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The last six months has seen an explosion in reports on drugs and treatment regimes designed to slow AIDS and clear up its symptoms. The most successful remedies have been reported in the alternative press, while the popular newspapers are making suggestions of AIDS cures just around the corner. Many of these reports are treated only as_ sensational news items to be quickly forgotten as if they were only fads. With an issue as important as AIDS, in which thousands of lives are at stake, one might think that researchers and the media would leap onto claims for ‘cures’ and assorted remedies with more noble aims, either to examine their worth in saving lives or to disprove them. Some The last six months has seen Some of the more natural causing them to produce :a T-cell an explosion in reports on drugs treatments involve derivatives of plant growth factor, interleukin-2 (IL-2) and and treatment regimes products, including soybeans, to generate IL-2 receptors. Leukaemic designed to slow AIDS and clear Japanese mushrooms and the bark and AIDS-susceptible T-cells already up its symptoms. from a Brazilian tree, Taheebo. have the IL-2 receptors. The most successful remedies Taheebo tea is a powerful diuretic IL-2. was discovered in the early have been reported in the used in the elimination of fungal 1980s. It was also being touted in early alternative press, while the popular infections from the body. April this year as a cancer cure, but was Most popular of all are the anti- quickly slammed for its poor results AIDS cures just around the corner. viral drugs, such as Ribavirin and (including a few deaths). The effects Many of these reports are treated Suramin, but these drugs are not at treatment Ore suspiciously only as sensational news items to be readily available in the U.S. and AIDS __ like the symptoms of AIDS. newspapers are making suggestions of 2 . i Another drug being uickly forgotten as if they were only sufferers have had to go to Mexico, ; -_ as, q win an issue as desi as France or Israel to procure them. Both experimented with is AZT, a product AIDS, in which thousands of lives are at Ribavirin and Suramin have failed of the ; lucrative ; bioengineering stake, one might think that by themselves. An international laboratories. AZT is not claimed to researchers and the media would health conference held in Melbourne cure AIDS, but to slow down the leap onto claims for 'cures) and in March claimed Ribavirin only progress of AIDS sym ptomts by a few works if used in conjunction with months. AZT is being sought by AIDS of the thymus gland of sufferers in the hope of extending their chances of surviving until a time that a proper cure for AIDS is found, but AZT has very serious 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. In 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 assorted remedies with more noble aims, either to examine their worth in extracts saving lives or to disprove them. children. There are about a dozen Another drug, isoprinosine, the AIDS virus’ protein shell. different experimental drugs that increases the number and efficiency of Then there is the megavitamin desperate AIDS sufferers in the United T-cells, thus bolstering the immune therapy of Dr Robert Cathcart, a States have resorted to out of system. Isoprinosine began formal renowned orthopaedic surgeon in Los frustration with a medical testing in Sweden“and in Sydney in Altos, California. Following Linus establishment that not only offers no February this year. Pauling’s work with high doses of effective treatment, but also pours Another experimental drug, AL- vitamin C and cancer, Cathcart disdain on alternative therapies. 721, is thought to attach to theT-4 cells achieved good success with AIDS One treatment involves the which become diseased with AIDS. symptoms. Cathcart reported: "I application of a mixture containing Some clinics in the US have issued started giving massive doses of DNCB directly onto the skin cancer, recipes for making an home-made vitamin C to AIDS patients. I used it Kaposi's sarcoma, which is often approximation of AL-721in the form of — intravenously and the effect was associated with AIDS. DNCB is short an edible paste which you can spread amazing. The lesions on the skin for dinitrochlorobenzene, which is a _ like peanut butter onto bread. started to fade out right in front of photographic chemical. . According to naturopathic theory, your eyes”. Cathcart has treated The use of DNCB has led to the _ bread is one of the worst foods youcan about 50 AIDS patients and 30 of remission of cancer symptoms in at eat because it contains lectins, them are still alive. However, when least one patient. proteins which latch onto T~ells, the vitamin C therapy was stopped, he 2 36 Nexus New Times the Some of the more natural treatments involve derivatives of plant products, including soybeans, Japanese mushrooms and the bark from a Brazilian tree, Taheebo. Taheebo tea is a powerful diuretic used in the elimination of fungal infections from the body. Most popular of all are the anti- viral drugs, such as Ribavirin and Suramin, but these drugs are not readily available in the U.S. and AIDS sufferers have had to go to Mexico, France or Israel to procure them. Both Ribavirin and Suramin have failed by themselves. An_ international health conference held in Melbourne in March claimed Ribavirin only works if used in conjunction with extracts of the thymus gland of children. to