Nikolay Danikov - treatment with soda. Baking soda: beneficial properties, use and treatment Acid-base environment of the body. What should the indicator be?

Among various nutritional and therapeutic agents useful to humans, baking soda occupies a special place. Healing preparations with soda have long been used for the treatment and prevention of numerous human diseases, ranging from a simple runny nose to such widespread and quite dangerous as cardiovascular disorders, nervous, skin, gastrointestinal and other diseases, even malignant neoplasms. It's safe to say that soda potentially contains more healing powers than many synthetic drugs.

Soda and the drugs obtained with it have significant advantages - they have a much gentler effect on the human body than synthetic drugs, are better tolerated, cause adverse allergic reactions much less often and, as a rule, do not have cumulative properties (do not accumulate in the body).

Without any doubt, soda is Nature's greatest Gift.

Availability, ease of preparation, ease of use, and the absence of undesirable effects give a person the opportunity to widely use the medicinal properties of soda in everyday life and include it in their home pharmacy.

I hope that the presented work will provide a good service at the right time.

Soda was known to man approximately one and a half to two thousand years BC, and perhaps even earlier. It was extracted from soda lakes.

The first information about the production of soda by evaporating water from soda lakes is given in the work of the Roman physician Dioscorides.

Avicenna wrote: “Human urine mixed with natural soda should be poured over the place bitten by a dog, and every bite and injection.

Fenugreek in the form of a medicinal dressing with soda is useful for hardening of the spleen.

Frankincense powder is mixed with baking soda. This mixture clears dandruff and dries out scalp ulcers.

Wash the body against itching with sulfur powder, vinegar and soda.

Rue and soda are used against warts.

Black pepper and soda cause weight loss.

If you boil pumpkin juice with honey and put soda in it, it softens the stomach.

Nigella sativa is useful for “standing breathing” if you drink it with soda.”

The outstanding physician of the Middle Ages A. Amasiatsi wrote: “The best type is white soda. Has cleansing properties. It removes freckles as well as rashes from the face. If you wash your body with an aqueous solution, it will destroy lice. It also helps with eyesores. Liquefies thick moisture. If you apply a poultice, the swelling of the spleen will resolve. And if you do an enema mixed with fig juice, it will help with colic. If you lubricate the penis in a mixture with oil or honey, it will induce sexual desire. Soda removes wind from the hernial sac. If you lubricate the hernia in a mixture with azhgon and cabbage juice, it will remove water from it. And its substitute is borax.”

In the old “Herbalism” we read: “Soda, mixed half and half with cream and poured into the eyes in the evenings, is a sure remedy for driving away the eyesore.

For scrofula, wash the sore spot with soda and soap, adding a little milk.

For thrush, mix soda in half with juice squeezed from some sour berries or sour garden fruits, and in their absence with the most sour kvass, boil it until, with the addition of rosehip flowers, until half boils away, after which, strain and sweeten a little honey, keep it in your mouth often.

For a baby with an abscess, apply grated carrots mixed with soda and cream five times a day.

With hourly vomiting, pain under the spoon, that is, in the stomach, dry mouth, lips and legs turn blue from poisoning with poisons: white mercury, sublimate, lead salt, red lead, arsenic, etc.: take 2 pounds of soda, pour 2 pounds on it damask water and cook quickly, then drain the clean soda water and give it a large glass every half a quarter of an hour, wash it down with a glass of fresh milk and continue this until the poison in the stomach disappears.

In persistent circumstances, when urine stops, the patient should be placed waist-deep in a lukewarm bath for 4 hours, which will be more beneficial if a lot of chamomile flowers and a sufficient amount of soda are added to it.

For ulcers on the legs, it is useful to wash the ulcers 3 times a day with soda water, and then cover the wound with clean dry lint.”

They learned to make artificial soda only in the 18th century. The first industrial method of producing soda originated in Russia. In 1764, the Russian chemist, Swedish-born academician Erik Gustav Laxman reported that soda can be obtained by sintering natural sodium sulfate with charcoal.

In 1791, the French physician and chemist-technologist Nicolas Leblanc, knowing nothing about Laxman’s method, received a patent for the “Method of converting Glauber’s salt into soda.” Leblanc proposed fusing a mixture of sodium sulfate, chalk (calcium carbonate) and charcoal to produce soda. Leblanc soda production technology began to be used in many European countries. The first soda plant of this type in Russia was founded by the industrialist M. Prang and appeared in Barnaul in 1864. But a few years later, in the area of ​​the present city of Berezniki, a large soda plant of the Lyubimov, Solve and Co. company was built, where 20 thousand were produced. tons of soda per year. This plant used a new technology for the production of soda - the ammonia method, invented by the Belgian chemical engineer Ernesto Solvay. The advantages of the ammonia method over the LeBlanc method were the production of cleaner soda, less pollution and fuel economy (since the temperature is lower).

Now the world produces several million tons of soda per year.

