Because of a study in Drugs of Today, there has been some interest by cholesterol-researchers in gugul. In that study, 79 percent of 245 patients who had high cholesterol were in for a real gugul treat: 27 percent drop in cholesterol and 22 percent drop in triglyceride. And for you skeptics out there, this test was done on humans during a six-week period; these results are not a "mice-to-men" extrapolation. As you may have heard about other Ayurvedic herbs used in alternative medicine, gugul also has a varying array of potential effects.