KEROSENE - a Universal Healer
by
Walter Last
Turpentine and petroleum
distillates similar to kerosene have been used medicinally since ancient times
and are still being used as folk remedies up to the present. They were used in
ancient Babylon to treat stomach problems, inflammations and ulcers. The
process of distilling crude oil/petroleum into hydrocarbon fractions was first
described in the ninth century in Persia.
The use of these petroleum
products is most widespread in poorer countries, including Russia, Eastern
Europe and Africa. A recent study in Nigeria found that about 70 per cent of
the population used petroleum products medicinally [1]. The most common
applications are for infections and infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases,
cancer, arthritis and rheumatic diseases in general. Even the Rockefellers
supposedly started their fortune by selling kerosene as a cancer cure before
they found that chemotherapy was more lucrative.
From the available
literature, I conclude that kerosene therapy may be one of the best ways to
eliminate pathogenic microbes and parasites from the blood and bowel. My
article on pleomorphic microbes [2] shows that in all
of the above-mentioned diseases there is an overgrowth of fungal and cell-wall
deficient (CWD) pathogenic microbes in the blood. It appears that the success
of kerosene is due to its detrimental effect on these fungi and CWD microbes,
which then allows the immune system to eliminate remaining pockets of other
pathogens and abnormal cells in tumours and affected organs.
A comparison of several
disinfectants found that kerosene, while not controlling the tested bacteria,
had the strongest effect on suppressing Candida—stronger than even a
sodium hypochlorite bleach [3]. This may actually be the secret of the healing
success of kerosene: it suppresses Candida, viruses and CWD microbes
while not harming normal gut bacteria.
On a German forum I read
about a case of intestinal Candida overgrowth that had been verified by
microbial stool analysis. This had not been normalised after previous Candida
treatment, but after the use of kerosene all the Candida-related
problems disappeared, as did the allergic reactions to several foods. A
follow-up stool analysis showed that the intestinal flora was in excellent
condition.
In 1914 Charles Oscar Frye
authored a booklet with the title:
"Consumption of the Lungs and Kindred Diseases, Treated and Cured by
Kerosene" and with the subtitle: "Its Value as a
Remedy, when to Use It, how to Use It, a Cure for the Sick, a Protection for
Those in Health." He used spray inhalation to successfully treat lung
tuberculosis, 1 or 2 sprays twice a day for 1 to 4 months. For internal
problems half a teaspoon was recommended twice a day, see http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.087013173.
Kerosene is a mineral oil
distillate commonly used as a fuel or solvent. It is a thin, clear, liquid
consisting of a mixture of saturated hydrocarbons that boil between 145–150°C
and 275–300°C. While kerosene can be extracted from coal, oil shale and wood,
it is primarily derived from refining crude petroleum. Turpentine distilled
from different varieties of California pines is almost pure heptane,
as in light petrol. Other varieties of pine produce mainly chemicals called terpenes, as present in fragrant oils.
The word
"kerosene" is used in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United
States. Kerosene is called "paraffin" in the United Kingdom,
Southeast Asia and South Africa, while in Germany and other parts of Central
Europe it is called "light petroleum" and, medicinally,
"petrolatum". The word Kerosin is
German for "aircraft fuel".
The
Cancer Cure of Paula Ganner
The modern wave of using
kerosene as a cancer cure started in the early 1950s. At the age of 31, an
Austrian woman, Paula Ganner, with cancer metastases
and colon paralysis after surgery, had been given two days to live by her
doctors. She remembered that in Eastern Europe kerosene was used as a cure-all,
and she started taking a tablespoonful each day. After three days, she could
leave the bed, and 11 months later she gave birth to a healthy boy. At age
three, this boy contracted polio which she cured with one teaspoon of kerosene
daily for eight days. Ganner started spreading the information
about the amazing results of using kerosene for all kinds of health problems,
and over the years she received 20,000 thank-you letters with success stories.
However, most information
on using kerosene as a cancer cure is in German, with very little translated
into English [4]. Here are some extracts from testimonials reported in the
German illustrated weekly "7 TAGE" between September 1969 and
February 1970 [5]:
• A dog had a growth the
size of a child's fist on his neck and was given kerosene on sugar cubes. After
two weeks, the growth disappeared.
• After breast cancer
surgery, a woman (48) developed tumours in the uterus. After taking a daily
teaspoon of kerosene she could stop using morphine, and after six weeks she
aborted three tumours.
