Posted on 12/20/2008 4:54:58 AM PST by decimon
Gives “Turn your head and cough” a whole new meaning.
Lost the plumbing to surgery this year to cancer and all I really had to do was hit the 'ol Cepacol?
Drat!
Sorry to hear that.
I think I'll be satisfying my sweet tooth with cough drops now. Or morphine.
The article suggests that noscapine may help with other cancers..
“Gives “Turn your head and cough” a whole new meaning.”
Any doctor who says that while checking the prostate will deserve what he gets.
Somebody please tell me if I read this wrong.
The way I read this it says that Noscopine has been poven to work well in treatement of prostate and other cancers, but because it is a natural ingredient it cannot be patented, therefore the pharmaceutical industry cannot make billions off it , so instead they are spending time and resources trying to produce a substitute they CAN make millions off. Meanwhile people are dying because they cannot get rich off the cure.
Now that is a simplistic reading of what I got from this story, please tell me I am wrong.
Too bad it’s not dextramorphin, that stuff will get you higher than a kite. LOL
Gives “Turn your head and cough” a whole new meaning.Good one.
And exactly how is noscapine administered for prostate cancer? In which end?
Can’t we trust the market to provide this?
That is, as long as congress doesn’t declare it a prescription onlyl
Ping
I don't know but this, from the article, suggests ingestion: "Since noscapine is approved for use in many countries as a cough suppressant, however, it is available to doctors to prescribe for other uses as well."
So how about as a preventative measure? What’s it taste like? (I’ve never needed a cough suppressant.)
But, there's not enough info to say how good this is. If every drug that was promising in mice worked out in people, we'd be disease free!
“The way I read this it says that Noscopine has been poven to work well in treatement of prostate and other cancers, but because it is a natural ingredient it cannot be patented, therefore the pharmaceutical industry cannot make billions off it , so instead they are spending time and resources trying to produce a substitute they CAN make millions off. Meanwhile people are dying because they cannot get rich off the cure”
You nailed it! The FDA and “Big Pharma” WILL suppress anything that offers a cure for anything when they can’t clean out your bank account, take your house and anything else the greedy b%*%*ds can get before you croak off.
Thank you for posting the article, its the first I have heard of it..and since I am an expat living in Eastern Europe, I suspect I will be able to get the stuff easily, just like the other very effective treatments that are available most every place EXCEPT the U.S.
IIRC it's an Alkaloid with similar intoxicating properties to alcohol and other narcotics.
I’m glad I posted the article but you quoted Venturer (post #6) and not me.
Another benefit. Thanks. ;-)
I guess it is all in the dose.
Look for it to be banned very shortly by the FDA.
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