ANTI-CANCER PLANTS AND THEIR THERAPEUTIC USE AS SUCCULENT BIOMEDICINE CAPSULES

Abstract

Cancer is a slow-developing non-communicable disease that causes a high rate of morbidity and mortality among the sufferers. Apart from genetic predisposition, the main reasons for cancers are following the wrong lifestyle and food habits. The contemporary treatments of cancer target to increase the life span of the sufferers and to reduce the severity of the disease, but such efforts are having many serious side effects. Along with the correction of lifestyle, regular intake of selected succulent fruits, vegetables, and parts of anti-cancer plants as some medicine can combat almost all cancers. The succulent parts of every medicinal plant contain an enormous number of metabolites that act cumulatively together following various pathways inside the body. The nature-gifted succulent biomedicines that are considered edible in traditional uses have a far lesser chance of showing toxic effects than synthetic chemicals; isolated phytochemicals or their structural analogs obtained from any plant have actual characteristics like synthetic chemicals. There is possibly in-home neutralization of side effects and potentiation of activities of each other by the metabolites present in the succulent plant parts. Anticancer medicinal plants can be used therapeutically for the prevention and cure of cancers at their succulent stages after some adoptive research of dose and toxicity. To avoid the problems of regional and seasonal availability of medicinal plants and other problems in their direct use as medicines, bio-preservative added, and bioencapsulated succulent biomedicines can be produced, either singly or as some mixtures of the selected biomedicines. An outline of the production, storage, and global transportation of such anti-cancer biomedicines is displayed and a list of 934 anticancer plants (including 124 edible fruits, 124 edible vegetables, and 114 other possibly non-toxic plant parts) with various details regarding their nature and efficacies are described in this article.