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HOXSEY THERAPY - An Alternative Cancer Therapy

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Rocky Montana / March 1, 2012

The Hoxsey Therapy or Hoxsey Method is an alternative medical treatment promoted as a cure for cancer. The treatment consists of a caustic herbal paste for external cancers or an herbal mixture for "internal" cancers, combined with laxatives, douches, vitamin supplements, and dietary changes.

History

The Hoxsey Therapy, a mixture of herbs, was first marketed as a purported cure for caner in the 1920's by Harry Hoxsey, a former coal miner and insurance salesman, and Norman Baker, a radio personality. Hoxsey himself traced the treatment to his great-grandfather, who observed a horse with a tumor on its leg cure itself by grazing upon wild plants growing in the meadow. John Hoxsey gathered these herbs and mixed them with old home remedies used for cancer.

Among the claims in his book, he purports his therapy aims to restore "physiological normalcy" to a disturbed metabolism throughout the body, with emphasis on purgation, to help carry away wastes from the tumors he believed his herbal mixtures caused to nectrotize.

Hoxsey initially opened a clinic in Taylorville, Illinois to sell his treatment, one of 17 clinics that he would eventually open. Dogged in many states by legal trouble for practicing medicine without a license, Hoxsey frequently shut down his clinics and reopened them in new locations. In 1936, Hoxsey opened a clinic in Dallas, Texas which became one of the largest privately owned cancer centers in the world. At one point in the 1950's, Hoxsey's gross annual income reached $1.5 million from the treatment of 8,000 patients. Hoxsey published several books advertising his methods and clinics, and received support from prominent right-wing and conservative personalities and fundamentalist Christians such as Gerald Winrod and H.L. Hunt.

But in the 1950s, Hoxsey's clinics were shut down. The AMA, NCI, and FDA organized a "conspiracy" to "suppress" a fair, unbiased assessment of Hoxsey's methods, according to a 1953 federal report to Congress. Hoxsey's Dallas clinic closed its doors in 1960, and three years later, at Hoxsey's request, Mildred Nelson, R.N., his long-time chief nurse, moved the operation to Tijuana, Mexico.

The Bio-Medical Center, as the clinic is now called, treats all types of cancer, with Nelson overseeing a staff of fully licensed medical doctors and support personnel. The records indicate that many patients, some arriving with late stages of the disease, have been helped and even completely healed of cancer by the nontoxic Hoxsey therapy, which today combines internal and external herbal preparations with a diet, vitamin and mineral supplements, and attitudinal counseling.

The medical orthodoxy labeled Harry Hoxsey "the worst cancer quack of the century." His herbal medicine was denigrated as worthless, simply "a bottle of colored water" containing extracts of useless backyard weeds. FDA officials would go to patients' houses, intimidate them, tell them they were being duped by a quack, and take away their Hoxsey medicines. The American Cancer Society added the Hoxsey therapy to its blacklist of Unproven Methods in 1968, using its customary phraseology about the lack of any evidence that the treatment works.

Yet no representative of the ACS has ever visited the Bio-Medical Center or scientifically tested the Hoxsey remedies. Hoxsey repeatedly urged the AMA and NCI to conduct a scientific investigation of his formulas, but his pleas went unanswered. Instead, his practice was outlawed, the FDA banning the sale of all Hoxsey medications in 1960. His therapy was driven out of the country by a close-minded medical fraternity that continues to view inexpensive, nontoxic herbal medicine as a direct competitive threat.

Today we know that Hoxsey's plant-based remedies contain naturally occurring compounds with potent anticancer effects. According to eminent botanist James Duke, Ph.D., of the United States Department of Agriculture, all of the Hoxsey herbs have known anticancer properties.1 ~ All of them are cited in Plants Used Against Cancer, a global compendium of folk usage of medicinal plants compiled by NCI chemist Jonathan Hartwell. Furthermore, Duke noted, the Hoxsey herbs have long been used by Native American healers to treat cancer, and traveling European doctors picked up the knowledge and took it home with them to treat patients.

Treatment

Hoxsey herbal treatments include a topical paste of antimony, zinc, bloodroot, arsenic, sulfur, and talc for external treatments, and a liquid tonic of licorice, red clover, burdock root, Stillingia root, barberry, Cascara, prickly ash bark, buckhorn bard, and potassium iodide for internal consumption.

In addition to the herbs, the Hoxsey treatment now also includes anitseptic douches and washes, laxative tablets, and nutritional supplements. A mixture of procaine hydrochloride and vitamins, along with liver and cactus, is prescribed. During treatment, patients are asked to avoid consumption of tomatoes, vinegar, pork, alcohol, salt, sugar and white flower products.

In 2005, the cost of initial evaluation and treatment with Hoxsey Therapy at the Bio-Medical Center in Tijuana, Mexico was reported to be between $3,900 and $5,100, though this price did not include the recommended purchase of an unspecified number of dietary supplements and 3 years of return visits.

RM: That is a lot less expensive than the AMA's so-called "cancer treatment", which not only doesn't kill all the cancer, but also has an abysmal success rate. And lets not forget the damage the AMA's so-called "cancer treatments" causes the body's immune system; After these evasive treatments, the immune system is greatly impaired to defend the body against common foreign invaders such as parasites, bacteria, virus, and free-radicals, etc.

Effectiveness

No peer-reviewed medical or scientific research has been published which would allow any conclusions about the effectiveness of the Hoxsey Therapy. The Bio-Medical Center in Tijuana, Mexico claims a success rate of 50-80% in their promotional material, though these figures have not been independently evaluated and the parameters of "treatment success" are undefined. Mildred Nelson, director of the Bio-Medical Center, has claimed 80% success rate, and attributed treatment failures to a "bad attitude" on the part of the patient.

RM: Even the low estimate of 50% cancer cure rate is vastly better than cancer survival rates of people who subscribed to the AMA's cancer treatment, which is between 4-24%, depending on where the cancer is located. After evaluating the data, most reasoning persons would conclude that THE REAL QUACKS ARE THE AMA, (American Medical Association) and their subservient doctors.

Below are reported cancer survival rates from the AMA's so-called "cancer treatment", calculated from the time of the first diagnosis of cancer to five years after treatment.

Pancreas cancer: 4%

Liver and Bile Duct cancers: 8%

Esophagus cancer: 14%

Lung cancer: 15%

Stomach cancer: 24%

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Sources:

Wikipedia

www.healthy.net/Health/Article/Hoxsey_Therapy/2010

www.all-natural-cancer-cures.com/cancer-survival-rates.html

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