Laetrile (Vitamin B17 or Amygdaline): Why is it Banned? LAETRILE vs CANCER - An Australian Story The success of alternative cancer treatments utilising amygdalin, vitamin B17 or Laetrile has been denied by the medical establishment and government authorities because it threatens the stranglehold of “the cancer industry” over our health care choices. My father and his business partner were the first people to introduce Laetrile into Australia, 35 years ago. After my father did this, people suffering from various forms of cancer chose to use it and successfully treated themselves. However, testing was refused despite its apparent amazing results in thousands of cases, with many willing to give written accounts of their personal experiences. Since 1963, there have been over 100,000 cancer patients treated successfully with Laetrile and other alternative methods at the Contreras Hospital, now the Oasis of Hope Hospital, in Mexico alone. The late Dr Ernesto Contreras, Sr, was a vocal supporter of Laetrile treatment. This hospital is his legacy. I, too, have been handed a legacy. As a twelve-year-old, I witnessed individuals identifying themselves as being from “Therapeutic Goods” approach my father with threats of financial ruin to try to dissuade him from importing and distributing this substance before any Australian legislation had been passed against it. More on this later. When Laetrile was finally officially tested in Queensland, it was shown to be effective (see Queensland Health Circular No. 02/2003; replaced by Circular No. 01/2006). However, despite the testing and approval of Laetrile eight years ago, sufferers are still not being made aware of it as a possible effective alternative treatment, thereby curtailing their ability to make informed choices for their own health care. This is far from acceptable. Before I proceed with telling my father’s story in more detail, I should explain what Laetrile is and why it works. What is Laetrile? In the 1970s, administrative bodies began actively opposing vitamin B17, amygdalin or Laetrile treatments as “potentially toxic”. Laetrile is a name for vitamin B17, also known as amygdaline. Vitamin B17 occurs naturally in many foods including strawberries, cashews, cassava, apple seeds, and peach and apricot kernels, and can be consumed harmlessly from these sources. Many alternative practitioners claim that regular consumption of B17 can keep cancer at bay and is an effective treatment for many organ and skin cancers. For 3,000 years, traditional Chinese medicine has used peach kernels, also known as bitter almonds, which contain significant quantities of amygdaline, in the treatment of tumours. Its effectiveness was so legendary that peaches are associated with immortality in Chinese culture. Zhang Guo Lao, one of the Eight Immortals associated with health and healing, is depicted carrying a Peach of Immortality. Since 1843, various forms of this substance have been used in western medicine in the treatment of human cancer. Yet, in the 1970s, administrative bodies began actively opposing vitamin B17, amygdalin or Laetrile treatments as “potentially toxic” and heavily promoted undeniably toxic chemotherapy in their place, even though some studies show chemotherapy to be less than two per cent effective (Morgan et al., 2004; Barton et al., 1996). Those who say that vitamin B17 is not a cure for cancer are technically correct. It is only the human body that cures cancer. In the same way it is the human body, not the taking of supplements of vitamin B1, which are given by injection or taken by mouth, that cures beriberi. Yet, the human body cannot cure itself of beriberi without vitamin B1 supplements. As I understand it, cancer cells are omnipresent in the human body and are only life-threatening when these get out of control. Vitamin B17 appears to be the switch to control these cells and keep them friendly. Deficiency in B17 may be a significant contributing factor to cancer cells becoming aggressive. The more we understand B17, the more it makes cancer look like it is a nutritional deficiency disease. Cancer is increasingly appearing to occur if we do not consume foods that are rich in nitrilosides/vitamin B17. Hydrogen Cyanide and Enzymes The studies of American biochemist Ernst T. Krebs, Jr, DSc, from the late 1940s, and many others through to the present who have duplicated his findings, show that vitamin B17 is in the cyanide family, but it is good cyanide. It is two parts glucose, one part hydrogen cyanide and one part benzaldehyde (an analgesic). Hydrogen cyanide is non-toxic when taken as a food or in controlled doses as a refined pharmaceutical. Commonly consumed substances such as salt and sugar can be up to 20 times more toxic. Krebs claimed that the body breaks down B17 using the enzyme rhodanese, which changes it into thiocyanate and benzoic acid. These are beneficial,, working with B 12 to nourish the body. Excesses of these by-products are expelled from the body via urine. Krebs’s work demonstrated that rhodanese has an inverse relationship to cancer cells: it is found everywhere in a normal healthy body, but not where cancer cells exist. However, the enzyme betaglucosidase has a direct relationship to cancer cells and is found in very large quantities around them. If there is no cancer in the body, there is no beta-glucosidase enzyme. However, when B17 comes into contact with beta -gl ucos idase that is present in large quantities around colonies of cancer cells, a chemical reaction occurs and the hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde combine to produce a poison which destroys only cancer cells. This process is known as selective toxicity... Continues @ nexusilluminati.blogspot.au/2011/08/laetrile-vitamin-b17-or-amygdaline-why.html
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