Sangre de Drago known also to the Maya as Sangre de Perro (blood of dog) is an arbusto euforbiacias of this highland Lacandon area of Chiapas, hardly achieving the status of a tree. In the Amazon rainforest it grows into a majestic tree. It can be found as far north as Tucscon, Arizona where it is a small bush. The Greek Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, had a favorite euforbiacias that grew in the Atlas mountains of northern Africa. At the Maya museum of Medicine in San Cristobal de las Casas, which also sells medicines and has a business in herbal medicines, and is regarded as an authority, Sangre de Drago is seen as a remedy to many diseases. Including if HIV pregnant mothers take its boiled bark as directed it will prevent the baby from becoming HIV infected. As a medicinal remedy it has much status at health food stores in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a city which has high ranking professional medical care. Sangre de Drago is an ancient folk medicine.                                                                                                                                                  How does it work? I will offer a theory-hypothesis. First to give the theory some weight begin with the tobacco plant. When the anti rabies antibodies of a human or horse are inserted into the tocacco plant the tobacco plant suddenly produces rabies antibodies mammals can use ( humans and horses are mammals). And it will be very high quality rabies antibody unlike serum antibody which can cause problems unrelated to rabies from other infective agents in the serum. In addition to laboratory processes that insert mammal antibodies into plants there are nature processes such as rain and bacterial action and chemical action, lightning, wind, sunlight that insert these antibodies. The sap of Sangre de Drago when exposed to air turns blood red. And there are other trees and bushes in the world which produce blood red sap. And all of these blood red sap producers are universally used in folk medicine for medicinal purposes. The first thought is it is the employment of "magic" because of the blood red color associated with healthy red blood. But now with what we know about tobacco we may proceed on and we may deduce that sick and weakened animals see the blood red sap and lick it in hopes of nourishment, and urinate and deficate around the tree or bush, rub up against it, and some may die at the foot of it and decompose. And in doing so their antibodies of whatever disease they have are inserted by nature into the red sap tree or bush which in turns produces the relevent antibodies. How can it be any other way?                                                                                                                                                      HIV is a retrovirus as is lentivirus a retrovirus. They are first cousins. Many animals with lentivirus may find the Sangre de Drago tree or bush and interact with it as described above for nourishment. In turn the lentovirus antibodies these nature antibodies inserted Sangre de Drago trees and bushes produce may be effective against HIV. Are they and do these antibodies even exist? We do not know if they have the antibodies. It is going to take a lot of money to find out, which is not available right now. We did not known untill the past few years we were that close to plants. But we have known we are close to cattle. A smote by a cowpox cow will immunize a person against human smallpox. There remains much to be learned in the world of medicine. My aunt (fathers sister), Margeret Elizabeth Lawton, was a captain of nurses in North Africa and the Italy campaign during WW II. In the Italy campaign she told to me that running out of penecilin the surgeons using pressed garlic juice in operations as a replacement. It was not as good as penecilin. My mother who is 94 years of age remembers during the Spanish flu that the doctors made their apologies and began chewing tobacco daily so as to avoid catching it. Ducks, geese and other birds deficate on the tobacco leaves and the antibodies are inserted in the plant by nature processes. The antibodies in turn protected doctors against the Spanish Flu http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id21.html .                                                                                                                                                           It should not be all that totally surprising. To those who have read the ancient Hebrew Septuagint Old Testament, chapter Johah, for the irresponsible actions of Jonah not following orders God gave him God is very disappointed that he has had to cause the Gourd plant Johah was sitting under to wilt in order to cause Jonah to pass out in the hot overhead sun. And God mentions to Jonah what he has had to do to the Gourd plant and asks Jonah if he is sorry for the Gord. And Jonah replies to God he is sorry for the Gourd plant even unto death.     James Franklin Lawton