天麻用於失智症&小腦萎縮症

A cure for dementia from Chinese medicine? 2011-09-28 Researchers at Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University in Taiwan have announced a breakthrough in studies of gastrodia elata, commonly called tianma, a widely used Chinese traditional medicine found in Tibet, Russia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Chen Yi-chuang of Academia Sinica notes that studies conducted by the Taiwanese institution have shown that tianma can be effective in curbing the effects of diseases ranging from dementia to spinocerebellar atrophy, Huntington's Disease and other ailments of the cerebral and nervous system. Research has shown that tianma can slow or reduce the effects of these diseases but so far it has not been established whether it can actually cure the diseases themselves. Chen notes that these types of diseases are generally progressively debilitating, with effects that set in over periods of three to five years, and that applications using an extract of tianma can be effective in slowing the progress of the disease, extending the development of symptoms to ten or even 20 years.