The 8 Most Poisonous Animals

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charmela — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:52:06 GMT

Snake venom is used in some prescription drugs for lowering blood pressure.

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Obelix — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:13:36 GMT

Is this skin, I see under the funnel spider? Is the person already dead or is it the female spider?

The male spiders are smaller and much more toxic than the females.

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skip smyth — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:40:54 GMT

Three exes missed this list. Credibility is lost.

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marjosy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:30:21 GMT

What about the cerabral palsy patient, who suffers from severe muscle spasms, in the neck and shoulder area, and these spasms shoot pain into the head? I understand that severe cerabral palsy patients, at a young age, has had these botox injections administered for years.

What is a cerabral palsy patient to do without some kind of help for these severe muscle spasms? I care for one of these patients and she is 50 years old and has recently had 2 sets of injections, about 5 months apart from each other. These botox injections, that are administered in a neurologist's office with the help of a machine that detects where the spasms are the worst and that is where the doctor places a small bit of the botox, resulting in giving back movement to this patient. Without these injections the cerebral palsy patient sits endlessly in a chair and cannot move and cries around the clock with the pain that these spasms cause.

Also, have you heard of the severe arthitis patients that cannot move and have honey bees sting them for a pain relief? My husband was a beekeeper and people would contact him to be permitted to gather a few bees at times, to sting the patient they were caring for.

What natural remedy would help these patients?

My sister has lived with her cerebral palsy her entire life and it wasn't due to poor eating habits. It was due to being an RH baby. Just please advise, how do you turn this around and make these muscle spasms stop, that are triggered from the part of the brain that was damage in her first days of life?

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Zach Lundberg — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:39:11 GMT

i have a friend that got poisoned by a box jellyfish, and his whole arm is paralyzed

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Beccadog — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:45:31 GMT

Visiting China in 2005, the Chinese physician aboard a Yangtze River cruise ship spoke of how Western medicine is made from petrochemicals, while Chinese medicine comes from various wild plants (herbs) and animals, including snakes. **Certain species are used to treat stiffness for arthritis in traditional and patient prescriptions and they are sometimes soaked in alcohol to make an extract for stiff joints....**

Poisonous animals often cause paralysis when they bite, due to the presence of neurotoxins. In China, they **are then used medically by oral administration...for the treatment of convulsions (by inhibiting intense muscle contractions). Also, some forms of paralysis are “tonic” in nature, that is, due to overcontraction of muscles, and in such cases the nerve toxins can overcome paralysis. Agkistrodon (but not zaocys) is a poisonous snake used for epilepsy and paralysis. Scorpions and millipedes (scolopendra) are used similarly. Anti-convulsive activity is also ascribed to snake skin and cicada skin....One of the best known remedies using snake bile is San She Dan Chuan Bei Mu, or the mixture of three snake gallbladders plus the herb fritillaria (F. thunbergii)... a major active component—the bile acid known as taurocholic acid—was analyzed in the 16 species of snakes now traded commonly and in 8 samples of snake bile and fritillaria liquids.** The highest level of this component was in the bile from a species of a cobra type snake, which is used in cough remedies.

More at: www.itmonline.org/.../snakes.htm

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:36:57 GMT

I'm correcting myself again.

It was not George W. Bush who appointed former Monsanto attorney and lobbyist, Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. It was his father. **On July 2, 1991 President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall who had recently announced his retirement...it was seen as likely to move the ideological balance to the right.

en.wikipedia.org/.../Clarence_Thomas

Monsanto, the largest and most poisonous biotech-pesticide company of them all, has researchers working with the university system in the USA, and friends everywhere which have allowed the potential contamination of our food, not only by Roundup, but by non-peer reviewed scientific studies on genetically modified organisms in food.

While this did occur partially in the Clinton Administration, it occurred under 1) Reagan-Bush; 2) Bush-Quayle; and two terms of Bush-Cheney, with no end in sight, now that the Supreme Court has moved to the wrong side, against the public good.

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:16:53 GMT

CORRECTION: It was Clarence (NOT RICHARD) Thomas, who was nominated and became a Supreme Court justice. And, it was Clarence Thomas, (not Richard), who has been the lobbyist for Monsanto.

My apology for the mistake.

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:12:56 GMT

**At the request of Monsanto, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency increased the allowable amount of glyphosate residues on sugar beetroots by a whopping 5000%. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, sugar is extracted from the beet's root. The inevitable result is more glyphosate pesticide in our sugar. This is not good news for those who want to enjoy their sweet treats without the threat of ingesting toxic weed killer.

