Bitter Melon: Herbal Remedy for Cancer

IMPORTANT NOTE: Bitter Melon Extract is not an appropriate herbal remedy for cancer during pregnancy. If you're looking for an herbal cure for cancer during pregnancy, click here to read more about Burdock Root, and Black Horehound.  Bitter melon should be used with caution in children. This plant is also a powerful herbal remedy for diabetes and as such, it is an herb that can lower blood sugar levels significiantly. Most of the research on bitter melon has focused on the medicinal effects of bitter melon as a natural cure for diabetes [5], however, diabetes and cancer are related diseases that often co-occur.  Click here to read more about the use of bitter melon as an herbal remedy for diabetes.

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Are Cancer and Diabetes Related? The Diabetes-Cancer Connection Explained.

The relationship between cancer and diabetes is not nearly as complicated as Big Pharma would like for us to believe. In fact, the cancer-diabetes relationship has to do with the anatomy of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas and how these three organs are interconnected in most people's bodies via the common hepatic duct. In about 90% of individuals, the bile duct from the liver intersects with both the cystic duct from the gallbladder and the pancreatic duct. The pancreas, liver, and gallbladder typically secrete their digestive juices (bile and pancreatic enzymes) into a common duct that dumps into the small intestine through the Ampulla of Vater (see image). The pancreas is unique in that it produces not only pancreatic enzymes to help us digest food (and also the biofilm that protects cancer cells from being eradicated by the immune system too -- read more about that here at this link), but also insulin, a substance that allows cells to open up to admit nutrients and sugars for fuel. The pancreatic cells that produce insulin and the pancreatic cells that produce pancreatic enzymes sit right next to each other in this organ. They interspersed together throughout the pancreatic tissues. Both the liver and the gallbladder deal with bile, a substance that not only digests our food, but that also acts as a soapy detergent to clean out the intestines. Indeed, bile is a powerful detoxifying agent that is composed of toxins in the body such that the excretion of bile itself is detoxifying in addition to its soapy, detergent qualities that help it remove toxins from the intestines. But bile can become sludgy and it can form stones under certain conditions and the sludge or the stones can clog up the common bile duct or the Ampulla of Vater. If the duct that leads to the pancreas gets clogged with bile stones or sludge, it can cause pancreatic enzymes to back up into the pancreas.

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If pancreatic enzymes go backward into the pancreas after being deposited into clogged ducts, the pancreatic enzymes begin to digest the pancreatic cells that produce insulin. This can cause diabetes to develop because once enough insulin cells are destroyed, to patient no longer is able to produce enough insulin to ensure that their cells have nutrients and energy. On the other hand, in addition to the issues caused by a lack of a sufficient number of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, if pancreatic enzymes are not permitted to be deposited into the small intestine via the Ampulla of Vater due to clogged ducts, two things will happen:

1. The lack of pancreatic enzymes will make it impossible for the body to digest certain foods which will cause nutrient deficiencies and vulnerabilities in the patient's physiology.

1. If pancreatic enzymes are not deposited into the small intestine and if there is not an excess of pancreatic enzymes such that the extras can be absorbed back into the blood supply to circulate throughout the body and digest the outer sheath that covers and protects cancer cells from discovery and eradication by the immune system, cancer cells develop. Normally, when a person's bile ducts and pancreatic ducts are open and clear of bile stones or bile sludge, pancreatic enzymes are deposited into the digestive system and used for digestion with the excess being re-absorbed to circulate back through the body, dissolving the biofilm that protects cancer cells from immune system detection before returning the pancreas to be recycled.

Essentially, the backup of pancreatic enzymes into the pancreas as a result of clogged ducts can cause destruction of insulin-producing cells which leads to diabetes. Also, the inability of pancreatic enzymes to read the small intestine and be recycled through the blood while seeking out and destroying cancer cells before they can take root leads to cancer. This is the connection between cancer and diabetes.  Click here to read more about Insulin Potentiation Therapy as a cure for cancer.

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Reversal of Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer

Bitter melon is an herbal remedy for cancer that's been used in conventional medicine to make chemotherapy medications more effective, but modern patients also often use it as a stand-alone cancer treatment or they use it as part of a holistic cancer treatment [1]. Bitter melon can be used as an herbal treatment for Type 1 Diabetes as well as Type 2 Diabetes. In conventional medicine, bitter melon has demonstrated the ability to reverse multidrug resistance to chemotherapy through mechanisms that aren’t entirely understood according to the scientific literature [6]. Based on our research and studies into the cancer-diabetes connection, bitter melon's ability to improve cancer treatment outcomes naturally is due to the fact that:

• Bitter melon is nutrient dense to get rid of a patient's nutrient deficiencies.
• "Charantin" is a substance in bitter melon that works better than the diabetes drug tolbutamide. In other words, the charantin found in bitter melon powerfully stimulates insulin secretion from the pancreas.
• Polypeptide-P, also known as P-insulin, found in bitter melon, is a protein that lowers blood sugar levels. P-insulin works similarly in the body as natural insulin.

