I'm missing an ingredient to the Leaky Cauldron Remedy for the bird flu.

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Leaky Caulderon Remedy for the Bird Flu:

A squeeze of oil of oregano
a smash of olive leaf extract
two plump elderberries
a snort of sambucol
and virgin coconut oil.

This is only half joking. All the ingredients ARE turning up as remedies or treatments for the bird flu. But I know I'm missing one ingredient. It involved fish oil. Can someone remember what the tablets were called?

(Life in the 21st century doesn't seem much different than what it must have been like in the dark ages.)

[Fridays Child]

1. Chinese Star Anise extract?

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19. I love Anise. I had no idea that there was a Chinese version.

[Fridays Child]

21. Chinese Star Anise is the primary source of shikimic acid...

...the basic ingredient in Tamiflu. This thread from the other day, names another source of shikimic acid, as well.

Also, I think that kimchi needs to be studied, as a remedy for H5N1 infection. There are a lot of kimchi recipes, and I'm not sure which one would be the best. But, looking around my town, I see that it would be very difficult to find any kimchi, at all. According to this article, the therapeutic component of kimchi has been isolated. I'm guessing that we'll see it in capsule form before too long.

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24. Kimchi. Love the name.

I think I'll name my next dog, Kimchi.

[catnhatnh]

2. Christ,go to the cooking and baking forum.....

....this sounds like the start of every recipe Husb2sparkly has ever posted....

on edit: If you add garlic...

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4. LOL!

:rofl:

[uppityperson]

3. gizzard of a newt?

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5. Oh, that's too obvious.

It had to do with fish.

[uppityperson]

6. codliver oil?

vitamin fIsh oil capsules?

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9. They're smelly, whatever they are.

But someone suggested a brand that wasn't quite as smelly.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Catfish.

Birds hate cats.

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10. Oh, then I guess they'll get the last laugh when the cats eat them

and get the bird flu.

[stillcool]

7. emulsified something?

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13. Oh, yeah. Something like that.

?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. I think the missing ingreedient is "bullshit."

Lots and lots of bullshit.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Interesting stuff......

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003115.html

Randall and interested readers should please have a look at http://www.cholecalciferol-council.com and especially the newsletter archived at http://www.cholecalciferol-council.com/pascal.pdf for interesting discussion of a possible role for vitamin D3 in control of the cytokine storm. If I understand correctly, there's some evidence, by no means conclusive, that circulating 25-OH-vitamin-D3 (calcidiol) is converted by pulmonary alveolar macrophages to 1{alpha},25-OH(2)-vitamin-D3 (calcitriol) and that in this context calcitriol serves as a paracrine hormone that reduces the inflammatory activity of these macrophages. On these hypotheses, macrophages' sensitivity to paracrine calcitriol may restrain them from producing the "cytokine storm." Thus, proper immune response to an influenzal infection may require vitamin-D3 sufficiency so that there will be enough circulating calcidiol to allow its uptake and conversion to calcitriol by macrophages at the infection site. John Cannell, M.D., author of the newsletter and of the website, suggests targeting 50 ng/ml as a healthy level of circulating 25-OH-vitamin-D3 (calcidiol). He recommends moderate exposure to ultraviolet B from sunlight or sunlamps, or consumption of vitamin D3 in food or supplements sufficient to raise circulating calcidiol to the target.

[elfin]

12. Probably sauerkraut juice

Lots of articles about that some time back - primarily kimchi (sp?) - Korean sauerkraut - but Frank's brand is made here in wisconsin and they were cashing in for a while as people stockpiled.

Yum - should go well with the other stuff.

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14. Kimchi. A square of Kimchi, crumbled.

Sounds good.

[Emit]

15. Someone told me to eat sauerkraut

or a version of it called kimchi :

Kimchi is made up of things like garlic, Chinese cabbage, carrots and fish sauce. Korean researchers fed kimchi to 13 chickens infected with avian flu, and within a week 11 of them started recovering.

The key may be a good type of bacteria, also found in sauerkraut.

Curiously, it does have fish sauce in it.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:7Hdqr3RilqMJ:kutv.com/watercooler/local_story_307171351.html+bird+flu+sour+kraut&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

[AnnieBW]

18. Kimchi Would Kill ANYTHING

That stuff is NASTY!

[renate]

16. do DHA and EPA ring a bell?

Docosohexaenoic acid and eicosopentaenoic acid. :shrug:

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17. Too technical. It was something as simple as Nepal tablets.

[renate]

22. Nordic Naturals?

Nordic, Nepal... they're both far away. ???

http://www.vitacost.com/NordicNaturalsCompleteOmega

They don't taste nasty like most fish oil supplements do.

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23. LOL! You're beginning to think like me.

You may have stumbled onto it. Hey, I found vitacost.com last night too! Great place for my neo-pagan herbal remedies that seem to be curing everything that the multi-billion dollar Pharmas cannot.

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20. But I am convinced it is cod liver oil. I just can't remember the brand.