Cure bird flu with natural Chinese herb

Beatrix25

I'm not sure if thinking your way would make much of a sense as this avian flu is a dangerous thing and quick action need to be taken once one gets affected. If you can't get tamiflu you may always go for some alternatives. I read here http://www.drugdelivery.ca/bird-flu.aspx that amantadine and relenza are two effective alternatives to tamiflu.

Beatrix25

[quote:e0ec8beaa3="Chang"]I'm not sure if thinking your way would make much of a sense as this avian flu is a dangerous thing and quick action need to be taken once one gets affected. If you can't get tamiflu you may always go for some alternatives. I read here http://www.drugdelivery.ca/bird-flu.aspx that amantadine and relenza are two effective alternatives to tamiflu.[/quote:e0ec8beaa3]

Really?

Beatrix25

"Someone give me an answer, please. In a bird flu season, what can we do if we don't have the luck to get the Tamiflu drug? Can we instead have more meals cooked with Star Aniseeds, the drug's main material? "


http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bird-flu/DS00566/DSECTION=1&
As I understand it H5N1 (Bird Flu or HPAI = Highly pathogenic Avian Influenza) falls under the headding of warm disease theory, from the Wen Bing Xue. It is a True hot pestelential evil that really does not even attack at the Wei Qi level. It attacks the Blood level. S&S begin at the Shao Yang Re Zheng level, and progress very quickly from there. One is infected and can display no S&S for up to four days / 1 week thereby spreadding it to others unknowingly. (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/13/1374#T1 ) By the time you have S&S Tamiflu and Relenza are not very effective. I think this can be looked at from a preventative point of view, however. You Ping Feng San and Samboucol (download article here http://pdfserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/335082/pr.pdf )work well to consolidate the Wei Qi and prevent initial infection. However, once infected what is so dangerous is the Cytokine Cascade, Cytokine Storm.

The systemic symptoms of seasonal flu are caused by cytokine release, which are part of the human immune response. Cytokines are proteins, produced primarily by white blood cells. They provide signal to regulate immunological aspects of cell growth and function during both inflammation and specific immune response. Some cytokines can travel to distant sites through the blood stream and affect other organs, particularly the nervous system, where they can reset the body’s thermostat to cause a fever, or to the liver, where they cause the synthesis of substances used in fighting infection (such as ‘complement’). One of the many possible effects of cytokines is to summon other immune cells to the site of microbial attack and to activate those cells so that they, too, elaborate cytokines which in turn summon still more cells. This is a positive feedback loop and is ordinarily damped down by other cytokines signaling still other cells to elaborate still more cytokines that put the brakes on the process. In an H5N1 infection this process malfunctions and the brakes are never applied. In simple terms, in a “cytokine storm” there is an overabundance of cytokine production, which in turn produces more and more inflammation. The term “cytokine storm” is a common designation for the technical term hypercytokinemia sometimes spelled hypercytokinaemia. From a clinical perspective, a cytokine storm describes an immune system that has over-reacted and is damaging the body, causing massive uncontrolable internal inflamation, pulmonary hemorage, acute respiratory distress, multi organ infection, hemorage and failure. ie reckless movement of Hot blood. Cytokine storms can happen rapidly and patients who suffer them have high mortality. H5N1 moves quickly. Many studies / cases are showing initial onset of S&S to death in as little as 7 to 10 days. It strikes the young and healthy and thoes whos immune systems are strong.
I the last months H5N1 has spread through China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Turkey, Iraq and now Nigeria. All along the way it has mutated and has increased it's ability to spread more effectivly from H2H. Media is downplaying the severity, cases are going largely unreported in Iraq and Africa and Turkey. There is no vacine that can be made quickly enough to vaccinate millions of people. It is spreading along migratory bird routes and mixing with other Avian influenza sub types that spread easily from H2H, and it's doing it fast. IMHO the TCM community needs to take a serious look at this. Western medicine has very little to battle H5N1. Local and national athorities are telling the public that they will not be able to handle a pandemic and that we are largely "on our own". I would love more discussion on this topic. I believe TCM can really make a difference and I believe the Wen Bing Xue holds real answers.