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October 2011- Issue No. 6

In this issue
Japanese Researchers Became Mus-

lim by Qurans Miracle

1st Meeting of Medicinal Plants

Veterans

Japanese Researchers Became Muslim by Qurans Miracle

According to Aljazeera newspaper published in Saudi Arabia, a group of
researchersworkingonaproteininbrainweresurprisedfromtheresults
of research done by a Muslim doctor ( Dr. Ibrahim Khalife) referring to
HolyQuranandtheybecameMuslim.Thisresearchgroupwereinvestigat
ing Methalonid a protein which is created in human and animal brain,

New Medicine for Malaria found in

andtheyreachedtooliveandficusthatAllah

Native Plants of Khorasan

hassworntoit.Methalonidisveryessential

Modeling Cancer Using Ecological

Principles

and decrease cholesterol and strengthen the

heart and self confidence. According to this
reporthumanbrainproducethisproteinfrom

Anti Virus Stomach Vaccine Using

Tobacco

51to53yearsofageandthenitreducesgraduallyand
whenyoureachto60itstops;therefore,gettingthissubstanceisnoteasy.
Researchers are concentrating on plants to find it. They have found that

Alternative to Taking Medication

Methalonideliminateagingeectsanditonlyexistinoliveandficus.While
Godhasmen onedthesetwofruitsinQuran,7 mesoliveandonceficus.
Bymixingthesepor ons,thatis7olivesand1ficusthenyouwillhaveit.

Got an achy back? Grapes could be the

ThiswastheexactthingthattheJapaneseresearchgrouphadfoundandit

ticket to a speedy recovery. Recent

wasmen onedinQuran1400yearsago.

studies at Ohio State University suggest

eatingaheapingcupofgrapesdailycan

1st Meeting of Medicinal Plants Veterans

relax tight blood vessels, significantly

The1stmee ngofmedicinalplantsveterans inIranwas heldin research

improving blood flow to damaged back

ins tuteofforestsandrangelandson13October2011.Thismee ngwith

tissues (and often within three hours of

presenceofthosewhowereover50inordertoutilizetheirexperiences

enjoying the first bowl). Thats great

forcreatingathinktanktoorganizeproductionandutilizationofmedici

newsbecauseyourbacksvertebraeand

nal plants. Dr. Rezaee the chief of Iranian Medicinal Plants Society told

shockabsorbing discs are completely

more than 7 thousands of plant species exists in Iran that only 800 are

dependent on nearby blood vessels to

amongmedicinalandornamentalplants.Headded,unfortunatelymany

bring them healing nutrients and oxy

of these species after production without process and preparation for

gen,soimprovingbloodflowisessential

drugs are exported and after these processes are send back to Iran with

forhealingdamagedbacktissue.

veryhighprices.Hesaidoneourmajoraimsistopreventtheexportation
of these species before processing and to
reachthisaimwehavetohavetheequip
ments.Dr.Rezaeeexplained,inIranthere
are species as Rosa damascena, Ferula
persica,FerulagummosaandBuniumper
sicum that have unique features in the
world but are exported without processing. Another goal of this meeting
wasfarmingmedicinalplantsusingnewtechnologies.

Medicinal Plants Society, Newsletter, Issue No. 6

A New Anti-malarial Agent Found in Native

Plants of Khorasan
According to Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) Dr.
Rostayianstated:Malariaisonethemostserioushealth
problemsinmanypartsoftheworldespeciallyinAfrica

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Central's open access journal Theoretical Biology and Medical

