Product
Source and History The
magnesium salt used for the ZECHMAG products are sourced from the
Zechstein Sea. This sea, 250 million years ago, occupied the region of
what is now the North Sea plus the lowland areas of Britain and the
north European plain through the Netherlands, Germany and Poland.
Through evaporation and earth movements, the water in the sea
disappeared and the salt was covered, creating the deep underground
deposits. That is why the magnesium chloride salt from this source is
so pure. It has never been in contact with the modern day environment
and has no impurities such as acid rain and heavy metals found in
surface seawater. The type of salt found here is called BISCHOFITE.
This is a saline evaporite, consisting of Magnesium Chloride with the
formula MgCI2-6H20. This very high quality type of magnesium salt was
discovered by Karl Gustav Bischof (1792-1870) a German geologist and
mineral chemist at the University of Bonn in Germany.
Some History on the use of Magnesium
Chloride (excerpts from a
article by Dr. Raul Vergini, MD) Back
in 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet,MD, was looking for a
solution to cleanse wounds, because he had found out that the
traditional antiseptic solutions actually mortified tissues and
facilitated the infection instead of preventing it.
He
tested
several mineral solutions and discovered that a Magnesium Chloride
solution was not only harmless for tissues, but it had also a great
effect over leucocytic activity and phagocytosis; so it was perfect for
external wounds treatment.
Dr.Delbet performed a lot
of "in
vitro" and "in vivo" experiments with this solution and he became aware
that it was good not only for external applications, but it was also a
powerful immuno-stimulant if taken by injections or even by mouth. He
called this effect "cytophilaxis". In some "in vivo" experiments it was
able to increase phagocytosis rate up to 300%.
Dr.Delbet
serendipitously discovered that this oral solution had also a tonic
effect on many people and so became aware that the Magnesium Chloride
had an effect on the whole organism. In a brief time, he received
communications of very good therapeutics effects of this "therapy" from
people that were taking Magnesium Chloride for its tonic properties and
who were suffering from various ailments. Prof.Delbet began to closely
study the subject and verified that the Magnesium Chloride solution was
a very good therapy for a long list of diseases.
In
1943 another
French doctor, A.Neveu,MD, used the Magnesium Chloride solution in a
case of diphteria to reduce the risks of anaphylactic reaction due to
the anti-diphteric serum that he was ready to administer. To his great
surprise, when the next day the laboratory results confirmed the
diagnosis of diphteria, the little girl was completely cured, before he
could use the serum.
He credited the
immuno-stimulant activity
to the solution for this result, and he tested it in some other
diphteric patients. All the patients were cured in a very short time
(24-48 hours), with no after-effects.
As Magnesium
Chloride has
no direct effect on bacteria (i.e.it is not an antibiotic), Neveu
thought that its action was aspecific, immuno-enhancing, so it could be
useful, in the same manner, also against viral diseases. So he began to
treat some cases of poliomyelitis, and had the same wonderful results.
But
the indications for Magnesium Chloride therapy don't end here. In more
recent years other physicians have verified many of Delbet's and
Neveu's applications and have tried the therapy in other pathologies:
asthmatic acute attack, shock, tetanus (for these the solution is
administered by intravenous injection); herpes zoster, acute and
chronic conjunctivitis, optic neuritis, rheumatic diseases, many
allergic diseases, spring- asthenia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (even
in cancer it can be an useful adjuvant.
From a
practical
standpoint, please remember that only Magnesium CHLORIDE has this
"cytophilactic" activity, and no other magnesium salt; probably it's a
molecular, and not a merely ionic, matter.
History
on the Magnesium Chloride sourced from the underground Zechstein Sea In
the late 70”s, while drilling for natural gas in the northern
province of Groningen, Shell discovered the layer of mineral bischofite.
In
1979, Shell and Billiton formed a company. A mining operation was
developed together with a processing facility and production started in
1981
In 1994 the company was sold and changed names
with the new
owners working on improving the mining technology and getting a higher
quality product.
In 2001 Calcium Chloride was added
to the
product mix and the improved mining and processing systems improved the
quality of the salts.
In 2004 the company became
aware of the
transdermal application possibility and their efforts were quickly
recognized by the health sector as very beneficial for human
supplementation and dealing with the magnesium deficiency found in so
many people.
Health professionals throughout the
world have
become aware of the many advantages of transdermal application of
Magnesium Chloride and in 2007 Dr. Mark Sircus, AC., O.M.D. wrote the
book “TRANSDERMAL MAGNESIUM THERAPY,” that is fast
becoming
a best seller.
Quick Facts on Zechstein
Magnesium Chloride Deposits:
* The formation of magnesium chloride from the ancient Zechstein Sea is
over 250 million years old.
* The disappearance of the once active Zechstein Sea into an inactive
subterranean geological formation is due to a general marine regression
that accompanied the most severe extinction event in the history of
Earth – known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
* Zechstein magnesium chloride deposits are mined approximately 2
kilometers beneath the surface of the earth.
*
The Zechstein Sea was located in the Northern part of Europe, in the
European Permian Basin, extending from the eastern coast of England to
Northern Poland. * The Ancient
Zechstein Sea has
been kept unadulterated from modern contaminants for the past 250
million years due to deep subterranean isolation.
* The term “Zechstein” is German for
“tough
stone,” yet also corresponds to a unit of time in the
geologic
timetable. * Zechstein
magnesium salts are directly extracted from the earth by a process
known as solution mining.
