Interesting article about foxglove and oleander

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Foxgloves can fight cancerSubstances from foxgloves and -oleander cause cancer cells in -laboratory bowls to commit suicide.

By Lisa Olstad

Extracts from the Nerium Oleander plant were already being used to treat cancer in the Middle Ages, and in very different parts of the world. In Norway, extracts from different types of digitalis – foxglove – have been used to treat heart failure and irregularities in cardiac rhythm for at least 200 years. Recent research shows that different cancer-cell cultures commit programmed suicide when exposed to digitalis.

Oleander and foxglove contain substances which we call cardiac glycocides, which consist of one steroid nucleus, one unsaturated lactone and one carbohydrate.For the rest of the article: http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2001-06E/14_1.htm Note: Cardiac glycosides have been shown to be effective against cancer in numerous studies. In oleander, they are only part of the reasons it is so powerful against cancer and other conditions, since oleander has a great number of proven cancer fighting compounds such as beta-sitosterol and quercitin that work synergistically to be far more potent than any single isolated compound - Tony