Goodness! Doris, I thought that you were against the unnecessary use of chemicals? Laetrile is amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside. In other words it is a sugar molecule with another molecule attached which releases cyanide when exposed to the common enzyme glucosidase. Overdose on it and you'll kill yourself.
Take a look at this medical paper on laetrile from 1979 when physicians were concerned about an epidemic of US cancer sufferers dosing themselves with the chemical (extract below):
http://www.ajcn.org/content/32/5/1121.full.pdf
So if you take it, Doris, you might suppress anaphylaxis (or sting reactions which are rarely anaphylactic), who knows, but you will probably be suppressing every metabolic process in your body at the same time, which is never a sensible thing to do.
If there was any risk of anyone taking this advice seriously I'd have to pull this thread. But there isn't, is there?
A reaction to stings (even a strong one) isn't anaphylaxis - anaphylaxis is a special type of reaction away from the site of the sting. It is well worth knowing what it is like as it can be life-threatening - see your GP if you think that you've had such a reaction. And if you have had such a reaction (as I have) you can be desensitised.
all the best
Gavin
from: Laetrile: the cult of cyanide
Promoting poison for profit1
Victor Herbert,2 M.D., J.D.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1979.
The Laetrile Cult is perhaps the most bizarre,
ruthless, deceptive misleading and dangerous
health cult to come along in this century.
Laetrile is not supported as of value by
a single scientist recognized in the scientific
community as a currently reliable source of
information about cancer or about nutrition
(5, 8, 10, 21-29). Its support comes from selfstyled
cancer and nutrition experts rewarded
by backers who profit from such promotions,
such as the Committee for Freedom of Choice
in Cancer Therapy (some of whose leading
figures have had criminal ns45 and
the National Health Federation (seven of
whose leading figures have had criminal convictions
in relation to health fraud) (30). Individual
proponents have allegedly taken in
miffions of dollars from it (5, 30-34), it is a
billion dollar a year industry (5, 30-34), an
estimated hundred thousand cancer patients
(at least 50,000 in the United States) are
fanatically supporting it even as it shortens
their lives .....
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