Peruvian Amazon Plant Yields Cure For Dental Pain

[Judi Lynn]

Peruvian Amazon Plant Yields Cure For Dental Pain

LIMA, April. 29 (BERNAMA- NNN-ANDINA) -- An ancient Incan toothache remedy - for centuries handed down among an indigenous people in the rainforests of Peru - could be on the cusp of revolutionizing worldwide dental practice.

The remedy, made from an Amazonian plant species from varieties of Acmella Oleracea and turned into a gel for medical use, has proved hugely successful during the first two phases of clinical trials and may hasten the end of current reliance on local anaesthetics in dental use and Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) in specific applications.

Cambridge University anthropologist Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman, the first westerner to be invited to live with the Keshwa Lamas in Amazonian Peru, is leading efforts to bring this wholly natural painkiller to the global marketplace as an organic alternative to synthetic painkillers, scientistlive.com reported.

In doing so, the company she founded, Ampika Ltd (a spin-out from Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation arm) will be run according to strict ethical guidelines, and will be able to channel a percentage of any future profits back to the Keshwa Lamas community who agreed to share their expertise with her.

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[Dustlawyer]

1. Drug companies should be helping to save the Rainforst!

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. +1!

[denbot]

3. They are more likely to "kill" the competition..

Imagine. Those commie indigenous types just GIVING away a treatment, it's bad for business!