Just read there are promising results from dandelion root to kill cancer cells.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Something you might want to google.

In Europe, they are finding good results in the lab animals, and are planning on doing human trials.
Seems effective for many cancers but NOT breast cancer, in fact may increase estrogen, which we do not want in most breast cancers.


The good news is that dandelion root is ever so cheaply available as capsules in the health food stores
( My personal favorite way of buying vitamins and supplements is iherb.com)

[OKNancy]

1. I don't see any reputable site or study of this

looks like kooky woo to me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Easy to find...here:

In vitro and in vivo studies suggest that dandelion has lipid-lowering (13), hepatoprotective (14), and antiviral (15) (16) properties. It also has anticoagulant (5), diuretic (10), anti-inflammatory (14), and antioxidant (4) activities. Dandelion root extract has anticancer effects against melanoma (3), leukemia (8) (26), pancreatic cancer (17), and colorectal cancer (25) cell lines. However, human studies are limited.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer center
https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/dandelion#references-3

Look at the clinical summary and purported uses tabs.

Human clinical trials on for cancer killing dandelion extract

UWindsor biochemistry researcher Siyaram Pandey has the official go-ahead to test dandelion root extract as a treatment for patients with terminal cancer. Dr. Pandey and his student researchers have successfully shown in the lab how the extract causes cancer cells to go through apoptosis, or cell suicide, while leaving healthy cells alone.

http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2015-02-18/human-clinical-trials-cancer-killing-dandelion-extract

[moonscape]

3. Here's one link ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-anti-cancer-tea-1.3370691

A friend sent me a link suggesting dandelion tea several months ago. If it's effective for a particular cancer, who knows at what dosage. But I'm glad there is research in the pipeline because it's tough to get any research done on a natural product. If Big Pharma can't patent it, it usually doesn't happen.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Dandelion leaf and root has been used for thousands of years

It is an effective and well known diuretic, plus many other uses.

I am saddened that we only trust what Big Pharma chooses to make available and distrust what Mother Nature provides
It is known.

[moonscape]

5. Well, I sit somewhere in between. Mother Nature provides

a panoply of things, many of which are deadly to humans, so I don't assess things based on if they're natural or not. What is criminal, is that in a wealthy country, we don't fund more research on natural products. But then, we get into political issues on the role of government and how funds are allocated.

For my cancer, I had many questions that couldn't be answered because the research needed is not in the interest of Big Pharma, regardless of how many lives it could save. Understandable, they are profit-driven, but again political issue. I don't believe health care should be in the profit sector, but it is, and these are some of the sad results.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Ever since I read that Japan forbids doctors to profit from health care,

I have wept bitter tears over our system.