Taxus chinensis, also known as Platycladus orientalis, red bean tree and purple shirt, is slightly sweet and flat, and can be used as medicine all over the body. Distributed in the northern hemisphere, it is recognized as a rare natural anticancer plant in the world. It is an ancient tree species left over from Quaternary glaciers, and has a history of 2.5 million years on the earth. Due to the slow growth rate and poor regeneration ability of Taxus chinensis under natural conditions, a large-scale raw material forest base of Taxus chinensis has not been formed in the world for a long time.
Taxus chinensis is also a national first-class protected plant in China. Taxus chinensis fruit is rich in taxol, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and vitamins, and it is a natural antioxidant (anti-aging) plant. It is precisely because of the high medicinal value of yew that in just over ten years, the wild yew in China has been cut down and destroyed like never before, and the wild stock has dropped sharply. Some areas are even on the verge of extinction. Therefore, protecting the existing resources and artificially expanding the total amount of Taxus resources are placed in front of people of insight.
Can Taxus chinensis be directly used for anti-cancer?
Some cancer patients are keen on eating yew bark and drinking wine soaked in yew fruit, because there are rumors that the roots, skins and fruits of yew have anti-cancer effects. Is it true?/You don't say.
In fact, a natural medicine named paclitaxel can be extracted from the roots, skins, stems, leaves and fruits of Taxus chinensis. This natural medicine has anti-cancer effect, and it is one of the best drugs to treat metastatic ovarian cancer and breast cancer, and also has remarkable curative effect on lung cancer and esophageal cancer. Taxol in nature mainly exists in the whole body of Taxus chinensis trees, and the content in bark is the highest, only about110000 (0.0 1%), and the yield is very low. Moreover, not all species of Taxus contain paclitaxel, and the content of paclitaxel among different types of Taxus is very different. Taxol content in Taxus cuspidata and Taxus mairei in China is relatively high, especially in Taxus cuspidata with special growth environment, with the taxol content not exceeding three ten thousandths (0.03%). Taxol is extracted from Taxus chinensis by complex pharmaceutical process. Eating paclitaxel to fight cancer is not eating roots, skins and fruits of Taxus chinensis to fight cancer at all.
To sum up, two conclusions can be drawn: paclitaxel is not equal to Taxus chinensis; Eating paclitaxel, a natural medicine, has anti-cancer effect, but it doesn't mean eating yew has anti-cancer effect. Therefore, if you have cancer, you should receive regular chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery instead of eating yew bark and drinking yew fruit in wine.
Fuck off, tumor jun #