Take Sambucol-Coronovirus Self-Assistance – Part 1

As a good starting point, I would suggest Sambucol.  This alternative health food product has been around for decades and is available in extract, liquid, tab and pill forms and has been used as an old folk remedy in Europe and Africa going back centuries.  It is an extract of Elderberry and its quite drinkable.

Many studies have been conducted on it and found it to be beneficial against many different types of flu viruses, none have been conducted on Coronavirus of course, but seeing as Coronavirus is a flu type virus, it seems perfectly reasonable that a cheap, easily available product which assists against one type may also be of benefit against another type.  It can’t hurt and it tastes great too, so why not?

What is Sambucol?  “Sambucol is a food supplement that is made of black elderberries. Not only does it taste delicious, it also contains naturally occurring flavonoids and is packed with vitamins C and Zinc were are known for building the immune system”  (Chemist Direct 2020)

https://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/sambucol-health-benefits-of-the-elderberry

If the link is to believed, and I have no valid reason to doubt it, it helps against the flu.  But I know, the doubters, will be saying Chemist Direct sell it, they would say that.  People got interested  in these berries, way back in the days of old, because they worked, no other reason.

Let’s look at some specific research as well.

“Elderberry compounds could help minimize flu symptoms, study suggests” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190423133644.htm

This is what they concluded.

“What our study has shown is that the common elderberry has a potent direct antiviral effect against the flu virus,” said Dr Golnoosh Torabian.

“It inhibits the early stages of an infection by blocking key viral proteins responsible for both the viral attachment and entry into the host cells.”

Or how about this study, which used it as treatment on a flu outbreak in the Panama in 1995.

“Inhibition of several strains of influenza virus in vitro and reduction of symptoms by an elderberry extract (Sambucus nigra L.) during an outbreak of influenza B Panama.”  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9395631?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

What they found was “Convalescent phase serologies showed higher mean and mean geometric hemagglutination inhibition (HI) titers to influenza B in the group treated with SAM than in the control group.”

Hemagglutination is when the virus interacts with other viral infected blood cells, so they interlink with each other in order to assist in their spread.  So by getting a blood sample and putting it into a cone shaped well you can see from the side and above you get a different shape and so can tell if the virus is being inhibited or not.  As this picture below demonstrates.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/hemagglutination

A third study?  Sure why not.

“Randomized study of the efficacy and safety of oral elderberry extract in the treatment of influenza A and B virus infections.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080016

Here what they did is “sixty patients (aged 18-54 years) suffering from influenza-like symptoms for 48 h or less were enrolled in this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study during the influenza season of 1999-2000 in Norway.

Patients received 15 ml of elderberry or placebo syrup four times a day for 5 days, and recorded their symptoms using a visual analogue scale. Symptoms were relieved on average 4 days earlier and use of rescue medication was significantly less in those receiving elderberry extract compared with placebo.”

There’s plenty of research out there about this product, it’s just not so widely publicised, when I was studying way back when, I remember reading about this product quite a lot, interest seems to have died down a bit since, but you know what I think interest in it might spark up a little given the current coronavirus crisis has hit town.

So, what are you going to do?  Wash your hands & hope for the best or are you going to do whatever you can to protect yourself & your family and get the things the things you need that will give you the best fighting chance that you possibly can.

Toilet roll shelves empty?  So what I strongly suggest instead of worrying about that, you go get the Sambucol instead and stock up on that, it is far more important.


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