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The last six months has seen Some of the more natural an explosion in reports on drugs treatments involve derivatives of plant and treatment regimes products, including soybeans, Japanese mushrOOmS and the bark designed to slow AIDS and clear from a Brazilian tree, Taheebo.up its symptoms. Taheebo tea is a powerful diureticThe most successful remedies used in the elimination of fungalhave been reported in ,the ihfections from the body. alternative press, while the popular Most popular of all are the antinewspapers are making suggestions of viral drugs, such as Ribavirin andA"DS cures just around the comer. Suramin, but these drugs are notMany of these reporrs are treated readily available in Ithe U.S. and AIDSonly as sensational news items to be sufferers have had to go to Mexico, quickly fOFgotten as if they were only France or Israel to procure them. Both fads. With an issue as important as Ribavirin and Suramin have fa~led AIDS, in which thousands of lives are at by themselves, An internationallstake, one might think that health conference held in Melbourne researchers and the media would leap onto claims for 'cures' and in March claimed Ribavirin only assorted remedies with morc noble works if used in confunctidn with extracts of the thymus ,gland of saving lives or to disprove them. children. aims, either to examine their worth in 00 0 00 0 00 00 c., C .v PI l-.. ........ .~ ............... ,.\....,~, C ,.'\ ,.. ~. I f"I ............' .'~ amrI . \. "> ." . -, , '~':,. ../ '.>.:...\/ c".' '.,,~~,.~' ~l---\i~l. ~) i~J!j-'~ There are abOUt a dozen Another drug, isoprinosine, different experimental drugs that increases the number and efficiency of desperate AIDS sufferers in the United T-cells, thus bolstering the immune States have resorted to out of system, Isoprinosine began formal frustration with a medical testing in Sweden" and in Sydney in establishment that not only offers no February this year. effective treatment, but also pours Another experimental drug, AL disdain on alternative therapies. 721, is thought to attach to theT-4 cells One treatment involves the which hecome diseased with AIDS. application of a mixture containing Some clinics in the US have issued DNCB directly onto the skin 'cancer, recipes for making an home-made Kaposi's sarcoma, which is often approximation of AL-721 in the form of associated with AIDS. DNCB is short an edible paste which you can spread for diniJrochlorobenzene, which is a like peanut butter onto bread. photographic chemical. ,According to naturopathic theory, The use of DNCS has led to th.e bread is one of the worst foods you can remission of cancer symptoms in at eat because it contains leetins, least one patient. proteins which latch onto T-cells, Nexus New Times ~. " :\', ~.-';.' causing them to prodlll:e :a T-cell growth factor, interleukin-2 (IL-2) and to geperate IL-2 reeeptors. Leukaemic and AIDS-susceptible T-cells already have the IL-2 receptors. lL-2 was discovered iI1! the early 198Os, It was also being touted in early April this year as a cancer cure, but was quickly slammed for its poor results (including a few deaths). The effects of IL-2 treatment sounded suspiciously like the symptoms of AIDS. Another drug being experimented with is AZT, a product of the lucrative broengineering .. 'laboratories. AZT is not claimed to cure AIDS, but to slow down the progress of AIDS sympto·ms by a few .. months. AZT is being sought by AIDS suffer~rs in the hope of extend ing their chances of surviving until a time that a proper cure for AIDS is found, but AZT has very seriQu.s side effects, including the suppression of bone marrow production of red blood cells. AIDS is a suppression of T-4 white blood cells by the virus HIV. Tn March there was a report from New York of forthcoming worldwide vaccine developments for containing AIDS, Dr Daniel Zagury, a French scientist, working in Zaire, injected himself with a vaccine to test for its side effects, Dr Allan Goldstein of George Washington University in Washington has also injected himself with a vaccine he developed, called HGP-30, which is made from a part of the AIDS virus' protein shell. Then there' is the megavitamin therapy of Dr Robert Cathcart, a renowned orthopaedic surgeon in Los Altos, California. FollOWing Linus Pauling's work with high doses of vitamin C and cance-r, Cathcart achieved good success with AIDS symptoms. Cathcart reported: "I started giving massive doses of vitamin C ,to AIDS patients. I used it intravenously and the effect was amazing. The lesions on the skin started to fade out right in front of your ey.es". Cathcart has treated about 50 AIDS patients and 30 of them are still alive, However, when the vitamin C [tnerapy was stopped, 36