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Chronic health conditions are a roller-coaster of expectation
and disappointment. With so many products on the market claiming to do
wonders for our immune system, what’s so special about Samento?
Samento is a herbal supplement extracted from a rare form of Cat’s
Claw. It is said to offer natural, non-toxic antibiotic,
anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial qualities, and acts as a ‘modulator’
to the immune system. Modulation means that in autoimmune diseases
such as rheumatoid arthritis, an overactive immune system may be toned
down. Just to confuse things, where an immune system is underactive in
the prevention or healing of illness, Samento may act as a boost.
There is an amount of research and writing about Samento and much
anecdotal evidence of improvement in symptoms across a broad spectrum
of disease.
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In the States, where Lyme disease is
said to be widespread, Dr Lee Cowden a cardiologist from Texas,
conducted a pilot study of 28 patients. All had a diagnosis of Lyme
disease. Half continued on conventional treatment of antibiotics,
and half followed a regime which included personalised diet,
detoxification and Samento.
In the antibiotics group, three improved slightly, three got
worse and the rest experienced no change. But 85% of patients in the
Samento group showed marked improvement in their overall condition
and nobody got worse.
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In the UK, Dr Andrew Wright maintains
a general practice in Bolton but also specialises in Integrative
Medicine with a particular interest in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Having used Samento himself with some success, he conducted a trial
with 29 patients diagnosed with CFS.
He found that 60% kept well on five drops of Samento three times
a day, 20% needed a higher dose and 20% didn’t respond.
Case study 1: Cecylia
Malenczak and Lyme disease
Cecylia Malenczak’s experience is more than an anecdote, it’s a
result.
She has had Lyme disease for about thirteen years and is experiencing
some symptom relief with Samento. Lyme disease (Borreliosis) is a
tick-borne disease difficult to diagnose because of its tendency to
mimic other diseases.
As a biomedical scientist working in
medical research, she knew that when she became ill with ‘multiple
debilitating symptoms’, that they added up to more than her doctor’s
cursory, dismissive diagnosis of ME.
Her training told her that there had to
be an organism causing symptoms as varied as labrynthitis,
palpitations, pins and needles, shortness of breath, facial numbness,
and chronic fatigue, to name but a few of her ‘shortened list of
twelve’.
Written off as having a psychosomatic
illness, she was frustrated in her attempts to access the
appropriate tests and expertise she knew she needed.
‘I took my health into my own hands. I lost faith in doctors’,
she says.
And she read and read. And the more she read up on Lyme disease, the
more it explained her symptoms. Cecylia’s determination eventually
paid off when the proper tests and specialist help confirmed her self
diagnosis.
Initially, with antibiotics she ‘could breathe deeply’ and
‘walk without pain for the first time in years’.
Then she decided to try Samento.
She finds that it is tolerated better by her system than antibiotics.
Accordingly, in the six months on the alternative regime of Samento
plus vitamin and mineral supplements, she has been able to discontinue
antibiotics altogether.
Tangible improvements include more
stamina, better sleep and the flare- up of symptoms have a shorter
duration with less severity.
Early days, she says, but feeling better is a pretty good plank for
optimism to walk.
Case study 2: Michael Lane and Parkinsons
For Michael Lane it’s also early days.
Diagnosed in his early forties with Parkinson’s disease, he has been
on Madopar, a known prescribed treatment, for fifteen years and
Samento for two months.
Although he experiences no change in his symptoms, he
discovered that he could halve his daily dose of Madopar. His system,
he feels, can only benefit from not being ‘dowsed’ with strong
prescription drugs.
Case study 3: Me
I have started treatment myself for
long-standing systemic sclerosis. Six weeks in, and currently on
twenty drops a day, the ulcers on my fingers are beginning to clear up
and at a more subjective level, I’m aware of having more stamina and
higher energy levels.
Samento is not miracle medicine and like many remedies, both
prescription and otherwise, affects people differently. When it works
it works more slowly
 than say, antibiotics, but with
apparently virtually no
adverse reactions, it is certainly worth the wait.
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