Bulbus Allii
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BULBUS ALLII（Bulbus allii）
Wang Ang in the Qing Dynasty commended that: "Bulbus Alii, bitter in taste and mild in nature, promotes the function of the spleen, subsides swelling and removes blood stasis and lumps. "
It is the bulb of garlic, Allium sativum (Liliaceae), which grows over China and has a strong offensive odor.
ANTICANCER PHARMACOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS
1. Experimental tests on animals show that intraperitoneal injection of the infusion of the herb has certain therapeutical effect on Ehrlich's ascites cancer in rats. 2. The crude extract of the herb combats mitochysis of ascites cancer cells in rats. 3. Female rats fed with fresh garlic are immune to breast cancer. 4. It is also found that the herb has a certain inhibition on reticulosarcoma-180, parenchymal liver cancer and cervical cancer-14. 5. The inhibitory rate of the herb on JTC-26 is found to be 70-90%. 6. Clinical experiments showed that 64.8% of the patients had an increase in the transformation of lymphocytes.
EXPERIMENTAL FORMULAS
For cancer of the long:
Oral administration of 10 to 30ml of garlic juice, twice a day.
For leukemia:
The sublingual vein of the patients is cut and then rubbed with fresh garlic. This method is also good for lung cancer.
For other types of cancers: Oral administration of garlic, peppermint oil and beer yeast is combined with intravenous injection of Vitamin F, K, E and chlorophyll.
A long term administration of garlic volatile oil can prevent the occurrence of cancer, reported by Bulletin of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Volume 6, 1974.
For various malignant tumors:
Collection of Tumor Data reported administration of garlic in the following ways:
1> . Intramuscular injection of 5ml of garlic distillation mixed with 2% novocaine each time, three times a day. 2> . Intramuscular injection of 1 ml of garlic emulsion mixed with 2ml of 2% novocaine, twice a day. 3>. Intravenous drip of 25ml of garlicin mixed with 500ml of 10% glucose each time, once daily. A therapeutic course lasts for 2 weeks.
For carcinomatous thoracico-abdominal edema:
Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Cancers reported the application of the mixed paste of Radix Kansui (9 grams), Fructus Amomi (9 grams) and fresh garlic, on the umbilicus.
HISTORICAL COMMENTS
Compendium of Medicinal Herbs recorded: "Garlic helps to digest grain and meat, cures furuncle and carbuncle. Its juice is indicative for vomiting blood and cardiac pain; its decoction for convulsion; combined with Jiyu Pills for diseases of the diaphragm; together with Concha Ostreae Ills for edema; with Minium Ills for dysentery and enteritis; and with Olibanum Ills for abdominal pain. When put into the anus, it cures obstruction and constipation."
"For cardiac pain due to inverted flow of the blood, 2ml of fresh Bulbus Allii is taken orally."
New Edition of Proved Prescriptions reports that: "When Hua Tuo met a patient with dysphagia and he told him to drink two or three bowls of vinegar in which Bulbus Allii had been immersed and to eat Bulbus Allii as much as possible."
THE AUTHOR'S NOTE
According to a Japanese bulletin (No. 53-27775 and No. 37-12000), Bulbus Allii is steamed for a short period of time to kill the activity of its enzyme, which is extracted later with methanoi. The extracted enzyme is processed to get rid of its foul smell so as to obtain a substance for aesthetical purpose, resisting fatty liver and protecting vitamin C and B. It is thought that the substance is also effective for curing cancer. Since it has lost its irritating taste, the plant can be widely used as food. Recently, two Japanese scholars have developed a kind of tumor cells which contain the extract of Bulbus Allii. The cells, when injected into mice before the injection of millions of tumor cells, caused no tumor in the experimental animals. This is to say that the vaccine has an effective rate of 100% against tumor. In April 1958, Questions Regarding Oncology (English edition) reported that two Russian doctors treated 194 patients with white patch of lip cancer and 184 were completely cured. The effective rate was found to 95%. fective rate was found to 95%.]
