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Improvements in appetite, weight-gain, sleep, exercise tolerance, anxiety and overall sense of well-being can be expected. Researchers anticipate that there will be a delayed progression of HIV into Aids, and actual remission of the disease is hoped for. This will require compliance of appropriate does of the correct selection of Sutherlandia take on an ongoing basis, in addition to meticulous attention to diet. Alcohol, recreational drugs and other drugs that damage the immune system should be avoided.
Most wasted patients show an increase in weight within six weeks of starting treatment. Weight gains of 10-15 kg have been documented in wasted cancer and AIDS patients. Interestingly weight-gain is typically not seen in people without underlying wasting conditions.
Improvements in CD4 counts and decreases in the viral load in AIDS patients taking Sutherlandia have been reported by clinicians in South Africa and Australia. These promising clinical anecdotes need to be validated by an independent controlled clinical trial, and a cooperation in this regard is under discussion with the Medical Research Council of South Africa. Read the articles on PubMed and type "Sutherlandia" at Search for
or at W.H.O. traditional medicines, the chapter "tried and tested methods and products".
In November 2005, the universities of Missouri(USA) and Western Cape (RSA) decided to investigate together some of the indigenous traditional medicines from South Africa and test them on safety, and healing powers. Sutherlandia will be one of the first pilot projects. Read the articles in Sunday Times SundayTimes 13-11-2005 and from The International Center for Indigenous Phytotherapy Studies ( site: click on Research and click on the word TICIPS ) TICIPS
Results of a field-research by Mrs. Anne Hutchings, ethnobotanist at Kwzulu-Natal University:
23 May 2001
Patient not on anti-retroviral drugs. Starting CD4 was 340. After two months of Sutherlandia a dose of 300mg twice a day : CD4 : 533.
18 June 2001
Patient not on anti-retroviral drugs. Patient’s viral load decreased from 25 000 to 5 000 on two months Phyto Nova Sutherlandia at a dose of 600mg 12 hourly.
18 June 2001
In March 2001 the patient had been off anti-retroviral drugs for 2 months, and his viral load was 57,000 and CD4 was 480. In May Sutherlandia was added to other naturopathic remedies. In June, after almost 6 weeks on 300mg Phyto Nova Sutherlandia twice a day, his viral load had fallen to 9,200 and his CD4's had risen to 647.
4 July 2001
Patient not on anti-retroviral drugs. Viral load at start 28 000, after 2 months of Phyto Nova Sutherlandia at a dose of 600mg twice a day, the viral load was 13 000.
4July 2001
Patient not on anti-retroviral drugs . CD4 increased from 258 on 14 March to 311 on 20 June, after using Sutherlandia 300mg twice a day. This is the highest CD4 count patient has since 1999.
8 August 2001
Patient not on anti-retroviral drugs. Starting CD4 407, after six weeks Sutherlandia : CD4 was 478. Starting viral load 246 600, after six weeks Sutherlandia : viral load was 88 153
13 September 2001
Patient not on anti-retroviral drugs. CD4 of 90 in in October 2000 when patient began Sutherlandia. In January 2001 the CD4 was 213. The patient used Sutherlandia from November 2000 to end of May 2001, and then re-started Sutherlandia in August 2001. In August 2001 the CD4 was 240, and viral load was 7700. |
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