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Black Cohosh-Black Magic Against Breast Cancer

... lower risk of breast cancer. Those who took the herbal preparation derived from black cohosh called Remif...RSs, Rebbeck cautions women against relying on any herbal preparation as their sole means of breast cancer prevention.“One of the dangers is that people somet...

Legalization of Abortion in Mexico City Raises Heckles

...00 lives of women who have illegal abortions using herbal remedies, black-market medications and quasi-medical procedures. SRM/B...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

...ng synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese// herbal folk remedy. The team also has developed several o...s mimic artemisinin, the active agent in a Chinese herbal drug used to treat malaria and other fevers for thousands of years. Artemisinin comes from the Artem...

Exports Of Herbal & Dietary Products Has Huge Potential

...ems.’ She emphasized that the growing demand for herbal products globally was putting unsustainable demand on forests leading to depletion of the plants Bio diversity that threatened the very survival of a number of medicinal plants species. She said that there during the last 5-6 years, the National Me...

Popular Herbal Supplement Hinders the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...rgh Cancer Institute suggests that a commonly used herbal supplement, triphala, has cancer-fighting properti...ention Center. Triphala, one of the most popular herbal preparations in the world, is used for the treatment of intestinal-related disorders. It is typicall...

Travelers’ Hazard- Antihistamines Make Drowsy Driver

...ames Lawrie, a GP: "Certain types of drugs or even herbal supplements can affect a person's ability to drive safely and if they are combining several over-the-counter drugs, they could be very dangerous on the road. "It's important that drivers always read the label of any medication they plan to take - eit...

Fluids Could Aid in Weight Loss

...ho find water boring, alternatives are unsweetened herbal and fruit teas or mixtures of sparkling water and fruit juice. Consumption of coffee and black tea should be kept at moderate levels - no more than two to three cups a day. Beer lovers need not fully strike the beverage from their evening diet, but...

Ancient Indian Herb May Prove Cure For Recurrent UTI

... University scientist has come out with a possible herbal cure for urinary track// infection (UTI). Soman Abraham and team from the Duke University Medical Center found that the herb called forskalin or commonly known as the Indian Coleus plant, can significantly reduce UTI as well as help antibiotics k...

TCM Continues to Deal Dental Problems in Beijing

...ing, and a sore throat, they sought 'purging fire′ herbal medicine from the pharmacy or visited the dentist. TCM doctors regarded the concept of huo (fire) as excessive or deficient and described the consequences of patients taking inappropriate medication for huo. Chinese dentists often teach themselves TC...

Garlic Plus Vitamin C may Reduce Blood Pressure

...garlic supplements are used twice as much as other herbal supplements. Mousa and Mousa recruited six subjects with marginally elevated blood pressure (140/90 mmHg) and assigned them to take placebo for 10 days; followed by one-week washout, then vitamin C (2000 mg) for 10 days, a further week of wash-out ...

Malaria-curing Herb Must Be Carefully Farmed - WHO

The effectiveness of an anti-malarial herbal drug could be damaged by overplanting of the Chinese shrub from which it is derived//, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The artemisia annua (sweet wormwood) shrub must be more carefully farmed to meet a growing global demand and ...

President of an African Nation Claims Herbal Cure for AIDS, Experts Skeptical

...AIDS front are calling for scientific tests on the herbal medicine of the President. But he won’t relent and...le medical degrees. But he defends the president’s herbal cure. "I can swear, 100 percent, that this herbal medication His Excellency is using is working. I...

Researchers Discover Breakthrough in Malaria Treatment

...contained a combination of drug based on a Chinese herbal extract (artemisinin) with a longer acting antimalarial drug. The researchers found that both treatments provided initial cure from disease. However those receiving a treatment which stayed in the blood stream for longer were three times less likel...

China, France to Jointly Develop Traditional Chinese Medicines

...dicine. Typical TCM therapies include acupuncture, herbal medicine and Qigong exercises. Source-IANS...

Crushed Garlic Has Health Benefits

...ties are well known. It has long been considered a herbal "wonder drug" with a reputation in folklore for pr...flu to the plague. Garlic is used extensively in herbal medicine and it contains compounds shown to help prevent blood clots. But most studies have tested r...

Scientists Boost Production of Cheap Malaria Drugs

...trategy for using Artemisia annua as a traditional herbal tea to tackle malaria for poor communities who cannot access or afford to pay for antimalarial products developed by the pharmaceutical industry. A separate study explored new technologies to make extracting artemisinin cheaper and more environmen...

Ayurveda Firm's Name Change Irks Experts

...," said Titus. The ayurveda system of Kerala is herbal based and its treatment methods are said to be different from the ayurveda systems practised elsewhere in India. The treatments and luxurious massages are now extremely popular among tourists, especially foreigners, churning up considerable business ...

Elderly Patients Usually Keep Mum About Use of Alternative Medicine , Reveals Survey

...dicine. It includes such products and practices as herbal supplements, meditation, homeopathy, and acupuncture. Cheryl Matheis, AARP Director of Health Strategies says that though it is well known that elderly persons do use CAM, this was the first survey to study about the communication gaps existing bet...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

... plant extract described //in a 17th century Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He documented his traditional healing methods...

Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug

...tails of which were found in a 17th century Dutch herbal text, known for its anti-bacterial properties. Ear...East Indies Company. His book is an account of the herbal healing traditions on the Indonesian island of Ambon. Rumphius' description of Atun kernels' therape...

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