Silicon, the Architectural Element
A silicon rich diet protects against
aging and degenerative diseases including cancer, arthritis and osteoporosis.
Silicon (Si) is a non-metallic
hexagonal shaped element, with atomic number 14 in the periodic table. The
element Silicon rapidly oxidizes to form silica or “sand.” SiO2 arranges itself
into the highly ordered spiral configuration of quartz crystal. By mass,
silicon makes up 25.7% of the Earth's crust and is the second most abundant
element on Earth, after oxygen. It is found as biogenic silica in plants,
animals and in most living organisms. It is present in the cell walls of
various plants (including edible ones) to strengthen their structural
integrity. Bird feathers are composed of 70% silicon. The silicon in tissues is
usually bonded to glycoproteins such as cartilage, whereas the silicon in the
blood is almost entirely found as either free orthosilicic acid or linked to
small compounds.
This trace element really helps to bind
protein molecules together in the blood vessels and connective tissues.
Collagen is the "body glue" that holds our skin and muscle tissues
together and silicon a component of collagen. Collagen protein comprises the
connective tissue of the trachea, the aorta, skin, bone, hair, nails, cartilage
and ligaments. Silicon is found in almost all body tissue and has numerous
functions, not all structural, including assisting removing mercury from the
body. Silicon is involved the water binding and protein swelling necessary for
all plasma life processes. Aging
involves dehydration of the cells and consequent desiccation and denaturing of
protein through disruption in osmotic exchanges. In that silicon works to
prevent dehydration it helps prevent aging.
Silicon is converted in the body to
orologosilicate salt and incorporated into the colloidal structure of the
connective tissue. Silicon plays an essential role in the synthesis of
collagen, the most abundant protein found in the body. The bulk of connective tissue in the
body is greater than regular cellular substance, in all tissue except fatty
tissue. Because it has so much connective tissue 2% of muscle tissue is
composed of silicon. Collagen fibers are constructed from chains consisting
predominantly of the amino acids glycine and proline woven together to form
fibers. These strands are the
primary structural proteins of the body, whether they be thin layers forming
the skin, rope-like tendons, or the collagen fibers shaped into the scaffolding
of the bones. Both carbon and silicon
are semi-conductors, readily either donating or sharing their four outer
electrons. Silicon and carbon have very similar bonding properties, as
illustrated by the fact that they appear in the same column of the periodic
table. They both form 109.5 degree bonds in a tetrahedral configuration. Silica
may have played a part in the origins of life.
“A curious fact is that terrestrial
life-forms utilize exclusively right-handed carbohydrates and left-handed amino
acids. One theory to account for this is that the first prebiotic carbon
compounds formed in a pool of "primordial soup" on a silica surface
having a certain handedness. This handedness of the silicon compound determined
the preferred handedness of the carbon compounds now found in terrestrial
life.” http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/siliconlife.html
Hypothetically we could say that
silicon in its hydrophilic relationship to water provides the lubrication and
electrical potential through which the atoms in the body form...according to
the morphogenic fields which ultimately can be traced back to the cleaving or
chiral/asymmetric interplay of the Unified Field as it steps down into dual
charge (positive/right-spin and negative/left-spin) of manifestation.
According to a Life Extension magazine
report the human body contains approximately 7 grams of silicon and it is
necessary for the body's silicon stores to be maintained at this level to
promote good health. Most forms of dietary and supplemental silicon are poorly
absorbed and as we get older, our ability to absorb silicon from our food
decreases due to age decline in hydrochloric acid. Silicon deficiency is common
due to our agricultural methods, type of diet and food processing methods.
Deficiency of this most abundant mineral occurs because we remove much of the
coarse, fibrous plant material that contains the most silicon (husks, stems,
peelings, cores). Primates generally eat very fibrous diets and obtain
considerable energy through fiber fermentation by bacteria in the intestines.
No doubt it is this bacterial fermentation of huge amounts of fiber that
gorillas eat, which makes more silicon available for absorption…thus giving
gorillas their enormous physical strength. Gorillas eat bamboo shoots—the
highest silicon source in nature.
