The blogger is pleased to ‘publish’ the following two emails from Dr. JB Lim with his permission to share with all readers about his successful treatment of a dying patient with unwanted wayside weeds.
From: lim juboo
Date: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:38 PM
Read this in today’s Star newspapers (10 November, 2013)
This medicinal plant botanically called Phyllanthus niruri, or another species called Phyllanthus amarus or Dukung anak as the Malays called them has been used for over 200 years already throughout SE Asia as an extremely effective herbal medicine against hepatitis, erroneously called ”yellow fever”.
It is wrongly called “yellow disease” because of the yellowness of the eyes and skin as features of the disease due to elevated bilirubin (icterus index) associated with jaundice in advanced hepatitis and liver failure.
Phyllantus niruri or P. amarus has been used for so long already by the Malays, Chinese and Indians as part of their traditional medicine.
Personally I have very successfully treated at least one case of an elderly Malay man who was already dying of liver failure associated with hepatitis in his village house using this herb. It was actually a case of “I came, I saw, and I conquer” rather than he came to me to be treated.
It was then outside my line of official duty when I happened to go to his house to conduct a heath survey with a medical team from the Institute for Medical Research in the early 1980’s.
He was absent from the Community Hall where our medical team was stationed. Because of statistical random sampling reasons, to keep the number in a population under study, even if he did not come to the centre, we have to search for him in his house.
There he was, dying in his house when our medical team found him. Armed with my specialized doctorate training in natural medicine I proceeded to help using all the make-shifts facilities available round his house and in the natural environment where he lived in his rural village which was surrounded by hills, trees, plants and jungles.
There would be no shortage of looking for the right natural medicine in such an environment at the edge of a jungle.
I took his family outside their house to look for this particular lowly weed by the way side nobody wanted.
He was already almost dying in his house with all the classical clinical features of hepatitis and liver impairment after going in and out of hospitals.
I came, I saw, and I did my best using my training and knowledge in natural medicine which were so abundantly available amidst thick jungles in Seremban.
I helped the family identify the weed since Phyllantus is an unwanted weed thriving among cow dung, and nobody even want to look at it.
I taught the family how to use it, the dosage, frequency, among other therapeutic modalities their father need to do. It was part of naturopathic medicine in which I was also additionally trained in.
It took him about a month to recover. I forgot about him after I returned to KL until I received a phone call a month later from his son who was working in Petronas thanking me so profusely for saving his father’s life when conventional medicine in and out of hospitals was of no help.
I could have done much better with the adjunct of other herbal medications in the right dosage combined with Phyllantus amarus if he was in KL where I could investigate properly.
This was just one of the many cases I met in villages. I have applied emergency treatment using make-shift, improvised natural medicine for many other medical encounters in my course of medical research in rural and community medicine where conventional medical treatment failed.
I shall not go into the details how I did it and how this Malay man recovered so remarkably from liver failure in a village where there was no medical facilities available.
I do not wish to tell all my experiences because I do not think people are interested. They just delete my mail. They don’t even bother to reply. To write and send them anything is a waste of my time.
Jb lim
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Reply to the blogger requesting permission to post his email into this blog:
From: lim juboo
Sent: Monday, 11 November 2013 3:05 AM
Thank you for your interest in my casual comment.
Yes you may if others find it useful. There are actually a lot of other cases of hepatitis A (less virulent) and hepatitis B (much more potent) I have treated using a more integrative approaches than using interferon, various generations of anti-viral drugs, and symptomatic relief. There is no specific treatment, and none are effective using conventional treatment.
In many of my cases, signs of the disease disappeared after 1 – 2 weeks as shown by blood tests (liver enzymes – AST, ALT, SGOT, SGPT, alpha fetoprotein, bilirubin levels, etc), palpation of liver for hepatomegaly (enlargement), percussion notes for ascites (fluid in abdomen) and oedema (water retention) and pitting in legs, no jaundice, absence of nausea, increased in appetite….etc, etc down the list of signs and symptoms.
That is provided I use other herbal medications such as Silybum marianum (St Mary’s milk thistle) and combine them with dandelion in the right proportion and dosage.
Then augment these botanical medicines with vitamins of the B group, vitamin C, supported by tocopherols (vitamins in the E group), as well nutritional and dietary management – all instituted in the correct proportions according to medical history, duration, severity, type of hepatitis, etc, etc.