Sodium carbonate is used in glassmaking (this is a component of the charge - a mixture of starting materials from which glass is melted), for the production of soap and other detergents, in the pulp and paper industry (for pulping). A lot of soda is consumed in the technological process of producing aluminum; it is soda that is used to process the raw material of the aluminum industry - bauxite. Sodium carbonate neutralizes acids in industrial wastewater, including during the purification of petroleum products, and precipitates insoluble carbonates and hydroxides from salt solutions, which after calcination are used as pigments.

Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) also has its uses - it serves as a source of carbon dioxide when baking bread and confectionery, carbonated drinks, and also in fire extinguishers. In addition, baking soda still takes its rightful place in the home medicine cabinet as one of the simplest and cheapest, but very necessary medicines.

There is evidence that E.I. Roerich highly valued the healing properties of soda.

In a letter dated January 1, 1935, E.I. Roerich wrote: “In general, the Lord strongly advises everyone to get into the habit of taking soda twice a day. This is an amazing protective remedy against many serious diseases, in particular cancer” (Letters of Helena Roerich, vol. 3, p. 74).

January 4, 1935: “I take it daily, sometimes under severe stress, up to eight times a day, a coffee spoon. And I just pour it on my tongue and wash it down with water. Hot, but not boiled milk with soda also works remarkably well for all colds and central tensions” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 75).

“It’s good to give soda in hot milk to children” (P6, 20, 1).

July 18, 1935: “Then I advise you to take bicarbonate of soda twice a day. For pain in the epigastric region (tension in the solar plexus), baking soda is indispensable. And in general, soda is the most beneficial remedy, it protects against all sorts of diseases, starting from cancer, but you need to train yourself to take it every day without skipping... Also, for an aching and burning throat, hot milk, but not boiled, is indispensable, as well as with soda. The usual proportion is a coffee spoon per glass. I highly recommend soda to everyone. Also, make sure that the stomach is not burdened and the intestines are clean” (P, 06/18/35).

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Danikov N. I
Healing soda

I dedicate this to my son Dmitry, who helps me in my work.

From the author

Among various nutritional and therapeutic agents useful to humans, baking soda occupies a special place. Healing preparations with soda have long been used for the treatment and prevention of numerous human diseases, ranging from a simple runny nose to such widespread and quite dangerous as cardiovascular disorders, nervous, skin, gastrointestinal and other diseases, even malignant neoplasms. It's safe to say that soda potentially contains more healing powers than many synthetic drugs.

Soda and the drugs obtained with it have significant advantages - they have a much gentler effect on the human body than synthetic drugs, are better tolerated, cause adverse allergic reactions much less often and, as a rule, do not have cumulative properties (do not accumulate in the body).

Without any doubt, soda is Nature's greatest Gift.

Availability, ease of preparation, ease of use, and the absence of undesirable effects give a person the opportunity to widely use the medicinal properties of soda in everyday life and include it in their home pharmacy.

I hope that the presented work will provide a good service at the right time.

Healing soda

Soda was known to man approximately one and a half to two thousand years BC, and perhaps even earlier. It was extracted from soda lakes.

The first information about the production of soda by evaporating water from soda lakes is given in the work of the Roman physician Dioscorides.

Avicenna wrote: “Human urine mixed with natural soda should be poured over the place bitten by a dog, and every bite and injection.

Fenugreek in the form of a medicinal dressing with soda is useful for hardening of the spleen.

Frankincense powder is mixed with baking soda. This mixture clears dandruff and dries out scalp ulcers.

Wash the body against itching with sulfur powder, vinegar and soda.

Rue and soda are used against warts.

Black pepper and soda cause weight loss.

If you boil pumpkin juice with honey and put soda in it, it softens the stomach.

Nigella sativa is useful for “standing breathing” if you drink it with soda.”

The outstanding physician of the Middle Ages A. Amasiatsi wrote: “The best type is white soda. Has cleansing properties. It removes freckles as well as rashes from the face. If you wash your body with an aqueous solution, it will destroy lice. It also helps with eyesores. Liquefies thick moisture. If you apply a poultice, the swelling of the spleen will resolve. And if you do an enema mixed with fig juice, it will help with colic. If you lubricate the penis in a mixture with oil or honey, it will induce sexual desire. Soda removes wind from the hernial sac. If you lubricate the hernia in a mixture with azhgon and cabbage juice, it will remove water from it. And its substitute is borax.”

In the old “Herbalism” we read: “Soda, mixed half and half with cream and poured into the eyes in the evenings, is a sure remedy for driving away the eyesore.

For scrofula, wash the sore spot with soda and soap, adding a little milk.

For thrush, mix soda in half with juice squeezed from some sour berries or sour garden fruits, and in their absence with the most sour kvass, boil it until, with the addition of rosehip flowers, until half boils away, after which, strain and sweeten a little honey, keep it in your mouth often.

For a baby with an abscess, apply grated carrots mixed with soda and cream five times a day.

