I just finished making a report on Annona muricata. This plant is also commonly known as Guyabano in our native language, Soursop in English, Guanabana in Spain, and Graviola in Brazil. My mom had mentioned that eating this miracle fruit can cure cancer. I must admit, I was a bit skeptic about what she said.
An undesirable action of chemotherapeutic drugs at present is it kills both cancer and normal cells. In doing some research, I learned that Annona muricata contains annonaceous acetogenins which exhibits selective toxicity against cancer cells without harming the healthy cells. In other words, it only kills the cancer cells and not the normal ones. This is what we want in treating cancer patients.
Making a drug takes time (considering all the clinical trials and processes that it has to go through), but let's just hope that there will be one available in the market soon since clinical studies have proven Annona muricata as a PROMISING ANTICANCER/ANTITUMOR AGENT.
Mmmmmmm... Enjoy eating the fruit or a cold Guyabano shake for a healthy living! =)
If this article caught your attention, don't be too carried away. I wouldn't advice people to ingest its SEEDS or ROOTS in any way/preparation, whether it is crushed, drank as a tea, etc. for it is found to have neurotoxic effects and may be linked to atypical Parkinson's disease.
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