Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Doctors say herbal blend can help cancer patients

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 18th, 2005

Yale University, the Ivy League bastion of Western science, is turning to ancient Chinese formulas to develop new medicines for the 21st century.

Already physicians have demonstrated that an 1800-year-old Chinese recipe of four plants can apparently ease the side effects of chemotherapy while boosting the healing power of the anticancer drug.

These intriguing preliminary results must be expanded and reconfirmed, doctors said, but a crucial principle is clear - combinations of compounds could be the key to treating a variety of intractable diseases.

Specifically, researchers believe that modernized "polychemical" Chinese remedies...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-01-18)

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