Adelaidean (Winter 2015 edition) | Page 7

“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 ̰