Citizenship Thailand Name Pichaet Wiriyachitra | ||
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Institutions Mangosteen Research and Development Center (Thailand) | ||
Pichaet Wiriyachitra Ph.D.,F.R.A.C.I. (ศ.ดร.พิ เชษฐ์ วิริยะจิตรา) was a professor of chemistry at Prince of Songkla University. He has specialized in the development of pharmaceuticals from natural products, particularly xanothones from Mangosteen. He is also Chairman and CEO of Asian Phytoceuticals Public Co., Ltd.,
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Biography
Wiriyachitra was born 27 July 1944 in Bangkok. He attended Triam Udom Suksa School, and received a B.Sc, Hons., from the University of Western Australia, and a Ph.D, Organic Chemistry from the University of Tasmania. He followed this with a Post-doctoral Fellowships at the University of Connecticut and University of Pennsylvania. He then held in turn the posts of Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Chemistry at Prince of Songkla University,
Currently he. is also Chairman and CEO of Asian Phytoceuticals Public Co., Ltd., and President of both the Asian Life Co., Ltd. Green Gold Co., Ltd.
Mangosteen research
He leads a scientific team at the Mangosteen Research and Development Center (Thailand) called Operation BIM . They have been doing research for over 31 years. The team consists of the following scientists :
Their research has proven that the beneficial effects of the plant are due to the substance known as GM-1, (after Garcinia mangostana, the scientific name for mangosteen) not the antioxidant molecules in the fruit. The GM-1 molecule lowers the elevated level of interleukin 1 and significantly raises the amount of interleukin 2 cytokines; this balances the body immune system thus making it stronger against pain, fever, inflammation, diarrhea, bacterial and viral infection, atherosclerosis, aging, arthritis, mouth ulcer, intestinal ulcer, stomach ulcer and cancer—as tested in laboratory and on test subjects successfully.
A formula has been prepared using extracts of five Thai fruits and grains that reduces the effects of the cytokine storm that is the main cause of death by respiratory viruses or airborne viruses. The researchers believe that this formula can help prevent the fatality from all types of respiratory viruses, like H1N1 and the possible mutated strains in the future.