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- Title
Cardiovascular disease: In keeping with tradition.
- Authors
Ellis, Clare
- Abstract
The article presents information on cardiovascular disease. It reports that for centuries, Chinese herbalists have used extracts from the Coptis chinesis plant to treat a range of ailments, from dysentery to infectious diarrhoea. Now, research published in the journal "Nature Medicine" suggests that the active component of this herbal remedy, an alkaloid called berberine, might also be able to lower elevated levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood, a major risk factor for heart disease. Effects of berberine on serum cholesterol levels were assessed in 91 patients with high cholesterol, who were treated with either berberine or placebo for 3 months.
- Subjects
CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; HERBAL medicine; COPTIS chinensis; BERBERINE; ALKALOIDS; CHOLESTEROL
- Publication
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2005, Vol 4, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1474-1776
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrd1618