Benefits of Wormwood in Natural Remedies

So here we have this natural herb called wormwood, or

it's called artemisinin. Okay, now it's been used for well over

two thousand years as part of Chinese medicine.

Been very, very effective with a lot of different

things, antimicrobial,

especially anti-malaria. But then they found a way to

synthesize it and to make it synthetically, and then all of a sudden,

um, the effectiveness of this natural herb

went way down as far as using the

natural version. Um, they'll say that it's, uh, not very bioavailable,

expensive, it doesn't work as good as the drug,

which it may not work

as good as the drug, but it's been used for over two thousand

years. So it's stood the test of time, and today I wanna talk about

how amazing this, uh, plant is. And if you're gonna grow your own natural

pharmacy,

this is definitely one to put on the list to grow.

But right now, um, the synthetic version is the most

effective treatment for malaria.

Apparently, it can actually stop, uh, the different stages of

this malarial parasite. But wormwood is very effective for

worms. It's good for viruses, antiviral,

bacteria, and there's some interesting research

which I'll put down below on,

uh, what it can do for COVID, and is a pretty potent anti-Lyme.

You know, this little parasitic spirochete

that you can get from a

tick bite. But today I'm gonna talk a little bit more

about its, um, potent

effectiveness for cancer. And I don't know why, but a lot of these,

um, remedies for worms and parasites

and even viruses also tend to parallel, uh, for

cancer. And wormwood is at the top of the list because it does

some really

interesting things in relationship to cancer.

Uh, the first thing that I wanna talk about is in its ability

to selectively

cause

something called apoptosis to the cancer cells.

Now, first of all, the word selectively.

That means that it targets the cancer cells,

not your own cells. That's pretty cool.

And now what does this apoptosis mean?

That means that the cell commits suicide, okay?

It kills itself. And so wormwood has the ability to cause

the

cancer cell to commit suicide because normally it doesn't

do that. It lives forever. It has unlimited lifespan.

But wormwood can actually cause apoptosis in cancer cells, both in the

lab in a little petri dish as well as in animal

studies. Now it's studying different mechanisms of

how it

actually can deal with cancer and, uh, and I wanna talk about it

'cause it's quite interesting. Uh, one mechanism has to do with iron.

It'll take a little bit of your own iron from your red blood cell

and cause that iron to

oxidize, turning it into a free radical and

directing it to the cancer cell itself.

Now, this is another mechanism of how it can

kill a parasite or a worm.

It's through this, uh, iron oxidation effect.

When iron tends to go into that, um, oxidation form,

it's very toxic to the cells, especially cancer cells.

Now, the other thing that it can do,

and before I get into that, I wanna just explain one thing about

cancer.

Cancer cells come from normal cells, okay?

So a normal cell can switch over to a cancer cell

when there's damage to the mitochondria.

There's this protein complex called HIF,

okay? And without getting too technical,

it's this factor

that involves hypoxia. Hypoxia is a lack of

oxygen. So apparently it's this factor or this protein complex

that triggers this switch from a normal cell

to cancer cell. So anything that can inhibit this switching,

I think would be important, right? When dealing with cancer.

Especially if you have cancer and you want to avoid, uh,

more of the normal cells

converting over to cancer. So it just so happens

that the phytonutrients in

wormwood, okay, have the ability to inhibit

this protein complex. And it's also interesting that

hypoxia is involved, which explains a lot

because inflammation, for example, is one trigger, because when you have

inflammation you have less oxygen.

But apparently there's other things that can trigger, uh, cancer

that go beyond

just hypoxia. But the cool thing is that wormwood has the

ability to, uh, inhibit this, uh,

compound. Also, wormwood has, um, another, uh,

mechanism of inhibiting the normal cells

from producing this increase in blood vessels

to the tumor. So one thing that cancer does is it, um,

recruits blood supply from your normal cells, and it

causes your normal cells to, uh, produce blood vessels into

the tumor. So this is just one little trick

that these cancer cells do.

Well, wormwood is anti-angiogenic,

so it can help diminish that mechanism.

Now, wormwood is also, um, highly anti-inflammatory.

So, um, just by addressing inflammation you can

stop the spread of cancer as well as the formation of cancer too,

especially since there's this link between inflammation and cancer.

And some people are using wormwood for autoimmune because autoimmune is an

inflammatory, uh, problem. And the last thing involving

cancer that wormwood can help a person with, it has an

anti-metastatic, uh, effect, which basically

means it inhibits the growth of cancer, which is pretty cool.

But anyway, I just wanted to share some of the

interesting effects of this plant

that anyone can actually grow in their garden or their greenhouse and the

amazing, uh, properties it might have in potentially

helping you. Now, since we're on the topic of natural

remedies, if you

haven't seen my video on garlic, uh, that's pretty cool.

I put it up right here. Check it out.