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The following article was written for the
OAND Parenteral Therapy Course
Professional I.V.
Seminars
Virginia Osborne, RN, ND.
In Ontario Naturopathic Doctors with
specialized training are regulated to
perform I.V. therapy. Rationale for
Intravenous and Intramuscular Vitamin and
Mineral Therapy can be explained by the
following article:
By the time that symptoms of disease have
made their appearance, it is sometimes too
late for oral vitamins and minerals to make
much difference. Nevertheless, these same
vitamins and minerals, given intramuscularly
or intravenously, can benefit many diseases.
At first glance, this looks like a
contradiction. If nutrients can be used to
handle disease, it should not matter by
which route they enter the body. However,
there is good reason why this does matter.
It is a fact of biology that all life,
except for viruses, is composed of cells and
cell products. When we attempt to bring a
disease under control, what we are really
trying to do is provide cells with all the
nutrients that they need to get the job
done. If the cells are not healthy, we are
not healthy, since our bodies are composed
entirely of cells and cell products.
So we approach the problem of curing disease
as a problem of the “cell”. We think if the
health of a single cell to clarify our
thinking, understanding “the cell” is
actually billions of cells. We want to
provide the cell what it needs to exist in a
healthy condition. What the cell needs to be
maximally healthy is always found in nature.
However to work, these nutrients must be
admitted into the cell, through the cell
wall, to the inside of the cell. This is
called “transport” and constitutes work done
by the cell and thus requires energy. The
best nutrient formula does no good when the
nutrients remain in the extra cellular space
(outside the cell), circulating around the
body, waiting to be filtered out by the
kidneys.
There is another method by which nutrients
enter the cells: by absorption. Nutrients
slip through the wall without requiring the
participation of the cell or any work from
the cell. The cell wall is thus said to be
“semi permeable”; i.e., it will keep out all
but a small percentage of nutrients unless
they are actively transported from the
outside of the cell to the inside.
Absorption is a minor method of nutrient
entry into cells, under ordinary conditions.
It depends on a “concentration gradient”, as
the biochemists call it; i.e., it depends on
nutrients being in a higher concentration in
the outside of the cell compared to the
inside of the cell.
Now comes the point: if the cell is sick, it
does not perform its functions well. One of
these functions which it does not perform
well is transport of nutrients across the
cell wall. Therefore, we have a Catch-22:
the cell is too sick to transport the
nutrients in sufficient quantity to create
health? What to do?
The answer is simple: give the nutrients in
a concentration high enough to force these
nutrients into the cell by means of a high
concentration gradient and the ability if
the cell wall to absorb without expending
its energy on active transport. When given
in high concentration, IV or IM nutrients
enter the cell by shear force of numbers.
Highly concentrated on the outside, the
“semi permeable” cell wall admits the
nutrients due to the high concentration
gradient which has been created.
Therefore, if the cell can only absorb ten
percent of what it needs under conditions of
usual concentration, and we increase the
concentration of nutrients availability by
1000% (ten times the usual), we
automatically increase absorption by 100%
[10% (0.10) x 1000= 100%} of normal. Then,
provided we introduced the proper nutrients,
the cell becomes healthy and able to
transport needed nutrients when those
nutrients are in usual concentrations. The
numbers used here are not meant to be
accurate for any particular nutrient but
simply to demonstrate the principles
involved.
The only way to increase the concentration
of a nutrient by this “1000%” is by
intravenous or intramuscular injection. Why
is this? Because the cells of the stomach
and the intestine can transport and absorb
only so fast, and this is not fast enough to
create a high concentration gradient
throughout the body. IV and IM
administration bypasses the stomach and
produces an instant large increase in
concentration, which is presented to every
cell in the body. The intravenous route is
especially useful for this purpose, because
no time is required for absorption from an
injection site in a muscle.
It is not always necessary to resort to the
“parenteral” (intravenous or intramuscular)
routes of administration, and we do not do
this unless necessary. Many diseases can be
handled by large oral doses of vitamins and
minerals, but when this is not effective,
parenteral administration provides a real
benefit.
Because the effects on normal function of
synthetic drugs are unpredictable,
especially when given parenterally, there is
a great fear of this route of
administration. Most people have known or
heard of someone who has died from an IM or
an IV synthetic drug. The situation is
different with vitamins and minerals. These
substances are natural to the body and, when
given in proper doses by an experienced
Naturopathic Doctor, are as safe as the day
is long. “Idiosyncratic” reactions, which
often happen with synthetic drugs, are far
LESS common with substances that are natural
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