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    DANDELION THE WONDER CURE FOR SOME CANCERS

    Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

    HOW THE LORD TOLD ME TO CURE CANCER.

    posted 7-13-05 at earthchanges@yahoogroups.com


    (This is a reprint of the ad in The Northwest Herald.)

    Please save this page as it won’t be printed again by me. It may save your life or the life of a love one or a friend. Anyone may reprint this if they print it word for word.

    Every week around 10,000 people die of cancer. Government figures show the death rate for cancer deaths has not changed in the last 10 years. Chemo and radiation only save around 10% of the people treated. So this shows our
    doctors don’t have much to work with. As this article goes on, I will explain how to prepare this plant and how much to take. There is nothing to buy. For some reason, the Lord has picked me to carry these words to you. I
    am only the delivery boy, and none of this is my idea. I do believe every word I write here, and I’m living proof it works. The cost of printing is my thanks to God for giving me back my life and health.

    A little over three years ago I was about done in with cancer. One morning as I was waking up and hoping the end would come soon, a voice came to me and said. “You have to do something about your prostate cancer. Take the root of the dandelion. Don’t expect a miracle. It took you a long time to get in this condition.” The voice was gone. I thought the voice was kidding to use the dandelion. When this voice tells you to do something, you do it. You must do it, like writing this article. It is the last thing I ever expected to do. Then I thought he didn’t tell me how much to take or how to prepare it. As soon as you could blink an eye. I knew how much to take, how to prepare it, and it would take 4 to 6 months to cure me. I also knew I wasn’t to make a penny on it.

    As soon as I got around that morning, I dug some roots and started to prepare it. About a week later I started taking it. Three weeks later the pain in my back and side was gone and my bowels had improved. Five and one half months later they could find no cancer problem in me at all.

    I, then wanted to find someone else to try it, and that was the biggest problem yet. Nobody seems to want to help. When I told doctors, they just smiled as if I was nuts. Finally, I was telling a friend about it and he said he had a friend that was dying of lung cancer. He had it in both lungs and was bed ridden. They were tapping his lungs. He had been given 4 to 6 weeks to live. After he had been on this powder about six weeks, he was up and around doing his chores and driving his car. He went to his doctor’s office, and the doctors could not believe it. They took him to the hospital and gave him a CAT scan. They found no cancer lesions in his lungs and said it was a miracle. I then put an ad in The Northwest Herald offering it free, and four people said they would try it. Slowly one person told another and it spread. There was a fair amount of people taking it for different kinds of cancer and several for other things. For instance, a man lost the use of his immune system and was told he wouldn’t be able to work again for three years, in six months he is now working ½ days and feeling better. I know this is not a cure all. It won’t help everyone or all kinds of cancer. I know it is not a
    cure for skin cancer and it hasn’t had luck with brain tumors. There is a doctor in Boston, Massachusetts that has developed a vaccine that is doing great things. This has been successful with prostate, colon, breast, liver and best of all with lung cancer. Five people have taken it for lung cancer and all five have been cured once.

    The immune system controls the cancer cells in your body. As long as the immune system is healthy, you don’t
    usually have a cancer problem. When your immune system gets run down, it loses control of the cancer cells, and they start eating live cells and this is what they call cancer. This powder made from dandelion root has something in it that builds up the blood and the immune system.

    When the immune system is built up so far, it gets back control of cancer cells, and they do an about face and start cleaning up the mess they’ve made. This is why you must have a fair appetite because your body must build itself up and be healthy if your immune system is going to be strong. This will not work for people that have lost their appetite or are on CHEMO. Doctors try to blast the cancer out of your body with Chemo or radiation. By doing so, it destroys your immune system and appetite. These are the most important things your body needs to beat cancer. Operations also knock the immune system haywire. This is why so many people that have operations for cancer find that a short time later it has spread somewhere else.

    Many of the worst diseases that have plagued the world have been cured quite easily. When I was a boy, women dreaded the goiter more than cancer. A little iodine in the diet cured that. For hundred of years the most dreaded diseases was leprosy and lockjaw. A doctor found he could produce penicillin from moldy bread and could cure them and many more things. How long has moldy bread been around? I’m sure scientists will find many uses for the powder made from the root of the dandelions besides cancer. I have already found it builds up the blood so you heal much faster.

