Posted on 05/02/2024 1:00:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
* An adult male named Rakus chewed a plant used by people in Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation, then applied it to an injury on his right cheek
* Photographs show the animal’s wound closed within a month without any problems
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Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan, is seen two months after he started treating himself with a medicinal plant at a protected rainforest area in Indonesia. Photo:Safruddin/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour via Reuters AsiaSoutheast Asia Wild orangutan seen using medicinal plant to treat wound, scientists say An adult male named Rakus chewed a plant used by people in Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation, then applied it to an injury on his right cheek Photographs show the animal’s wound closed within a month without any problems Associated Press Associated Press + FOLLOW Published: 2:28am, 3 May 2024 Why you can trust SCMP Listen to this article An orangutan has apparently learned to treat wounds with medicine from a tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported on Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek.
Afterward, he pressed the chewed plant to cover the open wound like a makeshift bandage, according to a new study in Scientific Reports.
Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn’t yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.
(Excerpt) Read more at scmp.com ...
“”Scrap the Caddy, Clyde....””
Great movies.
“”That aint an Orangutan, that is Rachel Levine’s mother, Hootie Levine, from Massachusetts.””
I thought it was a relative of Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee...wondered why they’d left the country????
We should be so lucky!
does it tell you the name of the plant
I hear he refused the jab...
Humans made their discoveries in medicine based on their observations of nature, especially animals. For example, the beneficial properties of the coca plant were discovered by humans who saw their exhausted donkeys/llamas on the trail chewing the leaves, which enabled them to keep going. The humans thought, “Hm....well, it’s certainly not poison, so....”
A lot of people who study healing (NOT medicine) note that every plant, like every person and every other living thing, has its own “spirit” or “aura” that animals are more easily able to see than we are - mostly because we civilized humans sort of train ourselves into ignoring these auras: The demands of our lives are so great that we feel we can’t handle all that extra information. (Another example: Have you ever found yourself in a situation with a person you just somehow feel is really negative and bad, but you can’t really say why? And then you end up finding out, after you have tolerated and even perhaps become involved with this person that he or she is in fact REALLY REALLY bad?) (Don’t use me as an example in this, because I feel I give people PLENTY OF WARNINGS about my badness.)
So we give up part of our autonomy, authority, and awareness of the world and go to someone else who (we hope) will care for us, that being a so-called medical doctor. Who probably did things to get through medical school that you - yes, even you - would blanch at.
The human race has gotten shoehorned into a rather nasty bottleneck trap. Many of us believe - with all our hearts - that we need this or that pharmaceutical product, not for better health, but so that we WON’T DIE.
“Stop taking your medication and you WILL DIE.”
But there’s this thing about the vaccines now. You think about your doctor who urged you to get vaccinated, and then look at that bottle of pills (that costs you about $100 a month). And you wonder.
Examine your beliefs.
Apparently the plant is: akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria):
“Days later, Rakus was observed eating the stems and leaves of the creeper akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria), which local people use to treat diabetes, dysentery and malaria, among other conditions. Orangutans in the area rarely eat this plant.”
More at the link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01289-w
He’s probably a lot smarter than Dr Fubar
thanks. i looked around to see where I might buy it. Not listed at Penn Herb.
this scientific article goes into more detail
https://www.phcogj.com/sites/default/files/PharmacognJ-13-1-206.pdf
The article doesn’t name the plant used
Was curious about that. Thanks for saving me a click :)
Found this ...
We observed a male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) who sustained a facial wound. Three days after the injury he selectively ripped off leaves of a liana with the common name Akar Kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria), chewed on them, and then repeatedly applied the resulting juice onto the facial wound. As a last step, he fully covered the wound with the chewed leaves. Found in tropical forests of Southeast Asia, this and related liana species are known for their analgesic, antipyretic, and diuretic effects and are used in traditional medicine to treat various diseases, such as dysentery, diabetes, and malaria.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7
i cant find any source to buy this item but did run across this that is not the same thing that is used for inflammation:
akarkara
That’s what I thought! The Orangs were the intellectuals, the gorillas were the warriors and the chimps were the citizens... I loved those movies.
But this was just a little more brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA
“Probably got into a fight with another male over a female’’.
Was it ever thus.
Selections from the rest of the Orangutan/s keywords, sorted:
Typical. *sigh*
If you ever find yourself in Sumatra, and forgot to pack Bactine, you'll have to ask around.
Dr Zaius
Nobody could wear a leather breech clout like Heston.
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