Posted on 05/03/2009 4:37:47 PM PDT by Scythian
Tamiflu comes from an herb To live in a world that's saturated with natural anti-viral medicine and then not even acknowledge it in the media is beyond bizarre. It's Twilight Zone-like. It's like we've been teleported to an alternate universe where anti-viral plants have disappeared... or at least everyone is pretending they have.
Where do you think Tamiflu comes from, by the way?
It's extracted from the Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called Star Anise. It's one of hundreds of different anti-viral herbs found in Chinese Medicine, not to even mention anti-viral herbs from South America, North America, Australia, Africa and other regions.
I find it downright comedic that Big Pharma and the world's health authorities extract their "champion" anti-viral drug Tamiflu from a Chinese Medicine herb, and then they go out of their way to announce to people that herbs and natural remedies are useless against influenza. If that's the case then why are they using herbs to make their own medicine?
How many stories have you read that bother to tell you Tamiflu is made from the star anise herb that's been used for over 5,000 years in Traditional Chinese Medicine? Virtually none. The powers that be don't want anybody to know they could actually grow their own medicine in a garden or a windowsill. If you can grow cilantro, you can grow medicine. If everybody figured that out, Big Pharma wouldn't be reaping the enormous profits it's making right now from Tamiflu sales, and the governments of the world wouldn't be able to scare and control people by promising to distribute Tamiflu (but only if you behave).
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Where do you think Tamiflu comes from, by the way?
It's extracted from the Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called Star Anise. It's one of hundreds of different anti-viral herbs found in Chinese Medicine, not to even mention anti-viral herbs from South America, North America, Australia, Africa and other regions.
I find it downright comedic that Big Pharma and the world's health authorities extract their "champion" anti-viral drug Tamiflu from a Chinese Medicine herb, and then they go out of their way to announce to people that herbs and natural remedies are useless against influenza. If that's the case then why are they using herbs to make their own medicine?
How many stories have you read that bother to tell you Tamiflu is made from the star anise herb that's been used for over 5,000 years in Traditional Chinese Medicine? Virtually none. The powers that be don't want anybody to know they could actually grow their own medicine in a garden or a windowsill. If you can grow cilantro, you can grow medicine. If everybody figured that out, Big Pharma wouldn't be reaping the enormous profits it's making right now from Tamiflu sales, and the governments of the world wouldn't be able to scare and control people by promising to distribute Tamiflu (but only if you behave).
Thanks.
A lot of our modern medicines were used long before there was modern medicine.
What do you do with it?
And soylent green is people.
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The challenge in making effective herbals is knowing how to prepare them to maximize the healing potential. Few can do it. As for the herbs you find in the grocery or drug store they are basically worthless.
Star anise is a spice. If you want to marinate a piece of meat you add the various spices and soak it. The star itself is woody and inedible so discarded before serving. Not exactly a big mystery.
At what concentration? How much star anise would you have to consume to equal a dose of Tamiflu?
To be honest, just go to Whole Foods and buy some NAC (N-Acetyl-Cysteine) it’s an amino acid, it’s far more powerful at fighting the flu than Tamiflu and it helps after Tamiflu fails which is only good if you take it at the first 24 to 48 hours, NAC works all the way through. Do a search on it, plus the stuff is awesome otherwise.
Well, I never knew it was chinese. It was always available in abundance in Germany- no chinese shop needed.
It's a nice spice. The Germans put it in Gluehwein (mulled wine). You can also get anis seed flavoured hard candy. It's hard to describe its taste. Maybe like spicy licorice?
The hot whiskeys I used to order in the Irish Pub in Germany where I lived used star anise as well. Shot of whiskey (or whisky if you prefer Scotch to the Irish stuff). Boiling water. And a lemon that has a bit of star anise pressed into it. Yummy on a cold blustery day.
Penicillin comes from Penicillium mold. The next time you get strep throat or tuberculosis, cut yourself off a piece of Gorgonzola cheese and let me know how that works out for you.
Your statement is only partially correct. Tamiflu does NOT come from any herb, however one of the starting materials does. From the starting material, Tamiflu the drug, is made by a series of very complicated chemical reactions. The starting material is worthless as an antiviral agent. Without the expertise of the drug company chemists, Tamiflu would never have been developed.
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I dont' have a Whole Paycheck in my city.
NAC is like 20 bucks man, well worth it ... Buy it anywhere you like, all I’m saying here is you can treat the flu with Natural stuff (and many of our drugs come from the herbs the pharm companies say don’t have any effect)
There are actually quite a few foods/herbs that are antiviral.
Elderberries are an excellent antiviral for the flu virus.
Other natural antivirals include garlic oregano, coconut oil, echinacea, onions, ginger, skullcap, cat’s claw, etc., etc. Many of these are also antibacterial and antifungal as well.
God’s medicine is pretty amazing. He made sure that every location will grow herbs and foods that will treat any illness.
The key with natural stuff is to take it in a high enough quantity and frequency to be effective. You can’t drink one cup of elderberry tea, for example, and expect to get over the flu with just that.
There’s TONS of info available, though. It’s just a matter of reading and learning and applying. I think it’ll be to our benefit in the future to know how to self-medicate with foods and herbs.
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