Thank you for your meticulous, vital research and excellent posts!! You're providing much-needed, viable non-pharmaceutical, far gentler natural solutions for modern medical conundrums. May you and yours prosper and be always fully protected!
Andrographis has several potent effects for sure - from how it inhibits inflammasome / il-1b, inos, etc. and I find about 10-15% of folks have a significant allergic response to it - try a tiny dose first.
I want Not to argue, but to follow this post (WMC Research, 7/31/2026) with a mention of the bitter Wormwood, Artemesia absinthium, an herb very well known in the herbal medicine of the West. In the arid western U.S., I am finding it easy to grow, and even tending to the invasive. If I cut it back before it makes and scatters seeds, it is manageable and quite beautiful. I have several apple trees which seem so far quite happy to have it coming up around their feet, but this is unexpected and it is generally considered uncompanionable.
from Simon Y. Mills, 1991, 1993:
"Pharmacology: this plant is notable for the large number of powerful ingredients it contains, making it something of a single-handed pharmacy of bitters....classic bitter effects....other actions as well.....anti-inflammatory....antiseptic....astringent....connective tissue repair.
"...the essential oil when extracted is called absinthe and was used as the basis of a potent liqueur in France....(Van Gogh...)...has been illegal for many years....therapeutic use of the whole plant is most unlikely to provide enough absinthe to cause concern....
"....abortifacient properties and MUST NOT BE USED IN PREGNANCY.
".....this is a powerful remedy with a paradoxical temperament....one of the bitterest plants commonly used, it also has acrid constituents that effectively raise its 'temperature'....Dioscorides called it a heating and drying remedy.....Parkinson elaborated..."
NOTE that I am not a doctor or herbalist or botanist. This comment is given simply in the hope that contemplating the wonders of nature, including the bitter herbs, is one way that we may continue to pursue healing from the plague of Covid19.
Thank you for your meticulous, vital research and excellent posts!! You're providing much-needed, viable non-pharmaceutical, far gentler natural solutions for modern medical conundrums. May you and yours prosper and be always fully protected!
excellent work...I made a one time donation
Andrographis has several potent effects for sure - from how it inhibits inflammasome / il-1b, inos, etc. and I find about 10-15% of folks have a significant allergic response to it - try a tiny dose first.
I want Not to argue, but to follow this post (WMC Research, 7/31/2026) with a mention of the bitter Wormwood, Artemesia absinthium, an herb very well known in the herbal medicine of the West. In the arid western U.S., I am finding it easy to grow, and even tending to the invasive. If I cut it back before it makes and scatters seeds, it is manageable and quite beautiful. I have several apple trees which seem so far quite happy to have it coming up around their feet, but this is unexpected and it is generally considered uncompanionable.
from Simon Y. Mills, 1991, 1993:
"Pharmacology: this plant is notable for the large number of powerful ingredients it contains, making it something of a single-handed pharmacy of bitters....classic bitter effects....other actions as well.....anti-inflammatory....antiseptic....astringent....connective tissue repair.
"...the essential oil when extracted is called absinthe and was used as the basis of a potent liqueur in France....(Van Gogh...)...has been illegal for many years....therapeutic use of the whole plant is most unlikely to provide enough absinthe to cause concern....
"....abortifacient properties and MUST NOT BE USED IN PREGNANCY.
".....this is a powerful remedy with a paradoxical temperament....one of the bitterest plants commonly used, it also has acrid constituents that effectively raise its 'temperature'....Dioscorides called it a heating and drying remedy.....Parkinson elaborated..."
NOTE that I am not a doctor or herbalist or botanist. This comment is given simply in the hope that contemplating the wonders of nature, including the bitter herbs, is one way that we may continue to pursue healing from the plague of Covid19.
Thx, WMC.