1. Wormwood: The Parasite-Killing, Cancer-Fighting Super Herb
February 7, 2020
Exceprt from the above article: "...
It’s true. Wormwood is actually used to eliminate intestinal worms, especially roundworms and pinworms. This is exactly why it’s commonly recommended as part of a parasite cleanse.
Just how powerful is wormwood? Well, it’s owed thanks and praise for being the source of the key ingredient for the herbal drug artemisinin, which is touted as the most powerful anti-malarial on the market.
And it doesn’t stop there. Scientific research also shows that wormwood can even kills cancer cells. Wormwood tea can also be used to treat anorexia, insomnia, anemia, a lack of appetite, flatulence, stomach aches, jaundice and indigestion.
Wormwood herb is used in alcoholic beverages while the wormwood star is mentioned in the bible. Truly an intriguing plant to say the least, but can this herb really kill parasites and cancer? Studies say yes, and the positive medicinal effects keep on coming...."
2. From WebMD:
Artemisinin for Cancer Treatment
Few notes taken from the above article =>
What Could It Do?
Cancer cells rely on iron to spread. When iron and artemisinin enter a cancer cell together, they form atoms called free radicals that kill cancer cells without harming normal ones.
Studies show that artemisinin may slow the spread of tumors. It could also cause cancer cells to:
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Colorectal. In a study of 20 people with colon cancer, nine were treated with artesunate while the rest were not. Those that received artesunate saw 12% more of their cancer cells die than those who didn't.
Melanoma. When taken in combination with a second drug, artesunate showed promise for people with melanoma of the eye that had spread. One person was still alive 47 months after they found out they had this form of skin cancer. By comparison, survival for this type of cancer is usually about 2-5 months.
Risks
Possible side effects include:
- Skin rash
- Hearing loss
- Ringing in the ears
- Dizziness
Because there hasn't been much research on the use of artemisinin for treating cancer, there are lots of unknowns. If you're thinking about this as a potential treatment, you should talk with your medical team. They can tell you if there's a clinical trial available and if you could be a participant.
Artemisinin anti-cancer protocol
Cancer cells like iron – they contain far more than healthy cells do - and use it to maintain their high rates of cell division. When they need some they make a special protein ‘signal’ on their surfaces, and the body’s metabolic systems deliver the iron to the signal, wrapped in a protein package because free-floating iron in the blood stream would be quite toxic. The cancer cells then take in the whole iron ‘package’.
Artemisinin itself attacks the energy production systems of pathogens – about a third of all parasites, yeasts, and most ‘bad’ bacteria such as E coli. Artemisinin also attacks cancer cells. It kills about 100 cancer cells for every healthy cell in laboratory experiments – that’s about 10 times more effective than the average chemotherapy drug. In science, artemisinin has an endoperoxide capacity, that interacts with heme, especially in situations that increase iron in cancer cells.
While it’s pretty harmless in the absence of iron, artemisinin is highly toxic in the its presence and makes large volumes of free-radicals. This is not our view but that of Dr. Narendra Singh and Professor Henry Lai, Department of Bioengineering, and Professor of Chemistry Tomikazu Sasaki, all of the University of Washington.
So these researchers added a little ‘tag’ to the artemisinin, so it stuck to the signal protein on the cancer cells’ surface. When the iron package arrived at the signal, the cancer cells took everything inside – iron/protein package plus the artemisinin. Inside the cancer cell, Free radicals were produced in abundance and the cancer cell died. About 30,000 cancer cells were now killed for every one healthy cell in the studies.
The researchers went on to use their creation with breast cancer (where it killed 98% of cancer cells within 16 hours compared to artemisinin alone at 28%), leukemia and brain tumours and it was licensed by the University of Washington to a company, Artemesia Biomedical, set up by Lai, Sasaki and Singh
CANCERactive also has a review on artemisinin –
Go to: Artemisinin and cancer, yeasts and parasites
In fact, it is a powerful herb and we warn on its side-effects here.
The Artemisinin anti-cancer protocol
In human experiments the Singh team used a reduced carbohydrate diet with vitamin D supplementation (5,000IUs) and encouraged exercise. Artemisinin can cross the blood brain barrier.
- Singh believes that plant iron from a plant-based diet and supplements such as Floradix, provides ferric iron. By providing 1 gm of vitamin C (with a little oil) after meals, the ferric iron converted to ferrous iron in the cancer cell and thus the vitamin C encourages greater uptake.
- The Artemisinin should be given on an empty stomach but with a little yoghurt (which contains no iron) to help absorption, and before bed as the immune system falls at night and cancer cells proliferate more.
- Dose is 100 mg of artemisinin supplement per 10 kg of body weight.
- Some practitioners believe it should be taken with 1000 mg of cod liver oil, and 3 gm of Conjugated Linoleic Acid.
- It is sometimes observed that the body becomes ‘used to’ artemisinin and the herb under-performs. For this reason some practitioners ‘pulse’ the herb – 5 days on, 3 off; or 8 days on, 3 off.'...
Please Note:
The protocol should not be used by smokers, people having radiotherapy, or people taking glutathione. None of these should have been used in the previous 6 months. Caution is urged by CANCERactive, if a patient has impaired liver function.
Plasma levels are higher in women than men, and peak after 90 minutes.
Singh uses the treatment for up to a year. The artemisinin needs to be of the highest purity and so a good supplier is recommended.
Can Artemisinin Treat Cancer?
Artemisinin is a drug derived from the Asian plant Artemisia annua. This aromatic plant has fern-like leaves and yellow flowers.
For more than 2,000 years, it has been used to treat fevers. It’s also an effective treatment for malaria.
Artemisia annua is known by several other names:
- qinghaosu
- qing hao
- sweet wormwood
- sweet Annie
- sweet sagewort
- annual wormwood
Recently, researchers have studied the effect artemisinin has on cancer cells. However, human clinical trials and research are limited.
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