Originally published August 6 2005
Noni shows cancer benefits
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Cancer Research Center of Hawaii has released a new study stating that people who take Noni have reduced levels of pain, and these findings may lead to preventative cancer measures being developed.
Dr. Brian Issell, internist, oncologist and clinical sciences program director at the University of Hawaii cancer center, is principal investigator of the study, which began in 2001.
The noni plant was used in traditional healing throughout Polynesia and is being promoted worldwide for all kinds of health problems and diseases.
"We need to know if it helps more than harms people."
The team, including Faith Inoshita, clinical research nurse, is trying to complete the first phase of the study to find the right dose that will be effective for people, Issell said.
Then the researchers will move to the next phase comparing that dose of noni a placebo.
Different doses of freeze-dried extract of ripe noni from the Indian mulberry plant are given to groups of five patients.
Capsules are increased gradually from four a day to 24 and the patients are followed to see the effects.
"We have been seeing increasing improvement in quality of life measures," Issell said.
The first phase of the study began with National Institutes of Health funding and it is continuing with support from the Hawaii Community Foundation, Issell said.
He said the issue with cancer drugs is to find the maximum tolerated dose that's most likely to have an anti-cancer effect.
Gotay said patients are still tolerating the doses with no side effects.
"They have serious conditions and high hopes for treatment and they're very eager to take their pills.
"It's a long ways from even identifying, say it were to work, why it works, what are the active ingredients," Gotay said.
For instance, she asked, "Would it be effective in people with earlier stage disease?
Franke and his team is looking at how the ingredients affect different systems of the body, Gotay said.
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