ABOUT ALOE: The Aloe herb is the oldest recorded medicinal plant in literature that I know of. About 4,000 years ago in the Old Testament, it was recorded: "And God made Aloe." Another verse states that "God made herbs for medicine." It is reputed that live Aloe plants were a part of the "hospital" of conquering Roman armies. Virtually all cultures the world over have used Aloe for its healing properties.
The early scientific research on Aloe which proliferated in the 1980's gave contradictory results, from miraculous to zero ratings (about 50:50) for its healing properties. A breakthrough came when a scientist from Carrington Lab read a paper where Aloe was used to treat severe radiation burns (not healable by scientific classification). The results showed that (1) the irradiated skin of rats treated with fresh Aloe recovered 100%; (2) the irradiated skin of rats treated with 4-day-old Aloe never healed; (3) the irradiated skin of the untreated controls also never healed. Upon investigation, the scientists at Carrington found that when the Aloe plant is harvested, it releases an enzyme which "cuts up" the functional polysaccharide into smaller units, thus leaving the Aloe with none of its acclaimed healing properties.( Most of the Aloe sold in health food stores fall into this category.) The scientists then found a way to deactivate the enzyme and began to study the polysaccharides. The scientists eventually identified the functional component as a betamannan molecule, known also as acemannan or Manapol(TM). If you'd like to see a picture of this molecule, go to: http://hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jinouy01 The scientist who researched betamannan at Carrington helped start the company Emprise, now called Mannatech, which has the sole rights to mix this molecule in products for the next 16 years or so. Studies in the 1980's showed that the betamannan molecule was effective on HIV patients, increasing their killer cells. The molecule acts on the macrophages, which in turn, starts the whole immunologic pyramid of immune responses. This molecule enhances the affects of other compounds (whether drugs or nutrients) so less is needed to achieve the same results. Because the molecule helps cellular communication, its beneficial effects are not limited to just one disease (like a drug usually is), but to a wide spectrum of conditions. Another cellular communication product is Ambrotose, which has 6 glycoproteins. The betamannan molecule has already been approved for HIV in animals, and about three years ago I heard it was being tested for cancer in animals, and HIV in humans. Aloe is often included in cancer diets; if you go to the above web site and click on "Books" you will find many cancer books, some of which have cancer diets. There are miraculous stories on the product, when it is taken WITH OTHER NUTRITIONAL SUPPORTS essential for optimal immune function. There is a video which shows an AIDS patient with 17 tumors/cancers on his liver who was given only a few days to live. He took nutritional supplements and has totally recovered. [I think the nutritional supplements were the same as the ones used in a research study because the video comes from one of the authors of the study; the nutrients were (1) a quality powdered mixture (complex carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, etc.), (2) essential fatty acids, and (3) Aloe juice from Carrington.] Note that the QUALITY of these nutrients is KEY to a stronger immune system, not the name of the nutrient. One Aloe brand may contain the betamannan, another may not. The powdered mixture used in the research costs $70 for a small barrel; another product with almost identical ingredients sold in the drug store for less than $6, but the $70 was clearly superior--I FELT the difference. But even these nutrients won't work well if the body is overcome with heavy metals and toxins, so it may be wise to clean out one's digestive track and body fluids, and to also take super-antioxidants to protect against free radicals which are prevalent in diseased states. In another Aloe testimony, an acquaintance told me of a woman who took some of Mannatech's products to the hospital where her brother was dying--doctors had given up on him. She opened the capsules and put the nutrients in the liquid food which was being fed to him through a tube into his stomach. The brother got better and left the hospital. :) Joyce Inouye <[email protected]> ==================================== Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:22:44 +0200 From: "Raul Vergini, MD" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Off-Topic: Aloe cure for cancer Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 05:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [email protected] Hi, Recently I knew of a cancer therapy with Aloe. The recipe was brought here by a catholic missionary. It originate from Brasil. There are many people here in Italy using it. I knew of it many months ago, but I didn't pay much attention/interest to it. Then a friend of mine told me that he is using it with his mother (70yo) that has a kidney cancer with pulmonar metastasis. After adding Aloe to her regimen (that included pancreatic enzymes and potassium ascorbate, with not very good results) she had a clear amelioration, more energy, willing to do all her domestic works, no pains, etc. A x-ray of her lungs showed no change in the round metastatic lesion, but a thick zone under the metastasis (edema?) is clearly reduced. I will follow the case to see what happen. The Aloe used in this therapy is not Aloe vera, but Aloe Arborescens. The missionary published a small book here with several case histories from Brasil and Israel (where he lived) with addresses and telephone numbers of the patients. If someone