“The simple fact that herbal medicines are drugs
is underappreciated, or not understood at all, by
most people. They include good drugs, bad drugs
and completely useless drugs but they are drugs
nonetheless, and therein lies a lot of grief,” Dr Ian
Musgrave warns.
If the research direction is right, that is. He frankly
mentions this work might not deliver on its present
prodigious promise. “We could be barking up the
wrong tree on the processes involved in Alzheimer’s,
the disease is known as a graveyard of therapeutic
approaches.” But that won’t stop him trying.
“As well as being part of traditional remedies, we could
very well get new drug ̰