[Health&Healing] Banning the Bitter Almond Tree- Laetrile

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Misty L. Trepke

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Why was this tree banned from the USA in 1995 ? Did it kill 1, 100,

or 1000 people?

 

You would think we could plant an apricot tree or a bitter almond

tree, would you not?

 

It appears that some people or groups of people are scared to death

of the bitter almond tree.

 

You will have to read and study a bit to see why this life saving

tree has been banned. I don't think the apricot tree and apricot

kernel has been banned, ...... yet.

 

I have a book about this subject that provides the complete

political battle.

 

Check this web page for more details.

http://www.fugitt.com/article/cancer_treatment.htm

 

One man seems to be very knowledgable about the apricot kernel. (

Laetrile , B 17 )

 

========================= Other foods that contain vitamin B-17 are:

bitter almonds, millet, wheat grass, lima beans and more. (The

bitter almond tree was banned from the U. S. in 1995.) The kernel or

seed contains the highest amounts of vitamin B17. as

 

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Vitamin B-17 - Laetrile - Anti-Cancer Properties?

 

The diet of primitive man and most fruit-eating animals was very

rich in nitrilosides. They regularly ate the seeds (and kernels) of

all fruits, since these seeds are rich in protein, polyunsaturated

fats, and other nutrients. Seeds also contain as much as 2 per cent

or more nitriloside. There are scores of other major foods

naturally, or normally, very rich in nitriloside.

 

Vitamin B-17 (nitriloside, amygdaline) is a designation proposed to

include a large group of

 

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systems.htmwater-soluble,

 

essentially non-toxic, sugary, compounds found in over 800 plants,

many of which are edible. These factors are collectively known as

Beta-cyanophoric glycosides. They comprise molecules made of

 

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hydrogen cyanide, a benzene ring or an acetone. Though the intact

molecule is for all practical purposes completely non-toxic, it may

be hydrolyzed by Beta-glycosidase to a sugar, free hydrogen cyanide,

benzaldehyde or acetone.

 

Apricot Kernels (Vitamin B17)

 

Apricot Kernels are the richest source of B17

(Laetrile). Ernst Krebs is the world's leading authority on the

relationship between

 

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diet/../conditions/detoxification-to-fight-cancer.htmcancer

 

and nitrilosides, and the inventor of laetrile.

 

Apricot kernels are known to prevent and cure

 

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diet/../conditions/detoxification-to-fight-cancer.htmcancer,

 

even though the medical establishment has worked night and day and

even lied to suppress it. Vitamin B17 is found in most all fruit

seeds such as the apple, peach, cherry, orange, nectarine and

apricot. It is found in some beans and many grasses such as wheat

grass. The hard wooden pit in the middle of the peach is not

supposed to be thrown away. In fact, the wooden shell is strong

armor protecting one of the most important foods known to man, the

seed.

 

It is one of the main courses of food in cultures such as the Navajo

Indians, the Hunzas the Abkhasians and many more. Did you know that

within these tribes there has never been a reported case of

 

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diet/../conditions/detoxification-to-fight-cancer.htmcancer?

 

(And there are doctors and scientists from the U. S. living within

these tribes right now studying this phenomena) We don't need to

make the seed a main course but we do need the equivalent of about

seven apricots seeds per day to improve our odd for a cancer-free

life. Other foods that contain vitamin B-17 are: bitter almonds,

millet, wheat grass, lima beans and more. (The bitter almond tree

was banned from the U. S. in 1995.) The kernel or seed contains the

highest amounts of vitamin B17.

 

One of the most common nitrilosides is amygdalin. This nitriloside

occurs in the kernels of seeds of practically all fruits. The seeds

of apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, and the

like carry this factor; often in the extraordinary concentration of

2 to 3 per cent. The rule of thumb when eating seeds is to eat the

fruit along with the seeds. For example, you do not want to extract

the seeds from 50 apples and eat only those seeds, however eating a

few apples every day along with their seeds is perfectly safe.

 

Since the seeds of fruits are possibly edible, it may be proper to

designate the non-toxic

 

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soluble accessory food factor or nitriloside that they contain as

vitamin B-17. The presence of nitriloside in the diet produces

specific physiologic effects and leaves as metabolites specific

chemical compounds of a physiologically active nature. The

production by a non-toxic, water-soluble accessory food factor of

specific physiological effects as well as identifiable metabolites

suggests the vitamin nature of the compound.

 

Before considering the possible antineoplastic activity of this

vitamin B-17, let us recall that the benzoic acid arising from it

has certain antirheumatic and antiseptic properties. It was rather

widely used (for rheumatic disease therapy prior to the

advent of the ortho-hydroxy addition product of benzoic acid known

as ortho-hydroxybenzoic acid or salicylic acid. It was originally

obtained from beech-wood bark.

 

Recall now, that thiocyanate also was once widely used, in both

Germany and American medicine, as an effective agent for

hypertension. Used as such, as the simple chemical, the dosage was

difficult to control. Obviously, this difficulty does not arise from

the thiocyanate usually produced in the body through metabolizing

vitamin B-17 (nitriloside). However, chronic hypotension has been

reported in Nigerians who eat quantities of the nitriloside-

containing manioc (cassava)--especially that of the bitter variety.

 

Are we justified in suggesting that

 

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diet/../conditions/detoxification-to-fight-cancer.htmcancer

 

itself might be another chronic metabolic disease that arises from a

specific vitamin deficiency--a deficiency specifically in vitamin B-

17(nitriloside)?

 

There are many chronic or metabolic diseases that challenge

medicine. Many of these diseases have already been conquered. What

proved to be their solution? By solution we mean both prevention and

cure. What really cures really prevents. Let us think of some of

these diseases that have found total prevention and hence cure. We

are speaking of metabolic or non-transmissible diseases. At one time

the metabolic disease known as scurvy killed hundreds of thousands

of people, sometimes entire populations. This disease found total

prevention and cure in the ascorbic acid or

 

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c.htmvitamin C

component of fruits and vegetables. Similarly, the once fatal

diseases so aptly called pernicious anemia, pellagra, beri beri,

countless neuropathies, and the like, found complete cure and

prevention in specific dietary factors, that is, essential nutrients

in an adequate diet.

 

No chronic or metabolic disease has ever found cure or prevention,

that is, real cure and real prevention--except through factors

essential to an adequate diet and/or normal to animal economy.

 

Does it seem likely, therefore, that

 

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diet/../conditions/detoxification-to-fight-cancer.htmcancer

 

 

will be the first exception to this generalization that to date has

not had a single known exception? In my humble opinion, certainly

not. But does it follow from this that vitamin B-17 (nitriloside) is

the specific antineoplastic vitamin? Logically, by itself, alone,

this conclusion that nitriloside is the specific antineoplastic

vitamin does not follow. However, examine the brilliant laboratory

studies of Dr. Dean Burk of the Department of Cytochemistry of the

National Cancer Institute in Washington. I believe that in light of

the experimental evidence that he has produced, you might agree that

vitamin B-17 (nitriloside) is indeed the antineoplastic vitamin and

is certainly worth more investigation.