Smallpox coming back? Sarracenia purpurea to the rescue!
Chatter on the street is that smallpox may be the next epidemic. Apparently Covid isn't frightening and killing enough to suit the elites' taste. Anyway, consider yourself warned as Bill Gates has recently mentioned its recurrence as 'a possibility' and my experience suggests to me that those four old frozen vials marked "smallpox" found in the lab freezer in Pennsylvania probably WERE actually smallpox. Supposedly "only two" were found to have viable virus left in them. (Are we supposed to feel relieved about that?) Anyway, it turns out that that the Micmak Indians of Nova Scotia discovered that the extract of the carniverous pitcher plant that grows along the east coast, Sarracenia purpurea, cures smallpox. A recent article published in Plos One ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3302891/ )reviewed the folk history of the medicine, then ran a very excellent study which demonstrated that an extract of pitcher plant created using both ethanol and water killed the virus handily in vitro. It works in a unique way by blocking synthesis of a key protein in an early step of the synthesis pathway. There's nothing else that works like pitcher plant extract and old accounts of its use recorded by various physicians attest to how potent it is. So, I'm NOT giving ANY medical advice, here, but just passing along some info to give a heads up and allow everyone the opportunity to do some research on their own.
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@Suburban Pioneer This is a well done article. I have downloaded and saved it.
A caution, though, before anyone rushes out to harvest Sarracenia. In some states, Sarracenia species have become rare enough to have had legislation passed to protect them.
It is listed in my homeopathic repertory as one of the top remedies for smallpox. So it is readily available in that form and doesn't need to be wild harvested if you live in an area where it is becoming more rare.
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@Suburban Pioneer A university up in my country is trying to replicate smallpox by altering horsepox, then wanting to create a vaccine to combat it. So, you may be on to something.
There were two places that had vials of smallpox. One us in the US and a country overseas had stored it as well. Now why would you want to store that if you were in your right mind?
Anyway, thanks for giving us a heads up on what to do should this materialize.
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Here is a source, but out of stock. It could very well be for the reason @torey stated. I remembered because I was looking at carnivorous plants just last week.
https://www.rarexoticseeds.com/en/sarracenia-purpurea-seeds-purple-pitcher-plant-seeds.html
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I am aware of everthing in your post except the pitcher plant healer. going there to read it now. many people will be helped by this by you simply posting the information so I thank you very much.
Remember that gates likes to flatter himself by always announcing the horror within a fairly small time frame of when it actually hits and the pox must be treated early, as your article describes the mechanism of action of this plant.
Can you imagine the jaws dropping if the group from Heck/rx announces they just happen to have a xav for the pox? When does it end...
One more thing to watch for...nih deletes this article as soon as they realize it is still public...just like they recently deleted the article regarding the gain of function definition....
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.nih might delete articles but the information is still out there. They haven't been able to take our books away yet. This information on Sarracenia as a treatment for smallpox is available in many of the homeopathic texts (authors: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Hanson, Allen) as well as some of the older herbals (A Modern Herbal, Maude Grieve for one). This info has been published in the Lancet (1862) and the British Medical Journal (1863) https://www.bmj.com/content/1/109/127.1.
I found another interesting article on Sarracenia for cold sores.
Researchers have found anti-diabetic compounds in Sarracenia as well as inhibitory effects against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Very useful plant.
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@torey I just spent at least 30 minutes trying to find a company with the plant seeds. no luck. yet.
Thanks much for the info you just posted her..I'll be looking into your links. Btw, the lancet is one of the few left that I have any level of trust in at this point.
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Amazon.ca has them listed:
There is this site in California (but, wow, are they ever expensive):
And another Canadian site:
You'd think as a Canadian I would have known more about this plant as it is the floral emblem of Newfoundland and Labrador. I may have learned that in school but one of those snipets of info that has been lost in my very scattered grey matter hard drive storage. :)
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Could you please elaborate? What form is it readily available in? Do you have and purchasing links?
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Wow that's a truly terrifying concept. Shudders. Thanks for sharing this and this is definitely something worth doing research on.
