Essential Oils and their anticancer properties:

Essential Oils and their anticancer properties:

E.O. and Anticancer Properties October 21, 2005
Good Morning,

Well I am back from Ecuador and what an awesome experience we all had. The country is as beautiful as far as an eye can see. High mountains were everywhere. The people are out plowing their fields by hand or with the ox pulling a plow behind. We sure do take our easy life for granted dont we? I saw many women down by a creek or a spring washing their clothes on a rock scrubbing them back and forth to get them clean and then hanging them out to dry on bushes or whatever they could hang them on.

Women and children out in the garden and field hoeing and weeding and even cutting grass to put in a large sack like material to fold and hauling it over their shoulders on the back, taking it to market to sell.

Most of the farms are on the mountain side and their homes up on the side of the mountain or on top. With stair cut out of the ground so they can climb to their homes. And we complain because the car has a flat tire. They are a happy group of people waving as our buses went by.

Not all people are farmers, there are a lot of town people with the busy life of zippy around in cars going here and there to work and shopping. New buildings going up all over. A new hospital is being built that is right by the Azuay University where Dr. Gary Young and Dr. Edward Rodas will be teaching students and doing research on the Essential Oils.

That is right Gary will be teaching classes in Azuay University to students toward getting their degree in alternative health with Essential oils. And hopefully in time there will be a home course for those of us that would like to have a degree behind our name, which we will be able to take, but it will require some college time in the Azuay University to complete the degree.

Gary talked more on what we learned at convention on research on the 74 essential oil in the studies of cancer. 69 single and 5 mixtures on Cervical, breast, skin, and prostate cancer cell lines with a Non-cancerous 3T3 mouse fibroblast cells. I would like to share part of this again especially for those that are new and have not heard about the research.

OBJECTIVE:

Oils showing 50 percent or more cancer cell inhibition and 25 percentor less inhibition of non-cancer cell growth will be recommended for further study as potential anticancer drugs.

RESULTS:

58 percent of the 74 oils showed general cancer inhibition of 50 percent or greater. 34 percentof the 74 oils showed cancer-specific inhibition. Seven of those were active against two or more cancer cell lines

Of particular interest: Oils showing synergistic effects, Oils with significant activity at the lowest concentration tested and Oils with multiple anti-cancer activity.

CONCLUSION:

Essential oils have potential as anticancer drugs.

Screening processes such as the one used in this study that are fast, inexpensive and useful provided good leads about which compounds should be further investigated.

Further research should be done on promising essential oils--this may lead to new cancer drugs. Many technologies available.

AREAS OF INTEREST:.

Stimulating apoptosis

DNA repair

Proflerative senescence

Immune protection and stimulation

Preventing metastasis

ALPHA-SANTALOL Vs SKIN CANCER:
1. Researchers at the South Dakota State University found that the main component of Sandalwood oil, the alpha-santalol, protected skin from cancer.

2. Application of alpha-santalol to skin exposed to cancer-causing chemicals dramatically delayed the onset of tumor growth in test subjects.

C., Dwivedi et al,. 2003