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From Infringement to Liberation: Idu

From Infringement to Liberation: Idu

Reading of Flora Nwapa’s Idu

Flora Nwapa, in her own words, conveys in a nutshell, her idea of the African woman at her best:

... The African woman is intelligent, beautiful, hardworking and everything an ideal woman should be ... She has great independence of spirit.1

Efuru, her first novel marks a long-awaited departure from the stereotypical female portraiture in male-authored African literature. Flora Nwapa's world is predominantly a feminine world as she focuses on the women' world giving only peripheral treatment to the affairs of men. All her novels are heroine-oriented and in them, she writes about women's experience even though it is considered trivial ___ unimportant, trifling and frivolous. In an interview with Marie A.Umeh, Nwapa says

... I do write about women in Nigeria, in Africa, I try to paint a positive picture about women because there are many women who are very, very positive in their thinking, who are very, very independent, and very, very industrious.

Her women emerge as self-assertive and highly individual in the tradition-bound African society. They are non-conforming and seek happiness despite their failure in adhering to the norms of the society.

In the African tradition women are excluded from public affairs and all powers are vested in men. Women have no pride of place in the society. They are submissive and dependent on men. Man treats her as a farm-hand and is considered fit only to cook and look after the family. She has to show excessive respect to her husband, kneel before him and address him master and cannot even eat along with him. Education is not meant for girls. Fathers choose husbands for their daughters as marriages are viewed as the union of two kinship groups and not two individuals. Polygamy is practiced. Children are central to the lives of the villagers. Hence, barrenness is a curse for a woman. It is wrong for a woman on her own to take a major decision. It is a male prerogative. A woman's place is in the home and her duty is to marry and have children. Such social norms blot out her `self', her individuality and separate identity.

In the African tribal society a woman to be free or independent means to disregard restrictive traditional norms, to depart from the prescribed roles to demand her rightful place in the social set-up and to have a mind of her own. Without any male help, a free woman is capable of leading her own life. Flora Nwapa's Efuru is the first novel in African literature to strike out into a new path by projecting the image of highly intelligent and beautiful woman who wills her way with indomitable courage. Efuru is free from her oppressive and abusive husbands and is a symbol of survival and independence. However, she has been chosen by Uhamiri, the Goddess of the Lake, to be one of her worshippers, which means that she can never have a happy married life or children. Her two husbands are unfaithful to her. While the first husband deserts her and does not even attend the burial of their only child, the second one has an illicit affair with another woman and wrongly accuses Efuru of adultery. Efuru divorces him and returns to her father's house. Thus, she ends where she began. Her father dies and now she is childless, husbandless, fatherless __ quite alone. This must have prompted Eustace Palmer to call Efuru a tragedy. But Florence Stratton rightly remarks that, "Efuru is not a tragedy ... Rather it is a novel of successful development, of a woman's successful development __ a female bildungsroman".

In her writings Nwapa harps on the fate of the energetic and independent women. She accommodates the childless, husbandless, motherless, the educated and the distinguished women who can help to reconstruct their community. When she is labelled a feminist, she boldly affirms the fact by saying, "... I am feminist with a big `f' because ... feminism is about possibilities; there are possibilities, there are choices. Let us not be afraid to say that we are feminists".

Speaking about the portrayal of women in her novels, Nwapa says that they are independent, industrious and positive in thinking unlike how men present them :

I try to project the image of women positively. I attempt to correct our menfolks when they started writing, when they wrote little or less about women, where their female characters are prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. I started writing to tell them this is not so".

About the major ideological difference between male and female writing in Nigeria, Nwapa says:

The male writers have disappointed us a great deal by not painting the female character as they should paint them. I have to say that there's been a kind of an ideological change. I think male writers are now presenting women as they are. They are not only mothers; they are not only palm collectors; they are not only traders; but they are also wealthy people. Women can stand on their own.

In her novels, Nwapa portrays the African woman as many things in one ___ an African, `every-woman', hard-working, well-wishing, competent, patient and long-suffering, mother of sorrows, a distinguished woman, a symbol of the universal woman, who fights or struggles for her independence and for virtual place in her society.

Nwapa wrote six novels, a biography, several short stories, and children's literature. Her first novel, Efuru (1996), marks the bold departure from the portrayal of a traditional woman character in African literature. It is based on an old folk tale and is about a woman chosen by Gods. Efuru, the protagonist, is free, independent, self-assertive and beautiful and therefore admired by the community. Her honesty, nobility and her success in trading are appreciated. Despite her outward success, she suffers the loss of her only child and the abandonment of two husbands. Eventually she is able to realise that personal fulfilment can be attained not through the conventional roles of wife and mother, but by being alone and independent. She dedicates her life to Goddess and begins a new life. Flora Nwapa portrays, for the first time, in African literature a woman who seeks happiness despite her inability to bear children and behave in prescribed feminine ways.

In the titular novel, Idu (1969) also, Nwapa presents an assertive, individualistic and non-conforming woman. A devoted wife to a doting husband, Idu questions the customary glorification of motherhood in the traditional society by rejecting it as the only significant justification for a woman's existence. She is able to exercise her choice in matters that concern her and thus represents the emerging new woman in the African society.

The lives of Efuru and Idu examine and revise the prevalent notions of marriage, social responsibility, self-sacrifice and service to society and humanity. Their lives also deal with childlessness and the disastrous effect this has on marital life in a rural African setting.

While Efuru registers a bold departure from traditionally accepted image of an African woman, Idu stands as an example of a new and awakened African woman. Both of them are perfect women ___ ideal wives, successful market women, strong-willed, self-assertive, generous and popular in their respective villages. They were barren and had to suffer from loneliness for a brief period. Both of them, generally, are conforming but can also transcend the norms when life plays tricks on them.

Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Idu are the beginning of a new breed of heroines in African literature. In effect they proclaim to the world the rise of the self-assertive African woman, whose willing subordination of her`self' can no longer be taken for granted by the African male. They are a radical departure from the traditionally subordinate role assigned to them.1

Efuru as well as Idu are able to flout tradition in their own way. Two successive marital failures and loss of the only child cause immense grief to Efuru. But Efuru manages to survive the tragedy and realise her `self'. Her devotion to the Lake Goddess, Uhamiri, helps her to get back to her independent and happy life. Idu, on the other hand feels it hard to withstand the death of her dear husband and flouts all conventions. She refuses to marry her brother-in-law, to scrape her hair and wear black dress for mourning as per the custom. She died the day her husband died and dies physically days after. Her son and her pregnancy could not deter her from her determination to join her husband in the `land of death'. This prompts Lloyd W.Brown to comment thus :

Nwapa's protagonist arrives at her crucial decisions as individual in a social context that is heavily influenced by that sense of order which flows from strong social institutions and established moral norms especially the conventions governing the woman's role as a part of the family unit.2

Marriage and consequent motherhood are generally the goal and destiny of any African woman. Motherhood is more glorified than wifehood and it gives contentment and fulfilment to a woman. Idu, happily married to Adiewere, is sad as she fails to become a mother even after several years of marriage. Except this blemish in their lives, the couple are prosperous and contented. Idu's husband is not particularly disturbed about this. Idu weeps over her misfortune, who feels degraded and humiliated since barrenness is considered a great curse for an Igbo woman.

Idu racks with inward grief when she hears about her co-sister Ogbenyanu's pregnancy. She takes her apparent barrenness with due seriousness and asks her husband that, "When do you think my own baby will come?"3. Her devoted husband, Adiewere, consoles her:

I don't want you to start crying tonight because you have no child. I am your husband, do you hear ? I am the one to get worried, not you. My mother is dead. My only brother is Ishiodu, and he does not count for much. So don't worry. (16)

In the traditional Igbo society, it is very uncommon for a husband not to worry about his wife's sterility. Accordingly Adiewere does worry about his wife's childlessness, but only in the first year of their marriage. Then he stops to brood over the problem due to his great love for his wife. Even after three years of fruitless marriage, he refuses to pay heed to people's advice for a second marriage as he cannot imagine marrying another woman.

Idu, too is equally devoted to her husband and has great concern for his health. She stops her trading if he is not well, "We talk of trading only when we have good health"(14). She consults the dibia, for his health. On such occasions, during her absence, many of the business customers refuse to sell their oil to other traders. Her business friends Okeke and his friend Okorie who brought the kernal oil from the town also refuse to sell their oil to others. Her envious co-trader questions, "What do you do for them that they stick to you?" (23).

Being good traders, Idu and Adiewere secure a huge profit in their trade and plan to complete the out-house which is half-left due to the troubles created by Ishiodu, Adiewere's only brother. Ishiodu's kernal oil is stolen and as a result the company puts him in cell. The couple spend all their money to release him. At the time of his marriage also they gave some money for trading. But in no time they are deeply in debts and Idu and Adiewere have to clear all their debts. Adiewere supports his brother mainly because of the moral obligations of the family ties. Their kindness and generosity have won the hearts of the people who pray to god and the ancestors to give them children.

In the traditional society a woman who cannot reproduce is not a woman. A child is more valuable than money. The richest woman on the earth is the poorest without a child. Idu is pitied and regarded as a failure just as Efuru in her second marriage. One woman puts it in Idu, "What we are all praying for is children. What else do we want if we have children?" (150). However, the ever-loving Adiewere vows to stick to his childless wife through thick and thin as his love for her outweighs other considerations. Idu, on the other hand is not willing to play second fiddle. But the rules are clear in the tribal community. If a woman has no child then she must allow her husband to marry another woman for the sake of children and thereby help to continue her husband's lineage:

If Idu can't have a child, let her allow her husband to marry another wife. That's what our people do. (33)

After several persuasions the reluctant Idu, atlast finds a girl for her husband. The new wife however, does not easily fit into their pattern of life and as a result the quite and peaceful life of them is disturbed. Despite domestic tensions and unease because of the new wife, Idu treats her as a child, "I shall be good to her. It's not in my nature to be unkind or harsh to

children, ..." (47). She believes that all is well with them and their trade also prospers after the young wife joins them. Though the new wife threatens to destroy the harmony of their relationship, Idu manages to dissociate herself from her co-wife's self-seeking individualism and maintains an air of tranquility.

By her prayers or by her luck, after several years of married life, Idu eventually conceives and her long cherished dream of motherhood is going to be fulfilled. Nwasobi who hears about Idu's pregnancy thanks the god and says, "When a woman is good, God, our ancestors, and the Woman of the Lake all look at her stomach, not at her head, but at her stomach". (42)

The long-awaited Idu's pregnancy fills joy and contentment in Adiewere who also thinks this as a proof of his manliness. Now he thinks that it will be good for him, if his second wife decides to go back to her people on her own will. Indeed, she does it, on her own accord for another man, without being aware of Idu's pregnancy and marries him.

Meanwhile Idu continues with her trade as usual. People talk about Idu and her pregnancy and whenever she comes to beach, her business customers come in groups and give her many presents. Her business friends Okeke and Okorie bring her so many fruits, foodstuff and admire her and look up to her with respect.

