Originally posted by Iamschist
reply to post by 4nsicphd
Thank you for your post. If this man had wanted to use apricot pits he could have gone to Mexico and received treatment there. It doe not cure cancer and is basically fraud as you pointed out.
I would also like to know what exactly is B17? In so far as I know, there are only 12 B vits. I know you did not post about this topic, but I thought maybe you had some information.
"Vitamin" B-17 is not a vitamin. It is an organic compound with a chemical formula of C20H27NO11. That is different from laetrile which is C14H15NO7. It is a modified form of amygdalin, a cyanogenetic glycoside.
The literature is well documented showing fatal toxicity. On June 8, 1977, 1 1-month-old Elizabeth
Hankin of Attica, New York, ate five tablets(2.5 g) of laetrile. She rapidly went into a
coma from cyanide poisoning, and 3 days later she was dead. The laetrile belonged to her father, who was taking it for cancer. He died too, within a year. And little Elizabeth lingered a while (3 days). JAMA reported a case of a 17 year old who took 10.5 grams and was dead in 24 hours. a cyanogenetic glycoside is a substance made up of two parts glucose, one part benzaldehyde (somewhat poisonous itself), one part cyanide (which is converted in the intestines to prussic acid. and no parts vitamin. See, REENBERG, D. M. The vitamin fraud in cancerquackery. West. J. Med. 122: 345, 1975. Prussic acid is hydrogen cyanide, the poison used to execute convicted criminals in the infamous San Quinton gas chamber. It is also known as Zyklon B, used at Buchenwald.
For more info take a look at www.ajcn.org...
edit on 18-1-2011 by 4nsicphd because: because I fogot about "i before e, except..."


