| A Clinic in Honduras, has been quietly and successfully | | | | But they were to be denied any satisfaction. Dr Ozel |
| using an Oleander extract to treat patients previously | | | | had been treating terminal cancer patients with his |
| diagnosed with terminal cancer since 2001. Many | | | | oleander extract for some time, bringing many back |
| patients from the U.S. have made the pilgrimage and | | | | from the brink of death. Now they came to court in |
| returned home free of cancer. Patients told by their | | | | force, testifying vehemently in Dr Ozel's defense. Dr |
| doctors that there was nothing more to be done, | | | | Ozel prevailed. And thus was born Dr Ozel's Oleander |
| have gone to Honduras and returned home either | | | | cure for cancer. Except that the FDA still stubbornly |
| completely cured or in dramatic remission. And all this | | | | refuses to accept it, continuing to label it as |
| due to the properties of the simple oleander plant. | | | | "unproven." |
| So what is the secret? Well, there isn't any. The | | | | This in spite of the tests conducted in Europe during |
| USFDA knows all about it, but in deference to our | | | | 1986 and 1987, confirming the effect of NOE on the |
| own massive pharmaceutical and cancer industries, | | | | immune system as well as on cancer. The studies |
| they maintain the position that the oleander extract | | | | then showed that NOE was at least six times as |
| used by this Clinic is "an unproven medicine." This in | | | | potent as the most active commercially available |
| spite of studies world wide past and present, from | | | | immune stimulants. And in 1988, a research team at |
| multiple sources, showing clearly that the medication | | | | the Munich University Pharmacology Institute |
| routinely induces death in human cancer cells without | | | | attempted unsuccessfully to isolate the active |
| harm to the patient. | | | | components of NOE. Although several compounds |
| The FDA "protects" us from the potential harmful | | | | were isolated and identified as possibly being |
| effects of this oleander extract while roundly ignoring | | | | beneficial for the immune system, nothing definitive |
| the toxicity study performed on 28 Beagle dogs at | | | | emerged. The conclusion was that NOE needed to be |
| Southern Research Institute, Birmingham Alabama. No | | | | used as is, further defying any attempts at |
| clinical signs of toxicity were noted in this study. | | | | developing an exclusive pharmaceutical. |
| Another lethality assessment in mice, conducted at | | | | So the FDA needs to content itself with simply |
| Southern Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, | | | | blocking the marketing of NOE as much as possible. |
| showed no pathological signs or ill effects. In April of | | | | They keep falling back on the irrational reason that |
| 2000, the FDA approved a study of this medication | | | | raw Oleander is toxic and insist on proof that NOE is |
| in patients with advanced solid tumors. The study | | | | not. Clinical studies and hundreds of patients turned |
| was conducted under the direction of Ronald | | | | back from death's door don't enter into this equation. |
| Buckowski MD at The Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland | | | | The expensive and often mindless "studies" must be |
| Ohio. The abstract of their findings states that the | | | | conducted over interminable time lines until, hopefully, |
| oleander extract can be safely administered at | | | | the applicant runs out of money. Which is what |
| specific dosages, although no dose limiting toxicities | | | | happened to Dr Ozel's pharmaceutical startup. His |
| were found. | | | | Phase I FDA Trials were conducted with resounding |
| This medication is far from a recent discovery. As far | | | | success. Then he ran out of money. It is expected |
| back as the 8th century AD, Arab physicians were | | | | to take years to get Anvirzelthrough all the FDA |
| using an extract of the poisonous Oleander plant to | | | | trials. |
| treat cancer. And that is where the hangup is. That is | | | | Meanwhile, in 2001, another company obtained a |
| what gives the FDA the excuse to prevent an | | | | patent for Anvirzel in Honduras and treatment has |
| effective medication from upsetting the commercial | | | | been on going on there ever since. |
| balance of the orthodox health care community. The | | | | Studies continue to pour in.confirming that NOE, |
| medication utilized at the Honduras Clinic is a Nerium | | | | Anvirzel induces death in human cancer cells, causes |
| Oleander Extract (NOE) developed by Dr Huseyin | | | | apoptosis, and enhances autophagic cell death in |
| Ozel at the State Hospital near Mugla, Turkey. Dr | | | | pancreatic cancer cells. Oleander has also been shown |
| Ozel took out a patent on this extract during the | | | | to enhance the effects of chemotherapy and |
| 1970s, calling it Anvirzel. | | | | radiation while lessening their side effects. |
| The USFDA is not alone in its zealous obstruction of | | | | If the FDA has its way, we can all be stuck with the |
| progress and innovation in health care. When Dr Ozel | | | | standard cut, burn, and poison routine imposed on us |
| received his patent for Anvirzel, the full wrath of the | | | | by the powerful cancer industry and those of us |
| Turkish conventional medical establishment descended | | | | who get cancer and insist on being cured of it will be |
| on him. They had him arrested and placed on trial for | | | | forced to leave the country. |
| "quackery." | | | | |