[YEA]  09/06/2007: Trish from Kansas City, MO: "This comment is in response to the individual [Edit. Note: See Ally's email below] who mentioned quackwatch.com. Yes, the FDA has not spent any money researching bloodroot because it is a natural substance and is not patentable. Most folks aren't going to spend money researching something if there's not profit to gain, especially organization like the FDA and Big Pharma whose only interests ARE profit, not people. Also, you should go back and notice who operates quackwatch.com. Lo and behold, a medical doctor...someone who probably won't make too much money if he tells his cancer patients to take bloodroot and avoid costly surgery and chemo. He also has the following listed on his site as 'signs' of a 'quacky' website: General Characteristics: Any site used to market herbs or dietary supplements. Although some are useful, I do not believe it is possible to sell them profitably without deception, which typically includes:

(a) lack of full disclosure of relevant facts,
(b) promotion or sale of products that lack a rational use, and/or
(c) failure to provide advice indicating who should not use the products.

During more than 35 years of watching the health marketplace, I have never encountered a seller who did not do at least one of these three things. Any site used to market or promote homeopathic products. No such products have been proven effective.

Any site that generally promotes "alternative," "complementary," and/or "integrative" methods. There are more than a thousand such methods. The vast majority are worthless.

Any site that promotes "nontoxic," "natural," "holistic," or "miraculous" treatments.

So EarthClinic.com is now a 'quacky' website?? I think not! No disrespect to nay-sayers or doctors...but I can tell you for several years I have dealt with chronic constipation, severe acid reflux and heartburn, depression, insomnia, acne, and the list goes on....I went to several doctors, had several cameras inserted through just about every hole in my body and was constantly sent home with a prescription or the threat of a future surgery. I had mentioned on more than one occasion to my doctor about possibly getting colonics done, after reading about how insanely importantly it is to keep your intestines and colon clean as they are a major govern in your immune system. I was told that colonics are dangerous. I have been getting them done for over a year now and my health has never been better. No acid reflux, skin is remarkably better, no depression, and so on. Oh, and for the record...those of you who go to WebMD for advice as well, that site is a marketing tool for BigPharma."

07/19/2012: Djt10 from Sunnyside, Wa, Usa replies: "My family has used homemade black salve since 1986. Of course there's been research on bloodroot's effectiveness for cancer and abnormal cells. If one wants salve treatment done by a medical doctor, the Philippines medical professionals saw it's efficacy and it's now part of mainstream medicine there. Here--a doctor could lose his license and go to prison for even writing a prescription for pain meds to someone choosing to do this treatment at home behind closed doors, in spite of the fact that early in the 1900's you could buy black salve at the corner drugstore and the head of the FDA tried to purchase the Hoxsey formula, and failing that, waged all-out war to destroy it. Of course because Big Pharma can't profit from it, they want it gone.

The uses for it stagger the mind. My husband, a recovering alcoholic used to to cure cirrhosis of the liver before he even stopped drinking--it triggered a detox with black tarry material exiting through the bowels and he was very sick for a few days, besides developing a normal eschar and going through that process at the same time. I've removed dangerous looking moles on him and soon he'll do a general treatment because after 60 years of smoking he suspects lung cancer. The records for his cirrhosis and it's absence are at the Vet's hospital in Walla, Walla WA. (Two separate alcohol rehab stays.)

I've removed a lump from my thigh --full photo record on my website truthquest2. Com, a small lump on my chin that apparently drained some bad teeth I thought I was going to need root canals on, I used it to treat bad looking patches on my skin, removed an embedded shard of glass in my foot that came out with the eschar, and I'm about to treat another bad tooth where there's a chronic recurring abcess (the other time was several years ago). I treated my granddaughter who had a massive antibiotic treatment followed by a horrendous fungal infection of the scalp that could have left her bald and the medical treatment including potential side effects of "death". It completely destroyed the fungal infection. The only lasting sign was two small spots where the eschar came out prematurely and left little bald spots. Where it finished it's course naturally, the infection was gone and the hair grew back--there weren't even any scars left.

