**Periwinkle Plant leaf extract to treat

*Blood Pressure

*Cancer

*Hodgkin.s disease

*Leukemia

Catharanthus roseus or Vinca major or Vinca rosea

It is a friendly looking plant, not at all exotic, with small lilac, pink or white flowers. It is self propogating and soon fills your garden

Benefits: This unassuming plant produces vinblastine, a component of a drug used in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and vincristine which has proved beneficial in the treatment of leukemia.

Benefits: Aside from being a treatment for high blood pressure its leaves were a Carib curative for diabetes. Reportedly substances in its leaves may also provide effective cancer treatments.

From: Madagascar

Planting and Care: Periwinkles will grow just fine in the sun or in the shade as long as they receive some very occasional rainfall or watering and a once in a while dose of fertilizer.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 28th May 2010

ZYBRESTAT

[A substance from the African willow bush]

SHOWS EVIDENCE OF ANTI-TUMOUR

ACTIVITY IN THYROID CANC ER

Data from a phase II study, in which the clinical effects of Zybrestat in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin were studied in 13 patients with advanced malignancies including anaplastic thyroid cancer, suggest that Zybrestat possesses potent anti-tumour activity.

Patients in this study received one of two dose regimens of Zybrestat, both of which reduced tumour blood flow as measured by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI). The most marked reductions in tumour blood flow (70%) were seen in the patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer.

COMBINING VDAs WITH ANGIOGENESIS

INHIBITORS

The potential to use VDAs in combination with angiogenic inhibitors is a concept that is attracting considerable interest among scientists. Targeting different aspects of a tumour’s blood supply, sequential use of VDAs and angiogenic inhibitors could lead to massive tumour necrosis and destruction.

While a VDA such as Zybrestat could be used to destroy the established blood supply feeding the tumour, the subsequent addition of an angiogenic inhibitor could prevent the regrowth of blood vessels (neovascularisation) which allows a tumour to survive and proliferate following initial therapy. Preventing the regrowth of blood vessels from the viable tumour rim could help stop tumours from spreading.

MARKETING COMMENTARY

Oxigene’s Zybrestat is under development for the treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer, a highly aggressive primary thyroid malignancy for which there are no approved treatments.

Currently, newly diagnosed patients have a median life expectancy of about 3 months. Although relatively rare, it represents a disease of significant unmet clinical need. VDAs, of which Zybrestat is one of several in development, may have the potential to treat difficult malignancies such as anaplastic thyroid cancer as well as other solid tumours when used in conjunction with established cancer drugs.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 28th April 2010

HOW THE LORD TOLD ME TO CURE CANCER.

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(This is a reprint of the ad in The Northwest Herald.)

Please save this page as it won’t be printed again by me. It may save your life or the life of a love one or a friend. Anyone may reprint this if they print it word for word.

Every week around 10,000 people die of cancer. Government figures show the death rate for cancer deaths has not changed in the last 10 years. Chemo and radiation only save around 10% of the people treated. So this shows our
doctors don’t have much to work with. As this article goes on, I will explain how to prepare this plant and how much to take. There is nothing to buy. For some reason, the Lord has picked me to carry these words to you. I
am only the delivery boy, and none of this is my idea. I do believe every word I write here, and I’m living proof it works. The cost of printing is my thanks to God for giving me back my life and health.

A little over three years ago I was about done in with cancer. One morning as I was waking up and hoping the end would come soon, a voice came to me and said. “You have to do something about your prostate cancer. Take the root of the dandelion. Don’t expect a miracle. It took you a long time to get in this condition.” The voice was gone. I thought the voice was kidding to use the dandelion. When this voice tells you to do something, you do it. You must do it, like writing this article. It is the last thing I ever expected to do. Then I thought he didn’t tell me how much to take or how to prepare it. As soon as you could blink an eye. I knew how much to take, how to prepare it, and it would take 4 to 6 months to cure me. I also knew I wasn’t to make a penny on it.

As soon as I got around that morning, I dug some roots and started to prepare it. About a week later I started taking it. Three weeks later the pain in my back and side was gone and my bowels had improved. Five and one half months later they could find no cancer problem in me at all.

