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Immunomodulatory Agents from Plants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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Immunomodulatory Agents from Plants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
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The human immune system, despite having its own sophisticated
defence mecha nisms, is inferior to bacteria and viruses with
respect to adaptability. Furthermore, our immune system is
increasingly exposed to detrimental effects, that is immuno
suppressive environmental consequences, unhealthy living, and
chronic illnesses. Excessive chemotherapy threatens our immune
system even further. This situation demands compensatory
prophylactic therapeutic regimes. One of these - specific
immunostimulation - is more difficult to achieve than the
immunosuppression cur rently used in transplantation surgery and
the medical treatment of autoimmune dis eases. The earliest
attempts to develop suitable medication for immunostimulation were
based on traditional remedies which embodied the accumulated
experience of several centuries. Medicinal plants are already being
used prophylactically as stan dardized and efficacy-optimized
preparations for the treatment of various recur rent infections, or
in combination with chemotherapeutics in standard medical practice.
In order to rationally apply immunostimulants of plant origin,
however, it is necessary to search for the active principles of
these substances and to produce them in a pure form. Because
suitable screening methods have become available only recently,
research in this field is in its very beginning. Further progress
can be expected from systematic basic research on the mechanisms
underlying immunomodulation. This also applies to verification of
clinical efficacy, which is a prerequisite for the acceptance of
medications with purported immunostimulatory properties."
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