Week 5: Chemistry of Color and Nutrition

My Inert Gas of the Week

My inert gas of the week is Neon, because how did nature go wrong in making an element that provides day-glow ‘OPEN’ signs for restaurants and made Las Vegas a glimmer in the Luxor pyramidal eye of capitalistic neon pseudo-god who blinks at you, beckoning you to come and waste your money on slot machines? Actually, neon is considered rare on Earth in comparison to its abundant presence around the universe, which makes you wonder if some of those gorgeous rainbow-colored nebulas have neon gas, which is a noble gas. Neon- which is found in trace amounts in the air- is extracted from air for commercial purposes. Neon is a Noble gas with 10 protons and 10 neutrons and is abbreviated “Ne.” I once knew a meth head who invented the name of a fake God named “Neon Ray.” Makes you wonder….

Colors in the Kitchen

When I actually had a kitchen, I remember making these beautiful kale salads our of purple and green kale, purple beets, red cherry tomatoes, orange carrots, light green cucumber, rich green broccoli, white almonds, yellow bell pepper, and brown lentils. I was a raw food health freak and true believer in the rainbow salad which made me feel like I had just eaten the super-charged food of the Gods. I also had what I call a healthy obsession with tomatoes in my food, everything from eggs, to soups, to salads, which was pretty much the main stay of my diet. Who could blame me? Tomatoes have anti-oxidant lycopene which protects against a variety of cancers, half of which I’ve probably had in my family. I wear a lot of crystals too, and supposedly Herkimer diamond protects against radiation and the diseases caused by it, but it also increase my intuiton and contact with higher guidance, and like the guidance of angel in my head the other day (versus schizophrenic delusions that tell you to jump off a building), I got the message, “buy strawberries and spinach.” It certainly didn’t sound like bad advice, so I did. I checked out the health properties of spinach and found out that they it is considered by Chinese medicine to be sweet, cool, and moistening, I also found out that it has more protein than most vegetables, can help with vision weakness (amongst other things which I have) and has anti-oxidant, digestive, diuretic, laxative, lymph-cleansing and tonic properties. I know I need digestive support and tonifying. Spinach is rich in beta-carotene, vitamins B6, C, K, folic acid, calcium, iron, potassium, sulfur, and chlorophyll. Strawberries possess a few things that I realize my body wants: they have a moistening quality on the lungs and can therefore help a dry cough and sore throat, which I have recently been battling. They are rich in vitamins B, C, E, and iron, and have a blood-purifying effect. I have been told in the clinic that I have blood heat, so I imagine a cooling fruit with a blood purifying effect would be just what the Chinese doctor ordered!

The Importance of Color in Minerals

I found it interesting that any element could be responsible for any color, but that copper usually produces green and blue. Copper ore is responsible for making malachite green, and also for making malachite gem elixir toxic. Water that is soaked in malachite can be applied externally but not internally as copper taken in sufficient quantities is toxic. It sure does make a lovely green however. Atomic bonds are what absorb or emit various wavelengths of light that can appear as different colors, so bonds of different elements are responsible for producing different crystals colors. The color is not necessarily elementary to the color of the elements that compose it, but the wavelengths of light that the atomic bonds of the elements absorb or emit. Material reality gets eerie when you think of it to that micro-degree.