Mexico City | Saturday
AN alternative cancer therapy using the venom from blue scorpions has had a 97% success rate in Cuba, a researcher said in an interview published this week in the newspaper La Jornada.
Cuban doctor Misael Bordier cautioned that while his patients were not cured of their cancers when treated with the venom of the Escozul scorpion, ”97% of them experienced improvements in their quality of life and see the size of their tumours greatly reduced.”
Bordier said his 21 years of research into the curative properties of the poison secreted by Escozul scorpions, endemic to the Caribbean, found ”better success” with some types of specific tumours, ”including cancer, lung, liver, the digestive system and the prostate.”
The venom, taken orally, does not directly attack diseased cells but inhibits the development of new ones, he explained to the daily on the margin of a series of lectures here on his research.
Some 50 000 patients in Cuba, ”many of whom were in the last, terminal stages of the disease,” have received treatment and were able to transcend their death sentences, living for 10 or more years.
Those who opted for conventional treatments such as chemotherapy did not, he noted.
Extolling the virtues of the Escozul venom, Bordier said there were almost no side effects to the treatment, which ”eliminates pain and increases a sense of well-being,” unlike the collateral impacts of chemotherapy.
Shrewdly pitching his product, Bordier said that although the venom is the property of Cuba, the only Communist country in the Americas, and is available for the good of humanity, ”I hold the patent.” – Sapa-AFP
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