Thursday, February 11, 2010

Jatropha a cancer fighter? New article suggests positive results against metastasis... BiofuelsDigest.com

In India, a variety of reports have been published on the medicinal properties of jatropha curcus, most recently a report in the African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology that found that jatropha has cancer-fighting properties, “inhibiting the metastasis of B16F10 melanoma cells and possessed significant anti-metastatic and antiprolifertaive activity.”
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Biofuels Digest Asia editor Joelle Brink also reports the following links on jatropha’s medicinal properties reported elsewhere on the web:
GENERAL – here.
MEDICAL APPLICATIONS – CANCER here, here and here.
WOUNDS AND INFECTIONS – here and here.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY – here and here.
ANTI-FUNGAL – here.
PUBLIC HEALTH APPLICATIONS–MALARIA AND SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL. here and here.

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