With hourly vomiting, pain under the spoon, that is, in the stomach, dry mouth, lips and legs turn blue from poisoning with poisons: white mercury, sublimate, lead salt, red lead, arsenic, etc.: take 2 pounds of soda, pour 2 pounds on it damask water and cook quickly, then drain the clean soda water and give it a large glass every half a quarter of an hour, wash it down with a glass of fresh milk and continue this until the poison in the stomach disappears.

In persistent circumstances, when urine stops, the patient should be placed waist-deep in a lukewarm bath for 4 hours, which will be more beneficial if a lot of chamomile flowers and a sufficient amount of soda are added to it.

For ulcers on the legs, it is useful to wash the ulcers 3 times a day with soda water, and then cover the wound with clean dry lint.”

They learned to make artificial soda only in the 18th century. The first industrial method of producing soda originated in Russia. In 1764, the Russian chemist, Swedish-born academician Erik Gustav Laxman reported that soda can be obtained by sintering natural sodium sulfate with charcoal.

In 1791, the French physician and chemist-technologist Nicolas Leblanc, knowing nothing about Laxman’s method, received a patent for the “Method of converting Glauber’s salt into soda.” Leblanc proposed fusing a mixture of sodium sulfate, chalk (calcium carbonate) and charcoal to produce soda. Leblanc soda production technology began to be used in many European countries. The first soda plant of this type in Russia was founded by the industrialist M. Prang and appeared in Barnaul in 1864. But a few years later, in the area of ​​the present city of Berezniki, a large soda plant of the Lyubimov, Solve and Co. company was built, where 20 thousand were produced. tons of soda per year. This plant used a new technology for the production of soda - the ammonia method, invented by the Belgian chemical engineer Ernesto Solvay. The advantages of the ammonia method over the LeBlanc method were the production of cleaner soda, less pollution and fuel economy (since the temperature is lower).

Now the world produces several million tons of soda per year.

Sodium carbonate is used in glassmaking (this is a component of the charge - a mixture of starting materials from which glass is melted), for the production of soap and other detergents, in the pulp and paper industry (for pulping). A lot of soda is consumed in the technological process of producing aluminum; it is soda that is used to process the raw material of the aluminum industry - bauxite. Sodium carbonate neutralizes acids in industrial wastewater, including during the purification of petroleum products, and precipitates insoluble carbonates and hydroxides from salt solutions, which after calcination are used as pigments.

Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) also has its uses - it serves as a source of carbon dioxide when baking bread and confectionery, carbonated drinks, and also in fire extinguishers. In addition, baking soda still takes its rightful place in the home medicine cabinet as one of the simplest and cheapest, but very necessary medicines.

There is evidence that E.I. Roerich highly valued the healing properties of soda.

In a letter dated January 1, 1935, E.I. Roerich wrote: “In general, the Lord strongly advises everyone to get into the habit of taking soda twice a day. This is an amazing protective remedy against many serious diseases, in particular cancer” (Letters of Helena Roerich, vol. 3, p. 74).

January 4, 1935: “I take it daily, sometimes under severe stress, up to eight times a day, a coffee spoon. And I just pour it on my tongue and wash it down with water. Hot, but not boiled milk with soda also works remarkably well for all colds and central tensions” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 75).

“It’s good to give soda in hot milk to children” (P6, 20, 1).

July 18, 1935: “Then I advise you to take bicarbonate of soda twice a day. For pain in the epigastric region (tension in the solar plexus), baking soda is indispensable. And in general, soda is the most beneficial remedy, it protects against all sorts of diseases, starting from cancer, but you need to train yourself to take it every day without skipping... Also, for an aching and burning throat, hot milk, but not boiled, is indispensable, as well as with soda. The usual proportion is a coffee spoon per glass. I highly recommend soda to everyone. Also, make sure that the stomach is not burdened and the intestines are clean” (P, 06/18/35).

The Great Teacher advises the daily intake of soda twice a day to all people: “It is right that you do not forget the meaning of soda. It was not without reason that it was called the ashes of the Divine Fire. It belongs to those widely given medicines sent for the needs of all mankind. You should remember about soda not only in illness, but also in prosperity. As a connection with fiery actions, she is a shield from the darkness of destruction. But the body should be accustomed to it for a long time. Every day you need to take it with water or milk; When accepting it, you need to direct it, as it were, to the nerve centers. This way immunity can be gradually introduced.” (Fiery World, 2, 461).

“To ease diabetes, take soda... milk with soda is always good...” (Fiery World, 3, 536).

“The phenomenon of overflowing with psychic energy causes many symptoms both in the limbs and in the throat and stomach. Soda is useful to cause discharge, as well as hot milk...” (Heart, 88).

“For irritation and anxiety, I recommend milk in all forms, as a common antidote. Soda strengthens the effect of milk” (P. 534). “When there is anxiety, first of all, malnutrition and valerian, and, of course, milk and soda” (Heart, 548).

(Cure for cough) “...Musk and hot milk will be a good preservative. Just as cold milk does not unite with the tissues, just as hot milk with soda penetrates into the centers...” (Fiery World, 1, 58).