knows of this therapy I will be happy to exchange opinions. If someone is interested in it, I can email to the group the recipe with directions. Best Raul ============================================ P.S. To preserve our freedom to use natural medicines such as Aloe, please read the following and WRITE THE FDA AND YOUR CONGRESSMAN. I'll send the complete email under separate cover. Drug companies are now trying to control herbs, and are using Cholestin, a natural rice product, as a test case. They have already prepared people's minds to accept control by their propaganda against tobacco. The following is from John Hammel. ===================================== (snip) ''This case is going to determine the extent to which companies can imitate prescription drugs,'' said Mr. Schultz of the F.D.A., ''and avoid the approval process.'' While the court case is pending, Mr. McGlashan said, sales of Cholestin are booming. Even his mother called, he said, asking, ''How am I supposed to get my Cholestin?'' For now, Mr. McGlashan has no answer. Standing outside the low-pressure room where the encapsulating machine was spinning, a lab coat covering his royal blue shirt and Hermes tie, he looked a little wistful. The fine red powder being packed into the capsules, he said, was the last of his supply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- FIRST AMENDMENT ALERT! COMMENTS DUE AT FDA BY AUGUST 27,1998 [Docket No. 98N-0044] RIN 0910-AA59 Regulations on Statements Made for Dietary Supplements Concerning the Effect of the Product on the Structure or Function of the Body; Proposed Rule and Dietary Supplements: Comments on Report of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels; Notice Submit written comments to: Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) FDA 200 C. St. SW, Washington DC 20204, 202-205-4697 or send them to LEF Box 229120, Hollywood, FL 33022 Dept IAHF To Whom it May Concern at FDA: A Supreme Court decision on June 28, 1993 renders your proposed rule to limit manufacturers ability to properly inform the American public on the health benefits of dietary supplements utterly and completely illegal. (It puts Section 403 (r)(6) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act pertaining to structure-function claims in question, and it means that the so called Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels (whose advice you were following when you drafted your proposed rule) has utterly and completely ignored the Supreme Court Decision of Daubert v. Merrill Dow. (We hereby put you on notice that the Supreme Court is the highest court in America, and the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels (CDSL), Congress, and the FDA are required by law to not only be aware of their decisions, but to abide by them when proposing new regulations such as this.) Under Daubert, the "General Acceptance Test" (an equivalent phrase to significant scientific agreement) was replaced by the Federal Rules of Evidence for admitting scientific testimony at a Federal Trial. As a Federal Agency FDA ought to formulate its proposed rules in accordance with this decision, but has failed to. Given the Daubert decision, rather than find in favor of the so called "significant scientific agreement" standard, what CDSL should have done as to define what kinds and combinations of studies validate claims based on significant scientific evidence. Rather than recommend arbitrary and capricious limits on health information provided at the point of sale through labels and labeling of dietary supplements, CDSL should have recommended the adoption of the "gradation of claims" proposal recommended in comments to the CDSL by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, Jonathan Emord and Associates, International Advocates for Health Freedom, and many others. This proposal allowed for a gradation of claims, depending on the amount of evidence supporting them, and the consumer can then be in a position to make their own decisions- but you have no legal right to withhold truthful information, and your proposal severely BLOCKS our access to information that we need in order to make better health choices for ourselves and our families. In your proposed rule you say that it would be illegal to suggest anything but drugs to reduce nausea associated with chemotherapy. This is arbitrary and capricious. What about ginger to reduce nausea? What about co-enzyme Q-10 and vitamin E to reduce chemotherapy-induced heart muscle damage; melatonin to reduce chemotherapy-induced immune system damage; and n-acetyl-cysteine to reduce chemotherapy induced liver damage?? Since you are ruling it "illegal" to use the words "protects against cancer", you will also consider it "illegal" to use the words "protects against heart attacks." This means folic acid can be promoted to "lower homocysteine levels" but it would be "Illegal" to say that folic acid "protects against heart attacks" even though The New England Journal of Medicine (April 9, 1998) recommends the use of folic acid to lower heart attack risk (!!!) Since when did the FDA become the sole repository of truth? In light of the fact that your proposed rule is of questionable legality in view of the Daubert decision, I hereby call for its immediate withdrawal, and demand that my Congressman address this outrage by cosponsoring HR 2868 The Consumer Health Free Speech Act, which removes food from the current, overly broad statutory definition of drug. This will allow us to make therapeutic claims on dietary supplements, something which you have no legal right to block with this proposed rule. Now that I have appraised you of the Daubert decision, please let me know precisely how you intend to artfully dodge the law by utterly ignoring it? 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