Epsom salt

Because of extreme muscle tightness while I had tetanus (and
a red line under my toenail) it was hard to sit soaking my foot
in Epsom salt.

I felt that soaking my foot in Epsom salts would make the red
line go away (and make me better) because several years
earlier it had done that when I'd gotten a stick from right by
the chicken coop jammed into my ankle just deeply enough
to break the skin. It didn't look serious and I completely
forgot about it till what seemed like "all of a sudden" I could
barely walk. So I began soaking my foot in an Epsom salt
solution which I repeatedly freshened and warmed. I would
soak my foot for an hour at a time, six to eight times a day. I
did that for three days, by which time it was a lot, lot better
and finally the infection and swelling went completely away.

When I was dealing with the injury on my toe that caused the
red line and tetanus, I read two Internet articles about Epsom
salt. The first, from a pain management center , said the
following:

SUGGESTIONS:

Use Epsom salt and almost hot water on a frequent basis.
The Epsom salt being "hyperosmolar" magnesium sulfate
(meaning the magnesium sulfate has an extraordinarily high
potential for the movement of molecules) saturates the
extracellular space with magnesium. This secondarily works
as a calcium channel blocker, and improves the function of
the nerves in the skin and subcutaneous tissue helping the
nerve to regrow. As a matter of fact, Epsom salt and hot
water should be the daily routine for treatment of RSD and
should totally replace the harmful damage of cold water
exposure.

The second said:

Dissolve 2 cups of 100% Natural Mineral Epsom Salt in two
cups of hot water to make a compress, apply as a wet
dressing with towel to:

I made this page about Epsom salt using these two excerpts
because since I've been using a compress, there's been a lot
of improvement.

As an aside, my problems from the minor injury to my toe
that made me so very sick was diagnosed as tetanus on
February 1, 2005.

I think the above average amount of vitamin B12 in my
system (for people my age) saved me from dying of tetanus.
Literally.

Recently I have read a lot more about vitamin C and am
beginning to think that the vitamin C I took in large quantities
played a significant role. I talk about this to some extent on
my tetanus page, Gardening-Darning-Needles-And-Tetanus.

In 2003, I learned that I'd been living in hydrogen sulfide as a
result of my condo having been built over an old privy pit.

I learned that hydrogen sulfide was the reason I had major
chest pain and wheezing.

A friend suggested I make an appointment to use a
hyperbaric chamber... so I read about them on the net.

This great article I found talked about how negative ions were
essential, and hyperbaric was the opposite.

So I read about negative ions, and it turns out that Epsom
salts creates them. (As does using a rock salt lamp.)

I started soaking in an Epsom salts bath for an hour a night
and it made a huge difference in the swelling in my ankles
and in how I felt.

I couldn't see the swelling in my chest, so I guess that when I
felt so much better, it was because the swelling was going
away a result of the Epsom salts' negative ions working in
areas I couldn't even see and that weren't directly immersed
in the bath.

It was at that time that my doctor said to have a B12 shot a
week, rather than one a month... and about 6 or 8 weeks
later I had a lot of hair that I'd lost some ten years earlier,
after taking antidepressants, grow back.

Incidentally -- in 2008 I noticed that when I soaked my feet
in a warm Epsom salts solution for several days in a row I
began to have the top surfaces of many of the "sebacious
keritosis" brown spots on my torso come off, making them
appear lighter in color.