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Posted: December 04 2006 at 12:29pm |
HerbalScience Develops Safe and Effective Treatment for Influenza, Including Avian Flu Strain
1. Posted on : Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:03:00 GMT | Author : HerbalScience News Category : PressRelease NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The world has been on alert since 2003 that the H5N1 virus, commonly known as Avian flu, could be the cause of the next flu pandemic. While the number of human deaths is still very low, fatalities this year have risen 74 percent over last year, according to World Health Organization data(1); and a recent study conducted by research teams at Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University stated that only an estimated 14 percent of the world's population could be vaccinated within a year of a pandemic's onset. Equally disturbing, the same study found that it could take a decade to produce enough of the antiviral drug oseltamivir (i.e., Tamiflu) to treat just 20 percent of the world's population(2). Recognizing the critical need for an alternative treatment, HerbalScience, a Singapore-based company dedicated to applying advanced science and technology to the production of botanical medicines and nutraceuticals, began intensive research into creating a new antiviral compound based on its unique Elder Berry extract. After rigorous testing by a team of virologists, microbiologists, and biochemists in the United States and Singapore, the results are confirmed -- and HerbalScience is poised to bring to market a safe, effective, and low-cost treatment for both common flu and the potentially devastating bird flu. One of the nation's leading influenza experts, Dr. Gillian Air, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, who has made key discoveries on influenza enzymes that mediate infection, says in her peer review of the Influenza study, "There is a critical need for new anti-influenza drugs and the Elder Berry extract shows activity." The new extract, called NuHerbal ViraBloc(TM) will carry a virologist-verified label and will be available over-the-counter nationwide beginning in January 2007. Sold as a lozenge, it will cost approximately $3-$5 per day, as compared to Tamiflu, which costs about $32 a day. "For centuries, certain herbs and botanicals have been known to have medicinal qualities, but it is only with modern science that we are now able to analyze how and why they are effective, and -- with our proprietary extraction technology -- to create standardized, optimized formulations for use as new medicines," said Robert T. Gow, HerbalScience's founder and chairman. "Not only can the HerbalScience technology extract a plant's phytochemicals, which are the bioactive nutrient substances proven to have a beneficial effect on human health," he continued, "but our technology can also, for the first time, create herbal medicines that have a consistent quality and reliable content of the phytochemicals from batch to batch and dose to dose - a crucial factor for their use in reliably and effectively treating diseases and other medical conditions." The development of its new antiviral NuHerbal ViraBloc comes about five years after HerbalScience began its research into technology that would enable the company to standardize the chemical profile of any selected botanical in order to deliver proven botanical medicines in consistently effective, safe, and reliable doses. To achieve its goals, the company recruited top researchers in the areas of botanical chemistry and toxicity, as well as leading experts in supercritical CO2 and affinity absorbent extraction technologies, methods used for extracting a plant's phytochemicals. To date, the company has filed over 35 patents as a result of its research and development. By early 2005, the company had developed an advanced, proprietary, and environmentally friendly technology that combines enhanced supercritical CO2 and affinity absorbent extraction -- a technology that is able to extract pharmaceutical-grade phytochemicals from botanicals and produce a consistent and reliable chemical "fingerprint" for each and every dose. HerbalScience scientists also developed a process that enables a botanical's beneficial chemical compounds to be enhanced and concentrated while removing any harmful compounds like heavy metals and pesticides. The resulting consistent chemical profile maintains the natural synergy of a plant's chemical makeup while raising its medicinal effectiveness -- with no dangerous side effects. Applying that technology to Elder Berry became a priority for HerbalScience in light of increasing global concern about bird flu, the scarcity of antiviral drugs, and drawbacks to use of some pharmaceuticals, including possible dangerous side effects as well as incidences of viral resistance to the drugs. "Elder Berry's antiviral characteristics have been documented empirically for centuries, but our tests of HerbalScience's proprietary extract have enabled us to scientifically identify the bioactives responsible for antiviral activity, and to determine how the mixtures of natural chemistries present in Elder Berry extracts function as antivirals, a feature termed mode-of-action," said Randall S. Alberte, Ph.D., professor and director of biotechnology at Florida Gulf Coast University, who assembled the team of research scientists conducting the efficacy tests of the Elder Berry extract in preventing and combating various strains of influenza virus. "Our research team used methods, technologies, and procedures that are standardly employed in the pharmaceutical industry to assess the HerbalScience extract's antiviral activities," he continued. "We were able to demonstrate its effectiveness in both inhibiting the virus from entry into animal and human cells and effectively blocking it from reproducing in the body." "Our assays demonstrated that HerbalScience's proprietary Elder Berry extract is highly effective in blocking influenza infection in an animal cell line, and this blocking is strictly dose-dependent," said Sharon Isern, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and the virologist chosen to lead the experiments. "The HerbalScience Elder Berry extract functions by preventing the virus from binding to and entering target cells, suggesting that it would be an effective flu preventative. In addition, the result was