Contemporary History of the Escharotic Black Salve

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Contemporary History of the Escharotic Black Salve (narrated by

Clark Bigham to Dr. Michael Tierra)

 

It was some 28 years ago, that my son was diagnosed with

glomurulonephritis. Since conventional western medicine has

nothing to offer by the way of treatment for this condition except

palliative treatment with cortical steroids, I was looking for any

other viable alternative that was available. It was during that time, in

the middle of Wyoming that a friend told me about a cowboy

named Howard McCreary. He said that Howard had a mysterious

black salve that could be used either externally or internally to treat

and cure a wide variety of problems and that it could be possibly

effective for my son's glomurulonephritis.

 

Howard was literally a cowboy, having won numerous awards in

rodeos throughout the country including Madison Square Garden in

New York. He received two silver buckles and was world champion

for two years in a row. At the time that I met him, he weighed

around 275 pounds, mostly muscle. It seemed that Howard's father

passed down a secret anti-cancer formula in the form of a paste

comprised of Sanguinaria, commonly known as " bloodroot " ,

Galangal, Zinc Chloride and distilled water.

 

Through a dream, Howard further developed a modification of this

formula, including a proprietary method of preparation that

increased its efficaciousness not only for cancer but a broad

spectrum of other diseases, simple and acute, as well as chronic.

 

I spent the better part an entire day speaking with Howard about

my son and the various uses for which he had successfully

employed the salve. He had an album of photographs showing the

many successfully treatments he had accumulated over the years.

The pictures were very similar to those found in Dr. Moh's book,

Chemosurgery (publ. by Charles C. Thomas, 1978). Throughout all

of this, he was very open and gracious with me in every way,

bought me lunch, inviting me to stay overnight. Upon leaving, he

gave me a half-pint of the salve to bring home. Because this was all

given freely with no hooks attached, I was rightly predisposed to

trust and believe him.

 

Among the many wondrous uses of this seemingly miraculous

salve, Howard told of using it as an eyewash, diluted one part to a

thousand parts water. One way he had to determine whether

anyone was with him or 'agin em' was to ask them to put it in their

eyes. This I did, putting a drop in each eye. At first it stung for

about 30 seconds and caused my eye to become mildly irritated.

Within a short while, however, the mild irritating condition

completely cleared up leaving my vision clearer and brighter than

before. You might consider this my initiation to it.

 

As a result of Howard's eyewash trial I have personally

recommended it to a number of people with glaucoma and macular

degeneration. It seems to be highly effective for one type of

glaucoma and in about five cases of macular degeneration it proved

to be 100% effective.

 

My wife used the salve topically on a mole. It also became

characteristically inflamed with considerable discomfort and pain.

Generally it takes about 8 hours for the area over which the salve is

applied to blow up with the characteristic inflammation and

whitening on the surface of the skin. From anywhere from 7-11

days, the core (eschar) would drop off, leaving a shallow hollow

core in the skin. Rarely would this be accompanied with bleeding

and never with infection. This would be kept clean with an

antiseptic solution such as hydrogen peroxide and covered.

Usually this healed within a month with barely a scar. The fresh

skin that healed over it was tender, like a new baby skin. In the

case of my wife's mole, it was completely eliminated. I have never

found the salve to damage unaffected tissues. Since my wife had a

hair mole, when the tissue healed over, the hair came back. This

attests to the fact that the salve didn't even disturb the underlying

hair follicle.

 

After over 28 years experience in using the Black Salve it is my

belief that applied topically or taken internally, it has a propensity

to seek out problems in the body. It is not a universal panacea for

all ills but at least offers a window of opportunity for the individual to

make other changes that may be necessary for lasting healing to

occur.

 

Despite all of this, influenced by the negative opinions of the

doctor's who were overseeing the care of my son, I remained

reluctant to give it to him. For the next two years my son was in

and out of the hospital almost weekly. Finally, out of desperation, I

decided to give him the salve internally. It was interesting because

after taking the salve my son did not go into the hospital again for

over six months. Without any recent checkup, and based only on

prior history, the doctors decided that it was time for my son to

have a kidney transplant. We trusted the doctors and we stopped

giving the salve to my son because of the fear that it would

stimulate the immune system and result in his body rejecting the

transplanted kidney.

 

In fact, despite the fact that my son had not been taking the salve

for some time, he rejected the transplant and a subsequent second

transplant later. Later, however, when my son developed peritonitis,

I gave him the salve to take internally and it worked very well.

 

I learned from the cowboy that the salve generally works very well

with all infections perhaps with the exception of gastrointestinal

ulcers for which it can be irritating. I gave the salve to one person

with colitis and told him that it may cause a temporary aggravation.

