Sabah Snake Grass: Why Is It An Effective Alternative Cancer Treatment?

Sabah Snake Grass has been popular in Asia since the past few years due to its purported potency to deal with various serious diseases successfully. One of the diseases it can deal with is cancer, a disease that science finds difficult to remedy until today. Thus, this herb is considered as an effective alternative cancer treatment.

There have been news circulating in various news outlets in Asia, may they be printed or digital, that disseminate the reported benefits of this herb, based on actual human experiences. It triggers human curiosity, not just in entire Asia, but also in other geographical peripheries in the whole world. To make it clear, this article intends to provide facts, based on science and on the actual users’ experiences why this plant has been able to help a lot of people remedy their serious illnesses, most especially cancerous ones.

  

Why Sabah Snake Grass?

Clinacanthus nutans is the scientific name of this herb. This herbal plant has various names in Asia, like Indian Snake Grass for the people in India and Yu Xun Cao for the Chinese people. It is popularly known as Sabah Snake Grass, since it has been used by the people of Malaysia as a treatment to snake wounds or bites. Hence, the name itself Sabah (a place in Malaysia), snake (a name of a venomous reptile), and grass (a wild plant). But, from its cultural underpinning as part of the mythic or folkloric medicine in the orient to treat snake bites, it has elevated to a higher level, as people in this continent has had recognized its medicinal value to treating serious degenerative diseases.

Why Is It Effective?

There are scientific facts that a few scholars have had presented favorable to the contained essential nutrients and substances of SSG. One publication in the official website of Academia.edu explains the scholarly work of Ugenthira Gunasekaran, a student of the Department of Biological Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaysia.

These are the findings of Gunasekaran’s academic research on SSG:

Ø SSG is rich in flavonoids.

Ø This plant has essential minerals.

Ø It contains 17 amino acids.

Ø It is opulent in Vitamin C.

Further, Gunasekaran, based on his research, also found out that SSG is able to deal not just cancer, but also Hepatitis B, diabetes, bone fracture, and food poisoning. According to him, “Clinacanthus nutans or Sabah Snake Grass (SSG) for sure is one of the herbs which need to be included in medicinal research due to its nutritional values and various diseases curing ability.”

The contained flavonoids are powerful antioxidants that are traceable in berries and herbs, like SSG. Antioxidants are able to eliminate or to eradicate the growth of cancerous cells caused by free radicals. This herb, while having other essential nutrients, minerals, and Vitamin C, is also potent to restore and rejuvenate the dynamic functions of the immune system of every human being. Hence, Sabah Snake Grass is scientifically considered as a potent anti-cancer herb.

Is The Level Of Its Toxicity Appropriate For Human Consumption?

One issue that has to be clarified behind complementary or alternative medicines is the level of herbs’ toxicity.  In the case of this herbal plant, there is another academician who devoted time for research to test whether or not Sabah Snake Grass is good for human consumption.

A student named P’ng Xiu Wen of UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia had studied about the toxicity level of SSG. She tried to find out if humans can tolerate taking this plant internally, due to its purported ability to cure cancer and other diseases. 

With the tests she did on mice and rats, the discovery was that she did not find prohibitive signs with large intake of this plant. It means that internal application of the biomedical properties of Clinacanthus nutans is not harmful to other vital organs, like kidneys and liver, where most synthetic drugs can affect.

It is clear that SSG is good for human consumption. This claim is also attested by those people who have had used this plant to remedy their health problems. In one posted article of Uncle Herbs’ official website, this is the statement: “A 45-year old woman who had suffered from Stage-2 Breast Cancer got healed after taking Sabah Snake Grass extract, with a quantity of 200 pieces of leaves daily. After two weeks, she went to her doctor and the doctor found out that her tumor cells had gone.”

Conclusion: Can Humans Rely Upon This Herb As Alternative Cancer Treatment?

It has been explained by several experts, like Dr. Linus Pauling, who conceptualized the two-word term, orthomolecular medicines, that the so-called ‘complementary medicines,’ as coined by the big pharmaceutical companies to make it literally more inferior than their allopathic medicines, is more effective and beneficial for humans to treat diseases, like cancer and the like.

There are good points to look into with respect to the reported efficacy of Sabah Snake Grass. First and foremost, it contains active and powerful antioxidants, minerals, amino acids, and Vitamin C. With these essential properties, it is clear that this herb can strengthen the resident doctor of every human body, otherwise called as the ‘immune system.’

Like what Dr. Pauling has had been trying to emphasize, secondly, treating illnesses should go deeper into their root causes, where cells and molecules are found. This is where molecular repair and cellular rejuvenation come into play. There are two important things here, detoxification and cellular nutrition. This is the reason why these revolutionary experts vehemently contest that any disease won’t come in if the human body is detoxified and the cells are all healthy.

Prevention is better than cure, as the classic saying goes. But, people are accustomed and acculturated to treating, since this is where the big business of those pharmaceutical companies is getting its big share of the trillion-dollar industry –the sickness industry. Then, people are not culturally-oriented to wait for so long with detoxification and cellular nutrition; hence, they believe that only synthetic medicines can help them, without them knowing the fact that those allopathic treatments only heal the symptoms but not the root causes.

In the end, what boils down here in this article is that people should reverse their wheel of understanding. Sabah Snake Grass is part of the more effective orthomolecular medicines, which the political economy considers as complementary medicines. Hence, SSG is an effective alternative cancer treatment.

Why Complementary Medicines Are Better Than Conventional Treatments?

The growth of human diseases has enormously become uncontrollable since the recent years due to inevitable factors, such as foods, lack of exercise, stress, fatigue, and so on. Science spends time and effort for researches, tests and analyses, in order to look for effective remedies and treatments for degenerative diseases, communicable and infectious diseases, and the like.

