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Alternative Medicine in the News
October 2009 edition 41
published weekly
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Amid Flu Fears, Coloradans (USA) Seek Alternative Remedies Some Turn To Homeopathy
Christin Ayers, 7NEWS Reporter
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21097010/detail.html
DENVER -- With the H1N1 virus on the rise in Colorado state and a vaccine still weeks off, people are seeking out alternative remedies that claim to fight the flu.
Certified classical homeopath Sue Boorn, of Denver's Consulate Healing Center, has seen an uptick in clients seeking natural treatments to alleviate or prevent H1N1 symptoms.
"I have a lot of clients who ask me what can homeopathy offer them in regard to flu and swine flu," said Boorn. "[There is] much more interest this year around that."
Last spring, the Food and Drug Administration sent out warnings about the prevalence of new products that purport to cure or alleviate H1N1 symptoms. Indeed, many so-called remedies found online appear to be gimmicks, but Boorn said the effectiveness of homeopathic medicines in fighting flu has been well-documented.
Boorn said during the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918, doctors administered natural drugs like Oscillococcinum or Oscillo, made from duck liver extract, to sick patients. Boorn said data from homeopathic medical journals shows that mortality rates among the patients dropped to well below 1 percent.
"Those people who had homeopathic remedies, it was very effective for them in saving lives," Boorn said.
Boorn said during last spring's H1N1 outbreak in Mexico, Oscillo and other alternative medicines were effective in reducing H1N1 symptoms when given within 48 hours of the onset of flu-like symptoms.
But Boorn said different symptoms call for different homeopathic medicines and she cautioned against trying the medicines without seeing a homeopath first. On its Web site the American Institute of Homeopathy warns consumers against buying over-the-counter alternative medicines that claim to prevent H1N1, saying the medicines may be in violation of state and federal law.
Alternative medicine is not the only field benefitting from increased interest due to the H1N1 virus. Richard McCullough sells air-purifying ultraviolet lamps from his Aurora home and has started marketing the lamps as a new way to keep the virus out of your home.
McCullough said the lamps can be installed in forced-air systems and the intensity of the UV light zaps up to 99 percent of germs in the air.
"You turn it on, leave it and don't worry about it and it cleans the air," he said. "It does help kill swine flu virus," he said.
McCullough was marketing the lamps as mold-killers but said they could be just as effective at killing the virus that causes H1N1. He said many hospitals install the lamps in their ventilation systems to cut down on the circulation of germs, and some U.S. government offices are required to have air purifiers in ventilation systems.
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| Dangerous New Birth Control Pill in the Market
Recently this past week, a 31-year-old newly graduated student, with a
doctoral degree about to start her new career as a Doctor, was flown into a
nearby hospital, because she passed out. They found a blood clot in her neck,
and immediately took her by helicopter to the ER to operate by the time they
removed the right half of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain, the
clot had spread to her brain causing severe damage.. Since last Wednesday night,
she was battling.. they induced her into a coma to stop the blood flow, They
operated 3 times.
Finally, they said there was nothing left that they could do.. They found
multiple clots in the left side of her brain. The swelling wouldn't stop, and
she was on life support. She died at 4:30 yesterday. She leaves behind a
husband and a 2yr old Brandon and a 4yr old Justin... The CAUSE of DEATH - they
found was a birth control pill she was taking that allows you to only have your
period 3 times a year... They said it interrupts life's menstrual cycle, and
although it is FDA approved... shouldn't be - So to the women in my address book
- I ask you to deal with your period once a month - so you can live the rest of
the months that your life has in store for you. Please send this to every woman
you know - you may save someone's life.... Remember, you have a CYCLE for a
reason!
The name of this new birth control pill is Lybrel. If you go to Lybrel.com
<http://lybrel.com>
you will find at least 26 pages of information regarding this drug.
The second birth control pill is, Seasonique. If you go to the web-site
Seasonique.com <http://seasonique.com> you will find 43 pages of
information regarding this drug. The warnings and side effects regarding both
pills are horrible.
