22nd April, 2008: Green Tea May Help Beat Superbugs
Emerging research suggests that consumption of green tea may combat the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. That’s the word from Edinburgh, Scotland where the Society for General Microbiology recently held an international conference. There Egyptian researchers discussed trials which “have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics in their fight against resistant superbugs, making them up to three times more effective,” according to PHYSORG.com.
Green tea was tested in combination with antibiotics against over two dozen disease-causing micro-organisms. “In every single case green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics,” said Dr. Mervat Kassem, a faculty member at Alexandria University in Egypt, where the research was conducted. In one instance, “the killing effect of chloramphenicol [a widely used antibiotic in low-income countries] was 99.99% better when taken with green tea than when taken on its own in some circumstances,” Dr. Kassem continued. In some cases, even a small dose of green tea was effective.
“Our results show that we should consider more seriously the natural products we consume in our everyday life,” asserted Dr. Kassem.
For more information on the health benefits of green tea, readers are invited to visit the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine website at http://nccam.nih.gov/health/greentea/index.htm.
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