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What Is Oleandrin? Trump Reportedly Wants FDA to Approve Plant Extract for Coronavirus

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Oleandrin is a botanical extract from the oleander plant—an evergreen shrub or small tree that is highly toxic to humans and many animals if any part is ingested. Oleandrin is one of several toxic compounds that the plant contains.

Some "in vitro" research—a term used to refer to studies done in test tubes rather than animals or humans—has suggested that the substance could potentially be useful as a treatment for various cancers, including those of the colon, pancreas and prostate.

Furthermore, one in vitro study published in the journal Fitoterapia found that the compound inhibits the ability of HIV to establish an infection, although it should be noted that the results of test tube studies do not always translate into animal or human models.

Professor Sharon Lewin, an internationally renowned expert on antiviral drugs from the University of Melbourne in Australia, told Axios: "Oleandrin looks to have antiviral activity at high doses in a test-tube model. You'd certainly want to see more work done on this before even contemplating a human trial" for its effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19.

While one paper published in July by researchers from the University of Texas at Galveston indicated that oleandrin inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in monkey kidney cells, its conclusions should be viewed with caution. The paper, which lists Robert Newman—chairman of Phoenix Biotechnology's scientific advisory board—as an author has not been peer-reviewed. This means it is yet to undergo evaluation by experts in the field in order to be published in a scientific journal.

In May 2020 the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) conducted some preliminary testing of oleandrin against SARS-CoV-2. The results were "inconclusive," a spokesperson, Caree Vander Linden, told Axios.

"Additionally, USAMRIID was contacted by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, indicating that they were also testing it," Vander Linden said. "Given our inconclusive results, and having other high priority therapeutics to assess, we did not continue with this line of research."

Aside from the aforementioned research, there appear to be no other published papers testing oleandrin's efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 in animals or humans. However, Whitney told Axios on Saturday that an unpublished lab study testing oleandrin on humans as a COVID-19 treatment is in the process of being peer-reviewed.

Whitney says that oleandrin can "cure" COVID-19, causing symptoms to disappear "in the vast majority of cases," Axios reported, although there is currently insufficient publicly available evidence to back up these claims.

"We have something that we believe will address the problem and we want to make it available," Whitney told Axios. "We believe we should be given the opportunity to demonstrate that in a hospital clinical trial setting and we believe that must happen now and not a month from now."

The company is exploring oleandrin as a potential COVID-19 treatment—something which would require the drug to undergo rigorous human clinical trials. However, Phoenix Biotechnology is also pushing the FDA to allow oleandrin to be sold as a dietary supplement. This could happen quickly, according to Whitney, although the company would not be allowed to make claims about its effectiveness in treating or curing COVID-19.

[Pollard]

Oleander is a plant. Its use as a poison is well known. Some of the deaths from oleander are accidental but others are due to suicide. In parts of Asia it is commonly used as a suicide agent.

Despite the danger, oleander seeds and leaves are used to make medicine. Oleander is used for heart conditions, asthma, epilepsy, cancer, painful menstrual periods, leprosy, malaria, ringworm, indigestion, and venereal disease. Oleander is also used to cause abortions.

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-789/oleander

I think I like hydroxy better than a suicide and abortion agent

[silverleaf]

Oleander plant will kill you
The extract used must be very refined small and comtrolled

The media is highly irresponsible to put this out with Trump’s name just because he met with a scientist. And because they hate the Christian Mike Lindell. I think they want to kill people, like the fish tank cleaner

[blackdog]

How strange Dr.Ben Carson, a renowned surgeon, is now just some schlub?

[ClearCase_guy]

The bottomline is that the President is searching for solutions to a problem.

This outrages the Media. A Democrat would never do such a thing.

[kiryandil]

Lauren doesn’t give a rip how many people die - just as long as it hurts Orange Man Bad...

[George from New England]

Personally I would feel better and be more inclined to go out into the world and take risks IF ...

I knew I could get treated with this Hydroxychloroquine

As long as factions in the CDC and FDA are blocking my getting treatment, it leaves me hiding in quarantine until ...

[familyop]

Oh, boy. That irresponsible publicity is one way to kill off a lot of snowbirds.

[small farm girl]

and Digitalis, Monkshood, Pennyroyal, Salix...many haplessly growing in the backyard.

[Ancesthntr]

Don’t worry much about HCQ not being available.
The reason why HCQ works is because it is a zinc ionophore - it lets zinc into the cells, and the zinc stops the virus (and malaria, and lots of other viruses) from replicating. That’s why it is important to take it as soon as symptoms appear - you stop it dead in its tracks before it can do its true damage, which is setting off a cytokine storm in your body (where your immune system kicks into such overdrive to kill the virus that it kills YOU).

There are other zinc ionophores - with quercetin being one of the best known, highest quality (for a natural substance) and best studied. It is about 1/3 as effective as a zinc ionophore as HCQ is, meaning that you probably need to take your zinc with about 1200 mg of quercetin to equal having the 400 mg dose of HCQ that is usually taken on days 2-5 of the treatment (Day 1 has double that). But this is only if you have China virus symptoms. Note that it is safe in doses as high as 10,000 mg/day. It is found naturally in onions, apples and capers, but not in huge quantities - you need to use supplements.

I take a mixture every other day from Life Extension Foundation that has 1000 mg of C with 15 mg of highly bioavailable quercetin (equivalent to 250 mg of what you usually buy in the stores), plus 50 mg of zinc. I wear a mask when in stores and wash my hands, and thus I’m not worried much about exposure - so this preventative dose is IMHO sufficient for me, since if I was infected, this mixture would go after it from the first moment, not starting a few days later when symptoms presented.

[tbpiper]

So now the HUD secretary thinks he’s a doctor........

[minnesota_bound]

The democrats deliberately killed 10’s of thousands of people for power. Imagine what they will do if they get the senate, House and presidency.

Democrat Minnesota Governor Quietly Reverses Hydroxychloroquine Ban
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/08/17/democrat-minnesota-governor-quietly-reverses-hydroxychlorquine-ban/

[minnesota_bound]

This again shows the democrat party will KILL YOU for more power! Denying medicine to cure you. Imagine obamacare!
You a republican? No medicine for you!