Another Recent Report. From Ontario, Canada... Hello Roger,
I would like to tell you about my close friend's progress.
We ordered 4 pounds of tea from you in Aug, received it Aug 11th I believe. My dear friend started taking it right away. She had an inoperable tumor in the colon...had been taking chemo and four months before had had radiation. When the doctors did exploratory surgery, they found the tumor had not shrunk at all. She continued chemo until early Sep. when she decided she just could not go through with the chemo process again.
She continued to take the tea from the time we got it ... a quart a day. In late Sep. she went for a CT scan and blood results...the doctors told her she was in remission! We were ecstatic! In November, she went for the results of another CT scan and blood tests...and was told everything was clear! now she takes 2 cups a day..... and we have given your tea info to many people in our area...some have ordered, and said how extremely helpful you were when talking to them.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all you have done for my friend... she is so healthy now...looking and feeling much better. She has worked full time all along with her job managing a small company, and is going to help her brother raise crops this year also! Doesn't sound like a sick woman, does it?
Roger, once again, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness and knowledge in giving my friend back her health. Anyone I speak to knows how highly you are thought of around here!
Forever grateful, T. Gould
Communicating With You Letters, E-mail and telephone calls... and diabetes... Almost daily I receive telephone calls with inquiries, which are most welcome. Many folks call just to talk about their experiences with the tea and how it has effected their lives. I feel humbled with the gratitudes that are sent my way stating heartfelt feelings of the many that the tea has helped.
I also get educated with how the tea has benefited those with various diseases that I have little knowledge. I have always focused on terminal cancer victims but find that I am learning much about other afflictions that are are just as significant when subscribing to the tea.
The most recent disease that has come to my attention is diabetes. I knew that many victims were using the tea for their diabetic symptoms but only recently received several very positive reports on this specific affliction. I found two mentions of diabetes when scanning through Kenneth Jones most informative book entitled "Pau d'Arco - Immune Power from the Rain Forest." He states that a number of Sao Paulo physicians published a document relating their "observations and to ask why the medication improves juvenile diabetes in such an impressive manner, reducing the glucose level to the normal amount." (Juvenile diabetes is a severe form of diabetes mellitus that very rarely responds to diet or oral hypoglycemics.)
He also relates the results that a Houston woman experienced when using the bark to treat her diabetes. She was able to reduce her insulin dosage by 50 percent and her average blood sugar level dropped by more than half!
Yeah, I learn more and more all the time...
Harvesting the Tea Lets hug our trees... I have just written an article on the harvesting the inner tree bark of the Pau d'Arco tree which is ground into different textures for commercial uses. This article will be included with a bibliography in a forthcoming book in the near future...
- Harvesting Pau d' Arco Tree Bark -
Not to endanger the species of the RainforestDESCRIPTION:
The Pau d'Arco tree is a native species grown naturally in the Rainforest in South America. The tree reaches maturity starting at 20 years. The optimal age for extracting the bark with optimal composition of active ingredients is 40 years. The life of the tree has been measured to over 700 years. The tree can grow to the height of 200 feet (25 meters) and have a trunk diameter of 30 feet (75 centimeters).The importance of conserving the forests and trees is foremost for the natural ecology of our planet. The discussion here relates the harvesting of the Pau d'Arco bark using the traditional manners of the "Indio" tribes of South America. The Indio tribes, followed by the Incas and Callaway tribes have used the same harvesting principals to modern times. The native Shamans, with their vast repositories of herbal knowledge, have handed down their practices through many centuries. The native preference for the inner bark over the outer bark appears to be widespread. The native tribes hold the belief that the true medicine of a tree is found in the cortex, "the softer, moister, lighter colored inner portion of the bark".
HARVESTING:
The inner bark of the lapacho (Pau d'Arco) tree is, similar to the cork oak, harvested in such a way as to leave the tree in the state of good health. It is common practice for the bark to be taken from the trunk side that first receives the morning rays of the sun, believing that this portion of the tree heals over more quickly. The Indian natives only take a "small strip" of the bark from a tree, thereby shortening the time needed by the tree to heal. Just as the bark heals disease and sores, the tree heals itself. In modern times this practice of removing only as much as a third of the bark surface of the tree allows the bark to grow back and spares the tree.CONCERNS:
The supply of the bark from The Pau d'Arco trees is plentiful and even sometimes discarded by the lumber mills when processing the heartwood of the tree. The lumber (heartwood) from the tree, irregardless of the bark, is highly valued in South America and the demand is great.Pau d'Arco trees are plentiful in wide spread regions of South America and is definitely not threatened by extinction. Plantations have been cultivating Pau d'Arco trees for years but still takes decades to become mature.
Still, our concern for the preservation of the rain forests must be expressed. The Amazon holds about two-thirds of the entire tropical rain forest of the world. One-fifth of the Amazon forest already lies in waste. In the Brazilian Amazon alone, from 1978 to 1989 deforestation averaged 2 million hectars a year.There are over 120,000 native plant species in Brazil, the chemical constituents of over 99 percent remain unknown. One can only guess at the number of useful herbs and medicines that await discovery and their potential impact on the world in this one tropical region. Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard Botanical Museum, the world's most outstanding ethnobotanist, lived amoung the shamans of the Amazon for thirteen years and collected 24,000 plants. He states that 5,000 of theses plants hold properties that will eventually contribute to the well being of humankind. Over 7,000 compounds are now employed by modern medicine that are found in natural plants and herbs. In most countries of the world, medicinal plants comprise 90 percent of all therapeutic means available.
Obviously, there is a great need for the preservation and cultivation of the rain forests that goes beyond even matters of ecology and supply. The loss of significant amounts of the rain forests heralds the loss of potentially billions of dollars in the future discovery and development of new and safer compounds from plant sources - either long used in crude form or still completely unknown. We, of course, would like to avoid drugs altogether and would opt for a natural product over a synthetic one. The call for action resounds with a warning not only for us, but also for generations to come.
I appreciate your reports and testimonials...
... Until next month... God's Grace on You...
Roger DeLong
