AN ACTIVE PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR ESTROGENICITY IN THE LEAVES OFBETA VULGARIS

Treatment of fibroids: the use of beets (Beta vulgaris) and molasses (Saccharum officinarum) as an herbal therapy by Dominican healers in New York City

“…Phytoestrogens could have a hormone-modulating effect, but there is no evidence that beet root contains phytoestrogens. Beet leaves, on the other hand, appear to be estrogenic; cattle fed large amounts of sugar beet leaves (from a different variety of the same species as red beets) manifested infertility and genital tract abnormalities, and several fractions of sugar beet leaves injected subcutaneously increased uterine weights in mice (a test for estrogenicity) (Elghamry et al, 1970(Elghamry et al, -1971. Root extracts, however, had no apparent estrogenic effects in doses as high as 20 mg daily (Grunert et al, 1969).…”