Posted on 04/10/2024 9:41:14 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Research suggests that a cup of tea can help in the fight against COVID-19.
Findings demonstrate how certain teas inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in saliva—in some cases by up to 99.9%. This is important because the virus infects and replicates inside the oral cavity, passing through the oropharynx before reaching the lungs.
"Inactivating SARS-CoV-2 in the mouth and the throat matters because that potentially reduces the introduction of the virus to the lower respiratory system," Esseili said.
Esseili and Julianna Morris studied 24 different types of commercially available teas, some of which claim to aid in respiratory health. Of those, they found five that significantly reduced the virus in saliva: raspberry zinger, eucalyptus mint, mint medley, green tea and black tea, with black tea showing the greatest reduction. All testing was done in the laboratory in simulated conditions.
The team tested the efficacy of tea both as a drink and as a gargle to provide an option for those do not want to drink tea but want a highly concentrated rinse that would provide the same benefits.
Researchers prepared a drinkable infusion concentration using one tea bag per cup steeped for 10 minutes, with no additions such as milk or sugar. All five teas reduced the virus by at least 96% within 10 seconds in the mouth. Black tea was the most effective, reducing the virus by 99.9%. When tested as a gargle, they brewed the tea at four times the concentration of the drinkable infusion, finding that all five varieties of tea reduced the virus by 99.9% within 10 seconds when gargled.
"At this stage, we are not suggesting tea as a stand-alone intervention against SARS-CoV-2, because the virus also replicates in the nose and may have already reached the lung by the time a person tests positive," Esseili said.
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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.
Who drinks covid?
You respirate it.
Maybe that’s why i didn’t get it at walmart, i sucked on nothing.
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.
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!
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
“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 ...
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.
I have several friends who attested to COVID shots but are no longer with us. COVID kills, but not the virus.
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