Witch Doctors -- Ethnobotany

is an article by Karl Loren, describing some of the scientific research behind the formula called Taheebo Life Tea sold by Vibrant Life.

Do You Trust Snake Charmers? Witch Doctors? Shamans? Harvard Graduates? Doctors? Who?

How, ever, would you go about proving that a tree growing in South America has a bark that cures cancer?

The terrible truth is that the closer I come to "proving" that, the closer I would come to being put out of business, by the powerful forces that don’t want you to ever use anything other than the slash, burn and poison technology of the American Medical Orthodoxy!

Can a snake charmer, Shaman or witch doctor, be a better source of data about health care than a scientific researcher trained at the Harvard Medical School? That is the question I answer, in this Article.

You should not be very surprised to find that I am writing THIS article to suggest to you that the answer can be "YES!"

Click Here to read one very thorough description of the logic behind the use of Taheebo for treating cancer.

How does a researcher from the Harvard Medical School do his research? How would this medical researcher regard a research project for a natural herb, such as the bark from the Taheebo Tree?

How does a snake charmer from India, a witch doctor from Africa, or a Shaman from South America do HIS research? How would THIS person get his data, do HIS research, on something like the bark from the Taheebo Tree?

I’d like to explore with you the problems of "scientific proof" of a herb’s effectiveness. This is Taheebo #1, in a series of reports about the bark that comes from a tree called the Taheebo Tree.

I will be examining the scientific method, as followed by a Harvard Researcher, the anecdotal method, as illustrated by Hazel Hedrick, later, and the witch doctor method, as practiced by Kenneth Jones (see his name, later).

In another issue I’ll explain the scientific mechanism by which Taheebo "works."

In another special Taheebo Report, I’ll describe some of the aspects of why ONE particular type of Taheebo works better than others. You’ll find that there IS a difference between the different brands of Taheebo being sold, and that some are nothing more than outright frauds!

In another issue I’ll explain how terrible health care has been in the past, and how we will, someday, likely look back at the 1990’s as very primitive times.

There are more special subjects, all related to Taheebo Tea, scheduled for publication during 1997. Don’t miss any of them.

In one issue I will announce a massive campaign to prevent the drug companies from eliminating this life-saving Taheebo tree from the planet.

Finally, in each of these issues I bring you some of the remarkable stories given to me by people who have experienced the power of a tea made from the bark of that South American tree, the Taheebo Tree! You’ll find that tea as a very powerful dry extract, sold by the mail-order vitamin company, on these web pages.

The President of Harvard University for many years was Dr. Bok. He did a special analysis of one of the schools of Harvard each year. One year he choose the Harvard Medical School to report on.

He found that less than 5% of a medical student’s course time covered the vital subjects of preventive medicine and medical ethics. Within preventive medicine, as a sub-topic, was nutrition.

Thus, a doctor who has graduated from one of the most prestigious medical schools in existence spent less than 5% of his study time on preventive medicine and nutrition!

What that medical student learned in his nutrition classes was that 60 milligrams of Vitamin C per day was sufficient for an average person, and that he could get all he needed of that vitamin, and almost all the others, from his regular daily diet.

You and I know better! But, a doctor has been taught lies, and it is almost impossible to learn the truth when you already believe a lie in that same area – without the lie being exposed as a lie. You'll notice that I'm hard on doctors!

It is well know, of course, that drug companies are large donors to medical schools, and that the entire curriculum of virtually all medical schools is dictated entirely by the drug industry.

So, there has been a constant recognition, from 1869 to the present, that the Harvard Medical School education is sadly lacking.

There are, also, many sad stories about doctors who practice medicine while drunk. You probably don't believe that. Well, here's a quote to contemplate:

That quote is part of a 3,000+ word article that started on Page One of one of the nation's leading newspapers. Click on the "drunk" above to read the ENTIRE story.

After a graduate leaves Harvard, his "medical education" continues through the visits of Drug Detail Salesmen – each touting the drugs of some drug company.

I was visiting a doctor in Illinois one day. He had invited me to go to lunch with him, partly for the purpose of my meeting two different drug salesmen he had promised to have lunch with.

He set aside at least one day each week for eating with one of the many drug salesmen who came by. On this visit I sat and marveled at the highly professional approach of the two salesmen.

