Deans' stroke musings: Neuroaid - It’s sold in 25 countries and 20,000 people have taken it, but herbal remedy proves no better than placebo in trial

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Neuroaid - It’s sold in 25 countries and 20,000 people have taken it, but herbal remedy proves no better than placebo in trial

I need to repeat myself here because we need scientifically proven results. So send your doctor back to the drawing board and demand some action on stroke rehab. When are people going to understand that once the stroke has resolved itself over the first week that there is no magical drug that will bring back function. Doesn't your doctor tell you those facts?
Neuroaid - It’s sold in 25 countries and 20,000 people have taken it, but herbal remedy proves no better than placebo in trial

A Chinese herbal remedy marketed to improve stroke recovery failed to exceed the benefits of a placebo in a large, three-month clinical trial.
"There's no evidence of efficacy," said Dr. James Brorson, medical director of the University of Chicago Stroke Center, who was not involved in the study.
Still, the researchers are not completely discouraged by the results.
"Yes, we had hoped for a larger effect, but the results of the trial suggest that this may be the case for certain groups of patients," said Dr. Christopher Chen, the report's lead author and a professor at the National University of Singapore.
Chen's research was supported in part by Moleac, the company that markets the herbal medicine, called NeuroAiD.
NeuroAiD is a blend of extracts from plants, leeches, beetles, scorpions and antelope horn.
Some earlier studies had hinted that the compound could help people recover from an ischemic stroke, the most common kind, caused by a blood vessel blockage in the brain.
According to David Picard, the CEO of Moleac, NeuroAiD is sold in at least 25 countries, and 20,000 people have taken it. (Who cares how many have taken it? Results, results, results)

The rest at the link.

Read more: http://medcitynews.com/2013/07/its-sold-in-25-countries-and-20000-people-have-taken-it-but-herbal-remedy-proves-no-better-than-placebo-in-trial/#ixzz2YHY4ON8K