1s thanks for posting the article. It is wonderful to have research being done on a natural cure and the results seem very promising.
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It is interesting to note that although widely used as a first-line therapy for UC, 5-ASA is largely ineffective in more severe and chronic cases of the disorder [34]. For this reason and others, in recent years, the 5-aminosalicylic acid-containing pro-drug balsalazide has been the focus of attention. In a very recent metanalyses study Balsalazide was more effective than mesalamine in induction of remission, but balsalazide had no benefit compared with mesalamine in preventing relapse in the population selected. The number of patients with any adverse events and withdrawals because of severe adverse events was similar for mesalamine and balsalazide [35].(underlining above is my addition)
Orally administered PEO is pharmacologically active at remitting acute and chronic bowel inflammation in experimental colitis in a mammalian system. The physiological, histopathological and molecular findings of this study suggest that PEO might provide promising new therapeutic lead for the treatment of IBD.what is PEO that they used to induce remission in rats?
PEO, an essential oil extracted from edible B. verna, containing >95% naturally occurring PEITC, was used for all experiments in the present study.B. Verna is a plant commonly called "cress". I could probably find it growing in my Florida yard somewhere if I looked hard but there are a lot of similar looking "weeds". I wonder how much cress one would have to eat to see improvement? Thankfully I am in remission but always interested in healthy ways to eat. I have actually ordered garden seeds from the company mentioned (Kitazawa). Asians eat many more types of greens than other people do, perhaps that is why there is less UC in that part of the world.
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