I, then wanted to find someone else to try it, and that was the biggest problem yet. Nobody seems to want to help. When I told doctors, they just smiled as if I was nuts. Finally, I was telling a friend about it and he said he had a friend that was dying of lung cancer. He had it in both lungs and was bed ridden. They were tapping his lungs. He had been given 4 to 6 weeks to live. After he had been on this powder about six weeks, he was up and around doing his chores and driving his car. He went to his doctor’s office, and the doctors could not believe it. They took him to the hospital and gave him a CAT scan. They found no cancer lesions in his lungs and said it was a miracle. I then put an ad in The Northwest Herald offering it free, and four people said they would try it. Slowly one person told another and it spread. There was a fair amount of people taking it for different kinds of cancer and several for other things. For instance, a man lost the use of his immune system and was told he wouldn’t be able to work again for three years, in six months he is now working ½ days and feeling better. I know this is not a cure all. It won’t help everyone or all kinds of cancer. I know it is not a
cure for skin cancer and it hasn’t had luck with brain tumors. There is a doctor in Boston, Massachusetts that has developed a vaccine that is doing great things. This has been successful with prostate, colon, breast, liver and best of all with lung cancer. Five people have taken it for lung cancer and all five have been cured once.

The immune system controls the cancer cells in your body. As long as the immune system is healthy, you don’t
usually have a cancer problem. When your immune system gets run down, it loses control of the cancer cells, and they start eating live cells and this is what they call cancer. This powder made from dandelion root has something in it that builds up the blood and the immune system.

When the immune system is built up so far, it gets back control of cancer cells, and they do an about face and start cleaning up the mess they’ve made. This is why you must have a fair appetite because your body must build itself up and be healthy if your immune system is going to be strong. This will not work for people that have lost their appetite or are on CHEMO. Doctors try to blast the cancer out of your body with Chemo or radiation. By doing so, it destroys your immune system and appetite. These are the most important things your body needs to beat cancer. Operations also knock the immune system haywire. This is why so many people that have operations for cancer find that a short time later it has spread somewhere else.

Many of the worst diseases that have plagued the world have been cured quite easily. When I was a boy, women dreaded the goiter more than cancer. A little iodine in the diet cured that. For hundred of years the most dreaded diseases was leprosy and lockjaw. A doctor found he could produce penicillin from moldy bread and could cure them and many more things. How long has moldy bread been around? I’m sure scientists will find many uses for the powder made from the root of the dandelions besides cancer. I have already found it builds up the blood so you heal much faster.

To make the powder from the dandelion root you must follow my directions to the letter. Any changes and it won’t work. Dig a handful of dandelion roots any time of the year, it doesn’t matter. Cut the leaves off just below the crown.  DO NOT WASH. Then they must be dried around 100 degrees. I do it in an incubator with no water. You can also dry them under a heat light bulb if you raise or lower it so it’s 100 degrees. You can also use the sun or put them in the attic if it’s not too hot. It takes about 5 or 6 days in the incubator. I have not done this all the way under the heat light. When you break a root and it snaps it is ready to powder. Take an old iron frying pan and a clean hammer. Take one root at a time and place in the frying pan and start tapping. Don’t hit hard or it will fly all over the place. I put my hand around the root to keep most of it in the pan.  If it sticks to the hammer and pan, and doesn’t crumble in your fingers, it isn’t dry enough. Keep it up until you have enough to start. It takes about 20 minutes to ½ hour to prepare enough for a week. When you get used to it you can go much faster.

I have an old vessel that druggists used to pound pills, this goes much faster. DO NOT USE AN ELECTRIC GRINDER, it won’t work if you do. You lose too much of the good part in dust. You must do it as I have said or don’t do
it at all. I’ve tried shortcuts, but it seems someone was looking over my shoulder, and I know when I made a mistake. I’m just an old farmer and not a scientist, so I wouldn’t know the correct amount to take on my own. Now take a little over one half teaspoon once a day at any time and mix it with water, orange juice, etc.. Do not use in soft drinks, liquor, or anything hot. When mixed, use it all. Don’t let it stand around. Keep the powder in a dry place. After taking it three or four days, you will feel good, but nothing else. That is because your blood is building up. When you blood is happy, you’re happy. In most cases, this will build your immune system in from three days to three weeks to the point it takes back control of cancer cells and thus the cancer stops spreading. In most cases it is going to help. There is no body feeling as it works. You just feel a little better each week. After three weeks most of the pain will be gone in your back and you know it’s working if you had pain there like I did. If you have bone cancer in the spine, it will take three months to work. This is not an overnight cure. It took a while to get in this condition and it will take a while for your body to heal. The sooner you start, the quicker you will be over cancer. Young people heal faster than old people, but it will help at any age. I know because I’m 80 and have been taking it for over three years. No cancer has come back and no side effects except when my body has had enough, it lets me know by getting heart burn. Then I back off some. Some people get stomach aches when they need less. It also means your cancer is under control and you don’t need as much. You will also find you probably won’t catch a cold while you are taking it full strength.

