What is the problem with a potential anti-cancer substance found in a Borneo shrub?
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A promising anti-cancer substance has been found in a Borneo shrub by researchers for an Australian pharmaceutical firm, while a chemical found in latex produced by a tree appears to be effective against the replication of HIV.\n422 new plant species had been discovered in Borneo - shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei - in the last 25 years and many others were believed to be there which could have medicinal applications.\nBut all these promising discoveries could eventually be lost if the disappearing rainforests of the heart of Borneo are not adequately protected.\nMore forest destruction could well deny science the opportunity to discover and develop further potential sources of life-saving medication.
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The occasional misidentification of herbs can result in improper use and potential safety issues. As part of its educational mission to promote responsible use of medicinal plants, the American Botanical Council (ABC) announced in its newest publication, a crucial quality control manual for herb and dietary supplement companies. The Identification of Medicinal Plants: A Handbook of the Morphology of Botanicals in Commerce focuses on the straightforward visual, macroscopic (examination under hand lens or dissecting microscope) identification of more than 150 species of botanicals used in commercial herbal products in North America.\nIn India we are lacking such technical supports and forced to believe that all herbal products approved by the Drugs Controller General of India are of good qualities even if the truth is a bit bitter!!\nNot only herbal products but other medicinal preparations are also having same limitations.The fact is that we all are living under a threat!!
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Fortunately, there is much that you can do to help your body to fight cancer: Do not use tobacco products; avoid the harmful rays of the sun; exercise regularly and choose foods with less fat and consume more vegetables, whole grains, fruits and juices- especially cancer-preventive, phytonutrient-rich goji.\nGoji is oneof the only plant species on earth that contains the anti-cancer mineral germanium.  It's antioxidants and unique polysaccharides can halt the genetic mutations that can lead to cancer.\nIt is important to note that goji has also ben shown to enhance the effects of radiation in combating cancer, allowing a lower dose to be used. Other research indicates that goji can protect against some of the noxious side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.  In addition, patients receiving a cancer drug together with goji exhibited response rates up to 250 percent better than those obtained by the drug alone.  These advnced cancer patients experienced amazing regressions of malignant melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, colorectal carcinoma, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and malignant hydrothorax.  Remission of cancers in patients treated with goji lasted significantly longer than those treated without goji.\nFor cancer management- 4 to 8 ounces daily, taken with meals.\nI take goji as a preventative measure as I lost my Mother and Grandmother to breast cancer when they were way too young.  Goji is an adaptogen which works on all auto-immune deficiencies and has medical validation. There are 72 clinical studies published on pubmed.org under the name Lycium Barbarum.\nBest of luck and God Bless.
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Suspected carcinogens.
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Some of the most promising herbs that have antitumor and cancer-preventive properties are garlic, Asian ginseng, green tea, turmeric, and shiitake and maitake mushrooms.
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At the moment, artemisinin is an extract from genus Artemisia; it's still in research, and (if past experience with such things is any serious guide to the future) it will be an artemisinin analogue that will turn the trick.\n\nLet me explain that from a rather skew-thinking standpoint.  Most of the compounds that are not directly related to metabolism are there to attract something or repel something.  Most of the time, the ones useful for medicine are there to repel things--competing organisms or infecting organisms or critters that want to eat the thing--or internal metabolic items that happen to match the receptors or other things in another organism, by what the evolutionists would call happenstance.  The fact that they have medical use is, from the plant's point of view, a total irrelevancy.   On the whole, these compounds can be, and often are, modified to reduce their toxicity and improve their effectiveness.  Thus, on the whole, a minor retooling of the molecule can sometimes produce a major improvement in its effects.\n\nA case in point is the lanatosides in Lily of the Valley.  Poisonous stuff, that; it's a glycoside that can do evil things to the human heart in large doses.  Smaller doses of lanatoside C can be helpful in some disease states; a chemical derivative of lanatoside C (which is very similar to a compound in foxglove) is both safer and more potent: digoxin...  Digoxin is now the premier cardiac glycoside, having essentially totally displaced digitoxin, ouabain, strophantin and a host of others that were just extracts.\n\nLong story... Sorry.
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Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis (also Toxicodendron dermatitis and Rhus dermatitis) is the medical name given to allergic rashes produced by urushiol oil contained in various plants. This includes the genus Toxicodendron (including poison-ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac), as well as other plants in the family Anacardiaceae (mango, Rengas tree, Burmese lacquer tree, India marking nut tree, and the shell of the cashew nut), and even unrelated plants such as Ginkgo biloba.\n\nThe American Academy of Dermatology estimates that there are up to 50 million cases of urushiol-induced dermatitis annually in the United States alone, accounting for 10% of all lost-time injuries in the United States Forest Service. Poison-oak is a significant problem in the rural western and southern U.S., while poison-ivy is most rampant in the eastern U.S. Dermatitis from poison sumac is not common, but it heavily impacted construction work on Disney World in Florida.\n\nClick the link to see a picture.
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Tongkat Ali is made from Eurycoma longifokia, a powerful root, grown in indonesia and Malaysia. Also known as Pasak Bmi and Alis Stick, it has an adeptness to support healthy hormone levels and improve strength and stamina.  \n \n \nRESEARCH DATA\nA study by the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) showed that the Eurycoma Longifolia Jack or Tongkat Ali (Pasak Bumin) contain anti-oxidant properties, a high level of SOD (Superoxide Dismutase), an anti-oxidant enzyme. \n \nThe aqueous and methanol extracts of Tongkat Ali has an effect of scavenging superoxide and lipid peroxidation. This showed that Tongkat Ali could inhibit the chain reaction of free radicals that could be harmful to the body system. \n \nResearch has shown that Eurycoma Longifolia Jack contains several phytochemicals (plant chemicals) that support healthy testosterone levels (the sex hormone) required for the male sexual functions. It also supports healthy sexual organs and mental alertness.
