continues: Refusing to divulge the details of the ingredients for fear that outsiders will try to patent it, he said he had written to the Sarawak Health Department to conduct research on the herb and proposed that the Bau Hospital be the research centre.

Interesting. I think he's going about it backwards, though – in India, they're working to document traditional yoga and ayurvedic treatments in order to prevent them from being wrongly patented. If you hide the information, there's no way to show that the method (or substance, or whatever) was in use before the questionable patent application was filed. If you publicize it, you can show how ludicrous and wrong it is to grant a patent for something that's been in use for 2500 years.

Are there any living guinea pigs, or treating a taipan snake bite with snake oil and blind belief, because one survived the only proof.Interesting post I grew Brahmi for a while(2-3yrs) but critters ate it mainly despite spraying with Pyrethrum.I,m no smarter but not a sceptic entirely.
Australian aboriginals had bush medicines also that require more study,,I also dont think anybody should be granted a patent to theirs. Interesting post thanks.