Re: I had to share this News Story

["David W. Lee" <lee_david_w@lanl.gov>]

This Bulgarian beer alleged radioprotectant certainly seems more palatable
than the following:

	"The following radical remedy can be used for contamination from any
source of radioactivity, including serious exposure.
		
	Formula for Fallout:  1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp table salt (natural or sea
salt); 1 qt water--mix together.  Drink one 8-oz glass of this solution
every 1 or 2 hours along with 3 calcium lactate tablets (5 grain).  If the
symptoms seem to be in the head, the glands in the neck and throat, the
chest congested, or the sinus involved, add to each glass of solution 1/4
to 1/2 tsp of cream of tartar.  If the attack is very severe, a hot bath
may be taken using 1 pound each of salt and soda in the tub water.
Following such a bath, take a separate Clorox bath to alleviate metallics.
Use 1 cup Clorox in the tub water.  In addition to using the oral solution,
or the baths, this formula may be used in another way:  Put equal parts by
weight, approximately 1/4 cup of whole natural sea salt and slightly more
soda in a small plastic bag.  Close the bag tightly with a "twistem."  Rub
this bag all over your eyes, face, neck, the top of your head, the palms of
your hands, top of your feet, chest, tips of fingers, and toes and any
other part of your body you wish.  (You may do this with your clothes on.)
Then, because the mixture becomes contaminated, throw it away!  Using a
second bag, repeat these same movements.  This seems to set up an
electrolytic action, decontaminating with the first bag; stimulating the
body fluids to flow more normally with the second bag."

SOURCE:  "Are You Radioactive, How to Protect Yourself," Linda Clark,
Devin-Adair Press, 1973, pages 92-93.
	
REGARDS  David W. Lee (lee_david_w@lanl.gov) (505) 667-8085 Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM  87545


At 04:28 PM 22-07-97 -0500, you wrote:
>     So where do I apply for a grant to do further research?  I've always 
>     had to fund my own, in hopes that some benficial effects would 
>     eventually be discovered...at least it sounds like it wasn't money 
>     down the drain!  (I wonder if different brands of beer could be made 
>     isotope specific?)
>     
>     Vincent King
>
>
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>Subject: I had to share this News Story
>Author:  Judd Sills <sillsj@GAT.COM> at Internet
>Date:    7/22/97 10:12
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>
>New Bulgarian Beer Reportedly Effective Against Radiation 
>     
> Source: Xinhua 
>     
> Xinhua via Individual Inc. : SOFIA (July 20) XINHUA - A prominent
>Bulgarian brewing
> expert has reportedly come up with a new formula for beer against harmful
>radiational
> effects on humans.
>     
> Yordan Platikanov, the inventor, devised the formula for the Lomsko Pivo
>Brewery of
> Lom, in northwestern Bulgaria, the Bulgarian newspaper Troud reported today.
>     
> Made of herb and mineral water, the new type of beer could neutralize the
>content of
> strontium and uranium 134 left by radiation in the human body, said the
>report.
>     
> The research on the beer, which is alcohol-free, was funded by Bulgaria's
>defense and
> health ministries, and the final product could be for workers at nuclear
>power plants.
>     
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David W. Lee
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