    To make the powder from the dandelion root you must follow my directions to the letter. Any changes and it won’t work. Dig a handful of dandelion roots any time of the year, it doesn’t matter. Cut the leaves off just below the crown.  DO NOT WASH. Then they must be dried around 100 degrees. I do it in an incubator with no water. You can also dry them under a heat light bulb if you raise or lower it so it’s 100 degrees. You can also use the sun or put them in the attic if it’s not too hot. It takes about 5 or 6 days in the incubator. I have not done this all the way under the heat light. When you break a root and it snaps it is ready to powder. Take an old iron frying pan and a clean hammer. Take one root at a time and place in the frying pan and start tapping. Don’t hit hard or it will fly all over the place. I put my hand around the root to keep most of it in the pan.  If it sticks to the hammer and pan, and doesn’t crumble in your fingers, it isn’t dry enough. Keep it up until you have enough to start. It takes about 20 minutes to ½ hour to prepare enough for a week. When you get used to it you can go much faster.

    I have an old vessel that druggists used to pound pills, this goes much faster. DO NOT USE AN ELECTRIC GRINDER, it won’t work if you do. You lose too much of the good part in dust. You must do it as I have said or don’t do
    it at all. I’ve tried shortcuts, but it seems someone was looking over my shoulder, and I know when I made a mistake. I’m just an old farmer and not a scientist, so I wouldn’t know the correct amount to take on my own. Now take a little over one half teaspoon once a day at any time and mix it with water, orange juice, etc.. Do not use in soft drinks, liquor, or anything hot. When mixed, use it all. Don’t let it stand around. Keep the powder in a dry place. After taking it three or four days, you will feel good, but nothing else. That is because your blood is building up. When you blood is happy, you’re happy. In most cases, this will build your immune system in from three days to three weeks to the point it takes back control of cancer cells and thus the cancer stops spreading. In most cases it is going to help. There is no body feeling as it works. You just feel a little better each week. After three weeks most of the pain will be gone in your back and you know it’s working if you had pain there like I did. If you have bone cancer in the spine, it will take three months to work. This is not an overnight cure. It took a while to get in this condition and it will take a while for your body to heal. The sooner you start, the quicker you will be over cancer. Young people heal faster than old people, but it will help at any age. I know because I’m 80 and have been taking it for over three years. No cancer has come back and no side effects except when my body has had enough, it lets me know by getting heart burn. Then I back off some. Some people get stomach aches when they need less. It also means your cancer is under control and you don’t need as much. You will also find you probably won’t catch a cold while you are taking it full strength.

    The biggest enemy for this root is Chemo. The stronger the Chemo, the less chance the power has to help you as Chemo tears your immune system and appetite down, two of the most important things you need to cure cancer.
    There is only a ten percent chance Chemo will cure you. With no chemo, your chances are 75 to 80% but you must take it every day. Don’t let your doctor give you that old treat if you turn him down that goes, “If you want to throw your life away, I can’t stop you”. Just remember that 90% of the people that take his advice and take chemo are in the cemetery. Don’t blame the doctor, he is doing his best with what he has to work with or you could ask for a written guarantee.

    I have only mentioned cancers that I know people have had and used this root. It should help pancreas cancer if taken before the appetite is gone and most body cancer. This is food, not a drug. It shouldn’t interfere with medicine your doctor may be giving you. Only two doctors have told patients to keep taking the powder when they have made a miracle recovery. The rest of the doctors have run the power down and blasted the people even if the cancer has disappeared.

    The medical world is not going to accept this easily.

    Going back to not washing the roots and leaving a little soil on them, it is for your own good. A good bit of immunity comes from the soil, it starts as soon as you are born. Your fingers touch something, and you put them in your mouth. A little dirt at first, and more as you grow older and start crawling. Then everything you touch goes in the mouth. When children go outside to play and when they come in, they are the dirtiest around the mouth and hand. The hands go in their mouths no matter how dirty they are. Many diseases and bacteria live in the ground, but they don’t seem to cause any trouble but it does build up the immune system. Some animals can’t live if they can’t eat a certain amount of soil. If you read this article over, you will see it all goes back to common sense. I wish all of you people with cancer and other problems the best.

    George Cairns
    (815) 338-1526
    Or send self addressed envelope to:
    708 Hughes Road
    Woodstock, IL 80096

    This ad does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Northwest Herald.

    The dandelion root power you can buy at a Health Food Store is not made the same way. It is not known to help cancer.

    This is a reprint of the ad in The Northwest Herald.

