Chinese Herbs More Effective and Safer Than Chemotherapy

This is another good study on the effectiveness of herbs verses medications for cancer. The study showed that the Chinese herbs were more effective than the common chemotherapy drug, Alkerlan (melphalan). You'll notice how it states that it was a "significant difference." Now, you can get all the benefits, without the vomiting, hair loss, diarrhea, sickness and heart attacks that go with Alkerlan use - http://www.cmjournal.org/content/7/1/15/abstract



Background
Six herbs in the Plant Genetics Conservation Project that have been used as complementary medicines were chosen on the basis of their medicinal value, namely Terminalia mucronata, Diospyros winitii, Bridelia insulana, Artabotrys harmandii, Terminallia triptera, and Croton oblongifolius. This study aims to evaluate the potential anticancer activity of 50% ethanolwater extracts of these six herbs.

Methods
Fifty percent ethanol-water crude extracts of the six herbs were prepared. The cytotoxicity of the herbal extracts relative to that of melphalan was evaluated using a hepatoma cell line (HepG2), and examined by neutral red assays and apoptosis induction by gel electrophoresis and flow cytometry after 24 h.

Results
A significant difference was found between the cytotoxicity of the 50% ethanol-water crude extracts and melphalan (P = 0.000). The 50% ethanol-water crude extracts of all six herbs exhibited cytotoxicity against HepG2 cells, with IC50 values ranging from 100 to 500 mug/mL. The extract of T. triptera showed the highest cytotoxicity with an IC50 of 148.7 +/- 12.3 mug/mL, while melphalan had an IC50 of 39.79 +/- 7.62 mug/mL. The 50% ethanol-water crude extracts of D. winitii and T. triptera, but not A. harmandii, produced a DNA ladder. The 50% ethanolwater crude extracts of D. winitii, T. triptera, and A. harmandii induced apoptosis detected by flow cytometry.

Conclusion
The 50% ethanol-water crude extracts of D. winitii, T. triptera, and A. harmandii showed anticancer activity in vitro.

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