Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Prevention: Avoidance of mercury contamination is foremost in preventing mercury toxicity. Staying clear of mercury fungicides and avoiding fungicide-treated foods or eating only organically grown grains and produce may be helpful. Many health-oriented dentists now avoid mercury-containing amalgam to prevent further mercury exposure. Silver-mercury fillings during pregnancy, I believe, should be avoided.
Pectin and algin can decrease absorption of mercury, especially inorganic mercury. Selenium binds both inorganic and methyl mercury; mercury selenide is formed and excreted in fecal matter. | | The American Dental Association, however, still claims that there is no proven mercury toxicity due to dental amalgams.
Medicines. Organic mercurial diuretics have been the most common, though these are less used these days. Mercury-containing cathartics, anthelminetics, and teething powders were also employed in the past. Broken thermometers can increase mercury exposure, and mecurochrome also contains mercury.
Coal burning. This releases mercury into the atmosphere.
Fish. Fish may contain varying amounts of mercury. | | Symptoms of toxicity: There are many processes and symptoms of mercury toxicity. Poisoning can come from four categories of mercury: metallic or elemental mercury, which is relatively mild; inorganic mercury, such as mercury chlorides, which primarily affect the kidneys; organo-mercurials, such as mercury salts in diuretics or fungicides, which convert to inorganic mercury; and short chain alkyl mercury compounds, of which methyl mercury is the most toxic, more so than ethyl or diethyl mercury.
Acute symptoms are caused mainly by mercuric chloride or methyl mercury exposure. | | Farmers using mercury products should be very careful with them and should be aware of mercury toxicity symptoms or have mercury levels checked every couple of years.
Treatment of toxicity: Drinking milk helps reduce the acute effects of mercury, as the mercury will act on the protein in the milk instead of on the stomach and intestinal lining. This may prevent the acute symptoms of gastrointestinal tissue irritation, such as vomiting and bleeding.
Penicillamine is a chelating drug that can pull mercury out of the circulation. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | The detection of precoproporphyrin is specifically diagnostic for mercury toxicity (see Woods et al5).
CONCLUSION
Use of porphyrin tests as biomarkers of chemical toxicity is reasonable in combination with other laboratory tests (e.g. hair analysis in cases of suspected metal toxicity). The clinician should realize that there are many conditions unrelated to primary or toxicant-induced porphyria that can cause porphyrinuria. | | The cause is the cure" is exemplified by the use of homeopathic mercury to treat iatrogenic mercury toxicity during the last century. Conventional physicians of that era were using mercury as a cure-all. It was the wonder drug of its time: a laxative, a diuretic, and an antisyphilitic. As with many wonder drugs, its toxicity caught up with it. In fact, the word "quack" comes from the German word for mercury, quecksilber, or our quicksilver, used as a pejorative term to describe those turn of the century conventional physicians who prescribed mercury so indiscriminately. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The FDA has also banned the importation of Mexican Spirulina, allegedly because of mercury toxicity. Since mercury-contaminated spirulina is still being smuggled into the US, one must carefully investigate the source. The Microalgae International Sales Corp (Light Force Co.) makes Spirulina from Israel and Palm
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Springs, CA, both of which it claims are certified free of mercury.
Canthaxanthin is available in ten percent spray-dried beadlets from Wholesale Nutrition, PO Box 3345, Saratoga, CA 95070-1345. Phone: 800-325-2664. The price for 100 grams is $19. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  There are documented cases of mercury toxicity in dental workers due to inhalation of mercury vapor produced during the insertion or replacement of amalgam fillings. The link between mercury exposure and symptoms is more complex. Strong anecdotal information and clinical observations of physicians exist to support a definite link between amalgam fillings and pathological processes. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  Much of the material about mercury toxicity from dental amalgams was found in Gary Null's Living Natural.
The data about essential oils came from BioTech News and the December 2001 issue of the Townsend Letters for Doctors and Patients.
I must also thank Dr. Jack Dawkins, Doug Del Tondo, and Colin Benner have reviewed this book and contributed worthwhile suggestions.
Lastly and most important this book never would have become a reality without the encouragement that my friend Clinton Cruickshank gave me to pursue my dreams about the importance of natural health care. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | For information on dentists and physicians with specialized training and data concerning the laboratory evaluation and treatment for mercury toxicity, contact the Foundation for Toxic Free Dentistry, the Toxic Element Research Foundation and Compat Labs, Inc., the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. (See "Organizations," page 284, and "Medical Laboratories Performing Environmental Testing," page 285).
