Pau d'Arco Herbal Remedy for Cancer
Pau d’Arco, specifically Tabebuia impetiginosa (also known as Handroanthus impetiginosus), became famous as a cancer cure in Brazil during the 1960’s. There, doctors used the Pau d’Arco in hospitals until powerful leaders in conventional medicine found out through the media that the bark of this tree was being used by doctors to cure cancer, with great success. It is still well known for its healing abilities throughout South America, but knowledge of this potent herbal cancer remedy has been suppressed on other continents thanks to strong efforts by the pharmaceutical industry to cover it up. Patients who choose to use Pau d’Arco as a cancer cure need to make sure that the tea that they are consuming contains primarily the inner bark of the Tabebuia impetiginosa / Handroanthus impetiginosus tree (read on for more information about how to choose a quality Pau d’Arco product).Recently, Pau d'Arco's Latin classification was changed from Tabebuia impetiginosa to Handroanthus impetiginosus. When choosing a Pau d’Arco product to use to cure cancer or any other major disease, be sure to search for a product that contains this specific type of Pau d’Arco (check the label for one of these two Latin names for the plant). Other Pau d'Arco varieties do not work by themselves as a cancer cure (though there are other Pau d'Arco species that are sometimes combined with Tabebuia impetiginosa / Handroanthus impetiginosus that can work well to treat disease). In this article, we'll use both of these plant-names interchangeably in order to ensure that readers who are familiar with either of these Latin classifications will be able to find this article when searching online.
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Detailed Introduction
Pau d’Arco, (also known as Lapacho, Trumpet Bush, Ipé Roxo, and Taheebo), and its amazing healing powers, are relatively unknown outside of South America. In 1967, the Brazilian media in Sao Paulo reported that Pau d’Arco was being successfully used to successfully cure cancer. When word got out, naturally growing Pau d’Arco trees were ravaged by patients desperate for affordable cancer treatment that can cure cancer. The inner bark of the trees was ripped away in large quantities and huge numbers of Pau d’Arco trees were tragically left devastated and destroyed.Pau d’Arco is native to Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The tree grows up to 125 feet tall and produces pink, purple, or white flowers. The Incas used Pau d’Arco to cure cancer as well as to treat fevers, dysentery, intestinal issues, and snakebites. The bark of Tabebuia impetiginosa has also demonstrated antimicrobial as well antitumor, purifying, and immune-stimulating activity, in addition to being an herbal remedy for diabetes that also can lower blood pressure naturally. It has a strong anti-inflammatory effect on the digestive system and is a powerful herbal remedy for Candida infections.
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The medicinal action of Handroanthus impetiginosus is noteworthy because it tells us something about the cancer-Candida connection as well as the cancer-diabetes connection. Candida, of course, is a yeast infection that's worsened by eating a diet high in refined sugars. Central to the relationship between cancer, diabetes, and Candida is the body's ability to metabolize sugars. Click here to read a quick overview about the use of bitter melon to treat and cure diabetes and cancer and how herbal remedies for cancer and diabetes work to treat the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas through an unusual mechanism of medicinal action that's fairly easy to understand. Once you understand that bile sludge and bile stones can clog the ducts that lead from the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas to the small intestine, and how clogged ducts in this area of the body can lead to diabetes and cancer, it is much easier to understand how these same clogged ducts can cause Candida overgrowth in the body. Pancreatic enzymes, after all, are not just used by the human body to digest food. Pancreatic enzymes also digest cancer cells and pathogens including hyphal forms of Candida. If your liver and/or gallbladder is overwhelmed by toxins, your pancreas may suffer greatly as a result of clogged ducts that can easily be unclogged using coffee enemas or the Hulda Clark Gallbladder and Liver Cleanse.
If you have diabetes, cancer, and Candida overgrowth, or perhaps just cancer and Candida, or cancer and diabetes, working with liver cleansing systems like coffee enemas or the Hulda Clark Liver Cleanse along with Tabebuia impetiginosa decoctions can act as a powerful protocol to cancer. Combine these treatments with nutrient supplements for cancer like those in the Lugol's iodine protocol to improve at-home cancer treatment outcomes using natural medicines.
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Politics
Brazil
After the media covered the use of Pau d’Arco at hospitals in São Paulo, the doctors who had been curing patients with this tree bark medicine were faced with the possibility of losing their licenses. A large crowd of people gathered outside the hospital in Santo Andre to get Pau d’Arco before access was restricted. The crowd was so large that the hospital’s daily operations were seriously threatened. In Santo Andre and the hospitals and clinics of São Paulo, signs were posted saying that the distribution of Pau d’Arco had been suspended. These signs were posted in a fashion not unlike those posted in post offices and government buildings throughout the United States warning patients about the “dangers” of laetrile/amygdalin, a vital cancer-curing nutrient. But instead of passively accepting the suspension of Pau d’Arco, people raided areas like the Botanical Gardens in Campinas to strip the bark from the trees and make the tea themselves at home.The journalists who first reported on the use of Pau d’Arco to cure cancer had initially promised to reveal patient’s medical histories, doctor’s names, X-rays, and biopsy results along with the names of the doctors who had used Pau d'Arco to cure cancer and other diseases. But after the media report, the subject had been closed and all use of Pau d’Arco stopped. The hospital staff had been forbidden to discuss it.
