Conventional or allopathic medicine is the most well-accepted mode of treatment for cancer. Commonly we recognize and acknowledge articles and posts about cancer if it’s content talks about managing it through conventional medicine. There are also plenty of herbal and oil remedies out there that are said to be effective for treating cancer. Here’s one of the research articles that showed how a patient was cured through the consumption of natural health products.
Herbal Extracts and Supplements Cured Leukemia
A 76-year-old Caucasian male patient had a history of stage 1C prostate cancer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, L3–L4 lumbar spinal stenosis, and lumbar neuroforaminal narrowing due to degenerative disc disease. In December 2008 he was diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. No treatment was initiated hence his cancer was left untreated. Before he was diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia he had taken several commercial supplements. Since the 1990s he has taken L-carnitine, red yeast rice, niacin, vitamin B6, omega-3 fatty acids, 1 mg of pomegranate XT, and 500 mg of vitamin C on a daily basis. In 2000, he began to daily consume nettle root, 1 tablet of pyrroloquinoline, 1.5 mg of melatonin, 400 mg of beta-glucan, and ellagic acid. The patient also has taken one red rooibos tea bag daily with the Papaya leaf extract tea. Since early 2009, he would drink an extract made of 4 grams of papaya leaf tea in the morning and one teaspoon of elixir at night every day.
After he was diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, in 2011 he initiated a daily consumption of vitamin K, bio-curcumin, and 10 mg of vinpocetine. In 2012 he started taking 500 mg of inositol every day. The following year, 2013, he took vitamin B12, folic acid, and 100 mg Boswellia daily. He also had a twice-a-day intake of one tablet of resveratrol. By the year 2014, he commenced taking S-adenosylmethionine. He also took 500 mg of rice bran two times a day. For his IgG2 and IgG4 subclass deficiencies, he took 400 mg of cimetidine two times daily. In early 2015, he would daily take two 520 mg Dandelion root extract RE capsules at once. In 2017, he consumed 2–3 cc of maitake mushroom elixir once a day. Though he was hospitalized in June 2017 with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and reactive airways, they were not caused by the natural supplements he was taking. He also did not experience any side effects nor comorbidities worsening due to the supplements. While consuming papaya leaf extract and dandelion root extract his bone marrow blast counts improved. From 11% of bone marrow blasts in October 2009, it has decreased to 5% since March 2013. At the moment the research was written, his hematological parameters were consistently stable, continues to be in good condition and asymptomatic. Since natural health products such as papaya leaf tea extract and dandelion root extract have been shown to have anticancer activity in preclinical, clinical studies, and invitro studies, the researchers claimed that the patient’s chronic myelomonocytic leukemia had been treated by the use of natural health products and commercial supplements. They also concluded that papaya leaf tea extract and elixir had an antiproliferative effect on the patient’s chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Though they were uncertain if the other supplements helped him to have a stable condition. The patient continued to take natural health products.
Lots of articles and posts on websites and social media platforms talk about the effect of complementary medicine on health conditions. However, at times, keen individuals are doubtful about its origin and credibility. Complementary medicine’s efficacy must be recognized especially if it’s proven to be effective.
To recognize if the content of complementary medicine articles that we consume is reliable and credible, we must evaluate it. The first step to do this is to identify the information’s credibility. Look at the references or the sources used to obtain the information. The article is more convincing if it’s based from experimental and clinical trials, and case reports authored by clinicians.
Next, is to identify who writes the article posts. Is it written by complementary medicine experts? or an enthusiast who is adept in natural healing arts.
Furthermore, you have to consider if the research is funded. If it is, then identify the organization that paid for the hired or volunteer writers and the expenses for research work to be conducted.
If you can be certain that the articles and posts you read originated from case reports, clinical trials, and legitimate references, it is written by experts or credible authors, and it was written without bias, then most chances are these articles are reliable and you can trust in their advice on how to cure or manage your health condition.
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References:
- (1) Leena T. Rahmat, Lloyd E. Damon, “The Use of Natural Health Products Especially Papaya Leaf Extract and Dandelion Root Extract in Previously Untreated Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia”, Case Reports in Hematology, vol. 2018, Article ID 7267920, 3 pages, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7267920
📝 January 19, 2024
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