CAN CANNABIS
CURE TUBERCULOSIS?
THE RISK OF
TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
The very
first thing ii wish to clear up is the issue of smoking. You can do your own research and you will see
that humans have been partaking in the smoke inhalation process since creation
making it an ancient human practise and quite possibly very much part of the
human condition.
Personally
for me as a smoker, smoking is smoking and its bad for you and carbon is carbon
and it is bad for your lungs.
This is why
so many of my Elders are now moving away from smoking Cannabis and forward
towards raw consumption like juicing, because they have come to realise that
the health benefits of Cannabis are available in the raw plant material and
there is now no need to smoke any longer.
In 2012 the Journal of the American Medical Association
put a dent in the arguments against Cannabis smoking with the release of a
report showing that casual Cannabis smokers might even have stronger lungs than
non-smokers.
Researchers stated that there was good evidence that occasional Cannabis use can actually cause an increase in lung airflow rates and lung volume. Volume is measured as the total amount of air a person can blow out after taking the deepest breath they can.
The study was carried out by The University of California and The
University of Alabama and spans over more than 20 years involving more than
5000 men and women in four American cities. The study concluded that even at
daily usage levels of only 1 joint per day over seven years, people did not
seem to suffer any degradation of lung capacity or function.
The researchers factored in
for people who smoked tobacco and those that lived in more polluted areas with
lesser air quality and poor ventilation. The harm from cigarettes showed up
clearly while those smoking a joint a day and not smoking tobacco did not show
any degradation. Even one joint per week for twenty years did not appear to
have any significant effect on the lungs. It does make a lot of sense that the
anti-inflammatory properties of Cannabis will help to soothe the lungs.
So here is
the truth, the only way you can get tuberculosis (TB) from Cannabis is if you
share a joint, bong or pipe with someone who is already infected with TB. The
same is true of sharing a nicotine cigarette with a person infected with TB. And while smoking Cannabis or nicotine
obviously will agitate any lung condition, the truth is that smoking does not
cause TB.
WHAT EXACTLY
IS TB?
TB is an
ancient debilitating respiratory disease that typically results in death if
untreated. TB was referred to as “the Great White Plague” of the 19th
century because it is so infectious, contagious and is airborne. So TB is a
microbial infection caused by various strains of mycobacteria but primarily by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacteria require plenty of oxygen to survive
and replicate and this is why Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhabits the lungs. This
disease has been around as long as mankind.
Closely-related is the leprosy
bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, which forms clusters in the epidermal and
epithelial tissues which receive oxygen from the blood, as well as other
tissues, but can also absorb atmospheric oxygen. TB can also affect other
organs for example the kidneys, as well as the spinal and brain fluid resulting
in meningitis. Additional symptoms can occur elsewhere in the body depending on
where the disease has spread to for example if the TB has spread to the bones
and joints it can cause swelling and pain in the hips or knees for instance. As
you can see TB is much more than a lung disease and in fact if you look closely
it is actually an immune system disorder because this bacterium can remain
dormant for many years and as the individual’s immune system weakens so the TB
starts attacking the body.
So when
a person is infected with TB, a set of immune responses that defines the
progression and outcome of this disease is triggered. As with all medical
conditions the immune response differs from person to person, and for the vast
majority of humans, no symptoms will ever become apparent. It is still not
known precisely what mechanisms determine natural immunity to TB and there are
many different strains, and various different environmental and other factors that
can influence infection rates.
What
we do know is that the Th1 immune response is vital for defence against
microbes that infiltrate and reproduce inside host cells such as TB, and people
that are prone to symptomatic TB have delayed Th1 immune responses.
In the
event of Th1 suppression, the Th2 immune response kicks in, however, this
response is designed to defend against extracellular pathogens (such as toxins
and parasites), and when forced
to attempt to defend against TB for example, in reality what happens is the actual
rapid and effective progression of the symptoms.
For
too long now we have been focusing on eradicating the merciless microbe, when
in fact it isn’t actually the bacteria itself which kills people but rather the
collateral damage it does to the body for example the muscle and tissue wastage
which occurs.