Mercury in Housepaint
Mercury used to be a common ingredient in many brands of latex house paint. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  The most common symptoms of mercury toxicity are fatigue, depression, inability to concentrate, memory deficit, gastrointestinal tract problems, kidney problems, and frequent infections.
Further symptoms include brittle nails, lack of energy, sensitivity to cold and heat, dry skin, dry hair, irritability, and mood swings. The neurological symptoms include nervousness, headaches, and hypothyroidism. Everyone who has the fillings is bound to have some problems with the thyroid since mercury interferes with its operation and with the absorption of the thyroid hormone into the body. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This kind of mercury toxicity is a real problem, and I see it in my practice quite often. Though not everyone with mercury in the mouth should have it yanked out, there are many patients who, even after medical and nutritional work, simply don't get well. They suffer a variety of bewildering symptoms that are typically related to mercury poisoning, ranging from depression, tiredness, and irritability to bleeding gums, swollen neck glands, burning sensations, diarrhea, irregular heartbeat, headaches, and muscle tremors. Mercury has been shown to depress the immune system. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is important to rule out lead, cadmium, and mercury toxicity when treating hypertension.
^£ See Chelation Therapy, Heart Disease.
Treating Hypertension
Conventional medicine uses drugs to treat hypertension by reducing heart output, lowering arterial resistance to blood flow, or reducing fluid retention through the use of diuretics. These medications may relieve the symptoms of hypertension but do little to address the cause. As many of these drugs have unwanted side effects, an alternative approach to reducing blood pressure may be preferable. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  After detoxification therapies that included intravenous DMPS (discussed below) for mercury toxicity along with natural therapies, his liver enzymes normalized (see table 12), the cholesterol levels declined into the normal range, his abdominal pain completely disappeared, his digestive problems and constipation cleared up, and he felt great.
The present book is not a detoxification manual. It is about the immune system and viral disease. | | If mercury levels are elevated, indicating mercury toxicity, another chelator, EDTA, is used to chelate the mercury from the system. EDTA, ethylenediaminetetra-acetic acid, is a weak acid used to remove heavy metals and it is considered beneficial in reversing atherosclerosis. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts | | He believes it is possible that these patients have suffered from allergies their entire lives and that the mercury toxicity from the fillings simply adds to the body's toxic load and "pushes them over the edge," resulting in chronic medical problems.
Extensive clinical evidence based on patient case histories attests to the effects of mercury amalgam toxicity. Dr. Taylor cites an example of a woman who came to him suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. After having her amalgam fillings removed, she not only had relief from her arthritis, but her allergies abated to a large extent. |
Michael Tierra, L.Ac, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It also neutralizes mercury toxicity.
Contraindications: Not for someone with yin deficiency
Dose: 30-60 grams in decoction
Aralia (SONG MU BAI PI) Aralia chinensis Common Name: Aralia Family: Aralaciae Part Used: Root
Energy and Flavor: Warm; acrid Organ Meridians Affected: Liver, spleen Properties: Analgesic, antirheumatic, carminative, diuretic Effects and Indications: Mild Qi Tonic. This herb is used to treat arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, headaches, edema, gas, and fatigue. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts | | Huggins, "No dental publication will carry articles on mercury toxicity, no dentist is allowed to tell a patient that mercury is toxic, and no lecturer is allowed to mention it in front of dentists. How does this constitute interest in patients' or dentists' health, permit freedom of speech and opinion, advance the science of dentistry, or allow dentists, in the ADA's own words, to 'know the potential hazards and symptoms of mercury exposure'? |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | This may lead to other nervous system symptoms, such as dizziness, tremors, incoordination, and depression; then progress to numbness and tingling, most commonly of the hands, feet, or lips; and to further weakness, worse memory and coordination, reduced hearing and speech, paralysis, and psychosis. mercury toxicity may be a factor in multiple sclerosis. Other problems of severe mercury intoxication are kidney and brain damage, as well as birth defects in pregnant women. Luckily, these extreme symptoms are unusual. |
Thomas Bartram
See book keywords and concepts |  Others have linked the disease with mercury toxicity from amalgam dental fillings shown to generate electromotive forces which propel ionised mercury particles into the body from teeth. A further link is persistent infective sinusitis.
MS is high in families that eat excessive meat fat, butter and dairy products but with too little vegetable fat (corn, Soya, sunflower oil, etc). Linoleic acid levels in the blood of MS patients are abnormally low, especially during relapse. (Schwartz JH, Bennett B. |
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