In 2001, Hershey's, M&M Mars, and American Crystal Sugar told consumers they would not use genetically engineered sugar. But now that sugar beets are close to being planted commercially, they have made no such assurances.**

Tell Hershey's, Mars, and American Crystal to show us the love, and keep our sweets GE-Free!

Without labeling of GE products, we have to rely on companies that have publicly stated that they will avoid GE ingredients in order to make our purchasing decisions.

This information came to me by way of Center for Food Safety to a newsletter of which I subscribe. This is just another food product brought to us by the Republicans for Monsanto's control of all edibles on the planet. If you control the farmers, you control the citizenry.

GM seeds are one of the reasons why Bush-Rumsfield took us to war in Iraq, to destroy the seeds of the Iraqi farmers, give them GMO seeds. But if the GMO seeds are planted, they are required to buy Roundup.

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php

It's not just Clinton, look to the Republicans for genetically modified organisms in the marketplace.

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:00:27 GMT

Patty D wrote: think Bill Clinton would have to take #9 (personally I think #1) if, for no other reason than that he was bought by Monsanto and unleashed GMO foods on us!! !

The first Genetically Modified Organisms came onto the market with aspartame. **September 30, 1980-- The Public Board of Inquiry concludes NutraSweet should not be approved pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals. The board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."...

January 1981-- Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going to make a big push to get aspartame approved within the year. Rumsfeld says he will use his political pull in Washington, rather than scientific means, to make sure it gets approved.

January 21, 1981-- Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President of the United States. Reagan's transition team, which includes Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of G. D. Searle, hand picks Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner. ..

July 15, 1981-- In one of his first official acts, Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr., the new FDA commissioner, overrules the Public Board of Inquiry, ignores the recommendations of his own internal FDA team and approves NutraSweet for dry products. Hayes says that aspartame has been shown to be safe for its' proposed uses and says few compounds have withstood such detailed testing and repeated close scrutiny.

October 15, 1982-- The FDA announces that Searle has filed a petition that aspartame be approved as a sweetener in carbonated beverages and other liquids.**

www.rense.com/.../legal.htm

Many genetically modified organisms have been allowed onto the market by mostly Republicans, including GW Bush, who appointed Monsanto lobbyist Richard Thomas to the Supreme Court. GMO Sugar beets have now been placed on the market and will be in a variety of foods, again under Bush-Cheney administration.

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HerbsnCats — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:39:34 GMT

Thanks, Dr. Mercola, for bringing us some of the coolest things in one place. Our house just loves reading your newsletter. And thank the good Lord for giving us Homeopathy to cure some of our ills and mistakes. Last year, after adopting a little kitten who had a severe eye infection so that we could give him medical care, our resident cats became very ill. And this was after Kitten was fostered for 6 weeks before coming home to us. Thanks to Homeopathy (and some amazing Vets!), we were able to save the lives of our pet cats and found out after the outbreak that they had Feline Parvo or Panleukopenia, which is frequently fatal. Also shows how much sicker our pet population is getting as well. Scary! Anyway, thanks for your wonderful work!

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DizzyIzzy1 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:41:27 GMT

I'm glad someone mentioned the homoeopathic application of toxins to heal - it isn't a flawed concept in itself; the use of the toxins in the pharmaceutical way is flawed. It's worked brilliantly for centuries in homoeopathy, with no side effects and cures aplenty.

This does make Australia sound rather scary, but it really isn't. You just get used to what's around you and live alongside it, with respect. And if you do get stung, learn what to do to minimise the effects.

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TWS500 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:47:15 GMT

All you Aussies must come from hardy stock indeed..... You all have my utmost respect...!!!! How do you all stay "stuck" on the bottom of the Earth like that anyway.....??

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John Ourant — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:14 GMT

From the perspective of homeopathy, using these toxins in the attempt to heal is just a poor application of the law of similars--like cures like. Many homeopathic remedies are made from deadly toxins, but potentized so that a kind of information from the substance remains but the actual chemical toxin is gone. It's interesting that conventional medicine also can see the healing potential of these substances, except that their conventional chemistry-only world view means that you have to get poisoned along with any possible benefit. And if it's not the right medicine for you then all you get is poisoned.

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randor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:44:39 GMT

Dont forget that Homeopathy has been using toxins (in very dilute quantatities) to completely cure illness for 200 years.