Herbal drugs for cancer cure being developed
Published: November 28, 2006
A SENIOR professor at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Dr Maria L V Oliva, who is working on herbal medicines to cure cancer, said soon such medicines would be available for human use. [The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook: A Home Manual]
Oliva, who was here to attend the four-day International Conference on “Post-harvest technology and value addition in cereals, pulses and oilseeds” at the Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology (CSA) told newsmen that she had identified three plants which could provide alternative to chemical-based medicines for treating cancer in humans. The three plants are— Bowania, Bowania Vigretta and Black Ear.
She said the medicinal properties of each plant suited to treat cancer on different parts of the body. While Bowania extract could treat breast cancer, Bowania Vegretta was found useful in treating abdominal cancers. The Black-Ear plant’s extract could cure any kind of cancer, she added.
She said she was working on the Bowania plant and had injected its extract to rats suffering from cancer. “I have received very encouraging results during the tests. Now, I will try the extract on rabbits. But after a considerably long chain of experiments done on various animals, experiments will be done upon human beings,” She said. To a question, she said: “It is difficult to find out rats suffering from cancer. We just produce cancer in the rats by administering the cancer developing vaccine in them. Later we try our experiments upon them.”
She said during her experiments she found that chemotherapy of the rats did not produce effective results while the extract of the plant completely cured them.
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