Laetrile

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*The Laetrile/B17 Cover-up*

*by Pat Rattigan ND*

*Taken from The Cancer Business*

In 1535 the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his expedition were

frozen in the ice off the St. Lawrence river. 25 of the 110 crew were

dead from scurvy and the rest were due to follow. At this point a

friendly native American came forward with a potion made from the

needles and bark of the white pine, rich in ascorbic acid, or vitamin C.

This produced a dramatic recovery. When Cartier returned to Europe and

reported to the medical mandarins they were amused by the 'witch-doctor

cures of ignorant savages,' and went on with their search for mystery

toxins and bugs lurking in the dark holds of the ships.

260 years later, after the British Navy alone had lost over a million

men to scurvy, the practice of carrying oranges, lemons and limes on

board ship led to the limeys ruling the waves. Scurvy -vitamin C,

pellagra - Vit B3, night-blindness - Vit A, rickets- Vit D, beri beri -

Vit Bl, pernicious anaemia - Vit B12.

It should have needed no great intellectual leap to suspect that another

chronic, metabolic disease, cancer, might also be a vitamin-specific

deficiency disease. The use of certain fruit kernels in the treatment of

cancer goes back to the Emperor herbalist Shen Nung in the 28th century

BC. Bitter almond water features in the writings of the physicians of

ancient Egypt, Arabia, Rome and Greece. Celsus, Galen, Scribonious

Largus, Pliny the Elder, Avicenna and Marcellus Empiricus all used

preparations based on the seeds of the bitter almond, apricot, peach etc.

In 1952 the American biochemist Ernst Krebs PhD proposed that cancer was

a deficiency disease. The deficiency being the factor linked for so long

with cancer therapy. He identified the substance as part of the

nitriloside group specifically, amygdaline, a cyanogenic glycoside first

isolated from the bitter almond, primus amygdalus amara, in 1830 by the

French chemists Robiquet and Boutron-Charland. Its chemical structure is

D(l) mandelonitrile B D glucosido-6-6-B-glucoside, as recorded in the

Merck Index, 1976. Toxicologically, amygdalin falls between Class 1 and

Class 2, which means it is virtually non-toxic. This compares with

saccharin, between Class 3 and Class 4 and most chemotherapy Class 6 -

super toxic.

The Hunzas, a cancer-free society in the Himalayas, consume up to forty

apricot kernels as an after-dinner snack. Coupled with the rest of their

amygdalin-rich diet this constitutes an ingestion of 50 to 70 milligrams

of the substance per day. According to Krebs /There are many of us in

the western world who do not ingest this amount in the course of an

entire year/. Traditional Eskimos, the Hopi and Navajo tribes, the

Abkhasians of the Caucasus Mountains and other notably cancer-free

groups have amygdalin-rich diets.

After taking into account the required factors, Krebs allocated his

substance the next available number on the vitamin B index: 17. He named

his concentrated amygdalin preparation, Laetrile. As many of the world's

cancer-free societies are outside of the polluted environment and

distinctly advantaged in the quest to remain healthy, a group of

Americans began, in the1950s, to test Kreb’s theory.

For over two decades there has been a steadily growing group of people

who have accepted the vitamin theory of cancer and who have altered

their diets accordingly. They represent all walks of life, all ages,

both sexes, and reside in almost every advanced nation of the world. It

is estimated that there are many thousands in the United States alone.

It is significant, therefore, that after starting and maintaining a diet

rich in vitamin B17, none of these people have ever been known to

contract cancer.

Dr Dean Burk, then head of the NCI, said he had been contacted, during

the space of 12 months, by at least 750 people, including many MD

physicians most of whom were using it (B17) merely with prevention of

development of cancer in view. * One of the first doctors to use

Laetrile in the control of cancer was Dr Maurice Kowan. This landed him

in court in Los Angeles*.

The prosecutor told the jury: /This is not a kindly old man. This is the

most thoroughly evil person the imagination can concoct. This man has to

be stopped. He is very dangerous. The way to stop him is a guilty

verdict/. * Dr Kowan was heavily fined and, at the age of 70, sentenced

to two months in prison*.

The basis used by the cancer mafia for the attack on Dr. Kowan was a

falsified report produced by two doctors. Garland and Mac in 1953.

