Does anyone know how cryptolepis works eradicate Babesia? I know this is a weird question, I just was wondering how it works, what the mechanism is.... thanks!
Posted by lululymemom (Member # 26405) on :
Cryptolepis was very helpful in treating my daughter's babesia. In the research I have done, it states that Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta has antimicrobial properties.
In the present study, the antimicrobial properties of C. sanguinolenta were investigated using cold and hot water as well as ethanolic extracts prepared from the dried roots. All three extracts were found to show broad spectrum activity by inhibiting both Gram-positive and Gramnegative organisms used including organisms isolated from veterinary animals as well as C. albicans. It has been shown that, due to the introduction of antibiotics in poultry and animal husbandry, most microbes isolated from veterinary animals have been found to be highly resistant (Kharchatourians, 1998; Sackey et al., 2001). It is therefore good news that, the preparations from C. sanguinolenta were all able to inhibit the isolates obtained from the veterinary animals. These inhibitions produced by the three extracts could be due to the presence of alkaloids, principally, cryptolepine. For instance, cryptolepine, the main indoloquinoline alkaloid present in C. sanguinolenta, has been shown to cause cell lysis and morphological changes in S. aureus (Sawer et al., 2005).