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Table of Contents

Cheese and Crackers

Blood from a Stone

A World Drenched in Blood

The Bride Wore White

Life After Ryan

Dream Team

Unmasked Avenger

S.O.S.

Mailbox

Special Delivery

Tattoo Hullabaloo

Dirty Sticks, Dirty Tricks

Best Little U.S. AIDS Hospital

Blow It Dry

Desert Flora Has Anti-HIV Aura

DOT's the Limit

Murder by Member

Milk and Money

Stoned in a Park

By Any Peer Necessary

Obituaries

Dubin's List

Blood Money

Taxi-cum-Pro

If the Birds Come

POZ Picks-December 1996/January 1997

Home of the Brave

POZ Biz-December 1996/January 1997

Tribute-December 1996/January 1997

Patrick Webb's Adventures With Punchinello

Cremation Sensation

Sexual Healing

A Holistic Holiday How-To

Wisdom Out of Africa

And Nary a Drop to Drink

Adding in the Health Factor

Hitting Herpes Hard

Q Tip

Managed Care Joins Death and Taxes

Play Your Cards Right

Raising Hormones

Deadly Cocktails

In the Den

The Dating Game



What You're Talking About

Mouth Full of Problems: A Crisis in HIV Dental Care (24)

Sex Crime (23)

HPV Vaccine for Boys: Public Comments Welcome (18)

Sir Elton John Denied Request to Adopt HIV-Positive Ukrainian Child (13)

HIV-Positive Sailor Sentenced for Consensual, Unprotected Sex (8)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Shingles

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)

What is AIDS & HIV?

Hepatitis & HIV


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January / December 1997


Desert Flora Has Anti-HIV Aura

by Walter Armstrong and Faye Penn

Chaparral also slapped with bad rap by FDA

A plant used by Native Americans to treat everything from STDs to the common cold may offer hope for AIDS. Dr. Fu Chih Huang, a biology professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is studying the AIDS-fighting potential of the creosote bush (chaparral), which grows wild in the deserts of the Southwest and Mexico. Huang discovered that a molecule found in a chemical compound in the plant halted replication of HIV as well as herpes. Her curiosity was piqued after she heard about creosote's folkloric reputation among Native Americans, who boil the leaves and branches to make a lineament for bruises and rheumatism, and a tonic for stomach trouble and diarrhea.

But most health-food stores stopped selling chaparral in 1992, after an FDA warning that the capsule form was linked to six cases of acute toxic hepatitis. Though chaparral is still sold by mail order, Huang cautions against self-prescribing it. But according to Kenneth DeBoer of Western Biotech Inc., his company's new leaf-resin concentrate called Larreastat, has improved chaparral's safety and efficacy.


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