This depends on case-by-case. I need to see the patient first, take a comprehensive medical history, his dietary exposure, the medication he was on, his clinical response to on-going treatment, make a clinical assessment, conduct biochemical tests, and perhaps send him for liver sonograph (ultrasound) etc before I institute a suitable all-round holistic management.
I don’t just simply give Phyllantus amarus alone. I cannot use this alone as infective (viral) hepatitis is extremely difficult to treat by conventional standards. Actually there are many types of hepatitis – from infective, obstructive, drug toxicity, autoimmune, etc, etc.
But for that elderly Malay man I only prescribe P. amarus as it was the only option I had at that time in a rural village near a jungle far away from the next tertiary teaching hospital where he should be referred.
He could not even move, in a jungle area where not even bicycles can be used. We have to walk in the mud to reach his house. So I have to use the best of my trained knowledge in natural medicine to salvage him from certain death.
He was lucky because Mother Nature was with him to provide him with all natural medicinal plants surrounding his village house near the fringe of the jungle in Negri Seremban.
I just happened to go there with my medical colleagues, not to treat anybody, but merely to conduct a health survey. So I bumped into this man because he was unable to come to the village community centre where all our medical team was stationed with our instruments and diagnostic equipment.
When he and others were missing, we have to wade our way through all those mud and water to reach his house. The same we did for all those statistically selected “missing patients” who did not come to the centre which was kilometers away. That was the furthest point our motorized transport could go. The rest have to be on bicycles, walk or swim across small rivers.
All the houses were scattered km apart, and we need to search for the houses using a census map (no GPS at that time) given to us by the village head through the District Office and the Chief Medical and Health Officer who assisted us.
It was actually accidental that I happened to be there, and I have this knowledge in native medicine with me. Fortunately it was also part of my formal training in the UK and Australia.
I merely combined it with the best line of management drawn from other systems of medicine to help him. If he was in KL I could have done much better for him with all the facilities available. He could have recovered within 2 weeks and not a month later with a mono-therapy on just P. amarus picked up outside his house. Still…
But P amarus was all I could give him in a natural rural setting. It was an improvised emergency medicine I needed to take. There was not even a small clinic there let alone a big tertiary hospital.
This man was actually asked by the Seremban Hospital to go back to spend his last days at home.
There were of course many other different types of cases I encountered in the course of my work in the rural areas of the country, and thankfully Mother Nature was with me to successfully guide me. I am thankful to God who used me.
God actually gave us a Garden of Medicines we could use. He put us here, and He will also provide for us an abundance of medicines in the virgin jungles of this planet, but we chose to destroy it for greed.
In fact nearly 40 % of synthetic pharmaceutical drugs we use today were originally plant-based. Fortunately there is a very strong revival in plant-based medical treatment and other integrated and alternative approaches in the management of diseases.
We have just no answer to all those chronic and degenerative diseases we suffer today if we just depend on synthetic chemical drugs that does not ‘cure’ anything if we are unwilling to change our habits, exposures, lifestyle and eating behaviors. “Let Food Be Your Medicine” as Hippocrates told us.
I could go on, and on, and on for days, months and years telling you all these research studies, my clinical experiences with patients, and how they respond to an integrated poly-treatment.
We have much to learn from Mother Nature who has already provided us with all the natural medicines He planted on this planet for our survival.
Unfortunately medical researchers, pharmaceutical scientists and doctors like us (only) think we are smarter than God. That is why till today we still have no permanent ‘cure’ to all our chronic diseases, the old ones we only thought we have solved are bouncing back to attack us more aggressive than before, and new ones are emerging.
I could go on, and on. But I better stop because readers just delete my mails because they too think they are smarter and there is nothing to learn from me. So they remain ‘smart’ like the research scientists but they remain in the shadow of ill health.
jb
To a further question from a certain Dr. Vythi (President, MVS) whether P. amarus was available in capules, Dr JB Lim replies as follows:
Mo, 11 Nov 2013 at 3:26 AM
Dear Doctor,
Yes, I think I saw P. amarus being put into capsules and sold in Malaysia at exorbitant prices. But you can also get this same medicinal weed by the road side near some grass absolutely for free. God did not charge any person for any of His hundreds of thousands of medicine He put there for our survival and to cure all our ills.
But Man took advantage of His free medicines and treatment and put a ridiculous price tag on them. How much do you charge symptomatically for coughs and cold, dear doctor?
Maybe I should also start charging using God's free gifts. After all I have already spent RM 2 million for my education. The universities did not give them free to me except some British scholarships.
jb lim