ISRAELI INGENUITY

Israeli study finds citrus oils may hold key for treatment of asthma
For the more than 20 million Americans suffering from asthma (including 6.1 million children), a cure may be looking no farther than the lemons in your refrigerator. According to a study at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, a key to preventing asthma might be found in a lemon, a rose or a pine tree. In the study, inhalation of limonene, the main component found in the essential oil of citrus, prevented asthma symptoms in animals. The findings were published in the journal Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. Inspired by previous findings that show the incidence of asthma to be five times higher in urban areas than in rural and agricultural ones, lead researcher Professor Ehud Keinan studied the connection between ozone and asthma and other lung disorders. He believes this higher incidence of asthma is due in large part to the absence of natural "ozone scavengers" produced by plants.

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