The biggest enemy for this root is Chemo. The stronger the Chemo, the less chance the power has to help you as Chemo tears your immune system and appetite down, two of the most important things you need to cure cancer.
There is only a ten percent chance Chemo will cure you. With no chemo, your chances are 75 to 80% but you must take it every day. Don’t let your doctor give you that old treat if you turn him down that goes, “If you want to throw your life away, I can’t stop you”. Just remember that 90% of the people that take his advice and take chemo are in the cemetery. Don’t blame the doctor, he is doing his best with what he has to work with or you could ask for a written guarantee.

I have only mentioned cancers that I know people have had and used this root. It should help pancreas cancer if taken before the appetite is gone and most body cancer. This is food, not a drug. It shouldn’t interfere with medicine your doctor may be giving you. Only two doctors have told patients to keep taking the powder when they have made a miracle recovery. The rest of the doctors have run the power down and blasted the people even if the cancer has disappeared.

The medical world is not going to accept this easily.

Going back to not washing the roots and leaving a little soil on them, it is for your own good. A good bit of immunity comes from the soil, it starts as soon as you are born. Your fingers touch something, and you put them in your mouth. A little dirt at first, and more as you grow older and start crawling. Then everything you touch goes in the mouth. When children go outside to play and when they come in, they are the dirtiest around the mouth and hand. The hands go in their mouths no matter how dirty they are. Many diseases and bacteria live in the ground, but they don’t seem to cause any trouble but it does build up the immune system. Some animals can’t live if they can’t eat a certain amount of soil. If you read this article over, you will see it all goes back to common sense. I wish all of you people with cancer and other problems the best.

George Cairns
(815) 338-1526
Or send self addressed envelope to:
708 Hughes Road
Woodstock, IL 80096

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The dandelion root power you can buy at a Health Food Store is not made the same way. It is not known to help cancer.

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Editors note below re report on the greens of the plant Dandelion

Dandelion Greens back to Glossary Index Refers to the leaves of the dandelion plant, which are considered a weed in the United States, but are actually one of the most vitamin rich foods available. Mature leaves have a very bitter taste, but younger leaves are milder. They are an excellent salad ingredient and are often cooked as a side dish. The leaves should be washed thoroughly and dried before using. Related Topics Green Chili Enchiladas Green Beans with Peanut Sauce Green Chicken Enchilada Casserole An easy and great tasting “from scratch” casserole that makes a superb Mexi… Green Chili Pepper Jelly A sweet jelly with a hint of Chili pepper flavor. This jelly is great on wh…

USDA Nutrition Facts Dandelion greens, raw (USDA#11207) Serving Size 1 cup, chopped Calories 45 Protein 2g Total Fat 0g Total Carbohydrates 9g Dietary Fiber 3g Sugars 0g Potassium 397mg Sodium 76mg Cholesterol 0mg Dandelion greens, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt (USDA#11782) Serving Size 1 cup, chopped Calories 33 Protein 2g Total Fat 0g Total Carbohydrates 6g Dietary Fiber 2g Sugars 1g Potassium 232mg Sodium 280mg Cholesterol 0mg Dandelion greens, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt (USDA#11208) Serving Size 1 cup, chopped Calories 33 Protein 2g Total Fat 0g Total Carbohydrates 6g Dietary Fiber 2g Sugars 0g Potassium 232mg Sodium 44mg Cholesterol 0mg Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 27th April 2010

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale (Composite Family)

The leaves of this plant are a powerful diuretic. The roots are a blood purifier which helps remove toxins from the liver and kidneys.

Because it is high in vitamins and iron, this herb is useful for treating anemia.

It’s diuretic properties make it a useful treatment for bladder infections.

A bitter, appetite stimulant, this herb increases production of bile to help relieve constipation, gallstones, hemorrhoids and IBS.

The root of this herb is often combined with milk thistle in a tincture form for stimulating and detoxifying the liver.

The flowers contain a substance called helenin as well as vitamins A and B-2 (riboflavin), which may be helpful in treating night vision problems.

Steep a handful of freshly picked flowers in a pint of hot water for about 20 minutes. Drink 1 cup twice daily.

