SPICY ANTI-CANCER SPICES: A REVIEW
Keywords:
Spices, Medicinal plants, Anti-cancer, HerbsAbstract
The uses of ethnomedicinal dietary antimutagens and anticarcinogens for human healthcare still remain the most promising approach to the protection of human health and medication system in developing and under developing nations. The plant sources of India provide effective anticancer agents. Spice Herbs have a vital role in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Spices have been used for thousands of years and are known for their flavor, taste and color in the food. Moreover, ethnomedicinal spices used to treat cancer are considerably cheap. Herbal drug treatment can be given to poor people in the rural areas to treat different cancers effectively at an affordable cost. The article reveals the most recent studies on dietary ethnomedicinal spices and their families used to treat various types of cancer.
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