BAKUHAN Stone - Medicinal Minerals

The Earth's crust or surface is made up largely of rocks, such as granite and andesite. The principal components of these rocks are silicates. Silicates promote the growth of plants and animals as well as building up their resistance to disease. Wild animals eat earth and drink spring water for their health. They understand their own physiology and for instance when wounded rub themselves against certain rocks that aid the healing process. Domesticated animals such as cows, pigs and chickens lick stones and eat earth as they know instinctively that they need the natural minerals for their health.

Genghis Khan used pulverised rock to treat his soldiers wounds and made 'Rock' or 'Mineral' soup by boiling rocks and water to help with fatigue and food poisoning. The ancient Tibetan Lama medicine uses minerals to treat internal and external medical, gynaecological and ophthalmological complaints.

The oldest specialist Chinese book of medicine, "Shinnouhonzokyo", written during the Kang dynasty (AD25~220), gives priority to several medicinal minerals over drugs made from animals and plants. The reason the book gives for this is ‘when a plant is burned, it turns to ash, but when a mercuric mineral is burned, it turns to mercury and if the mercury is mixed with sulphur and heated, it returns to a mercuric mineral, and such cyclical behaviour cannot be achieved by a plant’.

In Japan, medicinal minerals date from the Nara period about 1200 years ago. Among the treasures kept at the Shosohin Palace there is the "Syusyu Yakucho" (book of various medicines) which lists 19 medicinal minerals. By the Edo period (1615~1868) medicinal minerals had been found in Japan (mainly in Gifu Prefecture) and made available to ordinary people. But with the arrival of western medicine and man-made drugs in the Meij period (1868~1912), medicinal minerals were suddenly forgotten.

BAKUHAN Stone comes from Kamo-gun, near Ena Mountain in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan. It contains iron, titanium, copper, manganese, zinc, vanadium and the like, and so demonstrates an oxidative and decomposing action on organic compounds (in particular, during the purification and activation of water, the process is enhanced by aeration).

BAKUHAN Stone possesses a catalytic action that accelerates chemical reactions as well as bacterial absorption and degrading power in water in particular reducing residual chlorine. It is thought that the activity of bacteria is suppressed due to spare -SiO free radicals in the BAKUHAN Stone taking up nitrogen atoms.

Today the lack of minerals and calcium ions essential for the survival of life on Earth is threatening our very existence. However more and more people are again appreciating the value and medicinal benefits of natural rocks and minerals. The current global interest in alternative and complementary medicine includes using rocks, such as BAKUHAN Stone, as part of a trend towards ancient Chinese medical practices.

N.B. BAKUHAN Stone is a Living Energy Product available in powder form and also for bath water as "ENAgBATH Enhancer"

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