“Soda is useful and its meaning is so close to fire. The soda fields themselves were called the ashes of the Great Fire. So in ancient times people already knew the characteristics of soda. The surface of the Earth is covered with soda for widespread use” (Fiery World, 3, 595).

“Constipation is treated in various ways, overlooking the simplest and most natural one, namely: simple baking soda with hot milk. In this case, the metal sodium acts. Soda is given for widespread use by people. But they don’t know about this and often use harmful and irritating drugs” (Faces of Agni Yoga, 11, 327).

“Fiery tension is reflected in some functions of the body. So, in this case, for the proper functioning of the intestines, soda taken in hot milk is necessary... Soda is good because it does not cause intestinal irritation” (Faces of Agni Yoga, 11, 515).

“To the usual cleansing of the intestines, you can add regular intake of baking soda, which has the ability to neutralize many poisons...” (Faces of Agni Yoga, 12, 147. M.A.Y.).

On June 1, 1936, Helena Roerich wrote: “But soda has received universal recognition, and now it is popular especially in America, where it is used against almost all diseases... We are instructed to take soda twice a day, just like valerian, not missing a single day. Soda prevents many diseases, including even cancer” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 147).

Thus, the fact that cancer can be fought with ordinary baking soda was known at the beginning of the last century.

June 8, 1936: “In general, soda is useful for almost all diseases and is a preservative against many diseases, so do not be afraid to take it, just like valerian” (Letters, vol. 2, p. 215).

“This is an amazing protective remedy against many serious diseases, in particular cancer. I heard about a case of healing an old external cancer by covering it with soda. When we remember that soda is included as the main ingredient in the composition of our blood, its beneficial effect becomes clear. During fiery phenomena, soda is indispensable” (Letters 3, 19, 1).

About the doses of E.I. Roerich wrote: “The dose of soda for a boy (diabetic at 11 years old) is a quarter of a teaspoon four times a day” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 74).

“One English doctor... used simple soda for all sorts of inflammatory and cold diseases, including pneumonia. Moreover, he gave it in fairly large doses, almost a teaspoon up to four times a day per glass of milk or water. Of course, an English teaspoon is smaller than our Russian one. My family uses hot milk with soda for all colds, especially laryngitis and croupous cough. Put a teaspoon of soda on a cup of milk” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 116). “If you haven’t taken soda yet, then start in small doses, half a coffee spoon twice a day. Gradually it will be possible to increase this dose. Personally, I take two to three full coffee spoons daily. For pain in the solar plexus and heaviness in the stomach, I take much more. But you should always start with small doses” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 309).

The benefits of soda for plants are stated: “In the morning, you can water the plants by adding a pinch of soda to the water. At sunset you need to water it with a solution of valerian” (Agni Yoga, paragraph 387).

Human food “does not require acid from artificial preparations” (Agni Yoga, paragraph 442), i.e. The dangers of artificial acids are clearly stated, but artificial alkalis (soda and potassium bicarbonate) are much healthier than potassium chloride and orotate.

What is pH?

Constantly in the process of metabolism, a huge amount of acids and alkalis are formed in the body. A certain ratio is maintained between acids and alkalis - the so-called acid-base balance. It is currently believed that in more than 80% of humanity this balance of acids and alkalis in the body is disturbed, and disturbed in the acidic direction, that is, more than 80% of the world's population suffers in our time from oxidation syndrome.

All the drinks we drink (including water), all the foods we eat, they are all acidic or alkaline. The acidity or alkalinity of any product is characterized by the pH indicator. Both doctors and scientists talk about pH as a factor in determining human health or illness.

When we talk about pH, we mean the hydrogen content of a liquid. Hydrogen is H, and its degree is the number of hydrogen ions that are in a given liquid. The number of hydrogen ions determines whether a liquid is acidic, alkaline or neutral.

If pH< 7 (от 6,9 до 0), то это кислота. Чем меньше значение pH, тем сильнее кислота.

If the pH is > 7 (7.1 to 14), then it is alkaline.

If the pH of a liquid substance is 7, then it is a neutral substance.

Why pH? Water has the formula H 2 O. Water can only be partially considered stable, since in pure water at each moment of time some H 2 O molecules dissociate into hydrogen ions (H+) and hydroxide ions (OH-) and at the same time some neighboring H+ and OH– ions combine to form water molecules. Thus, hydrogen ions (positive) and hydroxyl ions (negative) are always present in water. In this case, hydrogen ions H+ are carriers of acidic properties, and OH– ions are carriers of alkaline properties. Therefore, you can determine the acidity or alkalinity of water by calculating how many positive hydrogen ions are in the water, or only hydroxide ions (OH-), or both together. The result will not change. The chemists decided: we will count only hydrogen ions and use them to determine whether the solution is acidic or alkaline.

