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Wormwood against cancer
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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In the United States, a group of scientists have found a new method that allows fighting cancer cells. The research was conducted by specialists from the University of California, numerous experiments have shown that such a common plant in our country as wormwood is able to effectively fight the growth of a cancerous tumor. Researchers have found that wormwood destroys 98% of cancer cells in less than a day. Based on their findings, the scientists suggested that a medicine based on wormwood is able to effectively cope with cancer cells and suppress tumor growth, while there is no harmful effect on normal cells of the human body.
Scientists have also found that wormwood can be combined with other drugs, for example with iron, as a result of such a complex effect the therapeutic effect only increases.
The healing effect of wormwood is due to the substance it contains – artemisinin. Studies have shown that this substance is best at dealing with lung cancer, but artemisinin also works on other types of tumors.
American experts have studied annual wormwood, which was previously considered medicinal and used to treat malaria.
The discovery by the University of California specialists has already attracted the interest of pharmaceutical companies, one of which has already expressed its willingness to produce artemisinin from wormwood.
It is worth noting that if annual wormwood actually has the declared potential, then medicine is on the threshold of a new stage of its development and will be able to defeat cancer – a disease for which a cure has been sought throughout the 20th century.
British specialists did not remain on the sidelines either, having invented a completely unique method of combating oncological diseases a few months ago – thermal “nano-grenades”. A group of scientists from the University of Manchester presented their development at a conference held in Liverpool.
The new method is based on the following: deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to the tumor; under the influence of a certain temperature, the capsules with drugs will explode and release drugs that destroy the tumor from the inside.
Specialists have developed special nanocapsules that contain microscopic balls of medicine, the only problem was that the nanocapsules began to disintegrate as soon as they entered the human body. But scientists managed to overcome this barrier - the capsules begin to disintegrate only at certain temperatures. One of the researchers, Costas Kostarelos, noted that the nano-grenades are "programmed" for 42 0 C and were tested only in laboratory conditions. The experiments showed good results and the scientists noted that there are many ways to increase the temperature of cancer cells.
At the conference, scientists presented the results of experiments with rodents, where cancerous tumors were successfully eliminated using a new method, as a result of which the rodents lived longer, compared to the control group.
Scientists hope that they will soon be able to continue their research and begin clinical trials.