Graviola Tree – Guyabano – Guanabana – Soursop… Better than Chemotherapy?
I received an email from a friend (who normally does not forward any emails that he has not verified against Snopes.com (otherwise he will receive a barrage of emails back condeming him of spreading false information.. hehe!). The email is about a tropical fruit we Filipinos know as Guyabano and the benefits of its leaves and bark to cancer treatment. I love Guyabano and in fact, when I was little, my aunts and uncles will bring home loads of these fruits from the province and share them with neighbors as well. My mom usually makes Guyabano juice from its pulp and I loved it!!
Although my life is going quite well, it still saddens me to hear about people around me who have been diagnosed with cancer. My sister’s nanny was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and another friend’s brother was diagnosed with leukemia. Cancer is a disease that has been with us for a long time. Yes, there have been many advances in medicine that helps in prolonging the lives of cancer patients and some even go into remission for years without the disease coming back to haunt them. Yet, it is still a killer. It is still around. And the most famous therapy is “chemotheraphy” and “radiation”. We’ver heard about its ill-effects to the patient while under treatment right? In fact, my sister went through it when she was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 years ago. Thank God, she is now in remission.
Here’s the email:
Billion-dollar drug company nearly squashes astounding
research on natural cancer killer
Colon and breast cancer conquered with miracle tree from the Amazon
found to be 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy
Since our inception in 1996, Health Sciences Institute has scoured the world to find cutting-edge treatments few people have access to or have even heard about. And sometimes, what we uncover startles even the medical mavericks on our board.
Two months ago, we learned about an astounding cancer-fighting tree from the Amazon
that has literally sent shock waves through the HSI network
Today, the future of cancer treatment and the chances of survival look more promising than ever. There’s a healing tree that grows deep within the Amazon rain forest in South America that could literally change how you, your doctor, and possibly the rest of the world think about curing cancer. With extracts from this powerful tree, it may now be possible to…
- conquer cancer safely and effectively with an all-natural therapy that doesn’t cause extreme nausea, weight loss, and hair loss
- protect your immune system and evade deadly infections
- feel strong and healthy throughout the course of treatment
- boost your energy and improve your outlook on life
Through a series of confidential communications involving a researcher from one of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies, this ancient tree’s anticancerous properties have recently come to light. Although not yet tested in human trials, the tree has been studied in more than 20 laboratory tests since the 1970s, where it’s been shown to:
- effectively target and kill malignant cells in 12 different types of cancer, including colon, breast, prostate, lung, and pancreatic cancer
- be 10,000 times stronger in killing colon cancer cells than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug
- selectively hunt down and kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells, unlike chemotherapy
So why isn’t every health publication extolling the benefits of this treatment? Why hasn’t it been made widely available throughout the natural-medicine community? And, if it’s only half as promising as it appears to be, why isn’t every oncologist at every major hospital insisting on using it on all his patients? Especially when you consider that since the early 1990s, extensive independent research–including research by one of today’s leading drug companies and by the National Cancer Institute–confirms that the tree’s chemical extracts attack and destroy cancer cells with lethal precision.
Graviola is 10,000 times stronger in killing colon cancer
than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug.
The answer to these difficult questions can only be explained by recounting a disturbing story we recently uncovered. More than anything else we’ve reported on this year, the story of this Amazon cancer treatment reinforces the need for groups like HSI and illustrates how easily our options for medical treatment are controlled by money and power.
News of this amazing tree was nearly lost forever
A confidential source, whose account we’ve been able to independently confirm, revealed that a billion-dollar drug company in the United States tried for nearly seven years to synthesize two of the tree’s most powerful anticancerous chemicals. In the early 1990s, behind lock and key, this well-known drug giant began searching for a cure for cancer–while preciously guarding their opportunity to patent it and, therefore, profit from it.
