Malaria-infected mice cured by 1 dose of new drug
...nthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese herbal folk remedy. The team also has developed several other compounds which defeated the febrile disease in rodents after three oral doses. These peroxide compounds, containing a crucial oxygen-oxygen unit, promise not only to be more effective than tod...Black-Bone Silky Fowl: An odd bird with meat to crow about
...d colleagues conducted the study. "As a kind of folk invigorant and a source of traditional Chinese medicine, it [the chicken] is used to reinforce body immunity and protect from emaciation and feebleness," added co-researcher Ying-gang Tian in an interview. It also treats diabetes, anemia, menstrual c...28-site trial studying Chinese herb as Alzheimer's treatment
...cholinesterase inhibitor, has been used in Chinese folk medicine for the treatment of fevers and inflammation. Although also commonly used in China to treat Alzheimer's, there have been no controlled clinical trials assessing its toxicity and efficacy outside of China. Chinese studies have suggested that ...Middle-age people more likely to use alternative medicine
...ically based therapies, such as chelation therapy, folk medicine, herb use, special diets, or megavitamins. Manipulative and body-based methods, such as chiropractic or massage. Mind-body interventions such as relaxation techniques (meditation), movement therapies (yoga) and healing rituals. In each ca...Potent spice works to block growth of melanoma in lab test
... uses: as a food-preservative, a coloring agent, a folk medicine to cleanse the body, and as a spice to flavor food (two to five percent of turmeric is curcumin, for example). While researchers had thought curcumin primarily has anti-inflammatory properties, the growing realization that cancer can result ...'Binge drinkers': Folk devils of the binge economy
...laces'. As such, binge drinkers are indispensable folk devils. They are noisy, urinate in public and violent. This brings them into conflict with an undermanned police force, which can be depicted on most nights of the week wrestling heroically with foul-mouthed, vomit-stained youths in an attempt to res...Researchers study natural products that may prevent certain cancers
...al Cancer Institute (NCI) to study properties of a folk medicine and a food spice that show promise in red...al and breast, and enhancing cancer treatment. The folk medicine propolis and the food spice turmeric are rich in plant polyphenolic compounds that exhibit ...Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
...ft, slow music. These included one tape of Chinese folk music and five that had been found effective for reducing postoperative pain in research conducted by Good. Good, one of the country's leading researchers of drug-free methods to reduce postoperative pain, has found in previous studies that the comb...