I just bought some Amazon Salve, formerly known as Cansema (bloodroot.) I used it in 2002 and 2011 for some facial skin cancers with great result. It’s a thick black paste which you apply to the spot. There are no adverse reactions and it cannot harm healthy skin. But on cancerous cells, it turns all black and weird and crusty and if you don’t read about it beforehand, you’ll freak yourself out. I found my notes from 2002 and wanted to share my experience with you. (My notes from 2011 are here.) Also below you will find the instructions for using Cansema.
They have machines that tell where the “pre-cancers” or actinic keratoses (sun damage) is, but I saw mine in my aura and that told me where to apply the paste. Everywhere I had one, it reacted, so my self-diagnosis was accurate. In 2-6 weeks, it pulled out the diseased tissue and turned into a black cornflake on my face then fell off. I had one on the tip of my nose, and looked like a panda for 2 weeks. One below my knee took 6 months to heal because it is below the heart and has less circulation than my face. Here are my journal entries about it:
2-16-02 I applied Cansema to the area on my left cheek. Hmmm, no feeling yet…
2-18-02 I applied it to the entire tip of my nose. I look like a panda. Something is going on with the left cheek but no sign yet. I get a sense it’s doing something.
2-19-02 Yowza! It’s doing something alright, about the size of a quarter on my left cheek is reacting big time and looking all red and bubbly. Bye, bye quarter spot.
2-22-02 I’ve been using the Cansema on a few marks and gotten quite a reaction. It’s amazing to see the body go through the process of expelling the old tissue to make room for the new. I’m glad I read about the reactions beforehand so I wasn’t freaked out by it. Once I’d fasted and switched to natural foods, I noticed the healing accelerated, and I saw that cell repair was directly related to ingesting the proper nutrients. I’d never really, really given that any thought in the past. I’m not the healthiest eater.
3-1-02 11pm The left cheek scab came off. It looks pretty scary, all pink and fresh new skin, but like someone has been chewing hunks out of it. I’m glad I saw the photos ahead of time and knew what to expect. I applied the Cansema to the spot on my right cheek.
3-2-02 3am Wow, in just 4 hours the little hole where the left cheek scab came off is halfway filled in. The body is an amazing creation! I have my nose band-aided so that scab doesn’t come off in my sleep. This one spot is so close to completion and I want to enjoy the unveiling event.
530am update I just checked the left cheek again; I can’t believe how fast that hole is filling in. You could fit 2 pencil eraser tops inside it last night. Now I don’t think one would fit. I applied more aloe gel into it and put a bandaid back on it. Plus I just drank an Emergence with lots of Vitamin C. I’ll bet by the time I wake up from my nap it’ll be smoothed over. Now I can hardly wait for the nose one to go. Last night I was kind of worried I’d have a hole in the tip of my nose but now I see how fast it heals. Almost unbelieveable. My nose is itching like crazy, I took a Benadryl before I went to sleep so I wasn’t tempted to scratch it in my sleep.
Sunday 3-3-02 10am I began with the left cheek on 2-16-02 and the scab came off 13 days later, on March 1. It was a big hole but I’ve been putting Lanactin in it, a combination antibiotic and lanacaine. It’s closing up quickly. I’m skipping church today because I’m too self conscious with bandaids all over my face and don’t feel like repeating to everyone who asks, what I’m doing.
Sunday 3-3-02 8:00pm Well my nose scab came off this afternoon — glad I had two days worth of seeing the left cheek heal up or I’d freak out. It looks like a squirrel nibbled big bites out of the tip of my nose! I slathered antibiotic all over it and covered it up with a bandaid. I have a spot on my forehead I’d like to try with Cansema, but am tired of having bandaids on my face. Altho it will be under my bangs. Now my nose feels really weird. but it looks good and clean and healthy. except for the squirrel bites out of it.
3-6-02 The right cheek has several places reacting, I’m thinking there might be big scarring there but it’s close to my ear so my hair would cover it. The right cheek is having a bigger reaction sooner. The left cheek seems to be healing really quickly, it’s surprising.
Thursday 3-14-02 The right cheek scab came off and I have a nice fresh pink crater there now. I applied Lanactin and know it will be fine. This one itches, but I know not to touch it. The nose seems completely healed except for some light discoloration. I’m impressed.
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Within 6-12 months, the skin was healed over. I have some scarring from it in the form of rough-ish white marks on the tip of my nose and a spot on each cheek. It’s not enough to bother me with how it looks. I could cover it with makeup if I wanted.
Eight years later, I know I have some more and likely in the same places. that’s why I was glad to find it online and order it. No matter how careful I am with sunscreen and hats, I am an outdoorsy chick and live in Florida, so it happens. This time, after the skin on my face is healed up, I’ll gently Buff Puff it on a regular basis to keep new cells regenerating and that will cut down on the scarring.
Here are some photos about a friend’s treatment. If you do it, follow the directions. I wouldn’t do too large an area at once. I didn’t have to take anything for pain but I have a big threshold for it. I remember it being mildly painful.
Andrea
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USER INSTRUCTIONS
from http://www.health-science-spirit.com/cansema.html
WARNING: Please read the following instructions through carefully before applying Cansema. Do not, in any way, deviate from the following.
(1) PREPARATION: First, the user may want to have a biopsy or other diagnostic procedure performed to ascertain whether or not there is, in fact, skin cancer. Many people prefer to go to their medical doctor to confirm with a biopsy first. There is certainly nothing wrong with this approach.
