The team of scientists from London managed to find a drug to treat a wide range of human diseases. Starting from itching, infections, high blood pressure, and cancer. Materials for pharmaceuticals are derived from the chemical content owned by frogs, snakes, sharks, leeches, scorpions and flies.
Indeed, the idea of using a variety of raw materials from nature are not uncommon. The Indonesian people have long known herbs as a source of treatment, care, and to maintain body fitness. Even many Javanese believe, a sick person will recover if the yellow swallow fleas with bananas, itching pain treated with meat lizard, snake, and the like.
The principle of treatment of animals and plants, is also believed by other Eastern nations like Korea, Japan, and China. Ginseng from Korea who had exploited for centuries, is now expanding its use to various countries with various benefits. From Japan there is a variety of drugs ranging from soups anticancer saampai squalen bottle of shark which is believed to strengthen liver function and smooths the skin.
While in China which had lasted treatment technology for thousands of years, has been using the cobra blood to treat diabetes, rheumatism, tiger bone, tiger penis and up rhino horn as a powerful drug. In the West itself, actually a quarter of prescription drugs based on modern plants and derived substance and five of the 30 drugs known around the world come from fungus. To be sure, the network of bio-prospecting is more widespread. The scientists who initially rely more synthetic chemicals, are now racing back to nature.
Dr. Bary Clarke of the London Natural History Museum is believed that the chemical compounds of the amphibians can produce thousands of compounds from the skin glands and can cure skin diseases and respiratory infections.
We have the attention of experts primarily intended to answer the question why the animals that their immune systems immature to survive in bad lingkungana with various threats bacterial or fungal infections pathogens. The study was then to fruition. A complex series molekuk called peptides, seems to be a potential key to the frog’s body kekebalaan system against deadly microbes. Berhaasil peptide isolated from the African clawed frog, named Maganin, and began to be tested in the United States by Magainin Pharmecetical. The results of early stage clinical trial showed, impetigo, skin penyakait children gradually disappeared when treated with the peptide. From Tokyo reported the researchers worked with a peptide called sapecin, who managed diisolaasi of haemohymph – a substance like blood – on the larvae of flies. Sapecin show potential as antibiotic remarkable to protect the young maggots of billions of bacteria in the attacks habitat.
The experts in Tokyo strives to make the same compounds in a more simple format, small enough to pass through the human digestive system without being destroyed by enzymes that are there. Compounds that will be marketed in tablet form is expected to be against some resistant bacteria that start antibiotics. Of shark, discovered a new steroid compound, called squalamine works to protect sharks from infection.
Various types of disease, it has started to be treated with medicines derived from animals. ACE inhibitor used to treat heart for example, is actually derived from snake venom derivative that live in caves in Brazil. The experts have successfully memsintesanya and make a simpler compounds that are not harmful if swallowed humans. These drugs have
sold in the market with a turnover of 1.9 billion dollars AAS (approximately USD 3.6 trillion).
Now, experts are also beginning to learn to scorpions are expected play an important role in a cellular system, leech saliva as a drug antipembekuan blood, and many more.