20 herbs that can help fight cancer By Allah Dad Khan
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This document lists and describes 20 herbs that may help fight cancer: Astragalus, Berberis family, Bloodroot, Butchers Broom, Cat's Claw, Chaparral, Curcumin, Dang Shen Root, Echinacea, Feverfew, Goldenseal, Milk Thistle, Pau D'Arco, Red Clover, Sheep's Sorrel, Skullcap, Sutherlandia, Thorowax, Wheatgrass, and Wormwood. For each herb, a brief description is given of its proposed anti-cancer mechanisms and any relevant research on its effects against cancer. The herbs are described as having immune-boosting, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant,
20 herbs that can help fight cancer By Allah Dad Khan
- 2. 20 Herbs that can help fight cancer By Allah dad Khan
- 3. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer • 1 ASTRAGALUS (Huang Qi): A Chinese herb; an immune system booster, known to stimulate body´s natural production of interferon. It also helps the immune system identify rogue cells. Work with the herb in both cancer and AIDS cases has been encouraging. The MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas conducted research showing that taking Astragalus when having Radiotherapy doubled survival times.
- 4. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 2 BERBERIS FAMILY (e.g. Podophyllum peltanum):Slow active purgative. Research has shown these herbs to have a strong action against cancer and they have been used with many cancers, especially Ovarian cancer. In Cancer Watch March 2015, the herb was shown in research to outperform brain cancer drug, Temozolomide in vitro
- 5. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 3 BLOODROOT (Sanguinaria canadensis): Research shows consistent anti- neoplastic activity. It has been shown to be effective against cancer tumours, and can shrink them; it is one of the herbs in an anti-cancer poultice called Black Salve; and has proven useful with sarcomas. •
- 6. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 4 BUTCHERS BROOM (Ruscus aculeatus): The active ingredients of this herb has been found to be the ruscogenins which have tumour-shrinking and anti-oestrogenic abilities. Thus its use in the treatment of breast cancer.
- 7. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 5 CAT´S CLAW (Uncaria tormentosa): An adaptogen and powerful immuno- stimulant, it enhances the white cells clean up process (phagocytosis). It is an excellent companion to astragalus, curcumin and echinacea. Research indicates it can reduce tumour size, particularly with skin cancers. It also helps reduce the side- effects of chemo and radiotherapy. •
- 8. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 6 CHAPARRAL (Larrea mexicana): Cancer Watch covered a major research study from the US which heaped praise on this herb. It appears to boost the immune system, stop metastases and reduce tumour size. Seems especially interesting with breast cancer and is another ingredient in Black Salve. It is also an anti-oxidant and anti- microbial, with low toxicity. •
- 9. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 7 CURCUMIN (Turmeric): This spice (Curcuma longa or Turmeric root) has been shown to have significant anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory activity. That alone seems enough for certain hospitals in America to consider using it in the treatment of polyps and colon cancer. However new research shows that it can both shrink cancer tumours and inhibit blood supply growth to tumours. It is a powerful antioxidant with liver protective benefits, and outperformed several anti- inflammatory drugs without side- effects in research.
- 10. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 8 DANG SHEN ROOT (Codonopsis pilosula): increases both the white blood cell and red blood cell levels, so can be extremely helpful to patients having chemotherapy and radiotherapy, or to patients whose cancer diminishes levels of either.
- 11. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 9 ECHINACEA: Another known immune system booster, it gained a populist reputation in treating colds. There is research on its helpfulness with brain tumours apart from its abilities to increase the levels of certain immune white cells in the body.
- 12. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 10 FEVERFEW: ( Chrysanthemum parthenium)This herb caused a storm when research from Rochester University in New York showed it to be more effective than the drug cytarabine in killing leukaemia cells. The US Food and Drug Agency put the active ingredient, parthenolide, on to its fast track programme. Nothing has yet been heard. But then, the FDA has never approved a herb for use as a cancer treatment
- 13. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 11 GOLDENSEAL: ( Hydrastis canadensis) • One cause of stomach cancer can be the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. This burrows into the mucous lining of the stomach to hide from gastric acids, and then causes irritation, acid reflux, ulcers and even cancer. Goldenseal is generally anti-microbial and is used in the Caribbean and South East Asia against parasites. Goldenseal, helped by the mineral Bismuth, will kill Helicobacter pylori. Vets seem to know this, even if doctors don´t. •
- 14. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 12 MILK THISTLE: Known for years to be helpful to the liver, this herb has now been shown to be capable of protecting the liver during chemotherapy. Research in America showed that leukaemia patients who took milk thistle had reduced liver toxicity and chemo side- effects. There is a little evidence that it has its own anti-cancer activity too.
- 15. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 13 PAU D´ARCO: Tabebuia impetiginosa) • This tree bark was original thought to be a strong anti- cancer agent, but then its actions were clarified as strongly anti- bacterial, anti-yeast and anti- microbial. That alone might be enough in some cases of cancer cause. But new research on the differing ingredients has shown the quinoids possess immune strengthening abilities and seem to help in cases of blood and lymph cancers
- 16. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 14 RED CLOVER: Research from a number of cancer centres including the Royal Marsden has shown its potential as a part of a treatment programme against oestrogen-driven cancers, from breast to prostate. One active ingredient in the so- called Herb of Hippocrates is the anti-oestrogen Genistein, which Professor Powles formerly of the Royal Marsden dubbed ´the anti-oestrogen´
- 17. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 15 SHEEP´S SORRELL: ( Rumex acetosella) • Used in Essiac and other herbal remedies, it is a cleanser and aids healthy tissue regeneration. There is some suggestion from research that it helps normalise damaged cells and tissue. It is also a highly praised ´vermifuge´ - intestinal worms have little or no resistance to this herb
- 18. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 16 SKULLCAP (Scutellaria barbata): Research has shown action against many cancer types, for example against cancers of the lung, stomach and intestines.
- 19. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 17 SUTHERLANDIA (Cancer Bush): Peer reviewed research studies indicate that this herb is anti-inflammatory, anti- viral and anti-fungal. It boosts the immune system and inhibits Tumour Necrosis Factor, known to drive wasting in cancer patients.
- 20. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd 18 THOROWAX, or HARES EAR (Bulpleurum scorzoneraefolium): Re search has shown its ability to enhance the production of natural interferon and it seems especially useful in bone cancer.
- 21. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 19 WHEATGRASS: One of the top private hospitals in South East Asia extols the benefits of freshly juiced wheatgrass. One shot gives you the chlorophyll of some 12 or more kilograms of broccoli. It acts as a blood purifier, and liver and kidney cleansing agent. In research, after two weeks of daily use, blood and tissue oxygen levels improve, as does circulation
- 22. Twenty Herbs that can help fight cancer contd • 20 WORMWOOD: Another Chinese Herb, this has outperformed certain anti-malaria drugs and is now used by the aid agencies. It is strongly anti- microbial and anti-yeast and can be used as an effective part of an anti- candida diet. Also certain cancer treatments cause excesses of yeasts to form (for example, in Leukaemia treatment) threatening the patients health further. Excess yeasts are even felt by some cancer experts to be one of the causes of cancer. However, in recent research Wormwood has been shown to have direct anti-cancer properties.