If your father takes it, will he smell of elderberries?
Somebody must have a big bunch of elderberry cause its being pushed as the cure for everything. It has a lot of antioxidents but, a little dab won`t do you,got to take a lot, maybe as much as a pt. a day.
You can put thousands of substances into a test tube and kill influenza virus.
Drop some hydrocloric acid in, for example, and there isn't much virus left.
Treatments and cures have to be widely-available for everyone to use and they have to be deliverable in pill form or injectionable or whatever to be useful.
in-vitro test-tube effectiveness does not equal usefulness for treatment.