Please, forward this information to as many daughters AND sons, co-workers,
friends and relatives. Several lives have already been changed
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Beets are an Alternative Cancer Treatment
Beets are one of nature's wonder foods. They've recently been found to
increase stamina during exercise by 16 percent and that's just the tip
of the iceberg. Beets are known to break up cancers and tumors, and
they're known to do so faster than the body can eliminate them.
In
fact, in the 1950's, Dr. Ferenczi of Csoma, Hungary used beets
exclusively to break up tumors in the body. He had considerable
success, and tumors were often completely eliminated. However, he found
if patients stopped drinking quantities of beet juice, tumors
often reappeared. Dr. Ferenczi recommended drinking about a quarter
gallon (2.2 lbs) of beet juice daily to break up tumors, and results
were often seen in a few weeks or months.
Because beets can
break up tumors so rapidly, it's wise to combine this therapy with
other detoxification methods, like colon and liver cleansing, to help your body dispose of the waste released when cancers are broken down.
The key cancer
fighting ingredient in beets is called betacyanin; it's what gives red
beets their bright purple reddish color. Beets have also been found to
increase detoxifying compounds in the body and make it easier for the
body to detoxify itself in general. This, of course, adds to health.
Knowing
this, perhaps you'll want to start consuming beets regularly? Juiced
beets are great, and you can add sliced raw beets to any salad. Cooked
beets are also a fabulous side dish or main meal.
To make
delicious beets, just boil whole beets for about 40 minutes or until a
fork can slide through them. Then just drain, slice and drizzle olive
oil over them. Sprinkle with sea salt and for added flavor and
nutritional benefits, chop and toss some fresh green onion and organic
cilantro over the top.
Three or four large beets make a tasty meal, while one or two make a great side dish.
An
estimated forty percent of the population is expected to have a problem
with cancer, and tumors often grow for twenty years before they are
diagnosed. Eating beets a couple of times a week, or more, can offer
considerable protection from this serious problem.
Remember that
only red beets will do the trick, and be sure they're organic. These
days some beets are genetically altered, and genetically modified
plants don't know how not to cross pollinate with neighboring varieties. Of course, nothing genetically altered will make you well; genetically modified foods will only make you sick.
More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8...
http://www.betterbe.ca/Documents/Fe...
http://www.betterbe.ca/Documents/Fe...
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?...
http://healthforu.info/health/healt...
http://www.botanical-online.com/com...
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Apricot Seeds Kill Cancer Cells without Side Effects
Are apricot seeds a source for a natural substance that kills cancer
cells without destroying the cancer victim's health and wealth? The
essential ingredient has been called laetrile or vitamin B 17. If there
is any merit to it, why is this information being suppressed? Why are
people who have been cured or have cured others being censured and
imprisoned? Could be there is something to the claims.
Keep
in mind that the cancer industry world wide is estimated at a 200
billion dollar a year industry. There are many in various associated
positions within that industry who would be without a job if that cash
flow dried up suddenly with the news that there are cheaper, less
harmful, and more efficacious remedies available. Big Pharmacy would
virtually vanish.
What is B17, or Laetrile Anyway?
In 1952, a biochemist named Dr. Ernst Krebb, Jr. in San Francisco
decided that cancer was a metabolic reaction to a poor diet, and a
missing nutrient from modern man's diet could be the key to overcoming cancer. His research led to a compound found in over 1200 edible plants throughout nature. That compound is amagdylin,
Amagdylin is found with the highest concentration and necessary enzymes
in apricot seed kernels. A primitive tribe, the Hunzas, were known to
consume large amounts of apricot seed kernels. The hard pit had to be
broken to get into the soft kernels. There was no incidence of cancer
with them at all, ever. And they had long, healthy life spans. Laetrile
was created by simply extracting amagdylin from the soft apricot
kernels, purifying it and putting it into a concentrated form.
Amagdylin is a nitrioloside. Nitriolisides are difficult to categorize since they are in foods
but not foods themselves. As a nitrioloside, amagdylin resembled the B
complex structures, so Dr. Krebb called it B17 since by that time 16
types of B vitamins had been isolated.
Dr. Krebb injected himself with laetrile to ensure there would be no toxic side effects.
