Chinese medicine: the treatment of cancer to eat cockroaches

In our earliest existing pharmacy monograph, "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" (a book in the Eastern Han Dynasty) will be included in the product, after many herbal books are recorded. In the folklore of southwest China have cockroaches can assist the treatment of cancer of the statement, circulated hundreds of years, many patients will still present it as an important means of adjuvant therapy. Many cancer patients in a traditional Chinese doctor, they found this recipe in the medicinal taste of cockroach often appear.

In Chinese medicine theory, the roach elimination of "Zhengjia accumulation" effect. "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" which is also mentioned: "Cockroach, the main blood stasis, Kennedy disease, cold and heat, breaking accumulation." And so-called "strong disorder", "Zheng Jia", "accumulation", which refers to some of the body lumps, lumps, most in the Western view is that we often say "tumor."

The wide variety of cockroaches, cockroach species have known all over the world is about 44 525 kinds, 10 of China's record is 39, in the end which is inside the medicine medicinal "Cockroach" mean?

In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the "medical saint" Li summarized the records of ancient herbal medicine, combined with their own experience and research, the cockroach is described for: "body like silk moth, front and all red, Liang Chi can fly." control of modern entomological research, we found that "the American cockroach", is the only line cockroach species have this feature. In other words, the American cockroach is the ancient herbal science have documented, can eliminate the "Zhengjia accumulation" of drugs - "cockroaches."

This finding has been recognized by a large number of modern medicine at home, on the American cockroach anti-tumor effect, but even more is the oncology community has become a hot spot. Many research institutions and medical proof the American cockroach anti-tumor effect of the system to do research and found that the American cockroach extract on esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer cell lines growth inhibition; on mouse Lewis lung carcinoma and 3LL lung tumor tissue inhibit the growth of some, can promote apoptosis of tumor cells; in vitro ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer cell line, chronic myeloid leukemia-derived, the original myeloid leukemia, mouse leukemia cell line, pharynx cancer, lung cancer, oral epithelial cell line with growth inhibition.

In summary, we can find to say the American cockroach cancer is a scientific, anti-tumor effect is clear. It should be noted that the American cockroach that "cockroaches" in the area south of the Yangtze River in China a lot of distribution.

Of course, the American cockroach, though blindly Chinese herbal medicine, but the American cockroach living in dark and dirty every day environment, may carry large amounts of bacteria and viruses, if you just catch and eat, can cause some serious diseases. So to follow doctor's orders, from the regular hospital or medicinal drugs purchased processed.