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The Eggplant Cancer Cure

A Treatment for Skin Cancer and
New Hope for Other Cancers
From Natures Pharmacy

by Dr. Bill E. Cham, Ph.D.
$24.95 - 132 pages, hardcover

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CHAPTER 7:

Will Consuming Eggplant Result in Removal
of Internal Cancer?

A reasonable question to ask. Before this question is answered let us summarize what reports are available on the therapeutic effects of the eggplant.

Eggplant juice significantly reduces weight, plasma cholesterol levels and has beneficial effects on the arterial wall of rabbits that have high blood cholesterol levels. It has also been reported that in humans eggplant is capable of reducing plasma cholesterol levels up to 30% 57. Eggplant is consumed extensively in Brazil. It is believed that infusion of a powdered preparation of the fruit reduces blood cholesterol. One study has shown that infusion of the eggplant extract for five weeks had a modest and transitory effect of the LDL-cholesterol (bad cholesterol) 58. However, in another study, eggplant did not exhibit a therapeutic effect in lowering plasma cholesterol levels in humans 59. Further studies should determine whether eggplant can be truly considered as an alternative to drug therapy for reducing excessive cholesterol levels.

There are many more suggested uses for eggplant as a therapeutic agent, but most have not been evaluated under controlled scientific conditions.

Now back to the question, “WILL CONSUMING EGGPLANT RESULT IN REMOVAL OF INTERNAL CANCER?” I wish I could answer this question in a positive manner, unfortunately this is not the case. Nature is incredible and has a tremendous number of secrets. I too had to unravel one of its secrets before I obtained the anticancer treatment. When I searched for the possible anticancer ingredient in the Devil’s Apple and eggplant it was imprinted in my brain that I had to do what most multinational companies do. Vincristine and Vinblastine are drugs extracted from the Periwinkle plant and are used to treat Leukemia with partial success. These substances are alkaloids. Initially, because of my scientific training, I extracted the alkaloids from the eggplant. I identified these alkaloids as solasodine. However, I showed that solasodine had no anticancer properties. Subsequently I modified my extraction procedure to obtain the alkaloids in their native, natural state. I discovered that the alkaloids were not present as free alkaloids, but they were attached to certain sugars rendering them as glycoalkaloids. These purified glycoalkaloids were the substances in the eggplant that showed tremendous anticancer propertie60, 61.

Further studies showed that if they were not purified to a certain standard their efficacy as anticancer agents dropped drastically. More investigational work was required to determine why this was the case. I then discovered that certain free sugars also present in the eggplant were affecting the anticancer properties of the glycoalkaloids. When these sugars were eliminated by further extraction the anticancer properties of the glycoalkaloids were optimal.

The “free” sugars were inhibiting the anticancer effects of BEC.

This means if you were to eat eggplant containing BEC you will also be ingesting the “free” sugars which nullify the anticancer properties of BEC.

Nature surely has some incredible unveiled secrets.