He conducted further lab animal and culture experiments to conclude
that laetrile would be effective in the treatment of cancer. By the
way, the FDA
standard for drug safety is known as LD 50, LD stands for lethal dose,
and the 50 is the percentage threshold of lab animals poisoned to death
by the drug tested. As long as the percentage killed is under 50%, FDA
will approve it!
Since laetrile is derived directly from a food
substance in nature and not chemically developed in a laboratory, it is
impossible to patent. And of course it's not toxic. In other words,
just as with all natural healing substances, Big Pharma
and the AMA can't make a fortune from the substance and from the
remedies for the long term side effects. There have been several
testimonies from cancer victims who cured themselves by chewing large
quantities of the apricot seeds alone.
The
seeds are more available to consumers now than laetrile because in 1971
the FDA banned laetrile. Laetrile is difficult, but not impossible, to
purchase. The seeds are actually the soft almond shaped, bitter tasting
kernels from inside the pits. A few users prefer extracting those soft
kernels from the pits themselves. But the soft kernels are available
and inexpensive.
So How Does It Work?
Amagdylin
contains four substances. Two are glucose; one is benzaldyhide, and one
is cyanide. Yes, cyanide and benzaldyhide are poisons if they are
released or freed as pure molecules and not bound within other
molecular formations. Many foods containing cyanide are safe because
the cyanide remains bound and locked as part of another molecule and
therefore cannot cause harm.
There is even an enzyme in normal cells to catch any free cyanide molecules and to render them harmless by combining them with sulfur.
That enzyme is rhodanese, which catalyzes the reaction and binds any
free cyanide to sulfur. By binding the cyanide to sulfur, it is
converted to a cyanate which is a neutral substance. Then it is easily
passed through the urine with no harm to the normal cells.
But cancer cells
are not normal. They contain an enzyme that other cells do not share,
beta-glucosidase. This enzyme, virtually exclusive to cancer cells, is
considered the "unlocking enzyme" for amagdylin molecules. It releases
both the benzaldyhide and the cyanide, creating a toxic synergy beyond
their uncombined sum. This is what the cancer cell's beta-glucosidase
enzyme does to self destruct cancer cells.
Amagdylin or laetrile
in conjunction with the protective enzymes in healthy cells and the
unlocking enzymes in cancer cells is thus able to destroy cancer cells
without jeopardizing healthy cells. Chemotherapy, on the other hand,
kills a lot of other cells and diminishes one's immune system while
killing an undetermined amount of cancer cells.
Those cancer cells tend to return elsewhere because the patient's general health was reduced from the pervasive chemo toxins. The cancer industry has declared the bench mark for curing cancer as being cancer free for 5 years. It's estimated that of those who undergo the AMA big three for curing cancer, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, no more than 3% make the 5 year cancer free mark. Besides the treatments' debilitating effects, they are much more expensive!
But
for someone with cancer, it takes a considerable amount of daily B17
consumption to enable the amagdylin to reach the cancer cells with
beta-glucosidase. That's because some of the amagdylin molecules will
be neutralized by the normal cells containing rhodanese.
Many
practitioners who use laetrile have an 85% cure rate among cancer
victims who did not undergo much of the standard cut, burn, and poison
that is main-stream - while the cure rate for those who come to
laetrile therapy as a last resort after all that conventional medicine could only have a 15% recovery rate. There is a clinic in Mexico that claims a 100 percent cure rate!
The Medical Mafia's Suppression
Since around 1920, practitioners of alternative cancer therapies
and remedies and their messengers have been marginalized, harassed,
imprisoned, and even killed. Federal agencies have been used to bring
about bogus charges or IRS tax liens that are enforced by US Marshals
the way Dr. Gary Glum was hassled for even writing books on Essiac Tea.
See Natural News article "Essiac Tea: A Cancer Cure Big Pharma Doesn't
Want You To Know About." http://www.naturalnews.com/026928_c....
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young Brooklyn man, Jason Vale, was imprisoned because he refused to
stop telling others on TV and in lectures how he cured himself of
cancer using those nasty apricot pit kernels! Jason is a more recent
public example of the Medical Mafia's grip on the legal system
regarding B17. Laetrile, which is non toxic, was banned by the FDA in
1971.