Research focused on a legendary healing tree called Graviola. Parts of the tree–including the bark, leaves, roots, fruit, and fruit seeds–had been used for centuries by medicine men and native Indians in South America to treat heart disease, asthma, liver problems, and arthritis. Going on little documented scientific evidence, the company poured money and resources into testing Graviola’s anticancerous properties–and they were shocked by the results. Graviola was a cancer-killing dynamo. But that’s where the story of Graviola nearly ended.
The pharmaceutical company had a big problem. They’d spent years trying to isolate and create man-made duplicates of two of the tree’s most powerful chemicals. But they’d hit a brick wall. They couldn’t replicate the original. And they couldn’t sell the tree extract itself profitably–because federal law mandates that natural substances can’t be patented. That meant the company couldn’t protect its profits on the project it had poured millions of dollars and nearly seven years of research into.
As the dream of big profits evaporated, testing on Graviola came to a screeching halt
After seven frustrating years and without the promise of lucrative sales, the company shelved the project and refused to publish its findings in an independent journal. But one responsible researcher struggled with the decision. While understanding the company’s goal of profits, he couldn’t accept the decision to hide this unique cancer killer from the world. Following his conscience and risking his career, he contacted Raintree Nutrition, a company dedicated to harvesting plants from the Amazon.
As a result, Raintree went into high gear and began to research related studies published on Graviola. They discovered that several other teams in the United States (in addition to that of the drug company) had been testing Graviola in vitro (in test tubes). The results supported the drug company’s secret findings; Graviola had been shown to kill cancer cells.
Encouraged by these early laboratory tests, Raintree hired indigenous Indian tribes in Brazil to grow and harvest the tree. They spent a year on research and development and then began offering Graviola in the United States. They also developed a new supplement called N-Tense, which contains 50 percent Graviola as well as smaller amounts of seven other cancer-killing botanical extracts. (See page 4 for more information on N-Tense.)
Health Sciences Institute came across Graviola and Raintree Nutrition a few months ago while researching Chanca Piedra, a natural kidney-stone therapy from the Amazon, that was featured in our September 2000 issue. In the course of our working together, Raintree pointed us toward Graviola. And needless to say, our panel of experts were intrigued by the possibility of this powerful natural cure for cancer.
Graviola hunts down and destroys prostate, lung, breast,
colon, and pancreatic cancers… leaving healthy cells alone
Since November, we’ve been looking closely into the research to date on Graviola. It appears one of the first scientific references to it in the United States was by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In 1976, the NCI included Graviola in a plant-screening program that showed its leaves and stems were effective in attacking and destroying malignant cells. But the results were part of an internal NCI report and were, for some reason, never released to the public.1
Since 1976, there have been several promising cancer studies on Graviola. However, the tree’s extracts have yet to be tested on cancer patients. No double-blind clinical trials exist, and clinical trials are typically the benchmark mainstream doctors and journals use to judge a treatment’s value. Nevertheless, Graviola has been shown to kill cancer cells in vitro in at least 20 laboratory tests that our research has uncovered.
The most recent study, conducted at Catholic University of South Korea earlier this year, revealed that two chemicals extracted from Graviola seeds showed “selective cytotoxicity comparable with Adriamycin” for breast and colon cancer cells. The chemicals targeted and killed malignant breast and colon cells in a test tube–comparable to the commonly used chemotherapy drug Adriamycin.2
Another study, published in the Journal of Natural Products, showed that Graviola is not only comparable to Adriamycin–but dramatically outperforms it in laboratory tests. Results showed that one chemical found in Graviola selectively killed colon cancer cells at “10,000 times the potency of Adriamycin.”3
Graviola selectively targets cancer cells leaving healthy cells untouched.
Chemotherapy indiscriminately seeks and destroys all actively
reproducing cells – even normal, healthy ones.