Idu gives birth to a fine baby boy, Ijoma but on an unusual day when, "... We had night in the afternoon. It is a bad day. Pray that the baby does not come today" (84). But the baby does come on the day of an eclipse, when "... night could occur twice in one day. It was unheard of" (82). However, to Idu and Adiewere, the day of the child's birth is auspicious and Ijoma is regarded as a prodigy in many ways, mainly because, he is born on a day on which there has been an eclipse of the Sun. Anamadi gradually changes her attitude and loves her nephew Ijoma and stays with him most of the time. She is so fond of Ijoma that she cannot tolerate anybody causing any inconvenience to him. Idu is happy with her sister who is reconciled to her.

Idu and Adiewere's life is much enriched with the arrival of Ijoma. His exuberance and brightness overwhelm them. Everyone talk about Idu's family, applaud them and they expect that Idu's womb is open. Her husband also thinks that his wife's womb will accommodate more children but sadly it is not so with Idu.

After her first child, Idu fails to conceive again for two long years and again the society begins to censure her. Once Onyemuru meets Idu and asks,"... did you say that your husband should not marry another woman. Come, did you say that?"(90). Even though Idu denies the charge, Onyemuru continues to blame her:

You said so. If you did not say so, he would have married another wife. You have already driven away the second wife he married, such a good wife. We don't do things like that here. You are a dangerous woman. (90)

Though Idu tries to ignore her, this sudden and unwarranted attack gives her a shock. Upset with Onyemuru's words, Idu asks her husband to marry another woman, "I don't want to be called a bad woman any more" (91). Adiewere agrees to marry to satisfy his wife but he adds, "... Idu, what man will marry another woman after marrying you. You know you are different".(91)

The theme of importance of children in an African marriage is again illustrated in the marriage of Ojiugo and Amarajeme. Ojiugo, Idu's childhood friend, is also industrious, prosperous and generous, but her's is a fruitless marriage. Whenever Idu and Ojiugo meet they chat amiably about many things, "... On their trade, their husbands, and the gossips in town" (37). Amarajeme is a good man like Idu's husband, and worships his wife for her good qualities.

One day, Ojiugo, who is expecting a child disappears, having confided in her friend Idu that she is going to live with Obukodi, her husband's friend, who is the father of her expected child. Her desertion makes Amarajeme heart-broken. Sympathisers pour in but he is confident that his wife will come back, as they are drawn towards each other on the basis of deeper feelings marked by sincerity, intensity, and devotion. Ignorant of the reasons for her abandonment, he mourns without eating anything. Idu, who knows this comes with her husband to see him, pities him, but she cannot do anything for him.

In her early years of married life itself, Ojiugo realises the impotence of her husband. Being a good woman, she finds it difficult to break lose from the shackles of marriage and remains patient for six years. Finally she has no qualms about deserting him for a man, Obukodi, who can guarantee her, her cherished dream of motherhood. It may not be difficult to understand the compulsive nature of circumstances and the intensity of feelings that have driven Ojiugo to take recourse to such a desperate action.

Amarajeme who does not know about his sterility lives in his usual sad mood with hope. After three months he stops cooking for Ojiugo and wears black dress as a sign of mourning. Everyone is horrified at this, because Ojiugo is not dead. He waits thus for eight full months and one day the thoughtless, Onyemuru blasts the news that Ojiugo has a son. Amarajeme slowly realizes that he is impotent, and he is not like other men. He recognizes that he is the one who is sick, and to be blamed.

When Amarajeme learns that Ojiugo has a son, he hangs himself in the mistaken notion that every man must reproduce patriarchy. He ends his life tragically and as Ogunyemi perceives,"... by taking his life, he further devalues himself in a community where suicide is a taboo and the corpse is trash"4. The news of Amarajeme's death makes Ojiugo to repent and she throws herself on the floor and weeps." I have killed him. I am a murderer. I have killed him. He hanged himself because I left him" (144). Even though she leaves Amarajeme for the sake of child, she bemoans for his death. Inspite of the suggestions from all, including Idu's, the wealthy, independent and the new mother dies on the day her husband has died demonstrating her deep-seated love for him.

Idu becomes pregnant for the second time when Ijoma is four years old and now her anxiety over having another child is also dispelled. But Adiewere dies suddenly and mysteriously leaving Idu shattered. As any other day, they are at the beach and Adiewere complains of dizziness and leaves for home and dies of a mysterious disease. Idu, runs home, sees that Adiewere is dead, becomes motionless, then goes to Nwasobi and informs her very quietly about her husband's death.

The serenity of Idu makes Nwasobi's blood cold. When Nwasobi implores her to weep, Idu asks:

`Weep for what?'... Weep for Adiewere? That is not what we agreed on. He has cheated me. We did not agree on what to do if this sort of thing happened. We did not think of it. Why do you want me to weep. I am going with him. Leave me alone, I am going with him." (210)

Idu cannot take his death. In anguish she retrospects her life with him and remembers what she has said once, "It is life we are praying for, life and nothing else"(206). After Adiewere's death, she decides to follow him so that they can continue the relationship in the other world, "I am going with my husband. Both of us will go there, to the land of the death". (210)

Idu's behaviour is rather strange. She refuses to scrape her hair and wear black dress for mourning as custom demands. No amount of persuasion can change her mind and she even tells her husband's people that, "She was going soon to the land of the dead; and that Adiewere would not like to see her hair scraped" (215). Anamadi, finds her sister, Idu's behaviour strange:

Idu would not eat anything. She had said things that frightened her. Alone in the room, she had talked to Adiewere as if he was there physically. Some mornings she had greeted him as usual, and laughed when she suddenly remembered that he was no longer there.(217)

Pressure mounts on her to marry Ishiodu, her husband's brother. But she flatly refuses, to do that as she is bent on following her husband to the next world:

I have not forgotten Ijoma, my son. And the one in my womb. Adiewere said it would be a boy. I will have it in the land of the dead ... I have arranged everything. (216)

Idu has the will power to do what exactly she has been saying-to die for her husband. For this, she does not commit suicide nor fall sick at that time and die from it. One afternoon, twenty eight days after her husband's death, she expresses her desire to eat as she has not eaten for days since he died. Nice meal is prepared by her sister. She washes her hands as if she is cleaning them for a ritual. For the first time, she throws a morsel of the food to Adiewere, the ancestors, the Gods and then begins to eat a nice meal, lies down and dies.

Idu tells her sister, "I am going to sleep. I am very tired. When Nwasobi comes, ask her to come inside" (218). Nwasobi comes and tries to speak to Idu. She touches her and realises what has happened. Anamadi, shocked, shakes her "... as if by doing so she would bring her back to life. Come let's prepare her for the funeral, don't you see she is dead? She kept her word. She has followed her husband ..."(218).

The manner in which Idu dies is gripping as well as unbelievable. It is difficult to understand the possibility of such a thing however intense the grief may be. Dispelling the doubts, Ernest N.Emenyonu affirms the possibility when he says:

Too fantastic? Not if you have been `listening' to the voices in the novel. Too unrealistic? Not if you have been close enough to the Igbo culture and life-ways. Too remote? Not if you understand that even among the Igbo, the love between two individuals can be such that one can die without the other.5

Idu rejects life and children in preference to following her dead husband. It cannot be considered as a cowardly act or a failure to face the responsibilities of motherhood. It is an indication of the deepest kind of love she possesses for her husband. Nirupa Rani glorifies her death when she comments:

It is not death that she experiences as an end but the union with the spirit of her husband. This achievement of freedom from the mundane world gives her "Peace".6

Idu's strong determination to get united with her husband through death receives commendation from yet another critic who says that."She succeeds in her death-wish by her renunciation of worldly pleasures and by her tapas, and attains a kind of swachanda marana, voluntary death"7. Idu's death is a shattering blow to Nwasobi and Anamadis' who are overwhelmed by grief, " No, no it can't be, it's not so ..." (218).

Amarajeme, Ojiugo's husband grieves at the loss of his dear wife. But he commits suicide by hanging only when he becomes aware of her desertion and her pregnancy by another man which discloses to the world, his sterility. Thus, in choosing death, he accepts the society's concern with motherhood and fatherhood. In contrast to this, in the case of Idu as well as Ojiugo, neither children nor prosperity counts for anything because both women, in spite of having children, still refuse to live on after the deaths of their respective husbands. Ojiugo, according to Idu, `died' the day that her husband Amarajeme died. Her life becomes meaningless after the death of her former husband. Though she leaves him because of his impotence, still she retains greatest respect for him. That's why "she `died' the day her husband died. The day Amarajeme died, that was the day she `died'"(216). Idu's case is even more puzzling as she knows she is pregnant when Adiewere dies but she still insists on joining him. She clearly states, "I have not forgotten Ijoma, my son. And the one in my womb... I will have it in the land of the died".(216)

Women in the African society function as instruments of procreation and hence even their infidelity or instability does not permanently scar the women. It is their central role as mother which supercedes that of wife. It was regarded a curse not to have children. A barren woman is considered a failure. This is the worst affliction a couple can endure and it is always attributed to the woman.

Thus Idu's anguish at her inability to conceive on two occasions is understandable. When her son Ijoma is presumed to be lost, Idu weeps bitterly, "Ijoma is the only thing I have in this world"(186). She frantically searches for him, "My Ijoma, where is my Ijoma, where is my only son? where is my only child? Has he drowned?" (189)

By and large, the Africans consider children as basis for marriage. Idu is even told once, " what else do we want if we have children?" (150). Idu's story is a fitting reply to that question. Ogunyemi reiterates this view when he says that, " ... With the death of the pregnant Idu, Nwapa insists that having a child in not necessarily fulfilling ..."8

Idu has a child, but when her husband dies, she prefers to follow him to the next world. In doing so, what she desires is to continue her fulfiling relationship with her husband even after death rather than to live on as a mother to her children. She clearly demonstrates, contrary to the prevailing notion, that children are not the only thing she wants from life. Idu redefines death as a transforming alternative rather than decisive ending. Lloyd W.Brown very aptly analyses this when he says:

Idu does not assume that a husband is indispensable for a woman's self-respect, any more than she accepts the consensus that motherhood is the only significant justification for a woman's existence. Her final choice emphasizes that it is the matter of choice itself that is most important in the woman's identify.9

Though Idu defies the customs a widow is expected to follow, she faithfully observes certain other rituals, atleast at the time of her death. This means she has only accepted certain rituals but not the traditional belief of superiority of motherhood. A woman needs courage of her conviction to surmount opposition to be true to herself and Idu has that in abundance.