    Printing donated by
    Viking Lithographic, Elkhorn, WI 53121

    Editors note below re report on the greens of the plant Dandelion

    Dandelion Greens

    back to Glossary Index
    Refers to the leaves of the dandelion plant, which are considered a weed in the United States, but are actually one of the most vitamin rich foods available. Mature leaves have a very bitter taste, but younger leaves are milder. They are an excellent salad ingredient and are often cooked as a side dish. The leaves should be washed thoroughly and dried before using.
    Dandelion Greens Glossary Term

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    USDA Nutrition Facts

    Dandelion greens, raw (USDA#11207)

    Serving Size 1 cup, chopped
    Calories 45
    Protein 2g
    Total Fat 0g
    Total Carbohydrates 9g
    Dietary Fiber 3g
    Sugars 0g
    Potassium 397mg
    Sodium 76mg
    Cholesterol 0mg

    Dandelion greens, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt (USDA#11782)

    Serving Size 1 cup, chopped
    Calories 33
    Protein 2g
    Total Fat 0g
    Total Carbohydrates 6g
    Dietary Fiber 2g
    Sugars 1g
    Potassium 232mg
    Sodium 280mg
    Cholesterol 0mg

    Dandelion greens, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt (USDA#11208)

    Serving Size 1 cup, chopped
    Calories 33
    Protein 2g
    Total Fat 0g
    Total Carbohydrates 6g
    Dietary Fiber 2g
    Sugars 0g
    Potassium 232mg
    Sodium 44mg
    Cholesterol 0mg

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 27th April 2010

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    SOMEONES TEA STORY AND THE CURE

    Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

    My Experience with the Bush Tea and life Turnaround


    Around 1990 I began to have sinus problems. At first it was just a running nose for a few hours, and I would think I was
    getting a cold. Gradually it became more frequent and longer. I would feel extreme fatigue, my nose would run
    continuously for 2 or 3 days at a time. During that time it was all I could do to drag myself around the house.
    In March 2003, I began to memorize as a form of meditation and relaxation. The improvement on my health and nose were quite dramatic, but difficult to maintain. Sometimes I would be up at two or three o’clock in the morning,
    memorizing and meditating to try to stall off a sinus attack. There was hardly a time when I was not tight and aching in the face with the feeling that I needed to sneeze.
    Christmas at the end of 2003 I visited with my Sister and she brewed up some bush tea for me. The effect was unbelievable and unexpected. Within a week my sinus dried up, the tightness and feeling I needed to sneeze left.

    My nose was normal for the first time in years! My energy levels rose, and I could function normally. My whole body seemed to go through a detox.
    I now take the bush tea every few weeks, or when there are colds and flu around. Not only does my nose never give trouble, I just don’t get colds, flu  and other illnesses
    For me the impact of mind power, belief, a positive attitude and the bush tea have been life changing.

    Meditation and Memorizing

    I have included this section for the few who have an interest in meditation or memorizing. For those who do read on, this is my experience, and may not reflect yours or your views. Thats great, we re all different.
    I must also say, I am not a doctor, or medical person, trainer in meditation or the like. In fact for a long time meditation was something I thought to be just sitting, relaxing, studying quietly, prayer and so on. Beyond this I did not consider it to be a state or experience into which our mind can enter.
    My experience has now convinced me that meditation is a state of consciousness we can learn to enter and experience.
    Before I share my concept and try to explain it; a couple of observations.
    I am a Christian and my change of understanding did not come easily. Meditation in the western world generally owes its beginnings to Eastern and Oriental Philosophies. In the western world many people of the Christian faith have viewed meditation with suspicion, and distrust. For many Christians, meditation has been considered dangerous.

    This was perhaps partly due to the idea that in meditation one “empties” their mind. Christianity, in general teaches that good and evil are two personal beings in conflict with each other in the universe! The universe is the arena in which this conflict
    takes place rather than their identity. And so, to empty ones mind raises the concern of allowing evil to enter because we are in that arena!
    On the other hand Eastern meditative philosophy tends to view the universe as a balance between positive and negative.
    Somewhat like the two ends of an apple core. One entity, two poles. This philosophy does not necessarily understand there to be a God or individual entity as such, who is separate from the universe, but rather the sum of its total.
    I feel that Christians and those who shun meditation have missed something that can increase healing, health and balance in life. It is possible that Eastern philosophies also come short of explaining what is so often a tension between positive and negative or good and evil. Perhaps meditation is more aligning our mind and body with good, and positive than it is balancing positive and negative or good and evil.
    My meditation experience began when I sat down to memorize a short passage. As I focussed on the words and ran them through my mind I began to “switch off” to what was going on around me. As I became more absorbed in what I was doing, other thoughts and “racket” going on in my brain began to get pushed away or shut down. Eventually my mind reached a place where the words I was memorizing were the only thing in my mind, and they were not verbalized.
    My mind was operating almost from a subconscious level. The sense of relaxation and de-stress was remarkable. It was physically tangible.
    Let me give you an example of how this worked for me. Read the next sentence carefully, BUT as you do, take note of other thoughts that go through your mind, are you ready?
    “I can climb mountains”. Now reflect for a moment. What other thoughts went through your mind at the same time as you read that phrase? Analyze these other thoughts for a moment, and compare them with how you read the phrase “I canclimb mountains”. If you are like me, I verbalize most things in my mind as I read them. But other thoughts that gothrough my mind as I read are less verbalized. They are more on the thought level. By the way, did you know that people who can speed read have learnt to read at the thought level. They do not verbalize every word or phrase in their mind. It
    is a powerful tool.
    Just try this. Sit back, relax, breath deeply and slowly for a minute or two. Now run the phrase “I can climb mountains”through your mind. Do not verbalize it. Run it down to the point where it is purely thought level. Hard? But did you notice that as you did that, other clutter and verbalized thoughts began to get pushed out of your mind?
    If you do this for 10-15 minutes you will be amazed at what can happen. A sense of relaxation, energy, and balance can be yours. But, please, don’t sit there thinking about when it is going to happen, or trying to analyze if what you are doing
    is working. That is clutter that will stop your mind entering the level of healing, relaxation and release of positive chemicals into your system.