• Another woman took a
teaspoonful of kerosene three times daily for two weeks, and repeated this
after a two-week interruption. This not only cured her stomach ulcer, but also,
to her surprise, her diabetes.
• A man cured a severe
prostate problem (it is not mentioned if it was cancer) by taking one
teaspoonful of kerosene each morning and evening for four weeks. Later, he
overcame a stomach ulcer in the same way. His son successfully used kerosene to
cure a chronic bladder problem, and he cured his dog of leukaemia after a
seven-week kerosene cure.
• After a woman (60) had
her right breast removed, cancer started in her left breast. She periodically
took a teaspoonful of kerosene three times daily for two weeks and then paused
for 10 days. She had no more cancer problems and no more fear of cancer.
• A young woman (35) was
sent home to die with an inoperable large tumour in the pancreas that extended
to the adrenal glands. On the fourth day home, she briefly awoke from a coma
and was given a spoonful of kerosene. Hours later she showed the first signs of
improvement, and after four days she wanted to get out of bed. The kerosene
cure was continued for another 10 days before she was investigated at the
hospital in Graz and later discharged as being healthy.
• After six days of using
kerosene, a woman discharged dead tissue which was confirmed to consist of dead
tumour cells (the type of cancer is not mentioned). After 14 days, the typical
smell of terminal cancer disappeared. She took kerosene for 32, 25 and 14 days,
with nine days of rest between each. As a pleasant side-effect, she was also
cured of her rheumatic problems.
• A woman (68) had high
blood pressure, heart and circulation problems and rheumatism. She could hardly
walk. After four weeks on kerosene, she was asked by a friend what she was
doing to look suddenly so much younger. People think she is in her 40s. Her
husband, who used to have a bent back, now runs like a youth. When she
sometimes gets some pain in cold weather, she rubs her body with a sponge
dipped in kerosene and lets it dry; this quickly removes any pain.
• A woman with colon
cancer was scheduled for colostomy (to remove her colon and have a bag fitted).
Instead, she started taking teaspoons of kerosene. Not much was happening, so
she took about 50 ml in one go, together with a lot of honey in milk. This was
followed by four hours of diarrhoea with pus and blood and the abortion of her
tumour.
Other testimonials mention
overcoming bone cancer or myeloma, osteoporosis of the spinal column, severe
digestive and gastro-intestinal problems, constant vomiting, rheumatism and
sciatic problems. Paula Ganner apparently used and
recommended in addition to or instead of kerosene purified petrol (Naphthabenzin or Siedegrenzbenzin
Merck Nr. 1770, with a special boiling range from 100°C to 140°C - SBP
100/140), as utilised for wound cleaning and as a solvent in laboratories. (The
boiling range is the temperature range of a laboratory distillation of an oil
from the start until evaporation of all the fractions is complete.)
Turpentine:
Another Cure-all Therapy
In addition to kerosene,
turpentine was previously used as a cure-all. Natural turpentine, commonly sold
as "pure gum turpentine", was commonly used in lower doses and less
frequently than kerosene. It was especially treasured for its antiseptic and
diuretic properties and as a treatment for intestinal parasites. According to
Wikipedia: "Turpentine was a common medicine among seamen during the Age
of Discovery, and one of several products carried aboard Ferdinand Magellan's
fleet in his first circumnavigation of the globe."
To expel tapeworms, a
powerful dose of one to two tablespoons of turpentine was given, usually mixed
with the same amount of castor oil and taken floating on milk. This was repeated every second or third
day until the fragments of the worm ceased to appear in the stool. For
children, the prescription was less drastic: one teaspoonful of sugar, three to
four drops of turpentine and one teaspoonful of castor oil.
Jennifer Daniels, MD,
discovered that American slaves had a secret remedy that kept them free of
diseases: a teaspoon of turpentine mixed with a teaspoon of white sugar, taken
for short periods several times each year. She adopted this as a successful Candida
therapy: Slowly pour a teaspoon of turpentine over sugar cubes or a rounded
teaspoon of white sugar to soak it all up. Then chew the cubes or soaked sugar
and wash the mixture down with water. Dr Daniels generally recommends doing
this twice a week for several weeks, but initially daily with long-term Candida.
Continue until the problem is fixed - which can happen surprisingly quickly. On
Internet forums, I found some testimonials showing that this therapy indeed
worked for these people.
Dr Daniels states that
before starting turpentine therapy it is essential to prepare by drinking lots
of water, adopting a suitable anti-Candida diet and cleaning the bowel.
