Garlica + Leukemia

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Hi,

here is an article showing that garlica reduced cancer cell

prolifeation in

dose dependant manner with certain tumor types.

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Phytomedicine 1999 Mar;6(1):7-11

The effects of garlic preparations against human tumor cell

proliferation.

Siegers CP, Steffen B, Robke A, Pentz R.

Department of Toxicology, Medical University of Luebeck, Germany.

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Epidemiological studies in China provide reason to suspect that a rich

garlic content

in the diet might reduce the proliferation of tumors in humans.

When the garlic extract was supplemented with garlic powder (to 10% final

concentration) there was a concentration-dependent clear inhibition of

tumor cell

growth (IC50 values of 330 micrograms/ml for HepG2 and 480 micrograms/ml

for

Caco-2 cells). The growth of the human lymphatic leukemia cell line CCRF

CEM was

significantly inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by both garlic powder

and garlic

extract at concentrations as low as 30 micrograms/ml. However, no

potentiation of

this effect occurred upon mixing of the two preparations. Our results

suggest that the

antiproliferative effects of garlic may be due to breakdown products of

alliin, such as

allicin or polysulfides, rather than alliin itself, since the addition of

an alliinase system

(garlic powder) to an alliin enriched preparation without alliinase (garlic

extract)

potentiated the effects observed with the two preparations alone.

PMID: 10228605 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]