When infected with Dengue fever in Jan 2009 and suffered from every possible joint in the body being inflamed, well wishers suggested that I drink a few teaspoons of tender Paw Paw Leaf juice and I did. It did help.
It was only a week ago a friend mentioned about seeing something on "Paw Paw Man" on Seven To Night. I Googled Paw Paw man and am fascinated by a few articles I have read so far and have decided to blog the lot for the benefit of people all over the world with ailments who could contact the Paw Paw Man seeking cures.
Ram
9th Nov 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

11 - Papaya Sweet Answer to our Well Being and Health - Traditional Oven.com

Papaya Sweet Answer to our Well Being and Health
Just recently I came across an eye opening book by Barry Thomson “Join Our Escape From Death Row-Cancer Jail”, where he in a most genuine and generous ways shares valuable information and his knowledge in effective fight against cancer and ill health. Among other very interesting information I red about simple but wonderful papaya and its healing properties. One chapter in this book awoke in me more desire to learn and research as much as I possibly could as on a professional level I deal with people suffering many different health issues and aliments who look for alternative ways to help them. I would love to share what I know as I believe it can make difference in everyday life of many others. I am also hoping that this will prompt other people to share their knowledge about improving our general well being and health.

Papaya, Paw Paw, Tree Melon (botanical name Carica Papaya), it has oblong shape, normally greenish yellow, yellow or orange color. It is a large tree plant fruit usually reaching 2.5kg. It has bitter sweet taste and comes from tropical places with higher humidity, native to Mexico, countries of Central America, Thailand, Africa and Asia and growing well in Australia.

Papaya Health Benefits

Paw Paw how we call it here in Australia is these days plentiful all year round in most of the countries. The parts that are used medicinally are fruit, seeds, stems and leaves. I did look around and found out you can buy paw paw in all forms, in a form of fermented papaya, herbal teas even tablets and of course plenty of the fresh fruit, which can be eaten as it is or in a form of juice. So you ask what are these awesome healing properties of paw paw? Well where do I start? Papaya fruit is and excellent source of dietary fiber, folate, vitamin A, C and E. It also contains small amount of calcium, iron, riboflavin, thiamine and niacine. It is also very rich in antioxidant nutrients flavonoids and carotenes, very high in vitamin C plus A, and low in calories and sodium.

PawPaw tree. Paw paw is rich in enzymes called papain and chymopapain which helps with the digestion, particularly it breaks down the proteins from the food we eat into amino acids. The latest research shows that amino acids are responsible for all what is happening in our organism, basically for what is happening in every chemical reaction as well as our mental and physical health. As we age we produce less of the digestive enzymes in our stomach and pancreas, which leads to ineffective digestion of proteins. Due to this we end up with excess amount of undigested protein, which leads to overgrowth of the bad bacteria in our gastrointestinal system and not enough of amino acids to perform all important chemical reactions. We can say that good quality protein is absolutely essential for our healthy being. This is where the papaya enzymes can be very beneficial.

The papain enzymes are produced in the skinny peel of paw paw. The combination of these enzymes repels insect during the ripening, without this protection paw paw fruit would not survive. Eating paw paw after a meal makes for better digestion, prevents bloating and chronic indigestion. It can also lower the inflammation in the body, alleviates the pain and edema caused by sport injuries. Because of its anti-inflammatory properties papaya can relieve the severity of Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Because of its high antioxidant content, papaya can prevent cholesterol oxidation and can be use in a preventative treatments against atherosclerosis, strokes, heart attacks and diabetic heart disease.

In a everyday health papaya works magic on strengthening the immune system preventing the recurrent colds and flu. After treatment with antibiotics eating paw paw or drinking its juice replenishes the good intestinal bacteria, which was destroyed by the antibiotic treatment. The latest good news from eating paw paw comes down once again to papain the enzyme which I talked about, it was found to destroy intestinal parasites. Papain is proteolitic enzyme, which means that it digests inert (non-living) proteins. Intestinal parasites are largely protein, the papain attacks it and causes parasite to die. Also, home applications of leaf and bark papaya extract is used to deal with mouth gums and toothaches which is being effectively practised in many cultures around the world.

