Germanium the Element

In appearance germanium is a metal, but it is completely without metallic properties. Some scientists refer to it as a non-metal, while Dr Asai and others in Japan classified it as a semi-metal. Germanium is common in the universe and can be found in various places - food, plants, and peat and coal deposits and in the earth's crust. Intriguingly, Germanium can be found in extremely high levels in the water of Lourdes, where people today continue to travel seeking healing. It rarely forms it's own deposits, but is found in small levels in the ores of for example, lead, zinc and copper, it can be found in highly concentrated amounts in certain coals. In 1945, Asai helped to establish the Coal Research Foundation in Japan and it was from here that he began his original research. Dr. Asai found that Ge-Oxy 132 occurs in high concentrations in medicinal plants, and is therefore one of the main active principles in many age old, natural remedies. Experiments led to the observation of other interesting phenomena. When only a small quantity of germanium solution was used, the growth of various plants was greatly accelerated and their flowering period was advanced.



"In fact, although in quantities which vary a great deal from plant to plant, all plants seem to contain germanium. Observing such phenomena, I was astonished at how the laws of nature seemed to support the hypothesis that germanium plays a very important role in relation to biochemical life. Discoveries lending verification, however, followed in rapid succession. I was further surprised to find that the plants containing unusually large quantities of germanium were without exception those valued as Chinese medicinal herbs. This discovery renewed my admiration for the accumulated wisdom and experience of Oriental medicine with its 2,OOO-year history, and added to my incentive to uncover the biochemical effects of germanium".



The electronics industry had been extracting inorganic germanium from coal, and it was utilised for the semi-conducting properties and in the development of transistors and diodes, both of which came to play a leading role in modern electronics. Electronics engineers have since come to marvel at the whimsical and magic like behaviour of semiconductor electrons, and the quantum revolution soon spread to other fields. In the field of biochemistry, quantum biology and electrobiology emerged. Dr Asai established that as living organisms also come under the physical laws of matter, that the semiconductor phenomenon could have an impact on the living body with interesting biological effects.



"All these experiments pointed to a very interesting relationship existing between living substances and metals. In nature there is a transmigrational phenomenon whereby metallic elements existing in the soil play an important part in plant growth when absorbed by plants. Animals absorb these elements after feeding on the plants and return them to the soil through evacuation or upon death. Naturally, the metallic elements involved in this cycle move in organic form from the plant to animal bodies, and I became extremely interested in determining what form of organic compound is present in living organisms. If this organic compound could be found and synthesized. a substance could be created which would surely have beneficial effects on all forms of life"



Please note that all Dr Asai's research and the healing properties discussed relates to the organic form of Germanium. The inorganic form caused some exaggerated talk of Germanium being toxic in the 80s. Over a period of around 10 years, Dr Asai and his researchers were able to convert the extracted inorganic Germanium into an organic form. Dr. Asai conducted many chronic toxicity studies on Organic Germanium which was found to be essentially non-toxic even at the highest dosages. Subsequent studies have had the same results - no side effects have been observed either clinically or biochemically. In 1967, a water-soluble organic Germanium compound, carboxy ethyl sesquioxide of Germanium, a white powder, was synthesized. Dr Asai was himself in ill health at this time and began the first tests on himself - in a period of just 10 days, his crippling rheumatoid arthritis, had disappeared.