[e-drug] Homeopathic ART in Botswana? (cont'd)

[Kirsten Myhr <kirsten.myhr@relis.ulleval.no>]

E-drug: Homeopathic ART in Botswana? (cont'd)
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I am sure this is what the doctor is using. There is one website
operated by a Brazilian doctor, Castanheira,
(http://www.paulocastanheira.med.br/econtato.html) where you can
click to another website explaining the treatment
(http://www.metodocanova.com.br/introduction.htm), see below.
On the doctor's website you can also click for case studies, 4 for
cancer and 7 for AIDS. Does not sound impressive and evidence-
based to me. And all cases are from 1999 or earlier. On the next
website you will find 27 cases, 10 for cancer and 17 for aids and
access to 7 studies in animal models or clinical trials on aids and
cancer patients. From Brazil and Argentina.

I have not looked up the five herbs, but at least two of them are
toxic, aconitum and arsenic. But then they are here in non-detable
amounts of course, being homeopathic preparations...

Dr's website:
The Canova Method is not just another miraculous method that
pops up occasionally, promising hope to those who are suffering. It
is Homeopathy. And Homeopathy is a fully acknowledged and
recognized medical specialty by the Federal Medicine Council, the
highest medical College in Brazil, as well as by all other medical
Associations in the country. Homeopathy is a natural, absolutely
non-toxic, non-aggressive medical practice, largely available, used
and respected all over the world. It acts on the body, awakening its
wonderful healing powers, promoting health through its own ways.
Unlike the usual chemo and radiotherapy methods, the homeopathic
Canova Method does not act on healthy cells, destroying them;
rather, it activates the immune system, the body's natural defense
mechanisms with its killer cells. Incidentally, the most serious side
effects caused by radio and chemotherapies, like hair loss, nausea,
vomiting, weakness, and anemia are the result of death of cells,
both healthy and unhealthy. The patient receiving Canova benefits
himself of four important positive effects:
1. Conventional treatment methods can be used simultaneously;
2. It avoids the serious side effects of the conventional treatment
   methods;
3. It enhances the patient's quality of life;
4. The Canova Method triggers the body's natural defense
   mechanisms, which, in their turn, overpower the tumour. It
   must be said that the Canova Method is highly beneficial in
   preventing cancer in people belonging to cancer risk groups or
   families.

The metodocanova website:
MetodoCanova® is a non-toxic, highly diluted homeopathic
formulation that acts on down-regulated immune system. Research
on this product is being performed at various important Centers,
continuing the former scientific findings carried out by a
collaborative group of Scientists of Brazilian and Argentine
Universities.

MetodoCanova® is obtained by combining some active principles,
most of them being medicinal botanical extracts. Much care is taken
in the elaboration process, since an adequate extraction and a
proper combination of its compounds is definitively necessary to
achieve the properties this product has. This allows us to call
Method (from the spanish: Metodo) to the formulation since it is not
a mere combination of active principles.

This product is composed by five diluted extracts, mixed in an
original way, already known and included in most important
Pharmacopeia: Aconitum, Arsenicum album, Brionia dioica, Lachesis
and Thuja occidentalis. By diluting and mixing at the proper time
this five active principles, we obtain an original compound that
helps cancer and AIDS patients to activate their own macrophages
and lymphocytes, enhancing their biological functions.

Thanks to Google search engine!

Kirsten

Kirsten Myhr, MScPharm, MPH
Head of Eastern Region Drug Information Centre
RELIS Ost
Ulleval University Hospital
N-0407 OSLO
Tel: +47 23 01 64 11  Fax: +47 23 01 64 10
kirsten.myhr@relis.ulleval.no (w)
myhr@online.no (h)
www.relis.no


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