Studies Prove Medical Uses of Polyrachis Ants

By Brandon Gilbert


For millenia, Polyrhachis ants were utilised by Chinese herbal experts in healing treatment for rheumatoid arthritis as well as in curing hepatitis. It belongs to the Formicidae family and it can be taken as a tea, extract, tinged with wine or maybe eaten in total food. Some researches all over the globe figure out that the ant has pain-reliving and anti-inflammatory substances that are responsible for 1 or 2 health benefits.
In Chinese Medicine, Polyrhachis ants are also called Xuan Ju or black young horse, the weaver ant, the black mountain and as Polyrhachis vicina Roger, its scientific name. It has 3000 years of history in the normal Chinese Medication. Its first documented mention was by Zhou-Li, from a traditional text that says the Polyrhachis ants are excellent food taken by the Kings. In the 16th century, Compendium of Materia Medica or Ben Cao Gang Mu released a published outline of this medicinal ant that has pharmacological properties. By 2011, Polyrhachis Vicina Roger is the only ant specie the National Food Hygiene, Drug Control Dep. in China endorses to be used as medication and food.

The ants have a healing effect which makes it consistently in use in Chinese hospitals in the treating of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It is also advantageous to people that are subjected to persistent hepatitis. Therefore, taking the medicinal ants in total food or in extract form helps increase longevity and improves the immune response of a person.

In pre-clinical researches, it was gathered in studies conducted in labs that use animals as subject, the ethanolic extracts from Polyrhachis ants has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. In 2001, Dr. Yi Zhao, a researcher who came from Institute of Traditional Chinese Medication of Guanxi School re-investigated the declarations of a few researches regarding the capability of Polyrhachis extract in the treatment of osseous rheumatism. The study was conducted with 16,015 patients who are all suffering fro
In pre-clinical researches, it was gathered in studies conducted in labs that use animals as subject, the ethanolic extracts from Polyrhachis ants has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. In 2001, Dr. Yi Zhao, a researcher who came from Institute of Traditional Chinese Medication of Guanxi School re-investigated the declarations of a few researches regarding the capability of Polyrhachis extract in the treatment of osseous rheumatism. The study was conducted with 16,015 patients who are all suffering from osseous rheumatism. It resulted to 10.5 p.c of the patients clinically cured, while 89.9 showed serious improvement from arthritic symptoms. The effects started after 14 days of regular administration of Polyrhachis ants. The most prominent improvement happened in the 8th to 12th weeks of the study.

While it is currently cultivated by some manufacturers, the ants that came from the high altitude of Tibet and China are the most powerful. Thus, it's not suggested to grow the ants domestically unless the correct specie and environment will be used.




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