soursop any good?

sapphirelilac

hi

there are articles going around that soursop are good for cancers. anybody tried it?

tnx

Calypso

Sapphire:  I used to eat them as a child growing up in Papua New Guinea!  But we called them Custard Apples.  Very very yummy.  I will search for "soursop and cancer" to see what I can find.  If it's true, what a delicious cure. 

pitanga

What I understand is that soursop and custard apple are different but related. Both of them grow all over the place here. I think they are native species in Brazil.

Soursop (what Brazilians call graviola) is about the size of an acorn squash and as its name implies, pretty sour. People make juice from it and add sweetener. It's delicious and also makes really good ice cream or popsicles.

Custard apple (called pinha here) is smaller, about the size of a large orange and is quite sweet in its natural form. It is eaten raw. I have never heard of making juice from it or anything else.

Both species have moist, slightly fibrous white flesh with lots of shiny black seeds slightly bigger than an olive pit. The skin is thick and nubbly.

Many people here say that tea made from graviola leaves (not the fruit) helps people with cancer. I asked my oncologist (also Brazilian) but he said he never heard of it. On the internet there are zillions of sites selling some kind of pill made from it, claiming it is 10,000 times more powerful than chemo in killing cancer sells. On the Johns Hopkins site I found something saying that an in-vitro study showed it to have anti-tumor properties but that it has not been tested in mice or humans yet.

Since I am Stage 4 I figured it is worth a try and I have been drinking two strong cups a day.

This is all very recent--I started about a month or so ago-- so I have nothing to report except that it tastes a bit like regular tea. I make a lot a once and keep it in the fridge to drink cold.

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sapphirelilac

hi @pitanga. thank you for the reply. i think am gonna start drinkng that too but right now i am driking lemongrass tea. i also brew it either in a clay or glass pot then keep it in the fridge and make it as my water the entire day. a friend told me that it is proven to "cure" cancer. i also did some research and there are sites dedicated to it.

hoping for the best...

pitanga

Interesting about lemon grass, sapphire. I will take a a look on Google. I love lemon grass tea. And there is that delicious Thai soup, Tom ka gai, flavored with lemon grass.