According
to the Salk Institute their findings suggest that by preventing the collateral
damage e.g. muscle wasting we can ward off the most life threatening aspects of
the infection. So by not trying to kill
the actual bacteria we are not encouraging the evolution of the deadly
antibiotic strains that are killing people around the world. Although
antibiotics were once the most powerful and revolutionary of drugs they do seem
to have reached their limits and this is because of the ability of bacteria to
rapidly evolve resistance to them.
THE MODERN DAY REALITY OF TB
TB has
always been more prevalent in sectors of the population who are chronically
stressed and malnourished. A more modern example would be amongst populations
who are both stressed and malnourished as well as having compromised immune
systems for example in the case of HIV/AIDS where TB often develops as an
opportunistic secondary complication.
So it
is very true that the main defence against TB is a healthy lifestyle with
sufficient sunlight, fresh air and nutritious food. Worldwide we are now faced
with a rampant HIV epidemic and indeed TB has found a new and powerful ally
which is killing at an alarming rate which makes it seem as though we are
losing this battle and challenging the medical world to come up with new and
natural approaches to treat TB.
Another
big problem worldwide is the immense increases in incarcerations which has
caused TB to spread like wildfire. So when you look at these statistics
together with the increasing poverty and population especially in dense cities
and you will notice that the stage seems set for an explosion of TB which we
might never have anticipated before. With almost a third of the world
population already possibly infected and almost 9 million new cases a year at a
rate of one per second it does seem possible that humanity could not only
succumb to this disease alone but also to the economic collapse it could cause.
The
old TB infection rate used to be in the range of 1 person infecting 10 to 15
local people a year but today the potential is many times more especially now
with international borders being open and people no longer being quarantined at
all.
Unlike
HIV, TB is highly contagious from contaminated environments and especially from
victims coughing, sneezing, spitting or even speaking, dispelling the TB
bacteria into the air so it is almost as easy to spread as the flu except
unlike the flu, the season for TB is all year round. TB also does not
discriminate between rich and poor so everyone is really at risk.
Health care workers are also
now at rising risk, and while it was once possible to care for HIV/AIDS
patients without this threat, the alliance with TB means caregiving is much
more difficult and risky.
Transmission of TB mostly
takes place indoors, where tiny droplets of infected human mucous can stay in
the air for a long time due to poor ventilation. So businesses with large
migrant workforces such as oil, gas and mining companies as well as health care
centres and hospitals and prisons, military barracks and shebeens are all work
place settings where there is an increased risk of TB because TB loves crowded
living, working or social conditions where there is lots of oxygen for it to
reproduce in. Overcrowded modes of public transport such as taxi’s and trains
are also good breeding places for TB because of the lack of ventilation.
The main symptoms of
pulmonary TB is a persistent cough lasting for more than 2 weeks usually
accompanied with expectoration which may be blood stained. People who are ill
with TB may also experience chest pain, loss of appetite and weight loss,
tiredness, fever with night sweats, shortness of breath and coughing up of
blood. With extra-pulmonary TB it does depend on which organ is involved but
you are also looking at chest pains, enlarged nymph nodes, fever as well as
kidney and liver problems.
Therefore anyone
suffering with a persistent cough lasting more than 2 weeks should be
immediately tested for TB.
WHAT IS LATENT TB?
Latent TB is when a person has
the TB bacteria in their body but there are no symptoms, so they
don’t feel sick. You can’t pass latent TB on to others, but there is a
risk that you will become ill with active TB later on in life, especially if
your immune system is weakened, such as through another illness. Sometimes you
can breathe in TB bacteria from an infected person from their throat or their
lungs and it is possible for these bacteria to then lay dormant or asleep in
your body without you actually noticing any illness. Full treatment is required
with latent TB as well.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH TB MEDICATION?
The biggest
problem with TB treatment is the duration which is anything from 6 to 9 months
and worse- case scenario in the event of more drug resistant strains can be up
to 24 months of treatment. The second biggest problem is the amount of tablets
which need to be taken.
