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Learning about Vinca

Posted by Daniel H on January 16, 2015, 4:58 pm, in reply to "Re: Nasty Cold"
Edited by board administrator January 16, 2015, 5:00 pm

Ok, let's give it a shot and see if we can learn something.

Dave's link Vinca
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Vinca

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Whats/vinca2.htm#WHAT%27S%20IN%20A%20NAME?WHAT'S IN A NAME?

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/whats/vinca2.htm
HISTORY, PAST AND PRESENT

Gardeners and herbalists cultivated vinca for centuries in Europe, India, China, and America. In Europe and elsewhere it was used, along with its cousins, to treat all kinds of diseases, from coughs and sore throats to eye and lung infections. Most interesting was its folk use in treating diabetes. In the 20th century, researchers discovered the plant contains dozens of alkaloids: some of them lower blood sugar levels (providing folk remedies with scientific provenance) and blood pressure. In the 1950's, they discovered two alkaloids that are the source of anticancer drugs.

So we want the Catharanthus

Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Catharanthus

Catharanthus roseus, known formerly as Vinca rosea, is a main source of vinca alkaloids, now sometimes called catharanthus alkaloids. There are about 130 of these compounds, including vinblastine, a common drug used to treat cancers

Vinca alkaloid

Most refrences to the vinca alkaloid are about cancer (small wonder it can kick the shit out of a cold).

http://flipper.diff.org/app/items/info/3506

I put Vinca for flu into Google, got an article about flu vacine curing heart disease and the words Vinca institute WTF.

I haven't found it yet but Vinca is most likely already being used as a flu vacine. Is this Vinca stuff magic or something? I am going to stop for now and continue the search for Vinca as a medicine a bit later. Feel free to help.






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