THE CURE FOR CANCER HAS BEEN FOUND WITHIN NATURE
Statistics show that a hundred years ago only one in every 100 people had the chances of having cancer. Fifty years ago, the percentage dropped to 1 in 50. Today, it is a staggering one in 3!
Cancer, a disease regarded the most deadly amongst all. Medical teams around the world are trying day and night to find a perfect, stable cure for cancer. Most of the people think of cancer as an incurable disease. Let me tell you. It is a hoax! People must not forget that there is a cure for cancer. These cures include taking medical supplements such as Chaga Mushroom, undergoing medical surgery such as chemotherapy and other natural remedies.
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The battle against cancer has been a long one and the results are tending to be the same, with the patient often losing their life. The success rate of cancer treatment has been a very low percentile. But not for long. Chaga mushroom has recently been recognized for its medical capabilities and have been put into extensive use in the treatment of cancer. They help in suppressing the growth of cancer cells and thus, tend to have anti-cancerous properties.
But what makes Chaga mushroom, such a popular choice among the medical society to cure cancer? The answer is its constituents. It is made up of–
• Polysaccharides - These are the main active substances of Chaga Mushroom. They are mushroom carbohydrates, which increase energy levels and boost brain and liver function.
• Betulinic acid– This is the chemical substance that can kill cancer cells. The studies also showed that it does not produce any harmful effect on healthy cells of the body.
• Phytosterols, lanosterols and inotodiols– These are phytochemicals and phenols that stop the growth of harmful microbes.
• Melanin- The chemical substances that give Chaga Mushroom the highest antioxidant levels among all medicinal mushrooms and other natural
S.marcescens is viable enough to flourish on standard media with the production of a pigment, which characteristically ranges from a red to a dark pink shade. Through its pathway of synthesis, Prodigiosin is formed as an alkaloid secondary metabolite with a linear tripyrrole chemical structure (figure 1), (Samrot et al, 2011). Secondary metabolites are natural products and also by-products of metabolism.(Vaishnav and Demain, 2011).
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Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. Cancer is very deadly and is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. There are more than one hundred types of cancer, and this year about 564,800 Americans are expected to die of cancer. Even though, so many people die from Cancer, there are many survivors. About 4 in 10 people survive cancer (40%) (“Cancer Facts”) . Most of these people could have prevented Cancer by knowing the main causes. Diet, physical activity, tobacco/smoking, alcohol, chemicals/radiation, and genetics are the main causes of cancer.
One half of men and one third of women will get cancer in their lifetime. ½ million people are going to die this year, that’s more than 1,500 people per day! One in eight deaths in the world is due to cancer. Cancer causes more deaths than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Cancer is a disease that’s preventable, curable, and deadly.
...tantly making efforts to discover new drugs and design better protocols for this cancer. Synthetic anticancer drugs kill the cancer cells but they are also harmful to the normal cells. Since, increase in the use of these drugs in cancer therapy leads to many side effects and undesirable hazards, there is a worldwide trend to go back to natural resources, i.e., traditional plant preparations which are not only therapeutically effective but are actually acceptable and economically within the reach of even the neediest people. The present study was undertaken to understand the effectiveness of the plants against hepatocarcinogenesis. Any practical solution in combating this dreadful disease is bound to be of paramount importance. Generally speaking, integrated approach to combine western and herbal medicines to treat cancer has proved to be relatively satisfactory.
Isn’t it overwhelming to consider the fact that approximately one in eight deaths in the world are due to cancer? To make this more comprehensible, the number of deaths caused by cancer is greater than caused by AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Along with the idea that this disease does not have a definite cure is a mind-staggering concept to grasp. If not caught in time, cancer means guaranteed death. These types of thoughts were floating around my head when my mother had told me that my father had mouth cancer.
Cancer is a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Over ten million new cases of cancer, with over six million deaths were estimated in the year 2000 (Parkin, 2001). The estimated numbers of incidence and mortality in 2002 were markedly increased as 10.9 million new cases, 6.7 million deaths with cancer (Parkin et al., 2005). Even developed countries suffering from cancer, in USA it was expected 2677860 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2009. In that same year , more than 562,340 deaths will occur due to cancer, this number represent 25 % of all deaths and makes cancer as a second leading cause of death after heart diseases (Jemal et al.