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Could have mouth cancer.\n\nCoach
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Department of Drug Technology and Social Pharmacy, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.\n\nThe article deals with the production of the extract of Echinacea purpurea herbs when selecting an extractant concentration, the size of particles in a raw material and the method of extraction. Using 60% (v/v) ethanol for production of the immune system enhancing extract, the extract becomes green due to pigmental substances; therefore, 60% (v/v), 70% (v/v), and 96% (v/v) ethanol was not used for extraction. It is recommended to use 50% (v/v) ethanol for extraction. Using 40% (v/v) ethanol not all active substances are extracted and resistance of the extract to microbial contamination is weaker. It was determined that the method of repercolation should be used to yield the largest amount of active substances. The largest amount of active substances in the immune system enhancing extract was obtained when the flow speed of extract was 0.2 ml/min. The quality of extract was tested within the period of 26 months by the monitoring of following parameters: appearance of the extract, refraction index, relative density, ethanol concentration, the amounts of dry residue and chicoric acid. The analysis was carried out every three months. The samples of the extract remained stable during storage: no alterations of color, smell or taste were observed. Some of the samples had deposits, which is quite natural in the production of drugs from herbal material, as they have no influence on the quality of the drug (the amounts of active substances were found to be within acceptable limits). On the basis of the obtained results, the period of expiry of the immune system enhancing tincture was confirmed to be 2 years.
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I'm so glad that it has cleared up for you. It seems the cause may be from bad sunburns, so you may want to be extra careful in the sun from now on.\n\nHere is some information for you about the disease.\n\nIt's described as a 'false skin cancer' that resembles a little volcano. Keratoacanthoma can also look like 'real skin' cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) so it is critical that it be evaluated.\n\nhttp://dermnetnz.org/lesions/keratoacanthoma.html\nhttp://www.umm.edu/imagepages/2308.htm\nhttp://dermnetnz.org/lesions/grzybowski.html
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Please listen to me as I am only here to help. You have to do exactly as I say. Go to the website and look up CESIUM CHLORIDE AND OXYGEN DROPS. The other ones could be green algae and paw paw, etc etc. These medicines are known in the medical field, but they dont talk about it. Because these are natural remedies with no toxic chemicals in it. So, thats why they cant profit from it. If they cant profit, they dont sell. I mean, some are even made of mushrooms that you can grow anywhere. Why would they promote this? These doctors will never make money. So, the FDA has put a restriction on these remedies. They cannot say anything about cancer on their labels. They have to be sold as vitamins or health products. But, the website can tell you how to use it, and what cancers it can cure. See how they are suppressing the world? In fact these treatments can cure up to 90% of patients that doctors have already given up on. Chemo therapy is not a therapy. I would rather die then go through with that. They try to kill your cancer with chemicals and radiation. If they kill all your cancer before they kill all your body cells, then they consider you cured. But, what about after that? Your body is damaged and your health deteriorated. There is almost no recovery to this. How many people you know live past 5 years after chemo therapy? Not much if any at all. And compared to the masses, its almost nothing. What do you have to live with after chemo? Your body is not sunburned, its practically microwaved. CESIUM CHLORIDE can be taken with OXYGEN DROPS. Go to the websites. You can go to these websites and they will give a whole package for you to buy. You can take these medicines over the course of 3 months, a year, or whatever they prescribe. After your mom is feeling well, taking it for about 2 months or more, you can almost garauntee that you are cured. But, you have to listen to them and take it till they tell you to stop. They even cure certain 3rd stage cancers with a 90% success rate. But, time is of the essence so I urge you to buy it as soon as possible and take next day delivery or something. I wish you the best of luck in the future. But, heed my warning, do not go into chemo. They always tell you something fuzzy like, oh..you might live another 2 years, or you might die right away..etc etc....Then how do you decide? But, they always say that people who have been on chemo will only live a maximum of X years after that.  So, if you do exactly what I say, not only will you have a chance to survive, but all your friends that may get cancer...
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She could try hormone replacement therapy, but only if her cancer doc and gynecologist agree to the regimen.  They need to agree, because sometimes cancers are encouraged by such treatment.  According to traditional Chinese medicine, she needs to cool her body; think of it that her body is "overheating" without being able to regulate (i.e., female hormones) itself.  I would suggest eating soy-based products to help her body with the components she is missing.  This should help alleviate her symptoms and she will be getting high protein in her body to boot....\n\nI would be careful and consult with the doc regarding any herbal remedies to mitigate her menopausal symptoms, because herbs in their raw form aren't necessarily beneficial (due to bacteria, mold, fungus, etc.) and can impact her during a time of low immunity.  Herbs can also interfere with her medication regimen currently and work against her.  Realize that the most important thing right now is to stop the cancer and she may need to just "ride through" the side effects.\n\nTell her to keep "cool" and stay strong...!
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Smoking any substance will cause problems, the smoke is a pollutant and irritant! Gingko may well be a healthy substance but that is when it is taken through the mouth, not thru any other route...;
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yeah plants can get cancer. i dont think it is as big of an issue for them though, because they dont have critical organs like brain, liver etc that the cancer can infiltrate- just stems and leaves, and the cancer would have to be pretty extensive to kill them off
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skin problem?i dunno...health problem?well therez actually no proof that it causes beast cancer...so its a rumor...
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I recommend the following link:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Phytochemical-Methods-Modern-Techniques-Analysis/dp/0412343304\n\nYou will need to purchase a lab guide or consult with a Life Sciences Dept. for further assistance