consistently and materially superior to existing antivirals." Added Dr. Alberte, "Perhaps most exciting is the fact that the mode-of-action of HerbalScience's Elder Berry extract is not strain-specific -- meaning it is proving to be effective against other influenza viruses and the Dengue virus." The testing conducted by the research team was fast-tracked by use of a DART (Direct Analysis in Real Time) mass spectrometer - only one of five DART machines in the United States, the others of which are in use by government agencies. Dr. Alberte, who had previously held leadership positions in the Biological Science & Technology Program of the Navy's Office of Naval Research, provided HerbalScience access to the machine due to the critical importance of research into an effective preventative for Avian flu. The world's most advanced chemical analysis equipment, the DART is able to verify the existence, amounts, and concentration of an extract's hundreds or thousands of individual chemicals, and provides rapid and accurate analysis of plant chemistry, location of a plant's bioactives, and comparison to other substances. In addition to Drs. Alberte and Isern, the team of virologists, biochemists, and microbiologists testing HerbalScience's Elder Berry extract includes Scott Michael, Ph.D. in Chemistry, and Jennifer Dolan, Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology. Drs. Isern and Michael are both affiliated with the Biotechnology Research Group at Florida Gulf Coast University; Dr. Dolan is currently a research associate at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. "Influenza and bird flu are huge problems for the world population, so the verification of the efficacy of our Elder Berry extract as a safe treatment and preventative, with no known side effects, is enormously exciting," said Mr. Gow. "And in order to assure that we can produce sufficient quantities of the extract, we have located and secured the feedstock of the world's largest source of the base botanical -- currently in amounts equal to 120 million doses - and have next year's crop already under contract." Double-blind human clinical tests on NuHerbal ViraBloc have been contracted and will be conducted in the near future. In addition to its Elder Berry extract, HerbalScience is researching and developing additional proprietary botanical compounds for a variety of other illnesses and conditions. Among the botanical medicines expected to be announced in 2007 are effective treatments for Arthritis, Type II Diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. (1) Tony Pugh, "Deadly Bird Flu Not Forgotten by U.S. Health Officials," Oct. 19, 2006, McClatchy Newspapers. (2) Maggie Fox, "Governments Still Dither on Bird Flu, Study Finds," Oct. 17, 2006, Reuters. HerbalScience |
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Herbal and natural remedies are regulated very little and don't have to go through the approval process drugs do. I do believe in natural medicine but there is a lot of scams out there. Would you take their product and walk around in a chicken coup? You are going to see alot of this. Most will not be true.
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Well how about Tubercin? http://www.artec-inc.net/presentation.htm
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I say get the pneumonia shot and stock up on Sambucol. That's what I'm doing.
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I have had elderberry extract in my emergency kit for three years. Much cheaper but proven effective is Sambucol manufactured by Nature's Way, available in capsules or syrup their website. The above reseach is nice to add to what I had already, but the Sambucol is about $12 an 8 oz bottle. Sorry, "Herbalscience." John L.
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This is a welcome development, imho, but it is not a cure, it is not a vaccine, it does not stimulate the production of antibodies, and if they produce 50 billion doses, and it works, then they would have enough to protect about 5 billion people for about 10 days, at a cost of 100 billion dollars. I want some, but this may not begin to be a solution.
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Confused here are they reporting they tested it with Avian Flu and it worked ??? They also mentioned Dengue as well . Will it be taken before , or when you get sick ? I can't ,even if I had it allow Tamiflu near my kids .I have seen 3 times my kids have reactions to meds . And I know that it < a reaction would kill them before the flu did now . I am guilt free not having any in preps .Now. But I would have to know everything about meds before I give them to my children , gave royal jelly to son 11 years old when he suddenly took sick , no voice , and temp , he was in ER 20 minutes later , we were lucky , I was studying under a naturepath at the time . I thought I knew it all .................... wrong . College teacher naturepath stills says it was right to give ???? Wrong .
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Read in full here...
Sambucol fights bird flu virus in lab
By Dominique Patton 26/01/2006 - Sambucol, a standardized extract of black elderberry, has been found to fight the avian flu virus H5N1, revealed British researchers last week. |
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Elderberry was found to kill 8 types of flu including H5N1 a long time
ago in lab tests using Sambucol. Then we started hearing reports that
Sambucol would increase the cytokine storm. Maybe it's because Sambucol
contains Echinacea which like milk, chocolate and some others, causes one to have more mucus. So I made my own Elderberry medicine using dried Elderberry and Vodka.
If Sambucol or Elderberry does indeed prevent one from taking the flu-or killing it before it makes us sick- we don't need to worry about a cytokine storm. I read through a lot of medical stuff about a year ago and I read somewhere the effects of the medicine only last 6 hours. So I plan to dose before going near a possible exposure. After this article I think I'll get more medicine started. Good luck. |
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if it's for real.... it's expensive... you can buy it in stores for less than 3-5 $ a day...and pour it in a glass of grape juice... or wine.... sort of your own version of ...elderberry wine. An amazing combo for antiinflammatory
assistance?
