Soursop Natural Cures for Cancer

By Zidni Agni

Soursop is one of many tress that grows in the rain forests of Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. It is also known as cherimoya, guanabana, soursop, custard apple, and brazilian paw paw.

In the past few years, the story about miracle discovery of Soursop (also known as Graviola or scientifically named as Annona muricata) as a natural cure for cancer has definitely shocked the modern medical science, especially in advanced medical countries, such as America.

The research result that comes from one of America's largest drug manufacturer shows incredible result such as

1. Attacks cancer cells selectively (without harming the healthy cells) and effectively with natural therapy. The benefit of such treatment is that it excludes all the cons of traditional chemotherapy, such as weight loss, hair loss and extreme nausea.

2. One chemical in Graviola was found to selectively kill colon cancer cells at "10,000 times the potency of (the commonly used chemotherapy drug) Adriamycin

If the soursop provide such miraculous cure for cancer, why haven't heard of it before?. The company which had done thorough research on this cure comes upon one stumbling block on its finishing phase. The cure was too natural and under federal law in America, governed by FDA, wasn't patentable. The company then decided not to release its finding since it was definitely the were not able to profit from the result of the research.

Luckily, however, there was one scientist from that very same research team whose heart was certainly wasn't filled with all greed. Risking his career, he contacted another company dedicated to harvesting medical plants from the Amazon Rainforest and announced the discovery.

So, how do we actually consume soursop? Well, since its just an ordinary fruit, you could just eat it straight away. However in various South East Asian countries, such as Indonesia, soursop juice is known as one of a kind delicacy, aside from the natural benefit it offers. Making soursop juice is pretty simple. Just make sure you peel the skin properly and throw away the seed. However, there are several report where juicing young soursop fruit, where as it has soft seed, you could juice the fruit together with the seed for extra nutrition.

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