Fwd: Blue Scorpion Venom for Cancer

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arnoldgore

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:47:45 EDT

Blue Scorpion Venom for Cancer

 

Subj: Cuba MedNews: Blue Scorpion Venum Used as Cancer

10/19/2003 11:17:30 AM Eastern Standard Time

 

Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:30 AM

[bRC-NY-METRO] Cuba MedNews: Blue Scorpion Venum Used as Cancer

Treatment

 

 

>

> Venom of blue scorpion touted as cancer treatment in Cuba

> by Mar Marin

>

> Jaguey Grande, Cuba, Oct 17, 2003

> (EFE via COMTEX) --

>

> A Cuban researcher says he has used the diluted venom of the

> island's blue scorpion to successfully treat thousands of cancer

> patients, though many oncologists are reserving judgment on the

> toxin's efficacy.

>

> Close to 60,000 people have tested the " medication " derived from

> the toxin of the " Rhopalurus junceus, " or blue scorpion, since

> biologist Misael Bordier began using it as an anti-carcinogenic

> a decade ago in the eastern Cuban province of Guantanamo.

>

> " Escozul, " the name given to the product by Bordier, contains

> distilled water, and is distributed free of charge.

>

> It can be administered orally, vaginally or via aerosol.

>

> Bordier, who in 1995 registered the patent with the Cuban Science,

> Technology and Environment Ministry, said the product encases

> the tumor and destroys it, with minimal side effects.

>

> The venom from the blue scorpion contains a protein chain that

> attacks tumors, although " we don't know exactly which of the

> elements in the chain is the attacker, " the biologist explained.

> " That is what we need to find and synthesize. "

>

> Bordier claims the treatment was successful in nearly 97 percent

> of patients who had not undergone previous chemotherapy or surgery.

>

> But in those who came to him after surgery or chemotherapy, only

> 40 percent obtained good results with Escozul, and the mortality

> rate is 60 percent.

>

> " We don't know what causes the high mortality rate in these patients,

> but we do know we've been able to improve the quality of life

> of every patient, " Bordier said.

>

> Escozul also acts as an immunomodulator agent that boosts the

> body's natural defenses, which means it can be used to treat

> patients with AIDS, said Bordier, who claimed that he is currently

> successfully treating 10 HIV-positive patients.

>

> The biologist, who for 10 years tested the venom on animals,

> began using it on humans at the request of relatives of two patients

> whom doctors had given no chance of survival.

>

> Niurys Monzon, his first patient, had been diagnosed with pancreatic

> cancer and since the age of 15 had undergone chemotherapy and

> three surgical procedures. She is now 29.

>

> Niurys's success with the treatment led her father, Jose Felipe

> Monzon, to join Bordier and expand treatment by opening a clinic

> in Jaguey Grande in central Cuba.

>

> Monzon, who is currently treating some 6,000 patients and has

> a farm with 3,000 blue scorpions, is reluctant to promote the

> product, because " not all patients react favorably. "

>

> He told EFE things were difficult at the beginning, and people

> " accused me of being a warlock, or worse. "

>

> To Oswaldo, who has prostate cancer and has been taking Escozul

> for three months along with traditional treatments, Monzon is

> a hero.

>

> Iliana's mother receives treatment for her cancer of the larynx,

> and she " has improved a lot, " according to Iliana, who admits

> that " although her doctor has advised her not to take the compound,

> she takes it without telling him. "

>

> Monzon is aware that many oncologists reject the " blue hope, "

> as patients refer to the diluted venom, but he is in favor of

> administering it along with traditional medications.

>

> Last year, the Cuban Oncology Institute requested medical records

> of the clinic's patients in order to follow their progress.

>

> According to Lorenzo Amazagas, deputy director of the institute's

> tumor evaluation unit, Escozul results have not yet been scientifically

> validated.

>

> " Its use has been empirical ... it hasn't been evaluated and

> we cannot recommend it because we have no scientific proof of

> its efficacy, " Amazagas told EFE.

>

> He noted, however, that Labiofam, Cuba's largest drug laboratory,

> is interested in the product, " has scorpion farms and is working

> to stabilize it. "

 

 

 

 

 

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