The question of choice is the underlying theme of Idu. Idu chooses a qualitatively satisfying life with Adiewere. Once he is dead, the only choice left for her is to continue the relationship beyond death. That's why she refuses to observe formal mourning for Adiewere and defies established norms, socially sanctioned roles of a wife and bereaved widow. Her personal feelings go beyond social conventions. Death is now relatively insignificant for her, death merely represents the transformation of the context within which their love will continue. In contrast to Idu, faced with two choices, marriage and motherhood on the one hand and independence on the other hand, Efuru chooses to be independent without breaking her ties with the community. Idu, like Efuru is independent and is capable of making choices. This prompts Lloyd W. Brown to comment that, "The emphasis is not on specific roles, but on the woman's need for a free choice of roles".10

Efuru, the childless, the husbandless, but the educated and the distinguished woman is able to transform herself into a new woman who can help to reconstruct the community. Uhamiri stands for fierce independence and tender female caring which are the signs of her authority and Efuru is endowed with the same as her worshipper and becomes a spiritual model for all. Idu decides to end her life through starvation thereby resisting the role of a widow who must submit to the social norms.

Yemi Mojola considers Efuru and Idu "... as Nwapa's vision of the ideal Igbo woman rather than representing the ordinary Igbo woman".11 To him these characters appear to be at odds with Igbo reality. On the contrary Nirupa Rani finds that, "... Efuru and Idu are very earthly and are primordial in nature".12

Chimalum Nwankwo also justifies Flora Nwapa's presentation when he says:

The so-called perfection in their characters is there because Nwapa expects these characters to be accepted in the manner in which icons of other cultures and societies are accepted. There are appropriate male and female foils in either novel to high light the goodness of Efuru and Idu respectively.13

Clenching the issue, Femi Ojo-Ade finds Idu more acceptable and realistic between the sisters. He views that:

Idu, though tragically struck like Efuru, is a more acceptable personality. She is closer to tradition than the cantankerous Efuru. Her joys are more authentic, more down-to-earth. While Efuru is `married' to the Woman of the Lake... Idu remains forever attached to her Adiewere... the more traditional Idu rebels against tradition while the more modern Efuru espouses tradition.14

Nwapa's conception of love and the marital bond is rooted in the African world view. Flora Nwapa has been able to correlate the traditional African view point, and the social structure to the universal attitude of the woman. In Idu Nwapa tells that deep love does not contemplate the possibility of separation.

Idu thus emerges as the trend - setter and the progenitor of a new generation of African woman. She is able to rebel against the established customs and practices of the society and thereby assert her individuality. She demonstrates her freedom by choosing death when her husband dies. The triumphant effect of Idu's choice and her minimizing of death is particularly strong. Her choice of death can be viewed as an affirmation of love and a commitment to her husband which has strength to even transcend death .

Trying to place Idu in the African literary tradition, Lloyd W. Brown says, "Idu falls somewhere between the frank exposal of the communal tradition in Sutherland's drama and the Western oriented sense of individualism in the novels of South Africa's Bessie Head."15

REFERENCES

1. L. Sasibala. "Heroines of Flora Nwapa". Commonwealth Fiction. vol.II, Ed. R.K. Dhawan.New Delhi : Prestige, 1998: 262.

2. Lloyd W. Brown. Women writers in Black Africa. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1981: 151.

3. Flora Nwapa Idu. London: Heinemann, 1970: 16.

All further page references are taken from this edition.

4. Chikwenye Okenjo Ogunyemi. "Introduction: The Invalid, Dea(r)th, and the Author: The Case of Flora Nwapa, aka Professor (Mrs.) Flora Nwanzuruahu Nwakuche". Research in African Literatures. vol.26 No.2 Summer, 1995: 8.

5. Ernest N. Emenyonu. "Who does Flora Nwapa Write For?" African Literature Today. 7. 1975: 30.

6. K.Nirupa Rani. "The Feminine perspective: A study of Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Idu". African Literature Today Ed.by. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi : Prestige, 1994: 203

7. Sasibala, 272.

8. Ogunyemi, 8.

9. Brown, 151.

10. Brown, 151.

11. Yemi Mojola. "Flora Nwapa." The Guardian. (Lagos) 23 Nov, 1985: 21.

12. Nirupa Rani, 201.

13. Chimalum Nwankwo. "The Igbo Word in Flora Nwapa's Craft" Research in African Literatures. 26.2. summer, 1995: 48.

14. Femi Ojo - Ade. "Female Writers, Male Critics." African Literature Today. 13. 1983: 165.

15. Brown, 157.

About the Author

D/o venkatrama raju
d.o.b. 20-08-1976
qualification: M.A., M.Phil(English)
Dept. of english,
Sri padmavati women's university, tirupati-2,
Andhra pradesh India

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It's an fascinating observation as to why our elderly yrs are addressed the golden yrs. I guess when 1 comprehends what these years were originally intended to be like, that may have been a proper description.

The study of the anatomy of the human body has established that there are very clear signs of the maturing body, far before we became consciously aware of it ourselves. Sure there's days that we get up filled with aches and pains, but in the young to middle years we find an excuse for it. For good example, I played too much ball yesterday, or I elevated too much at work. Then all of a sudden one day, when we wake up to the unchanged aches and pains, its because we are growing old.

The anatomy of the human body have got to be one of the most fascinating aspects present on world. There has been tons of research and study on human physiology. There is so very much that we have come to acknowledge about it, but so in all likelihood as equal as much, that we do not know.

Perhaps if we made a personalized interest in acquiring what our bodies are all about, and what they are doing we could go back to relishing the golden yrs. The anatomy of the human body is although really complex ,also very easy to get to know if one requires the time. Young people in their twenties, are on top of the earth both mentally and physically with their whole life ahead of them in years hopefully , merely will it be in optimal wellness is the real question.

To begin with the ageing procedure has started. We set out with more or less a billion neurons in our brain ,and by the time we are in our 20s they have led off to dwindle away. Within about ten years we could be suffering as much as 10,000 a day. At Present thats got to make some time of impact on us. From a medical point of view, this loss is affecting our memory, co-ordination and brain process. The anatomy of the human body is sure to change.

Children old bones replace themselves very rapidly, approximately within a two year period. This is really the substitute of old bone material with new. In grownups this replacing of bones can take up ten years. Up until the mid twenties bone density goes on to growth. After thirty five bone loss starts, and the ageing procedure has started.

Around fifty five our gut begins to become abandoned. All that good bacteria that is suppose to be there is disappearing. Thus now the stomach irritations will begin, and bad digestion will become evident and inevitable. Its all part and parcel of aging.

These are simply a couple of the aging processes that take place in our body, and we have the anatomy of the human body, to thank for leading us into our golden years.

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Dr. Sartori and High PH Therapy Cesium Chloride A Therapy For Cancer

XYZ-Wellbeing ReTreat Facility are the only people who have experience in this IV Therapy. It is wrong and can be dangerous to do this therapy with-out a skilled person assisting you. These above specialists have the benefits of my many 40 years experience in the field of Cancer and specializing with what I believe is the best, High PH therapy.

DrPablo at a new clinic opening early in 2009 www.XYZ-Wellbeing.com Dr Pablo heads up the team in a new six year Cancer Trial On Alternative Treatments in Combination. They run for the FIRST 21 DAYS of each month commencing with a weekend workshop the first Saturday of each month. This is a holistic combination that will give you the best possible outcome using these therapies.

Stage 1 has a detoxing and strengthening preparation program for 21 days, & Ozone. Stage 2 Followed by Dr Sartori Ozone and High PH Program month 2 over 21 days. Stage 3 A Recharge and rebuild program that included very high Vitamin C, Hyperbaric Oxygen, Colonic Irrigation, Immune stimulants, just to name a few of the services.

With a relaxing pampering week in between with organic food, massage and many qualified Alternative Practitioners and supportive staff, this clinic is unique.

The programs at XYZ-Wellbeing.com include Ozone, Vitamin B17, also referred to as laetrile, Enzyme Therapy, Vit C for Cancer & Detoxing and or wellness enhancement programs every day, as well as mind therapy and meditation.

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and only use this program with a supportive practitioner as like all therapies,
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However in the wrong combination or hands can be dangerous.

Part 1 HOW TO TURN CANCER INTO A NEW LEASE ON LIFE

 I am proud to announce that the Enhanced High-pH Therapy of Cancer
originally conceived by the world-famous bio and nuclear physicist 
A. Keith Brewer, Ph. D. and
enhanced by the undersigned
is once again available through www.XYZ-Wellbeing.com ReTreat Facility

 
This cancer therapy is based on Natures way of getting rid of cancer. It simulates the life condition of the longevity populations of this world, all of which seem to have many factors in common. These people, many of which live well over 120 years in excellent health, are almost exclusively found in high altitudes of 2000 m (7000 ft) and above. They breathe clean air enriched with tiny amounts of ozone. They drink pure mountain water that flows right of the glaciers. They grow their own food that is rich in vitamins and minerals. Their stress level is low and they are in harmony with their environment.
 
Their spiritual beliefs demand from them to respect all other living beings. It is interesting to note that of the three people with the greatest longevity, two - the Hunzas in Northern Pakistan, and the Abkhazians in the Caucasian Mountains of Georgia near the Black Sea - are devout Muslims, the third, in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, mostly follow Native American Indian animistic beliefs.The first unusual ingredient of the environment of the longevity population - ozone is highly activated oxygen consisting of three atoms. This triatomic oxygen is the most powerful purifier of the Earth and of all living beings. In the simplest terms, ozone is capable of burning all poisonous substances at temperatures between 10 to 40 degrees Celsius (50 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit), as well as killing all bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that may contribute to cancers.
 
Ozone is produced by the action of ultraviolet sun light on the oxygen in the air. The higher up we go, the more ultraviolet, and thus, the more ozone. Since time immemorial, it was known that women, who grew up in lowlands, would not get pregnant for at least six months if they moved to altitudes of 3600 m (12000 ft.) or higher. We believe now that ozone naturally prevents a pregnancy until these women are fully acclimatized to high altitudes. In the same way, as ozone temporarily stops the growth of the embryo, it also stops the growth of any fast growing cancer.
We know from the research of Prof. Dr. Otto von Warburg in the 1920s that the cancer cell acts like a plant cell and is dependent for its energy metabolism on lactic fermentation. Fermentation is 19 times less effective than oxidation, the normal energy metabolism of the entire animal kingdom. Fermentation is very sensitive to minute amounts of ozone and there are virtually no cancers observed in people living in altitudes above 2100 m (7000 ft.).
 
All longevity populations live on a diet rich in certain vitamins and minerals that have been proven effective in preventing cancer. Most important among these nutrients are vitamin C (ascorbic acid and ascorbates), vitamin A (retinoic acid and derivatives) and beta-carotene, vitamin E (mixed tocopherols), vitamin D2 from UV irradiation of ergosterol, the high-pH minerals cesium (Cs), rubidium (Rb), and potassium (K), and the trace minerals zinc (Zn), selenium (Se), molybdenum (Mo), and vanadium (V). These nutrients are found in the home-grown vegetables and fruits that are mostly eaten within a few hours after they are harvested. Needless to say, they are grown organically, without the use of harsh chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Most of the drinking water is glacier run-off, called milk of the mountains that is rich in rubidium and cesium. Magnesium (Mg), with calcium (Ca), essential for the transport of oxygen into cells, and potassium (K) with Mg, the most important intracellular electrolytes, are abundant both in green vegetables and drinking water consumed by longevity populations. It is interesting to note that most longevity populations go through prolonged periods of fasts on a yearly basis, be it during the month of Ramadan or during the leaner part of the year before the crops are harvested.
 
