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Saturday, May 10, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT

Alone with Virato
 

"Ole fashioned talk radio" with the maestro of New Paradigm talk radio Virato. Win plenty of prizes today, (giving over $500 worth of stuff [books, dinners, cash, acupuncture, etc.] in one hour!) Just respond to a question or make quick comment to something Virato says, and give your info to our producer, and pick up your prize at the radio station (Mon-Fri, 10AM-4PM) Call 254-6620 by 5 PM, Friday, May 9 if you have a specific question you would like Virato to address on the air, or send e-mail

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Saturday, May 10, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

with
 Kenny Ausubel

In 1840, Illinois horse farmer John Hoxsey found his prize stallion with a malignant tumor on its right hock. As a Quaker, he couldn't bear shooting the animal, so he put it out to pasture to die peacefully. Three weeks later, he noticed the tumor stabilizing, and observed the animal browsing knee-deep in a corner of the pasture with a profusion of weeds, eating plants not part of its normal diet. Within three months the tumor dried up and began to separate from the healthy tissue. The farmer retreated to the barn, where he began to experiment with these herbs revealed to him by "horse sense." He devised three formulas: an internal tonic, an herbal-mineral red paste, and a mineral-based yellow powder for external use. Within a year the horse was well, and the veterinarian became locally famous for treating animals with cancer. The farmer's grandson John C. Hoxsey, a veterinarian in southern Illinois, was the first to try the remedies on people, and claimed positive results. His son Harry showed an early interest and began working with him at the age of eight. When John suffered an untimely accident, he bequeathed the formulas to the fifteen-year-old boy with a charge to treat poor people for free, and to minister to all races, creeds, and religions without prejudice. He asked that the treatment carry the Hoxsey name. Finally, he warned the boy against the "High Priests of Medicine" who would fight him tooth-and-nail because he was taking money out of their pockets. By the 1950s, Hoxsey was riding what was arguably the largest alternative-medicine movement in American history. A survey by the Chicago Medical Society showed 85 percent of people still using "drugless healers." Hoxsey's Dallas stronghold grew to be the world's largest privately owned cancer center with 12,000 annual patients and branches spreading to seventeen states. Congressmen, judges, and even some doctors ardently supported his quest for an investigation. Two federal courts upheld the therapeutic value of the treatment. Even his archenemies, the American Medical Association and the Food and Drug Administration, admitted that the therapy does cure certain forms of cancer. Then in the late 1950's the AMA lobbied legislators on the federal and state levels, saying that Hoxesy was a quack, and on the heels of a California law criminalizing all cancer treatments except surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the federal government finally outlawed Hoxsey entirely in the United States in 1960 on questionable technicalities. Today Virato chats with Kenny Ausubel, CEO of the Bioneers, and author of When Healing Becomes a Crime.

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Saturday, May 10, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Happy Mother's Day!