agents against diarrae
Diarrhaoe can be classified as acute or chronic. Acute diarrhoea has an abrupt onset, resolves wihtin about 14 days and is usually caused by an infectious agent, although drugs, poisons…
Tea
Tea has a component known as "EGCG". EGCG has reportedly been found to inhibit cell growth and to induce apoptosis with human lung cancer cell lines and the Ha-ras gene transformed…
Anti-cancer
Cancer Recipes (from Cancer Treatment Centers of America) See also the American Cancer Institute Introduction: Nutritional or dietary factors are attracting a great deal of interest because of their perceived ability…
Nutrition & Food
Great Foods: Energy boosting Foods (AARP website) Indigenous people have used natural products for medicines for thousands of years. Some well-known examples includes the wound healing properties of tumeric and…
Anti-bacterial & Anti-viral foods
Flow Hive (honey on tap) Antidoto natural (in spanish) Kemin Industries Artemisia annua: is widely used to combat malaria, a disease that leads to millions of deaths per year, largely in sub-Saharan Africa. It…
Water disinfection
National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) (CDC launched NORS in 2009 where public health departments voluntarilly enter outbreak information). Phytoremediation: Phytoremdiation is the use of plants in bioremediation, the process in…
Microbicides and sterilization
Websites of Interest: Global Campaign for Microbicides Alliance for Microbicide Development International Partnership for Microbicides Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine Reprotect; products to protect reproductive health CDC guidelines for cleaning your home…
Activated carbon
Companies: Buy Activated Charcoal Cabot Calgon Carbon Corp Chemviron See also Water purification in the Purification section Activated Carbon (AKA Activated Charcoal) is typically derived form charcoal or coal, although other raw materials…
cleaning & sterilization
Companies: Particle Measuring Systems Typical virus inactivation methods include low pH treatment (e.g., below pH 4.5, below 4.0 or even below 3.8, heat treatment, treatment with surfactants and radiation (e.g.,…
Periodontal diseases
Introduction/Definitions Dental caries (tooth decay): dental caries is the most common infectious disease and involves the dissolution of solid tooth surface due to the metabolic action of bacteria. Deeper lesions…