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Rhubarb as A New Cancer Treatment

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Eating rhubarb, a vegetable can be cooked in sweet or savory dishes, could become the basis for a new cancer treatment, since eating this food cooked for 20 minutes dramatically increased levels of cancer-fighting substances in the body. The researchers have discovered Sheffield Hallam University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute, whose findings were published in the journal Food Chemistry’.

Anticarcinogenic substances in the body increases the vegetable are called polyphenols and has been shown to selectively kill or may prevent the progression of cancer cells. Thus they can be used to develop new, less toxic treatments for this disease, even cancers resistant to other treatments. (more…)

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Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (II)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

4) controlled studies, randomized prospectively made are expensive and complicated. The research is funded or mistletoe just what was never publicly funded. The funding of existing trials was achieved mainly by contributions from the producers of this drug. And these laboratories, for its small size, have-not unlike the large multinational pharmaceutical-huge research budgets to make possible the kind of studies required by the official Oncology.

In addition, oncologists have preferred to give up a first-order therapeutic tool compatible with conventional treatments and ignore the scientific literature that explains the use of mistletoe is translated into improved survival, a substantial improvement in the quality of life and greater tolerance to cytotoxic treatments. (more…)

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Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (I)

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Document Anthroposophical Medicine in the field of Science and Research, published by Association Anthrosana Spain-patients for a health system expanded-anthroposophic mistletoe can read about the “There is neither ready anthroposophical healing plant for one that has been so well-researched as this.

The mistletoe extract drugs have become the most prescribed of all those in Oncology. Its prescription is not unique for anthroposophic doctors also apply equally colleagues traditional and complementary medical. There are many studies with mistletoe extracts from pre-clinical research and more than 60 clinical studies on the implementation of in total 5 registered, and anthroposophic preparations made from this plant. They are Abnoba Viscum, Helixor, Iscador, and Iscucin Isorel. The results of these studies is essentially positive. viscum Under a particular therapy improves quality of life, and partly prolongs survival, even those free of disease. ”

Today, in addition to countless studies in laboratory and animal, numerous human studies that have addressed the mistletoe but despite that has found an improved survival and/or the quality of life of patients -no side effects-Spanish oncologists do not propose to use it. (more…)

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Mistletoe for Cancer Treatment (II)

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Mistletoe (Viscum album): MAGIC PLANT

We have all heard at one time on the properties of mistletoe. The white mistletoe, league or visco (Viscum album) is a plant semiparasit articulated in stems and evergreen. It belongs to the Santalaceae family and has male and female flowers. It is a plant that can grow to three feet and grow over the branches of various trees, mainly deciduous, like apple or poplar-but also on some varieties of pine trees which gives different characteristics. As the fruit is a berry-toxic, small white and pink.

The mistletoe was the magic plant of the Druids and Celtic but Central had already been used medicinally by the ancient Greeks. And according to its supporters used to treat epilepsy, infertility, menopausal symptoms, nervous tension, asthma, hypertension, headache, dermatitis… and cancer. (more…)

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Mistletoe for Cancer Treatment (I)

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

The Druids considered the mistletoe as a magical plant… and they were probably right. The U.S. National Cancer Institute, for example, admits that this is a plant of great interest in cancer treatment as it not only causes death by apoptosis in cancer cells but also stimulates the immune system. A faculty that is blamed on two of its components: vixcotoxinas and lectins.

And that explains why in some European countries already-used as monotherapy or as adjunct-to treat cancer and/or to decrease the side effects of chemotherapy. Over 30 clinical studies endorse their properties.

Rarely someone who has overcome cancer by natural methods have the opportunity to tell in the media because they are engaged in relentless censorship to defend the existing system. Opposite happens with popular celebrities or those patients who claim to be satisfied or to have recovered with conventional treatments: immediately found a niche in the media to speak well of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. (more…)

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