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AIDS patients survive on red ginseng for 20 years: doctor
SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul-based hospital said Sunday that many of the country's AIDS patients have remained healthy for more than 20 years after taking no medicinal materials other than Korean red ginseng.
Asan Medical Center said that its research team, led by Cho Young-keol, has regularly administered Korean red ginseng to a group of patients infected with the HIV virus, which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, in clinical trials since 1991 and some of the patients have maintained their health for two decades.
"Some AIDS patients who didn't take any AIDS treatment and depended on red ginseng alone have survived and have been in a healthy condition for over 20 years," said Cho, who also teaches at the University of Ulsan's medical college.
Cho said the results of his research were published in an international journal, titled "AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses," and presented to an international antivirals conference now under way in Beijing.
He said long-term intake of Korean red ginseng has helped AIDS patients slow the phenomena of immune cell reduction and destroyed the so-called "nef" genes associated with the outbreak of AIDS.
"Interestingly, a patient diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 has witnessed the number of his immune cells returning to normal as a result of having regularly taken red ginseng since then," said Cho.
ycm@yna.co.kr
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