Dr. Mercola June 24 2008 68,415 views
A botanical ointment containing a green tea extract called sinecatechins is an effective treatment for external genital and anal warts, according to the results of a controlled study.
Genital and anal warts are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), and there has been a lack of effective, well tolerated treatments.
Researchers assigned over 500 adults with 30 warts to either sinecatechins ointment or a placebo. In the sinecatechins groups, warts cleared completely in roughly 57 percent of patients, compared to just 34 percent of subjects in the control group.
There are more than 100 types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs). Of them, only 10-30 can cause cervical cancer. The rest can lead to skin infections that cause genital warts or common warts on your hands and feet.Although these are very common viruses, and an estimated 25 million Americans have HPV infections, there’s actually little cause for alarm because, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states, “In 90 percent of cases, your body’s immune system clears the HPV infection naturally within two years.”This is true whether the infection is the type that can cause warts or cancer.
And as you will see, simple alternatives exist in lieu of more dangerous alternatives to battle this common virus.The Many Healing Powers of Green Tea
Green tea catechins are a class of polyphenols, which are naturally occurring antioxidants. The health benefits of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) -- the main active component of tea polyphenol's biological activity – are plentiful, including the prevention of:
Other research has found that you can increase the benefits of drinking green tea by adding vitamin C as it boosts the amount of catechins available for your body to absorb. In fact, citrus juice increased available catechin levels by more than five times, causing 80 percent of tea's catechins to remain bioavailable.
Green tea has even been found to have fat-burning properties, and now we can add topical green tea catechins for the treatment of genital warts to the growing list of its healing and health-inducing properties.
Which is a great thing considering the unacceptable -- to me, and many other natural health experts -- alternative of the HPV vaccine.
Do You Understand the Risks of the HPV Vaccine?
The marketers of Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil would like you to believe that getting your daughter vaccinated can save her from HPV related illnesses like cervical cancer and genital warts.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
First of all, the Gardasil vaccine contains just four types of HPV out of the more than 100 strains. If you contract one of the 96+ types that aren’t included, you’re out of luck. And, if you’ve already been exposed to one of the four types of virus in the vaccine, it doesn’t work against those either.
So, even if you accept the risks and get vaccinated, your chances of getting some form of HPV are still very high. Whether or not the HPV virus will lead to genital warts or cervical cancer, however, depends in large part on the state of your immune system.Personally, I don’t see how the mediocre-at-best benefits of Gardasil could possibly outweigh its risks.
As of last October, 3,461 complaints about Gardasil had been filed with the FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Report System (VAERS), and 11 girls had died after exposure to the vaccine.
I just checked the VAERS database as I sat down to write this article, and it now contains 6,760 adverse event reports, and 16 deaths. The numbers just continue to get worse.
Get a Clue!!
In my neck of the woods they call this increase a giant clue. So if you haven’t already figured out to avoid this vaccine you will want to do more homework. Another point to consider is that you can’t sue the vaccine manufacturer if your child dies.
These companies have cleverly manipulated the government so they are immune from prosecution and have made the U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for the hundreds of millions of dollars that are paid out to families of children who are harmed or killed every year from vaccines.
Even though it is incredibly difficult -- nearly impossible -- to get one of these payments, there have already been more than $1.5 billion dollars given to affected families. So ponder on these stats if you haven’t already taken a firm position on the vaccine issue.
How Does HPV Vaccine Kill?
The causes of death include blood clots, acute respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and “sudden death” due to “unknown causes” shortly after receiving the vaccine. Clearly, no one knows the full extent of the biological harm that this vaccine inflicts. But I think most people would agree that teenagers don’t normally drop dead of natural causes.Even more disturbing is the fact that these numbers don’t seem to shock or dismay officials. They’re “consistent with those expected from any vaccine.”
According to the American Cancer Society, some 3,870 women will die from cervical cancer in the U.S. in 2008. Well. We’ve already lost 16 girls, some as young as 12, in the effort to spare them from the possibility of cervical cancer later in life.
