About Compound-X and the Like

According to Ingrid Naiman s Cancer Salves A Botanical Approach to Treatment, there are a number of different versions of Compound-X. Naiman s intriguing investigations focus mainly on salves, as the title indicates, which are designated by the adjective escharotic, meaning that the substance is caustic in one way or another. 

For the record, the few other potential anticancer plants cited by Mors et al. (20(X)) include the following, with the plant family listed first followed by the genus and species in parenthesis  

Bignoniaceae (Tabebuia imptetiginosa and Tabebuia spp., some species of which are known as pau d arco and contain the phenylnaphthoquinone anticancer compound lapachol) 

The pea family Fabaceae is also known as Leguminosae. Of the preceding plant families, only Caesalpiniaceae is not fonnd in Hartwell s Plants Used Against Cancer. Of the genns and species, those cited with an asterisk are not found in Hartwell. 

Another volume of similar interest is LesUe Taylor s Herbal Secrets of the Rainforest The Healing Power of Over 50 Medicinal Plants You Should Know About, pubUshed in 1998. Also for the record, anticancer plants cited are as follows, here in alphabetical order by plant family (the reference lists the common names in alphabetical order). In parenthesis, the genera and species are italicized, followed by the common name. (The sunflower family Asteraceae occurs as Compositae in many references. The plant family Smilacaceae is more conunonly known as the lily family Liliaceae.) 

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