I just watched a very interesting news program that really lifted my spirits. It seems that some scientists abroad have discovered a very common garden plant may hold the key to stopping leukemia.
This is a plant that I have growing, right now, in my garden...it is bright, colorful and many times when I looked at it I rejoiced in Nature's beauty. My friends, they have discovered that the simple coleus can do the most remarkable thing...stop the process of cancer progressing.
Now, there is something that bothers me...they also said that Europe has had this particular drug from the plant for a while...our wonderful (big brother) governmental agency has not given "approval" for this to be used here in this country.
Granted they were using this drug for treatment of asthma and other ailments. Why, do we always seem to be behind the cutting edge on pharmaceuticals?
I just hope that this is not something that will be "shelved" for a while, especially if the larger pharmaceutical companies find that using something from "nature" doesn't cost an arm & a leg to manufacture. If they can't make a profit I really believe they would pass on a cure for cancer and that is so shameful.
Money seems to make the world goes round, will this too be tabled? I hear so many people who are sick, needing medical cures....I hope they follow through on all this.
Nature itself has given us a gift and may yet save us in spite of ourselves.
Anyway, I for one am going to watch, wait and see what happens to this.
On a lighter note I am doing the happy Hamster Dance...I have my DSL back in full force. I still don't know what happened, it had to be Verizon's screw up somewhere....but I redid all the wires again, plugged in the modem and blessed be...it finally worked.
The techs were telling me to go to Dell...it wasn't the computer it was the signal that Verizon was sending someone didn't do something right and it cost me about 3 weeks of aggravation and a definite hatred of dial up.
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If this plant worked in stopping leukaemia it'd be great. We still have many kids in our hospital with leukemia, I suppose there are so many types it may not cure them all. You're right in saying money makes the world go around, it's very sad but true. Many drugs aren't available over here as they are too expensive. Surely we should be helping to preserve life at all costs. Glad you got your DSL sorted, it's so frustrating when you can't get on line. I was wondering what had happened to you, nice to see an entry again!! Jeannette.
Sandi,
Thanks so much for sharing this bit of info about the coleus plant.
I like you, believe that the drug companies will go out of their way to make sure that Americans don't find out about drugs that will help them if the companies can't make a lot of money on the drug.
I watched a show on 60 minutes a few months ago and it was heartbreaking. They interviewed the mother of a little girl who had a very rare form of cancer. She was put on a certain drug and finally went into remission at the age of 3 and by the age of 5 she was living a fairly normal life. Suddenly her doctor contacted the parents with the horrible news that they would no longer be able to get the drug that had put the cancer into remission.
Why? Because the drug company determined that so few kids got that particular type of cancer that it just wasn't productive to produce any more! How shameful is that?
Europe has always been ahead of the curve in these areas. It's a disgrace.
So glad you got your DSL problem fixed. Dial-up is horrendous once you've gotten used to DSL.
Maryanne
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i didn't see this program, but am glad you brought it here and wrote about it...the situation bears watching. it's amazing - and horrifying - to see what our 'government agency' won't approve when it's obviously working somewhere else.
glad you got your dsl fixed :-)
Congrats on getting the DSl back Sandi. Keep us posted about the cancer cure!
hugs
Lahoma
One of the reasons that we get drugs later than they do in Europe is so our pharmaceutical companies have time to create their own version and prevent overseas competition here. Just a thought. Mrs. L
Wow! The coleus has curative value? One of the most amazing thing I've heard in a while. I read somewhere about scientists going to the rainforest around the world and collecting different plants to analyze their medicinal possibility. This one (coleus) is under our nose all this time! Very enlightening entry, Sandi. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Hi Sandi,
This was very interesting.
I'm a big fan of aromatherapy, the use of essential plant oils, but I heard somewhere that these were difficult to get hold of in the US (although things may have changed) due to the strick FDA rules.
It does make you wonder if the big drug companies put pressure on to quell research and development into all that nature has to offer.
Tilly x
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