Papaya Research and Products

Papain is also being studied for relief of cancer therapy side effects, especially relieving side effects such as difficulty swallowing and mouth sores after radiation and chemotherapy as well as boosting up the immune system and helping body to fight the cancer. I am big fan of the products made by Rochway, Australian company (for more information visit rochway.com.au) as they use organically grown papaya, producing among other products, product called Papaya35, fermented papaya enzymes. They also produce Blueberry and PawPaw probiotic Punch, which has very strong antioxidant properties that protects against free radicals. Free radicals contribute largely in many diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cancer. Rochway products are 99% sugar free which makes them suitable for people suffering diabetes as well. As you can see there is plenty we can benefit from this simple fruit, more and more research is being done and I can’t wait to hear more about it.

For references and more on the current studies you can look up www.pubmed.gov as for the products there are few available on the market.I am sure if you look around you will be able to find many available or simply stick with the fresh fruit. However if you are looking or hoping for more therapeutic effect of eating papaya, you need to be aware the unripened papaya (still green papaya) contains far more of the proteolytic enzymes papain and chymopapain than ripened papaya which we commonly eat. You can also juice the leaves and stems but be prepared for the vile taste of it …. you can’t naturally like its taste nor does the cancer cells.

Summary of Healing Properties of Papaya

Increases quality of proteins in whole organism.
Revitalize the human body and maintain energy and vitality.
Encourages the renewal of muscle tissue.
Supports cardiovascular system.
Boosts up the immune system.
Helps with the digestive system, by breaking down the proteins and supporting production of digestive enzymes.
Papaya can be use also externally as a treatment for skin wounds that don’t heal quickly, for this you can use papaya peel or ointments made out of papaya.
Prevents the cataract formation.
Due to high vitamin A, it lowers the risk of emphysema in smokers and passive smokers.
Alleviates inflammation.
Helps with the nausea and constipation.
Can benefit people suffering colon cancer and other forms of cancers and aliments of cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems.
I would absolutely love new info on papaya and I would love to hear from any one who used it to improve their health.

10 - Paw Paw Cancer Cure resurfaces

9 - Healing Touch of the Paw Paw - Life Scientist

8 - PawPawMan Tin Noonan - todaytonight

Paw Paw Man

Reporter: Tim Noonan

"I'm about to put my hand in boiling water! People think I'm crazy. It's 100 degrees Celsius as you can see. I've used myself as a human guinea pig to prove a point." The point is, Tom McArthur might just be a miracle maker. And he puts himself in harms way to prove it.

"It's now throbbing. I've cut myself, I've burnt myself, I've made myself ill. It takes about four to five seconds and the pain just dissipates.""People can be very sceptical about things like this because it's very, very hard to believe and you really have to witness it." says Pam.

For years he's been laughed at by sceptics, yet praised by thousands of sufferers."It's just miraculous. It's a very special gift he has." says Pam.

"Most people that have had anything to do with Tom think he's a miracle man, they think he's a miracle worker." tells Norm.He could be the last hope for people with diseases and serious wounds such as third degree burns that modern medicine can't cure."This could be a breakthrough in wound management for millions of people around the world." says Professor Michael Woodward.

From life-threatening wounds to cosmetic complaints, patients around the country claim Tom's creams and tonics have cleared up everything from eczema to arthritis and even baldness."We've seen cellulite disappear in 24 hours, we've seen ulcers that have been classified as stage four and in twenty minutes then said to be stage two. We've actually had quite a few cases where they've come in with skin cancer and yes, we've got rid of it." he claims.

It all sounds like the spiel of a snake-oil salesman, fruit extract that heals when pharmaceuticals fail.He's cured hundreds and helped thousands, the evidence so compelling some of Australia's top professors are now becoming believers, commissioning intense scientific and medical research into Tom's secret formulas.Now, he's ready to tell the world.

