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| Dr. Jai Maharaj 2005-07-25, 10:35 am |
| Maggot Treatment Saves Mich. Woman's Foot
Yahoo News
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Bay City, Mich. - Barbara Enser wasn't very comfortable
at first with the idea of using maggots to clean the
wound on her right foot. But if it meant saving it from
amputation, she was willing to give it a try.
The 57-year-old Bay City woman was diagnosed with
diabetes 40 years ago and subsequently lost her left leg
to the disease. She also suffers from neuropathy, meaning
she has no feeling in her foot or leg, and ulcers or
wounds can develop from constantly putting pressure on
the foot.
"I'm just hoping this works because I think this is the
last straw for saving the foot," Enser told The Bay City
Times before a recent treatment. "I don't like creepy,
crawly things. I won't even kill a creepy, crawly thing."
Enser went through a number of other procedures to stem
the infection that is spreading through her foot. She had
the wound cleaned with a scalpel and has been on
antibiotics.
But after those failed, she turned to Dr. Gerald L.
Dowling, head of the podiatry section of the Orthopedics
Department at Bay Regional Medical Center. He first
treated Enser with maggots on July 6.
For the procedure, the maggots - about 2 millimeters each
in size - are placed on the wound, then surrounded by an
adhesive foam, clear tape, and a gauze bandage.
By July 8, the maggots had swelled to twice their normal
size and eaten away part of the infection. When Dowling
removed the bandages two days later, Enser's foot was
looking better. Healthy, pink skin was replacing the dead
tissue, and the swelling was down in her foot and ankle.
The maggots do more than just clean a wound. They also
dissolve the infected tissue, kill bacteria and leave an
enzyme behind that stimulates healing. They will only eat
the infected tissue, leaving healthy tissue alone.
"In general, maggots have the capacity to distinguish
viable and dead tissue on a cell-by-cell basis," said Dr.
Steven M. Holland, chief of the laboratory of clinical
infectious diseases at the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases.
As much good as the first treatment did, Dowling decided
to go with one more treatment. And when the bandages from
the second procedure were removed 72 hours later, Dowling
deemed the procedure a success.
Once the bandages were taken off, the maggots were
removed using tweezers and the area was rinsed with a
saline solution. Dowling then cut away leftover dead
skin.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/maggot_m...HBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
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Modern medicine. What will they think of next?
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:16:45 PM PDT by Libloather
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-To: Libloather
I'm glad it worked for this lady, but the gross out
factor is very high.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:20:35 PM PDT by Huntress
(Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
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-To: Libloather
Well, leeches have been back in use for at least 5-10
years now. Usually for keeping blood from coagulating,
while going through a newly placed skin graft or flap.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:20:43 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
(Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles
Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
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-To: Libloather
New use for IRS Agents and Feds!
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:21:30 PM PDT by zzen01
(so there!)
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-To: Celtjew Libertarian
sweet Mother, do NOT google 'maggots on wounds' if you
don't want to see maggot performing their miracles.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:22:17 PM PDT by bitt
('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now
sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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-To: Huntress
Been around for years. Remember Gladiator?
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:22:39 PM PDT by Skeeve14
(1980's RR-Communism Evil Empire 2000's GWB-Communism
good for Business)
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-To: Libloather
Finally.
Someone has come up with useful work for Democrats.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:22:49 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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-To: Libloather
Perhaps to cure baldness, rub goose droppings over the
affected area.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:24:29 PM PDT by nhoward14
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-To: zzen01
LOL!!!!!
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:26:49 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
(Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on
9-11!)
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-To: Libloather
> The maggots do more than just clean a wound. They also
> dissolve the infected tissue, kill bacteria and leave an
> enzyme behind that stimulates healing. They will only eat
> the infected tissue, leaving healthy tissue alone.
So when the drill sergeant is calling a private a maggot,
he is really calling them a discerning, hard worker?
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:26:51 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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-To: Libloather
> Modern medicine. What will they think of next?
Actually, this practice is old.
However, don't try this at home. Screwfly maggots eat
healthy flesh, and these fly's have made a [small]
comeback here in the US...
They will eat you alive.. Not pretty...
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:27:26 PM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
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-To: Libloather; All
> Modern medicine. What will they think of next?
Actually, this practice is old.
However, don't try this at home. Screwfly maggots eat
healthy flesh, and these fly's have made a [small]
comeback here in the US...
They will eat you alive.. Not pretty...
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:27:32 PM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
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-To: Libloather
> The maggots do more than just clean a wound. They also
> dissolve the infected tissue, kill bacteria and leave
> an enzyme behind that stimulates healing.