At this stage, it is necessary to have three daily bowel movements, otherwise
the pathogens may get into the blood. She also believes that the use of sugar
in this case is beneficial in stopping the sugar craving so common with Candida
and in attracting the Candida to the "poison".
I tried this out with
Diggers Pure Gum Turpentine, which is available in Australia. When taking a
teaspoon of it on a cube of sugar, I was surprised how pleasant it tasted, just
like a pine-flavoured lolly. However, I now believe that instead of using
sugar, it is better to take gum turpentine mixed with an equal amount or more
of either paraffin oil or olive oil. Gum turpentine has a much stronger effect
than kerosene, and some individuals experienced temporary balance problems. I
would limit the maximum dose to 1 teaspoon per day for an adult.
In her report, Dr Daniels
also wrote that the first edition of The Merck Manual of appropriate and
accepted treatments for recognised diseases, published in 1899, states that
turpentine therapy is effective for a wide range of conditions including
gonorrhoea, meningitis, arthritis, abdominal difficulties and lung disease.
However, the 1999 Merck Manual just mentions the dire effects of
turpentine poisoning with destruction of the kidneys and lungs [6].
Understanding
The Cure-all Effect
The secret of the apparent
cure-all effect of kerosene and turpentine may be understood as the reversal of
the disease-causing effect of modern medicine. There is evidence that most of
our modern diseases were rare in former centuries. Only relatively few people
had cancer, which only occasionally happened in old age, and asthma, allergies
and autoimmune diseases were rare or absent as well. All this changed after
World War II with the widespread use of antibiotics. While they targeted
bacteria, they encouraged the rise and spread of fungi and mycoplasmas which
are at the root of most of our modern diseases.
Look at the forest or
bushland trees. Some of their greatest enemies are fungi and parasites. As a
defence, they developed various chemical strategies to kill or repel these
attackers. We know and use these biochemicals as
eucalyptus oil, neem oil, tea tree oil, pau d'arco extract, olive leaf
extract, turpentine and other essential oils. Most of these oils are composed
of hydrocarbons, just like kerosene. The main chemical in turpentine, alpha-pinene, is also present in the oils of rosemary and
eucalyptus.
These volatile essential
oils seem to have a stronger antifungal effect than kerosene, but frequent
intake in high amounts can also cause some kidney damage. However, it needs to
be understood that an antimicrobial program can only stop an autoimmune attack
as a first and essential step in a healing process. It does not automatically
repair the damage that has already been done. For instance, in diabetes type 1
and Parkinson's disease, a healthy lifestyle is still needed to regenerate
insulin-producing or dopamine-producing cells that have been destroyed; the
same goes for joints that have been badly damaged with arthritis. Also, the
debris of large internal tumours may require further detoxification and
cleansing for safe removal.
Damaging
Fungal Metabolites
William Shaw, PhD, of The
Great Plains Laboratory in Kansas, USA, discovered important chemical reasons
for the devastating health effect of antibiotic-induced fungal overgrowth [7].
Here is a typical example of how Candida tends to emerge.
A boy had been developing
normally up to 18 months of age, but then he had several courses of antibiotics
for ear infections. From these antibiotics, he acquired thrush of the mouth and
tongue. His behaviour deteriorated quickly. He lost his ability to speak,
became extremely hyperactive, kept waking up all through the night, lost eye
contact with his parents and was diagnosed with autism. After treatment with
the antifungal drug nystatin, he gradually recovered.
Dr Shaw writes: "I
have now detected this same phenomenon in hundreds of other cases. Even after
six months of antifungal treatment, there is often a biochemical 'rebound' and
loss of improvements after discontinuing antifungal therapy."
William G. Crook, MD, in The
Yeast Connection [8] and
other books, demonstrated that Candida is the underlying cause of
hyperactivity. So, ADD or ADHD and autism are just different degrees of the
same brain dysfunction caused by Candida. There is evidence that a main
aggravating factor leading to autism is the combination of Candida and various vaccines, possibly due to mercury and other
toxic additives.
Dr Shaw found that
tartaric acid, as in wine and baking powder, is one of the problematic Candida metabolites.
It is not normally produced in the body but results from excessive yeast
fermentation, either in the intestines or other sites of Candida infestation.
A main consequence of tartaric acid in the blood is muscle weakness, as in
fibromyalgia.
Tartaric acid is closely
related to malic acid, which is a key component of
the citric acid cycle that produces energy in the cells. Tartaric acid blocks
the metabolism of malic acid. With this, the body
cannot produce energy aerobically by oxidising glucose, but instead it produces
energy anaerobically by converting glucose into lactic acid. This generates
only 20 per cent of the energy that could have been produced by proper
oxidation of glucose, and explains the chronic fatigue, overacidity and mineral
deficiency so common with Candida infection.
