Date:   12/9/2007 11:29:12 AM ( 18 y ago)
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I am no master herbalist, but my thoughts are that while it would probably be ok to combine the herbs in essaic with the blood tonic herbs, a better idea would likely be to use the tonic and the essaic tea separately.

I like essaic but, the same as people like my friend Webster Kehr ("The Cancer Tutor"), I do not believe that essaic is a strong stand-alone treatment for cancer compared to other natural options and that it's greatest value is likely as cleanser.  So to me, essaic is a great element to add to an overall anti-cancer/disease protocol which would also include one of more stronger cancer fighters as well as diet, lifestyle, removal/reduction of stress, elimination of toxins, etc., as out lined in " A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol".

As regards the herb Chaparral, let me just say that I think it is more the victim of scare stories put out by the FDA and mainstream instruments because it IS so effective.  Anything that is cheaper, safer and more effective and cannot be patented is a threat to the profits of big pharma and they send their minions against such threats - and humanity and suffering be damned.

The reports used to scare people away from Chaparral center around liver problems.  Anyone who has a serious condition like cancer will by definition have an impaired liver to begin with, as Gerson and others have demonstrated.  And anything that is effective at killing cancer cells (or helping the body kill them) will release toxins from the dying cells into the bloodstream which will be passed on to the body's great toxic waste processor, the liver.  That is why it is so important to cleanse the liver regularly and to take measures to protect and regenerate the liver when fighting cancer and other serious conditions - otherwise, sending more toxins into an already impaired liver can result in serious problems.  Here is an excerpt from a recent post I made in my Oleandersoup Yahoo health group:

Anyone who is fighting cancer should take steps to help
protect and regenerate the liver. That includes periodic cleanses as
well as the foods and supplements known to be beneficial for the
liver.

Avoid meat products, dairy products and processed grains. Include
lots of raw organic vegetables, some fruits, and juiced vegetables
and fruit along with lots of good clean water.

Beet juice is very good for the liver. Coconut oil helps keep the
bile ducts open and aids the elimination of toxic wastes.

When it comes to supplements, the best ones to help protect and
regenerate the liver are:

Milk Thistle
Selenium
MSM
Turmeric
Alpha Lipoic Acid

Of these, milk thistle is the most potent in both protecting and
regenerating the liver.

The wonderful thing about the liver is that nature has made allowance
for it's role as a toxic waste processing center and it alone of all
the body's organs is able to regenerate itself. The liver can be
impaired, or diseased down to as low as 25% and still regenerate into
a completely healthy liver.

For more information about cleansing, you may wish to take a look at this recent article I compiled:

Liver and Bowel Cleansing

Finally, back to the issue of Chaparral, let me quote from an article of a mentor of mine, Jon Barron:

Blood Cleanser

First of all, the very name “blood cleanser” is a euphemism. In fact, this formula and every herb in it is anti-c***er. (You can fill in the blanks for yourself.) Variations of this formula have been used for hundreds of years by native American tribes. More recently versions have surfaced as the Hoxey formula and Essiac Tea and Jason Winters Tea, etc. The very fact that we can’t talk openly about the anti-cancer property of herbs and herbal formulas is probably the most political topic in alternative health today. (Listen to my talk on Cancer, The Big Lie, to get a better understanding of this issue.)

But as we go through the individual herbs in my favorite version of this formula…

Chaparral, Red clover, Burdock root, Poke root, Yellow dock root, Goldenseal root, Oregon grape root, Bloodroot, Mistletoe, Periwinkle flowers, Lobelia seeds, Sheep sorrel, and Cayenne

…you will find that almost half of them are on the FDA hit list, and virtually all of them are on the Canadian hit list. And you will find numbers of these herbs on the hit lists of European countries such as Switzerland and Germany.

What’s going on here? Why is it that the very same herbs that the great herbalists single out as being most beneficial are banned by governmental authorities as useless and even toxic? How does this happen – again and again? (Of course, these same authorities might have more credibility if the alternative they were pushing, prescription drugs, wasn’t killing several million people worldwide every year.)