I read about this many years ago. I think the enzyme was
"allantoin." (Somebody please look it up. I'm afraid of
seeing a picture.)
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:34:15 PM PDT by Graymatter
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-To: 1stFreedom
the "maggots" they use are sterile.....they can not
multiple....when they go into a wound, they are extremely
small, and then they can zoom up to, well, maggot
size....
this is actually been used quite a bit lately...
there was this one case though, the maggots were put in a
hip wound of a young fellow and I swear to God they came
thru into his catheter bag.....quite gross.....
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:40:21 PM PDT by cherry
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-To: Libloather
Someone needs to put these critters on the Endangered
Species List, so we don't run out of them.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:40:50 PM PDT by Mark
(Proven scientific experiment: The NY Times flushes
easily down the standard toilet.)
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-To: cherry
The maggots used are not screwfly maggots, and they only
eat dead flesh..
Screwfly maggots eat dead and live flesh.. We had
eradiated them due to the damage they do to livestock --
they eat sheep alive (flystrikes), etc..
For a while they were eliminated, but recently have made
a slight comeback.
Don't try this at home, because you probably don't know
how to identify a screwfly..
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:43:10 PM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
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-To: Libloather
Maggots and leaches provide miraculous things medically;
it is when they get elected to public office that the
problems with them begin.
Seriously though, these treatments are time tested and
effective.
Maggots have been used in gangrene cases for centuries.
Spider webs have been used in burn cases for centuries.
Leaches have been used for centuries, but only recently
have been used properly.
http://fly.kiwiki.homeip.net/
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:45:57 PM PDT by mmercier
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-To: Libloather
VIDEO HERE
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitem...05/s1368188.htm
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:49:53 PM PDT by doug from upland
(The Hillary documentary is coming)
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-To: Libloather
Here is another link...
http://www.pirweb.org/pir04b_leech.htm
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:54:03 PM PDT by mmercier
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-To: Libloather
Wish I had known about this before last Thursday when
they removed my mother's leg above the knee. She has
diabetes and had to have a toe removed, the shoe they
gave her to wear caused two blisters, one on top of her
foot and one on the back of her ankle which turned into
really bad ulcers that did not heal. By the time they
decided to remove her leg her tendon was exposed, 4" long
and an inch wide causing her severe pain. She had a knee
replacement so they had to remove her leg to above the
knee replacement. Since she is 87, I wonder if she will
survive to get out of the hospital.
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:54:42 PM PDT by Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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-To: Libloather
I can not find a link to a cob web burn treatment...
Does the bug lover in me show...
You all should see the leeches I caught last week..
Posted on 7/24/2005 8:58:36 PM PDT by mmercier
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The maggot treatment is very old.
Rediscovering that sometimes nature works best.
I am eternally grateful that I never had to do this
during my hospital career.
I'd have tossed my cookies.
Posted on 7/24/2005 9:01:28 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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sorry to hear about your mom's suffering. prayers said.
Mrs VS
Posted on 7/24/2005 9:02:30 PM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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> Since she is 87, I wonder if she will survive to get
> out of the hospital.
Prayers up.
Posted on 7/24/2005 9:05:48 PM PDT by Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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BLOODSUCKERS CAN CURE YOUR ILLS!
Press Trust of India
November 9, 2004
Bloodsucking leeches, flesh-eating maggots and venomous
lizards -- they are not a part of any horror movie plot
but "offbeat treatment", which is slowly finding its way
back into alternative medical practice.
American Food and Drug Administration has given clearance
to a French company for commercial marketing of leeches
as a medical device in the US. Offbeat treatments, both
old and new are "eee-king" their way into more common
practice all over the world and are found to have some
amazing healing powers, doctors say.
"Leech therapy is a recognised minimal invasive Para
surgical procedure and is a part of Ayurvedic surgery in
India. In fact, leech therapy has its origin here," says
Dr M S Lavekar, Director, Central Council for Research in
Ayurved and Siddh.
"Called Anushastr, it is in fact practised by Ayurvedic
doctors all over the country, especially in government
hospitals in Maharashtra, Pune and Kerala," says Dr
Lavekar. They are used worldwide to help heal wounds and
restore circulation in blocked blood vessels, he says.
Before antibiotics were developed, draining blood from
the body was the prescription for scores of serious
illnesses.
Maggots help heal wounds as they eat dead skin and
tissue. According to a new research in the Journal of
Clinical Infectious Diseases, wounds that got presurgical
maggot therapy developed no infections after surgery.
