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May 14, 2008, 4:51 pm
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Substances found in a type of Chinese ant may provide anti-inflammatory and painkilling benefits against several diseases.

Extracts from a Chinese medicinal ant, Polyrhacis lamellidens, showed two polyketides, potent natural products that other studies have deemed as promising treatments for arthritis, bacterial infections and many other diseases. Polyketides are also found in plants, fungi and bacteria.

Now there's a scientific reason to support Chinese folk medicine's practice of using ants as a health food or drink ingredient to treat conditions such as joint pain!

http://www.healthcentral.com/osteoarthritis/news-250467-31.html

This reminds me of that movie with Sean Connery... was it Medicine Man? Found a cure for cancer in the spiders that were in his sugar bowl or something like that.

Anyway... I don't think I want to eat ants. Ew.

Well, eating ants would be pretty gross, but if you have some disease you need to get rid of, of course it would be worth it!

Gosh, how do scientists find this out? It's amazing now a days!

It just goes to show that scientist may be eating things and doing things we don't know about. I don't think I will be eating ants knowingly (at least).