They each respected the others’ right to a share of the doctor’s time. They each had a short, but very technical, pitch for one drug. They each offered samples, and they each had to get a paper signed by the Doctor to prove that they had actually met with him.

He knew the game, signed their slips, took their samples, and then told me about what else they offer, from time to time.

When they really want to get a drug into use, the drug company usually designs a "research project," in which each doctor who participates gets his standard office visit fees for a large number of visits, for any patient who fits the diagnosis treated by the drug.

The doctor selects the patients to best serve his business, and there is no cost to the patient for any of these research-based services. A doctor could, for instance, choose a person as a "free" patient in the hopes of getting more of that same family as "paying" patients!

Say the drug is Prozac, one of the mostly commonly used in high-promotion "research projects." This drug is "approved" as being useful for so many different "diseases" that the doctor could diagnose almost any patient to be suitable for a Prozac research project.

The drug company gives the doctor free drugs for the research, and pays the doctor’s full rates for every visit by the patient. The doctor, of course, has to keep records on each patient, and submit them to the Drug Company, even though the Drug Company doesn’t give one whit for these papers. The papers are nothing more than an excuse to pay the bribe! The doctors know this, the Drug Companies know this and anyone who looks at the system knows the truth of this.

The research project usually calls for many visits, most of them to be the most profitable types of visits – where the patient comes in, sees a nurse for fifteen minutes, sees the doctor for three minutes and leaves a blood or urine sample. That one visit might generate income of $200, including the "lab fee" for the blood test done by the nurse. All of this fee is paid by the drug company.

The doctor might "see" that patient 20+ times in a year, earning $4,000 from that one patient. The doctor may have 50 patients in his research project! If you got $200,000 per year from Eli Lilly, and the company, through modern computer records, knew exactly how many prescriptions you wrote for their drugs, you might be tempted to use their drug – after all, it is approved!

The doctor can go to jail for using Vitamin C to cure cancer, but he sure won’t get into trouble using deadly chemotherapy which never cures anything, but often results in death. Don't overlook the "Eli Lilly" footnote above. There are more than 2,000 words of evidence in that one footnote that Eli Lilly executives belong in prison as Drug Lords.

These research projects are just one of the many ways the drug companies keep the doctors tied to the continued use of drugs.

When you pay for prescription drugs, a large part of your payment goes toward "medical education," which is just a nice way of saying, bribes to the doctor!

This whole program is blatant bribery – and it works! You would object to paying $150 for a 15 minute doctor’s visit, but you somehow don’t object when ten pennies worth of materials are sold to you in the form of prescription drugs for $150. The doctors are simply collecting some of their fee in the form of kick-backs from the drug companies who easily get away with the obscene profits they earn this way.

In addition to the backwards education in medical schools and the direct bribes to doctors by the drug companies, there are the indirect uses of force and threats against alternative medicine and natural remedies. As is often true in these pages, that single word, the hyperlink "force," leads to more than 3,000 words of evidence of the truth of this one simple paragraph. Don't miss out on the fantastic detail in these footnotes!

Even if a doctor wants to be honest, he is forced to use drugs, or lose his license! Yes, force is part of the educational plan for doctors.

Here is part of an article by Dr. James DeMeo, Director of Research, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory.

So, if we now look at a "medical researcher," we will certainly find someone created in the environment of a medical school, and supported ONLY by drug companies. We’ll find a person who is well aware of the dangers of doing research on natural remedies.

In another article, I’ll cover the curious types of language these researchers have to resort to when they accidentally discover some natural product to have powerful anti-cancer effects.

No seller of Vitamin C could possibly afford to pay for research about Vitamin C – for one reason, of course, that he would have no patent on the Vitamin, and thus no protection from other sellers of Vitamin C who would take advantage of the research.

So, when your average medical researcher goes about medical research, he starts with a fatally flawed education, and works within a dangerously corrupt environment. If he wants more work, he must write what the drug companies want to see. If he wants money, he will have to bow to the wishes of the establishment thinking on health and drugs. There are thousands of corrupt medical researchers. The sad thing is that many of them have been taught so many lies that they often don’t even know they are being dishonest!

