{"id":38620,"date":"2021-11-04T11:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/04\/plant-in-traditional-samoa-medicine-could-be-as-effective-as-ibuprofen-study-shows"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:18:01","slug":"plant-in-traditional-samoa-medicine-could-be-as-effective-as-ibuprofen-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38620","title":{"rendered":"Plant in traditional Samoa medicine could be as effective as ibuprofen, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say leaves of the matalafi plant could also potentially be used to treat cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases <\/p>\n<p>Leaves from a plant which can be found \u201cin back yards across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/samoa\">Samoa<\/a>\u201d could be as effective as ibuprofen in lowering inflammation and could even be used to treat illnesses such as Parkinson\u2019s and cancer, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, the leaves of the psychotria insularum plant, known locally in Samoa as matalafi, have been used in traditional medicine to treat inflammation associated with fever, body aches, swellings, elephantiasis, and respiratory infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/04\/plant-in-traditional-samoa-medicine-could-be-as-effective-as-ibuprofen-study-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say leaves of the matalafi plant could also potentially be used to treat cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases Leaves from a plant which can be found \u201cin back yards across Samoa\u201d could be as effective as ibuprofen in lowering inflamm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,936,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-samoa","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions\/38621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}