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Article: EX-SKEPTIC TOUTS CAT'S CLAW TEA.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1998
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Byline: SYLVIA WOOD Staff writer
Manuel Sandoval only recently started drinking cat's claw tea.
In Peru, where he grew up, he didn't believe the folklore surrounding this herbal remedy used by Amazonian Indians to cure everything from stomach aches to arthritis.
He left for the United States in the late 1970s as a believer in Western medicine and a skeptic of herbal cures.
But his research on rats, most recently at Albany Medical College where he is an assistant professor of pediatrics, has convinced him that cat's claw deserves attention.
Sandoval believes it has potential to treat human illnesses, including inflammatory ...