This it did for about three or four days, after which the colitis was

completely cleared up with no recurrence.

 

This same man, however, told me that while he had no further

colitis symptoms, his ankle developed an unusual pain. I asked

him if he ever had an injury to his ankle. He said that when he was

much younger, he jumped off the end of a bridge and broke his

ankle. I asked if it was the same foot. He said " yes. " " Was it the

same place? " " Yes. " About a week later he called me again and

" yep, the ankle seems fine now. "

 

 

VIPONT CHEMICAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

 

Vipont Pharmaceutical Company, located in Fort Collins, Colorado

was formed over 30 years ago by the cowboy and a friend

specifically to research and develop the salve and eventually get it

approved by the FDA. Vipont had a very sophisticated laboratory

and had raised between one and one and a half million dollars to

fund their research. I was with them for three years as chairman of

the board.

 

At first I got involved with them with the prospect of making money

off of the salve. Eventually, after seeing all the good it was doing

and could do for so many people with otherwise incurable diseases

such as cancer, I put in over $500,000 of my personal money.

 

At that time the FDA may not have been as rigid as they are today

and the salve was classified " IND " meaning " Investigational New

Drug. " 'Officially' its first intended purpose was for the treatment of

periodontal disease for which it had been extensively used on

animals in veterinary practice. Of course, it was also used

extensively and successfully on animals for various types of

cancer. While our primary aim was to have the salve approved for

the treatment of cancer in humans, at one point we realized that

we needed more money to continue our research and to go through

the complicated and expensive approval process. As a result we

petitioned for its use for periodontal disease. Because of this, when

we later requested approval for cancer, the FDA argued that it was

not possible to have a drug approved for such widely diverse usage

as periodontal disease and cancer and they shut us down.

 

At one point we sent a sample to be tested at the Mayo clinic. I

still have the letter from the investigating researcher stating that the

black salve exhibited highly active anticancer properties in vitro.

 

Eventually Vipont was bought out by Viadent (a division of Colgate)

and was put into their toothpaste. Because however, Viadent

chose to use it as an extracted ingredient, leave out the galangal,

claiming that it had no therapeutic value in the formulation, instead

of in its pure whole form, it never worked as well as it did

previously. To this day, I will make the Black Salve toothpaste,

adding about a 5% ratio to Tom's toothpaste, not other commercial

brands, and give it to friends and acquaintances. It is highly

efficacious with even casual brushing in clearing up periodontal

disease.

 

Since the Black Salve is taken internally, Vipont had its LD50

toxicity tested. It turns out to be quite safe with an LD50 of 700

mg. per kilogram of body weight. The recommended daily internal

dose for a person is only around 150 to 250 mg. once daily. This is

well within the safe, non-toxic range. In fact I had a man who

misunderstood my instructions and took one teaspoon a day for

three days. He said, he felt nothing but sleight mild gastric

discomfort.

 

In general for internal use, I recommend that it not be taken on an

empty stomach and that the salve be put into a small gelatin

capsule with gelatin.

 

While the ingredients in the salve are simple, consisting of zinc

chloride, powdered sanguinaria and galangal and distilled water,

the sequence and conditions of how these are put together is also

important. In general, we have found that the Black Salve does not

work as well when a lot of things are added to it. It may also be

that the preparation lessens and alters the caustic principle of the

zinc chloride.

 

I have given it to numerous people for a wide variety of problems

ranging from moles, skin cancers, other cancers, influenza, colds,

eyes problems, gastrointestinal inflammations, skin diseases

including psoriasis and other conditions too numerous to list. My

inclination, since the Black Salve seems to seek out diseased

areas of the body, is to try it for just about any known condition.

More often than not, I have been astounded with the results.

 

Cosmetically, I have added a 5-10% solution to a cream (not

moisturizing) to be put directly on fingernails. This seems to make

them grow stronger and faster. At one time I added a 15-20%

solution to shampoos and hair conditioners and the result was that

it stopped dandruff and other scalp diseases and brought life back

into the hair, making it grow fuller and more lustrous. I have never

used it to stimulate hair growth. Now I only use a 5% solution for

the scalp for fear that it may unintentionally remove a cherished

mole.

 

Regarding claims of others that the Black Salve is dangerous or

the Naturopath in Arizona who reports applying to a breast

carcinoma and having it erode the carotid artery, requiring drastic

medical intervention, I have never seen any serious negative effect

in over 28 years of use. I have personally found that while other

formulas advocate up to 50% zinc chloride, the version that I use

and that was extensively tested by Vipont Chemical Company only

uses about a third and this seems enough to produce its

therapeutic effects.

 

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