen much improvement. She asks: "When, if ever can I expect to have back the strength that I had before I started on this Lipitor?"

Anyone coping with a serious drug side effect should talk with his doctor or a health care practitioner who's familiar with his personal medical history before starting a new supplement regimen.

"Rare but serious" is how the Lipitor web site describes the muscle pain side effect. But for a rare condition, it's surprising how many HSI members have experienced this adverse reaction.

We’ve received the following e-mails by different members:

"Does the muscle pain ever go away? I have been off for about 1 week and it is a little better but still hurts."

"It took about 5 or 6 weeks for those pains to fade. Statins? Pure poison."

"I had muscle pain while taking statins. After I stopped, the pain SLOWLY went away. Also my liver enzymes got elevated from taking them."

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1.5 Million More People to Be Prescribed Useless Cholesterol Drugs
New national guidelines in England and Wales will increase the number of adults prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin drugs by an estimated 1.5 million....