Originally published September 12 2005
FDA attacks man selling herbal remedy made of proven anti-cancer ingredients
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A Georgia man is accused of practicing medicine without a license after he sold a paste containing the medicinal herb bloodroot to cancer patients on the grounds that it would cure the disease, yet while the FDA claims the paste is dangerous, the accused man's son maintains it is only destructive to cancerous tissue and, the only reason his it has come under attack is because it is an old remedy that can't be patented.
Curtis Brown carries business cards with old pictures of his tumours, including an egg-sized growth on his neck.
He says they were each shed after the application of a flesh-eating paste containing the medicinal herb bloodroot.
FDA agents recently raided Raber's business, and a doctor could lose her medical license for allegedly knowing Raber was giving people the paste -- not approved for the treatment of cancer -- and not reporting him.
On his website, Raber claims the remedy helped him remove a tumour on his wrist, and he displays graphic before-and-after photos of others who have used the paste, including women with scabs on their breasts and men with scarred faces.
"The herb does not kill healthy tissue," Kelly Raber said, smearing some of the paste on his nose.
Dan Raber was named in a state complaint filed against Dr Lois March, an ear, nose and throat specialist in south Georgia who risks losing her medical license for allegedly providing pain medication to 12 patients who had received Raber's bloodroot treatments.
The board said seven of the patients had breast cancer and that the doctor knew or should have known that Raber's use of bloodroot "mutilated their breasts and caused excruciating pain".
During a 2003 crackdown on alternative medicine merchants who made false claims on the internet, the FDA shut down a Louisiana company that sold a bloodroot paste and its owner was sent to prison.
To prove bloodroot's effectiveness, Raber cites numerous books and studies that support the use of salves and pastes containing herbs and other ingredients for treating skin cancer.
Doctors surgically removed cancerous growths from his face and arms, but when an 8cm-long tumour grew on the left side of his neck in 2002, Brown instead tried the paste, even though it meant nearly a month of excruciating pain.
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