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Best post to date! #realmedicine #plantsarethepeoplesmedicine

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A wonderful article!! Thank you so much for this!!

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Hi Mel a few people have asked about this. As a naturopath I advocate natural ACE inhibitors. I match the pharmacological actions of drugs using natural alternatives. My article is promoting natural ACE inhibitors. From my understanding however, pharmacological ACE Inhibitors are linked to a lower risk of severe COVID-19 in patients. However, once again as a naturopath, I address the causes of disease. As obesity is the major risk factor for severe C-19 disease and obesity and insulin resistance account for up to 78 % of cases of primary hypertension I prescribe weight loss and/or other associated treatment strategies to reduce hypertension

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I have a biowater that has quercetin, luteolin, apigenin and other enhanced flavonoids present. It can increase blood oxygen levels within minutes of consuming. Working to bring it to market.

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Thank you for writing this article. Please consider submitting it to https://PDMJ.org, a physician peer review, all volunteer medical journal without commercial affiliations.

I am also involved with a project for a new immunology textbook, which would benefit from an article like this.

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by Carina Harkin

Thank you so much for this incredibly researched, sourced, and referenced article. Articles and scientific papers such as this, are the reason Homo sapiens has progressed past divination as diagnosis, and magic as cure, of disease in Western medicine. It is a sterling example of evidence-logic-based conclusions, vs. premodern unquestioned acceptance of authority, i.e. the church or the CDC.

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Jul 24, 2022·edited Jul 24, 2022Liked by Carina Harkin

Hi there I'm in Japan. Yes I can confirm the effects you referred to. A few oriental medicine formulas are used to prevent and treat the cvd symptoms, like Ephedra plant based cold medicine and Juzentaohoto you mention and Hochu-Ekkito (interferon related) as prophylactic means. All available over the counter.

I'm a vegetarian and rely heavily on plant based ingredients like Natto. And I'm jab free and so far infection symptom free (I'm pretty sure I have been exposed to the virus on a numerous occasions.)

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by Carina Harkin

Keep it coming. The People need all the help they can get

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Jul 25, 2022Liked by Carina Harkin

Thank you. This article and its level of detail are a extraordinary gift of functionality and hope. ♥️🌹

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by Carina Harkin

Will print and read this very interesting post Carina during the week. Hope you are OK . All the very best Mark

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Great post, i looked into how the chinese were able to get out of the surge and we didn't, if you go back to the beginning of the outbreak the Chinese were distributing a tcm response that was published.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01284-x

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53094603

Western media heavily criticized for not having any evidence. However i think the biggest evidence would be the fact they celebrated Chinese new year and we were told no Christmas and new year celebrations.

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Jul 25, 2022Liked by Carina Harkin

Excellent, thank you

looking forward to your next post

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Jul 24, 2022·edited Jul 24, 2022

Q.E.D,

Thanks!

I started looking into natural immune modulators after reading an article that stated that Big Pharma was still working on immune system modulators to fight Cytokine Storms - that is producing more toxins for you.

I am the old school guy who still believes in Hippocrates - "Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.".

My personal concoctions seem to have a solid scientific basis if I read this article correctly.

BTW - They work like miracles!

Had I published them, they would have been attacked as some woodoo horse dewormer concoctions (remember C-19 Ivermectin attacks in the US?)

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095480/Glycyrrhizin, an active component of liquorice roots, and replication of SARS-associated coronavirus

J Cinatl et al. Lancet. 2003.

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glycyrrhizin was the most active in inhibiting replication of the SARS-associated virus. Our findings suggest that glycyrrhizin should be assessed for treatment of SARS.

the compounds, glycyrrhizin was the most active in inhibiting replication of the SARS-associated virus. Our findings suggest that glycyrrhizin should be assessed for treatment of SARS.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12814717/

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Glycyrrhizin is a constituent of licorice, whose history of use goes back thousands of years into traditional Chinese medicine. There has probably been more phytopharmacology done on the constituents of licorice than on any other natural product. An active component of licorice root, glycyrrhizin, has pleotrophic effects. One effect, described in the Lancet report, is its ability to suppress replication of the SARS-associated coronavirus.

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