Bloodroot causing cancer? was: Re:Symptoms -- what do they mean?

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Shaman:

You point out that there have been a couple of cases where cinnamon oil was

linked to carcinomas.

This brings to mind the issue of bloodroot and cancer. Many people use

bloodroot externally for skin cancers. Some people take it internally for all

types of cancer. However, it must be taken with food as it is a powerful

gatro-intestinal irritant.

But what worries me about bloodroot (as found in TumorX products, and perhaps

others) is that bloodroot has been linked to pre-cancerous lesions of the mouth.

This evidence is so strong that it was banned from use in mouthwashes, where it

was included for awhile due to its anti-bacterial properties.

If bloodroot can cause precancerous lesions in the mouth just from swishing it

around once or twice a day, what in the world is happening in the guts of people

that take it in pill form? (Myself included -- but I had to discontinue it a

couple of months ago due to severe GI irritation.)

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> Hi Jim.

> It could be the cinnamon. Generally is pretty safe but some people could have

some allergy to it.

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> Cinnamon, which is the bark of the Cinnamomum zeylanicum tree, contains

cinnamic aldehyde, which is an irritant.

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> Some people have the symptoms that you describe. You should absolutely quit

this habit because with cinnamon chewing gum they found it related ,in a couple

of cases, to tongue carcinoma.

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> See :

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http://article.pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ppv/RPViewDoc?_handler_=HandleInitialGet & arti\

cleFile=y07-080.pdf & journal=cjpp & volume=85

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