Posted on 10/09/2014 1:55:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have made an exciting discovery for cancer patients everywhere. A chemical found in a rare plant from Australia has the ability to "eat" cancerous tumors and completely eradicate them within days.
The tumor-eating chemical is found in the seeds of berries of the Blushwood plant. The chemical, which is being called EBC-46, takes three weeks to extract and the process is quite difficult. Experts are even saying that they still don't completely understand why the chemical is in the seed of the Blushwood berry in the first place.
Farming Blushwood in large quantities will also be extremely difficult because it needs the very specific rainforest conditions in North Queensland to thrive. The Atherton Tablelands are currently the only place where the berry grows, but researchers hope to be able to farm the plant someday.
The possible cancer cure is almost too good to be true, and researchers are very optimistic that human trials are not too far on the horizon. So far, treatments using EBC-46 have been used successfully in clinical trials involving pet dogs, cats and horses.
In most cases, a single dose of the treatment using the chemical caused the cancer cells in the tumor to degrade in just four hours. The tumor of one golden retriever named Oscar in the clinical trials on pets disappeared in just six weeks.
The speed of how EBC-46 works is in stark contrast to conventional treatments like radiation and chemotherapy, which severely compromise the body's immune system and take several weeks before the cancer even begins to shrink.
According to Dr. Glen Boylem, who leads the study, the treatment was successful on tumors and melanomas located in the colon, neck and head.
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
Tamoxifen also presents a potential hazard in creating uterine cancer and can only be used pre-menopausal. I know because my now 10+year cancer free wife had to switch to aristamine (sp?) at one point when they thought she’d gone post-men and had to have 2-3 procedures to confirm no in-utero issues a few years after her treatment.
But it does work. Just gotta stay on your toes. Wonder if they have any noted side effects on this one yet?
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Hemp is quite legal. It’s grown for fibre, and there are a lot of hemp products on the market.
Thanks for the ping.
This is astonishing and quite hopeful.
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Hemp is cannabis and it is only legal to grow in CO and WA for fiber. Most hemp fiber used in the U.S. is from Canada and most hemp seed is from China and it is sterilized.
I wasn’t aware of that; I’m going from local knowledge. Some tobacco farmers here in Canada switched to hemp and their biggest problem was crop theft by idiots who thought it was marijuana. Many found it wasn’t worth it due to security costs. There are shops here in Toronto that specialize in hemp products.
Hemp is marijuana or maybe it’s more accurate to say that marijuana is hemp. It’s the same plant but it doesn’t have as high of a THC content when it’s grown for fiber or seed. The fiber and sterilized seed has been legal to import to the U.S. for a long time if not always. But thanks to Fed law it can’t be grown here for those completely benign uses.
Kind of ironic, considering that it was one of the crops that George Washington grew on his farm.
You can’t legally grow it in the US (except WA and CO).
It always great to hear these things. The article says it deals well in initial animal tests with tumors in 3 areas of the body...
He and virtually every other colonist who farmed. At one time the gov distributed one pound of seed to every landowner and required, yes, required, that they sow it all. It was a matter of national security. No hemp no sailcloth. No sailcloth no navy.
Yes, indeed, this is the kind of news that’s good to hear about. :-)
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