Surely I’m not the only one who sees that as morally reprehensible! And how many people have ever died from genital warts?
Cervical Cancer Virtually 100% Avoidable
Cervical cancer is well documented to be caused by an infection acquired through sexual contact. So it is behaviorally avoidable. According to a New England Journal of Medicine study, the use of condoms reduces the incidence of HPV by 70 percent, offering FAR better protection than Gardasil.
According to the CDC, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in America. More than 6 million women contract it annually, yet as I already mentioned, less than 3,900 women die from cervical cancer out of those 6 million.
Why?
Because your immune system is usually strong enough to clear up this kind of infection on its own, and does so in more than 90 percent of all cases.
Rather than subjecting your daughter (and now possibly your son!) to this unnecessary and potentially dangerous vaccine, you may want to nip the problem in the bud before it ever starts. Here’s how:
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, who developed GNM, believes that cancer is a phase that occurs while your body heals itself from this emotional trauma, and that the key to overcoming the disease lies in resolving your emotional conflicts.
Where are the dads? Probably the same place as so many that I have seen--either out of their daughters' life altogether, or in the picture but doing more harm than good. The reason these girls grow up to be sexually promiscuous in the first place, they don't know any other way to relate to men. The reason so many feel they need this vaccine to begin with, sexual promiscuity.
Vicious, terrible cycle.
The guy who made this vaccine was made "Australian of the Year" a couple of years ago because of this drug! Can you imagine what will happen when it all turns sour - there will be egg on faces and a good deal of "saving face" happening. It never ceases to amaze me how people these days are so reliant on BIG PHARMA Not surprising though given the amount of advertising they are allowed to do now, encouraging people in their ads to go and visit their doctor.
Thankfully to people like Dr Mercola, word is filtering out and once again applaud this site for alerting us to the many dangers out there!
Just say "NO" to both promiscuous sex and vaccines...
This one sits very close to my heart. In New Zealand our govt has just allocated 260 million dollars of taxpayers money to fund the HPV vaccine.
Here is my story and one I hope helps people see that reversal is achievable and indeed not scary.
Eight years ago I had an abnormal smear which turned out to be CIN3 changes on my cervix. I can't tell you the fear and dread that cancer was just around the corner! I took the very painful Letz loop treatment where they use a hot intstrument and cut through your cervix like a hot knife through butter. Sorry to be so graphic but it was nasty despite local anesthetic. I was told by the gynecologist that I wouldn't have it back again but I would need annual pap smears. All went well until last year where I got another abnormal result. Off I went to the Gynecologist again but this time I was more informed and educated about alternatives. This time my result was CIN2. The surgery was booked again but it didn't sit well with me. I formulated a plan to try to reverse my condition. The gyne agreed to give me three months. Everyone told me I was crazy and that I should take the treatment... I didn't feel it was a death sentence this time but that is the way the drs make HPV and abnormal smears appear!
During that time I took Vitamin A supplements, stopped eating red meat, sugar, ate a complete organic diet, took enzymes, juiced... you name it I did it! Three months later I returned and had a clear reading. I had healed myself easily and painlessly.
It saddens me that Doctors don't arm their patients with the knowledge that I seeked. It doesn't surprise me how easily people are brainwashed into thinking that this vaccine is the "magic pill" to prevent cervical cancer. How many more deaths will it take before real questions are asked?
I, too, was diagnosed with CIN3. I wouldn't submit to any surgical procedure, LOOP or otherwise despite the fact that a female doctor told me they would only be cutting the size of the end of her thumb. I wondered if she would be okay with me cutting that much of her thumb off. I used Edgar Cayce's liver external liver cleansing technique, vitamin/remedy suppositories, supplements and sleep and the abnormal cells regressed to a safe level. I hate the pharmaceutical company's suggestion on television that HPV just mysteriously appears. Would these mothers be pushing it on their daughters if they knew HPV is sexually transmitted?