In the spring dandelion leaves and roots produce mannitol, a substance used in the treatment of hypertension

and a weak heart.

For a nice spring tonic try juicing a handful of Dandelion leaves with a bit of parsley and 1 apple.

For a tasty, easy-to-make tonic wine try this:

Pick dandelion flowers on a warm, dry day.

Macerate 1 cup (60 g) flowers and steep in 4 cups (1 litre) white wine for 1 month in an airtight container. Strain out the flowers and sweeten to taste with a little bit of honey if desired.

This is a nice tonic for the gallbladder.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 27th April 2010

DARK GREEN VEGES HAVE POWERFUL PROPERTIES AGAINST CANCERS

IS THE GREEN CHLOROPHYL FROM DARK GREEN VEGES THE CANCER ANSWER?

Indole-3-carbinol (C₉H₉NO) is produced by the breakdown of the glucosinolate glucobrassicin, which can be found at relatively high levels in cruciferous vegetables. Indole-3-carbinol is the subject of on-going Biomedical research into its possible anticarcinogenic, antioxidant, and anti-atherogenic effects. Research on indole-3-carbinol has been conducted primarily using laboratory animals and cultured cells. Limited and inconclusive human studies have been reported. A recent review of the biomedical research literature found that “evidence of an inverse association between cruciferous vegetable intake and breast or prostate cancer in humans is limited and inconsistent” and “larger randomized controlled trials are needed” to determine if supplemental indole-3-carbinol has health benefits^[1].

Indole-3-carbinol and cancer

Investigation of mechanisms by which consumption of indole-3-carbinol might influence cancer incidence focuses on its ability to alter estrogen metabolism and other cellular effects. Controlled studies have been performed on such animals as rats, mice, and rainbow trout, introducing various controlled levels of carcinogens, and levels of Indole-3-carbinol into their daily diet. Results showed dose-related decreases in tumor susceptibility due to Indole-3-carbinol (inferred by decreases in aflatoxin-DNA binding). The first direct evidence of pure anti-initiating activity by a natural anticarcinogen (indole-3-carbinol) found in human diet was claimed by Dashwood, et al., in 1989.

In 2006, Hsu et al. proved that indole-3-carbinol induces a  growth arrest of human reproductive cancer cells. This is significant in the prevention and treatment of cancer, as the G1 phase of cell growth occurs early in the cell lifecycle, and, for most cells, is the major period of cell cycle during its lifespan. The G1 phase is marked by synthesis of various enzymes that are required in the next phase, including those needed for DNA replication.

It should be noted that indiscriminate overuse of indole-3-carbinol supplements in the hope of preventing cancer may be unwise, as the hormone balance should be tested (via simple blood test) before regular consumption. Such caution is advised, due to its effect on estrogen levels (estrogen has a significant impact on brain function).

Indole-3-carbinol and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Indole-3-carbinol can shift estrogen metabolism towards less estrogenic metabolites. SLE (or lupus), a currently incurable autoimmune disease, is associated with estrogen. In a study using mice bred to develop lupus, I3C was fed to one group while another group was fed a standard mouse diet; the group fed the I3C diet lived longer and had fewer symptoms of disease.  Another study of lupus prone mice with I3C defined the mechanism for the improvement of their disease to be due to sequential blocks in the development of B and T cells of these mice. The maturation arrests resulted in a fall in autoantibody production, thought to be a crucial component of lupus causation. In addition, I3C supplementation of the disease prone mice led to a normalization of their T cell function.  Women with lupus can manifest a metabolic response to I3C and might also benefit from its antiestrogenic effects. Clinical trials are currently underway to determine the efficacy of treating human patients suffering from lupus with I3C.

Dietary sources

Indole-3-carbinol occurs naturally in cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and kale. It is also widely available in supplement form.

Sourced and published  by Henry Sapiecha 27th April 2010

Seed of extinct date palm

sprouts after 2,000 years

(06-12) 04:00 PST Kibbutz Ketura, Israel — 2005-06-12 04:00:00 PST Kibbutz Ketura, Israel — It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist Elaine Solowey, it is a piece of history brought back to life.

Planted on Jan. 25, the seedling growing in the black pot in Solowey’s nursery on this kibbutz in Israel’s Arava desert is 2,000 years old — more than twice as old as the 900-year-old biblical character who lent his name to the young tree. It is the oldest seed ever known to produce a viable young tree.