Diabetic, Gerard clinch, is dancing once again. No small miracle considering the bad blow life dealt him."Doctor told me they wanted to amputate, they wanted to amputate. I didn't know who to turn to."Having already lost three toes to gangrene, he was about to have his left foot amputated. Then, Gerard met Tom."It went from the whole of his toe into his pad."After just two treatments, the results were remarkable."Healed, totally healed in nine weeks, without scars. Gangrene, I mean that's supposed to incurable." Tom says."The docs could not do what Tom could do." says Gerard. "Got me back on my feet and I can think positively now and put a smile on my face!"

"I'm not scientifically trained, I'm not a doctor." Tom explains.With only a high school education, Tom McArthur spent decades making natural medicines in his kitchen - using fruit in ways no one could imagine."If nature has created the disease, I do believe that nature will also provide the cure." he thinks.His love of experimenting with lotions and potions began in the 60s in the jungles of Borneo serving in the British army. He witnessed the villagers using natural medicines, namely pawpaw, to heal their wounds."I started thinking good God, if we could unlock the liquid gold out of this one we'd be on a winner, we could help a lot of people."He then chemically modified pawpaw extract using simple ingredients from his local supermarket like baking powder and lemonade.

"What I was looking for was a way of changing the molecular structure to produce something that wasn't there."Incredibly, after decades of trial and error, he struck. He called it, Opal-A."Why didn't you become a doctor yourself?" asks Tim Noonan."I haven't got the brains! No, I chose a different path, I became a diesel mechanic!"But to Tom, fixing people is as simple as fixing machinery.Doctors told Pam, nothing could be done about the age-spots appearing on her face."Probably after four or five days it was reduced to barely, barely a shadow." she claims.

Darren suffered debilitating migraines.I just thought for the rest of my life I'm going to be living off pain killers. Definitely for the last 20 years I had them, one day to two days a week. Sometimes it's a lot worse at different times."He took eight headache tablets a day to keep the pain at bay until Tom arrived with a special pawpaw-based cream."I put it on, gave it a go! It's been now four weeks since I've had a headache. I've done nothing different, the only thing that I've done different is put the cream on."

Norm had psoriasis, a severe skin disease on his face."At first I was a pure sceptic and I said no, nothing bloody works and it didn't. But Tom's did.When he put his lotions on me, the darn thing, you could see it, it broke up on my face, this one big, red mass on the side it just broke up into three or four pieces. So that's the thing that really shook me and I've had absolute faith in the man since."Barbara had lost hope over a skin graft that refused to heal.

They don't realise just how good it is until they start using it. The colour is coming back into my leg and it's joining up with the rest of my leg. Saved my leg, yes!Professor Michael Woodward is a clinician and researcher for the University of Melbourne's School of Medicine and Austin Health."I've seen some remarkable individual success stories but then I apply my scientifically rigorous mind to make sure that the product actually works. It's very promising from what I've seen."

A world expert in wound management, he's hoping "opal-a" will help cure chronic wounds - a national epidemic he dubs the elephant in the room."This is a product that could lead to wound healing to those who are otherwise destined to have their wounds for ever and ever."So hopeful, he's decided to head up a double-blind clinical trial into Tom's secret formula at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne.

"So double blind trials provide the most rigorous scientific evidence. We have people who are being treated with the active product and people who are being treated with the inactive product - what we call the placebo. The patients we are using this study have had wounds often for many, many months. We are only allowing people into this study if their wounds are hard to heal.""There's millions of people out there with ulcers, bad leg ulcers and Tom's product can heal them, can actually heal them." thinks Norm.

All eyes are now waiting on Professor Woodward for medical proof."It might work on increasing blood supply and that's why we rub it to the skin around the ulcer, it might also work on changing the various chemicals that are responsible for delaying wound healing or promoting wound healing. As all scientists as all clinicians, I need to see evidence before I believe that a treatment works but I'm not going to be putting my finger into boiling oil to see whether this product can actually heal a burn!""You find anyone else that's got the guts and conviction of their own product to stick their hand in boiling fat and burn it and then put it into his own liquid to cure that burn." tells Norm.

