American scientists have synthesized a compound from plants for the treatment of mental illness in lab. The therapy was traditionally used by Nigerians for centuries and it’s with great significance in curing psychiatric disorders. They employ the natural compound by boiling the plants and extracting the juice. Scientists have figured out the effective substance for mental disorders in the plant and made it in lab. Nigerians’ practice of the special plant have proved that a certain composition of the plant was meaningful in healing psychiatric illness. Scientists did a lot of work to identify the natural compound that plays a role in the process of mental illness healing, and learned to make it in a synthesis method.
Later scientists successfully found out the compound, and shortly after the finding, they developed the way of creating synthesis compound counterpart of the natural compound. Scientists also noticed that the chemical compounds which can be used as the raw material to synthesize the natural compound are existed in various plants, which makes the natural compound more promising for the application in novel drugs to treat the mental disorders. Alstonine and serpentine, the two indole alkaloids were synthesized to make the natural compound. The traditional way that the Nigerian use the special plant to cure the psychiatric diseases is to drink the juice coming from the boiling plant. The juice is not a pure liquor. It contains many other substance which may be not useful to the treatment. Thus, by creating the natural compound in lab can avoid such problems caused by the impurity and will improve the effect of the compound.
In addition, the synthesis helps to make novel drugs against mental illness possible and make the traditional therapy with the potential to be produced in a large scale making more people benefiting from it. Nature may not mean to grant people with the treatment of various diseases, but people can always find hints from it and get solutions. That’s the wisdom of science, a kind of code to know the origin of matters and solve problems.
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