Posted on 02/02/2022 10:00:53 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A team found evidence that the herb rosemary could be a two-pronged weapon against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The scientists found that the compound, carnosic acid, can block the interaction between the SARS-CoV-2 outer "spike" protein and the receptor protein, ACE2, which the virus uses to gain entry to cells.
The team presented evidence carnosic acid has a separate effect inhibiting a powerful inflammatory pathway—a pathway active in severe COVID-19 as well as Alzheimer's.
"We think that carnosic acid is worth investigating as a potentially cheap, safe, and effective treatment for COVID-19 and some other inflammation-related disorders," says Stuart Lipton, MD, Ph.D.
In a 2016 study, Lipton showed that carnosic acid activates an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant signaling cascade called the Nrf2 pathway, and found evidence that it reduces Alzheimer's-like signs in mouse models of that disease, which is known to feature brain inflammation.
For the new study, Lipton, with Dorit Trudler, Ph.D., described their further studies of this anti-inflammatory effect on the immune cells that drive inflammation in COVID-19 and Alzheimer's. They proposed that this effect could be beneficial against the inflammation observed in COVID-19 and in some cases of the post-COVID syndrome known as long COVID, whose reported symptoms include cognitive difficulties often described as "brain fog."
Using a standard infectivity assay, he showed that carnosic acid can directly block SARS-CoV-2's ability to infect cells, with progressively greater infection-blocking activity at higher doses.
While the research is preliminary, the researchers propose that carnosic acid has this antiviral effect, despite being a safe and relatively unreactive compound, because it is converted to its active form by the inflammation and oxidation found at sites of infection. In that active form, they suggest, the compound modifies the ACE2 receptor for SARS-CoV-2—making the receptor impregnable to the virus and thereby blocking infection.
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Put it on your dinner.
I saw a video on YouTube yesterday that showed how to make your own hydroxychloroquine
Here’s the video I have no idea if this is a valid idea
Quinine has a very slim margin for its benefit/danger level.
Take black cumin seed or ivermectin, instead of this home brew.
It’s of use, but minimal.
This is NOT quinine, nor is it homemade HCQ.
This is Quecertin.
Quecertin is useful but it is NOT QUININE or HCQ.
Quinine is a tree bark and is also in Tonic Water such as the drink mixer by Schwepps, at no more than 83ml/liter by law.
So to get 200 mg of quinine, drink about 3 liters of TONIC WATER.
It is not quinine. This is a citric peel concentration.
“Home Recipe For Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) || homemade quinine || HCQ is nothing but quinine take zinc“
If it's not quinine, as he says it is, what is it?
Then there’s a second reason to not follow the video—the author of it doesn’t know what he is doing.
Quecertin, believe.
Which item is useful against C-19 as per Dr. Zelenko, who advised it when HCQ was demonised and became difficult to get. But is NOT quinine, which is from a tropical tree bark. This is a video made by a person whose first language is not English, as well.
Believe that bc both begin with letter Q, maybe much more confusion than formerly thought here. . .
Believe this unlikely to hurt one. But would not recommend using citrus in US or anywhere that the fruit is sprayed, b/c this would concentrate any insecticide in the peel. Not a good thing, don’t think. Perhaps fruit grown in one’s backyard, which may be case here, sounds like Philippines.
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Government to ban carnosic acid in 3, 2, 1...
I keep a bush out back...
Pack my roasters fill of fresh picked, washed and thoroughly bruised rosemary as a matter of course.
“Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Put it on your dinner.”
Grow it on the patio, nothing beats fresh herbs.
I cannot STAND the taste of rosemary (or oregano), but I’ll order it in supplement form.
I grow basil, though. I season all my Italian food with it. Wonder if it has any good properties.
Put it in your chicken soup.
I’ve tried rosemary as tea. Not bad, if you like the taste.
Ground rosemary makes an excellent white pizza seasoning / topping.
I feel that a light dusting of it on a white pizza is essential.
So I already suspected that rosemary would someday save the world.
The insurance companies know the real covid story.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4035026/posts
Green Paragraph:
Insurance risk experts also say the opportunities for transmission between humans and animals, high levels of global travel, increased urbanisation and climate change impacts such as deforestation and disease-carrying mosquitoes mean pandemics could become more frequent.
Heavy Hand Paragraph:
The potential for any future corovanirus outbreak to again become a pandemic would depend on its transmissibility and the strength of measures to fight it, [Brice] Jabo said.
Hindsight Paragraph:
Bruno Latourette said, “COVID is...the perfect storm with pre-symptomatic contagiousness, a lethality that is not too high to lead to super-strong zero tolerance measures, a waning of immunity and high transmissibility”.
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