The Primary
treatment phase consists of an intensive phase involving 5 different
antibiotics and continues for up to 3 months with the aim to kill the TB
bacilli quickly and thoroughly.
The
Continuation phase can last for 4 to 6 months and the aim is to completely
destroy any remaining bacilli which might be lingering that could be activated at
a later stage. Treatment in this phase
generally involves direct observation by a treatment supporter.
So as you can see the
average duration of treatment lasts from 6 to 9 months and unfortunately a lot
of the time people are simply not able to comply with the treatment and this is
exactly what gives rise to drug resistant strains of the bacterium.
DRUG
RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
Drug resistant TB usually
occurs when antibiotic treatment courses are stopped or interrupted before the
bacteria are fully destroyed and what is then left is often the most resilient
forms of the bacterium in other words those with particularly impermeable cell
walls. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is
notorious for its thick, waxy fat coated cell walls.
When a TB infection becomes
multi-drug resistant its death rate usually increases to about 80%. Some forms of chemotherapy are used in the
fight against drug resistant TB but with debilitating side effects. If
treatments for drug resistant TB are mismanaged then the bacteria becomes
“extensively-drug resistant TB” and prevalence is increasing. In 2008 49
countries had documented cases of ‘extensively-drug resistant TB and now this
number 91.
So even though ‘multi and
extensive-drug resistant TB is rare it would be a disaster if such strains were
to gain a foothold in the general population. The standard BCG vaccine is not
entirely effective against these or ‘normal’ TB for that matter with only a 50%
rate of effectiveness. Recently there
have even been reports of certain strains of TB which are resistant to all the
first line drugs (Isoniazid, Rifampicin, Ethambutol, Pyrazinamide, Streptomycin)
as well as second line (Ofloxacin, Moxifloxacin, Kanamycin, Amikacin,
Capreomycin, Para-aminosalicylic acid and Ethionamide) drugs. These strains are then known as Total drug
resistant TB or TDR-TB.
These drug resistant TB
strains have the potential to undo the significant advances made by governments
in the control of TB and this would effectively mean the loss of thousands of
lives and billions of dollars around the world. Treating drug resistant strains
of TB is a costly and challenging task.
For me personally the
biggest problem is how we can prevent these drug resistant strains from
re-emerging. It seems that the most important part of prevention is for the
patient to take the correct drugs for the correct duration of time and a number
of studies have revealed that a large number of people are not prescribed the right
drugs in the correct dosage. The other
thing is that generally people fail to complete their course of medications
especially when their symptoms seem to disappear and they start to feel better.
So in reality preventing the emergence of drug resistant strains would provide
us with our only real defence against this deadly disease.
It then seems obvious that
new vaccines and treatments are now a matter of urgency and governments and
international organisations really ought to be pouring more money into research
and development.
THE BACILLE-CALMETTE GUERIN (BCG)
VACCINATION
New born babies receive the
BCG vaccination to protect against TB in infancy however there is no guarantee
of immunity against this disease once they grow up. This vaccine therefore only
provides protection for a short period of time and not life- long protection.
The BCG vaccine has limited efficiency in adults and often causes false-positive TB skin test reactions.
WHAT IS THE LINK BETWEEN TB AND HIV?
Indeed
there seems to be a lot of public confusion regarding nutrition and chronic
infectious diseases.
One of
the most hotly debated topics over the past twenty years in South Africa has
been the issues concerning nutritional influences on human immunity and the
response to major epidemic infections such as those caused by HIV and TB. And
it is these issues that have given rise to determined differences in the
approach to public policy in addressing the consequences of these diseases.
Back in
2000 while ii was living in Port Elizabeth ii had the privilege of serving our
then President Thabo Mbeki’s father Mr Govan Mbeki on the occasion of his 90th
birthday celebrations and whilst the honourable President Thabo Mbeki could not
attend the event his beautiful wife Mrs Zanele Mbeki was constantly at her
father in law’s side. It would have been a dream come true for any waitress to
serve her president but my motive was more from a medical angle and in
particular his stance to the HIV/AIDs dilemma in our country at that time.
