SRBIAU researcher uncovers anti-malaria substance in Khorasan herb
The impact of Artemisia Diffusia, an endogenous herb in the Iranian province of Khorasan, on Malaria agent Plasmodium Berghei is discovered by SRBIAU researcher.
Professor Rostaian, a member of the SRBIAU academic staff and researcher, highlighting the severity of Malaria as a most serious threat to health around the world particularly in Africa and Latin America with significant mortality rates called for attention to the local Malaria epidemics where the disease resistance to standard medicine is on the increase, the Office of Public Relations ( OPR) reports.
Noting the 11 times increase in a period of six years in the mortality rate of under four years old children and the annual death of over a millions child in Africa alone which can be attributed to the increase in resistance to Chloquine he concluded that he elimination of the disease by vaccination is not realistic.
He added that a variety of medicines have been proposed for treatment but the most novel amongst these are the group of Artemisians based on the Artemisia plants and its derivatives. In his latest scientific paper presented at an international fora Professor Rostaian has introduced Tehranolide , found in Artemisia diffusa, as a potent agent with significant impact on plasmodium berghei NY strain with convincing laboratory tests on mice.
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