[rael-science] Spain Study Confirms Hemp Oil Cures Cancer without Side Effects‏

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http://worldtruth.tv/spain-study-confirms-hemp-oil-cures-cancer-without-side-effects/

Spain Study Confirms Hemp Oil Cures Cancer without Side Effects

The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) is putting hemp
oil on its cancer protocol. It is a prioritized protocol list whose
top five items are magnesium chloride, iodine, selenium, Alpha Lipoic
Acid and sodium bicarbonate. It makes perfect sense to drop hemp oil
right into the middle of this nutritional crossfire of anti cancer
medicines, which are all available without prescription.

Hemp oil has long been recognised as one of the most versatile and
beneficial substances known to man. Derived from hemp seeds (a member
of the achene family of fruits) it has been regarded as a superfood
due to its high essential fatty acid content and the unique ratio of
omega3 to omega6 and gamma linolenic acid (GLA) – 2:5:1. Hemp oil, is
known to contain up to 5% of pure GLA, a much higher concentration
than any other plant, even higher than spirulina. For thousands of
years, the hemp plant has been used in elixirs and medicinal teas
because of its healing properties and now medical science is zeroing
in on the properties of its active substances.

Both the commercial legal type of hemp oil and the illegal THC laden
hemp oil are one of the most power-packed protein sources available in
the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in many nutritional and
transdermal applications. In other chapters in my Winning the War on
Cancer book we will discuss in-depth about GLA and cancer and also the
interesting work of Dr. Johanna Budwig. She uses flax seed oil instead
of hemp oil to cure cancer – through effecting changes in cell walls –
using these omega3 and omega6 laden medicinal oils.

Actually there is another way to use medical marijuana without smoking
the leaf. According to Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, “The usual irritating and
toxic breakdown products of burning utilized with smoking are totally
avoided with vaporization. Extraction and inhaling cannabinoid
essential oils below ignition temperature of both crude and refined
cannabis products affords significant mitigation of irritation to the
oral cavity, and tracheobronchial tree from pyrollytic breakdown
products.[iii]


Rick Simpson, the man in the documentary below, has been making hemp
oil and sharing it with friends and neighbors without charging for it.
In small doses, he says, it makes you well without getting you high.
“Well you can’t deny your own eyes can you?” Simpson asks. “Here’s
someone dying of cancer and they’re not dying anymore. I don’t care if
the medicine comes from a tomato plant, potato plant or a hemp plant,
if the medicine is safe and helps and works, why not use it?” he asks.

When a person has cancer and is dying this question reaches a critical
point. The bravery of Rick Simpson from Canada in showing us how to
make hemp oil for ourselves offers many people a hope that should be
increasingly appreciated as money dries up for expensive cancer
treatments. We are going to need inexpensive medicines in the future
and there is nothing better than the ones we can make reasonably
cheaply ourselves.

For most people in the world it is illegal so the choice could come
down to breaking the law or dying. There is no research to indicate
what advantages oral use of hemp oil vs. vaporization but we can
assume that advantage would be nutritional with oral intake. Dr.
Budwig Below work would sustain this point of view especially for
cancer patients.
The Science

According to Dr. Robert Ramer and Dr. Burkhard Hinz of the University
of Rostock in Germany medical marijuana can be an effective treatment
for cancer.[v] Their research was published in the Journal of the
National Cancer Institute Advance Access on December 25th of 2007 in a
paper entitled Inhibition of Cancer Cell Invasion by Cannabinoids via
Increased Expression of Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix
Metalloproteinases-1.

The biggest contribution of this breakthrough discovery, is that the
expression of TIMP-1 was shown to be stimulated by cannabinoid
receptor activation and to mediate the anti-invasive effect of
cannabinoids. Prior to now the cellular mechanisms underlying this
effect were unclear and the relevance of the findings to the behavior
of tumor cells in vivo remains to be determined.

Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in half, a 2007 Harvard
Medical School study shows.[vi] The active ingredient in marijuana
cuts tumor growth in lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the
ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University
who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.

This is the first set of experiments to show that the compound,
Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), inhibits EGF-induced growth and
migration in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing
non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Lung cancers that over-express
EGFR are usually highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy. THC
that targets cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is similar in function
to endocannabinoids, which are cannabinoids that are naturally
produced in the body and activate these receptors.

“The beauty of this study is that we are showing that a substance of
abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to therapy against lung
cancer,” said Anju Preet, Ph.D., a researcher in the Division of
Experimental Medicine. Acting through cannabinoid receptors CB1 and
CB2, endocannabinoids (as well as THC) are thought to play a role in
variety of biological functions, including pain and anxiety control,
and inflammation.

Researchers reported in the August 15, 2004 issue of Cancer Research,
the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, that
marijuana’s constituents inhibited the spread of brain cancer in human
tumor biopsies.[vii] In a related development, a research team from
the University of South Florida further noted that THC can also
selectively inhibit the activation and replication of gamma herpes
viruses. The viruses, which can lie dormant for years within white
blood cells before becoming active and spreading to other cells, are
thought to increase one’s chances of developing cancers such as
Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease.[viii]

In 1998, a research team at Madrid’s Complutense University discovered
that THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumor
cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells. Then in
2000, they reported in the journal Nature Medicine that injections of
synthetic THC eradicated malignant gliomas (brain tumors) in one-third
of treated rats, and prolonged life in another third by six weeks.[ix]

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orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.

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