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Up until recently, science has been somewhat baffled by cases of instant death from strikes just above the heart. In recent years there have been over 70 incidences reported. According to an article in the San Diego Union Tribune (Thursday, June 18, '98) a 16-year-old hockey player in 1995 took an everyday check, collapsed on the ice and died instantly. In over 70 cases studied in recent years, there was no previous heart condition in the victims. Now researchers believe they have an explanation for the rare death of concussion to the heart or "commotio cordis." In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers led by a team from Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, describe their experiments along with suggestions for preventing some deaths. The deaths are a result of an unusual chance circumstance of events. While the heart is beating, there is a fleeting moment (about 1/100th of a second) when the electrical rhythm is resetting in the milliseconds just before a beat. During this moment, a moderate blow directed to exactly the spot on the chest above the heart, causes the electrical rhythm to break. At this moment the heart quits beating and "fibrillates" or quivers uselessly inside the chest. If the blow is too strong, too weak or the timing is a few milliseconds off, the catastrophe does not occur. Until now scientists had no explanation for what caused commotio. Prior experiments had delivered blows that were too powerful and not properly timed. Tufts' scientists Mark Link and Paul Wang tried an experiment with pigs. Young pigs were given blows to the chest with a soft ball fired at 30 mph. Of the 10 blows delivered during the 15 millisecond "T- wave" moment just before a beat, 9 caused a young pig to experience what would have been a fatal heart stop. Animal rights groups made sure the pigs were quickly revived. In 22 impacts on other pigs that were timed to occur at other parts of the heartbeat cycle, no potential heart failures occurred.
Instantaneous death is frequent in coronary heart disease. Sudden death from coronary heart disease occurs so frequently that less than half of the persons who die from heart attacks each year in the United States survive long enough to reach the hospital. Instantaneous cardiac death is usually due to ventricular fibrillation (an uncontrolled and uncoordinated twitching of the ventricle muscle) with total mechanical inadequacy of the heart and erratic and ineffective electrical activity. In rare instances as mentioned earlier in this article, sudden death occurs without a major degree of coronary artery diseases. The use of closed-chest cardio pulmonary massage (massage of the heart and lungs without making an opening in the chest wall) coupled with electrical defibrillation (the use of electrical shocks), if applied within a few minutes of the sudden death episode, may successfully resuscitate the majority of patients.
We claim no medical effects for this legendary jow. Consult your Western and Eastern doctors as well as a licensed herbalist. The formula is not cheap. It will cost about $150. Soak ingredients in a quart of gin for six months. Use with Tui Na massage techniques over heart and lung areas. Cow gallstones are the expensive ingredient. This is almost a dim mak antidote for a strike to the heart points. I could go much deeper into this subject but because of space considerations, this is enough to whet your appetites for more. Call me at (619) 766-9256 if you need more information or the formula filled. The page numbers relate to Bensky's Materia Medica.  Phone: (619) 766 - 9256 Mew Hing Productions 42499 Old Hwy. 80 P.O. Box 427 Jacumba, CA. 91934-0427 E-mail: MewHing@earthlink.net ShaBruCha Graphics  618-529-2856 sharoney2@yahoo.com |