Monday, August 18, 2008

Was The Original Coral Calcium The Fountain Of Youth?

By Lee Dobbins


About 500 years ago, explorers from Spain brought the original coral calcium to Europe from their travels to Japan. The explorers noted that coral sand was extremely beneficial to native islanders. They harvested large amounts and returned with their finds to Spain.

The Spaniards must have been as interested in alternative health remedies back then as we are today because Spain boasts historic monuments which are considered to be the oldest drugstores in the world and on their shelves are clay pots that contain coral calcium labels.

Chinese folklore and legends contain a story about a Chinese emperor who dispatched three thousand explorers to find the land of heaven on earth. Chinese then believed that the heaven on earth was called Horai and that it was located in the warm sea off the east cist of China. This Chinese emperor ordered his explorers to return with the life-sustaining tonic, known as the elixir of life or fountain of youth.

According to this legend, though the explorers find the islands of Paradise, they did not return home as they found the life in the Paradise was too good for them to leave. That island was the land of eternal life! The legend further describes this new beautiful land of eternal life as having a coral base and pristine clear seas all around. The legend confirms that Province of Okinawa is the identified place and these people may have been the original coral calcium discoverers. So the coral calcium of today is perhaps the elixir of life that the Chinese emperor wanted to lay hand on.

By the 1990s, the mainland Japan had been enlightened about the health benefits of coral calcium consumption. Countries such as China, Russia, Sweden, France, and Britain were also taken over by this knowledge. The United States of America first learned about coral calcium in the 1970s as a modern dietary supplement.

Coral calcium as a nutritional supplement continues to grow throughout the western world. Many users consider the health benefits of original coral calcium to be essential to their health and the minerals in the coral are said to help relive a variety of aches and pains.

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