Deans' stroke musings: Anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic activities of virgin coconut oil

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.

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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, March 15, 2014

Anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic activities of virgin coconut oil

A friend has been extolling the virtues of coconut oil. You'll have to see what your doctor doesn't know about it.
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13880200903062614

February 2010, Vol. 48, No. 2 , Pages 151-157 (doi:10.3109/13880200903062614)

S. Intahphuak¹, P. Khonsung², A. Panthong²

¹McCormick Faculty of Nursing, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

²Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Address for Correspondence: Sophaphan Intahphuak, McCormick Faculty of Nursing, Payap University, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand. Tel: 668-1341-7342. Fax: 66-5343-1993. E-mail: sophaphan_in@yahoo.com

This study investigated some pharmacological properties of virgin coconut oil (VCO), the natural pure oil from coconut [Cocos nucifera Linn (Palmae)] milk, which was prepared without using chemical or high-heat treatment. The anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects of VCO were assessed. In acute inflammatory models, VCO showed moderate anti-inflammatory effects on ethyl phenylpropiolate-induced ear edema in rats, and carrageenin- and arachidonic acid-induced paw edema. VCO exhibited an inhibitory effect on chronic inflammation by reducing the transudative weight, granuloma formation, and serum alkaline phosphatase activity. VCO also showed a moderate analgesic effect on the acetic acid-induced writhing response as well as an antipyretic effect in yeast-induced hyperthermia. The results obtained suggest anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic properties of VCO.