Rediscovered Native American Remedy Kills Poxvirus
An old herbal remedy for treating smallpox that is thought to have been used by Native Americans in the late 1800s has been rediscovered and found to kill poxviruses.
Smallpox has been eradicated, but the finding offers a possible treatment for poxvirus in the unlikely event of a bioterror attack or increased incidence of similar poxviruses such as monkeypox.
Smallpox ravaged human populations for thousands of years, but in 1796 Edward Jenner discovered that exposure to cowpox lesions could provide immunity to smallpox.
This led to the creation of the first vaccine for a disease. It took some time, but in 1979 the World Health Organization officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated.
Historical sources suggest that in the 1800s when smallpox still posed a serious threat, the Micmac native Americans of Nova Scotia treated the disease using a botanical infusion derived from the insectivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea, a species of pitcher plant (pictured above).
Now, Jeffrey Langland at Arizona State University in Tempe, US, and colleagues have conducted in vitro experiments with the herbal extract and found it inhibits replication of the variola virus, the causative agent behind smallpox.
Although natural smallpox no longer poses a health threat, there is a remote possibility that unstable states or terrorist groups could have acquired stocks of the virus following the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had developed smallpox as a biological warfare agent.
Vaccinations are still administered to at-risk groups including researchers working with poxviruses and members of the US military who could potentially be exposed to the virus through biological warfare.
But since the risk is so low for populations at large, it is hard to justify vaccinating everyone, mainly because the vaccine can have serious side effects. Developing therapies is therefore important in order to treat people if a bioterror event does occur.
’There is much skepticism on herbal medicine but what our results illustrate conclusively is that this herb is able to kill the virus and we can actually demonstrate how it kills the virus,’ says Langland. ’It takes this herb out of the realm of folklore, and into the area of true scientific evidence.’
The team made extracts of S. purpurea and found that it was highly effective at inhibiting the replication of the virus in rabbit kidney cells. They then looked at the replication cycle of the virus and found that the herb inhibits mRNA synthesis, halting the production of proteins vital for replication.
’Other drugs are being developed against smallpox, but S. purpurea is the only known therapy that will target the virus at this point in the replication cycle,’ says Langland.
’The extract blocks early transcription appearing to have a distinct mechanism of action from that of two other antivirals currently in clinical trials,’ says Mark Buller, a virologist at Saint Louis University, Missouri, US. ’The results are compelling and support the need to further evaluate the purified active ingredient in small animal studies.’
’With smallpox, it is obviously impossible to see if this herb is effective in the human body unless a bioterror release of the virus occurs,’ says Langland. ’We are in the process of doing animal studies to confirm our results in at least this type of whole animal system.’
For 180 years the cabal has buried a formerly well-known natural treatment (I’d call it a cure) for smallpox & related illnesses!
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Tom
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I’ll take herbal medicine over big pharma drugs anytime. High potency cayenne tincture (180KHU) is very good for treating heart problems.
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Saighdear
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I’m inclined to be heading that way….. after so m any years. fortunately I haven’t needed much so far. Maw has fed us well on wholesome good food.
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Artelia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia_purpurea
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Mark Tapley
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The myth about Edward Jenner and the fake small pox is covered by Dr Suzanne Humphries MD in her book “Dissolving Illusions” which gives the real history of the fraud of so called vaccination. Here is also what Dr. Vernon Coleman stated about the Jenner small pox lie. After all the small pox myth is just another germ theory allopathic lie just like St. Pasteur:
“One of the medical profession’s greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed this claim for many years. But it simply isn’t true. One of the worst smallpox epidemics of all time took place in England between 1870 and 1872 – nearly two decades after compulsory vaccination was introduced. After this evidence that smallpox vaccination didn’t work the people of Leicester in the English midlands refused to have the vaccine any more. When the next smallpox epidemic struck in the early 1890s the people of Leicester relied upon good sanitation and a system of quarantine. There was only one death from smallpox in Leicester during that epidemic. In contrast the citizens of other towns (who had been vaccinated) died in vast numbers. ……Doctors and drug companies may not like it but the truth is that surveillance, quarantine and better living conditions got rid of smallpox – not the smallpox vaccine……It is worth pointing out that Edward Jenner, widely feted as the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, tried out the first smallpox vaccination on his own 10 month old son. His son remained mentally retarded until his death at the age of 21. Jenner refused to have his second child vaccinated. “—- Dr Vernon Coleman MB
More truth about the small pox lie:
Health professionals:
“In Australia when a few children died as a result of smallpox vaccinations the government abolished compulsory vaccination in that country and smallpox suddenly declined to the vanishing point. Australia had only three cases of smallpox in 15 years as compared with Japan’s record of 165,774 cases and 28,979 deaths from this cause in only 7 years (1886-1892) under compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination.”–Eleanor McBean
“Dr Lindlahr further states that: “The pus-like mass exuding from the Small-pox pustule contains the virus not only of Small-pox but also of scrofula, psora, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhoea, anthrax, lumpy jaw and poisons in the animal or human being from which the virus was secured.””—–H Valentine Knaggs
“We all know that the vaccinating of the children of Japan against small-pox– a disgraceful mass medication spree engineered by our conquering army’s medical doctors–resulted in putting eye-glasses on fully 50% of the race that Admiral Perry–back in 1870–reported to have the “finest eyesight of any nation in the world.” –TM Schippell ND
“Smallpox was on the way out, indeed epidemics disappeared decades before the WHO decided to conduct the final “eradication” campaign. It is also well-documented that the largest epidemics occurred in the most highly vaccinated populations, while whose who were unvaccinated, did not have the same epidemics. “–Viera Scheibner
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Sol Luckman
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At this point, after over two years during which virology has been vigorously and redundantly debunked, it’s important to realize that anyone still talking about “viruses” with a straight face is either a fool or a tool.
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Michael l Javick
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go away scammer
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