The Powers of the Taheebo Tree

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The Powers of the Taheebo Tree

Doctor's Quotes and Statements

 

I found this article buried deep in the Internet and have no idea of

the author or source. It seems to have been posted in 1998 by a now

defunct site named Nature's Wisdom. It does have original

information and references not found elsewhere. I include it here

for your perusal.

 

Pau D'Arco; the Indians call it " Taheebo " , the Portuguese " Ipe

Roxo " , and the Spanish " Lapacho " or " Tabebuia " .

 

This fascinating herb is taken from the inner bark of the tall tree

called La Pacho. It is an ozoniferous plant, and grows only in the

mountains of the Andes, where there is ozone.

 

Ozone air is fresh, pure, and free from pollution, smog, exhaust,

smoke and pesticides.

 

Pau D'Arco has been used since the time of the Incas by the

Callaways, a traditional tribe or caste of healers, which flourished

before the Spanish and Portuguese invasion in the early 1500's.

 

During the past 400 years, these traditional healers have

occasionally seen and ministered to white men, but the tree whose

miraculous inner bark they used was not officially " discovered "

until about 20 years ago by two health practioners Teodoro Meyer,

M.D. and Prats Ruiz, M.D.

 

Dr. Teodoro Meyer, Professer of Botany and Plant Geography of the

National Unoiversity of Tucuman in Argentina, found the inner bark

to possess a wide range of properties.

 

Dr, Meyer states Pau D'Arco is " analgesic, sedative, decongestant,

diuretic, and hypotensive " . Such properties have justified its use

for many different ailments.

 

Recently a new use has been found for Pau D'Arco which may allow

thousands of allergic and chemically sensitive people to live more

comfortable lives.

 

Researchers have discovered that the Pau D'Arco tree is the only

type of vegetation known that will not permit the development of

fungus, Most plant life when exposed to water and weather become

covered with spores which lead to fungus formation. This doesn't

occur with Pau D'Arco. The tree has an uncommon resistance.

 

This discovery has led to an experimentation on people who have

yeast or mold allergy, the assumption being that these same

properties may discourage Candida Albicans {a common yeast} long

suspected to be the causative factor in food allergy.

 

Another researcher, Dr, Robert Owens, has found Candida Albicans to

be correlated with " Chemical Hypersensitivity and other

immunological-related disorders. "

 

The hope has been raised that not only might Pau D'Arco control the

yeast and mold allergy, but also many other sensitivities as well.

 

Dr. Jeffrey Andersen, M.D., a Mill Valley, California health

practitioner, treated a woman with a difficult yeast infection.

 

" Two hours after using the tea as a douche the vaginal yeast

infection was cleared up nicely, " he says.

Dr. Anderson's patients now begin drinking Pau D'Arco tea-1/2 to 1

cup tea per day, increasing to a maintenance dose of 4 cups per day

in approximately 1 month.

 

Those who are using Pau D'Arco report that sometimes the symptoms

become worse initially, This is attributed to " yeast die-off. "

 

The theory is that as the yeast die and are filtered into the

bloodstream they cause allergic reactions. These reactions last only

a short time.

 

Phyllis Saifer, M.D., a clinical ecologist from Berkeley, reports

good results from members of the Environmental Illness Association

who are now using Pau D'Arco.

Two members who previously experienced incapacitating cerebral

symptoms now claim to be in good health with few or no remaining

symptoms. One of the victims had been taking 16 Nystatin pills (an

anti-yeast medication) daily. She now takes one every 7 days.

 

Dr. Walter Accorsi, doing clinical studies at the Municipal Hospital

Santo Andre, said: " From my first experiments with Pau D'Arco, I

learned two important things that greatly encouraged me in regard to

cancer: first it eliminates the pain and second, it multiplies the

amount of red corpuscles. "

 

The Cancer Institute has this report in " Cancer Chemotherapy

Reports " Part 2, Vol. 4, No. 4, Dec. 1974:

 

" More recently Pau D'Arco contains Quechua, a substance found to be

a powerful antibiotic with virus-killing properties. "

 

Clinical studies showed that Pau D'Arco has no contraindications, no

incompatabilities, and has been proven to be non-toxic. However, the

most innocuous of agents could finally become toxic if taken in

large enough amounts.