Within this setting, it is not surprising, then, to hear of many stories of fraudulent medical research. My Book, Life Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease, is largely an account of the fraud in the research and publicity about heart disease – particularly drugs for lowering cholesterol. Fraud in Aids research is well known -- if you will but look!

The only thing the modern medical researcher has going for him is the fine quality of the paper and ink on which his lies are printed.

Believe me, there is no sugar-daddy paying to publicize the writings and opinions of Karl Loren!

I’ve been a guest on hundreds of radio shows. Often the host will ask me the question:

Karl Loren, what credentials do you have that qualify you to speak on this health subject, heart disease?

That may have some radio listeners, but it is the best and most truthful reason why I am qualified to give you these opinions.

Next, I’m qualified because no one has even offered to pay me to do research according to THEIR plan. Any research I do is because I want to do it, not because someone is paying me to do it.

Finally, you’ll have to be the judge, but I think of myself has having a high degree of personal integrity. I report honestly the data I find.

Centuries ago mother relied on what she learned from her mother, and relied on what grew in the garden and near by. "Medicine" was, then, herbal.

Knowledge of healing qualities of various herbs was passed along, verbally, within the family and town. Very rarely would someone from a very distant place visit, bringing knowledge from that distant place.

Hundreds of years ago reading and writing were non-existent in the native population of South America, and there was generally no interchange between tribes that lived only a few hundred miles apart.

I’m setting the stage for talking about great areas of the planet where people learned from trial and error, from nature, what herbs were good for what health problems.

No matter how they learned, they did NOT learn from some common source. There was not one foolish lie, created by some foolish person, and that lie spread throughout the world.

In today’s society, with modern communication mechanics, it is very common for a rumor, or some data, to originate with one person, and spread all over the world in a few days.

How many millions of people learned that "Richard Jewell" was guilty of placing the bomb at the Atlantic Olympics? In just minutes his guilt was spread around the world.

Only many months later has the FBI apologized and some of the media started to pay him for their libelous statements. Even so, many people will remember that he was the "Atlanta Bomber," while far fewer people will recall the FBI apology!

Today, if you heard the same story from 100 different people, in 100 different parts of the globe, you would assume that they probably all got the story from the same source, even though many of them would swear otherwise.

Likewise, if you talk to a hundred different research scientists, you’d find that they probably never met one another, but they all met the same group of professors who all got their teaching data from the few drug companies which, finally, control all medical research in this manner.

Medical researchers today are no better off than the sheep who believed Richard Jewell was guilty without any evidence more than what a few newscasters said.

If you look America 150 years ago, or at the folklore of South America, only 50 years ago, you are looking at millions of people who lived without mass communication – who lived, in fact, with virtually no contact with others who were just 100 miles away.

In that South American setting if you found that 100 people, located in 100 different areas of the continent, EACH had the same data, you could not conclude that they all got that data from the same source.

You might conclude that each of those 100 people arrived at that data independently of the others – that each of them arrived at that data by some form of personal observation of a universal truth, uninfluenced by rumor or the opinion of others!

And, if you went around and visited the witch doctors in dozens of different villages, each out-of-reach of the other, and if you found that ALL of these witch doctors used the bark of a particular tree to cure cancer, wouldn’t you agree with me that THIS research might be more accurate and honest than that done in the laboratories paid for by the drug companies, by scientists educated at Harvard?

And, so is the science of ethnobotany born! While you can find this word, ethnobotany, in a good dictionary, you don’t get, at all, the full flavor of the power of this science.

a. Of or relating to sizable groups of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage. b. Being a member of a particular ethnic group. c. Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group: ethnic restaurants; ethnic art.

An ethnobotanist is one who studies plants, and particularly their medicinal values, by studying the folklore and history of groups of people who, generally, have not been in contact with other groups.

Truly This Witch Doctor CAN Be A More Reliable Source Of Health Information Than A Harvard Graduate Researcher!

The story of ONE such tribal group would be worthless in terms of scientific evidence, of course. But, if 100 different tribal villages, located, each of them, 100 or more miles from any other, if EACH of these villages has a strong tradition of using the same plant (which will usually have very different names in the different languages of these 100 villages) for the same medicinal use, THEN the ethnobotanist can safely conclude that 100 different independent observers, with no influence from someone else, came to the SAME conclusion.