Anyone know about the Delaney sisters? two wonderful elderly ladies who wrote an account of their lives... good read....anyway, they wrote about how one sis was not well and ate a bunch of Bing Cherries one night and
felt so much better the next day.... (they also boil their water)
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Consumption of Bing Sweet Cherries Lowers Circulating Concentrations of Inflammation Markers in Healthy Men and Women1,2
* U.S. Department of Agriculture/ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center, and Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616; Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and ** Western Regional Research Center, ARS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710
3 To whom correspondence should be addressed: e-mail: dkelley@whnrc.usda.gov < =text/>' + u + '@' + d + '<\/a>'//--> . The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of consuming sweet cherries on plasma lipids and markers of inflammation in healthy humans. Healthy men and women (n = 18) supplemented their diets with Bing sweet cherries (280 g/d) for 28 d. After a 12-h fast, blood samples were taken before the start of cherry consumption (study d 0 and 7), 14 and 28 d after the start of cherry supplementation (study d 21 and 35), and 28 d after the discontinuation (study d 64) of cherry consumption. After cherries were consumed for 28 d, circulating concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP), regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted (RANTES), and NO decreased by 25 (P < 0.05), 21 (P < 0.05), and 18% (P = 0.07) respectively. After the discontinuation of cherry consumption for 28 d (d 64), concentrations of RANTES continued to decrease (P = 0.001), whereas those of CRP and NO did not differ from either d 7 (pre-cherries) or d 35 (post-cherries). Plasma concentrations of IL-6 and its soluble receptor, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2 did not change during the study. Cherry consumption did not affect the plasma concentrations of total-, HDL-, LDL-, and VLDL- cholesterol, triglycerides, subfractions of HDL, LDL, VLDL, and their particle sizes and numbers. It also did not affect fasting blood glucose or insulin concentrations or a number of other chemical and hematological variables. Results of the present study suggest a selective modulatory effect of sweet cherries on CRP, NO, and RANTES. Such anti-inflammatory effects may be beneficial for the management and prevention of inflammatory diseases. |
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Everyday is a good day and if you dont believe that try missing one.
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Sambucol may have worked on bird flu virus in the lab now, but it willnot work on the virus after it mutates. You cannot produce a cure for something that has not formed yet.
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quickdraw, the theory is that it will kill any flu virus and arrest or kill other virus's as well. I don't know but it doesn't cost me so much that I can't afford to try- since I made my own med.
Homemade Sambucol information here; http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4736&KW=&PID=74228#74228 Good luck. |
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You cant produce a exact vaccine. However, some experts think that any form of a vaccine for BF would give at least partial immunity, you may get darn sick, but not die. How do I get elderberry, that is not in Sambucol. I got a ton of the Sambucol bottles, but they may have the Echinecea in them.
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i thought sambucol was elderberry with echinachea, and the echinache
should be avoided because it strengthens the immune system, hence
adding to a cytokine storm..... i make my own elderberry tincture
and have used it a long time and have found it terrific for staving off
the bugs and germs. my DH is a hunting guide and takes a bottle
along to dose himself when being around so many people form different
parts of the country when they are coughing and sneezing. he who
was suspicious takes it now everyday in camp...and he has never caught
even the sniffles and is now a believer.
whenever i feel something coming on i start taking 2-4 tablespoons a day and it arrests whatever i got. i know this stuff works and would rather use it than not in a ciritcal situation. |
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vstr, if you go to this thread on "Homemade Sambucol" there is
information there to the making of the tincture (thanks to
mountainwinds) also a better place to order than where I was ordering
from up to that post. http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4736&KW=&PID=74228#74228
Before I found this forum I had bought pounds of Elderberry on line, ground then up in a coffee grinder and put in capsules so I have that, too. For those who have the Sambucol, think about this; there is no need to worry about a cytokine storm if you are not sick. I bought some for my grandchildren about a year ago. It had a shelf life of 2 years so it should be good for another. I will not replace it because I now know how to render it where children can take the tincture. If I was giving it to a child to shield the child from taking flu I would cease giving the Sambucol if I suspected one might have the flu because of the Echinacea in it. I hope this explains my opinion on this. If it keeps us from taking the flu in the first place that would be wonderful! I can't afford not to try. Good luck. |
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I really think if any of it were truly helpful in fighting bird flu governments and states would be buying it. If there were any herbs or anything cheaper or more readily available than Tamiflu, they'd be all over it like white on rice. So.... I don't know. I'm like the person above, if you're willing to take it and walk through an asian chicken farm with it, then you've got a lot more confidence than I do in it!!
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"if you're willing to take it and walk through an asian chicken farm with it, then you've got a lot more confidence than I do in it!!" 4abbie&maddie, to be perfectly honest I don't wish to walk through any Asian chicken farms regardless of what I had to take. But I have no confidence in Tamiflu. I hope my family doesn't take it to mask systems only to jump off buildings for having gone to a doctor and got a prescription! To each his own. I love my family more than myself. To tell you the truth I think it will take a combination of things to keep one from taking bf if it starts passing easily. Elderberry Tincture offers some hope for pennies compared to all the hype that's being pushed for mega bucks. Man didn't make and they can't patent Elderberry. That's just my opinion. |
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