Thalidomide in it’s hay day was considered a wonder drug that could not just be a nice sedative to take at night but to also fight cancer. The real problems occurred when a link of over 8,000 congenital amputee births were made. This caused the wonder drug to be pulled from the market for many years but was later returned as a treatment with major warnings for anyone that may become pregnant. While anyone that knows me understands that I prefer ALL NATURAL ways to bring the body back into alignment, sometimes modern medicine can help us get there and in some times bridge the gap between broken or irrepairable to healthy. You can only do so much damage to the body before it loses it’s ability to self correct. Let me clearly state that there is no magic bullet that fixes everyone! Many of us are still in the process of causing more of the type of damage that gave us Sarcoidosis. Everyone is genetically different and may need more or less of what someone else needs. For some people remission can be a matter of weeks while others it could be a matter of years. Thalidomide is one of those modern drugs that can help fill the gap for those who have gone too far down the rabbit hole!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12114363 – Thalidomide for chronic sarcoidosis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11427794 – Sarcoidosis: thalidomide treatment in ten patients
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14726878 – Treatment of cutaneous sarcoidosis with thalidomide
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23830554 – Current therapeutic indications of thalidomide and lenalidomide