TOPICAL v. INDIRECT
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In medicine, a topical application is one that is applied to a part (anatomical).

In medicine, an indirect application is one that is applied internally.

There appears to be some confusion regarding medical applications as to what is the science behind these terms leading to confusion and often, just bad science. Given thus, one must ask what vested interests ( a serious condition) there may be in promoting one or the other regarding treatment of patients.

A topical application is made at the surface (outside) of an anatomical part (for example, a tooth).

An indirect application is made when any substance is aimed at modifying the behaviour of the (tooth) from inside the body. They do not necessarily have the same effect, to put it simply (more later).

Here is an example:

Fluoride is a substance found in nature. This Calcium fluoride. It is insoluble. That is it does not dissolve in water. Whilst too much may be a problem for humans, it is not as dangerous as other forms of fluoride.

The substances added to water supplies, are not natural; they are Hydrofluorosilicic Acid, Sodium Silicofluoride or Sodium Fluoride. These forms are produced during aluminium production and the making of atomic bombs (amongst other things). There is no question about this. These are the forms put into the water supply. They are soluble and are stored in the bones of the body (and elsewhere), to their detriment.

Now, whether natural or not, fluoride has been used by dentists to (apparently) strengthen the enamel of teeth to prevent tooth decay. This may be correct but that is not the point of this essay. The usual treatment was topical; that is, it was applied externally to the teeth.

Apparently, some-one had it in mind that by putting the fluoride into water, it would have the same effect. This was indirect application.

Now that does not necessarily work the same way. Ask yourself: Would you put nail varnish (were it possible) underneath the nails to make them shiny? Would you swallow lipstick to make your lips red? I wouldn't think so.

The same thing applies to teeth and (without vested interests, apart from health) there are many, many studies that show that ingested fluoride is dangerous because, as stated it is soluble and is leeched into the bones causing untold damage, forever (osteoporosis, for one).

This same notion of internal as opposed to external, is applied to vaccines.

Originally, Edward Jenner (look him up, I have no intention of giving his history here) discovered that by scratching the skin of a dairy-maid with cow-pox made her immune to this disease of cattle. All that needs to be said here is that it was a topical application. He did not inject her with anything.

Again, some bright spark/s decided that giving this internally would do the same trick. It doesn't work that way, full stop.

The reasons these things don't work (or are positively harmful, as has been proven millions of times, without hyperbole) is this:

The largest organ of the body and first line of defence against boarders, is the skin. This is why it should never be covered by anything except where absolutely necessary.

Other lines of defence are the eyes, ears, nose and mouth and any other orifices in the body.

Nature has provided means to repel boarders from the outside. If these boarders do get inside (by virtue of numbers or failure of the first line of defence), the body has other mechanisms to repel them, given as natural an environment as possible.

Now, you cannot repel boarders as easily from the inside as from the outside. It does not work that way. The body provides mechanisms upon the original boarding from within, just in case.

To fight a host of boarders from the inside becomes too much for the body to take and it succumbs in one way or another. This we call dis-ease.

So, although Jenner's cow-pox scratching may have worked from the outside, there are no guarantees it will work from the inside.

Bad science and vested interest would have us believe otherwise, of course but the fact remains.

I've given a couple of examples but there are many more.

Man has existed for tens of thousands of years without all this fluoridation and vaccination; that's how come we are here, for goodness sake!



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