Infectious Diseases: The Potent and Natural Antibiotic Alternative with No Side Effects

By Kyle J. Norton

Scientists may have found a natural antibiotics alternative remedy for the treatment of acute infection and infectious diseases with no side effects, some studies suggested.

Antimicrobial activity is an action that kills microorganisms or stops their growth. In human, these actions are carried out daily by the immune system.

Infection is a processive condition caused by the battle of the invasion of microorganisms and the host immune white blood cells. Microorganism during the battle might produce toxins which can lead to the initiation of infection-related transmissible disease or communicable disease.

In acute infections, the systematic immune system responds properly to the invasive pathogen, leading to a brief battle after which the immune system is always victorious.

However, chronic infections occur when the immune cannot kill off the invasive stimuli in the acute phase of infection, leading to chronic infectious diseases. 

Arnica is a herbaceous species, genus perennial, belonging to the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and Asia.

The herb has been used in herbal medicine for centuries to treat strains, sprains, and bruises.

Besides containing contain helenalin as it main ingredient used as an anti-inflammatory agent, the herbal medicine also contains 11,13- dihydrohelenaline, chamissonolid, Sesquiterpene lactone, lignans of the furofuran, dibenzylbutyrolactone, dibenzylbutyrolactol types, pinoresinol, epipinoresinol, phillygenin, matairesinol, nortrachelogenin, and nortracheloside, six dibenzylbutyrolactol derivative, etc.

In the study to assess the antibacterial and antifungal potential of some Romanian medicinal plants, including arnica, on a series of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and also against two fungal strains. researchers at the National Institute R&D for Biological, found

* The vegetal extracts showed antimicrobial activity preferentially directed against the planktonic fungal and bacterial growth,

* The effect against biofilm formation and development was demonstrated only against S. aureus and C. albicans.

These results suggested that herbal Arnica processes a strong antibacterial and fungal activity in comparison to those of conventional antibiotics.

Dr.Stanciuc AM, the lead scientist, after taking into account of co and confounders said, ” the studied plant extracts are a significant source of natural alternatives to antimicrobial therapy, thus avoiding antibiotic therapy, the use of which has become excessive in recent years”.

Additionally, in the study to reaffirm the Arnica as an anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antiviral and bacterial agent used thousands of years in folk medicine for several purposes, researchers at the State University of Canipinas conducted an evaluation to examine the antimicrobial activity of Arnica in vitro.

In comparison to propolis extracts at the dose of 20 microl, the Arnica extract demonstrates an antimicrobial activity lesser than those of propolis extracts

Arnica extract showed slight inhibition of the adherence of the growing cells by 19% for Strep. mutans and 15% for Strep. sobrinus and of water-insoluble glucan formation (29%) at these same concentrations.
 

Taken all together, herbal Arnica may be considered natural antibiotics for the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic infection without inducing any side effects.

However, further data collection large example size and multi-centers studies performed with human consumption of the whole food or its bioactive compounds during the course of the disease will be necessary to complete the picture of herbal Arnica anti-acute and chronic infection possibilities.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it’s news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.
References
(1) In vitro antimicrobial activity of Romanian medicinal plants hydroalcoholic extracts on planktonic and adhered cells by Stanciuc AM, Gaspar A, Moldovan L, Saviuc C, Popa M, Măruţescu L.(PubMed)
(2) In vitro antimicrobial activity of propolis and Arnica montana against oral pathogens by Koo H, Gomes BP, Rosalen PL, Ambrosano GM, Park YK, Cury JA. (PubMed)