Chinese Tea Heals Yellow Baby

Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, United States, were continued to investigate the content of Chinese herbal medicine is considered potentially to cure jaundice, a common disease that befall a newborn.

This activity is performed because of laboratory tests, researchers found a content of Chinese herbal tea called Yin Zhi Huang, can be used to treat jaundice in newborns.

In a report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research leader Dr. David D. Moore explained that the yellowish color that marked the disease is caused by molecules called bilirubin in the skin.

Bilirubin is produced by red blood cells which should be cleaned by the liver. However, because a newborn's heart, especially the premature, not yet sufficiently developed to clean all circulating bilirubin, the disease becomes more common yellow.

Jaundice is usually go away. Only, in some cases, interference is not handled properly can have serious consequences (kernicterus), which can cause brain damage. Blue-ray or in some cases blood transfusions are forms of effective therapy.

In his report Dr. Moore mentioned that the natural ingredients in tea that examined showed the ability to help cleanse the liver of bilirubin in the blood. These findings obtained after researchers identified a cell receptor called CAR, which became the core of bilirubin metabolism.

"The problem, CAR force is very low in newborns," writes Moore. "From the research emerged a belief that makes the active receptor would be a useful therapy for yellow baby."

By Dr, Moore, efforts to activate the receptor proved he can do with tea Yin Zhi Huang. The problem, he uses tea has four ingredients in it. So the next step he did was to recognize one of the most important ingredients for healing. "We're testing to find out," said Dr. Moore.