According to Martin Abrahamson from the Joslin Diabetes
Clinic in Boston, an experimental drug derived from Gila
monster, a lizard, appears to help people with type 2
diabetes gain control over their blood sugar. In another
study at Iowa college of Medicine, worms were used to
ease stomach problems. The researchers found that eggs of
Trichuris Suis or whipworm, relieved abdominal distress
caused by inflammatory bowel disease.
"These worms have been around for three million years,"
says researcher Robert W Summers in an online report.
About one-third of the world's population is walking
around with them in their digestive tracts today and
apparently having no problems, he says.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/09blood.htm
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| cathyb 2005-07-25, 10:35 am |
|
Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Maggot Treatment Saves Mich. Woman's Foot
>
> Yahoo News
> Sunday, July 24, 2005
>
> Bay City, Mich. - Barbara Enser wasn't very comfortable
> at first with the idea of using maggots to clean the
> wound on her right foot. But if it meant saving it from
> amputation, she was willing to give it a try.
>
> The 57-year-old Bay City woman was diagnosed with
> diabetes 40 years ago and subsequently lost her left leg
> to the disease. She also suffers from neuropathy, meaning
> she has no feeling in her foot or leg, and ulcers or
> wounds can develop from constantly putting pressure on
> the foot.
>
> "I'm just hoping this works because I think this is the
> last straw for saving the foot," Enser told The Bay City
> Times before a recent treatment. "I don't like creepy,
> crawly things. I won't even kill a creepy, crawly thing."
>
> Enser went through a number of other procedures to stem
> the infection that is spreading through her foot. She had
> the wound cleaned with a scalpel and has been on
> antibiotics.
>
> But after those failed, she turned to Dr. Gerald L.
> Dowling, head of the podiatry section of the Orthopedics
> Department at Bay Regional Medical Center. He first
> treated Enser with maggots on July 6.
>
> For the procedure, the maggots - about 2 millimeters each
> in size - are placed on the wound, then surrounded by an
> adhesive foam, clear tape, and a gauze bandage.
>
> By July 8, the maggots had swelled to twice their normal
> size and eaten away part of the infection. When Dowling
> removed the bandages two days later, Enser's foot was
> looking better. Healthy, pink skin was replacing the dead
> tissue, and the swelling was down in her foot and ankle.
>
> The maggots do more than just clean a wound. They also
> dissolve the infected tissue, kill bacteria and leave an
> enzyme behind that stimulates healing. They will only eat
> the infected tissue, leaving healthy tissue alone.
>
> "In general, maggots have the capacity to distinguish
> viable and dead tissue on a cell-by-cell basis," said Dr.
> Steven M. Holland, chief of the laboratory of clinical
> infectious diseases at the National Institute of Allergy
> and Infectious Diseases.
>
> As much good as the first treatment did, Dowling decided
> to go with one more treatment. And when the bandages from
> the second procedure were removed 72 hours later, Dowling
> deemed the procedure a success.
>
> Once the bandages were taken off, the maggots were
> removed using tweezers and the area was rinsed with a
> saline solution. Dowling then cut away leftover dead
> skin.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/maggot_m...HBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
>
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>
> Modern medicine. What will they think of next?
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:16:45 PM PDT by Libloather
>
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>
> -To: Libloather
>
> I'm glad it worked for this lady, but the gross out
> factor is very high.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:20:35 PM PDT by Huntress
> (Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
>
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>
> -To: Libloather
>
> Well, leeches have been back in use for at least 5-10
> years now. Usually for keeping blood from coagulating,
> while going through a newly placed skin graft or flap.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:20:43 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
> (Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles
> Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
>
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> -To: Libloather
>
> New use for IRS Agents and Feds!
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:21:30 PM PDT by zzen01
> (so there!)
>
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> -To: Celtjew Libertarian
>
> sweet Mother, do NOT google 'maggots on wounds' if you
> don't want to see maggot performing their miracles.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:22:17 PM PDT by bitt
> ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now
> sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
>
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> -To: Huntress
>
> Been around for years. Remember Gladiator?
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:22:39 PM PDT by Skeeve14
> (1980's RR-Communism Evil Empire 2000's GWB-Communism
> good for Business)
>
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>
> -To: Libloather
>
> Finally.
> Someone has come up with useful work for Democrats.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:22:49 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
>
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> -To: Libloather
>
> Perhaps to cure baldness, rub goose droppings over the
> affected area.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:24:29 PM PDT by nhoward14
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> -To: zzen01
>
> LOL!!!!!
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:26:49 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
> (Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on
> 9-11!)
