The Women Warriors

[RawMahdiyah]

This is an old and simple test of urine and saliva that was used extensively before modern blood tests came into existence. The amount of information it provides is considerable and forms a basis that unites all forms of medicine, makes them all work if you will.

As stated above, the basic premise is that as societies become more "advanced", protein consumption, fast foods, (not necessarily, fat, cholesterol) become the basic foods. These foods are converted to strong acids, which must me eliminated by the kidneys. Every acid molecule that is passed through the kidneys must take a mineral with it, so we develop a relative base deficiency, i.e. we become more acidic. As a result, pleomorphic organisms come out of the blood, out of the cells themselves to clean up the mess. This is chronic degenerative disease.

So, the healing process, no matter what is 'wrong' with you, begins with RE-MINERALIZATION. The only way you can replace these minerals is by consuming fresh fruits and vegetables and cutting down the consumption of the acid foods that leech the minerals out of the body (see Food Combining for Chemistry of Foods). You can take mineral supplements (good natural/pure quality ONLY) but these only work temporarily (i.e. the word Supplement!). These types of minerals are often ground up rock forms which cannot be incorporated into the body cells (often acidifying the body more in the process). Plants can digest rocks, people can't. We have to eat our fruits and vegetables (duh!).

The urine/saliva tests shows basically how many minerals are left in our bodies, i.e. what the MINERAL RESERVES of the body are and what we must do to re-mineralize. This lays the foundation for any and all healing therapies!



The Test is Simple:


1) Saliva test upon waking. First thing in the morning, right when you get out of bed, lick and wet the end of an acid test strip with saliva (it may work better if you spit into a plastic spoon). Note the color change and write down that pH number. Do this before brushing teeth, drinking, smoking, or even thinking of eating food. Don't even brush your teeth the night before (all of these things will effect the pH levels).
This pH should be 6.8, about neutral (NOTE that the numbers given will vary depending on the test strips bought, there will be a scale on the test strips, go according to that).


2) Then test your second urine of the morning. The urine stored in the bladder during the night, that is ready to be eliminated when you get up, should be acid so you don't want to test that. Drain your bladder in the morning, the last time you get up if you get up during the night to void and then see what that urine pH is the next time you void. Again, record this number. This number should be the pH of your urine after you got rid of your acid load from the day before. The acids should be gone by the morning so the second time you urinate in the A.M., that urine should be around 6.8 also, neutral.

3) Eat breakfast (even an apple will do), anything, and five minutes after breakfast check your saliva again. Write this number down also. This number should go up, become more alkaline from what it was before you ate breakfast (your A.M. saliva pH), the more the better. When you eat, all the digestive juices including the saliva, gather as many minerals as are available in the system to digest the meal. If you have a large mineral reserve the pH of the saliva will definitely rise (become more alkaline), the amount depending on what the mineral reserves of you body are. If there are no mineral reserves, your saliva pH will stay acid, i.e. around 5.5 to 6.0 (again depending on the testing strips you use).

4) & 5) Then check your urine pH between meals, i.e. between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner. The pH should always be 7.0 to 8.5, a couple hours after meals. This is true especially around 2:00 pm. after you have digested your breakfast and lunch. Your urine should always be alkaline around this time. If it isn't you are definitely in a state of "acidosis". (Another reason that the pH may be out-of balance is if one does not eat at proper times during the day). Record also what you eat for better analysis.


These five tests show the following:

1) How well we teat ourselves in general, i.e. how "strong" our liver is. This is the A.M. saliva pH. This number shows the overall state of our health, the condition of the alkaline reserve of our bodies that reflects the diet we have eaten over the last month to years. This number stays rather constant and will only change after some work has been done in re-mineralizing the body. Since the saliva pH is an indicator of intracellular pH, saliva pH readings should never be below the pK of the phosphate buffer system, 6.8. The most accurate reading of saliva pH is recorded immediately upon awakening – after sleeping at least five hours and before brushing the teeth. It is during sleep that the body removes waste and is in an anabolic state restoring and replenishing the body. If the individual has a saliva pH of 5.5 at this time and only 5.6 after eating (numbers may be approximate according to strip test), you know that this person has no alkaline reserve and that his/her body is devoid of the minerals necessary to process food properly – his or her body cannot adequately respond to the physiological crisis of handling food.


2) How well your digestive system dealt with what you ate the night before, i.e. the A.M. urine pH. These numbers may change from day to day depending on what you did eat the night before and whether you were able to digest it properly or not.


3) The pH pf your saliva after you eat gives an indication of what the mineral reserves of your body are (the pH number should increase after you eat). Author writes, “My son just thought of a lemon for a minute and the pH of his saliva went up a whole point. He had enough reserve minerals, which are basic, to pull into his digestive system to begin the digestive process.” The ideal saliva pH pattern is 6.8 on awakening, 7.0 before eating and 8.5 following breakfast.

Besides just thinking of a lemon one can eat one (or lemon juice). This is a simple test that can be done at most any time of the day. It too checks the adequacy of the alkaline reserve of the body. When a healthy person with adequate alkaline reserves takes a bite (or drink) of highly acid lemon, the saliva pH drops sharply for an instant but returns almost immediately to pH 8.5. The more acidic the food that is eaten, the more rapid the response of the alkaline reserve, and the higher the saliva pH should be following a meal.

4) & 5) The pH’s of the urine between meals should be kept in the basic range, 7.0 to 8.5. After one eats, the stomach generates the necessary acid to digest food. While doing this, it also performs the opposite reaction, i.e. it makes an equivalent amount of a base or sodium bicarbonate, which is picked up by the blood stream and delivered to the alkaline glands of the body, the saliva, the pancreas, and the liver. The maximum amount of base in the blood and therefore in the urine occurs one to two hours after you eat.


This rhythm of the acid and base flow of the body is called by Frederick F Sander, the Base-floods and the Base-tides of the Acid-Base household. This information is from, The Acid-Base Household of the Human Organism and its cooperation with the nail circulation and the rhythm of the Liver, Frederick F. Sander, about 1930, translated from the German by Robert Miller, D.C.

Actually the body fluids and therefore the urine is most acid at 2:00 A.M. (pH 5.0 to 6.8 ) in the morning (the base tide) and most alkaline at 2:00 P.M. (pH 7.0 to 8.5) in the afternoon (base flood).

“The ideal pH number depends on the time of day. Plotted on a curve it looks like the double hump of the back of a camel. Two times a day the urine should be alkaline and that is the top of the humps and corresponds to 10 A.M. and 2 P.M., the alkaline tide after meals. During the rest of the day the pH should be between 6.6 and 6.8. This is optimal urine. The first urine in the morning should be more acidic because of the decalcification that takes place during the night.”

If all the acids are not all flushed out during the night they accumulate, day after day. It hurts for one thing and the cycle of chronic disease begins. It effects different people in different ways; heart disease is one, arthritis, osteoporosis, stones, ulcers, cancer, in others.

If what you are doing to get better isn’t working, if you are sick, be it with modern allopathic medicines or any of the alternative, complementary therapies, it is probably because you haven’t dealt with this acid problem, first.

Definitely, this puts the responsibility of caring for one’s own health back into ones own hands. It guides your therapy and shows you if what you are doing is working or not.

Do the above tests a month or so after you did the initial ones. The number should be less acid, if you are doing the right thing. It all takes time.



Simple pH indicator Solution

A simple way to prepare a pH indicator, instead of using pH strips, is to use the spice Turmeric. Turmeric is a yellow powder but in a basic solution it turns ruby red color. Actually, it turns color right at a pH of 6.8, the pH that the urine and saliva should be, most of the time.

To prepare this pH indicator solution you just add a teaspoon of Turmeric to a pint of grain alcohol. Shake it up and let it settle.

To use it pour some of the yellow, alcohol/Turmeric solution off the top of the powder that has settled at the bottom of the container, into a test tube or similar container. A small drinking glass will do. Add a few drops of urine or saliva and if it turns red it means that whatever was added had a pH greater than 6.8, that it was alkaline. If it stays yellow the pH is acid, less than 6.8; need more fruit and vegetables.

If your urine is acid you need Base Powder. Take enough Base Powder (morning and evenings) so that the Turmeric solution stays red most of the time. After a while it will stay red all by itself and then you will know what it means to be in pH balance. You will simply just feel good!



Balancing Acidity/Alkalinity


Diet is the main key to regulating pH. You should be drinking more than a full glass of fresh vegetable & fruit juices daily (green juices and orange/red juices). Follow General Detox Diet.

Basic Powder from BioMed (B.C. Canada 1-800-655-8308). Use ½ - 1 tsp. In HOT water (so that it goes directly to the intestines) am &/or pm. At least ½ hour away from food.

Other option is Magnelevures (Seroyal 1-800-263-5861). Take a packet per day in warm water for 3 months. It is a homeopathic that helps increase B12 levels and Magnesium. Take away from food, mint/products, and caffeine. (More expensive than basic powder).


Alkalinizing Broth: Drink 1 cup+ twice daily. Drink at 10:00am. And 4:00pm

Dr. Rau’s Alkaline Broth

One cup of the following cut into small pieces – organic celery, green beans, zucchini and sweet potatoes (all organic). Bring to a boil for 3 min. in 1 liter of water. Simmer for 20-30 min. Never use meat/broth or salt. Strain and throw away vegetables (or save). High in minerals, will correct poor diet, eliminate acid and improve day and night rhythms.


No Grain/No Dairy Muffins (a great bread substitute)

2 ½ cups ground nuts (blanched* almonds or pecans)
¼ cup melted organic ghee or olive oil
¼ cup raw honey (warm and runny)
1 cup unsweetened applesauce or apple butter, grated wet veggies – carrots, zucchini or mashed bananas, blueberries etc.
½ tsp. Baking Soda
3 organic eggs
1/8 tsp. Unrefined sea salt
Combine all ingredients to make a batter. Use muffin paper cups to line muffin tin. Fill half full with batter.
Bake a 325F for 15-20 minutes until muffins spring back when pressed. Will make 12 muffins.
Read ~ Braking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall


Magnesium Water

Purchase 20 grams Magnesium Plus by Eco Trend from health food store (B.C. Canada 1-800-665-7065). Dissolve 20gram package into 1 cup of pure charged water. Shake well before each use. Add ½ to 1 tsp. to a glass of drinking water 2-3 times per day especially before bed. Magnesium water is indicated to reduce kidney stones, sensitivity to pain, edema, muscle spasm and/or trigger points, spastic bowel, chronic constipation, heart palpitations, muscle fibrillation, helpful for fibromyalgia and soft tissue calcification such as arthritis. Too much causes diarrhea, just cut back on amount.
Do not follow package instructions.

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