Article translated to English:
China has discovered a powerful drug to kill the new crown, which can suppress virus replication ten thousand times, and traditional Chinese medicine is still a treasure trove! 2022-05-13 15:50:02 Source: Respiratory doctor Hu Yang Shanghai report 85622
In January 2020, at the beginning of the new crown epidemic, China began to screen for effective drugs for the new crown virus, and fenugreek was also one of the candidate drugs on the screening platform. After comparison, it was found that the drug's effect on inhibiting the new crown virus was significantly better than other drugs. The drug, 10uM (micromol/L) of fenugreek can inhibit the replication of coronavirus by "15393 times," which can be regarded as the king of killing the new coronavirus in vitro.
It is a chemical substance extracted from Phyllostachys chinensis. Molecular formula: C37H38N2O6, molecular weight: 606.71. The reason why it is selected for extraction is from the medicinal properties of the traditional Chinese medicine. Detoxification, expelling wind and dampness. It can be used to treat sore gums, sore throat, stomach pain and other related inflammations. Urinary tract infections can also be used. It can treat other diseases, such as edema, boils on the skin, joint pain, redness and swelling caused by rheumatic diseases, and heat pain, which can be conditioned, indicating that the drug can kill some infectious diseases The role of pathogens.
In fact, there are also cases of extracting medicinal ingredients from plants in Western medicine. For example, salicylic acid, the precursor of aspirin, which was first used for antipyretic and analgesic, was extracted from willow bark, and ancient Greece also recorded the use of willow to relieve pain. Coincidentally, Li Shizhen also recorded a similar usage. It can be seen that the use of plants to treat diseases is not unique to traditional Chinese medicine. However, the outstanding feature of traditional Chinese medicine is that it systematically summarizes and summarizes the pharmacological effects of all things in the world, most of which are the essence. We can still use the prescriptions summed up by our ancestors to cure diseases and save people. In the modern society, traditional Chinese medicine books can play a role. For example, the reason why Tu Youyou chose Artemisia annua as one of the research objects for the extraction of malaria drugs is because Artemisia annua has anti-malarial properties in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine. Effect. Otherwise, one by one screening among the thousands of species in the world does not know when to screen.
Therefore, the classics of traditional Chinese medicine are still the treasures in the world and the crystallization of the wisdom of countless ancestors. Although there are also some bizarre records of medicinal effects, most of them can withstand scrutiny and verification. Conscientiously develop medicine that may be able to solve problems that cannot be solved today in the future. problem.
A photo of the plant and its leaves are on the source website....click below
Haven't had so much fun reading an Asian-to-English translation since those 1980's tech manuals! And the, uh, trans software clearly never heard of COVID before.