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- From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: Cancer treatment
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 09:22:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- The original posting in this thread by Harry Waddell asked
- about a particular herb discussed in the Cancer Journal
- as well as other related articles, etc.
- (sorry I my text editor is on the blink at the moment so
- I am not inserting previous text).
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- I have a great deal of interest in this general area.
- That is, any and all diet, vitamin, and herbal correlates
- to cancer suppression or "tumor necrosis" as it is
- sometimes called in the medical profession.
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- I peruse Medline constantly for relevant studies and
- as a layman in terms of medical terminology it has been
- a jungle, but after a couple of years of reading
- medical journals I know can spot articles much more
- easily.
- Guess what: there are literally thousands of studies
- by medical researchers on herbs and herb extracts
- which may have some hope in attacking specific
- cancers.
- The story keeps coming to my mind of the yew tree,
- which for centuries (millennia) has been used by
- native indians as an antitumor potion.
- Then a couple decades ago brought to the fore by
- good ole American med research then abandoned for
- no particular reason, just sort of overlooked
- in the multitudes of research directions I guess.
- Then suddenly rediscovered just a year or two
- ago and now all hell is breaking loose scrambling
- for extracts of it, etc.
- Another angle to is to look at epidemiological studies
- of what populations have unusually low cancer rates.
- Invariably diet is a big causal factor in these.
- For example, it is (finally) widely acknowledged
- by the stuffed shirt med orthodox-ers that beta
- carotene in green vegetables such as spinach,
- also carrots, etc. is definitely linked to lower
- cancer
- rates.
- Oriental diets correlate strongly with lower
- cancer rates (for ==most== but not all cancers).
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- Finally: ACE is the place. The vitamins A,C,
- and E are all correlated with anti cancer
- properties.
- But pleeze....A and E can be harmful in higher
- doses, be careful.
- I will continue to post in this diet/cancer area
- as I find interesting studies.
- There are many herbs being studied. later.
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- --
- Capt. Kirk: let's head for that planet, third from the sun, it
- looks promising.... |-)
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