“Consider the high fibrous diet of
mountain gorillas; their intake includes 86% leaves, shoots and stems, from
some 58 plant species. At least 50% of their plant intake is herbaceous foliage
(greens) such as thistles, nettles, and celery. One of their favorite foods is
bamboo shoots...the ultimate sprout. Only 2% of their intake is fruit. This low
sugar intake will preserve their alkaline reserves and bone calcium and prevent
their teeth from acid and bacterial decay. Gorillas are not as omnivorous as
chimpanzee, yet they do still eat some grubs, snails and the occasional
termite. They also supplement their vegetable diet with bark, roots, mushrooms
and soil from ridges rich in calcium and potassium during the dry season.” Phoenix Rising, Jana Dixon
Silicon is active in both magnesium and
calcium use in the body. It changes the arrangements of the atoms within the
calcium molecule, thus enabling it to enter the bone cell. Diets heavy in
phosphorus foods may overload the calcium ion and prevent its use unless
adequate amounts of silicon are present. Without the silicon, which is often
missing in the diet, calcium attaches to the outside of the bone but is unable
to enter within the bone mass itself. In the bone forming osteoblast cell,
silicon is found in the highest concentration in the mitochondria, or energy
factories of the cell.
I think that youthful bones are the key
to longevity, because they are the “structural” core and they make the blood
and immune cells. Silicon is an
element that works with calcium to improve the strength and flexibility of the
structural system of the body.
Silicon is required for the proper functioning of the enzyme
prolyhydroxylase that functions in the formation of collagen in bone, cartilage
and other connective tissues. Silicon’s contribution to strong bones and nerves
should be looked into to support kundalini awakening. I suspect silicon might
also greatly improve eyesight, and the strength of the nerves in resilience to
kundalini light flow.
Keeping the spine open and flexible is
essential to full utilization of the brain’s capacities. Loosening the spine and joints to improve
flexibility really helps to get the juices flowing. Body armor is the physical
correlation to neurosis. The flaccid, static body is a sign by nature that this
person is "too old and decrepit" for sex and reproduction and so the
pituitary hormones "obey" our sedentary behavior and go into decline.
Our spiritual awakening, our intelligence and quality of life depend directly
on our sex hormone production as the basis of our mind and body. The spine will
do—the heart will do—the head will do.
“The whole of yoga tries in many
ways to make your spine alive, brilliant, filled with light, young and
fresh." Osho, Meditation: The First
and Last Freedom
“Chronic muscular contraction wastes
huge amounts of energy, energy which otherwise could be channeled into the
raising of kundalini. When there is not a strong flow of nerve energy up the
spine our higher centers cannot be adequately energetically fed and our
autonomic systems are lax. The stronger the kundalini energy up the spine the
more of our soul we experience.” Phoenix
Rising, Jana Dixon
Silicon Deficiency—High silicon increases the rate of healing and
prevents against aging, cancer and other degenerative diseases. Silicon
deficiency could show up as a weakness of connective tissue; poor hair, nails,
skin and brittle bones; lymphatic and immune weakness, susceptibility to
infection, hemorrhoids, ulcers and cancer; sluggish circulatory system and
heart disease, gastrointestinal, kidney and bladder disorders, and a general
low rate of healing. Psycho-emotionally silicon deficiency shows up as
insecurity, neurosis, excessive moralizing, rigid conventionalism, gullibility
and inability to think outside the box. Also head congestion symptoms like
headaches, tinnitus, vertigo, poor eyesight, seizure and sinus infection
related to sluggish blood and lymph systems coupled with high blood pressure
and carbo-craving. All skin conditions are improved with silicon
supplementation including, eczema, acne, wrinkles and age spots. Silica helps to re-mineralize the skin, and it also has a
softening effect. Silica can improve the appearance of the skin, hair, and
nails by its strengthening, hydrating action on connective tissue.
