The physicist and chemist Georg Wikman at the Institute of Herbal Medicine in Gothenburg has been researching the two adaptogens, Andrographis and Russian root, for over 30 years. The research has resulted in great international attention and a prestigious award. In 2021, Georg Wikman was awarded the "Life Time Award" for his research on adaptogens. A prize awarded by the American Botanical Council, the leading institution in plant medicine in the United States.
Georg Wikman reports:
- In the late 1970s, I had made contact with a famous Russian professor, Israel Brekhman. We became friends and he invited me to meet other leading scientists in plant medicine. It was there that I discovered Eleutherococcus. One of the most studied and widely used botanical medicines in the Soviet Union - but virtually unknown outside the country.
- Since Eleutherococcus was a root and came from Russia, I gave it the name Russian root, a name now used internationally.
- My next trip was to China, where I visited universities and hospitals. It was during one such visit that I was introduced to Andrographis. A medicinal herb that, like Russian root, was unknown outside of China and India. And just like Russian root, it was used to support the body in all kinds of infections - both in children and adults.
- After all the meetings with doctors and scientists, I was absolutely convinced.
Although these two medicinal plants came from different parts of the world and had never been used together, Georg Wikman and his colleagues realized that Andrographis and Russian root had much in common. So they started experimenting with different combinations.
- We quickly realized that we were onto something really big. In the laboratory, we found that the effect increased by almost 50% when the herbs were combined. But the really impressive results came when we started clinical studies in humans. The result of all our research is agaDA," concludes Georg Wikman.
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