Ordinary dandelions, which we thousands of weed from vegetable beds, contain a medicine that helps cope with cancer. This conclusion was made by British scientists from the laboratory of medical research at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London.

Studying plants used in folk medicine and described in various manuals on non-medicamentous methods of treatment, the researchers found that in some of them there are components that possess antitumour properties. The most useful from this point of view, according to experts, is an ordinary dandelion, which contains several such substances.

"The task of our studies is a preliminary assessment of the possibility of using certain plants in the pharmaceutical industry," said Dr. Monika Simmonds, director of the laboratory, in an interview with "BBC".

- We study substances contained in plants presumably possessing medicinal properties, and determine how effective their application as sources of components of medicinal products can be. And sometimes the results of experiments are quite unexpected - for example, it turns out that plants used to treat wounds can find application in oncology, and plants that have a stimulating effect can be effective even in the treatment of hematomas ... "medicus. En.

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