Dr. Albert Y. Leung

Medicines don’t have to be expensive or cause new diseases that require new drugs to treat, thus perpetuating the vicious cycle.  If you think I am too harsh on modern drugs, please tell me why, but only after you have read and understood what I have written in my recent books.  You may consider me naïve, and I may be blunt, but I am no pathological liar.  Please read my books.  If you are an intelligent and/or a compassionate human being, you’ll most likely agree with me.  And buy my book(s) too if you think the world needs more kindness and less politics, especially in science and health.  Help me try to break the vicious cycle of modern drugs and to disrupt the misapplication of the wrong sciences on natural medicines.  I need a lot of help because I am up against the second most powerful political force in the U.S.A. next to the NRA!  Except guns kill fast and synthetic drugs slowly!

Here is something simple to take care of a painful problem.  Like drugs, it may not work for everyone.  But at least it wouldn’t cause a toxic side effect that might end up as a new disease either.  Furthermore, there are no incentives here for anyone to make money out of you and me!

It’s walnut for urinary stones and gallstones!   The recipes are described in my “Chinese Herbal Remedies” aka “Chinese Healing Foods and Herbs” that has been translated into German “Chinesische Heilkrἃuter (Diederichs Gelbe Reihe, publisher).”  These are also described in my newest book “My Life & Rollercoaster Career” on p. 204.

 

HEALING FOODS

Walnut.  Reports on its use to treat urinary stones (kidney, bladder, etc.) have occasionally appeared over the past forty years.  I first reported this use in my Chinese Healing Foods and Herbs (pp. 167-168).  Now I have come across another use in a recent issue of a popular health journal [Jiankang Zhinang, 38(2): 45(1996)].  This time it was used for gallbladder stone.  After simply eating 4 to 10 walnuts daily without interruption for 6 months, the patient had no more symptoms (abdominal pain and distention, nausea and vomiting, chills, fever, etc.).  Also, physical examination revealed that the stone was no longer present.  Before this self-treatment, the patient had been treated by conventional methods for a whole year without much relief.  For people who have urinary or gallstones, it certainly won’t hurt to give walnut a try.

There is another recipe on p. 252 of “My Life & Rollercoaster Career” which also describes the use of Job’s tears for the same problem.  There, for urinary stone, it only would take days instead of months for gallbladder stone.

There are over 100 recipes described in my newsletter in the above book.  I have already marked them for publication in a new book, probably 160 to 180 pages.  These are Chinese herbal remedies reported in Chinese journals throughout China.  They are not from a figment of my imagination or plagiarized from someone else’s work.  This plagiarism is described in my book on pages 220-222 and 263-264.  Sadly, the publisher for the plagiarized work is well-known.

For decades I have advocated and worked towards proper standards for traditional herbal medicines.  These efforts and disruptive concepts/technologies are described in my books.

Now, 10 years after our patent application, “System and Method for Assessing Traditional Medicines” was submitted detailing our Phyto-True System, a European patent (EP 2 185 167 B1) was finally granted, published on July 4, 2018, EPO Bulletin 2018/27. The key part of our Phyto-True system patented is the Representative Botanical Reference Materials (RBRM) aka Phyto-True Reference Materials (PTRM).  These are the basic herbal standards required for properly investigating traditional medicines, especially Chinese herbs.  Without them, traditional medicines cannot be evaluated properly, yielding irreproducible results and hence controversies whenever herbal medicines are studied using misapplied technologies specifically developed for chemical drugs.

I thank my co-inventor Greg Pennyroyal and my former technical team at Phyto-Technologies, Inc. (including Darin Smith, Heather Conway, Shannon Ehlers, David Hansen, and Pat Mettler) for their contribution.  This patent is a byproduct resulting from an SBIR grant for feverfew research from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), now renamed National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), with me as Principal Investigator and Dennis Awang, PhD, as Co-Principal Investigator.

I also want to thank my associates, Jan Matyska and Vaclav Tomek of PhytoCZ of the Czech Republic for their faith in our technology and their perseverance in pursuing the patenting of this technology.

 

RBRM for initially a dozen Chinese herbs are available from:   www.chromadex.com

RBRM for more Chinese herbs will also be soon available from:             www.ichemtesting.com.

