Hydrogen Peroxide as a Natural Remedy: Benefits and Precautions

I would be careful of using distilled water long term. It depletes minerals because it is an active absorber. I know there are a lot of myths out there about useage. But, there are facts. I wanted to find something that everyone would trust so I turned to a post by Ted in the distilled water remedies section dated 12/16/2008.

"1. Long term used of distilled water is not healthy
2. Distilled water only short term use may help detoxify, but never use more than for a couple of days.
3. Distilled water depletes the body of bicarbonates, causing metabolic acidosis in the long run.
4. Some people use medicine added to distilled water to help absorption. This doesn't work for me because you are going from a lower concentration of distilled water to a higher concentration blood. Hence, more concentration of blood would not help absorption."

I'm not sure I understand what peroxide can do to distilled water but, I am concerned that it could make it worse and acidic.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge can enlighten us... but, thought a word of caution should be raised regarding long term use... which the h2o2 therapy is for. I think Alain from Ottawa, Ontario in an answer to Lucy below was a good idea. She mentioned adding baking soda to the mix. Which sounds like a really good idea according to the information provided by Ted regarding bicarbonate absorption.

Comment to Rainman from Central, Vt about hydrogen peroxide and distilled water (internal use)

As per http://cancertutor.com/Cancer/HydrogenPeroxide.html

"I would not put the drops of hydrogen peroxide in anything but highly distilled water (grocery store distilled tap water is not acceptable, either get double distilled tap water or distilled natural water). The reason is that other chemicals in water may cause a chemical reaction that prematurely strips the extra oxygen atom from the hydrogen peroxide atoms."

As per the possibility of detrimental long term use of distilled water, I saw both sides of the arguments. Those recommending distilled water would say that the minerals on water (especially hard water) are not bio-available and will create with time mineral deposits and stones. I am not saying that I agree with this. At the moment I don't know enough.

My feeling is that for a person whose pH is balanced, this may not be a problem, and that a person whose is acidic will have its body try to use those "non bio-available" minerals and creates deposits and stones.

Alain

The black stool is toxins being expelled by your body. It means the H2O2 is working. When I first started psyllium husk, my stool got very dark. It gradually - over several months - lightened back up. This was the toxins in my digestive tract. (My cholesterol went from 227 to 186 in three months. ) Recently I started chlorella and my stools are very dark again. I am happy to see this because I know what it means.

I can't figure out this thing about using distilled water. Rainwater isn't distilled, neither is sea or river water, or ground water, yet they all contain trace elements of H202! I can understand not putting H202 in chlorinated water, but not in filtered spring or mineral water. Healing artesian springs contain both H202 and minerals.

I also don't understand why the H202 needs to be so radically increased. H202 in 'living' water is only in very minute amounts yet is beneficial. More is not necessarily better. Surely regular ingestion of minute amounts (1 - 3 drops 35% HP in 8oz water) is better in the long run than large unnatural quantities that cannot be tolerated very well. Healing spa water often contains in the region of 0. 25% concentration. If that is healing at that level wouldn't that be enough?

Answer to Lucy from Sleepy Hollow about H2O2 side effect

Hi Lucy

You should tell us what you exactly did.

The maximum concentration for internal use is .5% as per Ted's
"In the alternative health field, the maximum is actually 0.5% concentration. Actually and optimum H2O2 concentration was first determined in 1950s by Dr. Reginald Holman by implanting Walker 256 adenocarcinoma tumours. The drinking water for the rat used H2O2 optimum concentration needed to kill the tumors were about 0.45 percent.

Tumors completely disappeared in 15 to 60 days in rats. Of course a better way is to add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in the glass of 0.45% concentration of H2O2. This can be extended to treatment of almost any kinds of conditions, from virus, bacteria, microbial infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis, flu, etc. My own experience of using just baking soda (also increases the body's oxygen) and ascorbate vitamin C about three weeks for a small tumor to go into remission.

A more effective I think in the future of peroxide therapy is to add baking soda to the 0.45% concentration to normal drinking water since baking soda is alkaline and increases oxygen, while the peroxide furthers this natural increase."

To reduce 6% to 0.5% take 1 volume of FG 6% H2O2 mixed with 11 volumes of distilled water. But since it is the maximum you should start with much lower concentration and increase gradually. You can start as low as 0.05% (and even lower). H2O2 is powerful stuff. It is better to be on the safe side.

-Use Food Grade H2O2.
-Drink the diluted solution on empty stomach.

For more info on the use of H2O2 you can go to
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1586256#i

Good Luck

Alain

If you have an ulcer you should deal with that first. 2 ounces of fresh cabbage juice 5 times a day for a couple of weeks will usually do the trick. Most ulcers are caused by NSAIDS (aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, etc.)so you need to watch those. If this doesn't improve things you'll need to have your doctor run a few tests to see if something larger is going on.

Your stomach might have felt that way due to the way you ate. You are NOT supposed to take the dose one hour before or after eating due to the acid in your stomach dissolving and the oxygen going through your body. This is true. Because I have a book that explains everything. You can try again with the schedule of no eating and hopefully you will have different results.

In 2007 I went on the h202 therapy and so did some of my friends. They had reactions like diahrea, stomach cramps and such but plowed through it.

