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Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:03 PM

Dear Docs, friends of Science and Medicine,

"Scientists adarakh Khake piche pade" LET US enjoy our ADARAKH TEA -
Ginger may fight ovarian cancer US scientists believe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4876056.stm (More going to back to
traditions and naturopathy and ayurveda)
University of Michigan researchers announced at the American
Association of Cancer Research that tests show ginger kills cancer
cells. The study also found that the spice had the added benefit of
stopping the cells from becoming resistant to treatment. But UK cancer
experts said that, while ginger may in the future form a basis of a
new drug, more research was needed to corroborate the findings. Ginger
is already known to ease nausea and control inflammation, but the
findings by the US team offer cancer patients new hope. Researchers
used ginger powder, similar to that sold in shops, which they
dissolved in a solution and applied to ovarian cancer cells.

They found it caused the cells to die in all the tests done. But it
was the way in which the cells died which offered even more hope. The
tests demonstrated two types of death - apoptosis, which is
essentially cell suicide, and autophagy, a kind of self-digestion.
Report author Rebecca Liu said: "Most ovarian cancer patients develop
recurrent disease that eventually becomes resistant to standard
chemotherapy, which is associated with apoptosis.

"If ginger can cause autophagic cell death in addition to apoptosis,
it may circumvent resistance to conventional chemotherapy." The
researchers warned the results were very preliminary and they plan to
test whether they can obtain similar results in animal studies.

Side-effects

But they added the appeal of ginger was that it would have virtually
no side-effects and would be easy to administer as a capsule. Henry
Scowcroft, science information officer for Cancer Research UK, said
previous research had shown that ginger extract can stop cancer cell
growing so it was possible that ginger could form the basis of a new drug.

But more work was needed before firm conclusions could be drawn, he
added. "This study doesn't mean that people should dash down to the
supermarket and stockpile ginger. "We still don't know whether ginger,
in any form, can prevent or treat cancers in animals or people."


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