If ozone in higher doses is applied intravenously, it is effective not only to prevent cancer, but to reverse many cancers, especially cancers of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and metastatic cancers to the bone, as is well documented in the medical literature. Doctor A.K. Brewerâs high-pH therapy, using high doses of cesium (or rubidium), and enhanced by weak acids such as ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and retinoic acid (derived from vitamin A) , as well as ampholytic elements such as zinc and selenium, has been proven effective in virtually all fast growing cancers, both after oral and intravenous application. This is further enhanced by amilonitriles contained in apricot pits that are part of the regular diet of the Hunzas, and may also be applied intravenously in the form of Laetrile.
 
The intravenous form of the enhanced high-pH therapy also contains generous amounts of the intracellular electrolytes magnesium and potassium. The dosage of the I.V. therapy is adjusted to reduce virtually all smaller cancer accumulations (up to 20 or 30 cm diameter), providing that they are fast growing tumors, by one to two centimeters per day (2/5 to 4/5 per day). Large tumor masses are reduced with the I.V. therapy by 500 to 900 grams per day (1 to 2 lbs. /day) to prevent an over-loading of the bodies metabolism and excretion with tumor breakdown products. The critical factor is the kidney and liver function of the cancer patient before the enhanced high-pH therapy is started. One important thing to keep in kind is that, though the enhanced high-pH therapy was seemingly effective, some patients may still succumb from the adverse effects of cancer chemotherapy, or from complications of radiation or surgery undergone previously. Also, if a cancer patient, after the tumor disappeared with the high pH therapy, does not change his lifestyle and eating habits, cancers may develop again in his or her body.
 
How does all of this work?
Most orthodox cancer chemotherapy proffers only a large number of unproven theories and in almost all cases shortens the survival after severe suffering form its adverse effects1. On the other hand, the enhanced high-pH cancer therapy is proven effective by clinical and experimental studies that filled over two thirds of Supplement 1, to the major peer-reviewed medical journal Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, of December 1984 [21 Suppl 1: 1-135]2.
 
Also, on this therapy, almost all patients, no matter how far gone or suffering from the adverse effects of chemotherapy and/or radiation, will feel much better within a few days. Particularly, cancer pain, even if unresponsive to the most powerful pain killers, in most cases disappears within only a few hours after starting the cesium.
 
Any symptoms connected with this therapy, particularly from the I.V. ozone, are almost always the result of a healing crisis, well known to homeopaths for over 200 years. These symptoms may be quite uncomfortable but subside in most cases within a few hours, and many patients report that afterwards they felt better then ever before in their lives.
 
1 See Appendix II to the author's two Cancer Articles: "Nutrients & Cancer" and "Cesium Therapy in Cancer Patients", Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1984; Suppl 1: 7-10 & 11-3, respectively.
 
2 See Appendix I to and also the author's two Cancer Articles of 1984.
 
In the following we will briefly explain how cancers form (i.e., carcinogenesis) and how the enhanced high-pH cancer therapy transforms cancer cells either to normal cells or makes them disappear altogether.
 
Professor Dr. Otto von Warburg, double Nobel laureate, in medicine and biochemistry, in the 1920s discovered the fundamental mechanism of carcinogenesis. When certain cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens) attach to the cell membrane, the oxygen carriers calcium and magnesium are unable to enter these cells. The resulting oxygen starvation causes these cells to regress to anaerobic (i.e., without oxygen) metabolism [which is 19 times less effective than aerobic (with oxygen) metabolism, as was stated previously].
 
The end product of anaerobic breakdown of glucose is lactic acid which renders the cell acidic. This acidosis, in turn, causes the genetic changes that result in the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. The pH in cancer cells, because of the lactic acid buildup, lowers from about 7.2 to 7.0 (in fast growing tissues) to between 6.8 and 6.0, and in some fast growing metastases to even 5.5. This renders cancer cells extremely vulnerable to ozone and alkalinity which, if applied in minute amounts, either normalizes or destroys them.
 
Specifically, intravenous ozone has the four major effects in cancer patients.
 
One, it removes homeopathically whatever disposed a specific organism to cancer and this causes the healing crisis. This healing crisis may be quite uncomfortable subjectively (though lasting at most a few hours), but there is less than a one in a million chance of serious complications.
Two, ozone removes all toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, amoebas, viruses, bacteria, and other agents from the body that may in some way contribute to cancer and this may be the reason why it seems to be cancer preventative.
Three, ozone inhibits any fast and uncontrolled growth typical for cancer cells.
And four, ozone has a well documented immuno-stimulating effect that helps both with the protection from cancer and with the removal of cancer cells destroyed by the high-pH therapy, enhances the body's resistance to infections, and boosts longevity.
The more acidic the cancer cells, i.e., the lower their pH, the more vulnerable they are to alkaline, or high-pH, agents. While normal cells are not permeable for cesium or rubidium, and require a transport mechanism for potassium, these three alkalizing elements freely diffuse into cancer cells. This causes the pH to raise in cancer cell; and the higher the pH in the cancer cells, the faster the cancer breaks down. If the intracellular pH is raised to above 8.5, you can actually see the skin wrinkle while you watch over areas where there previously was a superficial cancer tumor, e.g., a breast cancer.
 
This diffusion of alkalizing elements is enhanced by ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and retinoic acid (from vitamin A). Zinc and selenium further enhance the penetration of cesium, etc., by broadening the electron donor capacity of the cell membrane. Zinc and selenium are also powerful immunostimulants, and help with the removal of tumor cells by phagocytotic (lit. cell-eating) neutrophil leukocytes (white blood cells) and monocytes (also called macrophages or â big cell-eaters). Selenium, vitamin E, and beta-carotene are powerful antioxidantts that scavenge dangerous free radicals. Vitamin E also prevents the toxicity of high doses of vitamin A. Molybdenum enhances cancer-destroying oxidases, and vanadium assists with lipid and fatty aid metabolism for faster breakdown of cancers.
 
What is the reality of the 2004 State of the Cancer Treatment in the U.S.A.?
After 35 years of war-on-cancer, and almost $ 90 billion of research funding by the U.S. Government, the cancer death rate in the U.S. of A. increased almost six-fold from 145,000 in 1970, to an estimated 850,000 for 2004. Each insured cancer patient is presently worth between $ 150,000 to $ 500,000 (average about $ 200,000) to the medical profession, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry. The out of pocket expenses for insured patients range from $ 30,000 to 100,000, average about $ 40,000, whereas the ULS Cancer Therapy is offered at $ 16,000.00 / €14,000.00. The total national expenditure for cancer management to the premature death of over 800,000 people per year exceeds $ 100,000,000 ($ 100 billion), and, in addition, there are economic losses of the families of the prematurely deceased of perhaps $ 120 billion if their lives had been saved by effective alternative therapies.
 
This total financial investment for patients undergoing the enhanced high-pH cancer therapy is about one-half to one-tenth of the out of pocket expenses of the average insured cancer victim undergoing conventional orthodox cancer therapies. Best of all, the success rate with the enhanced high-pH therapy is consistently much higher and in many cases over 95%, particularly if you are not suffering from severe toxicity of chemotherapy or from radiation damages. And this includes proven incurable (i.e., by orthodox therapies) cancers of the lungs, liver, pancreas, brain, prostate, breast, bones, melanomas, lymphomas, sarcomas, and leukemias.
 
Because of the potential (especially, financial) impact of the enhanced high-pH therapy on the medical/hospital/pharmaceutical industry complex and their most powerful lobby in Washington, D.C., and in many State Governments, this effective, economical, non-toxic treatment can only be offered offshore, i.e., at a location outside the United States. However, every effort is made to have these offshore hospitals properly accredited and to have the costs of the treatments reimbursed by most insurance carriers. The first of these locations is now available in Northern Thailand at a first class hospital for Alternative Medicines that, Insha’Allah, will be upgraded to the point that it is eligible for Blue Cross insurance payments. (Added update) and also at XYZ Wellbeing ReTreat Facility and Research Cancer Centre in  Located in the the beautiful  Cartagena South America. Visit www.xyz-wellbeing.com and go to the why choose us link for more cesium information and cancer research.
 
Therefore, if you, or any of your loved-ones or friends have cancer, even if it was so far ân incurable with chemo, radiation, and/or surgery, please contact The above to see if you may be eligible for the enhanced high-pH therapy. We are committed to one thing only ând to return you to your mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. As long as you faithfully follow the path that we map out for you, you have an excellent chance of emulating the joyous, vigorous longevity of the people who served as the models for the enhanced high-pH therapy. However, it cannot be stressed enough, that the shrinking of a tumor is by far the lesser part of overcoming cancer.
 
Much more important for lasting success is to overcome the cancer personality, defined in the 1960s by Lawrence LeShan, and to embark on an overall healthy lifestyle that equals and excels (by more advanced knowledge) the one the longevity populations. And, perhaps, most important is your will to live and your absolute need to have to accomplish things that must not be left undone by your premature death from cancer. By taking charge of your life in this manner and by taking responsibility by following our leads in all aspects of your life, you will make it possible not only to become free of cancer but remain free of it permanently.

We can only lead you to the Path.
 
It is up to you to walk it and to make sure that everyone around you walks it with you and all the way!

 

No matter what, always keep in kind that, fundamentally, the Lord wills the ultimate outcome of everything in your life. Just as the Lord lead you to the enhanced high-pH therapy to get rid of your cancer tumor, and to the comprehensive Ultralifescience Program for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, the extent to which you will succeed with it is entirely as the Lord wills. Our promise to you is simply that we will leave no stone unturned to provide for you all the tools for your success in this endeavor.

To your abiding health, vigor, and happiness!

 

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Abdul-Haqq H.E. Sartori, M.D.

NOW THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED THAT YOU HAVE TERMINAL / INCURABLE CANCER

Cancer is perhaps the most feared disease on Earth since more and more people find out that the treatments offered for it in modern hospitals - surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy - seem to help only a small percentage of people who, in most cases, suffer from crippling mutilations and burns (from surgery and radiation), or severe, often life threatening, side effects from the poisonous chemicals used for chemotherapy.
 
Don't despair! There is still hope for you!
 

Even if your doctor sends you home to die perhaps telling you "We have done everything we know, there is nothing else we have to offer to help you, except letting you die in peace".