Shortly after the 1971 laetrile ban, a practicing
physician in San Francisco, Dr. John Richardson, who had been using
laetrile successfully on cancer patients,
came to his friend G. Edward Griffin, a published investigative
journalist, and asked Griffin if he could write up something to help
him and others continue using laetrile on their cancer patients.
G.
Edward Griffin's research evolved into his groundbreaking book, World
Without Cancer. This book not only explained laetrile and chronicled
several cancer cures,
but Griffin's investigative nose led him down the rabbit hole and into
the underbelly of the cancer industry's efforts at keeping alternative
cancer cures from the light of day. That's how he discovered that the
Sloane-Kettering Cancer Institute had buried documentation from
scientists' research, which proved laetrile was "highly effective" at
curing cancer.
Griffin received those documents himself from a
Dr. Ralph Moss, who had been told to cover up that evidence and claim
that laetrile was worthless. He refused and left his position as PR
manager with Sloane-Kettering. Since that time in 1977, Dr. Ralph Moss
has gone on to write or edit several books on cancer cure
options. It's always encouraging to see an insider come out! Someone
else filled Dr. Moss's vacant position and lied the lies about laetrile
that filled the medical journals.
And
what about those medical journals? Lately, the most prestigious New
England Journal of Medicine dropped its standard of not allowing
articles contributed to the journal from anyone who was receiving money
from Big Pharma, as long as it's less than 10 grand annually. If they
didn't drop that standard, there wouldn't be enough articles to fill
the journal! Of course, most medical journals are glossy ad forums for
Big Pharma anyway.
Both G. Edward Griffin with World Without Cancer and Phillip Day in his book Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth,
make it very clear that the cancer industry does not really want a
cure. Even non-profit organizations get millions in donations from the
brainwashed, huddled masses along with funding for promoting Big
Pharma. A non-profit organization can and will have key people working
for 6 figure plus annual salaries, by the way.
Doctors mostly do
as they are trained and told; medical journals contain false reports
and lies. Cancer foundations have breast cancer months or whatever as
PR to get people into the disease industry's money mill as early as
possible, and at the top, there is Big Pharma. It's all about money and
career. Not about public health and "The War on Cancer."
So far
in mainstream medicine, it's been a losing battle with more getting
cancer than ever. Around 1 out of 3 is destined to get cancer these
days, and more are dying from cancer after conventional treatments.
Talk about pandemics! All this with lots of cash going their way,
enabling some to live a lush lifestyle and others hanging on to their
comfy, secure jobs at the expense of our health.
Meanwhile, too many true humanitarian doctors
and herbalists and writers concerned with the truth wind up being
treated like criminals or nut cases, sometimes with their lives
destroyed. That's tragic. And so is the fact that millions suffer and
die while being conditioned against using effective and less painless
procedures.
Laetrile Treatment
There are many
success stories from people using just laetrile or apricot pit kernels.
The usual recommendation for prevention is around 5 to 7 over the
course of a day. For actual cancer cases use 2 to 3 times that. Some
say one kernel for every 10 lbs of body weight. For maintenance after a
cure, go back to 5 to 7 per day.
Some laetrile therapists have
patients use vitamin B15 tablets and digestive enzymes such as papaya's
papain and pineapple's bromalene. Too many apricot pit kernels can
create nausea or dizziness. There are no recorded deaths or
disabilities from the apricot seeds or laetrile, however. Although some
success has been recorded with patients undergoing conventional therapy
and using laetrile, it's not recommended. Eventually most of those who
combine the two get off the chemo or die anyway.
There are many
practitioners and writers who recommend you combine other alternative
cancer therapies while taking laetrile or using the apricot pits -
especially if you go for it alone at home. It should be obvious to
Natural News readers that a foundation of healthy food and less stress
is necessary. A fundamental lifestyle change has to be a part of any
permanent cancer cure. In addition, a little eclectic mix and match
with other alternative therapies seems like a good approach.
For example, Gerson's cancer cure therapy's juicing protocol with the right type of juicer and using coffee
enemas to detox the liver could be added with laetrile use. It's hard
to go wrong with that healthy combination. See Natural News article on
the Gerson Therapy for more details here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027004_c...