Kundalini Protection—After 10 years of kundalini I found that I had
burned through my collagen and so my skin and muscle was sagging. To rebuild my
reserves I take 4 drops of Biosil a day in my drinking water, and a daily intake
of 1 tsp of horsetail powder in capsules and about 1 tsp of cornsilk powder in
a smoothie, along with oatstraw-horsetail sun tea. I am focusing on silicon as
a means of avoiding cellular inflammation due to oxidation, coagulation,
flocculation and glycation of the tissues, caused by the high metabolism
(radiation) and extra nerve energy of kundalini. The colloidal matrix of our
body is the “ground” of our structure. The thickened nature of the body’s
colloidal matrix on a cooked food diet is apparent in the thicker saliva,
phlegm, ama, plaques, sluggish blood and lymph etc…This thickening of fluids
would reduce both detoxification and nutrient assimilation by the cells, slow
metabolism and reduce energy efficiency. Silicon pumps up cells and holds water
in the tissues allowing a more perfect electrolyte, hydroelectric, colloidal
environment for metabolic processes.
Nerves—Silicon is also a component of myelin nerve sheaths, which protects and
insulates the nerve fibers. The gel-like nature of cerebrospinal fluid is
largely due to the high content of colloidal silicon in it. Supplementing with
silicon increases brain activity, concentration and reduces stress and
depression. Since there is a lot more activity in the brain and nervous system
during a kundalini awakening it stands to reason we need a high silicon diet to
maximize the effectiveness of our cerebrospinal fluid and nerve sheaths. Also
during an awakening we need extra silicon for collagen as our connective tissue
undergoes a renewal and lengthen process as the body armor gives way to the
spiritualized body.
Cancer and Zeta Potential—Since silicon increases the zeta potential of the
body's colloidal capacity, boosts the immune system and oxygenates the tissues
it is a major ally in cancer prevention and cure. Silicon regenerates the white
blood cells of those with cancer and instigates normal protein synthesis, as
well as stopping the growth of malignant tumors. The largest concentration of
lymph nodes in the body is in the abdomen, neck, groin and armpits. Connective
tissue plays a significant role in the lymphatic and immune systems.
Supplementation increases the reticular-endothelial connective tissue thereby
increasing lymphocytes and phagocytes. Silicon concentrates in the lymph nodes
and has a positive, broad spectrum effect on the immune system; and
strengthening the connective tissue of the lymphatic system contributes to the
healing of practically all illness and dis-ease. In cancer cells a swelling of
the mitochondria and cells occurs. Silicon helps to restore normal protein
synthesis as a consequence of normalizing alkalinity, oxygenation, hydration,
and zeta potential.
GI tract—Mucus possesses its slimy properties because it is a solution of
mucopolysaccharide and you will find rapid repair of the mucus membranes with a
high silicon diet. Silicon also reinstates correct motility, permeability and
slickness of the GI tract and protects against growth of bad bacteria, candida
and parasites. Preventing mucus lining inflammation has a beneficial effect on
energy generation and metabolism as well as taking the stress of the immune
system. Silicon has a soothing and disinfecting action on the GI tract,
absorbing gases and toxins and calming inflammation. It is also a disinfectant
for the bladder and kidney and prevents kidney stones.
Cardiosystem—Silicon rejuvenates vascular walls increasing the
protective lining of the arteries, improving their structural integrity,
elasticity and permeability. Silicon may be useful in reducing blood fats &
cholesterol and in preventing lesion of the vessel walls and the laying down of
plaques. Thus as blood flow increases blood pressure is lowered, and this
lessens symptoms of headache, head congestion, tinnitus, vertigo, insomnia and
heart palpitations etc… Plus silicon helps to keep the blood plasma alkaline so
that cells and cholesterol do not lose their negative charge and stick to
vessel walls. Also by building up the collagen in the smooth muscle layer of
the walls of the arteries, they become resilience to free radical damage. In
heart disease the muscle walls of arteries are damaged by free radicals and
calcium is laid down on this oxidation damage, then cholesterol builds up on
the calcium blocking the arteries.