"I double-dip, just to make sure it is burnt." says Tom.It's not the first time. He's deliberately burnt his fingers in a deep fryer 14 times."You can see the blister forming below.""A lot of people will look at this footage and say it's a shonk, it's a scam." says Reporter Tim Noonan"I can guarantee that! I get that all the time, I just smile and say, you'll see.""It is amazing that natural products have so many ways of working. I guess that's why they've been around for hundreds of millions of years." believes Professor Woodward.While clinically, there's still a way to go before opal-a is proved to be the real deal, a therapeutic cream containing the formula, Optiderma, will be released later this month. A cosmetic range, only papaya, has already hit the pharmacy shelves.

"If you speak to Tom, it's not the money. I have offered, but he won't take money." tell a few of his patients.But Tom says sometimes mending souls is more important than mending wounds."People that are unhappy try and make them happy. If they're in pain try and get rid of the pain. That's what it's all about." thinks Tom.

80-year-old, grandmother, Mona, is just glad he cared for her."Up until 48 hours ago, I used to wear long pants, I was embarrassed about my legs but now, brilliant!"Her legs were permanently bruised and scarred until Tom came along."Now, this was all black and now it's pink, look."Tom's retired now, living all alone in Hervey Bay, Queensland. Sadly, his wife and co-inventor, Lynda, passed away just ten weeks ago. But in her memory, Tom will continue on.

"I'll do this until I die. I don't call myself a miracle maker, I'm not Jesus Christ or anyone else, I just believe it's a miracle that I found it.""This product, OPAL-A could be a breakthrough that leads to improvement of the health of many many millions of people around the world." thinks Professor Woodward.Tom says "I believe antibiotics will fail in the future because the viruses are getting stronger and immune to what we're producing now so eventually we'll still have to go back to the jungles and the forests to find a replacement. We've only unlocked the tip of the iceberg."

CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact Tom McArthur, please email: tom@myljs.com.au

For OptiDerma and OnlyPapaya:

www.optiderma.com.au

www.onlypapaya.com.au

If you have hard to heal leg ulcers, pressure ulcers/sores or venous ulcers that are not responding to traditional treatments, you can volunteer at The Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital to be assessed for the clinic trial with Associate Professor Michael Woodward.

Please contact Kristin Cooper for further details:

03 94 964 232

kristin.cooper@austin.org.au

7 - Only Papaya - Web Site

6 - Only Papaya - Face Book Group

5 - Paw Paw, an alternative to antibiotics

I have sung the praises of Lucas brand Paw Paw Ointment - it is amazing for cracked, dry lips. If you apply the ointment to cracked, bleeding lips they will be fixed in minutes. I'd love to be able to afford to give everyone a jar to try! It's great for everything.

Tonight on a program on 7 which I rarely watch there was an item about a man who has been fiddling with paw paw and other fruit and vegetable concoctions for years. He's mixed his potions with common kitchen ingredients and made some great ointments which have cured leg ulcers, psoraisis, and other conditions, and has successfully been used to eliminate age spots! The results are visible within minutes of application.

Associate Professor Michael Woodward of the University of Melbourne's Austin Hospital was interviewed about the trials and although at first sceptical he's decided that there is something to the use of the ointments.

Tom McArthur, the paw paw man - his website.

4 - Feature: Proteomics power of pawpaw

Note: this article appeared in the July/August edition of Australian Life Scientist magazine, and this site is in no way affiliated with Tom McArthur or Phoenix Eagle.

If you wish to contact Phoenix Eagle, the company that is researching Tom McArthur's discovery, go to their website here.

For more information about Tom McArthur, you can email him at tom@myljs.com.au. For more information about the cosmetic products on sale in Australia, visit the websites for OptiDerma or OnlyPapaya.

For information about clinical trials using Tom McArthur's discovery: if you have hard to heal leg ulcers, pressure ulcers/sores or venous ulcers that are not responding to traditional treatments, you can volunteer at The Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital to be assessed for the clinic trial with Associate Professor Michael Woodward.