 

 

OTHER COMMENTS

Dr. Norman Farnsworth of the University of Illinois confirms the

claims that Pau D' Arco contains a substance that is highly

effective against cancers.

 

While many herbs are credited with properties that stop cell growth,

Pau d'Arco contains compounds which seem to attack the cause of the

disease.

 

Dr. James Duke of the National Institute of Health (NIH) agrees that

Pau D'Arco undoubtedly contains a substance found to be highly

effective against cancers.

 

John Heinerman, a medical anthropologist who specializes in the

study of herbal medicines, says, " It sounds too good to be true, but

it seems to have earned for itself considerable merit in the

successful treatment of most forms of cancer, diabetes, and certain

other debilitating diseases... "

 

R.C. Pilsner, D.Sc. and licensed nutrition specialist,

writes, " Being a biochemist, I have researched and analyzed many

elements for their nutrient value and their peculiar selective

actions on...organs and tissues. "

 

Pilsner has discovered that certain herbs emit an ultraviolet wave

known as Gurwich rays. These rays stimulate cell metabolism and the

body's own ability to rejuvenate itself.

 

He believes that herbs emitting the Gerwich rays include Pau D'Arco.

Pilsner has subjected Pau D'Arco to rigorous laborotory tests and

recommends daily use of Pau D'Arco tea as a nutritional supplement.

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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:00 pm

Post subject: SOUTH AMERICAN CANCER CURE

 

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SOUTH AMERICAN CANCER CURE

ANCIENT FOLK MEDICINE

 

This article is one of the first printed, years ago, in a U.S.

publication about the curing powers of Pau d'Arco. It is reprinted

here from " The Spotlight " which is a " populist " weekly newspaper

published in Washington, D.C.

 

Could an ancient South American Indian folk medicine cure many types

of cancer? Physicians and former cancer patients say yes.

 

This has been widely reported on in newspapers in Latin America,

but not in the U.S.

 

South American physicians are using Indian folk medicine to

successfully treat various forms of cancer - including leukemia -

and other debilitating disease, but news of the cures has not made

it into the American media.

 

According to reports published in various South American periodicals

prior to the establishment-imposed blackout, the inner bark of two

South American trees of the Bignoniaceae family are used

successfully in the treatment of various diseases, including cancer.

 

A brew made with the inner bark of Lapacho Colorado (Tabebuia

Avellanedae) or Lapacho Morado (Tabebuia Altissima) seems to attack

the cause of the disease, according to medical reports.

 

Lapacho Colorado, or red lapacho - so called because of its scarlet

flowers - grows in the warmer part of South America: Brazil,

northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia etc. It was commonly used by

the medicine men of the Guarani and Tupi-Nambo Indians long before

the advent of the Spanish in the New World.

 

Another name for the lapachos is ipes, a name used in southern

Brazil. Red lapacho is called ipe roxo. Still another name for the

trees is pau d'arco; red lapacho is called pau d'arco roxo. " Pau

d'arco " means " bow stick " ; the natives use the wood to make their

bows for archery.

 

The red lapacho is very common in its range, the tropical

lowlands.The lapacho morado, or purple lapacho, grows in cooler

climes - in the Andes, for example. In its range, it is not rare.

 

Red lapacho was discovered by the white man's medicine some 20 years

ago at Americana - a suburb of Sao Paulo, Brazil. That was where

several hundred Confederate families homesteaded at the invitation

of Emperor Dom Pedro II after the South was lost.

 

YOUNG GIRL CURED

 

The story of cancer-curing properties of the tropical bark begins

about 20 years ago, when a Sao Paulo family had a homecoming party

after a trip to Rio de Janeiro. During dinner they told the story of

a young relative of theirs - a girl who was stricken with cancer.

