Surya: Extracting Meniran

People who have THE HIV / AIDS now get a new hope in improving the healing. Based on the initial findings from the Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Airlangga University Surabaya, the opportunities people with HIV / AIDS to recover increased combines treatment with antiretroviral therapy by using adjuvants ektrak meniran or phylanthus.

As expressed DR.Drs.Suprapto Ma'at, APT, MS, in Jakarta, Thursday (21 / 8), ektrak meniran potentially increase the expectations of the healing HIV / AIDS because it can be proven to increase the rate of one type of cell defense body Limfosit T -- especially helper T cells (Th cell).

Extracting meniran for people with HIV / AIDS is as adjuvants, particularly to improve the T-helpernya.

I will plan to menelitinya further and very sure the results will be better, says DR. Suprapto discussion in Long-Term Research Collaboration and Industrial Pharmacy, which initiated PT. Dexa-Medica.

Ektrak menir, clearly Suprapto, in principle, can be used as a therapy adjuvants in the treatment of infections such as infection be naughty viruses, fungi infection, bacterial infection, infection disease intraseluler and other chronic.

Adjuvants means help in overcoming an infection. In addition to the standard drug given, plus the concept.

With therapy adjuvants, the process of healing the disease can more quickly and more important is the process kekambuhan, "said the researchers who obtained the award of Technology BJ Habibie Award in 2008 for research on plant aplikatifnya about Meniran to Stimuno it.
Unique case
DR.Suprapto confidence in the prospects will be bright esktrak meniran treatment for AIDS, the more round after he found cases of Th cells increased significantly in a patient in hospitals Dr. Soetomo, Surabaya recently.

Several months ago, there was a patient of origin Dagupan who is also a children's doctor womb.

Pain experienced by patients is not initially known cause, but the last three months the body temperature is never below 39 degrees centigrade, he said.

This patient, further DR Suprapto, had suffered suspected enfeksi malaria and TB, but treatment unremitting efforts membuahan results.

The team consists of doctors that some experts eventually concluded that the patient is immune to the problem, so that should be examined limfositnya rate - especially Th cells (T-helper or CD4 +).

Th Tuesday to activate this function and set the other cells in the immune system (for example limfosit B, makrofag and limfosit T sitotoksik) all of which help destroy malignant cells and foreign organisms.

The results of T-helper appeared to indicate that the measure is very low, namely 52, which can be categorized as AIDS patients already have advanced stadium.

Doctors and provide extracts with the addition of manira dose gradually every month and the number of Th cells continue to increase eventually return to normal before entering the third month.

With this case, there are plans to research the use of extracts meniran among patients with HIV / AIDS, especially AIDS, he said.

DR Suprapto also has to ask Dr. Soetomo hospitals to help patients with HIV / AIDS are not able to provide extracts filantus as adjuvants with drug therapy atretroviral.

"I'm sure extracts menir will be able to help, not treat, cure HIV / AIDS. Or at least improve the quality of life and extend the age people, he said.

Source : http://www.aidsindonesia.or.id/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2658&Itemid=134

Gambia's president claims he has cure for AIDS

BANJUL, Gambia - From the pockets of his billowing white robe, Gambia’s president pulls out a plastic container, closes his eyes in prayer and rubs a green herbal paste onto the rib cage of the patient — a concoction he claims is a cure for AIDS.

He then orders the thin man to swallow a bitter yellow drink, followed by two bananas.

“Whatever you do, there are bound to be skeptics, but I can tell you my method is foolproof,” President Yahya Jammeh told an Associated Press reporter, surrounded by bodyguards in his presidential compound. “Mine is not an argument, mine is a proof. It’s a declaration. I can cure AIDS and I will.”

In a continent suffering from the world’s worst AIDS epidemic, Jammeh’s claims of a miracle cure are alarming public health workers already struggling against faith-healers dispensing herbal remedies from inside thatched huts.

The biggest concern is that the Gambian leader requires patients to cease their anti-retroviral drugs, a move that risks weakening their immune systems and making them even more prone to infection, said Dr. Antonio Filipe Jr., head of the World Health Organization in neighboring Senegal.

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Since January, when he announced his cure to a gathering of foreign diplomats, Jammeh has thrown the bureaucratic machinery of this small West African country behind the claim. The last six news releases on Gambia’s official Web site are dedicated to the president’s treatment, available to Gambians free of charge. Regular radio and TV addresses publicize it and the Health Ministry has issued a declaration of support.

Although the HIV rate is relatively low in Gambia compared to other African nations — 1.3 percent of the country’s 1.6 million people are infected — the president’s claim has left international health organizations in a bind.

WHO’s Filipe was diplomatic about Jammeh’s claims, saying his organization respects the president’s point of view. But, he added: “As the World Health Organization, we would like to state quite clearly the following — No. 1: so far there is no cure for AIDS.”

Jammeh, a 41-year-old former army colonel who wrested gained control in a 1994 coup, says his treatment is entirely voluntary and argues that his medications cannot be mixed with other drugs because “I don’t want any complications.”

The claim of a cure has prompted comparisons to the South African minister of health who won international ridicule last year for suggesting that a diet of garlic, beet root and lemon juice is more effective than anti-retroviral drugs. South African President Thabo Mbeki has been accused of not addressing the epidemic: His government did not provide AIDS drugs until a lawsuit by AIDS activists forced it to in 2002.

ammeh has gone to great lengths to prove his claim, sending blood samples of the first nine patients to a lab in Senegal for testing.

A letter on the lab’s stationery indicates that of the nine, four had undetectable viral loads, one had a moderate viral load and three had high loads, a result posted on the government’s Web site as proof of a cure.

However, the lab technician who performed the tests warned they are not conclusive since the blood samples were only taken after the treatment.

“There is no baseline ... You can’t prove that someone has been cured of AIDS from just one data point. It’s dishonest of the Gambian government to use our results in this way,” said Dr. Coumba Toure Kane, head of the molecular biology unit at Senegal’s Cheikh Anta Diop University.

Waiting in plastic chairs for treatment at the presidential compound last week, Jammeh’s patients said they don’t need lab results to tell them they feel better.

“It feels as if the president took the pain out of my body,” Ousman Sowe, 54, told the AP. Diagnosed with HIV in 1996, he is among the first nine men and women Jammeh has treated and has been under the Gambian leader’s care for nearly a month.

“My appetite has come back and I have gained weight,” said Lamin Ceesay, thin from a nine-year battle with HIV.

Jammeh has refused to disclose details of his herbal concoction, saying only that it uses seven plants, “three of which are not from Gambia.”

‘You will all be cured’
Treatment begins with the president applying the green paste, stored inside a deli-style plastic container. Next comes a gray-colored solution contained in an old Evian bottle and splashed on the patient’s skin. This is followed by a yellowish, tealike brew which patients are asked to drink. The therapy is administered many times over several weeks.

After the treatment session last week, Jammeh emerged carrying a tall wooden staff, a string of Islamic prayer beads and a leather-bound Quran. In front of him, 30 new patients waited on lawn chairs, drawn from the roughly 20,000 people currently living with HIV in Gambia.

He told them that during treatment, they must cease drinking alcohol, tea and coffee. They also cannot eat kola nuts or have sex.

Jammeh then held up the Quran, pointing it at each of the patients: “In the name of Allah, in three to 30 days you will all be cured,” he said.

The patients were then herded into a minibus and driven to an empty hospital ward on the outskirts of the capital, where they will stay in dormitory-style rooms with sheets covering the windows.

Source : msnbc