PLEASE NOTE: HARD TO HEAL VENOUS OR PRESSURE ULCER AND LIVE IN MELBOURNE-OTHERWISE CALLS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Please contact Kristin Cooper for further details: 03 9496 4232 kristin.cooper@austin.org.au

It may sound like the spiel of a snake-oil salesman, but the story behind the development of a new Australian product derived from an extract of pawpaw (Carica papaya) designed to promote wound healing is a compelling one. The Australian company behind it, Phoenix Eagle, has developed a new product, OPAL A, that could revolutionise wound healing and wound care.

The story is an unusual one to say the least, but in the company’s favour is the quality of the people it has managed to get on board. Not only does it have local and international specialists as advisors, but it has managed to recruit one of Australia’s best known wound management experts, Associate Professor Michael Woodward of the University of Melbourne’s School of Medicine, and past-president of the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA), to run its early phase clinical trial at the Heidelberg Repat, based at the Austin Hospital.

A clinician as well as a researcher, Michael Woodward admits to being a bit sceptical about the story when he first heard it. “Whenever anybody says a vegetable extract does miraculous things, the first reaction of a doctor is to be a little bit doubtful,” he says. “That’s not because we are all in the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry and only believe in expensive drugs, it’s just because many claims have been made about foods and vitamins in the past that have not been proven once they’ve been subjected to the light of evidence.”

But, having witnessed some remarkable results after the product was used to treat pressure ulcers at Perth’s Quadriplegic Centre, he has come on board. Woodward is now looking for evidence that OPAL A does indeed promote wound healing, running a blinded, randomised placebo-controlled trial of the product in people with hard-to-heal venous and pressure ulcers. The candidates will receive either a placebo or a treatment with OPAL A filtrate, applied directly to the wound, as well as a 30 per cent-strength cream applied to the surrounding area.

Only those who are not responding to regular therapy will be recruited, Woodward says. “We don’t want a new product that is no better than what we have already. For that reason we have everybody treated for four weeks with regular therapy and then at the end of that four-week period they only get into the study proper if their ulcer hasn’t healed by 25 per cent of the surface area,” he says.

“The good thing, if it turns out to be effective, is that it is a totally Australian invention that most people will feel comfortable with,” Woodward says. “A lot of people are more comfortable putting something that is taken from pawpaw on their wound than something that has been developed in a test tube with genetic modification.”

Patented process

The story behind the product’s discovery is a compelling, if slightly unusual. The inventor, Tom McArthur, has no scientific training but has been responsible for a number of inventions. According to Phoenix Eagle’s managing director, Mark Richardson, McArthur has been interested in the therapeutic properties of fruits and vegetables for many years. This was rekindled when he was in the British army based in Malaya in the 1950s.

He spent many years experimenting and finally came up with a way to extract a filtrate from the pulp of the fruit by heating it and adding sodium bicarbonate. Many different fruits and vegetables can be used in this process, but pawpaw looked the most promising. The company has taken out a global patent application on the process, the products derived from the process and the uses of these products, and has filed this application in the major global markets.

It was the cosmetic applications that first sparked McArthur’s interest, but the more important application, for the healing of chronic wounds, came about by chance, says Richardson. McArthur began to treat an acquaintance who had an ulcerous toe that had become necrotic and had been scheduled for amputation, having already lost three others. The treatment, which was videoed, was successful and the patient kept his toe. Another patient, confined to a wheelchair and suffering from a large ulcer on his hip and a hard scar on his buttock, was also successfully treated. Then, Richardson received a phone call from the director of nursing at the Quadriplegic Centre in WA, where the product was unexpectedly being trialled by one of the nursing staff, with excellent results.

That’s when things started to look promising, Richardson says. The idea was initially to manufacture the product for cosmetic uses, but its excellent – albeit anecdotal – results in chronic wounds showed that it should be taken more seriously. So Professor Geoff Mitchell, a general practitioner, palliative care specialist and professor of medicine at the University of Queensland in Ipswich, was asked to take a look.

“The inventor treated patients on an informal basis and then they started keeping records, which included taking photographs of the treatment process as time went on,” Mitchell says. “They asked me to be an independent observer and to correlate what these people had observed with medical records, hospital records and nursing service records so that we could have a credible story that would be accepted by the profession.”