Now why 7? There is such a law as Avogadro. It says: there are not many ions in pure water - only 107 moles per liter. This means that only one molecule of H2O out of every 10 million is in the form of ions. This is, of course, a miniscule figure. Therefore, chemists decided: we won’t repeat 10 to the 7th power of mole every time, we’ll better take the logarithm and consider the indicator of hydrogen ions in pure water to be equal to 7 and call it pH.

In the literature, pH is most often presented as a color scale, where each parameter has its own color:

● sour parameters – all shades of red and orange;

● neutral pH – yellow-green;

● alkaline pH – blue and purple.

Research on the effect of soda on the human body

The results of a study of the effect of soda on the human body exceeded all expectations. It turned out that soda is able to equalize the acid-base balance in the body, restore metabolism in cells, improve the absorption of oxygen by tissues, and also prevent the loss of vital potassium. Truly soda is a first aid medicine.

All human organs have their own pH parameters and can work well only with these parameters. Changing these parameters leads to illness or even death of a person.

Urine pH

If the urine pH level fluctuates between 6.0–6.4 in the morning and 6.4–7.0 in the evening, then the body is functioning normally. The most optimal level is slightly sour, in the range of 6.4–6.5. A urine pH value below 5.0 indicates that it is strongly acidified, and above 7.5 indicates that it is strongly alkaline.

The reaction of urine determines the possibility of stone formation: urate - in an acidic environment, oxalate - in a neutral-acidic environment, phosphate - in a more alkaline environment. For example, uric acid stones virtually never occur when the urine pH is greater than 5.5, and phosphate stones never form unless the urine is alkaline. The best time to determine the pH level is 1 hour before or 2 hours after a meal.

Check pH levels twice a week, 2-3 times a day.

Using indicator litmus paper pH test, you can easily, quickly and accurately monitor the response of urine to changes in the type of diet, the use of medications or dietary supplements. Positive pH dynamics can serve as a criterion for the correctness of the chosen diet or treatment.

The acidity of urine varies greatly depending on the food taken, for example, taking baking soda or plant foods increases the alkaline reaction of urine. The acidity of urine increases if a person’s diet is dominated by meat foods rich in proteins.

Heavy physical work increases the acidity of urine.

Increased acidity of urine is observed with increased acidity of the stomach. Reduced acidity of gastric juice does not affect the acidity of urine.

The acidity of urine changes in many diseases or conditions of the body, so determining its acidity is an important diagnostic factor.

saliva pH

The acidity of saliva depends on the rate of salivation. Typically, the acidity of mixed human saliva is 6.8–7.4 pH, but with high salivation rates it reaches 7.8 pH. The acidity of the saliva of the parotid glands is 5.81 pH, and that of the submandibular glands is 6.39 pH. In children, the average acidity of mixed saliva is 7.32 pH.

The optimal measurement is from 10 to 12 hours. It is better to measure it on an empty stomach, two hours before or two hours after a meal. Salivation decreases in the evening and at night.

To increase salivation, in order to increase the pH of saliva, it is good if there is a piece of lemon on the plate; it even with visual perception increases salivation. Food should look appetizing, served on beautiful dishes, appetizingly decorated with herbs and/or vegetables, it should, as they say, please the eye! Not only the saliva flows, but also the juices in the body, preparing for the process of digesting food. This is the mental phase of digestive secretion.

Acid gastroesophageal and pharyngolaryngeal refluxes reaching the oral cavity play a leading role in the occurrence of oral pathology. As a result of the ingress of hydrochloric acid, the acidity of mixed saliva decreases below 7.0 pH. Saliva, which normally has alkaline properties, at low pH, especially at values ​​of 6.2–6.0, leads to focal demineralization of tooth enamel with the appearance of erosions of hard dental tissues and the formation of cavities in them - caries. The amount of mucus on the mucous membrane increases, the gums become swollen and inflamed.

When the acidity in the oral cavity decreases, the acidity of dental plaque decreases, which causes the development of caries.

Bacteria in the mouth thrive in the absence of air. Saliva, rich in oxygen, actively prevents their reproduction. Bad breath occurs when the flow of saliva slows down, for example during sleep. Excitement, hunger, pronouncing a long monologue, breathing through the mouth (for example, with a runny nose), stress dry out the oral cavity, leading to a decrease in the pH of saliva. A decrease in saliva flow inevitably occurs with age.

You can add a slightly alkaline mouth rinse with water with the addition of soda and also take it orally between meals - the pH of the solution is 7.4–8. Rinsing the mouth with soda water occurs for various inflammatory diseases of the gums and teeth and for general acidification of the body.

You can set the desired pH of water for rinsing or ingestion using litmus indicator paper. There cannot be recipes with the required proportions, since each region has its own water, which has its own pH. Therefore, it is necessary to have indicator paper on hand.

Vaginal pH

The normal acidity of a woman's vagina ranges from 3.8 to 4.4 pH and averages 4.0 to 4.2 pH.

