Special Type Of Cats Claw From Brazil - Samento For Lyme Disease

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What is Lyme disease?

Although the world's attention was riveted on a small cluster of SARS

(severe acute resp -

iratory syndrome) cases last year, it is Ly m e disease (LD) that is

considered one of the

fastest - growing illnesses in the world.

LD is rampant in the US (with an estimated 200,000 new cases a year)

and massively underre p o r ted.

Indeed, US doctor Dan Kinderleher, an expert on LD, has estimated that

some 18 million Americans are infected. Although doctors in Europe are less

likely to look for LD, positive specimens have been detected in Europe—including

Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark—and

the disease is burgeoning

all over the world.

This modern-day plague was first identified in 1975, after a large

cluster of children living around the rural community of Lyme , Connecticut,

suffered an outbreak of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Seven years later, Dr

Willy Burgdorfer, Scientist Emeritus of the US

National Institutes of Health and leading re s e a rcher into human

diseases and the animal organisms that transmit them, discovered the causative

agent.

Suspecting some infective insect carrier of the disease, Burgdorfer

found a spirochaete (a spiral-shaped bacterium) of the genus Borreli a, similar

to the syphilis spirochaete, living in the gut of the Ixod es ticks in the area

and, through tests with LD victims, linked them to the disease. These ticks

ordinarily feast off the blood of mice, deer, birds and other animals.

This particular spirochaete —Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb)—now bears his name.

H o w e v e r, the `Lyme' tick is not the only transmitter of the

disease. The Bb spirochaete can also be transmitted by fleas, mosquitoes and

mites. Furthermore, the disease does not

require the insect to bite and infect you.

T h e re is some evidence that it can be transmitted between humans

either through sex or in the womb. There is even the possibility that it can be

transmitted through food.

R e s e a rchers at the University of Wi s c o n s i n have found that

dairy cattle and other animals in the human food chain can be infected and pass

it on.

The Centers for Disease Contro l and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta,

Georgia, believes that Bb can even survive the purification processes of donated

blood and so can also be passed through blood transfusion.

What are the symptoms?

Lyme disease can masquerade as many other degenerative illnesses,

particularly those characteristic of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; which

Stephen Hawking has).

Suspect Lyme disease if you have chronic fatigue, ALS or other

degenerative disease, or even a sudden onset of heart problems or transient

ischaemic attacks.

Many Parkinson's patients test positive for Lyme. Dr AtanasTzonkov, director of

the largest private medical clinic in Bulgaria (where LD is rampant) has

successfully treated more than a hundred

conditions as misdiagnosed cases of LD.

What doctors tell you Lyme disease is often treated with long courses of

antibiotics, but doctors vastly overplay the success rates. Spirochaetes can

survive even long-term antibiotic therapy and remain

in cells, beyond the immune system's reach (Liegner K et al.,

Abstract 63; Masters E et al. ,

Abstract 65; Fifth International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis,

1992). Long-term antibiotics

often leave the patient in an even worse state.

Key points

l Lyme disease is epidemic

l Many illnesses such as ALS or ME could, in fact, be Lyme disease

l Antibiotics don't often work l A simple herb can cure Lyme disease

The best alternative treatment for . . .

Lyme disease

WHAT TO DO INSTEAD

One small study has had remarkable success with a rare type of cat's

claw (Uncariatomentosa). The benefits of most types of cat's claw are

counteracted by tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids (TOA), which prevent the most

active compounds, pentacyclic oxindole alkaloids (POA), from helping to boost

the immune system.

Even a tiny amount of TOA can undo most of the positive benefits of POA.

H o w e v e r, cat's claw from the Peruvian jungle, called prima uña

de gato, or samento, is virtually TOA-free. It also contains lavish amounts of

acid glycosides, found in the latest quinolone antibiotics, the standard

treatment for Lyme. The herb is a natural and

selective antimicrobial — unlike conventional antibiotics — and also

offers anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-infective effects. POA can repair

the immune-system damage caused by Bb, and helps to ultimately overpower the

infection.

In a pilot study of 28 patients conducted by noted US cardiologist

William Lee Cowden, half carried on taking antibiotics, and half followed an

alternative regime, including a personalised diet, detoxification and 600 mg/day

of samento. Of the 14 patients taking the antibiotics, three improved slightly,

three got worse and the rest

had no change in their condition. In contrast, all but one (who

dropped out for cancer treatment) of the samento-treated group reported dramatic

improvements. At the end of six months, 85 per cent of the patients tested

negative for Bb (Cowden WL et al.,

`Pilot study of pentacyclic alkaloid - chemotype of Uncaria tomentosa

for the treatment of Lyme disease', presented at The International Symposium for

Natural Treatment of Intracellular Microorganisms, Münich , G e r m a n y, 29

March 2003).

Scientists investigating TOA-free cat's claw suggest that it should be

taken for eight to 12 months to kill all generations of spirochaetes in the

body. The herb should also be combined with a wholefood diet and an extensive

detox programme.