In the my post below from 10/5, I shared an article that had the sensationalized headline Bombshell NIH Ebola Treatment Announced -- You Will Not Believe What The Potential Cure Is... and stated The National Institute of Health has just announced a potential treatment for the Ebola virus, and you WILL NOT believe what it is! Directly from the NIH website.: and then republished the abstract below. As you can read in the comments, this was met with some skepticism from my friends, so I wish to comment on it further. The redflagnews site that reprinted the abstract did not give the source. When they say directly from the NIH website what I think they really should be saying is directly from PubMed which is a site that cites more than 24 million articles from the biomedical literature and which is from the US National Library of Medicine which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Having PubMed cite a publication in the medical literature is a far cry from the NIH announcing a potential treatment and I thus agree the redflagnews site is misleading. I was somewhat skeptical of the link to the NIH when I shared this, but the reason I shared it was to share the actual abstract, which does seem scientifically credible. Ebola virus is a truly frightening disease with an extremely high mortality rate. Fortunately it is not transmitted all that easily, but it has a high rate of mutation and could potentially mutate into a very transmissable form. When faced with a serious illness like this, the response of western medicine is to race to develop synthetic pharmaceuticals and vaccines that can be patented and from which tremendous profits can be reaped. However, in the world of natural medicine it is widely believed that for every disease nature provides a cure (this is a nice theory though definitely not proven). Thus, when faced with a challenge like Ebola, holistic and naturopathic doctors tend to look towards their treasure trove of natural therapies for a good fit rather than seeking to invent something new. The article cited by PubMed is not a research study but simply a well-reasoned theory that, based on the known physiological properties of melatonin on similar disease processes it is likely to benefit those suffering from Ebola infection. I wish the NIH would endorse this approach, but, despite the sensationalistic redflagnews article, it has not in any way endorsed it nor is it likely to. But if I had a patient with Ebola I would think melatonin well worth trying. It is unfortunate that doctors have little to offer Ebola patients except supportive treatments like IV fluids (unless you are a westerner in which case you can get an expensive experimental drug that is in very short supply). However, there is a long list of safe and inexpensive natural therapies known to help viral infections including IV Vitamins C, Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, Ozone therapy and IV Hydrogen Peroxide. Oral therapies like Colloidal Silver, Olive Leaf Extract, Essential Oils such as oregano and clove oil and Chlorine Dioxide (MMS) also have great potential to help. It would be great if doctors at least tried some of these out to see if they are effective. I have no doubt many who are suffering with Ebola would be more than happy to try these. Homeopathy has a long track record of helping serious viral epidemics such as the 1918 flu pandemic. While I dont believe homeopaths have had the opportunity to treat Ebola patients yet, homeopaths are speculating on which remedies are most likely to help. I believe it is likely that homeopathy alone could prove to be a valuable treatment for Ebola, and will be even more effective it combined with melatonin and some of the aforementioned approaches... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25262626
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:44:57 +0000
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