Get the inner bark of mango tree, rub or grind it with a little diluted butter-milk and drink it.

Maryland US : Somewhere within a vast frozen storehouse of tree bark, fungi and marine creatures, a breakthrough cancer drug may be hiding.

Cracking the code begins with crushing the samples kept in the National Cancer Institute's repository on the grounds of Fort Detrick. Just one in 40,000 natural products yields an effective drug but scientists say the next taxol - an anti-cancer agent - could be derieved from the bark of the Pacific Yew tree bar-coded extracts.

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