Reporters later learned that over 1,000 diabetics had been cured using Pau d’Arco. Research has since revealed that a particular species of Pau d’Arco, the Tabebuia heptaphylla tree (also known as Handroanthus heptaphyllus), is particularly effective at inhibiting the absorption of glucose in the intestines and may be an ideal treatment option for diabetes and related conditions.
During the time period while the hospital urged its staff not to discuss the use of Pau d’Arco, patients and doctors continued to talk anyway. There were stories of cancer remissions, as well as reports of diabetes and cardiovascular disease being cured by this plant. But soon, the São Paulo Hospital of Clinics released a press announcement claiming that Pau d’Arco was not a cancer cure and that, in fact, cancer patients received no benefit from taking Pau d’Arco. People became confused by the contradictory reports made by the media. The hospitals continued to be prohibited from prescribing the Pau d'Arco bark to patients. Though the scientific community was interested in studying Pau d’Arco, doctors didn’t want to be involved for fear of being labeled “quacks” or of having their licenses revoked completely.
Argentina
In Argentina, Pau d’Arco was also discovered by the masses in 1967. A botanist and professor of botany and plant geography at the Miguel Lillo Institute and Herbarium in San Miguel de Tucuman named Teodoro Meyer was studying Pau d’Arco at the same time as Victor Accorsi, professor emeritus at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Teodor Meyer was able to speak the language of some of the local tribes, and so he was able to learn about the medicinal plants that these tribal communities used to cure different diseases. Meyer’s work included providing Merck and Co., the pharmaceutical giant in New Jersey, with indigenous herbal medicines used to treat malaria and tropical fevers. Meyer formulated a special Pau d’Arco elixir from the inner bark of three different kinds of Pau d’Arco trees (we discuss this elixir more below).Though Meyer was doing nothing illegal by distributing his Pau d’Arco extract, the Medical College in Argentina banned Pau d'Arco in 1969. Meyer was a well-known and well-respected scientist, so he received support from the media and his patients, but the Medical College threatened to revoke a special fund that Meyer had been awarded as part of the National Prize in Biology four years prior. He’d planned to use the money to study Pau d’Arco. Teodor Meyer died shortly after that event.
Canada
In Canada, Pau d’Arco became known for a brief period of time as an alternative treatment for cancer, but the Health Protection Branch of Canada’s federal government classified it as a “new drug”, which essentially banned its sale. Crowds demonstrated in front of the Parliament building and in Vancouver, but the government maintained the classification. Despite this, Pau d’Arco is still sold in health food stores across Canada. Nurse Renee Caisse had feared this kind of “shelving” when she refused to give away her formula for Essiac tea, another important herbal cancer cure.United States
Though the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI), began systematically researching medicinal plant extracts from all over the world (including Tabebuia impetiginosa / Handroanthus impetiginosus) in the 1960’s, Pau d’Arco didn’t enter the public eye in the United States until 1981. In the 1960’s Pau d’Arco was studied with great detail by the NCI, but public knowledge of the plant officially began with a newspaper article that noted the events that took place in São Paulo in 1967. Later that year, a botanist was quoted as saying that Pau d’Arco was “threatening to become a second laetrile". However, Pau d’Arco never received the same kind of media coverage in the United States as it did in other countries, so while there have been hundreds of instances (if not many more) in the US in which people were healed of cancer and other major disease by Pau d’Arco tea, the lack of publicity meant that it was never necessary to demonize it with the same rigors used to demonize laetrile. However, at the time of this writing, WebMD makes the claim that Pau d'Arco is “possibly unsafe” when taken by mouth. These kinds of linguistic tricks (“possibly unsafe”) are commonly used to describe the economic effects of substances like Pau d’Arco on big pharmaceutical companies, rather than their effects on actual human beings.
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Safety and Effectiveness
Pau d’Arco is used to treat a wide variety of health problems including:- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Arthritis
- Burns
- Pain
- Inflammation
- Osteoarthritis
- Fever
- Dysentery
- Malaria
- Trypanosomiasis
- Schistosomiasis
- Stomach disorders
- Bladder disorders
- Boils
- Ulcers
- Headaches
- Parasites
- Bacterial infections
- Viral infections
- Fungal infections (e.g. Candida albicans)
- More...
Research conducted to find new anti-cancer drugs has shown that Pau d’Arco can alter the cellular protein profile, shape, and invasiveness of cancer cells. Pau d’Arco’s ability to inhibit cancer metastasis has been demonstrated in scientific studies. It is considered to be one of the most promising novel anti-cancer drugs currently being studied.
The main bioactive components in Tabebuia impetiginosa / Handroanthus impetiginosus are lapachol and beta-lapachone. Beta-lapachone appears to be the primary anti-cancer compound. Additionally, Pau d’Arco also has high levels of selenium, an anti-oxidant that also boosts immunity and supports the absorption of iodine.
