Dry blood analysis evaluates the coagulation morphology of blood. There is a very distinct difference between the dry blood sample of a healthy individual and that of a chronically ill person. Clotting patterns in layered dry blood offer insight into underlying causes of poor health.
Dried Blood Analysis or the Oxidative Stress Test (OST) was developed in Europe in the 1920’s and has since been used by medical practitioners and naturopaths in many countries across the world.
In the 1930’s NATO physicians, Dr Heitan and Dr La Garde, introduced Dried Blood Analysis to Dr Bowlen (head of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in the 1930’s), and later Robert Bradford (of American Biologics Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico).
For this reason Dried Blood Analysis is also referred to as the HLB test (Heitan, La Garde, Bradford).
In essence the Dried Blood Analysis test is an evaluation of a patient’s coagulation morphology. There is a very distinct difference between the dried blood sample of a healthy individual and that of a chronically ill patient. The healthy sample is a solid mat of pinkish-red dried blood with a strong, well-interconnected fibrin network.
In the presence of degeneration, toxins and other imbalances, the dried blood sample shows white areas, called polymerized protein puddles (PPPs) and other abnormalities that can be indicative of certain systemic conditions.
A healthy dry blood sample shows a healthy, even red colour, no white open areas and a distinct, interconnected fibrin network.
Copyright Dr Okker R. Botha, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2009