The Powers of the Taheebo Tree in Candida Albicans

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The Powers of the Taheebo Tree in Candida Albicans

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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, anti-candidal, 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).

 

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.

 

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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AMERICAN CANCER CURE

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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

Washinton, 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 have 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. .

 

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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Pau d’arco

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Family: Bignoniaceae -Genus: Tabebuia -Species: impetiginosa

Common Names: Pau d’arco, ipê, ipê roxo, lapacho, tahuari, taheebo,

trumpet tree, ipê-contra-sarna, tabebuia ipê, tajy

Part Used: Bark, wood -Documented Properties & Actions:

 

Analgesic, antibacterial, anticarcinomic, anticoagulant, antifungal,

anti-inflammatory, antileukemic, antimicrobial, antimutagenic,

antioxidant, antiparasitic, antirheumatic, antitumor, antiviral,

cytotoxic, immunostimulant, laxative

 

The common name pau d’arco (as well as its other main names of commerce,

ipê roxo and lapacho) is used for several different species of Tabebuia

trees that are used interchangeably in herbal medicine systems.

 

T. impetiginosa is known for its attractive purple flowers and often is

called “purple lapacho.” It has been the preferred species employed in

herbal medicine.

It is often referred to by its other botanical name, Tabebuia

avellanedae; both refer to the same tree. Other pau d’arco species

produce pink (T. heptaphylla), yellow (T. serratifolia and T.

chrysantha) or white (T. bahamensis) flowers. Though many of these

species may have a similar phytochemical makeup, they are different

species of trees.

 

The Guarani and Tupi Indians call the tree tajy, which means “to have

strength and vigor.”

 

They use the bark to treat many different conditions and as a tonic for

the same strength and vigor it puts into their bows.

 

Pau d’arco is recorded to be used by forest inhabitants throughout the

Amazon for malaria, anemia, colitis, respiratory problems, colds, cough,

flu, fungal infections, fever, arthritis and rheumatism, snakebite, poor

circulation, boils, syphilis, and cancer.

 

Pau d’arco also has a long history in herbal medicine around the world.

 

In South American herbal medicine, it is considered to be astringent,

anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and laxative; it is used

to treat ulcers, syphilis,urinary tract infections, psoriasis,

gastrointestinal problems, candidiasis, cancer, diabetes, prostatitis,

constipation, and allergies.

 

It is used in Brazilian herbal medicine for many conditions including

cancer, leukemia, ulcers, diabetes, candida, rheumatism, arthritis,

prostatitis, dysentery, stomatitis, and boils.

 

In North American herbal medicine, pau d’arco is considered to be

analgesic, antioxidant, antiparasitic, antimicrobial, antifungal,

antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and laxative, as well as to

have anticancerous properties.

 

It is used for fevers, infections, colds, flu, syphilis, cancer,

respiratory problems, skin ulcerations, boils, dysentery,

gastrointestinal problems of all kinds, arthritis, prostatitis, and

circulation disturbances.

 

Pau d’arco also is also employed in herbal medicine systems in the

United States for lupus, diabetes, ulcers, leukemia, allergies, liver

disease, Hodgkin’s disease, osteomyelitis, Parkinson’s disease, and

psoriasis, and is a popular remedy for candida and yeast infections.

 

he recorded uses in European herbal medicine systems reveal that it is

used in much the same way as in the United States, and for the same

conditions.

 

The chemical constituents and active ingredients of pau d’arco have been

well documented. Its use with (and reported cures for) various types of

cancers fueled much of the early research in the early 1960s.

 

The plant contains a large percentage of chemicals known as quinoids,

and a small quantity of benzenoids and flavonoids.

 

These quinoids (and, chiefly, anthraquinones, furanonaphthoquinones,

lapachones and naphthoquinones) have shown the most documented

biological activity and are seen to be the center of the plant’s

efficacy as an herbal remedy.

 

In the 1960s, plant extracts of the heartwood and bark demonstrated

marked antitumorous effects in animals which drew the interest of the

National Cancer Institute (NCI).

 

Researchers decided that the most potent single chemical for this

activity was a naphthoquinone named lapachol and they concentrated

solely on this single chemical in their subsequent cancer research.

 

In a 1968 study, lapachol demonstrated highly significant activity

against cancerous tumors in rats. By 1970, NCI-backed research already

was testing lapachol in human cancer patients.

 

The institute reported, however, that their first Phase I study failed

to produce a therapeutic effect without side-effects—and they

discontinued further cancer research shortly thereafter.

These side-effects were nausea and vomiting (very common with

chemotherapy drugs) and anti-vitamin K activity (the main concerns over

which caused anemia and an anticoagulation effect).

 

Interestingly, other chemicals in the whole plant extract (which,

initially, showed positive anti-tumor effects and very low toxicity)

demonstrated positive effects on Vitamin K and, conceivably, compensated

for lapachol’s negative effect.

 

Once again, instead of pursuing research on a complex combination of at

least 20 active chemicals in a whole plant extract (several of which had

anti-tumor effects and other positive biological activities), research

focused on a single, patentable chemical—and it didn’t work as well.

 

Despite NCI’s abandonment of the research, another group developed a

lapachol analog (which was patentable) in 1975. In one study they

reported this lapachol analog increased the life span of mice inoculated

with leukemic cells by over 80%.

 

In a small, uncontrolled 1980 study of nine human patients with various

cancers (liver, kidney, breast, prostate, and cervix), pure lapachol was

reported to shrink tumors and reduce pain caused by them—and three of

the patients realized complete remissions.

