Tuesday, January 19, 2010

HEALTH Great Malaria Frequency Treatment News!

Malaria is a condition of which 500 million people are affected every year, with as many as 2.7 million dying, mostly children. Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted by mosquitoes in warm and damp areas, especially in Africa. The parasites are becoming increasingly resistant against the available drugs.

Prof Henry Lai at the University of Washington in Seattle studied the mechanism by which artemisinin, a natural compound used against the malaria parasite, works to kill the parasite. It has to do with the interaction of artemisinin with iron that is stacked within the parasite. Looking at the iron stacks, Prof. Lai wondered whether treatment with an oscillating magnetic field could maybe kill the parasite.

Lab tests were successful and Prof. Lai published his work in 2000, hoping that others would take up the idea and develop units that could be used to treat malaria with magnetic fields. Unfortunately, this did not happen.

I saw Prof. Lai's study some three years ago and was amazed that 6 years after publication, no one had developed any application of it! So I set out to do just that. It took 12 months to develop three prototypes of the device. They are man-sized devices, the larges one almost 2 meters (7 feet) tall. While developing the units, we started to network with African Governments in endemic areas to see whether we could run a test wit the devices. Finally we had the blessing of the Ghana Health Ministry. My right hand Konrad and myself traveled to Ghana in February of 2008 to start the tests.

How to get three large units into an African country is a science in itself, but we finally sailed around all cliffs and were ready to go. Our first aim was to try the treatment with patients that had los levels of parasites, just to see whether there would be any adverse effects. We worked with 4 patients. There were no adverse effects, but also the before and after tests showed that malaria was cleared in a very short treatment time with our units!

We then went on to work with a hospital to treat a larger number of patients -- the goal was to treat some 30 patients. After a few days we realized that we could not use those tests because the lab at the hospital bungled al lour blood test slides. At the end of our time in Ghana, we had only our first 4 (but very good) results and the useless hospital experience. We did not have the time to continue at that time but instructed a local professional on how to use the machines.

Now our first study is finished and 26 patients were treated. Out of the 26 patients, all except one became negative with the magnetic treatment! One felt worse the day after treatment started and decided to go for medication instead, so he dropped out of the study. The other 25 patients all became negative. And the ones who did not have high levels of parasites, were negative right after the first 60 minutes of treatment! This is so fast that we do not really have an explanation of how it could work so quickly. But the results are nothing short of sensational.

Now our goal is to do a second study and to get others on board to turn this into a household unit for treatment of malaria.

Some pictures from our Ghana trip:

This is what the machine looks like:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_S_in_machine_small.JPG
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_S_in_machine2_small.JPG

With my assistant Konrad:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_David_Koni_small.JPG

I used a magnetic field meter to ensure the correct field strength:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_measuring_small.JPG

Looking at some blood slides at the lab:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_Eshun_mic_small.JPG
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_David_mic_small.JPG

Some impressions from Ghana:

The streets can get quite busy here:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_busy_street_small.JPG

If you jump this wall you pay a 100'000 Cedi fine:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_do_not_jump_wall_small.JPG

Carrying things on your head is practical and good for posture. It is amazing how much people manage to pile on their heads here without it falling off:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_head_small.JPG

Posing with a soccer star at the club. Because of the African Cup, they were all over the place!
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_soccer_small.JPG

We suspected this might be a soccer fan:
http://www.drclark.com/pictures/CIMG_soccer_car_small.JPG

7 comments:

  1. Looking at the malaria machine i presume each of horizontal square rings is a coil.It occurs to me the design could be simplified and be made cheaper by replacing the 6 coils by 2 vertical cheap helmholtz coils.

    look in google images for helmholtz coils.they are nothing more than flat pancake shaped flat circular or rectangular coils.

    by using the helmholtz coils you would basically have a u shaped machine with the person sitting between the 2 helmholtz coils.

    the device could be powered by mains,car battery or solar panels.A recent 2011 research paper by robert brown confirmed that the malaria parasite is weakened by the oscillating magnetic field.

    please read that paper by robert brown by typing oscillating magnetic fields in google.it is a 18 page pdf file showing scientific experiment on the malaria parasite by using a simple 5 hertz oscillating magnetic field.

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  2. I just had an brilliant idea.
    To reduce the expense of the machine.
    why not just have the helmholtz coils in 2 blankets?

    in the same way as an electric blanket.

    one blanket would be beneath the patient.the other on top.they would both be wired to a oscillator which would generate the oscillating magnetic field.

    you can even get rid of the oscillator altogether by simply piping the mains current through the helmholtz coils direct which would be wired in anti phase to each other.

    the extreme simplicity and reliability of such a setup is evident,portability,cheapness,ease of use.you could have blankets i metre long or 20 twenty metres long

    the patient would be simply lie between the 2 blankets for an hour have a snooze and then walk away with the malaria parasite much weakened and his immune system taking care of it.

    any comments.


    I forgot to add that the frequency of the oscillation is not important.

    in the 2008 patent 5 to 15 hertz and also 1000 to 1020 hertz was tried.The higher frequency is slightly more effective.In this case the electric blanket idea the frequency is determined by the mains power frequency which is usually 50 60 hertz in most places.electric blankets used for heating cold beds are also wired directly to the mains.in this case the coils of wire are used to generate anti phase magnetic fields in the 2 blankets.

    what do you think?

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  3. Before you read any more of this blog please Google the name of it's author "David P. Amrein" and and the consumer protection agency the "Federal Trade Commission",
    e.g. http://www.ftc.gov/search/site/%22David%20P.%20Amrein%22?f[0]=bundle_name%3ACase

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  4. Dhnpx Ohfgre is probably working for big pharma and wants to stop
    anything that competes with big pharma products.He has some kind of issues.

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  5. John Smith wrote: “Dhnpx Ohfgre is probably working for big pharma ..”

    Not true : I don't work in the pharmaceutical industry. I just asked people to Google the name of the author of this blog, " David P. Amrein " and " Federal Trade Commission ", which is a consumer protection agency run by the American government. Then readers can put the statements in this blog into perspective.

    http://www.ftc.gov/search/site/%22David%20P.%20Amrein%22

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    1. Federal Trade Commision? haaaa haaaaa Just like the fda/cdc is totally corrupt.

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  6. Federal Trade Commision? haaaa haaaaa Just like the fda/cdc is totally corrupt.

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