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mer said:
Stuff like this is good; go back a few generations and everyone had an herb garden with plants used for both cooking and home remedies.
Spices used in a lot of different cooking? Same thing.
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Also of interest (that I have been reading about, but not tried yet) are mint, rosemary and lavender, which I believe are in the same family of plants as thyme. All of these aromatic herbs appear to have some anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. The principle active compounds differ in each plant, but they have all been studied for anti-viral activity. Honey has been shown to have some anti-viral activity too. Apart from tamiflu (and a couple of others) we have no modern drugs to fight the influenza virus, AFAIK, and I have read that some variants of flu virus are already resistant to tamiflu. Of course a cup of herb tea is only going to go so far to fighting the damn virus, it's not a cure, unfortunately.

Influenza Antiviral Drug Resistance

Learn about flu antiviral drug resistance.
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov

Another interesting paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210803322000732
As usual, they conclude that "more research is needed".
 
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Maturin said:
Grow some herbs doesn't necessarily need a garden. A good place at a window, some patience, and experience is all you need. Plant pots, soil, and seed you get in your local do-it-yourself-store the whole year, or in spring time in every super market for a few bucks. Or just buy a pot with already grown herbs, and garden those. Most herbs are undemanding. It's a real luxury easy and cheap to get to have fresh parsley, basil, cive, thyme, coriander or others always at hands in your kitchen. ALL herbs not only improve health, but very much improve every dish you cook - it's the finishing touch. Very recommendable.
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My local supermarkets all seem to stock fresh cut herbs nowadays, and not very expensive. One pack lasts a long time, I can get maybe 10 pots of tea from one pack of cut fresh thyme. You don't need a large amount.
 
A hospital study showed the essential oil can be used to kill anti-biotic resistant MRSA.

BBC News - Essential oils destroy MRSA, Brighton scientists say

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And a development of the active ingredient thymol was published in Nature
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Development and optimization of thymol-loaded nanoemulsions for enhanced antimicrobial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Scientific Reports

The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) necessitates the development of novel antimicrobial strategies. This study developed and optimized thymol-loaded nanoemulsions (TNE) as a standardized, reproducible alternative to variable essential oil formulations using...
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So it can have some quite impressive effects.
 
But there is no profit for the pharma if everyone plants rosemary, harvests its, extracts oil and uses it as a cleaner around the house.
White vinegar is also great for cleaning/disinfecting.
 
Elon Musk posted an interesting thought on his X.com account: The Future Is Autonomous. It's written in sort of like a way a maniac would write some weird stuff on the wall with his victim's blood in a primetime crime TV series.

Translate to English: AI is autonomous, meaning no guardrails past what's set up before turning it on, Jesus take the wheel, can't do nuthin about about, don't shoot the messenger.


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blackbird9 said:
Also of interest (that I have been reading about, but not tried yet) are mint, rosemary and lavender, which I believe are in the same family of plants as thyme. All of these aromatic herbs appear to have some anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. The principle active compounds differ in each plant, but they have all been studied for anti-viral activity. Honey has been shown to have some anti-viral activity too. Apart from tamiflu (and a couple of others) we have no modern drugs to fight the influenza virus, AFAIK, and I have read that some variants of flu virus are already resistant to tamiflu. Of course a cup of herb tea is only going to go so far to fighting the damn virus, it's not a cure, unfortunately.

Influenza Antiviral Drug Resistance

Learn about flu antiviral drug resistance.
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov

Another interesting paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210803322000732
As usual, they conclude that "more research is needed".
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IMO very good site:
https://examine.com/
 
fernandel said:
IMO very good site:
https://examine.com/
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Yeah, I don't trust any supplements. Unlike pharmaceuticals they are unregulated, you don't know whether what it says on the label is what is in the pill, or what other junk is in the pill that is not stated on the label. There is only one thing I take in the winter months which is the vitamin D as recommended by the UK NHS, because at these latitudes we don't get enough sun to make it naturally. Even the supermarket multivitamins may not be safe. It's better to get it from your diet, imho.

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Vitamin D

Find out about vitamin D, including what it does, how much you need, and how to ensure you get enough.
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www.health.harvard.edu

Is it okay to take multivitamins? - Harvard Health

Healthy people who eat right need a multivitamin only if they have a diagnosed vitamin or mineral deficiency. Still, multivitamins may provide a safety net to fill dietary nutrition gaps. Some peop...
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Personally I wouldn't trust it, but perhaps they've improved it recently. I wouldn't trust autonomous drive from any other company either, not just from tesla; driving in a car, your life is on the line if anything goes wrong. Solving the problem is many orders of magnitude more complex than, say, writing software to control a launch vehicle to put a satellite into orbit. Of course if they can solve it, it's worth billions; hence the stratospheric share price valuation. Or you could say that without autonomous drive, all they have is a company making yet another commodity consumer product. 'Watch this space', I guess. Can't knock the guy for trying.

www.independent.co.uk

Family blame Tesla’s ‘Autosteer’ for veering car into semi-truck, killing 4 relatives

Exclusive: ‘Tesla’s done a lot of good things, in my calculation,’ attorney Lynn Shumway told The Independent, ‘but they did this inadequately.’
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

I'm waiting for solid-state batteries, anyway; you know, "charge in 10 minutes and then get 900 miles range, and eliminates the lithium fire risk". If it ever happens, that will be a real game-changer for EV's. CATL and Toyota amongst others have made various announcements about SSB's under development. I just hope they build them with short-circuit protection. 😁
 
The AI empire strikes back... depressing. I refuse to outsource my brain to a bloody chatbot. It occurs to me, if more and more people are switching to 'vibe coding' and blindy cutting and pasting in the code the AI generated, there are going to be fewer and fewer people who actually understand anything about what they are doing... now, there's an interesting thought.
 
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