Colostrum Therapy Legal Evaluation

Copyright 2003

Introduction

Mammalian colostrum has historically provided man with both

food and medicine. Of course, only the larger mammals -- cows,

goats, etc. -- economically provide sufficient colostrum.

For generations either keen observation or superstition has led

the dairy farmer to rub infectious fluids on the outside of the milk sac,

whence the dairy cow (or goat) absorbed microorganisms and pro-

ceeded to prepare antibodies and complement that invaded the milk to

some small degree, thence providing an inefficient source of protec-

tive fluids.

Modern medicine has fully accepted the paradigm that the inser-

tion of an antigen into the blood stream of any mammal hastens the

development of protective antibodies.

What modern medicine has forgotten is that the chief purpose

for this vaccination is so that the mammal will produce complement,

a very small, specially designed protein molecule that clones itself

over and over again, targeting, surrounding and destroying invading

microorganisms and other invasive antigens. To make a rather long,

complex story short, the many major immune defensive mecha-

nisms we’ve inherited usually results in producing a complement

cascade, which, working together with antibodies, overwhelms an

invading organism. (See “How the Immune System Works,” http://

www.arthritistrust.org.)

Apparently a key survival advantage found in mammals is that,

in nursing one’s young, antibodies and complement is passed di-

rectly from the mother to the offspring, thus protecting the newly

born until the newly born’s own protective systems are more fully

developed. It’s clear from direct observations of the application of

specially targeted complement, that the demise of microorganisms is

fantastically swift.

When Townsend Letters for Doctors & Patients reported on

former Congressman Berkeley Bedell’s speech before Congress re-

lating his apparent miraculous cure from his otherwise instransigent

Lyme Arthritis Disease, The Arthritis Trust of America’s curiosity

was greatly stimulated. The result of that curiosity was reported in

part in Townsend Letters for Doctors & Patients, but more fully in

“Universal Oral Vaccine” Versions 1, 2 and 3 found on our website

( http://www.arthritistrust.org.).

(Of great significance is that thru the influence of Congressman

Berkely Bedell and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin the U.S. Congress

was prompted to establish an Office of Alternative Medicine under

the National Institute of Health. This Office has now been up-

graded to a Center by Senators Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter, and

Representative Peter DeFazio.)

Very briefly, what we uncovered regarding the medical usage of

colostrum during the first investigative period, and following that

period, is this:

1. People of all races and times have used colostrum for healing.

2. Numerous activities on-going involve the preparation and

sale of colostrum to “boost the immune system.” These are usually

products that result from traditional vaccination of animals -- cows,

goats, chickens (for the eggs) -- processed by modern technology to

separate out complement/antibodies, and then sold.

Several multi-level marketing firms have successfully marketed

their products either worldwide or in the US.

One US scientist from time to time vaccinates a large number of

chickens, collects the eggs, and sells them to the army where they are

mixed in K-rations, to “boost soldiers’ immune systems.”

Obviously, therefore, the United States Government is quite

cognizant of the importance of supplying complement/antibodies

directly for disease protection.

3. Some folks, here and there, have purchased either a goat or a

cow, and, with the help of their local veterinarian, have injected

specific microorganisms directly into the cistern and thence have

collected colostrum for use against a specific disease.

In one recent case a Minnesota retired dairy farmer did just that

to cure his daughter of Epstein-Barr Virus disease.

It’s clear that most marketing of colostrum, including the army’s

K-rations, are a wild-eyed guess as to which microorganisms to use

for disease protection. One can only include in the animal’s vaccina-

tion regimen those microorganisms which are most likely to be en-

countered. The disease producing microorganism affecting a particu-

lar individual may or may not be the one found in the colostrum

provided and, considering the factors of (a) enormous assortment of

microorganisms in our environment, (b) their ability to mutate, and

(c) often their pleomorphic nature, only a quick chemical appraisal of

the human tissue’s infectious contents will suffice for producing the

near-miraculous cures desired.

One doesn’t need an immense laboratory to determine the many

possible infectious organisms that might be contributing to a specific

disease as the mammal’s cistern provides the quick chemical ap-

praisal. Without further laboratory determinations, human blood will

often provide the antigens necessary to produce the specific comple-

ments required for that human at that particular time.

This is not to argue that a range of well-known microorganisms

should not also be used to prepare special complement/antibodies.

Indeed, one company, Impro Products, Inc., of Waukon, Iowa, pre-

pares a whole tray of such complement, using many different anti-

gens, each 3.7 fluid ounce bottle marked accordingly -- gram nega-

tive, Aerobacter aerogenes, staphyloccous, streptococcus, etc.

It was truly miraculous, to watch the disappearance before our

eyes of Psoriasis blotches when using Staphylococcus complement/

antibodies on one sufferer. This was demonstrated by Herb Saunders,

deceased dairy farmer.

The product he illegally (at that time) used was Impro’s spe-

cially prepared product that is to be sold only to dairy farmers for use

on animals. Impro, of course, did not know of the use of their prod-

uct on a human or they would have objected violently, such is the

nature of the fear inculcated by the FDA and U.S. Department of

Agriculture.

To conclude, although there are many ways of preparing and

using colostrum, only two methods have rapid, definitive effects:

1. Injection of patient’s blood into the mammal’s cistern, collec-

tion of subsequent colostrum, and applying same to suffering patient

topically, sub-lingually and orally, as required.

2. Preparation of specially prepared colostrum by means of

known antigens -- Borrelia burgdorfia, Staphyloccous, Epstein Barr

Virus, etc. -- and applying same topically, sub-lingually, and orally,

as required.

As reported in Townsend Letters for Doctors & Patients, but

more fully in “Universal Oral Vaccine” Versions 1, 2 and 3 found on

our website ( http://www.arthritistrust.org.), the FDA investigated

dairy farmer Herb Saunder’s use of colostrum on sick people. They

turned their investigation over to local authorities, and Saunders was

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