Word: papaya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit, before heading up to British Columbia and, this Friday, back home. Sumptuous feastings? There was everything from maple soufflé and rack of lamb (and 1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild) to a hot heap of chiles rellenos and refried beans. Banquets? In Los Angeles, the Queen ate papaya and heard George Burns tell jokes about octogenarian sex; at an official dinner in Golden Gate Park, goose-liver quenelles in pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera and Symphony performing a bit of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. A run on velvets and silks? For just...
...Papaya injections alleviate lower-spine pain...
...back had herniated, pressing on spinal nerves and causing excruciating pain. The 40-year-old business executive could either choose surgery to remove the "slipped" discs or go to Canada for a simpler, much ballyhooed but controversial therapy. The treatment: injection of chymopapain, a substance derived from the tropical papaya fruit...
...Chancellor of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Thomas had been trying to see if various enzymes could alter concentrations of proteins in the blood. One evening, he gave adolescent rabbits intravenous injections of papain. Next morning, he found that the rabbits' normally erect ears had flopped; the papaya enzyme had dissolved the gelatinous protein of their cartilage...
Smith, now 70, became determined to find out if chymopapain, another papaya enzyme, could be used to dissolve the similarly gelatinous core of herniated discs. From 1964 until 1978 more than 15,000 patients had chymopapain injected into their discs in FDA-approved experiments. The chemical proved to be as successful as a laminectomy in relieving pain: about 70% of patients improved with either therapy. In 1971, chymopapain was approved for use in Canada, Britain and Australia. But a study of almost 100 patients in the U.S. showed that placebo injections were just as effective as chymopapain. That controversial experiment...