    How To Memorize
    For me there are three levels or stages to memorizing. The first is where you have learnt something to the stage you can recall it verbally in your mind. The second is when you can say it out loud – in private! The final stage is where you can say it in public! Having said that, if you have a “photographic memory” you will probably just read something through several times and have it perfect.

    Most of us have to work hard at it!
    Reaching the first stage requires several steps. Let’s say you are memorizing a poem. Read it through several times, getting a feel for the content, creating pictures in your mind to bring it to life. Learn the first line or phrase. Do this in parts if you need to. You may find it useful to either visualize the words, or create pictures in your mind that link to the words for recall.
    Next, learn the second line or phrase. Once you have done that, put the two together, and run them through your mind as a whole. Continue this process for each section. Often linking blocks or phrases is where you will have a memory loss!
    Be sure to link two or three blocks together and repeat them to create good connections and flow. I am a visual person,so I create a sequence of pictures to keep the flow.
    Now move to the next level. Verbalize your poem (in private). You will need to do this several times. Try starting at
    different points in the poem. This will help remove those “memory loss patches”! Next try saying your poem in front of others. This is where you will suddenly find out how well it is in your mind.

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 3rd April 2010

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    DIABETES AND EXERCISE

    Thursday, March 25th, 2010

    Explaining the Benefits of Exercise on Type 2 Diabetes


    Did you know that you can easily manage your diabetes just by engaging in exercise? There are exercises that have a good effect on the glucose levels of those suffering from type 2 diabetes. When you engage in exercise, you expend a lot of energy from the glucose found in your muscles. At first, the body simply uses up the glucose which is traced from your muscles’ glycogen. It is in your bloodstream where this glucose is found. Engaging in exercise means your blood glucose levels will not get lower. Additionally, your body also releases additional glucagon and hormones. These are important because they break down your liver’s stored fats, turning it into more glucose you can expend. Engaging in exercise means your body improves; it develops a better sensitivity when it comes to insulin, as well as allowing you to be more in control of your glycemic index.

    Exercise indeed has a good effect on a patient’s glucose level. This is good news for people who have type 2 diabetes. A lot of research indicates that patients of diabetes gain more control over their glycemic as soon as they get used to a regular exercise program. On the other hand, people who do not engage in exercise find no improvement on their glycemic control. Since exercise improves your insulin sensitivity, you will also need less medicines in order to control the levels of your blood sugar.

    There are, of course, people who become at risk for hypoglycemia due to the combined effects of their diabetes and engaging in high stress exercise. This happens during exercise and after it, too. If you think about it though, people can also be at risk for hyperglycemia simply for having poor control over their diabetes. Therefore, the leaders in this field recommend engaging in moderate exercise for a minimum of 2 hours and 30 minutes, or 90 minutes if they want to do vigorous exercise.

    In light of this, the frequency of the routine is more important that the kinds of exercise one engages in. There are many researches wherein an abundance of benefits result from both weight training as well as aerobic activity.

    Of course, sometimes patients should not engage in vigorous exercise especially when they have cardiac conditions or they are more prone to developing injuries as a result. It is better if they start of slow and get used to a light intensity program instead.

    About the Author – Su Rollins writes for “http://www.hypoglycemicdiet.org “>hypoglycemia diet plan</a> , her personal hobby blog focused on tips to prevent and cure hypoglycemia using the right diet and nutrition.

    Received and posted by Henry Sapiecha 25th March 2010

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    GOATS, SPIDERS AND MEDICINAL MILK

    Monday, March 22nd, 2010

    Goats Make Drugs, World Doesn’t Change

    Goats can now make medicine in their milk. But they can’t make money…yet.

    Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration approved Atryn, from GTC Biotherapeutics, a medicine to treat a hereditary deficiency of the clot-preventing chemical antithrombin. It will be the first medicine made in transgenic animals to be sold. Investors shrugged. Shares in the tiny company are worth only 75 cents and the stock market puts the company’s value at a measly $75 million. (In fairness, that is up seven-fold from the stock’s 52-week low.)

    To get a full sense of how dramatic this is you have to remember what a big deal the idea of making drugs in goats or plants was eight years ago. GTC, then called Genzyme Transgenics, was just one of several companies that planned to use animals as production plants.

    One outfit, Nexia Biotechnologies, was going to use spider silk produced in the milk of genetically engineered goats to make incredibly resilient fabric for use in surgery or in bullet-proof vests. It’s now part of another company, Pharmathene. A Dutch firm, Pharming, is hoping to sell a drug made in the milk of transgenic rabbits.

    Years later, the goat breakthrough finally happens and it is worth less than a buck a share. In biotech, most things fail and the ones that don’t just fail to make money. Several other companies are working on drugs from designer animals, but if this is a big trend it looks to be a long time coming. Even this small taste of success though, is enough to rile some consumer and animal rights groups, who see an environmental danger or a form of goat abuse.

    With scientists discovering new ways of making ever more complicated genetic enhancements to organisms of all types, its worth noting how rarely such efforts result in a big payoff. Still, for the sake of patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency, lets hope GTC can turn Atryn into  a successful product.

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 23rd March 2010

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    MUST BE GOOD FOR ME – IT SAYS SO ON THE BOX

    Monday, March 22nd, 2010

    Stop Judging Cereal Boxes By Their Fronts

    February 24, 2010 – 11:02 am
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    Rebecca RuizBio |
    Rebecca Ruiz is a staff writer at Forbes.
    Walking into a grocery store these days is almost like walking into a pharmacy.

    Multi-grain Cheerios promises to help manage weight. Quaker’s oatmeal says it will lower cholesterol. Omega-3-fortified Horizon milk is advertised as good for healthy brain development. These reassuring front-of-package claims often lull consumers into thinking that a trip to the grocery store is a decent substitute for a trip to the doctor’s office or to the gym. Of course, as the controversy over immunity boosting Cocoa Krispies proved last fall, such claims often defy common sense.
    NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle and Boston-based endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig write in the current Journal of the American Medical Association(sub. req’d) that these claims should not be allowed.  A ban on all front-of-package claims, they argue, would force consumers to read the ingredient list and nutrition information. Food companies weren’t permitted to make health claims about their products until 1990, but since then, the regulations have loosened.

    It’s not clear that a shopper would immediately turn a package over if health claims were absent from the front, but the ban would certainly weed out claims based on tenuous science and eliminate the warm, fuzzy feeling consumers get when they buy a product that purports to be good for their bodies. It would also force food companies to attract customers using a more straightforward, less disingenious, marketing strategy.

    The primary obstacle to such a ban is that prior court decisions have ruled that health claims fall into the domain of commercial free speech. Plenty of folks are also likely to cast the ban as an intrusion of the nanny state. But right now, there’s no compelling evidence demonstrating that front-of-label health claims make Americans savvier consumers. In fact, our waistlines indicate they’ve had the opposite effect.

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 23rd March 2010


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    ONLY SICK PEOPLE NEED DRUGS – ARE YOU HEALTHY?

    Monday, March 22nd, 2010

    Drugs Are For Sick People

    March 16, 2010 – 8:50 am
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    Matthew HerperBio |
    Matthew Herper is a senior editor at Forbes

    ATLANTA – The big takeaway from this year’s annual confab of the American College of Cardiology is that there are limits to what medicines can do in people who are relatively healthy.

    The National Institutes of Health’s $300 million Accord trial in diabetics tested aggressively lowering blood sugar, high blood pressure, and triglycerides compared to just doing what doctors do now, and in every case found the aggressive approach was worse.

    The blood sugar part of the study had to be stopped two years ago because patients in the aggressive arm of the study were dying sooner. Using lots of blood pressure drugs may have reduced strokes, but did not affect deaths or other heart problems. The verdict is that pushing blood pressure all the way back down to a perfect 120/80 millimeters of mercury might not be as good as pushing it down to 130 mm Hg.

    And adding Abbott Laboratories’ TriCor to a cholesterol-lowering statin drug didn’t have a single statistically significant benefit. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic and Douglas Weaver of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit both think doctors should stop using TriCor now that there is no evidence; Sidney Smith of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, argues that use that matches current guidelines is still OK.

