Irkutsk scientist Maxim Khasnatinov plans to make the harpist, or rather the plant substances it contains, used in oriental medicine as the basis of the medicine for encephalitis. writes about this TASS.
“The extract of the Terminia chebula (haritaki) plant also has antiviral activity against tick-borne encephalitis. When we began to study the properties of this extract, we were able to isolate three chemicals that determined its effectiveness against tick-borne encephalitis,” said the scientist.
According to him, the extract was isolated after studying the substances found in medicinal plants traditionally used in eastern medicine. The results of theMAPI research have already been patented. Now scientists plan to conduct preclinical tests of the drug obtained from it.
Saying that donor immunoglobulin is the only available drug against tick-borne encephalitis, Khasnatinov noted that it has side effects and maintains its properties in a very narrow temperature range.
Before that in Russia radiate Severe form of tick-borne encephalitis.
Formerly Dalai Lama statedThat Eastern medicine can help in the fight against COVID-19.