Dr. Robert Hatherill, an American environmental toxicologist, points out that various fruits can effectively reduce the risk of cancer. These are all common and excellent anti-cancer foods that can be purchased. These fruits include strawberries, oranges, tangerines, apples, cantaloupes, kiwis, watermelons, lemons, grapes, grapefruits, pineapples, and kiwifruits. Some of their special ingredients have irreplaceable benefits in preventing colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, and others.
1. Pear
It can promote saliva production, moisten dryness, clear heat, and resolve phlegm. Ancient physicians often used it for esophageal cancer, cardiac cancer, and stomach cancer. For example, the "Dian Nan Ben Cao" states: "Treats stomach masses and food stagnation." The "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan" also introduced: "Treats declining academic performance, gradually developing into dysphagia; drink pear juice mixed with human milk, sugarcane juice, reed root juice, urine from a young boy, and bamboo juice." The "Sheng Ji Zong Lu" also contains a simple remedy: "Treats regurgitation and food retention where medicine cannot be swallowed; take one large snow pear, pierce it with 15 cloves of cloves, wrap it in 4-5 layers of wet paper, and roast it until cooked to eat." Because the carotene, vitamin B2, vitamin C, and other substances it contains have certain anti-cancer effects, pears are also suitable for patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer, and lung cancer.
2. Kiwi
Contains rich vitamins, especially its vitamin C content is 4-12 times that of oranges, 30 times that of apples, and 60 times that of grapes. Recent studies have confirmed that kiwi contains an active substance that can block the formation of "nitrosamines" in the human body, which are carcinogenic, thus having a good anti-cancer effect.
3. Apricot
Suitable for consumption by various cancer patients. According to research, apricot is the fruit with the highest content of vitamin B17, and vitamin B17 is an extremely effective anti-cancer substance that can kill cancer cells. It has been reported that in the United States, vitamin B17 was used to treat cancer, and out of 250 treated patients, 248 were saved. To date, vitamin B17 has saved the lives of 4,000 late-stage cancer patients.
4. Hawthorn
It can invigorate blood, resolve stasis, eliminate stagnation and accumulation, whet the appetite, and aid digestion. It is also rich in vitamin C. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tumors are solid masses, often with signs of qi stagnation and blood stasis. Because hawthorn can invigorate blood and resolve stasis, is good at eliminating meat accumulation, and can inhibit the growth of cancer cells, it is suitable for the treatment of various tumors. It is especially suitable for patients with malignant tumors of the digestive tract and female reproductive system who also have loss of appetite.
5. Fig
It can reduce swelling and detoxify, and is suitable for patients with colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer, bladder cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, lymphosarcoma, and other cancers. It is a broad-spectrum anti-cancer fruit. Modern pharmacological research has shown that figs indeed have good anti-cancer effects. It has been reported that the aqueous extract of the dried fruit has an effect against Ehrlich's ascites carcinoma. The latex obtained from unripe fruits can inhibit rat-transplanted sarcoma and spontaneous mouse breast cancer, causing tumor necrosis; it can also delay the development of transplanted adenocarcinoma, myeloid leukemia, and lymphosarcoma, causing them to regress.
Warm Reminder
Although fruits have a certain anti-cancer effect, when consuming them, you should still choose and combine them according to your personal characteristics. Some people often suffer from gastrointestinal dysfunction due to excessive consumption of raw strawberries. In addition, patients with urinary tract stones or poor kidney function should not eat too many strawberries because they contain a relatively high amount of calcium oxalate, and excessive consumption can aggravate the condition.
Moreover, the best time to eat fruit is 1 hour before a meal. Fruit is considered a raw food, so eating fruit before a meal is equivalent to eating raw food followed by cooked food, which prevents an increase in white blood cells in the body and is beneficial for protecting the human immune system.