Re: O/T - Broken Bone Healing

Good for your husband for trying to avoid surgery! What a tough guy! :) I wish that I had his level of knowledge when I broke my ankle many moons ago(now I have 6 titanium screws)...

Anyway, just a few suggestions in no particular order and in no order of importance...

Comfrey, yes. Internally as well.

Lots of leafy greens. Collards in particular are very high in easily assimilable calcium. Long cooking time to make palatable- soft boil for about 45 mins. drain. gently sautee in OO (Olive-Oil) with garlic. Top w balsamico or braggs ACV. YUM.

Brassicas are also very good. An aside- when my ankle was broken I dreamed that it was split open and full of broccoli. So I ate lots of broccoli:)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1993.tb06187.x/abstract


ABSTRACT
Absorption of calcium from three intrinsically labeled Brussica sp. vegetables was measured in 15 normal women in a three-way randomized design. The test load of calcium was about 83 mg for each source. Fractional calcium absorption from broccoli averaged 0.478 ± 0.089, from bok choy stems, 0.519 ± 0.089, from bok choy leaves, 0.520 ± 0.074, and from kale 0.527 ± 0.091. These differences were both absolutely small and statistically insignificant. Mean absorbability of milk calcium ingested at the same load has been previously shown to be 0.463 ± .095. This value is slightly but significantly lower than the average value for the Brassica sources combined (0.514 ± 0.090). Thus, Brussicu vegetable sources exhibit excellent calcium bioavailability.

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Silica is important- food grade DE- just a pinch in drinking water(you can find lots of info on that in the truth in medicine forum).

Also, if you can get your hands on the right magnetic setup(and I don't know what, exactly, that would be), magnets really speed up bone healing time- they're commonly used in Europe and only used here as a "last resort".
A friend of mine, a physicians assistant, told me about them when my husband broke his arm a few years back, apparently you can find the set-up on Ebay from time to time. Anyway, here's a link on magnetics and bone healing. I don't know if this is the "best" info out there as I am really quite unfamiliar with the subject matter:

http://www.magnetictherapyfacts.org/research/bone_healing.asp


oh, one more thing- search "pectin" within this forum- V wrote a great post on pectin to aid calcium absorption, I don't know where it is, but it's here somewhere:)