Medicinal plants have been used extensively as sources for numerous active constituents for treating human diseases and for its therapeutic value (Nostro et al., 2000). The use of plants in treating ailments has been known for thousands of years through the empirical knowledge gathered about the usefulness and harmful properties of different plants and by intuition. Many of these indigenous plants are used as food plants, added to food meant for pregnant women and nursing mothers for medicinal purposes (Edeoga, 2005). Hence it is very important to scientifically understand the chemical composition and bioactive constituent and the biological activity of the different plant part with regards to their usage in both orthodox and primary health care.
Takayanagi, T., Ishikawa, T. and Kitajima, J. (2003) Sesquiterpene lactone glucosides and alkyl glycosides from the fruit of cumin. Phytochemistry, 63, 479-84.
The major catechins found in tea are EGCG, EGC, ECG, and EC. Previous studies have shown that they inhibit expressions of carcinogen activating enzymes and increase enzyme levels that detoxify carcinogens. In addition, studies have shown that tea polyphenols inhibit carcinogen-induced DNA damage in some cell lines. Other studies have shown that tea constituents inhibit cancer development and reduce the risk in animal models of stomach, colon, liver, skin, breast, and prostate cancer. In a study, extracts from tea exhibited a dose-dependent protection of Chang liver cells. In a co-treatment consisting of EGCG and bleomycin there was 50% decrease in comparison to the treatment of bleomycin alone. (Yang, et al,
Infact, extract of white button mushrooms has been found to help in diminishing cell proliferation as well as tumor size.
Mushrooms is unique creature in the living world cannot be classified neither plant nor animal. It has become one of human food sources. There has been recent finding of interest in mushroom not only as a health vegetable which rich in protein but it also important as sources of biologically active compound of medical value. Based on Ooi & Liu (2000) schizophyllan from S. commune and lentinan, an interferon-stimulating polysaccharide produced by L. edodes are products that have been isolated from mushroom to make anti-cancer drugs. Nowadays, mushroom cultivation has become one of agronomic generating activity which can be applied to the small industry farmer. Therefore in order to cultivated the mushroom there are several steps known as preparing medium culture, spawn preparation, medium substrate preparation, spawning, spawn running, fructification and harvesting (refer to the Figure 1 in Appendix 1).
The cultivation of edible mushrooms is a world wide important commercial activity (Chang, 2000). Several aspects have con-tributed to the development of this activity: (1) the raw materials used are waste from agribusiness that have little commercial value and are easy to acquire (Rajarathnam and Bano, 1991), (2) the product obtained has a visually attractive appearance, pleasant taste and a high quality protein which provides much of the essential aminoacids to the diet (Chang, 1991), (3) some species can be grown with relatively simple technology and low investment. Mushrooms can play an important role contributing to the livelihoods of rural and peri-urban dwellers, through food security and income generation. Mushrooms can make a valuable dietary addition through protein and various micronutrients and, coupled with their medicinal properties, mushroom cultivation can represent a valuable small-scale enterprise option. There has been 1,200 species of fungi that
Several studies have found that components in green tea, particularly EGCG, have worked in a number of ways to cause “cell cycle arrest” – in other words, stopping the process of a cancer cell dividing. The interesting thing with green tea is that it often interrupts this process without affecting cell division among normal cells.
However, such plants should be investigated to better understand their properties, safety, and efficiency. Medicinal plants contain some organic compounds which provide definite physiological action on the human body and these bioactive substances include tannins, alkaloids, carbohydrates, terpenoids, steroids and flavonoids. These compounds are synthesized by primary or rather secondary metabolism of living organisms. Secondary metabolites are chemically and taxonomically extremely diverse compounds with obscure function. They are widely used in the human therapy, veterinary, agriculture, scientific research and countless other areas . A large number of phytochemicals belonging to several chemical classes have been shown to have inhibitory effects on all types of microorganisms in vitro. Plant products have been part of phytomedicines since time immemorial. This can be derived from barks, leaves, flowers, roots, fruits, seeds. Knowledge of the chemical constituents of plants is desirable because such information will be valuable for the synthesis of complex chemical