Fact or Fiction. Do Alternative Medicines and Herbal Remedies Really work against Tumours and Cancer?

By Graham Maartin

Just what are the facts about alternative medicines and herbal products and do they actually work? That is the subject I am going to address. But the initial results seem to say an emphatic yes! Ask yourself the question. Are you frightened by the thought of getting cancer? Does the word "cancer" worry you? The word itself is very emotive isn't it? Well now it seems that there is some very good 'natural' help available to you, its called Graviola!

Traditionally, the large majority of medical practitioners and doctors (though not all), frown on the use of alternative or herbal remedies, often describing them as 'quack' or 'fringe' medicines, simply because they are outside the range of subjects taught in medical school. Even though some of these alternative or herbal remedies show tremendous potential and have been used successfully for generations by local shamans and practitioners.

Many of these alternative methods and herbal products have such a long history of use, that many professional studies and in-depth research has been carried out on them. One of those in particular "Annona Muricata", better known as Graviola is showing tremendously promising results.

The HSI organisation or Health Sciences Institute featured an article Way back in 2001 with the headline "Billion-dollar Drug Company nearly squashes astounding research on natural cancer killer". It goes on to say. "Breast and Colon cancer conquered with miracle tree from the Amazon found to be 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy". That tree was Graviola! OK, so what is Graviola?

This tree Graviola, is indigenous to the Amazon and various regions of South America. It's not a big rainforest tree by any means, the fact is it' relatively small in Rainforest terms growing to only 5 or 6 metres tall. But the cancer and tumour fighting properties it has are amazing, in fact it's an absolute monster.

Plenty of research has already been done and has found that many of the phytochemicals or annonaceous acetogenins (These are the chemical compounds that occur naturally in plants) found in the leaves, seeds and stem of Graviola trees are cytotoxic against various cancer or tumour cells. All these plant parts are used in natural medicine.

This is the really good news because, quote:- (Cytotoxic: Toxic to cells, cell-toxic, cell-killing. Any agent or process that kills cells. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are forms of cytotoxic therapy.) according to the HSI article the tree has been studied in more than 20 laboratory tests since the 1970s, where it's been shown to: Effectively target and kill malignant cells in 12 different types of cancer, including colon, breast, prostate, lung, and pancreatic cancer Be 10,000 times stronger in killing colon cancer cells than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug . It Selectively hunts down and kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells, unlike chemotherapy.

Also a plant screening program back in 1976 by the National Cancer Institute also showed that Graviola demonstrated active cytotoxicity against cancer cells, various researchers have been following up on this research ever since and have found that Graviola was a cancer killing dynamo. Herbal products have been used worldwide almost since the time when man first walked on the earth, (well for thousands of years at least.) If you or your loved ones suffer from this terrible ailment, then I would strongly recommend that you read the HSI article in full here. It's a real eye opener!

So, could Graviola help you in the fight against cancer? It appears that the answer is a resounding yes! - 30427

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