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Gallium and Arthritis
By George Eby
P. O. Box 1142
Dripping Springs, Texas 78620
http://coldcure.com
telephone (512) 263-0805
Recently, I filed and had accepted a new research manuscript
(currently at http://coldcure.com/html/arthritis.html ) with Medical
Hypotheses, an Oxford University theoretical biochemistry/medi-
cal journal describing the effects of gallium nitrate in eliminating
arthritis for years. It should be published in the Fall of 2005.
Yes, one application seemed to terminate the pain and inflam-
mation of arthritis for YEARS. How did this remarkable finding
occur?
The story starts over 9 years ago in 1996 when my horse, Don
Dee, developed navicular disease, which is a type of arthrosis of
the navicular joint/bone in the foot. He was crippled from it and
was very lame and apparently in mind-numbing pain. I did not want
to deal with the standard, often ineffective, often expensive, often
side-effect ridden means available from veterinary medicine. I cer-
tainly did not want to cut the nerves to my horse’s foot (so he would
not feel the pain), which was the recommended treatment, and the
only other alternative treatment was euthanization, since his dis-
ease was severe with bone damage. George here is no dummy and
those alternatives didn’t sound very promising to me.
Separately, I had a written a medical journal article on my
discovery of zinc lozenges to cure common colds (see http://
coldcure.com), which was in a medical textbook called “Handbook
of Metal-Ligand Interactions in Biological Fluids”, edited by Dr.
Guy Berthon of Toulouse, France. I was looking through that text-
book for my article when I found two other articles that I somehow
figured were related to navicular disease. One showed that alumi-
num was a joint/bone toxin that caused much pain and bone dam-
age, which sounded a bit like navicular disease. Within minutes, I
found an article about gallium’s, vital and strong effect in restoring
blood calcium back into bone and generally strengthening and re-
building bone with great improvements in bone density. Hummm.
The wheels in my mind were turning, and within a few days I had
figured out the dosage and obtained enough gallium nitrate to try
the world’s first experiment with oral gallium.
I didn’t want to try it on Don Dee first because he was my very
best friend, so I took the first-ever oral doses. At that time, I had
some minor bone-joint pains, so I figured, maybe . . . and upon
trying gallium nitrate, those pains went away and never returned;
and better yet, the gallium nitrate did not kill me! Cautiously, I
started Don Dee on gallium nitrate. I gave him one half liter of a
one percent solution of gallium nitrate on his morning feed. Dr.
Raymond Warrell of Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York
had been using intravenous gallium citrated-nitrate for many years
to treat osteoporosis, cancer and lymphoma, and he told me that I
should not expect results within the first 6 months. So, I had the
stable hands give Don Dee his gallium each day and I went on to do
other work, like trying to make a living. About ten days later, the
stable owner called me and complained that Don Dee was being a
nuisance and was fighting and beating up some of the other horses,
and worse yet he was carousing around all night and keeping the
stable owners awake. This was the first known side effect in horses,
gross over exuberance, which we interpreted as resulting from be-
ing pain-free. The years went by and Don Dee remained sound on
gallium nitrate, even though his X-rays said he should be euthanized.
I told this story on the Internet at http://coldcure.com/html/
nav.html and over the years many people bought chemical gallium
nitrate 14% CONCENTRATE ( http://coldcure.com/html/
galliumsales.html ) from me to experimentally treat their own horses.
Navicular disease is much like arthritis, both being pains in joints,
and there are many different “involvements,” such as bone, bursa,
infection and tendons, all presenting a difficult-to-diagnose situa-
tion that suggests different treatments for each “involvement.”
Strangely, nearly all of the horses got better, and most of them be-
came sound and resumed their careers. What we could not figure
out was why some horses became totally sound within a single 2-
week gallium nitrate treatment, while others did not respond for 5
months and then suddenly became sound in the sixth month. Some-
one suggested that the gallium was going to some other infection,
inflammation or cancer, which had a greater demand for gallium
than the foot. I don’t know, but such sounds plausible.
As time went on, people called me and told me stories that
their own arthritis symptoms in their fingers disappeared after get-
ting 14% gallium nitrate on their hands. Several people told me the
same story and over the years, their arthritis symptoms did not re-
turn. I thought they were joking with me for nearly a year, and then
I remembered that I too had benefit from my first oral use of it back
in 1996.
I began to pay more attention to these people and tried it with
my sister-in-law. Her hands were severely arthritic and painful and
she also suffered from a horrible life threatening disease called sys-
temic scleroderma (with nearly lethal pulmonary hypertension). I
poured some gallium nitrate 14% concentrate into a soup bowl and
as we talked, she wrung her hands in the solution. She did this for
about an hour and a half. She noticed some pain relief while doing
that, and I figured it was the placebo effect. The next day, she said
she had no pain in her hands. That was two years ago, and she still
has no pain in her hands from that single treatment!
I saw my high school girl friend for the first time in over 40
years shortly after that, and found that she had been crippled for
over 40 years with severe, very painful osteoarthritis in her knee
from a car wreck. I told her about my sister-in-law and her experi-
ence with gallium nitrate and she was enthused. Instead of topical
treatment, she decided to take it orally at the same rate as Don Dee,
considering their weight differences. She weighed 165 pounds and
took 3 to 5 milliliters of the 14% concentrate mixed into about a
half-gallon of water each day. She hated the taste of it because gal-
lium nitrate even in these low dilutions is extremely astringent and
drying in the mouth. How the horses don’t seem to mind the taste is
totally beyond me. She took gallium every other two weeks (two
weeks on and two weeks off) and found that her pain was greatly
reduced while taking it and that the pain came back somewhat dur-
ing the off two weeks. She was the first to demonstrate that oral
gallium nitrate could significantly increase bone density. Gallium
nitrate increased bone density so much that she was able to have
successful knee replacement surgery, something that she had wanted
and been refused for many years due to bone density issues.
Recently, I was suddenly stricken overnight with “frozen shoul-
der”, a type of arthritis. It really hurt! Turning over in bed felt like
my bed was made of broken glass! And now I see why people with
arthritis want pain relief! It hurt like crazy. In desperation, I made a
40% gallium nitrate solution which, strangely, was oily on my skin.
It did not hurt, although I fully expected it to hurt, although it did
exfoliate a thin layer of skin a few days later, just like DMSO. It
took about 2 hours for it to soak into my shoulder. I repeated that
each day over the following week and the pain went away, and
more or less stayed away for over a year, requiring only occasional
minor tune-ups. During the last year, I found that the pain relief
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