Guest guest Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 It's also available in supplement form - Sutherlandia - and not too expensive for something to save your life! About $60 a bottle. Corky Quote
Guest guest Posted May 26, 2008 Report Posted May 26, 2008 Be very careful w/this. It's true that oleander branches were used to poison and murder a man's business partner in California many years ago. Also, a few children have died from eating the flowers. > > I've been on a list for oleander soup, which is an anti- cancer and > super immune booster that you can make yourself--or buy if you don't live > where oleander grows. But even some people on the list that live in the > north buy an oleander plant and keep it in a large pot, bringing it indoors > in the winter, so that they have this fantastic plant to make the soup with. > > Now, for those of you that don't know about oleander, it is actually a super > strong poison. It has been said that people have died from eating hot dogs > that were threaded onto oleander branches and cooked over a campfire. How > true that story is or not, I don't know for sure, but I do know that > oleander is considered very poisonous. > > But when you boil it for at least 6 hours, the chemicals that make it > poisonous are rendered inert. What you are left with is supposedly the > world's strongest immune booster. I had thought that the oleander didn't > actually kill cancer cells, and just boosted the immune so much that it did > its job and killed them, but I have just read an article that says the > oleander actually kills cells. Here's a part of the article > > In a study published recently in peer reviewed journals, an aqueous extract > of the oleander plant was found to induce and increase autophagy in > pancreatic cancer cells. Autophagy is a process in which a cell destroys > proteins and other substances in its cytoplasm (the fluid inside the cell > membrane but outside the nucleus), which may lead to cell death, as happened > in the study with pancreatic cancer cells. The study was led by noted MD > researcher Doctor Newman, the lead research scientist in a > number of important studies on oleander and oleander compounds and can be > found online at: > (link left out by me) > > The new study appears to provide yet another important piece of evidence in > understanding why oleander has proven to be successful against many forms of > cancer. In previous studies, oleander extracts have been shown to 1) > inhibit angiogenesis, the process where cancer produces blood vessels and > spreads, 2) inhibit the NF-kB factor in cancer cells, which is the process > that cells use to protect themselves when they come under attack, 3) induce > apoptosis, or normal cell death, in cancer cells, and 4) greatly stimulate > immune activity. > > If you want to read the whole article go to > http://www.tbyil.com/autophagy.htm > > > Oleander is highly successful against pancreatic cancer, which few things > touch, and it crosses the blood brain barrier so is also good at killing > brain cancers. > > Such a simple thing to make and have on hand. I don't have any oleander > bushes in my yard (but I'm getting some!) so I went on my local freecycle > list and asked to be allowed to cut some and got plenty of responses. I've > made the soup and we are taking it as a preventative and an immune booster. > To do that it is only necessary to take it once a week. In this case a > batch of soup should last a family a year. Correctly made and preserved > soup (with either vodka or ACV) will keep for up to 3 years. > > If anyone is interested in learning how to do this I can post the directions > > > There is one caveat though--there is a yellow oleander that is not an actual > oleander plant, but another that looks like it. So if you have a yellow > oleander nearby make sure it is actually an oleander. The pinks, reds and > white oleander are truly oleander and have no look-alikes. > > Samala, > > Quote
Guest guest Posted May 26, 2008 Report Posted May 26, 2008 Can you imagine the guy who figured this out. "Well I boiled it for 2 hours and everybody is dead. I guess I'll boil it longer and try again" LOL Jill >> Yes, as I said--it must be boiled at least 6 hours to nullify the poison. > Then it becomes perfectly safe. > > Samala, > > > -------Original Message------- > > Be very careful w/this. It's true that oleander branches were used > to poison and murder a man's business partner in California many > years ago. Also, a few children have died from eating the flowers.> Quote
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Posted May 27, 2008 It wasn't until a few years later that he found out that if your knife slips into the wrong section, or you miss a section, that deadly poison spreads to the rest of the meat and you eat it--and die. Once he heard that he never ate blowfish again. I heard that in Japan an average of 12 sushi chefs die every year from this. DB Quote
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