Benefits of Wormwood in Medicine

So here we have this natural herb called wormwood, or

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

2,000 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, the effectiveness of this natural herb

went

way down as far as using the natural version.

They'll say that it's 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 2,000 years.

So it's stood the test of time. And today I want to talk about how amazing

this

plant is. And if you're going to grow your own

natural pharmacy, this is definitely

one to put on the list to grow. But right now, the

synthetic version is the most effective treatment for malaria.

Apparently it can actually stop 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 what it can do for COVID. And it's a pretty potent

anti-lime, you know, this little parasitic spirochete

that you can

get from a tick bite. But today I'm going to talk a little bit

more

about its potent effectiveness for cancer.

And I don't know why, but a lot of these

remedies for worms and parasites and even

viruses also tend to parallel for

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

some really

interesting things in relationship to cancer.

The first thing that I want to 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. So 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 I was studying different

mechanisms of how it actually can deal with

cancer. And I want to talk about it because it's

quite interesting.

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

is through this iron oxidation effect.

When iron tends to go into that 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 want to 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

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 cancer

that go beyond just

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

to inhibit this compound.

Also wormwood has another mechanism of

inhibiting the normal cells from

producing this increase in blood vessels

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

recruits blood supply from your normal cells and it

causes your normal cells to 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 highly anti-inflammatory.

So 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 problem. And the last thing involving

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

anti-metastatic 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 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,

that's pretty cool. I put it up right here. Check it out.