Plant Resources
- Volume 2 Issue 1
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- Pages.49-58
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- 1999
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- 1226-8771(pISSN)
Ethnophytotherapies for Treatment of and Prevention against Cancer
- Chooi, Ong-Hean (Biomedi cai Sciences Section Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science University of Malay)
- Published : 1999.06.01
Abstract
This paper examines various traditional and alternative practices utilised by Malaysians for the treatment of and prevention against cancer. A list of plants used for treating cancer is given. Care for cancer patients includes food reputed to be good in promoting recovery and preventing recurrence as well as food taboos - various food to be avoided in the belief that these types of food can induce development or recurrence of cancer.