There are no studies showing that moneywort causes cancer, so it can be assumed that moneywort causes cancer is not based on scientific evidence and is not true.
Moneywort is the dried grass of the primrose plant, belonging to a kind of Chinese herbal medicine. It is sweet, salty and slightly cold, and belongs to the liver, gallbladder, kidney and bladder meridians. The main medicinal category is water-inducing and dampness-permeating (promoting the flow of water to dispel dampness) medicine. It has the effects of inducing diuresis (removing dampness and jaundice), diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of dribbling in the urine and urinating in small amounts), detoxifying and subduing swelling.
It is clinically used in the treatment of jaundice due to dampness-heat, biliary distension and coercive pain (pain in the area of coercion and ribs), stonelike drenching (discharge of gravel during urination or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, intolerable pain in the lower back and abdomen), feverish drenching (burning and tingling pain in urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgent urination, and discomfort in traction of the abdomen), astringent pain in urination, carbuncle and furuncle, snake and insect bites and other diseases.
Note that where the Yin gangrene (is a class of slow condition of the general term of the negative sores and ulcers disease) all the poison, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, avoid pounding the juice of raw. There is no definitive clinical study showing that moneywort causes cancer, there is no scientific basis for this, therefore, it is not true.
When taking Chinese herbs, need to be rationally applied under the identification of professional Chinese medicine practitioners, do not self-medication, so as not to cause physical discomfort.