A study on 32 patients who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (20 male and 10 female), from 20 to 70 years old suffered the disease from 2 to 5 years in the hospital No 354 since 2000 to 2001. Result: Treatment by medicinal herb: this disease occurs at all ages but more often in over 40 years old. The short time the patient has diseases, the better treatment results patient gets and vice versa. After 15 days of treatment continuously: no swell, pain articulation, no pain in movement, no joint stiff in the morning, no tiredness and good appetite: 93%. Archive good result for both male and female. There is only 7% who are over 40 years old and suffered the disease over 37 months has reocurred.
Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Therapeutics ; Medicine, Traditional

In this study, twenty-five yeast strains were isolated from soil samples collected in the gold mining ore in Gia Lai, Vietnam. Among them, one isolate named GL1 T could highly tolerate Cu 2+ up to 10 mM, and the isolates could also grow in a wide range of pH (3–7), and tem perature (10–40 ℃). Dried biomass of GL1 was able to remove Cu 2+ effectively up to 90.49% with a maximal biosorption capacity of 18.1 mg/g at pH 6, temperature 30 ℃, and incuba tion time 60 min. Sequence analysis of rDNA indicated this strain was closely related to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa but with 1.53 and 3.46% nucleotide differences in the D1/D2 domain of the 28S rRNA gene and the ITS1-5.8S rRNA gene-ITS2 region sequence, respect ively. Based on phylogenetic tree analysis and the biochemical characteristics, the strain appears to be a novel Rhodotorula species, and the name Rhodotorula aurum sp. nov. is pro posed. This study provides us with more information about heavy metal-tolerant yeasts and it may produce a new tool for environmental control and metal recovery operations.