I seem to recall reading that Auburn University, Alabama was granted a research
grant to identify and extract some chemical found in Kudzu as a treatment for
alcoholism.
Charles Packard
>*- DORIS FANG -* wrote:
>
> I read a few years ago that Harvard was testing herbal medicines
> from the Chinese apothecary. One of the first was tea made from Kudzu,
> for which the Chinese had the most extraordinary medical claim: It
> has been used there to treat addiction to alcoholism for centuries.
> It was tested on lab rats at Harvard, and it worked. Strangely, I never
> heard a thing about further work on this.
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