Dr. Lee Cowden of Dallas, Texas has observed that 25 drops of Noni concentrate every 30 minutes (5 doses) can eliminate the symptoms associated with the common cold. He also states that the symptoms of acute viral illnesses including influenza can be eliminated with 25 drops of Noni concentrate every 30 minutes for four hours (9 doses). Recently Nutramedix's distributor in Bulgaria conducted a two week study using Noni concentrate to treat the common cold. The clinic in Bulgaria reported, "It works in 2 hours, please send us 10,000 bottles as soon as possible." As we enter the season for influenza epidemics having Noni concentrate in your home could provide prompt recovery and avoidance of the danger of the influenza vaccine.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james18.htm

This sounds like the Esberitox immune system booster that's very common in Germany. Lately, I've heard mutterings that it's not quite as side-effect free as once thought.

Also, from the wording there may be a concern that these drops could present a problem. It talks about eliminating the symptoms of the common cold and those of influenza (which are obviously caused by very different viruses). The symptoms associated with viral infctions are usually part of the body's attempt to clear the pathogen - eg, fever etc.
Eliminating these may make the patient look/feel better, but it may also increase the length of time that he/she has the infection (and possibly increase the likelihood of it being passed on).

The rest of the link: http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james18.htm

...doesn't look very credible.


"In this era of man made infections (HIV, Ebola, West Nile virus, Lyme Disease {Borrelia burgdorfi spirochete}, SARS and possibly the dispersion of anthrax) having Noni Concentrate in your home could be life saving. If Noni is capable of killing the viral organisms that cause colds and influenza there is reason to be optimistic that it could cure the above mentioned infectious organisms. I strongly urge everyone to consider keeping Noni concentrate in your medicine cabinet. "

This is nonsense. What is a man made infection? And if Noni was able to kill viruses in-vitro (which it obviously can't, otherwise they would have mentioned this) what relevance would this have. In vitro, it's possible to kill viruses with toothpaste.

And the claims that it can cure (literally) every disease known to mankind, makes you realise that one has wasted one's time reading the article. Sorry, but as Milton Friedman (big cheese economist) is supposed to have said...."There's no such thing as a 20 dollar bill on the sidewalk" (ie. someone would have picked it up). If this was a cure all, wouldn't we have heard about it ?


Back in the wild west, travelling salesmen would sell diluted alcohol in fancy bottles and claim it would heal all ills. All that has changed is that the Texans have discovered the internet.

I was fancinated at first, but then when I thought about more, I could't help wondering why we didn't use this to cure SARS if we had such "wonderful" drug.
I totally agree with you.