PAIN FROM TOE TO HEAD
5.Reduce the acidity in your toes. First, check your acidity
with pH paper meant for testing urinary pH, called Ni-
trazineTM paper. Ordinary pH paper, as for fish tanks, is
almost as accurate and will serve as well. Tear a ½ inch
piece and hold it in the urine stream. Early morning is the
time your urine is most acid. If this reads below 5.5 your
feet must have been even lower in the night (lower is more
acid).Once deposits start, it is hard to stop them. If they start
forming at 2 a.m., they are likely to continue for several hours
even if the pH goes back up to normal. Your tactic will be to go
to bed with an alkalizing action. Taking a calcium and magne-
sium supplement at bedtime, drinking milk at bedtime, using
baking soda at bedtime are all remedies to be tried. They should
raise your urinary pH to 6 in the morning.
Balance Your pH........................................................................
Most persons with painful deposits anywhere in their feet
have a morning urine pH of 4.5! At 4.5 it is safe to guess that a
lot has precipitated again in the night. During the day, your body's
pH swings back and forth. The urine gets quite alkaline right after
a meal; this is called the alkaline tide. Three meals a day would
bring you three alkaline tides. During these periods, lasting about
an hour, you have an opportunity to dissolve some of your foot
deposits. But if you allow your pH to drop too low in the night
you put the deposits back again. The net effect decides whether
your deposits grow or shrink.
To alkalinize yourself at bedtime, choose one of these op-
tions:
- Two oyster shell tablets, equaling 750 mg. of calcium plus
a magnesium oxide tablet, 300 mg (see Sources). The
magnesium helps the calcium dissolve and stay in solu-