Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly when sprayed into the nose.
Even though trial treatments are being used to treat bird flu in humans, technically termed the H5N1 virus, the vaccine has the potential for numerous other uses, such as for the common flu shot, says Dr. Ian Tizard
“We take Aloe vera leaves and put them through a series of complex extraction steps to produce a chemically pure powder, and then we combine the flu vaccine with it,” he explains.
“When this powder vaccine is puffed into the nose, it forms a jelly-like substance that clings to the inside of the nose and is absorbed into the body much more effectively. It stays longer and it has more time to do its work.”
Tizard, who has conducted research using Aloe vera plants for many years, says the special carbohydrate in Aloe vera leaves is perfect for forming the gel-like substance needed to act as a carrier for the vaccine.
One more example of products in nature serving more uses than we ever imagined. The potential for delivering medication this way makes all kinds of sense. Especially for people who freak over needles.
You can also use this with other compounds that are consumed through the nose. Shhhhh! Don’t tell the drug dealers!
I’d probably just sneeze and blow all this crap out.
Isn’t this how George W. got through Yale? He always preferred his nose to a needle.
It may be great for those who freak out over needles, but how about those who fear being suffocated by gel-like substance being stuck up their nose?
#4
You can always breathe through your nose.
Corporations will now grab every aloe plant in existence, causing their own profits to rise, and the extinction of aloe.
What science is discovering about plants in the last 20 years is amazing. Humans have used nature to cure itself since the days when we hid in trees, and finally we are going back to the tried and true as well as finding so many new uses for old cures.
Carrington Labs has been making a remarkable product for years from Aloe Vera. My favorite is Carrasyn, a gel that heals wounds. Works great, we’re never without a tube. One crazy friend healed his infected sinuses by snorting the get. All other treatments, antibiotics etc. had failed. We laughed, but he got the last laugh – his sinuses healed in 3 days.
Grow your own aloe vera plants and just break off a leaf and squeeze the sap on a wound. Works great.
http://www.carringtonlabs.com/
Another is Arnica, a gel made from Arnica Montana, the only product I’ve ever used that actually makes bruises and blisters disappear. It has other uses too and has been an herbal treatment since the 1500’s.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/arnica-000222.htm
Isn’t nature cool?
the human body is remarkable…
IF you can isolate a section to keep infection AWAY, it heals VERY quickly.
The trick is isolating the location from reinfection or the Cause, and not cutting it OFF for the Good stuff thats healing it.
#6 – Ive got an aloe plan at my house – if this happens I’ll put it on ebay & rake in teh cash