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The graviola, a tree growing in the Amazon River basin, has shown great promise as a cancer treatment, as its extracts are extremely effective at finding and killing cancer cells up to 10,000 better than regular chemotherapy. As well, its bark, fruit, and leaves are used as antidepressants, painkillers, antiparasitics, antifungals, and a host of other uses. Research, however, is very slow due to the fact that drug companies cannot patent natural products.
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1. Graviola Annona Muricata By Christian Drapeau, BSc., MSc.
It produces a fruit the size of a large cantaloupe with a delicious white flesh.
Indigenous Traditional Use: Graviola has a long history of use by Indigenous people of the Amazon Basin who use all parts of the Graviola tree -the bark, leaves, roots, fruits and seeds -for various ailments.
For example, the fruit and seeds are used for intestinal health, namely to eliminate intestinal parasites and for stomach and bowel discomforts.
The calming effect on the whole body has been linked to the ability of Graviola leaf extract to lower blood pressure.
Cytotoxic often refers to the ability to kill cells that are not functioning properly and which can put the whole body at risk.
Colon and breast cancer conquered with miracle tree from the Amazon found to be 10, 000 times stronger than chemotherapy.
All parts of the graviola tree are used in natural medicine in the tropics, including bark, leaves, roots, fruit, and fruit-seeds.
Generally, the fruit and fruit juice are taken for worms and parasites, to cool fevers, to increase mother's milk after childbirth (lactagogue), and as an astringent for diarrhea and dysentery.
The crushed seeds are used as a vermifuge and anthelmintic against internal and external parasites and worms.
In the Peruvian Andes a leaf tea is used for catarrh (inflammation of a mucous membrane), and the crushed seed is used to kill parasites.
Many bioactive compounds and phytochemicals have been found in
graviola, as scientists have been studying its properties since the 1940s.
Much of the recent research on graviola has focused on a novel set of phytochemicals found in the leaves, seeds, and stem that are cytotoxic against various
cancer cells.
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