In the circumstance of 100 different villages, no matter how crazy or foolish any one or several of them might be, you do not expect 100 of them, independently, to come to the same foolish and crazy conclusion, unless it just happens to be true!

So, ethnobotany is a very valid science, as you can guess, not well supported in our Universities, and certainly not supported at all by the massive billions of dollars spent on drug research.

Yes, being an ethnobotanist is a lonely profession, that takes you to the far corners of the earth. And, when you are done, you have, from the drug company point of view, nothing more than a collection of stories from witch doctors!

Click here for how this ethnobotany concept compares with the Ayurvedic Medicine used throughout much of Asia.

And, so I introduce to you Kenneth Jones, an ethnobotanist who has written the most useful book ever published about Taheebo.

I commend his book, and him to you. The book is called Pau d’Arco, Immune Power from the Rain Forest. You can get a copy for only $10.95, postpaid, from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave., S. E., Washington, DC 20003.

I’ve learned a great deal from Ken Jones’ book, and am pleased to acknowledge that, and him, in this very prominent way.

His studies cover the use of the bark of the Taheebo Tree, in South America and other areas, over a period of many, many years.

Medicine, then, as you will see, included tea made from the bark of the Taheebo Tree! That tea has been used for centuries in many different cultures and lands. It is much more than a modern fad!

What Ken Jones found was that literally hundreds of different tribes in South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, each used the same tree to cure the same types of diseases.

I’ll cover that in greater detail in another article, but what I wanted to do here was to establish the legitimacy of the profession of ethnobotany.

When one person talks to another – when one friend talks to another – you have the most powerful form of communication there is – personal communication.

That is actually another type of "medical research," the type based on the report by one single person. These reports are both powerful and convincing when compiled in large quantities from people who had no contact with each others.

The Harvard graduates give these reports the derogatory name of anecdotes!

Over the series of articles, I’ll feature a different testimony in each one – many of them miracles. When you get a book full of miracles, experienced by hundreds of different people, but all having some very common aspects, you can start putting more faith in these stories than any number of researchers from Harvard.

Here are the actual words of Hazel Hedrick, of Ridgeway, Virginia, in a personal letter addressed to Karl Loren.

Thanks for sending me the story of your friend Judge Orleans. Nothing you or anyone else could tell me about Taheebo Life Tea would surprise me. On my shelves I have eight or more leading nutritional product brands, and I have personally tried them all. If you told me I could only keep one of these products, without hesitation I would say Vibrant Life’s Taheebo Life Tea.

My first experience with Taheebo Life Tea was seven years ago. It was April 15, 1989, the doctors had just told us my husband Dennis had malignant lymphoma and six months or less to live, if he didn't start radiation and chemo right away.

After a second opinion by the specialist and a bone marrow biopsy, they wanted to admit him to an out-of-state hospital and remove several more lumps from different parts of his body for more biopsies.

Dennis refused. He said, "If I have to die of cancer I will die in one piece, they are not going to cut me all to pieces."

This was about eight thirty AM, April 19, 1989. An hour later I called the doctor and canceled his appointments. It was about noon the same day Doris Ferguson (another customer of Vibrant Life) drove in my drive way. She came to my door with a bottle of Taheebo Life Tea and a small book in her hands.

With his help we got the other children off our back and started a very carefully planned nutritional therapy program with mega-doses of Shaklee vitamins, carrot juice, herbal teas, and Taheebo Life Tea capsules.

We started the program April 19, 1989. I had been told he would get sicker and weaker and have more large swollen lumps all over his body as the cancer spread.

At one point Dennis thought the cancer had spread to his bladder. I opened six capsules of Taheebo Life Tea, mixed the contents with Aloe Vera Gel and spread it on the swollen belly.

In less than a week the swelling was gone. Then Dennis asked me to put the same black stuff on those swollen lumps on his neck and shoulders.

The whole congregation saw him get well, but not one is willing to do what we did.

We stayed on the program for a year and we have never gone back to our old lifestyle.

