Wednesday 25 June 2014

Herbal therapy options for tuberculosis

Efforts to eliminate TB continued both globally and locally. It continues to do despite often deadlocked, due to increasingly resistant bacteria even multi-resistant. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies as a disease endemic TB hard to shake. WHO research shows, nearly a third of the world's population has TB. Every year, more than 1.7 million people died, and it was difficult to stop the spread of the disease easily transmitted tuberculosis.

Herbal therapy to overcome drug resistance and side effects, herbal therapy are now beginning ogled, the bulb of garlic, onion, mucus aloe vera, ginger, turmeric, ginger and white, fragrant ginger, hibiscus flowers, gotu kola, basil seeds, and fruit noni is often used to treat chronic productive cough or cough. The plants studied efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro.



Bulbs of garlic, onion and aloe leaf mucilage extracted using water, while the ginger, turmeric, ginger and white rhizome, ginger rhizome fragrant, hibiscus flowers, gotu kola, basil seeds, and fruit noni using 96% ethanol.Antituberculosis activity of the extract was tested against M. tuberculosis isolated from carriers.The test results showed that the water extract of garlic bulbs active against M. tuberculosis sensitive while others are not water extract active against resistant M. tuberculosis.

The ethanol extract was the most active extract of ginger extract and noni are able to inhibit the growth of M. tuberculosis sensitive and resistant at a concentration of 10μg/ml.
Based on these studies, ginger extract and noni ethanol could potentially be used for treatment of tuberculosis because it can kill the bacteria that are sensitive or resistant to the concentration 10μg/ml.A study of herbal plants is still in its early stages. Required further development and research in order to apply herbal therapy in everyday practice

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