Hoxsey's Treatment

For many generations, the Hoxsey family offered a cancer treatment to those who chose it, many of whom traveled far to obtain the treatment, just as many today go abroad for treatments that are not found in their own countries. Superficially, the Hoxsey treatment seemed simple: some little herbal pills, an elixir or tonic, and an external escharotic paste that burns off tumors. Perceptions can be deceiving. Though it would seem that anyone can self-administer the treatment, they are ill-advised to do so because unanticipated reactions to the treatment make the guidance of more experienced advisable even if not absolutely necessary.

If, however, a person is adequately informed, there is a reasonable possibility of succeeding with the treatment of a relatively simple neoplasm without supervision. For those who do require supervision, there are more and more practitioners becoming proficient with this treatment, and there is the clinic in Mexico that Hoxsey's chief nurse ran for so many years.

I started this site (several years ago) in response to a deluge of e-mails precipitated by Dr. Andrew Weil's link from his web site to my personal e-mail. People were looking for bloodroot, the main herb in the black or red paste. Once they found it, they didn't know how to use it. I wrote the book, first as a how to manual and later as a more or less complete disclosure of what the treatment involves and the different pastes and strategies that can be utilized.

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Visitors to This Site

Many people visiting this site have found it after starting the use of some kind of escharotic treatment for which they were unprepared. Others have sought out this treatment as a first choice because they heard about from older family members. Others are coming after their growths are large and sometimes ulcerated or after other treatments have failed. Though it is likely that some of these people are suitable candidates for escharotic treatment, professional guidance will be almost a necessity for them. So, if you write me a personal email using the contact form, I will only suggest that you see a practitioner with experience.

This said, I do believe that it is realistic for some people to self administer an escharotic paste to a tiny basal cell carcinoma, but it just because it may be possible to succeed does not mean it is advisable. For a large breast tumor, the assistance of an experienced practitioner is mandatory.

 

Product Availability

Sacred Medicine Sanctuary does not sell any escharotic pastes because:

Naturally, I hope patients will get the products from qualified practitioners who are willing to assist the treatment, but the products are widely available from literally hundreds of sources, some of which are mentioned on this site.

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This subject is discussed elsewhere on this site and in depth in my book. Though Hoxsey did not seem to be aware of the history of the treatment nor its use by other practitioners—many of them properly trained medical doctors—Hoxsey claimed the same 80% success rate as qualified physicians who used similar treatments.

I have tried to interpret this figure. On the one hand, it is easy to assume that cancer diagnosis was not as sophisticated in more historic times, that things as ordinary as warts might have been regarded as malignancies; but my research did not support this conclusion. On the contrary, it gave credence to the idea that diagnosis tended to occur much later than it does today so that tumors were rarely presented for treatment before they were quite large and often ulcerated. In short, I think the 80% figure is nothing less than remarkable.

 

The Formulas

As the result of much legal pressure and financial jealousy, Hoxsey's formulae were eventually disclosed. All of them are published in the Appendix of my book. Sacred Medicine Sanctuary has been re-creating one after another of the historic products to assess the validity of the claims made by people who are no longer able to participate in the ongoing debates. We have been providing my version of the Hoxsey Elixir, first as Trifolium Compound, so-named because I am personally convinced that the formula's true origin is with the Eclectic physicians who called it such after the red clover that is an ingredient in the formula. . . and that contrary to the story promulgated by the Hoxsey family, this formula was not discovered by a horse! Later, we renamed the formula Sundance Elixir in honor of Chief Sundance who was a contemporary of both Dr. John Christopher and Harry Hoxsey—and both had formulas nearly identical to the Hoxsey heirloom formula.

Besides red clover, the tonic contains Oregon grape root, poke root, sarsaparilla, stillingia, buckthorn, burdock, cascara sagrada, prickly ash berry, licorice, and Irish moss. It is prepared with distilled spring water and honey.