A study shows green tea extracts have a positive impact in treating malaria, in vitro.
August 20/Baltimore/Goldman Small Cap Research Inc. -- Goldman Small Cap Research notes that a research study published by a number of scientists in Italy demonstrates that green tea extracts do have a positive impact in treating malaria, in vitro. While this study predates the recent Plandaí Biotechnology Inc. malaria study, it nonetheless supports the company's series of tests to date that green tea extracts demonstrate an antimalarial effect.
In the Italy-based study, the scientists found that "...a crude extract of green tea as well as two of its main constituents, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and epicatechin gallate (ECG), strongly inhibit Plasmodium falciparum growth in vitro. Both these catechins are found to potentiate the antimalarial effects of artemisinin (a key malaria treatment) without interfering with the folate pathway." Moreover, the tests showed that the combination of artemisinin and the green tea catechins displayed a strong combined effect.