    Then there was a trial testing the Novartis drugs Starlix and Diovan in people whose high blood sugar levels made them look like sitting ducks for full-blown diabetes. Starlix is a mega-flop Novartis introduced to lower blood sugar a decade ago. Sales are so low analysts don’t track the drug. Diovan is a blockbuster hypertension pill. Starlix actually increased the number of patients who developed diabetes. Diovan prevented diabetes, but failed to have the expected benefits on heart attacks and strokes.

    The whole idea of preventing diabetes is “a sleight of hand by pharmaceutical sponsors,” argues James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There’s no difference between a diabetic on a diabetes drug and a pre-diabetic on a diabetes drug, he argues, unless you can show long-term benefits that outweigh the very serious short-term side effects that all of these medicines have.

    Cardiology is the blockbuster market that made the drug industry. The two top-selling drugs in the world – the cholesterol-lowerer Lipitor and the blood thinner Plavix – are heart drugs. For two decades, researchers have been finding that their drugs work in ever larger, and relatively healthier, people. This culminated with a trial of AstraZeneca’s Crestor that found that in people who had normal cholesterol levels but other risk factors, a cholesterol-lowering statin drug could save lives.

    But statin drugs like Crestor and Lipitor started out in tests for very sick people. When Merck’s Zocor was first shown to save lives, it was in people with high cholesterol who were really at high risk. It’s really only pure luck that the statins turned out to be the rare drug that lowers just about anybody’s heart attack risk by 30%. Blood pressure can get too low. If TriCor lowers heart risk (and nobody has proven it does), it only does so in people who have both high triglycerides and low cholesterol. Blood thinners like Plavix? Take too little, you have a heart attack; too much, you bleed.

    “I just think we’re making mistakes when we say treat until proven otherwise,” says Yale University’s Harlan Krumholz. Just because low blood pressure is good doesn’t mean lowering blood pressure is good – it’s good up to a point. He argues that doctors are “programmed to think deterministically” but don’t think enough about the way the small side effects of many drugs can add up to mute their benefits.

    All this creates a giant problem for drug companies. They’ve become accustomed to the sales of statins as they are now, after their benefit was widely proven, not to the niche drugs they started out with. But new drugs to find added benefit are requiring gigantic and expensive clinical trials of tens of thousands of cardiovascular patients. All the but the biggest pharmaceutical firms can’t afford this. Even giants like Pfizer and AstraZeneca have backed off of cardiology drug discovery. Pharma’s response has been to find small groups of very sick people for whom they can charge a lot of money. Successful new medicines increasingly tend to launch with an annual price of $100,000 per patient per year.

    The next crop of cardiology drugs – including blood thinners to prevent stroke, drugs to remove artery plaque, and medicines that reduce artery inflammation – are being tested in these gigantic studies without more than a hunch that they’ll work. If they fail, new heart treatments may have to wait until they can be genetically targeted to small populations that can really benefit. And one of the drug industry’s biggest cash cows will be put out to pasture.

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 23rd March 2010

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    PRESIDENT GETS THE NOD FOR THE USA HEALTH CARE BILL

    Monday, March 22nd, 2010

    Health Reform: The Drug Industry’s Big Win

    March 22, 2010 – 9:18 am
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    Robert LangrethBio |
    Robert Langreth is a senior editor at Forbes, in charge of health care coverage

    The biggest winner in the historic health reform bill that passed the House late last night are millions of uninsured Americans who are unable to afford  coverage or have been denied coverage because they suffer from chronic disease.

    Parsing what the legislation means to industry will take months. But among big businesses,  Pfizer, Amgen and other big drug companies are emerging as big winners. Drug companies supported health reform and in return will gain access to millions of more customers who suddenly can afford to pay for $100,000 a year cancer drugs. Biotech companies gained an extra layer of protection for protein based drugs from potential generic competition. The industry avoided its worst fear:  price controls or other new  government drug price negotiations.

    The situation is more complicated for HMOs and insurers like UnitedHealth, Wellpoint, and Aetna. They also avoided their worst nightmare, a big public plan that would directly compete with their private plans. That’s the good news.  The bad: some companies will get hit hard by cuts to Medicare Advantage, while others, like Wellpoint, could lose market share in the individual insurance market.

    For more, see Health Reform’s Winners And Losers.

