Researchers from Long Island University, New York, studied carvacrol, a chemical in oregano, which when added to prostate cancer cells in the lab rapidly wiped them out.u00a0

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Carvacrol could now be used itself as a treatment against cancer, or as the blueprint for an even more powerful drug.u00a0

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Experts warned, though, that when oregano is eaten, it could be that carvacrol is digested before it can do any good, said media reports.

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