Did you ever wonder that before about 1900, cancer was a rare disease and that in some parts of the world there is NO CANCER at all? Research that goes back to Dr Otto von Warburg in the 1920s revealed the true nature of cancer and Dr A. Keith Brewer since the 1950, in part through investigation of cancer-free populations, formulated an effective treatment for cancer. This treatment was applied to many cancer patients and further enhanced by Dr Sartori since1980.

Almost all cancers in over 700 patients treated so far with this enhanced high pH therapy, responded within a few days and with I.V. application, daily shrinking of tumors between 1.0 and 2.0 cm can be expected. The only discomfort from this treatment comes from a "healing crisis" reaction that leaves you, after some initial discomfort, feeling better after a few hours or, at most, a day or two. How does this all work? Dr von Warburg found that cancer cells, like plant cells, function without oxygen and thus are very sensitive to oxygen and very strong alkaline elements. Because of the lack of oxygen, cancer cells break down their fuel, glucose, to lactic acid. This causes cancer cells to become acidic (i.e., the pH in the cancer cell is lowered to 6.8, even 5.8) which, in turn, causes them to grow out of control. Alkaline elements, particularly cesium, but also rubidium and potassium can freely enter cancer cells (but not normal cells) causing them to become alkaline or raise the pH in the cancer cell. This raised pH slows down the cancer growth and at a pH of 8.0 all cancer cell growth stops and the cancer cells either die or are turned into normal cells. While we all depend on oxygen to survive, cancer cells die if exposed to oxygen and, particularly, its most powerful form, ozone. People who live very long are free of cancer, is a fact that prompted Dr Brewer to investigate their nutrition and found that their diet contains the alkaline elements cesium (Cs), rubidium (Rb), and potassium (K), and other nutrients that were found to reduce the cancer incidence such as zinc (Zn), selenium (Se), molybdenum (Mo), vanadium (V), and the vitamins A, C and E, as well as amygdalins from apricot pits. After extensive studies of cancer cell cultures, Dr Brewer found the following: Zinc and selenium attach to the cancer cell membrane and make it easier for the cesium and rubidium to enter the cancer cells. Vitamins A and C are weak acids that attract these elements to the inside of cancer cells. Magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) that normally transport the oxygen into cells are depleted in cancer cells. These and other findings were the basis for Dr Brewer to formulate the high pH therapy for cancer. His method was enhanced in the 1980s by adding I.V. ozone (which is the most active form of oxygen), herbal combinations, and other modalities, which made it even more effective.

Up to 98% of animals with cancers were cured by Dr Brewer's high pH therapy.

Tests on mice fed cesium and rubidium showed marked shrinkage in the tumor masses of abdominal implants of mammary tumors ("breast cancers") within 2 weeks. In addition, the mice showed none of the side effects of cancer. Cesium chloride, zinc gluconate and vitamin A were used together to alter growth of colon cancer implants in mice and the use of these compounds was responsible for the disappearance of tumors in 98% of the animals. Sarcoma I implants in mice and Novikoff hepatoma in rats disappeared if the proper ratio between cesium and potassium was maintained. With Dr Brewer's complete protocol, using cesium (&/or rubidium), potassium & magnesium, vitamins A, C, & E, zinc, selenium, & amygdaline, there was a prompt reduction of all tumors treated by Dr Sartori including lymphomas in cats and dogs, skin cancers in dogs, cancers of the mammary glands, mouth , and esophagus in horses, and cancers of unknown primary in chickens.

Like with all "nutritional" treatments, the principle of the weakest link of the chain holds true, and if even one essential nutrient is lacking, the treatment may fail. In virtually all of over 700 patients with different types of cancer, the enhanced high pH therapy was effective in reducing the tumor mass. Over 90% of these patients were terminal with extensive metastasis and had received maximum conventional cancer treatments. Malignancies treated with this protocol included cancers of the lungs, liver (& gallbladder), pancreas, breast, prostate, colon & rectum, stomach, brain, cervix & uterus, ovaries, testicles, adrenals, kidneys & bladder, of unknown primary, rectovaginal, etc., as well as lymphomas & leukemias, melanomas, & sarcomas & bone. The results with the LSU/ULS Cancer treatment in 100 cancers are detailed in the attached articles. Summary of and Comments on the LSU (now ULS) Cancer Treatment Results. There are several factors that should be pointed out with regard to the data summarized in Table I

(a) Out of over 500 cancer patients treated from 1980 to 1987, only 97 fulfilled the criteria of having been followed up for at least 5 years or until their death. This might negatively bias the number of patients that have died by a factor of up to five since almost all of the over 500 patients were followed for at least 3 months.

(b) According to Arlin J. Brown (AJB), cancer survival statistics as published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are not point-to-point, but are determined from the number that can be located 5 years after being diagnosed with cancer (and not even the beginning their first treatment, e.g., at) at NIH/NCI. In cancers with high mortality such as small cell lung cancers (1.0% 5-year survival according to NCI) and pancreas cancers (3.0% 5-year survival according to NCI), AJB found point-to-point survival rates of less than 0.01% and less than 0.05% respectively (perhaps because >99% of the patients had died so long ago that they could not be located anymore).

(c) By far, the majority of the patients seem at LSU were using our therapy as their last resort after all other treatments (both conventional & alternative) had been unsuccessful and most patients were simply sent home to die.

(d) In view of the extremely unfavorable patient population as outlined under (a) through (c), we believe that the results of the LSU treatment are quite remarkable and by far the best offered anywhere in the world.

(e) For reasons beyond the control of the authors, only about 200 cancer patients were treated from 1988 through 2003. In all of these patients, ozone and the minerals and vitamins were applied intravenously (I.V.). The I.V. application of minerals and vitamins proved to be a dramatic improvement in that (i) in virtually all cases, the size/diameter of all fastgrowing tumors was reduced by 1.0 to 2.0 cm (0.4 to 0.8 inches) per day, i.e., a disappearance of a 5.0 cm (2 inch) tumor within four days and of a 10 cm (4 inch) tumor within eight days, and (ii) virtually none of the patients showed any of the side effects frequently encountered with oral vitamin/mineral application such as nausea, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, possible aggravation of ulcer symptoms, and sometimes even vomiting.

After several cancer patients were successfully treated at the Integrated Medical Center in Northern Virginia from April to July 1998, from mid 1998 until mid2003, government agencies and law enforcement in the U.S.A. virtually completely suppressed the use of the enhanced high–pH cancer therapy by LSU/ULS, and this treatment can now only be offered offshore and far removed from these agencies.

RESULTS WITH THE LSU/ULS TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR CANCER

(broken down into the most frequent types/locations of cancers treated) 1. Lung Cancers Of the 18 lung cancers described in this study (of a total of >100), 14 were connected to active smoking, two to passive smoking, one to radon exposure in the home, and one to cadmium exposure at the workplace. Asbestos may have been a factor in one of the active smokers, radon in the home in one of the passive smokers.

Beta-carotene, vitamin A, selenium, and vitamin E from green and yellow vegetables are now recognized as clearly preventative of lung cancer. These vegetables were conspicuously absent from the diet of most of our lung cancer patients. Instead, most of them were eating a meat and potato diet before they started the LSU cancer treatment program. Histologically, 4 patients had epidermoid cancers, 3 had adenocarcinomas, 8 had small cell carcinomas, 2 had large cell carcinomas, and in 2 patients the histologic type was unknown; two of the small cell carcinoma patients also had a lymphoma. All patients had received the full course of orthodox treatment: 6 had surgical resections (3 of the epidermoid-, and one each of the adeno-, small cell-, and large cell carcinomas). All patients had received chemotherapy, and the 6 surgical patients also had received radiation. At the beginning of the treatment, four of the patients were dying on a stretcher, four could walk only with assistance, six were given a prognosis of less than 6 months of survival, and in 4, the prognosis was unknown. The 2 patients with unknown histology who came in dying on a stretcher nevertheless survived 13 and 20 days respectively. The third of the dying patients, with an epidermoid cancer, survived almost 3 months until he died from internal bleeding from an extremely low platelet count. The fourth of the dying patients survived over 5 years and was well in July 1992; he had a small cell carcinoma that generally has less than 1% chance of 5 year survival (less than 0.01% according to Arlin J. Brown). One of the two small cell carcinoma patients who also had a lymphoma is alive and well without any sign of cancer over 10 years after he was barely able to walk into the office with assistance. He is now in excellent health and successfully runs a medical equipment company. The other unfortunately died in a hit-and-run car accident 10 months beyond his given life expectancy and without any sign of cancer at autopsy. One of the adenocarcinoma patients who came in, walking with assistance, responded well for about 2 weeks, then continuously deteriorated, and died after 4 months. The fourth walk-assist patient, with a large cell cancer was treated 4 times and died after 1 year and 8 months. Of the 6 patients who were given fewer than 6 months to live, one epidermoid cancer patient died from cardiac failure after 3 years and 4 months, one of the small cell cancer patients with terminal emphysema died from a combination of pulmonary failure and bronchopneumonia; one patient with adenocarcinoma received 6 treatment series and died from his cancer after 3 years and 8 months; one small cell cancer patient died after 2 years 5 months, one after 4 years 1 month, one epidermoid cancer patient died after 3 years 3 months. One of the factors in the deaths of these patients may have been that at the time of their treatments, the LSU mental reconditioning program (MRP) was far less developed. By using the full, presently available LSU MRP, perhaps at least two, maybe even four of these patients could have been helped. Of the lung cancer patients who survived over five years, four had a small cell cancer, one had a large cell, and one had an epidermoid cancer. 2. Lymphomas Of the 13 lymphomas described in this study (of a total of >60), 9 were lymphocytic (3 males had AIDS, one male had severe rheumatoid arthritis, and one was a Klinefelter syndrome; 4 were females), one female had Hodgkin lymphoma, one male had a T-cell lymphoma, and in 2 males, the histology was not determined. Three patients were dying, 4 needed ambulatory assistance partially because of their enormous tumors, and 3 were given less than a year to live. One of the dying patients with lymphoma of unknown histology died after 17 days from cardiac toxicity of chemotherapy. Another of them, an AIDS patient, died after 7 weeks from aplastic anemia from combined chemotherapies for infections and the lymphoma, given to the patient prior to his coming to LSU. No signs of lymphoma were detected at time of death. One 37 year old dying woman has survived over 10 years without any sign of recurrence after only one series of the LSU treatment.

