Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Herba Anti Virus

Herba Anti Virus

Anti virus demam denggi ditemui

Mac 06, 2014

http://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/anti-virus-demam-denggi-ditemui-31313

KUALA LUMPUR: Biarpun belum ada sebarang vaksin untuk merawat demam denggi namun beberapa saintis negara telah berjaya menemui anti virus bagi penyakit berkenaan.

Hasil penemuan mendapati anti virus yang diperbuat daripada ekstrak herba dari China, Huang Qin terbukti mampu mengurangkan kadar replikasi virus denggi sehingga lebih 70%.

Huang Qin atau nama saintifik Scutellaria Baicalensis sering digunakan dalam perubatan tradisional cina untuk merawat pelbagai jenis penyakit.

Penemuan itu dilakukan pakar denggi Prof Dr Sazaly Abu Bakar dan saintis-saintis lain di Universiti Malaya.

Herba itu dikatakan boleh menghasilkan molekul asas dipanggil Baicalein yang dapat mengurangkan replikasi virus denggi.

"Herba cina ini mengandungi kompaun Baicalein yang kita buktikan dia boleh turun kadar replikasi virus denggi ini. Kami telah memikirkan bagaimana cara bangunkan produk supaya boleh digunakan. Kami tidak bertujuan menggunakan untuk rawatan denggi kerana tiada bukti ia boleh merawat denggi tetapi sekurang-kurangnya mengurangkan replikasi denggi ini." kata Prof Dr Sazaly.

Beliau juga berharap produk itu dapat dipasarkan sebagai makanan berfungsi dan boleh diambil seperti pil vitamin.

Flavonoid merupakan ekstrak daripada tumbuh-tumbuhan dipercayai mempunyai manfaat perubatan dan fungsi antioksidan.

Bagaimanapun sehingga kini masih tiada penawar untuk merawat demam denggi.

Sehingga vaksin berkesan ditemui, pelbagai langkah perlu diambil untuk mengelak daripada dijangkiti wabak denggi.

http://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/anti-virus-demam-denggi-ditemui-31313

Kuatkan imuniti anda

Amazing Benefits Of Chyawanprash For Bolstering Immunity And Vitality

March 30, 2019

https://www.netmeds.com/health-library/post/amazing-benefits-of-chyawanprash-for-bolstering-immunity-and-vitality

Chyawanprash is a nutritious jam, widely recommended by Ayurveda for its wide spectrum of health benefits. In Sanskrit, the word Prash means specially prepared food. It was reportedly formulated by two ancient sages for restoring youth to an elderly sage Chyawan- hence named Chyawanprash.

Ayurvedic jams are carriers of herbs that work as powerful aphrodisiacs and to revamp health. Chyawanprash is a blend of different herbs, amla, ghee, sesame oil and honey.

Ghee, sesame oil and honey serve as catalytic agents to carry herbs deep into the cells while honey helps in neutralising and safeguarding the effects of other major ingredients.

Chyawanprash is well-known to build stamina and muscle mass without worsening the Kapha. It is valued as a rasayana for all cells in the body and pacifies vatta, pitta and kapha doshas. It is also beneficial in slowing down the ageing process, lift up the memory, good for the heart and enhance the health of the digestive, excretory and respiratory system.

How to Use Chyawanprash

Chyawanprash can be taken as such or mixed with milk or water or even as a spread on bread. Having chyawanprash with warm milk helps in revitalizing cells. Regular dosage is 1- 2 teaspoon, once or twice daily in the morning and evening for adults and ½ teaspoon daily for children.

Benefits

Immune Booster And Stamina

Chyawanprash is a powerful immune bolster and aids the body in the production of haemoglobin and white blood cells. Amla, the vital component in chyawanprash detoxifies the body and cleanses the blood, liver, spleen and the lungs. It enhances youthfulness and promotes healthy muscle mass and tones the body.

Respiratory Health

Chyawanprash can do an incredible job in promoting lung power. It nourishes the mucous membrane and helps in maintaining the respiratory passage clean and clear. It is often used as a tonic in winter months as it supports natural resistance, lends strength, energy and combat infections by boosting overall health and wellbeing.