 

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My Life & Rollercoaster Career

by

Albert Y. Leung, PhD

This book is two books in one, the author’s Memoir and his Newsletter published between 1996 and 2004.   Born with a mental handicap, Dr. Leung grew up in Hong Kong and China in a traditional Chinese medical environment.  He flunked out of the same school twice, but somehow managed to graduate from another high school in Hong Kong with honors and earned a Pharmacy degree in Taiwan, before going to the University of Michigan on a teaching assistantship to pursue graduate studies in Pharmacognosy (study of natural medicines).  Since then, he has been a chemist, microbiologist, salesman-entrepreneur, Chinese herbalist, botanical research scientist, herbal supplement manufacturer, and author.  For at least 8 years while in print, his Newsletter reached many movers and shakers in the herbal and associated industries.  In 2011, he was awarded an Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award for the scientific advancement of herbal medicine from his Alma Mater, the College of Pharmacy, the University of Michigan.

For the first time, Dr. Leung wants to alert the general public to two issues in modern health care:  (1) the vicious cycle of synthetic toxic drugs and (2) mislabeled dietary supplements often sold as herbal supplements.

Synthetic drugs all have toxic side effects some of which become new diseases requiring more drugs to treat, causing a persistent vicious cycle. At the same time, many herbal supplements are not really herbal but chemical, in a base of excipients (carriers and fillers) labeled as ‘herbal’ supplements.  Both unnecessarily have been draining much of our financial resources.

He proposes practical solutions to improve or replace them.

Available on www.amazon.com:  My Life & Rollercoaster Career – 550 pages, $25.95

The Life of a Pharmacognosist – 213 pages, $16.00

My Life & Rollercoaster Career is also available in Kindle – $5.49

 

Something for you to ponder:

Over decades, I have been openly critical of both the drug and herbal supplement industries.  Only in the last 15 years have I started to realize that for over a hundred years since the modern drug era began, we have never paid much attention to our body while doing drug development and therapy.    The body is just there.  Initially we might have viewed it as a single entity, then, as time went by, we might also notice that a man’s body is physically and chemically somewhat different from that of a woman, or an adult’s from a child’s, or a white man’s from that of a black man.  However, despite this, we have never acted on those observations.  So, in drug therapy, we treat our bodies simply as equal entities, yours is the same as mine.  But they are not!  The human body is simultaneously complex and organized.  It’s not too different from regulating herbs as food per the DSHEA passed in October 1994, yet up to the present we have never treated them properly as food, only as drugs, using technologies only suitable for drugs.

The reason why synthetic drugs are often toxic can be visualized as follows.  No matter how scientifically a drug is developed, once it enters our extremely complex and organized body, it meets billions of chemicals, cells, and tissues.  All the scientific planning and execution in the drug’s development and testing are irrelevant, because we have not provided it with directions to bypass millions of potential targets everywhere in its path when it tries to reach what we assume to be the target(s). Besides, what if our assumption is wrong?  This specific chemical we’ve made has a unique structure different from all the others.  But none has an extra specific ‘homing device’ to lead it directly to the assumed targets without bumping into millions and millions of other chemicals and cells, present in its path.  Just imagine the chaos it produces in our complex and extremely well-organized and functioning body. The end result can be different toxic side effects leading to new diseases requiring more drugs to treat, thus a persistent vicious cycle.  This scenario does not even include the potential highly toxic impurities from the synthetic process which can be almost sure to accompany the synthetic drug in question.

Does anyone have a solution to this scenario that’s due to our extremely complex and well-organized and functioning body?  Ideas, suggestions, and plans to start to deal with this toxic drug vicious cycle are discussed in my new book.  Please read it and spread the word if you think my premise makes sense.  I am thinking of our children and grandchildren’s generations, as it would at least take that long to extract ourselves out of this vicious cycle of current drugs, entrenched in our healthcare system for so many decades.

 

An Insider’s Scientific Look at Drugs and Herbal Supplements

 Re-publication of

 Leung’s (Chinese) Herb News 

ANNOUNCEMENT

Between 1996 and 2004 I published Leung’s (Chinese) Herb News or LCHN for short.  My main reasons for publishing it were stated in its first issue, including providing accurate information on traditional Chinese medicines and their practice, as well as simple specific remedies from Chinese journals, books, and other publications, reported here in English for the first time.  The beginning 3 paragraphs from its first issue describing the main reasons of why I wanted to publish the LCHN are reproduced below.

LCHN Issue 1