Modelling uses the Tilmanmodelofcompe

onbetweeninvasive

speciestostudythemetastasisofprostatecellsintobone.
Approximately40,000menayearintheUSwhohaveapparentlysuc
cessful surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer will suffer incur
ablemetastasisoftheirdiseaseinbone.Theprostatecellsinvadethe

andLatinAmerica,withhighmortalityandresistanceto

bonemarrowand,sometimesafteryearsofremainingdormant,com

standard drugs, is dangerous and complicated. This dis

petewithhematopoieticstemcellsandtakeoverthebonemicroenvi

ease is caused by a genus of

ronment.TheTilmanmodelexaminesvariouscomponentsofinvasion

plasmodium in red blood cells

ofspeciesintoanenvironment.KunWanChenandKennethJ.Pienta

and transmitted through an in

from the University of Michigan substituted steps in cancer progres

fectedbiteandcauseperiodical

sionintotheTilmanequations.Afterinitiallymultiplyingandundergo

fever and chills. He added the

inggeneticmutation(equivalenttoevolution)withintheprostate,the

amountofmortalityinchildrenunder4yearsbecauseof
resistanceofparasitetoChloroquiemedicineinsixyears
has increased 11 times. In Africa every year more than

cancercellsleavetheprostateandenterthecirculation.Thenextstep
isaperiodofsurvivalincirculationfollowedbyinvasionintobone.
Onceinthebonethereisa'lagperiod'whilethecellsestablishthem
selves.Eventually,thecancercellsbegintomultiplyandoutcompete

onemillionchildrendieduetothisdisease.Thethought

thehematopoieticstemcells.KunWanChenexplained,"Theinvading

todestroythediseasebydrugisnotrealistic.Thereare

cancercellscouldbethoughtofasseveralspecies,andthefittestmu

many different drugs suggested and used for malaria

tants become dominant and multiply. Eventually there is a massive

but among them one new and well known one is Ar

impact on the biosphere (human host)." Prof Pienta continued,

temisinin . Chemically, Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene

"Devastatingecologicalinvasionsarewellknown.Forexampleintro

lactone containing an unusual peroxide bridge. It is be

ductionofdomesticanimalstoMauritiusresultedinextinctionofthe

lieved that this peroxide is responsible for the drug's

dodo and Caulerpa taxifolia, a mutated killer algae, is plaguing the

mechanism of action. No other natural compound with

such a peroxide bridge is known. Use of the drug by it

Mediterranean. Cancer metastasis follows a similar path to that of

ecological invasions and our adaptation of the Tilman equations
showshowinvadingcancercellscandestroythenormalbodyhabitat.

self as a monotherapy is explicitly discouraged by the

Useofecologicalmodelingcanhelpusunderstandthecomplexbiol

WorldHealthOrganizationastherehavebeensignsthat

ogyofmetastasis."

malarialparasitesaredevelopingresistancetothedrug.

h p://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/201110/bcmcu093011.php

Therapiesthatcombineartemisininwithsomeotheranti

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malarial drug are the preferred treatment for malaria

Researcherswithanewmethodtransformtobaccotoaprotein

andarebotheffectiveandwelltoleratedinpatients.The

for aspiration vaccine in order to combat with norovirus. This

antimalarialactivityofArtemisiadiffusaextractsandthe

virus exits in restaurants, ships, schools and military garrisons

fractionwhichcontainssesquiterpenelactonesincluding

andcausediarrheaandvomi ng.Accordingtosta s csofdis

Tehranolide,onPlasmodiumbergheiinvivoonthemice

easecontrol inUSannually23millionpeoplesufferfromthis

modelofmalariawasinvestigated.Itdemonstratesthat

disease. Researchers used changed genetical virus in tobacco

crudeextractsofArtemisiadiffusainhibitthegrowthof

forthisvaccine.

PlasmodiumbergheiinvivoinNMRImice.Thescientific
researcharticlewaspresentedinthefiftyninthInterna
tionalCongressofMedicinalPlantsandNaturalProducts
inAntalya,Turkey.
Modeling Cancer Using Ecological Principles
Theinvasionofanewspeciesintoanestablishedecosys
tem can be directly compared to the steps involved in
cancer metastasis. New research published in BioMed

Iranian Medicinal Plants Society

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