Finding: Scientists say an ingredient in honeysuckle tea actually acts like a ‘viral penicillin’ to beat influenza
The flu season is well on the way and is already claiming the lives of the old and vulnerable. If you have not had your flu shot this season, you may want to think about boosting your immune system in order to ward off flu. However, if you do succumb you may want to try honeysuckle tea as a cure or at least to alleviate and shorten the duration of the flu.
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- Antibiotics have until now been ‘magic bullets’ against most infections
- But this discovery promises to herald new treatments for the virus
- Honeysuckle is a popular garden plant with highly perfumed flowers
It has been taken by the Chinese for hundreds of years to ward off flu.
And now scientists have shown that an ingredient in honeysuckle tea actually acts like a ‘viral penicillin’ to beat influenza.
For the first time, scientists have shown a natural product can directly target the virus, which rapidly evolves and mutates to become resistant to vaccines.
Antibiotics have until now been the ‘magic bullets’ against most infections. But the discovery that a natural product can work in the same way promises to herald new treatments for the virus.
Honeysuckle is a popular garden plant with highly perfumed flowers. There are approximately 180 species around the world, of which at least two are native to the UK and more than half of the rest to China.
Researchers from the Nanjing University School of Life Sciences in China found that a compound in the plant, called MIR2911, directly targets influenza A viruses.
You should be able to pick up honeysuckle tea in most good health shops or check on online at Amazon.
Source: DailyMail
