Saliva detoxifies and relieves pain

The Pasteur Institute (France) has discovered a natural analgesic in human saliva, which has many times used morphine when trying on animals, that is opiorphin. In addition, saliva also has many other effects such as detoxification, anti-aging.

Saliva in Eastern medicine is called a new fluid, containing mineral salts, chloride, bicarbonate, alkaline phosphate and amylase, maltase, phosphatase, lysozyme, globulin .

In addition to helping the conversation be drained and aid digestion, saliva also has antiseptic effects due to slightly alkaline pH and some enzymes (lysozyme). It cleans the oral cavity, prevents bacteria from destroying tooth enamel or causing infection, neutralizing acids that cause oral damage. Saliva heals the wound due to the substance that makes the blood stop flowing.

Some other effects:

(Photo: SK & ĐS) Detoxification : Saliva has the ability to turn some toxins into harmless, thus preventing cancer. Some scientists have done experiments: Get burnt grilled fish meat (considered a dish that can lead to cancer) mixed with saliva, kept in culture medium with a temperature of 37 degrees C. Through 24 hours, The number of carcinogenic agents is markedly reduced.

Anti-aging : Saliva contains hormones that work to clean free radicals (the cause of senility), promote growth and schizophrenic cells, slow down the aging process of muscle functions. human being.

Help diagnose diseases : Biochemists discovered, the change in saliva composition is associated with some diseases. If you have worms, your saliva pH will drop. If mental illness, the rate of Na +, K + in saliva will change abnormally. People with hypertension have reduced Na + and K + levels.

Animal saliva is being studied as medicine

Merck pharmaceutical company (USA) is collaborating with some scientists to study saliva of some species of spider: Taratuli spider has the effect of reducing pain and treating arrhythmias; Black spider in Chile is more effective than Viagra in treating impotence in men; some South American spiders reduce the consequences of brain hemorrhage.

Drug company Eli-Lilly is about to market a drug that is a synthetic version of the hormone in Arizon lizard saliva, which has a hypoglycemic effect, reduces appetite, prevents obesity. Scientists belong

New York-based biotech company Axonyx also announced that it has successfully tested the preparation of Gila venom saliva, which improves memory in Alzheimer's.