The Discovery

Carnivora as an agent neatly kills intruder DNA, when it encounters cancer in the human system. Carnivora producer, Helmut Keller, MD Medical Director of Carnivora Research, Inc . of Nordhalben, Germany has established a market in the US for this medicine.

Everyone has seen the bizarre Venus Flytrap , whether from within a childhood classroom in a terrarium, perhaps,or on some Discovery Channel program or its equivalent. On the Internet, I found a good likeness of the plant in a rather delightful site from South America,called Suapele.terra.com . The website has many thumbnails of moving plant photos, which expand two ways, either through a magnifier or to a large still. Clicking into these will show you an imaginative array of interesting species.....count to sixth down on the right hand side of the page which opens for you (available through Google)

http://suapele.terra.com.br/expodove_port/HTML/plantas.html

As you will have seen from the plants' glimmering moisture, the Venus Flytrap has many hairs on its' flower, each of which ooze a viscous liquid which both attracts and glues small insects onto its body. As the interested insect reaches into the well of the strange, almost toothed floral head of the plant, a hair-trigger snaps its jaw shut and begins to devour the insect.
Doctor Kellers' discovery was made when he realized that the digestive fluids within the meat-eating plant did not destroy the plant organism, and therefore contained some form of discriminatory sensing for the plants' DNA structuring. He concluded that this plant had an advanced immune mechanism, and, within his study, found that the plant would only digest and destroy primitive cells.
Undifferentiated, undeveloped cells are also those cells which are harmful bacteria or fungal sporing, also human cells which overproduce due to stressing like pollutants or fatigue.The immune system fights these, and Venus Flytrap (Carnivora) strengthens the immune feature which expunges invader or "primitive" cells.
His scientific application,(a discovery he made in 1973) is best described through clicking into the link below:

http://www.carnivora.com/carnivora.html

Producers' Feature Article

http://www.cancer2000.com/newsletter.html

Good Links in site.

http://www.cancer2000.com/030199.htm

Carnivora Article.

Conclusion: Carnivora inhibits tumor growth by blocking proteinkinases, inhibiting angioneogenesis, and by stimulating immune response.
Helmut Keller, MD Medical Director of Carnivora Research, Inc. Nordhalben, Germany

Carnivora Images

A truly delightful discovery: A movie of how a Venus Flytrap closes upon a touch to its sensors:

http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/movements/nastic/flytrap/flytrap.html

On Googles' excellent image cache, available through clicking "images" above the Search box on the home page, one may also find another good image of Venus Flytrap.

http://www.cancer-therapy.net/cell_repair.htm

On the same page, there are items listed which have cancer fighting properties, for instance ,Squalene, or shark cartilage,or  cranberry juice. Just click the carnivora image for an expanded view.

CAM and Pharmacists

For a pharmacists' perspective on items deemed to be supplementary or alternative there is interesting reading in an August 1998 editorial in Pharmacy Practice News : The New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists.
In a preamble, the author states that the term "alternative medicine " is used far more often in the United States than the equally descriptive term, "complementary medicine", used by the rest of the world. Fond of obscurities, science synthesized the two terms, producing "CAM" for a catchword for both complementary or alternative medicine.

Five Clinical "Spectra" Defining Alternative Medicine

1. therapeutic goals range from symptom control to cure;
2.  A broad range targets heavy medical problems, holistic therapies, and everything else
3.  Ranges from home remedies to sophisticated, manufactured products 
4. "Prescription" can come from non to highly skilled practitioners.
5. Can be highly effective, moderately so, or even have deleterious effects.

Stats: Who visits alternative practitioners

US: (1990) 34% of Americans: COST:$13.7 billion (from Pharmacy Practice News)
Canada: (1997) 42 % of Canadians (from Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal network)
US Study: Percentage of cancer patients using these methods varied from 6.4% in the South Atlantic to 14.7% in the Rocky Mountains.
 Results from studies conducted in other countries have revealed similar usage rates. In both the United States and Britain, patients using CAM are more likely to be female, younger, and of higher social status.

