Propolis: Treatment of HIV / AIDS

Who does not shudder to hear the word AIDS - the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus infections that trigger various diseases? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 2-million people died from AIDS in 2008. That amount may be reduced if people with AIDS know propolis.

Propolis: Treatment of HIV / AIDS

Propolis is not yet clinically proven coping with HIV. However, based on research in vitro - in the lab - conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, propolis has the potential to enhance the immune system of people with HIV / AIDS. The research team suspected antiviral substances contained in propolis inhibit viral entry into CD4 + lymphocytes.

Propolis dose of 66.6? G / ml in cultured CD4 + cells - the immune system T cells that have CD4 receptors to inhibit expression of the HIV virus than 85%. Typically in patients with HIV / AIDS, the deadly virus infects CD4 cells and destroying bereseptor. Hence, the number of CD4 cells in the areas of HIV / AIDS fall far below normal. In healthy people, numbering around 500 - 1.500/mm3 blood.