Scientists look for clues to the drug from chimp self-treatment

scientists have long found that African chimps can self-medicatediseaseby changing their
diet sourcingScientists in France and Uganda have been studying theof this self-medicating behavior in chimpanzees for months,hope to find clues that could be useful for drug developmentProfessor Sabrina Cliff from the National Museum of Natural History in France and scientists at the University of Makerere in Ugandafrom the beginning of,follow-up studies
of chimpanzees living in Uganda's Kibale Forest region,and collect their faeces for analysis, hoping to find potential pharmaceutical substances and sources of these substances from the chimps'diet
, AFP reported
Scientists have found that chimps are very intelligent and know what to eat when they get sick For example, a chimpanzee with intestinal parasitic disease, it eats the leaves and large slivers of an Anilai herb, a known treatment for parasites The other chimp, who had only fever symptoms, ate the leaves of a three-lip plant all day long, which scientists later discovered had the effect of treating malaria "What surprised me was that chimps had neither medical experts nor laboratories, but they eventually cured themselves," said Dennis Kamoga of Macrerere "
scientists have collected 100 different plant specimens this year in the Kibale Forest region "The study of these chimps has helped us to find some useful plant ingredients that can fight such as malaria , parasites, or tumor , this will help us develop new drug ," Cliff said "