Old cures are sometimes the best
Two thousand million people around the world currently have the highly infectious liver disease, hepatitis B. Until now effective treatment has not been available, butrecent trials using a plant extract have produced promising results
Hepatitis B currently kills 2 million people each year and ten per cent of surviors remain carriers. Someof these people may later die from cancer of the liver. Very little treatment is available, although in the west the drug interferon has proved of some use. In the tried world, where hepatitis is most prevalent such treatment is generally too expensive. Now there is some hope. Researchers in madras (india) and Philadephia (USA) have been testing ancient herbal remedy. Plants of the genus phyllanthus have been widely used for over 2000 years as a treatment for jaundice. In the trials thirty-seven hepatitis caarriers were given capsules containing an extract of the plant, While twenty-three took capsules containding only a type of suger. After thirty days, twenty-two of those treated with the plant extract no longer had the virus while only one of those given suger was free of it. Nine mounts after the trials , the virus had not returned to any of those patients who had been cured. Most of the patients who were given plant extract but were not free of the virus had received treatment when they were in the early stages of the disease when it spreads very quickly. Researchers believe that they too could be helped with higher does and longer courses of treatment. These results are encouraging especially as thee plant extract appears to have no harmful side effects.
Old cures are sometimes the bestTwo thousand million people around the world currently have the highly infectious liver disease, hepatitis B. Until now effective treatment has not been available, butrecent trials using a plant extract have produced promising resultsHepatitis B currently kills 2 million people each year and ten per cent of surviors remain carriers. Someof these people may later die from cancer of the liver. Very little treatment is available, although in the west the drug interferon has proved of some use. In the tried world, where hepatitis is most prevalent such treatment is generally too expensive. Now there is some hope. Researchers in madras (india) and Philadephia (USA) have been testing ancient herbal remedy. Plants of the genus phyllanthus have been widely used for over 2000 years as a treatment for jaundice. In the trials thirty-seven hepatitis caarriers were given capsules containing an extract of the plant, While twenty-three took capsules containding only a type of suger. After thirty days, twenty-two of those treated with the plant extract no longer had the virus while only one of those given suger was free of it. Nine mounts after the trials , the virus had not returned to any of those patients who had been cured. Most of the patients who were given plant extract but were not free of the virus had received treatment when they were in the early stages of the disease when it spreads very quickly. Researchers believe that they too could be helped with higher does and longer courses of treatment. These results are encouraging especially as thee plant extract appears to have no harmful side effects.
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