I'd like to tell you about my service project. I'm Lloyd Standish, your TOS-USA webmaster.
My family has a small business in Costa Rica producing pure carao fruit extract. Carao is a wild tropical fruit that has shown amazing anti-anemic properties in both humans and animals, with no side effects.
About 3 years ago, through donations of carao fruit to Dr. Attahiru Sokoto (a Nigerian pediatrician), we discovered that carao fruit is extremely effective at eliminating the symptoms of Sickle Cell anemia in both children and adults. Sickle Cell Disease is very common in Africa and India, and the symptoms are both painful and debilitating.
For the last 3 years, we have been sending regular donations of carao fruit to Dr. Sokoto. Dr. Sokoto's patients are too poor to afford to buy the product. We have also paid for all shipping.
The results have indeed been heartwarming. Children are relieved of painful sickle cell crisis, the need for transfusions is eliminated, and the patients report a feeling of well-being. The beneficial effects remain for months after the initial 5-week period of carao fruit therapy is over.
Dr. Sokoto writes:
As a Physician( Paediatrics), I have never come across a syrup so powerful and give a wonderful results to our sicklers/Anaemic patients like CARAO. For this reason I think its high time your Medical community in the United States, to ... start administering Carao for their sickler/Anaemic patients.They will never regret it and more so there is conservative treatment in modern Medicine,if that's the case why can't [they] give room to CARAO for their community? 9/2005
Very recently I began sending carao fruit donations to a hospital in India. The hospital is a service project by Rudradevananda, of Ánanda Márga Gurukula. The first patient already reports benefit. He wrote the following email to me:
Hello LIoyd Standish,
First of all I would like to thanks so much for your kind help. I am staying in Orissa. Since childhood i have been suffering sickle cell. I checked my blood, it was 90% sickle cell. Since 10 days I have been taking carao. I am feeling better. Here there are many patient of sickle cell. Dada Rudradevananda is working very hard to help the patient, hope you will help him by sending more carao for other patient.
Again and again so much thanks
Yours
Swarnamayee 1/14/2008
I am not able to donate all the carao (and shipping) Dr. Sokoto and Rudradevananda need for their patients. However, I will increase my donations of the product if I receive help to pay shipping. Shipping from Costa Rica of a 2 bottle package of carao fruit extract (1300g), a 5-week supply for an adult, is $11.24 to either Nigeria or India.
I accept donations online on the following page: http://webedit.linuxbackups.org/donate.htm. The recipients of the carao fruit, Dr. Sokoto in Nigeria and Rudradevananda in India, have promised to send thank-you emails to anyone who donates. If you wish, you can specify either "India" or "Africa" as donation recipient. If unspecified, I will decide based on greatest need. Donations are not tax deductible. Suggestion: If TOS-USA would "adopt" my project, it could become one of the TOS-USA donation opportunities, and donations would then be tax-deductable.
For more information on carao fruit as a natural therapy for anemia, visit my website http://www.AnemiaAnswer.com. I can be contacted through this website, or (better) comment on this article.
Below: Ánanda Márga Gurukula school photo
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How long this project has
How long this project has been going on? I'm not a doctor or a health specialist but I just want to know if someone had already been cured by taking this fruit. I have an anemia and I want this to be cured.
-Jan
Self-Improvement Advice
Many people have been cured
Many people have been cured of their anemia with carao fruit. You can read more on the website http://AnemiaAnswer.com.
Sickle cell in Chicago
I had talked with you before about the fruit, but this is the first time seeing your website. I am forwarding the information to a good friend whose grand daughter has experienced frequent hospitalizations for sickle cell.
I will keep you posted
thanks
tim
Anemia
Thank you Lloyd. This is a wonderful project. I hope our medical profession in this country is using your product. Many suffer from this malady.
The 5 week treatment relieves symptoms, but how long does the remission last and what is required to maintain health?
Betty
Doctors and carao fruit
The medical profession in USA does not recognize or accept carao fruit therapy, despite years of wonderful results, including consistent positive clinical results, a peer-reviewed scientific study on rats (http://anemiaanswer.com/far09304.htm), and an enormous amount of "anecdotal" feedback from around the world, published on my website (http://www.anemiaanswer.com/testimonials.htm).
My donation project is primarily for sickle cell anemia, although carao fruit is effective, as far as I know, for all anemia. Dr. Sokoto in Nigeria has used it to treat many forms of anemia, not only sickle cell. The results reported by Dr. Sokoto are but a small part of the information I have collected over the years. I encourage all those who are interested to visit my website at http://www.AnemiaAnswer.com.
In the case of sickle cell anemia (as well as thalassemia, another genetically-related anemia), a "cure" cannot be expected. However, Dr. Sokoto has reported remission of symptoms of sickle cell for at least 6-12 months after carao fruit is no longer used. If I am not mistaken, if and when symptoms recur, they are never as severe as they were before carao was taken, even over a year after carao is discontinued. A maintenance dose of carao fruit is not provided to these patients simply because the supply is insufficient. Dr. Sokoto can be contacted at attahirus at gmail dot com.
We are interested in projects to plant carao tree seeds in Africa and India, and eventually to teach the people how to make LTE (Low Temperature Evaporation) raw carao extract, a process I developed in Costa Rica.