The two, who had ideal credentials by way of their being involved in

surgery and radiation and in the promotion of cigarettes as a health

measure, produced a report which stated that no evidence of anti-cancer

changes were observed by the consultants using Laetrile (A report found

later to be demonstrably fraudulent but which has been quoted

religiously by vested cancer interests;) Nemesis took her revenge in

appropriate fashion on the two, one with lung cancer and one in a fire

suspected as being caused by a cigarette.

Dr. A. began to use B17 in the summer of 1971. His first

patient was the sister of one of his nurses; a case of advanced

malignant melanoma of the arm. She had been given around six weeks to

live with a little longer if she had the arm amputated. Amygdalin was

administered and almost immediately the lesions began to heal. Within

two months her arm had returned to normal. The woman was also *a

diabetic who, after the treatment, controlled her disease without

insulin*. When she returned to her original doctor he still wanted to

amputate. She declined the offer.

Dr. 's successes with B17, Laetrile, the vegan diet etc.

attracted increasing numbers of patients. For the first time in my

entire career * I began to see terminal cancer patients abandon their

stretchers and wheelchairs and return to normal lives of health and

vigour*. Word of my successes with cancer patients brought far more new

patients than I could handle alone. I increased the staff, soon my

little neighborhood practice was converted into a busy cancer clinic

with patients from many States.

The inevitable finally happened at ten in the morning, 2 June 1972. Four

cars screeched to a halt outside of the clinic and disgorged ten

uniformed officers. Guns drawn, they burst into the clinic, flashed a

search warrant as they passed a receptionist on their way into the

clinic, where they pushed the doctor against the wall and searched him

for concealed weapons. Dr. and his two nurses were marched

out past the specially-invited television cameras and were arrested

under the Californian anti-quackery laws.

At the time of the raid, a little girl about seven years old was in

examination room number three. She had just begun metabolic therapy for

an advanced case of osteogenic sarcoma. Kerry had responded beautifully

in terms of increased appetite, weight gain, freedom from pain and a

feeling of well-being. Normally, Kerry would have received a massive

injection of vitamins including vitamin B 17, not being sure what kind

of legal trouble I would be in, I simply cleaned and dressed her lesions

and sent her home, the little girl, as well as her parents, were greatly

upset by the threatening presence of police officers. The child died

three days later and there is no doubt in my mind that this death could

have been postponed or avoided altogether if it hadn't been for the raid.

The concerted campaign, which was to last for years, to ruin Dr.

; physically, mentally, financially, professionally and

legally had begun. The authorities revoked his medical licence and he

was ordered to attend meetings 600 miles away in San Diego, with many of

the hearings cancelled at the last minute; a procedure kept up at weekly

intervals for six months.

The threat to the cancer business from effective therapies was taken

very seriously from the beginning. By the 1940s the Syndicate had

300,000 names on its quack files. Vitamin B17, being a unique threat due

to its simplicity, attracted more concentrated attacks than all the

other treatments put together: fraudulent test reports; hired,

banner-carrying pickets outside clinics; rigged juries; newspaper

character assassinations; dismissal of heretic employees, etc.

The FDA, orchestrating the onslaught, sent out 10,000 posters and

hundreds of thousands of leaflets warning about the dangers of the

toxicity of the non-toxic substance. Earlier, a Congressional Accounting

Office had found that 350 FDA employees had shares in, or had refused to

declare an interest in, the pharmaceutical industry. After much

searching, geographically and historically, the FDA came up with three

alleged cases of deaths from Laetrile poisoning. This in a country where

hundreds are killed daily by PDA-approved treatments. Two were women who

had swallowed vials of Laetrile which were for injection only and one

was an eleven month old baby girl, one of whose parents was taking the

medicine for cancer. According to the PDA the child had become ill after

she had accidentally ingested up to 5 (500mg) tablets of Laetrile.

This was doubted by many including Dr Harold Manner: I was lecturing in

Buffalo, New York and after I had made some strong statements a man

stood up and said Dr. Manner, how in the world can you make statements

like that when the FDA is making these other statements? I reiterated

that the FDA statements were lies. He said, Look at this little girl in

upstate New York, she took her father's Laetrile tablets and died of

cyanide poisoning. Just then a little lady stood up: Manner let me

answer that question. I think I am entitled to because I am that little

baby's mother. That baby never touched her father's Laetrile tablets.