Let’s discuss several of the herbs in the formula I detailed above and see why I recommended them. In this issue of the newsletter, we only have room to discuss one – chaparral.

Chaparral

As I’ve already mentioned, native Americans have used Chaparral for centuries as an anti-cancer remedy. Exactly how it works is open to debate, but some of its main actions are:

• Chaparral is one of the most powerful anti-oxidants in nature. The primary biochemical responsible for this is NDGA (nordihydroguaiaretic acid) – so effective, it is often used as a food preservative
  
  
• Chaparral cleanses the lymph system
  
  
• It cleanses the blood
  
  
• It cleanses the liver
  
  
• It cleanses the urinary tract
  
  
• It’s a natural chelator that clears heavy metals from the blood
  
  
• It is anti-pathogenic. In other words it drives microbes and parasites from the body. Chaparral has even shown much promise with herpes.
  
  
• Studies show that chaparral may also inhibit cell proliferation as well as DNA synthesis.
  
  
• University tests have indicated that chaparral can destroy and dissolve many types of tumors.

So how could such a beneficial herb be on every government’s blacklist?

According to the FDA, "Chaparral: sold as teas and pills to fight cancer and "purify blood," has been linked to serious liver damage. FDA has recorded two deaths and 10 cases of hepatitis or other liver abnormalities in users."

The reality, though, is that the evidence for chaparral liver toxicity is anecdotal. It is not the result of any double blind studies or of any clinical trials. For example, one of the cases the FDA likes to single out can be found in the Journal of the American Medical Association (273 (6):489). The details of the case concern a 60-year-old woman who developed jaundice and liver failure while taking one to two capsules of chaparral each day with a pinch of garlic in a tea made from nettle and chickweed. The authors of the JAMA article concluded it was the chaparral that caused the liver problems. What is fascinating is that the patient in question was also consuming atenolol, aspirin, was on a nitro patch, and occasional acetominophen, as well as diltiazem hydrochloride - all drugs with profound hepatoxic potential. Amazingly, none of these other substances was even considered as a possible cause of the liver problems by the authors...or the FDA. What a surprise!

Nevertheless (and despite the fact that extensive studies on chaparral in the 1970s and 1980s were unable to find any hepatotoxic properties), in December of 1992, FDA Commissioner David Kessler announced, "The public should not purchase or consume chaparral,"

Chaparral Toxicity

After these allegations of liver toxicity by the FDA, manufacturers voluntarily restricted sales of chaparral for several years until the reports were investigated. Following a lengthy review, a panel of medical experts concluded "no clinical data was found... to indicate chaparral is inherently a hepatic toxin." In late 1994, this report was submitted to the FDA and chaparral was subsequently given a clean bill of health by the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). After comparing the quantity of chaparral consumed each year (it is estimated that over 200 tons, 500 million capsules, has been sold in the U.S. in the last two decades alone) to the number of product complaints, industry regulators concluded that chaparral did not pose a significant threat to consumer safety. (Dr. Clark Watt and a group of scientists and doctors concluded that hepatoxicity was most likely due to an allergic reaction rather than "inherent liver toxicity.")

So is this remarkable herb, the cornerstone of many great anti c***er formulas, now sold freely in the marketplace and used to benefit ailing people all over the world? Hardly!

Search for “chaparral toxicity” on the web and you will see numerous articles still announcing the dangers of the herb (all citing the same cases from the early 90’s.) Or try and buy chaparral in Canada or much of Europe. Right! The problem is that once an herb is labeled dangerous (even if disproved at a later date), the stigma remains – and is brought up over and over and over again...acquiring truth through repetition, if not fact.

Fortunately, despite the bad press, chaparral is at least available (for the time being) in the United States.

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881

"Nature alone can cure disease. Doctors cannot heal. They can only direct the sufferer back to the pathways of health. Nature alone can create, and healing is re-creation."
- Dr. Willaim S. Sadler

"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow."
- Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefeller Institute)

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