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uki
02-10-2010, 03:25 AM
thought this was interesting...

The gift given by the wise men to the baby Jesus probably came across the deserts from Oman. The BBC's Jeremy Howell visits the country to ask whether a commodity that was once worth its weight in gold could be reborn as a treatment for cancer.

"The records show that frankincense was produced here as far back as 7,000 BCE," he says. He produces an army knife. He used to be a member of the Sultan's Special Forces. With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees. Pin*****s of milky-white sap appear on the wood and, very slowly, start to ooze out.

"This is the first cut. But you don't gather this sap," he says. "It releases whatever impurities are in the wood. The farmers return after two or three weeks and make a second, and a third, cut. Then the sap comes out yellow, or bright green, or brown or even black. They take this."

"We learnt about frankincense from our forefathers and they learnt it from theirs" he says. "The practice has been passed down through the generations. We exported the frankincense, and that's how the families in Dhofar made their livings."

And what an export trade it was. Frankincense was sent by camel train to Egypt, and from there to Europe. It was shipped from the ancient port of Sumharan to Persia, India and China. Religions adopted frankincense as a burnt offering.

That is why, according to Matthew's Gospel in the Bible, the Wise Men brought it as a gift to the infant Jesus. Gold: for a king. Frankincense: for God. Myrrh: to embalm Jesus' body after death.

The Roman Empire coveted the frankincense trade. In the first century BCE, Augustus Caesar sent 10,000 troops to invade what the Romans called Arabia Felix to find the source of frankincense and to control its production. The legions, marching from Yemen, were driven back by the heat and the aridity of the desert. They never found their Eldorado.

Oman's frankincense trade went into decline three centuries ago, when Portugal fought Oman for dominance of the sea routes in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans.

Scientists have observed that there is some agent within frankincense which stops cancer spreading, and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves down. He is trying to find out what this is.

"Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell's nucleus becomes corrupted," he says. "It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be.

"Frankincense separates the 'brain' of the cancerous cell - the nucleus - from the 'body' - the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes."

Working with frankincense could revolutionise the treatment of cancer. Currently, with chemotherapy, doctors blast the area around a tumour to kill the cancer, but that also kills healthy cells, and weakens the patient. Treatment with frankincense could eradicate the cancerous cells alone and let the others live.

The task now is to isolate the agent within frankincense which, apparently, works this wonder. Some ingredients of frankincense are allergenic, so you cannot give a patient the whole thing.

Nine thousand years ago, Omanis gathered it and burnt it for its curative and cleansing properties. It could be a key to the medical science of tomorrow.


full article... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8505251.stm

Dragonzbane76
02-10-2010, 05:54 AM
hum... interesting but still a lot of holes in this.

mickey
02-10-2010, 09:20 AM
Greetings,

uki,

You made a statement about my dna activating in my "Cold Bones" thread. Well, for the past 2 years I have been guided to use frankencinse and myrrh. I have been using it by way of incense and oil cologne. It has a powerful cleansing effect upon the body, radiating outward through the aura.

Thank you for the share.

mickey

kfson
02-11-2010, 12:30 PM
I hope it works out. Cancer is nasty, nasty, nasty.

A friend from Peru said they use Cat's Claw to aid in cancer programs.

"U. tomentosa is used in nootropic drugs, as well as in treatment of cancer and HIV infection. It contains several alkaloids that are responsible for its alleged medical effects, as well as tannins and various phytochemicals.[6] The chemotype of the plant determines the dominant type of alkaloid it produces, and thus its properties in vivo. One chemotype has roots which produce mostly the pentacyclic alkaloids that are responsible for the immune-strengthening effects desired by most consumers. The second chemotype produces tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids known as rhynchophylline and isorhynchophylline which counteract the immune-strengthening actions of the pentacyclic alkaloids, reduces the speed and force of the heart's contraction, and in high doses produce ataxia, lack of coordination and sedative effects.[5] Since U. tomentosa comes in at least these two different chemotypes, without chemical testing it is impossible to know which chemical compounds will predominate in a plant collected randomly from a natural setting."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncaria_tomentosa

uki
02-11-2010, 12:38 PM
Thank you for the share.you are most welcome.

Dale Dugas
02-11-2010, 03:42 PM
cancer is tough, as its different in different people.

Blanket treatments are not really up for the challenge.

You need to tailor the treatment using Traditional Chinese Medicine and treat the signs and symptoms that are being manifested.

Single herb cures and other generic bland herbal lore is usually just that.

Lore.

Synenergy is a better concept IMHO.

uki
02-11-2010, 04:41 PM
cancer is tough, as its different in different people.

Blanket treatments are not really up for the challenge.

You need to tailor the treatment using Traditional Chinese Medicine and treat the signs and symptoms that are being manifested.

Single herb cures and other generic bland herbal lore is usually just that.

Lore.

Synenergy is a better concept IMHO.many single ingredients combined make a tasty and nourshing soup...

kfson
02-15-2010, 09:24 AM
My mother found her ovarian cancer at stage 3 and it was growing fast.
She had the cancer surgically removed... as much as they could possibly remove. The remainder they planned to treat with chemo. When she came out of surgery, the doctor said she had 5-15% chance to live 5 years.

I wanted her to try Oriental medicine, but the doctor said no until the chemo work was done. Well, the chemo work was never complete.

I think a contributing factor to her ovarian cancer was her prescribed hormone treatment. All women should avoid the western treatment. Oriental medicine has herbs that are not as strong but still work without the cancer risk.

She did learn quite a bit of Wu Tai Chi before she passed.

chusauli
02-15-2010, 08:45 PM
You are responsible for your health, not your doctor.

You do what is necessary for you.

I take care of cancer patients daily. I think it is foolish to listen only to conventional medicine.

mawali
02-15-2010, 09:29 PM
Oriental medicine has herbs that are not as strong but still work without the cancer risk.

An untrue statement.
Herbs interfere with hormone treatment and chemotherapy hence the admonition of NOT using herbal medicine with the aforementioned. That being said, one waits an appreciable period (washout) so that 'stuff' is cleared from the body and then, as appropriate, the herbal medicine stage is instituted

kfson
02-16-2010, 07:30 AM
An untrue statement.
Herbs interfere with hormone treatment and chemotherapy hence the admonition of NOT using herbal medicine with the aforementioned. That being said, one waits an appreciable period (washout) so that 'stuff' is cleared from the body and then, as appropriate, the herbal medicine stage is instituted

That's what I meant, sorry I was unclear.

ryanharris
05-27-2010, 12:23 AM
Hi,

I have seen the information that you have posted cancer is been an very dangerous disease but if we make to our control follow the medical things carefully it will make us to feel better.

uki
06-05-2010, 10:57 AM
You are responsible for your health, not your doctor.

You do what is necessary for you.

I take care of cancer patients daily. I think it is foolish to listen only to conventional medicine.*the bells of heaven are chiming*

wise words... although i cheat (which is allowed as in any game being played in this 3D universe)and add spirituality to it and view all things that happen during the course of ones life to the EXACT lessons that we are to learn in our eternal progression of spiritual evolution into oneness manifested as in our chosen incarnational form. :)