Other promising and ongoing research at Purdue University is supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute. Purdue researchers recently found that leaves from the Graviola tree killed cancer cells “among six human-cell lines” and were especially effective against prostate and pancreatic cancer cells.4 In a separate study, Purdue researchers showed that extracts from the Graviola leaves are extremely effective in isolating and killing lung cancer cells.5
Perhaps the most significant result of the study cited above from the Catholic University of South Korea, and of each of the others we’ve found, is that Graviola was shown to selectively target the enemy–leaving all healthy, normal cells untouched. By comparison, chemotherapy indiscriminately seeks and destroys all actively reproducing cells–even normal hair and stomach cells. This is what causes such often-devastating side effects as hair loss and severe nausea. In this respect, Graviola looks to be a promising alternative or supplement to mainstream treatments.
Patient reports show Graviola and N-Tense help eliminate tumors
From a clinical standpoint, Graviola still has a long way to go. Its properties have only been studied in a test tube. That’s why it has yet to become widely known and accepted. The unfortunate truth is that without the promise of huge revenues from a synthesized, patented drug, it’s unlikely that any pharmaceutical company will invest the hundreds of thousands (even millions) of dollars it would take to conduct the double-blind, placebo-controlled studies on humans. This is the underlying challenge to substantiating most nutritional therapies. Fortunately, Graviola is a natural substance, so we don’t have to wait around for the drug companies. And, thanks to one researcher with a conscience, Raintree Nutrition bravely took the initiative in making this promising cure available.
Only a relative handful of doctors and patients in the United States have been using Graviola and the Graviola-rich botanical supplement N-Tense to fight cancer. Still, according to Raintree Nutrition, the combined therapy has produced some incredible results.
One such case history involved an executive at a high-tech company in Texas. Daryl S. came across Raintree when exploring alternative treatments to cure his prostate cancer. A sonogram and biopsy confirmed that Daryl had more than 20 tumors in his prostate. One doctor recommended surgery. But Daryl thought a cure using this common conventional treatment would come at too great a cost. He didn’t want to suffer from impotence and incontinence for the rest of his life.
Instead, he agreed to a far less invasive round of hormonal therapy (to shrink the size of his prostate) and began a rigorous supplement regimen that centered around the Graviola-rich supplement N-Tense.
Within two months, Daryl’s PSA level had dropped from 4.1 to 0.00. A sonogram and several other gamma-ray tests later confirmed that all the malignant tumors inside his prostate had disappeared.
Seven years of silence broken
We are continuing to work with Raintree and others conducting ongoing research on Graviola. As more scientific and anecdotal evidence comes to light, you’ll be among the first to hear about it. However, after seven years of silence and hidden research, we felt it irresponsible not to bring this to you now.
Grown and harvested by indigenous people in Brazil, Graviola is available in limited supply in the United States and distributed only through Raintree Nutrition. But now, you can be among a select few in the entire country to benefit from Graviola. We encourage you, as always, to consult with your doctor before beginning any new therapy, especially when treating cancer.
You can make tea out of the Graviola leaves, obtain the herb alone in capsule form, or benefit from the power of Graviola combined with seven other immune-boosting herbs in Raintree Nutrition’s N-Tense capsules. (See the sidebar on page 4 for more details on N-Tense.)
Graviola leaves are available through Raintree Nutrition at $19 per pound or at $15.00 per 100 capsules. Each capsule contains 700 milligrams. Based on South American traditional therapies, it’s recommended you take one to five grams a day. As a dietary supplement, N-Tense should be taken at 6 to 8 capsules daily. You can order 120 capsules for $24.
Graviola and N-Tense are completely natural substances with no side effects apart from possible mild gastrointestinal upset at high dosages (in excess of 5 grams) if taken on an empty stomach.
1. Unpublished data, National Cancer Institute. Anon: Nat Cancer 1st Central Files–(1976)
from Napralert Files, University of Illinois, 1995
2. Bioorg Med Chem 8(1):285-90, 2000
3. J Nat Prod 59(2):100-108, 1996
4. Phytochemistry 49(2):565-71, 1998
5. J. Nat Prod 58(6):902-908, 1995
Graviola fights more than cancer….