Radiation Protection—Because silicon is super-hydrophilic (water-loving)
and strongly attracts water molecules, it helps to maintain the colloidal
matrix and electrolytic potentials of the body fluids. Therefore there is a
good chance that it will prevent the depolarization, precipitation, flocculation
and coagulation caused by radiation of all forms. Including that caused by
computers, TV screens and the sun. Also Himalayan salt, by providing the nano
minerals for strong electrolyte charges
also aids in protecting the body fluids from precipitation due to
electrosmog and radiation exposure. A strong ionic zetapotential is necessary
to keep the electrical voltage gradients, osmotic pressures and capillary force
intact. This coupled with adequate hydration ensures the correct structure
building intelligence of the proteins, enzymes, DNA and all molecular
construction.
Albumin—Serum albumin is the most abundant blood plasma protein, is produced
in the liver and normally constitutes about 60% of plasma protein. It is
essential for maintaining the osmotic pressure needed for proper distribution
of body fluids between intravascular compartments and body tissues. Serum
silicon might be only weakly bound to carrier or storage proteins such as
albumin. Albumin is negatively charged; the net charge of albumin is defined as
its own charge plus the charge of all bound ions. Albumin is the principle
serum transport protein to which drugs and hormones bind, and it contains a
large number of multiple fatty acid binding sites for metals. In order to be
conveyed around the body the minerals in life are held in colloidal bonds
(chelated) with hydrophilic substances such as gelatin, albumin, collagen and
mucopolysaccharides. In their chelated bonds minerals have 98% assimilation
capacity by the body. Despite the low total protein concentration, the level of
albumin (60% of total CSF protein) and immunoglobin is very high in
cerebrospinal fluid.
COLLOIDAL SILICA
GEL
“In the aging process, the protein
in living tissue “unswells” and the surfaces shrink. This leads to a cessation
of enzyme reactions. As particles enlarge, less water is available. Therefore
the process of tissue aging is primarily a colloid physical change of proteins.
A reduction in the size of the “inner surface” occurs. It is, however, the
inner cell surface or boundary area that forms the basis for the life
processes.” 46, Silica: The Amazing Gel by
Dr Klaus Kaufman
“The
hydrophilic affinity for swelling is greatly helped by the presence of
polar constructed hydroptropic silica, which promotes swelling, thereby
preventing shrinkage, coagulation and hardening of tissues.” 51, Silica: The Amazing Gel by Dr Klaus Kaufman
If you read Dr Klaus Kaufman’s “Silica:
The Amazing Gel” and “Silica: The
Forgotten Nutrient” you will learn that
colloidal capacity or zeta potential is the key to health…this is so because
life is a liquid crystal. Enzyme efficiency, optimal speed and the free
structural arrangement of molecules requires a certain ideal hydration level
and zeta potential. All disease, injury or
degeneration is accompanied by swelling and stasis in blood and lymphatic
circulation. Aging involves the buildup of deposits, toxins and
pathogens that disrupt the water-binding ability leading to structural
disintegration, flocculation, coagulation, hardening and shrinkage of tissue.
Silicon restores optimal colloidal conditions to reinstate healthy metabolism,
reintegration and structural integrity.
Dr Klaus Kaufman says that silica gel
is more easily assimilated than horsetail and plant based silica. You can rub the
gel on your skin and use it in your hair as well as taking it internally. It
does however leave a white film on the skin, so horsetail infusion would be
best for topical application during the day. Gel in the hair also makes it
stiff, while horsetail infusion makes the hair incredibly smooth and shiny. The
gel therefore would be better for rubbing into the scalp prior to sleep.
Colloidal silica gel is indeed much stronger than horsetail for
chapped-athletes feet.
BIOSIL
Biosil (Si[OH]4), a stabilized concentrated
orthosilicic acid is 20,000 times more soluble than the silica (SiO2) found in
horsetail and colloidal gels and 2.5 times more bioavailable than other forms
of silicon! Biosil is sold by Jarrow Formulas in capsule and liquid form. It is likely that food fiber does not
contribute significantly to the bioavailable pool of silicic acid in the
intestinal tract and may even interfere with the absorption of free silicic
acid. Over a wide range of dietary intakes, serum silicon levels are maintained
within a narrow range because of a very efficient kidney clearance system.
Therefore Biosil might be a good way to go to build up silicon reserves in the
body as well as taking the dietary supplementary sources in herbs, teas and
silicon rich foods. www.vitadigest.com/ja-biosil.html —For one of the cheapest sources of
Biosil.
