Taxus Brevifolia
Taxus brevifolia is a member Taxaceae, commonly known as the Pacific Yew. This plant comes from Alaska to California, the west coast of North America,. Pacific Yew is a source of food and shelter for many animals in their environment. In the past, the wood has been used to make home appliances, paddle boats and so on.
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Anti-Cancer Plants
Do you know the benefits of this plant? These herbs can prevent and cure cancer. Pacific Yew has important benefits in the medical field because of its bark contains compounds that inhibit the growth of cancerous tumors and as an effective chemotherapeutic drugs. This compound is called Taxol. Taxol ability to inhibit the function of "spindle" is generally associated with suppression of microtubule dynamics, but recent studies have shown that suppression of dynamics occurs at concentrations lower than those needed to block mitosis.National Cancer Institute (NCI) research on Taxol since 1960, based on the penelititan known that Taxol has anti-cancer properties. On May 22, 1964, found that the extract from the bark of the tree is active against KB cell lines. In 1971 proved that Taxol is the compound responsible for the anti-cancer properties.
Breast cancer and ovarian cancer are the two types of advanced refractory cancer substances that can be addressed by Taxol. Therefore new Taxus brevifolia was found to contain the active compound last few decades, there are more potential medical properties that have not been found. Therefore, Pacific Yew is still undergoing clinical trials and further research to further the success of the medical nature that still we do not know.