Furthermore, our brain
needs a high amount of energy to function normally. Therefore, tartaric acid
and acetaldehyde, another disruptive yeast chemical, combine to cause mental
problems such as brain fog, depression, hyperactivity, autism and
schizophrenia.
Another abnormal chemical
is the five-carbon sugar arabinose, which cross-links
the functional groups of various proteins, especially enzymes, and in effect
causes deficiencies of vitamin B6, biotin and lipoic acid. Cross-linking also
accelerates ageing, causing cataracts and increasing rigidity of muscles,
tendons and connective tissue, showing up as wrinkles and ageing skin. With Candida,
we age more quickly. Arabinose also leads to
increased accumulations of abnormal metabolic protein residues inside cells,
such as in cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Children with autism have
the same type of arabinose-containing fibre tangles
in the brain as are present in Alzheimer's disease, indicating that both are
related to Candida, although co-factors such as mercury and other
pollutants also play a role in these two conditions.
The yeast metabolites
tartaric acid and arabinose are also found in many
other diseases. There is much additional evidence of this same sequence of
careless antibiotic use leading to Candida overgrowth and then to
specific diseases. This may involve: the immune system, as in cases of
autoimmune diseases and cancer; the brain and nervous system, leading to
hyperactivity, Asperger's syndrome, autism, obsessive–compulsive
disorder, depression, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia,
and other mental and movement disorders; muscle weakness, as in fibromyalgia;
and generalised weakness, as in chronic fatigue syndrome. Commonly there are aggravating
co-factors, such as mercury, fluoride as well as mycoplasmas and parasites.
All of this gives us an
understanding of the biochemical reasons for the devastating effects of
antibiotic caused fungal overgrowth in our society and the cure-all success of
effective antifungal therapy.
Which
Products To Use
The most suitable microbicidal hydrocarbons seem to be those with boiling
points between 100°C and 200°C. The lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons,
while very effective for cleaning the blood, have a stronger odour and are more
difficult to "stomach", while those boiling over 200°C tend to remain
in the intestinal tract and act mainly as laxatives rather than being absorbed
for a microbicidal effect in the blood.
The range of 100°C to
200°C includes the saturated hydrocarbon chains with seven to 11 carbon atoms.
It is interesting to note that the medium-chain fatty acids in coconut oil with
the strongest microbicidal effects (lauric acid, capric acid and
caprylic acid) have eight to 12 carbon atoms.
As well as having a
suitable boiling range, good kerosene should be low in aromatics. This is
basically what "low odour" means. To see if products from other
companies or in other countries are suitable, go to the website of the
manufacturer and look up the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Note that
kerosene may be sold under other names such as "naphtha petroleum",
"hydrocarbon solvent" and "mineral turpentine".
It is not advisable to use
products without knowing their boiling range and chemical composition. The
products should contain petrochemical-based aliphatic hydrocarbons, and not
half-synthetic isoparaffins or special solvent mixtures that are available from
art suppliers as aromatics-free mineral turpentine.
Shell Chemicals has two suitable
products free of aromatics: Shell-Sol D40, with a boiling range of 145°C to
210°C, and the lower boiling range SBP 100/140. BP White Spirit, low in
aromatics, boils from 142°C to 200°C. The Total Group offers Spirdane D40, free
of aromatics and with a boiling range from 156°C to 198°C, while Solane 100-155
and Solane 100-140 have lower boiling ranges. The stated boiling ranges are
typical, not necessarily actual, values, and the MSDSs for these products may
be somewhat different. With products of narrow boiling ranges, it is best to
combine high and low boiling fractions for a broader boiling range. Special
Boiling Point Solvent SBP 100/140 is basically what Paula Ganner
recommended.
A suitable variety of
kerosene available in Australia is Diggers Low Odour Kerosene [9], more
commonly sold in hardware stores than in supermarkets. Also, Diggers White
Spirits and Diggers Mineral Turpentine are available as low-odour products with
the same chemical composition as Diggers Low Odour Kerosene. The boiling range
is from 149°C to 194°C. The manufacturer, Recochem Inc., also supplies
odourless kerosene, which is even easier to take; however, its boiling range of
190°C to 230°C is rather high and is not effective for purifying the blood,
although it may work for cleaning the large intestine.
