From mouthwashes to chocolate and green tea, the foods purported to help fight the coronavirus are long.
Now there is a new perspective.
Extract of the medicinal plant rockrose could be effective against the pathogen Sars-CoV-2.
Research groups have observed this healing process in the laboratories.
Virologist Sebastian Ulbert assesses the situation.
Munich - A new
vaccine
is supposed to
protect
people from the
corona
virus.
There are always new headlines about this vaccine - questions like
“How effective is it?”
And
“Do I get vaccinated or not?”
Are being asked by millions of people around the world.
There are always new perspectives and foods that
are supposed to help
against the
coronavirus pathogen
Sars-CoV-2
.
From chocolate, green tea and mouthwashes that are supposed to kill bacteria in the throat.
The list of "Corona remedies" is long.
Now there should be a new finding, as researchers from Leipzig have found out.
Can a lolly made from the medicinal plant
rockrose
(Cistus) really protect us from the pathogen?
Coronavirus: a medicinal plant against corona?
Cistus lozenges are said to reduce viruses
A substance in from the medicinal plant
rock rose
found and processed in Lutschbonons could against the pathogen
SARS-CoV-2
help him and fight, reports
Bild.de
.
The medicinal plant was examined by scientists from the research group in Leipzig - and this process was observed in the laboratory for a long time.
The result of the research: Cistus reduces the multiplication of
Sars-CoV-2 in cell cultures
.
On behalf of the Lower Saxony manufacturer “Dr.
Pandalis ”, the
Frauenhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology
carried out the laboratory tests with the rockrose extract.
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The extract from the medicinal plant rockrose is said to help against the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen
© imago images / blickwinkel / F.xHeckerx
Corona research in Germany - virologist with a clear assessment
Sebastian Ulbert
, virologist and head of the immunology department and the
vaccine technologies division
at the Fraunhofer Institute, gives
Bild.de
a clear assessment of how the development of this medicinal plant has shown itself: “In our high-security laboratory, we checked whether the extract allowed the
viruses to multiply
influenced in cell culture.
We were able to observe that the increase was significantly reduced ”.
Scientists first have to prove in clinical studies whether the medicinal plant with the Cistus extract helps us humans in matters of corona.
Because before the citizens stock up completely on the Cistus sweets and speak of a miracle: there is currently no
evidence
“of medical effectiveness in humans”, emphasizes Sebastian Ulbert.
Not yet.
Corona pathogen Sars-CoV-2 with the healing effect of the Cistus extract?
Cistus has an inhibitory effect against viruses - this prove especially several scientific studies that against the pathogen of
birds
- and
swine flu
proceed
are.
The portal
hna.de also
reports that, among other things, a study by the Institute for Transfusion Medicine of the
Berlin Charité
in 2009 is said to have found that it is said to have had a soothing effect on patients with
respiratory diseases
.
Cistus lozenges are available in drug stores and pharmacies.
Nevertheless, if you have any symptoms that can occur when you are infected with the coronavirus, please consult a doctor.
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