Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya

AFP ^ | Mar 9, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

MIAMI (AFP) – Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.

University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan, in a report published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, documented papaya's anticancer effect against tumors of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas.

The researchers used an extract made from dried papaya leaves, and the effects were stronger when cells received larger doses of papaya leaf tea.

Dang and the other scientists showed that papaya leaf extract boosts the production of key signaling molecules called Th1-type cytokines, which help regulate the immune system.

This could lead to therapeutic treatments that use the immune system to fight cancers, they said in the February issue of the journal and released Tuesday by the university.

Papaya has been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments in many parts of the world, especially Asia.

[decimon]

Ping.

[sweet_diane]

I dunno... people could grow their own Papaya and THEN what would the drug companies do??

[diamond6]

Good news. Can this be purchased in a tincture form?

[DvdMom]

Smokin’ Joe I’m pinging your list to a new article

“Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya”

thanks again , decimon & Smokin’ Joe

[Sans-Culotte]

Bump

[decimon]

Good news. Can this be purchased in a tincture form?

Dunno. There's a papain ointment.

This article is about papaya leaf and not fruit and I don't know what are the respective benefits.

[steve86]

Thanks. Of interest to me and especially my wife, who is from the Asian world.

[decimon]

Of interest to me and especially my wife, who is from the Asian world.

Be sure to tell her they stole papaya from the South Americans. ;-)

[12chachacha]

I have a papaya tree. Maybe it would be better if I smoke the leaves.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.amazon.com/Papaya-Leaf-Extract-1oz/dp/B000OAW1JY

[diamond6]

Is that the actual size of the bottle. LOL!!!

[decimon]

Thanks.

A quick search reveals there may be side effects like hypoglycemia. Caveat emptor.

[ExTexasRedhead]

FYI

[neverdem]

Thanks decimon

[taraytarah]

I dunno... people could grow their own Papaya and THEN what would the drug companies do??

They could always ask John McCain to sponsor a bill ensuring extensive FDA regulation of the papaya, including banning all homegrown papaya due to, oh, I don't know, say, a fabricated global salmonella outbreak.

[kingattax]

mcCrazy wouldnt need to be asked.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[diamond6]

Does anybody here know anything about Graviola or the Paw Paw Tree in helping to combat cancer?

[decimon]

Does anybody here know anything about Graviola or the Paw Paw Tree in helping to combat cancer?

Don't know about Graviola but I yesterday saw that there is a Paw Paw tree that is not the Paw Paw tree that is papaya.