The doctor, knowing the father was on Laetrile, marked down possible

cyanide poisoning.

At the hospital they used a cyanide antidote and *it was the antidote

that killed the child*. And yet that statement will continue to appear

even though they know it is a lie. The totally-fabricated stories of

B17/Laetrile toxicity were eagerly grasped by the UK cancer combine. The

Department of Health, aided by Gwyneth Dunwoody MP and her hysterical

outbursts about 'cyanide poisoning', had apricot pit powder removed from

the health food shop shelves.

In March 1984 the government brought in The Medicines (Cyanogenetic

Substances) Order 1984. This Order meant that preparations which are

presented for sale or supply under the name of, or as containing,

amygdalin, laetrile or vitamin B17 or contain more than 0.1 percent by

weight of the 'cyanide-producing substances' were to be under the

control of the 1968 Medicines Act and, therefore, out of easy reach of

any cancer patient who preferred to exercise freedom of choice instead

of opting for the manslaughter on offer from the cancer hospitals. The

0.1 percent figure shows the extent to which the cancer cartel were

prepared to go to stop amygdalin.

*Apricot and bitter almond kernels* are around 2 percent amygdalin and

have long been found in British and Italian biscuits on supermarket

shelves in the UK. The fact that the biscuits have not attracted any

attention shows the non-toxicity of the substance and confirms it is

only a danger to the cancer racketeers and not to the consumers. A much

greater farce, of course, is the fact that all the billions of seeds

within the apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, apples, pears etc., sold

by fruiterers since March 1984, are all in contravention of the Order.

Whilst the battle over B17 in the UK has remained mainly dormant, due to

the lack of awareness on the part of most of the alternative health

movement, the US has seen an on going, pitched battle with the cancer

establishment using any and all tactics to reinforce the original

Garland/Mac fraud.

Animal research has played a fundamental role: in almost every case the

patients tested were mice (which do not have the same metabolism as

humans,) the tumours were transplanted (which do not react the same as

spontaneous tumours,) and in all of the experiments cited, reduction of

tumour size was the primary criterion for evaluating results - there is

nothing quite so easy to accomplish as failure. Or success, depending on

which animal you choose and whether he who bank-rolls the research wants

a positive or a negative result.

Other attempts to discredit Laetrile involved force-feeding large

amounts of cyanide, extracted from amygdalin, directly into dogs'

stomachs: in Laetrile therapy small doses are used and the cyanide

component is released only by the cancer cell, in the presence of

protective enzymes. As the Laetrile/B17suppression was demonstrably

failing, with the ban being lifted in State after State, and as public

pressure built up against the cancer fraudsters, the NCI were forced

into a two-year, two hundred patient trial of the medicine. The official

verdict having been already decided, it was paramount that the trial was

rigged to confirm the authorised version. This was achieved by a

multi-facetted approach.

Phase IV - dying - patients were selected. In normal synthetic drug

trials early stage patients are chosen. The NCI admitted, /All patients

had proven cancer, beyond any hope of cure or therapy known to extend

life-expectancy/. Laetrile was not used, a Laetrile manufacture

by-product was substituted. The usual junk diet, including animal

products, was allowed the patients. The injections were discontinued

after 3 weeks, not three months. The criterion applied to the test was

of tumour reduction, not the improvement in well being, appetite, lack

of pain etc. Missouri and West Virginia legalised Laetrile after the

verdict; reasoning, presumably, that *if the American Medical

Association, the FDA and the American Cancer Society had tried to ban

Laetrile, it must be of considerable value in treating cancer.*

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute sacked one its senior directors,

Ralph Moss, for blowing the whistle on the cover- */up. Basically, the

results were coming out positive and we in public affairs were told to

say the results were negative and this went on for three years/*. - Moss.

Dr. Dean Burk, head of cytochemistry at the NCI for 34 years, stated:

/Once any of the hierarchy so much as concede that Laetrile anti-tumour

efficiency was indeed once observed in NCI experimentation, a permanent

crack in the bureaucratic armor has taken place that can widen

indefinitely by further appropriate experimentation/.

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Peace, love and light,

Don Quai

" Spirit sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal

and wakes in man. "

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I would like to try B-17 but don t know the dosage.

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