Can a cup of tea keep COVID away? Study demonstrates that certain teas inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in saliva (One cup of black tea killed 99.9% of the virus in 10 seconds in the mouth)

Medical Xpress / University of Georgia / Food and Environmental Virology ^ | April 8, 2024 | Jennifer L Reynolds / Julianna N. Morris et al

[Roos_Girl]

Nope, I understood. I still wonder if the tea leaves might carry stuff that you wouldn’t want to introduce to your brain. But, I may make my tea different than you. I get my water hot and then put the tea in, but I don’t continue to heat after the tea is added.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Who drinks covid?

You respirate it.

Maybe that’s why i didn’t get it at walmart, i sucked on nothing.

[KittyKares]

I wondered the exact same thing! Especially since I read about a woman who died using a neti pot because germs from the water got into her brain— so boiling the water used for this should be done, right? Adding tea would be easy.
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I sometimes use the NeilMed netipot which comes with a sodium packet. I use distilled water, and put in the packet plus a few drops of povidine iodine. Not sure how much I would trust tea, especially if it contains pesticides.

[Chicory]

You both make an excellent point—tgat using tea in a neti pot may have *other* effects which I had not even thought of!

Luckily, I did not run to try this—who knows where I would be now? LOL!

[ConservativeMind]

Actually, here is one that counters the others, when one extra ingredient is a component:

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajplung.00300.2022

And here is another with just the propylene glycol:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.13.528349v1

[TexasGator]

“This is important because the virus infects and replicates inside the oral cavity, passing through the oropharynx before reaching the lungs.”

Then why do they swab the nose ...

[smileyface]

My SIL works for a cardiologist. He said recently do not take the vax/boosters. Her tune was different 3 years ago.

The cardiologist had to see it first hand.

[stars & stripes forever]

Have you challenged the validity of COVID shots?

I have several friends who attested to COVID shots but are no longer with us. COVID kills, but not the virus.