 

The phytochemical database housed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture

has documented lapachol as being antiabscess, anticarcinomic,

antiedemic, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antiseptic, antitumorous,

antiviral, bactericidal, fungicidal, insectifugal, pesticidal,

protisticidal, respiradepressant, schistosomicidal, termiticidal, and

viricidal.

 

It’s not surprising that pau d’arco’s beneficial effects were seen to

stem from its lapachol content. But another chemical in pau d’arco,

beta-lapachone, has been studied closely of late; a number of patents

have been filed on it.

 

It has activities similar to lapachol (antimicrobial, antifungal,

antiviral, cytotoxic, antileukemic, and anti-inflammatory, with few

side-effects.

 

In one of these studies on beta-lapachone and other quinones in pau

d'arco, researchers reported: " Because of their potent activity against

the growth of human keratinocytes, some lapacho-derived compounds appear

to be promising as effective antipsoriatic agents. "

 

In a recent (2002) U.S. patent, beta-lapachone was cited to have

“significant antineoplastic activity against human cancer cell lines . .

..

 

[including] promyelocytic leukemia, prostate, malignant glioma, colon,

hepatoma, breast, ovarian, pancreatic, multiple myeloma cell lines and

drug-resistant cell lines.”

 

In another U.S. patent, beta-lapachone was cited with the in vivo

ability to inhibit the growth of prostate tumors.

 

In addition to its reported antitumor activities, pau d’arco clearly has

demonstrated broad clinical actions against a number of disease-causing

microorganisms, which supports its wide array of uses in herbal

medicine.

 

Antimicrobial properties of many of pau d’arco’s active phytochemicals

were demonstrated in several clinical trials, in which they exhibited

strong in vitro activity against various gram-positive and gram-negative

bacteria, fungi, and yeast

 

(including Candida, Aspergillus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus,

Helicobacter pylori, Brucella, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and dysentery).

 

In addition to its isolated chemicals, a hot water extract of pau d’arco

demonstrated antibacterial actions against Staphylococcus aureus,

Helicobacter pylori (the bacteria that commonly causes stomach ulcers),

and Brucella.

 

A water extract of pau d’arco was reported (in other in vitro clinical

research) to have strong activity against 11 fungus and yeast strains.

 

Pau d’arco and its chemicals also have demonstrated in vitro antiviral

properties against various viruses, including Herpes I and II,

influenza, polio virus, and vesicular stomatitis virus.

 

Its antiparasitic actions against various parasites (including malaria,

schistosoma, and trypanosoma) have been confirmed as well. Finally, bark

extracts of pau d’arco have demonstrated anti-inflammatory activity and

have shown to be successful against a wide range of induced inflammation

in mice and rat

 

 

As there are no studies confirming the safety of traditional bark

decoctions used by pregnant women (nor is there indication in

traditional medicine systems using this plant during pregnancy), the use

of pau d’arco during pregnancy is not recommended.

 

Drug Interactions: None reported.

 

 

 

ETHNOBOTANY: WORLDWIDE USES

 

Amazonia Colds, cough, fever, flu, leishmaniasis, sores, urinary tract

infections

Argentina Diarrhea, respiratory infections, urinary tract infections

Bahamas Backache, dysuria, enuresis, gonorrhea, incontinence, toothache

Brazil Allergy, analgesic, anticoagulant, antifungal, antimicrobial,

antimutagenic, anus, arthritis, asthma, astringent, athlete’s foot,

bed-wetting, blood builder, boils, bursitis, cancer, cancer pain,

candida, cicatrizant, circulation (poor), colds, colitis, constipation,

cystitis, diabetes, diuretic, dysentery, eczema, fever, flu, gastritis,

gingivitis, gonorrhea, hernia, hemorrhoid, hemorrhage, herpes, Hodgkin’s

disease, immunity, impetigo, inflammation, itch, leishmaniasis,

leucorrhea, leukemia, liver, malaria, ophthalmic, parasites,

prostatitis, respiratory, rheumatism, ringworm, scabies, skin,

snakebite, sore throat, stomatitis, stomach, syphilis, throat,

tendonitis, tonic, ulcers, urinary tract infections, uterus, vagina,

varicose veins, warts, wounds

Costa Rica Cancer, colds, fever, headache, snakebite

Mexico Anemia, fever

South America Allergies, anemia, antibacterial, antifungal,

anti-inflammatory, arthritis, astringent, boils, cancer, candidiasis,

chlorosis, circulation (poor), colitis, colds, constipation, cough,

cystitis, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, enuresis, fever, flu,

gastritis, gastrointestinal, infections, laxative, malaria, pharyngitis,

prostatitis, respiratory disease, snakebite, syphilis, ulcers, wound

United States Allergies, analgesic, antibacterial, antifungal,

anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antimutagenic, antioxidant,

antiparasitic, antiviral, arthritis, boils, cancer, candida, circulation

disturbances, cold, diabetes, dysentery, fevers, flu, fungal infections,

gastrointestinal, Hodgkin’s disease, infections, laxative, leukemia,

liver disease, lupus, osteomyelitis, Parkinson’s disease, prostatitis,

psoriasis, respiratory problems, skin ulcerations, syphilis, ulcers,

urinary tract infections, warts

 

 

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Herbs by Leslie Taylor, copyrighted © 2004 All rights reserved. No part

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