Scary. But so is chemo and radiation. Maybe each formula is different. I've looked at some and some mixes seem more like granulex spray which we use on wound care patients' feet.

It's interesting that Quack Watch on their horror of escharotics brings up Mohs Surgery. In his textbook( Chemosurgery in Cancer, Gangrene and Infections) on page 5 it shows the recipe for making bloodroot paste. The two main ingredients in the recipe are zinc chloride and bloodroot; one to kill the cancer and one to work as a preservative by modifying the PH of the paste. Dr. Mohs showed that he had a 96.2% success rate on the bridge of the nose and 100% on the ala(page 68). Keeping in mind the medical doctors have done everything possible to suppress this cancer cure. It is truly tragic that people have had to die based on their greed and ignorance(Doctors/FDA).

In all fairness please also take a look at this. And notice how nicely it healed,


http://www.truthquest2.com/cancersalvephotos.htm

1. Quackwatch founder Barrett is a fraud himself, proven in court.


http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html


"Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases

At trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete, Barrett conceded that he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the certification exam.

This was a major revelation since Barrett had provided supposed expert testimony as a psychiatrist and had testified in numerous court cases. Barrett also had said that he was a legal expert even though he had no formal legal training.

The most damning testimony before the jury, under the intense cross-examination by Negrete, was that Barrett had filed similar defamation lawsuits against almost 40 people across the country within the past few years and had not won one single one at trial.

During the course of his examination, Barrett also had to concede his ties to the AMA, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA). "

2. Quackwatch is a shadow group for the AMA created to disseminate anti-allopathic propoganda.


http://www.whale.to/a/quackwatch.html


"Quackwatch (originally Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud, Inc.) is an AMA shill that took over from the Coordinating Conference on Health Information (CCHI) and the AMA's propaganda department called the Committee on Quackery when it had to disband ref: Lisa."

More history here:http://www.quackpotwatch.org/

"The "Quackbuster Conspiracy" was started shortly after the American Medical Association (AMA) lost the court battle to the Chiropractors in a case begun in Federal court in 1976. The Federal judge ordered the AMA's covert operation shut down - and leave the Chiropractors alone. The AMA files, library, etc., ended up in Stephen Barrett's 1,800 square foot basement in Allentown, PA. "

3. Quackwatch is known to publish information without properly vetting it. One example here.


http://www.geocities.com/dragpayne/shadyside.html


"So why didn’t Dr. Barret bother to contact Dr. Steenblock concerning the technical details that underlie what is posted on
http://www.strokedoctor.com
-- as well as supportive documentation and citations from the scientific record that validates what he (Steenblock) asserts? Again, this does not reflect a very high standard of journalistic thoroughness."



Scaring people can be a power trip. Barrett has been publicly exposed as an unscrupulous person; many of the pages on the site are mishmashes of outright falsehoods and half-truths with some decent information here and there -- the overall effect is to frighten people away from therapies that they themselves control and to prop up the authority and power of MDs and pharmaceutical companies.

The bloodroot page is a great example. Those photos are horrifying and of course one would feel alarm to look at them. But if you take a step back and read the accompanying descriptions it's possible to piece together a completely different story than the one the page attempts to convey. To put it succinctly: in the wrong hands, and administered in the wrong way, the stuff can obviously be dangerous. So what's the lesson -- avoid it completely? Or find someone who knows how to use it properly as a guide?

The other point is that if you go to a surgeon to remove a melanoma, you're going to lose more than the mole -- my mother had one the diameter of a pencil eraser removed from her arm and the incision alone was five inches long -- and it had not spread at all to surrounding tissue. Remove one from the nose surgically and you'd lose at least as much as that kid in the last picture (the one with the hole in the side of his nose).

Quackwatch is also answerable to nobody. On this site, for instance, claims can be challenged. Quackwatch permits no challenges on its site. Unchecked power is extremely vulnerable to corruption. Consider how Barrett gets stroked by powerful special interest groups like the AMA, not to mention the media. Is that really a source you can trust? I sure don't.

Stephen Barrett, M.D. is not only a nutcase who was discredited and shamed in a court of law, he's a fraud. The photo he uses for his attack on salve treatments shows a woman undergoing surgery who has had tissue from her face surgically removed, not eaten away by some unknown salve. Anyone who has used bloodroot salves themselves would know the difference. I have. My website, truthquest2.com was mentioned earlier, and the thigh photos are of my own leg. So are some other photos on my salve pages of family members. We've been using black salve since 1996 on a variety of problems, some not even normally associated with salve use. I've got a jar of the homemade salve in my fridge and have used it numerous times on several people in my family and otherwise. The idea that this salve is "corrosive" and will burn away tissue wherever it's applied is nonsense. I've applied it several times where all it did was sit there and at the worst, turn skin pink. One incident involved a close friend. It turned out she had a tumor almost filling up her uterus, which had to be removed, but it was benign. No cancer or fungal infection. So when I tried the salve treatment it sat on overnight and barely turned her skin slightly pink. I've tried it on a couple of moles--nothing. No reaction at all, but on some other dangerous-looking moles the salve went crazy, although it healed up without so much as a scar.

Don't get me wrong--if you apply the salve and there is an external or internal cancer that is wide-spread, it will go after the abnormal cells. Anything that opens up the skin, kills abnormal cells and allows for noxious elements to be expelled is normally going to leave a scar, but but nothing like a surgical procedure that has to cut out bad tissue and everything around it. Healing from salve treatment is a whole different ballgame. All of us had flat whitish scars that have faded with time, or left no discernible scaring at all. But for a big cancer, yes, you can count on scars.

For cancer treatment, all of the reputable sites strongly suggest a much more involved protocol. You can remove a cancer, but that doesn't change the conditions that allowed cancer to develop in the first place. That needs to be addressed. The right diet, detoxing, superfood supplements, life style changes--they are all part of being cancer-free.

Also, when doing a salve treatment, allowing the site to heal and then re-applying salve to see if there is any more reaction is always advisable. Sometimes it takes more than one application to go as deep as needed and make certain the roots are killed, otherwise cancer can regrow. And without changing the conditions that allowed cancer to develop, it can certainly come back. Salve is a "weapon" that has been used for centuries with great success, but only part of a healing arsenal.

As for conventional cancer treatments, chemotherapy has something like a 2.3% "success rate"--that means the patient is still alive after 5 years. Make that 6 years and the statistics are reduced. Doing absolutely nothing at all, and there is an estimated 5% recovery rate. Do the math. The statistics are averaged out. Some types of cancer treatment have a much higher cure rate, some none at all. Tragically, many people die from conventional treatment itself. At least that doesn't happen with bloodroot salves.

Quackwatch is mostly lies and misinformation in my humble opinion. I demonstrate with the following (Stephen Barrat runs the quackwatch website):

Court Case: Stephen Barrett, M.D. vs. Tedd Koren, D.C. and Koren Publications, Inc.
Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County for the State of Pennsylvania (Allentown)
Court Case No.: 2002-C-1837

In a court of law (above case) Stephen Barrett admitted ties to the AMA, Federal Trade Commission and the Food Drug Administration. In the same court appearance Barrett was forced to admit that he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the certification exam. This was a major demonstration of Barrett's lack of integrity and honesty since he had provided “expert testimony” as a psychiatrist and had testified in numerous court cases as such. Barrett also told that he was a legal expert even though he had no formal legal training. It was determined that Barrett had filed defamation lawsuits against almost 40 people across the country within the past few years and had not won one single case at trial.