Baking Soda Addiction Follow-up by Dorcas Anne Gerace
Back in March we republished Dorca's article A Rising Health Risk which talks about the dangers of consuming baking powder / soda which is found in many so called healthy baked goods, even those using the label of macrobiotic. Though we thought the article would serve as a reminder that these substances should be avoided to the greatest extent possible, it also attracted comments from two people that suffer from in their own words baking soda addiction. This is definitely something that I was unfamiliar with, but after reading the comments, it appears for some to be a legitimate concern. In the same spirit that Dorcas wrote her original article, to get helpful information out to as many people as possible, she has been gracious enough to write additional material here to try to address the concerns of those suffering from Baking Soda addiction. By all means we would like to see anyone else that suffers from this to further post their own comments regarding it.
Comments by Dorcas
When I read the comments on CyberMacro from those suffering from baking soda addiction, one of the few thoughts that has arisen in my mind has to do with PMS to begin with.
With all the PMS stuff we are faced with, over half of it iatrogenic disease(treatments to young girls when first beginning menstruating suffering from ammenorhea and dysmenorhea;, the pill, obesity, mood disorders, abortion, tubals, hysterectomies), many of the women killing their husbands during the time of their PMS, injuring their children, commiting crimes, unaccountable for their actions because they were acting out their illness without any tools to practice to "bust" themselves in the moment it is happening (no awareness, mostly because no one taught them how to), we can only guess what kind of strategies they would perpetrate on themselves and others with the brain/nervous system, mental/emotional pain they carry. They needs lots of mercy and compassion as we set about to build/teach that awareness of the "them" they are not, to the Soul they are so they can be led back to Source while using this body to go back.
There is also the use of alcohol/street and over the counter drugs while pubescent and its resultant brain damage, largely the hythothalamus that has affected the delicate Master Gland Loop.
There is also the use of high fat, the use of free flowing fats, saturated fats with more implications that butter fat, lard and beef tallow, the meats and heavy use of dairy that produce large amounts of estrogen and hormones that are implicated with PMS and the brain.
Follows are some examples I wish to use as ideas for those seeking to explore how issues might build in the tissue that may be useful, or not, in getting wider vision and compassion for searching out ways to get some clarity about health situations s/he might be wondering about:
Sometimes mothers who take lots of vitamin C during their pregnancy deliver babies addicted to it and the children develop scurvy as a result. We have the report of Linus Pauling's bout with prostate cancer. George Ohsawa talked about how we had yet, at the time he wrote about the use of Vitamin C, to know what the ramifications would be.
We have many examples of women delivering crack and cocaine babies.
My husband's mother took large amounts of calcium when she was pregnant and when his teeth came in, he had to have 14 teeth extracted because they overlapped the ones we would know as normal in their placement. The cause, even way back then, was linked to his mother's overuse of calcium supplements.
Perhaps, these folks who are writing about their addictions to baking soda are responding to chemistry in themselves that is linked to their wombtime or other times in their young lives?
For the ones who have sought for and found relief in the use of sodium bicarbonate, I have a concern that goes like this...what is being suppressed may one day surface with a different label or location that can be connected with the direct use of the product or as called also, side effects. Just like the rhesus monkey studies way back in the 60's when the studies of the effects of the use of polyunsaturated oils was doing to cholestrol, which was a robust celebration because it was found them to lower the cholestrol. However, when the studies were taken to the step of autopsying the monkeys, it was found that the plaque was sent into the walls of the arteries setting up pathologies of arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, and atheromas.
If we look at the 5 Element Chart, we could look at the Spleen/Pancreas/ Stomach, Earth Element and Heart/small intestine organ energies and look at addiction from those standpoints. Addiction is about emotion-backed demands, obsessive/compulsive behaviours where one believes s/he absolutely needs something to be happy; and the trigger is in the same place in the brain as for substances. This can be disempowering without tools to help one take time out to pull away with awareness to see oneself saying and doing behaviours that are not meaningful to one's purpose. They are not "bad", just tragically expressing their need for happiness/relief/comfort from symptoms.
And we can look at the Acid/Alkaline (see Acid/Alkaline, Herman Aihara for a start) and see that the need for relief from the use of some very acidifying items that we seek relief with extreme alkaline ones. The both of which are pathology inducing eventually.
Sodium bicarbonate is not grown on/in the earth. It cannot grow if planted and bear food which feeds us. I am hoping that these folks who are yearning for relief and truth to helping themselves would be willing to do more research about long range possibilitites for their projects, rather than palliative, magic bullet immediate relief that is short term, though used for years, to help avoid complications down the road.
I should like to recommend Dr. Kaare Bursell, whose medical background is veterinary medicine, but now his expertise is devoted to balancing the human organism using macrobiotic principles and wisdom. He can be reached at alchemycalpages.com
Am I being helpful?
Dorcas Anne Gerace, US
Dorcas Teaching at the GOMF Summer Camp 2003
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Dorcas Gerace resides in Lake Montezuma, AZ and at present is not taking appointments.
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