Additional and alternative treatments to vaccinations against Corona

 

The Israeli experience shows that there is a decreasing effectiveness of vaccinations against the Delta COVID-19 variant. It can be expected that a next variant could be even more dangerous.

Therefore, another strategy is needed urgently, at least as an additional measure! 

 

In January 2021 the head of the FDA stated:

“The lack of centralized coordination meant that many trials for Covid antivirals [treatments] were doomed from the start — too small and poorly designed to provide useful data, according to Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. If the government had instead set up an organized network of hospitals to carry out large trials and quickly share data, researchers would have many more answers now.

“I blame myself to some extent,” said Dr. Woodcock, who has overseen the federal government’s efforts to develop Covid drugs.

She hopes to tame the chaos with a new effort from the Biden administration. In the next couple of months, she said, the government plans to start large and well-organized trials for existing drugs that could be repurposed to fight Covid-19. “We are actively working on that,” Dr. Woodcock said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/health/covid-drugs-antivirals.html

Still, I’m not aware of a real paradigm change, and even the Israeli Health Ministry which recommended twice to enhance the levels of Vitamin D has not launched a real campaign with this simple measure, which is very likely to reduce the danger of COVID-19.

There are a variety of means which may be immediately applied and improved: some of them pharmacological chemical products and some of them plant-based.

There are obviously not always enough clinical scientific tests that clearly prove the effectiveness against the Corona virus. But as long as there is no proof of harm being done and as long as there are many observations demonstrating success, one should encourage the use of these measures, while financing further research through governments, sponsors etc.

One very interesting, cheap and readily available measure has been suggested by the Israeli physician Dr. M.D. Yoseph Wosk. He recommends to use fresh lemon juice in order to create an acidic surrounding in the nose and mouth, in order to prevent the virus from causing harm (Here is a link to an interview with him in Hebrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ls-vxzLrbU&t=1237s).

Dr. Yoseph Wosk

What might sound like a kind of crazy idea is actually based on the proven fact that COVID-19 is eliminated in an acidic surrounding. E.g. here: “…at very acidic pH conditions (pH 1 and 3), the virus is completely inactivated at 25°C and 37°C.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283733/

Dr. Wosk recommends taking a cotton swab, wrapping an additional cotton wad around it, and dipping it in lemon juice. Then, one should rub it lightly in both nostrils. In addition, one should take at least a teaspoon of lemon juice and gargle with it shortly. Wosk proposes to do this every 2-3 days, as a prevention. In my opinion, doing this every day would also be OK, especially before meeting a group of people.

If one were to catch a cold, Wosk says, one should immediately apply the lemon juice treatment.

It is important to note that this idea has great potential. Further research is urgently needed, however, to answer several open questions and eventually prove the effectiveness of this measure, including a more precise description of its usage.
Even though it should be regarded as a matter of fact, that the virus can be liquidated in an acidic environment, it is not clear how long the exposure should be. There are claims that it takes up to 24 hours to kill the virus.

On the same principle, an Israeli company, Nasus Pharma, developed a nose spray (Taffix) proven to be effective in a quantitative study in Bnei Brak:

“TaffiX® was able to form a protective barrier against SARS-CoV-2 gels of TaffiX® were formed on nylon filters, and then seeded with SARS-CoV-2. After 10 minutes the bottom of each filter was washed and tested for live virus by plaque assay and viral RNA using qRT-PCR. TaffiX® blocked SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, reducing the titer of live virus and viral RNA by 99%, supporting the use TaffiX® as a barrier against SARS-CoV-2 that could be used in conjunction with other protective measures.”

The additional application of lemon juice in the mouth has obvious advantages, although no similar study, aside from Wosk’s observations, has yet been made.  Of course, no commercial body is likely to finance such necessary additional research, unless by donation or sponsorship.

There are also several other possibilities, not mentioned here.

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 Some additional studies on the potential of Lemon essential oils against COVID-19:

- Potential use of Citrus essential oils against acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronavirus

- COVID-19 and therapy with essential oils having antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties

- Geranium and Lemon Essential Oils and Their Active Compounds Downregulate Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2), a SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-Binding Domain, in Epithelial Cells

*Another nose spray was authorized by the Israeli Health Ministry:

"In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trial that evaluated 79 confirmed cases of COVID-19, SaNOtize’s early treatment for COVID-19 significantly reduced the level of SARS-CoV-2, including in patients with high viral loads. The average viral log reduction in the first 24 hours was 1.362, which corresponds to a decline of about 95%. Within 72 hours, the viral load dropped by more than 99%. The majority of these patients had been infected with the UK variant, which is considered a variant of concern."
https://sanotize.com/enovid/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210708005228/en/

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