The seed that produced Methuselah was discovered during archaeological excavations at King Herod’s palace on Mount Masada, near the Dead Sea. Its age has been confirmed by carbon dating. Scientists hope that the unique seedling will eventually yield vital clues to the medicinal properties of the fruit of the Judean date tree, which was long thought to be extinct.

Solowey, originally from San Joaquin (Fresno County), teaches at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies at Kibbutz Ketura, where she has nurtured more than 100 rare or near-extinct species back to life as part of a 10-year project to study plants and herbs used as ancient cures.

In collaboration with the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Center at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, named in honor of its Southern California- based benefactor, Solowey grows plants and herbs used in Tibetan, Chinese and biblical medicine, as well as traditional folk remedies from other cultures to see whether their effectiveness can be scientifically proved.

In experiments praised by the Dalai Lama, for example, Borick Center Director Sarah Sallon has shown that ancient Tibetan cures for cardiovascular disease really do work.

The San Francisco Chronicle was granted the first viewing of the historic seedling, which sprouted about four weeks after planting. It has grown six leaves, but one has been removed for DNA testing so scientists can learn more about its relationship to its modern-day cousins.

The Judean date is chronicled in the Bible, Quran and ancient literature for its diverse powers — from an aphrodisiac to a contraceptive — and as a cure for a wide range of diseases including cancer, malaria and toothache.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 8th April 2010

My Experience with the Bush Tea and life Turnaround

Around 1990 I began to have sinus problems. At first it was just a running nose for a few hours, and I would think I was
getting a cold. Gradually it became more frequent and longer. I would feel extreme fatigue, my nose would run
continuously for 2 or 3 days at a time. During that time it was all I could do to drag myself around the house.
In March 2003, I began to memorize as a form of meditation and relaxation. The improvement on my health and nose were quite dramatic, but difficult to maintain. Sometimes I would be up at two or three o’clock in the morning,
memorizing and meditating to try to stall off a sinus attack. There was hardly a time when I was not tight and aching in the face with the feeling that I needed to sneeze.
Christmas at the end of 2003 I visited with my Sister and she brewed up some bush tea for me. The effect was unbelievable and unexpected. Within a week my sinus dried up, the tightness and feeling I needed to sneeze left.

My nose was normal for the first time in years! My energy levels rose, and I could function normally. My whole body seemed to go through a detox.
I now take the bush tea every few weeks, or when there are colds and flu around. Not only does my nose never give trouble, I just don’t get colds, flu  and other illnesses
For me the impact of mind power, belief, a positive attitude and the bush tea have been life changing.

Meditation and Memorizing

I have included this section for the few who have an interest in meditation or memorizing. For those who do read on, this is my experience, and may not reflect yours or your views. Thats great, we re all different.
I must also say, I am not a doctor, or medical person, trainer in meditation or the like. In fact for a long time meditation was something I thought to be just sitting, relaxing, studying quietly, prayer and so on. Beyond this I did not consider it to be a state or experience into which our mind can enter.
My experience has now convinced me that meditation is a state of consciousness we can learn to enter and experience.
Before I share my concept and try to explain it; a couple of observations.
I am a Christian and my change of understanding did not come easily. Meditation in the western world generally owes its beginnings to Eastern and Oriental Philosophies. In the western world many people of the Christian faith have viewed meditation with suspicion, and distrust. For many Christians, meditation has been considered dangerous.

