Bitter melon can fight breast cancer, and could even be as powerful as chemotherapy, a new study reports.
Its extract, which can bought as a dietary supplement in natural health stores, is a highly effective killer of breast cancer cells in laboratory tests, researchers from the Saint Louis University have discovered.
Bitter melon (Momordica charantia) is used in folk medicine in India, China and Central America to treat diabetes, but this discovery opens up major new possibilities for a natural therapy that doesn’t come with the debilitating effects of chemotherapy, (Source: Cancer Research, 2010; February 23, 2010; doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3438).