This Herb "Weeds" Out Cancer Cells

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Those yellow flowers on your lawn are more than just pesky weeds. Dandelion has been considered a valuable food and medicine in both Eastern and Western culture for thousands of years and is now being studied for its cancer fighting abilities.
The use of the dandelion plant in both Greek and Chinese medicine predates written records. Traditional healers use it to cleanse the liver, flush toxins from the kidneys and purify the blood.

It’s blood purifying compounds led researchers at University of Windsor in Canada to hypothesize that dandelion could help patients with end-stage blood cancer.

They inserted danderlion root extract into Petri dishes with blood drawn from leukemia patients and lab rats.

To their delight, the dandelion root induced apoptosis or “cell suicide” in cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells alone.

Dandelion root’s ability to selectively kill only cancer cells — as opposed to radiation and chemotherapy which kill healthy cells and flood the body with toxins —could make it an invaluable tool in the future of cancer treatment, at least in countries whose medical institutions are actually invested in curesAs a result of the experiment, researchers were given the green light to test out dandelion root on thirty Canadian cancer patients. It’s the first ever in Canada that a natural extract has been approved for a clinical trial. Unfortunately, the United States has yet to follow suit.

In “the land of the free” herbalists aren’t allowed to treat cancer patients for cancer, they are merely allowed to offer herbs as supportive therapy, to help undo the damage of conventional treatments.

Dr. Siyaram Pandey – lead researcher and biochemistry professor at Windsor – was encouraged when he saw the results of patients who chose dandelion tea over chemotherapy. “These folks actually lived,” he said in a recent Ted Talk.

Not only do dandelions heal the body, they also nourish the body. In Italy they are eaten fried. They’re loaded with vitamins like A, C, K, B6, B3,B9 and B12 and minerals like iron (crucial for generating red blood cells), calcium, magnesium, potassium (regulates heart rate and blood pressure), phosphorus, manganese, copper and zinc.

So, the next time you decide to hack away at all those yellow weeds, eat them instead of throwing them away. They’re great in a salad, in soups or as a tea. If you would prefer to take a supplement, please visit our store, FREE shipping! Next week join me for an article on how schizophrenia has been reversed using nutrients. Sign up here so that you do not miss a thing.

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