An Overview of Anticancer Herbal Medicines

摘要: The use of medicinal plants to help sustain good health and vitality reduce inflammation has an ancient respected history. Approximately 38% American adults are using some form complementary alternative medicine, resulting in $ 34 billion dollars spent annually. Herbal medicine compositions offer a potential advantage that they usually comprise multiple components interact act simultaneously through molecular targets signaling pathways. These complex often synergistic botanicals may also decrease toxicity increase bioavailability as strategies for cancer management. quality content the active supplement depends on collection, processing composition raw material extraction procedures. In addition, despite evidence usefulness mixtures cell culture pre-clinical animal models, there is no formal regulation natural supplements by United States Food Drug Administration, however, which creates conflict medical community, reluctance recommend herbals medicines patient care. Clinicians should be aware these alternatives given their future oncology role treatment when standard cures have been attempted clinical trials available patients with advanced disease. Further investigation focus herbs chemo-prevention chronic diseases certain cancers. advantages limitations various products into mainstream practice discussed.