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B12 Deficiency and Difficulty Healing Bronchitis Pneumonia Cure Attempt

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The saga of W’s illness continues. She is making little progress in her health. She still needs bed rest. Last Monday’s Beam Ray session with Romy Macapagal concluded with no parasites, bacteria or viruses in her. So whatever ails her must be malnutrition related. Yesterday Wednesday she finally got an appointment with her Anthroposophic doctor Divina Hey-Gonzales. She had transferred clinics and was not available for the past week or so.

Dr. Divina immediately commented that W looked yellowish – anemic. Found from questioning that she still bled spots of blood already 2 weeks from her first menstruation day. She then heard the history of W’s illness as I related in my previous blogs. What seems to relieve her. She noticed that blood pressure was very low… 80 over 50. That her right lung was all terribly inflamed bronchial tubes and alveoli. That she had a “normal” cooked meat fruit + organic rice every other day diet. That she had lost 5 pounds in this illness from 100 to 95 pounds at 5’2″.

Diagnosis? Bronchitis progressing to pneumonia caused by B12 deficiency. I had known W since she was 18 and she had bouts of problems with anemia since that age. W turns 38 next month.

Dr. Divina prescribed a cocktail of anthroposophic medicines to treat W’s condition. Strange sounding Weleda brand names such as Pneumodoron 1 and 2, Mercurious Vivus, Pertudoron 2, Noutronit / Pulmo / Stibuin / Prunus, Echinacea, Anaemodoron, Digestodoron. You could probably look this all up in the Weleda website. Plus W was immediately given a B12 shot called a MethylCobalamin Injection.

Dr. Divina is currently in a Pesco-vegetarian kick and she recommends vegetables, but we need to wait for the organic market on Saturday to get true organic produce. W does not like any non-organic vegetables and thinks pesticide laden veggies may make her health worse. We do get good grass fed beef and wild ocean fish, but that does not meet her B12 deficiency. And now I know why.

I Googled a little and found the real reason for her B12 deficiency was W’s strict avoidance of all B12 rich foods! Insane huh? She’s been avoiding these B12 rich foods all her life and thus the result with B12 deficiency. She avoids clams, oysters and liver — but just eat a measly few ounces of each item overshoots the RDA for B12 hundreds of percent each time!

So this Thursday morning I immediately set out for Farmers Market in Cubao to buy some nutritious B12 foods. I got fresh young beef liver… just lucky I guess… tasted it at the stall, the senior lady butcher said raw liver was good for anemic people… I did not solicit that comment. Then I got some live halaan clams from the waters of Cebu. Then I got some live oysters from Bulacan. I also got some fresh raw bone marrow in a “barbell” bone… yummy, never refrigerated and they had a mechanical saw the cleanly cut it up. Also got some sea weed for vegetable nutrition. Though later we are scheduled for coconut milk with banana heart and okra cooked together for her vegetables.

At home I immediately opened the biggest live clam and coaxed her to eat it, which she did. Score one goal! Nutritiondata.com says Vitamin B12 13.8 mcg or 231% of RDA for just 1 ounce. I had the maid cut the raw beef liver in cubes and put some calamansi and ground pepper just like I do with the children. Long day still. I have to go to work. Will blog more later. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures.

Related posts regarding W’s illness:

http://www.myhealthblog.org/2010/08/09/green-phlegm-bronchial-infection-asthma-mold-problem-cured/

http://www.myhealthblog.org/2010/08/06/emergency-lung-pain-green-mucus-bronchitis-pyroenergen-to-the-rescue/

http://www.myhealthblog.org/2010/08/04/wife-has-been-in-a-flu-funk-for-a-week/

My 7 year old boy is diagnosed with Primary complex, bronchitis, and tooth decay

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My wife thinks our 7 year old boy has had a cold and a cough for 3 months.  2 days ago she went to Dr. Divina Hey-Gonzales the anthroposophic doctor to have our boy checked.  Dr. Hey’s diagnosis is primary complex, bronchitis, and tooth decay.  Now my wife wants a witch hunt for possible tuberculosis carriers in our staff.  I noted that our in laws’ driver Benny is well known to have tuberculosis.  And that my analysis is that driver Benny has one missing kidney.  So his lungs are being tasked to do what a missing kidney cannot.

Back to our son, Dr. Hey prescribed her anthroposophic solution.

For primary complex: to be taken for 6 to 12 months

Ferrum Rosatum / Graphites – 10 drops – 4 times a day

Phosphorus D12 – 10 drops – 2x a day AM only

Archangelica Ointment – apply on the neck and massage downward for lymph flow – 2 times a day

For cough:

Pertudoron 1 – 10 drops – 4x per day

Pertudoron 2 – 10 drops – 4x per day

Vitamin C:

Acerola – 1 tablet – 3x per day

Other strategies fall on my lap, finally, I get a free hand.  So I’m putting my boy on a more paleolithic schedule and more alkaline diet.  First adjustment is for him to only eat 1 animal meal per day at lunch, just 1 animal food purely whether raw or cooked, but preferrably raw.  Breakfast is fruit and fatty fruit, and if hungry raw or soft boiled fertilized eggs, eat until stuffed.  For lunch 1 animal meal say for example yesterday was seared fatty sirloin beef steak and today he ate 4 cups of goto – beef innards with liver with little rice in a soup – dinner are just some light fruits or cucumbers.  I figure, this eating schedule, will result in better sleep, and the first night’s experiment is he did sleep better, he said no bad dreams and he was hungry in the morning.  This is a good sign.

This Sunday my boy chose to stay home with me so he says I could attend to him personally.

Lately he plays the recorder, a wind instrument being taught at school.  See and hear Cush play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  He’s learning to speak some English.

My solution for tooth decay is already on the way. I had ordered the book Healing Our Children by Rami Nagel and it will arrive soon. It’s not for me, it’s for my wife to agree to the changes I need to implement in our diet. It’s time I killed this rice based diet lunacy. No amount of brushing or flossing will beat tooth decay as long as you stay in a rice based diet. I cured my rice addiction last year, it’s time the kids did the same while it is still early.

What is wrong with a rice based diet?

Rice is an original junk food, white rice is just empty carbohydrates.
Rice displaces more nutritious items like fruits, vegs and animal food.
The combination rice plus animal food is hard to digest and is highly acid forming.
Eliminating rice, we can switch to a high fat diet which allows to absorption of more vitamins and minerals.