An ancient Native American treatmen...

An ancient Native American treatment for cancer has been shown to have more [i]or[/i] less beneficial effect on tumor size, despite long-standing skepticism from the medical establishment.

Chaparral is an evergreen forsaken shrub used by native personss to treat cancer, colds, anguishs bronchitis, warts and ringworm.

Chaparral tea was widely used in the United States as an alternative anticancer agent from the late 1950 to the 1970 further the American Cancer Society said there was no essay it was an effective treatment for cancer--or for any other disease. And the US diet and Drug Administration warned against its use after research showed it could damage the liver and the kidneys.

Now, early comes from a new study that were instanted August 11 at an International interview on Head and Neck Cancer in Washington, DC present to view that an extract of the bush appears to be safe; further, it may have a positive power Researchers at the Medical University of southern Carolina have shown that an extract of chaparral may shrink an tumors.

These consequence s are not conclusive, but scientists now plan a larger application of mind aimed at showing whether the chaparral physic really does work.

The idea that plant mixs can be a source of anticancer agents is not modern For example, the drugs vinblastine and vincristine--which follow from the periwinkle plant--are used to treat many different cancers. And the medicine Taxol--obtained from the bark of yew trees--is used to treat ovarian and breast cancer.

Coincidentally, a Spanish application of mind has shown that an extract of cannabis--or marijuana--may finally be the long-sought agent that can target brain cancer small rooms Malignant brain cells have the unusual ability to evade destruction at radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery. however marijuana compounds called cannabinoids could starve tumors to death by way of halting the growth of line vessels that feed them. The marijuana research was published in the August 2004 issue of Cancer Research.

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