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The last six months has seen Some of the more natural causing them to prod lll:e :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 geperate IL-2 reeeptors. Leukaemic
designed to slow AIDS and clear Japanese mushrOOmS and the bark and AIDS-susceptible T-cells already
from a Brazilian tree, Taheebo. have the IL-2 receptors.
up its symptoms. lL-2 was discovered iI1! the early
The most successful remedies Taheebo tea is a powerful diuretic
used in the elimination of fungal 198Os, It was also being touted in early
have been reported in ,the
ihfections from the body. April this year as a cancer cure, but was
alternative press, while the popular
Most popular of all are the anti- quickly slammed for its poor results
newspapers are making suggestions of
viral drugs, such as Ribavirin and (including a few deaths). The effects
A"DS cures just around the comer.
Suramin, but these drugs are not of IL-2 treatment sounded suspiciously
Many of these reporrs are treated
readily available in Ithe U.S. and AIDS like the symptoms of AIDS.
only as sensational news items to be
sufferers have had to go to Mexico, Another drug being
quickly fOFgotten as if they were only
fads. With an issue as important 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 fa~led of the lucrative broengineering
'laboratories. AZT is not claimed to
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stake, one might think that by themselves, An internationall
health conference held in Melbourne cure AIDS, but to slow down the
researchers and the media
leap onto claims for 'cures' and
would
in March claimed Ribavirin only progress of AIDS sympto·ms by a few
months. AZT is being sought by AIDS
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assorted remedies with morc noble works if used in confunctidn with
extracts of the thymus ,gland of suffer~rs in the hope of extend ing
aims, either to examine their worth in
saving lives or to disprove them. children. their chances of surviving until a time
that a proper cure for AIDS is found,
but AZT has very seriQu.s side
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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
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of George Washington University in
Washington has also injected himself
i~J!j-'~ with a vaccine he developed, called
HGP-30, which is made from a part of
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 cance-r, Cathcart
disdain on alternative therapies. 721, is thought to attach to theT-4 cells achieved good success with AIDS
One treatment involves the which hecome 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-721 in 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 diniJrochlorobenzene, which is a like peanut butter onto bread. started to fade out right in front of
photographic chemical. ,According to naturopathic theory, your ey.es". Cathcart has treated
The use of DNCS has led to th.e bread is one of the worst foods you can about 50 AIDS patients and 30 of
remission of cancer symptoms in at eat because it contains lee tins, them are still alive, However, when
least one patient. proteins which latch onto T-cells, the vitamin C [tnerapy was stopped,