BAMBOO SAP
The highest plant source of silicon is
bamboo extract, it contains over 70% organic silicon. This is more than 10 times
the level as found in Horsetail (5-7% silicon). Bamboo extract is a gel is
called Tabashir that is used in
Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine as a stimulant, astringent, febrifuge, tonic,
diuretic, antispasmodic, and aphrodisiac.
Its medical applications include tuberculosis and other wasting
diseases. It has been adopted as a popular remedy for common cold, sore throat,
sinus congestion, cough, clears heat, resolves phlegm, is an anti-convulsive,
used for seizure and epilepsy and also for spasms, convulsions caused by phlegm
and heat. The bamboo plant has unusually high levels of acetylcholine (a
neurotransmitter in animals and humans). Bamboo Extract has potent antioxidant
properties, helping protect skin from damaging free-radicals. Studies are showing
that bamboo has excellent antitumor effects and reduces cellular inflammation.
Bamboo leaves are utilized as a source
of flavonoids (e.g., vitexin and orientin), used as antioxidants. The
flavonoids may reduce inflammation, promote circulation, inhibit allergy
reactions and for treatment of some chronic ailments, including diabetes.
Bamboo stem shavings are used for stomach heat syndromes that produce incorrect
flow of Qi, commonly causing nausea and loss of appetite, as well as symptoms
of hiccups, vomiting, irritability and insomnia. Bamboo shavings are still used
today in the treatment of epilepsy and other convulsive disorders. No doubt bamboo leaf and shavings can
be used to make a great sun-tea.
HORSETAIL (Shavegrass)
After bamboo sap, the two richest
sources of organic silicon in the plant kingdom are Dulse and Horsetail.
Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) is a
descendant of ancient plants that grew as tall as trees during the
carboniferous period of three hundred million years ago and members of this family
gave rise to many of our coal deposits. For both ORMUS and silicon we might be
able to use swamp plants such as horsetail and calamus, if they have been
wildcrafted from vital wilderness areas. Growing everywhere but Australasia, horsetail
is a wetlands plant that is traditionally used for its silicon, for no other
herb is so rich in silicon. Horsetail has the ability to accumulate gold in its
tissues as well as cadmium, copper, lead and zinc.
The Chinese use horsetail to cool
fevers and as a remedy for eye inflammations, dysentery, flu, swellings,
osteoporosis, sprains, dislocated joints, pulled hamstrings or torn ligaments
and hemorrhoids, benign enlargement of the prostate gland and also for kidney
stones. Horsetails, both field and
swamp versions, contains the enzyme thaiminase, which is a bone marrow toxin
that can rob the body of the vitamin B complex. But the enzyme is destroyed by
heat or thorough drying, so cooking the plant will remove the thiaminase. But
you can use the “dried” horsetail (course ground in a coffee grinder) for
making sun tea and you can take the dried horsetail as a brewed tea as well.
Use the older rushes for teas, the younger more acidic ones for topical
infusions and capsules. Keep a bottle in the fridge to spike your drinking
water with.
To make an infusion collect some of the
young shoots of horsetail. Chop up into 1/2 cm chunks and put in a small amount
of water over a low heat, without even simmering, for 1.5 hours. Cool the
mixture, strain and apply to the hair and scalp with your hands. It heals and
flattens out the cuticle structure making hair strong, shiny and more youthful.
You can also apply this tea to your skin as well with a small mister bottle.
You can use this strong infusion to spray onto hair, skin and plants, but run
it through a coffee filter or tissue first in order to prevent blocking up your
spray bottle. Horsetail is the ultimate herb for healing any kind of skin
condition whether it be acne, eczema, chapping, fungi or bacterial infection or
burns.
Horsetail solution increases the
elasticity, smoothness, healing rate, dermal thickness and water holding
capacity of the skin. As with the hair, it gives the skin a smooth youthful
sheen. As well as giving instant results in reducing the appearance of ageing,
I intuit that it will make the collagen-based tissues of the body more
resistant to environmental forces and aging in general. My sense is that it
helps return integrity and strength to the cell structure and shores them up
against damage by oxidation, free radicals, UV rays, drying and weather. By
holding water in the skin and maintaining structural integrity silicon helps to
prevent the oils in these tissues from being turned into free-radical
transfats, thus reducing inflammation, glycation and oxidation of the tissues.
