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]]> By: Ron Bennett http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/31/ripped-from-the-journals-the-biggest-discoveries-of-the-week/#comment-10582 Ron Bennett Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:07:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/31/ripped-from-the-journals-the-biggest-discoveries-of-the-week/#comment-10582 Although this new treatment holds promise in mice will it work in humans, many mice experiments that work for the rodents don't work for humans, here is a dye that does... My father from Kentucky told me about the blue people that use to live in the hollows and the hills in southeast Kentucky this is there story: "THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEK The story of an Appalachian malady, an inquisitive doctor, and a paradoxical cure. by Cathy Trost ©Science 82, November, 1982 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyperry3/Blue_Fugates_Troublesome_Creek.html The "Blue People" was an interesting read because the treatment was methylene blue tablets that turned the "Blue Peoples" skin back to its natural color pink. I don't know how much of these claims are true but it looks like the blue mice dye isn't the first blue dye that had healing powers... " Methylene blue was identified by Paul Ehrlich about 1891 as a successful treatment for malaria. Methylene blue combined with light has been used to treat resistant plaque psoriasis, AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, West Nile virus, and to inactivate staphylococcus aureus, HIV-1, Duck hepatitis B, adenovirus vectors, and hepatitis C. Phenothiazine dyes and light have been known to have virucidal properties for over 80 years. In some circumstances, the combination can cause DNA damage that may lead to cancer. Combined with Plant Auxin, it is being investigated for the treatment of cancer." large doses of methylene blue are sometimes used as an antidote to potassium cyanide poisoning, a method first successfully tested in 1933 by Dr. Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks in San Francisco. Methylene blue was also used at mid-century in the treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning. TauRx Therapeutics has reported that methylene blue (methylthioninium chloride), under the tradename rember, may provide a way of halting or slowing the progression of Alzheimer's dementia. However, the formulation used was different from that commonly available as a medicine and caution has been expressed about use of methylene blue as a treatment for Alzheimer's In vitro studies suggest that methylene blue might be an effective remedy for both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease by enhancing key mitochondrial biochemical pathways. It can disinhibit and increase complex IV, whose inhibition correlates with Alzheimer's disease." The list goes on-n-n-n. http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue Although this new treatment holds promise in mice will it work in humans, many mice experiments that work for the rodents don’t work for humans, here is a dye that does…

My father from Kentucky told me about the blue people that use to live in the hollows and the hills in southeast Kentucky this is there story:

“THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEK
The story of an Appalachian malady, an inquisitive doctor, and a paradoxical cure.
by Cathy Trost
©Science 82, November, 1982

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyperry3/Blue_Fugates_Troublesome_Creek.html

The “Blue People” was an interesting read because the treatment was methylene blue tablets that turned the “Blue Peoples” skin back to its natural color pink. I don’t know how much of these claims are true but it looks like the blue mice dye isn’t the first blue dye that had healing powers…

” Methylene blue was identified by Paul Ehrlich about 1891 as a successful treatment for malaria. Methylene blue combined with light has been used to treat resistant plaque psoriasis, AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma, West Nile virus, and to inactivate staphylococcus aureus, HIV-1, Duck hepatitis B, adenovirus vectors, and hepatitis C. Phenothiazine dyes and light have been known to have virucidal properties for over 80 years. In some circumstances, the combination can cause DNA damage that may lead to cancer. Combined with Plant Auxin, it is being investigated for the treatment of cancer.” large doses of methylene blue are sometimes used as an antidote to potassium cyanide poisoning, a method first successfully tested in 1933 by Dr. Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks in San Francisco.

Methylene blue was also used at mid-century in the treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning. TauRx Therapeutics has reported that methylene blue (methylthioninium chloride), under the tradename rember, may provide a way of halting or slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s dementia. However, the formulation used was different from that commonly available as a medicine and caution has been expressed about use of methylene blue as a treatment for Alzheimer’s

In vitro studies suggest that methylene blue might be an effective remedy for both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease by enhancing key mitochondrial biochemical pathways. It can disinhibit and increase complex IV, whose inhibition correlates with Alzheimer’s disease.”

The list goes on-n-n-n.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue

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