Many people, on the observation that they have a “mole” or similar pigmented growth that is growing and getting darker, have elected to use Cansema. The decision as to whether or not to use Cansema is entirely at the discretion of the user; there is no danger, toxic or otherwise, of applying Cansema to healthy tissue; although doing so for other than diagnostic purposes is really a waste of good product.
Never, never, never apply Cansema near mucous membranes, do not apply too close to the eyes, mouth, anus, or genital areas – that is any closer than a quarter inch (6 mm) away. Apply to the lips if necessary, but not in the mouth. Do not apply to skin-burned tissue. Do not apply to open wounds that are caused by a puncture or penetration by an intruding object – that is, a cause other than the invasiveness of the neoplasm itself.
(2) APPLICATION: Cansema has the consistency of a thick, moist paste. It can easily be self-applied with the fingers and should be spread over the lesion or cancerous tissue in a thin covering, almost lightly “caked.” Wash hands thoroughly before and after applying. YOU WILL APPLY THE PASTE ONLY ONCE. The applied area will start to tingle shortly afterwards – anywhere between 5 minutes to 6 hours after the one application. In some cases there is a burning sensation, so it is important to have pain killer, available during the process. It is also a good idea to place a bandage over the area, particularly if the forming eschar (the scab) is on a place on the body that might be subject to being bumped or bruised in the course of daily activity.
(3) MANAGING THE ESCHAR: After 12 hours remove the bandage. Apply a damp, warm compress for a few moments to loosen the paste. Using rubbing alcohol or peroxide and a Cotton Bud very lightly go over the lesion, removing any excess Cansema and other organic debris (i.e. pus, serous fluid, etc.) DO NOT REAPPLY THE PASTE. Do not use petroleum or Vitamin E at this time, as you may accelerate the healing process before the eschar has a chance to come out. Normally a bandage can be left on for a period of 10 days, however in advanced cases there is considerable “drainage” (that is, a steady emission of pus). In the sense that Cansema kills the cancer cells and takes certain leukocytes (defending white blood corpuscles) with it in the process of eliminating the neoplasm, it is a suppurative agent, that is, drainage should not be viewed as abnormal. The range of possible response is very little pus and only one bandage ever required, to a regular change of bandages required in the case of advanced melanomas. Your case will be somewhere in between. In any event, try to keep the eschar covered with petroleum jelly and a bandage.
(4) REMOVING THE ESCHAR: The eschar itself represents the death of the neoplasm, and this occurs shortly after application. Everything that follows from there is the body’s own reparative responses. From here on out, the body knows exactly what to do and wastes no time doing it. However, to us the days and weeks that follow may seem lengthy. The next stage is the removal of the eschar, or scab. This usually happens within 10 days after initial application, unless the case is advanced and/or the cancer(s) cover a large area of the body. As with any scab, let it fall out when it is ready. Do not pull it out prematurely; although you may find that it will eventually be attached with a small thread of skin tissue which can be easily and safely severed.
(5) “HEALING OVER”: After the eschar comes out the pit or “decavitation” can look raw and unsightly. Nonetheless, if kept covered and the everyday principles of good hygiene are followed there will be no threat of secondary infection. Use petroleum jelly or a Vitamin E ointment at this stage until completely healed to minimize scarring. Over a period of a few months, or in some cases two years, the entire area will be healed with only some “depigmentation” or scar tissue. The result is never more unsightly than if conventional surgery had been chosen instead, and is usually immeasurably better. There has never been a case of the cancer coming back to the area applied in our nine years of experience, unless a metastasizing has occurred from cancer development in some other area of the body. In other words, once Cansema has finished its work, there are no residual cells from the original neoplasm.
RANGE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE
There are a number of parameters which vary from person to person, depending on the type of cancer, the size, location and the disposition of the individual. Because certain people experience responses that are new to them and for some may even be a bit frightening, it is important to cover the range of possible responses.
(1) SIZE OF ESCHAR: Many people have far more cancer activity beneath the skin than is visible on the surface. Because of this, some users are surprised that what they thought was a small lesion, in fact turns out to be larger than expected. The average lesion is approximately twice as big as an eschar than it appears to be from the skin surface.
(2) DRAINAGE FACTOR: Cansema is a suppurative – it produces an escharotic pus formation. For many people, particularly those with smaller lesions, the pus is self-contained and it dries up within a few days and comes off as a coagulated scab in a matter of a few days. However, this is less likely if the neoplasm is larger – (bigger than one inch or 25 mm), or is really an adenocarcinoma (tumour of a glandular organ, particularly breast cancer). Tumours which are two inches or greater in diameter almost always involve heavy weeping and require changes in bandages, as many as five times a day in some cases. Know this to be a normal part of the healing process.
(3) INFLAMATORY EDEMA: In nearly all cases there is at least some inflammation and build-up in fluids in and around the applied area. Cansema is lightly caustic, so this is a natural physiological response. Often the edema doesn’t occur at the site of application, but in nearby joints. For instance, if Cansema is applied to a cancerous lesion residing on the gastronemius (larger calf muscle), it is not uncommon to see edema develop at the ankle. Edema is a natural part of the process and should not cause distress. It rarely lasts for more than a few days.
(4) PAIN FACTOR: The range of response varies greatly from mild tingling to considerable. Our experience is that at its worst Cansema is rarely more painful than that to be endured in the healing process that follows surgery. Users should be prepared with pain killers (“analgesics”) before application so that if they need it, it’s available.
Some good info here, as well as a recipe to make it:
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/bloodroot.html
NOTE: Some users have complaints, but you will note they re-applied the paste several times in several days. You apply the paste only one time, the first day.
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