Vaginal pH in various diseases:

● cytolytic vaginosis: acidity less than 4.0 pH

● normal microflora: acidity from 4.0 to 4.5 pH

● candidal vaginitis: acidity from 4.0 to 4.5 pH

● Trichomonas colpitis: acidity from 5.0 to 6.0 pH

● bacterial vaginosis: acidity greater than 4.5 pH

● atrophic vaginitis: acidity greater than 6.0 pH

● aerobic vaginitis: acidity greater than 6.5 pH

Lactobacilli (lactobacillus) and, to a lesser extent, other representatives of normal microflora are responsible for maintaining an acidic environment and suppressing the growth of opportunistic microorganisms in the vagina. In the treatment of many gynecological diseases, restoration of the lactobacilli population and normal acidity comes to the fore.

Danikov N. I.

Healing soda

I dedicate this to my son Dmitry, who helps me in my work.

Among various nutritional and therapeutic agents useful to humans, baking soda occupies a special place. Healing preparations with soda have long been used for the treatment and prevention of numerous human diseases, ranging from a simple runny nose to such widespread and quite dangerous as cardiovascular disorders, nervous, skin, gastrointestinal and other diseases, even malignant neoplasms. It's safe to say that soda potentially contains more healing powers than many synthetic drugs.

Soda and the drugs obtained with it have significant advantages - they have a much gentler effect on the human body than synthetic drugs, are better tolerated, cause adverse allergic reactions much less often and, as a rule, do not have cumulative properties (do not accumulate in the body).

Without any doubt, soda is Nature's greatest Gift.

Availability, ease of preparation, ease of use, and the absence of undesirable effects give a person the opportunity to widely use the medicinal properties of soda in everyday life and include it in their home pharmacy.

I hope that the presented work will provide a good service at the right time.

Healing soda

Soda was known to man approximately one and a half to two thousand years BC, and perhaps even earlier. It was extracted from soda lakes.

The first information about the production of soda by evaporating water from soda lakes is given in the work of the Roman physician Dioscorides.

Avicenna wrote: “Human urine mixed with natural soda should be poured over the place bitten by a dog, and every bite and injection.

Fenugreek in the form of a medicinal dressing with soda is useful for hardening of the spleen.

Frankincense powder is mixed with baking soda. This mixture clears dandruff and dries out scalp ulcers.

Wash the body against itching with sulfur powder, vinegar and soda.

Rue and soda are used against warts.

Black pepper and soda cause weight loss.

If you boil pumpkin juice with honey and put soda in it, it softens the stomach.

Nigella sativa is useful for “standing breathing” if you drink it with soda.”

The outstanding physician of the Middle Ages A. Amasiatsi wrote: “The best type is white soda. Has cleansing properties. It removes freckles as well as rashes from the face. If you wash your body with an aqueous solution, it will destroy lice. It also helps with eyesores. Liquefies thick moisture. If you apply a poultice, the swelling of the spleen will resolve. And if you do an enema mixed with fig juice, it will help with colic. If you lubricate the penis in a mixture with oil or honey, it will induce sexual desire. Soda removes wind from the hernial sac. If you lubricate the hernia in a mixture with azhgon and cabbage juice, it will remove water from it. And its substitute is borax.”

In the old “Herbalism” we read: “Soda, mixed half and half with cream and poured into the eyes in the evenings, is a sure remedy for driving away the eyesore.

For scrofula, wash the sore spot with soda and soap, adding a little milk.

For thrush, mix soda in half with juice squeezed from some sour berries or sour garden fruits, and in their absence with the most sour kvass, boil it until, with the addition of rosehip flowers, until half boils away, after which, strain and sweeten a little honey, keep it in your mouth often.

For a baby with an abscess, apply grated carrots mixed with soda and cream five times a day.

With hourly vomiting, pain under the spoon, that is, in the stomach, dry mouth, lips and legs turn blue from poisoning with poisons: white mercury, sublimate, lead salt, red lead, arsenic, etc.: take 2 pounds of soda, pour 2 pounds on it damask water and cook quickly, then drain the clean soda water and give it a large glass every half a quarter of an hour, wash it down with a glass of fresh milk and continue this until the poison in the stomach disappears.

In persistent circumstances, when urine stops, the patient should be placed waist-deep in a lukewarm bath for 4 hours, which will be more beneficial if a lot of chamomile flowers and a sufficient amount of soda are added to it.

For ulcers on the legs, it is useful to wash the ulcers 3 times a day with soda water, and then cover the wound with clean dry lint.”

They learned to make artificial soda only in the 18th century. The first industrial method of producing soda originated in Russia. In 1764, the Russian chemist, Swedish-born academician Erik Gustav Laxman reported that soda can be obtained by sintering natural sodium sulfate with charcoal.

Healing soda

Soda was known to man approximately one and a half to two thousand years BC, and perhaps even earlier. It was extracted from soda lakes.

The first information about the production of soda by evaporating water from soda lakes is given in the work of the Roman physician Dioscorides.

Avicenna wrote: “Human urine mixed with natural soda should be poured over the place bitten by a dog, and every bite and injection.

