The Immune System

Studies show that the adaptogenic extracts render vital support to the immune system. For example, in one study of healthy volunteers, a general enhancement of the activation state of T-lymphocytes was observed after administering Eleutherococcus. T-lymphocyte cells are also called “killer cells” because they attack and destroy various viruses. Another study revealed that Eleutherococcus extract augments the phagocytic activity of the peripheral blood leukocytes and favors the reduction of pathological flora on the surface of the skin, indicating an increase in the body’s non-specific resistance. The effect of adaptogens, manifested by their ability to induce the formation of endogenic interferon (intracellular development of the basic anti-viral proteins), reveals essential aspects of their control over the immune and non-specific mechanisms, which protect the body from viruses. Adaptogens exert a strong immunomudulatory influence in healthy test subjects and can be considered non-specific immunostimulants.

Researchers                      Institutes
E. Lodemann                   University of Frankfort Main

A. Wacker                          Germany

J. Lutomski                        Institute Fur Helfenplanzen-forschung

P. Gorecki                          Poznan, Poland

J. Hajasa                           Pommorsche Medizinische Akademie, Sczecin, Poland

V. M. Elkin                           All-Union Research

N.G. Zakharova                  Institute of Influenza

V. M. Leonov                        Leningrad, Russia

J. N. Fang                         Shanghai Institute of Materia Medical Ch. Academy of                                               Sciences, Shanghai, China

B. Bohn                                Orpegen-Med.-Molekularbiol.

C. T. Nebe                          Federal Republic of Germany
C. Birr

I.N. Lyashenko                  Dept. of Skin & Venereology, Vinnitsa, Ukraine

V. I. Kupin                            USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
E.V.Polevaya                      Moscow,Russia                                                            

M. S. Kim                             College of Pharmacology, Seoul National University
N. G. Lee                              Seoul, South Korea