My 2 cents, getting it right?

Over the last decade I've looked into bloodroot and black slave at least 3 different times.

Each time I made the assessment to give it a try.

I would then look at the purveyors of the various products at the time.

And declined to order any.

There always seem to be confusion (intentional or otherwise) as to, not only, what black slave was composed of, but also in terms of purity and percentages of ingredients.

Vendors were trying to substitute, what I called, a generic "caustic wart remover" to take advantage of what bloodroot wouldn't do.

But added micro (if any) bloodroot to their product so they could claim their product would work on both cancerous and non-cancerous "sores" and charge accordingly.

(Even though you don't need zinc for the cancerous ones)

My "take" on all of what I read was this.

Never use black salve unless you formulate it yourself.

And ask yourself, is there really a need for such "caustic" material to be placed upon your skin? I really doubt it.

The key selling point of "black salve" with zinc is the removal of non-cancerous growths or sores.

Bloodroot will do nothing to non-cancerous cells.

If you don't have cancer, you "shouldn't" be affected.

If you have major cancer somewhere or minor cancer throughout your body, you could have major problems depending on the amount you're taking.

Start "small" with the bloodroot no matter what you perceive your health to be.

Treating the affected sores that may develop with bloodroot is well documented.

It is NOT for the squeamish.

You must allow the bloodroot to follow the cancerous tendrils on an open wound.

Failure to do this will allow the cancer to possibly reappear.

I personally intend using bloodroot as well as Oleander internally.

I was at a hydroponics store today to check out my options for growing organic bloodroot when I retire.

Unless I know who I'm talking to and can see how something is made that may have a very serious side effect, I'm not inclined to take action.

In my readings a number of people were fooled by bloodroot itself from just a topical application.

They applied it to several skin problem areas (thinking they were cancerous) and nothing happened.

They would then go a little overboard and get surprised by a major wound opening up in an area that didn't show problems.

I wouldn't waste my time with any "black salve".

At least, that's my take on things.


To Your Great Health,

Gracefully Savage