African shrub extracts hit the BULLSEYE for tumor ANNIHILATION
You ask your cancer doc about incorporating natural medicine into your treatment plan…
And you BRACE yourself for his response.
Because you know how far too many mainstream docs SCOFF at the idea of complementing conventional care with plant medicine.
But it’s not as CRAZY as they make it seem – in fact, there’s a LONG history of helping to KILL cancer with herbs!
And even Big Pharma can no longer IGNORE it.
Thing is, they’re not exactly BROADCASTING where they’re getting the ideas from some of their most groundbreaking drugs.
So here’s what you may not have already heard about how this “fringe” approach to cancer treatment has worked its way into the mainstream.
Maytenus ovatus is a shrub from Ethiopia that’s used in African Traditional Medicine.
And there’s been some interest in its ability to help fight cancer… over the course of the last 50 YEARS!
Key to its success is an antimicrobial substance found in its bark called maytansine, first discovered in 1972.
This substance has also demonstrated the ability to STOP cancer cell division… and SHRINK and KILL tumors.
It works by INHIBITING tumor microtubules… by binding to the protein that forms them, called tubulin.
The only problem? Administering pure maytansine to cancer patients is like using a blow-torch to kill a spider.
It DESTROYS everything in its wake.
That’s why National Cancer Institute clinical trials on it were HALTED in the early 1980s. Study participants just couldn’t tolerate it!
Fortunately, this African shrub ALSO contains other cancer-killing compounds, known as maytansinoids…
Which ZERO IN on cancer cells like a sniper… using the UTMOST precision.
And the discovery of those compounds has helped RENEWED interest in this woody cancer fighter!
In fact, there’s a tubulin inhibitor cancer drug available today that’s based on one of those maytansinoids… called mertansine.
You may have heard of it under the name “DM1.”
It’s not completely natural… but rather a semi-synthetic derivative of maytansine.
Today, patients aren’t receiving DM1 as a cancer treatment on its own… but rather COMBINED with monoclonal antibodies to create what’s called an antibody-drug conjugate (or ADC for short).
The resulting experimental drugs could be used to help treat…
- squamous cell carcinoma
- colorectal cancer
- small-cell lung cancer
- ovarian cancer
- and more.
DM1 has also been combined with even more complicated compounds to create the cancer drug known as trastuzumab emtansine… approved in this country to treat HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer that’s resisted prior treatments.
Much of this drug development has come out of the biotech company ImmunoGen…
So, I wouldn’t be surprised if Big Pharma gets a lot of the credit if these drugs actually WORK and SAVE LIVES… which OF COURSE I pray that they do.
But let’s not forget that the CORE of that drug development came from a plant extract.
In fact, these cancer-killing plant compounds (a.k.a. “cytotoxic agents,” in pharma terms) aren’t JUST extracted from Maytenus ovatus…
But also ANOTHER African plant, called Putterlickia verrucose (or “forest false spike-thorn”)!
Friend, the decision of how to treat your cancer is completely up to you and your cancer care team.
But don’t let anyone tell you that no herb could ever make a difference in the disease.
Just look at Euphorbia peplus… Taxus brevifolia… and Catharanthus roseus.
To defeating cancer,
Sarah Reagan
Source:
“Maytenus ovatus (schweinf.) An African Medicinal Plant Yielding Potential Anti-cancer Drugs” – Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (12/6/17)
