Bull.
Ind. Inst.
Hist.
Med. Vol. XXIII
pp. 49 to 51
THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS OF THE HUMAN
CONCEIVED AS PAIRS OF OPPOSITES
EXEMPLIFIED
BY CALCIUM-CHROMIUM
Late
BODY
S. MAHDIHASSAN'
ABSTRACT
The
human
percentages
than
e le mc nt s ,
upon
all
body
the
to
r.cn-utaliz
elements
the
of
a
help
their
system.
is
large
with
retained
Here
the
some
to be come
pair
been
diabetes,
and
anemia
The human body contains
chemelements
which
exist partly in
ratios
constituents
elements
is
and
partly
as
minor
The latter
group of
usually
called
Trace
Elements.
And chromium
is one of
the latest
In all elements
to have
been recognized.
Now while their
existence is established
tile role they
pl av
in
unknown
the
human
or atlcast
svstern
mainly
is still
unknown
Let us now consider some facts.
When there is a p at ie nt of diabetes
he is given insulin
injections
It is
known th a t insulin helps the me t abo[ir m in calcium.
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When
blood
Nor i h Naz irna b a d.
of
a
Karnclii-33.
minor
protein
when
It
n on-rtio
components
the
helps
a rid
Tr ac e
to look
help
the
its opposite
tha:
these
e leru c nt s considered
s o d ium-pot
l arqer
r e sult an t b cco m o s
is supposed
t.z ab!e
much
called
We have
for example
body.
opp o s it o
of
Iron-copper
have
the
in
are
unknown.
the
Chromium
in
some
constituents
remains
of opposites.
o pp o s it es.
opposites
calcium-chromium.
cial
as pairs
elements
minor
elements
complex
and
The
trace
major
form
chemical
others.
elements
ab!e
concerned
contains
the
roll
to retain
calcium
the
The
body
as siuru .
The
all tr ac e
r e rua in
have
in
been
a ilrne n t s
and p olvur e a.
diabetic
patient
is dialysed calcium
is dialized.
It means in diabetes
calcium remains as free radical which
thus
passes into
urine or excreted
with stools,
It is not bound to sarno
protein
and remain
non-dialyzable.
This is brought about by insulin.
Now
it has been found
that the above
complex
forming
only insulin
but
calcium
needs not
also chromium.
In
the absence
of chromium
in the
svstern the happy effect
of insulin
does not occur,
Thus chr omiurn is
necessary for allowing calcium to be
retained
in the body when c alciurn
forms a complex
with some protein
and remains non-dialyzable.
Ignoring
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the mechanism of action the fact is
obvious
that chromium
helps the
body to retain calcium.
as copper sulfate there is now increase
of 1 % of blood and this rise is about
the maximum beneficial effect
And
we find a red blood call contains
haemoglobin
which would be iron
bound
to a protein.
And
the
membrane of the red blood cell would
Let us take another case. The
heart muscle needs calcium for its
proper action.
A patient of heart
disease would be given digitalis.
It
is found that digitalis
metabolizes
calcium
and blood of a patient
receiving
digitalis
contains
bound
calcium or non-dialyzable
calcium.
Digitalis also helps the body to retain
calcium.
Unfortunately
it is not
known that even the beneficial action
of dig it alis needs the co-existence
of chromium
but I can assume that
even here chromium
is needed.
Btieflv
wherever calcium is mobilized
as a complex
with
some protein
chromium is necessary. To know the
mechanism
of action of chromium
would be an interesting problem to
investigate at any late we have here
a pair of opposites, chromium helps
the body to retain calcium.
Briefly
there is a pair of
opposites
as
calcium-chromium.
We may take another case and
that of anemia.
There would be
some patients who are given iron as
medicine responded by increase of
blood.
But there would also be a
few who receiving iron excrete the
same in urine or in stools and remain
as anemic as before.
Now if such a
patient is given the standard dose of
20 mg. of iron as iron-sulphate
or
ferrous fumirate and 1 mg of copper
contain
a protein-copper
complex.
Thus facts clearly reveal that
helps to metabolize
Then there would
opposites
copper
iron in the system.
be another
pair of
as iron--copper.
Now when the weather is very
cold some suffer from polyurea.
It
means sodium chloride
which
is
normally absorbed by some protein
in the circulatory
system becomes
free and dialyzable and is excreted in
urine
Now if this patient takes a
tablet of Potassium chloride or enjoys
a meal rich in potatoes which contain
much potassium
in
either
case
polyurea is reduced. It means potassium is the opposite of sodium and
helps to retain sodium.
In this light
we find a trace elements has its own
opposite
which is retained in the
system by its having become
a
complex with some protein.
Trace
element then functions as the retainer
of its opposite
and this it does by
enabling the opposite to from a non
dialyzable complex with some protein.
The above idea is capable of being
generalized so that we can assume
that trace elements play the role of
retaining
in tile human system the
clement whch is its opposite.
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