Re: Frankincense - a cure for cancer?

Well, good luck if Big Pharma will fund research on something natural that could not be patented. :)

My thought is that BIG PHARMA is NOT funding research on something natural that can not be patented... they are looking to isolate one component from frankincense and find a way to make a synthetic form that can be patented... as with all things in nature, you need to use the whole natural substance if you are going to get healing results!   Years of research has already been done using Frankincense to cure Cancer, but it is a true frankincense essential oil that has not been adultrated, cut or an isolated or a synthetic compound. 

This is what the article said:

Scientists have observed that there is some agent within frankincense which stops cancer spreading, and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves down. He is trying to find out what this is.

"Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell's nucleus becomes corrupted," he says. "It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be.

"Frankincense separates the 'brain' of the cancerous cell - the nucleus - from the 'body' - the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes."

Working with frankincense could revolutionise the treatment of cancer. Currently, with chemotherapy, doctors blast the area around a tumour to kill the cancer, but that also kills healthy cells, and weakens the patient. Treatment with frankincense could eradicate the cancerous cells alone and let the others live.

The task now is to isolate the agent within frankincense which, apparently, works this wonder. Some ingredients of frankincense are allergenic, so you cannot give a patient the whole thing.

Dr Suhail (who is originally from Iraq) has teamed up with medical scientists from the University of Oklahoma for the task.