Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Brilliant!
A beautiful piece of science, cutting across all the lines of orthodoxy and contributing directly to both education and medicine.
Does traditional medicine work? Yes, and sometimes it works better than modern.
London schoolchildren have found that some of their families' soup recipes have antimalarial properties, with the help of Imperial scientists. Researchers from Imperial College London helped the schoolchildren test their family soup broths for activity against the malaria parasite. Several of the soup broths, collected from traditional family recipes that originated around the world, showed activity against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, either by curbing its growth or preventing it from maturing. The soup recipes had been passed down through the generations for the treatment of fever.Especially interesting that the recipes were ALREADY KNOWN to be medicinal.
Five of the broths were able to curb growth of the parasite in its disease-causing stage by more than 50 percent. In two of these, the inhibitory activity was comparable with that of a leading antimalarial drug, dihydroartemisinin. Four other broths were more than 50 percent effective at blocking the ability of the parasites to mature to a form that infects mosquitoes, potentially blocking the process of transmission. The recipes for each of the broths varied. They were vegetarian, chicken, or beef based, with no particular ingredient common to those with the strongest antimalarial activity.Unfortunately the press release doesn't give the recipes of the effective soups, and the original article isn't properly linked through the DOI system yet. Later the link was fixed: Here's the original article, but still no recipes.
Labels: Experiential education, infinite GOOD
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