abstract |
A method of treating an amyloid disease in a patient or inhibiting the formation, deposition, accumulation, or persistence, of amyloid fibrils, amylin fibrils, or islet amyloid fibrils, and/or dissolving or disrupting pre-formed or pre-deposited amyloid fibrils in type II diabetes in a mammalian subject. In the method a therapeutically effective amount of plant matter form the genus Uncaria, species Tomentosa is administered, preferably from the inner bark or root tissue of Uncaria Tomentosa. |