Anyone know where to find organic sweet potato leaves or leaf extract?
I couldn't find any online except from China. It's prevalent on Alibaba but I dont trust most things from China.
I'm going to start growing sweet potatoes on my balcony primarily for the leaves and there anti-cancer effect but I thought there would be an easier way to find them.
thanks in advance,
George
Sweet potato is very common food in most Asian countries as it is cheap and widely available.
I will try to grow it in my backyard . I have some roots I bought from grocery store.
If I put them under soft nutritionful soil .....they might sprout...and give leaves.
Talk to your local grocer or health food store. Ours will sometimes order things for me if I ask.
I just did a quick search on the net, no luck. I agree with your sentiments about buying from China. If you find anything let us know.
thanks Magnus. The leaves (primarily) the s. potato (secondary) are the key reasons nobody in Okinawa was getting cancer during the Okinawa cancer study years ago. 80% of their diet was sweet potatoes and most probably used the leaves in teas or eating them outright. In America we eat glyphosphate laced foods we think are healthy as well as processed garbage and then everyone wants free health care. uhg. the answers are out there but most dont want to think that hard.
There is no need to buy from China. Today, I went to Asian store..bought sweet potatoes (walmart has them too) Cut the node areas and planted in small plastic containers.
Once they sprout and are 2 -3 cm long ,i will put them in the ground and hope for a lot of leaves.
I have sour-soup plant, lychi plant, pomegranate plant, turmeric plant,ginger plant and moringa plant already in the backyard... very easy to grow.
Lately I put each of these leaves in my green tea and boil ...then drink in morning. As for pomegranate, Asian stores have dried pomegranate seeds and powdered seeds. They take out juice and sell it and then,dry the seeds ...as these seeds are put in vegetable curries and lentil soups as spice. The oils and other anti oxidants ,anti inflammatory parts are in the seeds. These seeds are called "Anardana "
I think the secret is hidden in leaves and seeds..we need to discover it. Men O Men, we need to find something better than Lupron....it kicks our butt by keeping us tired and dazed.
dont animals such as dear etc, eat your vegetables?
Why sweet potato leaves?
This is what I discovered and a few other websites while researching one night.
naturalsociety.com/sweet-po...
IT Candy (above) doesn't agree so I'm not sure.
George
It says "A 2011 study has found that sweet potato greens extract (SPGE) may soon become a valuable tool in the fight against cancer." But doesn't bother to cite the study. Not such a good sign.
Sweet potatoes are super easy to propagate! Look up something like”starting sweet potato slips” on YouTube. You’ll need an organic sweet potato to start with. Once you get it started, you’ll have vines forever! Super easy plant to grow. (I have about fifty growing now!)
that's great to hear. I'm going to start planting mine next week.
thanks,
George
My mother grew sweet potato vines in the window of our house in the 40s. Easy to do. Easy to plant out until freezing weather. Only way you will know if the leaves are truly organic is if you grow them yourself.
People ate smarter back then, which is why so many people have disease today.
smarter? closer to poorer, I'd say.
yes, but the wealthier countries are dying at significantly faster rates of cancer, heart disease etc due to having the money to eat garbage at restaurants and boxed packages of sugary, processed oil filled cheap carbohydrates.
Thank you for that info
I thought everyone grew a sweet potato as a kid. One sweet potato, one jar, a few toothpicks and voila. Was great. And then we moved on to the next thing.
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Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...
here are the study results
I see NIH doing all kinds of studies but most of the results say that the item such as spge etc warrants further research but then no hospitals or medical corporations do anything with the results because they cant make money off of it. Doesn't mean that the natural foods dont help.
Oral SPGE feeding significantly inhibits PC-3 tumor growth
Having identified significant in vitro antiproliferative and proapoptotic activity of SPGE, we were curious to examine the in vivo efficacy of SPGE to inhibit human prostate tumor xenografts subcutaneously implanted in athymic nude mice. We employed a PC-3 cell line stably expressing luciferase (PC-3-luc) that allowed real-time visualization and monitoring of prostate cancer growth non-invasively (34). Animals in the treatment group were fed daily with 400 mg/kg body wt SPGE by oral gavage for 6 weeks and treatment responses were followed by bioluminescent imaging in longitudinal studies using the same cohorts of mice (Figure 5Ai). In vehicle-treated control animals, tumors showed unrestricted progression (Figure 5Ai and Aii). In contrast, SPGE feeding showed a time-dependent inhibition of tumor growth over >6 weeks (Figure 5Ai and Aii), though significant retardation was evident as early as 2–3 weeks post treatment (Figure 5Aii). Quantification of relative photon counts revealed a ∼69% reduction in tumor volume with a confidence level of P <0.05 (n = 8, Figure 5Aii) at week 6 compared with vehicle-treated controls. To assess overall general health and well being of animals during treatment, body weights were recorded twice a week. SPGE treatment was well tolerated and mice maintained normal weight gain (data not shown) with no signs of discomfort during the treatment regimen. To corroborate our bioluminescent imaging data, we also measured tumor volumes using a vernier caliper. As shown in Figure 5Bi, tumor volume measurements demonstrated that oral SPGE treatment for 6 weeks (42 days) reduced tumor volume by ∼75%. All animals in the control group were euthanized by day 42 postinoculation due to tumor overburden, in compliance with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee guidelines. At the end point of animal experiments (week 6), the excised tumors (Figure 5Bii) were weighed and a ∼65% reduction in tumor weight was observed in SPGE-treated group compared with controls. We next determined the longevity of surviving mice by monitoring them for general health and well being for 10 weeks. Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed a significantly increased survival time with 87.5% animals treated with SPGE surviving until 10 weeks (P < 0.05; Figure 5C). This was a significant prolongation of survival compared with controls where median survival time was only 6 weeks.
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