Pharmacists re: Alternative Medicine:

http://www.nyschp.org/ce/CEHerbs.html

The OAM (Office of Alternative Medicine) classifies alternative therapies by grouping them into one of the following seven categories:

1) diet and nutrition,
2) mind-body techniques,
3) bioelectromagnetics
4) alternative systems of medical practice (traditional and folk remedies)
5) pharmacological and biologic treatments
6) manual healing methods
7) herbal medicine.

No:1:     Therapy used is macrobiotic diet started by George Osawa.
No:2:     Mind/Body meditation and biofeedback techniques
No:3:     Bio-Electric Magnetism /studies on power lines
No:4: (ie remedies folk and traditional>Ayurvedic or Chinese herbal + acupuncture)
No:5:    Pharmacological and Biologic treatments largely available outside US.
No:6:    Immunoaugmentative Therapy (IAT) was the postdoctoral development of  Lawrence Burton, Ph.D., in the early 1970’s.His theory is that cancer occurs when there is an imbalance in four serum proteins responsible for immunologic surveillance.(14) suggesting that this imbalance can promote cancer. The individual proteins proposed to be involved are referred to as "tumor-blocking factor," "deblocking protein," "tumor antibody," and "tumor complement." Burton’s therapy is based on balancing these protein components to restore normal immune function. Considered effective in treating mesothelioma and that treatment failures are due to an unresponsive immune system caused by prior conventional treatment. (15) Declining use, not popular. >
No:7:   Antineoplastins . Probably the best known pharmacologic therapy today was developed by Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D. of the Burzynski Research Institute who, in 1970 isolated a series of peptides he termed "antineoplastons" from human urine that were later produced synthetically. His study group claim that these peptides are part of a biochemical defense system that inhibits the growth of cancer.Study closed in 1995
No:8:  Shark Cartilage:
theory: Cartilage is avascular and contains components that inhibit angiogenesis, which is necessary for tumor vascularization. In theory, treating cancer patients with shark cartilage blocks blood supply to the tumor and inhibits growth.17 Bovine cartilage is also under study. OAM studies halted because the shark cartilage was considered to be too contaminated for study.
No:9: Cancell  is another biologic remedy which claims to deprive cancer cells of their ability to obtain energy, causing them to revert to their primitive state, which causes cell death.
FDA investigations have revealed that cancell is composed of common chemicals - including inositol, nitric acid, sodium sulfite, potassium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, and catechol - and that no basis for its effectiveness against cancer exists.Also considerd to be adulterated.
No:10:Metabolic Therapies
, eg Gerson’s regimen - a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables supplemented with calf liver juice, vitamins and minerals, taken with other interventions including thyroid extract, castor oil enemas and coffee enemas to detoxify the liver.
No:11:  Manual Healing Methods
touch to relieve congestion
No:12:  Herbal medicine use reflects a need for friendship with health practitioners,and a growing distrust for pharmaceuticals.

Some Herbal Cancer Therapies:

Carnivora : Carnivora is derived from the venus flytrap, a plant found in such places as the wet pinelands and bays of North and South Carolina.According to it’s proponents, carnivora works to therapeutically shrink solid tumors, but does not help with the liquid tumors (i.e. leukemias).
It is believed to work best in patients naive to chemotherapy or radiation. In non-controlled study of 210 cancer patients who had failed conventional treatments and were given 50-60 drops of Carnivora orally five times a day plus one injection, 16% showed tumor regression and 40% had no further tumor progression.
27 Carnivora can be administered as drops orally, by inhalation or by injection. The dosage, frequency and route of administration of carnivora varies depending on the stage and type of cancer.
Taken orally, Carnivora can produce nausea or vomiting. When given via injection, it can produce a temporary increase in body temperature

And others:

Astragalus , Cat’s Claw, Chapparal,  Echinacea,  Essiac,  Flor-essence,  Hoxsey Herbal Treatment, Iscador, Kombucha tea, Laetrile,  Milk Thistle,  Pau D’Arco, Pycnogenol,and  Shiitake Mushrooms

Look for a full description in Pharmacy Practice News editorial:

http://www.nyschp.org/ce/CEHerbs.html