In other words, while conventional medicine is selling bitter melon to cancer patients to "reverse multidrug resistant cancers", in reality, what they're really doing is administering a medicine (the bitter melon) that cures cancer. Indeed, bitter melon is an herbal cure for cancer and diabetes, but Big Pharma always tries to sell bitter melon packaged with chemotherapy so that patients and doctors don't ever realize how powerful this herbal remedy for diabetes and cancer actually is.

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Other Diseases That Can Be Treated With Bitter Melon

The bitter leaves and green fruits have been used to treat not only cancer but also HIV, asthma, anorexia, skin infections (such as ringworm and scabies), gastrointestinal problems, hypertension, infectious diseases, psoriasis, and to prevent jaundice. Below is a list of diseases that can be treated using bitter melon:

• HIV (used alone or in conjunction with other treatment modalities)
• Herpes
• Anemia
• Colitis
• Rhinitis (runny nose)
• Cold
• Cough
• Asthma
• Eczema
• Jaundice
• Pneumonia
• Burns
• Headache
• Earache
• Diarrhea
• Amoebic infection
• Dyspepsia
• Hepatitis
• Kidney Stones
• Ringworm
• Roundworms
• Skin fungus
• Urethritis
• Vaginitis
• Scabies and other skin parasites
• Leprosy
• Measles
• Hypertension

Below is a list of different types of cancer that have responded positively to bitter melon in a research setting:

• Liver Cancer
• Leukemia
• Melanoma
• Breast Cancer
• Solid Sarcomas
• Prostate Cancer

Taken in the early stages of the cholera disease process, bitter melon can cure cholera as well as other diseases that cause diarrhea. Practitioners of traditional medicine have used bitter melon in China, east Africa, India, the Amazon, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States. Ayurvedic practitioners have used bitter melon to treat disease and disorders of the eyes and it known worldwide for its ability to treat diabetes. Bitter melon contains a substance that, when taken continuously, has the ability to substitute for insulin in the body [4][9].

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Bitter Melon Cancer Research

In one study, the use of Bitter Melon Extract (BME) caused a significant decrease in cancer cell proliferation and it induced apoptotic cancer cell death. Based on their observations the researchers recommended using BME as a dietary supplement to both treat and prevent breast cancer naturally [2]. The use of BME along with a cancer diet as part of a comprehensive cancer protocol is recommended for breast cancer patients.

Research has shown that Bitter Melon Extract kills the following cancer types:

• Breast cancer [1][2]
• Ovarian cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Leukemia [4]
• Liver cancer
• Adrenocortical Carcinoma [3]
• Head and neck cancers
• Other types of cancers [1][7].

Researchers believe that bitter melon may have a special ability to correct the metabolic abnormalities in cancer cells, it may be able to selectively target and kill cancer cells, or it may work by doing both of these things at the same time. At any rate, bitter melon is able to induce apoptosis in cancer cells without negatively affecting the health of normal cells [7][8].

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Medicinal Properties

Bitter Melon demonstrates the following medicinal properties:

• Lowers blood sugar
• Stimulate appetite
• Improves the entire digestion process
• Has emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic properties
• Anti-flatulent
• Dissolves fats to promote weight loss
• Contains significant quantities of essential vitamins such as vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin C and iron.
• Anti-inflammatory
• Astringent
• Purifies the blood [4]

Dosage

Diabetics typically take between 50 to 100 mL of bitter melon juice per day. Some health practitioners prescribe up to 900 mg of the fruit 3 times per day for diabetics [4].

In addition to using parts of the plant as a tea, bitter melon can also be cooked and consumed with different vegetables. All parts of the plant, including the fruit, are often used in stir-fries. The bitter melon fruit can be stuffed or used in soups or with beans [9].

Reported Adverse Effects

Side effects from taking bitter melon are rare, however Bitter Melon Extract should be used with caution in children because it can, in some cases, cause convulsions by lowering blood sugar levels too low. Improper use can lead to hypoglycemic coma. Patients who are taking prescription drugs to control blood sugar levels should talk to their doctor before taking bitter melon.  Studies on mice have shown that Bitter Melon can reduce fertility and cause a favism-like syndrome. People who have been diagnosed with glucose-6-phosphate deficiency may also experience adverse effects such as headache, stomach pain, fever, or even coma from using bitter melon. Some people who take this medicine may experience headaches [4][5][8].



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