Composition and methods for treating Alzheimer's disease and other amyloidoses
View Patent ↗A method of treating an amyloid disease in a patient or inhibiting the formation, deposition, accumulation, or persistence, of amyloid fibrils, amylin fibrils, or islet amyloid fibrils, and/or dissolving or disrupting pre-formed or pre-deposited amyloid fibrils in type II diabetes in a mammalian subject. In the method a therapeutically effective amount of plant matter form the genus Uncaria , species Tomentosa is administered, preferably from the inner bark or root tissue of Uncaria Tomentosa.
1. A method of treating an amyloid disease in a patient, comprising administering to the patient an amount of plant matter from Uncaria tomentosa.
2. The method claim 1 wherein the plant matter is administered orally.
3. The method claim 1 wherein the plant matter is administered by aerosol spray.
4. The method claim 1 wherein the plant matter is administered in a parenterally injectable or infusible form.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the amyloid disease is type II diabetes.
6. A method for reducing, disrupting, dissolving or inhibiting islet amyloid and amylin fibrils in a patient comprising administration of plant matter from Uncaria tomentosa.
7. The method claim 6 wherein the plant matter is administered orally.
8. The method claim 6 wherein the plant matter is administered by aerosol spray.
9. The method claim 6 wherein the plant matter is administered in a parenterally injectable or infusible form.