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Flatnews.cf, HEALTH - During this time you know the poison as a material that is harmful to human health to be able to take the life. The most famous example is the deadly arsenic.
But apparently if processed properly, the toxins you can use as a medicine to cure some diseases, you know.
1. Arsenic
In Indonesia, the name of arsenic are soaring because of the legal case involving an activist a few years ago. Arsenic can be found in nature, pesticides, building products, and some industrial processes are indeed capable of endangering lives if accidentally entered the body with high doses.
In low doses, arsenic can be used to treat cancer, particularly cancer promyeloctic acute leukemia. Moreover, arsenic can also be used as a drug for chemotherapy called anthracyclines.
2. Foxglove
Foxglove is a plant with tubular flowers, pink, purple, white or yellow, and mottled. These plants are considered toxic because when you consume the leaves can cause low blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, depression, hallucinations, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, until the rash.
On the other hand, foxglove become ingredients of a drug called digoxin. This medicine can strengthen the heart, controlling heart rate, and improve blood circulation.
3. Yew Tree
American Museum of Natural History in New York noted that the seeds, leaves and bark of the Yew tree contain harmful materials to human body. But certain ingredients in Yew bark helpful to stop the growth of certain cancer cells such as breast cancer or lung cancer.
Not only these benefits, bark Yew able to reopen blocked blood flow in the body of patients with cardiovascular disease.
4. The venom
Thousands of species of snakes in the world produce toxins. But not all of these types of poisons bad for health. According to the American Museum of Natural History or the AMNH, the poison of vipers can be used to create blood-thinning medication. Other findings found that some of the Captopril or medications used to treat high blood pressure, heart failure, and kidney problems also contains toxins of this type in it.
In addition, a diabetes drug that helps the body to produce insulin is also derived from the saliva of a venomous lizard that lives in the southwest United States and northwest Mexico.
Well, it seems that if put to good use some kind of poison can become an important drug in the above example. Hopefully in the next study many toxins that can be processed into treatment.
