In folk medicine seaweeds have been used for a variety of purposes from anti-curare, cooling agent for fever, eczema, gallstone, gout, menstrual troubles, renal troubles, scabies, scrofula etc., to water purification. It appears that most of these uses have been regarded as superstition by serious therapeuts, in particular the idea that certain algas could be used as a remedy for tumours. Corsican moss, bull kelps, dulses and hypnea have been used against squirrhe tumours. Nor did the report at the international seaweed symposium that algasol, an Italian preparation had proved to be active against Walcher carcinoma, Erlich carcinoma, sarcoma 180 and Galliera sarcome create any great sensation. This decade, however, has brought a series of Japanese reports showing that Codium, Dictyopteria och Sargassum species posses substances which inhibit, to different degrees, the growth of transplanted carcinoma and sarcoma in mice. Among substances which have been identified, are funoran from Gloiopeltis.
Seaweeds and antitumour-active algae
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