Ann's NOTE: May 2008 This treatment gets a lot of attention but the only website actually about it, often does not work. It is down right now and we are not sure if it will be up again. Please take a look at our extensive area of alternative medicine possibilities called "Treatment: Alternative Medicine. See the button on the left of this and every page. http://www.escozul.com/informes.html Venom of blue scorpion touted as cancer treatment in Cuba by Mar Marin Jaguey Grande, Cuba, Oct 17, 2003 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A Cuban researcher says he has used the diluted venom of the island's blue scorpion to successfully treat thousands of cancer patients, though many oncologists are reserving judgment on the toxin's efficacy. Close to 60,000 people have tested the "medication" derived from the toxin of the "Rhopalurus junceus," or blue scorpion, since biologist Misael Bordier began using it as an anti-carcinogenic a decade ago in the eastern Cuban province of Guantanamo. "Escozul," the name given to the product by Bordier, contains distilled water, and is distributed free of charge. It can be administered orally, vaginally or via aerosol. Bordier, who in 1995 registered the patent with the Cuban Science, Technology and Environment Ministry, said the product encases the tumor and destroys it, with minimal side effects. The venom from the blue scorpion contains a protein chain that attacks tumors, although "we don't know exactly which of the elements in the chain is the attacker," the biologist explained. "That is what we need to find and synthesize." Bordier claims the treatment was successful in nearly 97 percent of patients who had not undergone previous chemotherapy or surgery. But in those who came to him after surgery or chemotherapy, only 40 percent obtained good results with Escozul, and the mortality rate is 60 percent. "We don't know what causes the high mortality rate in these patients, but we do know we've been able to improve the quality of life of every patient," Bordier said. Escozul also acts as an immunomodulator agent that boosts the body's natural defenses, which means it can be used to treat patients with AIDS, said Bordier, who claimed that he is currently successfully treating 10 HIV-positive patients. The biologist, who for 10 years tested the venom on animals, began using it on humans at the request of relatives of two patients whom doctors had given no chance of survival. Niurys Monzon, his first patient, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and since the age of 15 had undergone chemotherapy and three surgical procedures. She is now 29. Niurys's success with the treatment led her father, Jose Felipe Monzon, to join Bordier and expand treatment by opening a clinic in Jaguey Grande in central Cuba. Monzon, who is currently treating some 6,000 patients and has a farm with 3,000 blue scorpions, is reluctant to promote the product, because "not all patients react favorably." He told EFE things were difficult at the beginning, and people "accused me of being a warlock, or worse." To Oswaldo, who has prostate cancer and has been taking Escozul for three months along with traditional treatments, Monzon is a hero. Iliana's mother receives treatment for her cancer of the larynx, and she "has improved a lot," according to Iliana, who admits that "although her doctor has advised her not to take the compound, she takes it without telling him." Monzon is aware that many oncologists reject the "blue hope," as patients refer to the diluted venom, but he is in favor of administering it along with traditional medications. Last year, the Cuban Oncology Institute requested medical records of the clinic's patients in order to follow their progress. According to Lorenzo Amazagas, deputy director of the institute's tumor evaluation unit, Escozul results have not yet been scientifically validated. "Its use has been empirical ... it hasn't been evaluated and we cannot recommend it because we have no scientific proof of its efficacy," Amazagas told EFE. He noted, however, that Labiofam, Cuba's largest drug laboratory, is interested in the product, "has scorpion farms and is working to stabilize it." Thanks to Arnold Gore, New York State health activist LINK to Ralph Moss' take on this product LINK to direct website Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.