Natural Medicines for Tuberculosis

Health Articles - TB or Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease that is most common. Respiratory disease does have the ability to spread easily, one of the medium of transmission is through the air. One of the other causes of the increasing number of patients with this disease is that it is declining, meaning that the disease can be passed down from person to their children. One of the other causes are Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to existing drugs, so that the disease becomes resistant to the drug.

Things like this make innovations on TB drugs should continue to be developed. Maybe by using natural herbs found in many Indonesian. Indonesia has many medicinal plants that can be developed into a panacea, one of them for TB disease. Here are some natural herbs for tuberculosis.

Red Ginger and Noni
Ginger and noni is a medicinal plant that is easy to find around us. Based on research conducted by a Professor of Pharmacy ITB expert and researcher, Prof. Dr. Elin Yulinah Sukandar, MS., Apt. with clinical trials in BKPM Cibadak, Bandung on a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis. From the results of the process steps can be seen that, red ginger-noni extract can be used as an adjuvant (companion) anti-tuberculosis drug standard, to enhance the activity of standard anti-TB and accelerating conversion from positive to negative smear.

Soursop Leaf
Soursop leaves the content found on acetogenins which have the ability to reduce inflammation and inhibit the growth of bacteria because soursop leaves contained within Antibacterial compounds, compounds fructose, fat, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin B, then the class of compounds tannins, phytosterols , and alkaloids, as well as asetogenin.

Mangosteen skin
It was not just the fruit are tasty and sweet. It turns out that mangosteen skin also has many health benefits, one of them for TB disease. Results of research conducted in Tokyo in 2003, showed that the antioxidant super (xanthones) found in the skin of the mangosteen has anti-bacterial effect that can inhibit and kill the development of micro-organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (causes tuberculosis).

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