Since Roman times cilantro has been used as food and medicine.  A recent study by Dr. Yoshiaki Omura from the Heart Disease Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA (Acupuncture Electrotherapy Res. 96; 21 (2) 133-60 and Acupunct Eletrother Res. 1995 Aug-Dec. 20 (3-4) : 195-229 has discovered that the herb cilantro will detoxify mercury from neural tissue*., is used to help stimulate the appetite and relieves minor digestive irritation.  This is a remarkable discovery. It is a novel technique, which greatly increased our ability to clear up recurring infections, both viral and bacterial. Bioactive Cilantro blend is an inexpensive, easy way to remove (or chelate) toxic metals from the nervous  system and body tissues. Cilantro blend contains yellow dock to help drain the mercury from the connective tissues. It is an excellent blood cleanser, tonic, and builder, working through increasing the ability of the liver and related organs to strain and purify the blood and lymph system. Achieves it’s tonic properties  through the astringent purification of the blood supply to the glands and acts as a cleansing herb for the lymphatic system.

Do dental amalgam fillings contain toxic material?

Silver fillings are made up of five different metals, amalgamated together to form a solid mass which hardens in the mouth. The main ingredient in amalgam is mercury, which accounts for about 50 percent of the completed filling. The other ingredients are silver, copper, tin, zinc and occasionally nickel. Mercury vapors are released in the mouth in low level concentrations when fillings are subjected to the pressure and abrasion of chewing.

Actually, all of the elements comprising dental amalgam are toxic metals, but mercury is by far the most toxic. Sharma & Obersteiner established that mercury is more toxic than lead, cadmium, and even arsenic. Mercury has a very high absorption rate and is capable of entering the human body very rapidly and completely. Mercury vapor is fat soluble and neutral electrically. It has the ability to easily penetrate cell membranes and pass rapidly into the body from the blood into the body cells.

Systemic Effects:

Cilantro’s postulated mechanism of action is to act as a reducing agent changing the charge on the intracellular mercury to a neutral state allowing mercury to diffuse down it’s concentration gradient into connective tissue. This is called connective tissue mercury toxicity. The next step is to remove the mercury from the connective tissue. Mercury is preferentially attracted to the cell wall of the unicellular organism chorella. It can also be bound to sulfhydryl groups in garlic or to sulfur in the form of MSM. To get the mercury out, a cleansing of the liver, intestines, kidneys and lymph should be done. The clinical goal is to convert mercury into a state enabling it to be removed from the cells and be eliminated from the brain, connective tissues, lymph system, liver, gastrointestinal tract, and kidneys.

Good News For Amalgam Sufferers:

Chelation therapy using chemicals like EDTA has long been used to help remove these heavy metals, but cilantro is a natural substance that is good news for people suffering from the ill effects of amalgam dental fillings.

Dr. Omura recently performed another study in which three amalgams were removed from an individual using all of the precautions available to prevent absorption of the mercury from the amalgam. Even with strong air and water suctioning, water rinses, and a rubber dental dam, significant amounts of mercury were later found in the individual’s lungs, kidneys, endocrine organs, liver and heart. No mercury was detected in these tissues prior to the date of removal.

The active components in cilantro are fragile, and processing by heat will destroy the chelating agents. It is therefore recommended that it be taken in a liquid botanical preparation or raw, to get the most out of this remarkable herb.

Indications and Usage:

Metal toxicity , mercury amalgam toxicity, immune disorders, premature aging, cardiovascular disease, allergies, Alzheimer’s, gastrointestinal disorders, psychological disorders, asthma, cancer, chronic fatigue, endocrine disorders and gingivitis.

*The food and drug administration have not evaluated this statement. It is not our intension to prescribe or make any specific health claims for this product. Any attempt to diagnose and treat illness should come under the direction of a health care practitioner.

REFERENCE:

Alternatives, Dr. David G. Williams, Vol.7, No.12, June, 1998, p91-92.

Sharma, R.P. & Obersteiner, E.J. Metals and Neurotoxic Effects: Cytotoxicity of Selected Metallic Compounds of Chick Ganglia Cultures. J Comp Path 91:235-44 1981.

Haltiwanger, Steven MD “Clinical Use of Mineral Transporters and their Effects on Cell Membrane Capacitance”, Lecture, Second International Congress of BioEnergetic Medicine, Institure of Quantum and Molecular Medicine, Daniel g. Clark, President, February 20-22, 1998.

Magos, L. Mercury-Blood Interaction and Mercury Uptake by the Brain After Vapor Exposure. Environ. Res 1:323-37,1967.

Clarkson, T.W.; Friberg, L; Hursh, J.; Nylander, M. The Prediction of Intake of Mercury Vapor from Amalgams in Biological Monitoring of Toxic Metals. Eds: Clarkson, Fribert, Nordberg, Sager, Plenium Press, New York, February, 1988.

Bioprobe Newsletter 6(5) September 1990.