Study shows Israeli elderberry extract effective against avian flu

Israel21c ^ | January 25, 2006 | Nicky Blackburn

[who knows what evil?]

Got Sambucol?

[ozoneliar]

What? Were you expecting a muslim 'scientist' to come up with this?

[Ben Mugged]

Sounds like my Grandmas cure for what ails you. Mix elderberry juice with moonshine. Take two tablespoons until you no longer care.

[Coronal]

If your father takes it, will he smell of elderberries?

[moog]

I hear kimchi is fairly effective too.

[Perdogg]

Is that the same as Sambuca?

[mylife]

[EternalHope]

These are some pretty spectacular claims. The doctor making the claims is selling products in a notoriously publicity driven market, and that market generally has little actual scientific proof for the claims made.

I hope it's real, but...
Are there any peer reviewed articles/sources to back these claims up?

[bybybill]

Somebody must have a big bunch of elderberry cause its being pushed as the cure for everything. It has a lot of antioxidents but, a little dab won`t do you,got to take a lot, maybe as much as a pt. a day.

[JustDoItAlways]

You can put thousands of substances into a test tube and kill influenza virus.

Drop some hydrocloric acid in, for example, and there isn't much virus left.

Treatments and cures have to be widely-available for everyone to use and they have to be deliverable in pill form or injectionable or whatever to be useful.

in-vitro test-tube effectiveness does not equal usefulness for treatment.

[SevenofNine]

OHH ALOUETTE LOL!

Next time you tell me Chicken soup cure anything LOL!

[VeniVidiVici]

Thank God. I was getting tired of sauerkraut.

[djf]

5 hits on PubMed for Sambucol.

Over 37,000 for aspirin.

Sounds like you're better off just drinking it in wine form.

[adorno]

Study shows Israeli elderberry extract effective against avian flu

For a second there I thought I was reading about a micacle cure form Israeli elderly. I pictured the elderly in Israel running for the hills. Then, as I read further into the article, I realized that I had to come back to re-read the beginning of the article.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Shortly afterwards, a further randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted in Norway, where Sambucol was shown to significantly reduce the duration of flu by approximately four days."

That sounds like the gold-standard of science. Would be nice to see it repeated.

[AmericaUnite]

Might be worth having in the house.
http://www.iherb.com/sambucol.html
Natures Way had many Vitamin stores that carry their products. Don't know if they have Sambucol in the loca stores they list.

[little jeremiah]

FYI. Says it increases cytikines, though. But could still work?

(Think I got all on my mini-pinglist.)

[skinkinthegrass]

Sci Ping..berry Bump

[Stellar Dendrite]

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