Silicon application to the skin will also prevent fungal and bacterial and
viral infection through its disinfectant action and strengthening of collagen.
You can make silicon rich capsules
containing powdered cornsilk, dulse, horsetail, combined with papaya enzymes
for increasing the absorption of silicon into the body. Or you can make a soup
stock base out of horsetail along with cornsilk and dulse flakes for irritable
nerves. As a mouthwash horsetail (or silica gel) can be used for mouth ulcers,
bleeding gums and sore throats. Use as a footbath for feet problems.
CORNSILK
Cornsilk contains high amounts of
silicon, and moderate amounts of potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and
phosphorus. It is also an excellent source of B vitamins and PABA, chlorophyll,
resin and mucilage. It contains maizenic acid,
which acts as a diuretic reducing fluid retention in the body, thus is used for
bladder infections, edema, heart trouble, high blood pressure. It is also a
wonderful remedy for acute inflammation and irritation of the genito-urinary
system, such as cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis and is used for urinary
stones, gravel, hepatitis, albuminuria and kidney disorders. Corn silk clears toxins, catarrh,
deposits and irritants out of the kidneys and bladder, and has a gentle
antiseptic and healing action. By aiding elimination of toxins and wastes from
the body corn silk may relieve gout and arthritis. Corn silk's healing and soothing properties are helpful for
relieving skin irritation and inflammation and for healing wounds and ulcers.
Cornsilk also contains Vitamin K which controls bleeding and thus for the
normal clotting of blood.
BANANA STEM JUICE
Banana stem juice
contains silica, potassium, soda, lime, magnesia, alumina, chlorine, sulfuric
anhydride, carbon anhydride, polysaccarides,
polyphenols, phytoalexins, sterols and sterolins. The gallic acid in the
juice is an antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant. Musa stem juice is also
anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer and anticancer; inhibiting cancer cell
development. It is given to young infants and is a well-known remedy for
snakebites to flush out poison. It
improves the functional efficiency of kidney and liver and heals hemorrhoids.
Banana stem juice has been found to be of great help in the treatment for the
removal of stones in the kidney, gall bladder, and prostate. It clears the
excretion organs in the abdominal region of toxins and helps to eliminate them
in the form of urine. Juice from the stem is used as a scalp application for
thinning hair. I once ate the meat
of an animal that had banana stem regularly in its diet and it was the most
juicy, tender, fleshy meat ever. www.active-immune-booster.com/index.html
CEREAL SUN TEA
The immune supporting action of
cereal sun tea is what gives it the power to generate the sense of well-being
and reduces appetite! You can make a silicon rich sun tea
from the ripe ears of oat, barley, millet, sorghum, buckwheat,
chickweed and wheat, or indeed with many wild grasses. Cereal-ear sun tea seems
to be even more energizing and fortifying than wheatgrass itself, stabilizing
both mind and body and eliminating hunger. You get an immediate sense of
wellbeing through the boost to the immune system with silicon, B17 and other
factors. It will also provide you with the cancer fighting agent Beta-glucan. Beta-glucan, the water-soluble polysaccharide commercially
derived from the cell wall of yeast. Beta-glucan is a natural gum
polysaccharide which has anti-tumor and immune effects. Beta-glucans acts as a
free radical scavenger and macrophage stimulator of phagocytosis, and increases
interleukin production. Beta-glucans are most abundant in barley and oats and
also in the bran of other cereal grains buckwheat, wheat, rice and rye and
indeed in wild grasses. As well as the seed heads you can also use chopped
dried or green cereal straw for sun tea. Add some chopped horsetail to your
cereal straw mix, but use the older reeds of horsetail because the younger ones
have an acid taste that is not good for teas, but is great for pills or topical
infusions for the skin. If you don’t have any cereals growing around, then soak
some unhulled cereal berries for 2 hours, throw away the soak water and add
these to your sun tea jar along with the straw. Lemon grass, bamboo shavings,
bark of banana stem and the bark of sugar cane also make great silicon rice sun
teas. There is a high deposition of silicon in the hemicellulose and
pectin-rich layers of the cell walls of the outer layer of sugar cane stems, so
this might be a fine source for nutritional silicon. Solarizing water increases
the hydrogen perioxide in the water, which may contribute to the removal of
heavy metals from the body. During winter, to make sure your herbs are still
well brewed in the cold, bring the tea water to the boil first before placing
your sun tea in front of a sunny window. To grow cereal grasses for sun tea,
throw some kamut, wheat, barley, oat and birdseed around the garden in spring.
