My First Exposure to the Salves

I first heard about cancer salves in 1990. A medical herbalist of Cherokee descent had been working in an herb store where a customer, who happened to be a shaman, described the treatment he was using for an undiagnosed nasal polyp.

Later that same year, Jane Heimlich came out with her book What Your Doctor Won't Tell You. She referenced the late Dr. H. Ray Evers who, for many years, ran a clinic in Mexico in which the "black and yellow salves" were sometimes used in cancer treatments. The book also provided a source for obtaining the salves. I followed the leads and embarked upon a fascinating investigation, one that has lasted fifteen years and that has taken my mind to ancient India, to the work of St. Hildegard of Bingen, through the Inquisition and the exodus from Europe to the New World. The exchange of knowledge between many eras and cultures has convinced me that passion for information and wisdom is one of the most remarkable human attributes.

What has perhaps stood out the most is that science is not necessarily traveling in a straight line towards understanding either health or disease—and there is a huge difference. Moreover, issues such as infection and the need for sterile conditions were understood, for instance, by the Iroquois long before Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiss (1818-1865) urged resistant doctors to wash their hands before touching patients.

My journey has been so revelatory and interesting that it has completely changed my world view and sense of history. Medicine has fashions that come and go. There have always been surgeons and herbalists and debates over the merits of one modality versus the other. There has also been suppression of truth, book burning, persecution of unpopular ideas, and hunger for monopolies in medicine, and reprehensible greed. . . and there has been a gap between academic theories and clinical observations.

The issue of whether or not a treatment works is not hypothetical; it is empirical. Someone who has not seen herbs destroy a malignancy may not believe it possible. However, ignorance is not a justification for a closed mind, merely a fault that blinds for as long or as short a period as the deficit in understanding persists.

My Ignorance

On my birthday in 1991, I had the great good fortune of dining with Jane Heimlich. She assured me that reputable doctors have had excellent results with black and yellow salves, and she encouraged me to present the full history of this treatment so that the world would understand it properly. I respected her wisdom and rich life experience and resolved to heed her advice, never suspecting for a moment how my own perspective would be irrevocably altered. I was so grateful to Jane for what I eventually came to learn that I invited her to write the foreword to my book.

I interviewed dozens of producers of "black salves" or "compound X" preparations and spoke to at least a hundred patients who have used different variations of lay procedures for administering the treatment. I also spoke with Dr. Stephen Snow, the successor to Dr. Frederic Mohs, the main medical professional in recent times who took escharotic cancer treatment seriously. Dr. Mohs conducted research on thousands of patients while working for the University of Wisconsin.

My own "claim to fame" is merely that I have been tireless in putting together a story that definitely needs telling. Throughout my investigations, I have been as entranced by the history as by the mechanism whereby herbs can resolve malignancies. My mind has always been curious, but it has been truly eye opening to have read manuscripts written in the Dark Ages. . . or really any time before the ignominious advent of modern medicine.

I knew it was important to determine the clinical basis of the enormous success reported by these many practitioners, but I had not suspected it would be an honor to read the writings and absorb the wisdom of so many dedicated healers of earlier times. Truth is obviously immortal as is the knowledge of how to heal.

This said, I am happy to say that at this juncture, I believe I have figured out how those doctors and lay healers actually used the salves, i.e., both the formulae and methodologies employed throughout history. . . as well as why they work.

The complete story of botanical cancer treatments is presented in the book.

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Kinds of Salves

 

Table of Contents of the Introductory Section

Why I Started this Site My First Exposure to Cancer Salves
What are Cancer Salves Historic Escharotic Salves Secrecy around use of the Salves
Types of Cancer Salves Zinc Chloride Bloodroot
Responses Cure Rate Safety Comparisons with Surgery
Pros and Cons Treatment Supervision Using Salves Goldenseal

Photographs: Eschar Forming and Healed Site