 

The medical establishment had given up on the girl and had told the

parents that she did not have long to live. But a great aunt had

contacted an Indian tribal doctor who said that cancer could be

cured with the brew made from the bark of a certain tree.The

medicine man gave the woman a little bag of that bark.

 

The young girl and her parents at first disdained the medicine man's

concoction. But then the sick girl had a strange dream. She saw a

friar who told her: " Drink tea brewed with the bark the Indian gave

you, and you will get well. " At first she paid no attention to the

dream, but as her pain increased, the dream repeated itself.

 

Finally she decided to try the tea.

 

Her pain vanished. Encouraged by the results, she continued to take

the medicine every morning. Within a month, she was well, and her

regular doctor told her parents that no trace of her cancer could be

found.The hosts had brought back a bag of the bark as a souvenir.

 

A MAVERICK MEDICO

 

One of the guests at the party was a medical doctor from the nearby

town of Santo Andre, who showed great interest in the bark and

begged a sample.

 

Dr. Orlando dei Santi - the guest left the party early and went

directly to the Municipal Hospital of Santo Andre, another suburb of

Sao Paulo, where he was a resident physician. There, his cancer-

stricken brother lay, near death.

The cancer victim had just undergone a second operation, and his

condition had been declared " inoperable and terminal. " He was beyond

Establishment treatment.

 

In the course of his medical studies, dei Santi had been taught the

need to study methodically any empirical remedy, such as those used

by Indian tribes, before even thinking of using it. He had learned

that the medical researcher " must " first try to extract the active

part or parts of the plant claimed to have the therapeutic value.

 

Then the researcher must test the extracts in the laboratory on

animals, and finally on human volunteers. One must patent the drug

and get a respected pharmaceutical manufacturer to produce the

resulting pills, extracts, etc.

 

Only then - once the medicine is on the market - could one consider

using it on a patient. Otherwise, a doctor would be defenseless

against charges of malpractice and face the danger of losing his

medical license.

That, of course, is the proper procedure approved by the medical

authorities in Brazil and throughout the rest of the civilized

world.

 

Fortunately for the dying cancer victim in the Santo Andre Municipal

Hospital, his brother was one doctor who decided not to adhere to

the orthodox procedures in this case.

 

Instead, he took the bark, boiled it in white wine, mixed the still-

hot brew with orange juice and let his brother drink the concoction

on an empty stomach.

 

As if by a miracle, the patient's pain disappeared, and he was able

to sleep soundly. After a month of uninterupted treatment with the

brew, he was discharged from the hospital. A thorough examination

had found no trace of cancer remaining.

 

CURE CAUGHT ON

 

After this startling development, the physicians at the Municipal

Hospital of Santo Andre decided to break the rules for the benefit

of other cancer patients, beginning with those of the " terminal "

list. This happened near the end of 1960.

 

Since then, the physicians at the small provincial town hospital

have noticed that the pain suffered by patients with leukemia or

other cancers disappeared within hours after they received the brew

made from the inner bark of pau d'arco roxo.

 

They also found that, within 30 days of treatment with this

medicine, most patients no longer showed any symptoms of the dread

disease.

 

They noticed that many other afflictions from which some of the

cancer patients suffered - such as diabetes - would disappear even

more quickly than the cancer.

 

The physicians were amazed.

 

Since the early 1960s, this bark has been used regularly at the

Municipal Hospital of Santo Andre to treat leukemia as well as

numerous diseases where viruses were suspected as the cause. Both

the herb stores and the " legitimate " pharmacies in Brazil now carry

this bark.

 

" O Cruzeiro " (March 18 and 25, 1967), the respected Rio de Janeiro

weekly, published two long, illustrated articles about this remedy

and the Municipal Hospital of Santo Andre, where it is used to cure

a host of diseases.

 

One of the pictures shows a patient's chart at the head of his bed.

Below the patient's name, age, etc is the diagnosis:

" cancer of the lung. "

 

And, further below, in large handwritten letters, the prescription:

Pau d'Arco

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