Green Tea for Genital and Perianal Warts
The leaves of green tea are a source of medicinal compounds useful to general health and the treatment of specific ailments.
I know this wasn’t the direction you may have been expecting from me for a post on green tea, but hear me out! This is an incredible example of translational science and the development of a topical FDA-approved pharmaceutical agent for folks suffering from external genital and perinanal warts. In fact, VEREGEN® (sinecatechins) Ointment, a cocktail of sinecatechins (potent plant compounds found in green tea leaves) was the first ever drug to pass the approval of the FDA’s special “Botanical Drug” regulatory pathway (approved in 2006).
What is a Botanical Drug?
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