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May worsen hormone sensitive conditions such as breast cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and uterine fibroids. [17] Insomnia. [17] Goldenseal: orangeroot, yellow puccoon Hydrastis canadensis: Uterotonic [3] Greater celandine: celandine Chelidonium majus: Liver damage [4] Guarana: Paullinia cupana: Agitation and insomnia [3 ...
Extracts of the plant are used to ease the symptoms of malaria. The boiled juice or a tea made from the leaves or the whole plant is taken to relieve fever and other symptoms. It is also used for dysentery, pain, and liver disorders. [143] A tea of the leaves is taken to help control diabetes in Peru and other areas. [144]
Several evidence-based natural remedies can help relieve chest congestion, says Joseph Mercola, D.O., board-certified family medicine osteopathic physician and author of Your Guide to Cellular ...
Cancer Research UK caution that there is no reliable evidence for the effectiveness of herbal remedies for cancer. [105] A 2012 phylogenetic study built a family tree down to genus level using 20,000 species to compare the medicinal plants of three regions, Nepal, New Zealand and the Cape of South Africa.
Signs and symptoms are not mutually exclusive, for example a subjective feeling of fever can be noted as sign by using a thermometer that registers a high reading. [7] Because many symptoms of cancer are gradual in onset and general in nature, cancer screening (also called cancer surveillance) is a key public health priority. This may include ...
Homeopathic remedies; ineffective for treating cancer. This is a non-exhaustive list of alternative treatments that have been promoted to treat or prevent cancer in humans but which lack scientific and medical evidence of effectiveness. In many cases, there is scientific evidence that the alleged treatments are not effective, and in some cases ...
Mucus is actually the body's first line of defense against bacterial and viral infections. One of the proteins found in mucus — the antibody IgA — protects against pathogens in your nose and ...
Phlegm is more related to disease than mucus, and can be troublesome for the individual to excrete from the body. Phlegm is a thick secretion in the airway during disease and inflammation. Phlegm usually contains mucus with virus, bacteria, other debris, and sloughed-off inflammatory cells.