Mitchell presented five cases, which he was not involved in, at the AWMA conference in Darwin two years ago, then at the recent AWMA 2010 conference in Perth, where he presented the results of seven more, six of whom he had treated personally. The wounds ranged from pressure and venous ulcers, to skin tears and an infected traumatic ulcer in a man who was chronically hypoxic from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

“They were all chronically unwell patients but with different causes of their disease,” Mitchell says. “The product has only been used on people where normal treatments have been trialled and failed. We were at the point where the patients had had the best that is on offer and none of the various standard treatments had worked, so we tried something that might.”

The results were excellent, with significant wound healing – properly documented and photographed – in most cases. There was one adverse event, resulting in the amputation of a toe which had appeared to be marginally viable before treatment with OPAL A had commenced.

Modes of action

Mitchell is engaged to advise Phoenix Eagle on medical issues through the University of Queensland’s commercialisation company, UniQuest, although he retains his independent role. He was introduced by the company to Dr Fraser Russell, a biochemical pharmacologist from the University of the Sunshine Coast, who is investigating the possible modes of action of the filtrate.

While the scientific explanation of the therapeutic properties is as yet poorly understood, there are several possible modes of action, Russell says. One he is investigating is the product’s anti-oxidant properties, another is the inhibition of a pro-inflammatory pathway involving the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme.

“The antioxidant potential of OPAL A was assessed by measurement of its free radical scavenging activity,” he says. “Full retention of scavenging activity was observed with samples of OPAL A that were a hundred-fold less concentrated than that used in the clinical trial, suggesting a very good antioxidant response.”

Using a cell-free assay, OPAL A was also found to inhibit 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme responsible for catalysing the production of the pro-inflammatory mediator leukotriene B4.

One of Mitchell’s observations in treating patients was that OPAL A tended to improve perfusion of the wound site with blood, suggesting a vasodilator response. This hypothesis has been supported by Russell, who has shown that OPAL A relaxed isolated segments of pre-constricted human blood vessel. The relaxant response was attenuated by an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, suggesting that OPAL A mediates this response through production of the endothelial vasodilator substance, nitric oxide.

“We hypothesised that OPAL A might facilitate wound healing by tempering pro-inflammatory responses that are known to occur within the wound region,” Russell says. “In support of this, our early findings using cell-free assays showed that OPAL A inhibited purified 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme responsible for hastened production of the pro-inflammatory mediator leukotriene B4.

“In addition, OPAL A was also found to have antioxidant properties. Our current studies are aimed at extending these observations by examining the ability of OPAL A to modulate the production of reactive oxygen species and leukotriene B4 in neutrophils. This work follows our recent studies that have identified vasorelaxant properties of OPAL A.

“The relaxation of a pre-contracted human blood vessel preparation was sensitive to an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, indicating an endothelium-dependent, nitric oxide-mediated response. The findings raise the possibility that OPAL A might improve supply of oxygen and nutrients to tissue in the wound site and thereby facilitate wound healing.”

Enzymatic and proteomic approaches

In trying to elucidate the modes of action of the compound, Phoenix Eagle commissioned a search for the leading global researcher on the enzymes of Carica papaya and came up with Keith Brocklehurst, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, who has 40 years’ experience of conducting mechanistic studies on the enzyme components of Carica papaya. Brocklehurst has conducted a review of Phoenix Eagle’s early work and has indicated his interest in overseeing one of the planned programs of studies to be undertaken.

“A barrier to understanding the mechanism of the therapeutic functions of OPAL A is that it is not known which components of the papaya fruit contribute and in what ways,” Brocklehurst says. He is planning a collaborative program of research involving protein chemistry and enzymology, directed by himself, and biological assays of tissue repair for phenomena such as cell proliferation, viability and migration, directed by Mike Philpott, professor of cutaneous biology in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary.

Phoenix Eagle is also using a number of proteomic approaches to characterising the molecular structure of the compound, working with one of Australia’s pioneers of the application of mass spectrometry-based protein and peptide drug discovery, Dr Richard Lipscombe, managing director of Perth-based specialist clinical research organisation Proteomics International and an adjunct professor at Murdoch University.

