Xi Shu (cancer tree)

[Guest guest]

Bob, thank you for the TCM source for camptotheca acuminata. There have

been numerous threads about cancer care in this forum, and I was

wondering if anyone has any clinical experience with Xi Shu alone or in

formulae. I understand its very toxic. A botanist friend just collected

150 pounds for a pharmaceutical company's research. Can it be purchased

raw/powder?

regards,

-pz

 

 

" Bob Flaws " <pemachophel2001

Re: camptotheca acuminata

 

Pamela,

 

Here's what I've found. Hope it helps.

 

Fructus Et Radix Camptothecae (Xi Shu) is listed on page 441 of

Hong-yen's Hsu's Oriental Materia Medica: A Concise Guide (Oriental

Healing Arts Institute, Long Beach, CA, 1986). It is categorized as a

blood-quickening med.

 

Flavor & nature: Bitter and cold

 

Functions: Quickens the blood and dispels stasis, combats cancer and

disperses binding (I've Nigelized these.)

 

Indications: Gastric, rectal, and bladder carcinoma, chronic

" lymphemia " [?, I think he means leukemia], hepatosplenomegaly due to

schistosomiasis

 

Dose: Root cortex, 9-15g; fruit, 3-9g

 

In the Zhong Yao Da Ci Dian (Dictionary of Chinese Medicinals),

Shanghai Science & Technology Publishing Co., Shanghai, 1990, this med

is listed in Vol. 2 on page 2331.

 

Flavor & nature: In a Jiangxi source, listed as bitter and astringent;

in a Shanghai source, listed as bitter, cold, toxic.

 

Functions: In Jiangxi source, controls cancer and disperses binding.

In another source on new Chinese herbs, breaks the blood and

transforms stasis.

 

Indications: Various kinds of cancers, chronic leukemia,

hepatosplenomegaly due to psoriasis and schistosomiasis

 

In Jiangxi source, stomach, rectal, and bladder cancers and chronic

leukemia

 

In yet another source, particular species of chronic and acute leukemia

 

Dose: Root cortex in decoction, 3-5 qian; fruit, 1-3 qian

 

Contraindications: From the Shanghai source, typically, the fruit is

less effective than the root cortex but is relatively more toxic.

 

Bob

[Guest guest]

In regards to the claim of controls cancer, does it have anti-angiogenic

properties or does it possibly have COX-2 inhibiting properties?

 

thanks,

Jim

 

Pamela Zilavy <yinyang wrote:

Bob, thank you for the TCM source for camptotheca acuminata. There have

been numerous threads about cancer care in this forum, and I was

wondering if anyone has any clinical experience with Xi Shu alone or in

formulae. I understand its very toxic. A botanist friend just collected

150 pounds for a pharmaceutical company's research. Can it be purchased

raw/powder?

regards,

-pz

 

 

" Bob Flaws " <pemachophel2001

Re: camptotheca acuminata

 

Pamela,

 

Here's what I've found. Hope it helps.

 

Fructus Et Radix Camptothecae (Xi Shu) is listed on page 441 of

Hong-yen's Hsu's Oriental Materia Medica: A Concise Guide (Oriental

Healing Arts Institute, Long Beach, CA, 1986). It is categorized as a

blood-quickening med.

 

Flavor & nature: Bitter and cold

 

Functions: Quickens the blood and dispels stasis, combats cancer and

disperses binding (I've Nigelized these.)

 

Indications: Gastric, rectal, and bladder carcinoma, chronic

" lymphemia " [?, I think he means leukemia], hepatosplenomegaly due to

schistosomiasis

 

Dose: Root cortex, 9-15g; fruit, 3-9g

 

In the Zhong Yao Da Ci Dian (Dictionary of Chinese Medicinals),

Shanghai Science & Technology Publishing Co., Shanghai, 1990, this med

is listed in Vol. 2 on page 2331.

 

Flavor & nature: In a Jiangxi source, listed as bitter and astringent;

in a Shanghai source, listed as bitter, cold, toxic.

 

Functions: In Jiangxi source, controls cancer and disperses binding.

In another source on new Chinese herbs, breaks the blood and

transforms stasis.

 

Indications: Various kinds of cancers, chronic leukemia,

hepatosplenomegaly due to psoriasis and schistosomiasis

 

In Jiangxi source, stomach, rectal, and bladder cancers and chronic

leukemia

 

In yet another source, particular species of chronic and acute leukemia

 

Dose: Root cortex in decoction, 3-5 qian; fruit, 1-3 qian

 

Contraindications: From the Shanghai source, typically, the fruit is

less effective than the root cortex but is relatively more toxic.

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

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