CURE OF CANCER BY VIOLET LEAVES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 16 May 1906, Page 2

CURE OF CANCER BY VIOLET LEAVES.

Since we recently published an article bearing on the cure of cancer by violet leaves we have been inundated with requests by correspondents for information bearing on the treatment and use of these leaves.. The cure of cancer bears so heavily upon man in these days and occurs with such increasing frequency that we readily acquiesce in the request, in the hope that it may allieviate, if not cure, some instance of this dread disease A Dunedin resident supplies the following directions concerning the use of violet leaves :—Take a good-sized handful of fresh vioiet leaves from the garden, place in a basin, pour over them one pint of boiling water, and let them stand for twelve hours. Then strain off the liquor and heat it again, and soak three or four thicknesses of lint in it, ancl lay it over the part of the body affected as hot as the patient can bear it. Place over the wet lint a piece of oil silk sufficiently' large to cover and keep moist, and over all bind two or three thicknesses of flannel to keep the" patient dry. This application of lint and water must hflft renewed three times during the day, and aI.T-lp* throughout the night if the patient can bear it, or the last application may be kept on through the night, and renewed first thing in the morning. Also prepare in the same way some of the violet water and drink three or four wineglasses of it during the day. Our correspondent adds that the patient who used this means did not experience any relief for the first eight or nine days. Then the pain left her, but she continued in the same condition (pain excepted) for some time, and then the growths, which had been visible, began to diminish, and finally disappeared altogether. The treatment was commenced on November lGth, 1901, and continued in the same way until the following June, when strength slowly returned. "A.A.H." writes to us:— "Constant Reader " asks how violet leaves are to be used as a cancer cure. The answer is :— Leaves are best picked in the morning, and a handful(about a hundred leaves) should be boiled with one pint of water for twenty minutes. For outward application the leaves are made as a poultice and placed over the affected part. The liquid from the same is used externally (as a gargle). If 1 Constant Pveader" will use as above a marked change will be noticed inswellinjf and pain within a week. Violet leaves have a Horded in many cases a permanent cure and much reiief. The leaves must be used as hot as possible, ancl the gargle to be used should be cooled.

A passage in ' A Woman's Letter ' to the Sijdneu Morning Herald is as follows : —

In Tiverton I unexpectedly came into direct contact with what seems to me a very striking testimony as to the efficacy of the use of violet leaves in the cure of cancer. My friend came in the other afternoon towards post time, with a great bunch of freshly-gathered violet leaves, saying it was the day for sending them away. I enquired the purpose for which they were needed, and learnt that for the last four months she had regularly sent twice a week about three ounces of violet leaves. Not the petals of the flower—the actual leaf of the plant itself. These go to the wife of a dock hand at Birkenhead, who was operated on some years ago for cancer. Two years afterwards the disease again appeared. Another operation was impossible, and her condition remained bad, the doctor visiting her three times a week. The wound from the operation was dressed by the district nurse, who was watching the case very carefully. During the early part ofJfe* year the patient was so weak and iHrl_». she seldom could leave her bed, ancl for a long time could not go to church. They feared a chill for her, ancl as far as was possible in a person of such meagre means the poor soul led an invalid's life. The cure of this terrible scourge by violet leaves has, of course, often been talked of, but no case so directly benefited as this one has been has come under my own notice. I saw a letter this morning from the Lady at whose instigation my friend sends her weekly parcels of leaves, in which it seems the district nurse affirms that the patient's condition has steadily improved. She has been enabled to leave her bed ; to be up in time to cook her husband's breakfast; the pain is less severe ; and she has gained strength. The leaves are boiled into an infusion, which is strained off, like a tisane or decoction of camomile flowers, and this patient drinks the beverage three time per day. I may add that it_ was by her doctor's advice that a trial of the violet leaf cure was made. The result certainly in this case warrants this simple form of cure being tried wherever possible.