Tuberculosis

Evidence reveals that chyawanprash mitigated symptoms associated with tuberculosis such as coughing, poor appetite, lethargy and weight loss. In fact, it also helped patient suffering from TB to recovery fast.

Promotes Digestion

Chyawanprash strongly supports the digestion process in a systemic level. In Ayurveda digestion starts with experiencing tastes and chyawanprash has 5 out of the 6 tastes, except salt. An effective carminative, chyawanprash promotes healthy movement of gases and regular elimination of waste. Furthermore, it regulates blood sugar and cholesterol levels in normal range. A great jam in maintaining and stimulating proper metabolism.

Reproductive Health

Chyawanprash was originally formulated to strengthen and revitalise the reproductive organs. It plays a vital role in triggering the reproductive system and promotes vitality and sexual health. In addition, chyawanprash promotes fertility, healthy libido, sexual stamina in both men and women.

https://www.netmeds.com/health-library/post/amazing-benefits-of-chyawanprash-for-bolstering-immunity-and-vitality

Daun bambu halang kulat meracun anda

Inhibition of aflatoxin production inAspergillus flavus infected cotton bolls after treatment with neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf extracts

April 1990

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02540646

In separate treatments, a spore suspension ofA. flavus (control), an aqueous leaf extract of the subtropical neem tree plus a spore suspension ofA. flavus, or an aqueous neem leaf extract followed by anA. flavus spore suspension were injected 48 hr later onto the surfaces of locks of developing cotton bolls (30-day post anthesis). Thirteen days after the treatments, the seeds from the locules were harvested and both fungal growth and aflatoxin production were determined. Fungal growth was unaffected by the treatments but the seeds from locules receiving both neem leaf extracts andA. flavus simultaneously exhibited 16% inhibition of aflatoxin production, while the seeds in locules receivingA. flavus spores 48 hr after neem extract was added exhibited >98% inhibition in aflatoxin production. Neem leaf extracts contain an aflatoxin inhibiting factor, however, the neem leaf extract may need to translocate from the fibrous locule surface to the seed, prior to the fungal inoculation, for maximal effect.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02540646

Drug for coronavirus shows no benefit, possible harm

Drug championed by Trump for coronavirus shows no benefit, possible harm in study awaiting validation

22 Apr 2020

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/04/22/drug-championed-by-trump-for-coronavirus-shows-no-benefit-possible-harm-in-study-awaiting-validation

(Reuters) - An old malaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a "game changer" in the fight against the coronavirus provided no benefit and potentially higher risk of death for patients at U.S. veterans hospitals, according to an analysis that has been submitted for expert review.

There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines specifically for the new coronavirus. But decades old hydroxychloroquine has been widely used in an attempt to alter the course of the COVID-19 respiratory illness based on anecdotal reports that it may provide some benefit.

An analysis of Veterans Health Administration (VA) data found that 28% of 97 patients given hydroxychloroquine along with standard care died, compared with a death rate of 11% for the 158 patients that did not receive the drug. The death rate was 22% for the 113 patients given hydroxychloroquine plus the antibiotic azithromycin.

The research, which has not yet been accepted for publication in a medical journal, is not the result of a clinical trial. It analyzed medical records from 368 men hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus infection at VA centers who died or were discharged by April 11, according to the paper posted online for researchers.

The severe threat posed by the new coronavirus has encouraged sharing within the scientific community of "preprints" - the practice of researchers posting their findings prior to external checks, scrutiny or validation. The study authors did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

After taking patients’ individual characteristics into account, researchers calculated that the risk of death was more than double in those who received hydroxychloroquine.

Hydroxycholoquine also appeared to have no impact on a patients' need for breathing support. Rates of mechanical ventilation were 13% for those who got the drug versus 14% for patients who received only supportive care. For those who received the malaria drug and the antibiotic, only 7% required breathing assistance.

Even though there is not yet scientific evidence that hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID-19, doctors have said they are generally comfortable with trying the inexpensive drug, which has also been used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

But that may be starting to change. "Some publications in the last week or two have shed doubt on whether hydroxychloroquine is beneficial," said Dr. Jeremy Falk, a pulmonary specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the VA study.

