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| has a cooling effect, thereby making it useful in the treatment of fever. It lowers blood pressure, improves vision, stops excess bleeding, soothes a cough, and relieves wheezing. It contains vitamins B 1, B 12, and C, as well as betaine, beta-sitosterol, carotene, and physalien. Chinese medicine classifies it as a blood tonic and sometimes calls it the fruit of the matrimony vine. |
| Yellow Dock (Rumex crispus) |
| Yellow dock contains anthraquinone glycosides, including nepodon and emodin, which are also found in buckthorn and rhubarb. It is an alterative, cholagogue, and laxative, and is employed chiefly in chronic cutaneous disorders with glandular swelling. It is an ingredient in Eli Jones's Scrophularia Compound and in the Hoxsey Formula (see Herbal Formulas for Cancer Treatment, page 163). |
| Zanthoxylum nitidum |
| Zanthoxylum nitidum is another variety of prickly ash and possesses the same properties. It promotes the flow of blood and the supply of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. It contains the alkaloid chelerythrine, lignans, tannins, resins, and volatile oil. |
| Zedoria (Curcumin zedoria) |
| Zedoria, a relative of ginger and turmeric, has potent immune-enhancing abilities that incude activation of natural killer-cells. Zedoria, like turmeric, has the ability to break down fibrin and expose viral and cancer cells to more effective attack by other agents and immune-fighting chemicals. Its active principals and antitumor agents are believed to be curcumin, curdione, and curcumol. Zedoria has been widely used in China to treat some forms of cancer and has been found to inhibit sarcoma 180. It is used traditionally to treat cervical cancer. 112 Clinical trials in 209 cases of human cervical carcinoma showed a 65 percent effective rate. This herb can improve immunity and protect leukocytes after radiation therapy. Curcumin and curcuminoids are potent inhibitors of mutagenesis and tumor promotion and they also exert an anti-HIV activity. Curcumol is rapidly absorbed by the body and is distributed to all body tissues, including the brain.113 |
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