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HELP FOR ALZHEIMER’S SUFFERERS from THE WELSH NATIONAL FLOWER

“I see no reason why some good, cheap science cannot persuade Wales that in the daffodil it literally has a national treasure and not just an icon.”
Prof.J.T. Walker of Alzeim Ltd., Talgarth.

Cambria went to Talgarth in Powys to visit Professor Trevor Walker of the biotech company Alzeim Ltd who are encouraging traditional hill farmers to diversify by growing fields of daffodils. We learned that new (phyto)pharmaceutical drugs, with huge potential, can be extracted from our National flower and that these have exciting potential to help treat some of the most serious illnesses of our age, such as Alzheimer’s and Cancer.

The full interview can be downloaded from here as a pdf or you can read it as published in the current issue of of Cambria magazine.