On October 29, 1993, Dennis fell off the house and broke some ribs. He ended up in the hospital with double pneumonia. On December 16, 1993, they let him come home because his doctor was going out of town for Christmas. I was so happy to have him home, even with the Home-Health Nurse coming every day to give him his antibiotic. I wanted him off that stuff. I could see it was not helping one little bit.

Karl, I’m sure you will not recall, but I called Vibrant Life the same evening Dennis got home. To my surprise you answered the phone. I told you the problem and what I had planned to do, and gave you an order for four bottles of Taheebo Life Tea. You suggested I add shark cartilage to that, and apologized because you wouldn’t be able to get these products to me before Tuesday or Wednesday.

Friday morning, at ten o’clock, my doorbell rang. To my surprise there was my package all the way from Burbank, California, to Ridgeway, Virginia, overnight.

I proceeded to open the bottle and give my sick, very sick, husband a handful of Taheebo Life Tea capsules.

In forty eight hours his temperature was normal and his vital signs were more stable.

I said, "antibiotic my eye, it’s the herbs already starting to do their thing."

She looked at me as if to say, "You poor little fool." Then she said, "You can’t really believe that."

I said, "Honey, I know it and what’s more, I know if it is humanly possible to clear his lungs, these herbs will do it. I don’t know how long it will take, but it will happen."

In two weeks he was on is feet, thin and weak, but gaining strength every day. It was about four weeks later, Dennis became ill again. We though he had the flu and started to doctor him with other herbs for the flue. He didn’t respond to anything. His eyes swelled shut and he started coughing like I had never heard anyone cough before.

Then we realized the Taheebo and other stuff had done their job. The poison from the whatever was in his lungs was what had made him so sick and it came out. For seven days and nights he coughed, and I emptied the stuff he coughed up.

I wanted that Home Health Nurse to see what was happening and she had long since moved on to her next job. I called her office and asked if she could come by and say hello to Dennis – that he was having a hard time.

She came, expecting to find him on his death bed. When I showed her what he was coughing up she started making plans to get him back in the hospital, and wouldn’t listen to anything I had to say.

He said, "If you put me on a high powered antibiotic it would dry up all this stuff?"

He said, "If you had that mess in you and it was coming out, would you want it dried up in there?"

She then listened to what I tried to tell her when she came in, the herbs really did work.

Some time later she sent me a letter and admitted the Doctor thought Dennis had cancer of the lung, and she never expected to see him alive again when she left.

She said, "Lady, you are responsible for that man being alive, we are not." I knew that already, but it was nice for her to admit it.

I am seventy eight and Dennis will be eighty in February, 1997. We had two organic vegetable gardens this summer and grow enough vegetables to fill, and we alone filled, six hundred jars, and two freezers, which we will give to our four children, eight grand children and seven great grandchildren for Christmas.

It sure beats going shopping. We will be much better for them than anything we could have bought.

My younger sister had cancer, a rare type that chemo will not work for, (Thank God for that!).

They did surgery instead. They considered taking off her entire leg at the hip – it was in the thigh. They didn’t amputate, but they sure did cut!

Well, they didn’t get it all. They then gave her thirty eight treatments of radiation.

She was told she would never walk without aid and it might come back in the liver.

Soon as she had her last radiation treatment, I sent her Taheebo Life Tea and shark cartilage, and she drank carrot juice.

Now it’s three years later, the doctors can’t believe this little old lady can do almost anything she did before.

She has a very slight limp, but she works in her yard and garden just like she did before the operation. No sign of cancer.

Early this spring a man I had only met once years ago called me and wanted to know if there was anything he could do and live without taking chemo. I said, "You would live longer if you took nothing!"

He had just gotten out of the hospital where he had fifteen inches of his colon removed. They were going to start chemo on the next Monday. This was a Saturday.

He asked me to send him what he needed. I sent him Taheebo Life Tea, barleygreen and carrot crystals.

I heard he is well, feels better than he has in years, and is telling everyone who will listen.

Those are the winners. There have been some losers who refused to stick with it, or tried to do both or wouldn’t give up their doctors.

But they would rather believe the doctor and his diagnosis than to believe in nutritional therapy.

I have no proof, no doctor’s records, but you can use any or all of this in your Article. Any questions? Ask and I will do my best to answer at (540) 956-3065.

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