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Black currants and TBE
Identifier
005349
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae. The fruit of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, lingonberry or cowberry, and huckleberry. Like many other ericaceous plants, they are generally restricted to acidic soils
A description of the experience
Vopr Virusol. 1993 Jul-Aug;38(4):170-3.
The antiviral action of medicinal plant extracts in experimental tick-borne encephalitis]. [Article in Russian] - Fokina GI, Ro?khel' VM, Frolova MP, Frolova TV, Pogodina VV.
Some mechanisms of inducing resistance to experimental infection with tick-borne encephalitis virus were studied in experimental mice treated with aqueous extracts of berries of
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Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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black currant
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Vaccinium myrtillus
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and of greater celandine grass
The condition of the immune system organs (spleen and thymus) after treatment with the extracts under study was analysed. A correlation was found between the degree of developing resistance to infection, virus accumulation in the brain, blood, spleen and thymus and changes in some parameters (spleen and thymus indices) of these immunocompetent organs. Possible mechanisms of induction of resistance to virus by herb extracts are discussed.
PMID:
8236942