Naturalsociety.com, By: Elizabeth Renter, 06/10/2013
When it comes to healing with natural solutions, many people put limits on just how effective herbs and other nutritional treatments can be. They may accept peppermint as a solution for upset stomach, for instance, but balk when you suggest it could lessen the damaging impact of radiation or even help stop cancer in its tracks. Still, there are powerful natural healers out there that can likely do everything that pharmaceuticals can, and do them with fewer side effects and dangers.
Peppermint has long been used as an herbalists friend. It has many simple uses for everything from nausea to headaches, but the unassuming and sweet-smelling herb may be useful in far more serious situations as well. According to the BBC, researchers with the University of Salford created a drug based off of the extract of Scutellaria barbata (Skullcap barbat) from the peppermint family that has had impressive results on blocking tumor growth.
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