Benefits of Soursop Through Scientific Studies

Tips On Health - Soursop or "Annona muricata", is a kind of plant that grows in the rain forests of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. Soursop fruit is consumed as food in the area where the tree grew, including the Indonesian people who are not foreign to the soursop fruit.

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Aside from being a fruit consumed in the usual, the extract from the fruit, bark, twigs, and leaves of the soursop is considered beneficial as a remedy for many diseases. "The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center" reported that the benefits of soursop leaves have been used as an anti-parasitic, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and pain relief, and soursop fruit extracts promoted as an anti-cancer agent. However, there is not enough data to support any of the benefits of the soursop leaves.

Here are a few scientific studies have been conducted on the benefits of soursop:

• Benefits of Soursop Against Breast Cancer Cells
  Breast cancer resulted in a large number of receptors that respond substance called epidermal growth factor, or EGF (epidermal growth factor). A study published in the July 2011 issue of "Nutrition and Cancer" indicates that the soursop fruit extracts inhibit the EGF receptor production and slow the growth of human breast cancer cells.
  In the previous study, published in the June 1997 issue of "Journal of Medicinal Chemistry" showed similar results against breast cancer cells that are resistant to some types of conventional chemotherapy.
• Benefits of soursop for lymphoma
  Lymphoma is a cancer that originates in the lymphatic system. Lymphoma spreads through the lymph nodes, spleen, liver and bone marrow, and some types of lymphoma eventually invade the bloodstream. Scientists studying cancer by isolating cells from the patient's lymphoma and studied in the laboratory. In 2000, scientists at Colombia's Universidad de Antioquia showed that the soursop fruit extract inhibits the growth of lymphoma cells. However, there is no confirmatory studies that have been conducted in patients with lymphoma.

Careful! If you use alternative medicines to prevent or treat cancer, you have to pay attention to potential side effects of any medication you choose. A study published in the 2006 edition of the "Journal of Neural Transmission" shows that the soursop contains substances that can damage neurons in the brain that helps control movement. Acetogenins contained in soursop fruit seem to contribute to neurotoxicity (toxic to the nerves).

However, the benefits of soursop leaves have not been sufficiently studied in humans. Although many herbal products made from soursop for the treatment and prevention of cancer, but there is insufficient data to support the effectiveness or to ensure its safety.

Consult your healthcare professional before using soursop as a treatment.

Thus articles, soursop benefits through scientific studies, may be useful as information about your health.

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