Question:
My aunt
is suffering from dengue and since three days of medication I didn't
see any improvement.
Doctors
are prescribing antibiotics and some pain killers and some medicines.
By the
time I came to know about papaya juice and papaya leave gives a cure
for dengue.
Until
how much extent this medicine does work.
Is it
true or not?
Please
reply.
Partha
Answer:
Dear
Partha,
Papaya
has a vast array of medicinal purposes.
In a
paper published in the Feb. 17 issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology,
researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in Japan documented
for the first time that papaya leaf extract boosts the production
of key signaling molecules called Th1-type cytokines.
This
regulation of the immune system, in addition to papaya's direct antitumor
effect on various cancers, suggests possible therapeutic strategies
that use the immune system to fight cancers.
Papaya
was shown to promote the production of Th1-type cytokines,
important in the regulation of the immune system.
For that
reason, the study findings raise the possibility of future use of
papaya extract components in immune-related conditions such as inflammation,
autoimmune disease and some cancers.
The findings
of the study published online on 27 SEP 1999 by U.C. Chaturvedi, E.A.
Elbishbishi, R. Agarwal, R. Raghupathy, R. Nagar, R. Tandon, A.S.
Pacsa, O.I. Younis, and F. Azizieh show that dengue virus induced
a predominant Th1-type cytokine response during the first
3 days of infection of PBL cultures that was replaced by a Th2-type
response later.
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find more information related to your question at:
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