Posted by Judy Merin on March 27, 1998 at 07:45:29:
In Reply to: Betulinic acid -- birch bark is easy to find!! posted by Amy Pagnozzi on July 22, 1997 at 15:22:19:
: A company on the Internet called Calbiochem sells betulinic acid but
they
: will not sell it to you if you tell them it's for human use and they
sell
: it in five milliliter quantities for $85 (understandable since
they're
: expecting you'll be injecting it into mice). I didn't buy it. I am
sure you
: can decoct it yourself or get a chemist to decoct it for you far
far cheaper
: from birch bark or, BTW, Zizyphus Mauritiana (Indian Jujube,
but make sure
: it's BARK, not seeds) but I'm not even bothering, I'm going
with straight
: bark, which contains 20 per cent betulin. (if I find a
chemical supplier
: that sells betulinic acid cheaper I will post it,
though).
: You can buy birch bark at stores that sell bulk herbs, which are
in pretty
: much every major city. You can also buy it in bulk at many many
herb
: providers on the internet, cheaper than I'm buying it in NY. I'm
giving it
: to my mother, who has stage 4 melanoma, internally, and as a
poultice mixed
: with dandelion (she has high blood pressure) and dmso (in
order to deliver
: it to her very large nodule and satellites). I am also
giving her the
: Hoxsey blood and lymphatic cleansing formula, you can buy
that ready made
: and in places where you can't it is quite easy to make it
from bulk herbs.
: For the tea, you take about an oz. of birch bark a day,
add three cups water
: boil, let it sit overnight, drink it. For the poultice
you should do a two
: parts birch bark to two parts whole wheat flower to
one part slippery elm.
: Mix it over the stove till creamy, then add a drop
at most of birch bark oil
: (which you NEVER take internally) and then add
your DMSO. I'm using a couple
: of teaspoons. Her tumor is really really
huge, but since DMSO is a solvent
: that takes anything it touches down to
the bone, make sure any body part
: you put it on is clean, and that the
gauze you are wrapping the poultice in
: is also clean.
: I can't say
for sure, we should have measured, it's only been a few days
: but Mom thinks
her tumor is shrinking and that her satellites are less red.
: She also feels
really really good: don't know if this is the birch bark or
: the Hoxsey
formula. Since her cancer is inoperable (they'd have to take her
: entire
foot off to get the whole tumor, and there's metastasis all over the
:
place), as soon as they do a biopsy to freeze some of it so she can later
:
get a vaccination we are going to attempt to remove it ourselves using
:
something called Black Salve (the old time remedy for skin cancer, which,
:
incidentally, also contains birch bark). I've seen several naturopaths and
:
they say the salve really works but that it stings. I am having them
: mix
it up for me professionally but I did see an Internet Source for it,
:
www.viable-herbal.com/prod04.html
: I believe they also sell the Hoxsey
formula but the company seems pretty
: pricey, I'd go with a naturopath if I
could find one. BTW, the internal
: Hoxsey Formual recipe is at
www.herbsinfo.com/pages/redclov.html.
: I think it's patented -- health food
stores sell an extract called
: Red Clover-Stillingia Compound that is
identical ... oh, just remembered
: I also use a dropperful of this extract
in Mom's poultice.