A PAIN-healing mission by a home for the aged in Antipolo conducted free therapy for senior citizens in Bohol on February 11, coinciding with the 23rd World Day for the Sick.
Harnessing magnesium’s natural and safe curative power, the Kanlungan ni Maria pain-healing mission team provided 150 seniors with therapy, Victoria Baterina-Solis, Kanlungan ni Maria special project director, told the BusinessMirror.
The recipients, who came from the different communities in Bohol, have complained of arthritis, painful shoulders, stiff fingers, back pain, muscle cramps, psoriasis, gout, and other health conditions, she said.
Candida Turalba, 69, who could not fold her fingers in the last five months because they were painful, experienced relief.
“My fingers have felt better after the therapy,” she said in Filipino. “I will continue the therapy at home to completely heal.”
Another recipient, whose feet were painful in the last three years, has reported relief.
“I felt better in my feet,” Hospicio Almenye, 70, said in Filipino.
He was amazed saying, “There is nothing like this [magnesium liquid] in drug stores.”
Most of the pains in seniors are related to magnesium deficiency in their diet, said Mary Jean Netario Cruz, Kanlungan ni Maria wellness director.
“The deficiency due to poor diet,” she continued, “is exacerbated by an unhealthy lifestyle, like excessive caffeine, alcohol, chronic stress, fatigue, and by some pharmaceutical drugs. They deplete the stored magnesium in the body.”
When the pain sets in, Netario Cruz said, magnesium relieves it by relaxing the muscles and preventing spasm and nerve twitching.
Conventional pain killers only further deplete the body’s magnesium, said Netario Cruz, a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
Headache, fatigue, insomnia and body pains are the main indicators of the mineral’s deficiency and excess calcium deposits in the body, she added.
Magnesium can be restored in the body in its liquid state transdermally or orally, said Netario Cruz, a certified wellbeing coach.
In the United States, Dr. Carolyn Dean, a medical and naturopath doctor, even treats executives and athletes of anxiety and panic attack with magnesium, instead of sedatives, with success.
The Kanlungan ni Maria pain-healing mission team also gave 150 free 100 mL bottles of magnesium to the seniors in Bohol, Baterina-Solis said.
It was the first time the team crossed the sea to conduct a pain-healing mission.
Fr. Dari Dioquino, who is Kanlungan ni Maria priest-in-charge, Netario Cruz, Baterina-Solis, Marilyn I. Domingo, Shirley U. Griba, Maria Kristen D. Concepcion, Karima Dimzon, Grace P. Vergara, Mercy Baterina, lawyer Pope Solis, and Philip Nicholas Cruz composed the team that visited Bohol.
Kanlungan ni Maria has also conducted pain-healing missions in the towns of Jalajala, Pililia, Cainta, Malaya and Tanay, in Rizal province, benefiting no less than 500 indigent people, Baterina-Solis said.
Fr. Fernando “Dodong” Po, a retired priest, hosted Kanlungan ni Maria’s seventh pain-healing mission at a beach in Panglao, a town in Bohol visited by local and foreign tourists for its white sand and clear blue beach water.
Po, who built over 100 core houses for the quake survivors in the province, also hosted the team’s four-day stay in Bohol.
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