We first used just bloodroot paste before getting the formula on a dog with a tumor near her anus. It turned grey and was rotting off, but she kept chewing at it so we took her to the vet who removed the remains surgically, but he also followed the root to the end and removed it too. It went clear to the end of her tail. That's the thing--medically they remove tumors and cancer masses, but these things have roots. The salve kills it all. Sometimes you have to treat an area more than once, particularly if any of the roots attached to the eschar break instead of rotting and releasing the eschar naturally (I've got cool photos of the roots attached to the scab), and sometimes just because it needs to dig deeper. If it doesn't heal normally, that's a sign that you need to go back in, but wait until the skin heals over because the last thing you want to do is put the salve on raw tissue, although sometimes it can't be avoided.

We've done it all without pain meds other than aspirin (and alcohol). One thing I like about the formula we have is it is a two-part treatment. The light salve is used in between two black salve treatments a week apart and until the tissue heals. It's a drawing/ healing salve that helps draw out pus and debris as well as making certain that no infection can ever take hold. It came from a book about 150 years old now and was actually printed in our county newspaper. Supposedly it was an expose, but the fact that they printed the simple formula and instructions made our area a pocket of closet black salve users. It's very easy to make, but one ingredient is expensive-- zinc chloride. They hit you with mailing charges because it's a hazardous chemical or something like that. It's much less expensive to buy a small amount ready made of the black salve. Cancema is still available. In fact, Greg Caton, whose life was threatened if he ever made the formula available to others put it on YouTube, and there are other sources where you can buy good stuff. I made mine on the kitchen stove and keep a jar of it in the fridge, although I don't think it even needs to be refrigerated, just kept in a cool, dark place. By the way, all that quackwatch nonsense is a joke. If you apply it to normal skin it just sits there and does nothing. I've tried to remove benign moles on myself and nothing happened. Put it on a friend's belly who had benign tumors and nothing happened. It will react to abnormal cells like fungus and cancer, but this ridiculous claim that it's "caustic" and will burn right though healthy tissue--good lord!! These guys are idiots. Now if there happens to be cancer below that healthy skin, that's a different matter.

There's a lot more but it's nearly 2am and I'm exhausted. If anyone wants to talk, email me from my website which is "information only", I don't allow any advertising and don't sell anything. It's just about natural healing, junk science and bad medicine."

03/11/2007: Net from Middle of the Mitten, Michigan replies: "I found this reason: In 2004, Gregory James Caton, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment to be followed by 3 years supervised release for marketing several products with claims that they could cure cancer and other diseases. Court documents indicate that from 1999 to 2003, doing business as Alpha Omega Labs, Caton and his employees sold Cancema Tonic III (a purported cancer cure) and H3O (claimed to be effective against athlete's foot, cuts and burns, eczema, fingernail fungus, chronic gas, gastroenteritis, gingivitis and periodontal disease, halitosis, herpes sores, ophthalmia, psoriasis, sore throat, strep throat, and wounds). "

06/24/2007: Jack replies: "MY comment on the "BLOODROOT" SITE HAS HAD PEOPLE CONTACTING ME ASKING FOR THE INGREDIENTS OF THE SALVE "WHICH I DON'T HAVE, BUT A SITE THEY CAN FIND IS AT "WWWW.BLOODROOTPRODUCTS.COM. ANOTHER COMMENT ABOUT HOW THE NAZI FDA DID GREG CANTON OF ALTFA-OMEGA LABS, THE FDA REPORTEDLY PAID A LYING B---- $250,000 TO LIE ON THE WITNESS STAND AGINST GREG"

[YEA]  03/24/2007: JOHN from PRESCOTT, ARIZONA: "I RECENTLY REMOVED A TUMOR FROM MY THROAT WITH BLOODROOT PASTE. IT TOOK 10 DAYS AND WAS PRACTICALLY BLOODLESS."

03/19/2009: Josephine from Bent, New Mexico USA replies: "Hello, my name is Josephine, my husband was diagnosed yesterday with a malignant throat tumor and 2 small spots on his lymph nodes in his throat, we have four weeks before he starts radiation and I am looking for help in bloodroot alternatives, which product and what amounts should be used etc. My husband wants to go for it, with bloodroot, so I am frantically seeking information and quidance. Thanks"