This common plant may just help you fight the flu
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Centuries old Chinese folk medicine may have a cure for that nasty flu bug, or at least a way to keep from getting it.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
10/7/2014 (9 years ago)
Published in Health
Keywords: Health, China, International, Science, Influenza, Honeysuckle
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Scientists have found that an ingredient in honeysuckle tea can act like a "viral penicillin" to fight off influenza, the first time that a natural product can directly target the rapidly evolving and mutating virus that requires constant vaccines.
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Until now, antibiotics have been the most effective way to combat most infections, but the find that a natural product is capable of fighting the flu virus in a similar way may just herald new treatments.
There are roughly 180 species of Honeysuckle-a very popular garden plant that his heavily perfumed flowers-in the world. More than half of these are native in China.
Scientists from the Nanjing University School of Life Sciences in China discovered that a compound in honeysuckle, designated as MIR2911, targets influenza A viruses directly.
The seasonal flus that hit most people is the type A or B strain of influenza.
The dangerous pandemics that start around the world occasionally-such as swine or bird flu-are strains of influenza A.
The researchers found that in mice, different types of influenza A strains were effectively treated by the honeysuckle derived compound.
Even more astonishingly, the tests showed that the honeysuckle compound may actually work against the Ebola virus as well.
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