Fenugreek in the form of a medicinal dressing with soda is useful for hardening of the spleen.

Frankincense powder is mixed with baking soda. This mixture clears dandruff and dries out scalp ulcers.

Wash the body against itching with sulfur powder, vinegar and soda.

Rue and soda are used against warts.

Black pepper and soda cause weight loss.

If you boil pumpkin juice with honey and put soda in it, it softens the stomach.

Nigella sativa is useful for “standing breathing” if you drink it with soda.”

The outstanding physician of the Middle Ages A. Amasiatsi wrote: “The best type is white soda. Has cleansing properties. It removes freckles as well as rashes from the face. If you wash your body with an aqueous solution, it will destroy lice. It also helps with eyesores. Liquefies thick moisture. If you apply a poultice, the swelling of the spleen will resolve. And if you do an enema mixed with fig juice, it will help with colic. If you lubricate the penis in a mixture with oil or honey, it will induce sexual desire. Soda removes wind from the hernial sac. If you lubricate the hernia in a mixture with azhgon and cabbage juice, it will remove water from it. And its substitute is borax.”

In the old “Herbalism” we read: “Soda, mixed half and half with cream and poured into the eyes in the evenings, is a sure remedy for driving away the eyesore.

For scrofula, wash the sore spot with soda and soap, adding a little milk.

For thrush, mix soda in half with juice squeezed from some sour berries or sour garden fruits, and in their absence with the most sour kvass, boil it until, with the addition of rosehip flowers, until half boils away, after which, strain and sweeten a little honey, keep it in your mouth often.

For a baby with an abscess, apply grated carrots mixed with soda and cream five times a day.

With hourly vomiting, pain under the spoon, that is, in the stomach, dry mouth, lips and legs turn blue from poisoning with poisons: white mercury, sublimate, lead salt, red lead, arsenic, etc.: take 2 pounds of soda, pour 2 pounds on it damask water and cook quickly, then drain the clean soda water and give it a large glass every half a quarter of an hour, wash it down with a glass of fresh milk and continue this until the poison in the stomach disappears.

In persistent circumstances, when urine stops, the patient should be placed waist-deep in a lukewarm bath for 4 hours, which will be more beneficial if a lot of chamomile flowers and a sufficient amount of soda are added to it.

For ulcers on the legs, it is useful to wash the ulcers 3 times a day with soda water, and then cover the wound with clean dry lint.”

They learned to make artificial soda only in the 18th century. The first industrial method of producing soda originated in Russia. In 1764, the Russian chemist, Swedish-born academician Erik Gustav Laxman reported that soda can be obtained by sintering natural sodium sulfate with charcoal.

In 1791, the French physician and chemist-technologist Nicolas Leblanc, knowing nothing about Laxman’s method, received a patent for the “Method of converting Glauber’s salt into soda.” Leblanc proposed fusing a mixture of sodium sulfate, chalk (calcium carbonate) and charcoal to produce soda. Leblanc soda production technology began to be used in many European countries. The first soda plant of this type in Russia was founded by the industrialist M. Prang and appeared in Barnaul in 1864. But a few years later, in the area of ​​the present city of Berezniki, a large soda plant of the Lyubimov, Solve and Co. company was built, where 20 thousand were produced. tons of soda per year. This plant used a new technology for the production of soda - the ammonia method, invented by the Belgian chemical engineer Ernesto Solvay. The advantages of the ammonia method over the LeBlanc method were the production of cleaner soda, less pollution and fuel economy (since the temperature is lower).

Now the world produces several million tons of soda per year.

Sodium carbonate is used in glassmaking (this is a component of the charge - a mixture of starting materials from which glass is melted), for the production of soap and other detergents, in the pulp and paper industry (for pulping). A lot of soda is consumed in the technological process of producing aluminum; it is soda that is used to process the raw material of the aluminum industry - bauxite. Sodium carbonate neutralizes acids in industrial wastewater, including during the purification of petroleum products, and precipitates insoluble carbonates and hydroxides from salt solutions, which after calcination are used as pigments.

Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) also has its uses - it serves as a source of carbon dioxide when baking bread and confectionery, carbonated drinks, and also in fire extinguishers. In addition, baking soda still takes its rightful place in the home medicine cabinet as one of the simplest and cheapest, but very necessary medicines.

There is evidence that E.I. Roerich highly valued the healing properties of soda.

In a letter dated January 1, 1935, E.I. Roerich wrote: “In general, the Lord strongly advises everyone to get into the habit of taking soda twice a day. This is an amazing protective remedy against many serious diseases, in particular cancer” (Letters of Helena Roerich, vol. 3, p. 74).

January 4, 1935: “I take it daily, sometimes under severe stress, up to eight times a day, a coffee spoon. And I just pour it on my tongue and wash it down with water. Hot, but not boiled milk with soda also works remarkably well for all colds and central tensions” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 75).

“It’s good to give soda in hot milk to children” (P6, 20, 1).

