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| 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 Epsom salts 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 due to swelling and pain; I began soaking my foot in an Epsom salt solution which I repeatedly freshened and warmed. I would soak my foot for an hour, 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 salts using these two excerpts because using a compress was much easier than sitting and soaking my foot and it worked very well: there was significant 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 also 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 outdoor toilet pit. I also 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 are essential, and hyperbaric chambers concentrate positive ions with the result that there could be a less than health enhancing effect. 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; about 6 or 8 weeks later I found that a lot of hair that I'd lost some ten years earlier, after taking antidepressants, had grown back. My feeling is that the Epsom salts helped by removing residual traces of the antidepressants. 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. Because magnesium (which is what Epsom salts are) is so important I made a page showing foods containing magnesium. 1/30/09 -- The man I hire to give me rides, because I haven't driven since I had the tetanus seizures, recently had a lot of pain that began with sciatica. The pain got worse as the months went by, despite major pain medications from the doctor, physical therapy, and finally shots for the control of pain. I was shocked at how different he began to look, whereas his hair had been a very dark brown, it was suddenly more and more white each time I saw him, and his face was drawn and had a greyish tinge. He said he wasn't sleeping because of the pain. Initially I thought that Methylcobalamin would be the answer and I got him to start taking 1,000mg twice a day. It made no difference to his pain level, however, and I saw that he has great moons on his fingernails. So, I told him he could stop taking it, but then a couple weeks later I realized his hair was no longer increasingly white, it was increasingly more brown. I told him what I noticed and he said he hadn't stopped using the Methylcobalamin. (I was glad he hadn't stopped using it when I lost faith in it for him.) Next I suggested that he take magnesium tablets to help relax the muscles, but his other medications for unrelated health problems made him anxious that there would be an unwanted reaction from mixing the mineral with his medications. I could see that this was a valid concern because a woman had recently written me that she had significant improvement after visiting my site and beginning to use Methylcobalamin and magnesium. She had added that her customary medications for... I forget what... precluded her taking the magnesium with them because magnesium is known to interfere with those particular medications; so, she takes the magnesium 3 hours after or before the other medications. And, the magnesium and Methylcobalamin were helping her a lot. One day after he'd taken me to buy a variety of necessities I was putting them away before he left and a bag of Epsom salts fell from its perch. I could see I'd have to entirely rearrange my shelves to make it fit more securely, so I gave it to him and told him that Epsom salts baths help a lot with pain. Two weeks later when I saw him he looked a lot better. I asked him how he was feeling and he said that the pain was not as extensive as it had been. Before it had run from below his knee up to his hip and backside. I asked him if he was taking Epsom salts baths, and he said he was. That he took a couple a week since I'd given him the bag of Epsom salts. Did the Epsom salts help? Or did the pain shots finally kick in after he'd had several of them? I don't know, and I can't say for sure. But, I do know that Epsom salts are a powerful medical aid and they have helped me repeatedly in the past. If you are experiencing pain, then it would be good for you to get Epsom salts and try a couple of soaks a week to see if they help. It can't hurt, on the other hand it could help a LOT. A word of Warning: When I was researching Epsom salts I discovered that people die every year from giving themselves Epsom salt enemas. I am putting this warning here because when I looked at the Google ads on this page a moment ago I saw that many of them spoke of the colon, and I was concerned someone might think that an Epsom salts enema was something that might be meant and might be a good idea. NOT a good idea. Do not ever use Epsom salts in an enema, to do so is often fatal. |
| A Bit of Epsom Salt Theory |
Soothe painful bruises and sprains
Alleviate pain from sports and overexertion
Take the sting out of insect bites
Draw out splinters.
Alleviate pain from sports and overexertion
Take the sting out of insect bites
Draw out splinters.
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Your fingernails reflect your health --
Learn some warning signs --
Karen Kline
Your fingernails reflect your health --
Learn some warning signs --
Karen Kline
Health Boundaries Bite
1/11/10 - Some months ago I had a lot of stress and with
it I got cold sores that did not go away when I took
vitamin C, as they had always done before. Within a few
days I noticed that the brown spots I have, sebacious
keritosis, were no longer hard and scaly on top, but were
soft as if they were growing organisms. I didn't like to
think about that, at all, especially since the evening news,
some years ago, had carried a segment reporting that
people with lots of brown spots were more likely to get
cancer.
So, I began to soak my feet in Epsom salts for about 20
minutes a day. I also had a mug of green tea a day and
was conscientious not to forget to take Milk Thistle every
day -- Milk Thistle has been shown to cut off blood
supply to tumors.
Two things happened: the brown spots went back to
having dry, scaly tops, and my toes which had felt as if
there were swollen pads beneath them that kept me from
being able to flex my toes, began to feel and move more
normally.
From having taken a class in Reflexology and studied it, I
am convinced that the bottoms of our feet reflect the
whole of the rest of our body, so that massage applied to
the bottoms of our feet helps the reflected parts of our
body; and, soaking our feet in Epsom salts removes
toxins that are affecting other parts of our bodies.
it I got cold sores that did not go away when I took
vitamin C, as they had always done before. Within a few
days I noticed that the brown spots I have, sebacious
keritosis, were no longer hard and scaly on top, but were
soft as if they were growing organisms. I didn't like to
think about that, at all, especially since the evening news,
some years ago, had carried a segment reporting that
people with lots of brown spots were more likely to get
cancer.
So, I began to soak my feet in Epsom salts for about 20
minutes a day. I also had a mug of green tea a day and
was conscientious not to forget to take Milk Thistle every
day -- Milk Thistle has been shown to cut off blood
supply to tumors.
Two things happened: the brown spots went back to
having dry, scaly tops, and my toes which had felt as if
there were swollen pads beneath them that kept me from
being able to flex my toes, began to feel and move more
normally.
From having taken a class in Reflexology and studied it, I
am convinced that the bottoms of our feet reflect the
whole of the rest of our body, so that massage applied to
the bottoms of our feet helps the reflected parts of our
body; and, soaking our feet in Epsom salts removes
toxins that are affecting other parts of our bodies.
