Who does not shudder to hear the word AIDS - of the immune system due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus that triggered the emergence of various diseases? According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), about 2-million people worldwide died from AIDS during 2008. That number may go down if people living with AIDS to know propolis.
Propolis is not yet clinically proven able to cope with
HIV. However, based on research in vitro - in the lab - conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, propolis has the potential to boost immunity of people living with HIV / AIDS. The research team suspected antiviral substances contained in propolis inhibit viral entry into CD4 + lymphocytes.
Propolis dose of 66.6? G / ml in cell culture of CD4 + - T cells in the immune system that have CD4 receptors capable of inhibiting expression of a maximum of 85% of the HIV virus. Prevalent in people with HIV / AIDS, the deadly virus infects CD4 cells and destroying bereseptor. Hence, her CD4 cell count in patients with HIV / AIDS fall far below normal. In healthy people, numbering around 500 - 1.500/mm3 blood.