A suitable low-odour
product in the US is Klean-Strip 1 Kerosene, see www.wmbarr.com/product.aspx?catid=35&prodid=71;
you can get it at Wal-Mart and various hardware stores. In Germany you may get
Shell-Sol D40, SBP (Siedegrenzbenzin) 100/140 and Gum
Turpentine (Balsam Terpentinoel) from the "Baumarkt".
Generally these products
may be available in building materials and paint supply stores and larger
hardware stores. Nevertheless, if a low-aromatics or de-aromatised product is
not available, then even normal kerosene with a higher content of aromatics may
be used. It is not more toxic but only has a stronger odour. The really toxic
product in crude petroleum and most motor fuels is benzene, but this has a
rather low boiling point of 80°C and therefore is not a problem in fractions
with a boiling point over 100°C.
In contrast to mineral
turpentine, which is similar to kerosene, natural turpentine is commonly sold
as "pure gum turpentine" or "100% gum turpentine". Pure gum
turpentine is used as a solvent or thinner for artist's paint and as a general
solvent.
How
To Use Kerosene and Turpentine
How kerosene is taken and
for how long is rather flexible. Some take it as needed, while others have a
full course every year just as a precaution. A good way is to start with a few
drops or half a teaspoonful, then continue with one teaspoon for a week or two;
if not much seems to happen, then gradually increase up to one tablespoon for a
while until ending with one teaspoonful, for a total duration of about six
weeks or until your problem has sufficiently improved. It may be advisable to
have a shorter or longer follow-up course two months later.
Commonly, kerosene is
taken once a day either before breakfast or at bedtime. One woman supposedly
cured her terminal cancer, with metastases all over the body, by drinking a
glassful of kerosene followed by fruit juice. She wrote that it caused extreme
diarrhoea and vomiting for three days. However, this is a dangerous way of
doing the treatment, as vomiting can easily cause kerosene to get into the
lungs; this is the main reason why people can die from drinking kerosene.
High doses of microbicides
may cause too much fungal die-off too suddenly, resulting in a
"reaction" with nausea and fatigue. While this is generally good and
part of the healing process, it is better to increase the dose only gradually
to avoid or minimise strong, unpleasant reactions, although diarrhoea is very
common at some stage. During a reaction, temporarily reduce or skip the remedy
until recovered.
Kerosene is best taken on
an empty or nearly empty stomach, as it floats on anything that is in the
stomach and then may continue repeating for a longer time. I prefer it the
traditional way with molasses: lick some molasses to coat your tongue, then
take a spoonful of kerosene and wash it down with a small amount of drink and
food. For children, kerosene has been used by placing several drops on sugar
before ingestion.
For arthritis, one part of
kerosene may be diluted with one or two parts of olive oil and used as a rub or
in a pack placed on painful areas. For throat infections, the pack may also be
wrapped around the neck. If used undiluted, the kerosene may start burning
after 10 to 60 minutes depending on the sensitivity of the skin and the
kerosene's boiling range and purity. If one keeps it on for long enough, the
skin becomes red and will blister.
This is very effective in
drawing out inflammatory pain from arthritic joints and promoting their
healing. Cover the reddened skin with vitamin E oil until healed. Also, tumours
may be covered with diluted or undiluted kerosene packs. For toe and nail
fungus as well as fungal infections of the skin, the affected parts may be
soaked in concentrated or diluted kerosene or turpentine. Candida infections
or thrush in the mouth or vagina may be treated by coating or rinsing with
diluted kerosene or turpentine.
In a personal
communication I was given the following information: "My grandmother used
to regularly paint our sore throats with kerosene, using a wing or tail feather
taken from a chook. I remember my throat being painted as a matter of course as
a young boy, as were [the throats of] the rest of the family - and it
worked." I also received similar comments from others, and it was usually
the grandmother who initiated this therapy.
The very light product
which Paula Ganner apparently recommended is best for
cleaning the blood, as it is quickly absorbed in the stomach. This also works
well with teaspoon-doses of the low-odour kerosene. However, for cleaning the
bowel of cancer, Candida or parasites, it may be necessary to take up to
a tablespoonful at a time. If only a teaspoonful is taken, most of the lighter
hydrocarbons will already be absorbed in the stomach and not enough will reach
the large intestines. Odourless kerosene with a higher boiling range may also
be tried for this purpose, but it is not known if it is as effective as lighter
varieties. One may try a spoonful daily for several weeks, but cut back if this
causes diarrhoea.
