Natural Anti-Bacterial, Anti-Viral, and Anti-Fungus Agents
There are a number of herbs, minerals and vitamins that work synergistically to support your immune system and thus help you to prevent or treat bacterial, viral, or fungal infections.
Goldthread (Coptis chinensis)
- Principle constituent: isoquinoline alkaloids--- berberine, coptisine, urbenine, worenine, palmatine, jatrorrhizine, and columbamine. Contraindicated during pregnancy.
- Antibacterial agent:
- Berberine inhibits carbohydrate metabolism and protein synthesis of bacteria.
- Complexes with bacterial nucleic acids, inhibiting proliferation.
- Effective in controlling a broad range of microbes, including Vibrio cholerae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Candida albicans, Mycobacterium intracellulaceae
- Controls Helicobacter pylori (HP) infections induced in lab animals perfused with cultures from human patients with HP gastritis.
- Has demonstrated anti-protozoal and anti-viral properties.
- Inhibits Blastocystis hominis in vitro.
- Improves phagocytic activity of cells of the immune system.
Forsythia suspensa
- Displays inhibitory antibacterial action against a broad range of organisms, including Shigella species, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholerae and pneumococci.
- Acts as a febrifuge and anti-inflammatory agent.
- Traditional Chinese medical indications:
- Used to support the Immune System during common acute crises.
- Clears heat and toxin and expels exogenous wind-heat.
Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)
- Exhibits in vitro inhibitory anti-microbial action against Salmonella typhi, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus dysenterii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Demonstrates in vitro inhibitory effect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Manifesto ability to deactivate some strains of influenza virus.
- Traditional Chinese medical indications:
- Dissipates heat and reduces fire toxicity.
- Expels exogenous wind-heat and summer heat.
- Eliminates damp-heat from the Lower Burner.
Garlic (Allium sativum)
- Inhibits Candida albicans in animal studies and Cryptococcal meningitis in human trials.
- Exhibits broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity:
- Gram-positive bacteria: Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Streptomyces griseus, Staphylococcus aureus, Lactobacillus plantarum.
- Gram-negative bacteria: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Xanthomonas maltophilia.
- Demonstrates in vitro virucidal activity against herpes
simplex virus type 1, herpes simplex virus type 2, parainfluenza
virus type 3, vaccinia virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, and
human rhinovirus type 2.
- The order for virucidal activity among constituent compounds generally was: ajoene > allicin > allyl methyl thiosulfinate > methyl allyl thiosulfinate.
Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha)
- Demonstrates in vitro inhibitory effect against fungal organisms
- Traditional Chinese medical indications:
- Revitalizes the Blood and alleviates Blood stasis.
- Promotes healing and regeneration of tissue.
Echinacea species (Coneflower)
- Immuno-stimulatory effects
- Stimulate Alternate Complement Pathway.
- Elevate WBC counts & activate them through membrane receptors.
- Enhances significantly in lab animals the numbers of natural killer cells and monocytes, cell types associated with non-specific immunity.
- Increases oxidative burst anti-microbial activity and lyphokine secretions of WBCs.
- Anti-viral properties
- Inhibit viral organisms (influenza, herpes) in vitro.
- Block viral receptors on cell membranes.
- Enhance interferon release.
- Promote elimination of virus-infested cells.
- Mild anti-bacterial properties.
- Inhibit hyaluronidase
Bioflavonoids
- Manifest “Vitamin P” activity: increase intracellular levels of vitamin C.
- Display a broad scope of anti-viral, anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory actions.
Zinc
- Involved in all aspects of cellular & humoral immunity.
- Particularly important: young children & elderly.
- Assists in the restoration of reduced levels of thymic hormones.
- Shortens duration of acute rhinitis infections.
- Inhibits viral replication (rhino, picorna, Herpes simplex, vaccinia).
- Inhibits inflammation of respiratory mucosa and infection by human rhinovirus.
Vitamin A
- Maintains non-specific host defenses by supporting the integrity of respiratory and gastro-intestinal mucosal tissues and their secretions.
- Plays “a major role in immunity, including expression of mucins and keratins, lymphopoiesis, apoptosis, cytokine expression, production of antibody, and the function of neutrophils, natural killer cells, monocytes or macrophages, T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes.”
- “Reduces morbidity and mortality in different infectious diseases, such as measles, diarrhoeal disease, measles-related pneumonia, human immunodeficiency virus infection and malaria.”
- Shortens duration of common viral infections in children.
- Prevents stress-induced thymic involution and promotes normal thymic development.
- Enhances white blood cell function and antibody response.
Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid)
- White blood cell levels are rapidly depleted during infection.
- Enhances “neutrophil functions including increased chemotaxis, increased particulate ingestion, enhanced lysozyme-mediated non-oxidative killing, protection against the toxic effects of superoxide anion radical.”
- Increases interferon levels, antibody responses, antibody levels, and thymic hormone release.
- Inhibits viral and bacterial growth in vitro.
Dosage
- Coptis chinensis Extract (10:1), 100mg
- Forsythia suspense Extract (20:1), 50mg
- Lonicera japonica Extract (7:1), 150mg
- Allium sativum Extract (Allicin 13mg/g), 200mg
- Commiphora myrrha powder, 200 mg
- Echinacea angustifolia (4% phenolics), 250mg
- Citrus Bioflavonoid Complex 40%, 200mg
- Zinc (citrate), 10mg
- Vitamin A, 10,000 IU
- Vitamin C (pure ascorbic acid), 500mg
Recommended dosage: 2 or 3 capsules 3-4 times daily.
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