Personally ii have always believed that HIV/AIDS like so many other medical
conditions, was ‘created’ with a view to ‘cull’ the human population in line
with the ambitions of the new world order which you can actually read about in
the Revelation in the bible.
It now
turns out that Mr Mbeki was right all along…where during his residence as
president he was accused of denialism when it came to the issue of HIV/AIDS.
The resistance he received to his theory was not surprisingly made by the very
people who stood to benefit from broadcasting the slogan “HIV causes Aids”.
Mr Mbeki
himself never once stated that HIV does not cause Aids, what he said precisely
was that “A virus cannot cause a syndrome”.
As
president and alongside former Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Mr
Mbeki was slammed for policies which denied thousands of HIV positive South
Africans access to ARV’s.
Mr Mbeki
stated categorically
“AIDS"
is an acronym for ‘Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome’ – therefore Aids is a
syndrome, i.e. a collection of well-known diseases with well-known causes. They are not, together, caused and cannot be
caused by one virus!”
On 5 July
2016 Yournewswire.com released a
disturbing press release intimating that Dr Robert Gallo who is the scientist
credited with ‘discovering’ the HIV virus in 1984, in fact admitted that he
created AIDS in order to reduce the world’s population. The complete and
compelling scientific evidence now reveals that the Aids virus was a designer
bi-product of the US Special Virus program which was a federal virus
development program that persevered in the US from 1962 to 1978.
It is
very interesting to note that Dr Gallo’s 1971 paper on Special Viruses is an
exact replica of his 1984 announcement of his discovery of Aids. And what is
even more interesting is that he filed his application to patent his
announcement on Aids long before he actually made the announcement.
Even
further back in my medical career in 1987 ii assisted in nursing the very first
‘Aids’ patient at Groote Schuur Hospital and when he passed away in hospital it
was interesting to note that the physicians noted the cause of death as TB.
THE IMPORTANCE OF NUTRITION
We must also
realise that before the advent of antibiotics TB treatment was effected by
intense concentration on strengthening the immune defences of infected people
with diet, improved and altered environmental conditions and every other
conceivable measure. This all changed after the discovery of ‘effective’ drugs,
and this aspect of TB therapy quickly became secondary and mostly uncontended.
We really
need to cultivate an evidence based understanding of the functional
inter-relationships between infection and nutrition. Right now we are
witnessing a population where macronutrient deficiencies (obvious hunger) as
well as micronutrient deficiencies (hidden hunger) are very common.
Currently
there is a shortage of sound, locally relevant and contextually appropriate
studies that could effectively guide policies designed to optimize nutritional
support for infected people before or after a specific therapy is started.
Nutrition should therefore be the first port of call in curing disease and not
left to be considered as a last resort or crisis management style of healing.
So it is
therefore essential to develop the capacity to identify the micro biota present
in the small and large intestines in order to develop an understanding of the
systemic relationships between various diets and the intestinal micro biota as
well as gut function and inflammation. The short and long term effects of pre
and probiotics of various kinds and at various dose levels also need to be
studied both in individuals with or without the HIV infection.
Further
it is also essential to establish why there may be mal-absorption of specific
nutrients in asymptomatic HIV-infected people. Both vitamin A and D appear to
be precursors of highly active metabolites that are crucially involved in
specific immune mechanisms in respect of both mucosal immunity and
intracellular microbial destruction.
Both
mainstream media and their premium paying pharmaceutical patrons like to make
it seem as though disease is random and strikes people without warning. It is
this mentality that makes people feel like helpless victims resulting in people
becoming afraid and ultimately losing touch with their bodies and minds.
The
truth is that the whole disease process starts within the body, specifically
the gut, and this process is directly connected to nutrient deficiencies.
It is the nutrient deficient, acidic internal environment which allows disease to get a grip on the human body. It is a well- known fact that processed foods deplete the beneficial microbes in the gut and this negatively affects the body’s ability to defend itself against infection because it is these beneficial gut microbes which regulate the immune system. So when the good microbes are wiped out, then the bad ones take over, making a person more prone to infections.