According to the research, Pau d’Arco appears to be quite safe, though it can interfere with the biological cycle of vitamin K1 in the body (read more about vitamin K1 and vitamin K2 in this article). The main concern with this medicine is that many Pau d’Arco products that are currently on the market are generally low quality, so it's important to carefully examine and investigate the products you have available to you before making a purchase. As long as you are able to find a high-quality product that contains the inner bark of the Tabebuia impetiginosa tree, there are few side effects or risks associated with this plant medicine.
When consumed according to the recommended dosage, Pau d’Arco is very safe. When consumed in high doses, it can cause digestive upsets, dizziness, and bleeding because it is a vitamin K1 antagonist, similar to the drug warfarin/coumadin. Like any curative medicine, Pau d’Arco can also cause a healing crisis/Herxheimer reaction, but this is a normal and expected part of the natural healing process.
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How Pau d’Arco Is Administered
The Brazilian botanist Victor Accorsi, professor emeritus at the University of São Paulo, attended to lines of 2,000 people a day, handing out the Pau d’Arco bark from dawn until dusk for free. Accorsi believed that the bark could eliminate pain and cause an increase in the volume of red blood cells. He said that Pau d’Arco appeared to cure everything from diabetes and ulcers to cancer and rheumatism. For cancer, he suggested using an extract of Pau d’Arco bark with a teaspoonful of water every three hours.
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In Argentina, Teodoro Meyer made an elixir from the barks of the following species of Pau d’Arco trees:
- Tecoma fabrisi
- Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz = Tabebuia impetiginosa / Handroanthus impetiginosus (T. impetiginosa is more widely available).
- Tabebuia ipé Mart. = Tabebuia heptaphylla
Meyer’s instructions for preparing the elixir were as follows:
- 6 grams of Tabebuia impetiginosa bark
- 4 cups of boiling water
The bark must be boiled for about 5 minutes until the water is reduced to 3 cups. Then it should be cooled and filtered before drinking. Patients should drink it in the morning, at midday, and again before the evening meal. Drink it without sugar. It can be prepared in the morning for drinking throughout the day. Drink it without interruption, but not too quickly.
Kenneth Jones, author of Pau d’Arco, Immune Power from the Rain Forest, offers the following recipe for the tea:
Boil water in a Pyrex or glass bowl. Let it cool until it is hot, but not boiling. Add the bark and then allow it to simmer for 20 minutes. Use 2 tablespoons of Pau d’Arco bark per 3 cups of water. Drink 3 to 6 teacups of the tea daily. Drink larger amounts for more serious diseases.
A fluid extract of Pau d’Arco is also available. Patients are advised to take the extract (about ½ teaspoon per half glass of water) hourly (or every 2 to 3 hours for less serious diseases) along with the tea.
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Be aware that many companies use the whole bark of the Pau d’Arco tree even though only the inner bark has medicinal properties. Using the whole bark dilutes the medicinal value of the material.Possible Negative Effects
Pau d’Arco can cause loose stools, but it can also cure diarrhea, depending on the patient’s symptoms.[1] Jones, K. (1995). Pau d’Arco: Immune Power from the Rain Forest. Healing Arts Press: Rochester, Vermont.
[2] Cloverleaf Farm (2018). Pau d’Arco. Retrieved May 2, 2018 from http://www.cloverleaffarmherbs.com/pau-darco/
[3] Jônio de Freitas Mota & Motta, M. (1967). A Conspiraçao do Silêncio (Sao Paulo).
[4] Griffin, G. E. (1974). World Without Cancer; The Story of Vitamin B17, 3rd Ed. American Media.
[5] Grüne, U. (1976). Sobre o Princípio Antidiabético da Pedrahume-caá, Myrcia multiflora (Lam.) D. C.
[6] Olsen, C. (1996). Essiac: A Native Herbal Remedy. Kali Press: Pagosa Springs, CO.
[7] WebMD (2005-2018). Pau d’Arco. Retrieved May 2, 2018 from https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-647/pau-darco
[8] Dr. Axe (2018). Fight Cancer and Inflammation with Pau d’Arco Tea. Retrieved May 2, 2018 from https://draxe.com/pau-darco-tea/
[9] Balassiano, I. T., De Paulo, S. A., Henriques Silva, S. N., Cabral, M. C., da Gloria da Costa Carvalho, M. (2005). Demonstration of the lapachol as a potential drug for reducing cancer metastasis. Retrieved May 2, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15643520
[10] Maeda, M. Murakami, M., Takegami, T., Ota, T. (2008). Promotion or suppression of experimental metastasis of B16 melanoma cells after oral administration of lapachol. Retrieved May 2, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18294668
[11] Pardee, A. B., Li, Y. Z., Li, C. J. (2002). Cancer therapy with beta-lapachone. Retrieved May 2, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12188909
[12] Gómez Castellanos, J. R., Prieto, J. M., Heinrich, M. (2009). Red Lapacho (Tabebuia impetiginosa)—a global ethnopharmacological commodity? Retrieved May 2, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992801