Of the 4 patients who needed assistance with walking, one AIDS patient is alive and well for over 8 years, has turned HIV negative at the end of one treatment series and his T4 cell count rose from 124 with a T4/T8 ratio of 0.36 to between 1,100 and 1,300 with a T4/T8 ratio between 1.5 and 1.8 for the last 4 years. Within one month, his nodal lymphomas disappeared and none of his previous CNS involvement was detected anymore on a CAT scan. One patient had a huge hemispheric protrusion of his abdomen, very similar to a patient described in Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., Vol. 21, Suppl. 1, pp. 11-13, 1984. His total tumor mass was estimated to be about 37 kg with about 40 liters of ascites. Within 3 weeks both tumor and ascites were reduced to approximately one half, within 2 months there was only a slight enlargement of the spleen of about 5 cm. The patient survived for over five years without any sign of tumor recurrence. The two patients who had both lymphoma and lung cancer were already discussed under 1.; one of them is alive and well, the other died 10 months after treatment in a hitand- run accident. He had shown no signs of cancer at autopsy. One of the 3 patients who were given less than a year to live, unexpectedly died from a heart attack 10 months after initial treatment. Another died after 3 years and 7 months and did not respond to treatments, except for the initial series. The third patient survived for over 5 years without sign of tumor recurrence. The woman with Hodgkin lymphoma died from aplastic anemia, a complication of her previously received chemotherapy, 1 year and 2 months after treatment onset. The patient with the T-cell lymphoma had come all the way from Osaka, Japan and seemed to respond well to the first treatment series. He returned 5 months later, showed barely any response to the treatment, and died 11 months after the initial visit. Language problems may have been a contributing factor to his death, since we were not sure, whether he and his family had completely understood our instructions. 3. Liver Cancers Primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or malignant hepatoma is one of the most common malignancies in the world and it is estimated to be responsible for up to 1,300,000 deaths every year. In portions of Africa and Asia, HCC is the most common malignant tumor. It occurs infrequently in the U.S., North and South America, and Europe where it accounts for about 2% of the malignancies. The incidence of HCC is especially high in China, Taiwan, Mozambique, and Singapore. Risk factors of HCC include chronic toxic hepatic injury (20 to 60% in N&S America), cirrhosis (60 to 90% worldwide), chronic hepatitis B infection (20 to 90% worldwide), aflatoxin (especially in Africa and Asia, e.g. from peanut oil), alcoholism, chronic hepatic outflow obstruction (CHOO; 20% in South Africa, 60+% in Japan), male gender (5:1 in high incidence areas, 2:1 in low incidence areas), Asian or Black ancestry (or rather dietary habits). Of the 12 patients listed as having liver cancer (of a total of >50), 8 had primary HCC, 3 had extensive liver metastasis from an occult primary malignancy (OPM), and one patient had intrahepatic biliary cancer (IHBC).The 8 patients with HCC had elevated alpha fetoprotein (AFP) and reduction of AFP below 100 mg/mL was interpreted as an indication of tumor disappearance. Using a cutoff for serum levels of 10 ng/mL, AFP is sensitive for HCC in 70 to 90%. Patients with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis tend to have elevated AFP levels of usually under 200 ng/mL. Levels of 400 to 1,000 ng/mL are diagnostic for HCC. AFP is also elevated in yolk sac tumors and in a high proportion of other germ cell tumors.

The patient with IHBC and the 3 patients with liver metastasis from OPM had elevated carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in the range of 55 to 185 ng/mL at their admission to the LSU cancer treatment program. No colorectal cancer or other primary malignancy was ever found. Elevated CEA levels are found in patients with gastrointestinal, pancreatic, breast, lung, thyroid medullary, and genitourinary carcinomas, as well as in benign disorders including inflammatory bowel disease, cirrhosis of the liver, pancreatitis, and pneumonia. Normal values for CEA are up to 2.5 ng/mL, in smokers up to 5.0 ng/mL. Benign disorders seldom elevate the CEA level above 10 ng/mL. Reduction of CEA levels below 5 ng/mL was interpreted as an indication of tumor disappearance. Of the 12 liver cancer patients, 3 were dying, 3 needed assistance when walking, and 4 were given life expectancies of less than 6 months. 9 had undergone surgery, including the 3 OPM and the IHBC patients; 5 had suffered radiation treatment, and all 12 had been exposed no massive chemotherapy. One female HCC patient, a 32-year-old fitness instructor, had been first seen in the office of a world famous diet doctor in New York City, where she almost died on the table from an imbalanced vitamin-mineral IV. Through almost a miracle she made it to Washington, D.C., lying on a stretcher in the station wagon driven by her husband. Within 2 weeks her massively enlarged liver that had extended over 14 cm below the normal in a scalloped curve that filled about two-thirds of her abdomen, had returned to normal. Her AFP test came down from 2,420 ng/L to 120 ng/mL within 24 weeks. She was well until about 4 years later when she died in a car crash. Unfortunately, the diet doctor never referred any other cancer patient to the LSU clinics. Four more of the HCC patients, and one of the OPM patients, responded very well and survived over 8 years after their initial treatment without signs of recurrence, with AFP and CEA below the cutoff points of 100 ng/mL and 5.0 ng/mL respectively. One HCC patient died from the side effects of chemotherapy within 2 weeks, another within 2 months; one OPM patient shared the same fate after fewer than 3 months. The IHCP survived 2 years and 4 months, after responding moderately well to 3 courses of the LSU cancer treatment. 4. Pancreas Cancer The tumor-associated carbohydrate antigen, CA 19-9, detects about 80% of all pancreatic cancers correctly, compared with 8% of patients with pancreatitis and 1% false positive normal patients. The pancreatic adenocarcinoma glycoprotein, DU-PAN-2,. detects up to 55% of all pancreatic cancers, though in may also be elevated in patients with biliary cirrhosis, gastric cancer, and biliary cancer. In all of our 11 pancreatic cancer patients(of a total of >50), either CA 19-9, DU-PAN-2, or both markers were elevated to a range of 850 to 950 U/mL for CA 19-9, and 300 to 1,200 U/mL for DU-PAN-2 at admission, and reductions of serum levels below 70 or 120 U/mL, respectively, were considered as evidence of disappearance of the tumor. CA 19-9 antigen (detectable by a murine IgG1 monoclonal antibody against a human colon carcinoma cell line) is elevated in 55 to 90% of stomach cancers, 80% of pancreatic cancers, and about 95% of colorectal cancers; in advanced pancreatic cancers it is elevated in 80-90%. In benign disorders including acute pancreatic, hepatobiliary disease, and inflammatory bowel disease, CA 19-9 usually does not exceed 100 U/mL. Normal values of CA 19-9 are up to 36 U/mL. DU-PAN-2 is a mucin-type glycoprotein antigen selected for reactivity against human pancreatic carcinoma cells (detectable by murine monoclomal antibodies). Increased levels occur in many diseases of the liver and hepatobiliary tree including primary biliary cirrhosis, sclerosing cholangitis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and benign hepatomas, and usually do not exceed 200 U/mL. DU-PAN-2 may also be elevated in biliary and gastric cancer, and in primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Normal DU-PAN-2 values are up to 60 U/mL. Histologically 10 of the 11 patients had an adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, one had an intrapancreatic bile duct carcinoma (IPDC) that was diagnosed intraoperatively. One patient had both stomach and pancreatic cancer. Eight of the patients had undergone resections and/or exploratory surgery, 10 had suffered from radiation, and all 11 had been given massive doses of chemotherapy.

At the onset of the LSU treatment,
one patient was dying, 3 needed walking assistance, and 6 were given fewer than 6 months to live.

Two patients died from the side effects of chemotherapy within less than 3 weeks including the patient with IPDC. One other succumbed from chemotherapy side effects after 10 weeks. One patient died after about 10 months from an internal bleeding probably not related to cancer. The patient with stomach and pancreatic cancer did not respond well to 3 treatment courses. Nevertheless, they prolonged his life from an expected less than one month to 1 year and 7 months. One patient died after 3 years and 2 months, another after 3 years and 11 months. Nevertheless, the treatment had extended their life expectancy of less than 6 months. Four of the 11 patients survived more than 5 years which compares favorably with a reported 5-year survival rate of pancreas cancer patients of 3% (or less than 0.01% according to Arlin J. Brown). 5. Breast Cancer Six of the nine breast cancer patients (of a total of >40), who are discussed in this report were terminal with widespread metastatic disease, one of them dying, two of them needing walking assistance, and another three with a life expectancy of less than 6 months. In all cases, any detectable primary tumors or metastatic skin tumors either disappeared within 2 weeks or turned from hard, knobby, scalloped, infiltrative cancerous growths into much smaller well-defined, round, and much softer benign cysts with a smooth surface. Unfortunately, two months after treatment onset, one patient died of cardiac failure from doxorubicin toxicity, and one patient died from acute pericarditis-myocarditis from cyclophosphamide less than 3 weeks after treatment was started. One patient responded well to the first treatment course, but had a recurrence after 3 months, and died from pneumonitis. It is possible that an ill-advised treatment course with bleomycin may have contributed to her demise. One patient, a former heavy smoker aged 57 when her treatment began, died after 2 years and 11 months from a myocardial infarction. 5-fluorouracil treatment may also have contributed to her premature death. Another patient who responded poorly to the treatment nevertheless survived 2 years and 2 months, more than 2 years longer than she expected before she started the LSU treatment. The remaining 4 patients survived over 5 years without any sign of recurrence. 6. Prostate Cancers Six of the 8 prostate cancer patients in this study (of a total of >40), had extensive metastatic disease, one of them was dying, two needed assistance with walking, and 4 were given less than 6 months to live. All patients showed elevated levels of prostatic specific antigen (PSA) that ranged from 35 to 235 ng/mL at admission (Normal PSA < 4.0 ng/mL). In benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), PSA levels <25 ng/mL are seen. PSA is false negative in about 15% of the prostate cancers. The cutoff point for the disappearance of the cancer was set at 10 ng/mL. Very similar to the results in breast cancer patients, all palpable infiltrating tumor masses in all patients either disappeared or turned into benign, well-defined, cystic tumors of much smaller size. The dying patient succumbed to the side-effects of his chemotherapy 20 days after the beginning of his treatment. One of the severely debilitated patients died after 9 weeks also as a consequence of his chemotherapy. Two patients only partially responded to the treatment. One of these died in a horseback riding accident, the other died after 4 treatment courses 2 years and 5 months after he started the LSU cancer treatment. He had survived almost 2 years longer than was originally expected.

