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The Root from Issyk-Kul Revisited
- munduz 5y agoWas skeptical about Issyk-Kul Root, until understood it's same as chemotherapy. Here in Kyrgyzstan, some people consume the Root regularly, with long delays in between (multiple years). Guess, this kills starting cancer.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoYou’re in Kyrgyzstan? Thats awesome! I want to visit the central stans and Mongolia so much.
- riskycodes 5y agoExcellent article - narratively compelling but also very interesting!
- ggm 5y ago"cancer ward" is well worth reading. A tale of hope tempered by realism in the political springtime of the post Stalin period.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoHave you read “In the first circle”? Great read, and they made a mini series out of it that I believe Solzhenitsyn himself narrates.
- ggm 5y agoYes, And I enjoyed it a bit .. less? I can't really say why. The writing is lyrical, wonderful. "Gulag Archipelago" is hard going. Ivan Denisovitch is set as a kids reading book in the UK (or was) "Cancer Ward" is my favourite. Perhaps it's because it has inside it a simple-but-its-complicated, love story? I know thats a bit asinine, but I like romance.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoI enjoyed CW more than FC. I think FC was more depressing. I like Ivan Denisovich most though - theres a message of hope in it that that the others lack. I agree about the romanticism of CW. Why dismiss love as asinine?
- awinter-py 5y agothis cancer drug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoposide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoposide is derived from a toxin in mandrake root seems to have been in a clinical trial in the 80s https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6277188/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6277188/