Crouch Writing Gallery
  • Crouch Writing Gallery
  • A Day in the Life of a Mom-Herbalist
  • My Spiritual Healing Journey
  • Non-Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Herbal List
  • Lemurian Diet
  • Virtual Herbarium
  • About
  • Contact
  • Book Membership

A Day in the Life of a Mom-Herbalist

This daily blog has been about the struggles of juggling motherhood with being a full-time student for the first eight months of its existence.  I still share some of my life now that I've graduated but I also share information each day on herbs that I've learned along this journey.   While my herbariums are listed for free membership, I provide four fields from them in my blog: Constituents (the active ingredients of the herbs), the therapeutic actions (Examples are expectorant and stimulant), indications (colds, skin rashes, emphysema, etc), and safety information. More information can be found in the herbariums but these are the most important educational fields.  I also share scientific studies to help educate people who think there are no studies showing herbs work.

Membership to this site is free.

Rosemary vs RSV

5/31/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Shin, Choi, Ryu, Lee, Kim, Choi, Chang, Lee, Jang, and Inn (2013) conducted a study testing the effectiveness of carnosic acid in treating human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV).  At the time of the study, there was no vaccine and no effective study.  They tested three herbs, the other two were not very effective against hRSV so they just used rosemary in this study.  They extracted carnosic acid, rosmarinic acid, and butalinic acid but focused the study on carnosic acid.  They also determined carnosol has no effect on hRSV.  The authors also evaluated cytotoxicity and determined there was minimal cell degradation due to toxicity. 

The results using carnosic acid against hRSV were effective.  After two days at a dose of 20 micrograms per milliliter, the virus had reduced by 26-fold.  At a dose of 50 midcr50 micrograms the number had risen to 1160-fold.  After four days at the 50 dose, there was no virus remaining. It was effective against both a and b type hRSV viruses.  However effective this was against hRSV, they tested it against the flu and had no effect suggesting it has a very specific way of working against some viruses.  Treatment 8 and 12 hours after infection were still effective at 70% and 50%.  

They also tested using pretreatment and the results suggested carnosic acid may inhibit hRSV infection.  While they still do not fully understand how it works, they think because it was ineffective against influenza A, it must attack the virus itself rather than protect the host cells.  For this same reason, they believe it does not attack the RNA of a virus.  The current thinking it is works against proteins which inhibits RNA synthesis.
 
Shin, H., Choi, M. Ryu, B., Lee, N., Kim, H., Choi, H., Chang, J., Lee, K. T., Jang, D. S., and Inn, K. (2013). Antiviral activity of carnosic acid against respiratory syncytial virus.  Virology Journal, 10:303.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    These pages are also linked on the Herbal Lists page but this is the list of things that get discussed more frequently so I added the link here.
    Constituents

    Indications

    Nutrients

    Side Effects

    Therapeutic Actions

    Find me on Gab Social

    Archives

    November 2020
    September 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

HOME

ABOUT

CONTACT

Proudly powered by Weebly
Most recently updated on June 20, 2020.  All rights reserved.
  • Crouch Writing Gallery
  • A Day in the Life of a Mom-Herbalist
  • My Spiritual Healing Journey
  • Non-Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Herbal List
  • Lemurian Diet
  • Virtual Herbarium
  • About
  • Contact
  • Book Membership