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Thursday, September 12, 2013

HOW TO USE GRAVIOLA

1:55 PM GraviolaSecret Team

While native populations in areas like the tropics and the Amazon have been aware of graviola's medicinal properties for centuries, western medicine is just now beginning to research the healing powers of this plant.

Below lists how graviola's leaves, bark, seeds and fruit can be used to fight a number of ailments and disorders.





How to use graviola


  • Graviola fruit for juice

If the graviola fruit is available, make juice or eat it raw. In the tropics, graviola can be found in local markets (also called sour sop or guanábana). The sour, delicious fruit can also be used to make frozen deserts. The actual fruit is good for combating intestinal parasites, bring down fevers, increase mother's milk production and stop diarrhea.


  • Graviola leaves and bar for tea

Make tea from graviola bark and leaves. This bitter tea is used to treat a wide range of ailments and disorders including insomnia, hypo- and hypertension, seizures and diabetes.


  • Unriped graviola fruit and leaves for oil

Make graviola oil by crushing the leaves and unripened fruit of the plant and then mixing them with olive oil. When rubbed on the body, this oil can treat neuralgia, rheumatism, arthritis, boils, sores, rashes and other dermatological disorders.


  • Graviola seeds for environmentally friendly pesticide

Crush the seeds. The seeds of the plant function as a pesticide. When crushed into a powder they can be used to combat head lice. Crushed graviola seeds can be used against external and internal parasites.


  • Graviola drugs for cancer

Wait for the pill. A 1976 study by the National Cancer Institute identified a chemical compound in graviola that may be used in the future to combat particularly resistant forms of cancer. Currently, pharmaceutical companies and universities are conducting research on graviola, to develop a new form of chemotherapy.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

GRAVIOLA AND CANCER

9:28 PM GraviolaSecret Team

The National Cancer Institute first noted the anticancer activity of graviola leaves in 1976, in an internal study not publicly released. Much of the subsequent research has been conducted at Purdue University in Indiana [source: Bluestein].

The studies concentrate on the antitumor properties and selective toxicity of annonaceous acetogenins. In 1997, the Purdue team announced that these phytochemicals, in studies, appeared especially effective at destroying cells that had survived chemotherapy. Such cells can develop resistance to several anti-cancer agents, earning the name multi-drug resistant (MDR). Typically, less than two percent of cancer cells have MDR properties, but this small set can quickly multiply after initial chemotherapy, rendering subsequent rounds of chemo useless. Expelling the anti-cancer agents requires large amounts of cellular energy, which MDR cells acquire from the chemical ATP. Acetogenins inhibit ATP transfer into these cells, retarding their function in a process that eventually leads to cell death. This process bypasses the healthy cells, which do not require infusions of ATP [source: Taylor].

These research findings have generated tremendous excitement, as well as an effort to market graviola supplements. Skeptical analysts point out that test-tube experiments are only a preliminary stage in cancer research, and it is therefore premature to ascribe a potent anticancer effect to graviola. Nevertheless, one study claimed that graviola was 10,000 times more effective against cancer than the well-known chemotherapy drug Adriamycin, and this dubious assertion has found its way to numerous promotional sites [source: graviola.org]. Ralph Moss, a respected cancer writer who has been critical of mainstream oncology, comments that "astounding claims concerning cancer cures spread like a virus from Web site to Web site." However, Moss admits that graviola is "of potential importance to the future of medicine" [source: Moss]. Its increasing popularity indicates that some individuals are not content to wait for the blessing of the scientific establishment.





Waiting on a Synthetic

Pharmaceutical companies have succeeded in reproducing several annonaceous acetogenins in the laboratory. They are presently tinkering with chemical structures, with the goal of creating a synthetic acetogenin unique enough to patent and effective enough to market. They cannot patent the natural phytochemical, and therefore cannot assure a profit from it. This may explain the conundrum of why no clinical studies have been done on such a promising medicinal plant [source: Taylor].


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GET GRAVIOLA - CANCER-FIGHTING FOOD

8:21 PM GraviolaSecret Team

While graviola exists abundantly in the tropics and other regions, it may be quite difficult to obtain based on your location.

Below are a few products which can be ordered securely for use when the actual fruit and/or leaves can not be hand picked or are unavailable at your local farmer's market.



















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HOW TO MAKE GRAVIOLA JUICE

5:42 PM GraviolaSecret Team

Not only is graviola (sour sop) juice delicious, but it provides the same cancer fighting capabilities as consuming tea from the leaves.

As long as you have a ripe graviola fruit (usually soft when ripe), a blender, and a sifter, then it is possible to make graviola juice





How to make graviola juice from the fruit

  • Cut the graviola in half and remove the skin so that only the pulp with seeds is left.

  • Place the pulp in your blender with an equal amount of water and blend until pureed and smooth.

  • Using your sifter/strainer, strain the mixture to remove any unwanted remainers

  • Sweeten with honey or other sweeteners; we never recommend sugar













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HOW TO MAKE GRAVIOLA TEA

8:35 AM GraviolaSecret Team

Graviola, more commonly known as the sour sop has been increasing in popularity as information becomes more accessible to the world. Its numerous medicinal uses and properties including treatment for sleep disorders, bedbugs, fevers, cough etc. make it highly sought after.

Lately, the demand for graviola has increased further as evidence shows it to possess cancer fighting properties!



How to make graviola tea from leaves

  • Pick 2-3 sour sop leaves from the sour sop tree (if you have access to one); the younger leaves are best and have a lighter shade of green as compared to the mature leaves which are normally deeper green in color. 
  • Add 1 1/2 cups of water in a small pot and bring it to a boil.
  • Cut the sour sop leaves into smaller pieces by tearing it apart; each leaf in three or more pieces.
  • Place the gravoila (sour sop) leaves in your tea cup (glass, cup) and pour the boiling water on it. Let it sit for about 30 - 45 minutes.
  • Drink warm or cold; we recommend honey for sweetener as sugar in itself is a carcinogen (cancer causing).

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