I have seen reports of excellent results for hemolytic anemia (http://anemiaanswer.com/cgi-bin/lgssearch.cgi?query=hemolytic), in which low platelet counts were corrected. However, I am not sure that carao fruit will in general tend to raise low platelet/WBC. Most of our experience is with low RBC/hemoglobin (anemia). However, I think it is worth trying for your father. If you would like to order the product for airmail shipment to India, you can do so here: https://www.tropicalhealthfoods.com/order.shtml.

In general, those in India who wish to help support the project should get in touch with Rudradevananda: rudradevananda at gmail.com (replace 'at' with '@' and remove spaces). Furthermore, my support (donations of carao fruit) in India is generally done through Rudradevananda. Those who are unable to afford the product can contact me to ask for a special discount. In these cases, shipment might be arranged from Rudradevananda's supply. Full donations of the product are usually not available for those who contact me via Internet.

I am greatly interested in promoting the planting of the trees and the establishment of local production. I am always willing to donate carao tree seeds, for the cost of airmail shipping only. (I will contact you privately about this.) It may be best for you and others in India to collaborate with Rudradevananda's carao tree plantation project.

I can be contacted by clicking my name at the top of this comment, or through the page http://www.tropicalhealthfoods.com/contact.htm.

Lloyd Standish
webmaster, TOS-USA

Rudradevananda is working to build a clinic in India (Orissa) to treat sickle cell disease with carao fruit. You can contact him about his results or to offer him your help at tel 09938167456. However, his supply of carao is very limited, so he may not be able to provide it to you. You can order the fruit for shipment to India through the website http://www.tropicalhealthfoods.com. It is available only in liquid form.

Hello Dr. Pradhann,

Thanks very much for your advice. Our carao fruit product has 4 years of constant clinical use in Nigeria by an M.D., Dr. Attahiru A. Sokoto, involving hundreds of patients (primarily Sickle Cell) but he has not provided me with printed blood test results as emitted by his hospital laboratory. I have been requesting this of him for over 2 years. His results are summarized at http://www.anemiaanswer.com/sokoto.htm

Carao trees are found I believe only in Central America, and only scattered wild trees exist (no plantations yet). When and if carao gets the attention of the mainstream medical community, there would be an immediate worldwide shortage of carao, which would be chaotic. This is why I am more interested at this time in promoting planting of the trees than I am in convincing the medical community of the benefits of carao for anemia and sickle cell.

I believe that Rudradevananda is moving strongly ahead with the establishment of carao plantations and India's first solar evaporation carao production facility.

My hope is to promote the planting of trees and the production and use of carao fruit extract worldwide. This s quite the opposite from trying to "safeguard our commercial venture." In fact, within a year or 2 my small commercial venture will probably turn into a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote the production of carao fruit throughout the tropics.

Another possibility, of course, is that the active ingredient in carao is discovered, isolated, and perhaps even synthesized artificially. That would certainly change the picture. However, I think carao has an extremely complicated biochemistry.

If you would like to contact me by email to share ideas and perhaps help me with contacts in India, my email is lloyd at crnatural.net. Rudradevananda can be emailed at rudradevananda at gmail.com. (Spam prevention: replace 'at' with '@' and remove spaces.)

Regards,
Lloyd

The product can be shipped by airmail to India. Please consult the website at http://www.anemiaanswer.com for more information. You can email me through that site if you have any further questions.

Hello Beatrice,
In Nigeria, if you are unable to afford the carao fruit product, you can email Dr. Sokoto, whose email address is attahirus at gmail.com (spam prevention, replace 'at' with '@' and remove spaces).  He is located in Sokoto State, Nigeria.  For telephone contact information for Dr. Sokoto, contact me.

In UK, you can order the product from http://www.crnatural.net.  Shipping to UK takes about 2 weeks.  The producing company currently has no emergency supply in UK.

By the way, the email address you gave when you posted your comment is incorrect, so you would not have received a notification of follow comments here.  I realized this because you attempted to join http://forum.anemiaanswer.com, and your registration confirmation email was undeliverable.

Dear Jilesh,

Thank you for your supporting words.  I hope we can work together to help many people!

Although we have abundant information on carao fruit for anemia of many origins (including "iron deficiency," blood-loss related, chemotherapy-induced, sickle cell, etc.), we only have 3 documented cases of carao fuit used for thalassemia (all 3 results positive). 

Therefore, just a few days ago (May 26, 2008) I decided to organize a test of carao fruit on a thalassemia support forum.  For information, please visit http://www.thalassemiapatientsandfriends.com/index.php?topic=1259.30.  (You may have to register with the forum to view this page.)

I have offered to provide 4 bottles of carao for free to each of 5 people, for thalassemia.  Participants in this test agree to post their results to the forum mentioned above, including blood test results (or summary of results) if possible.  I encourage you, Jilesh, to take advantage of this opportunity to obtain the carao fruit for your son and to participate in sharing the results to the world.  Perhaps you also know of other people with thalassemia who would like to take part in this informal testing.  (I want to point out that carao fruit is a completely natural and safe food that has been used for centuries in Central America as remedy for anemia.  It gives wonderful results for in all age groups, from infants to the very old.) More information on carao fruit for anemia is available here.

When we have more information on carao fruit for thalassemia, we will be ready to move forward with further donations (to a thalassemia clinic or hospital in India, I hope). 

Regarding the planting of carao trees, I am ready at any time to donate carao tree seeds, for the cost of shipping, to anyone in the world who will plant them.  Interested parties should contact me.

I would like to point out that we already do regular donations of carao fruit to Rudradevananda in India (rudradevananda at gmail.com), primarily for sickle cell disease in patients of all ages, and to Dr. Attahiru S. Sokoto (attahirus at gmail.com), primarily for sickle cell disease in children.  Anyone who would like to donate to help me pay shipping for these carao fruit donations can do so on this page.

Anyone would like my carao donations project to be officially supported by the TOS-USA should express their support by posting comments here or by sending a message to our President.

Many people have been cured of their anemia with carao fruit. You can read more on the website http://AnemiaAnswer.com.

The medical profession in USA does not recognize or accept carao fruit therapy, despite years of wonderful results, including consistent positive clinical results, a peer-reviewed scientific study on rats (http://anemiaanswer.com/far09304.htm), and an enormous amount of "anecdotal" feedback from around the world, published on my website (http://www.anemiaanswer.com/testimonials.htm).

My donation project is primarily for sickle cell anemia, although carao fruit is effective, as far as I know, for all anemia. Dr. Sokoto in Nigeria has used it to treat many forms of anemia, not only sickle cell. The results reported by Dr. Sokoto are but a small part of the information I have collected over the years. I encourage all those who are interested to visit my website at http://www.AnemiaAnswer.com.

In the case of sickle cell anemia (as well as thalassemia, another genetically-related anemia), a "cure" cannot be expected. However, Dr. Sokoto has reported remission of symptoms of sickle cell for at least 6-12 months after carao fruit is no longer used. If I am not mistaken, if and when symptoms recur, they are never as severe as they were before carao was taken, even over a year after carao is discontinued. A maintenance dose of carao fruit is not provided to these patients simply because the supply is insufficient. Dr. Sokoto can be contacted at attahirus at gmail dot com.

We are interested in projects to plant carao tree seeds in Africa and India, and eventually to teach the people how to make LTE (Low Temperature Evaporation) raw carao extract, a process I developed in Costa Rica.