professor louis-claude vincents water science

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this is quite a long read, but very interesting in the arena of water as it relates to the health of our body. from biomedx.com
Many websites and companies say that there is no proof of water ph having anything to do with our health, but it looks like we have some research on it….. you decide for yourself.

UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGICAL TERRAIN FOR HEALTH – Core Concepts

Flow Systems Analysis is a method that is able to measure several factors of the fluid dynamics of the internal environment of the body. This environment is often referred to as the “terrain” or “biological terrain”. While the various fields of medicine examine, isolate or treat one particular part or system of the body, Flow Systems Analysis gains feedback about the operation of the entire internal biochemical/electrical environment. This complete picture of information gives the health care practitioner a baseline on which to adjudge his selected course of treatment as well as an objective procedure for monitoring the real effectiveness of his treatment on an on-going basis. This dynamic form of physiological biofeedback helps uncover the underlying cause or causes of a patient’s imbalance or illness, rather then treating a list of “symptoms”.

Let’s talk about health and farming for a moment as they both have some things in common. Before a farmer plants his seed, he needs to be concerned with the balance of the soil in which he is going to plant. One of the primary things the farmer looks at is the soils pH balance, the mineral balance, hydration level, healthy bacteria levels and other factors that give him an idea of the soil’s “terrain” – i.e. the environment in which that seed is going to grow. If the terrain is unbalanced, that little seed is going to have a much harder time growing into a big strong plant. As it grows, nutrient uptake from the soil can be diminished leaving the plant with a poor “immune system” so to speak and it becomes more susceptible to disease, competing foliage and parasites in the environment. The need for herbicides and pesticides increases in proportion to the decreasing health of the soil.

Your body’s cells are similar to that little seed. There is a “soil” for your cells. It is your internal bodily environment. To maintain health and to keep going strong, your cells need their own balanced terrain. This is their “biological terrain”. And here also we are concerned with pH balance, mineral balance, hydration levels, good bacteria in the gut and other items of importance. Very simply, when these things are off balance the body is off balance. And when it’s off balance, it is reflected in the body’s blood, interstitial and intercellular fluids. One of the most dynamic of bodily fluids is the blood.

By observing living blood under a microscope, we can get a real-time, dynamic and concrete visual perspective of the state of our internal biological terrain or body ecology. This however is only a QUALITATIVE picture. But behind this qualitative picture lie the QUANTITATIVE numbers which “pushed” the picture into being what it is.

It is these quantitative numbers that are the basis for Flow Systems Auditing and it is the numbers offered through this form of physiological biofeedback that lie behind the visual picture of blood which someone might view under the microscope.

Quantifying the nature of the picture points the practitioner to the primary homeostatic balance points affecting health. This is the next step for clinical clarity of what the picture means and for providing spot-on client assistance.

BACKGROUND

The work of Vincent

A 19th century physiologist, Professor Claude Bernard, believed that the environment of the cell, which he termed the milieu intérieur, determined the cell’s function and integrity.

Around 1935 the French hydrologist Professor Louis-Claude Vincent became interested in measuring parameters reflective of human health. He invented la Méthode Bioélectronique Vincent. After much research in collaboration with Dr. Jeanne Rousseau, Vincent’s first Bioélectronimètre became operational in 1948. Prof. Vincent correlated the electrical values of pH (potential hydrogen – acid/alkaline balance), rH2 (oxidation–reduction potential), and R (resistivity – level of electrically conductive ions) to the body fluids of blood, urine and saliva. The application of this correlation in classical biological terrain analysis yields nine numbers or parameters that are used in establishing the condition of the biological terrain of the body.

Independent of Vincent and Rousseau, biomathematician Prof. Janos Kemeny actually proved the basis of Méthode Bioélectronique Vincent; Kemeny’s work was published in Bulletin der Akademie der Wissenschaft, Berlin, February 1953: “Beitrag zur physikalischen und mathematischen Erklärung der Reaktionsvermögens der lebenden Organismen”.

Professor Louis-Claude Vincent concluded at the second International Convention for Medical Electronics in 1959, that the key to understanding health was through monitoring and controlling the body’s building blocks which are found in the body fluids (Palais de l’Unesco, Paris).

The biocellular environment determines the body’s tendency toward developing various metabolic imbalances that can lead to disease.

This is a scientifically based, clinically reproducible research procedure which displays the “soil” values for living organisms. Variations away from the “norm” are indicative of an individual’s a”predisposition” to different pathophysiological states.