It is the nutrient deficient, acidic internal environment which allows disease to get a grip on the human body. It is a well- known fact that processed foods deplete the beneficial microbes in the gut and this negatively affects the body’s ability to defend itself against infection because it is these beneficial gut microbes which regulate the immune system. So when the good microbes are wiped out, then the bad ones take over, making a person more prone to infections.
THE IMPORTANCE OF VITAMIN D
It is quite frightening how many people are
deficient in Vitamin D which is not found in many foods and the main source of
this vitamin is the sun and people who are ill are not as likely to be able to
go outdoors. It is important to realize that the ultraviolet B (UVB) rays do
not penetrate glass and therefore exposure to sunshine indoors through a window
does not produce Vitamin D.
It is
also very important to be aware that many pharmaceutical drugs such as steroid
medications, epileptic drugs, anti-depressants, weight loss drugs, cholesterol
lowering drugs as well as anti TB drugs all negatively affect the body’s
ability to absorb and metabolize Vitamin D.
Vitamin D is no ordinary
vitamin. It is actually a
neuro-regulatory steroidal hormone (sometimes referred to as D Hormone) which
influences about 3000 different genes in your body and virtually every cell and
recent research suggests that Vitamin D may enhance the amount of important
chemicals which the brain needs to protect its cells.
Because Vitamin D is a fat-soluble
vitamin, its absorption is dependent on the guts ability to absorb dietary fat
so people who have reduced ability to absorb dietary fat often require Vitamin
D supplements. Fat mal-absorption is connected to a number of medical
conditions such as liver disease, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, Crohn’s
disease and also ulcerative colitis.
There is very strong
evidence that Vitamin D plays a protective role in the prevention of colon,
prostate and breast cancers and there is also a growing body of research which
suggests that Vitamin D also plays a protective role in the treatment of type 1
and 2 diabetes, hypertension, glucose intolerance, multiple sclerosis as well
as other medical conditions.
(As a matter of interest it
has recently been discovered that Multiple sclerosis is in fact Lymes disease
which is caused by a bacteria – the report of this 105 year medical cover- up
has already (11 August 2016) been removed from the internet, further proof of
the truth that all disease stems from the gut). This revelation also serves as
proof of the fact that when a story does not make sense we must simply follow
the money).
Gut bacteria needs Vitamin
D in order to survive…
So the destruction of our
gut bacteria can lead to inflammation in the brain and the body leading to the
increase in a large variety of illnesses we are seeing all over the world
today. Gut bacteria needs Vitamin D in order to survive. Vitamin D affects our
entire gastric tract and we have Vitamin D receptors in our brains, spinal
cord, digestive tract, salivary glands, our teeth, esophageal sphincter, islet
cells of the pancreas as well as the stomach cells which produce acid.
Clearly you can now see how
Vitamin D is a vital part of the immune system which helps to increase the
required immune proteins which help us to fight and destroy bacteria. So people
with low levels of Vitamin D therefore have weaker immune systems that cannot
stop bacteria from growing and are more likely to develop latent TB and are
also therefore more likely to progress to active TB and indeed there are many
case studies proving that people who take Vitamin D supplements have a faster
recovery with fewer symptoms.
To follow on what ii was
saying earlier under the heading “The
Importance of Nutrition”, before antibiotics for TB were discovered people
with TB were actually treated with ‘sun therapy’ because doctors then realized
that having enough Vitamin D can help the immune system to kill the TB bacteria
or at least keep it from becoming active. We have what we call good immune
cells which are known as macrophages, and these can basically ‘eat’ invading
bacteria and the TB bacteria works by attacking the macrophages. Vitamin D in turn makes the macrophages
stronger and more able to fight the TB bacteria.
As
mankind awakens to the on-going deceit in all spheres of our lives, we come to
realise that in fact most of what we have been taught is actually filled with
falsities and so we really need to do our own research into matters which
affect our health.
