Natural Agents for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Sodium Salicylates Sodium salicylate is a sodium salt of salicylic acid. Historically, it has been prepared from methyl salicylate (which is found in wintergreen plants or the bark of sweet birch...
Herbs, Spices & Botanicals
Prescription for Healthy Skin
Hot Tea with a Twist Another way of using food to prevent cancer is to take hot tea with a twist of lemon. A recent study showed that people who drink hot tea with a twist of citrus peel have...
Sea Vegetables
An Area of Interest for Scientists There are numerous scientific articles on sea vegetables (proponents object to the term seaweed) and cancer, but few clinical trials. A study from South Korea...
The Power of Synergy
Non-toxic TreatmentSince we advocate the simultaneous use of various non-toxic treatments, we should say a word about synergy. Why do we generally avoid very high doses of each individual...
Red Clover – Trifolium Pratense
A Rich and Useful PlantThere is no stronger association between a plant and traditional cancer remedies in the U.S. and Europe than common red clover (Trifolium pratense). Sooner or later, it...
Teas and Cancer
What are you drinking? According to an increasing number of scientists your daily beverage of choice should be tea. Black and Oolong tea were standbys for hundreds of years. Then came the taste...
The Rooibos Cantata
Coffee substitute? In Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Coffee Cantata, the young girl, Lieschen, croons: "Mm! how sweet coffee tastes, More delicious than a thousand kisses, Mellower than...
Maca Root
Sexual Desire and PotencyThere are numerous over-the-counter products claiming to help increase the likelihood of firm erections after cancer treatment. Some of the most common of these contain...
Cat’s Claw – Uncaria Tomentosa
Uña de Gato Uncaria tomentosa (also called Uña de Gato or cat’s claw) is a vine that grows wild, primarily in the highlands of Peru. Cat’s claw (named for the shape of its thorns) has been used...
Curcumin and Colorectal Cancer
Inhibition of a Gastrointestinal Hormone Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX and other prominent cancer centers have begun to demonstrate that some of...
Solomon’s Seal – Polygonatum Species
Aerobic GlycolysisSolomon’s Seal (Polygonatum species)Polygonatum biflorum, popularly known as Solomon’s seal, contains lectins that inhibit a key enzyme involved in the “Warburg effect” (aerobic...
Medicine from Common Weeds
Medicines from a Vacant Lot While exotic plants from the Amazon are beautiful to look at, some of the most promising herbs for treating cancer have always been derived from common weeds. Weeds...
Astragalus for the Immune System
Getting to the Root of the ProblemAstragalus (Astragalus propinquus, A. membranaceus a.k.a. milk vetch) is one of the most effective, innocuous, and inexpensive ways of enhancing the immune...
Feverfew and Cancer Stem Cells
Chrysanthemum Many readers know the feverfew plant (Tanacetum parthenium), a member of the Chrysanthemum family, sometimes called bachelor's buttons. This is a cheerful-looking perennial, with...
Ingenol Mebutate (Picato®) – Botanicals
Euphorbia SapA common garden weed, called petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus), has been used for decades, perhaps even centuries, as a folk remedy for warts and other skin conditions. In fact, one of...
Spirulina
Blue-Green Algae (Spirulina platensis)Spirulina is a concentrated food supplement derived from blue-green algae (Spirulina platensis) that grows abundantly in water. It is defined as a “water...
Natural Agents for Bone Sarcoma
Five Agents for HealingMistletoe (Subcutaneous or Intravenous Injections)There was a case series of six patients, all of whom had a remission of tumor symptoms after mistletoe injections. In...
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs) for Neuroblastoma
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs) for Neuroblastoma The biggest hint we have as to the best complementary treatment of neuroblastoma comes from the association of this disease with ALK gene...
BreastDefend
A Dietary SupplementA paper on a new dietary supplement for breast cancer has appeared in the online version of Integrative Cancer Therapies (https://ict.sagepub.com). BreastDefend (BD) is a...
Metatrol and Head and Neck Cancer
Fermented Wheat Germ Extract A clinical trial was carried out at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic of Semmelweis University, Budapest, under the direction of the late Prof. Ottó Ribári...
Boswellia (Frankincense)
Lipoxygenase (LOX)Frankincense is a sap tapped from the Boswellia tree by slashing the bark and allowing the resins to flow and harden. This odd-sounding substance has been used in folk medicine...
Dandelion and Immune Function
Dandelion: Bane or Boon? Taraxacum Dandelion's botanical name is Taraxacum, from the Greek words for disorder (taraxos) and remedy (akos). Its common name is derived from the French "dent de...
The Cannabis Controversy
A Dearth of Research Why not just enthusiastically endorse anecdotal reports on the benefits of cannabis (marijuana) as a treatment for cancer? This is a sure path to popularity on the Internet....
What is EGCG and Should I Take It?
Natural Agents That Target BCR-ABL There are natural agents that target BCR-ABL and the other metabolic pathways of CML cells. One can think of these as natural tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs),...
Artemisia Annua – Artemisinin and Artesunate
Sweet Wormwood/Sweet Annie “This safe and cheap drug class that saves lives at risk from malaria can also have important potential in oncology.” Prof. Sanjeev Krishna, St. George’s University of...
Dandelion
A Common Weed Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is the most famous of all diuretics. The French name, pis-en-lit (i.e., urinate in bed), tells it all. Although regarded as a garden invasive, it is...
Cat’s Claw May Be Beneficial in Breast Cancer
Impact on the Immune System Recently, there was a small, randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the effects of cat’s claw (Uncaria tomentosa) on the immune system of women with stage II invasive...
Ginkgo Biloba
A Botanical AgentA supplement that has a beneficial effect on genes that are damaged in the course of conventional treatment is the botanical agent, Ginkgo Biloba extract (GBE, from the leaf of...
B Vitamins and the Drug Pemetrexed
Departure for Conventional Oncology It has been found, in a pleural mesothelioma trial, that supplementation with folic acid (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12 midway through a clinical trial lessened...
Herbes de Provence Against Aging
The Extraordinary Power of Herbs God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which,...
Honokiol and Cancer Stem Cells
Signal Transducers and Activators Honokiol is another promising anti-CSC agent that is available to present-day cancer patients without a prescription. Honokiol is a fascinating compound that has...
Melanoma and PV-10
Rose Bengal While most attention in melanoma has focused on two new drugs, Yervoy (ipilimumab) and Zelboraf (vemurafenib), a less-known drug has also recently demonstrated positive results. This...
Fenugreek
Both a Food and a Medicine for Thousands of Years Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) is a plant in the family Fabaceae, or Leguminosae. It has been used as both food and medicine for thousands...
Gleevec
Glee for Gleevec Each year, 26,000 of the world's oncologists parade their accomplishments at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). In May, the media was...
Garlic: The Cancer Cure…Of Mice and Men?
Laboratory Results An extract of raw garlic beats cancer in the laboratory. A senior researcher at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, has shown that injections of raw garlic extract (RGE)...
American Cancer Docs Favor Medical Marijuana
Widespread Acceptance A few years ago I toured Israeli cancer hospitals and clinics. I was happily surprised to find a widespread acceptance of medical marijuana (MM), especially in the pediatric...