No Running Water

This is going to be a tough day for me. I just found out the there will be no water supply this morning. Late yesterday evening my father noticed that the tap water was running very low and that was an indication that the taps will run dry later on. So before that happened, I quickly filled up whatever water I can so that I can have some water for washing the vegetables and the juicer this morning.

I have been coughing a bit more in the mornings and the evenings. My phlegm are always stained with blood clots. I believe there are some inflammation inside my lungs area. I can feel some pain around my ribs and the area just below my arm pit.

The last week or so, I also noticed I am having backache when I get up in the morning. I am not sure why? I have changed my bed and it is now very firm. Could this be due to the vegetables juices that I have been taking? In TCM, vegetables juices are considered cool (Ying) and can cause backache especially to older people like me. I also noticed that every morning, when I wake up, my mouth is very dry and taste very bitter. I believe I have been breathing through my mouth while I am asleep. This could mean my nose passage is blocked.

A Note About pH Testing
This morning, I also took another pH test of my body and the reading was 5, quite acidic. There is really more work to be done. As I posted on Tuesday, just drinking alkaline water and juicing does not make my body more alkaline because the blood does pH buffering. That's why I have chosen to do the Dextrorotatory Lactic Acid treatment to force the change.

Although the optimum pH of the body is about 7.4, but when we use a pH tester to test the pH of our body through the urine and saliva, the correct range of the pH value should be around 6.4. The pH can move all over the place and the "averaged" pH of both urine and saliva will be right around the 6.4 level (backed by clinical work with the research of Reams, Vincent, Revici and others) - and this would be at just about any time of day when tested - though the best times to track and test for a baseline reading would be two hours after a meal. The reason 6.4 seems to be ideal is for specific ionization principles to be carried out in the body. The average pH is derived from this formula:
(Urine pH ____ + (Saliva pH X 2 ___ ) ) / Divided by 3 = ____.

Ideally a pH of say around 5.8 would be very good for urine (shows the body can get rid of metabolic acids), and 6.8 would be very good for saliva.

IMPORTANT: pH issues and what you do about them must ALWAYS be seen in the light of a person's breath rate and breath hold time. The lungs are initiated to regulate pH on a moment to moment basis. A normal average breath rate is 16 breaths per minute. If a person for instance has a resting breath rate of 9 breaths per minute, that individual has a potential alkalosis issue.

Correcting Your pH

Average pH Between 6 and 7
Some practitioners suggest that if your average pH is between 6 and 7, you can just use the neutral calciums of gluconate and orotate to build up your total alkalinity along with other minerals and trace minerals.

Average pH Above 7
If your pH is above 7, it is possible that vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can be useful. Clinicians have found about 1000mg twice a day of C is good, and the higher above pH 7 you go (especially if this is the urine #), the more vitamin C you can take.

Vitamin D is contraindicated.

NOTE: You should note that it is entirely possible to be too alkaline. Many go around and say alkalize, alkalize, alkalize, but they fail to point out that there is a flip side to everything. Being too alkaline presents its own set of clinical manifestations and needs to be equally addressed.

Average pH Below 6
If your pH is below 6, some clinicians will add calcium citrate or calcium carbonate (something like coral calcium is the carbonate form). With pH 5.6 to 6 clinicians have found that adding 1000 IU of vitamin D once or twice a day is beneficial and pH from 5.2 to 5.6 up to 5000 IU of vitamin D is good, while pH below 5.0 up to 50000 IU of vitamin D once or twice a day would be ok as little vitamin D is being absorbed in the acid terrain. It is possible to use vitamin D to help push the pH up. Stop the calcium citrate and carbonate when you come into pH range 6 to 7. Pull back on vitamin D and go to cod liver oil for vitamin D requirements. Do not take vitamin C.