A soap and a scrub in one

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Our favorite variety so far

Whats new here at The Soap box Shop???  Well, we have been playing around with some salt based soaps!!  I really  like the idea of detoxing the pores while moisturizing and cleaning the skin,  so the experimenting has begun.   So far we have married both fine and course himalayan salts with goats milk soap, olive oil soap and milky glycerin soaps.  Some soaps we did only course, some only fine, and some are a combo-I have used the combo the past few days and really like the feel of my skin after the shower.   I think we will play with scents and colors next to see how that looks and feels.  

Fine on one side, course on the other. olive oil soap

An email from our friends at Vermont Soap regarding Hurricane Irene

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Hi Folks,

Many thanks for the emails and well wishes from everyone. We are all alive and well in central Vermont!

Hurricane Irene came through and dumped nine feet of water on us in a single day. Water levels rose slowly for several hours, and then jumped dramatically higher. Within 15 minutes overworked culverts failed, and then were tossed aside like candy wrappers. A hundred bridges collapsed in Central VT including 15 covered bridges that had stood for nearly 150 years. Our little town of Rochester (pop 1200 on weekends) was completely cut off from the outside world. Electricity failed, but our town’s well made water system worked continuously through the crisis. The sewer plant shut down and sewer mains were washed aside like the overwhelmed culverts that, once gone, left ten foot deep gashes across our main roads, secondary roads, and driveways.

One of our friends lost their home when it crashed down into the raging brook. I had dropped off one of their daughters (who works for my wife at her Bakery) just an hour before.

Fording tire deep water, downed power lines and trees (I drove with a chainsaw to get around the first day) I evacuated my wife and a neighbor from the Bakery just as downtown was cut off by rising water and moving gravel. I made 4 trips across a swollen brook crossing ferrying people and supplies. Walking to a nearby friend’s house to dry off, we had a beer and a chat. When I went back to the brook I found myself staring down into a 12 foot ravine! The entire area I had just been driving on was gone. Sobering thought.

Yet another ravine blocked the way to our warm and dry, solar powered paradise. We hiked a solid mile to home, but enjoyed hot showers and a video while most of our town stood dark and the storm slowed through the night until the winds arrived. Our mountain house sustained no damage at all, but the road was trashed. Whole sections of town were cut off from the center, where some services (fuel, water some generated power) existed. Anyone with a working front loader, dump truck, excavator or backhoe (or just a strong back and a shovel) jumped in to help. I removed 5 trees from the road heading down the mountain.

The valleys were hit hard. There is a power transmission line running 28 feet above a cornfield. I saw the power line in the water with my own eyes. Eight homes I know of were destroyed. I photographed a 7.5ft water mark in one friend’s kitchen. Many houses had extensive water damage and a thick layer of clay coating the first floor. The town cemetery washed out and coffins floated in the water and lodged on rock piles willy nilly.

Our town was completely alone. Everyone squared away their families as best they could and got to work. People, who cooked, cooked. People who ran heavy equipment jumped in. Organizers organized, volunteers volunteered, and everyone shared what they had. We kept the Bakery open, making French bread and bagels and soothing frayed nerves. People who had money paid. People with credit wrote it down. Everyone who worked or was devastated could eat for free.

I learned what anarchy is during those three days. Anarchy is not rioting in the streets. Anarchy is not pillaging and looting. Anarchy is when your buddy jumps out of the truck and starts directing traffic while something is going on, and then leaves when the operation is completed. Anarchy is feeding people because they are hungry and giving them showers because they are dirty. Then you continue doing what you were doing before you stopped doing that and did the thing that needed doing at that moment.

I confess that I was more than a little disappointed when FEMA, Red Cross, National Guard, State Police, the Governor and the Bethel volunteer fire department showed up to check in on us. We appreciated the attention, but we just didn’t need water, air and rope rescuers anymore and we all had to stop walking around town drinking our beers in public and driving our ATVs on the main road. CVPS power showed up with a dozen Canadian line trucks in tow. Despite the talk from the State Troopers scaring the old ladies by telling them they would be cut off for 3 to 6 months, the intrepid crews had power going within 24 hours. We all cheered when they drove by.

Farmers in Brandon dropped off produce, musicians from Ripton wanted to know where to send money to. I drove over the mountain on newly restored roads (single lane only) and went to the Soap Factory for the first time that week. The air of normalcy was unnerving. People waited for the ATM, went shopping, and drove right by without waving.

I missed the crisis, the camaraderie, the shared sense of danger and challenge, and the town work party atmosphere. The danger had passed, months of cleanup and insurance claims remained. No one lost their life and no one got hurt, and we met a lot of people we never spoke to before. Soon our town will appear normal too. I hope it won’t be too normal.

All the Best,
 Larry Plesent and the Soap Crew