How to Treat Cancer with Soursop Tea / Graviola Tea

Soursop Tea and Cancer Cure

How many of us are aware that research results indicate that soursop tea is beneficial in the treatment of up to twelve types of cancers ranging from breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer to name a few. It must be noted that unlike chemotherapy treatment the medicinal compounds in sour sop only attack cancer cells and does not negatively affect the surrounding healthy cells. It is inexpensive and has no established side effects on the body. Sour sop can be taken as a tea, supplement or juice.

I recently came across a discussion on a certain discussion site where the poster shared her knowledge of persons using the soursop tea to treat their cancer. The core of the post was about a couple who had to deal with cancer of the lymph glands. The wife was suffering from this ailment. A web search using the words "gleaner report on couple using soursop to cure cancer" took me to the story of Raymond Kirlew and his wife. It is a fascinating story with aspects to which many cancer patients and their relatives and friends can relate. Here is the link...

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100118/news/news1.html

My mother has always related the benefits of soursop tea.This is made by steeping the leaves pretty much just like any other tea here is made. If the fresh leaves are available you can slightly crush them then pour some hot water on. Allow to stand for 15 minutes. Sour sop tea bags now available on the market. Here is the is the recipe:

Recipe for Soursop Tea

Green leaves

2 - 3 leaves per serving ( tear them in pieces or slightly crush them).

1 tea cup hot water

Blue Agave nectar or honey is best for sweetening.

Individuals using the tea to treat cancer please remember that cancer loves sugar. That is the reason it is best to avoid using sugar as a sweetener.

Method: Pour on the hot water and allow it to stand for 15 minutes or until you are satisfied it is well steeped. Alternatively you can boil the leaves for short while and allow it to stand and steep a bit more. I prefer to do it like this. Allow it to boil rapidly for a short while (you can see the water turn green) then just let it stand a bit more while it cools. This way it takes less than 15 minutes. You can experiment to see how strong you like it so you can determine how long you prefer to steep your leaves.

Making tea with dried soursop leaves

The method would be just like that for the green leaves, but personally I think its best to boil rapidly. This is because I believe the dried leaves release their components slower than the green leaves. Some rapid boiling action and a follow-up steeping while I allow it to cool a bit always works for me.

Remember bits of the bark can be used as well, and short rapid boiling action also works best for me here to make the most of the leaves and bark.

I do remember being told that the plant is strong so there was no need to use much leaves to make sour sop tea. One or two leaves might be enough for one person. I am really not sure on that, but that's the recommendation I follow. The leaves can be used green or dried. The usefulness of the plant for nerve ailments is another benefit I recall being told of. A concoction from both the leaves and the bark of the soursop plant is used to treat cancer.

In a nut shell among the major benefits of soursop tea are its ability to:

• Cure cancer (use leaves along with the bark to make the tea).
• Cure or alleviates nerve ailments.
• Individuals who had difficulty sleeping have also related that the soursop tea helps them to sleep better.

Through my continued research and in response to your questions, I have found information on another method of preparing soursop tea and how many cups a cancer patient should take per day for treatment.

Prepare Soursop tea by

• Boiling 10 old, dark green soursop leaves in 3 cups water.
• Allow it to boil and evaporate to just one cup.
• Divide the tea and drink twice per day.

In the story of the KIrlews, the wife had the tea three times per day. I doubt the tea she had was this strong. You could do a bit of experimenting. Here's the link for a refresher on the cancer cure story of the couple. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100118/news/news1.html

Effects: It is said that the patient feel some heat in the body similar to that felt during chemotherapy. After two weeks of treatment with the sour sop tea the cancer patient can go to the doctor for a check up.

Remember: I share information as I find them, and usually in response to your queries. Although I am positive we have a natural remedy winner here, your health and the choices you make are your responsibility.

The soursop (annona muricata), is a tropical plant. The soursop fruit is commonly used in Jamaica to make a very rich drink (soursop juice). It is also used to make ice cream and pop sickles. My mother and siblings enjoy the sap combined with condensed milk. They place the sap in a bowl then pour on some condensed milk, toss it around to combine them then have themselves a treat. the fruit is also just popped open and the saps feasted upon. It is usually a very juicy fruit. Soursop juice seems to be a favourite in health food restaurants.

Other Medicinal Properties of Soursop

Soursop is said to have various other medicinal values. These include:

• A decoction of the leaves is useful for treating head lice and bedbugs.
• Taking the juice during fasting is said to relieve liver ailments and leprosy.
• Applying fresh crushed leaves to skin eruptions to promote healing.
• Apply the flesh of the fruit as a poultice for three days (unchanged) to speed the healing of a wound.
• The use of a decoction from the young shoots or the leaves to treat a range of ailments such as gall bladder problems, diarrhea, dysentery, cattarrh, fever and indigestion and coughs.
• Swollen feet and inflammation can be treated with a compress made from a decoction of the leaves.

A web search turns up other fascinating revelations about the soursop as a surge of interest in this fruit has now been generated.

Contraindication

The only contraindication I have read of so far is its link to Parkinson's Disease. The link does not seem to be conclusive but rather speculative on the subject. It is my opinion that those who use soursop should be mindful that it does aid in treating nerve ailments and as such may have a counter-effect if over used. Remember: That is my view.

Further reading on this yielded suggestions that a holiday be taken between administration. I have also seen some insightful testimonies to the use of soursop tea and soursop supplements by cancer patients.

Financial Benefits

The greatest financial benefit to be derive from the use of this natural remedy lies in the savings realized in comparison to using pharmaceutical medicines and a long doctor's treatment. Persons with easy access to the plant are especially blessed in this regard as all that is required is a walk out into the garden.

Natural Remedies vs Pharmaceutical Medicines

I am a big fan of natural remedies for any complaint. I just do not have much faith in pharmaceutical medicines. I will qualify or should I say explain my statement later on in this article. The focus is on the fruit and leaves of the sour sop or graviola plant and the use of sour sop tea to treat cancer.

Pharmaceuticals are very important and should not be ignored (at least not totally) when it is needed/prescribed to treat an ailment. What I hate is all the side effects they come with, the expense associated with them, and the secondary ailments some of them tend to bring on resulting in the need to get another set of pharmaceutical medicine to cure the new ailment.

A huge credit should be paid to the pharmaceutical companies and the undeniable contributions they made and continue to make in making our society almost, if not totally free of many diseases. So many diseases have either been cured or brought under control through their researching and development of medicines.

Within the same breath we cannot deny that there are many of these medicines which seem to create their own complications resulting in dependency on one pharmaceutical or the other. While some rid the body of an ailment another seems to poison the system. Pharmaceutical companies have been said to be among the largest money earners. That is definitely not hard to believe.

Let us not be mistaken. Natural herbs also have their own adverse effect on the human system if care is not taken during its use and administration. It is best to know the benefits as well as the contraindications associated with each herb or food used as a natural remedy.

Many persons found an answer to their complaint only after taking the decision to forego their doctor's advice or course of treatment and try something else. It is important to remember to never totally ignore one's doctor no matter what the decision. It is also important to remember that we all respond to treatment differently and so what works for one man does not have to work for another even if the complaint is the same.

That said I can now pay attention to sharing what I have learnt about soursop tea being used to treat cancer.