November 16, 2007

Dragons Blood great upset stomachs

Now taking something called Dragons Blood could be enough to put anyone off of going to the doctor, but this is not conventional medicine, this is Chinese herbal medicine, and Dragons Blood is a plant that is gives off a red sap, hence the name.

This plant actually contains a whole host of chemicals that have under gone some extensive laboratory tests and it has been found that it fights the bacteria which cause gastrointestinal disease; this actually affects millions of people each year.

But there shouldn’t be any surprise there, after all the Chinese have been using it for thousands of years and to treat the very same symptoms. The difference now is that the active ingredients have been identified and there are possible other uses, such as the prevention of blood clots that could be responsible for strokes and heart attacks.

Source [Science Daily]