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Ginger: The Cancer
Slaying Herb!
Shhhhh…. Don’t let the American Cancer Society know about the findings of this study and the possible
natural cure for breast cancer it found…it would disrupt their fund raising!
Every year since 1938 the number 2 killer of all Americans has been Cancer!
A research paper published in Journal of
Biomedicine and Biotechnology has found that extracts of the herb Ginger kill cancer cells! The researchers note in their paper that in spite of the high global death toll of
breast cancer, conventional drug therapies are modestly effective at best, often with serious side effects that include causing new and more
aggressive cancers.
Ginger extract may prove to be more
effective at fighting breast cancer than any drug on the market!
"Despite significant advances toward targeted therapy and screening
techniques, breast cancer continues to be a chronic medical problem worldwide,
being the most common type of cancer in women and the leading cause of
death," they write.
"Typically, the treatment of breast cancer involves hormonal therapy with
... selective estrogen receptor (ER) modulators. However, almost all patients with metastatic disease and approximately 40 percent of
patients that receive [the ER modulator] Tamoxifen experience relapse that ends
by death!"
The researchers also note that ER antagonists have little to no effectiveness
against ER-negative breast cancer, and that the drugs may have such severe side
effects that their usefulness is severely limited.
In addition, many breast cancer cells are able to develop resistance to cancer drugs within the course of a single treatment.
"Thus, identification of novel
agents that are relatively safe but can suppress growth of both ER-positive and
ER-negative human breast cancers is highly desirable," they write.
Could This Be A Safe
& Natural Treatment?
The researchers exposed
breast cancer cells in the laboratory to an extract of ginger (Zingiber
officinale). They found that ginger exhibited a highly prized anti-cancer trait
known as selective cytotoxicity: It inhibited the reproduction of cancer cells
while leaving healthy cells unaffected.
No conventional cancer
treatment on the market exhibits this property!
Noted findings include the
ability of ginger to positively modulated a large number of molecular
anti-cancer mechanisms, these include:
- Induction of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
- Up-regulation of BAX, an apoptosis gene
- Down-regulation of numerous cancer-associated genes and proteins
- Increased expression of cancer-fighting proteins.
- Inhibition of cancer-associated enzymes.
Although the researchers
were not able to explain these molecular effects, the evidence in their favor
was striking.
"Ginger may be a promising candidate for the treatment of breast
carcinomas," the researchers concluded.
Ginger - A Medicinal
Powerhouse!
If further studies show
ginger's utility as a breast cancer treatment, it could revolutionize the
entire field of cancer medicine, since ginger extract could easily be produced cheaply
and in large quantities and it’s use would have little to know side effects.
Previous studies have
already shown ginger to have a breast cancer-fighting effect. More
specifically, ginger compound [6]-Gingerol inhibits metastasis of breast cancer cells. Other
studies have suggested that ginger extract or ginger components have the
ability to fight other cancers, including
- Colon
- Rectum
- Liver
- Lungs
- Pancreas
- Prostate
- Skin (including Malignant Melanoma).
These findings should not be
surprising; ginger is one of the oldest known medicinal foods. It’s origin
appears to have been in southern China, it then rapidly spread throughout Asia to
the Spice Islands and from there, eventually to West Africa, the Caribbean and
India. Today it is widely consumed as a food, spice and medicine in cultures
across the globe.
Scientific Studies Have Linked Ginger
To No Fewer Than 100 Different Health Benefits!
Including its most well
known usage as an anti-nausea and digestive aid, it is also a potent anti-microbial,
anti-inflammatory and is a powerful health-promoting herb for the heart and
cardiovascular system. Ginger is used for many disease processes.
"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to
truth."
-- St. Thomas Aquinas
In Health,
Dr. Walter K.
Crooks
Chiropractic
Clinical Neurologist
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