Carnivora

        When a friend lent to me a book on nutritional healing, including discourses on both actual pharmaceuticals and the supplementary altenatives (foods, herbals,vitamins,etc) I had just finished discovering that Periwinkle vine offers a highly important medecine to the world;  that is, Vincristine, a powerful cancer-fighting medicine. Naturally, I turned to the cancer section in the large book, and found something I had not read of before. Within the wealth of information as to correct diet and vitamin supplements, I found that Doctors may use a type of cancer-fighting agent which is an alternative medecine,or supplementary to various types of cancer treatment. This treatment is called Carnivora, and its essence comes from the bog plant, Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula).

The Discovery

Carnivora as an agent neatly kills intruder DNA, when it encounters cancer in the human system. Carnivora producer, Helmut Keller, MD Medical Director of Carnivora Research, Inc . of Nordhalben, Germany has established a market in the US for this medicine.

Everyone has seen the bizarre Venus Flytrap , whether from within a childhood classroom in a terrarium, perhaps,or on some Discovery Channel program or its equivalent. On the Internet, I found a good likeness of the plant in a rather delightful site from South America,called Suapele.terra.com . The website has many thumbnails of moving plant photos, which expand two ways, either through a magnifier or to a large still. Clicking into these will show you an imaginative array of interesting species.....count to sixth down on the right hand side of the page which opens for you (available through Google)<./p>

http://suapele.terra.com.br/expodove_port/HTML/plantas.html

      As you will have seen from the plants' glimmering moisture, the Venus Flytrap has many hairs on its' flower, each of which ooze a viscous liquid which both attracts and glues small insects onto its body. As the interested insect reaches into the well of the strange, almost toothed floral head of the plant, a hair-trigger snaps its jaw shut and begins to devour the insect.

His scientific application,(a discovery he made in 1973) is best described through clicking into the link below:

http://www.carnivora.com/carnivora.html

Producers' Feature Article

http://www.cancer2000.com/newsletter.html

Good Links in site.

http://www.cancer2000.com/030199.htm

Carnivora Article. Conclusion: Carnivora inhibits tumor growth by blocking proteinkinases, inhibiting angioneogenesis, and by stimulating immune response.

 Helmut Keller, MD Medical Director of Carnivora Research, Inc. Nordhalben, Germany

Carnivora Images

A truly delightful discovery: A movie of how a Venus Flytrap closes upon a touch to its sensors:

http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/movements/nastic/flytrap/flytrap.html

 On Googles' excellent image cache, available through clicking "images" above the Search box on the home page, one may also find another good image of Venus Flytrap.

http://www.cancer-therapy.net/cell_repair.htm

On the same page, there are items listed which have cancer fighting properties, for instance ,Squalene, or shark cartilage,or  cranberry juice. Just click the carnivora image for an expanded view.

CAM and Pharmacists

For a pharmacists' perspective on items deemed to be supplementary or alternative there is interesting reading in an August 1998 editorial in Pharmacy Practice News : The New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists.

In a preamble, the author states that the term "alternative medicine " is used far more often in the United States than the equally descriptive term, "complementary medicine", used by the rest of the world. Fond of obscurities, science synthesized the two terms, producing "CAM" for a catchword for both complementary or alternative medicine.

Five Clinical "Spectra" Defining Alternative Medicine

1) therapeutic goals range from symptom control to cure;
2) A broad range targets heavy medical problems, holistic therapies, and everything else
3) Ranges from home remedies to sophisticated, manufactured products 
4) "Prescription" can come from non to highly skilled practitioners.
5) Can be highly effective, moderately so, or even have deleterious effects.

Stats: Who visits alternative practitioners

US: (1990) 34% of Americans: COST:$13.7 billion (from Pharmacy Practice News)

 Results from studies conducted in other countries have revealed similar usage rates. In both the United States and Britain, patients using CAM are more likely to be female, younger, and of higher social status.

 Pharmacists re: Alternative Medicine:

http://www.nyschp.org/ce/CEHerbs.html

Therapies

No:1:Therapy used is macrobiotic diet started by George Osawa.<

Some Herbal Cancer therapies:

Carnivora : Carnivora is derived from the venus flytrap, a plant found in such places as the wet pinelands and bays of North and South Carolina.According to it’s proponents, carnivora works to therapeutically shrink solid tumors, but does not help with the liquid tumors (i.e. leukemias) . It is believed to work best in patients naive to chemotherapy or radiation. In non-controlled study of 210 cancer patients who had failed conventional treatments and were given 50-60 drops of Carnivora orally five times a day plus one injection, 16% showed tumor regression and 40% had no further tumor progression.27 Carnivora can be administered as drops orally, by inhalation or by injection. The dosage, frequency and route of administration of carnivora varies depending on the stage and type of cancer.Taken orally, Carnivora can produce nausea or vomiting. When given via injection, it can produce a temporary increase in body temperature.

And others:

Astragalus , Cat’s Claw, Chapparal,  Echinacea,  Essiac,  Flor-essence,  Hoxsey Herbal Treatment, Iscador, Kombucha tea, Laetrile,  Milk Thistle,  Pau D’Arco, Pycnogenol,and  Shiitake Mushrooms

 Further bibliographic information on herbal products is available on the NIH website at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/IBIDS/
.60 Interest Links + more on site Herb Research Foundation: http://www.herbs.org
American Botanical Association:     http://www.herbalgram.org
Center for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer:  www.chprd.sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam
Cancer Web: www.graylab.ac.uk/cancerweb/altern.html

References 1-57 on site, (editorial). Pharmacy Practice News August 1998:11 in: http://www.nyschp.org/ The New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists. These pages are copyrighted 1996-2003

Interest Sites

"The Insider " :

 [80] Anderson et al, supra, note 63. See also Manfredi R, Chiodo F. The effects of alternative treatments for HIV disease on recommended pharmacological regimens. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 2000; 13: 281-285; de Visser R et al. Alternative or complementary: nonallopathic therapies for HIV/AIDS.

What you have faith in: Where you live..

Journal of Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine 2000; 6: 44-52.

users: alternative therapies provided non-addictive forms of improving well-being.

First Nation and alternative care:

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Interest Links: Images,Images,Images.

http://www.carnivora.com/flytrap.html
 http://www.idealverde.it/rubriche/speciali/speciali12.asp
 http://www.valtrebbia.org/specie_protette.htm
protected species http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maruku_sama/images/ephemere/carnivora.jpg
  Flytrap Cyber Art
suggested species