Tea made from honeysuckle treats flu

Chinese scientists have found that honeysuckle tea can fight the flu. If the boil honeysuckle, this plant produces molecules that contribute to combat influenza virus.

Tea made from honeysuckle

This is the conclusion of scientists Nanjing University in China, who observed the natural methods treatment of influenza . Researchers We found that boiled honeysuckle helps fight the virus influenza mice, working as "antiviral penicillin." In China, tea honeysuckle used for many centuries the names to fight the flu, but it study was the first scientific confirmation of this tradition.

Experiments showed that Honeysuckle can be quite effective against several influenza strains that caused very serious concerns on our planet the different periods of history, including the "Spanish flu", as well as avian and swine flu. Chinese researchers found that after drinking tea honeysuckle in mice absorbed molecule from the plant known as MIR 2911 which enters the bloodstream and lung tissue.

The molecule inhibits various influenza virus, blocking the two genes that are used to the virus to reproduce. The study is published in the journal Cell Research. They showed that the honeysuckle helps reduce mortality among mice from the H5N1 influenza virus and prevent new infections with other strains. Therefore and the way the effectiveness of the oldest means treatment of influenza   in Chinese traditional medicine proved. (READ CONT)

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