However, the available treatments are still insufficient, for there are illnesses with uncertain antidotes or medications. Two of these hard-to-resolve problems are cancer and AIDS. So, is there really a cure for these issues humans are vulnerable with? Or, is it possible to consider the other way around? Yes, it is possible, as the saying goes: “Prevention is better than cure.”

Most people are not culturally-oriented that it is better to prevent diseases than to cure them. This is a cultural fragment where the conventional medicines take its strong foundation in the medical industry. Paul Zane Pilzer, a known American economist and a sturdy advocate of Wellness Revolution, terms medical industry as ‘sickness business,’ where the large-scale pharmaceutical companies operate.

The shortcomings of the allopathic medicines, those conventionally prescribed by medical doctors, have been evident. The issue of root cause treatment is not given an utmost consideration, as those medicines are only treating the symptoms or signs of a particular disease, i.e. lung cancer. The hidden fact is that they are not able to cure the main causes why people are suffering from illnesses. They are only used to stop particular symptoms; but to further extent, they are creating more problems, otherwise known as ‘side effects.’

But, why are those synthetic or conventional medicines becoming more popular nowadays? There are 3 big reasons to consider below.

• Large-scale corporations are able to pay brilliant-minded and popular experts to conduct researches, tests and analyses. 
• Big pharmaceutical companies are financially able to pay for high-paid advertisements and commercials in TV, prints, and social media.
• Political economy backs up those companies, as the state also benefits from their business.

The cited reasons are obvious, but somehow people do not know about them. The business that operates behind those pharmaceutical companies serves as the main factor why they have become more popular than those better options, like what orthomolecular or complementary medicines are providing.

As to compare by virtue of scientific facts, orthomolecular medicines, as coined by Dr. Linus Pauling in 1968, are more effective and helpful than the more popular conventional treatments, as the former is a natural way of healing, while the latter implies unnatural form of treating. As a trivial knowledge, for a particular allopathic medicine to be patented, it must be proven that such treatment is not natural in form and substance.

The Side Effects Of Conventional Medicines

Using conventional medicines, as proven by surveys and studies, bring negative side effects to the users. Some of their affirmed side effects are written below.

•  Weakens immune system (resistance)
•  Creates pains for the users
• Affects other vital organs, like lungs and liver
• Requires higher expense for the patients

So, what people should do now? Clarifying the differences between conventional and complementary medicines could be one good answer.

Differences Between Conventional And Complementary Medicines

To be precise, both of them have pros and cons. But, complementary medicines, which a term this article author considers as another politicizing tactic by the other end (the sickness business according to Pilzer), are more helpful and useful than the conventional or synthetic ones. There are three certain observations based on empirical facts why complementary or orthomolecular treatments are better than the conventional or allopathic remedies.

• Complementary method strengthens immune system, while conventional way does not.
• Orthomolecular medicines gradually cure the main causes which are rooted in the molecular composition of the cells, while allopathic ones do not.
• Allopathic remedies bring other adverse side effects, which require other medicines (this is where the real business revolves in the pharmaceutical world), while orthomolecular methods do not.

The only negative implication when relying upon the more effective and helpful complementary procedures is the timeframe they would take for a particular disease to be cured. The span of time for a serious disease to be healed through orthomolecular technique is longer than what the allopathic means could take. Why? It is because of the idea that healing only the symptoms could be done in a shorter period of time, while undergoing a total recovery (rejuvenation and detoxification in a clear sense) takes time, since it goes deeper to the root causes through cellular nutrition and molecular repair.

Some Complementary Medicines To Consider

Citing some complementary medicines could be more useful for any human being in this planet to consider, as the Wellness Revolution is heading towards its full progress for the betterment of the human race. It is important to keep in mind that due to food intakes, lack of physical exercise, stress and fatigues, people are suffering from various extreme diseases. The modern lifestyles, as brought about by socio-economic and socio-political transitions, serve as the main culprit why human health suffers. Hence, health and wellness is the newly-revolutionized advocacy of the 21st century.

Mentioned below are 5 orthomolecular medicines people should consider.

• Sabah Snake Grass or Clinacanthus nutans (It contains a powerful antioxidant, known as flavonoid, to eliminate free radicals that cause cancer).
• Green Barley (It is abundant in Vitamins A, C, B1, B2, Calcium, Iron, Potassium and Chlorphyll, which are beneficial for people to repair damaged cells.)
• Moringa oliefera (It contains numerous nutrients and antioxidants, able to cure the root causes of serious diseases, like cancer.)
• Garviola (It contains annonaceous acetogenins, a compound essential to stop the proliferation of cancerous cells and to protect the healthy ones).
• Momordica charantia (It contains nutrients, vitamins and minerals the human body needs, in order to regulate blood sugar and to treat Type-2 diabetes. 

These are just 5 of so many effective health remedies. The health and wellness world is now encompassing the entire gamut of orthomolecular treatments people should utilize, in order to stay healthy and to live a happy life.

Natural Treatments Are Really Better: A Conclusive Thought

Talking about human health is a discussion that reflects on the entire scope of human life. The world has already transcended into different phases, from agricultural revolution, to industrial revolution, to information revolution, and now to a new phase, which is ‘wellness revolution.’ Along this line, there is a need for the human race to understand why it is more beneficial to rely upon the natural treatments, rather than staying on the side of conventional medicines that exist for more than 100 years in this world. The only thing that people should think is that the orthomolecular (complementary) medicines heal the root causes, which the synthetic or conventional ones are unable to do. One more thing, it is important to change lifestyles that reflect on food intakes, regular physical activities, and the avoidance of stress and fatigue.