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Posted in Medicinal Plants on Jan 6th, 2010
Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer.A new study shows a group of phytochemicals called ellagitannins found in abundance in pomegranates inhibited the growth of estrogen-responsive breast cancer in laboratory tests.
Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer « Biosingularity
Posted in Ethnobotany, Medicinal Plants on Feb 23rd, 2009
I’ve had several chest x-rays since the accident and never have the enlarged nodes returned. I’ll never know if it truly was cancer, but I do know for certain that once I took those herbs, something happened.
Reality Sandwich | Playing Doctor: Herbal Medicine in A New World Economy
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Posted in Medicinal Plants on Feb 12th, 2009
Congressman Barney Frank talks about his efforts in Congress to end the War On Drugs in a visit with Casper Leitch and joint-host, Gatewood Galbraith – and it’s free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.TV
Congressman Barney Frank Takes Time 4… – GAIA – the earth is alive – tribe.net
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Posted in Medicinal Plants, Plant Biotechnology on Oct 19th, 2008
Over the past ten years, dark chocolate and cocoa have become recognized through numerous studies for flavanol antioxidant benefits. In a study published this month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists from The Hershey Company and Brunswick Laboratories of Norton, MA report on the levels of antioxidants in selected cocoa powders and [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Mar 31st, 2008
Terra Sigillata : Can academic drug discovery programs improve on pharma’s relative stagnation?
A paper in last month’s issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery reported that US drug approvals during 2007 were the lowest number since 1983. (17 new molecular entities and 2 biologicals; see this figure for 1996-2007 data.) The review cites increased regulatory action [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants on Mar 19th, 2008
A compound found in soybeans almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice, according to a study published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Researchers say that the amount of the chemical, an antioxidant known as genistein, used in the experiments was [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants on Feb 7th, 2008
When I was doing my undergraduate and masters degrees at University of Natal (Durban), medicinal plants were definitely the hot thing to be researching. My honours project was looking at Warburgia salutaris, a tree whose bark is harvested for all sorts of medicinal purposes from stomach ulcers to malaria. We thought that it would be [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants on Feb 7th, 2008
Unfortunately I have kept nothing from my MSc – two years of chopping up plants, extracting them with solvents and endless gravity silica chromatography columns broken up with the occassional acetylation or excursion to photograph wax crystals on leaves or do GC-MS of oils.
The two plants indigenous to South Africa that I looked at were [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants on Jan 1st, 2008
IF anecdotes and ancient medicine are to be trusted, cannabis is a wonder drug. Yet results of clinical trials have been mixed and its use in modern medicine remains limited. Now it seems the reasons may be practical as much as political and cultural: there are fundamental problems with how our bodies respond to the [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants, Molecular Pharming, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology on Jan 1st, 2008
One of the main ingredients in beer appears to thwart prostate cancer, according to findings released today by researchers at a university in the US state of Oregon.
Guzzle on, Aussie – Cancer – Health In Focus – Health And Fitness – smh.com.au
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