Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #41. Week ending Mar 14th, 2010
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1. Breakthrough For Homeopathy And Cancer
2. New Directions For Humanity
3. Scotland's Centenarians
4. My, How Things Are Different
5. My Wine And Champagne Ritual

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"Care about the beings you care about in gorgeous and surprising ways. Color outside the lines. Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty."

Anne Herbert (1952-) See also last week's piece on happiness

1. Breakthrough For Homeopathy And Cancer

Please believe there are some decent doctors and honest scientists out there. Yes, even here in the USA!

The spirit of science lives on and good people everywhere want to know the truth about human lives and human health.

It's just the Big Pharma monopoly and their vicious, crude, phoney allies in the media that are perverting the real meaning of science.

Here's a great landmark paper. And you know what? When all these bigoted jackasses say there is no proof that homeopathy works, they REALLY mean "We ignore any papers that prove it works". They cannot tell the truth and accept the existence of this paper and others like it.

The truth is there are HUNDREDS of good scientific papers showing homeopathy works. Some are of a far higher standard of science than the junk that gets drugs to market. One 1994 paper published in the Lancet was done three times over, just to be sure of the result. The editor of the Lancet mocked homeopathy and called it "absurd" but at least he published the paper and was forced to admit it was carried out to the most vigorous scientific standards.

Then he really lost his cool and claimed that, since this randomized double-blind crossover study showed homeopathy worked, and we know it doesn't, there must be something wrong with double blind randomized trials.

I consider this an outrageous slander against good practising homeopaths. It's also scientific bigotry and a perversion of all that truth and honesty are supposed to stand for.

So: what did this paper show? Four homeopathic remedies, Carcinosin 30C; Conium maculatum 3C; Phytolacca decandra 200C and Thuja occidentalis 30C, had a pronounced cytotoxic effect against two breast cancer cell lines. All four remedies were capable of inducing apoptosis, the "cell suicide" effect that causes cancer cells to self-destruct.

The trial was conducted by scientists from the Integrative Medicine Program, the Department of Molecular Pathology, and the Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology of MDA, and appeared in the February 2010 issue of the International Journal of Oncology. There were two Indian collaborators from the Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation, Kolkata, India, where these same remedies are employed clinically with reasonable success.

See, in India, homeopathy is BIG. The pharmaceutical industry does not have its stranglehold of lies over medicine there, unlike here in the USA. Doctors are free to tell the truth; they won't lose their jobs. What's more the whole ethos of medicine is looking for simple, safe, effective cures, NOT PROFITS over patient health.

What was especially interesting to me was that the cell-killing effects of Carcinosin and Phytolacca appeared similar to the activity of paclitaxel (Taxol), the most commonly used chemotherapeutic drug for breast cancer, when it was tested in the same two adenocarcinoma cell lines investigated in this study.

Phytolacca is better known as pokeweed root, which grows as a towering weed in the US and elsewhere. Conium maculatum is poison hemlock, while Thuja occidentalis comes from the Eastern Arborvitae tree. Carcinosin is the only non-botanical in the group. It is made from a highly diluted extract of breast cancer tissue. These are typically used at the Banerjis' clinic in India to treat breast cancer.

The use of poisonous plants to treat cancer is commonplace in orthodox medicine. The periwinkle plant (Vinca) has given us vincristine and vinblastine, two very powerful chemo drugs. The aforementioned drug paclitaxel (Taxol) is derived from the bark of the Pacific Yew tree.

But these compounds are used at full strength and are very toxic to the patient, as well as the tumor. The great benefit of homeopathy is that it is so dilute (which is why orthodox doctors and scientists say "It can't work"), that is is pretty harmless. A homeopathic remedy is really a signal and not a biochemical compound at all. It doesn't matter that the substance is attenuated until there is nothing left. The signal remains and in fact is strengthened by diluting out the biochemical element.

So, next time you hear somebody claim there is no proof that homeopathy works, just remember this study, published in a major peer-reviewed journal!

Meantime, the British medical establishment has just pronounced there is "no proof" that homeopathy works and has removed financial support for it as a therapy. Taxol costs $20,000 US for 6 rounds of therapy. The homeopathic remedies, $20 for all four! Do you think this makes sense? It makes perfect sense if the British Establishment is controlled by Big Pharma money and bribes!

[watch out for the frenzy to try and discredit this study by the so-called scientific community]

2. New Directions for Humanity

One of the nicest things about having a large international list is that you get to meet some wonderful people. Here's an example: a man called Buryl Payne, from Soquel, near San Francisco, who is part investigator and part, you might say, light worker. He's into some terrific research projects, like remote affects from group consciousness. I want to interview him one day for my subscribers.

Meantime, here's a short peice by Dr. Buryl and a link to "The Quantum Theory of Love" (I already bought my copy).

