Source : Jewish World Review
Donald J. Mantell, a physician with an alternative medicine practice in Sarver, Pa., prescribes the juice, along with vitamins and other nutritional therapies. So it’s hard to pinpoint what caused the “significant improvement” he’s seen in children with attention deficit disorder or the higher T-cell count — indicating a strengthened immune system — in an AIDS patient. “Noni is definitely part of it,” he said. ONCE HE PRESCRIBES THE JUICE TO PATIENTS, MANTELL — A DISTRIBUTOR OF THE TAHITIAN NONI BRAND — THEN SELLS IT TO THEM. (The stuff is not cheap at $42 for a 33-ounce bottle, a 40 percent markup for Mantell). Mantell also has used noni juice himself. He claims that after his wife applied diluted noni to her eyes, she no longer needed glasses. Note that this would fit in very well with other testimonials.

Wallace I. Sampson, editor of the journal Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and spokesman for the American Cancer Society, calls noni users’ ubiquitous healing claims “part of the panacea myth. Anything that’s good for everything obviously doesn’t work for anything,” said Sampson, “Eighty percent of symptoms get better on their own anyway.”