One must be wary in just believing all the news about new cancer cures being discovered or are marketed online or by health food
stores. If one just accepts such claims, then the world will have less
need for medical based treatments and patients would be lining up buying
fruits, vegetables, teas and herbs from the farmer's market or
alternative healing establishments rather than in oncologists' clinics
and hospitals.
Soursop
is a tropical fruit that's remained for several years and is popularly
believed by those who've had firsthand experience with cancer either as a
person battling the disease or a loved one caring for a patient.
Like so many other foods that are said to have cancer fighting properties such as different vegetables(crevettes royales),
berries and teas, the health claims soursop makes sometimes sound too
good to be true. What adds to the controversy is the lack of medical
evidence that support such claims and data regarding what part of the
tree has the best properties and how much of it to take.
Even
before it was reported to fight cancer, soursop has been consumed in
countries that cultivate it. It's a delicious tropical fruit eaten fresh
or made into shakes, smoothies and other food and beverages. Though the
irregular green shape with dull spikes looks rather strange to those
unaccustomed to its appearance, opening the fruit yields a creamy white
pulp with black seeds that is truly tropical in flavor and aroma.
As
a cancer buster, it is said that the leaves and bark of wild soursop
trees, preferably grown organically, contains the most healing
properties. These are dried and made into a tea and then boiled to
extract the medicinal compounds.
Contrary
to belief, the soursop healing properties have been studied by medical
research facilities for many decades. Promising results indicate that
soursop has the natural ability to target and kill damaged cells.
However, its effectiveness has yet to be determined thus it hasn't been
marketed formally as a cancer cure.
Hopefully
more funds will be poured into research and eventually yield an
established protocol on the treatment of cancer through the use of the
soursop so that aside from the conventional medical treatments such as
radiation and chemotherapy, there can be a less invasive (and delicious)
alternative. In the meantime, there is no harm in eating this fruit or
drinking it as a tea together with medical treatments whose success
rates have much to be improved.
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