Cancer And Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine
In the United States, cancer kills more and more Americans annually
. It has become one of the most common causes of death in the United States. Since 1976, 975,000 people were already diagnosed of cancer. It causes agony and eventually death to cancer patients.
Cancer is so tragic that it occurs in different parts of the body, such as the bladder, bones, uterus, colon, esophagus, lungs, breast, liver and others. According to the American Cancer Society, people should always report any of these cancer symptoms:
Change in bowel or bladder habits
A sore that does not heal
Unusual bleeding or discharges
Thickening of the breast or other areas
Difficulty in swallowing
Obvious change in wart or mole
Nagging cough or hoarseness
Cancer can be treated in many ways such as surgery, irradiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy. However, these treatments are quite expensive and come with risks. In some cases, cancer patients also are fearful of these types of treatments. Let's take surgery as an example. Some hesitate to consult with their physicians. Worse, some even stop going back to their physicians. They fear that surgery might not remove the cancer cells but mutilate them instead.
In contrast to Western treatments, China still resorts to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is based on the yin and yang principles and of a person's co-existence with his/her environment. Traditional Chinese Medicine basically makes use of Chinese herbal remedies and acupuncture. These remedies have been used as anti-inflammatory treatments for many centuries already.
Celastrol, a popular Chinese herb, has been used to treat fever, chills, joint pain and inflammation for many centuries. Celastrol is extracted from the tree or shrubs of celastracaea, or otherwise known as the "Thunder of God Vine" or Lei Gong Teng in Chinese.
In order to find the other benefits of this plant derivative, various research studies have already been conducted. Among those who researched on celastrol are Dr. Ahmed Chadli and his colleagues of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Cardiovascular Discovery Institute and of the American Heart Association.
Dr. Chadli's research found that celastrol can help in treating cancer. The researchers believed that celastrol inactivates a protein that prompts cancer to numerously grow in the body. Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) causes cancer cells to multiply more and more. Another protein, P23, aids HSP90 in its growth. The study proved that celastrol can actually inhibit HSP90 from doing such.
With this, Dr. Chadli hopes that celastrol can be combined with other therapeutic agents in reducing cancerous diseases.
TCM may not be modernized and sophisticated. Despite of this, their system of healing has proven a lot. With more research studies on Chinese herbs, surely, cancer and all other death-causing diseases will hope to be alleviated in no time.
See a qualified practitioner for all your treatments.
by: Gen Wright
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