I didn't have any reaction but I started out with 1 drop per day in 6-8 oz of water but also added Colloidol (spell?) silver-they work great together. I worked my way up to 11 or 17 drops per day with no reactions.

It may be that sometimes the detoxing in the body that goes on can be somewhat painful or a discompfort and I have read that the stomach may blow out a bit-theres a lot of stuff in the body that is dead and the H202 is eating it up, but not harming the healthy tissues.

Anyway, it was a great experience for me because it lowered my hepatitic C viral load from 23,000,000 copies down to 5,000,000 copies. I stopped because you ARE supposed to NOT EAT 3 hours before and for 1 hour after, maybe that is why I didn't have problem with it.

I love coffee first thing so I made sure I woke up during the night/am-3-4am to drink the H202 (kept the container I was using in a bucket of ice water to keep it cool during the night)and went back to sleep. This way I wasn't going throughout the day with out eating for such long periods of time.That is why I stopped, but I am starting back slowly now to kill the rest of the virus. I am starting with 3% in a gallon of water so that I don't have to fast yet and will work my way back to the normal protocol of NOT EATING 3 hours before and 1 hour after-I like to eat! 8-)
RJ

when u started with the 3 drops, u probably shouldn't have increased it to 9 drops, that was probably too much if u r feeling sideeffects, u should probably discontinue it until you r feeling better, u do not want it to get too far out of hand, then u will have more problems than u can handle, good luck

Hydrogen peroxide has a lot of great uses, but I would be careful taking internally. I bought it as an O2 vitamin but I didn't notice any benefits. Try applying to a stain because it is really good at cleaning. Apply to a cut and see how it sizzles. I would be careful with the dosage. 9 drops sounds like too much.

One teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide? Of course you took too much. No wonder. Where on earth did you get that dosage? I truly hope you were not taking 35% food grade. Stop drinking peroxide! You are only supposed to start with a few drops. Drink a gallon of distilled water a day to flush out your kidneys.

The quantity you took is too high if you took 35% hydrogenperoxide. But with regards to your symptoms: symptoms are good. They mean that the hydrogenperoxide found an area that it deemed it needed correction.

I have had, since I started, February 3rd... 43 days ago, I have had several 2-3 day periods when I didn't feel well, then I had extremely smelly urine and/or fecal matters for a day or two, and thereafter I had a 2-3 week long clarity, increased mobility, reduced cravings, etc.

So I say, pray for "side effects" because they are not. If you are like me, storing lots of poisons from lifestyle, you want it to be digested by the hydrogen peroxide and empty it through the elimination channels.

One serious warning: if you don't want to re-absorb the poisons, make sure you have a serious colon cleansing to start with. Enemas, colonics, or any of the commercially available colonic cleansing supplements are good. Just do it.

I didn't do it, and I think, at least partially, that is why I had so many healing crisis in the 45 days.

Please let us know how you are doing? OK?

You're using too much. Try just a drop.

re hairy tongue from hydrogen peroxide: I heard that you can restore the body's natural defense (an enzyme???) contained in our saliva. So find someone to kiss, and soon it will be naturally consumed. :)

in response to the hydrogen peroxide swisher that ended up with 'hairy tongue'- I spoke to a chinese medicine/natural doctor about this, as the clinic recommends swishing with it once a week in oral hygiene care. She told me that hairy tongue is a fungal reaction, and that the reason this would have happened is one would have to have a lot of fungus and bacteria in the mouth. In an act of detoxification, as the fungus and bacteria is pulled out from swishing, this COULD happen (not common, though.) Their recommendation was to keep swishing once a week to continue the detox process.

To the boy with the 'hairy tongue' It sounds like you have "thrush" go see a doctor.

I got the 'hairy tongue' symptom also. But, I followed Ted's info somewhere that the HP should be diluted - I was taking 3%. I stopped taking the HP for a week, then began with a diluted form and my hairy tongue disappeared, and did not occur again. It did not seem like thrush was involved. Gigi

Hi Beth, Those huge 4 zits could just be coincicence or it could be that your peroxide is making some bad guys exit through the closest route - your skin.

I have read that toothpaste will dry up those zits but I personally would probably use peroxide externally on them because it doesn't contain all that toxin called fluoride that brings us other unwanted problems, and it does kill off bad guys.

Hi Joyce, Thank you for your speedy reply. I have a quick question though, should I continue the peroxide-water? I'm not sure. I would like to clean my liver but not sure how to start? any comments are appreciated. Thank you so much for your care and your time, Bev.

If your problem is history, why continue the treatment? You can find a good liver cleanse at any health food store and you will likely find that they are loaded with two weeds everyone is trying to eradicate from their yards: thistle and dandelions! Both are known to be liver friendly.

You may have experienced the skin eruptions because of the toxins leaving your body quickly-- certain parts of the face correspond to organs too- I remember reading once that the chin reacts from the liver- ..boils tend to hurt reeeally bad...and go deep into the tissue--I think you'd know ...hydrogen peroxide on them will help clear them out. I think I would tough it out and don't stop too early out of fear...that's usually why people don't get results they are seeking. Best luck to you!

If you will look up boils on the EC site, you will find that Turmeric will help you get rid of boils. It is so good that it even helps heal MRSA boils. Give it a look-see.