OTHER SILICON
SOURCES
Plants absorb orthosilicic acid from
the soil and convert it into polymerized silicon for mechanical and structural
support. As the silicon from plant extracts cannot be readily absorbed through
the stomach wall, the bioavailability of these products requires healthy levels
of stomach acid in order to produce soluble orthosilicic acid. Silicon rich
foods include: Bamboo sap, algae, onions,
beets, bean sprouts. Silicon is found at high levels in grains such as oats,
barley, millet and rice. Good food sources of silicon include the parts of food
which are often discarded e.g., fruit and vegetable peel, cucumber skins, husks
and the 'stringy' parts of mango, celery, asparagus, rhubarb, green leafy
vegetables, beets, parsnips,
apples, strawberries, grapes, raw almonds, raw sunflower seeds raw flaxseed. Besides
cornsilk and horsetail other herbal sources of Silicon include: Alfalfa, bilberry, birch, black cohosh, black
walnut, burdock, caraway, celery, chaparral, chickweed, couch grass, dulse, echinacea,
eyebright, feverfew, gentian,
ginger, ginseng, oatstraw, oregon grape, parsley, peppermint, lemon grass,
licorice, Nettle, sarsaparilla, rose hips, sage, shave grass, stevia, thyme, Uva
ursi.
SILICON IN
HORTICULTURE
Diatoms are algae and phytoplankton
with an ornate cell wall made of biosilica (hydrated SiO), first appearing
around the early Jurassic Period. It was diatoms in the ocean, through their
production of oxygen that went on to make earth habitable for other lifeforms.
After just several hours of silica deprivation diatoms cease photosynthesis,
protein synthesis and their metabolism comes to a halt. Levels of selenium greatly affect the
production of biosilica in sponges and diatoms. Silica has an affinity for
water, and diatomaceous earth, which is the remains of the silica rich diatom algae,
holds more moisture in the soil than any other silica clay soil amendment.
In horticulture the use of Pyrophyllite
clay as a soil amendment was found to reduce fungal infections due to the
increased available silicic acid. For plant protection a fungicide spray
preparation can be made from finely powdered hydrated silica or hydrated
silicic acid. There are products on the market like “Prosilicate.” Using Prosilicate reduces disease and insect problems,
increases stem strength and leaf positioning, improves photosynthesis, and
increases heat and drought resistance. Colloidal silicic acid solution
is also used as an environmentally friendly wood preservative.
It is interesting that scientists are
using the plant disease causing fungus Fusarium oxysporum, in a bioleaching
process for synthesizing silica in nanoparticle size. http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/4/9 I assume that it is nano-silica
produced by microbe decomposers in the soil which gives living-water its
structural levity properties. Viktor Schauberger considered silicates essential
to healthy water. He surmised that it is the fine dispersion of minerals and
silicate in the upstream flow of water which gave it the levitational energy
(electrical potential) necessary for trout or salmon to jump up high
waterfalls. Nanosilicon probably facilitates the microcrystalline structures in
living-water allowing greater Oxygen carrying capacity and must be a factor in
sonoluminessence. The Brown’s Cell and Joe Cell researchers need to experiment
with adding nanosilicon to their electrolysis systems.
Trace Minerals in
Food by Kenneth Thomas Smith, p-392-398
Nature As
Teacher: How I Discovered New Principles in the Working of Nature by Viktor Schauberger