Lipscombe and his team are using liquid chromatography-matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation mass spec (LC-MALDI-MS) to improve protein separation and sensitivity and to enable high-throughput time of flight (TOF) instruments to process the samples. “It also means the samples are stable on the target so it can be archived and processed at a convenient time, and the samples can be re-analysed,” Lipscombe says.

“When applied to OPAL A the findings were surprising. In contrast to the untreated papaya extract, which showed most proteins were degraded beyond recognition, the OPAL A processing transformed the protein profile. This time the bioinformatics analysis detected a suite of new proteins, all with putative biological activity. The exciting next step will be to investigate these molecules in more detail and seek to understand how the OPAL process produces them and what their bioactive role could be.”

While the proteomics research is underway, all eyes are on the proof of concept trial at the Austin. While there will be doubters, Woodward reminds the sceptics that some of the best-used drugs in the world are naturally derived, including Digoxin, a treatment for heart disease that is derived from digitalis; the dementia treatment Galantamine, which is derived from Russian snowdrops; and the new cancer drug Paclitaxel (marketed as Taxol), which comes from the Pacific yew tree. “I don’t think doctors are automatically sceptical of a drug that comes from a natural source, but they do want the science to show that it works,” says Woodward.

Note: this article appeared in the July/August edition of Australian Life Scientist magazine, and this site is in no way affiliated with Tom McArthur or Phoenix Eagle.

If you wish to contact Phoenix Eagle, the company that is researching Tom McArthur's discovery, go to their website here.

For more information about Tom McArthur's products, you can email him at tom@myljs.com.au, or visit the websites for OptiDerma or OnlyPapaya.

For information about clinical trials using Tom McArthur's discovery: if you have hard to heal leg ulcers, pressure ulcers/sores or venous ulcers that are not responding to traditional treatments, you can volunteer at The Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital to be assessed for the clinic trial with Associate Professor Michael Woodward.

PLEASE NOTE: HARD TO HEAL VENOUS OR PRESSURE ULCER AND LIVE IN MELBOURNE-OTHERWISE CALLS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Please contact Kristin Cooper for further details: 03 9496 4232 kristin.cooper@austin.org.au


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2 - Paw Paw Man Contact Information

CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact Tom McArthur, please email: tom@myljs.com.au

For OptiDerma and OnlyPapaya:
www.optiderma.com.au
www.onlypapaya.com.au

CLINICAL TRIALS
If you have hard to heal leg ulcers, pressure ulcers/sores or venous ulcers that are not responding to traditional treatments, you can volunteer at The Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital to be assessed for the clinic trial with Associate Professor Michael Woodward.
PLEASE NOTE: HARD TO HEAL VENOUS OR PRESSURE ULCER AND LIVE IN MELBOURNE-OTHERWISE CALLS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Please contact Kristin Cooper for further details:
03 9496 4232
kristin.cooper@austin.org.au

1 - Paw Paw Man - todaytonight

Reporter: Tim Noonan
Broadcast Date: October 05, 2010
From life-threatening wounds to cosmetic complaints, patients around the country claim Tom McArthur's creams and tonics have cleared up everything from eczema to arthritis and even baldness.

For years he's been laughed at by sceptics, yet praised by thousands of sufferers.

Tom puts himself in harm's way to attempt to prove he is in fact a miracle maker.

"I've cut myself, I've burnt myself, and I've made myself ill. It takes about four to five seconds and the pain just dissipates," says Tom.

"We've seen cellulite disappear in 24 hours, we've seen ulcers that have been classified as stage four and in twenty minutes then said to be stage two.

"We've actually had quite a few cases where they've come in with skin cancer and yes, we've gotten rid of it," he claims.

It all sounds like the spiel of a snake-oil salesman - fruit extract that heals when pharmaceuticals fail.

He has reportedly cured hundreds and helped thousands.

The evidence so compelling some of Australia’s top professors are now becoming believers, commissioning intense scientific and medical research into Tom's secret formulas.

Professor Michael Woodward is a clinician and researcher for the University of Melbourne's School of Medicine and Austin Health.

