Native American Cancer Treatment - Bloodroot Escharotics

History of the Salves in North America

Early settlers in the New World found themselves in a land quite different from the Europe of their day. They depended, to some extent, on imports from the Old World; but when supplies were cut off due to war or other factors, they relied on Native Americans for their daily as well as medical needs. Increasingly, there emerged a small number of genuinely investigative botanists and physicians who diligently studied American flora and the medicinal uses of plants.

Many of these doctors lived for years among the Native American tribes. Of these, Constantine Rafinesque (1784-1841) was the most interesting to me; but there were dozens of such practical and observant ethnobotanists, and they left a rich legacy of writings for posterity.

Rafinesque coined the word "eclectic" to refer to those physicians who adopted in practice whatever was found to be beneficial to their patients. The Eclectic Medical Institute was formed in the 1830s as an alternative to the conventional medicine of the time. By the 1850s, several American doctors, especially from the New York Academy of Medicine, had begun using herbal salves. One man in particular, Dr. J. Weldon Fell, attained considerable peer recognition for his formula and method. Fell seemed to be the first to combine zinc chloride, a familiar caustic used in Europe, with the botanical cancer preparations of the Native Americans of the Lake Superior region. His paste was peer-reviewed in England. It is variations of this bloodroot paste that are most commonly used today. Eclectic medicine is also still practiced, but mainly by medical herbalists rather than physicians.

The history of botanical cancer treatments along with the formulas and methodology are thoroughly presented in the book.

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