Angina pectoris can be successfully treated by Vitamins. For a number of years Holistic doctors have been using vitamin E made from green leafy vegetable sources, with fairly consistent results. The relief is sometimes prompt but usually gradual. Angina pectoris is a pain arising from over stressed tissue. This form of vitamin E is associated with manganese and choline, and are supplying reinforcing nutrition to degenerated connective tissue in the vascular walls. And vitamin C is involved as a collateral factor, too. For instance, it was observed that scurvy victims were particularly prone to develop angina pectoris. vitamin C has long been recognized as a builder of connective tissue, the primary lesion in scurvy being broken capillaries and degeneration and separation of the periosteal membrane in the joints.
A deficiency of vitamin C complex, ( meaning all the forms of vitamin C, including Ascorbic acid, Rutin, bioflavinoids, Acerola, Quercetin, and some trace elements.) reduces the capacity of the blood stream to carry oxygen. This causes the heart to become overloaded in its duty of maintaining a proper supply of oxygen to the tissues. It is called upon to pump many more gallons of blood per hour than it would were the normal content of oxygen carried. It is obvious that the use of vitamin C in deficient a cardiac patient is of primary importance. Often the distressed breathing is gone in fifteen or twenty minutes. No matter what particular form of cardiac breakdown is present, vitamin C deficiency is adding to the insult to this organ and there will be immediate relief for the patient. It is also important to note that any infection process, local or general, destroys the vitamin C reserves. Tachycardia with pneumonia, for example, is secondary to the pneumonia and is promptly relieved by the ingestion of the natural vitamin C complex.
The combined use and interdependence of vitamin C, manganese, choline and vitamin E for the maintenance of connective tissue and angina pectoris is illustrative of the complexity of nutrition.
One remarkable food that is very high in vitamin C per weight is Kiwi Fruit. Kiwi Fruit has 100 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams. While taking vitamin supplements is a good thing getting vitamins from nature is even better because they come with all the necessary trace elements we might even know about yet. Tomatoes, red peppers (raw)., Sweet potatoes and green leafy vegetables also have a good amount of Vitamin C.
The use of vitamin E in treating various pains that arise from over stressed tissues is interesting in the example of hernia. One case I recall was put on a schedule of Acupuncture and vitamin E to relieve pains pending an operation. The result was that the pains disappeared, the patient even stopped the use of a truss and the operation was called off. While this does not suggest this is a possible remedy for hernia, it does illustrate the far reaching effects of vitamin deficiency in various aggravating common conditions.
Vitamin E seems to act in promoting the proliferation of connective tissue in some manner as an organizer of the chromosomes in cell division, .
A deficiency of vitamin B complex is almost as devastating in it's damage to heart mechanisms as is a deficiency of vitamin C complex. The primary effect is to permit a relaxation of the vascular system, stop the enlargement of the heart, atony of the intestinal tract, and progressive degeneration of the nervous system with disturbances of heart rhythm, and possible end results of heart block or fibrillation. The heart enlargement often causes malpositions of valves, with consequent regurgitation . The administration of the B complex, which must contain the correct potent quantity, will often temporarily eliminate the valve leakage, the skipping beats, the fibrillation or heart block in a phenomenally short time. In fact, cardiograms will show changes, sometimes as quickly as within fifteen minutes, that are often hard to believe.
The correction of the deficiencies takes off the overload, which alone means that the vicious circle is broken, and the improvement often is apparently miraculous even when the patient is at the brink of the grave.
Here is a case that will illustrate my point; The physician described the case of a woman, 91 years of age, myocardial degeneration of a number of years with slight fever, blood pressure of 100, systolic, a cough that was sapping her strength and taxing her heart, and an alternating pulse. In all ordinary experience, this was the final stage of a cardiac case. No patient can be expected to live long who, at the age of 91, has a heart that is skipping every other beat. Under vitamin treatment, immediate improvement was evident, with an apparent complete recovery within a few weeks. At the time of reporting the case the patient had lived five more years to the age of 96 years old and had a heart action that never faltered.
Vitamin B in nature consists of about two dozen factors but in the B complex Vitamin bottles, you buy off the shelf, there are only about a dozen listed. There is some research that considers a single factor in the B vitamin complex to be the the most important and that is the B-4 fraction, otherwise known as the anti-paralysis vitamin. If you give a patient thiamin when he is deficient in B-4, he will temporarily respond, but very soon have a relapse, and be worse than ever. Some research shows heart disease to be a common reaction to a B-4 deficiency. In this deficiency the innervation to the heart becomes partly paralyzed, the pulse becomes erratic, extra systoles are common and ultimately fibrillation may develop.
Vitamin B-4 is known as Adenine. It is a water soluble and infamous vitamin. It is a component of DNA, RNA, ATP and the three coenzymes NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide). It functions synergistically and closely with vitamins B-2 and B-3 to generate energy.
Brewer's yeast is the best food source and other foods rich in Vitamin B-4 are whole fresh grains, bee pollen, royal jelly, propolis, spirulina, aloe vera, kelp, green leafy vegetables, honey, cayenne pepper and berries. It is also found in herbs and spices such as hops, sage, spearmint, caraway, cinnamon, sumac and ginger. When combined with ribose, it forms adenosine which is highly important for normal heart function. It also boosts energy, helps overcome jet lag, delays fatigue and exhaustion, improves endurance, and mental alertness and clarity. In the form of NADH it may enhance the release of growth hormone. Coffee, tea and soft drinks with caffeine may reduce the effectiveness of adenosine. Also theophylline in cocoa beans and tea and theobromine in chocolate, tea and cola may reduce the effectiveness of adenosine. Oh no not chocolate!