"This could be a breakthrough in wound management for millions of people around the world," says Professor Woodward.

Diabetic, Gerard Clinch, is dancing once again. No small miracle considering the bad blow life dealt him.

"Doctors told me they wanted to amputate. I didn't know who to turn to," says Gerard.

Having already lost three toes to gangrene, he was about to have his left foot amputated. Then, Gerard met Tom.

"It went from the whole of his toe into his pad."

After just two treatments, the results were remarkable claims Tom.

"Healed, totally healed in nine weeks, without scars. Gangrene, I mean that's supposed to incurable," says Tom.

"The doctors could not do what Tom could do," says Gerard. "Got me back on my feet and I can think positively now and put a smile on my face!"

With only a high school education, Tom McArthur spent decades making natural medicines in his kitchen - using fruit in ways no one could imagine.

"I'm not scientifically trained, I'm not a doctor," explains Tom.

His love of experimenting with lotions and potions began in the 60’s in the jungles of Borneo while serving in the British army. He witnessed the villagers using natural medicines, namely pawpaw, to heal their wounds.

"If nature has created the disease, I do believe that nature will also provide the cure," says Tom.

"I started thinking good God, if we could unlock the liquid gold out of this one, we'd be on a winner, and we could help a lot of people."

He then chemically modified paw paw extract using simple ingredients from his local supermarket like baking powder and lemonade.

"What I was looking for was a way of changing the molecular structure to produce something that wasn't there."

Incredibly, after decades of trial and error, he struck. He called it, Opal-A.

Professor Michael Woodward, a world expert in wound management, is hoping Opal-A will help cure chronic wounds - a national epidemic he dubs the elephant in the room.

"This is a product that could lead to wound healing to those who are otherwise destined to have their wounds forever," says Professor Woodward.

"I've seen some remarkable individual success stories but then I apply my scientifically rigorous mind to make sure that the product actually works. It's very promising from what I've seen."

Such results include Darren, who suffers from debilitating migraines.

"I just thought for the rest of my life I'm going to be living off pain killers. Definitely for the last 20 years I had a migraine at least one or two days a week. Sometimes it's a lot worse."

He took eight headache tablets a day to keep the pain at bay until Tom arrived with a special pawpaw-based cream.

"I put it on, gave it a go! It's been now four weeks since I've had a headache. I've done nothing different, the only thing that I've done different is put the cream on," says Darren.

Norm had psoriasis, a severe skin disease on his face.

"At first I was a pure sceptic and I said no, nothing bloody works and it didn't. But Tom's cream did.

"When he put his lotions on me, you could see it breaking up on my face, this one big, red mass on the side. It just broke up into three or four pieces.

"So that's the thing that really shook me and I've had absolute faith in the man since."

After studying the results, Professor Woodward is so hopeful, he has decided to head up a double-blind clinical trial into Tom's secret formula at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne.

"Double blind trials provide the most rigorous scientific evidence," says Professor Woodward.

"We have people who are being treated with the active product and people who are being treated with the inactive product - what we call the placebo.

"The patients we are using this study have had wounds often for many, many months. We are only allowing people into this study if their wounds are hard to heal."

All eyes are now waiting on Professor Woodward for medical proof.

"It is amazing that natural products have so many ways of working. I guess that's why they've been around for hundreds of millions of years," believes Professor Woodward.

While clinically, there's still a way to go before Opal-A is proved to be the real deal, a therapeutic cream containing the formula, Optiderma, will be released later this month.

A cosmetic range, Only Papaya, has already hit the pharmacy shelves.

Tom doesn't believe he is a miracle maker, saying he just wants to help people.

"I'm not Jesus Christ or anyone else, I just believe it's a miracle that I found it."

"This product, Opal-A could be a breakthrough that leads to improvement of the health of many, many millions of people around the world," says Professor Woodward.

Tom says: "I believe antibiotics will fail in the future because the viruses are getting stronger and immune to what we're producing now so eventually we will have to go back to the jungle to find a replacement.

"We've only unlocked the tip of the iceberg."


CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact Tom McArthur, please email: tom@myljs.com.au