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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