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| Reference #: | 445 |
| Submit Date: | 31 Dec 2002 |
| Browse Category: | diabetes |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | rosy periwinkle |
| You can buy this remedy at: | nursery |
| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | Natures Medicine: Plants that heal, Joel Swerdlow, National Geographic, |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 0 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 19,174 |
| Dosage Info: | |
| Typical Dosage: | unknown |
| Dosage should be related to weight: | unknown |
| Dosages used in clinical trials are significant: | unknown |
| Maximum dosages in relation to side effects and serious side effects: | unknown |
| Other foods/nutrients/medications that can affect absorption or utilization: | unknown |
| Foods that provide the nutrient recommended as a remedy (or reference giving same): | unknown |
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| Total # reviewers: | 1 |
| Average Rating: | 10.00 |
| Effectiveness: | 10.00 |
| No Side Effects: | 10.00 |
| Ease of Use: | 10.00 |
| Effective after long term use: | 10.00 |
| Cost Effectiveness: | 10.00 |
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This is a old diabetic remedy. In the 1920's in England
pharamises sold vin-q-lin made from rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus Roseus,Madagasgar Periwinkle, vinca rosea) as a treatment for diabetes. Then insulin was discovered and periwinkle was ditched. During WWII when the people in Jamaica were cut off from their insulin supplies, the local people who were diabetic, drank a tea made from rosy periwinkle. Many people and doctors in Jamaica claimed that it worked. Also during WWII in the Philippines rosy periwinkle was also used when insulin became unavailable. After WWII, researchers were sent to Jamaica to check out the rosy tea story. In their judgment the people should have been dead for not taking their insulin for 4 years. At first they though the Jamacians had survived because they had a "new" type of diabetes. Well, they discovered the Jamaicans did not have a "new" type of diabetes Well they took the rosy periwinkle plant back to Canada to test it out on diabetics. No significant impact was found. But the doctors did find that the extract of rosy periwinkle soaked in alcohol significant reduced the white blood cell count. American doctors studying rosy periwinkle plant in the philippines were unable to confirm its effectiveness but they did note the plants white cell killing ability. Ah... a cure for lukemia which makes too many white blood cells. Two ant-cancer drugs were developed vincristine and vinblastine. from the rosy periwinkle plant. 15 tons of plant leaves are required to make one ounce of vinblastine. Regardless of what the scients found out about the rosy periwinkle the locals in the Philipines and in Jamaica used it for diabetes control sucessfully. You can buy the rosy periwinkle plant at your local nursery and grow it in your own yard and make a tea from it. It grows well in the spring and sumer. Nurseries grow it as vinca rosea. you can buy Madagasgar periwinkle leaves vinca rosea from http://www.gaiaherbs.com More info on periwinkle: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/periwi27.html http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/botany/perihist.html http://www.floridata.com/ref/C/cath_ros.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharanthus_roseus http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=194756 ------------------------------ Editor: I've read about 15 reports I found on the Internet. There are hundreds to read if you want to. All the reports agree that periwinkle rosea does lower the blood sugart in diabetics. How it lowers the blood sugar was never studied. Some of the reports suggested its effects were similar to pancreas stimulating drugs. One report that I read even compared periwinke and a pancreas stimulating drug on diabertic rats and found them to be similar in lowering the blood sugar of the rats. I even read the ww2 study of periwinkle made after discovering that periwinkle kept diabetics alive without insulin in Jamaica The report concluded that periwinkle worked, but more money could be made in making and selling one ounce of a anti-cancer drug Vincristine, derived from 15 tons of periwinkle. Also Wikipedia source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharanthus_roseus warns that periwinkle rosea is a posionoous plant It can be dangerous if consumed orally. It can be hallucinogenic, and is cited (under its synonym Vinca rosea) in the Louisiana State Act 159. IMHO I doubt if this occurs unless you do 15 tons of the plant. According to the US goverment pot is a dangerous and hallucinogenic plant too and has no known medical usses |
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