Replied By Art (California) on 11/21/2021

If you have time, could you post the name of the product you use and where you buy it so we can know exactly what to get and where to get it?

Thank you!

Art

Replied By Tessa (Okanagan) on 11/21/2021

Thank you for the clarification of the wormwood family.

I do have a small tincture bottle of Wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium) ... no idea why I bought it - must have seemed a good idea at the time.

I've just ordered Artemisia Annua capsules online - much harder to find in Canada ($30 for 30 capsules). Just in case of the flu, etc.

Oddly enough, Health Canada did a safety review study on artemisia annua on March 23,2021. More people must be using it so it caught their attention.

Take care.

Cheers,

Tessa

Replied By Art (California) on 11/22/2021

Could you tell us which one you used with success?

Thank you!

On a related note, I found a Time Magazine article discussing the Nobel Prize award to Dr. Youyou Tu of China. His discovery was for an extract of Artemisia Annua which is known as Artemisinin, another commonly available supplement. His discovery was for the use of Artemisinn, to fight the parasite which causes malaria in animals and humans. Artemisinin is far superior to Artemisia Annua for this purpose and this is very important because the parasite was rapidly becoming resistant to Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as the main treatments for malaria in Africa. Here is a link to that Time article :

https://time.com/4061207/nobel-prize-medicine-ancient-chinese-remedy/

Here is an important quote from the article :

>>> ' In Africa, the drug is thought to be responsible for saving over 100,000 lives annually.

Artemisinin-based combination therapies are currently the first line of treatment against malaria, and the medical community will continue to use them in the absence of an effective vaccine. ' <<<

So this leaves the burning question of whether Artemisia Annua or Artemisinin is the better choice for Covid-19? That question brought me to this review article :

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.649532/full

This review only discussed the extract of Artemisia Annua, Artemisinin and some of its derivatives and did show that it has activity against Covid-19, but it also mentioned hepatotoxic effects (liver damage) seen in a significant number (25%) of patients. So it is useful but has some downside.

Regarding the deceased president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, who died from heart complications. His is an odd story as he did not seem to think Covid-19 was real, yet he seemed to be all in to import a drink from Madagascar called Covid Organics that contained an Artemisia plant-derived ingredient to fight Covid-19. Here is a link to the article :

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52519853

Here is a link regarding his death:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56437852

Art

Replied By June (Cincinnati ) on 11/22/2021

Here is one link with sort of an overview.

Https://www.cancertreatmentsresearch.com/Artemisia-annua-its-extract-artemisinin/

Here's a link to the product we use. I'm sure other products are good too.

https://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-full-spectrum-wormwood-425-mg-90-caps

Finally, I wanted to add that the deceased President of Tanzania has been totally misquoted and misrepresented in the media. I watched his original videos that have been scrubbed. He was actually brilliant, I thought. He wasn't saying that the virus didn't exist. He was saying that the PCR test was ridiculous and various other things.

Replied By Pam (New Zealand) on 01/26/2022

Replied By Donna (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) on 07/24/2022

I and my whole family had a terrible case of a covid variant of some sort in June of 2022, I am the caretaker of everyone and I am the oldest with a very compromised immune system. I was terrified that this variant was going to kill me as it travelled through my body looking for my weak parts and attacking my brain and my lungs causing infection.

I was taking many supplements that may have been helping but 2 weeks in and I was still sick as a dog.. no energy, huge night sweats, terrible pain in brain and muscles and joints, extremely weak, nautious, coughing, phlegm?, and it goes on and on.. never had a flu like this, many of the words seem the same but this was very different from the typical flu and it was frightening.

At 3 am, in desperation, fevered, and a constant headache, I went to earthclinic to see what might be working.. I tried many of the things that were recommended, but nothing had turned it around, then I saw one post on wormwood, I knew I had some in my cupboard somewhere, but it was not the kind you recommend.

It was Wormwood Artimesia (?) so running out of options, I opened a cap and put it in a small amount of warm water and drank it down and went back to sleep. I awoke 5 hrs later with the virus completely dead. It was no longer travelling through my body, my headache was gone, my temp was normal, the sweats had stopped, the body aches and pains were gone, I could breath. It felt like a miracle, I could not believe it, but thanked God, as it seemed I was loosing this battle, but even 2 weeks into covid, and 1 cap of wormwood artimesia, it was gone.

I have been over what felt like a bioweapon in my body now for a few weeks, but the virus? did leave some damage, the lack of energy, and secondary infections. I have been attempting to fix with colloidal silver and high dose melitonin.. all infections seem to be under control and receding and energy is slowly returning. I will go out and buy some of the wormwood you mentioned, but will also keep some of the Wormwood Artimesian in my First-Aid kit as well.

Do you know why the Artimesian type is not recommended? Sorry about the spelling of the word, I do not have the bottle in front of me.

Anyways, thank you Earth Clinic and community for being a light in the darkness and helping people to get well and have the best health they can have.