Influenza remedies

Monitoring of the levels of total sialic acid and lipid-associated sialic acid in serum is an important diagnostic tool for the detection of precancerous lesions [224], Transition-state analogues derived from sialic acid are potent inhibitors of sialidases from various influenza virus strains, and these have been evaluated clinically as influenza remedies [225], A detailed review of our current knowledge regarding the occurrence, specificity and function of sialic acid-specific lectins, particularly those that occur in viruses, bacteria and non-vertebrate eukaryotes has been recently published [226],... 

And what became of this Prussian charlatan when an influenza epidemic broke out — an epidemic that Dr. Bato s Remedy could do nothing to curtail For a time he was publicly ridiculed — and he was even lampooned as Dr. Caterpillar in a play appropriately titled None Are So Blind as Those Who Won t See. But he did not relinquish his own theatrical ambitions. Instead he waited for some new scientific phenomenon that he could incorporate into his act. Finally, the Montgolfier brothers introduced the hot air balloon, and Katterfelto had his new demo. During his show he launched what he called fire balloons and explained to the audience the workings of this new scientific marvel. At least until one of the balloons drifted off and ignited a haystack in a farmer s field. 

The herb is extremely useful in colds and acute catarrhs of the respiratory tract generally. As it has the effect of opening the pores, thus permitting free perspiration, Yarrow is taken at the commencement of influenza and in other feverish conditions. An infusion of 1 ounce to 1 pint of foiling water is drunk warm in wineglass doses. As a very popular remedy for influenza colds it is usually combined with Elder flowers and Peppermint in equal quantities. It was sometimes prescribed by the old herbalists as a tonic in nervous debility, but there are many better herbal medicines for this condition. 

Fruits and flowers of elderberry trees are widely used in herbal medicine as remedies for cold, influenza, and catarrhal inflammation. Type I allergy to this plant has been suspected by clinicians over a long period of time but has never been further studied. 

Traditional Medicine. Formerly, the berries were used as an appetite stimulant, for stomachache, and for painful menstruation leaves used for pain, fever, cold remedy, toothache, anodyne, astringent, and carminative. In Jamaica, the fruit is used to treat influenza and stomachache used in Guatemala to treat rheumatism. In the Dominican Republic, the fruits, decocted with salt, are also used as an antiemetic (weniger and robineau). Other uses in Middle Eastern, South American, and Asian countries include the treatment of obesity, hyperglycemia, menstrual cramps, abdominal pain, digestive ailments, inflammatory conditions, and high blood pressure. ... 

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