{"id":32848,"date":"2016-12-21T19:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/herbal-medicine-may-make-tuberculosis-easier-to-treat"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:56:48","slug":"herbal-medicine-may-make-tuberculosis-easier-to-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/herbal-medicine-may-make-tuberculosis-easier-to-treat","title":{"rendered":"Herbal medicine may make tuberculosis easier to treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/herbal-medicine-may-make-tuberculosis-easier-to-treat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herbs treating Tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A centuries-old herbal medicine, discovered by Chinese scientists and used to effectively treat malaria, may help treat tuberculosis and slow the evolution of drug resistance.<\/p>\n<p>A new study shows the ancient remedy artemisinin stopped the ability of TB-causing bacteria, known as <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em>, to become dormant. This stage of the disease often makes the use of antibiotics ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nchembio.2259\"><em>Nature Chemical Biology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/artemisinin-tuberculosis-1322102\/\">http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/artemisinin-tuberculosis-1322102\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbs treating Tuberculosis. A centuries-old herbal medicine, discovered by Chinese scientists and used to effectively treat malaria, may help treat tuberculosis and slow the evolution of drug resistance. A new study shows the ancient remedy artemisinin stopped the ability of TB-causing bacteria, known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, to become dormant. This stage of the disease often [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65538,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848\/revisions\/65538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}