Cancer burdock

An additional source for Essiac herbs is the Herbal Healer Academy, HC32 Box 97-B, Mt. View, AR 72560, Tel 501-269-4177. The herbs, in this instance, were said to be burdock root (Arctium), sheep sorrel (Rumex), slippery elm (Ulmus), and turkey rhubarb root (Rheum). All are listed in Hartwell (1982a, b). (According to this herbal source, Clark s The Cure for All Cancers (1983) seemed to be a bestseller, although there was dissent about its effectiveness.)... 

For the record, Hoxsey s herbal mixture for internal cancers included the following (Moss, 1992, p. 161 Walters, 1993, p. 97) potassium iodide, cascara (Rham-ms), licorice (Glycyrrhiza), red clover (Trifolium), burdock root (Arctium), barberry (Berberis), stillingia root (Stillingia), pokeroot (Phytolacca), prickly ash bark (Zan-thoxylum), and buckthorn bark (Rhamnus). All are listed in Hartwell (1982), and some occur in other herbal remedies for cancer. It has been commented that orthodox scientific research has by now identified antitumor activity in most of the plants used by Hoxsey (Walters, 1993, p. 97). 

It may be added that the Hoxsey treatment, which utilizes a number of herbs, includes burdock, a component also present in Essiac. (Although the Hoxsey treatment had many followers, and Hoxsey prevailed in the courts, his treatment proved ineffective against his own cancer.)... 

Great burdock (Arctium Lappa L.) is widely used in folk medicine. The root extracts of Burdock shows antitumor properties against colon, ovarian, prostate, and renal cancer. The burdock seeds contain sesquiterpenes, lactucopicrin [40]. 

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