


Typically, the role of spices in our kitchen is limited to adding color to food or enhancing the taste and aroma of our cooking with the help of the essential oils and oleoresins present in them. However, until this very moment, most of us still do not fathom the benefit and medicinal values of these spices in “our” opinion, their usage is merely meant to add aroma and taste to food. Spices, such as ginger, garlic, cloves, and turmeric, among many others, have dominated our kitchens for ages. The foods that we consume contain a lot of chemicals, preservatives, and coloring, which makes us more susceptible to cancer. Many of us are still unaware that diet is one of the main contributing factors to cancer. Not only is it troublesome but its unconventional approach, with its fair share of side effects, always acts as a barrier and thus limits the treatment for cancer patients.

This cocktail of treatment methods and drugs is highly toxic and has multiple side effects. The treatment options available for cancer patients are surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, biological therapy, and targeted therapy. The current treatment for cancer usually involves a series of combined therapies to combat and curb the disease. Cancer is the general classification for more than 200 different diseases of the human body caused by normal cells going wild, resulting in abnormal cell growth that spreads in or invades the body and eventually causes death when not controlled. The probability of death caused by cancer is 1 in 8 deaths worldwide, and a huge wave of new cases amounting to 12.7 million was diagnosed in 2008. It is well-known as one of the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting for 7.6 million deaths (around 21,000 cancer deaths a day) in 2008. Cancer is often likened to age because every year the numbers just keep escalating and do not seem to go down. The war against the highly malicious public enemy called “cancer” has been going on for ages, and humans are often at the losing end.
