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dixiegrrrrl

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Sun Sep 25, 2016, 09:43 AM

Sep 2016

In vitro and in vivo studies suggest that dandelion has lipid-lowering (13), hepatoprotective (14), and antiviral (15) (16) properties. It also has anticoagulant (5), diuretic (10), anti-inflammatory (14), and antioxidant (4) activities. Dandelion root extract has anticancer effects against melanoma (3), leukemia (8) (26), pancreatic cancer (17), and colorectal cancer (25) cell lines. However, human studies are limited.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer center
https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/dandelion#references-3

Look at the clinical summary and purported uses tabs.

Human clinical trials on for cancer killing dandelion extract

UWindsor biochemistry researcher Siyaram Pandey has the official go-ahead to test dandelion root extract as a treatment for patients with terminal cancer. Dr. Pandey and his student researchers have successfully shown in the lab how the extract causes cancer cells to go through apoptosis, or cell suicide, while leaving healthy cells alone.

http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2015-02-18/human-clinical-trials-cancer-killing-dandelion-extract

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Just read there are promising results from dandelion root to kill cancer cells. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Sep 2016 OP

I don't see any reputable site or study of this OKNancy Sep 2016 #1

Easy to find...here: dixiegrrrrl Sep 2016 #2

Here's one link ... moonscape Sep 2016 #3

Dandelion leaf and root has been used for thousands of years dixiegrrrrl Sep 2016 #4

Well, I sit somewhere in between. Mother Nature provides moonscape Sep 2016 #5

Ever since I read that Japan forbids doctors to profit from health care, dixiegrrrrl Sep 2016 #6