TAG» Chinese herbal medicine, Ulcer
‘Dragon’s Blood’ May Fight An Ulcer Bacterium
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Published NYT: November 27, 2007 Researchers have discovered that a plant widely used in traditional Chinese medicine contains compounds that slow the growth of the germ that causes most peptic ulcers. The chemists, led by Weimin Zhao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, isolated 22 compounds from the treelike plant, Dracaena cochinchinensis, [...]