>
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>
> -To: Libloather
>
>
> So when the drill sergeant is calling a private a maggot,
> he is really calling them a discerning, hard worker?
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:26:51 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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> -To: Libloather
>
>
> Actually, this practice is old.
>
> However, don't try this at home. Screwfly maggots eat
> healthy flesh, and these fly's have made a [small]
> comeback here in the US...
>
> They will eat you alive.. Not pretty...
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:27:26 PM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
>
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> -To: Libloather; All
>
>
> Actually, this practice is old.
>
> However, don't try this at home. Screwfly maggots eat
> healthy flesh, and these fly's have made a [small]
> comeback here in the US...
>
> They will eat you alive.. Not pretty...
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:27:32 PM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
>
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> -To: Libloather
>
>
> I read about this many years ago. I think the enzyme was
> "allantoin." (Somebody please look it up. I'm afraid of
> seeing a picture.)
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:34:15 PM PDT by Graymatter
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> -To: 1stFreedom
>
> the "maggots" they use are sterile.....they can not
> multiple....when they go into a wound, they are extremely
> small, and then they can zoom up to, well, maggot
> size....
>
> this is actually been used quite a bit lately...
>
> there was this one case though, the maggots were put in a
> hip wound of a young fellow and I swear to God they came
> thru into his catheter bag.....quite gross.....
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:40:21 PM PDT by cherry
>
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>
> -To: Libloather
>
> Someone needs to put these critters on the Endangered
> Species List, so we don't run out of them.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:40:50 PM PDT by Mark
> (Proven scientific experiment: The NY Times flushes
> easily down the standard toilet.)
>
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> -To: cherry
>
> The maggots used are not screwfly maggots, and they only
> eat dead flesh..
>
> Screwfly maggots eat dead and live flesh.. We had
> eradiated them due to the damage they do to livestock --
> they eat sheep alive (flystrikes), etc..
>
> For a while they were eliminated, but recently have made
> a slight comeback.
>
> Don't try this at home, because you probably don't know
> how to identify a screwfly..
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:43:10 PM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
>
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>
> -To: Libloather
>
> Maggots and leaches provide miraculous things medically;
> it is when they get elected to public office that the
> problems with them begin.
>
> Seriously though, these treatments are time tested and
> effective.
>
> Maggots have been used in gangrene cases for centuries.
> Spider webs have been used in burn cases for centuries.
> Leaches have been used for centuries, but only recently
> have been used properly.
>
> http://fly.kiwiki.homeip.net/
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:45:57 PM PDT by mmercier
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> -To: Libloather
>
> VIDEO HERE
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitem...05/s1368188.htm
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:49:53 PM PDT by doug from upland
> (The Hillary documentary is coming)
>
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> -To: Libloather
>
> Here is another link...
>
> http://www.pirweb.org/pir04b_leech.htm
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:54:03 PM PDT by mmercier
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> -To: Libloather
>
> Wish I had known about this before last Thursday when
> they removed my mother's leg above the knee. She has
> diabetes and had to have a toe removed, the shoe they
> gave her to wear caused two blisters, one on top of her
> foot and one on the back of her ankle which turned into
> really bad ulcers that did not heal. By the time they
> decided to remove her leg her tendon was exposed, 4" long
> and an inch wide causing her severe pain. She had a knee
> replacement so they had to remove her leg to above the
> knee replacement. Since she is 87, I wonder if she will
> survive to get out of the hospital.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:54:42 PM PDT by Dustbunny
> (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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> -To: Libloather
>
> I can not find a link to a cob web burn treatment...
>
> Does the bug lover in me show...
>
> You all should see the leeches I caught last week..
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 8:58:36 PM PDT by mmercier
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> -To: Libloather
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> The maggot treatment is very old.
>
> Rediscovering that sometimes nature works best.
>
> I am eternally grateful that I never had to do this
> during my hospital career.
>
> I'd have tossed my cookies.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 9:01:28 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED
> (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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> -To: Dustbunny
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> sorry to hear about your mom's suffering. prayers said.
>
> Mrs VS
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 9:02:30 PM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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> -To: Dustbunny
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> Prayers up.
>
> Posted on 7/24/2005 9:05:48 PM PDT by Lazamataz
> (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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> BLOODSUCKERS CAN CURE YOUR ILLS!
>
> Press Trust of India
> November 9, 2004
>
> Bloodsucking leeches, flesh-eating maggots and venomous
> lizards -- they are not a part of any horror movie plot
> but "offbeat treatment", which is slowly finding its way
> back into alternative medical practice.
