Researchers: Chamomile, Thyme Oil Destroy over 90% of Breast Cancer Cells
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There is a myriad of natural foods and compounds that have been studied for their disease-preventing and even disease-treating abilities. While the pharmaceutical industry pushes patented drugs that cause numerous side-effects, researchers are unveiling how we can use nature’s gifts to prevent and treat ailments ranging from diabetes, to arthritis, to even cancer. For example, Chinese researchers have shown how oils as simple as chamomile or thyme can kill up to 90+ percent of breast cancer cells.
Studying some of the most popular essential oils in current use, such as mint, ginger, lemon, grapefruit, jasmine, lavender, chamomile, thyme, rose, and cinnamon, researchers sought out to discover how these oils may combat cancer. They did so by testing antibacterial potency as well as in vitro toxicology against human cancer cell lines. The cancer cell lines evaluated were the MCF-7 breast cancer cells, the A-549 lung cancer cells, and the PC-3 prostate cancer cells.
At a concentration of about 0.2%, all of the essential oils were relatively effective at inhibiting both the prostate cancer cells and the lung cancer cells, with the exception of mint essential oil.
Though when it came to the breast cancer cell lines, some of the oils were especially effective. Essential oils from cinnamon, thyme, chamomile, and jasmine were significantly potent against the breast cancer cells lines, offering greater protection.
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The breast cancer cells were mostly destroyed by all four of these oils, with chamomile killing up to 93% of them in vitro. Even more effective was thyme oil, which led to a 97% kill rate of the MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Though it is important to remember that this research was performed in vitro – meaning that the cells were studied outside their normal biological context – like in a petri dish.
“For MCF-7 cell, the cytotoxicities of cinnamon, thyme, chamomile, and jasmine essential oils was significantly stronger than that of the other six essential oils,” explains the study. “The fractions of viable cells were reduced to 5.31%, 3.47%, 6.93% and 4.34%, respectively.”
Complimenting the findings of this research, another study published in the journal Industrial Crops and Products found that chamomile oil harnesses powerful antioxidant properties. The research, evaluating 11 essential oils including lavender, thyme, winter savory, rosemary, sage, peppermint, French tarragon, bitter, and sweet fennel, found Roman chamomile to have the highest antioxidant activity.
“Thyme and winter savory oils exhibited the greatest inhibition against the growth of all the tested organisms possibly due to the high content of thymol and carvacrol respectively,” states the study’s abstract.
Of course you don’t need to wait for further research to be done before experiencing all that chamomile has to offer. Here are 9 amazing benefits of chamomile tea – drink up!
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I’m totally on board! Did you see the internet mini-series on The Truth About Cancer, episode 2? Oh, my! Truly eye opening and the doctors explain the power of essential oils. I use them with amazing results on my clients everyday!
Here I am trying to find factual information for a loved one who is terminal with cancer. The first link of research is about Rosemary and doesn’t even give mention of Thyme or Chamomile. The second link only states that Thyme was the most effective of the 10 oils tested. I’m not certain where you’re getting these percentages, however, they’re not in your links. Without real datum this article is only doing a dis-service to those looking for holistic answers.
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In answer to the question of how to deliver these plant-based medicines, esp oils as mentioned in this article, let me first say that I sympathize with the writer below complaining about lack of info re; dosage and delivery and type specifics, etc. This is the one drawback to using the many new sites emerging that openly discuss alternative self-treatment using plant derived medicines. Since this is not obvious I will say in defense of this problem many authors cause in the mind of the reader craving direction and reason and instructions – the writers, sites, and companies paying the researchers discussing these novel, new, old, and alternative self-treatments absolutely cannot give those kinds of details. They would be shut down tomorrow if not sooner. The last 50+ years is littered with perfectly well-meaning and even genius research scientist and medical professional who have been crucified by the federal thought police, and some have even been jailed, bankrupted, and professionally ruined. The fact is that if you hear or see anyone talking about those kind of specifics it will not be long before they will either lose their job or platform or business – such is the state of Free Thought in America. Meanwhile, there are several things to consider when trying to devise one’s own dosage, form of that substance taken, source for purchasing, etc…. First, so long as you are working with the whole food source, not processed, extracted, adulterated, or from China and/or non-organic, you are starting out correctly by virtue of the simple fact that so much protection is built in when working with the entire plant as much as possible. It is very hard to overdose on consumables and so long as you are working with the plant medicines which have hundreds or thousands of years working history for the appropriately applied use, your only requirement in this is Do You Have The Time and Self-Discipline To Research and Vet properly, every single item you use? That is the real question. Have some faith if the answer is yes, stay away from the sensationalist sites and products, go for the whole plant and “process” it yourself into whatever delivery system and form you want. As for the “oils” spoken of in this article, they are referring to “essential oils” and I have just recently discovered this delivery method and it is fantastic. I reverse (2013-14) several complex cancers using several different treatment protocols I devised myself using encapsulized powdered roots/barks/leaves/flowers/berries and medicinial mushrooms, key supplements (Liposomal C, D, food-based multis), and then added recently, a blend of 5 different essential oils in a base of Apricot Kernal Oil for my newly developed skin cancer which erupted at the end of my treatment for colorectal cancer. I discovered so many new benefits from the all-body essential oil delivery system that this one will be with me for life due to the many additional benefits I received beside eliminating skin cancers. The point is, you should probably relax so long as you are willing to read, read, think, discern, analyze, and find the many new great websites for self-treatment cancers and other degenerative and immune diseases. This last year has exploded the online options for self-educating yourself at a level of sophistication that only could be had by going to Naturopathic Oncology University. You can be your own teacher, alternative healing student, and can cure just about anything if you will buckle down and just make it happen. Takes about a year also to change the habits and develop the new habits that extinguish why you got sick in the first place. The other really neat thing is that the same principles, recipes, herbs, and self-treatment plans for reversing disease also work for preventing it in the first place. This is a no-lose proposition – get educated and stop worrying about someone else to tell you what to do. So long as the Internet is free access and affordable we all will benefit from its incredible teaching power, but the government will soon shut this down, so don’t wait.
These studies were all done with the cancer cells, and bacteria in vitro, meaning all of the cells were tested outside of their biological context (i.e. test tubes). This just shows that we don’t have a real idea on how these oils will react with the same cells within the human body. I have all the hope in the world that the answer to a lot of the worlds cancer problems, is something natural, like thyme, but a lot more research is going to be needed to get a solid idea of how these oils will perform when attempting to interact with cells in the human body.
This article is missing information. He quotes studies and mentions effectiveness of oils… BUT HOW are the oils used? Topically? internally? topically anywhere there is soft fatty tissue or topically at the site of the problem. Lungs…? topically, inhaled? Please give information that people can actually use, otherwise, all the other information is impotent. Thanks.
I wrote a whole post on this exact problem. Take a look if you have time. The post talks about “in vitro” vs. “in vivo” tests. There’s a big difference. You can read about it here – http://www.carcinoid-cancer.com/en-vitro-en-vivo/