Sutherlandia OPC -- just another scam?

I have been reading about the highly-touted 'miracle cure' that is Sutherlandia OPC, and the anecdotes (advertisements?) sound so convincing that I can't help but consider purchasing a few bottles for my uncle suffering from stage IV PC. However, I wanted to consult those who may already have experience administering/taking this before I potentially waste money on yet another unproven treatment. Does anyone here have a success story they can share that doesn't involve a friend who had a friend who had a relative who took it, etc.? 

Dear Student,

There is always a charlatan of some type lying in wait in the bushes to separate you from your money.  This is just another scam; some folks have no ethics and will stop at nothing while they prey on vulnerable patients searching in vain for the magic cure.  Keep your money in your pocket.  

Joan L

I have to agree with Joan.  I think this is a scam.  Look at the ads in Google.  You really can't tell what they are saying.  I'd save my money and go with conventional treatment.

   The only thing that I could add to this is that this was one of many other potions I got my partner on her PC diagnosis in an effort to both supplement her treatment and detox her prior to having it. 

   However, by definition, chemo is toxic so giving anything that could aid in a detox was obviously going to be counter-productive and, along with other things like Zeolite, I stopped them before her treatment began.

   To be fair to the manufacturers of Sutherlandia, their website is quite open when it says that '...Sutherlandia should not be recommended as a so-called
“universal cancer cure”, but rather as a quality-of-life tonic...' (their bold type, not mine! 

   Gioven that this has been in existence for many years in South Africa and its Afrikaanse description is 'Kankerbos' - or 'Cancer bush' in English - I think it's one of those things you have to make up your own mind about.  The website described its properties as follows:-

 

The sutherlandia you are referring to is the plant Sutherlandia Frutescens, which only makes up 20% of the herbal supplement known as Sutherlandia OPC (the other 80% is oleander extract with the toxins removed).

There is a lot of woo and voodoo out there, but Sutherlandia OPC is the real deal.  I am the moderator of a Yahoo health group "Oleandersoup", which has over 1300 members and is over five years old.  Most members take the OPC as part of a suggested natural anti-cancer protocol.  During the past five plus years, I am aware of only only three members who are not still alive: two came to the group with only weeks to live after chemo and radiation had virually destroyed their immune systems and major organs.  Another took the OPC for less than two months and then listened to his oncologist tell him it was snake oil and nothing could save him from living for another two or three months maximum.  He stopped taking the OPC and got a nerve block to ease his pain, and then proceeded to live over a year and a half longer.

One of the survivors is my 86 year old uncle.  Traditional radiation failed to work and his lung cancer tumor continued to grow and spread to the rest of his body.  He is now cancer free and enjoys a daily round of golf.

In South Africa, where Sutherlandia OPC has been vitually 100% successful in reversing the symptoms of HIV, hundreds of people have been treated with the OPC over the past five years.  Thus far, only eight have failed to survive and most of the cancers are gone.  Of the eight who did not surive, three began taking the OPC with scant days to live and another three succumbed to major organ failure as a likely result of prior chemo and/or radiation.  I personally know the Naropathic PhD who devised the formula.

BTW, two different oleander based patented medicines are currently in FDA trials and the first of those, Anvirzel, has been used often as a CAM in cancer treatments by mainstream oncologists. It potentiates both chemo and radiation and either greatly lessens or eliminates virtually all known side effects of chemo.

For more information, see the "Oleander Series" of articles at:

http://www.tbyil.com/articles.htm