The Hoxsey Treatment is a program for the treatment
of cancer utilizing a specially formulated herbal tonic combined with a
diet of fresh foods that excludes salt, sugar, and alcohol. Certain other
foods are also banned because they conflict with the tonic and neutralize
its effect.
The tonic can be taken internally to treat internal cancers,
and used as a salve or lotion and applied topically to treat external cancers.
Aida
Flores who worked with Mildred Nelson, RN at the Biomedical Center
(Centro Biomedico) states: "The Hoxsey tonic is to be used orally, however
we have the Hoxsey ointment, which is used externally, on certain types
of external cancers, but still the patient has to be on the Hoxsey Oral
tonic, before starting any external treatment."
(*Stayed tuned for a new link to Aida's website)
Analysis has shown it to contain potassium iodine, licorice,
red clover, burdock root, stillingia root, berberis root, poke root, cascara
amarga, prickly ash bark, and buckthorn bark. Several of these well-known
North American herbs are thought to have anti-cancer attributes.
In 1840 John Hoxsey noticed one of his horses, one that
had developed cancer, selecting and eating certain herbs that grew around
the farm. After a period of time he noticed the horse's cancer was cured.
John Hoxsey then set about to gather those same herbs
and brew them together into a potion. He used the potion or tonic to treat
and cure other cancerous animals.
The tonic's formula was passed down from father to son
and when Harry M. Hoxsey, John Hoxsey's great-grandson, turned eighteen,
he was given the formula
In the 1920's, Harry M. Hoxsey, a charming self-taught
healer, founded the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, Texas. The course of
treatment at the clinic was limited to herbal mixtures.
In 1924 Hoxsey was allowed by the established medical
profession to test his herbal method. Although the test was proved successful,
continued use on the treatment became contingent on Hoxsey's agreeing to
stringent terms. Finding these terms intolerable, he refused.
Hoxsey then made further efforts to convince the medical
establishment in this country of the legitimacy of his treatment. He asked
the American Medical Association and the National Cancer Institute to test
his treatment, but this never happened. He continued his work, curing people
of cancer, in spite of threats and persecution. Numerous problems with
the American Medical Association ensued and he was arrested several times
for practicing medicine without a license.
In 1954, the Journal of the American Medical Association
conducted an investigation of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic of Dallas, Texas,
from "behind their desk". The conclusion was that the tonic was merely
a "cough medicine" because it contained potassium iodine, an expectorant
included in some cough medicine formulas. The essence of the report, pulished
in the June 12,1954 issue of JAMA, stated in brief, said the Hoxsey
tonic "is without any therapeutic merit in the treatment of cancer." In
1960, the Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of Hoxsey's Remedy.
Although the Hoxsey Treatment has not been obtainable
in the United States for over thirty years, it is still available at the
Bio-Medical Center, an alternative medicine clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.
Kastner, Mark, L.A.c., Dipl.Ac., and Burroughs, Hugh Alternative
Healing The - Complete A to Z Guide to More Than 150 Alternative Therapies
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996, P.125-126.
You can write to the Bio-Medical Center for more
information about the Hoxsey Treatment
c/o BIO MEDICAL CENTER
P.O. Box 433654
San Ysidro, CA 92143
Phone: 011 52 664 684-9011 (Tijuana, Mexico)
Fax: 011 52 664 684-9744
Email: bmc@telnor.net
More information about the Hoxsey Treatment:
Bio-Medical Center,
Tijuana, Mexico - clinical facility that offers a range of treatments,
including the original Hoxsey Therapy
Bio-Medical
Center, Tijuana, Mexico - clinical facility that offers a range of
treatments, including the original Hoxsey Therapy
History
of the Hoxsey Therapy by Patricia Spain Ward, Ph.D., an informative
1988 report commissioned by the Office of Technology Assessment of the
United States Congress
Cancerolytic Herbs: A history of suppression
Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime - (the movie)
Hoxsey
Therapy - "Summary" The University of Texas-Houston Center for Alternative
Medicine Research in Cancer
Hoxsey
Therapy - "Scientific Review" The University of Texas-Houston Center
for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer
Herbal Therapies
for Cancer by Vivekan Don Flint and Michael Lerner, Ph.D. Commonweal
Working Paper 1997
Hoxsey's
Herbal Tonic - Hoxsey Herbal Treatment British Columbia Cancer Agency
Herbal
Medicine? What is It? Paper by the American
Cancer Society
National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine