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@karenjanicki It is available as a homeopathic remedy. That is the "form" I was talking about.
I checked on Amazon.com and ABC Homeopathy but it is out of stock.
There are several homeopathic pharmacies. Hahnemann Labs in California but I think you have to be a practitioner to order from them. Helios Homeopathy in England. Freeman's Homeopathic Pharmacy and Ainsworth's Remedy Store in Scotland. Remedia Hoompathie in Austria but I don't think Remedia will ship to the US.
But with homeopathy, you have to look at the totality of the symptoms. Out of the 105 remedies listed in my repertory for smallpox, there might be a better one suited for the individual that Sarracenia.
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Cool, @torey. Thanks for the other sources!
I didn't realize this specifically was their floral emblem either, although I've seen it lots of times in relation to their province! 🤦♀️
Now, if we wanted to grow them ourselves & prepare something if it came to that, how to do so successfully is the next question.
One of our sons is interested in having a pitcher plant anyway, and carnivorous plants always fascinated me, so this might be our plant.
I would have to look into how to successfully grow one.
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@LaurieLovesLearning Apparently, patience is a top requirement for cultivating Sarracenia. :)
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Interesting and scary information. Thank you for sharing.
Just checked on the Helios website and they do have it in stock there.
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We have some native to NC, fairly rare though.
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Nothing like "cultivating" patience. 😉
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I had heard this about smallpox, but you have to wonder why they told us they found the vials. Is it just to try to instill more fear? I also heard that they either have a new jab for it or they're making one which would make them a lot of $$$. I can't remember which.
Thanks for all of the information. It seems there is always something natural out there that works for everything. The knowledge just has to be out there for people to find.
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I'm glad everyone found this to be so helpful! Please keep spreading the word! And I do NOT, under ANY circumstances, advocate for taking Sarracenia out of the wild for medicinal use since it's being overharvested. There are a few sellers on Etsy who are making tinctures, and they seem to be growing the plant themselves. If anyone has a good and ethical source, please share! I'm going to talk to my naturopath about getting some homeopathic pills "just in case".
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@Suburban Pioneer You can order them (homeopathic remedies) yourself without seeing your naturopath. Its not such a common remedy that naturopaths might regularly keep it in stock. Just follow the link that @vickeym provided above. PM me if you would like any other ordering assistance.
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I was aware that vials of dangerous viruses have been stored. I wondered why unless someone had devious plans to release it again. As a little schoolgirl, I was checked every year for the white scar, and every year I had to be immunized again because the vaccine never took. My husband never got the white scar either. We assume that it means that we are naturally immune. Any comments?
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Intense discussion
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Thank you, Torey!! I actually have started discussing this with my naturopath and she's quite interested in getting on top of this, although I would like to PM you to get your assistance and perspective, too. She and I are going to be exchanging research articles and she's looked up info on nosodes, dosages, evaluating symptoms and so on. She's giving me info on what and how to order through her supplier but I think having several resourses is better than having one. I read just this morning of the Post Office being ordered by some government agency to refuse to hand over a legally purchased shipment of Ivermectin to the woman who ordered it. I think ordering supplies sooner rather than later and from several sources is a good idea.
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@torey what homeopathic potency of Sarracenia is recommended?
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@monica197 In general terms with homeopathy you are starting out at a 30c potency unless a different potency is chosen specifically for you by your homeopath. A lot depends on the sensitivity of the patient. My homeopath tends to recommend a higher potency for me starting out but I having been using remedies for quite awhile.
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ok - I was guessing 30C - thank you
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Thank you!
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Thanks for all the links! Looks like I'm going to be reading a lot!!
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Wow! Thanks for the links, as well as this information. Holy moly Rocky!
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This is only my personal opinion, but 'chatter on the street' is nothing but that..... non-verified chatter, not much more than rampant rumor mill spreading.
Sorry to be the nay-sayer, but I think this is just simply a controversial story that has been stirred up by people that just love to stir people up, not something that has much reality at all.
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Another effective antiviral against small pox is chaga tea. See
This page mentions some studies that showed the effect.
Chaga tea is pretty easily available. I get it at a local health food store.
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