Kyle J. Norton
Scientists may have found a herbal medicine for the treatment of malaria with no side effects, according to studies.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by parasitic protozoans.
People who are using the immune suppressive drug, having a weakened immune system, and being infected by the HIV virus are more likely to experience severe effects of the infection.
Some researchers suggested that Women who are pregnant are at an increased risk of malaria infection.
Dr. Ebako Ndip Takem the lead scientist in the concern of malaria in pregnancy, wrote, "Pregnant women have a higher risk of malaria compared to non-pregnant women"
And "Maternal risk factors for malaria in pregnancy (MiP) include low maternal age, low parity, and low gestational age. The main effects of MIP include maternal anemia, low birth weight (LBW), preterm delivery, and increased infant and maternal mortality".
The most common symptoms of the disease are shaking chills alternated with a high fever. profuse sweating. a headache, nausea. vomiting. abdominal pain and diarrhea.
In the Western world, malaria is almost nonexistent due to sanitation and mosquito spray. However, the disease is most prevalent in the countryside of the third-world countries due to living conditions and medication.
Due to the widespread of malaria in the third, the World Health Organization has set a goal for the prevention and treatment of malaria, including the develop products that will provide: efficacy against drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, potential for intermittent treatments (infants and pregnancy), safety in small children (less than 6 months old), safety in pregnancy, efficacy against Plasmodium vivax (including radical cure), efficacy against severe malaria, and transmission-blocking treatment.
Andrographis paniculata is a herbaceous plant, genus Andrographis, belonging to the family Acanthaceae, native to India and Sri Lanka.
The herbal plant has been used in traditional Siddha and Ayurvedic in treating the common cold, flu, upper respiratory infections, infectious diseases, diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, pneumonia, swollen lymph nodes, leprosy, bronchitis, sore throats, tuberculosis, chicken pox, etc.
In the urgency of finding a natural anti-malaria herbal medicine with low cost for the treatment of malaria in the third world, researchers evaluated the effect of extracts of Andrographis paniculata (AP) and Hedyotis Corymbosa (HC).
Methanolic extracts of the plants were tested in vitro on Choloroquine sensitive (MRC-pf-20) and resistant (MRC-pf-303) strains of Plasmodium falciparum.
The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of AP (7.2 microg/ml) was found to be better compared to those of the HC at a dose of 10.8 microg/ml).
The combination of these two herbal drugs showed substantial enhancements to their anti-malarial activity.
Increased in vivo potency was also observed with the combination of plant extracts, compared to the individual extracts and curcumin.
In-depth analysis of the plant extracts, researchers found the plant extracts inhibit the ring stage of the parasite and did not show any in vivo toxicity, whether they are used in isolation or in combination.
Dr. Mishra K, the lead scientist wrote in the final report, "Both these two plant extracts in combination with curcumin could be an effective, alternative source of herbal anti-malarial drugs".
Additionally, the investigation of the adulticidal and repellent activities of different solvent leaf extracts of Eclipta alba (E. alba) and Andrographis paniculata (A. paniculata) against malarial vector, Anopheles Stephensi (An. Stephensi) by comparing the adulticidal efficacy of the crude leaf extracts of E. alba and A. paniculata with five different solvents like benzene, hexane, ethyl acetate, methanol, and chloroform was tested against the five to six-day-old adult female mosquitoes of An. Stephensi.
Among the tested solvents the methanol extract showed a maximum efficacy compared to others. The LC(50) and LC(90) values of E. alba and A. paniculata against adults of An. Stephensi were 150.36, 130.19 ppm, and 285.22, 244.16 ppm.
According to the chi-square values, the methanol extract of A. paniculata produced maximum repellency against An. Stephensi.
Dr. Govindarajan M and colleagues in the research team said, "The crude extract ..... A. paniculata was an excellent potential for controlling An. Stephensi mosquitoes".
Taken altogether, herbal Andrographis may be considered a functional remedy for the prevention and treatment of malaria in third-world countries where conventional medicine is expensive and hard to find with no side effects, pending the confirmation of a large sample size and multicenter human study.
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Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
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References
(1) Anti-malarial activities of Andrographis paniculata and Hedyotis corymbosa extracts and their combination with curcumin by Mishra K, Dash AP, Swain BK, Dey N.(PubMed)
(2) Mosquito adulticidal and repellent activities of botanical extracts against malarial vector, Anopheles stephensi Liston (Diptera: Culicidae) by Govindarajan M, Sivakumar R.(PubMed)
(3) Malaria in Pregnancy by Ebako Ndip Takem1 and Umberto D’Alessandro. (PMC)
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