This was perhaps partly due to the idea that in meditation one “empties” their mind. Christianity, in general teaches that good and evil are two personal beings in conflict with each other in the universe! The universe is the arena in which this conflict
takes place rather than their identity. And so, to empty ones mind raises the concern of allowing evil to enter because we are in that arena!
On the other hand Eastern meditative philosophy tends to view the universe as a balance between positive and negative.
Somewhat like the two ends of an apple core. One entity, two poles. This philosophy does not necessarily understand there to be a God or individual entity as such, who is separate from the universe, but rather the sum of its total.
I feel that Christians and those who shun meditation have missed something that can increase healing, health and balance in life. It is possible that Eastern philosophies also come short of explaining what is so often a tension between positive and negative or good and evil. Perhaps meditation is more aligning our mind and body with good, and positive than it is balancing positive and negative or good and evil.
My meditation experience began when I sat down to memorize a short passage. As I focussed on the words and ran them through my mind I began to “switch off” to what was going on around me. As I became more absorbed in what I was doing, other thoughts and “racket” going on in my brain began to get pushed away or shut down. Eventually my mind reached a place where the words I was memorizing were the only thing in my mind, and they were not verbalized.
My mind was operating almost from a subconscious level. The sense of relaxation and de-stress was remarkable. It was physically tangible.
Let me give you an example of how this worked for me. Read the next sentence carefully, BUT as you do, take note of other thoughts that go through your mind, are you ready?
“I can climb mountains”. Now reflect for a moment. What other thoughts went through your mind at the same time as you read that phrase? Analyze these other thoughts for a moment, and compare them with how you read the phrase “I canclimb mountains”. If you are like me, I verbalize most things in my mind as I read them. But other thoughts that gothrough my mind as I read are less verbalized. They are more on the thought level. By the way, did you know that people who can speed read have learnt to read at the thought level. They do not verbalize every word or phrase in their mind. It
is a powerful tool.
Just try this. Sit back, relax, breath deeply and slowly for a minute or two. Now run the phrase “I can climb mountains”through your mind. Do not verbalize it. Run it down to the point where it is purely thought level. Hard? But did you notice that as you did that, other clutter and verbalized thoughts began to get pushed out of your mind?
If you do this for 10-15 minutes you will be amazed at what can happen. A sense of relaxation, energy, and balance can be yours. But, please, don’t sit there thinking about when it is going to happen, or trying to analyze if what you are doing
is working. That is clutter that will stop your mind entering the level of healing, relaxation and release of positive chemicals into your system.

How To Memorize
For me there are three levels or stages to memorizing. The first is where you have learnt something to the stage you can recall it verbally in your mind. The second is when you can say it out loud – in private! The final stage is where you can say it in public! Having said that, if you have a “photographic memory” you will probably just read something through several times and have it perfect.

Most of us have to work hard at it!
Reaching the first stage requires several steps. Let’s say you are memorizing a poem. Read it through several times, getting a feel for the content, creating pictures in your mind to bring it to life. Learn the first line or phrase. Do this in parts if you need to. You may find it useful to either visualize the words, or create pictures in your mind that link to the words for recall.
Next, learn the second line or phrase. Once you have done that, put the two together, and run them through your mind as a whole. Continue this process for each section. Often linking blocks or phrases is where you will have a memory loss!
Be sure to link two or three blocks together and repeat them to create good connections and flow. I am a visual person,so I create a sequence of pictures to keep the flow.
Now move to the next level. Verbalize your poem (in private). You will need to do this several times. Try starting at
different points in the poem. This will help remove those “memory loss patches”! Next try saying your poem in front of others. This is where you will suddenly find out how well it is in your mind.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 3rd April 2010

YEW TREE INFO

There are yew trees (Taxus baccata). Compounds found in the yew (taxols) are now used in the successful treatment of many forms of previously intractable malignancies, notably ovarian cancer. Leaves from the English Yew Tree can be processed to extract precursors of these cytotoxic drugs that prevent the depolymerization of tubulin, thus inhibiting cell division.
Yew (Taxus baccata).    Yew is highly valued in furniture industry for its hard reddish timber resistant to the damage of insects and fungi.  Yew is an evergreen tree, up to 32m high. Its treetop is thick and oval, its leaves are dark green and shiny above; beneath they are matt and milky green. The plant grows very slowly; therefore, it can reach an age of about 4000 years. Yew is also cultivated as a decorative plant in many countries. In fact, all parts of the plant are poisonous which is due mostly to the alkaloid taxin.  Symptoms include nausea and vomiting, increased salivation, stomach ache, diarrhoea, sleepiness, shortage of breath, trembling, spasms, malfunction of the cardiovascular system which leads to collapse and death.  The bark of the Yew  is used to produce Taxol, used in the treatment of certain cancers.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 16th March 2010

Myanmar company produces Swine flu vaccine

FAME Pharmaceutical, a local company based in Yangon, has successfully produced a A(H1N1) vaccine, Flower News reported on March 2.

The medicine was produced using Shikimic acid extracted from the Chinese star anise. The acid helps prevent the spread of the A(H1N1) virus, said U Tin Maung Aye, a director of Fame Pharmaceutical.

Roche, an international pharmaceutical company, produces the Tamiflu vaccine based on the Oseltamivir compound derived from the Chinese star anise.

“The [production] method will be different. But we are producing a similar formula to Tamiflu. It can be used even before A(H1N1) symptoms are diagnosed as a preventative measure,” U Tin Maung Aye said.