AVIAN FLU IS COMING, and STAR ANISE IS A KNOWN CURE!
You have some of this magic powder, around, right? You probably do. It's an ingredient in five spice, a common chinese seasoning agent.
http://www.masterjules.net/avianflu.htm is my article on the disease (headed here as we speak!)
It is Viral, ergo no commercial medicine can nail it. BUT HOLISTIC HEALERS have many VIRICIDES.And, NOW this star anise magic healing info shows up. Article from "The Independent", a newspaper in the U.K.
Why an exotic fruit is the world's
only weapon against bird flu
by Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 15 October 2005
A rare herb grown in China used to flavour duck
dishes and treat infants
for colic is at the centre of a worldwide search
for a cure for avian flu.
Star anise, the unusual fruit of a small oriental
tree, is sold in
supermarkets in the UK to consumers seeking its
pungent, liquorice-like
flavour.
But the herb has a vital function as the source
of shikimic acid from
which the drug Tamiflu is made, the only defence
the world currently has
against the threatened flu pandemic.
Tamiflu cannot prevent infection with avian
flu but it can reduce its
severity. In the absence of an effective
vaccine - which has not yet
been developed - it is all that stands between
the world and what could
become a modern plague.
Yesterday it emerged that a shortage of star anise
is one of the key
reasons why countries including Britain cannot
obtain enough Tamiflu to protect
their populations. European Union ministers met
yesterday to discuss
measures to reduce contact between wild birds
and poultry to curb its
spread.
The deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, which has
infected more than 100
humans, killing more than 60, in the Far East,
was identified this week
in poultry in Turkey. Results of tests on infected
birds in Romania are
expected to be revealed on Monday. EU scientistsagreed
measures that
could lead to millions of chickens and turkeys
being kept indoors to prevent
contact with migrating birds.
In Britain, the Animal Welfare minister Ben Bradshaw
said that the
Government had not ruled out ordering free-range
poultry in Britain to
be moved indoors.
As moves to halt the growing threat of avian flu
intensified,
governments sought to stockpile the only drug
currently available to offer any sort
of defence for humans. The herb from which Tamiflu
is made is grown in four
provinces in China and "huge quantities" of its
seeds are needed,
according to the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer
Roche.
It is harvested by local farmers between March
and May, purified and the
shikimic acid extracted at the start of a 10-stage
manufacturing process
which takes a year.
Only star anise grown in the four provinces of
China is suitable for
manufacture into Tamiflu and 90 per cent of the
harvest is already used
by Roche.
The company has faced demands to relax the patent
on the drug to allow
other manufacturers to produce it.
Keith Taylor, of the Green Party, said: "Some
countries have asked the
World Health Organisation to pressure Roche into
relinquishing the patent in
order to allow a cheaper, generic version of
the drug to be produced on a
national level.
"The WHO refuses, citing Roche's donation of three
million treatment
courses as evidence that Roche is being responsible.
This decision jeopardises
millions of lives in the name of profit and is
anything but responsible."
However, Roche responded by saying: "Because of
the shortage of the raw
material it would be very difficult for another
manufacturer to set up
production."
The UK Government has ordered 14.6 million courses
of Tamiflu, enough
for 25 per cent of the population, but only 2.5
million courses have so far
been delivered. Other countries, including the
United States, are behind the
UK in the queue. Roche said it had doubled production
of Tamiflu in 2004,
doubled it again in 2005 and planned to double
it again next year. But
it said calls for the patent on the drug to be
removed so that other
companies could boost manufacturing capacity
to meet the worldwide demand would
not work.
The spokeswoman said: "It would take two to three
years for another
company to build the manufacturing capacity.
The process is very complicated and
the drug takes us 12 months to produce. Once
you have built the facilities
you have to get regulatory approval and the manufacturing
licences.
"And then there is the shortage of the raw material."
Roche has developed a synthetic source of acidinic
acid, made from the
bacterium E Coli. Vast quantities of E Coli are
mixed with glucose in
vats the size of two buses. But star anise remains
the chief source, the
company said.
Once shikimic acid is extracted from the seeds
of star anise it is
converted to epoxide in a process requiring three
chemical steps carried out at
low temperature on seven separate sites.
The most dangerous part of the process involves
the conversion of
epoxide into azide in a reaction that produces
highly explosive material. This
is carried out by specialist companies that handle
the material in small
quantities to reduce the risk of explosion.
Currently only one US company and two European
companies are approved by
the drug regulatory authorities in America and
Europe to carry out the
process.
The final step involves the production of crystal
strands of the active
ingredient of Tamiflu, whose chemical name is
oseltamivir, which are
vacuum dried and converted to capsules.
The World Health Organisation yesterday declined
to comment on reports
that it was in negotiation with Roche over the
lifting of the patent on
Tamiflu.
"If we were in discussion with them it would be
to relieve the supply
shortage of the drug and to help poorer countries.
"But it would not be helpful to do that in public,"
a WHO spokesman
said.
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/staranis.html
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/a/anise041.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_anise
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