2024-03-08 11:00:51
By Simon Flückiger/March 8, 2024/ 12 Views
THE plant you need against heavy metals!
Dear friend, dear friend,
Here is an exceptional plant which is often associated with the Orient. It is called Chinese parsley or Arabic parsley (1).
And it is true that it is a plant very appreciated by Indian, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese cooks(2).
But Mexicans are also fond of it. It is part of the recipe for the famous guacamole(3).
However, this plant also appears in the De Villis capitulary of Charlemagne (4).
This regulatory text listed all the equipment and plants that must be present in the large royal domains.
The Carolingians therefore used it, and before them the Romans, the Gauls and the Greeks(4).
In fact, the plant I’m about to tell you about is grown all over the world.
A taste of soap that doesn’t always go away
It is a relatively easy plant to grow in your garden.
But beneath its “everyday plant” appearance lies a wonderful medicinal plant.
And contemporary science has confirmed five great virtues (1):
spasmolytic and digestive, anti-infectious, anti-inflammatory, chelating, anticonvulsant.
You who treat yourself with plants know that the multiplicity of benefits found in medicinal plants is not surprising.
This is due to the many active substances they contain.
Chemical medications concentrate an active ingredient, often copied from a natural molecule, to treat one or more symptoms.
It is war medicine, using powerful chemical weapons to defeat evil.
And sometimes it can be useful.
But in many situations, natural remedies provide effective relief, but gently and above all without toxicity.
Have you guessed the name of today’s heroine?
This is Coriandrum Sativo which the Spanish call cilantro.
English speakers speak of coriander to refer to the plant as a whole or of cilantro to refer to the leaves or seeds used in cooking.
This is coriander which comes from the Greek Koris which means “bug”.
And, in fact, when you crush the coriander leaves, a smell is released which is not necessarily pleasant.
This is due to the presence of a specific chemical substance, aldehyde.
And this is also why we sometimes call coriander the “male bug”.
In some people, the presence of this substance results in an unpleasant taste on the palate reminiscent of soap or dishwashing detergent.
And yet, as you will see, it is a very precious substance.
Cilantro provides 4 vitamins that strengthen your soil
Coriander is above all an aromatic herb that deserves to be included in your menus as much as possible, hoping that its particular taste is pleasant to you.
Not everyone has the same palate!
For me, a little fresh coriander, sprinkled on a salad, a starter, a soup or a vegetable dish is a treat.
When you put it on your plate, you provide your body with:
vitamin K which facilitates coagulation and helps calcium to bind to the bones, (5) vitamin C which is multi-use, but helps in particular to limit your fatigue and physical stress, coriander seeds are particularly rich in it, ( 6) Vitamin A strengthens your immunity and the health of your eyes and skin. (7) vitamin B9 or folate (8) which facilitates the renewal of genetic heritage and growth in fetuses and children.
And that’s not all !
Coriander is also rich in flavonoids, terpenes, coumarin, polysaccharides and aldehydes.
Added to this are three minerals essential for the proper functioning of metabolism: potassium, magnesium and manganese.
These substances work together.
And they make coriander a health food and a well-known remedy in all traditional medicines.
In Ayurvedic medicine, for example, coriander is recommended for digestive health (10).
It is used against spasms, bloating, diarrhea and flatulence.
But it is also recommended against colds and flu.
A natural chelator
This is perhaps the most notable benefit of coriander. It removes heavy metals from your body through a process called chelation.
Cilantro attracts heavy metals which will be expelled during digestion.
This was demonstrated in the 90s by Dr. Yoshiaki Omura. He was then director of the Heart Research Foundation in New York.
He cared for patients suffering from viral (herpes) and bacterial (chlamyd) infections.
He had given them antibiotics, but the effects of the treatment were ineffective.
While testing the urine of one of the patients, Dr. Oruma realized that one of his patients was poisoned with mercury, lead and aluminum.
He also noticed that this patient had, that day, eaten a traditional Vietnamese soup containing coriander.
It was said that the urine was loaded with heavy metals because of the coriander which had chelated them.
Having formulated his hypothesis, he tested it.
He gave everyone coriander, had their heavy metal levels tested.
As treatment progressed, patients’ exposure to heavy metals decreased. At the same time, the antibiotic treatment started to work!
Within a few days, the patients were cured.
A promising clinical case
Excited by this discovery, Dr. Omura continued his work.
He notably published a clinical case which went around the world(12).
A patient had dental amalgams made up of 50% mercury removed.
Despite the precautions taken by the medical team, he found himself seriously poisoned.
The lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and endocrine system were affected.
However, before the removal of dental amalgam, no traces of mercury in the patients had been noted.
Dr. Omura gave him 100 mg coriander tablets 4 times a day.
And after three weeks, the coriander had done its job: the mercury had disappeared from all of the patient’s tissues.
This work was confirmed by other subsequent studies, particularly on animals (13,14,15).
And cilantro not only eliminates mercury, it flushes your body of many heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, arsenic or aluminum.
A useful daily remedy
However, exposure to heavy metals is not something rare.
Almost everyone is affected.
We find :
cadmium in cereals and pastries, (16) mercury in fish from the Baltic Sea, (17) aluminum in vaccines, in white sandwich bread, in medicines, in yeast, coffee , tea, etc., (18) arsenic in poultry, shellfish, meat, dairy products and cereals when produced in contaminated environments such as those found in China, India , Mexico, Pakistan, Vietnam and the United States (19); arsenic can also be present in pesticides, (20) lead whose particles sometimes remain in the air we breathe, it is also found in pesticides, (20,21)
This shows, once again, how consuming organic foods is essential for health.
Unfortunately, this is not always enough. So it is helpful to detoxify. And for this, natural chelators such as coriander, onion, garlic, activated charcoal, chlorella or Brazil nuts are excellent.
A powerful anticonvulsant
Finally, coriander, thanks to the famous aldehyde it contains, acts on the brain circuits which contain potassium(22).
And this could slow down the convulsions that patients experience in the event of an epileptic attack, for example.
It is therefore a useful addition to the ketogenic diet in people who may suffer from it (23).
This hypothesis was formulated by researchers at the University of California in a study published in 2019 in the journal FASEB(22).
The authors of this work believe that coriander leaves could reduce the excitability of nerve cells in the brain.
Cilantro would have a calming effect on the brain which would no longer cause convulsions.
Do you still think that coriander is just a trendy aromatic herb?
Nature has never ceased to surprise you!
Naturally yours,
Augustine of Livois
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