Interview with Inventor

Interview with Prof. Alexey Tyrkov Concerning Mud Extract from Lake Lechebnoe* to Enforce Antiinflammatory & Wound-Healing Effect

* “Lechebnoe” is Russian for “medicinal” – the translator’s note.

– Please tell us about the object of your research.

– Lake Lechebnoe, which is located in Astrakhan Region on the way to Elista (the capital of Kalmykia, the western neighbor of Astrakhan Region, – the translator’s note), contains unique muds that can have a medicinal effect. Jointly with specialists from Astrakhan State Medical University and from the Tinaki Rehabilitation Center, we have developed a technology to obtain a mud extract from this lake. Our R & D team ran experiments on rats to study biological activity of that extract.

– What are the medicinal properties of your product?

– The mud extract from Lake Lechebnoe has an antiinflammatory and analgetic effect; it reduces the abscess syndrome and speeds up the wound healing process. In comparison with similar products, activity of its components is higher, and its effect lasts longer. The Tinaki Rehabilitation Center applies that mud together with sludge sediments and mineral salts for therapeutic procedures. Our technology to obtain that extract involves no toxic stuff or organic solvents. Its active period is increased in comparison with the mud extract from Lake Tambukan in Stavropol Region, which is our main competitor.

– Who took part in your project?

– The Green Chemistry Research & Educational Center hosted it. I am its supervisor. My coauthors are two professors from Astrakhan State Medical University (Oleg Degtyaryov and Marina Samotrueva) and two researchers from the Tinaki Rehabilitation Center (Sergey Timoshin and Irina Bryntseva).

– What are the prospects of your research?

– Our project is quite viable: we could obtain an oil extract as well; it’s softer that a water one. Its base is corn oil or sunflower seed oil. From the economic viewpoint, its production is feasible, as the source lake is not far from us, so no long-lasting transportation or expensive equipment is necessary.

Now our colleagues are going to select volunteers suffering from this or that disease to try our product on humans and get data on its probable side effects.

Interviewed by T.Yu. Gavrilkina (the Web Resources Information Support Directorate of ASU)

July 05, 2016

Translated by E.I. Glinchevskiy (the Center of Translation Studies & Conference Interpreting “ASTLINK” of ASU)