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 23rd March 2010

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    YEW TREES AND SUCCESSFUL CANCER TREATMENT

    Monday, March 15th, 2010

    YEW TREE INFO


    There are yew trees (Taxus baccata). Compounds found in the yew (taxols) are now used in the successful treatment of many forms of previously intractable malignancies, notably ovarian cancer. Leaves from the English Yew Tree can be processed to extract precursors of these cytotoxic drugs that prevent the depolymerization of tubulin, thus inhibiting cell division.
    Yew (Taxus baccata).    Yew is highly valued in furniture industry for its hard reddish timber resistant to the damage of insects and fungi.  Yew is an evergreen tree, up to 32m high. Its treetop is thick and oval, its leaves are dark green and shiny above; beneath they are matt and milky green. The plant grows very slowly; therefore, it can reach an age of about 4000 years. Yew is also cultivated as a decorative plant in many countries. In fact, all parts of the plant are poisonous which is due mostly to the alkaloid taxin.  Symptoms include nausea and vomiting, increased salivation, stomach ache, diarrhoea, sleepiness, shortage of breath, trembling, spasms, malfunction of the cardiovascular system which leads to collapse and death.  The bark of the Yew  is used to produce Taxol, used in the treatment of certain cancers.

    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 16th March 2010

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    ROSELLA IS GREAT FOR JAMS BUT ALSO MEDICINES

    Monday, March 15th, 2010

    Hibiscus sabdariffa  Rosella


    Botanical Name : Hibiscus sabdariffa
    English Name : Jamaican sorrel, Indian sorrel, Java jute, Karkade, Red sorrel, Red tea, Roselle, Rosella, Royal roselle, Florida cranberry, Rozelle, Guinea sorrel, Sour-sour, Queensland jelly plant (Aust.), Jelly okra.

    Family : Malvaceae

    Plant Parts Used: Leaf, Fruits

    Description of Hibiscus sabdariffa:
    The Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is a species of hibiscus native to the Old World tropics. It is an annual or perennial herb or woody-based subshrub, growing to 2.5 m tall. The leaves are deeply three- to five-lobed, 85 cm long, arranged alternately on the stems.

    The flowers are 80 cm in diameter, white to pale yellow with a dark red spot at the base of each petal, and have a stout fleshy calyx at the base, 1.5 cm wide, enlarging to 3.5 cm, fleshy and bright red as the fruit matures. It is an annual plant, and takes about six months to mature.

    Phytochemicals:
    The plants are rich in anthocyanins, as well as protocatechuic acid. The dried calyces contain the flavonoids gossypetin, hibiscetine and sabdaretine. The major pigment, formerly reported as hibiscin, has been identified as daphniphylline. Small amounts of delphinidin 3-monoglucoside, cyanidin 3-monoglucoside (chrysanthenin), and delphinidin are also present.

    Uses:
    Hibiscus, specifically Roselle, has been used in folk medicine as a diuretic, mild laxative, and treatment for cardiac and nerve diseases and cancer.

    Roselle is drunk as a tea, believed to also reduce cholesterol. It can also be made into a delicious wine – especially if combined with tea leaves.

    The plant is considered to have antihypertensive properties. Primarily, the plant is cultivated for the production for bats fiber from the stem of the plant. The fiber may be used as a substitute for jute in making burlap .

    Sourced and Published by Henry Sapiecha 16th March 2010

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    PAW PAW FRUITor PAPAYA COULD BE THE ANSWER TO YOUR CONDITION

    Saturday, February 20th, 2010
    Papaya Leaf PAPAYA/PAW PAW LEAF
    Botanical: Carica papaya
    Family: Caricaceae (papaya)
    Other common names:  Papaw, Mamao, Paw-Paw, Tree Melon, Gandul, Fan Kua

    Papaya Leaf contains a remarkable protein-dissolving enzyme called papain, and if you suffer from indigestion or heartburn, give Papaya Leaf a try!   The enzyme in Papaya Leaf also breaks down wheat gluten and carbohydrates for extra digestive protection.

    Disclaimer:
    The information presented herein  is intended for educational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent disease. Individual results may vary, and before using any leaf matter, it is always advisable to consult with your own health care provider.

    History:
    Papaya is an herbaceous tree with a stem of spongy, soft wood that is hollow in the center and bears melon-like fruit.  It is an interesting tree, in that the male and female parts exist in different trees, and trees may grow to a height of twenty to thirty feet. The Papaya Tree needs a tropical climate that is dry when cold and wet when warm; consequently, its greatest success appears in the equatorial zone with its warm wet season and cool dry season.  It is extremely sensitive to frost, and water-logging will kill the taproot within forty-eight hours. The Papaya is especially susceptible to parasites, pests and diseases. This fussy plant needs a lot of water but must have good drainage, and it bears most fruit in light, porous, slightly acidic soils that are rich in organic matter.

