Topical Application of Yun Nan Bai Yao

This appeared in an article by Nicholas Haines in the Journal of Chinese Medicine Number 46, September 1994. He is using a mixture of powdered Da Qing Ye (Folium Daqingye) and Yun Nan Bai Yao. This is mixed into a paste with water, spread over the lesion, left for 24 hours and repeated. It is proving useful in preliminary tests, but difficult to use with multiple lesions.

Star Technique

Surround the lesion with needles inserted obliquely towards and sometimes into the lesion. You may use as many needles as will surround the lesion. Insert the next needle perpendicularly into the middle of the "star". You then add electrical stimulation so that the center needle gets the negative electrode and any other needle in the ring gets the positive electrode. Stimulation is continuous and strong.

Diet

A paper published a year ago in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, suggested that substances found in a plant based diet, especially one high in soy products such as traditional Japanese diet, may help control angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is the process of forming new blood vessels, a natural phenomenon that takes place during certain physiologic processes such as wound healing or during a woman's reproductive cycle. Outside those circumstances, angiogenesis can be pathological. Evidence now suggests that Kaposi's sarcoma might not be a "true" malignancy but a dysregulation of angiogenesis. The authors, at universities in Heidelberg, Geneva and Heliniski, chemically fractioned the urine of volunteers who were eating a soy-rich vegetarian diet. They found one substance, genistein, which had a strong anti-angiogenesis effect in laboratory tests, and which is thirty times more concentrated in the urine of those eating traditional Japanese diets vs. those eating typical Western diets. The higher concentrations were enough to affect angiogenesis in laboratory tests. The urine of the volunteers was chemically fractioned into six fractions. Four of them had anti-angiogenesis activity. The most active fractions were not analyzed in the study; genestein came from the less active fractions. This suggests that plant based diets may supply other substances which may be better than genestein in anti-angiogenesis activity.

Shark Cartilage

The Search Alliance conducted a study of shark cartilage as a potential treatment of KS. (STEP Perspective, June 1992) The results have not been encouraging. The study initially enrolled 13 individuals, with only six completing the trial. Most of the individuals who dropped out of the study did so because they were not able to tolerate the extreme unpleasant taste. Another left due to nausea. The individuals who remained in the trial did not experience any regressions of their KS lesions after two months of follow-up. In addition, new lesions did occur during the study period. These findings suggest that shark cartilage; by itself, is not an effective treatment for KS. On a brighter note, participants in the study had to have at least four lesions that were not being treated in any way other than shark cartilage, but they could use localized treatments (such as radiation) on other lesions. The individuals who were using radiation seemed to respond to half the radiation dose expected to be effective.

How To Reverse Immune Dysfunction

In his book "How To Reverse Immune Dysfunction," Mark Konlee puts forth the theory that malabsorption and malnutrition are the underlying conditions for the development of Kaposi's Sarcoma. He believes that the actual KS lesion is caused by an irritant or injury, which has not yet been identified. The irritant or injury leads to the growth of the KS lesion when the liver produces estrogen which acts to stimulate the healing and growth of the blood vessel walls. Normally small amounts of estrogen are needed to heal an injury and estrogen is harmless when used in conjunction with minerals like potassium, magnesium and certain amino acids. It is the lack of amino acids and minerals in the blood which allow KS lesions to respond to estrogen stimulation.