New Help For the #1 Public Health Problem -Toxin Overload
By Theodore D. Hall

It is now generally recognized that environmental toxicity is the #1 threat to the public health.

The problem afflicts even countries that have shown, historically, great respect for the environment. "Our basic necessities for survival," writes the president of a Japanese hospital, "such as water, air and food … have all become highly toxic."

Environmental toxicity is a result of the industrial and technological revolutions. These revolutions have opened the door of plenty, and that is important. "Enlightenment follows on the heels of plenty," it is said, "not on the heels of poverty."

Enlightenment often brings unpleasant as well as pleasant realizations. So it is that we have come to see and experience, the reality that human bodies pay a heavy price---in disease and suffering---for major technological innovations that are contra naturam---against nature. If we dis-ease nature, we children of nature become dis-eased as well.

I call the basic disease we are all subject to "toxin overload." When this condition becomes acute, our organs of elimination---skin, lungs, liver and kidneys---become overloaded to the point of exhaustion. The final step, after overload, is overwhelm---at which point our bodies are open doors to any and all diseases coming down the pike.

Crisis in Allopathic Medicine

Western medicine is built on the pathology paradigm of Pasteur, who viewed disease as the result of invasion of the body by microbial antigens. What is the remedy for such an "invasion?" Attack the antigens with anti-antigens, i.e., antibiotics.

This approach has certainly proven helpful in countless cases, but it has also proven problematical, the major problem being, unless eliminated completely, the invading organisms develop a resistance to antibiotics. This process is called "evolution."

Consider the case of tuberculosis. If you were a citizen of New York City in the nineteenth century and developed tuberculosis, the recommended therapy was fairly simple and effective. You would go to Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains and follow a regimen developed by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau. You would breathe clean air, drink pure water (lots of it), eat pure food (sparingly), and exercise moderately. After following this (detoxification) program for a month or two or three, you would arise one morning to find yourself "fit as a fiddle."

Tuberculosis nowadays: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the prisons of Russia became incubators for a highly virulent stain of tuberculosis that is resistant to all but the most extreme antibiotics, i.e., antibiotics whose medical descriptions are followed by five pages of side-effects.

Former inmates of these prisons, many of whom, carry the virulent stain, are now mingling freely in the cities of Russia and indeed the cities of many countries, including the United States.

If these carriers were motivated by a desire to destroy other people, they would be classifiable as "terrorists." In effect, they are terrorists---unwitting bio-bombs created by the pharmaceutical industry.

Is allopathic medicine facing a crisis? You bet. Now for the good news…

Eastern Science to the Rescue

You may think of your feet as pretty, or ugly, as functional or dysfunctional, but chances are you have never thought of them as toxic waste dumps.

"Toxic waste dumps? What do you mean by that?"

Toxic particles are borne about the body by the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems until they are disposed of in one way or another. When the body's "security forces" fail to detail and eliminate the toxins, the rascals wind up down in the feet. The reason is simple: The arterial system, assisted by gravity, is efficient at down-dropping free toxins. The venous system is inefficient at moving the particles uptown.

Do you sense the presence of a therapeutic opportunity?

If so, you are correct. That opportunity was seen and exploited by Japanese medical researchers who invented what is called (generically) "kinopatches," based on the principles of foot reflexology.

"Kino" means tree sap. We're not talking raw tree sap, of course; we're talking pyroligneous acid---the technical label for wood vinegar.

In the Orient, wood vinegar has been used, traditionally, as an insect repellent, an antibacterial agent, sterilizer, alkaline wash, food additive, and deodorizer.

These Japanese researchers found that when wood vinegar is turned into a powder (in a packet) and applied to the soles of the feet, it acts as an extremely effective absorber of toxins.

The kinopatches were tested in half a dozen Far Eastern countries, then put on the Japanese market. Practically overnight, the kinopatches business became a $30 million dollar-a-year industry. Financial success is always a very good indicator of product effectiveness.

Scientific reports on the kinopatches (now coined K-Patch™), are not yet available in English. However, a very impressive anecdotal record is available. The K-Patches are reported to have assisted in the alleviation, or termination, of such conditions as chronic pain, rheumatism, gout, skin disease, kidney and liver problems, heart disease, blood circulation problems, coldness, periodontal problems, and on and on.

For me, the most important anecdotal evidence is my own. Under the guidance of J. Paris, co-founder of K-Patch.com, I applied K-Patch™ to the soles of my feet for a period of one week. I hoped to alleviate a pain problem in the left foot (which my physician suggested might be the beginning of gout).

Sure enough, my clean white K-Patch™ were transformed, night after night, into dark greenish, sticky, muddy, foul-smelling items. After four days, I felt no pain in the left foot---even when I walked around in floppy shoes. Was I impressed? You bet.

Help for Allopathic Physicians

I feel confident that the K-Patch™ will soon be as popular in the United States as they are in the Far East. Without doubt, the alternative health practitioners will lead the way in the discovery of this new "gift to mankind from the trees." However …

It might well be that the allopathic practitioners would follow close on their heels --- if they're smart. The allopathic professionals are well aware that when they prescribe pharmaceutical drugs, they are putting their patients at risk for "side-effects" due to toxicity.

By recommending K-Patch™ to their patients, the risk of unwanted "side-effects" may be substantially reduced. Indeed, the patches might prove, in some cases, more helpful than the prescribed drug or drugs!

And, needless to say, the more toxin-free the patient, the happier he or she is; and the happier he or she is, the less likely it is that he or she will bring a malpractice suit for real or imagined injuries.

Will the foul smell of used K-Patch™ translate, in American medical practices, into the sweet smell of success? We'll see. I, for one, am very optimistic.

PS: There is a nineteenth century Western pathology paradigm which supports the idea that detoxification is the key to health renewal and longevity, but this paradigm, which was developed by the French biologist Anton Bechamp, was totally eclipsed by Pasteur and his supporters. Those interested might consult Blood and Its Third Anatomical Element (1912), which is available through Kessinger Publishing and Amazon.com.

About the Writer: Theodore D. Hall, Ph.D., is a science writer specializing in paradigm studies, particularly those relating to biology, bio-philosophy and evolutionary science. Visit his website, http://biofractalevolution.com, for more of his intriguing writings, art and stories.
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