The United State’s defense budget is 1.449 trillion dollars this year. The rest of the world combined spends another trillion. If only 33% (approximately 500 billion dollars) of the people working on defense were put to work on improving living standards such as desalting water, improving solar cells, or improving food growing procedures, etc. some wonderful improvements and discoveries might be made.

It now appears that warring behavior is a kind of mass paranoia or psychopathology induced in some people by solar and/or geomagnetic activity as well as other outside influences (see www.buryl.com for more information on this subject). The enemy is not them or us; it is some people’s reactions to solar activity! With knowledge and forewarning people can be careful, and choose to act differently. There is no need to have a huge defense budget to create more and bigger weapons.

It’s time to disarm! The money and creativity of humans is needed elsewhere.
The Academy of Peace Research invites people to design logos, create art, and write songs or poems that will resonant with the hearts and minds of everyone. Send them to the Academy. They will be posted and sent around the world.

Please support this work by buying a copy of The Quantum Theory of Love for only $7 and practicing it! Refer to www.buryl.com under ALL PRODUCTS.

Sincerely, Buryl Payne

3. Scotland's Centenarians

My surname reflects the fact that I'm half Scottish (on my mother's side). The Scott clan, in fact, gave their name to Scot(t)land! Our lands were the first you came to when you crossed over the border from England (and still are).

Close friends know I wear the kilt sometimes and was, before I came to the USA, quite a keen bagpiper*.

Over the years I have spent a great deal of time in that country and have always been struck by the longevity and vitality of some of the Highlanders. If you search around old graveyards, you will be struck by the sheer number of people who lived to 95 years and beyond. Sometimes most of the churchyard was packed with graves of great age! Never mind the Okinawans!

What is their secret? Well, I know being very active physically and pretty lean due to poverty had a lot to do with it.

But they traditionally ate a lot of herring, which is rich in omega-3s, so I knew that was important too.

Now new science suggests the other element in the old-fashioned Scottish diet, porridge, may have been important. We know oats protects against heart disease and lowers cholesterol.

What was missed in research is probably even more significant than its cholesterol-friendly effect. Oats lower inflammation. Inflammation is without any doubt the number one ager; it's a killer. Anything which stifles inflammation is bound to result in longevity.

US Agriculture Research Services (ARS) researchers have elucidated the mechanism for this association between oats and longevity.  Previously Mohsen Meydani, from Tufts University (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues had shown that phenolic antioxidants in oats obstruct the ability of blood cells to stick to artery walls. In new research, the team has found that another oat compound, avenanthramides, decrease the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines. 

You can download a US government paper (PDF format) here:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/feb10/February2010.pdf

So, despite the fact that the Scots ate lashings of cream and crowdie (curds) and downed plenty of whisky, they survived to be vigorous, right into old age.

One of the dearest people I ever met was a lady in her 70s who took me in as an impoverished student for lodgings on the Isle of Skye in 1962 (Mrs McKinnon of Kensaleyre). Imagine my surprise when a quarter of a century later I knocked on the door to pay my respects to whoever was now living in the croft (land stays in the family), to find it was the old girl herself! She was now well over 100 years and, though rather frail, she remembered me well and had some earthy jokes to tell about my first wife and I in the bedroom.

I can hear her racuous laughter still, if I just close my eyes...

[* people often ask me if there is anything under a kilt. Here's your answer!]

4. My, How Things Differ!

Just to show you how different things are in the UK, let me relate my mother-in-law's experience with her specialist doctor.

The story really goes back to an earlier experience of my father-in-law, Ron. He was attending a Harley Street specialist for eye treatment. It emerged that the doctor's young daughter had died years before; a great loss to her parents. And she had been very fond of butterflies, almost one might say ritualistically. Butterflies now meant a great deal to her still grieving parents, as a symbol of their lost child.

Well Ron, being the kind of guy he is (gifted with his hands), set about making a special wooden mantel clock with a butterfly motif in the casing. On his next appointment he took the clock and presented it to the specialist. Not surprisngly, he was rather overcome with surprise-- and gratitude.

A few days later, Ron received a phone call. The doctor had a case of champagne for him as a gift, wanted to deliver it in person (with his wife) and share an extra bottle, in thankfulness. It was duly done. The visitors found their heartache had been eased a little.

Fast forward, Ron's wife Joan is now attending the same doctor, for cataracts. She agrees to have an operation and this entails an overnight stay in London. Ron, who is now 82 and much frailer than when I first met him, needs to travel to London to collect Joan. He can't drive long journeys any more. Commuter trains to London are a jungle nightmare. It's a problem.

Or could have been. "No problem," says the specialist. "I'll run her home!"

Which he duly did.

I grew up with family medicine in the UK. That was my relationship with most of my patients. I made more friends from a small clientelle than I ever did in orthodox main street. I've dined with them, vacationed with them, stayed with them even and, as you'll see in the following section, supped with them!

5. My Wine And Champagne Ritual

With especial thanks to Celita!

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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