Four patients survived at least 5 years, two of them needed only one treatment course, one of them needed two, and the fourth needed four treatment courses. Their PSA levels were maintained below 10 ng/mL after their treatments were completed. 7. Colorectal Cancers Of the 6 patients in this study with colorectal cancers (of a total of >50), all had elevated values of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in the range of 80 to 280 ng/mL, indicative of widespread metastatic disease; all of them had undergone surgical resections, 4 with colostomy, and 2 without colostomy. All 6 had received a full course of chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and a variety of other chemotherapeutics. Two of the patients received radiation therapy. The response of these patients to the LSU treatment program was not as impressive as for instance, in the case of liver cancer patients. Only the 2 patients without colostomy survived more than five years after 2 and 3 LSU treatment courses respectively. In both cases, the CEA was maintained below 5.0 ng/mL. One of the colostomy patients died from a heart attack after a good initial response to the treatment in the 11th week of his treatment. 5-FU-induced myocardial ischemia may have been a contributing factor. Another of the colostomy patients apparently died from a barbiturate overdose, possibly a suicide attempt. It should be noted that over 35 of the colostomy patients were lost in the follow-up. The two patients who had suffered abdominal radiation had severe problems with adhesions and fistulas. Both had severe diarrhea at admission that was controlled with diet within about 2 to 3 weeks. Though both had a life expectancy of less than 3 months at the time of admission, they survived for 2 years and 7 months, and 3 years and 3 months, respectively. Their CEA levels returned to below 5.0 ng/mL after 3 months and stayed there until their deaths. 8. Uterine Cervical Cancers All 6 patients in this study (of a total of>30) had undergone radical hysterectomies and pelvic lymphadenectomies, multiple radiation treatments, and full courses of chemotherapy (4 patients received a combination of doxorubicin and methotrexate; 4 patients received mitomycine, vincristine, and bleomycin; one patient had been given both combinations). One patient died after 2 years and 20 months after undergoing 4 courses of the LSU treatment. Originally she was given less than 3 months to live. One patient fell down a flight of stars, fractured her neck and died with hours. She had survived 3 years and 5 months. Her original life expectancy was less than one year. Two patients survived 5 years and had no indication of tumor recurrence on CAT scans and NMR imaging. For the normalization of abnormal Papanicolaou (PAP) smears [Group 2: Infections; Group 4: squamous cell CA; Group 5: adenocarcinoma; Group 6: nonepithelial malignancy] and even of Stage O (Carcinoma in situ) through Stage IA2 (strictly confined to cervix; depth: £5 mm, spread: £7 mm), cervical cancers, topical application of folic acid in conjunction with vaginal ozone application has been found virtually 100% effectivein about 30 patients. Vaginal ozone applications are also an effective prevention of cervical cancers since it removes HPV and other pathogens that are causing chronic cervicitis that may turn malignant. 9. Brain Cancers All 4 brain cancer patients (of a total of about 15) had highly malignant extensive glioblastomas. All 4 had undergone surgery and radiation, as well as glucocorticoid therapy. Two of the patients were unconscious at admission. The two conscious patients complained about headaches, especially in the morning, loss of appetite, nausea, loss of concentration, reduced mental capacity, and increased sleepiness. In both, personality changes were clearly evident.

After treatment onset both unconscious patients regained consciousness within 3 days and were able to say simple sentences within 5 and 8 days respectively. One of these patients suddenly deteriorated in the 4th week, possibly from malnutrition. His sister, who supervised his feeding, had failed to properly follow our instructions. When we found out that there was a problem, the patient was already beyond recovery. The other patient recovered well enough to return to his job as a real estate broker, and has survived 5 years without sign of recurrence. Both of the two conscious patients had a lethal car accident; one about 2-1/2 years, the other about 3-1/2 years after their treatments. Both accidents may have been related to personality and psychomotor changes caused by their original tumors. 10. Melanomas The three patients with melanoma in this study (of a total of about 12) all had widespread metastatic disease. They all responded well to the first course of treatment though less favorably to further treatment courses. One of the patients died after 11 months. She had originally been given less than one month to live. Another patient who had been given less than 6 months to live survived 2 years and 10 months. One of the patients, a black woman who had undergone 5 courses of treatment, survived 5 years without sign of malignancy. 11. Other Cancers The number of the 10 remaining tumors in this study (of a total remaining of >80), two ovarian cancers, two stomach cancers (one of which was combined with a pancreatic cancer; see under 4.), one osteosarcoma, one soft tissue sarcoma, two kidney cancers, one bladder cancer, and one adrenal cancer, is too small to allow any clear judgment of the effectiveness of the LSU treatment in these specific cancers. In all cases, a prompt response was seen in the first treatment course. One kidney cancer patient died after 20 days as a consequence of his chemotherapy. The other kidney cancer patient responded moderately well to the LSU treatment and died after 4 years and one month (well over 5 years after his original diagnosis & thus "cured" according to NCI statistics,). The stomach cancer patient who also had pancreas cancer is described above under 4. He died after 1 year and 3 months. The other-stomach cancer patient responded moderately well to consecutive LSU treatments and died after 4 years and 2 months (rather than after less than one year ; & would also be listed by NCI as "cured"). One ovarian cancer patient responded well and survived over 5 years. The other responded moderately well to consecutive LSU treatments and survived 3 years and 10 months.The bladder cancer patient did not respond well and died after 11-1/2 months (rather than after less than 1 month). The adrenal cancer did well, needed only one LSU treatment course, and survived over 5 years without sign of recurrence. Continued next page

The 200 Plus Cancers Treated from 1987 through 2003 The following are only general remarks since on 2 May 1992, U.S Government Agents simultaneously broke into three locations where the originals and two copies of some 3000 patient records treated by LSU from 1980 through 1992, including about 650 cancer patients, about 180 AIDS patients, about 80 multiple sclerosis patients, and over 2000 patients with different conditions that were the data basis for the 2d ed. of the Ozone Book that for reasons beyond the control of the authors took until the year 2004 to be finally completed. . Again, we see a prevalence of "incurable" cancers (a) which have 0.0% success rate and thus should NOT be treated conventionally at all, including, small cell lung, pancreas, & esophagus cancers, acute adult leukemias, and all cancers with widespread metastasis; (b) malignancies where conventional treatment in almost all cases shortens the life span, including, stomach, brain, liver, & most ovarian cancers, multiple myeloma & chronic adult leukemias, as well as large (>10 cm = >2") fast growing cancers with lymph node metastasis; (c) cancers with the highest incidence (in the USA & Western Europe), including, (female) breast, prostate, lungs[see (a)], & colon, where with early detection there is about 50% 5-year survival in breast, of 60% in prostate, & about 25% in colon cancers, that drops precipitously to some 10% if (b) & 1.0% if (a), supra, conditions are present; (d) other cancers including non-Hodgkin lymphomas, cancers of the urinary bladder & kidneys, rectum, (epi/naso)pharynx & oral cavity, endometrium & uterine cervix, & melanomas of the skin, rectovaginal cancer, larynx & thyroid cancer, Ewing sarcoma, etc. [which includes all 20 most frequent cancers in Thailand]. The estimated overall 5-year survival rate of all of these cancer patients, almost all of them terminal with widespread metastasis [see (a)] & [seeking our treatment only] after all conventional treatments had been exhausted, was ~40%, which increased to ~50% if they survived the first 3 weeks after treatment onset, & to ~60% if they survived 3 months after treatment onset, even more, ~80%, if they had a chance to have follow-up treatments at LSU, which was denied to virtually all patients after 17 July 1998 & until mid-2003, and many of which would be alive today; and while the estimated 5 year survival of untreated [with conventional methods: surgery &/or radiation &/or chemotherapy, etc.] patients was about 95% if they kept in touch with LSU/ULS, had a purpose to their lives with goals they absolutely needed to achieve, no matter what, meticulously maintained their alkalinizing blood-type-specific supplementation/diet/lifestyle, & balanced mind/ body/spirit as practitioners of Taoist Energy Healing, Silva Mind Control, & Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP).

Why is it essential that you stay in touch with us after completion of your initial treatment? Because we will use EVERY METHOD AVAILABLE to get & keep you well These methods, individually tailored to your specific needs, may include but are not limited to the following:

1. Herbal Electron Donors & Propagermanium (both for treatment & maintenance): The most effective herbal electron donors that restore the body to an alkaline balance can be found in plants containing high amounts of germanium (Ge). Medicinal plants that reputedly have anticancer activity and that contain high amounts of Ge include shelf fungus (Trametes cinnabarina; 800- 2000 ppm), Ginseng (Panax ginseng; 250-350 Korean < 4000ppm), garlic (Allium sativum; 750 ppm), d?ng-sh?n/sansukon root (Codonopsis pilosula; 260 ppm), sushi (Angelica pubescens; 260 ppm), Bandai moss (260 ppm), Japanese waternut (Trapa japonica: 240 ppm), Comfrey (Symphytum officinale; 150 ppm), boxthorn seed (Lycium chinense; 125 ppm), wisteria knob/gall (Wisteria floribunda; 110 ppm), pearl barley (fructus coicis lacryma-jobi; 75 ppm), etc. Based on this concept, Kazuhiko Asai synthesized numerous non-toxic Ge compounds, most notably, propagermanium or biscarboxyethyl Ge sesquioxide [O3(Ge.CH2.CH2.COOH)2], which has been found effective in the prevention and treatment of numerous cancers and their metastases including cancers of the lungs, prostate, breast, liver, kidney, brain tumors, lymphomas and leukemias, and sarcomas such as chondro- and osteosarcomas. The recommended dosage for prevention is 100 to 200 mg/day and for treatment 1000 to 4000 mg/day for a 60 kg patient. Except for a Herxheimer-type "healing crisis" reaction, no other adverse effects have been observed with this compound. If no effect is seen, the treatment should be discontinued after 60 days.

2. Other Proven Effective Herbal Combinations: Herbal treatments of cancer which were used worldwide since time immemorial include: Shark cartilage, Resistocell®, the thymus preparations Thymex L® and TFZ-Thymomodulin®, colostrum-derived transfer factor (TF) according to H. Hugh Fudenberg, Dr. Nieper¹s natural anticancer substances, and herbal cancer treatments such as compounded Hoksey [Trifolium pratense, Rhammus cathartica, Berberis vulgaris, Arctium lappa, Stillingia sylvatica, Rhammus purshiana or Cascara amarga (Sweetia panamensis), Glycyrrhiza glabra, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis], compounded Echinacea [Echinacea spp, Ceanothus americanus, Baptisia tinctoria, Thuja occidentalis, Stillingia sylvatica, Iris versicolor, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis], Folia Thujae occidentalis (fresh), Radix Astragali membranacei (Huáng Qí), Radix Rumicis crispi (fresh), and Renèe Caisse's Essiac compound [Rumex acetosella, Arctium lappa (fresh root), Ulmus rubra, Rheum palmatum (root), etc.], PDR Cancer Formula [Larrea divaricata (folia), Sanguinaria canadensis (radix), Trifolium pratense (flores), Arcticum lappa (radix); Echinacea purpurea (radix), Hydrastis canadensis (radix); Symphytum officinale (folia), Eleutherococcus senticosus (radix; eventually folia, radix, and flores), Chelidonium maius, combined with Artemisia absinthium, Yucca spp, and Commiphora molmol (gum), C. abyssinica (myrrh), or C. opobalsamum (bdellium-oleoresin)], Laetrile® et al. mandelonitriles, immunostimulating mushroom extracts from Grifola frondosa (maitake), Ganoderma lucidum (reishi), and Lentinusedodes (shiitake), combined with herbs for specific cancers; e.g., herba Hedyotis diffusae (bái hu? shé c?o) combined with herba Scutellariae barbatae (bàn zh? lían) for stomach, esophageal, & colon cancers , & the latter alone for lung cancers, & tuber Dioscoreae bulbiferae (huáng yào z?) for thyroid cancer & endemic goiter, and, especially, Haelan 851® Platinum Formula and Natures Blessing.