    Said to be a native of the Caribbean and Central America, the Papaya is the true papaw that now grows abundantly throughout tropical America, Hawaii and many other tropical climates throughout the world.  Although grown to some extent in south Florida, the true papaw is not related to the North American papaw.  The fruits, leaves and latex are all used medicinally. The delicious fruit is usually pear-sized and has a central cavity filled with edible, pea-sized seeds. Generally, the fruit is melon-like, oval to nearly round, and the skin is waxy and thin but fairly tough.  As the fruit ripens, it becomes yellow externally, and the thick wall of flesh becomes aromatic, yellow, orange or various shades of red.

    Papaya Fruit is eaten as a melon, included in salads and when unripe, it is cooked as a vegetable.  The seeds are said to have a similar flavor as capers.  The green fruit, stems and leaves are a rich source of a gummy, milky, white latex that contains the powerful enzyme, papain (in latex and exudate).  This protein-dissolving substance has not only been widely used for stomach and digestive disorders, but it is also included in commercial preparations as a meat tenderizer, chewing gum and as a stabilizing agent that is used to clarify beer. The fruit is usually pear-sized and has a central cavity filled with edible, pea-sized seed, which are said to have a similar flavor as capers.

    Papaya Leaves are cooked and considered a green vegetable and are a rich source of a gummy, milky, white latex that contains the powerful enzyme, papain.  This protein-dissolving substance is an excellent remedy for stomach and digestive disorders.  Papain is so powerful that Papaya Leaves have been wrapped around meats to break down the fibers and tenderize them.  It is included in commercial preparations as a meat tenderizer and often used for that purpose in restaurants, and it also used commercially in chewing gums and as a stablizing agent that is used to clarify beer.

    Papaya Leaves were even fed to animals to tenderize their flesh.  Some of Papaya Leaf’s constituents include the fermenting agent myrosin, alkaloids, rutin, resin, tannins, carpaine, dehydrocarpaines, pseudocarpaine, flavonols, benzylglucosinolate, linalool, malic acid, methyl salicylate, another enzyme, chymopapain (latex and exudate), calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, beta-carotene, B-vitamins and vitamins A, C and E.

    Beneficial Uses:
    Papaya Leaf is an excellent treatment for digestive disorders and extremely useful for any disturbances of the gastrointestinal tract.  Papain, the powerful enzyme in Papaya, helps to dissolve and digest protein, thus easing stomach ailments and indigestion.  (Because papain breaks down tough meat fibers, it is often used in restaurants and is the major ingredient in commercial meat tenderizers!)  Papaya has been effective in easing heartburn and is given to treat dyspepsia and gastric catarrh.  Papaya also stimulates the appetite.

    Papaya Leaf’s enzyme, papain, not only digests protein, but it extends its activity to digesting carbohydrate. Papain also breaks down wheat gluten, which may be helpful for those suffering from Celiac disease; and those who have difficulty digesting starchy foods, such as breads, cereals and potatoes, might find great relief in including Papaya in their diets.

    The papain in Papaya is thought to relieve acute prostate inflammation and may be very helpful in cases of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH).  Clinical studies in Russia found that papain treatment reversed rectal lesions induced by extreme prostate enlargement in over 97 percent of the men treated.

    The papain in Papaya is currently undergoing studies to investigate its efficacy in treating the herpes simplex virus and herpes zoster (shingles).

    Another papayan enzyme, chymopapain, has been used in the treatment of slipped spinal disc and pinched nerves.

    Since many stomach problems are the direct result of indigestion, use of Papaya appears to help prevent many ailments.  It stimulates digestive acids and the production of bile, which may also lead to a healthier liver and pancreas.

    Papaya is said to stimulate the bowels in times of constipation and is also believed to be useful in treating inflammatory bowel disorders.

    In many areas of the world, Papaya is used as a vermifuge, anthelmintic and amoebacide that eliminates worms and other parasites, and it is thought that the papain content digests the invaders, and Papaya’s latex also works as a dewormer by its purgative actions, increasing the movement of intestinal contents.

    Contraindications:
    People who take blood medication (Sulfinpyrazone) or blood thinning medication (Coumadin, aspirin, etc.) should consult with their physicians before taking this herb, as it may have anticoagulant properties.

    Pregnant women should avoid Papaya, as it can be a uterine stimulant (papain apparently dissolves a protein(s) responsible for adhering the newly fertilized egg to the wall of the uterus).  Papaya in all its forms should never be taken by people with a latex allergy (causing anaphylactic shock).  Inhaling Papaya powder (high in the enzymes, papain and chymopapain, can induce allergies. Although papain digests carbohydrates, potato protein may cause papain to not work as well when taken at the same time.

    If you wish to purchase some organic fresh or dried leaf/seeds please forward an email to us.

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    Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha

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