calendar>>October 15. 2010 Juch 99
Potato Glucoalkaloid Manufactured
Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- The O-Il Pharmaceutical Factory has recently succeeded in extracting glucoalkaloid from potato waste, the purity of which is over 95 percent.

The substance helps enhance the function of bone marrow in human body, increase such immunocyte as lymph cell susceptible to radiation, prevent blood cell from poisoning and neutralize all sorts of toxication.

It also raises the DNA and RNA contents reduced in blood and marrow cells, protects normal cells and constrains abnormal cells.

Kim In Ae, a 46-year-old woman who is one of the developers, told KCNA that they could get a better knowledge of available ingredients of potato through the manufacture of glucoalkaloid.

The factory has used glucoalkaloid in manufacturing various kinds of health foodstuffs and medicines strong in cardiac, anti-cancer and sterilizing action and efficacious for recovering from radiation harms and preventing and treating such diseases as diabetes, gastritis and skin diseases.

The medicines have proved good for hyperlipemia and leucopenia patients.

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