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Chocolate, apples and COPD
Identifier
005626
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
There is the inevitable pointless and somewhat arrogant assertion that somehow scientists can do better than nature by extracting the chemicals in plants in order to administer them to people, but we can ignore this and concentrate on the important finding that the foodstuffs mentioned help with both asthma and COPD.
A description of the experience
Expert Rev Respir Med. 2007 Oct;1(2):227-46. Doi: 10.1586/17476348.1.2.227. Phytoceuticals: the new 'physic garden' for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Grandhi S, Donnelly LE, Rogers DF. Airway Disease, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK.
Phytoceuticals (non-nutritional but beneficial plant chemicals) merit investigation as pharmacotherapy for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Although asthma is mostly treated adequately, COPD is not. Thus, there is a need for new drugs with improved therapeutic benefit, especially in COPD.
Recent interest in herbal remedies has redirected attention towards plants as sources of improved treatments for lung disease.
Phytoceuticals from a variety of plants and plant products, including butterbur, English ivy, apples, chocolate, green tea and red wine, demonstrate broad-spectrum pharmacotherapeutic activities that could be exploited in the clinic.
Well-designed clinical trials are required to determine whether these beneficial activities are reproduced in patients, with the prospect that phytoceuticals are the new physic garden for asthma and COPD.
PMID: 20477187
The source of the experience
PubMedConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Asthma and allergyCOPD
Lung disease
Suppressions
ApplesButterbur
Chocolate
Red wine
Tea