Magnetism may prevent malaria deaths

People for years have made fun of Dr Hulda Clark and her magnetic devices she developed.  It is exciting to me that Energy Medicine is on everyone’s mind, including the allopathic doctors now.  After years of them calling it woo woo, they act like they have now discovered something new.  That is OK with me, the fact they are now recognizing what most of us alternative users have known for years….

Magnetic Fields May Destroy Malaria

Scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle have devised an innovative strategy for destroying malaria parasites using an oscillating magnetic field. If further studies confirm their findings and their application in animals and people, this would be an inexpensive and simple way to treat a disease that affects 500 million people every year, almost all in Third World countries.

Malaria parasites feed on the “globin” part of hemoglobin, the pigment found in red blood cells. But the parasites lack the enzyme necessary to break down the iron-containing heme portion of hemoglobin–and heme is in fact toxic to them. In order to eliminate the toxic effects of free heme, malaria parasites form hemozoins–“quasi-crystalline” arrays of heme molecules

FULL ARTICLE……http://www.mercola.com/2000/may/7/magnet_malaria.htm

Munro, Margaret: Magnetism may prevent malaria deaths – Disease kills 2.7M per year. National Post Tuesday, April 04, 2000 

Magnetism appears to send malaria parasites for a deadly spin, say researchers who may have come up with a new way to control one of the worst killers on the planet. A Seattle team has shown that the parasites lose vigour and die when exposed to oscillating magnetic fields. The fields appear to make tiny iron-containing particles inside the parasite shake and spin, according to the scientists who envision treating malaria patients with such fields. “It would be very easy. People could come to the room and sit and read or whatever while they’re being treated. Or you could set it up in the back of a big transport truck, then drive from village to village to treat people,” says Henry Lai, a bioengineer at the University of Washington. “If further studies confirm our findings and their application in animals and people, this would be an inexpensive and simple way to treat a disease that affects 500 million people every year,” says Lai. The emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites in the past 20 years has created a huge obstacle to controlling this disease that kills about 2.7 million people each year, one million of them children. Lai doubts the parasite could develop resistance to magnetic fields. Malaria is spread by female mosquitoes. In people, the tiny parasites invade the liver, then re-emerge into the bloodstream and attack red blood cells causing fever, uncontrolled shivering, aches in the joints and headaches. Infected blood cells can block blood vessels to the brain, causing seizures and death. Lai and his colleagues exposed Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the four malaria parasite species, to a weak, alternating, or oscillating, magnetic field. Exposed samples ended up with 33% to 70% fewer parasites than unexposed samples. The magnetic fields appear to affect the “heme” molecules that are stacked inside the parasites like “tiny bar magnets,”says Lai. Heme is the iron portion of the haemoglobin molecule left after the parasite eats red blood cells. The alternating magnetic fields likely “shake” the stacked heme molecules, preventing further stacking, says Lai. Existing stacks in the cells are sent into deadly spins, says Lai. “We need to make certain that it won’t harm the host. My guess is that it won’t,” he says. “It’s a very weak magnetic field, just a little stronger than the Earth’s. The difference is that it is oscillating.”