A Nigerian medico predicated in the United States, Maurice Iwu, has claimed that Garcinia kola, popularly called acrid cola in West Africa may be a possible drug against the pernicious Ebola virus.
Acrid cola, a staple health fruit in Nigeria, was reported to have ceased the virus at test tube experiments. The virus has so far killed more than 600 victims since its outbreak in Guinea, with Nigeria’s only recorded death being that of Liberian consultant, Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last week.
An Inquirer Washington Bureau reported Iwu who made this revelation, as saying that a remedy could be sourced from the same African forests where the disease was identified.
Iwu is a medico with an amalgamation of folk-remedy expertise and a doctorate in Western pharmacology. He is additionally the Executive Director of the Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme, and a consultant at Walter Reed Army Hospital in suburban Washington.
One of the top infectious-disease laboratories in the US was verbalized to have tested the fruit, and verbalized that it passed the crucial and arduous first hurdle.
A virus expert who heads the effort at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, to find antiviral drugs to fight exotic diseases, John Huggins, verbalized, “It certainly is a promising compound. So far, it’s made it through all the gates that it has been sent through.”
But there are many more tests to be done, first on mice in the next few months, and eventually primates, afore it would be utilized on people, Huggins verbally expressed.
Only one of 20 prospective drugs that pass the test-tube test makes it onto the market, so the odds are against the fruit, Huggins verbally expressed.
A Professor of Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Lawrence Gelb, verbalized, “I would be – and am – very sceptical. But you can’t be an outright cynic; eventually some (prospective drug) works.”
The reason acerbic kola may have an edge over other types of drugs that work in lab tests is that many drugs often prove toxic to people and animals in subsequent testing, whereas acerbic cola has been utilized for centuries, and has gotten federal approbation as a safe dietary supplement, Head of Applied Research at Missouri Botanical Garden, who has endeavored to develop plants as medicine in the past, Jim Miller, verbalized.
Bitter cola possible drug against Ebola –US-based doctor
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