While the research on Graviola has focused on its cancer-fighting effect, the plant has been used for centuries by medicine men in South America to treat an astonishing number of ailments, including:
| hypertension | ringworm |
| influenza | scurvy |
| rashes | malaria |
| neuralgia | dysentery |
| arthritis | palpitations |
| rheumatism | nervousness |
| high blood pressure | insomnia |
| diarrhea | fever |
| nausea | boils |
| dyspepsia | muscle spasm |
| ulcer |
Despite the mounting collection of laboratory tests and anecdotal reports about this
cancer-fighting dynamo, Graviola may always remain an underground therapy!
Graviola has yet to be clinically tested on animals or humans. And because Graviola is a natural product, it can’t be patented. Without the promise of exclusive sales and high profitability, it will likely never again draw the attention of a major drug company or research lab. So we may never see a double-blind clinical study on the tree that’s reported to help defeat cancer.
But there’s no doubt about it–the early laboratory tests and anecdotal reports about Graviola are very exciting. And if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, you and your doctor should look at all the available treatment options. Graviola may just provide the help you’ve been looking for that could make all the difference in beating cancer.
Raintree Nutrition can supply you with more information on Graviola and N-Tense. See page 8 for ordering and contact information.
Note: We are carefully tracking the success of Graviola use among our members. Please write to us describing your experiences with this important treatment.
Send to: Graviola Project, Health Sciences Institute, 819 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201.
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Just to double-check, I searched Snopes.com. I didn’t find any entry about the subject matter. I also searched Purdue University and Soursop. Here’s the only thing I can find.
Medicinal Uses: The juice of the ripe fruit is said to be diuretic and a remedy for haematuria and urethritis. Taken when fasting, it is believed to relieve liver ailments and leprosy. Pulverized immature fruits, which are very astringent, are decocted as a dysentery remedy. To draw out chiggers and speed healing, the flesh of an acid soursop is applied as a poultice unchanged for 3 days.
In Materia Medica of British Guiana, we are told to break soursop leaves in water, “squeeze a couple of limes therein, get a drunken man and rub his head well with the leaves and water and give him a little of the water to drink and he gets as sober as a judge in no time.” This sobering or tranquilizing formula may not have been widely tested, but soursop leaves are regarded throughout the West Indies as having sedative or soporific properties. In the Netherlands Antilles, the leaves are put into one’s pillowslip or strewn on the bed to promote a good night’s sleep. An infusion of the leaves is commonly taken internally for the same purpose. It is taken as an analgesic and antispasmodic in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. In Africa, it is given to children with fever and they are also bathed lightly with it. A decoction of the young shoots or leaves is regarded in the West Indies as a remedy for gall bladder trouble, as well as coughs, catarrh, diarrhea, dysentery and indigestion; is said to “cool the blood,” and to be able to stop vomiting and aid delivery in childbirth. The decoction is also employed in wet compresses on inflammations and swollen feet. The chewed leaves, mixed with saliva, are applied to incisions after surgery, causing proudflesh to disappear without leaving a scar. Mashed leaves are used as a poultice to alleviate eczema and other skin afflictions and rheumatism, and the sap of young leaves is put on skin eruptions.
The roots of the tree are employed as a vermifuge and the root bark as an antidote for poisoning. A tincture of the powdered seeds and bay rum is a strong emetic. Soursop flowers are believed to alleviate catarrh.
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I also found additional information from Ask.com about its medicinal benefits here but it says nothing about cancer. There is a publication by the Journal of Natural Products but you can only access it if you pay $30.00 or ask your local library to give you access. The site may be found through the link below. You can check further information about Guyabano through the following links:
Soursop – Via Encyclopedia dot com
Soursop – Journal of Natural Products
Has anyone heard of this? Does this information have a backbone? I searched for Health Sciences Institute as well and the Institute does exist but you cannot search anything on their site unless you become a member. Is this for real or simply a marketing ploy for the Soursop capsules being sold? It is a mighty bold claim if you ask me but if anyone can provide further information, please share it with us.