>
> American Food and Drug Administration has given clearance
> to a French company for commercial marketing of leeches
> as a medical device in the US. Offbeat treatments, both
> old and new are "eee-king" their way into more common
> practice all over the world and are found to have some
> amazing healing powers, doctors say.
>
> "Leech therapy is a recognised minimal invasive Para
> surgical procedure and is a part of Ayurvedic surgery in
> India. In fact, leech therapy has its origin here," says
> Dr M S Lavekar, Director, Central Council for Research in
> Ayurved and Siddh.
>
> "Called Anushastr, it is in fact practised by Ayurvedic
> doctors all over the country, especially in government
> hospitals in Maharashtra, Pune and Kerala," says Dr
> Lavekar. They are used worldwide to help heal wounds and
> restore circulation in blocked blood vessels, he says.
>
> Before antibiotics were developed, draining blood from
> the body was the prescription for scores of serious
> illnesses.
>
> Maggots help heal wounds as they eat dead skin and
> tissue. According to a new research in the Journal of
> Clinical Infectious Diseases, wounds that got presurgical
> maggot therapy developed no infections after surgery.
>
> According to Martin Abrahamson from the Joslin Diabetes
> Clinic in Boston, an experimental drug derived from Gila
> monster, a lizard, appears to help people with type 2
> diabetes gain control over their blood sugar. In another
> study at Iowa college of Medicine, worms were used to
> ease stomach problems. The researchers found that eggs of
> Trichuris Suis or whipworm, relieved abdominal distress
> caused by inflammatory bowel disease.
>
> "These worms have been around for three million years,"
> says researcher Robert W Summers in an online report.
> About one-third of the world's population is walking
> around with them in their digestive tracts today and
> apparently having no problems, he says.
>
> http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/09blood.htm
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> End of forwarded messages
>
> Jai Maharaj
<snip religious bigotry>
The British NHS has been using maggots for several years to clean
wounds; they've been available on prescription for the last
year-and-a-half or so. Note how conventional medicine has tested and
accepted an on-the-surface-of-it bizarre, old (and cheap) idea, tested
it, and incorporated it into its practice. I wonder which big
pharmeceutical company benefitted? None, you say?
Cathy
There're some happy maggot farmers in the UK, though!
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| cathyb 2005-07-25, 10:35 am |
| <snip>
<snip religious bigotry>
The British NHS has been using maggots for several years to clean
wounds; they've been available on prescription for the last
year-and-a-half or so. Note how conventional medicine has tested and
accepted an on-the-surface-of-it bizarre, old (and cheap) idea, tested
it, and incorporated it into its practice. I wonder which big
pharmeceutical company benefitted? None, you say?
Cathy
There're some happy maggot farmers in the UK, though!
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| JohnDoe 2005-07-25, 10:35 am |
| cathyb wrote:
> <snip>
> <snip religious bigotry>
>
> The British NHS has been using maggots for several years to clean
> wounds; they've been available on prescription for the last
> year-and-a-half or so. Note how conventional medicine has tested and
> accepted an on-the-surface-of-it bizarre, old (and cheap) idea, tested
> it, and incorporated it into its practice. I wonder which big
> pharmeceutical company benefitted? None, you say?
>
> Cathy
>
>
> There're some happy maggot farmers in the UK, though!
Let's see what happens Cathy. Jan will probably call you a liar, as she
does with everything you write these days. PeterB will either ignore
this or call it a 'typical Pharma Blogger diversion tactic'. And good'ol
George will probably say that the woman should have quit dairy because
then nothing would have gone wrong with her in the first place.
Oh, and Todd Gastaldo might mention that doctors frequently use maggots
to close birth canals for 80%.
You know, I'm still not sure about Todd Gastaldo. I mean if he's serious
or if he's the group's running gag.
Let's wait and see.
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| Dr. Jai Maharaj 2005-07-25, 6:58 pm |
| In article <1122300063.876096.255650@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"cathyb" <cathybeesley@optusnet.com.au> posted:
> <snip>
> <snip religious bigotry>
Where's the "religious bigotry", as you put it, in the following?
Hindu Holocaust Museum
http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.hindunet.org
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
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| dwacon 2005-07-26, 12:09 pm |
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"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message
news:leAZi9887epShE@DvoIy...
> Bay City, Mich. - Barbara Enser wasn't very comfortable
> at first with the idea of using maggots to clean the
> wound on her right foot. But if it meant saving it from
> amputation, she was willing to give it a try.
Eww.
Sounds like 12th century medicine... right along with leeches... but perhaps
there is some value there...
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Spank, Tickle and Whip...
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