I want to share about a powerful medicinal rain forest herb that is that is extracted from a rare form of Cat's Claw and processed in the United States and is in wide use by people who have health problems and also by those who are healthy and want to stay that way. Samento, the most powerful immune enhancing herb on the planet.
Samento is a rare, very pure form of Cat's Claw that has anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and anti-oxidant properties. Studies show it to be beneficial in the treatment of a wide range of immune system related conditions, not only for people but pets as well. The beneficial properties of Samento are attributed to the pentacyclic oxindole alkaloids, POAs, that are found in the plant and act on the cellular immune system and demonstrate powerful modulating properties.
Cats Claw root extract has been studied for its ability to help wipe out cancer cells. Scientists discovered POAs help increase the number of killer T-cells. These specialized T-cells not only kill virus-infected cells, but seek cancer cells. Once killer T-cells find a cancerous cell, they bind themselves to it, releasing toxic chemicals inside the cell. These chemicals puncture the cancer cells membrane, causing it to burst and die.
Unlike traditional Cats Claw products, SAMENTO does not contain a group of chemical antagonists called tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids (TOAs) that act upon the central nervous system and greatly inhibit its effectiveness. SAMENTO contains a standardized amount of pentacyclic oxindole alkaloids (POAs) that act on the cellular immune system and demonstrate powerful immune system modulating properties. According to research conducted in Austria, traditional Cats Claw products may contain as much as 80% TOAs, and as little as 1% TOAs can cause a 30% reduction in immune system modulating properties that POAs provide. This may explain why large dosages, at times far exceeding 20,000 mg per day, of traditional Cats Claw containing TOAs are required to obtain some results in treating the previously mentioned immune system related conditions.
POAs also are beneficial to individuals with HIV and AIDS. HIV attacks helper T-cells. While the body initially makes more new helper T-cells, its ability to replace these cells gradually fades. Without helper T-cells, killer T-cells can't kill infected cells very well. By slowly depleting helper T-cells and making killer T-cells less effective, infections are able to slowly overwhelm the body.
Because the POAs found in Cats Claw extracts increase production of helper T-cells, researchers studying these powerful plant compounds are confident Cats Claw has a role in HIV and AIDS treatment.
Benefits to the immune system
TOAs have different effects in the body, none helping the immune system cells. When POAs and TOAs are mixed, the TOAs work against the POAs. Even as little as 1% TOA content can cause POAs to lose their ability to beneficially modulate the immune system. Choose a product with no TOAs or the smallest percent possible.
Chemotype identification takes significant time and costs money. For these reasons, many Cats Claw distributors don't distinguish between the chemotypes. The POAs and TOAs are often mixed and sold as a Cats Claw product. No mention of any alkaloid content is made on many Cats Claw product's packaging. If the product label doesn't give the amount of TOAs, chances are it contains TOAs. Usually product label will state "TOA free".
Even before Samento appeared on the market, a lot of evidence had been accumulated regarding the helplessness of conventional medicine on the one hand and the unsuspected therapeutic possibilities of the so-called alternative, natural or complementary treatments on the other hand.
Samento interacts with the psyche and the mind, as well as with the cells, the tissues and the body. It has been serving human health successfully even before the birth of modern medicine and this is only one of the reasons why many contemporary physicians are avoiding it, frightened by it, renouncing it without even knowing it. Modern medicine has reached incredible depths, but lost sight of the whole. It gained control of the cell, but lost hold of the human. The narrow experts have reached a high peak, but it proved to be a razors edge on which the doctor and his patient are balancing between life and death.
If your doctor won't hear about herbs and other natural remedies, if he refuses to read the appropriate books or periodicals on this subject. You might want to consider that the time has come to look for a more caring, skilled, responsible doctor, one trained to emphasizes the body's intrinsic ability to heal and maintain itself. This type of doctor is called a Naturopath. Naturopaths prefer to use natural remedies such as herbs and foods rather than surgery or synthetic drugs. Naturopathy's focus is upon its philosophy of natural health rather than specific methods and so practitioners use a wide variety of treatment modalities.