July 18, 1935: “Then I advise you to take bicarbonate of soda twice a day. For pain in the epigastric region (tension in the solar plexus), baking soda is indispensable. And in general, soda is the most beneficial remedy, it protects against all sorts of diseases, starting from cancer, but you need to train yourself to take it every day without skipping... Also, for an aching and burning throat, hot milk, but not boiled, is indispensable, as well as with soda. The usual proportion is a coffee spoon per glass. I highly recommend soda to everyone. Also, make sure that the stomach is not burdened and the intestines are clean” (P, 06/18/35).

The Great Teacher advises the daily intake of soda twice a day to all people: “It is right that you do not forget the meaning of soda. It was not without reason that it was called the ashes of the Divine Fire. It belongs to those widely given medicines sent for the needs of all mankind. You should remember about soda not only in illness, but also in prosperity. As a connection with fiery actions, she is a shield from the darkness of destruction. But the body should be accustomed to it for a long time. Every day you need to take it with water or milk; When accepting it, you need to direct it, as it were, to the nerve centers. This way immunity can be gradually introduced.” (Fiery World, 2, 461).

“To ease diabetes, take soda... milk with soda is always good...” (Fiery World, 3, 536).

“The phenomenon of overflowing with psychic energy causes many symptoms both in the limbs and in the throat and stomach. Soda is useful to cause discharge, as well as hot milk...” (Heart, 88).

“For irritation and anxiety, I recommend milk in all forms, as a common antidote. Soda strengthens the effect of milk” (P. 534). “When there is anxiety, first of all, malnutrition and valerian, and, of course, milk and soda” (Heart, 548).

(Cure for cough) “...Musk and hot milk will be a good preservative. Just as cold milk does not unite with the tissues, just as hot milk with soda penetrates into the centers...” (Fiery World, 1, 58).

“Soda is useful and its meaning is so close to fire. The soda fields themselves were called the ashes of the Great Fire. So in ancient times people already knew the characteristics of soda. The surface of the Earth is covered with soda for widespread use” (Fiery World, 3, 595).

“Constipation is treated in various ways, overlooking the simplest and most natural one, namely: simple baking soda with hot milk. In this case, the metal sodium acts. Soda is given for widespread use by people. But they don’t know about this and often use harmful and irritating drugs” (Faces of Agni Yoga, 11, 327).

“Fiery tension is reflected in some functions of the body. So, in this case, for the proper functioning of the intestines, soda taken in hot milk is necessary... Soda is good because it does not cause intestinal irritation” (Faces of Agni Yoga, 11, 515).

“To the usual cleansing of the intestines, you can add regular intake of baking soda, which has the ability to neutralize many poisons...” (Faces of Agni Yoga, 12, 147. M.A.Y.).

On June 1, 1936, Helena Roerich wrote: “But soda has received universal recognition, and now it is popular especially in America, where it is used against almost all diseases... We are instructed to take soda twice a day, just like valerian, not missing a single day. Soda prevents many diseases, including even cancer” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 147).

Thus, the fact that cancer can be fought with ordinary baking soda was known at the beginning of the last century.

June 8, 1936: “In general, soda is useful for almost all diseases and is a preservative against many diseases, so do not be afraid to take it, just like valerian” (Letters, vol. 2, p. 215).

“This is an amazing protective remedy against many serious diseases, in particular cancer. I heard about a case of healing an old external cancer by covering it with soda. When we remember that soda is included as the main ingredient in the composition of our blood, its beneficial effect becomes clear. During fiery phenomena, soda is indispensable” (Letters 3, 19, 1).

About the doses of E.I. Roerich wrote: “The dose of soda for a boy (diabetic at 11 years old) is a quarter of a teaspoon four times a day” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 74).

“One English doctor... used simple soda for all sorts of inflammatory and cold diseases, including pneumonia. Moreover, he gave it in fairly large doses, almost a teaspoon up to four times a day per glass of milk or water. Of course, an English teaspoon is smaller than our Russian one. My family uses hot milk with soda for all colds, especially laryngitis and croupous cough. Put a teaspoon of soda on a cup of milk” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 116). “If you haven’t taken soda yet, then start in small doses, half a coffee spoon twice a day. Gradually it will be possible to increase this dose. Personally, I take two to three full coffee spoons daily. For pain in the solar plexus and heaviness in the stomach, I take much more. But you should always start with small doses” (Letters, vol. 3, p. 309).

The benefits of soda for plants are stated: “In the morning, you can water the plants by adding a pinch of soda to the water. At sunset you need to water it with a solution of valerian” (Agni Yoga, paragraph 387).

Human food “does not require acid from artificial preparations” (Agni Yoga, paragraph 442), i.e. The dangers of artificial acids are clearly stated, but artificial alkalis (soda and potassium bicarbonate) are much healthier than potassium chloride and orotate.

Healing vibration Throughout the body there are billions of capillaries, which are small but powerful blood pumps. By doing the exercises, you again turn on these mechanisms, the work of which has died down because you walk incorrectly, sleep incorrectly,