October 2, 2024 by Katie Bohn, Pennsylvania State University A compound found in African wormwood—a plant used medicinally for thousands of years to treat many types of illness—could be effective against tuberculosis, according to a new study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. The team, co-led by Penn State researchers, found that the chemical compound,...
Tag: <span>Traditional medicine</span>
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TRADITIONAL MEDICINE PLANT EXTRACTS MAY TREAT ATAXIA
Extracts from plants used by the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations peoples in their traditional botanical medicine practices rescue the function of ion channel proteins carrying mutations that cause human episodic ataxia, the researchers report. “Episodic Ataxia 1 (EA1) is a movement disorder caused by inherited mutations in the human KCNA1 gene, which encodes Kv1.1, a voltage-gated potassium channel...
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Traditional medicine plant could combat drug-resistant malaria
Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY IMAGE: THE LEAVES OF THE DWARF LABRADOR TEA PLANT CONTAIN AN OIL THAT COULD HELP FIGHT MALARIA. CREDIT: ADAPTED FROM ACS OMEGA, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/ACSOMEGA.3C00235 Much of what is now considered modern medicine originated as folk remedies or traditional, Indigenous practices. These customs are still alive today, and they could...