Anticancer potential of selected plant species and their use in phytotherapy
Keywords:
cancer diseases, cancer prevention, selected medicinal plantsAbstract
Returning to nature may be crucial in the fight against the harmful effects of civilization progress, which include cancer. The paper discusses selected species of medicinal plants that demonstrate anticancer activity. The main objective of the publication is to indicate, based on scientific research, the possibilities of using selected plant materials as chemopreventive agents and preparations with anticancer potential. An attempt was made to update the state of knowledge on the properties of four species selected for analysis – Chelidonium majus, Hippophae rhamnoides, Tanacetum vulgare, and Syzygium aromaticum. Their anticancer activity was described based on the cited results of numerous studies, as a thorough analysis of scientific articles available in the Google Scholar, PubMed, and Europe PMC databases was carried out. The literature on the subject, as well as specialist websites, were also used. The anticancer potential of the plants presented in the study has already been studied to some extent and they can be used chemopreventively or as a cancer support, provided there are no contraindications to their use. However, they cannot be considered fully effective anticancer agents, much less as drugs, because in most cases the anti-carcinogenic properties attributed to plants are based only on in vitro or in vivo animal studies.
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