3. WILL TO LIVE - MENTAL RECONDITIONING: What virtually all cancer survivors, particularly the ones that had been undergoing conventional therapies, have in common is that they had a purpose to their lives with goals they absolutely needed to achieve, no matter what. If counseling is successful in restructuring an individual's outlook on life along those lines considerable life extensions beyond all expectations can be achieved after conventional therapies, while with the enhanced high pH therapy, the success is virtually guaranteed, provided that the patient has survived the first three months after the treatment started, and that they followed the programs outlined under 4. Conventional cancer treatment attempts, particularly surgery, that may in many cases frustrate all efforts to restore the will to live include colostomies, crippling lung resections, amputations of limbs, especially in children, cosmetically poor results after head, neck, & breast surgery &/or radiation. The same applies to paralysis after collapse of vertebrae from metastasis or from brain malignancies. Continued next page

4. DIET & LIFESTYLE: Meticulously maintaining their prescribed alkalinizing blood type specific diet, supplementation, exercise program, and lifestyle is as essential as mental reconditioning [see 3.] and energy balancing [see 5.]. Individualized supplementation may include maintenance doses of cesium & rubidium, potassium & magnesium salts, Wobemugos, bromelain, papain, superoxide dismutase (SOD), & other enzymes, coenzyme Q10, vitamin A & beta-carotene, selenium & vitamin E, vitamin C, quercetin, & isoflavones, lycopene, N-acetyl cystein (NAC), pycnogenol, d-limonene, curcumin, alpha lipoic acid, inositol, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), ellagic acid & graviola (Annona muricata), Primal Defense, Nature's Blessing, green tea, olive leaf extract, echinacea, garlic, parsley, Korean ginseng, apricot pits, wheat grass, chlorella, cod & shark liver oils, contortrostatin, carrot & cabbage juices, mogu (Kompucha) tea, regular escargots & soy bean products for blood type As & ABs, and over 20 other cancer fighting foods according to your blood type & individually tailored to specific needs. The blood type specific diet & exercise program follows largely the one outlined in Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's book "Live Right Four Your Type", modified & amplified based on our own research including avoidance of sugar & fructose ( & all refined carbohydrates) by all types, particularly Os & Bs, avoidance of cow's milk, particularly Os & As, avoidance of the foods shown harmful for all types including pork, etc. All these programs have been streamlined and are available through people I have trained and shown a dedication to the ongoing development of High PH Therapy. With the most well structured program being available through Paul Rana of The RANA System in Australia, Dr Pablo at XYZ-Wellbeing Retreat Facility and Dr Sherrie in India.

 

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Abdul-Haqq H.E. Sartori, M.D

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Prof. Abdul-Haqq Sartori, M.D. Medicina Alternativa Professor of Alternative Medicines

RE: Enhanced High-pH Therapy for Cancer now available through trained Practitioner at XYZ Wellbeing ReTreat Facility founded in the year 2000 and undergoing a major refit and expansion in late 2008.

Thank you for contacting me to enquire about Cesium chloride (CsCl) and the Enhanced High-pH Therapy for Cancer originated by A. Keith Brewer, Ph.D., and since 1980 enhanced and perfected by myself.

Though the results were published in a major peer-reviewed medical journal, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior in the December 1984 Supplement I, there was, except for the late Dr. Hans Nieper, a minimum of response from both the orthodox and alternative medical community.

Therefore, unfortunately, I am the only physician left who uses this by far most consistently effective therapy for all fast-growing cancers that have been treated so far, no matter what stage or type or extent. So as I am aging, I have trained a few people the correct and safe way to use this therapy. Do not be experimented on, my many years of research are beyond reproach.

Please read all my notes before you undertake any program. Since 1980, over 700 cancer patients have been treated with this therapy. In all cases, fast-growing tumors were promptly reduced in size with minimum discomfort to the patient (as compared to the common and sometimes horrendous adverse effects of chemotherapy and after radiation). With the intravenous (I.V.) application of this therapy, we consistently achieved primary & metastatic tumor reductions of 1.0 to 2.0 cm (2/5 to 2/5 of an inch) per day, i.e., disappearance of 5.0 cm (2.0) tumors in about four days, and of 10.0 cm (4.0) tumors in about eight days, and reductions of lymph node metastases of 2-5 mm/day.

Besides the higher and more consistent effectiveness, I.V. application of CsCl and other minerals, vitamins, mandelonitriles (e.g., Laetrile®), etc., avoids all side effects from oral therapy such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, etc. Furthermore, I.V. application guarantees that all ingredients are taken up by the body, as often nutrient absorption may be compromised, particularly in patients with any type of malabsorption from gastrointestinal problems or in many advanced cancers or simply from lack of hydrochloric acid.

The only side effects seen with this therapy is the sometimes considerable, but brief, discomfort from the I.V. application of Ozone that is, in fact, a most beneficial homeopathic-type healing crisis. Best of all, this healing crisis reverses virtually all tendencies towards any type of illness and, in due time, almost all patients report that have "never felt better" in their entire life. In a tireless effort, Paul Rana, since 1998, developed most effective and comprehensive system in preparation for and as follow up of the Enhanced High pH Therapy.

The Rana System is an integral part of our therapy and you should follow it for at least one year or, preferably, for the rest of your life. Following this System gives you not only the highest success rates in permanently overcoming cancer but also greatly enhances your overall health, happiness, vigor, and longevity. For more information about The RANA SYSTEM and how to become a member, please consult with Paul Rana or peruse his websites in Australia.

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Prevalent Warning Signs Tied to Brain Tumors

Brain tumors and their symptoms are afflicting more people every year. Since most brain tumors exhibit indicators like seemingly innocent headaches that are generally caused by less severe disorders, they're often discounted or brushed aside as insignificant. Consequently, an accurate diagnosis isn't attained until the tumor grows to a size that may make successful treatment impossible.

If detected early, many brain tumors can be treated and possibly cured. New treatments, such as immunotherapy, chemotherapy, gene treatment therapy and radioactive treatments, are being used more often as they develop and become increasingly effective.

Therefore, doctors and patients alike are being recommended to become alert to brain tumor symptoms and follow up with a proper medical examination when these signs occur. Though brain scans are expensive, they're safe, easy to obtain and may save your life if they detect a tumor early enough that it can be cured. For an overview of symptoms associated with brain tumors and why it's so important to watch out for them, keep reading.

Symptoms of Brain Tumors

If a brain tumor is still small and fairly young, it can often be treated. However, most symptoms depend on the size of the tumor and where it's found in the brain. For example, a benign tumor may take years to grow and even longer to cause an identifiable sign.

Among the primary precursors are persistent or relentless headaches, particularly those that happen at night or upon awakening. With children, headaches that occur in conjunction with nausea or vomiting can be a harbinger of trouble.

Additional common symptoms include personality changes; vision or speech problems; behavioral issues; tiredness, numbness or paralysis or trouble walking or balancing; seizures that are similar to epileptic seizures, and sensory problems, like hearing or smelling something that's not there.

Too often, symptoms such as changes in behavior are ascribed to a mental disorder or to the aging process and are not addressed until it's too late to cure.

Why You Should Be Aware of Possible Indicators

Brain tumors are on the rise, being the second most common type of cancer in young children and occurring as often as ovarian cancer in adult women. Roughly half of primary brain tumors are diagnosed as benign. This means they grow and spread slowly and can typically be cured or removed. The other half are diagnosed as malignant - they are fast-growing and intrusive. Many of these can be treated, but are not always curable.

Where to Get Additional Facts

If you would like more information on brain tumor symptoms, try contacting the American Brain Tumor Association. Their website can be found online at abta.org. Click through to research more information on brain tumors, diagnosing tumors, developing treatments and where patients can go for support.

In the meantime, if you or a loved one spots any of the identifying signs of a possible tumor, do not hesitate to schedule an appointment with a specialist in the field. A timely diagnosis can potentially spell the difference between ongoing health or a life cut short by cancer.

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Menkes Syndrome – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Menkes syndrome is an inborn error of metabolism that markedly decreases the cells' ability to absorb copper. The disorder causes severe cerebral degeneration and arterial changes, resulting in death in infancy. The disease can often be diagnosed by looking at a victim's hair, which appears to be both whitish and kinked when viewed under a microscope.

Menkes syndrome typically begins during infancy. Signs and symptoms of this disorder include weak muscle tone (hypotonia), sagging facial features, seizures, mental retardation, and developmental delay. The patients have brittle hair and metaphyseal widening. In rare cases, symptoms begin later in childhood and are less severe. It is a X-linked recessive disorder, and is therefore considerably more common in males: females require two defective alleles to develop the disease.

Causes

Menkes syndrome is caused by a defect in the ATP7A gene. The defect makes it hard for body to proper distribute and absorb copper. As a result, the brain and other parts of the body do not get enough copper.

Insufficient copper levels can affect the structure of bone, skin, hair, and blood vessels and interfere with nerve function. In the meantime, copper builds up in the small intestine and kidneys. Menkes syndrome is inherited, which means it runs in families. It is inherited in an x-linked recessive condition.

Menkes syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. The disorder is related to deficient levels of copper in the cells. Symptoms include progressive mental deterioration, kinked, twisted and brittle hair, and skeletal changes. Death usually occurs in the first few years of life. About 1 in 300,000 individuals are affected.

Symptoms

Signs include slow growth in the womb, abnormally low body temperature, bleeding in the brain and abnormal appearance of the hair under the microscope. Males will have all of their hairs show abnormal structure but females who are carriers of this trait may show only half the hairs to be abnormal.

Abnormally low body temperature, bleeding in the brain and abnormal appearance of the hair under the microscope. Males will have all of their hairs show abnormal structure but females who are carriers of this trait may show only half the hairs to be abnormal.

Normal or slightly slowed development may proceed for 2 to 3 months, and then there will be severe developmental delay and a loss of early developmental skills. Menkes Disease is also characterized by seizures, failure to thrive, subnormal body temperature, and strikingly peculiar hair, which is kinky, colorless or steel-colored, and easily broken. There can be extensive neurodegeneration in the gray matter of the brain.

Symptoms begin, including floppy muscle tone, seizures, and failure to thrive. Menkes disease is also characterized by subnormal body temperature and strikingly peculiar hair, which is kinky, colorless or steel-colored, and breaks easily. There is often extensive neurodegeneration in the gray matter of the brain. Arteries in the brain may also be twisted with frayed and split inner walls. This can lead to rupture or blockage of the arteries. Weakened bones (osteoporosis) may result in fractures.

Treatment

The most common treatment for Menkes is copper injection therapy, but the studies of the treatment show mixed results. In general, the earlier the copper therapy is received, the better the results. Also, people with ATP7A mutations that don’t completely stop the copper transport in the body respond better to treatment than those with mutations causing absolutely no activity.

In addition to copper therapy, physical and occupational therapy can help maximize developmental potential, and nutritionists can recommend the best diet.

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