"We were using it on just about everybody early on. Now we are using it more sparingly."

Numerous randomized trials are underway in the United States and elsewhere, aiming to answer the question of whether the drug has a role to play in the pandemic that has infected more than 2.5 million people worldwide and killed about 176,000.

(Reporting by Deena Beasley; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/04/22/drug-championed-by-trump-for-coronavirus-shows-no-benefit-possible-harm-in-study-awaiting-validation

Topeng muka N95 paling sesuai

Topeng muka N95,

3 lapis paling sesuai

https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2020/03/668970/topeng-muka-n95-3-lapis-paling-sesuai

KUALA LUMPUR: Topeng muka kategori tiga lapisan dan N95 paling sesuai digunakan sebagai langkah pencegahan wabak coronavirus (COVID-19) kerana mampu menapis kira-kira 95 peratus virus.

Pakar Kesihatan Awam, Dr Hanafiah Bashirun, menjelaskan topeng muka kategori berkenaan boleh menghalang virus terbabit tersebar melalui pengudaraan jika individu terkena titisan cecair dari hidung atau mulut yang dijangkiti COVID-19.

“Topeng muka tiga lapisan boleh didapati pada harga lebih murah berbanding N95. Biarpun topeng muka N95 paling baik, topeng muka tiga lapisan sudah memadai, selain harganya berpatutan. Jenis N95 lebih mahal dan lebih sesuai bagi menghalang jangkitan menerusi 'airborne' (udara).

“Topeng muka jenis tiga lapisan adalah jenis yang selalu digunakan pegawai perubatan dan kesihatan," katanya sambil menambah, topeng muka jenis N95 boleh menapis virus pada kadar 95 peratus, bakteria (100 peratus), debu (100 peratus) dan debunga (100 peratus).

Katanya, fungsi topeng jenis tiga lapis pula sama seperti N95, iaitu boleh menapis virus pada kadar 95 peratus, namun hanya menapis bakteria pada kadar 80 peratus, debu (80 peratus) dan debunga (80 peratus).

Beliau tidak menggalakkan penggunaan topeng muka jenis dua atau satu lapisan mahupun jenis karbon yang boleh dibasuh dan digunakan semula kerana hanya boleh menapis virus pada kadar 10 peratus, bakteria (50 peratus), debu (10 peratus) dan debunga 50 peratus.

“Malah, topeng muka jenis karbon hanya sesuai bagi menghalang bau. Topeng muka juga tidak boleh digunakan berulang kali kerana dikhuatiri tercemar dengan virus yang boleh mengancam penggunanya.

“Saya faham keadaan kini amat mendesak lebih-lebih lagi dengan kekurangan bekalan topeng muka di pasaran akibat penularan wabak COVID-19. Jika hanya mampu mendapatkan topeng muka jenis dua atau satu lapisan, saya menyarankan supaya memakainya sebanyak tiga topeng dalam satu masa.

"Berdasarkan cara penggunaan, topeng efektif digunakan dalam tempoh enam jam sahaja dan selepas itu, topeng baharu perlu digunakan, topeng lama perlu dibuang," katanya.

Mengenai topeng muka jenis kain, Dr Hanafiah berkata, ia tidak sesuai digunakan langsung kerana kadar tapisan bagi menghalang virus dan debu adalah sifar peratus, manakala topeng muka jenis span yang banyak digunakan sebagai perhiasan pakaian juga tidak boleh menghalang virus.

Dalam pada itu, beliau mengingatkan orang ramai bahawa penggunaan topeng muka amat penting dan tujuan utamanya adalah menghalang virus daripada memasuki tubuh melalui mulut atau hidung.

"Kita kena sentiasa berwaspada kerana virus tidak boleh dilihat dengan mata kasar. Sebab itu kita wajib pakai topeng muka bagi mengelak kita menyentuh mulut atau hidung," katanya tidak bersetuju dengan pendapat bahawa hanya individu sakit atau mempunyai gejala sahaja perlu memakai topeng muka.

"Dalam keadaan kini, semua orang perlu memakai topeng muka apabila berada di tempat awam kerana kita tidak tahu siapa yang dijangkiti virus berkenaan," katanya.