More Cancer Sufferers Turn to Herbal Medicines

(Newswire.net — October 17, 2018) Winnetka, IL — For thousands of years, herbs and spices have been used in treating a wide range of diseases and disorders.

Scientists nowadays are investigating the life-saving, health-enhancing effects of some natural ingredients. These herbs and spices have long been used in restoring the ability of the body to regulate, protect, and heal itself.

According to studies, 60 percent of individuals with cancer use herbal remedies ad adjunct therapy for conventional cancer treatments.

Herbs and spices have been studied due to the healing properties they contain. There are even studies that found these healing agents are as good as some pharmaceutical drugs.

There are many different kinds of herbs and spices found to treat many different health conditions.

More and more scientists have been investigating natural remedies, and this is due to their impressive potentials to prevent and treat diseases. Some natural ingredients are even considered to be safer alternatives to medications.

Ashwagandha has long been studied due to its remarkable healing potentials, particularly in terms of fighting cancer.

According to scientists, it can destroy a huge variety of human cancer cells effectively. This particularly includes those affecting the lung, colon, skin, bone, breast, cervical, fibrosarcoma, pancreas, and brain tumors.

It has been found that ashwagandha could be useful for the therapeutic treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. It may be potentially helpful against brain cancer, particularly glioblastoma.

Glioblastoma is the most common and difficult malignant brain tumor to treat. In addition to brain cancer, it may even be helpful against ones affecting the breast.

Researchers carried out an open-label prospective non-randomized comparative trial. It involved 100 patients suffering breast cancer in all stages, and they went through either a combination of chemotherapy with oral Withania somnifera or chemotherapy alone.

They found that those treated with ashwagandha experienced lower fatigue compared to those who did not.

This natural ingredient has also demonstrated its ability to modulate several functionally important classes of genes and molecular signaling mechanisms. These are linked with immune response, inflammation, signal transduction, cell signaling, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis and cell cycle regulation.

Researchers suggest this makes it an effective chemopreventive agent relevant to prostate cancer progression. It has further been found to be potentially useful against renal cancer. It is believed to induce apoptosis or cell death on Caki human renal cells.

It was able to do so by down-regulating the STAT3 signalling pathway, inhibiting JAK2 phosphorylation and suppressing the expression of harmful proteins.

More studies are being carried out to explore the life-saving benefits of ashwagandha. However today, there are many who take it for preventive health purposes.

One supplement to consider using is NutraHerbals Ashwagandha.

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