I am pleased to offer to all visitors of this site a varied number of discussion forums designed for anyone to share ideas, experiences, or ask questions of a veterinary herbal or race horse training nature:

Description: This is a group for dark-field and phase contrast medical/veterinary microscopists that are interested in sharing their ideas and experiences about "fresh" fluid analysis, though all forms of traditional clinical microscope analysis are welcomed. In fact, I would like to extend a special invitation to medical technologists/hematologists that are interested in dark field examination. I feel that in order for dark-field work to become a valued diagnostic procedure, there has to be a close relationship and validation to what is observed via dark-field to what has been observed via the current popular clinical techniques---similar to how Gitte S. Jensen, Ph.D., Immunologist, Cancer Researcher has evaluated darkfield with fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, or molecular methods. We must raise darkfield microscopy above the inept commercialism that seems to have gripped this science of late with its accompanying antiquated myths and unscientific notions about unproven qualities of commonly observed darkfield particles. Darkfield is but another tool in our arsenal to medically evaluate a being's state of health: no more, no less.

Since many of the microscopy groups found at yahoo, belittle the concepts of Royal Rife, Gaston Naessens, Dr. Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, Dr. Eleanor Alexander-Jackson, Dr. Florence Siebert, and a host of others that have dealt into the study of pathogens not easily observed under traditional bright field microscopical techniques. I hope this group will offer an open, yet a critical investigative mind-set to this art and science; may this group act as a very much needed outlet for further study, dialog, and advancement of this form of ultra-microscopy.

This group will be a meeting place for those who wish to evolve Brooks Bradley's Do-It-Yourself process of Liposomal Encapsulation Technology (LET), throw out new ideas and to report results. It was Dr. Bradley that give us the profound illumination that one did not have to go through the laborious and complicated process of formulating drug carrying liposomes as it is commonly performed in a lab. He showed us that simply combining lecithin, water, and vitamin c together and then sonicating in a simple ultrasonic bath was enough to produce a valuable medicinal liposomal product. Eye-opening!

Liposomes, micelles and other nanoparticles seem to be the process of the future in prepping low bio-available drugs & herbs into more efficient delivery applications. A common laboratory recipe (thin film hydration) to make liposomes involves a lipid (i.e. lecithin) being dissolved in an organic solvent such as acetone or chloroform, the solvent is then evaporated leaving a thin lipid layer on the sides of a flask, and then an aqueous solution of the drug is added to this flask and sonicated in an ultrasonic bath. The sound waves displace the lipids from the flask's wall causing a self-assembly of liposomes entrapping the aqueous drug inside. Brooks has shown this can be done outside of the sophisticated laboratory setting by application of a common ultrasonic cleaner to sonicate simply mixed ingredients. Come join and let's make this more of a science and easy reality for everyone to employ, save money, and improve health!