Can Natural Medicine of the Future Cure AIDS?!

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Indexed  January 17, 2011

According to the Journal of Biological Chemistry, studies are continuing into the potential for the ability of banana lectins, the proteins that bind to sugars, also binding to HIV-infected cells and preventing their replication and transmission. Several studies, beginning in March 2010, have also found similar anti-HIV effects from various herbs and plants like Hyssop, Pine Cone seed extracts, Pokeweed extracts, and Reishi mushrooms, for example. Research indicates (University of Michigan) that under laboratory conditions, banana lectins bind to HIV-infected cells and basically envelope them so that they are less likely to be able to reproduce. Based on this discovery, scientists continue to work on a highly-concentrated extract version of these lectins that they say may one day be widely used to help prevent HIV transmission. As well as Bananas, Pine Cone seeds also contain a high lignan extract that has been shown not only to inhibit HIV transmission, but also to potentially reverse the damage caused to the body by HIV-infected white blood cells. The Pokeweed plant and at least three other North American prairie plants have shown HIV-preventive effects as well. And plant sterols in general seem to protect healthy cells from being invaded by HIV.    See the complete post here