One of
the biggest lies ever told to us is that the sun causes cancer so let’s take a
look at the facts.
It is
said then that when travelling from either the north or south- pole towards the
equator that UV exposure increases by up to 5000% whereas ozone depletion only
increases exposure by 20%. So if UVB
exposure and ozone depletion were in fact the cause of skin cancer then surely
the people living closest to the equator would be diagnosed with malignant
melanoma at an alarming rate…well the reality is that the opposite is truth.
To this
day no scientific studies have ever proven that sunlight causes cancer in
humans. And in fact there is plenty of
evidence to the contrary where over the years several studies have confirmed
that appropriate sun exposure actually helps to prevent skin cancer and
melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and
can actually be increased by sunscreen products.
Most of
these studies that try so hard to find a cause have only actually found links
and many scientists have established that actually it is the toxicity level of
the human body which reacts with UV rays which causes cancer and not the
sunlight itself. Sunlight does not cause skin cancer and in fact it is our best
defence against cancer.
In an
upcoming paper ii will be addressing the issue of skin cancer in greater depth
but ii just want to make a quick note about sunscreen products.
If you do
the research you will see that the majority of sun protection products in fact
contain ingredients with serious health and safety concerns. Almost half of the
500 most popular products may actually increase the speed at which malignant
cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain carcinogenic agents
which speed up tumour growth.
So TB and
HIV form a deadly combination with each rapidly speeding up the other’s
progress. HIV weakens the immune system and increases a person’s susceptibility
to TB infection and then the progression of TB infection to disease. TB is the
leading cause of death among people living with HIV and while it is possible to
treat both diseases at the same time combined treatment often presents with
greater side effects to the person suffering. TB now causes more deaths
worldwide than HIV per year however people who have both HIV and TB at the time
of death are classified as having died of HIV so clearly there is a distortion
in the statistics we are studying.
THE CANNABIS
COCONUT CONNECTION
CANNABIS
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COCONUT
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Anti-tumor (anti-cancer)
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Anti-tumor (anti-cancer)
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Immune Boosting
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Immune Boosting
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Anti-fungal
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Anti-fungal
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Anti-bacterial
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Anti-bacterial
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Anti-microbial
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Anti-microbial
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Regulation of metabolism (weight control)
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Regulation of metabolism (weight control)
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Anti-oxidant
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Anti-oxidant
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Skin care
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Skin care
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Osteoporosis treatment
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Osteoporosis treatment
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Fat soluble
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Over 90% Saturated fat
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No negative side effects no deaths
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No negative side effects no deaths
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Components found in human breast milk
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Components found in human breast milk
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Regulate circulation
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Regulate circulation
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Used for over 5000 years as medicine
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Used for over 5000 years as medicine
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At the forefront of medical research and breakthroughs
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At the forefront of medical research and breakthroughs
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Criminalized since 1930’s
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Condemned for over 60 years
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Controls regulation of fat
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Controls regulation of fat
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Raw plant has no psychedelic high
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Raw plant has no psychedelic high
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Aides nutrient absorption
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Aides nutrient absorption
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diaphoretic
(perspiration-inducing)
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diaphoretic
(perspiration-inducing)
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Anti-malarial
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Anti-malarial
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In Cannabis and
coconut we have a long history of treating TB which has been documented in many
parts of the world because both Cannabis and coconut has been shown to exercise
antimicrobial effects on TB and similar microbes. So for thousands of years
Cannabis and coconut has been used as a folk medicine to treat TB the longest
recorded history is of the Chinese using Cannabis as medicine for over 5000
years.
When it comes
to Cannabis Medicine as ii have written many times before it is all about the
fats. So the human brain is 60% fat and
Cannabinoids are fat soluble components which are hydrophobic and therefore
need saturated fats to bond with in order to work their medical magic in the
body. Equally important is the fact that Vitamin D is also a fat soluble
vitamin and is dependent on the body’s ability to absorb fats from the diet.
Coconut oil is around 96% saturated fat.
