Is there a natural cure for cancer? Mr CabbageHead examines claims regarding five possible natural cures for cancer.

Pau d’arco (Tabebuia impetiginosa)

Pau d’arco is a legendary herb from the Amazon rainforest that is claimed to be a proven cancer killer, especially of childhood leukemia. It has been used in South America for an enormous number of illnesses since the time of the Incas.

Andreas Moritz, a respected healer, tells this story of a 5 year-old girl who suffered from leukemia, and who was about to die. Her parents, in desperation, took her to the clinic of a Doctor Ruiz, who treated the girl with pau d’arco tea. In just 6 days, she had improved noticeably. Six weeks later, the little girl walked out of the clinic completely cured.

Graviola (Annona muricata and Annona montana)

Graviola sounds like some kind of Italian food, but it’s another claimed cancer-killer from the Amazon rainforest. Graviola is 10,000 times more toxic to colon cancer cells than chemotherapy and unlike chemotherapy, graviola has no harmful side effects.

In the early 1990s, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in America began a massive research program to see if they could synthesize the cancer-killing ingredients in graviola and create a synthetic version. Why? Because you can’t patent an herb; you can only patent your own synthetic version of naturally occurring chemicals in the herb. This company tried for seven years, but they couldn’t come up with a chemical isolate of graviola that was effective. However, the evidence they accumulated during those seven years proved beyond a doubt that graviola, the herb, was a miraculous cancer-killer.

Did they let the world know that? No, they didn’t. Instead, the directors of the giant pharmaceutical company swore all its scientists to secrecy, and destroyed all the information they’d learned. It would still be a secret if one man, the only one with a conscience, hadn’t broken the story to the media — most of whom ignored it.

Tayuya (Cayaponia tayuya)

Novel antioxidant chemicals have been discovered in tayuya and named cayaponosides (24 distinct cayaponosides have been discovered thus far). These phytochemicals have been documented to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties and, more recently, to have anticancerous potential. The National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan reported that five cayaponosides in tayuya exhibited significant anti-tumor-promoter activity in screening tests.

Tayuya is used in Brazil and Peru as a blood cleanser and general tonic.

Barbed skullcap (Scutellaria barbata)

Tea made from barbed skullcap has been used for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of cervical, glandular, liver, lung, and rectal cancer. Brian Wong, PhD, of Union College in Lincoln, Neb., tried giving it to a strain of mice bred to develop prostate cancer. Normally, these mice quickly develop fatal prostate tumors. Those who received barbed skullcap had much slower tumor growth.

By attacking the tumor’s blood supply, scutellaria may help to starve tumors to death by blocking their supply of oxygen and nutrients. Conventional treatments target tumor cells but also the normal cells. This causes a lot of side effects. Scutellaria is so selective for just tumor vessels it does not attack normal blood vessels.

“Researchers have been looking for something like this for years and we think that our findings look very promising — our research shows this should destroy all types of cancer” (Camber 2004).

Zeolite

Zeolite is a unique volcanic mineral that is claimed to be highly effective at destroying cancer cells. Results have been so impressive, anyone fighting cancer or wishing to prevent cancer should be using zeolite. It comes in two basic forms, a liquid zeolite, and a powdered micronized zeolite.

Part of what zeolite does is to work on a couple of the basic issues in cancer. It is a powerful detoxifier, and improves the alkalinity of your body. More importantly though, zeolite is a cancer killer as it can, when pulled into cancer cells, activate a gene which tells the cancer cell to die, or literally destroy the nucleus of cancerous cells.

Zeolite works exceptionally well at fighting cancer as an informal 14 month study several years ago showed. 65 people with mostly stage 4 cancer, who had a prognosis of about 2 months to live, were given a type of liquid zeolite. At the end of the study, 51 people were cancer free and six more were alive, but still fighting cancer. This is a 78% cure rate for terminal cancer, and an incredible 89% survival rate.

Note, that a variety of zeolite based products are available. Some have been proven effective, others are ineffective.

Zeolite has a more day to day use - as a very effective cleanser. Mr CabbageHead has found zeolite to be very effective in removing toxins from the body.

Warning

If you have a serious illness, seek professional advice. There may be a natural cure for cancer, but we must wait for proven scientific test results.

References:

Anon. Anti-tumor-promoter activity of natural substances and related compounds. Annual Report 1995. National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1996.

Betancur-Galvis, L., et al. Antitumor and antiviral activity of Colombian medicinal plant extracts. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. 1999; 94(4): 531-35.

Camber, Rebecca. Mint hope for cancer cure. Manchester News. July 5, 2004.

Ducki S, et al. Isolation of trans 4-(4′-hydroxyphenyl)but-3-en-2-one from Scutellaria barbata. Planta Medica, 1996, 62, 185.

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