Herb treatment for herpes
A common herb may provide a new and effective treatment for the sexually transmitted infection herpes.
Scientists have successfully used an agent derived from the herb, Prunella vulgaris aka (self heal, heal all, common self heal), to prevent the disease in animals.
The herb, commonly found in Britain, Europe, China and North America, has been used in the past to treat sores in the mouth and throat.
There is also some evidence that it has been used as a crude anti-cancer drug and to lower high blood pressure.
Dr Song Lee and his colleagues from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, extracted a compound from the plant.
This was then added to a cream and tested on mice and guinea pigs who had been infected with two types of the herpes simplex virus.
Use of the cream significantly cut the death rate among mice, and the development of skin lesions in guinea pigs.
Source BBC News
Scientists have successfully used an agent derived from the herb, Prunella vulgaris aka (self heal, heal all, common self heal), to prevent the disease in animals.
The herb, commonly found in Britain, Europe, China and North America, has been used in the past to treat sores in the mouth and throat.
There is also some evidence that it has been used as a crude anti-cancer drug and to lower high blood pressure.
Dr Song Lee and his colleagues from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, extracted a compound from the plant.
This was then added to a cream and tested on mice and guinea pigs who had been infected with two types of the herpes simplex virus.
Use of the cream significantly cut the death rate among mice, and the development of skin lesions in guinea pigs.
Source BBC News
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