Gum Arabic (GA) is a natural "edible" water-soluble gum from Acacia that
has been used for a variety of purposes such as stamp glue and emulsifier.
Recently I got interested in GA mainly for the following two reasons: (1)
it can emulsify the water-insoluble ethanol extracts of propolis (EEP) such
as Bio 30, and (2) it appears to block the inflammation by inactivating
the transcription factor NF-kapperB (Rapnir, R. et al, 2008), down-stream
of the kinase PAK1, suggesting that it probably blocks the oncogenic PAK1
signaling. Besides GA is available inexpensively on the market, costing
less than US$50 per kg. To emulsify 6 ml of Bio 30 (costing around a dollar
daily) for an instance, you need only 6 g of GA powder (costing an additional
30 cents daily) in 6 ml of water (50% GA). So in my opinion, once NZ (or
Brazilian green/red) propolis is extracted with ethanol, this ethanol should
be replaced by 50% GA, instead of PG (propylene glycol). Furthermore, I
hope that GA and Bio 30 would work synergestically to suppress the growth
of a variety of PAK1-dependent cancers and NF (neurofibromatosis) tumors.
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