All right, this is a bit extreme. When I hear about something that is a cure-all for every disease known to man - cancer, viral, fungal, bacterial, and parasites - the only thing that comes to mind is Quackery.
I take extreme exception with the claims of anything being a remedy for leukemia. I am extremely familiar with this disease, as my six year old son was diagnosed and successfully treated for leukemia. Twenty years ago, leukemia was 100% fatal, as it is today without proper treatment. The only way to treat it is to knock down your bone marrow over and over again, and hope that when it stands back up again, the DNA transcription error that caused the leukemia does not come with it. Even with the best medical treatement, 85% of patients are treated successfully.
These claims of universal cure only obscure whatever benificial effects this plant might have.
- http://web.archive.org/web/20100104133152/http://www.bccancer.bc.ca:80/PPI/UnconventionalTherapies/PauDArco.htm
- http://www.paghat.com/herbalquacks.html
Only the anti-fungal properties have been verified...
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