Essential oils protect from both bacteria, viruses, fungi and Cancer

Main component of essential oils, terpenes can inhibit the growth of different cancer cells. They shed light upon the molecular mechanisms that resulted in cancer cells stop growing, following the application of (-)-citronellal, and they proved that the olfactory receptor OR1A2 is the crucial molecule for that purpose. In future, the olfactory receptor could serve as target for liver cancer
diagnosis and therapy. The researchers report their findings in the journal Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Essential oils occur in many plants, protecting them through their antibacterial, antiviral and fungicidal properties. It has been recently discovered that terpenes, the oils' main components, can also inhibit the growth of different cancer cells, including liver cancer. Their function had not previously been fully understood
Terpenes can trigger signalling processes in cells by activating olfactory receptors. Those receptors are mainly located in the nose, but they have been proved to occur in all types of human tissue, including skin, prostate and spermatozoa. Carcinogenesis and cancer growth are likewise significantly affected by terpenes, even though it has not been understood which function exactly they fulfil.
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