Liquid paraffin or
paraffin oil, with a boiling point over 300°C, is available from pharmacies and
may be used as a laxative or for skin protection. It is not useful for killing
microbes but, like odourless kerosene, it may be used during a cleansing period
to bind fat-soluble toxins released from the liver. This supposedly makes
cleansing more effective by preventing re-absorption of such waste products. Up
to a tablespoonful may be tried daily, or until diarrhoea occurs. Also products
with a lower boiling range stimulate the liver to release toxins, provided that
sufficient is taken to pass through the bowel.
Toxicity
Issues
The MSDS for Diggers Low
Odour Kerosene includes the following information: "Expected to be of low
toxicity… Aspiration into lungs when swallowed or vomited may cause chemical pneumonitis which can be fatal" [10]. The MSDS for
normal kerosene of another company states: "If more than several mouthfuls
are swallowed, abdominal discomfort, nausea, and diarrhea
may occur" [11]. The MSDS for blue kerosene gives the same toxicity data
as for clear kerosene. This means that the added blue colouring does not
increase toxicity.
As people do not normally
swallow more than several mouthfuls of kerosene, it is obvious that taking a
spoonful for a limited period is not a toxicity problem. Therefore, the real
danger of kerosene does not come from any inherent toxicity per se, but,
rather, from getting vomit into the lungs after a large amount has been
swallowed accidentally or in a suicide attempt, and this can indeed cause
death. However, even getting just water into the lungs can be very bad as well.
The acute oral toxicity of
kerosene for rats is given as "LD50 > 5000 mg/kg". LD50 is the
dose at which 50 per cent of the rats will die; in this case, more than 5 g/kg
are required. In comparison, the LD50 of gum turpentine for rats is given as
5760 mg/kg. The MSDS for Diggers Pure Gum Turpentine states: "Ingestion
can cause nausea, vomiting and bladder irritation. Aspiration into lungs when
swallowed or vomited may cause chemical pneumonitis
which can be fatal" [12].
The main danger with
petrol/gasoline is from sniffing or inhaling the vapours, which can have strong
effects on the brain and central nervous system. Yet ingesting this
more-problematic product is not necessarily all bad. A man in China drank (and
still drinks) a glass of gasoline/petrol every day, or about four litres a
month, for 42 years, and at over 70 years of age he looks younger than most
non-petrol drinkers in their 50s or 60s. He started out drinking kerosene for
pain relief, but later switched over to petrol. It has been estimated that, in
all, he drank about 1.5 tons of it [13].
The
System Fights Back
Soon after the German
magazine "7 TAGE" published some of the 20,000 testimonials that
Paula Ganner had received, the editor of that
magazine lost his job and the entry for petroleum products as a cleaning remedy
for wounds was removed from the German pharmacopoeia. Kerosene was declared to
be a dangerous poison that caused severe kidney damage, although no specific
data or instances were provided.
In 1979, a woman who had
distributed health information about kerosene was taken to court in Hersbruck, Germany. The public prosecutor was unable to
show that a law had been violated or that anyone had been harmed using kerosene
in the recommended ways. Also, the forensic expert was unable to point to any
harm. He expressed the view that with cancer one should use everything that
might be useful, and that clinical trials should be conducted. Consequently,
the prosecution had to drop the case [14].
In the early 1980s, kerosene
in Australian supermarkets was colourless. But then reports of people using it
to cure their cancer started circulating, and suddenly all kerosene in
supermarkets was blue. Also, strong warnings about the deadly effects of
ingesting kerosene started to appear. Today, the Wikipedia page on kerosene
states clearly and simply: "Ingestion of kerosene is harmful or
fatal." Increasingly the most recent MSDSs no longer provide toxicity data
so that people cannot see how relatively non-toxic kerosene is. Instead, only
the warning remains that it can be fatal if it gets into the lungs.
All of this is obviously
in conflict with its use for hundreds of years as a trusted remedy, and is in
conflict with the scientific toxicity information. In France, kerosene still
appears in the official pharmacopoeia as huile
de Gabian and is prescribed as a remedy for
bronchitis, asthma and cystitis. Even the medical literature contains clinical
studies by reputable researchers showing that kerosene is effective against
cancer [15].
Nevertheless, science is
no obstacle for those in pursuit of profit or special interests. To reduce my
chances of having to go to court in this matter, I want to make it clear that
this article is for information only, and that I do not recommend using
kerosene or turpentine to treat cancer or any other condition. People need to
do their own research and evaluation of available information before deciding
whether any potential benefits from using kerosene are worth risking the
dangers mentioned by our health authorities. ∞
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