A traditional Indian folk remedy for treating psoriasis seems to have a biological basis, according to a team from King’s College, London, who investigated Purple Fleabane (vermonia anthelmintica), a member of the daisy family.
They told the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester that their findings showed that the daisies’ seeds had not just one but two types of activity relevant to psoriasis treatment.
First, the seeds contained a compound called vernodalol that was cytotoxic and inhibited the growth of the epidermal skin cells. Second, this compound was also clearly active on two of the body’s major inflammatory pathways, the cyclo-oxygenase and 5-lipoxygenerase pathways, another useful property of anti-psoriatic drugs.
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