Herbal remedies can help to treat neglected tropical diseases

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More than 1.7bn people, most living in the world’s poorest countries, are affected by a group of 20 illnesses known as Neglected Tropical Diseases

call traditional medicine that works?” “Medicine.” This old joke contains more than a milligram of truth. When, for example, Tu Youyou, a Chinese chemist, began testing the sweet wormwood used in local herbal remedies as a cure for malaria, her isolation of artemisinin saved millions of lives and earned her the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015.

, estimated that they received only 0.6% of the money given by rich countries to poor ones for health purposes. Things have not improved since then. A recent report by Policy Cures Research, an international think-tank, estimates the cash available for treatings has been flat for a decade, with less allocated to all of them collectively than either malaria or tuberculosis receives alone.

To do so, she and her team first contacted several practitioners of traditional medicine and obtained samples of 15 treatments employed against a range ofs. Some were mixtures of dried herbs, others watery concoctions. Her goal was to test their effectiveness against laboratory cultures of a variety of disease-causing parasites, with the aim of isolating any active principles they might contain.

 

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Seems that few care.

No they can't. Exploitative pseudoscience is just that. Though your clients will be making a killing from it.

Yes! Nature is most powerful until you know it. While almost every organism is getting shield to fight modern medicines( super bugs) , this time is definitely to introduce well documented & authentic herbs as concomitant therapy! I bet it wins. moayush unanimedicine Ayurveda

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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), such as dengue, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, and leishmaniasis, are called 'neglected,' because they generally afflict the world's poor and historically have not received as much attention as other diseases. 😳😳 Wow, just wow.

1. How can big pharma help with this vs herbal medicines vs Chinese medicine?

Good thing we have 2 different pills for limp dicks

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