More than 120 herbs and traditional medicines will eventually be evaluated by Campbell’s team and others at UCSF.
16 of the herbs tested so far have been deemed “highly active” against breast cancer cell growth.
Among these, rz rhei, a Chinese Rhubarb root, was especially promising in laboratory tests.
Other herbs that showed significant anti-cancer activity in laboratory tests included ban zhi lian, zhi mu, and wang bu liu xing.
These may be the focus of future clinical trials in human breast cancer and other patients.
Americans are turning more and more often to herbal remedies as a natural alternative to drugs.
But before you head off to the health food store for that bottle of St. John's wort or kava kava, you should know that natural does not necessarily mean safer.
In fact, evidence is mounting that some of the most popular herbs can have serious side effects.
Stress is a very natural thing that happens to people who experience great change.
People can experience stress when they are happy or sad.
Stress is very normal; it can even help people feel motivated to accomplish tasks.
The danger is when the stress begins to cause undue distress.
Too much stress can even lead to physical exhaustion.
Sometimes diseases or illnesses can develop because of stress.
Too much stress include various heart diseases, migraines, high blood pressure and allergies.
Anxiety refers to a feeling of discomfort.
It's not a typical sense of discomfort but extreme unease that can be attributed to having to face stressful situations.
Anxiety, though another normal phenomenon for everyone, can be telling of a serious mental condition, especially useless and excessive anxiety.
Anxiety can be considered a mental health issue when it begins to interfere with a person's daily routine or daily life.
It is also true that when there is severe or long-term and consistent anxiety that this could mean that the person has serious mental health problems.
Physical stressors can act as agents in causing psychological symptoms.
Depression can result from a prolonged illness.
The opposite can also occur; psychological stressors in turn can also create physical symptoms.
The most common type of physical symptom is feeling nauseous when something bad happens or a shortness of breath when unexpected news comes.
When a person feels continuous and overwhelming stress, an anxiety syndrome can develop.
Anxiety is characterized by a feeling of apprehension, the "sick-to-the-stomach" feeling that is associated with fear and nervousness.
Most of the time, people can pinpoint the cause of stress or anxiety.
However, there are cases when the anxiety syndrome seems to be a result of many different things that may not necessarily be too overwhelming individually, but when put together lead to that feeling of mental distress.
More than 120 herbs and traditional medicines will eventually be evaluated by Campbell’s team and others at UCSF.
