You might want to read this article. Star of Anise, while still available at
your local grocery store is really inexpensive and makes a very tasty tea. ;)
I'm thinking homeopathic philosophy. Imagine if it amounted to something so
simple.
or National Geographic News
November 28, 2005
A licorice-flavored spice that's long been a staple on Asian tables may now
be a major weapon against global influenza.
Part of Chinese cuisine's five-spice powder, star anise is also the primary
source of shikimic acid used to produce oseltamivir phosphate, sold under the
brand name Tamiflu.
With fears of a
bird-flu pandemic rising, the antiviral flu-treatment drug is in demandâand
so is the once obscure fruit used to produce it.
China Daily, a government-run English-language newspaper, reported early this
month that star anise prices in some Chinese markets had doubled in a week's
time. United States spice merchants are seeing spikes as well.
"This week it has jumped considerably in price, and now supply issues are
becoming a problem as well, when a month ago there was plenty of supply," said
Dennis Knock of Frontier Natural Foods Co-Op in Norway, Iowa.
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is currently the only company
producing Tamiflu.
This year the drug's revenues more than doubled from the three-month period
ending in June to the three-month period ending in September, when Tamiflu rang
up sales worth 211 million U.S. dollars.
Roche plans to produce some 300 million doses of Tamiflu by 2007. This year
it will produce about 55 million doses.
The Tamiflu boom and subsequent media coverage have created a buzz around
star anise.
"There has been a lot of emotional run-up in prices, both in China and in the
U.S," explained Ed Deep, a spice broker with A.A. Sayia & Company in Hoboken,
New Jersey.
"In New York it has gone from around $1.30 a pound [about half a kilogram] up
to $1.70 a pound."
"[Roche] is buying a larger amount of star anise to extract the shikimic acid
that they need for Tamiflu," Deep added. He also noted that some of the demand
is driven by "people who believe that star anise will help with the fluâwhich
we believe is erroneous."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1128_051128_star_anise.html
[email protected] wrote: While I believe that there may be a flu
epidemic, and the usual
profiteers that take advantage........I think it is just wise to guard
yourself against *any* kind of threat (I was not always wise, heh) and
so it is just good practice to research and learn what works for any
type of flu or cold. I believe that nothing can protect us from getting
the flu, etc, but we know that CS is one way to cope.
Another claim is that tumeric will stop the cytokine cascade that is
said to be the real threat brought on by the immune response.
Another that I know for sure is ascorbic acid, which I have used for a
severe cold back in Jan. I was actually able to work (heavy constuction)
during the entire time, due to taking 3-4 grams a-a each half hour, or
when the symptoms seemed to accelerate. I recognized this type of flu as
one that would usually put me in bed for a week in the past, but this
time I was ready for it. Learning to titrate to bowel tolerance has
been the ticket. The more severe your illness, the more a a you can
tolerate before bowel distress, because your body will "take up" the
essential amount. The claim is that a a will donate its extra electrons
to quell free radicals, which is what the real killer is in an illness.
A second way to do a maintenance dose is to take hydrocholric acid at
the half hour, and aa at the top of each hour, resulting in saturation.
You can buy 3 lbs NOW ascorbic acid online for $50 and then cap the
powder for convenience.
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