What do intermittent claudication and Raymaud’s phenomenon have in common? In each, blood flow in the veins and arteries become restricted, jeopardizing the arms or legs. The late Ella Fitzgerald lost her legs to blocked circulation brought on by her diabetes. In 1993, the year she turned 75, Fitzgerald had both legs amputated.
When her legs completely lost their circulation, they became gangrenous and had to be cut off. I believe Ms Fitzgerald’s legs could have been saved if she had taken early steps to not only nutritionally correct her diabetes, but also use alternative treatments for the resultant vascular disease. What is very important in the case of any circulation problem is that early warning signs are not ignored. They include muscle cramping. Tingling in legs or arms, numbness, and pain when walking. Do not wait until you cannot walk 200 feet without stopping in excruciating pain-do something about I now! And I am here to tell you much can be done!
Magnesium is the heart smart mineral because it works so well to not only protect the veins and arteries from becoming blocked, but can be used to “flush” them clean. British physician Browne writes in the Journal of Nutritional Medicine that he has used shots of magnesium sulfate for over 35 years to successfully teat gangrene, leg ulcers, Raynaud’s disease and intermittent claudication, adding that it has been used in cases of cardiovascular disease for the last 60 years. This is not new to the medical world, only to you and me. Now I am letting the secret out.
What is interesting about Raynaud’s is how conventional medicine regards it. You hear it referred to as a syndrome: a collection of symptoms or a phenomenon: just a couple of relatively harmless symptoms, easily dealt with, or a disease. If they call it a disease, you know they are taking it seriously, which they should. People die from Raynaud’s, but when the symptoms are described, it is hard to take it seriously. They are described as “cold hands,” color changes occurring bilaterally in the hands evoked by cold and emotions,” and “extremities become cold and turn blue.” The point I want to make here is that conventional medicine does not evaluate what causes these circulation symptoms, choosing to simply treat the symptoms with warmth of drugs. When the restricted arteries don not pop open again and let the blood flow properly, doctors call this secondary Raymaud’s Constricted long enough, the fingers; toes, ears or nose will become gangrenous. Something has to be done long before this happens.
Two Swedish researchers studied the effect of short-term intravenous magnesium sulfate in treating Raynaud’s the Department of Research, IAMU University of Uppsala Central Hospital, In Vaster; Sweden reported that magnesium is beneficial for the treatment of primary Raynaud’s phenomenon.
