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Dandelion Shows Promise Against Cancer. Human Trials Are Needed
Lab studies show dandelion extract triggered death in a variety of cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
When an older woman with terminal leukemia asked to be discharged from the hospital, her doctors assumed they'd never see her again. Two weeks later, she walked back in. Blood tests revealed that her cancer markers had dropped by 50 percent. The only thing she had done differently was drink tea made from a common backyard weed.
Her hospital roommate, hearing the story, began drinking the tea herself. Blood tests showed her cancer markers dropped 25 percent.
One person having that experience might be a coincidence. Two people getting the same result was something else. Dr. Caroline Hamm, an oncologist who had been treating both patients, picked up the phone and called a biochemist she had been working with on other cancer research.
Research has found that dandelion root extract (DRE) can selectively destroy multiple cancer cell types while sparing healthy cells in laboratory and animal studies. Concurrently, a number of terminal cancer patients—people who had run out of options and had nothing to lose—began taking dandelion root on their own. In several documented cases, their cancer became undetectable within weeks or months. Years later, many remain cancer-free.
The science on dandelion has not yet been tested in a completed human clinical trial. However, preclinical evidence and the patient stories that have accumulated alongside it are difficult to dismiss.
The Research Begins
In 2011, Siyaram Pandey, a researcher and professor of biochemistry at the University of Windsor in Ontario, launched a formal investigation into dandelion root as a possible non-toxic treatment for cancer.
The project was seeded with a significant donation from the parents of Kevin Couvillon, who lost his battle with leukemia in 2010, at the age of 26. Couvillon’s immune system had been severely compromised by chemotherapy, and he died as a result of multiple infections. His parents, having witnessed the devastating toll of the treatment firsthand, wanted to fund research into non-toxic alternatives.
Pandey was initially skeptical. His previous research focused on purified plant compounds with known anticancer properties. When Hamm contacted him about dandelion root, he had reservations about how to test it effectively, especially since he did not know how the patients’ tea had been grown, picked, and processed. His solution was to make his own extract: controlled, reproducible, testable.
He did not expect much from the first experiment.
However, “It was just killing those leukemia cells left and right—it was unbelievable,” Pandey told The Epoch Times. “The students kept repeating it—and we don’t celebrate anything unless we see that it is safe for healthy cells.”
“We had normal cells and cancerous cells. Dandelion root extract was absolutely selective—and that was the moment for me to change my thought about herbal or plant extracts, 180 degrees.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/dandelion-shows-promise-against-cancer-human-trials-are-needed-6023344
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