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8 years ago

New Herbal Remedy Slashes Inflammation in Arthritis Patients

Effect of Bitongkang Pills on tumor necrosis factor - alpha in collagen - induced arthritis rats
Mingzhi Xu

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Bitongkang Pills were tested on rats with arthritis to see if they could reduce a harmful protein called TNF-alpha in their blood. The researchers gave different doses of the pills to the rats for 4 weeks and found that the medium and high doses significantly lowered TNF-alpha levels compared to a group that didn't get the pills. The high dose was even more effective than the medium dose and other arthritis treatments tested. This shows that Bitongkang Pills can help reduce inflammation in arthritis rats by lowering TNF-alpha levels.