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Pesticides Cause Parkinson's Disease
A new study just found that Parkinson's disease is linked to pesticide
exposure. In fact, the study participants were almost twice as likely
to have been exposed to pesticides through their work, and exposure to
certain pesticides may have increased the chance of having the disease
by more than three-fold. The study looked only at pesticide exposure
from work environments and didn't look at pesticides used in home pest
control, backyard gardening or our foods.
The study concluded that there is growing evidence for a causal relationship between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease, meaning there is growing evidence that pesticides cause Parkinson's disease. However, it's a bit odd that we need a study to tell us this because researchers regularly create Parkinson's disease in lab animals by injecting the animals with chemical pesticides.
When
you understand this, the cause of the disease is rather immediately
clear, although many in the medical field say that the cause is
unknown. Actually, injecting animals with pesticides and other common
chemicals is exactly how researchers create many of the diseases they need to test the effects of pharmaceutical drugs. How else are they going to get a hundred rats at the same time, all with Parkinson's disease?
Parkinson's
disease is a neurodegenerative disease. It's the result of brain
degeneration, so make a mental note that pesticides literally cause
your brain to degenerate. Then, while you still can, think about
whether organic foods make the most sense. And consider if there are non-chemical options for home, garden and workplace pest control.
Even
more disturbing, it would be extremely unlikely if you didn't have
several different pesticides in your blood at this very moment. Even newborns
are born with pesticides in their bodies these days, which gives them
sort of a rotten shake in a world where we need fully functioning brains to survive and prosper.
Parkinson's
disease appears when people have lost about 80 percent of their ability
to produce dopamine, an essential brain chemical. Symptoms of the
disease include shaking, tremors, poor balance and difficulty walking.
Parkinson's
disease is the disease Michael J. Fox made famous, and questions that
might be rolling around in many minds are: Did Michael eat organic foods
or did he think the conventional stuff wasn't that bad and ate foods
with pesticide residue on them? Or, did Michael ever have his home
sprayed or tented for any sort of bugs, or ever live in a home that had
been previously tented? And perhaps, were pesticides sprayed regularly
around Michael's home, as they are around many homes and offices?
Now we know that pesticides cause our brains to degenerate. The only question is: Why are farmers still spraying them on our food and then making the claim that it's safe for consumption?
More:
Detoxify or Die, Sherry Rogers, M.D.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/2009091...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...
http://www.organicconsumers.org/sch...
http://www.neurologychannel.com/par...
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Chinese Citizens Ordered to Smoke More Cigarettes to Boost Economy
The government of Gong'an County, in China's Hubei province, sparked
global controversy when it imposed a "cigarette quota" on public
employees, in an effort to boost local revenue during the economic
downturn. Chinese law allows county governments to levy taxes on
sales of cigarettes only if they are produced within the province.
Gong'an County typically raises the least cigarette tax revenue of any
county in the region, however, in part because neighboring Hunan
province makes some of the highest quality cigarettes in China. In an effort to raise revenue, the county passed a law ordering public employees
to smoke only Gong'an county cigarettes, and threatening to penalize
them if they failed to meet a certain quota. County employees were
ordered to smoke a total of 230,000 Hubei-brand cigarettes, for total
spending of nearly 4 million yuan ($590,000). As part of the new rule,
a "special task force" was created and charged with enforcement. The
order drew global media attention when a local newspaper reported that
a middle school teacher was to be disciplined for smoking the wrong
brand of cigarettes. The teacher reported that county officials entered
the school unannounced one afternoon and began sorting through the
cigarette butts in the staff room. When three "non-compliant"
cigarette butts were found, the county threatened a fine. After
negotiation with the school, a public reprimand was issued instead. When
the story broke, local and global press immediately criticized the rule
for wasting public money and encouraging unhealthy practices. In recent years, the central Chinese government has launched major anti-smoking initiatives. China is home to 350 million smokers, 1 million of whom die from tobacco-related causes each year. Faced
with mounting criticism, Gong'an authorities temporarily suspended the
rule, saying that it violated rules about issuing notices. "The matter is under review," the county said in a statement. No
health concerns were cited as a reason for the reversal, but officials
did say that they had no intention of encouraging non-smokers to begin
smoking. Sources for this story include: www.telegraph.co.uk; www.reuters.com.
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