Even though we have a very high tech society, cancer is still a serious issue. We humans still are not entirely capable of fighting cancer.
Radiation and chemotherapy are still considered the best methods for treating it and frequently, even these don't work. And, as for this disease, it is a phenomenon of uncontrolled cell growth that has lead to the death of many people. Within these main two treatments, there is plenty of controversy surrounding applying radiation and chemo in a proper sequence.
However, there are also some different methods known and available on the market to treat cancer. Among them, homeopathic and herbal treatments are the most common. So, my question is, do they really work and is there any scientific evidence of that? If yes then what is it?
Answer
The methodology behind homeopathy is scientific nonsense. If you dilute anything a billion times, it will have no chemical effect, not even if you shake it all the while. So no, homeopathy does nothing for cancer, or any medical condition at all.
Of course plants can have active compounds in them, once scientists have identified those compounds, they can be tweaked to make them act better in the human body, and then manufactured under strict guidelines to ensure purity, and tested to determine the optimum dosage; then it's just medicine. Taxol comes from yew trees, it doesn't mean that native herbalists were successfully treating cancer with it for hundreds of years. Native herbalists were using willow bark, which contains salicylic acid, which has anti-inflammatory properties, but chemists improved on it, reducing some of its negative side effects, by modifying it to acetylsalicylic acid.
Millions of people get cancer. Doctors get cancer. Herbalists get cancer. If curing cancer was as easy as mixing some leaves in a poultice, people would do that.
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