Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis) is a Native American and Eastern medicine treatment for cancer that removes the protein coatings on cancer cells, causing cell apoptosis, or cell death. These CD47 proteins allow cancer cells to remain untouched by the immune system (the "don't eat me" sign). Below are two (out of many) cited works produced by respected medical research facilities that look at how Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis) works on cancer cells, but fall short of actually stating that it "cures" cancer. On the Memorial Sloan Kettering website, the publisher specifically posts a disclaimer on the first page that viewers must read and accept in order to gain access to information on natural herbs and their medical uses.
In an article published on Memorial Sloan Kettering website (1) titled "Sanguinarine-induced apoptosis in human leukemia U937 cells via Bcl-2 downregulation and caspase-3 activation," the researchers discuss how leukemia cells die as a result of having the proteins removed or rearranged on the cell surfaces. This is a scientific study by doctors (Han MH, Yoo YH, Choi YH) in the Department of Biomaterial Control (BK21 Program) Dongeui University Graduate School, Busan, South Korea.
In another article, this one published by the National Institute of Health ("PubMed") website, a research paper titled "Regulation of survival, proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis of tumor cells through modulation of inflammatory pathways by nutraceuticals" by the Cytokine Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, discusses how diet can affect the proliferation of inflammation, which can lead to the creation of an environment in the body that is conducive to growth and survival of cancer cells.
The abstract:
How our diet can prevent cancer is the focus of this review. Specifically, we will discuss how nutraceuticals, such as allicin, apigenin, berberine, butein, caffeic acid, capsaicin, catechin gallate, celastrol, curcumin, epigallocatechin gallate, fisetin, flavopiridol, gambogic acid, genistein, plumbagin, quercetin, resveratrol, sanguinarine, silibinin, sulforaphane, taxol, gamma-tocotrienol, and zerumbone, derived from spices, legumes, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, can modulate inflammatory pathways and thus affect the survival, proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis of the tumor.
With medical research demonstrating the ability of natural herbs to fight cancer at the cellular level, it appears that a cure for cancer is still "shelved" until pharmaceutical manufacturers can patent and produce Bloodroot, or similar nutraceuticals, for profit.
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http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/bloodroot2
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20737283 - Cytokine Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