Equally interesting
is the fact that TB has a 60% lipid (fat) cell wall and this is exactly why
hydrophobic fat soluble Cannabinoids are able to interact with the bacteria. TB
has also been shown to be more closely related to immune deficiencies and
because Cannabis and coconut is a known immune booster it can therefore
specifically boost the body’s immune response to TB.
According to a study
conducted by the American Chemical
Society and the American Society of Pharmacognosy which was published in
the Journal of Natural Products has
revealed that Cannabis can combat deadly and drug resistant bacteria such as
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA).
A drug known as
Oxyphenbutazone which was developed in the 1950’s
can effectively kill the bacteria that causes TB, even the drug resistant variables.
And while this drug does have some known toxicities in terms of killing the TB
bacteria it is the safest by far. So researchers in 2012 discovered that this
inexpensive, over the counter anti-inflammatory which was withdrawn in the 1980’s
is a real cure for TB, however, following the research efforts of the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, it was realised that this was not a profitable drug
to pursue. According to the foundation results of study it would only cost
about two cents per day to treat TB in developing countries where this disease
has already reached epidemic proportions.
This 2013 study was one
of the most comprehensive of its kind to show that Cannabis has the potential
to combat deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria like TB. Researchers concluded as follows:
“This plant represents an interesting source of
antibacterial agents to address the problem of multidrug resistance in MRSA and
other pathogenic bacteria. This issue
has enormous clinical implications, since MRSA and TB are spreading throughout
the world and, in the US, currently accounts for more deaths each year than
AIDS”.
WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT COCONUT OIL?
Coconut
oil itself is an inexpensive addition to traditional antibiotics, and brings
with it no known side effects.
The antiviral,
antibacterial, and antifungal properties of the medium chain fatty
acids/triglycerides (MCTs) found in coconut oil have been known to researchers
since the 1960s. Research has shown that microorganisms that are inactivated by
coconut oil include bacteria, yeast, fungi, and enveloped viruses.
Lauric acid which is present in breast milk is a
medium chain fatty acid, which has the additional beneficial function of being
formed into monolaurin in the human or animal body. Monolaurin is the
antiviral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal monoglyceride used by the human or
animal to destroy lipid-coated viruses such as HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus,
influenza as well as various pathogenic bacteria.
There was an instance in
the US in which an infant who had tested HIV positive had become HIV negative. The
child was fed an infant formula which had high coconut oil content and therefore helped
in the generation of Monolaurin in the child’s body and this is what caused the
lowering of the child’s ‘viral load’.
Recent research done in the
Philippines found that Monolaurin from Virgin Coconut Oil was more effective,
in fighting Mycobacterium tuberculosis than antibiotic drugs such as streptomycin,
isoniazid, rifampicin, and ethamburol. The study was conducted by Jonathan
Cabardo in his dissertation for a PhD degree in biological science at the University of Santo Tomas. His adviser
was Dr Delia Ontengco, a well-known microbiologist and professor at the UST
Graduate School.
Earlier under the heading
The Importance of Vitamin D ii mentioned a medical cover up story in respect of
Multiple Sclerosis…well sadly ii have another medical cover up story to share.
Because of bureaucratic barriers
presented by Big Pharma and their political bed partners Oxyphenbutazone is
unlikely to ever be used to treat TB patients because there is not likely to be
a profit on a cheap over-the-counter drug. So the only real use for
Oxyphenbutazone might very well be on the scrabble board, where the word holds
the title for the highest possible score in this word game.
Is there hope for the future?
So as super germs continue to develop and antibiotics continue to lose
their effectiveness we absolutely have to find new and natural ways of dealing
with disease in the human body.
When two plants like Cannabis and Coconut can cure so many disease and
ailments in the human body, as well as in animals, then we have to realize that
this is not because they are drugs but rather they both contain essential
nutrients which we have been criminally deprived of through global government
terrorism for over 70 years and truly we should all be demanding that our food
be returned to us for free.
Be Blessed Be
Healthy!
SOURCES:
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