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Herb Medicines and institutions

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By: Waheed Elqalatawy

Herb medicines has begun the journey of institutional research.
They are submitted to clinical trials conducted by governemental institutions.
Comparing the institutional findings in different countries, we find that, institutions in one country found some herb medicines to prevent or improve the case of a disease, but institutions in another country found these same herbs fail to reveal results supporting the findings of the other trial.
Does physiology of one people differ from another, or the herbal content that differ from one country to another?
Is the reason herb derived or people derived?
To answer this question we should recall our experience with clinical research done for conventional medicine drugs.
Drug research describes the properties of ONE molecule with known site of action, or a known clue to the way it affects the body, while a herb medicine may contain more than 1 active ingredient, moreover the concentration of these ingredients in a certain herb may differ from one country to another, yet this represents no problem as long as we describe it as a herb medicine, and it actually doesn't make that big difference.
The big difference is in people.Their environment, ecology, and habits make them different, and these are some findings based on institutional work:
1-The first institutional finding is that Eskimos(Inuits) have a thin blood due to their high consumption of fish fats (which contain omega 3fatty acids), consequently if they take the same doses of Aspirin as we do, they would be more liable to bleed.
2-Another institutional finding is that tobacco smokes induce increased synthesis of cytochrome p-450 enzyme which detoxifies xenobiotics, consequently, tobacco smokers may need higher doses of some drugs.
3-A third institutional finding is that eating Brussel sprouts increses total activity of Glutathione-S-Transrerase which is involved in antioxidant activity in the body, consequently, if the Brussel sprouts eaters take an antioxidant preparation (whether a herb or not) wouldn't feel the same difference the non-eaters of Brossel feel.
The contradictory results imply that herb medicines may be a fake, yet considering the previously mentioned factors in a series of clinical trials may exploit the herb medicine resource to its full, and help finding novel pharmaceutical materials.
Sponsoring these trials, governmental institutions may save people a lot of time and money, finishing the preliminary work, the manufacturer companies are escaping because it is more easy and less expensive to them to fabricate herb medicines as "Nutritional supplement".

Waheed Elqalatawy writes about health topics for any one who wants to go under the surface of health topics in an extremely easy and digestible yet firmly scientific way. Find out how you can digest health topics at http://www.waheedelqalatawy.blogspot.com