Friday, October 31, 2008

Take Your Health Into Your Own Hands

I want to share about a powerful medicinal rain forest herb that is that is extracted from a rare form of Cat's Claw and processed in the United States and is in wide use by people who have health problems and also by those who are healthy and want to stay that way. Samento, the most powerful immune enhancing herb on the planet.

Samento is a rare, very pure form of Cat's Claw that has anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and anti-oxidant properties. Studies show it to be beneficial in the treatment of a wide range of immune system related conditions, not only for people but pets as well. The beneficial properties of Samento are attributed to the pentacyclic oxindole alkaloids, POAs, that are found in the plant and act on the cellular immune system and demonstrate powerful modulating properties.

Cat's Claw root extract has been studied for its ability to help wipe out cancer cells. Scientists discovered POAs help increase the number of killer T-cells. These specialized T-cells not only kill virus-infected cells, but seek cancer cells. Once killer T-cells find a cancerous cell, they bind themselves to it, releasing toxic chemicals inside the cell. These chemicals puncture the cancer cells membrane, causing it to burst and die.

Samento does not contain a group of chemical antagonists called tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids (TOAs) that act upon the central nervous system and greatly inhibit its effectiveness. Samento contains a standardized amount of pentacyclic oxindole alkaloids (POAs)that act on the cellular immune system and demonstrate powerful immune system modulating properties.

According to research conducted in Austria, traditional cat's claw products may contain as much as 80% TOAs, and as little as 1% TOAs can cause a 30% reduction in immune system modulating properties that POAs provide. This may explain why large dosages, at times far
exceeding 20,000 mg per day, of traditional cat's claw containing TOAs are required to obtain some results in treating the previously mentioned immune system related conditions.

POAs also are beneficial to individuals with HIV and AIDS. HIV attacks helper T-cells. While the body initially makes more new helper T-cells, its ability to replace these cells gradually fades. Without helper T-cells, killer T-cells can not kill infected cells very well. By slowly depleting helper T-cells and making killer T-cells less effective, infections are able to slowly overwhelm the body.

Because the POAs increase production of helper T-cells, researchers studying these powerful plant compounds are confident cat's claw has a role in HIV and AIDS treatment. TOAs have different effects in the body, none helping the immune system cells. When POAs and TOAs are mixed, the TOAs work against the POAs. Even as little as 1% TOA content can cause POAs to lose their ability to beneficially modulate the immune system. Choose a product with no TOAs or the smallest percent possible.

Chemotype identification takes significant time and costs money. For these reasons, many distributors do not distinguish between the chemotypes. The POAs and TOAs are often mixed and sold as a Cat's Claw product. No mention of any alkaloid content is made on many cat's claw products packaging. If the product label does not give the amount of TOAs, chances are it contains TOAs. Usually the product label will state "TOA free".

Even before Samento appeared on the market, a lot of evidence had been accumulated regarding the helplessness of conventional medicine on the one hand and the unsuspected therapeutic possibilities of the so-called alternative, natural or complementary treatments on the other hand.

Samento interacts with the psyche and the mind, as well as with the cells, the tissues and the body. It has been serving human health successfully even before the birth of modern medicine and this is only one of the reasons why many contemporary physicians are avoiding it, frightened by it, renouncing it without even knowing it.

Modern medicine has reached incredible depths, but lost sight of the whole. It gained control of the cell, but lost hold of the human. The narrow experts have reached a high peak, but it proved to be a razors edge on which the doctor and his patient are balancing between life and death.

If your doctor refuses to hear about herbs and other natural remedies, if he refuses to read the appropriate books or periodicals on this subject, consider if the time has not come to look for a more caring, skilled, responsible, real doctor. At the end of day you are the one who pays the bill and what it's all about is not a drink after the heavy working hours of the doctor, but a life that is your life, not the doctors.

Joni Bell is a student and researcher of living a healthy lifestyle and has seen first hand the healing results of natural versus traditional protocols. http://www.apricotpower-info.com/

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