Cure For Dengue

[jansky]

[SIZE=2] By Bernardo Rocha Calibo
Director, National Police Commission 7

THERE is hope that the dengue scourge will be obliterated. I was in a
meeting in Manila recently with other Napolcom officials. While
waiting for my flight back to Cebu , I happened to talk with friends.
The conversation eventually turned to dengue. Some of their
statements shocked me. I called up the persons concerned and they
confirmed these revelations.

Computer technician Wenceslao Salesale Jr., 27, was downed by dengue.
His platelet count plunged from 180 to 80. He was rushed by ambulance
from Novaliches to Manila . Inside the ambulance, a relative, acting
upon the advice of a missionary priest, made him drink soup made from
camote tops. The following day, his platelet count became normal.


Dengue attacked the 7-year-old daughter of engineers Mar and Lita
Budlongan of Kaloocan City . Her platelet count read 80. The same
treatment was used. The following day she was back to normal.

The 15-year-old daughter of businessman Nepomuceno Salaga of
Sampaloc, Manila had a dangerous platelet count of 80 due to dengue.
The same treatment was followed. The following day she was back in
school.

I asked a doctor of medicine about herbal cures and he said that
many, if not most, medicines come from plants. He also said that
under the Hippocratic Oath, doctors are bound encourage anything that
can cure a patient.

Research

We need not do research deep in the rainforests of the Amazon or
venture into the ocean depths in search of the elusive cure for
dengue. It is right there in the backyard.

The following information is from Wikipedia:
"In 1992, the Center for Science in the Public Interest compared the
nutritional value of sweet potatoes to other vegetables. Considering
fiber content, complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins A and C, iron
and calcium, the sweet potato ranked highest in nutritional value.
According to these criteria, sweet potatoes earned 184 points, 100
points over the next on the list, the common potato (NCSPC)."
"...Sweet potato tops are excellent sources of antioxidative compounds,
mainly polyphenolics, which may protect the human body from oxidative
stress that is associated with many diseases including cancer and
cardiovascular diseases. Sweet potato greens have the highest content
of total polyphenolics among other commercial vegetables studied.
"Sweet potatoes contain protein, dietary fiber, lipid, and essential
minerals and nutrients such as calcium, phosphorous, magnesium,
sodium, potassium, sulfur, iron, copper, zinc, manganese, aluminum
and boron. Sweet potatoes are also important sources of vitamin A,
thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and ascorbic acid."

Camote

In the case of Salaga, he bought five sheaves (bugkos/ bigkis) of
camote cuttings. Each sheaf consists of about 12 cuttings. Each
cutting measures about one foot. A sheaf costs about P5.
Camote tops are boiled in water to extract the juice. The boiling
lasts for about five minutes. A little salt is used to give flavor to
it. The patient is made to drink slowly and gradually. The body's
immunity system is thus revived, making dengue helpless against the
body's natural defenses. Camote enables the body to heal itself.

Now you know why I earlier said that my friends' revelations shocked
me. They were shocking because people are needlessly dying all around
us from dengue, while their very cure is also all around us.

In the past, many were fond of using the derogatory statement, "Go
home and plant camote.
" Now, camote is big news. It can save lives. What could be bigger
than that?
So, to fortify your family against dengue, "Go home and plant
camote!"
(Engr. Lita Budiongan and Mr. Nepomuceno Salaga personally related to
me their experiences with their respective daughters. I asked their permission to use
their names.)[/SIZE]

[hominid]

Ive heard of this severak times already. My 2 daughters got infected last year. They just spent 3-4 days on the hospital on dextrose and nothing more.

Pls. clarify for a father like me who doesnt know much about cooking.

What are(how does if look like):

- camote tops?
- camote cuttings?

[pup2]

Sana may mag scientific research or clinical study nito. Tutal, suportive therapy lang ang gamutan sa dengue. Paging the resident tsikot docs! Yoohoo! Doc Otep?

[mikaztro]

Camote tops ba ang Talbos ng Kamote? O iba? Eh ano naman yung Kamoteng kahoy? Totoo kaya ito? Sana totoo nga para maraming matulungan na mga nadale ng dengue.

[Syuryuken]

alam ko talbos ng kamote yan.

[XTO]

Talbos ng kamote po (kamoteng baging to be precise) . Anything organic is very good.


ito nama ang kamoteng kahoy okay rin ihalo sa ginataang tilapia or karpa ang talbos nito.

[sequoia]

Some dr said it is possible that hydration from drinking the soup helped the patient. if it is the talbos ng camote nga talaga ang naka-cure, pwede kaya na gawing in tablet form at ibigay sa may dengue?
Pwedeng nagkataon lang din na pataas na talaga na ang platelet count at nagkataon lang. Dapat pag aralan talaga, kasi baka hindi na magpa-ospital ang mga kababayan natin at mag rely na lang dun, delikado rin.

[uls]

hydration lang yan

and minerals...

I'd drink Pocari Sweat

hehe

[Bry]

Baka nga hydration lang yan.

I had dengue once when I was a kid (mga 10 years ago na). My lola and my mom took turns taking care of me (every other day), my mom couldn't make me eat anything pero my lola literally force fed me all sorts of soups. Everytime they took my platelet count during my lola's watch, laging may improvement. Pero pag mom ko yung kasama ko, walang pagbabago.


(The soup my lola was feeding was just yung mga canned soups, from what I recall it was yung cream of mushroom)

[jansky]

well nothing to lost when we try this one , malay natin talagang cure ito di ba