Researchers managed to find a powerful antibiotic in the leaves of European chestnut. A new molecule with an antibiotic action, as it turned out, is able to cope even with a resistant staphylococcus. The results of the study are published in the log of Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics is one of the main problems of modern medicine. Certain with her can help natural compounds that can weaken microorganisms.
Methicillin-resistant golden staphylococcus can cause difficult infections that have a strong resistance to antibiotics. Such a disease is recognized as one of the most dangerous in the world. Only in the United States annually reveal about 3 million cases of infection with infection, and more than 35,000 people die from it.
Patients have sepsis and sharp pneumonia. One of the proposed solutions is the use of Brazilian pepper and European chestnut, which kill the harmful cells of infection and allow the patient to fully recover.
How does all this work? The fact is that antibiotics usually kill bacteria in the body, thus helping the immune system. But not all microorganisms die – some of them remain alive and gradually produce resistance to the medicine, which they tried to kill them.
Quave Lab found in the leaves of European chestnut compounds that neutralize hazardous microorganisms, allowing cells and tissues to naturally get rid of infection without increasing the resistance of bacteria.
scientists managed to highlight from the leaves of the chestnut molecule, which copes with resistant bacteria, and get crystals from it.
Interestingly, this substance in the leaves of Chestnut was only 0.0019%. But even with such a small concentration, the potential drug molecule provided a stunning effect.
According to the authors of the study, this substance is different by the method of its action from many modern drugs – it does not kill the pathogen himself, but weakens it, giving the immune system to cope with it.