Medicinal sage
Medicinal sage, used in traditional Chinese medicine, has shown some promise in treating alcoholism and other addictions:
" Scientists at the National Research Council's institute in Cagliari (IN-CNR) recently showed that the active ingredient in a type of Chinese medicinal sage can turn alcoholic mice into tee-totallers .
The next stage of the study is to test the effects of the herb, whose scientific name is Salvia Miltiorrhiza, on humans. If successful, the institute believes the extract may also be used to develop therapies to defeat additions like smoking and eating disorders that cause obesity .
"We assume that this substance can act against the addiction to smoking and can also limit appetite," said Paolo Morazzoni, the scientific director of Indena, the company that has bought the patent to produce the herb extract. On Tuesday Giancarlo Colombo of IN-CNR presented his team's findings on the sage to the Society for Medicinal Plant Research's World Congress in Florence .
The herb has been used for centuries in China to treat blood diseases, heart disorders, haemorrhages, menstrual problems, edema (swelling, usually of the joints), and insomnia .
Colombo said some practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine recently extended its range of applications .
"We heard there were some reports of it being applied in extreme cases of alcoholism. We pricked up our ears, because that's what all our research is about," Colombo told ANSA ."
" Scientists at the National Research Council's institute in Cagliari (IN-CNR) recently showed that the active ingredient in a type of Chinese medicinal sage can turn alcoholic mice into tee-totallers .
The next stage of the study is to test the effects of the herb, whose scientific name is Salvia Miltiorrhiza, on humans. If successful, the institute believes the extract may also be used to develop therapies to defeat additions like smoking and eating disorders that cause obesity .
"We assume that this substance can act against the addiction to smoking and can also limit appetite," said Paolo Morazzoni, the scientific director of Indena, the company that has bought the patent to produce the herb extract. On Tuesday Giancarlo Colombo of IN-CNR presented his team's findings on the sage to the Society for Medicinal Plant Research's World Congress in Florence .
The herb has been used for centuries in China to treat blood diseases, heart disorders, haemorrhages, menstrual problems, edema (swelling, usually of the joints), and insomnia .
Colombo said some practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine recently extended its range of applications .
"We heard there were some reports of it being applied in extreme cases of alcoholism. We pricked up our ears, because that's what all our research is about," Colombo told ANSA ."
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