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Bovine Cartilage Consumer bulletin
When Hippocrates,commonly referred to as the father of medicine,recited his famous saying:"Make medicine your food and food your medicine", he perhaps unwittingly foreshadowed the use of Bovine cartilage to combat one of nature's frightening creations: Cancer.
That is because proponents of Bovine cartilage say ingesting it "activated the ability of macrophages ( a type of white blood cell) to destroy bacteria and viruses." The process is described in the booklet, The successful use of Bovine Tracheal Cartilage in the treatment of Cancer by David Kirchhof, D.C. and Elisabeth kirchhof,N.D.
In their book,the authors cite research done by John F. Prudden, M.D., Med. Sc. D. who is said to have discovered the effectiveness of bovine cartilage when he was associates professor of clinical surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.
"Dr. Pruddent discovered that cartilage accelerated normal wound healing and reduced inflammation in surrounding tissue when he inserted chips of cartilage into the wounds of cortisone-loaded rats", according to the book.
It goes on to explain that he was so impressed by the discovery,"he put aside his previous research plans and actively began a through investigation, even though other researchers did not elect to investigate the discovery further."
The dramatic breakthrough for the use bovine cartilage to treat cancer came during the course of his initial clinical work. He observed dramatic shrinkage in a patient with cancer of the breast and malignant ulceration of the entire chest wall, according to the authors, and the crusade to use cartilage as a treatment for cancer began.
Today, Dr. Pruddent's research is the foundation for the research and application of all cartilage products-including shark cartilage,according to the Kirchhofs, who say bovine cartilage has several advantages over other types of cartilage.
But exactly how cartilage works to inhibit cancer is still somewhat of mystery as the authors reveal that " most of the active molecular components of bovine cartilage have not been identified."
"Dr. Prudden and others consider that mechanism of action is due primarily to the active mucopolysaccharides (large sugar molecules) in bovine cartilage," the book states. " it is believed these mucopolysaccharides act on the tumor cell membrane to block mitosis (cell division)."
According to Dr. Pridden, "bovine cartilage closely resembles fetal mesenchyme, the primordial tissue from which muscle,bone,tendons,ligaments,skin,fat and bone marrow (the heart of the immune system) all develop... and contains numerous powerful molecular biodirectors that have a potent normalizing effect on the multiple chemical and structural abnormalities of cancer cells."
Its effect on cancer,according to the authors,can be measured by a scanning electron microscope as the bovine cartilage gradually " reduces the size of aberrant cells until the malignant cells gradually decrease to the size of a healthy cell."
This method of starving a cancer cell of the network of blood cells that feed it, as theorized by Dr. Judah Folkman in the 1960s, is a radically different approach to fighting cancer from the approach taken by traditional medical practitioners who use the chemotherapy and radiation to kill cancer cells.
These treatments often wreak havoc on a host's immune system, making the cure almost devastating as the disease.
Conversely, bovine cartilage does not cause toxicity to the body, according to the Kirchhofs, who claims that " bovine cartilage is entirely non-toxic and safe and its use poses absolutely no threat to the patient."
And, as Dr. Pridden creatively illustrates, "in happy contrast to chemotherapy, it [bovine cartilage] burns no immunological or hematological bridges." It has also been shown to mitigate the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to the book.
Dr. Prudden can make such statement because of the extensive clinical research he has done on people actually suffering from cancer. According to the book, he accepted patients for his trials who "failed to respond to all standard therapy, or had a cancer for which the current therapy is generally recognized as ineffective."
The first published clinical results of this treatment appeared in Dr. Pridden's report entitled "Treatment of Human Cancer with Bovine Tracheal Cartilage" which appeared in the December 1985 edition of the Journal of Biological Response Modifiers.
The results were extremely encouraging,showing that "of the 31 patients who are cited, 90% showed a partial or complete response."
"Eleven (35%) showed complete response with probable or possible cures, eight patients (26%) had a complete response but sustained a relapse, six (19%) sustained a partial response and three (10%) a minimal response. One patient showed no response and the disease progressed,"according to the report.
According to the Kirchhofs, there have been numerous other "excellent response" noted in Dr. Prudden's papers since 1985. The authors state that he has treated approximately 100 additional cases with similar results. And he plans to publish a detailed account of his finding in a major medical journal which should be anxiously awaited by anyone whose life has been touched by the ravage of cancer.
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