Dr. Templeman speaks!
Dr. Templeman is a primary care physician with 20 years experience. He is board certified in both the United States and Canada. I have been using a Mangosteen functional beverage with my patients long enough to draw valid clinical conclusions about its effectiveness in many medical conditions. Initially, I used it as a fallback product only when the regular medicines I prescribed proved ineffectual. I now use it as a first-line therapy in a wide range of conditions because it has, in my experience, proven to be as efficacious or more efficacious than the prescription medicine I used to prescribe for numerous disease states. My logic for using Mangosteen extract rather than a drug is relatively simple. All drugs are potentially dangerous. There is no safe drug. For example, in recent study, 1 read that 11 commonly prescribed drugs would prove fatal to a two year old child if simply one dose for an adult were ingested. Food, by comparison, is absolutely safe. It also has 1 legitimate use other than simply to provide energy and nutrition. Food can, and should be used, to modulate body functions. After all, Hippocrates, centuries ago, said: "Let food be your medicine..."
I use Mangosteen Juice as a first-line therapy in the following conditions:
• GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease)
• Asid dyspepsia or gastritis
• Hiatal hernia
• Arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Fatigue or low energy states
• Mild depression or dysthymia
• Mild to moderate anxiety
• Mild to moderate asthma
• Irritable bowel disease (diarrheal type)
• Recurrent urinary tract infection in the elderly
• Diverticulitis
• Sleep disorders
• Allergic rhinitis
• Neurodermatitis
• Eczema
• Seborrhea
• Otitis externa (with a gauze wick in the ear canal)
• Muscle or joint pain without evidence of arthritis
Mangosteen used as an Adjunctive Therapy
"If you agree that disease can be viewed as an imbalance in bodily function, as a disturbance of the organism's homeostasis, then foods that have been shown to regulate those disordered functions would be indicated as appropriate intervention in disease."
Mangosteen Juice is used as an adjunctive therapy in the following conditions
• Rheumatic disease
• Degenerative disc disease
• Lupus erythematosis
• Chronic pain (including sciatica and radicular syndromes)
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Migraine headache
• Stomach and duodenal ulcers
• Diabetes
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Moderate to severe depression
• Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease and hypertension
• Post menopausal mood disorder and PMS
• Viral infections
• Bacteria infections
• Aphtous ulcers of the mouth
• Fungal infections
• Hemorrhoids (used with gauze patches topically)
• Psoriasis
• Severe allergic reactions
Additional Observations on the Use of Mangosteen
I am well aware that many conditions are unsatisfactorily treated with prescription drugs. Whether doctors are prepared to admit this to their patients or not, they know it to be true. Because I am not a naturopath and well versed in the use of a broad range of natural remedies, before a commercial Mangosteen preparation was available, I had few alternatives to prescription drugs as far as complementary prescribing was concerned.
I cannot express the relief I feel, as a physician, knowing that there is a safe, efficacious, natural alternative. I can use in the conditions I have listed. It may be helpful for those reading this piece to also have a list of some of the prescriptions and over the counter drugs that I have discontinued in my patients when the Mangosteen extract has equaled or outperformed them. My purpose in setting out these lists is to allow patients to evaluate for themselves whether pharmaceuticals or phytoceuticals should be used to treat their conditions. The basic question I ask is this:
"Why would anyone even use a drug to obtain some effect that can be found in a food?" Mangosteen is a food. It is found in a commercially available beverage that has produced therapeutic effects in my patients (without the side-effects of drugs) that rival what drugs can do. Do not stop your medications but add the Mangosteen to your meds.
We have not seen food-drug interactions with this product. When you have used the Mangosteen for a reasonable period of time (1 - 2 months), go to your doctor and tell him what you've experienced and ask him to redo blood tests etc... to determine what effect the Mangosteen has had. Then, with his collaboration, reduce or stop the medications that the Mangosteen has made unnecessary. You'll be surprised with the benefits it can provide in Chronic illness at doses of one to two ounces before meals, ideally three times daily. For prevention, one ounce a day is adequate.
Mangosteen equals or out performs the following prescriptionsand over-the-counter drugs
• Nexium, Prevacid Aciphex and other proton pump inhibitors
• Zantac, Pepcid and other H2 blockers
• Allegra, Zyrtec, Claritin, Clarinex and other antihistamines
• Singulair
• Prednisone
• Lotrisone, Topicort, Cutivate, and other topical corticosteroids used for skin conditions (eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea.)
• Valium, Xanax, and other minor tranquilizers.
• Tegretol, Neurontin and other anti-epileptic drugs when used for chronic pain relief.
• Anusol and other hemorrhoid preparations
• Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lexapro and other antidepressants when used for dysthymic and anxiety states.
• Vicodin, Percocet, Duragesic patches, Methadone and other narcotics used for chronic pain control.
• Celebrex, Vioxx, Bextra, Naproxen, Arthrotec, Ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatories used for musculo-skeletal pain and inflammation control or menstrual pain.
• Ultram, Talwin, and other non-opiod pain preparations.
• Midrin. Floricet, Imitrex, Amerge, Maxalt, Zomig and other seretonergic migraine headache preparations.
• Lipitor, Zocor, Pravacol and other lipid-lowering agents
• Valtrex for herpes infections.
• Aricept, Cognex and other Alzheimer's preparations
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